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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1950
Page
1
Weather warns of partial clouds and warm spells with scattered showers in the north. Local clergy announce sermons at First Christian, Westside Presbyterian, Fairview Baptist, and Westminster Presbyterian churches with topics on mercy righteousness and the afterlife. Town updates include hospital moves and discharges, building permits, arrests in Nongam County, and revival plans at Central Methodist.
Emmett James Davis, 15, of Tuscaloosa, collapsed and died of heart failure moments after jumping into a campus lake at St Bernard High School. Funeral planned for 9:30 a.m. Friday in Tuscaloosa. Earlier, 11-year-old Sylvia King died after being swept over Lookout mountain waterfall near Fort Payne during a picnic.
Bids are invited for a new tuberculosis sanatorium to serve ten North Alabama counties with a projected cost around 200,000 dollars. Welch Dinenees, vice president and treasurer of District I Seastedens, announced the June 9 bid date and a meeting of hospital officers and trustees in the county courthouse.
The contract to construct a natural gas reforming unit at TYAS Muscle Shoals ammonia plant has been awarded. Natural gas will replace coke as the hydrogen source, enabling cheaper production of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and related products.
Jim Smith of Tuscumbia says loyalists won all eight positions in the Tuesday ballot amid a 225000 vote tally in the 8th district. Unofficial top eight included Almon Blair Horton Sherrill Collier ONeal Russell Lynn. Smith expects no runoffs if high men stay loyalists.
A two year extension of the peace time draft law was approved by the house military affairs committee. The bill blocks inductions until congress acts. The law expires June 24. The Ways and Means Committee opposed tax cuts on whisky and beer. A senate subcommittee traced a wire network to bookmakers and heard from Kansas City witnesses on a racing news racket. A five man senate panel will probe organized gambling and crime. A federal grand jury blamed rac e results being sent by Standard News Service linked to Gargotta Lococo Osadchey Klein. Subcommittee chair McFarland subpoenaed Lococo and Osadchey. The foreign relations panel lined up closed testimony on Communists in the State Department and Amerasia case. The House Armed Services Committee prepared to approve a new two year draft law with Vinson seeking a vote on Extension.
President Truman said the Pepper defeat in Florida does not reflect on the Fair Deal, noting separate issues in Florida. Taft, Kroll and others framed the vote as a test of labor and liberal or reactionary forces. Smathers led Pepper 382,949 to 319,178 with 10 precincts missing.
The 99 day Chrysler strike ends with a three year contract. 89 000 workers at 25 plants return to work by Monday and 50 000 idled in suppliers rejoin. Pension gains include 100 monthly pension and hospital and medical benefits. Voting by locals set for Saturday.
Baldanzi, executive vice president of the CIO Textile Workers Union since its 1939 formation, was reelected by the union's top officers in Boston on May 4.
President Truman said he does not feel the Cold War is close to turning into a shooting war with Russia and expressed optimism about world peace. He urged reading Defense Secretary Johnson’s defense budget explanations and attributed deficits to insufficient taxes. He noted the Marshall Plan as cheaper than alternative costs and discussed defense outlays and air power funding.
Lawrence county committee will count the ballot box Friday at eight o'clock after a decision announced by Chairman Young. With 622 ballots in Box 2 at Moulton, a key county race hangs in the balance as counting stretched to 36 hours and disagreements arose. See COUNT on Page 2.
Greyhound bus traffic from Nashville to Jacksonville was halted as drivers walked out accusing the company of Nazi like methods in union treatment. Schedules were not pulled from affected cities and hundreds of passengers were stranded in waiting rooms. Union officials said the walkout was not union sanctioned, though the workers belong to the AFL Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway and.
Traffic slowed as Greyhound service to Birmingham and Nashville halted by a Southeast area strike. John Taylor, ticket agent, said no clear cause and noted no service between Birmingham and Nashville. American and Red Bay lines continue, linking Memphis to Chattanooga and routes via Huntsville and Gadsden.
In Lexington Kentucky Guy Huguelot president of Southeastern Greyhound calls the walkout a wild cat strike. He cites disciplinary cases in Chattanooga as the cause while a spokesman says 27 drivers were charged with taking money from cash fare boxes and were held in a Chattanooga hotel room from 9 A.M. for questioning.
Run offs likely May 30 in Morgan County Democratic races. In legislature place 2 Luther Roberts and W H Bill Stewart of Hartselle led. Sheriff contenders were John F McCutcheon Union Hill and Bibb Humphrey Decatur. Board of Revenue top two were Joe D Curry Decatur and Sim L Howell Hartselle. Board districts show Collier Priceville and Meadows Decatur Trinity led. Meadows withdrew. Educational race top four led but no majority, possible runoff among White Union Hill Watkins McRae Clemmons. State Democratic executive committee race also possible.
General Douglas MacArthur defended U S fortifications in Japan and Okinawa in a stern reply to Russian objections raised by Lt Gen Kuzma Derevyanko in Tokyo. He dismissed the charges as provocative impertinence and said U S bases would be kept prepared for any eventuality, reflecting a sharper U S stance toward the Soviets.
Regular democrats held an edge over states righters in Alabama's 1952 primary as runoff votes were set to decide control of the 72 seat Democratic executive committee. Senator Lister Hill led in renomination, with John Sparkman backing efforts against Truman civil rights policy. governor and other offices also headed to runoffs. Final tallies from about 90 percent of boxes show Hill 196,965 to McNeil 93,236 and Persons leading in governor's race with Hamm second, both headed for runoff.
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