Weather outlook and local notices mix of events
Partly cloudy with thunderstorms this afternoon into tonight across the north, cooler by Friday. Cattle show concession bids due to Charles Rountree by Saturday. District youth meeting at First Christian church Sunday at four, service at 7:30. Hospital admissions and births noted at Decatur General and Hamil Clinic. Sermons announced at St Pauls Lutheran and Ninth Street Methodist. Local arrests reported for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
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North Alabama Coliseum
Charles Rountree
First Christian Church
Employment At '49 Peak During August
The Census Bureau reports August 1949 saw total civilian employment rise to 59,947,000 with unemployment falling to 3,689,000 from July’s 4,095,000. Nonfarm and factory jobs increased while agricultural employment declined seasonally. Secretary Sawyer called the figures a sign of leveling off in the economy and a sound basis for continued growth.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
Bureau
Southern Co subsidiaries plan $168 million build plan
Four Southeastern state subsidiaries Georgia Power Alabama Power Mississippi Power and Savannah River Electric will spend 168 million dollars on new construction and equipment over the next two years. Southern Co president Eugene E. Yates told the New York Society of Securities that funding will come from 29 million in new common stock 94 million cash on hand and retained earnings and 45 thousand from bond sales by the subsidiaries.
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New York
The
Southern Co
Georgia Power Co
Alabama Power Co
Mississippi Power Co
Savannah River Electric Co
Eugene E. Yates
Southern
New York Society of Securities
Quickies by Ken Reynolds potato sale prompt
A hastily edited Ada want ad item shows Ken Reynolds reporting a seller calling to hold potatoes briefly, reflecting a small time market note and fragmented deletion. The snippet captures a casual newsroom exchange about inventory and timing.
Several Suits Filed Here
A suit seeking 5000 dollars against Hill Grocery Co. by Mrs. Eulala C. Ryan, of 323 East Moulton, Morgan circuit court, alleges negligence for a fall at the 229 Grant Street store on Sept. 8, 1948, with injuries including a bruised knee and hip and a partially stiff left ankle. Also filed in circuit court are three account suits and an attachment action.
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Hill Grocery Company
Eulala C. Ryan
East Moulton
Morgan Circuit Court
F. T. Pentecost
Calvin and
Bloodworth
Robert Tapscott
Haywood Griffin
Spencer O.latham
Roscoe Roberts, Jr
B. Frank Chenault
Decatur Development Co
W. L. Chenault
Galloway Rogers
Decatur
Louis
Ruby) Shaia
Shaia
Rogers
510
West Vine
Morgan Sheriff's Office
S. A
Lynne
Unfounded Rumors In Peekskill Stir Community Action
Peekskill area residents and community leaders moved to quell what they called unfounded rumors circulating in the lower Hudson valley after two outbreaks of ethnic violence. War veterans and students in Shanks village invited a left wing singer to attend a planned event as tensions persisted following violence at a concert.
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Peekskill
N. Y
Hudson River Valley
Shanks Village
Ene
Robeson
Army Reserve Office Moves to Decatur
The Organized Reserve Corps sub district for ten North Alabama counties will relocate its headquarters from Huntsville to the McRae building in Decatur on Sept 12. Lt. Col. Edward A. Galt said the central location will aid ORC operations and disaster relief coordination with civilian groups. The Huntsville office serves 1,200 reservists across Morgan, Marshall, De Kalb, Jackson, Madison, Limestone, Lawrence, Lauderdale, Colbert and Franklin counties.
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North Alabama
Organized Army
Decatur
Edward A. Galt
Organized Reserve Corps
McRae
Church and
Bank Streets
Huntsville
Col. Galt
ORC
Army
James H. Bennett
Infantry
Morgan, Marshall, DeKalb
Jackson
Madison
Limestone
Lawrence
Lauderdale
Colbert
Franklin Counties
Fight on Trade Pact Continues in Senate Debate
The Senate opened a second round of partisan talks over trade policies as Britain faces a dollar crisis. Senator Millikin plans to speak long as the bill, approved by the House, would extend the President's tariff adjustment power to June 12, 1951 while removing peril point provisions requiring reports to Congress on favorable tariff deals.
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Washington
Senate
Britain
Millikin
R-Cole
GOP
Senate Finance Committee
House
Congress
Tariff Commission
Birmingham Jury Negro Flees Street Gang While Working Here
James Coleman of Birmingham, a Negro, escaped from a street near the cinder pit while loading cinders at the shop yards yesterday about 4:45. He had been sentenced to 15 days for drunkenness and had served about four days. Officer Horace Standridge filed the report.
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James Coleman
Birmingham
Coleman
Horace Standridge
Britain seeks greater American dollar earnings in talks
Britain’s chancellor Sir Stafford Cripps urged the United States and Canada to expand dollar earning opportunities. Washington observers call it a tariff lowering bid. Secretary Snyder promised sympathetic consideration but US aim to end Marshall Plan aid by 1952 remains. China eyes counteroffensive as Red drive slows near Canton. Bonn parliament opens amid divisions as US forces rehearse in Germany. Berlin reports US uses German riflemen in maneuvers, denied by American officials.
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Associated Press
Britain
Stafford Cripps
United States
Washington
Stafford
U. S
Canada
Secretary of the Treasury
John W. Snyder
China
Canton
Jucheng
Canton-Haakow
West Germany
Bonn
Germany
Frankfurt
Berlin
Guire Buys Bank Street Variety Store in Decatur
Eldredge Guire announced the purchase of Bank Street Variety from B. O. Stinnett. A Decatur native, Guire plans interior remodeling and new merchandise soon, joined by his wife Thelma Wade Guire, formerly of Courtland.
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Eldredge Guire
Bank Street
B. O. Stinnett
Guire
Decatur
Decatur Senior High
Thelma Wade
Courtland
Guires
Senate Committee Pursues Speedy 1949 Session Action
In Montgomery on September 8 the Alabama Senate met as a committee of the whole to speed work before adjournment. With one day left lawmakers aimed to schedule bills for debate and end filibusters on the Boswell amendment substitute and the 67 senator measure. Senator James B. Allen was elected chairman. actions were unofficial and not binding.
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Senate
James B. Allen
School entrance age bill moves in Alabama Senate
In Montgomery the Alabama Senate voted to raise the school entrance age, but action was not final. The committee of the whole approved a House bill to revert to pre 1947 rules with an amendment setting eligibility for fall entry for children six by November 15, while the Oct. 1 deadline remains in the House bill.
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Montgomery
Ala
State Senate
Alabama
Senate
Senate Considers Quieting Two Filibustered Measures
The senate plans a 1 A. M. session to clear voter qualification law and the 67-senator bill in hopes of ending a lengthy filibuster. The calendar also includes a bill to revert school entrance age to pre 1947 rules after a court ruling deemed the 1947 change illegal. See SENATE on Page 2.
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Senate
Crop estimate on cotton up
The Agriculture Department forecast this year’s cotton crop at 14,943,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight, up 138,000 from last month. It compares with 14,868,000 last year and the ten-year average of 11,306,000. Census Bureau said 1,247,443 bales had been ginned before Sept 1, down from 1,444,355 last year. If borne out, controls on 1950 crop may be imposed, including acreage allotments and marketing quotas. No decision before early October.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Census Bureau
Cullman Soldier's Hearing Set For Sept 19 in Capitol
Circuit Judge Newton B Powell will preside over a board review on Sept 19 in Washington D C for Willis J Lawrence a 19 year old Cullman youth charged with the murder of a German civilian in Baden Baden. Lawrence is held in a European military prison awaiting the outcome with his father Joe Lawrence and Cullman Probate Judge Kenneth J Griffith attending. The case stems from a street fight that left the German dead and originally carried a 30 year sentence later reduced to 10 years by a commanding officer.
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Newton B. Powell
Onefral
Board of Review
Willis J. Lawrence
Eulliman
Powell
Washington, D. C
Joe Lawrence
Kenneth J. Griffith
Nes
Iar
Lawrence
Europe
Washington
Baden-Baden
Johnson
Russell Lynne
Gillespie
Jones
Lynne
Frank Webster
Leroy McEntire, Jr
Webster
Elbert C. McNutt
Bobby Boutwell
E .W. Phillips
Long
Leo Pirkle
Clapp Heads UN Mission to Seek Fast Answers on Arab Refugees
Gordon R. Clapp chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority leads a United Nations mission departing for Geneva and Beirut to study Arab refugee resettlement. The group will survey Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and possibly Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt for short term projects to aid 500,000 to 900,000 refugees.
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New York
Gordon R. Clapp
Tennessee Valley Authority
Middle East
United Nations
Clapp
Geneva
Beirut
Syria
TVA
Jordan
Trans-Jordan
Palestine
Lebanon
Iran
Saudi Arabia
Egypt
UN Economic Survey
Unan
Sir Desmons Morton
Cemil Gokcin
John Reedman
Union of South Africa
Reedman
Dillon Myer
Herbert Stewart
William Voorduin
Carlos A. Debezies
Larence E. Kirk
Department of Agriculture
Barrie N. Davies
Charles Issawi
Leland Albright
Vancourt M. Hare
Taylor C. Shore
UN Secretariat
Vera Settle
Francis Smith
Anna P. Monson
Traffic Death Case on Trial Taft Patterson
Taft Patterson faces second degree manslaughter charges in Morgan county court for the death of Jeff Ferris Weeden and injuries to three others when his car struck a pickup stopped to fix a flat tire south of Valdermosa Springs in August 1948. Lawyer William B. Eyster represents Patterson.
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Taft
al Patterson
Hartseller
Morgan County
Jeff Ferris Weeden
Bluff City
Weeden
Patterson
Valdermosa Springs
William B. Eyster
W. H. Long
Sewid
Leo Johnson
Nokomis Gillespie
Walter Lee Senna
Scientists Visit TVA Sites in Tennessee Valley Tours
United Nations scientific delegates totaling 150 to 200, including U S State Department officials, arrive in Decatur after touring Muscle Shoals to study TVA malaria control and regional projects. They will visit Belle Mina, the Alabama Farm Extension Service station, and hear talks by local leaders before breakfast at Hotel Lyons and tours of the Alabama Flour Mill and Wolverine Tube Division plant. The tour may continue to Guntersville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, as part of a three week conference on natural resources from Lake Success, New York.
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United Nations Scientific Conference
Tennessee Valley
U. S. Department of State
Tennessee Valley Authority
Decatur
TVA
Muscle Shoals
Limestone County
Shoals
Belle Mina
Bellé Mina Experiment Station
Alabama Farm Extension Service
Fred Stewart
Maynard Layman
Decatur Daily
John A. Caddell
Lyons
Hotel
Alabama
A. L. Johnson
Wolverine Tube Division
Don Blend
Pian
Guntersville
Chattanooga
Knoxville
United Nations
Lake Success
New York
Tennessee
Gibson to Present Concert at Huntsville Friday
Decatur musician David Allen Gibson will perform a Kiwanis sponsored program of classics Friday at 8 P M in First Methodist Church Huntsville. Admission is free. Arrangements are by Carlisle Davis. The hour and a half recital features a Chopin group and works by Beethoven and Liszt including Campanella.
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David Allen Gibson
Decatur
First Methodist Church
Huntsville
Carlisle Davis
Gibson
Liszt
Bids Open for Lawrence County Highway Project
The state Highway Department will open bids September 16 for 12 state projects totaling about $800,000. In Lawrence County, a 6.051 mile grading drainage and double surface treatment project from Wren East toward Danville is listed among the bids. The notice emphasizes bids on highway construction statewide.
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State Highway Highway Department
Lawrence County
Wren
Danville
European traders boost shipments to Southern ports
At Mobile Alabama on September 8, trade official Malcolm H. Laws said European shipments to Southern ports are growing, with 10 countries contributing a small steady flow. Exports include coal tar, non ferrous metals, aluminum plate, jewelry, steel mill products, diamonds, creosote oil, brandy, newsprint, malt liquor, peat moss, and dried beet pulp, signaling possible 1950 growth.
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Mobile
Ala
Malcolm H. Laws
U. S. Department of Commerce
Laws
United Kingdom
Belgium
Europe
France
Austria
Florists
Netherlands
Eire
Yugoslavia
Wildlife refuge worker injured in odd accident at Huntsville
Henry H. Grammer, 34, a wildlife refuge employee, suffered a skull fracture in an accident at Huntsville arsenal about 11 30 A M yesterday. Percy M. Johnson Wheeler national wildlife refuge clerk said Grammer was with a group of men laying telephone lines when the accident occurred. He and another man were on a ladder for an unidentified task.
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Henry H. Grammer
Wildlife Refuge
Huntsville Arsenal
Percy M. Johnson
Wheeler National Wifelife Refuge
Grammer
Survives 2 Story Tumble. Injured Playing Nearby
Sandra Speegle aged six fell about one foot from a two story house while playing with a cousin in front of an aunt's home. She broke her right arm when the knee of the injured arm struck. Daughter of James Speegle, 1318 Avenue East. She is reported doing nicely today by Mrs. E D Walker, another aunt.
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Sandra Speegle
James Speegle
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Twelfth Avenue West
Hamil Clinic
William Falls
Seventh Avenue West
Charles Parker
Hartselle
Decatur General Hospital
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F. A. Berry
Fifth Avenue South
R. E. Stamps
Fourth Avenue South
J. M. Chenault
Johnston Street
Everett Clayton
J. H. Woodall
Olive Street
W H. Baker
Baileyton
Wilson Taylor
East Vine Street
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Nicodemus
Corley
Ninth Street Methodist Church
T. A. Roper Jr
G. E. Bishop
North Avenue
Westminster Presbyterian Church
C. B. Woodall
Fort Payne
Phil
Carson Newman College
Jefferson City
Tenn
E. M. Chapman
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Moundville, Ala
Camp McDowell
Central Methodist Church
Barkley
Alben W. Barkley
Carleton S. Hadley
Hotel Chase
St. Louis
Southen
By Ken Reynolds
Alvin
Army Reserve Office
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Snyder
Cullman
Capitol
Joyce Brainard
Los Angeles
Carl Brainard
Taft O. Patterson
Arie Or
Wild Life Refuge
Clemons
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