Weather and community notes from Decatur area
Weather outlook reports gentle to moderate winds along the coast for today. Community updates include Morgan County Bank president E. W. McLeod in Montgomery for Alabama Bankers Association past presidents meeting. Revival services at Northside Baptist Church continue through Sunday with sessions at 10 30 AM and 7 30 PM. Announcements of arrivals visits and hospital notices follow, including a May 3 daughter born to Sgt and Mrs David E Gilbert at Murphy General Hospital Waltham, and local arrests and service classifications for Morgan county residents. A Long-Lewis Birmingham team faces John White of Decatur in Delano Park Saturday at 7 30 PM.
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E. W. McLeod
Morgan County National Bank
Montgomery
Alabama Bankers Association
Northside Baptist Church
David E. Gilbert
Murphy General Hospital
Waltham
New England
Army General Hospital
Sgt. Gilbert
Russell Gilbert
6Th Avenue
Fort Devens
Mass
Long-Lewis
Birmingham
John White
Decatur
Delano Park
Nine Delinquent Taxpayers Reported in Morgan County
Morgan county shows only nine delinquent property owners out of about 11 000 taxpayers with total assessments near 20 million dollars and tax income around 750 000 dollars for 1948. Tax collector Alvis Briscoe predicts taxes will be paid before sale date, noting no property sales in two years. Mayor Drinkard says an investigation is underway into cross burnings in Falkville linked to the discharge of Falkville High Coach Excel Baker.
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Morgan County
Alvis Briscoe
Alabama
Briscoe
Falkville
Ala
L. Drinkard
Falkville~high
Excel Baker
Geraldine
H. R. Leeman
Police Car Tire Deflated Costs Willard Powers Fine
Willard Powers faced recorder's court after deflating a police car tire on Walnut Street. He admitted to the act, claiming it was just harmless mischief, but was fined $35 for disorderly conduct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard Powers
Recorder’s Court
Willard
Walnut Street
Death Sentence of Trenton Six Deemed Frame-Up by CRC
In New Jersey the Civil Rights Congress labeled the Trenton Six death sentence a vicious frameup as they prepare for a Monday appeal before the state supreme court. The group accuses Mercer county police of racial persecution and extortion of confessions amid a nationwide campaign to free the six. The case echoes the Scottsboro defense, noting parallels to earlier Alabama trials and long judicial battles. The nine week trial revealed Horner’s death from a January 27, 1948, beating at a Trenton shop and conflicting witness accounts of the suspects.
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Melvin J. Grayson
Trenton
N. J
New Jersey
Civil Rights Congress
Supreme Court
Mercer County
Congress
Scottsboro
U. S. Justice Department
William Horner
Polce
U. S
O. John Rogge
Earl B. Dickerson
Chicago
Emanuel H. Bloch
New York
William L. Patterson
CRC
Patterson
Alabama
Horner
Elizabeth
New High Speed Telegraph Service Starts in Decatur
Decatur begins a new era of ultra modern communications as at 7:00 a.m. local telegraph lines were cut into Western Union's high speed automatic switching center in New Orleans. Joe B. Couch, local telegraph manager, said the center features an electric brain that eliminates manual retransmission and flashes messages between New Orleans and all other cities with vastly greater speed and efficiency. NEW on Page 2.
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Decatur
Western Union
New Orleans
Joe B. Couch
Russian Says Spies Active in United States
Russian defector Kirill Alexeev testified before a Senate judiciary subcommittee that Soviet and satellite diplomats headquarter spy activity at the Russian embassy in Washington. He said all Soviet diplomats bear spy responsibility and many from satellite nations share it. The hearing focused on a bill to tighten immigration gates and remove subversive aliens, with closure on names and a secret witness "Mr. X."
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Rutledge
Washington
Kremlin
Kirill Alexeev
Mexico
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Russia
Alexeev
Mr. X
Senate
District of Columbia
House
Policy Shift On Germany And Japan Scored
The State Department faces a new debate over moving too fast from postwar toughness to peacetime reconstruction for Germany and Japan. Leaders cite rebuilding self-sustaining economies, while critics warn of a premature relaxation of reparations and reparation removals. Japan’s reparations move, halted to aid peacetime recovery, comes after a Western trio’s plant removals in Germany aimed at paying-for-recovery under the Marshall plan. The Far Eastern commission split prompts U.S. action alone, inviting attacks over speed and impact on others’ reconstruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Hightower
Washington
State Department
Germany
Japan
United States
Britain
France
Far Eastern Commission
Commission
Wes
Lab Tests Made In Girl's Death
Richmond Virginia 16 year old Dana Marie Weaver was slain in the kitchen of Christ Episcopal church. Roanoke Youth Lee Scott 16 faces a juvenile court murder hearing as investigators seek a motive from lab tests and exhibits. Dana Marie's body was found by the church janitor Monday morning after being clubbed with a pop bottle. Scott admitted seeing her at the church and led police to evidence including a coffee urn bag and the murder weapons.
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Richmond
Anoke
Dana Marie Weaver
Roanoke
Lee Scott
Dana Marie
Christ Episcopal Church
Herbert Breyfogle
Virginia
Scott
Confession Read In Rape Death Trial By Guam Prosecution
Prosecution introduced a purported confession by Herman P. Dennis Jr claiming he raped Ruth Farnsworth three times after beating her unconscious. Dennis testified he wrote the statement only after threats of being hanged, with Lt Cmdr James P. Hackett and others pressuring him. The account links Sgt. Robert W. Burns and Calvin Dennis to the crime at the Jade shop in San Francisco, detailing the sequence of events and violent confrontation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leif Erickson
Guam
Herman P. Dennis Jr
Ruth Fransworth
Negro Air Force
Sgt
Robert W. Burns
San Francisco
Burns
Calvin
Dennis
Herman
Herman Dennis
Miss Farnsworth
Calvin’ Dennis
Cmdr
James P. Hackett
al Riedel
Hackett
Southerners And Lewis Will Open Talks on May 25
John L. Lewis and the Southern coal mine operators agreed today to begin negotiations on a new union mining contract at Bluefield West Virginia May 25. Joseph E Moody president of the Southern Coal Producers Association announced the agreement after conferences with Lewis. The Southern group represents miners producing about one third of the national bituminous coal output. The present coal mining contract expires June 3. There have been no arrangements for negotiations between Lewis and the Northern and Western coal operators or the steel company interests which operate coal mines for their own use.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Southern Coal Mine
Bluefield
W. Va
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Coal Producers Association
Lewis
Southern Group
Northern and Western
Steel Company
Tunnel Blast Blocks Holland Tunnel Traffic
A truck fire and chemical explosions in the Holland Tunnel shut the two mile underwater highway during morning rush hour. 10 to 12 trucks smoldered near the Jersey City end as walls and ceilings were damaged. The incident disrupted vital lines and cut off service to New England and West, with potential closure for up to a month.
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New York
Holland Tunnel
Hudson River
Manhattan
Hugo E. Rogers
Rogers
New Jersey
New England
American Telephone Bus Telegraph Company
En Yoelephone Company
Jersey City
Correction of Decatur marriage license error
A marriage license issued to Clemons fcvin, 28, Decatur, and Viola Bennefield, 18, Decatur, 2, was found to be issued with the wrong name Alvin Chambers and is retracted. The error is deeply regretted.
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Fcvin Clemons
Decatur 2
Viola Bennefield
Alvin Chambers
Bennefield
Realism Marks Traffic School in Decatur Police Training
Chief J. B. Whitmire reported Decatur police staged a two day traffic school with a simulated accident on Oak Street to emphasize realism. Officers performed roles including drunken driver, sober driver, lawyer and spectators in a scene aimed at sharpening police response and judgment.
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J. B. Whitmire
Decatur
Oak Street
Wilson
Market
Anne
Ray Milland
Credit for time in hospital for insane convict
In Montgomery on May 13 a state attorney general ruled that an insane convict sent to the state hospital at Tuscaloosa is entitled to credit for time spent there, to be subtracted from the prison sentence. He stressed confinement remains and noted only a state facility fits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Albert A. Carmichael
Edwina Mitchell
Patron-Parole Board
Carmichael
Tuscaloosa
Blockade List Still Debated In Berlin Tension
Russia and the Western powers debated lifting all Berlin blockade barriers as West Berlin trucks faced permit rules. Western observers noted possible Soviet pressure while food coal and feed shipments moved freely into West Berlin amid ongoing diplomatic wrangling.
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Associated Press
Russia
Berlin
West Berlin
German Economic Commission
Germany
Western Zone
West German Federal Republic
Rising Temperatures Above Decatur As Heat Builds
The day shows a warming trend with a Thursday high around 76 at 1 p.m. and a low near 53 reported by the U.S. Weather station. Hourly readings begin at 8 a.m. with 68, 71, 74, 75, and 78 degrees captured throughout the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King Sol
Decatur
U.S
Southern Bell Seeks Ballot on Union Representation
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph petitions the National Labor Relations Board to hold an election among employees in nine Southeastern states to decide if they wish to be represented by the CIO in collective bargaining. The move follows a CWA referendum and prior NLRB actions, with the company seeking proof of majority representation and dues deduction authorization.
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Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company Today
National Labor Relations Board
Southeastern
CIO
The
Communications Workers of America
IND
CWA
Eas
NLRB
Southers
Federation of Telephone Workers
Bae Wang
Cross burnings shock Clinton lawyers in Tennessee
In Clinton Tennessee two crosses were burned last night in front of the homes of Sidney Davis and Buford Lewallen attorney and former speaker of the 1947 Tennessee General Assembly. Notes signed Knights Of The Ku Klux Klan threatened them for pursuing ouster of Sheriff Bernard Vandergriff. Davis plans fingerprint tests on his note. The ouster suit against the Sheriff was filed in circuit court last month. See page 2 for details.
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Clinton
Tenn
Sidney Davis
Buford Lewallen
Lewallen
Tennessee General Assembly
Knights of the Klux Klan
Solons Take Off Week End In Montgomery
In Montgomery Alabama lawmakers paused for the weekend as only one major bill passed in two weeks. Representative Thomas Johnston’s clerk hire limit measure cleared the house Tuesday and moved to the senate finance committee. Governor Folsom had already dismissed about 35 state workers funded by the relief fund with notices to end May 15.
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Montgomery
Ala
Thomas Johnston
House
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
James E. Folsom
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Charles Malone
Ann
A. D. Is
Mary Denham
Brooksville
Decatur General Hospital
Brown
State Highway Patrol
Selective Service Board
Decatur Fire Department
East Gordon
Hamil Clinic Hospital
Jimmie Flowers
Sixth Avenue East
Rufus Peerson
Lafayette Street
Freeman Breeding
Hartselle
Bradley Jones
Decatur 3
W. H. Jenkins
Prospect Drive
E. O. Craft
Moulton and Kirst
Vine Street
Laurel Street
Mary Williams
the Daily
Miss Williams
Drinkard
Morgan
Leeman
B G. Smith
Board of Trustees
Coach Baker
Smith
Baker
Helmstedt
By Ken Reynolds
Savannah
George E. Higgins
Witness
Girl
Air Force
Southern Bell
Clinton, Tenn
Solons
Nhs
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