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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Mar 28, 1949

Page

5

Elizabeth Taylor Sees Star Life Not Her Own

Hollywood report on Elizabeth Taylor amid her romance with Army star Glenn Davis. Public scrutiny weighs on her while she and Davis delay engagement, maintain plans to wait until older, and manage questions about their relationship amid publicity.

Bob Thomas Hollywood Elizabeth Taylor Glenn Davis England Elizabeth Titte Glenn Catalina MGM

Treating Burns and Headache Advice From Medical Column

The piece urges aggressive burn care with hospital treatment for severe cases to prevent shock and infection. It covers cleansing, sterile dressings, plasma or fluid injections, and pain control, plus cautions against home remedies and rapid use of powders or dyes. It also addresses headaches possibly caused by nerves or spine issues, stressing physician evaluation.

King Eatures Syndicate, Inc

Glenn’s Year Ahead to Include West Point Coaching

The note indicates Glenn will stay another month then take a coaching assignment at West Point possibly via Korea, where he was stationed. Elizabeth plans a June or July trip to Italy for Quo Vadis. After that uncertainty remains.

Glenn West Point Korea Elizabeth Italy

French Voters Smash Reds In Cantonal Elections

France’s center coalition led by Radical Socialist Henri Queuille won 1082 seats to 389 for De Gaullists and 37 for Communists with independents taking 99. Second round voting ended yesterday with many districts trading on anti-communist sentiment and local issues.

PASIS France de Gaullists Paris de Gauullists Rally of the French People RFP Socialists Popular Republicans MRP Radical Socialists Henri Queuille Interior Ministry

Farley Mother Dies After Electric Shock in Basement

In Huntsville Alabama Mrs Cora Lee Cooper 51 died after being shocked while attempting to start an electric pump in a basement filled with rainwater. Fire Chief Claude Herrin and team tried to save her with an iron lung but she died at a local hospital.

Huntsville Ala Farley Cora Lee Cooper Claude Herrin Herrin

Yugoslavia Faces Diplomatic Tug of War With Moscow

Belgrade sits at the center of a cat and mouse struggle between the Kremlin and the West as Tito seeks to pull Yugoslavia from Moscow’s orbit. If Tito breaks with Moscow and leans toward the West, other capitals may follow and Yugoslavia could gain its own steel industry and machinery to build its economy.

Yugoslavia Marshall Tito Moscow West Sofia Prague Warsaw Tito Middle Europe Cominform Soviet Bloc Washington Russia Soviet Union United States Iron Curtain Yugoslav Communist Party Belgrade London Hector McNeil House of Commons Kremlin

Tuskegee Food Show And Nutrition Institute Planned

Tuskegee Institute schedules its annual food show and nutrition institute for April 8-9 in Tuskegee Alabama. Officials of the National Restaurant Association and the largest meteorite ever to fall struck Siberia in 1908 weighing 40000 tons.

Tuskegee Ala Tuskegee Institute National Restaurant Association Siberia

Zodiac Based Daily Guidance Page Fragment

Readings map numbers to words to craft Tuesday message. Fragment shows misaligned words for Zodiac birth sign guidance with scattered items including advice on judgment, personal matters, friends, romance and tendencies.

Plumbers Meet in Montgomery on Public Health Talk

President Ray Stewart of Gadsden spoke at the Alabama Association of Master Plumbers convention in Montgomery urging sound plumbing to prevent diseases like typhoid fever and amebic dysentery. More than 200 delegates were expected for the event in the state capital.

Montgomery Ala Ray Stewart Gadsden Alabama Association of Master Plumbers Association

Cat and mouse game in Belgrade with Washington and Russia

Washington and Russia feel out soft spots in Belgrade as they probe for leverage. Belgrade serves as the arena for a tense power contest with uncertain outcomes.

Washington Belgrade

Alabama Temperance Alliance Convention Set in Birmingham

The Alabama Temperance alliance will hold its state convention at First Methodist church in Birmingham tomorrow. Dr. Ted Hightower of Paducah Kentucky, a Methodist minister and pastor to Vice President Alben W Barkley, is scheduled to speak.

Birmingham Ala Alabama Temperance Alliance First Methodist Ted Hightower Paducah Hightower Alben W. Barkley

Bat Invades Bath Privacy In Pinner House Scene

In Pinner England on March 28 a bat flew into Mrs Thorne Bakers window and settled on the bathtub ledge to watch her bath. Mrs Baker grabbed the animal and tossed it out the open window, noting it made squeaky noises.

Pinner England

Man Killed By Current At Gadsden Plant

Warren William Holley, 28, died after contact with a high tension wire while working at the East Gadsden steam plant of the Alabama Power company. A resident of Gadsden for about six months, he had previously lived in Tallassee.

Gadsden Ala Warren William Holley East Gadsden Alabama Power Company Tallassee

Liddell Addresses Southeastern Railroads in Mobile

Jule G. Liddell regional Soil Conservation Service chief told the Railway Development Association of the Southeast in Mobile that nearly half of railroad revenues come from soil products. He spoke at the 26th annual meeting attended by railroad agricultural forestry and industrial agents.

Mobile Ala Jule G. Liddell Spartanburg D. C U. S. Soil Conservation Service Liddell Railway Development Association of the Southeast Railroad Agricultural, Forestry

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