Weather and local notices from Decatur area
Partly cloudy outlook with scattered thunderstorms. Southeast winds on the coast. Trains on the Louisville and Nashville pass through the yards as girders are installed at the underpass on the Danville Road. A northbound train halted at ton Street crossing drew attention. Capt and Mrs T O Lowery arrive Wednesday from Alvin. Brenner of Somerville admitted to Decatur General Hospital. Mr and Mrs Washington Bates of Somerville announce a daughter born at Decatur General Hospital. Vacation Bible School planned at Flint Baptist Church June 20 to July 1. Westminster Presbyterian midweek service continues study Beliefs and Practices of the Presbyterian Church. Joe Calvin Leroy McEntire and Jimmy Bloodworth attend reserve officers meeting in Albertville. Mrs F H Wells of 909 Wadsworth taken to Hamil Clinic Hospital.
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Louisville and Nashville
Danville Road
Ton Street
Morgan County Briefs Wake Up To Local News
Two Morgan County jail bookings in the past 24 hours include a driving while intoxicated charge and public drunkenness. Joe Morrison, Morgan coroner, to Nashville Veterans Hospital for about a week for a general medical checkup. Mrs. Robert Martin ill at home 1411 Seventh Avenue East. Paul C Davis and wife attend Tuscaloosa spring band concert. their son James is a member. Hagerty building remodel work to cobly enlarge store area. General notes: local visitors L L Self Auburn, Randolph Ryan Ryans, Luke Holland formerly of Memphis. DIARY on Page 2.
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Morgan County
Joe Morrison
Morgan
Veterans Hospital
Nashville
Paul C. Davis
Tuscaloosa
James
1949 Graduation Edition Featured In The Daily
The Daily presents a 1949 Graduation Section with group photos from Morgan Lawrence Limestone and Cullman area high schools. Each school sends its graduation week programs for publication as received. Hobbs Studio took all pictures in the edition.
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Morgan
Lawrence
Limestone
Cullman
Hobbs Studio
Solon Pay Cut Vote Postponed In Alabama Senate
In Montgomery Alabama the senate rejected a pay cut for members by 19 to 15 and postponed action on reducing daily pay from 20 to 15. In the house a new constitutional amendment, backed by 67 signatures, would require voters to understand citizenship duties under a republican government, replacing the Boswell measure.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Senate
Senate
House
Alabama lawmakers push gas price probe
A resolution to authorize an eight member bipartisan committee to investigate gasoline prices was introduced in the Alabama legislature. Sponsored by Representatives J. W. Brassell and B. L. Cole the measure notes a 5.2 percent price rise since 1947 and calls the issue worthy of study.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
House
Senate
J. W. Brassell
B. L. Cole
Russell County
Brassell
Senate Deadlock Over Legislature Pay Cuts Evolves
Sen Guy Hardwick of Houston County pushes action to cut legislative salaries from 20 to 18. Rules panel proposes 15, but the Senate postpones final decision to next week. House action on Sunday drinking ban in Alabama remains delayed. Senate approves higher workers compensation and increases limits. Senator Joe Langan seeks 25 weekly. See SOLON on Page 2.
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Guy Hardwick
Houston County
Rules Committee
Senate
House
Hardwick
Joe Langan
Mobile
Solon
Tune Released on Payment of Costs
Hartselle man L. A Tune released from Morgan County Jail Monday after paying 53.50 court costs. He was jailed Sunday for failing to appear in a justice of the peace court Saturday. He told Sheriff C. Bibb Humphrey he would be forgotten if he didn’t come.
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L. A
Tragedy on Highway Spurs Plea for Careful Driving
A Decatur plea from two children asks motorists to slow down after a fatal accident near the Decatur Moulton highway. They recount a lost friend, their dog Smirkey, and urge publication of the letter to warn others.
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Decatur
Moulton
Smirkey
Goodyear Decatur Mills Begin Layoffs Amid Slump
C. W. Young, superintendent, said the 1600‑employee plant started layoffs due to weaker auto demand. He noted production tied to tire sales and denied plans to abandon cotton fabric for rayon, insisting some cotton fabric will stay in tire manufacture.
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C. W. Young
Goodyear Decatur Mills
Young
Decatur
Three Drowned In Texas Flood
Fort Worth Texas reports three bodies recovered as floods stretch across the Trinity river with 12 inch rainfall. Levees breached in four spots and more people still missing amid rapidly rising waters. Homes swept away include shanties and a six room house near a viaduct as floodwaters churn through the area.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Trinity River
Trinity
Clear Fork
Southern Railway seeks approval for $7.5 million equipment trust
Southern Railway today applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to issue $7,500,000 in equipment trust certificates to finance a fleet of new passenger and care.
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Washington
Southern Railway
Kadoontone Commerce Comsuience
New Tax Plan Proposed Moves in Congress
President Truman backs a nine point push as Rep Mills introduces a corporate tax shift aimed at balancing the 1950 accounts. The plan would shift collections six months earlier without increasing total revenue, potentially turning a 3 billion deficit into a 1.7 billion surplus. House leaders target ten major bills while awaiting action on Wallgren and the National Security Resources nomination.
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Washington
Congress
Trump
Mon Wallgren
National Security Resources
Senate Primed Services Committee
Nator Byrd
D-Va
Wallgren
Washington State
Truman
Rep
Mills
D-Ark
Alaska
Soldier Father Is Held Blameless in Baby Shooting
In Las Vegas a coroner's jury ruled the ten month old baby Carolyn Dolores Allen's death an accident. Corp Charlie Dean Allen 23 a military policeman at the Las Vegas Air Force Base testified his gun discharged while loading it. No charges were filed.
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Las
Vegas
Corp
Charlie Dean Allen
Las Vegas Air Force Base
Carolyn Dolores
Allen
Kim
Monroe
City Council Maintains Pigs Ban and Hears Street Plans
City Council voted to enforce a pig ban, set 30 day removal for Fairview owners, and approve sewer work on Holly Street. It approved selling school improvement bonds June 8 and discussed traffic limits on Second Avenue and grant of WHOS license tax questions.
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Council
Second Avenue
John A. Caddell
Holly Street
Tom Edgil
Fairview
Sixteenth
Fourteenth Avenues
Elliott
Joe Elliott
Nathan Pryor
Grant
Jobston
Moulton
Rutledge Thomas
Caddell
WHOS
Joe Pettey
Federal Communications Commission
Mother Suffers Tragedy as Baby Son Passes
Los Angeles reports that Georgette Brucks, 21, who agreed to sterilization to avoid prison, saw her fourth child die. The six pound boy had a spinal defect. she had pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the October beating of her seven month old son Howard. One son Donald was up for adoption as part of probation. the oldest, four, is with his father. The father of the last two children is Donald Redman, 23, jailed on a robbery charge.
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Los Angeles
Georgette Brucks
Donald
Edmond Areas
Wickliffe
Ors
Brucks
Donald Redman
Impatient Fisherman Sees Opportunity From TVA Pumps
Pumps at Rockhouse landing will dewater Rockhouse Buckeye and Blackwell sloughs. Alabama Conservation Department rules allow salvaging of game fish without bag limits or creek restrictions. Gigs seines and nets may be used. sale of non game fish permitted.
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Rockhouse Landing
Rockhouse
Buckeye
Blackwell Swamp
Alabama Conservation Department
Wheeler
National Wildlife Refuge
Wem
Robert Hudson to Hurl Opener at Legion Field
Robert Hudson a veteran right-hander will pitch the Decatur opener Saturday night at American Legion Memorial Field likely against Florence ace Carlos Ramsay. The game, first under the lights in Decatur, starts at eight as Decatur rides a winning streak in baseball weather over the past three weeks.
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Robert Hudson
Decatur
American Legion Memorial Field
Carlos
Buck) Ramsay
Florence Raider Hurling Corps
Robert
CIO Board Debates Alabama Labor Feud and CWA Charter
The CIO executive board opened a two day session in Washington and approved a CIO charter for the Communications Workers of America. The Alabama feud between Mine Mill and a steel workers union dominated talks with witnesses set to testify about a fist fight at a Bessemer radio station.
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Washington
CIG
Alabama
Mile and Smelter
Steelworkers
CIO
Communications Workers of America
Philip Murray
Murray
Bessemer
Ala
Mine
Mill
CAP Unit Here To Be Sought
Decatur seeks to form a Civil Air Patrol unit with a public meeting on 24 at 7 30 p m in the National Guard armory reserve clubroom. Major Charles A Riding will outline details and benefits for civilians and former military personnel and for 15 to 17 year olds. needs about 15 reliable volunteers to operate locally.
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Civil Air Patrol
Decatur
National Guard
Charles A. Riding
Air Force Cap
CAP
Riding
Army
Navy
Marine
CAP Oe
Air Force
Pare
German Mayors Visit Decatur on U.S. Training Tour
Fifteen mayors from German cities in the American occupied zone will visit Decatur as part of a three month training tour. They are studying American city operation under military government and will travel from Guntersville to Knoxville after spending Thursday night in Decatur.
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Decatur
U.S
TVA
Guntersville
Knoxville
Dentists Talk Emphasizes Early Care At Nurses Meeting
Dr W D Jackson of Decatur addressed district 14 nurses of the Alabama State Nurses Association in Morgan County Health Department assembly room on the importance of starting dental care early in life. Miss Hazel McCaghren presided. discussion followed and a business session concluded. Next meeting is set for June 20.
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W. D. Jackson
Decatur
Alabama State Nurses” ’Association
Ife
Morgan County Health Department
Hazel McCaghren
Hospital is Paid For Kindness to Charity Patient
MEMPHIS May 17 J R Kinderer of Oklahoma City remembers kindness from 60 years ago and returns the favor by giving 25000 to the City hospital where he was a charity patient. Once a Mississippi river bargehand he retired 21 years ago after running a large Oklahoma City restaurant and acquiring oil lands.
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Memphis
J. R. Kinderer
Oklahoma City
Mississippi River
City Hospital
Kinderer
Rent Office Hours Revamped At Courthouse Office
Mrs. Mary Louise Roberts announces the rent control office in the courthouse will be open Mondays and Fridays from 9 AM to 4 PM and Wednesdays 9 AM to noon. District official W R Carter Jr presides as first rental inspector with access in the county.
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Mary Louise Roberts
Editor Drowns in Gulf of Mexico Off Biloxi
Harry M. Davis aged 38, science editor of Newsweek, drowned last night in the Gulf near Biloxi Mississippi. Dr Presley Wer ling Bioxi physician called the death an accidental drowning and an investigation was expected.
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Biloxi
Miss
Harry M. Davis
New York
Newsweek Magazine
Gulf of Mexico
Presley Werling
Bioxi
Smashing Blow In Soviet Area Defies East German Vote
Eastern Germany reportedly rebuked communists as 4,080,272 of 12,024,221 valid ballots marked sio in a Peoples Congress election. Officials delayed results and Soviet press cried foul after the single slate plan failed to win a solid yes vote ahead of the Paris talks.
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Richard K.omalley
Berlin
Germany
Peoples' Congress
Sio
Foreign Ministers Conference
Paris
Eastern
Plans agreed on Frankfurt first West German election
In Frankfurt on May 17 American British and French officials announced a tentative agreement on procedures for West Germany's first democratic election since Hitler. Major General Hays said French approval is required before finalization. The plan, drafted by Bonn's constitutional assembly, bars some Nazi offenders from voting and sets about 400 deputies to the Bundestag.
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Frankfurt
Germany
West Germany
Hitler
George P. Hays
Hays
Pierre Koenig
G. K. McClean
Constitutional Assembly
Bonn
Balloting Ends for Congress as Communist Council Tally Looms
Taegliche Rundschau accuses Eastern splinter parties of double game and secret agitation against the communist front congress. It notes many influenced by enemy propaganda voted against the list. The two day balloting ended last night and a final count by the people's council is expected today.
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Taegliche Rundschau
Christian and Liberal Democrats
Communist-Front
Congress
Rundschau
Enemies of Unity
Peoper
Couns Cil
Montgomery's Facing Man Slaughter Charge After Crash
Charley Montgomery 4 of Moulton is held on a manslaughter charge in the highway death of his 71 year old father Steve Montgomery. Deputy Fred Riley said charges of driving while intoxicated and driving without a license are also filed with bonds set at 750 dollars for manslaughter and 300 dollars for the other charges. The elder Montgomery was critically injured when he fell or jumped from a truck driven by his son on the Courtland Wheeler highway seven miles north of Courtland. He died Saturday morning in a Decatur hospital.
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Charley Montgomery
Moulton
Steve Jackson Montgomery
Lawrence
Fred Riley
Montgomery
Courtland- Wheeler Highway
Courtland
Decatur
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T. O. Lowery
Alvin. Brenner
Somerville
Decatur General Hospital
Flint Baptist Church
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Joe Calvin
Leroy McEntire
Jimmy Bloodworth
Albertville
F. H. Wells
Wadsworth
Hamil Clinic
Brown's
Bee Line
de- Ce
Robert Martin
Seventh Avenue
East
G. O. Spencer
Danville
L. L. Self
Auburn
Hagerty Rm
W. E. Garlen
Athens 2
Randolph Ryan
Ryans
Luke Holland
Ken Reynolds
Daily Want Ad
Milady
Amarillo
Tex
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Dixie Hospitality
Legion Field
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Riverhead
Ernest Sites
Kew
Surrey
Ridge
George Burns
Philadelphia
William Farrell
Long Island
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