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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1950
Page
1
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Mostly cloudy with showers is the outlook. Visits include Dr Edwin Wyle Dunnsville Va with son Ainslee. Larry Miller travels from Decatur to San Jose Ill Labor Day weekend to visit Fritz Miller. Decatur contestants win a radio talent contest in Chicago. Franklin Parker seeks an M S in library science at U Illinois this summer. Priceville Home Demonstration Club meets Tuesday at 2 30 focusing on Clothing. Robert W Cousar Jr speaks at First Presbyterian on The Lost Word with extra services at Kirby Memorial and Pryor Memorial chapels. Local hospital admissions discharges births tonsillectomy and rabies testing noted. See Diary on Page 2.
Quince Eddens, manager of the Decatur Electric Department, thanked residents for understanding during the most severe storm in Decatur's history. The hurricane caused widespread outages as crews worked from early morning to late Thursday night clearing lines after trees fell on power cables.
Storm warnings spread across Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands as a small but tough tropical storm advances. Antigua and St Martin report fierce winds with limited radio contact. a hurricane hunter plane investigates the storm’s path while Miami forecasters warn of a slow moving system.
A gulf hurricane that left 39 dead and millions in property damage in its 10 day 2000 mile ram See PANAMA on Page 2.
A. P. Villadsen of the Alabama State Highway Department reports the Decatur Arab highway decision lies with the Federal Bureau of Public Roads divisional office in Atlanta. President Truman’s directive requires review of road projects amid international tension and may send the Arab by pass proposal to Washington for final action.
On a calm sea off Tokyo a memorial gathering honors Allied forces led by General Douglas MacArthur. U S Army units including the 8th, 24th, 25th and first cavalry divisions are present with British Australian Canadian and French commanders.
States righters won a legal fight against a permanent injunction barring a vote contest investigation in the third district. Judge Bo wen Simmons denied the petition and held his ruling on preserving the case in status quo pending appeal. He said national party loyalists failed to show justification for an injunction and would allow written arguments before a formal decision. Page 2.
Governor James E. Folsom and Probate Judge Isaac Johnson Jr failed to meet at Courtland air base as Johnson did not appear. The judge said he was detained in Moulton by business. Folsom, en route to Montgomery from Wheeler dam, traveled with his two daughters Rachel and Melissa and state financial director Knox McRae, meeting Clyde McRae at the airport.
The Community Chest budget committee led by Hill Ferguson will meet at 3 PM in the State National Bank directors room to hear agency requests on September 14 and 15 before draft budget. Joe Calvin says no changes are foreseen and plans will be announced around September 20. Last year’s Chest goal was 29400 with allocations to Crippled Children, Welfare, Boy Scouts, tuberculosis sanatorium, Girl Scout Council, Salvation Army and Red Shield Boys Club.
The House approved a bill giving President Truman broad powers to control the domestic economy and curb inflation. A motion to send the bill back to committee failed 155 to 20 on a standing vote before the voice vote passage. The measure goes to the Senate with hopes to reach Truman before nightfall.
Washington reports the House passed a bill to require male doctors and dentists up to age 50 not in the reserves to register for the draft. The measure, adopted by voice vote after conferees from the Senate and House agreed on a compromise, now goes to the Senate. It also covers veterinarians optometrists pharmacists and osteopaths.
A conference adopted measure allows wage and price controls, rationing, penalties for hoarding, and real estate and consumer credit controls. It also provides for defense material allocation, defense order priority, government loans, loan guarantees, and requisitioning of plants. The bill, shaped six weeks after Truman urged action, moves to final passage with support from Republican and Democratic lawmakers.
Washington dispatch reports final approval of a GI family allowances bill paving the way to draft married men with dependents up to age 26. The act provides 85 to 165 dollars monthly for families. draftees contribute 40 to 80 dollars. Officials estimate up to 400000 eligible among 1 million married non veterans 19 to 25 may be drafted once enacted.
Outside Haman, Sept 1 American tanks and infantry recaptured Haman during a counterattack that slowed a Red drive toward Pusan. The Reds hit with two divisions but the U S 25th Infantry Division stalled their momentum. American artillery and air power inflicted heavy losses.
Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb takes over as president of the United Nations Security Council, vowing to end Jakob Malik's month long stalemate on Korea moves. He says the calendar will be reset and the council will proceed, with Jebb representing South Korea and denying North Korea envoy access.
Miss Willie Royce Collier of Decatur wins Morgan County Maid of Cotton after eight entrants compete at Somerville Road School. Runner up is Miss Joe Hamilton of Decatur. Judges include Miles Denham Helen Henry and Buddy Kinzer. program features county Farm Bureau and Rotary officials.
Decatur Elks lodge votes to petition the city council for a local anticommunist law. Exalted Ruler C W Bethany says about 250 members support the measure, aligned with a national push against communism and similar to Birmingham's law. The group has long opposed Nazism and worked against communist ideology.
North Korean forces renewed a major assault along the 55 mile front from the Nak Tong river west of Taegu to the sea. U S armor and infantry counterattacked near Ham an recapturing ridges west of the city and stalling the Red advance.
Nine year old Jimmy Lanier fell from a car door while swinging it in Toledo Ohio sustaining a mild concussion the attending physician said not serious. The accident occurred as the family gathered due to the illness and death of Mrs. Lanier's father J J Evans who died yesterday.
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