Community calendar and weather outlook brief
Partly cloudy weather with a few showers is forecast. Decatur unit of the volunteer air reserve training will meet at 7 30 p m tonight at the military sub district headquarters on Bank Street. Charles Crutcher and Robert W McGwier plan fall term enrollments at Alabama institutions.
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Decatur
Volunteer Air Reserve Training Unit
Bank Street
Air Force
Charles Crutcher
University of Alabama
Boll Weevils Pay Visit To Credit Bureau
Troy Martin, manager at a local retail credit bureau, reports three boll weevils flew into the bureau’s office window. He wonders if they ate cotton or seek new worlds to conquer or perhaps to set up a line of credit before the President’s credit curbs take effect on Monday.
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Troy Martin
Senate rejects reinternment plan in McCarran bill debate
The Senate 45 to 29 rejects Lucas's bid to remove the communist registration provision and allow internment in war or national emergency. Truman intends to veto the bill if it reaches the White House in its current form. An added amendment bans court picketing to shield federal court proceedings.
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Oliver N. DE Wolf
Washington
Senate
Lucas
Illinois
D-W. Va
McCarran
Truman
Senator McCarran
Dnev
White House
MccCarran
Ellender
D-La
United States
New
Powder Plant Blast Kills 8 in Eldred Area
Eight workers were killed and several wounded in a National Powder company blast near Eldred Pennsylvania two miles north of town at about 8 30 A M EST The explosion shattered town windows and was heard up to ten miles away Injured were taken to Bradford and Olean hospitals The plant makes nitroglycerine and dynamite
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Eldred
National Powder Company
Here
Bradford
Olean
N. Y
Tennessee probes baby traffic profits in Memphis society
Gov. Gordon Browning ordered an investigation into alleged baby sales by the Tennessee Children's Home Society Memphis branch. State welfare officials mark widespread export of Tennessee babies to California and New York with foster parents paying up to 750 dollars each and transport costs under 100 dollars, targeting a rumored million dollar profit. The Nashville Chattanooga Knoxville offices are not involved.
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Nashville
Tenn
Gordon Browning
Memphis
Tennessee Children’s Home Society
Browning
Edwin Price
McMahan
Shelby County
California
New York
Three Investigations Of Fatal Wreck Underway
Three investigations were started by the Pennsylvania Railroad the Ohio military district and the National Guard into a troop train wreck near West LaFayette Ohio that killed 33 soldiers. Senator demands nationwide inquiry into railroad safety.
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Pennsylvania National Guard
Coshocton
Ohio
Pennsylvania Railroad
Spirit of St. Louis
United States
Spirit of St
National Guard
Washington
Camp Atterbury
Ind
Lyle C. Fisher Named To AIA Membership
Lyle C. Fisher of Sheffield and the L. C. Fisher investment service has been named to the AIA membership. He recently assumed the civic duty as president of the Sheffield Community Chest board.
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Lyle C. Fisher
AIA
Sheffield
Fisher
L.C. Fisher Investment Service
Sheffield Community Chest Board
Early Resigns But Ross Denies Johnson Leaving
Washington Sept 12 Stephen Early resigned today as deputy Secretary of Defense Truman accepted the resignation effective Sept 30 Early returns to Pullman Inc as VP The White House said Early had wanted to quit since completing a one year term begun May 1949 Presidential Secretary Charles G Ross declined to comment on a report that Johnson is leaving the cabinet Johnson faces criticism over the Korean war situation Ross would not confirm or deny the report President Truman has supported Johnson despite critics Early served since Roosevelt era and helped oversee Johnson’s appointment.
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Washington
Stephen Early
Truman
White House
Early
Pullman Inc
Charles G. Ross
Johnson
Ross
Congress
Roosevelt
Quotas Set For October Draft Call In Alabama
Sixty five Valley youths among 1 065 Alabama youths called for Selective Service in October Col Ernest W Howell state director of the draft system announced. Four counties will supply 496 men for pre induction physicals in October with 8 000 to be examined. October 24 set for 20 more to go to the services.
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Valley
Alabama
Ernest W Howell
Morgan County
Lawrence
Limestone
Cullman County
Gadsden
Limestone County
British Bevin Opposes German Arms in Western Plan
British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin urged Germany to be restored as a great nation but rejected arming German units. He signaled opposition to Acheson’s idea of a Western European defense force and favored a strong central West German police to curb uprisings. Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick noted Germans lack strong desire to rearm.
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John Hightower
New York
Ernest Bevin
Germany
Bevin
Acheson
Britain
Ivone Kirkpatrick
Kirkpatrick
Konrad Adenauer
West Germany
Miss America Yolande Berbeze Poses in New York
Miss America Yolande Berbeze arrived in New York for five days of official photo sessions and sightseeing. The 21 year old Mobile Alabama winner was crowned Miss America of 1951 at Atlantic City last week and stays at the Waldorf Astoria.
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New York
Yolande Berbeze
Mobile
Malik Foregoes Veto On Report
United Nations security council approves its annual report to the general assembly. Soviet delegate Malik abstains as vote 10 to 0. Closed door meeting marks 500th session since 1946. Public hearing to urge quick India Sweden commission over alleged U S airstrikes north of Korea.
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Max Harrelson Lake
United Nations Security Council
General Assembly
Jacob A. Malik
London
United States
U.S
Red China
Fireman Found Dead Near Railroad Tracks
The body of Marbury Fulmer, 39, of Montgomery, was found beside the tracks near Fort Deposit Alabama after he fell from a Mobile to Montgomery passenger train. Officials investigate the death and had not yet determined the circumstances.
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Fort. Deposit
Ala
L & N Railroad
Marbury Fulmer
Montgomery
First Cavalry Storms Uphill To Capture Peak
American first cavalrymen stormed uphill through a day-long barrage to take hill 314, a peak north of Taegu guarding the Taegu road. Two peaks held by Red Koreans resisted before the troopers finally captured the summit at nightfall. The action left Chilgok Town fired and confirmed Allied initiative in the Taegu sector.
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Tenth Avenue East
Johnston
Jackson Streets
Tenth
Somerville Road
Joe Elliott
Leif Erickson
Tokyo
Taegu
Chilgok
Jack MacBeth
Taegu-Tabu
Walton H. Walker
U. S
Korea
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Robert W. McGwier
Castle Heights Military Academy
Lebanon
Meredith Woodall
Birmingham
State Junior Chamber of Commerce
Clifton Fuller
Christian Youth Workers
J. W. Ward
Flint Baptist Church
Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
Bessemer
W.T. Simpson
Sixth Avenue
Mrs
Gilbert Marks
W. B. Little
Decatur General Hospital
Credit Bureau
Tennessee
State Welfare Department
J. O. McMahan
BY Reed Smith
Uee
Pullman
Malik
First Cavalry
Key City
Pohang
By Ken Reynolds
Coliseum Grounds
Decatur Junior C of Commerce
Lee
Civinettes
Coliseum
J. W. Carlisle
J. H. Turner
E. E. Thompson
Morgan County Home Demonstration Clubs
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