Negro admits rape killing in Long Island case
Nassau County detectives said Ward Beegher Caraway confessed to slaying Mrs. Marjory Church Logan and raping her daughter Miss Logan at the Flower Hill home on Long Island. He described hiding revolver parts and discarding them while riding with the Rose family automobile. Caraway was booked on murder and arraignment to come.
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Mineola
N. Y
Stuyvesant Pinnell
Nassau County Detectives
Ward Beegher Caraway
Marjory Church
Logan
Marjory
Pinnell
Miss Logan
Flower Hill
Long Island
Caraway
Southold
Joseph M. Rose
Logans
J. R. ‘Rose
Marie
Markets mixed as stocks ease after seven recovery days
Wall Street traders showed fatigue after a week of gains with uneven near term trends and smaller turnover around 700000 shares. Cotton futures rose on mill buying amid weather and pest concerns, while bonds and grains showed mixed moves and slight advances in select issues.
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New York
Chicago
CCC
Local notices and transfers fill Decatur area items
Readable items show hospital moves births and admissions at Baughs infirmary and Decatur General. The Civitan softball game vs Hartselle Rotary moves to Morgan County High School field. VFW auxiliary hosts Aug 6 birthday dance at Twickenham hotel. City court forfeitures, building permits, vacations, and a volcanic dust insulation mention wrap the column.
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Civitan Club
Hartselle Rotary Club
Morgan County High School
Gentry
Post 2702
Huntsville
Twickenham
Hell Drivers to Present Program at Benson Field
Ace Norris known as king of the Hell Drivers will headline a two hour show at Benson Field tonight at 8 P M. The program features fourteen death defying feats including driving through fire walls and two wheeled racing. Sponsored by Decatur High School the event includes Flying Dutchman's Leap of Death as a world class daredevil attempts to jump a bus and junk autos after a speed ramp. Public invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benson Field
Ace Norris
Norris
Decatur Senior High School
Huntsville CIO official slashed near picket line
W T Adcock manager of the Huntsville joint board of the CIO Textile Workers Union was slashed on the back near a picket line at the Huntsville Ice and Coal Company plant. Joe Adams, Adcock’s brother in law, was arrested and later turned over to state authorities. Adcock planned a 24 hour sympathy strike beginning Tuesday at 6 am after a Sunday mass meeting.
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Huntsville
Ala
Huntsville Ice & Coal Company
W. T. Adcock
Huntsville Joint
CIO Textile Workers Union of America
Joe Adams
Adcock
Jeff Smith
CIO
Huntsville Cio Committee
F E. P. Pruitt
J. H. Locke
Adams
Cantrell ally surrender sparks election turmoil report
Sheriff Mansfields was photographed without his badge in the company of a physician after Cantrell’s surrender. George Woods, a county election official tied to Cantrell, agreed to certify the Gt-slate as winners. Duggan warned guns were used to win the election and promised a peaceful next ballot. Ballot boxes torn and emptied were found by GI forces. A mass meeting was planned to install interim officials starting Sept 1.
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Page Cantrell
Pat Mansfields
George Woods
Cantrell
Duggan
McKellar Wins renomination in Tennessee primary
Senator Kenneth D. McKellar aged 77 secured the Democratic renomination and a sixth Senate term in a statewide primary marked by violence in Athens and across the state. He led Carmack 159,900 to 90,578 with McCord also to be renominated. The race tested PAC influence in Tennessee after gunfire and clashes energized by local party factions.
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Nashville
Tenn
Kenneth D. McKellar
Washington
Edward H. Crump
Shelby County
Memphis
McKellar
Edward Ward Carmack
Carmack
Tennessee
State Guard
Hilton Butler
Athens
McMinn County
Paul Cantrell
Associated Press
Byron
Army
Germany
Nashville Tennessean
PAC
Senate
Truman
Musical program at Decatur Civitan club meeting
The Decatur Civitan club held a noon meeting at the Masonic hall with wives as guests. Mary Jo Reeves performed two vocal solos while Mrs. Bruce Byars offered two violin numbers, accompanied by Mrs. Reneau Carrell. Mary Lou Dancy chapter served luncheon and several guests attended.
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Decatur Civitan Club
Masonic Hall
Mary Jo Reeves
Bruce Byars
Reneau Carrell
Mary Lou Dancy
Irvin Quihn
Birmingham
Decatur Club
Candra Bishop
Georgia
Estelle Vaughan
Revival to Begin at Rock Creek Baptist Church
The Rock Creek Baptist Church on Eva 1 plans a revival and vacation Bible school from Sunday August 4 to Friday August 9 with daily 11:00 am and 7:30 pm revival services and 8:30 am VBS sessions. Youth 17 and under urged to enroll. completion diploma Friday night. Rev M G Fields will lead VBS with Pastor Rev W H Crow assisting.
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Rock Creek Baptist Church
Eva 1
Vacation Bible School
M. G. Fields
Morgan , Associational
W. H. Crow
Farley Named Manager of VA Decatur Office
Flake E. Farley, World War II veteran, will lead the Decatur sub regional Veterans Administration office. He assumed duties July 29 after a career in the Army and VA service, with ties to Opelika, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and Alpha Tau Omega.
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Flake E. Farley
Decatur
Veterans
M. E. Head
Alabama
Montgomery
Farley
Opelika
Georgia Military College
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Birmingham
Veterans’ Service
North Alabama
Lauderdale
Colbert
Franklin
Lawrence
Limestone
Morgan
Madison
Marshall
Jackson
DeKalb
South Ferry Street
Samuel M. Slaton
Alpha Tau. Omega
Opelika Kiwanis Club
The
Methodist Church
Caroline Pace
Oxford
Pressure for wartime shell records and casualty reports
The committee demands quick delivery of lot numbers for all 4.2 shell purchases and the manufacturers, and calls for full chemical warfare service records on defective mortar shell casualties. Senator Knowland says the panel will press for complete reports and first hand field accounts to identify responsibility for production. The probe centers on wartime munitions contracts totaling over 78 million dollars.
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Chemical Warfare Service
Knowland
R-Calif
Rep. May
D-Ky
Georgia county unit voting system challenged in suit
The suit argues that Georgia's state constitutional provision authorizing county unit votes constitutes deliberate and varying discrimination against voters in larger counties, violating equal protection by abridging federal privileges and immunities and denying equal protection within the state's jurisdiction.
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United States
Royal Arch Masons Granted Degrees in Conclave
Nine Royal Arch Masons received degrees of the Red Cross and the Order of Malta as De Molay Commandry No. 14 Knights Templar held a regular conclave Thursday night. Names: General Baureguard Jones, Zola Clark, Bernice Clark, James Shipworth, B T Gardner, S D Whitten, W N Smith, E L Wooten, Carl L Emens.
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Royal Arch Masons
Order of the Red Cross
Order of Malta
de Molay Commandry
Knights Templar
Baureguard Jones
Zola Clark
Bernice Clark
James Shipworth
B. T Gardner
S. D Whitten
W. N Smith
E. L. Wooten
Carl L. Emens
Health clinic teams schedule August vaccination visits
Two teams from the Morgan County Health Department will travel across multiple sites from August 5 to August 8 1946 to administer typhoid diphtheria smallpox Schick and tuberculin tests. The schedule lists townships and times for each day across districts including West Center Piney Grove Lacon Bell Springs Round Top Lebanon Windis Massey Andrews Penns and many others.
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Morgan County Health Department
West Center
Piney Grove
Lacon
Bell Springs
Jones
Collins
Round Top
Lebanon
Windis
Massey
Andrews
Penn’s
Cedar Creek
Falkville
Cole Springs
Union Hill
Eva
Centerdale
Bates
Gum Pond
Lock Creek
Lawrence Cove
Oden Ridge
Gan
S Cove
Summitt
Liberty
Neil
Johnson Chapel
Danville
Oak Grove
Rocky Ford
Oak Ridge
Orrs
Trinity School
Courtland
Trinity Lane
Austinville
Pleasant Hill
Moulton Heights
Flint
Cedar Lake
Woodland Mills
West Point
Piney
Morgan City
Science Hill
Lacey
Hough's
Valdermosa Springs
Talucah
Winton
New Antioch Meet to Begin Sunday at Church of Christ
The annual meeting will start Sunday at New Antioch Church of Christ three miles south of Hillsboro. A dinner will open the event with morning and evening services through the week. Preacher H Waldrop Johnson from Jacksonville Florida will lead the meetings.
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New Antioch Church of Christ
Hillsboro
H. Waldrop Johnson
Jacksonville
Florida
Johnston Street Resurfacing Delayed to Next Week
Johnston Street resurfacing from First to Sixth Avenue, planned for today, is postponed to Monday or Tuesday next week according to street commissioner Joe Elliott. The delay came after a tar distributor breakdown. nearby work on Jackson Street from Eighth to 12th Avenue is reported complete.
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Johnston Street
First Avenue
Sixth Avenue
Joe Elliott
12Th v
Elliott
Jackson Street
Eighth Avenue
12Th Avenue
Wheeler Bows Out of Senate Reelection Bid
Senator Wheeler of Montana announced he will not seek reelection as an independent, removing a political flashpoint for President Truman. He issued a formal statement offering no indication of support for either primary opponent Leif Erickson or Republican nominee Wales N. Ecton.
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Washington
Wheeler
D-Mont
Truman
Leif Erickson
Wales N. Ecton
Freighter With German Gas Held Near Charleston Harbor
The American freighter Francis L. Lee carrying 900 tons of German mustard gas was in tow at Charleston harbor entrance today as officials await War Department action on protests against its disposal. The gas was reported leaking.
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Charleston
S. C
Francis L. Lee
Charleston Harbor
War Department
Radioisotopes to be Made Available for Research and Medicine
Oak Ridge researchers announce rapid production and distribution of radioisotopes to accredited hospitals and labs. Col. E. E. Kirkpatrick says 30 to 40 orders soon, hundreds possible in months, with carbon 14 and other elements offered at set Manhattan district prices. Isotopes to serve as tracers and potential cancer therapies.
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Manhattan
Army
Manhattan Engineers
Two 600-Gallon Stills Seized in Bankhead Raid
Alabama law enforcement officers report two 600-gallon tank type stills and 600 gallons of beer were seized and destroyed ten miles south of Moulton in the Bankhead forest yesterday. Sheriff Ben Corum and Deputy Oscar Fretwell of Lawrence County joined Officers P H Sandlin and J E Pierce in the raid. Investigation of violators continues.
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Moulton
Bankhead National Forest
Alabama
Ben Corum
Lawrence County
Oscar Fretwell
P. H. Sandlin
J. E. Pierce
New Auto Store Opens Saturday in Decatur
The Economy Auto Store at 513 Bank Street will open Saturday morning. Owner Mrs. Marjorie Irwin Tucker announced the remodelled shop offers home supplies auto accessories sporting goods wheel goods and electrical appliances. James Meadows to join as salesman. Tucker has nine years in the business in Decatur.
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Austo
Bank Street
Marjorie Irwin Tucker
Tucker
Decatur
James Meadows
War Assets offers Napier Field to Dothan and Houston Co
Washington officials say the War Assets Administration offers the Napier Field airfield to the city of Dothan and Houston County Alabama at no charge, on the condition local authorities maintain the airfield and reopen negotiations to purchase buildings on the surplus base.
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Washington
Assets Administration
Napier Field
Dothan
Houston County
Ala
Death Takes R. H. Pitt 76 at Home in Decatur
R. H. Pitt 76 died at 11 15 this morning at his home 214 Memorial Drive West He was born in Lawrence county and lifelong Methodist Surviving are three daughters Christine Lannie Mae Pitt Decatur Mrs Harold Pitt Nashville three sons Floyd O Pitt Jim R Pitt Edgar Pitt Trinity 1 15 grandchildren two great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews Funeral services will be at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon at Sheats Chapel Methodist church Lawrence county Rev Cook of Trinity officiating Burial in Old Hames cemetery Brown directing
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R. H. Pitt
Memorial Drive
Mr. Pitt
Lawrence County
Methodist Church
Christine
Lannie Mae Pitt
Decatur
Harold Pitt
Nashville
Floyd O. Pitt
Jim R. Pitt
Edgar Pitt
Trinity 1
Rev
Cook
Trinity
Sheats Chapel Methodist Church
Old Hames
Brown
Limestone county reps reshuffled on board changes
Eugene DuPuy and Miss Rebecca Grisham were named Limestone county representatives to the board of directors. W W Malone Jr and Melvin Holt were named to replace Mrs Carrington and Miss Grisham. The remaining two representatives will be named at the next meeting.
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DuPuy
Rebecca Grisham
Limestone County
W.W. W. Malone Jr
Melvin Holt
Carrington
House for Sale at 1601 5th Ave South
Immediate possession on the single family home at 1601 5th Ave South for $1200. See Dr A M Roan at 602 1 2 2nd Ave for details and showing.
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5Th Ave
A. M Roan
2Nd Ave
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