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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1949
Page
2
The House administration committee approved a measure to raise House members’ pay by 3000 annually for clerical costs and add up to 500 for official telephone and telegraph bills. Senate approval is expected. current pay is 12500 plus 2500 tax free expense money.
Probers continued from page one on the sales tax bill for the District of Columbia. The House weighed a State Department reorganization bill similar to a Senate measure. Time was tight for hearings on the North Atlantic treaty as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee listed eight witnesses for today with Chairman Connally aiming to wrap testimony by Tuesday. The pact seemed set for strong Senate approval despite the Berlin blockade ending and easing tensions between Russia and the United States.
The House Banking Committee approved 14 to 7 the administration’s multi billion dollar housing program. It aims to build 1 050 000 low rent units in seven years and farm housing aid. Senate action cut the target to 810 000 units in six years. Chairman Spence forecast a showdown vote next week and predicted passage beyond doubt.
The administration backs the 12 nation treaty awaiting Senate ratification. Senator Taft sees little opposition to ratification. A Senate armed services probe into war crimes continues, focusing on Nazi confessions under force. Teil, a naturalized American, testified on German bombing missions and future war crimes trials. Democrats plan to push minimum wage and Taft Hartley repeal via House labor strategy.
Mrs John A Troxier and family visit Tracey City Tennessee. Rev John Proxier attends Chattanooga church meeting. Foster Bailey announces birth of son at Decatur General Hospital. Admitted to hospital include McKinley Bray Gray son and Virginia Hagood Sherry Jones and Eula Jones. Baptismal service planned at Flint Baptist with Austinville church. Town Creek high school graduation bacalaureate by Dr Otis E Kirby. Boy Scout court of review at courthouse. Rev Alien W Moore speaks at Central Methodist revival. Dr Neil Kirk travels to Reed City for mother in law Agnes Johnson ill.
The Swedish tanker S S Atlanta of 9,683 tons was reported on fire in the Caribbean. Coast Guard said distress SOS signals were sent at 1:35 a.m. and all crew except the captain and radio operator had taken to lifeboats. Pandora headed to the scene, a B 17 joined from Waller Field, and other vessels altered course for the stricken ship.
Dana Marie Heody was found dead in the kitchen of Christ Episcopal Church. cause of death listed as suffocation. Police named Scott as a suspect after evidence including a scratched face and Dana Marie’s broken fingernails indicating a struggle. Heody, an Eagle Scout and church singer, was questioned during an afternoon at Jefferson High School before being charged.
Revisions and the house labor committee continued hearings on a controversial civil rights bill to create a Federal Fair Employment Practices Commission to end discrimination in the workplace based on color race or creed.
Robert Woodard and Horace V Tope will be arraigned Saturday morning in Cullman circuit court on first degree murder charges in the Wallace Clyde Dean case dated July 25 1946. A 100 name jury panel will be drawn for the May 30 trial as Woodard and Pope seek retrial after a 1947 life sentence upheld by the Alabama Supreme Court.
The senate defeated a Joseph Langan plan to allow weekly $25 payments and $10,000 total benefits for lottery cases by 16 to 14. A house bill passed to add up to 12 months jail for illegal lottery activity and ban possessing a lottery ticket. The senate also rejected a rule change to require only 30 of 35 members to dispense with the journal reading, voting 18 to 15 against.
Mitchell Industries Inc. won a $28,000 contract to outfit the University of Kansas Hoch Auditorium with a contour curtain system and related stage drapery. The plan includes a unique non select contour curtain operated by 11 cables, plus cyclorama, grand drapery, and overhead rigging for a stage claimed among the largest in the world.
The Jackson county grand jury indicted 14 year old Frank Murphy Jr of Lakeland for first degree murder in the Florida industrial school for boys death of 13 year old Eddie Albert Black of Pensacola. A 17 year old student Avelardo Quevedo of Panama City was indicted as an accessory for lending the knife. Murphy admitted luring Black into a drainage tunnel and choking and stabbing him after Black threatened to tell authorities about his smoking. The incident occurred May 4. Dozier described Murphy as mentally dull and on his fourth commitment, with Black found dead in four inches of water.
Newsman and lecturer John Temple Graves was made an honorary colonel on Governor Thurmond’s staff in Columbia South Carolina today in brief ceremonies at the governor’s office. Graves eulogized Thurmond's address at a states rights Democratic testimonial dinner last night.
Mitchell Industries a leading stage equipment firm in Hartsel le employs 25 to 30 workers most trained in Hartse lle. In 21 years the company has produced about 10 000 stage settings averaging seven daily projects. The Kansas contract will take about two weeks to complete. Mitchell began as a sign painter and evolved into theater scenery equipment.
Henry W. Sweet port director says Walsh Stevedoring Co will use an ore tipple in Mobile as a private terminal not for general public use. Agreement follows meetings with Secretary Sawyer Inland Waterways Board and others. Sweet aims to sell revenue bonds for financing a bulk grain elevator at Mobile.
The Wheeler Lake Yacht Club hosts a fishing rodeo with about 200 entrants chasing eight top prizes. Prizes include outboard motors rods reels and gear from top brands plus landing nets and boats. Weigh in at Disco Harbor for all fish caught within 50 miles of Decatur.
Daily Records lists property transfers including Drinkard to Liberty National Lite Insurative Co. for 18000 and Kellum to Decatur Development Co. for 9500, plus several others. Marriage licenses show Alvin Chambers 29 Decatur to Viola Bennefield 18 Decatur and William Ventress 21 Fayetteville Tennessee to Ruth Short 20 Fayetteville.
Funeral services are set for two o clock today at Spring Hill Baptist church for John Will Kelley Jr a well known Negro who died Saturday. A native of Brownsboro Madison county he lived in Decatur fifty years and worked at the Louisville and Nashville shops for thirty years with many friends among both races.
About 2100 student midshipmen from 52 colleges will join a six week naval aviation training in Pensacola starting June 4. The program aims to acquaint them with naval aviation and is conducted by the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps.
William E Brooks Jr editor of The Brewton Standard and WEBJ vice president underwent emergency appendicitis surgery at Escambia hospital. Officials report his condition is satisfactory after the operation performed May 12.
In New York May 12 investors and speculators again nibble at stocks with many leading issues advancing fractions to around a point. Gains posted in Bethlehem Steel Republic Steel General Motors Chrysler Montgomery Ward and others while Graham Paige Woolworth Westinghouse and Western Union showed declines.
Cattle receipts are light but quote market steady with cows at 14.50 and butter cows higher. Calves steady with Good and Choice dealers 23.00 to 26.00, common 18.00 to 22.00, culls down to 17.00. Hogs 700 head with barrows and gilts 18.50 to 18.75, weights 250-290 mostly 16.50 to 16.25 for 135-170 and 300-340. Sheep 800 steady with springers 30.00 to 32.50, few old crop lambs 25.00 to 26.00.
Wheat prices eased in the last hour at the Chicago board of trade, closing unchanged to 3-4 lower as May contracts hit 2.23 3-4 to 7-8. Corn moved 1-8 lower to 1-4 higher, oats fell 3-8 to 7-8 higher, rye rose 4 1-4 to 5 1-2, soybeans steady to 3-4 lower, and lard dropped 10 to 13 cents per hundred pounds.
New York stocks steady amid selective demand. Bonds steady with some rails improving. Cotton lower on liquidation and hedging. Chicago wheat for new crop months down, May steady. Corn mixed with small price changes. Oats mixed with May firm. Hogs steady to 25 cents higher, top $18.90. Cattle unevenly weak to 26 cents higher, top $26.50.
North Georgia live poultry prices eased by 1 to 2 cents with weak overall demand. FOB farm values for trailers and fryers picked up midweek ranged from 24 1/2 to 27 cents for New Hampshire Reds and White Crosses, and 24 1/2 to 26 cents for Barred Rocks, with majority around 25 cents. Supplies remain heavy and stocks unlikely to clear quickly.
NY Cotton futures closed down from the previous close with May at 33.65, July 32.64, and Oct 29.04 while Dec and May remain near 28.6. Hammond LA reports accidental drowning of Mrs. James F. McCarroll, 45, at the private lake at her home near Livingston Parish. Annuity contracts in force in 1947 more than triple those in 1935. Bears cannot find food in winter and hibernate in temperate zones.
William Eugene Hamilton a 24 year old veteran died this morning at 2 o clock after about a month illness Burial services will be held at his home 161 Fifth Avenue East at 2 30 p m Friday Mutual Service will direct arrangements He served in Central Europe with the ordnance department as a mechanic and wore the Combat Infantryman's Badge Surviving are his wife Mrs Mapis Hamilton his parents Mr and Mrs L E Hamilton three brothers James J D and Richard and two sisters Mrs W M Patton and Miss Mamie Hamilton all of Decatur
Western Allied airlift resumes as blockade ends in Berlin with 500 tons per hour, signaling fresh foods and fuel for 2,000,000 residents. Allied trains and Western correspondents flood into Berlin while East and West maintain separate services, and Russia grants minimal checks to the first Allied train.
The report notes President Truman would not comment on Mississippi detention reports in congress. He reaffirmed his support for repealing the Taft Hartley Act and said he had not discussed labor concessions with leaders. He expects to fill Army and Navy secretary vacancies soon.
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