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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1952
Page
1
A brief community column highlights local lives and shared spaces. Readers glimpse neighborhood events, landmarks, and everyday acts that knit residents together across streets and stories.
Weather outlook for today shows clear to partly cloudy and warm with moderate to fresh south winds along the coast. Junior G A banquet at Southside Baptist Church tonight at 7 P M. Regular services continue at Central Baptist without a pastor. Next Sunday Rev Versil S Crenshaw will preach both services and marks Intermediate Day. Mack Douglas to return May 25. Sallie Ratliff, 3511 Madison Ave Alabama City, turns 97 on May 22. Rev Al Funderburke to fill Westside Baptist pulpit Sunday as Rev Bethea Stedham attends a Baptist convention in Miami. Bethlehem Baptist Church ready for family gathering Friday. Russell Green of Vinemont visited on business. Rev Lonnie Smallwood to fill Flint Baptist pulpit Sunday while Rev Jack Carroll attends Southern Baptist Convention in Miami. Mrs L G Manly of Decatur admitted to Decatur General Hospital. Admissions included T A McDaniel Hartselle Mary E Brewer Decatur and Letty B Thornhill Hartselle. Rev Mr and Mrs Hershel Phillips Trinity announce the birth of a son at Decatur General Hospital. DAV Chapter II meets Thursday at 7 30 P M at the Legion Hall Bank Street. officers to be elected. See Diary on Page 2.
Walter Jackson will serve again as president of the Decatur Executives Club for 1952 1953 with Joe Calvin as vice president and George Godwin as secretary. The three officers also served in the first year of the club and selections for seven feature programs were made at a board meeting. Members of Tentative were chosen last night from many fields.
An oil tanker loaded with 700000 gallons of high octane gasoline exploded after colliding with a freighter in the Chesapeake and Delaware canal. Four crewmen are believed dead. Coast Guard said four Hayes crewmen are missing and presumed dead, while the captain and others swam to shore. The Angelina also caught fire from spilled fuel but was later docked in Philadelphia with two injuries aboard. Names of missing include Oakes Ellis Landee and Carter.
Mary Jane Bailey a 21 year old student nurse from Wrightsville Pennsylvania sprang into action when driver H Edwin Smith collapsed on the Lincoln Highway near Lancaster. She reached over the prostrate driver and took the wheel guiding 17 passengers through a field of trees to a safe stop.
Milton Holmes, producer of Boots Ma lone, files a million dollar breach of contract suit against Columbia Pictures Inc. alleging the studio reneged on plans to exploit the film for Academy Award nomination.
Senator Mansfield calls for a House Armed Services Committee investigation into the Koje Island Prison Camp conditions after Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd was seized by prisoners of war. He cites disgraceful events at Rose Prison Camp and demands accountability for the military effort and truce talks.
Martin, 36, of Cedar Cove road, is jailed in Morgan County on assault and battery charges after allegedly beating his wife when she dirtied his whiskey. Sheriff reports he had 15 gallons of joy juice buried near the house. wife says she dug it up and dirt was added. No bond set.
CIO United Steelworkers prepared to approve a union shop repeal of Taft Hartley Act and a national daily labor newspaper. President Philip Murray backed a walkout of 650000 steelworkers if a satisfactory wage increase is not won promptly. Delegates at the biennial convention gave unanimous support to the strike threat amid Truman administration leadership.
The Navy announced the keel of the United States first atomic powered submarine will be laid next month at Electric Boat Co in Groton Connecticut. The vessel to be named Nautilus follows Jules Verne's fictional craft.
The Taft Eisenhower Republican presidential contest leans toward Senator Taft after West Virginia primary results. Taft gains 15 delegate votes while Eisenhower picks up one. AP tally lists Taft 364 to Eisenhower 304 with nomination at 604 votes.
Morgan County Deputies Henry Fowler and Wilbur Abercrombie plan to return with three prisoners Willie Harmon Ernest Woods and Kathleen Woods captured in New Orleans after a series of break ins at Trinity mountain cabins. They face burglary charges. four other Decatur residents were released on bond.
The House passed a bill to raise servicemen pay by nearly half a billion dollars annually with a May effective date for eligible personnel. Increases range from three dollars per month for privates to sixty five dollars for two star generals and admirals. The measure targets about 3.6 million active and retired personnel. A separate appropriation bill totaling 1.413 billion dollars was sent to the floor, funded mainly for the Army Navy and Air Force. The immigration bill debate intensifies with Senate leaders wary of a major dispute before adjournment. Ethics scrutiny grows in the McCarthy Benton hearings as Lustron payment questions surface.
W. W. Dinsmore, secretary treasurer of the tuberculosis sanatorium executive board for 18 years, was elected chairman Wednesday. He succeeds Dr. Erskine Chenault, who served as chairman for 18 years since tuberculosis care began at the institution with modern facilities in the South.
General Mark W Clark repudiates the Colson agreement with Korean War prisoners and says Colson lacked authority to accept charges. He notes the pact was used for propaganda and claims the exchanges endangered Brigadier General Dodd and aimed to influence Panmunjom talks. The pact remains disputed by U N and Washington officials.
A government official said price controls on raw cotton will be suspended within hours. The Office of Price Stabilization expects the order to be signed by tonight or tomorrow.
President Truman denounces critics of farm and other programs as peddling bank and hokum to smear Roosevelt and Truman policies. He vows a whistlestop tour and campaigns for the Democratic ticket. He cites a rise in farmer ownership from 58 to 75 percent in twenty years, arguing the policy proves free enterprise, not socialism.
The Alabama supreme court ordered the Public Service Commission to issue a permit to Decatur Transfer and Storage Inc. to haul petroleum from Decatur and Guntersville to North Alabama. The order follows a circuit court ruling and earlier PSC denial.
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