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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1952
Page
1
Considerable cloudiness this afternoon into Thursday with scattered thundershowers. North portions will be cooler Thursday with moderate south winds along the coast. Mr and Mrs Eugene Garnett of Birmingham were Saturday night guests of Mr and Mrs Floyd Ony.
Judge Newton Powell was in Moulton Tuesday to conduct a regular called session of the non jury and equity docket for Lawrence county Circuit Court.
Hartselle area man Hurley Cheatham, 34, was charged with violating the prohibition law after Morgan County sheriff's deputies and ABC agents found 60 gallons of whiskey in his residence three miles west of Hartselle. He was released on a $750 bond.
Ernest Reeves, 44, of Hartselle, admitted starting the Streetcar cafe fire last Wednesday night. He pleaded guilty to second degree arson and faces a three year penitentiary term after a written confession signed before law officers. The cafe, valued at about 2000 dollars, burned to the ground.
The BBC agreed to televise Paris originated semi-nude showgirls without bras but only when the act is produced in Paris. BBC will send its camera crews to control angles while preserving the Parisian atmosphere and compliance with local custom.
President Truman told a White House delegation that the Kremlin falsely accuses the United States of germ warfare in Korea. He said the Kremlin's statements are baseless and that the Geneva Convention has not been violated in American operations.
Coosa River Newsprint Co will not raise its newsprint price for now. A. G. Wakeman executive vice president said directors discussed the issue and no action was taken at the annual stockholders and directors meeting in Coosa Pines Alabama.
Police reported a slight damage auto accident Tuesday at the intersection of Second Avenue and Second Street West. A 1947 Plymouth driven by Dwynel C. Burke of Albertville pulled from a curb and struck a 1949 Plymouth driven by Catherine G. Drake of 1401 Fifth Avenue East.
Mrs G W Barker of 511 West Moulton Street phoned The Daily reporting Brigadier General A W Tyer had been killed in an airplane crash in Japan yesterday. Her daughter Mrs Tyer is in Japan where her husband was stationed.
Washington reports the Office of Price Stabilization will raise ceiling prices by about a penny per item on a broad range of foods. The move aims to boost grocer margins as earnings declined, with the overall food bill rising about 100 million dollars annually. Affected items include cereals canned vegetables soups pickles vinegar olives canned meats processed fish oleomargarine cookies crackers frozen foods jams and jellies canned fruits and more. Tuna and salmon are excluded.
PUSAN Korea The South Korean National Assembly voted 96 to 3 to lift in part the martial law declared by President Syngman Rhee. The assembly abolished army rule over this temporary capital while leaving some emergency powers in place.
The Senate rejected 41 to 33 a 500 million dollar cut in the 6.9 billion foreign aid bill. A 400 million dollar reduction proposal failed 40 to 37. Final passage was expected before adjournment. Baruch warned inflation costs defense by 20 billion and urged faster Western rearmament. President Truman extended war powers to June 15. Congress considered road funding and Puerto Rico constitutional approval amid debates on socialism and communism concerns.
Alabama's 22 vote delegation to the Democratic National Convention is split between Senators Richard B. Russell and Estes Kefauver with seven votes each pledged and eight uncommitted. Lister Hill set another caucus for July 20 in Chicago as delegates travel July 19. Local booster James B. Allen Gadsden and Birmingham Mayor Cooper Green forecast a Russell lead while Kefauver supporters expect a late tally shift.
Senate internal security committee heard testimony that a Czechoslovak envoy Teo H Florin hosted all male sex parties to extract information from guests. Witness Joseph Molnar and others described subversive activity with diplomatic immunity, citing FBI observers and undercover agents.
R Leon McCaleb Huntsville will go to the Chicago national convention uninstructed but favors Robert Taft. Elected at the Decatur district convention, he said he would go uninstructed but supports Taft as long as he has a chance and will align with the Taft delegation.
In Alabama the Taft campaign extended its control at the Decatur district meeting where R Leon McCaleb of Huntsville was chosen as the Eighth District delegate and pledged to back Taft for the Chicago nomination. Three more district delegates were to be selected later in Jasper and Calera as the convention moved through the day.
The attractive new Hamil clinic at 511 Oak Street has been completed and is now occupied by Dr. J. Y. Hamil. Construction followed Dr. Hamil selling his interest in the Hamil Clinic hospital on Bank Street, which became Ellis Meyer hospital.
The Associated Press reports mounting friction as both Republican and Democratic camps in Texas push toward presidential nominating votes. Delegations were formed, tensions rose, and four conventions assembled to send delegates to the national gathering amid Berlin and postwar tensions.
Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia appeared to clinch 19 to 5 over Estes Kefauver in Florida's Democratic nominating convention. With three-fourths of 1682 precincts counted, Russell backers seemed poised to win 14 of 16 congressional district delegate seats and five of eight at-large posts.
The July contests in Chicago and state Republican and Democratic conventions in Hartford and Florida yield differing delegation votes as Eisenhower closes to within 22 votes of Taft. The outcome affects the national convention balance and future campaigning.
Theodore Edison Yarbrough a 39 year old Decatur man pled guilty to two burglaries, Sterchi’s on March 9 and Pittman Tractor Co during the first week of March. Judge Newton Powell sentenced him to one year and one day on each count while noting the Pittman theft netted an adding machine. Police recovered Yarbrough days after the Sterchi burglary.
East Germany imposes a three mile no-man's land along the West German border. Red police receive orders to shoot to kill anyone without a proper pass as retaliation against Bonn's alliance with the West.
In Paris a two and a half hour meeting of the foreign ministers addressed the Berlin crisis and the Soviet note on Germany. The call went out for allied help in the prolonged war in Indochina as Dean Acheson Anthony Eden and Robert Schuman noted likely further harassment of the West.
In MUNSAN Korea on a second day of talks Communist truce negotiators warned of a Red army march due to Allied treatment of captured troops. The U N Command dismissed the threat as propaganda. Gen Nam Il repeated charges of mistreatment and said the Korean People’s Army and Chinese Volunteers will not sit idle.
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