Missing AP Reporter William R. Moore in Korea Frontline
Associated Press reporter William R. Moore, 40, last heard Sunday afternoon near Chinju battle front with a 24th division unit split by a Red drive. Moore, a former Daily Oklahoman staffer, served as a major with the U S Army in Korea and returned as AP correspondent in April 1948. Nine other newsmen are listed as captured missing or killed in the Korea conflict.
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U. S. Eighth Army
Korea
Associated Press
William R. Moore
Chinju
Ships Back In Service From Moth Ball Fleet
The first of ten fast cargo ships from the government moth ball fleet left Mobile for wartime duty toward a West coast port. The two vessels are the SS Twinfalls Victory and SS Paducah Victory. Six more ships are being reconditioned in Mobile, two sent to New Orleans. Crews from the National Maritime Union joined aboard as the ships were seaworthy after about ten days of recon ditioning. Each ship carries 38 seamen.
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Mobile
Ala
Paducah Victory
New Orleans
National Maritime Union
CIU
The Brevard frame home with wide siding and garage
The Brevard features frame construction with wide exterior siding and asphalt shingles. It has two bedrooms, a bath, combined dinette and kitchen, a living room, a front entrance hood with latticework, a wood burning fireplace, galley style cabinets, dinette area, and a two closet hall. An attached garage with overhead door sits over a full basement, dimensions 49 feet six inches by 26 feet, area 988 square feet, cubage 19 266.
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Brevard
Cubage
Community notes from Winston County Sardis area
Local residents attend revival at Jones Chapel Addison and Meigs reunion in Addison. Visits include Mr and Mrs Reiford Thompson, Lindley family, and John Wisener of Rockmart. Home Demonstration group meets. Madge Pennington demonstrates cleaning and storing winter clothes. Cemetery cleanup planned and revival slated to begin August 5 with public invitation.
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Jones Chapel
Addison
Reiford Thompson
Meigs
Fred Lindley
Joe Lindley
John Wisener
Rockmart
Herbert Cole
Sue and
Weldon
Arkadelphia
Mattie Cruce
Dora Williams
Melvin Porter
Edward Porter
Madge Pennington
Cordell Bell
Rhonda
Lewis and
Gyndelon Pruitt
Tennessee
Weldon Cole
Gail Pigg
Sybie Thompson
Margaret Lee
Birmingham
Jess Lee
Babe Ruth Homers Off 32 Pitchers in 1927 Season
Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in 1927 against 32 different pitchers. Rube Walberg and Milton Gaston each gave up four Ruth homers. seven others yielded three. Boston Red Sox hurlers surrendered 11 Ruth blasts, while four Athletics pitchers were among nine victims.
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New York
Babe Ruth
Rube Walberg
Athletics
Milton Gaston
Browns
Ruth
Hollis Thurston
Tom Zachary
Joe Shaute
W. B. Harriss
al Thomas
Ken Holloway
Tony Welzer
Boston Red Sox
Boston
Yankees
A’s
Revival and community notices in Morgan County records
Local notices from Morgan County report upcoming events at Rock Creek with revival services led by Rev. William Tanner and Rev. Dewey Crow, a vacation Bible school led by Mrs. William Tanner, and community visits and hospital recoveries. Families and neighbors are noted in attendance, including Mrs. W. T. Lewis and Elbert Julian, plus recent home improvements by Arab contractors.
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William Tanner
Bessemer
Dewey Crow
Hartselle
Herbert Self
Veteran’s Hospital
Nashville
Tenn
W. T. Lewis
Lessie Lewis
Tee Smith
Edward Smith
Edward Gibson
Housing Planning Loans Get Approval
President Truman authorized planning loans for 23 localities totaling 1 928 low rent public housing units. The Public Housing Administration says loans amount to 567 700, bringing approved total to 51 608 600. Communities listed include Boaz 50 units 20 000. Boston 28 5 600. Columbiana 66 12 400. Cullman 50 20 000. Guin 36 7 200. Ozark 50 20 000. Reform 26 5 200. Sylacauga 50 20 ...
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Washington
Truman
Public Housing Administration
Bama
Boaz
Boston
Columbiana
Cullman
Guin
Ozark
Reform
Sylacauga
Speedy Shortstop Denies Errors After Car Incident
West Frankfort Illinois police curb a 19 year old shortstop Bob Murphy after a road incident. Murphy a St Louis native is challenged over errors in a game. He corrects the number confirming he made three rather than five.
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West Frankfort
Ill
Bob Murphy
Guy Baker
Murphy
St. Louis
Decatur Couple Hosts Weekend Guests
Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Johnson of Decatur spent the weekend with their relatives Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Ford.
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Lonnie Johnson
Decatur
Mrs. Thurman Ford
How Hoarding and Scare Buying Shape a Market
Cynthia Lowry discusses postwar scare buying and hoarding patterns. She cites sugar shortages shoe orders and auto purchases as examples, notes price rises and shortages from supply and demand, and recalls humorous and wasteful hoarding stories while warning against such behavior.
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Cynthia Lowry
AP Newsfeatures
Revival at Jones Chapel Brings 28 Baptisms
The Jones Chapel Baptist church held a revival this past week resulting in 28 baptisms and one member joining the church by letter. Local families visited and relatives shared meals and greetings as the community attended Sunday services and plans were announced for future gatherings.
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Jones Chapel
Irine Huffman
Riverside High School
O. J. Huffman
Mary Casey
Vinemont
Imogene Alldredge
H. C. Walls
Jerry Casey
R. C. Alldredge
Grandma Rodgers
Pershing McBrayer
Mae McBrayer
Nell
Bill Copeland
Dwight
Joyce Ann
Dorotha Vance
Montgomery
Autherance
Loyd Rodgers
Pfc
Bines Rodgers
Anniston
Ala
Overseas
Junior Hardin
W. P. McBrayer
Jones Chapel Baptist Church
Japan Turns Toward Spiritual Ideals After War Ruins
In Washington sixty Japanese leaders visiting from a moral rearmament conference in Caux discuss a shift from defeated military ideology to spiritual renewal. Kuriyama of the diet notes friendship with the U.S. remains strong, while Tokyo contemplates new leadership via universities and moral standards.
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Japan
America
Caux
Switzerland
Barkley
Washington
Chojiro Kuriyama
Senate
Kuriyama
New York
Nippon
M.A.A
M.R.A
MRA
Pilots Credited With Destroying 111 Korean Tanks
The Air Force says Gen MacArthur's headquarters credited air attacks with 111 Korean communist tanks destroyed through July 29. Including other actions brings total destroyed to 204 tanks, with 93 additional losses by non air actions.
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Washington
Air Force
MacArthur
Pentagon
Grand Master Of Odd Fellows Dies In Alabama
W. W. Gordon grand master of the Alabama lodge died of a heart attack at work in Birmingham Monday. Funeral services will be held at Brown Service Norwood chapel at three o'clock Wednesday afternoon with local Odd Fellows attending.
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Odd Fellows
Birmingham
W. W. Gordon
Alabama Lodge
Gordon
Southern Cement Company
Brown
Norwood Chapel
Nagasaki Mayor Responds to Bombing Sympathy
The Nagasaki mayor Hiroshi Ohashi says his people harbor no bitterness and understood why the bomb was used. A sixty member party signals a spiritual movement in Japan, but warns against expecting rapid ideological change.
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Hiroshi Ohashi
Nagasaki
Japan
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St. Cloud
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Decatur Ready Mixed Concrete CO
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Gram Dillehay’s
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Jack Luckenbill
Fort Benning
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Roger Monteen
Scott
R. J. Scott
Holland
Keng
Syndicwe, Inc. Worldries
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Mackenzie
Ray Childs
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