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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1946
Page
1
Partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Friday with scattered thundershowers in the west and north. Southeasterly winds on the coast and a max 78 min 59. Community items include weddings births hospital visits and sermons from First Presbyterian Westside Methodist and Central Methodist churches.
Morgan county board of health passes three resolutions to mobilize a county wide clean up campaign to cut fly and insect breeding, spray out-buildings, and keep the public informed. Dr L R Murphree to visit Lauderdale county for on site conditions and report back. Mayor Summer and local officials pledge cooperation.
Lauderdale County reports seventeen poliomyelitis cases since an outbreak began ten days ago. One new case yesterday and three the day before increase local concerns. most are mild though some limbs were affected. Florence schools closed and theaters restricted as patients receive care at a county clinic.
Senator Hill of Alabama voted with the Senate majority to strike the draft labor section from the emergency labor bill. Senator Bankhead, ill, was paired with Senator Young, but their positions were not stated.
The Daily invites each reader to attend its repeat election night party next Tuesday evening as returns from the day’s run off primary are released. A sizable crowd was present on May 7 and another is expected. officers are urged to telephone The Daily collect once totals are finished.
Siam seeks an early UN hearing on what Bangkok calls unjustified aggression by French Indochina. The plan allows any member to bring the case or Siam to force a council review by formalizing a charge and accepting Pacific settlement obligations. Bangkok says it may seek mediation via the UN or another body while a French force remains by the Mekong north of Nongkhai.
At Gettysburg Memorial Day ceremonies John W. Bricker denounces Truman’s draft plan for workers as harmful to the American way of life. He urges administrative enforcement, Wagner Act revision, and blames the executive branch for sabotaging rail labor policy amid the national strike.
Soft coal settlement boosts labor front with large numbers returning to work. Yet 500 H M railroad workers strike and 76,000 Pennsylvania anthracite miners set to quit at midnight. Truman order creates fact finding, seamen and stevedores threat looms. Labor Dept probes wage and hours disputes amid broader plant stoppages.
Washington May 30 The coal strike ends with John L Lewis securing a 1.85 a day wage boost for 400 000 bituminous miners plus a health and welfare fund and related gains. President Truman Krug witness contract signing in a White House ceremony resolving the dispute and prompting expectations of resumed output and lingering concerns over rising coal costs.
Alabama voters face a six day race as Governor contenders James E. Folsom and Lt. Gov. Handy Ellis crisscross the state. Folsom spoke in Pell City Heflin and Anniston while Ellis pitched in Birmingham and warned that a Folsom win would bring CIO PAC influence and big tax costs. Ellis accused Folsom of empty promises and urged the people to guide policy.
In Berkdale England Frank Stranahan, touted as America's last hope, was defeated four and three by Gerald Micklem the 34 year old stock exchange broker eliminating Stranahan from the British amateur golf championship today.
A Marine, Alabama era? tax case against the Ku Klux Klan aims to recover 685,305 in unpaid government charges. The filing, dated May 30, seeks back revenues and penalties from the organization.
Gill Childers of Hartselle was placed under four bonds totaling 2 050 dollars in a preliminary hearing before Judge W H Long at the courthouse. Bond amounts include 750 for stealing a taxicab and money from Burleson Dinsmore, 300 for stealing two mules, and 500 each for breaking into S E Rays home and stealing a car belonging to G G Mitchell. He is held in Morgan county jail awaiting bond posting.
At the Indianapolis Speedway May 30, George Robson of Los Angeles led after 200 miles. Hepburn faded after a tire change, Jimmy Jackson moved second, Harry McQuinn third. Robson’s pace averaged 114.441 mph as about 140,000 watched. Mauri Rose was injured in a crash but escaped serious harm. several others retired by 100 miles.
Eighty years ago today the D men of this small Southern town inaugurated Memorial Day by placing flowers on federal and Confederate graves in Friendship Cemetery. The piece notes northern and southern honors, the Shiloh dead, and the 1866 birth date later fixed to May 30 by Congress.
Cornelia Georgia May 30 Isaac T Sellers a former postmaster and bank president died at 95 less than a week after his $1000 life policy matured. Penn Mutual agents planned to pay 1550 including dividends to his beneficiary but he was too ill to receive the funds. Sellers had paid 788.80 in 57 years of premiums and mortality tables tied the policy to near his 96th birthday.
More than 100 small operators in North Florida and South Georgia planned a blanket protest in Jacksonville against the Office of Price Administration ceiling on rough cut lumber prices.
The government announced a 250 million dollar yearly milk price rise with about 11 cents per pound for butter and six cents per pound for cheddar, effective in June. It also orders butterfat controls to boost production, including a July 1 ban on whipping cream and price ceilings on bulk cream. Bowles reversed prior views citing congressional pressure to cut subsidies and to sustain milk production amid higher costs.
Washington observers hedge on the Capitol storm over strikes and predict the emergency bill may be vetoed or amended. The Case bill passed the House 230 to 106, while the maritime crisis and court battle over draft provisions complicate prospects for new labor laws.
Soviet envoy Gromyko warned that some powers threaten UN peace efforts and may undermine the Security Council in a Madison Square Garden rally. He cited U S and Britain, though unnamed, and urged unity to uphold the United Nations authority. The event honored visiting Soviet writers and included officials from American Soviet friendship groups.
Official returns from the May provincial elections show the Catholic People's Party leading the 50 seat upper house with a plurality of 17 seats. In the lower house 32 percent of 100 seats went to the Catholic party in the national elections on May 17, with Dr. L. M. Beel as interior minister in the current government.
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