Community Glimpses Bring Local Births and Happenings
Partly cloudy today and tonight with more cloudiness and possible rain on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Alvis Whitehead announce the birth of a son at Ellis-Meyer hospital Sunday. The Community Chest campaign reports 35904.39 raised toward a 41000 goal as nine agencies await full funding. Dismissals and admissions update Decatur General and Ellis-Meyer hospitals with multiple local residents listed. See DIARY On Page 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvis Whitehead
Ninth Avenue SE
Ellis-Meyer Hospital
Community Chest
John McGehee
Drive
Robert Russell
Church Street
Decatur General Hospital
FEPC Debate To Be Renewed By Humphrey
Senator Humphrey vows to renew the fight for a federal law banning racial and other employment discrimination in the next Congress. He says the FEPC issue must not be softened to keep Northern and Southern Democrats united. A Senate labor subcommittee report notes strong state and local laws have produced healthy results. See FEPC on Page 2.
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Washington
Sen
Humphrey
D-Minn
Fair Employment Practices Commission
FEPC
Senate Labor Subcommittee
Parole Denied to Alger Hiss by U S Parole Board
Washington Alger Hiss was denied parole by the U S Parole Board after a hearing at Lewisburg Penitentiary. Chairman Dr George G Killinger announced the unanimous denial following a board review of the record. He became eligible for parole last Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alger Hiss
U.S. Board
Washington
U. S. Parole Board
State Department
George G. Killinger
Hiss
Lewisburg
Board of Parole
Killinger
Winter Grips Nation With Snow and Cold Across Regions
A broad winter storm spread snow and cold rain from the Southwest into Nebraska Iowa and Colorado while New York and Maine saw light showers. Subzero temperatures hit Wyoming and western Nebraska with minus 17 at Douglas. Five missing hunters were found or sought in Arizona as snow hindered search efforts.
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Associated Press
Wyoming
Nebraska
Douglas
Wyo
Iowa
Colorado
New York
Maine
Arizona
Uplands
Rocky Mountains
Great Lakes Region
Midwest
Great Plains
Gulf Coast
Texas
Dixie Snow Now Melted
Knoxville reports the Dixie snow largely melted after a Friday snowfall of 18 to 22 inches. Communication lines near the city are restored by Sunday afternoon, but eastern mountain areas remain blacked out. Linemen have restored power to thousands, though some families still rely on relatives for heating and cooking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Big Dixie
Dixie
Plans Readied For Open House In Stores Here
Decatur merchants prepare for the 1952 Open House Night in Decatur from December 1 to 4. Tickets issued in stores with drawings on December 4 at 7 15 pm. prizes may be claimed by 6 pm December 6. Early registration noted at Mangé's Speake Warren & Ratliff La Boon's Diana Shop Sherrow's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Decatur
Rufus Warren
Deecatur Chamber of Commerce
Merchants Committee
Warren
Mangé
Speake
Warren & Ratliff
la Boon
Faint Signal Raises Hopes for Missing Globe Master
Anchorage reports a faint radio signal offered a glimmer of hope in the search for 52 aboard the CY24 Globe master that vanished Saturday over the Gulf of Alaska. Twenty four search planes stood by to cover the 150 miles to Middleton Island as poor weather slowed operations.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Gulf of Alaska
Middleton Island
Army
Air Force
U. S
Korea
Montana
Field Brothers Arrest Reported by Vienna Communist Paper
The Austrian Volksstimme says Noel and Hermann Field were arrested behind the Iron Curtain after disappearing in 1949. It questions their Westward escape and notes claims they worked for the OSS or Soviet intelligence while denying they were American Communists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Reds
Field
Noel
Hermann
Noel Field
State Department
Prague
Cleveland, D
Alana
Seppe
Sewer
Bee Noel
Herta
West
Rudolf Slansky
U. S. Office of Strategic Services
Soviet Union
Volksstimme
American State Department
Slansky
Vlado Clementis
Price Control Plan Defended in Korea War Inflation Study
A joint Senate House committee report credits price controls with halting rampant inflation after Korea's outbreak. It notes ongoing consumer hardship and outlines controls set to expire April 30. The panel chaired by Sen Maybank says the economy operated under restrictive rules for 18 months while mobilizing resources for defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate House
Korea
Joint Congressional Committee On Defense Production
Joint Committee
Sen
Maybank
D-Sc
Three Americans Reported Missing in Berlin
The U S Army said three soldiers from the 508th Truck Company in West Berlin are missing and believed held in the Russian zone. A German resident reported the arrest of three American soldiers and a woman, thought German, by Communist police about 300 yards inside the East zone while hunting. names of the soldiers were not released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
U. S
East Zone
508Th
West Berlin
Negro Workman Killed By Truck Near Lacon Monday
A 28 year old Negro workman Leo Bates of North Carolina was killed when a truck backed over his leg then rolled forward crushing his head near Lacon on U S 31 about 7 this morning. Coroner Joe Morrison and Highway Patrol examined the scene and identified the driver as Charlie Webb. The accident raises the week’s highway death toll and comes amid a spate of fatal incidents across the state.
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Lacon
Amos Dy
Vinemont
Leo Bates
Bates
Joe Morrison
Highway Patrol
B. W. Godwin
U.S. 31
North Carolina
Charlie Webb
Morrison
Jacksonville
Fla
Thomas Oval Gibson
Bankhead Bates
Gibson
Red Level
Troy
Bradford
James Hicks
Carl Hicks
Pinson Rt. 1
Annette Stephenson
Audrey Harris
Pine Mountain
Louis Hicks
Pinson
Rt. 1
Birmingham
Hicks
J. H.hagood
Etowah County
Gadsden
Vernon L. Jones
Alabama City
Junior South
Child Struck By Hit-Run Driver In Decatur
Warren Dinges, 414, was struck by a hit and run driver in the 200 block of Prospect Drive Sunday afternoon. The boy, living with his grandfather W. H. Best at 201 Prospect Drive, was transported to Decatur General Hospital with bruising and no fractures. Police investigated with Officers Landers and Hyde and noted five other damaged cars in three incidents over the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Dinges
Prospect Drive
Decatur
W. H. Best
J. B. Whitmire
Brown
Decatur General Hospital
Louis Landers
Richard Hyde
Seoul preps grand welcome for Eisenhower visit
Seoul girds for arrival of U S President elect Dwight D Eisenhower. Gen Mark Clark and ambassadors arrive to discuss plans with Gen James A Van Fleet. City raises 20 arches as Mayor Kim Tai Sun enforces strict security and curfew for residents.
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Seoul
U. S
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mark Clark
Japan
Tokyo
Clark
James A. van Fleet
Eighth Army
Eisenhower
Kim Tai Sun
Yoon Myung Hoon
Kim
Supreme Court Adds Fifth Segregation Case to Docket
The Supreme Court places a new segregation case from Delaware on its docket and requests Kansas to present views at oral argument. The order groups Delaware with cases from Kansas Virginia South Carolina and the District of Columbia. Arguments set for December 8 and 9.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Delaware
Kansas
Virginia
South Carolina
District of Columbia
State
Ava Gardner Returns for Medical Observation in London
London report says screen star Ava Gardner arrived for medical treatment of a bug from an Africa shoot with Clark Gable in Kenya. An MGM spokesman stated she would likely enter a hospital tomorrow for observation and that her condition is not serious.
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London
Ava Gardner
Clark Gable
Keniya
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Miss Gardner
Frank Sinatra
Man Led Triple Life Faces Double Murder Charge
Reading Mass. Bespectacled Murdock MacDonald 26 lived a triple life as father teacher and burglar. He was charged with murder in the Porter killings after admitting to firing on Esther Porter 57 and her husband 60 in their home Nov 8. He said the slayings occurred during a break in aided by a flashlight. The ex convict claimed eight years earlier he was jailed, and said his thoughts were with his wife and newborn daughter.
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Reading
Mass
Murdock MacDonald
O. Stanley Porter
George E. Thompson
MacDonald
Esther Porter
Thompson
Mc Donald
McDonald
Boston
Joseph Crescie
James Conniff
Eisenhower Visits UN for Korean War Talks
President elect Dwight D. Eisenhower met privately with United Nations officials at the UN building in New York about proposals to end the Korean fighting. He spoke with U N Secretary General Trygve Lie and Lester Pearson of Canada, with John Foster Dulles nearby, and left after about an hour of discussions. He urged the work for freedom and security and planned further cabinet post discussions with Ezra Taft Benson and John Minor Wisdom. He endorsed the manpower study commission and approved Dav id Sarnoff as its chairman.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United Nations
U. N
Trygve Lie
U.N
Lester Pearson
Canada
General Assembly
Eisenhower
Lie
Pearson
John Foster Dulles
Utah
Louisiana
Ezra Taft Benson
Salt Lake City
Agriculture
John Minor Wisdom
New Orleans
Commerce
Labor
Air
Army
Navy
Truman
David Sarnoff
Split In U N Most Serious Pacific Korean Peace Plan Breach
The United States rejected a British backed Indian compromise plan for ending the Korean war deadlock. Britain pressed to consider the proposal as is while India and others sought to close the breach at the United Nations.
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United Nations
N. Y.pj
Britain
U. S
United. Nations
N. Y
India
Anthony Eden
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Recorder’s Court
E. L. Henson
Thomasville
Tallahassee
Bartow, Fla
Fred S. Hunt Jr
Canal Street
Joe
Alton Slaton
Chestnut Street
J. W. Pipkin
Grant’ Street
R. E. Case
Wadsworth Street
Sandra
Peggy Blalock
Decatur 2
Edward Hancock
Sixth Avenue SE
W. O. Allen, Jr
Barbara Ruager
Trinity
Tom Britnell
Fourteenth Avenue SE
W. H. Belue
Anderson
Claude McRae
Sixth Avenue NW
Ester McEntire
West Gordon Drive
Cleo Estes
Athens
H. E. Tapscott
Thomas Aldridge
Moulton
Buckley
Communist
Field Brothers
Triple Life
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