Community notices and local travels fill Decatur page
Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers forecast for Sunday and Monday. Local ceremonies include Sacred Harp singing at Morgan county courthouse and camp meeting sermons by Dr. Davenport and Dr. Brasher. Police docket notes fines for prohibition violation and disorderly conduct. Hospital moves and ambulance calls pepper a busy local scene with visits to Decatur General and area towns.
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E. R. Overley
Tabernacle
Overley
Brasher
Solons Tear Quick Recall
Washington, Aug. 3. Weary members of the adjourned 79th congress streamed homeward hoping they will not be called back for a special session this fall but fearing they may. The Senate and House closed on a sine die basis ending the 79th with no sessions until the 80th begins Jan. 3 unless President Truman summons them back.
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Clair Johnson
Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Truman
Rayburn
D-Tex
White House
Colmer
House Economic Policy and Planning Committee
British and American ships race to salvage American Farmer
New York reports a salvage prize contest for the derelict freighter American Farmer and its cargo valued around 4.5 million dollars. Messages say the ship was boarded by Army transport crew, an Elizabeth class British freighter seeks a line, and rescue by the destroyer Perry and salvage tugs is underway.
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New York
U. S
New York Times
Henry T. Gibbins
London News
Perry
Farmer
William J. Riddle
Benjamin Goodhue
Methodist Group To Erect New Church On Ninth St
Plan announced for a new Ninth Street Methodist church on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Ninth Street South. The brick and tile building will house a 500 seat auditorium, 22 Sunday school rooms, a pastor’s study, furnace room, kitchen, dining hall and rest rooms with work starting on the educational building first.
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Ninth Street
Sixth Avenue
Albert Frahn
Lucretia McClure
Gamble
Ninth Street Methodist Church
L. R. Yarbrough
R. D. Compton
Guy Jones
John R. Butter
Leon Latham
Rev. Gamble
W. P. NeSmith
Martis Smith
Julian Butts
Theo Compton
Ocie Lawrence
Bill Hern
Talmadge Wright
R.E. Modore
James Sparkman
James Sims
J. D. Sims
Harney Teague
Mahlon Yarbrough
Emerson McBay
Olen Sanders
L. A. Owens
George Coggins
Felton Weaver
Charley Smith
C. A. Pool
Otto Reeder
Rolf Smith
Terance Kirby
Alabama accident roundup launched by AP and patrol
With state patrol cooperation, the Associated Press started a daily Alabama accident roundup. Highway Patrol Chief Clyde Sellers supervised the tabulation of 24 hour accidents, deaths, injuries, and property damage. Comparatives from last year and year-to-date totals will be shown.
TB Found Among Allied Prisoners In Camps
Dr. B. F. Austin state health officer writes in The Sanatorium Sun that a high percentage of Allied prisoners liberated from Axis concentration camps were found to have tuberculosis. The article appears in a North Carolina sanatorium extension service publication.
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Austin
Montgomery
Ala
B. F. Austin
Sanatorium Sun
Extension Service
North Carolina Sanatorium
TVA Ordered to Hold Up Public Works Projects
President Truman directed the Tennessee Valley Authority to defer postponable public works to avoid inflating costs and competing with private industry for scarce goods and labor. A sixty day moratorium on new federal public works contracts and force account work will run through October 1, 1946, followed by screening of federal construction programs before new funds are committed.
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AP Special
Washington Service
Washington
Truman
Tennessee Valley Authority
Holston Reservoir
David E. Lilienthal
TVA
Publicks
War Reaction
Secretaries of War
Navy
Big Four Plan Ires Belgium
Belgium’s Paul Henri Spaak challenged the Big Four for sidelining small nations in Europe's peace talks and for limiting their input to after major decisions. The day saw a rules committee vote to rotate conference chairmanship 12 to 8, and Greece pressed claims on Bulgarian and Albanian territory along with reparations from Italy. Britain signaled unity with the U S stance while preserving room to push its own positions as Attlee planned London talks with Bevin. The Canadian delegation disclosed a million-dollar award.
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Lynn Heinzerling
Paris
Paul Henri Spaak
Belgium
Europe
United Nations General Assembly
Rules Committee
Greece
Italy
How
U. S
James F. Byrnes
Spark
Byrnes
Herbert V. Evatt
Constantine T’saldaris
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Somaliland
Tsaldaris
Foreign Ministers Council
Dodecanese
Hitler
United Front
Trieste
Britain
United States
Attlee
London
Ernest Bevin
Truman Sees Deficit Slash in Tax Flood
President Truman projected a tax collection surge could narrow the 1947 deficit. He cited a revised budget showing expenditures at 41.5 billion and receipts at 39.6 billion, with a 1.9 billion deficit, down from January. He ordered federal agencies to cut spending and tighten veteran and state programs while pursuing further reductions.
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Truman
Associated Press
Charles Molony
Washington
Special jury called to investigate Cullman primary fraud
A special grand jury has been convened in Cullman county to probe alleged election fraud from the May 7 primary. Drawn Friday, the jurors will meet August 26 under Judge James H. Crow Jr. to hear cases of fraud reported in Cullman vicinity.
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Cullman County
Cullman
James H. Crow Jr
Plan For Congress Seat If Sparkman Wins Senate
In Athens Alabama plans emerge to name a placeholder candidate in November to avoid a GOP victory while Democrats delay a primary and runoff. John A. Caddell urges Mobile chairman Gessner McCorvey to select a candidate who agrees not to serve, allowing voters to choose a successor to Congressman Sparkman.
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Eighth District
John Sparkman
Senate
John H. Bankhead
John A. Caddell
Decatur
State
Democratic Committee
Gessner T. McCorvey
Mobile
Sparkman
House
Congress
McCorvey
Caddell
Capitol
U. S Senate
Revival to Begin at Bethel Today
A revival starts today one mile north of Hartselle led by Rev. Allen Ruff of Calera First Baptist. Services run daily at 10:30 am and 7:30 pm with Mr and Mrs Dewey Yeager of Hartselle in charge of music. Public invited.
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Bethel
Hartselle
Allen Ruff
First Baptist Church of
Calera
Dewey Yeager
Man Rescued by His Wife After Log Accident
Grady Price, 32, a long time Cullman County farmer and war veteran, was trapped for hours under heavy logs two miles from home. His wife found and rescued him after he shouted for help, freeing him and guiding emergency crews. He was treated at Cullman Hospital and later transferred to the Veterans Hospital for several months of confinement.
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Pat Mansfield
Benton
Polk
Athens
Bernie Hampton
Mansfield
Polk County
Birch Biggs
Hampton
Cullman County
Cullman Democrat
Grady Price
Longview
Price
Cullman Hospital
Veterans Hospital
Mr. Price
Cullman
Route 5
Obstacles of His Foe Cited by Sparkman
Rep John Sparkman announced he had 49.82 percent of Alabama's senatorial primary vote, just short of a majority. He questioned a runoff on a margin this small and said the final decision rests beyond his control. Sparkman led 44 of 67 counties as he awaited official canvass next Thursday.
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Montgomery
Ala
John J. Sparkman
Alabama
Froy .S
Huttsville
Sparkman
James A. Simpson
Birmingham
Saliba to Run for Congress If Sparkman Elected
Col Jim Saliba of Florence, commander of the Alabama State Guard first regiment, announced at Dauphin Island he would seek Congress if John Sparkman wins a U S Senate seat. A World War I veteran and former state Legion commander, Saliba backed Folsom in the North Alabama primary.
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Dauphin Island
Ala
Jim Saliba
Florence
Alabama State Guard
Congress
John J. Sparkman
U. S. Senate
Saliba
State Guard
Long
American Legion
Legion
James E. Folsom
North
Alabama
Sparkman Declares Madison Vote Mirrors Statewide Support
Sparkman claims Madison County gave him a nearly 20 to 1 majority and Jefferson County voted for him by more than 2,000 over a clear margin. He argues his statewide total would exceed 200,000 to secure a majority and says runoff prospects depend on the final canvass. He notes support from Boykin and Simpson allies and says he would campaign again if a runoff occurs.
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Simpson
Hale
Winston
Frank Boykin
Mobile
Madison
Jefferson
Sparkman
Boykin
Congress
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the Daily
Morgan County
Luther Clemons
Decatur 2
F. W. Boswell
Florida
G. G. McRae
Johnston Street
Decatur General Hospital
Brown's Ambulance
Pearl Wilburn
Endlam Avenue
Browns
G. M. Davenport
Central Methodist Church
the Tabernacle
John L. Brasher
E. B. Gardner
Westminster Presbyterian Church
J. Byron Crouse
Joe McRae
Hot Springs
Ark
J. G. McRae
Quentin Lentz
Linda Joyce
Irwin and Dyar Infirmary
Moulton
Trinity
Highsmith’s
Pauline Boyer
Decatur General Rosa
Fifth Avenue
Town
Cloyce Frost
Marvin Wells
Huntsville
Guntersville
W. H. Long
Board of Registrars
Oak Grove
Lawrence County
Richard George
John W. Candin
Allen George
Dot Biles
Mary Stockton
Laurens
Charleston
South Carolina
W. T. Edgeman
Points
Texas
Oklahoma
Harvey Morris
Endlam Blvd
By Ken Reynolds
Ronald
Solons
Methodist
Ninth St
Powers Scored
Post Office Department
War and Navy Departments
Maritime Commission
Athens Road
John Hurt
Tenn
McMinn County
Barbara Jackson
Cheri Chandler
Princess Theater
Russellville
Shrine Club
North Alabama
Tennessee Valley
Jackson
Sue Emens
Nikki Moody
Miss Decatur
Miss Jackson
H. B. Bowzee
Winsee Hain
Jim Simpson
By Lynne Brannen
Uncle Bud
Bill
Bill Bunkley
Law
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