Weather and local notices from Decatur area
Community news reports showers and cooler weather outlook for today tonight and Tuesday. VFW post meets at 7 45 tonight at VFW home on Second Avenue. visitation program at Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church Thursday at 6 30. TVA records show 75 F high yesterday 69 F at 7 AM 80 F at noon today. Mrs W C Dossey Courtland admitted to Baugh Wiley clinic. Obituary and funeral notes for Mrs Roberson Lillie and Mrs Lois Cox attended. Birth of a son reported for W M Van Hoozer Athens. Red Cross Negro division Morgan County reports 654 27 toward 500 quota. R J Mackey Moulton admitted to Baugh Wiley clinic. First North Alabama railroad train pictured by West Decatur students. Highway Patrol reports a reckless driving arrest. Spencer Weinman Decatur admitted to Block's clinic. See DIARY on Page 2.
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T. W. Bridges
Red Cross
Morgan County
Bridges
Seven Die In State Crashes On Slippery Roads
A weekend spate of accidents across the state left at least seven dead and four injured. Rain slick highways blamed by the Highway Patrol, including the death of Officer A. O. Hudson while pursuing a speeder near Jasper.
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Highway Patrol
A. O. Hudson
Gadsden
Jasper
C. M. Thorsen
Associated Press
Charles Roberts
Fayette
Marshall Crump
J. Thomas Veasey
Albert Plummer
Thecla Mallory
Birmingham
C. E. Huey
Lawrence Burd
Sheffield
Bobby Lee Byrd
Scottsboro
Ralph Henry Friend
Wellington
Sylvester Portis
Brighton
Vardimus Burnside
Mobile
Senate to hear panel on Koje Island incident
All 96 senators invited to a closed Armed Services Committee session Wednesday to question Gen Marie B Ridgway about the Koje Island seizure. An Eighth Army board of inquiry has completed its investigation into Brig Gen Francis T Dodd's seizure and release by Communist POWs on Koje Island and forwarded its findings to Gen Mark Clark in Washington.
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Senate
Armed Services
Marie B. Ridgway
Koje Island
Seoul
Eighth Army
Francis T. Dodd
Kose Island
Mark Clark
Supreme
Wasagion
Trains Barred By Reds Order Shocks Berlin and Bonn
A sudden East German order shuts passenger service on the Gutenferst to Hof line linking the Soviet zone with the American zone. Freight moves continue. Officials say the action ends an unwritten post blockade understandings. The move sparks fear in West Germany amid Bonn’s approaching peace terms.
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Germany
West Germany
Gutenferst
Thuringia
Hof
Frontier Communications Center
Bavaria
Berlin
Gutenferst-Hof
Bonn
West
Latest ideas on preparation of food to be revealed here
Decatur hosts two evening demonstrations on quick easy meals by Mrs. Adine Maxwell TVA home economist. She will prepare meals on stage in the Auditorium and give a free recipe. Attendance prizes include electrical gifts and baskets of groceries.
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Adine Maxwell
TVA Home Economist
Maxwell
Controls Over Cotton Ended
The Office of Price Stabilization announced suspension of price controls on raw cotton and most textiles, with Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall signing the order. The move sets a 43.39 cent per pound threshold to restore control and removes ceilings for most fabrics at the manufacturing level.
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Washington
Office of Price Stabilization
OPS
Ellis Arnall
Public thanked for response on Decatur store hours
Leo Wright chairman of the retail merchants committee of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce says area residents have sent letters with ideas for store hours. He notes many more letters are welcome as officials review public input on adjusting hours. Merchants shifted this year from 8 30 to 5 and 8 30 to noon and extended Saturday to 7. The new hours are 9 to 5 30 on Monday through Friday.
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Leo Wright
Retail Merchants Committee
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Decatur C
Wright
Decatur
Narrows Taft Lead in Delegate Race
The Associated Press reports Truman backed civil rights to energize the Democratic race while Eisenhower gains in Oregon and Vermont. Delegates this week total 105 from six states with Democrats 70 and Republicans 35 at stake. Taft claims about 450 delegates. AP tabulation puts Taft 375 to Eisenhower 337 out of 914 named.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Montana
North Carolina
Louisiana
Delaware
Washington State
Minnesota
Hawaii
Chicago
Eisenhower
Taft
Vermont
Associated Press
Truman
Americans For Democratic Action
ADA
Congress
Fair Employment Practices Commission
FEPC
United Nations Calls Red Denial an Out-and-Out Lie
In Panmunjom, Vice Adm. C Turner Joy labeled a Communist denial that Reds agreed to Allied screening of captured Reds as an out and out lie. North Korean Gen Nam Il countered that such claims were inconceivable and unbelievable to their side.
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Sam Summerlin Munsan
Korea
United Nations
Reds
Panmunjon
Adm. C. Turner Joy
U. N
Raiders Fight Reds On Western Korean Front
United Nations raiders engaged heavily fortified Communist Reds on the Western Korean Front. Allied troops pressed through Red underground shelters as protection from rain and hostile fire in the open areas.
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Seoul
Korea
United Nations
Senators Move to Block McGranery Nomination
Two Republican senators Ferguson of Michigan and Watkins of Utah seek to block James P. McGranery’s Senate confirmation as attorney general. They file a minority judiciary committee report calling his integrity and veracity into question and seek further witness testimony.
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McGranery
Washington
Senate
James P. McGranery
Sens. Ferguson
Michigan
Watkins
Utah
Senate Judiciary Committee
Philadelphia
Truman
J. Howard McGrath
Judiciary Committee
Ferguson and Watkins
Trapped UW Student Rescued Frustrated Mountaineers Strike
A 20 year old University of Washington student Art Jessett was buried in a 90 foot crevasse on Mt. St. Helens after slipping from a narrow ice hole. Rescue teams from Seattle Portland and officials worked through the day to reach him hoping to free him before nightfall.
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Spirit’ Lake
Wash
University of Washington
Mt. St. Helens
Art Jessett
Seattle
Jessett
Portland
British Plan To Get Out Of China
London reports say after nearly three years of Communist pressure British business plans to abandon its 800 million dollar investment in the Chinese mainland and withdraw. Diplomatic recognition of Peiping will remain. Eden to tell Parliament the exit will not affect official ties.
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London
Britain
Peiping
Anthony Eden
China
See British
Anders Plea For New Trial Denied
In a Friday Daily report Vero Anders appeared before Judge Newton B. Powell seeking probation in a ten year charge. The request for a new trial was denied after the review.
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Anders
the Daily
Vero Anders
Newton B. Powell
Powell
Russian Booth Closed At Los Angeles Fair
Los Angeles officials closed the Russian booth at the All Nations Festival amid complaints from citizens about its hammer and sickle flag and handbills promoting communism. The event opened World Trade Week with many UN nation booths. The Russian booth, sponsored by the American Russian Institute, was halted on festival chair Claire Bourelle’s request after several objections.
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Los Angeles
U. N
Claire H. Bourelle
American Russian Institute
Grim hostage drama unfolds in jungle by wildcat parachutists
American Scott A. Magness, a CAA aviation safety advisor, and Maj. Miranda Correa of the Brazilian Air Force are held by 30 or more armed parachutists in a Brazilian jungle. A U S helicopter pilot reports removing all other U S officials, but Magness remains captive as the group seeks transportation for the parachutists back to civilization near a Pan American World Airways crash site.
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Miami
Fla
U. S
Air Force
Gordon Bennett
Miami International District
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Scott A. Magness
CAA
Maj
Miranda Correa
Wereelg Ustu
Pan American World Airways
Albrook Air Force Base
Panama Canal Zone
Magness
Bennett
Lino de Mattos
Sao See Grim
Quiet Session Of Court Fixes Sentence For Lancaster
In a short five minute hearing Judge Isaac Johnson set a probation hearing for Sherman Lancaster on June first for his appeal or probation request after a conviction on adultery and two counts of assault and battery. If probation is denied he faces Kilby prison and 446 days total. earlier sentences included six months hard labor and $100 costs plus minor sums for the assault charges. Witnesses and a sparse courtroom marked the session with Lancaster choosing to seek probation.
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Isaac Johnson
Sherman Lancaster
Lancaster
Johnson
Kilby
Frank Smith
Smith
Town Creek
Byrd Miller Mount Climb Challenge in Virginia Politics
Virginia Senate race heats up as Senator Harry Byrd and challenger Francis Pickens Miller trade barbs over fatigue accusations. Byrd bets his stamina by proposing a mountain climb of Old Rag Mountain near Berryville, but no date is set.
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Richmond
Byrd
D-Va
Francis Pickens Miller
Bolling Lambeth
Senate
Miller
Old Rag Mountain
Berryville
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