Weather, travel notes and local health updates
Partly cloudy and warm with scattered thundershowers and light south winds. Local residents receive military, family and hospital news including First Lieut. Douglas Cook's 30 day leave and assignment to Fort Dix and reports from Vanderbilt hospital. School graduations, births, and local incidents are noted along with Goodyear- Decatur Mills displaying the Army Navy E Flag.
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Douglas Cook
H. T. Cook
Decatur 2
Fort Dix
Army of Occupation
Germany
Evidence of Fraud in Dallas Balloting Charged by Folsom
Alabama Governor James Folsom announced that investigators found evidence of election fraud in Dallas County regarding the May 2 Democratic primary. State officials said the Attorney General's office will be asked to advise and assist so the facts may be presented to the jury at the next session.
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Montgomery
Ala
Dallas County
James Folsom
Mece General's Office
Armed Forces Day Observed in Washington Parade
President Truman opened the first national Armed Forces Day with a 70 minute parade for 6500 personnel from all services under gray skies. 140 jet aircraft roared over Bolling Air Force Base and the capital, as Defense Secretary Johnson called the day a report to the people on national defense.
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Truman
Washington
Constitution Avenue
Washington Monument
Bolling Air Force Base
Armed Services
Washington Monument Grounds
Defense
Johnson
New Diamond Youth Baseball Park to Open in West Decatur
Joe Elliott announces a new five acre youth baseball park in West Decatur near the water tower at Third Street and Fifth Avenue West. The facility will host games five nights a week with bleachers for 100 and baseball bases to be installed next week. Local groups Red Shield Boys club and the Junior Legion plan to use the field. Delano and Greenwood Parks will officially open June 1 with chaperones named.
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Decatur
West Decatur
Joe Elliot
City Parks
Water Tower
Third Street
Fifth Avenue West
Allready
Red
Shield Boys Club
Junior Legion
Elliott
City Street
Fairview
Tenth Avenue East
Moulton Street
White Way Co
Beeline Highway
Sixteenth Avenue
Locust Street
Delano
Greenwood
Evelyn Kirkpatrick
Carl Schwuchow
Roll Call Vote of Senators II Listed
Washington May 20 Four senators report how Alabama members voted on recent roll calls. Senate adoption of disapproval resolutions 66 to 13 against Truman ICC reorganization with Hill for and Sparkman against. Senate adoption 50 to 23 against Truman FCC reorganization with Hill for and Sparkman against. House: No roll calls.
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Washington
Alabama
Congress
Senate
President Truman
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hill
Sparkman
S Truman
Federalmmunications Commission
HOUSE
Final Arrangements Made For Humphrey's Visit Here
Final arrangements for Humphrey Pennyworth's Decatur appearance on May 23 are confirmed by Lions Club reps. He will tour in Jackson Tennessee and Beaumont Texas en route, receive a key to the city from Mayor Summers at a Lions luncheon at the Lyons Hotel Armory. The parade features the Decatur high school band Humphrey’s mobile and six escorts giving candy. a park refreshment stand run by Band Mothers funds new uniforms.
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Humphrey Pennyworth
Decatur
Lions Club
Humphrey
Beaumont
Texas
Jackson
Tennessee
Hum-paray
Summers
Lyons Hotel
City Council to discuss housing authority cooperation pact
The City Council and local housing authority plan a Monday 7 PM meeting at City Hall to review a proposed cooperation agreement presented last week by Housing Authority Secretary Charles Parker. Some members demand city drainage street and alley safeguards and city obligations before approval.
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Housing Authority
Charles Parker
Rutledge Thomas
City Street
Roy Odom
Russell Humphrey
Leonard Moody
Nathan Pryor
H. R. Summer
Davis Held in Lawrence Probe
Paul Davis a 40 year old Lawrence county farmer was jailed in Moulton Saturday as officers investigated accusations he slapped a white woman knocked down her child and tried to force entry. Sheriff George Byars said no charges had been filed yet awaiting further inquiry.
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Paul Davis
Lawrence County
George Byars
Moulton
Davis
Byars
Anderson Livingston
Liv
Livingston
Speakers urge preparedness against boll weevil in North Alabama
Auburn entomologists urged cotton growers to prepare poison and equipment now to combat early boll weevil emergence in North Alabama. At a Hartselle meeting with farmers bankers and insecticide dealers they discussed emergency dusting and timing for best yields with July and August applications.
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Auburn
Hartselle
North Alabama
W. A. Ruffin
F. S. Arant
Alabama Farm Extension Service
Ruffin
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
L. T. Wagnon
Morgan County
Methodist Church
Wagnon
Mr. Ruffin
Cullman
Walker
Dollar Volume of Retail Trade Climbs in State
Dollar volume of trade in retail wholesale and service establishments shows growth in 1948 from 4 8 million in 1939 to about 13 million. Amusement damage receipts are noted at around 4 5 thousand dollars, compared with 7 thousand previously.
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Birmingham
Ala
Propaganda Talks Intensify Western Broadcast Efforts
Western ally officials plan closer information cooperation to counter communism. Britain and the United States discuss more radio stations and staff exchanges as part of broader Atlantic pact and Big Three talks. Trygve Lie and Robert Schuman also engaged in high level discussions while in Europe.
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Associated Press
Britain
BBC
Voice of America
U. S
Edward W. Barrett
Christopher Warner
Foreign Office
London
United Nations
Trygve Lie
Save
U. N
Moscow
Stalin
Robert Schuman
Paris
Ernest Bevin
Extradition Proceeding Begun for Cullman Robbery Suspect
Extradition proceedings started Friday to return Willie Peak, 38, a Cullman ex convict, for trial on robbing an elderly couple of their $5 fortune at gunpoint. Peak was arrested in Memphis by the FBI and is alleged to have robbed farmer Will Frank about a month ago.
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Cullman
Shelly Hyatt
Willie Peak
Memphis
FBI
Hyatt
Will Frank
Cullman 2
Peak
Bank Robe
Cullman County
Missing in Blast Sought at South Amboy Waterfront
Men with mine detectors scanned the shell-littered waterfront for the 22 still missing after the South Amboy munitions disaster. Four bodies recovered, hundreds injured, and officials said chances of rescuing survivors were virtually nil after six hundred tons of explosives exploded and shook three states.
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South Amboy
N. J
Fifty Die Feared In German Coal Mine Disaster
In Gelsenkirchen Germany a coal mine explosion left about 50 miners feared dead with 36 injured and 27 bodies recovered. Rescue teams battled flames as more than 200 miners were in the mine when the blast occurred and the cause was not yet determined.
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Gelsenkirchen
Germany
South Amboy Waterfront Blast Kills 22 Workers
A boiler blast at the South Amboy loading operation sent a pier into flames. Foreman Austin Stotle testified before a Coast Guard board of inquiry, saying he saw no warning signs before the explosion and that all 22 missing men were at work at the time.
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New York Bay
South Amboy
Austin ~ Stotle
Coast Guard Board of
Paratroopers Jump Over Pryor Field Draw Crowd
Two young men trained as paratroopers jumped from airplanes over Pryor Field on Saturday. John Sebren Hopper, 19, of Jones Chapel, Cullman County, made his eighth jump and first free jump. John A Shealy, 25, of Tur, completed his 57th free fall with a chute that opened early and cut 12 shroud lines.
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Pryor Field
John “Sebren Hopper
Jones Chapel
Cullman County
Cam Campbell Ky
Bobbyeee
John A. Shealy
Tur. John
Earth
Chute Shealy
Shealy
Cullman
Gas Fumes Fire Destroys Courtland Farm House
A gasoline fumes explosion at a Courtland farm home critically injured four people including Mrs. Mary Proctor and her daughter Maxine. O'Neal Proctor, 15, walked two miles for help. Neighbors aided victims. blood donors aided survival. Fire damaged by a stove and fumes, house saved by quick actions.
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Birmingham
Highway Patrol
W. B. Little
J. D. Vinson
Courtland
W. E. Richey
Mary Proctor
Maxine
Decatur General Hospital
O'Neal
Joseph
Blood Donors Club
Cliff Odom
Mary Delmore
James Proctor
O’neal
Decatur General
Mark Wayne
Ernest (Tooney
Alton
Edward
Patee
Proctor
Ussery
Raymond Ethridge
Teal
Wallace Sapp
George Reeves
High Patrol
Two Men Hurt in Huntsville Crash
Two Decatur men injured in a Huntsville crash Friday night at 11 30 PM. M P Beck suffered serious head injuries when a 1950 Plymouth hit another vehicle on Seminole Drive. His companion William Harris, 40, remained unconscious at 10 PM with no consciousness. Attendants said both are in Huntsville hospital.
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Beck
Plymouth
Seminole Drive
May Ray
William Harris
Decatur 1
Huntsville Hospital
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Tenn
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Falkville
Eddie Sandlin
Robert Riddle
Cartersville
Cole Young
Mary Carol
L. T. Sharp
Somerville 2
Mrs. Ocia Wade
Moulton 2
Vanderbilt Hospital
Nashville
John Peach
D. D. Redding
Wheeler, Ala
Decatur General, Hospital
Henry Ray Martinson
Johnston Street
Hamil Clinic
Rice Bradford
Huston Moody
Glenda Faye Williams
Rubin Williams
Decatur 3
Lewis Poole
Jackson, Miss
Cope Poole
Frank Poole
van Hill
E. Mills
Jackson Street
Baugh-Wiley Clinic
James Johnson
Seventh Avenue East
T. M. Benson
Paul Wayne Foster
Huntsville
Joe Bradley High School
Richard Stotler Kelley
New Mexico A & M
State College New Mexico
Kelley
Willard McMillan
Barbara
George Webster
Sheffield
Lawrence County High School
Goodyear-Decatur Mills
E” ‘Ag
Goodyear
James Bloodworth
Carolyn Couch
Mrs
Gilbert Couch
Ninth Avenue East
Ingalls Shipyards
Arrow Transportation Company
Nebraska
Alabama Flour Mills
Harold Damsgerd
Daily
Dallas
Folsom
Armed Forces
America
Ame
Ad Ps
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Lawrence
Coast Guards
N. Jersey
Vic Bubbett
Picure
Courtland Residence
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