Labor bill compromise debated in House amid protests
Speaker Rayburn urged approval of a revised labor bill keeping parts of Taft Hartley while critics blamed the compromise for not repealing the law. AFL President William Green objected to national emergency strike injunctions as the measure faced sharp floor criticism and calls for broader repeal.
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Washington
Psp
Rayburn
Texas
House
AFL
William Green
Rep. Kelley
House Labor
Local notes and upcoming events fill Decatur diary
Weather outlook calls for clear to partly cloudy skies with gentle to moderate easterly winds along the coast. Residents update include address changes, church meetings, a kindergarten and Cub Scouts gathering, a hospital birth, and ongoing school and public works activities in Morgan county.
Five Decatur Homes Win City Building Permits
City Clerk Joe Pettey issued permits for five new houses to the Decatur Development company. Locations include 1905 Avenue South and four Buena Vista Circle sites, with costs ranging from 5 900 to 7 400 and room counts from five to six.
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Decatur Development Company
Joe Pettey
Neighbors Help Rebuild After Storm Damages Home
Mrs. Mary Cross watched cyclone winds rip a roof from her brick home at 1309 Fourth Avenue South. Neighbors called Valley Lumber for temporary roofing materials and John C. Mahaffey supplied meals as the crew worked. Damages estimated at about 800 dollars with no insurance. waterin the kitchen added to the loss.
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Mary Cross
Fourth Avenue South
Avenue East
R. E. Stamps
Gas Line Work Starts June 15
Construction of natural gas lines from Selmer Tennessee through the North Alabama valley to Huntsville will begin by June 15. W S Easter president of Alabama-Tennessee Natural Gas Company said after a contract with the Tennessee Valley Authority for gas at Muscle Shoals. Decatur officials express strong interest in a rapid gas distribution system to serve the city.
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Selmer
Tennessee
North Alabama Valley
Huntsville
W. S. Easter
Alabama- Tennessee
Tennessee Valley
Muscle Shoals
Decatur
H. R. Summer
Easter
W. S. Eastep
Alabama-Tennessee Natural Gas Company
Florence
Alabama
Eastep
Father of Famous Diamond Stars Dies in San Francisco
Joseph DiMaggio aged 69, father of Joe, Dominic and Vince DiMaggio, died after a long illness in a San Francisco hospital. Vince coaches a Far West League club in Pittsburg, Joe plays for the New York Yankees, and Dominic is with the Boston Red Sox.
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San Francisco
Joseph DiMaggio
Joe
Dominic
Vince DiMaggio
Vince
Pittsburg
Calif
New York Yankees
Boston Red Sox
Pigs in City Rule Question Raises Debate at Council
A Fairview area delegation urged a three hog per family limit by amending city ordinance. About 100 residents signed a petition. Mayor Summer and two aldermen indicated they were asked to block the move but would not reveal names. Petitions also sought sewer and water system funding details. action on sewer petition delayed for more names. See PIGS on Page 3.
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Linton Burkett
Fairview
H. Summer
Leonard Isonay
Rutledge Thomas
L. L. Bates
Beach
Cypress
Lawson Davidson
Water Department
Cullman Plans Major School Renovation and Rebuild
Cullman city schools announce a plan to turn the county high school into a city school with renovations and 12 new classrooms. The city will assume $40,000 in debt and fund the work via a proposed five mill tax. A junior high transfer and new elementary school are also planned with transportation preserved.
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Cullman County
Cullman
L. W. Teesepee
Cullman City
Yates
Suie- See Cullman
Churches to collect for bomb damage repair in Birmingham
The Birmingham Ministers Association asks all churches in the district to take up collections on Sunday May 15 to raise about 18000 dollars to rebuild three bombed negro houses on the West Side fringe. Excess funds will go to the Red Cross for negro relief. No arrests have been made.
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Birmingham
Ala
Birmingham Ministers Association
Red Cross
Detroit Strike Looms After Rouge Plant Talks
Bulletin reports CIO United Auto Workers Local 600 ordered a strike for Wednesday after an investigating committee signaled the Rouge plant dispute nears settlement. Two UAW members announced the near agreement as the action was set to begin.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers Local 600
UAW
Rouge
Reds Encircle Nationalists South of Shanghai
The Associated Press reports Communist forces now estimated at 200,000 troops south of the Yangtze poised to encircle nationalist armies south and west of Shanghai. Rumbles NW of the city suggest upcoming operations as panic hits Shanghai markets and several newspapers suspend publication.
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Alies
Shanghai
Ian
Yangtze River
Americans Warned Hong Kong As China Crisis Deepens
The American consulate urged all Americans to leave South China interior areas as conditions worsened after the Yangtze crossing. It warned against last minute air evac plans and noted missionaries may not continue under the communists. The consul warned against optimism for U S ventures and advised moving to the United States rather than crowded nearby locations.
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Hong Kong
South China
Yangtze
China
United States
Western powers push time-table to end Berlin blockade plan
In New York reports say Western powers aim to present Russia with a time-table to end the Berlin blockade and the Western counter-blockade. An informed source says the blockade could end in days and calls for a four-power conference in Paris before month’s end.
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New York
Russia
Berlin
West
Paris
Leo Durocher Reinstated by Baseball Commissioner Chandler
Giants manager Leo Durocher is reinstated after A B Chandler finds no sufficient evidence of assault allegations by Fred Boysen. Durocher may rejoin the team as early as tomorrow. The suspension on April 29 was described as preventive.
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Gayle Talbot
Cincinnati
Leo Durocher
New York Giants
A. B. Chandler
Fred Boysen
New York
Durocher
Giants
Chandler
Boysen
Polo Grounds
Film Stars Safe As Flash Flood Ravages Morocco
Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, and Linda Christian were reported safe in Casablanca as floods devastate southern Morocco. At least eight people died. French soldiers aided police amid widespread damage. Heavy rains closed bridges and damaged roads between Marrakech and Casablanca.
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Casablanca
French Morocco
Tyrone Power
Orson Welles
Linda Christian
Morocco
Wiles
Marrakech
Stronger City Laws On Cleanliness And Safety Sought
Mayor H. R. Summer urged City Council to pass amendments or a new ordinance to broaden power for a cleaner and safer city. Proposals include enforcing fill of excavations, mowing vacant lots, bundling fallen limbs, requiring front garbage cans, banning street trash sweeping, and prohibiting sidewalk dumping. City Attorney to determine city powers and report back.
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H. R. Summer
John Caddell
Lodge Plans Facing Defeat
Washington May 3 A civil rights amendment to the 300 million federal aid to education bill faced Senate action. Sen Lodge would bar aid to any state with segregated schools and opponents warned it could sink the measure. The chamber earlier defeated an amendment changing the funding formula for teachers and operating costs, favoring flat payments per pupil rather than income-based shifts.
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Washington
Senate
Lodge
Aiken
Douglas
D-Ill
New Steel Grid Floor Placed On Keller Memorial Bridge
H. D. Barnum says a new steel grid flooring is laid on the two lift spans of Keller Memorial bridge. The repair will take more than 30 days with one lane of traffic, replacing wood flooring installed more than 21 years ago to cut vibration.
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H. D. Barnum
Keller Memorial Bridge
Seven Martinsville men sentenced to death for rape
In Martinsville Virginia seven Black men were convicted of raping Ruby Stroud Floyd, a white Martinsville housewife, along the Danville and Western tracks and nearby woods. The defendants James Hairston John Taylor Joe Hampton Frank Hairston Booker Millner Howard Hairston and Francis Grayson faced eleven days of trials with confessions presented by state police.
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Martinsville
James Luther Hairston
John Clabon Taylor
Ruby
Stroud Floyd
East Martinsville
Floyd
Danville and Western
Jams Hairston
Taylor
Joe Henry Hampton
Frank Hairston, Jr
Booker T. Millner
Howard Lee ‘Hairston
Francis de Sles Grayson
Duke University Hospital
Negro Not Injured When Struck by Car
Willie D. Powell of Decatur escaped injury when struck by an automobile at Church Street and First Avenue North. Sterling Sledge was named as the driver, the accident occurring as Sledge tried to avoid another vehicle. Powell was taken to Hamil Clinic hospital and reported uninjured.
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Willie D. Powell
Decature
Church Street
First Avenue North
Sterling Sledge
Sledge
Powell
Hamil Clinic
New Rent Formula Outlined by Housing Administrator
Government unveils a yardstick to set fair rent ceilings for 14 million units under federal control. The plan aims for 25 to 30 percent net operating income for landlords but offers no immediate nationwide rent hike, leaving future increases area by area to Rent Office referees.
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Washington
Congress
Tighe Woods
Woods
Folsom pushes bold tax and bond plan for Alabama
Governor James E. Folsom urged the Alabama legislature to raise 55 million dollars in new taxes and issue 80 million dollars in highway bonds financed by a one cent gas tax increase. He outlined major tax hikes including a three percent sales tax, higher corporation and personal income taxes, and new taxes on radios and real estate dealers. He also called for pension reforms, school pay rises, hospital funding, a poll tax repeal, and a state deposit insurance entity while signaling civil rights era concerns.
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Montgomery
James E. Folsom
Alabama
Folsom
U. S. Supreme Court
Suranice Corporation
FDIC
Alabama Watershed Development Board
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Coalition
Wood
Robert Broadway
Austinville
5Th Avenue South
St. John's Episcopal Church
Mary Ann Gilchrist
Courtland
Marian Bloodworth
Presbyterian Young People's Conference
Johnston Street
J. B. Whitmire
Patt A. Wright
Woodland Avenue
Decatur General Hospital
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Vane Street
City Hall
Ten 1
Cub Scouts
Herman Lambert
Seventh Avenue East
Lawrence Saylor
Weirist
C. B. Iwaphrey
The
Central Methodist Church
J. W. Lovelace Jr
Eighth ‘Avenue
Ryan
PT. A
Oscar Napps
H. R Leeman
Morgan County
Cotaco P. T. A
Cotato High School
H. R. Leeman
Christine Waldrop
Sixth Avenue
Brown's
Pre Women's Missionary Band
Church of God
Ninth Street Methodist Church
Evelyn MecCulloch
Prospect Drive
Jane Rutherford
Tenth Avenue
Mary Flate
Eighth Street
By Ken Reynolds
Dan Fuller, Jr
Bonnie Jean
Connie Jane
Mama
Dorothy Young
Atlanta, Ga
Papa Fuller
Summer
Associated Press
Safe
Flash Flood
John Chadwick
New Orleans
Louisiana
Sugar
Carl Shutten
Father Shutten
St Patrick's Church
Saturney
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