Weather and local notices from Decatur area
Mostly cloudy with showers and scattered storms Sunday. Ronald Puckett of Decatur 1 hamitted to Ellis-Meyer hospital yesterday. Several in Decatur General hospital list of admissions and dismissals from Friday and Saturday. Birth announcements for Decatur General hospital. Athens high school class photo error noted. Recorder's court docket reports 20 arrests with gaming and disorderly conduct prominent. Births announced for Jackson Street residents. Vacation Bible school planned for Austinville Baptist church starting June 2. Highway Patrol reports one DWI arrest. See DIARY on Page 2.
Potato Probe Is Slated By OPS
OPS officials in six Southeastern states ordered intensified investigations into the potato shortage and curb black market practices. Regional director George D. Patterson Jr. urged housewives and retailers to cut use and refrain from overpaying, promising a normal supply in the coming weeks. A ceiling price for current new potatoes was announced for 10 Southern cities including Atlanta and Columbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Office of Price Stabilization
George D. Patterson Jr
Baca
Patterson
Columbia
No Mirth In New Role For Happy Davis Here On Selective Service Charge
Twenty one year old Daryl Davis known as Happy Davis remained in Morgan county jail after FBI arrest on a Selective Service act violation. He allegedly failed to report for induction in December 1951 in San Jose California. Davis was married to Decatur girl La Rue Holly and formerly with the King Brothers circus. He was to be arraigned before U S Commissioner Richard Hundley on a Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davis
Daryl Davis
Morgan County
FBI
J. Earl Milnes
Birmingham
San Jose
California
U. S
Joseph Karesh
San Francisco
Milnes
A. M. Smith
Decatur
Nevada
Miss la Rue Holly
King Brothers Circus
Fifth Avenue South
Miss Holly
Hank Snow
Minnie Pearl
Decatur High School
Richard Hundley
Buick Hits Home Damaging Residence in City Accident
A 1949 Buick driven by Averine Baker rammed into Ordell Garvey's house at Ninth Avenue West and Patterson Street causing slight damage. Police say Baker was learning to drive and may have mixed gas and brake pedals. Officers Ernest Bowman and W C Hunter investigated the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ordell Garvey
Ninth Avenue West
Averine Baker
Eighth Avenue West
Patterson Street
Garvey
Miss Baker
Ernest Bowman
W. C. Hunter
Western Union Ballot Nears Close on Pact Pay Rise
Thirty thousand Western Union workers vote today and tomorrow on a tentative settlement ending a 52 day strike. Early returns show a close race with 1 173 in favor and 848 against. The pact favors a 40 hour week, small pay bumps, and hinges on FCC approval for a rate increase likely around 10 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Walker Washington
Associated Press
Adolph Brungs
Western Union
AFL
Commercial Telegraphers Union
Brungs
Federal Communications Commission
FFC
Eisenhower wins first test in Washington convention
Gen Dwight D Eisenhower leads in Washington State GOP votes as 24 national delegate slots loom. Backers claim potential 20 or all 24, while Taft forces cling to possible majority amid unit voting rule disputes in Seattle. Barkley cited in Delaware. McKeldin faces undecided Baltimore delegates. See IKE on Page 2.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Washington State
Eisenhower
Taft
Ohio
Seattle
Barkley
Delaware
Alben Barkley
Maryland
Theodore R. McKeldin
Baltimore
McKeldin
Alabama
Ike
Chinese Communists Called Moscow Directed Years Ago
A 1945 Army Intelligence report labeled the Chinese Reds as Moscow directed Communists. The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee published the document noting some saw them as reformers or Democrats, but the report said this was not supported. It discussed Soviet aims in Manchuria and Korea and possible postwar China coalitions. The file, once secret, was released in 1949.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
John Chadwick Washington
Army
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Alen An Anael His
Asa Ie Man
Itason
Russia
Manchuria
Korea
China
Japan
Senate
French Demand New Concessions For Signing Pact
In Bonn on May 24 the French pressed for fresh concessions before signing the West German peace contract and the European army. Paris seeks guarantees on EDC sovereignty, Tunisia and Morocco, military aid, and continued Allied controls on German industry as conditions for approval. Adenauer’s cabinet and U S Britain negotiators haggled over terms ahead of a planned Monday signing, while German states balk at a Monday school closure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonn
Germany
Paris
Robert Schuman
United States
Britain
Konrad Adenauer
U. S
State Acheson
Anthony Eden
Schuman
Adenauer
West Germany
European Defense Community
EDC
Tunisia
Morocco
Area Arrests Rise With Saturday Busts Across Counties
Law enforcement reported 15 arrests by 8 P M Saturday across Cullman Morgan and Limestone counties. Cullman led with five detentions including four for public drunkenness and one for violation of the prohibition law. Morgan County had four arrests three for public drunkenness and one for vagrancy. A Highway Patrol arrest involved reckless driving. Limestone Sheriff John Sandlin noted a continuing pattern of public drunkenness and prohibition violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cullman
Morgan County
Highway Patrol
Limestone County
John Sandlin
Desperate Race To Save Children Fails
A 1948 Chevrolet on a Danville farm becomes a death trap as siblings Brenda Joyce Jenkins 15 months and Billy Don 4 die from burns after a match ignites the car while their mother and others hoe cotton nearby. They reach Lavender Clinic then Decatur General but die within hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
Elentre Jenkins
Negro
Brenda Joyce Jenkins
Billy Don
Vest
Lavender Clinic
Hartselle
Decatur General Hospital
Decatur
West
Flint
Highway Patrol
Little Brenda
Brenda
Sixth Atomic Test Set If Weather Allows
LAS VEGAS November 24 The Atomic Energy Commission announced the sixth atom bomb test of the current series will be held tomorrow morning if weather cooperates. The Army will deploy 1 000 troops from Fort Hood Texas to conduct dawn tower-shot exercises and inspect equipment damage after detonation. About 600 service observers will also be placed in fox holes for monitoring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Vegas
Atomic Energy Commission
Army
701St Armored Infantry Battalion
Fort Hood
Tex
Fox Holes
Plans for $4 million Alabama Power expansion approved
Montgomery May 24 plans for a four million dollar expansion by Alabama Power Co were approved by the State Public Service Commission. An order was issued to authorize the utility to issue and sell common stock totaling four million dollars to the Southern Co which already owns all outstanding stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Power Co
State Public Service Commission
Commission
C. C. Gack Owen
Southern Co
Red Flags Of Defiance Rise At Koje Island
Communist red banners reappeared over 12 of Koje Island prisoner stockades on Saturday night as 80 000 North Korean and Chinese prisoners remain controlled by Red commissars. By Sunday afternoon flags hovered over five enclosures and later were seen again on most of the 17 stockades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Jorden
Koje Island
Korea
Governor Gordon Persons declines to endorse runoff candidates
In Montgomery Alabama on May 24 Governor Gordon Persons said he will not endorse either candidate in the June 3 runoff for the Alabama Court of Appeals. The race features incumbent Judge Annie Lola Price the first woman on the court and Circuit Solicitor George Johnson of Athens.
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Montgomery
Ala
Gordon Persons
Court of Appeals
Persons
Annie Lola Price
George Johnson
Athens
Miss Price
James E. Folsom
Alabama
Judge Price
Folsom
John L. Goodwyn
Pelham Merrill
State Supreme Court
Jack Owen
Public Service Commission
Connally Leads Battle To Hike House Aid Total
Senator Connally of Texas vows an all out fight to restore a larger foreign aid bill in the Senate. The House passed 6.162 billion for defense and economic aid, 1.737 billion below Truman's request, with two committees approving a 1 billion cut to 6.9 billion. Connally seeks bipartisan support to reverse cuts and defend Europe amid anti Communism drive. The measure goes to the Senate Monday after approval by Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees.
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Connally
Washington
Senator Connally
Texas
Senate
House
Truman
United States
W. John Kenney
Mutual Security Agency
Europe
Cairman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Foreign Relations
Armed Services
Mistaken Identity Blamed In Birmingham Shooting
In Birmingham on May 24 Claude Haley a 50 year old Black man was shot in the stomach in a case investigators call mistaken identity Detectives arrested Zodie Rice on a charge of assault with intent to murder Rice said he thought Haley had stabbed him in a fight The knife wielder was someone else, too late for Haley
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Birmingham
Claude Haley
Zodie Rice
Rice
Haley
Decatur High Seniors Thank Community for 12 Years of Support
The Decatur High School senior class of 107 graduates writes a letter of gratitude to the public in The Decatur Daily. They reflect on a long journey from first days to graduation and look ahead to future challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur High School
Decatur Daily
Coren
Blomas
Inmates Riot at Idaho Penitentiary Refused Demands
Three hundred convicts rioted at the Idaho Penitentiary for over four hours. Warden L. E. Clapp refused all inmate demands as tear gas and guards restored order. No hostages were taken and rioters retreated from the recreation hall after fires and clashes with police and guards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Idaho
Idaho Penitentiary
L. E. Clapp
Clapp
Child Struck By Car Injures Little Danny Gaither
Two and a half year old Danny C. Gaither of Danville 1 was struck by a car Saturday night near Vaughan's Trading Post on Moulton Way. He remained in Decatur General Hospital with a broken leg and minor injuries. Brown's Ambulance transported him to the hospital.
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Danny C. Gaither
Edwin K. Gaither
Danville 1
Decatur General Hospital
Vaughan
Moulton Way
Brown’s
Mac's Studio photographs graduating class for The Daily
More than 100 members of the graduating class were photographed today by Mac's Studio on Bank Street. The studio donated the negatives to the newspaper as an honor to the graduates.
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Daily
Mac
Bank Street
Mac's
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ronald Puckett
Decatur 1
Ellis-Meyer Hospital
Ida Hartwig
North Avenue
J. N. Shepard
W. S. Orman
Floyd L. Childs
Johnston Street
Minor Russell
Decatur 3
Laura Lake
Third Avenue
D. J. Miller
Seventh Avenue
Madeline Weg Pueller
Eighth Street
Bobbie Ammer
Athens High School
Recorder’s Court
Lenear Royer, Jr
Jackson Street
Baugh-Wiley Clinic
Vernon Hood
Austinville Baptist Church
The
OPS
By Phillip Kyle
Koje
Rex Thomas
Texan
Recreation Hall
By Ken Reynolds
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