Peanut Yield At High Mark
Washington reports the 1946 peanut harvest from 12 major producing states totaling about 2.091 billion pounds with Georgia leading at 60.7 million dollars value and Alabama Florida and others contributing to a national crop valued around 187.9 million dollars. The Department of Agriculture notes higher production than 1945 and well above the 1935–44 average, with peanuts supporting oil, candy, livestock feed and other uses. Georgia tops state value at 60,731,820 dollars. overall yearly production shows millions in potential farm income across the Deep South.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Deep South
George Washington Carver
Tuskegee Institute
Department of Agriculture
Yugoslav Danube fleet dispute fuels U N tensions
The article reports U S and allies urging free Danube navigation while Yugoslav vessels in American occupied Danube area face disposition. Molotov objects citing the Danube canal, and Belgrade asks the U N for agenda inclusion on August 31. Yugoslav airmen released. Tito orders restraint on foreign planes. diplomacy signals restraint within Soviet sphere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations Security Council
United States
Specratey
Foreign Ministers Council
Paris
Danube
Soviet Russia
Black Sea
Balkan
Upper Danube
V. M. Molotov
Gasoline Fire Put Down In A Hurry
A Montgomery blaze threatening 150000 gallons of gasoline and cleaning fluid stores at Interstate Oil Co. tanks was quickly extinguished by local firemen. The explosion, likely from static electricity, sent a column of flame high after fuel was pumped from a railroad car. damage was confined to overflowed gasoline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Interstate Oil Company
W. B. Britton, Jr
Britton Orga
Gga
Markets Market Slows After Early Rise
Wall Street shows a tepid recovery with many leaders indifferent as the day closes. Transfers total about 750000 shares down from 1530000 the prior day. International Paper gains on newsprint price boosts while American Telephone rebounds modestly from a sharp Thursday drop. Chicago corn drops 7 to 13 cents, oats slide, and cotton ends higher by around 1.25 to 1.60 per bale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Eubank
New York
American Telephone
Joans
Chicago
Markets at a glance stock and commodity roundup
New York and Chicago notes show mixed stocks with some gains. Bonds rally on American Telephone 3s while cotton climbs on mill buying. corn oats hogs and cattle move with supply demand signals and prices set near daily highs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Narrow-American
Chicago
Nashville Livestock Market Report August Cattle and Hogs Prices
Nashville buyers saw steady to weak trends across cattle hogs and sheep. Cattle mainly medium and lower grade 14.00-18.00 for steers with top 20.00 rarely. cows 7.00-13.50. vealers 17.50-20.00. Hogs sold 15.00-22.50 with barrows and gilts mostly 50 lower. sows 18.00. Sheep steady with lambs 17.00-19.00 and ewes 5.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Federal
State Departments of Agriculture
Butter Market Briefs Chicago August Report
Butter firm with receipts of 366,963 at 93 score AA and others unchanged. Eggs steady with 6,681 receipts and U S extras No 1 and 2 at 42 to 46.5 cents. others unchanged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U. S
Chicago Wheat and Corn Prices Report
Chicago market notes list wheat prices for various grades with No 2 red at 2.03 and No 1 mixed at 2.03, corn No 1 yellow at 1.98, oats No 1 heavy white at 0.81, and barley trading around 1.53 to 0.78 nominal with feed at 1.16 to 1.38. Market figures reflect early trading levels for standard grades and samples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Protests Over Shirley Temple Drinking Scene in Film
Mrs D Leigh Colvin of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union urged RKO Pictures to cut a scene in the unreleased film The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer showing Shirley Temple taking a drink. She warned the scene would mislead youth and that Temple, a teen idol, should set a better example.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
D. Leigh Colvin
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc
Shirley Temple
July Police Report Before Auditor
City police court fines and forfeitures for July total 8397 as recorded by City Auditor D. D. Burleson. Cash paid to the city clerk was 8082.50. Fines 72.75. appeals 200. escapes eight at 208. jail takings three at 151.50. fines remitted 50.
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D. D. Burleson
India to announce interim government amid independence drive
Aug 23 New Delhi reports an interim government to steer India toward independence after centuries of British rule. Jawahar Lal Nehru submitted a slate of officers for viceroy approval in London. Calcutta endures sectarian violence with hundreds dead and cholera reported as curfew and military controls persist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Delhi
India
Lord Wavell
Congress Party
Jawaharlal Nehru
London
Calcutta
Pilot recounts crash landing after Yugoslav air encounter
Crombie and five crew aboard a transport plane were attacked by Yugoslav fighters near Ljubljana after fog and instrument flying over Austria and Yugoslavia. The Turkish captain was wounded and the group crash landed 15 miles northwest of Ljubljana. They survived with minor injuries and were later moved to American lines near Gorizia for food and coffee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Yugoslavia
Vienna
Graz
Glagenfurt
Travisio
Udine
Klagenfurt
Dine
Nirot
Bill McNew
Atlanta
Liubliana
Uhine
Ljubljana
Yuroslav
Crombie
UNRRA
U. S
Gorizia
Trieste
Town Creek Driver Sought in Jeffreys Hit and Run Death
Highway Patrol continues inquiry into the hit and run killing of Clyde S. Jeffreys a Town Creek merchant and cattle buyer. No arrests by noon today as Moulton sheriff's deputies aid the search for the car's driver near the incident site about a mile and a half north of Town Creek Tuesday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highway Patrol
Clyde S. Jeffreys
Town Creek
Moulton
Jeffreys
Jesus and Pure Living By Newman Campbell
A devotional on purity drawn from Genesis to Philippians. It urges loyalty and responsibility, child instruction in virtue, and treating the body as a temple of God. It reflects on purity, temptation, and the Memory Verse from Philippians urging pure thoughts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newman Campbell
Jesus
God
Man
God's Temple
St. Paul
Corinth
Early Church
Ephesians
Paul
Vatures Syndicate, Inc
Bluhm Acquitted By Military Court In England Case
Bad Nauheim Germany August 23 Sixteen Maj Herbert W Bluhm Chicago was acquitted by a military court of charges he aided authorized and knowingly permitted cruel and unusual punishment of American prisoners in the U S Army guard house at Lichfield England The eight officer panel ruled the evidence insufficient to prove guilt and did not require a defense from Bluhm
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Bad Nauheim
Germany
Herbert W. Bluhm
Chicago
U. S. Army
Lichfield
England
Litchfield
La Guardia Declines Senate Run After War Crises
In Warsaw Gen Joseph T McNarkey denies UNRRA chief La Guardia claim that U S military blocked work La Guardia accepts plea of not guilty but warns do it again He plans to visit Silesia and says he is out of politics until he decides to reenter.
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Warsaw
Joseph T. McNarkey
UNRRA
F. H. la
Taxi Drivers Back on Mobile Streets
Normal taxi service resumed in Mobile as about 50 cabs from Star Taxi Co and Dixie Taxi Service returned to work following a work stoppage begun Aug. 12 in protest of a city ordinance banning downtown cabstands. The drivers would accept a plan to reinstate a former parking plan allowing 20 percent of downtown spaces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Star Taxi Co
Dixie Taxi Service, Inc
Man Free After Three Hours Trapped in Hole
Elbert Smith Jr. fell into a seven foot deep valve hole at Logan water works while repairing a valve. He stood on his head for three hours before firemen freed him. He stayed calm as rescuers broke through a concrete wall to retrieve him.
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Logan
W. Va
Elbert Smith Jr
Smith
Death takes Mr Cantrell in Hillsboro community
Funeral services for Joseph Harvey Cantrell who died at his home Thursday morning will be held Saturday at 2 pm at his home in Hillsboro 3. Vernon Ricks and Dan Praytor will conduct the service. He leaves a wife two daughters Mrs Porter Kimbrel and Ossie Cantrell five sons Ervin Cantrell Hollis Cantrell Raymond Calvin and Grady Cantrell ten grandchildren and one great grandchild. Pallbearers are L A Sparks John Lile Paul Horton Edmund Sims Casey Holland and Ray McCurry. Burial in city cemetery Brown Funeral directing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Harvey Cantrell
Hillsboro 3
Vernon Ricks
Dan Praytor
Mr. Cantrell
Porter Kimbrel
Town 3
Ossie Cantrell
Ervin Cantrell
Tuscumbia
Hollis Cantrell
Mr. Hope
Raymond
Calvin
Grady Cantrell
L. A
Wit and wisdom from a village scene and quotes
A protean collection of humorous lines and maxims, from family quarrels to social quips. The dialogue shifts between a nephew in Africa, two salesmen at a village hotel, and aphorisms on success, love, and life.
Witty quips and social quagmires in a comic page
A collage of humorous quips on marriage finances snoring politeness and social pretensions. Jests about mortgages hunger of moths and a dogged search for discretion punctuate a county paper humor page featuring exchanges between neighbors and mock dialogues.
Marriage Licenses Listed for Huntsville Area Couples
A list of marriage licenses issued for pairs including Horace Winford Spence of Athens and Doris Montell King of Decatur. Mitchell David Dobbs Jr of Hartselle and Dorothy Ellen Orr of Hartselle. Lester Brent Kird of Clarksville West Virginia and Mayme Ethel Spencer of Scottsville. Euel Ernest Thompson Jr of Decatur and Sarah Elizabeth Shelton of Trinity. Howard Charles Keel of Hartselle and Birtig Lee Bracken of Hartselle. William Anderson Craft of Decatur and Purlein Jones of Decatur. Jimmy Davis of Vinemont and Verla Collum of Vinemont. John Sam Draper of Hartselle and Mildred Faye Parker of Somerville.
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Horace Winford Spence
Athens
Doris Montell King
Decatur
William Porter Smart
Martha Fay Neville
Trinity
Mitchell David Dobbs Jr
Hartselle
Dorothy Ellen Orr
Lester Brent Kird
Clarksville
W. Va
Mayme Ethel Spencer
Scottsville
Euel Ernest Thompson Jr
Sarah Elizabeth Shelton
Howard Charles Keel
Birtig
Lee Bracken
William Anderson Craft
Purlein Jones
Jimmy Davis
Vinemont
Verla Collum
John Sam Draper
Mildred Faye Parker
Somerville
Local notices and social updates from Decatur and area
Arthur Wilbank and John Phillips visit Decatur while Silas Ryan and J C Hassell take vacations. Dr Foster Gamble to preach at Memorial Drive and Union Grove revival to open with Pastor George Rice. Local court notes record disorderly conduct bonds forfeited and drunkenness fines. W T Hamilton and the Lynnes plan upcoming travels and vacations.
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Foster Gamble
Memorial Drive
Union Grove
George Rice
W. C. Hamby
Betty Parker
Alabama county school funds totals and cuts listed
The document lists county by county government totals for city schools with large amounts in Montgomery and Mobile counties and statewide figures. It then details decreases for numerous counties including Jefferson, Mobile, Shelby, and Madison among others, with amounts ranging from hundreds to tens of thousands.
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Butler
Calhoun
Chambers
Chilton
Choctaw
Clarke
Colbert
Conécuh
Crenshaw
Dale
Dallas
Elmore
Escambia
Etowah
Fayette
Greene
Hale
Houston
Jefferson
Lauderdale
Lee
Limestone
Lowndes
Macon
Madison
Marengo
Marshall
Mobile
Monroe
Montgomery
Morgan
Perry
Pike
Russell
Shelby
Sumter
Talladega
Tallapoosa
Tuscaloosa
Washington
Wilcox
Biblee
Blount
Chrokee
Clay
Cleburne
Coffee
Coosa
Covington
Cullman
DeKalb
Franklin
Geneva
Henry
Jackson
Lamar
Lawrence
Marion
Pickens
Randolph
St. Clair
Walker
Winston
State Club President Visited Decatur Picnic Event
Mrs Lillie Maud Alexander state president of the Business and Professional Women's club attended the Decatur club picnic at Mrs J F Levin home Thursday night Also present were Mrs Sallie Drake Huntsville state corresponding secretary Mrs A E Houk Birmingham state finance chairman Mrs Frank Grace and Miss Carolyn Henderson Huntsville and Mrs Corrine Griffin and Mrs H N Peurifoy and Miss Carolyn Peurifoy of Decatur A business meeting was led by president Miss Winifred Sentiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillie Maud Alexander
Business and Professional Women's Club
Decatur Club
J. F. Levin
Sallie Drake
Huntsville
A. E. Houk
Birmingham
Frank Grace
Carolyn Henderson
Corrine Griffin
H. N. Peurifoy
Carolyn Peurifoy
Decatur
Winifred Sentiff
Two Suits Filed by Alabama OPA in Birmingham
The Office of Price Administration filed two lawsuits in U S District Court seeking injunctions against Anniston auto firms for overcharges on car sales. One suit targets C. J. Alford doing business as Alabama Motor Co for 25 sales above ceiling prices and seeks 26785 dollars in damages. The other targets N G Alford and C J Alford doing business as N G Alford and Co for six over ceiling price sales and seeks 7164 dollars in damages. Both suits demand injunctions to curb further overcharges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Office of Price Administration
U. S. District Court
Anniston
Ala
C. J. Alford
The
Alabama Motor Co
N. G. Alford
N. G. Alford and Co
Income Tax Probe in High Gear in Alabama
In Birmingham on August 23 the U S District Attorney John B Hill announced a statewide probe into income tax evasion and fraud. Indictments would be sought for confirmed fraud while other fraudulent activities including government property theft and false returns are also under investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
U. S
John B. Hill
Hill
President Truman Faces Democratic Split Over Budget Cuts
President Truman, amid a budget revision battle, clashes with four Democratic lawmakers over a $300 million cut in flood control and harbor projects for 1947 and 1948. The quartet urged a New Orleans protest on September 20 and invited Republicans to join. They condemn the move as unwarranted power and a defiance of Congress.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
New Orleans
Senate
McKellar
Tenn
Overton
Senate Commerce Committee
Mansfield
Texas
House Rivers and Harbors Committee
Whittington
Dmiss
House Flood Control Committee
Decatur Mayor H R Summer Praises Postwar Plans
Mayor H R Summer told Kiwanis club members decatur's postwar plans hinge on citizen involvement. He outlined city council progress, street paving, hospital projects, and prospects for federal airport funding, urging residents that the town is theirs to shape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R. Summer
Decatur
Boys and Girls
M. FE. Edwards
Kiwanis Club
Hotel Lyons
Marvin R. Rankin
Mrs Laura Allen passes at home
Funeral services for Mrs. Laura Allen of Courtland 1 will be held at 2 30 this afternoon at Old Bethel church conducted by Dee Montgomery. She died at 10 am Thursday at her home aged 73. Survived by husband O L Allen two sons Harrison Allen and George Allen one daughter Mittie Ray three sisters Sallie Nolan Carrie Nolan Viola Warren and brother Eddie Demasters. Burial in Old Bethel cemetery. Brown directs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura Allen
Courtland
Old Bethel Church
Dee Montgomery
Viola Warren
Eddie Demasters
Old Bethel Cemetery
Brown Directing
Rites Set for Mrs Vest in Hartselle
Final rites for Mrs. Alice Vest of Hartselle will be held at 10:30 Saturday at Bethune Church with Rev. Frank T. Smith officiating. The 63 year old died Wednesday night at her home and pallbearers include Buster Stroup Will Pope F J Jarrett Charlie Richard William Robert McCutcheon and Horace Roberts. Burial will follow in the adjoining Peck Cemetery.
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Alice Vest
Hartselle
Frank T. Smith
Bethe
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