Community events and weather outlook for the week
Fair and warmer today and Friday with coastal winds shifting from north to northeast. Sunday services feature Mrs. Turner and Mrs. McGahee installations at Ninth Street Methodist and Wesleyan Service Guild. Baptist union course June 4 to 8 at Flint church. Auto fire on Johnston Street causes slight loss. Continental Quartet to perform at Sherman Street Church of God. Revs DeBoer and Henry to speak at local churches. Shoal Creek Baptist to mark Memorial Day. Florence State Teachers College to award 162 diplomas on May 29.
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M. L. Turner
WSCS
Ninth Street Methodist Church
E. B. McGahee
Wesleyan Service Guild
Continental Quartet
Sherman Street Church of God
The
Shoal Creek
Stable Price Period Looms
Washington reports a shift toward price stability as the cost of living shows little change from mid March to mid April. Government statistician Ewan Clague says living costs have levelled out and a period of stability is likely, pending food price movements with the new harvest.
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Norman Walker Washington
Korea
Ewan Clague
Commissioner of Labor Statistics
Truman Says Peace Program Averts War and Not Cocky
President Truman told reporters he is confident his peace plan will prevent a new world war and warned that another global conflict would send humanity back to the dark ages. He rejected critics who called him cocky and said the label is inappropriate.
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Washington
Truman
Truman says Korea policy unchanged as generals lead tactics
President Truman stated that field commanders control tactics and strategy in Korea and that there has been no policy change. He dismissed Lt. Gen. Van Fleet’s claims of unrestricted objectives and said there are no confirmed peace feelers from the Chinese Reds per Secretary Acheson.
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Washington
Truman
Korea
James A. van Fleet
8Th Army
Acheson
Truman pledges confidence in world and domestic programs
Mr. Truman says the United States and world view his domestic and foreign plans as correct. He speaks during a weekly press gathering about the possibility of another World War, warning the nation could become a battle front and urging vigilance to avoid a slide into the dark ages.
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Truman
United States
Official's Car Dynamited as Mine Workers Picket
An automobile owned by L. L. Jester, superintendent at M. Kimerling & Sons salvage yard, was blown up in front of his home. The yard, hit by a major fire Monday and two smaller fires Tuesday, prompted a $500 reward. District 50 United Mine Workers has picketed for five weeks seeking union recognition. a picket, Keith Fralic, was fined $25 for rock throwing at a worker.
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Birmingham
M. Kimerling & Sons
L. L. Jester
District 50
United Mine Workers of America
Keith Fralic
Samuel Pompee
India grain loan stands amid war material repayment vote
The House defeated Rep Cox's amendment to condition a $190 million India grain loan on repayment in strategic materials. The vote 135 to 103 marked a major administration victory and anticipated passage of the bill. The proposal would have required the ECA to seek monazite, manganese, beryl, cyanite, jute products and burlap in repayment.
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Washington
House Today
India
United States
Rep. Cox
D-Ga
ECA
Young Oyster Edict Upheld by State Supreme Court
The state supreme court upheld a Morgan county ruling that James Edgar Young was illegally appointed to the Morgan Board of Equalization. The case arose from quo warranto actions by G. Minor Russell challenging an appointment from an altered nominee list after Eugene E. Graves resigned. The decision cites that board members are chosen from combined nominee lists, with specific sourcing from the Board of Revenue and Control, Board of Education, and local municipalities.
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State Supreme Court Today
Morgan County
James Edgar Young
Morgan Board of Equalization
W. H. Long
G. Minor Russell
Young
Commissioner of Revenue
Roy E. Blair
Russell
Board of Education
Blair
Eugene E. Graves
Board of Equalization
Board of Revenue and Control
Decatur
Morgan
Phil Orr
Graves
McRae Recounts Meetings With Convict's Wife
Former Alabama Finance Director Knox McRae testified he met several times with the wife of a convicted embezzler before the man was paroled and later pardoned. He said Bill Drinkard attended a Huntsville party where the parole matter was discussed, and Mrs Benjamin contacted him repeatedly at his offices and in public places.
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Montgomery
Ala
Knox McRae
McRae
Oliver Benjamin
Huntsville
Parole Board
Bill Drinkard
Benjamin
Mobile
Larry Dumas
Birmingham
Drinkard
Glen Vingon
Tax Collection Pay Curb Line Moves in Legislature
A bill to cap sales tax collection fees at 300 dollars per month earned a favorable report from the House Ways and Means Committee. Sponsored by Rep. Emory Solomon of Henry County the measure would reduce the collection fee from three to two percent up to 300 dollars monthly. Solomon noted one Alabama store earned over 3000 dollars in April from the state tax.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
House
Ways and Means Committee
Emtory R. Solomon
Henry County
Solomon
Bradley backs firing of MacArthur but critiques method
Gen. Omar Bradley told senators Truman was right to dismiss Gen. Douglas MacArthur but said the execution could have been handled better. He disclosed U S Korea casualties totaling 141,955 with 69,276 in combat and 72,679 non combat. He warned NATO nations lack current capability to halt a Russian aggression and expressed uncertainty about Russia acting first in Iran. He noted MacArthur viewed his dismissal bitterly and that Ridgeway was far away when orders arrived.
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Washington
Omar Bradley
Senators
Truman
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Senate
Bradley
U. S
Korea
Russia
Iran
Wiley
R-Wis
Matthew Ridgeway
North Atlantic
Sen. Wiley
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
North Atlantic Treaty
Safety Razors And Blades Tax Advances In House
The house ways and means committee approved a 10 percent tax on safety razors and blades as part of a $7.2 billion revenue bill. The levy targets manufacturers and could raise about $6 million, adding to an earlier tax on electric razors while traditional straight-edge razors remain tax free.
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Washington
House, Ways and Means
Truman Requests $8.5 Billion Foreign Aid Plan
President Truman asked Congress to approve a vast foreign aid program totaling 8.5 billion dollars to curb communist world conquest. About 6.25 billion would bolster defenses of allied nations while economic aid is also emphasized to pressure Soviet leaders. He warned it is early to predict policy changes but urged timely, united action by the free world. See NEW On Page 2.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Russia
Capitol Hill
Free World
Kremlin
Limestone Hospital Dedication Open House Friday
The Athens Limestone county hospital opened in November 1949 and will hold an open house Friday at 1 30 p m after dedication services on the lawn. The 64 bed, modern facility cost 670 000 with 100 000 debt remaining and a two mill tax to pay the debt and operating revenue. Administrator J M Holt, longtime Limestone board of revenue chairman, said the hospital will begin service Monday morning.
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Athens-Limestone County Hospital
Limestone
J. M. Holt
Board of Revenue
New Limestone Hospital
Athens-Limestone County
Roy Drinkard Under Bond On Perjury Charge in Alabama
Roy Drinkard 30 of Cullman is free on 2000 bond after arrest on Montgomery circuit court warrant for perjury tied to testimony before a legislative parole investigation. He is hospitalized with a service connected disability. indictment alleges false sworn statements about money offered to influence pardons or paroles and about relatives of Ben Blackmon. Drinkard testified April 6 regarding the Blackmon matter.
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Roy Drinkard
Cullman
Montgomery
Legislature
Drinkard
Parole Board
W. H. “Bill” Drinkard
Cullman Hospital
W. C. Waldrop
Alabama
Ben Blackmon
Blackmon
Roy
Death of Decatur Contractor Jim B. McBride
James Blanton McBride 68 a Decatur contractor died after a heart attack at his home 1221 Seventh Avenue East He attended Central Methodist Church and was taken to Decatur General Hospital where he died an hour later The body went to his daughter Mrs Ray Kellys home and then to Central Methodist church for services Interment was in Roselawn Cemetery Survived by wife two daughters son and seven grandchildren
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James Blanton McBride
Decatur
Seventh Avenue East
McBride
Central Methodist Church
Decatur General Hospital
Brown
Ray Kelly
East Gordon Drive
T. J. Chitwood
Jimmie Rodgers
Roselawn Cemetery
B. A. Turner
J. F. Smither
Rufus Warren
A. L. Jolly
J. B. Leeman
Emmett McClary
Bruce Spencer
Raymond Britain
Central Methodist
Paul Milam
John G. McBride
Desister
Virginia Graham
Jim McBride
Stewards
Centralcea Faetral Methotist
Cantal Ragtat
Tank Task Force Smashes Across Parallel Again
Allied tank task force drives across Korea's 38th parallel in a 13 mile bold breakthrough that splits retreating Chinese forces. Almond calls it a great effort as Chunchon falls and forces press toward the Choyang river with a sweeping offensive along a 125 mile front.
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Tokyo
Korea
38Th
Choyang
Red Korea
Edward M. Almond
Chunchon
Eighth Army
James A. van Fleet
Almond
William €. Barnard
Py Nye
Ring
U. N
Choyang River
North Korea
Hangye
Inje
Seoul
Home Economist Injured In Fall At Decatur
Miss Faye Sims home economist for the Decatur Electric Department is in Decatur General Hospital for observation after a fall Tuesday afternoon. Electric department manager Quince Eddens said she fell backward from a stenographer's chair and suffered bruises and shock.
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Faye Sims
Decatur
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