Weather outlook and local police notes in Decatur
Partly cloudy this afternoon and tonight with scattered showers today and light coastal winds. City police report seven arrests yesterday for drunkenness, traffic violations, and one leaving the scene of an accident. Local notices cover church events, hospital admissions and births, a non-juror hearing, and recent rainfall data from the TVA sub-station reporting 2.10 inches in the last 24 hours and a high of 75.
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Holiday Toll Sets New National Mark
More than 500 Americans died in accidents during Labor Day weekend, a three day total of 525 fatalities. Auto deaths numbered 394 and drownings 48, with 83 from miscellaneous accidents. The Safety Council warned the toll reflects about 60 percent of eventual fatalities, with aftershocks likely for weeks. The AP tally covers Friday 6 PM to Monday midnight, compared to 428 in 1937.
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Associated Press
Safety Council
Bill Odom
Cleveland
Arizona
Alabama
Camden Street Rampage Terror Recounts Killer Unruh
Camden street erupts in gunfire as Howard Unruh a 28 year old veteran shoots 12 people killing five men five women and two children within forty five minutes. He barricades in his apartment as police deploy tear gas and a crowd demands vengeance.
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Marshall Thompson
Howard Unruh
River Road
Thompson
Giant Flying Boat Limps Into Honolulu With Engine Loss
The Philippine Mars, a giant flying boat carrying 54 aboard, limped toward Honolulu after losing engine No. 1 about 440 miles out. It was escorted by a Flying Fortress air-sea rescue plane and a Pan-American strato cruiser. The strato-cruiser located the Mars after the ship sent an urgent radio message. The Hawaiian sea frontier reported the distress call at 4 55 A M Honolulu time. There were 40 passengers and 14 crew. no civilians were aboard.
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Robeson supporters urge White House to restore order in New York
Paul Robeson supporters call on President Truman to restore law and order after violence following his concert near Peekskill New York. Westchester DA George Fanelli praised police for handling a five hour riot while protesters demanded impeachment of Gov Dewey and county officials. Over 100 injured and more than a dozen arrests reported as anti leftist demonstrators attacked vehicles and windows along highways. Robeson alleged state and local government attacked concert crowds and sought damages for property loss and injuries.
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White House
New York
Peekskill
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Thomas. E. Dewey
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New Students in Senior High Meet Principal
All students new to Decatur senior high school are asked to attend Monday at the school between 9 and 12 A M to meet Principal W R Riley who will help them set a schedule for the term. Sophomore newcomers to D H S should already have schedules prepared, Mr Riley says.
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Fateful Talks To Begin Soon
Two key British ministers Sir Stafford Cripps and Ernest Bevin head to Washington for three nation talks on Britain's economic crisis. Britain seeks permission to spend Marshall Plan dollars anywhere, and Bevin pushes for purchases of Canadian goods with Plan funds. Canton defenses are probed as nationalist forces defend the Canton Hankow line and Kunming reports note a tense quiet after a bloodless power move by Gov Lu Han of Yunnan.
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New York
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Britain
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Ernest Bevin
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Kunming
China
Lu Han
Yunnang
European Union Plan Approved by Strasbourg Assembly
The Council of Europe's assembly voted by a show of hands to expand into a genuine federal European union with definite powers over member governments. The 12 nation body urged creating a federal authority, though power would come later. The measure goes to the ministerial committee. Winston Churchill had urged unification in a 1942 memorandum.
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France
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Winston Churchill
Russia
Europe
Soviets Postpone The Liberation Of 2 American Youths
In Helstedt Germany on September 6, reports say Soviet authorities indefinitely postponed freeing Warren Oelsner twenty of Oyster Bay and Peter H Sellers eighteen of Philadelphia. U S officials failed to meet a border rendezvous with police to receive the youths who were seized while riding bicycles in a Russian zone town for taking photographs.
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Germany
Warren Oelsner
Oyster Ay
See
Peter H. Sellers
Philadelphia
U. S
Plane Crashes Near Florette
An Army craft crash near Florette around 11 15 today is reported with bodies seen at the wreckage. A funeral home ambulance was dispatched to the Greasy Cove area near Pull Tight hill five miles southwest of Florette.
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Hartselle
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Handless Vet To Head Group
Harold Russell, 32, of Watertown, Mass., a handless war veteran and Oscar winner for Best Years Of Our Lives, was elected national commander of AMVETS. The convention refused to revisit a $4,500 federal bonus plan and adopted proposals to boost GI home loans to 7,500, press for a Pacific pact, prohibit shipments to Russia and satellites, and require Communist registration. President Truman addressed the closing session at the state fairgrounds.
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False Prophets Criticized by American Envoy
Ambassador Philip C. Jessup denounces critics who condemn injustices in the United States yet ignore abuses in iron curtain nations. He says in justice is headline news here while Soviet bloc stories are not news, and explains his role as an ambassador-at-large to the United Nations General Assembly. He spoke before the American Bar Association.
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Philip C. Jessup
United States
United On General Assembly
Tate Acheson
Acheson
American Bar Association
TVA
Tennessee
Barrett Shelton
Decatur
Ala
Tvaversity of
Knoxville
Vijayalakshmi Pandit
India
James Thorne
New Zealand
U. N. Economic and Social Council
President Sets Pattern For Congress Race
Americans returned to work after Labor Day as President Truman blasted special interests and pledged to keep pressing to repeal Taft-Hartley while signaling a Brannan farm plan path. He spoke in Pittsburgh and Des Moines, framing the 1950 elections in labor and agriculture terms and tying Eisenhower to warnings about statism.
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Des Moines
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Earley Green Dies of Wound in Falkville Area
Falkville farmer Earley C. Green, 32, shot himself in the left temple with a .22 rifle around 3 p.m. in a shed near his home. Despondency noted by family. no reason given. Funeral Wednesday at 2 p.m. Ebenezer church with burial at the adjacent cemetery. Survived by wife Catherine and two children, plus siblings.
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C. B. Humphrey
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Green
Ebenezer Church
Hence Davenport
Peck
Catherine Green
Caroline
Johnny
Nellie Reeves
Decatur
Irene Aday
Hartselle
Luther Green
Joe Green
Ozias Green
Huie Green
Homer Green
Tito Quoted on Reds Pressure Failure by Tito
New York Times quotes Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia saying Cominform economic pressure failed. C L Sulzberger reported Tito told him Russia and satellites no longer threat. he expressed no war risk and urged calm. He predicted Yugoslavia would meet its five year plan in 1951 and that a good harvest would improve food position.
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New York Times Today
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Yugoslavia
C. L. Sulzberger
Russia
Times
Tito
the Times
Clapp Urges World Water Resource Development
TWA Chairman Gordon R. Clapp urged global water resource development through an integrated approach beyond borders. He heads to a UN survey in the Middle East and cited TVA as a model needing international cooperation for basins like the Jordan and the Tigris Euphrates.
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Euphrates
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Tennessee Valley Authority
United Nations Scientific Conference On the Conservation and Utilization of
Brave Shirley May Pulls From English Channel Swim
Shirley May France of Somerset Massachusetts, 17, abandoned her English Channel bid after 10:05 A.M. EST time, with under six miles to England. She had swum more than 30 miles in icy water over 10 hours and was near the white cliffs of Dover when her coach pulled her from the water amid pleas to continue. Her father J Walter France cried and urged her to quit earlier as tides shifted. she remained determined but was pulled aboard a escort boat headed for Dover after a broth measure.
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Minnie Cohen
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France
Somerset
Mass
England
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Dover
Harry Boudakian
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J. Walter France
Black Magic
Wonderful Time At Auburn Camp With Two Morgan Girls
Betty Joe McDaniel aged 14 and Merlene Owens 16 of Morgan County enjoyed a week at 4-H Girls Camp Auburn. They were chosen from 900 Morgan girls ages nine to sixteen and were sponsored by Decatur Chamber of Commerce and the Lions Club. They will report back to the Lions Club on their activities.
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Merlene Owens
Auburn
Morgan County
Madelone Dees
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Decatur Champer of Commerce
Lions Club
Frances Norton
Hearing for Soldier Lawrence Set for Board Review
Willis J. Lawrence, 19 Cullman 5, faces a judge advised review before a General’s board on charges of killing a German civilian after a fist fight. Lawrence, stationed at Baden-Baden, was sentenced to 30 years by an Army court martial, later reduced to 10 years, and is held in a European military prison awaiting the board hearing in Washington scheduled before Sept 20.
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Judge Advocate General
European Command
Lawrence
Baden-Baden
Europe
Strike Called On One Rail Line
Missouri Pacific employes have called a strike for 2 PM Friday. About 5,000 workers will walk out, with Neff estimating 15,000 to 25,000 more could be affected. The walkout stems from refused terms from four train service brotherhoods over wartime claims and a proposed reference to the National Railroad Adjustment Board.
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Missouri Pacific Railroad
P. J. Neff
National Railroad Adjustment Board
Adjustment Board
Chicago
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Political clashes leave twenty dead in Enciso clashes
Twenty persons were reported killed and an undetermined number wounded in weekend political fighting at Enciso in Santander Sur. Conflicts between liberals and conservatives have been ongoing in rural sections of Santander.
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Santander Sur
Santan
Plane Travel Row Is Ended
Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma dropped his demand for information on the use of military aircraft by President Truman and other officials after Undersecretary Stephen Early assured him that such use will be restricted to public business. The dispute arose from a group of senators seeking a military plane for part of a world tour to Europe and Asia. Johnson suggested paying for passages on commercial flights. The matter was later eased after discussions with Senate Democratic Leader Lucas and Early.
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Elmer Thomas
D-Okla
Defense Johnson
Truman
Thomas
Stephen Early
Senate
Europe
Johnson
Barkley
Lucas
Illinois
Merchants Meet Wednesday For Fall Plans Talk
The merchants division of the Chamber of Commerce will hold a fall planning meeting Wednesday. Topics include store hours for October November and December, Christmas lighting and solicitation control. Harry Higdon, chairman, announced.
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