Women’s Circle Meets at Central Baptist Postpones Meeting
The Central Baptist Business Women’s Circle met Monday with presiding president Tom Ratliff. Nine members and one visitor attended. Gifts for a Brazilian graduate were reported. revival prayers were offered. next Monday’s meeting was rescheduled to avoid conflict with the revival. Refreshments followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Baptist Business Women
Met
Tom Ratliff
H. S. Roberts
Alma Schauber
Brazil
Hortense Kirby
First Presbyterian Church
Womans Auxiliary
D. C. Shaw
E. W. McLeod
Stillman Institute
S. H. Wilds
Central Methodis Ws. C.S
Central Maesaodist Church
J. W. Darah
Darrah
John Nelson
Raymond Britain
Pattern 4539 Seams to Flattering Princess Style
Pattern 4539 in Jr Miss sizes 11 13 15 17 with size 13 requiring 27 8 yards of 39 inch fabric. Send 25 cents to Decatur Daily Pattern Dept 243 West 17th St New York 11 NY with name address and silk number. Anne Adams book offer adds 15 cents for pattern book and free flower accessory directions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Hubba
Jr Mis
Decatur Daily
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Personal Notices of Visits and Visits Across States
Miss Pauletta Cushman and Corky Cushman of Louisville visit their father C. M. Cushman at 1721 Sixth Avenue South and stay with Mr. and Mrs. Carmen Taylor. Miss Mildred Kitchens leaves for Fort Worth Texas for a week with friends. Mr. and Mrs. G. F. McCluskey return from Chattanooga Tennessee after visiting J. Taylor Goodwin and Mrs. Goodwin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pauletta Cushman
Corky
Louisville, Ky
C. M. Cushman
Sixth Avenue South
Carmen Taylor
Mildred Kitchens
Fort Worth
Texas
G. F. McCluskey
Chattanooga
Tenn
J. Taylor Goodwin
Coker couple to move to Collinsville after buying dry cleaning plant
Mr and Mrs Dwight E Coker plan to relocate from Decatur to Collinsville Alabama where they have purchased the Collinsville Dry Cleaning Plant. Other items note Horace Martin and family from Bessemer Alabama visiting the Newell home, B B Turley in Red Boiling Springs Tennessee for a two week vacation, Mrs Wilburn Royer returning from Montgomery Alabama, and a Birmingham visit by Mrs James A Gasoway and relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene A. Graves and Son
Vicksburg
Miss
Dwight E. Coker
Decatur
Collinsville, Ala
Collinsville
Horace Martin
Bessemer, Ala
T. A. Newell
Earthquake Strikes Dominican Republic. Aid Rushed
In Ciudad Trujillo and south of the Monte Christi range, a Sunday quake and tidal wave left at least two dead and damaged over 11 towns. Communications chaos hindered full damage assessment as tremors continued and planes considered air drops of food to frightened survivors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ciudad Trujillo
Dominican Republic
Monte Christi
Caribbean
Atlantic Ocean
Matanzas
Nagua
Republic
Athens Gains New Sheriff After County Court Action
In Athens Tennessee a new sheriff Knox Henry was elected by the county court after Sheriff Pat Mansfield resignation. The court also removed Cantrell ally Coroner Roe Bunn and Cantrell chair Cantrell, amid rioting and certification of five World War II veterans to county offices. Henry fills the unexpired term until September 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Tenn
Tennessee
McMinn County
Pat Mansfield
Knox Henry
GI County
Paul Cantrell
Cantrell
Justices of the Peace
Three More Join Armed Forces Here
Enlistments announced by the local Army recruiting station in Morgan County courthouse include Dan C Weatherly of Decatur and Jr Athens 3 enlisting in the regular Army for 18 months each. Roy Edward Grover of Falkville enlists for three years in the Army Air Force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Morgan County
Dan C. Weatherly
Sixth Avenue
Decatur
Athens
Regular Army
Roy Edward Grover
Falkville
Army Air Force
Slim Clothes for Heavy Miss CWO Pitfalls
A lifestyle piece advises curbing overstuffed styles by choosing age appropriate hats and neat updos while avoiding skin tight fits and bulky belts. It recommends a V neck, solid dark colors, and sensible reducing via diet and daily brisk walking to improve appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CWO
Plumpie
Many Die in Wheat Riots in Sicily
Rome reports fierce clashes near Palermo as Carbinieri battle Sicilian peasants over the grain decree. Tanks and armored cars were used. casualties include four police and many peasants. Sicily trails in the granaries program with only 12.8 percent of its 178,184 ton goal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Palermo
Ansa
Caccamo
Sicily
Italy
Teachers to Take Free TB Chest X Rays in Morgan County
About 400 Morgan county school employees including teachers bus drivers and lunchroom staff will undergo free anti TB chest X rays Thursday afternoon at the Morgan county Health Department building. The U S Public Health Service mobile unit will operate from 1 PM to 5 30 PM for all district employees and applicants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan County
Morgan County Health Department
Morgan County Board of Education
U. S Public Health Service
Alabama
S. O. Maner
Decatur
Huntsville
L. R. Murphree
U S Consulate Guarded After Beirut and Jerusalem Attacks
In Jerusalem the Palestine police placed a four man guard around the American consulate after the Beirut Lebanon bombing of the British consulate and American legation. Consul General Lowell C Pinkerton said he did not request the guard but accepted police advice for the temporary measure. A curfew was set by British authorities from 6 PM to 6 AM following the King David hotel bombing on June 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerusalem
Palestine
Beyrouth
Lebanon
Lowell C. Pinkerton
King David Hotel
Klansmen Tied to Threats Against Pan Am Employee
Gordon S. Henderson of the Air Transport Workers CIO said the Ku Klux Klan issued threats against Roosevelt Winfield a Pan American Airways employee and union steward. Winfield reported being stopped by three hooded men who warned him to halt union activity. CIO officials contacted the FBI and Miami police requested protection for Winfield and arranged a statement at the FBI office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Gordon S. Henderson
Air Transport Workers
CIO
Ku Klux Klan
Roosevelt Winfield
Pan American Airways
Winfield
Henderson
Georgia
FBI
Washington
Knit On Two Needles Mittens Pattern Offer
An ad promotes mittens knit on two needles with easy straight-piece instructions and color tips for children. It invites sending twenty cents for Pattern 579 from The Decatur Daily Needlecraft Dept at 82 Eighth Avenue New York NY, plus fifteen cents for a 1946 Needlecraft Catalog with 112 illustrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur Daily
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
New York
N. Y
Dulles Urges World Order Talks at Cambridge Meeting
Chairman John Foster Dulles told an international conference that the United States should abandon far flung bases and seek arms control to ease tensions. He urged national self examination and proposed extending international control to curb armaments. Dr Reinhold Niebuhr warned Protestant churches against joining a holy war on Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
England
John Foster Dulles
International Conference On World Order
Dulles
United Nations Assembly
United States
Russia
West
Contro
Reinhold Neibuhr
Union Theological Seminary
New York
Vatican
Georgia Farm Bureau aims nails to aid peanut growers
H L Wingate says 7 711 kegs of nails are delivering to private businesses in Georgia and plans to urge businessmen to supply nails to peanut growers to save the state’s 57 million dollar peanut crop from loss for curing racks. He notes World War I Coast Guard service had higher casualties than other branches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
H. L. Wingate
Georgia Farm Bureau Federation
Georgia
Wingate
Navy Department
Coast Guard
How to Have a Good Marriage Says Dorothy Dix
Dorothy Dix counsels bridal couples to work at marriage and avoid quitting. She urges spouses to accept each other as is, share goals, talk shop, grant liberty, use flattery, and watch their tongues to prevent divorce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy DIX
John
Mary
Mary Jane
Vider John
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B. M. Bloodworth
Business Women’s Circle
Miss Gasaway
Betty Ware Wyatt
Betty Jean Gasaway
Jack Thomason
Miss Wyatt
Miss Glasaway
Barbara Nichols
Little Rock
Ark
Jane Williams
Mt. Pleasant
Mimi Jones
Dorothy Fitzpatrick
Thomason
Cheri Chandler
Betty Simmons
Patsy Patterson
Marguerite South
Mary Jean Sittason
Anne Sue Cain
Masonic Temple
Caddell Drug CO
Moye
Goidel’s Drug Store
Chromium
Martin Green
Corinth
T. G. Morrow
Evelyn and
Ruth Lynn
Cullman
Gene Brown
Mrs. E. S. Morrow Jr
Atlanta, Ga
Bobby Lynne
Mrs. S. A. Lynne
Helen Bynum
Courtland
Ala
B. B. Turley
Red Boiling Springs, Tenn
Mrs. Wilburn Royer
Mr. Royer
Montgomery
James A. Gasoway
Betty
Jean Gasoway
John A. Thomason
Nancy Thomason
Birmingham
Teepson
T. R. Harrison Milling CO
W. Moulton
Hallmark
Greeting Cards
City Park Flower Shop
Melen Follett
Grace Downs
U.S
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mos Uite
CIA Ae
Sheffield Steel & Iron CO
Robinson Furniture CO
Bank St
Second Ave
Liberty National Life Ins Ty Ellie
Brown Service
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