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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1946
Page
2
James Marlow reports Truman set up a 30 day fact finding panel on railroad pay and working conditions. The engineers and trainmen sought a $2.50 daily raise and overtime reforms while railroads offered 1.28 a day and limited condition changes.
Pontiac Torpedo club coupe for sale with original tires radio heater and defroster. 22 000 actual miles. Located at 407 Ferry Street.
In a choppy session on May 23, traders pushed rails steels and liquors higher while many leaders faltered on profits. Early weakness gave way to scattered gains around 4 points near the close with utilities driving volume near 1.5 million shares. Trading slowed after a fast morning. coal rail labor talks fueled bid levels as earnings dividends and splits kept demand alive amid renewed caution at a 15 year high. Bond activity improved selectively.
New York price moves in quiet trading amid strike and price control uncertainties. Senate Banking Committee action to slash commodity subsidies and end the maximum average price plan stirred an early rally, then prices drifted with mill-buying offset by hedge selling and light liquidation. Cotton belt weather improved and a new crop outlook emerged with hot dry conditions foreseen in two to three weeks. Spot markets tightened and basic prices firm. July 27.62 Oct 27.91 Dec 25.05.
Federal and State agriculture notes show cattle receipts limited to cows and a few bulls, steady to moderately active. Calves and vealers vary with top vealers at 16.50, hogs steady with barrows and gilts 14.55 ceiling, sows 13.80, and sheep with spring lambs 16.00 to 17.00, but shipments hindered by railroad uncertainty.
Former University of Texas president Dr Homer Price Rainey announced his candidacy for Texas governor as a Democrat. He says he was ousted after clashing with regents and refused to back down, choosing to stand and fight rather than quit.
Three St Louis Cardinals players Max Lanier Fred Martin and Lou Klein obtained permits to visit Mexico today. The group accompanied by Bernardo Pasquel Vice President of the Mexican League applied for and received permissions from the Mexican Government Tourist Bureau. Lanier leads the National League with six wins and no losses.
Lancaster reporters say four teenage offenders pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after Sunday evening fun that included horse and buggy races and strip dancing. State PoliceCorporal W E Simp son said authorities ordered an end to such frolicking by Amish youths in Intercourse.
John F. Thompson Post No. 52 at Hartselle reports strong recruitment, needs twenty one new members to reach peak numbers, adopts Double Or Nothing slogan, sends James Paul Cain to Boys State with $15 fee. May 25 dance at Hartselle armory features Valce Morris and his Alabama Play Boys.
President Truman set a noon Eastern deadline for the 250 000 trainmen and engineers to decide on his 18 1 2 cent an hour wage proposal. Steelman met with A F Whitney and Alvanley Johnston at the Mayflower Hotel but declined to reveal whether a higher offer was on the table. The White House press at the hotel and the Office of Defense Transportation prepared for a possible freight embargo to run essential goods if a strike occurs. The unions rejected the 18 1 2 cent raise as unacceptable and did not immediately commit to a final decision.
Whitmire won two Navy N's in football and while not eligible last year loaned his husky frame to the team to toughen them for Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis. He earned a Navy letter in 1943 with the Army-beating squad and in 1944 was named all American as Admiral Fitch praised his energy and cooperation promoting athletics.
Shipments of 150000 bales of short staple American cotton were sent to textile manufacturers in the American occupation zone of Germany under a barter deal. The arrangement preserves 50 percent of yardage in the zone while the rest goes to relief elsewhere. similar terms were offered to British, French, Russian zones and to Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Italy.
The railroad unions and management accepted the White House offer after a week of talks sparked by a seizure order and a looming strike. The plan kept orders in check until a strike seemed inevitable, with pay and rules changes at debate.
Across the nation more than a third of soft coal miners idled amid the 12 day truce snap. Pennsylvania Alabama and West Virginia led walkouts as government seizure triggered mine closings and labor tensions rose with officials probing the Inland Steel Wheelwright mine stoppage.
Government forces under Gen. Tu Liping recaptured Changchun at 11 a.m. after a four day battle with communist remnants. Gen. Cheng Tung Kuos army entered the city earlier, as communists withdrew toward Kirin. The fast advance from Szepingkai covered over 20 miles daily despite rough roads and lack of motorized transport.
Marvin R. Stover of Decatur received a discharge after 23 months in the Army with 13 months overseas earning the Soldier’s Medal and the European Theater ribbon. Aaron B. Singleton of Hartsville was discharged from the Navy after 30 months of service. Lucy Emens and Mrs. E. E. Hargrove accompanied Miss Florence Adams to Huntsville Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs Luce in a telegram to Mrs Julius Y Tal says the committee against racial discrimination will not dissolve despite opposition. She notes Indians Filipinos and other nonwhite groups barred while Madame Chiang Ka Shek would not be welcomed at Constitution Hall.
The junior three class of Decatur Junior High will receive diplomas at 2 PM Friday at the school. The program theme is Building a Better Tomorrow with student presenters and musical numbers led by the band. Principal W. R. Riley will present awards and O S Hagerman will hand diplomas.
A Saturday 10 a m meeting at Riverside high school will outline a new trade school funded by the G I Bill. The Decatur city board of education oversees the project with Joseph D Curry and Raymond Thornhill guiding. Courses in auto mechanics refrigeration carpentry and electricity begin at the 9th Street school with six hour daily classes five days a week. Tuition is government funded with $100 for books and tools. Students may receive full subsistence while working up to 35 hours weekly. Veterans eligible under the G I Bill may attend serving ex servicemen from the North Alabama area.
Funeral services for David E McPeters a 58 year old Pulaski Tennessee resident who died Tuesday at Powers hospital Athens from injuries in a Sunday auto crash near Buck Island road will be held at 2 30 this afternoon at Pulaski Methodist church. He was a farmer dairyman and owner of Pulaski Pure Milk company. Survived by wife Nelle LaRue two daughters Casto Jarvis and Alice McPeters and four sons James Gene John and George.
Andrew A Oden of Hartselle was elected grand inner guard of the Alabama Knights of Pythias in Montgomery. Paul Parsons of Birmingham was named grand chancellor. other officers include William H. Pierce of Montgomery grand vice chancellor James Lar gue Jr of Mobile grand prelate M W Aldridge of Montgomery grand keeper of records and seal L L Shertzer of Montgomery grand master of exchequer Harold Walker of Birmingham grand master of arms and George Hester of Florence grand outer guard.
Mrs Harry Bell of 312 West Moulton Street was admitted to Decatur General Hospital around 5 15 Tuesday. She was moved from home by Mutual Service ambulance. Hospital officials gave no statement on the illness.
The speaker argues the issue is not Folsom versus Ellis but whether an uninformed leader can control state funds and impose a political mortgage on homes farms and businesses. He warns the plan would ruin industry and farm security, urges supporting Han Ellis while noting personal abstinence from alcohol and dismissing a Folsom landslide as buncombe.
Sparkman criticizes Hill and Walsh for presuming to speak for Congress and defying the President as commander in chief. He argues for presidential supremacy over committee leaders in the unification push and predicts the merger measure will pass, though timing remains uncertain amid other Senate priorities.
A sub committee reviewing international affairs heard claims against the Franco regime accusing persecution of Basque clergy with reports of 15 priests executed and 500 imprisoned. Andrei Gromyko reported 47,000 Spaniards served with the Blue Division on the Eastern Front with 41,500 casualties and cited a nine plane Spanish air squadron fighting the Red Army.
In Frankfort Kentucky on May 23 owners of a beer laden truck trailer and 750 cases of beer held by the alcohol beverage control department filed writs in Franklin circuit court to recover their property. The Hopkins county court had fined the driver and ordered the beer and truck confiscated sent to Frankfort. Os car M Wilson of Coffee County Alabama sought return of his truck trailer valued at 1750 and David Cohen of Birmingham Beverage Company sought return of the beer valued at 1820.50
Ralph B. Draughn of API Auburn will speak at the Decatur Senior High School graduating class banquet at 6 30 tonight at the Greystone cafe. The Decatur Kiwanis club hosts the event with Vesta Deese and Frank Seibert leading the reception committee.
Munroe Tatum of Athens, injured in a Monday night auto crash three miles south of Ardmore on U S 1, was reported in fair condition today. His 1940 Ford coach rolled several times after losing control on a curve, according to State Highway Patrolman Ted Beasley.
The House approved a compromise school funds bill and sent it to the Senate. Major differences remain over the funding level and distribution method.
An Ellis lieutenant said the Colum biana attorney would not come to Mobile county during the runoff campaign to avoid conflicts with appearances in the upper sections of the state. The remarks focus on funding and a proposed new state constitution amid race discussions.
Memphis May 23. FBI Director J Edgar Hoover assured Rep. Cliff Davis that the bureau will give every possible attention to tracing the extortion note received by E H Crump Shelby county political leader. Hoover said the agency has all facts and is on top of the case. Crump, a longtime Democratic National Committee member, received a note threatening to kill him or his wife unless $50 000 is paid signed Revised Capone Inc.
Muernberg reports 39 year old former Fuehrer of Hitler Youth Adolf Schirach says a book he claims Henry Ford wrote influenced his anti Semitism. He cites The International Jew as Ford’s supposed work and notes Ford’s name was used to sell the book.
The Decatur Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society organized with fourteen charter members at the Decatur junior high assembly. Inductions were guided by senior high officers. sponsor is Mrs. L. P. Troup. Members were selected for scholarship character leadership service and citizenship. Jimmy Tatum and Shirley Williams won the oratorical contest on Citizenship by the Decatur Civitan club after county winners at Moulton Heights. Friday.
No clemency hearing was held today for Wingard and Hicks. Their hearings were on April 25 and resulted in stays of execution to allow psychiatrists to evaluate them at Alabama state hospitals. Wingard, convicted of killing Herbert Athey in Ramer, Alabama, denies memory of the crime. Hicks received the death sentence for the axe murder of an elderly Black woman.
Mrs. Hattie Reinhardt, longtime Decatur resident, died May 18 in Helena Arkansas. She had lived with her cousin S O Nelsori during her Decatur years.
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