Quiet Day in Jerusalem Amid War Tensions
John Roderick reports from Jerusalem on a paradoxical quiet day amid mortar fire and gunfire. At Arab Legion HQ soldiers rest in a sunlit mess hall while distant shells echo, and civilians move through a city scarred by conflict and religious reverence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Roderick
Associated Press
Middle East
China
Accredi
Jerusalem
St. Stephen’s Gate
Via Dolorosa
Arab Legion
States' rights Democrats push Thurmond Wright bid in Arkansas
Jackson Mississippi reports the national headquarters of the states rights democrats optimistic that Thurmond and Wright can win Arkansas electoral votes. Governor Laney warns the state may go Republican if electors aren’t pledged to the ticket. Campaign plans to run as independents if the September convention fails proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Miss
States’ Rights Democrats Today
J. Strom Thurmond
Fielding L. Wright
Arkansas
Ben Laney
Thurmond- Wright
Little Rock
1946 Campaign News Shifts on Truman Support
The piece notes how several Democrats pledge to back electors who would oppose Truman in the 1946 primary and that figures like Sparkman and Hill sit tight on national tickets. It cites southern lawmakers split on Truman’s Civil Rights stance and the risk of siding with or against him as observers recall 1928 defections. The passage ends recalling the Titanic disaster in April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Sparkman
Lajor Hill
D-Ala
Olin de Johnston
Byrd
Virginia
Georgia
Russell
Stennis
Mississippi
South
Pol
Dixie
Senate
House
Markets Nashville liveblock shows cattle hogs and poultry prices
In Nashville Tennessee on August 23 cattle 2 200 head steady with lighter weights weak. calves 450 head steady with good calves 26.50 31.00. hogs 800 head steady with good 190 240 lb barrows 29.50 30.00. in Atlanta Georgia North Georgia live poultry market steady with fryers 31 32 cents and 33 34 cents for New Hampshire Reds and Barred Rock Crosses 31.5 33 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
Federal State Departments of Agriculture
Atlanta
USDA
North
Georgia
New Hampshire
New York and Chicago Markets Report Mixed as Oils Pressure
Renewed selling in New Orleans and commission houses hits closing prices in New York cotton with futures 1.20 to 2.75 lower. Mills buy on the late decline. prices end near day lows. Wheat and oats weaken in Chicago. hogs steady to 50 cents lower. cattle generally steady.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
N. Y
New York
New Orleans
Truman Accused by Conner Of Betrayal For 30 Pieces Of Silver
Eugene Bull Conner Birmingham police commissioner told Decatur Rotarians that President Truman betrayed Southern Democrats for 30 pieces of silver citing communistic votes in the North and East. He walked out of the national Democratic convention after opposing Truman and an anti communist platform. He denied mistreating Sen. Glen Taylor and noted delegates from Missouri California and Minnesota he spoke with. Rotary President Frank Scroggins presented a traveling bag to Oscar Napps with thanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Truman
Eugene (Bull) Conner
Tony
Conner
Decatur
Truman
Birmingham
Sen
Glen Taylor
Henry Wallace
Taylor
Rotary Club
Philadelphia
Missouri
California
Minnesota
Frank Scroggins
Rotary
Oscar Napps
Floyd Eddin
E. R. Palmer
Ed Price
Bill Stewart
Hartselle
L. R. Hart
Athens
T. C. Almon
Leo Humphrey
E. W. McLeod
H. H. Hunter
Three Sailors Die in Guam Gas Farm Blast and Fire
A Guam Navy gasoline tank farm explosion and fire on Sunday left three sailors dead and a fourth missing. Casualties announced in Washington include Seaman Fondrey P. Hansen, Seaman Garfiled Utah, Chief Engineman David S. Moon, and Seaman William W. Foster. Spectators watched as flames raged for over five hours near Apra, Guam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guam
Navy
Washington
Fondrey P
Hansen
Garfield
Utah
David S. Moon
Portland
William W. Foster
Brooklyn
N. Y
Apra
Prin Town
Medical Rule For Operation For Pamela Lamphere
Six medical experts concluded Pamela Lamphere has a nine to one chance to survive the corrective surgery for her bladder outside the body. The court ordered the first operation within two months after Superior Judge Walter R. O Malley framed the case, with the mother now consenting and the father opposing as the divorce case proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Pamela Frances Lamphere
Walter R. O'Malley
Fred Lamphere
Irene
Lamphere
Pamela
Fuqua fined in city court for hit and run
Kirby Fuqua was fined 50 dollars in city court for leaving the scene of an accident after striking a parked car at 401 Ninth Avenue West Sunday. The struck vehicle belonged to Mrs. Lawrence Givens of Somerville Road and Fuqua admitted being in the car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kirby Fuqua
Ninth Avenue W
Lawrence Givens
Somerville Road
Fuqua
Frank Sandlin
Ed Carter
Carmen Taylor
Highway 31
J. T. Broadrick
Jack Jonesp
Givens
Second Street
Grant Harrison
Decatur 1
Edward Terry
10Th Avenue
Rites Planned for Pfc Clemons Killed in Leyte
The body of Pfc Walter M Clemons 22 will arrive in Decatur Thursday at 2 25 p m and be taken to his parents home in Somerville. Funeral services with full military honors will be held Friday at Shoal Creek church at 2 p m with Rev Dewey Crow officiating. Interment will follow at Shoal Creek cemetery. Surviving are his parents two sisters one half sister and two half brothers with several relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter M. Clemons
Leyte Island
Philippines
Decatur
J. W. Clemons
Somerville
Shoal Creek Church
Dewey Crow
Morgan County
American Legion
Shoal Creek
Brown
Pfc. Clemons
Decature
Pauline Blankenship
Louise Sparkman
Bertha Smith
Priceville
Henry Clemons
Lawrence County
Robert Clemons
Hartselle
Alabama liquor profits forecast drop for year
ABC Administrator Frank Bunkley forecast Alabama liquor profits will fall to between 1.5 and 1.75 million dollars this year. Through July sales totaled 25.86 million vs 27.43 million the prior year while net profits were 7.32 million vs 8.20 million. He cited higher operating costs and a 1.27 decrease in average sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Alabama
ABC
Frank Bunkley
Bunkley
ABC Board
Justice's Star Halfback Welcomes Five-Pound Son
Durham NC August 23 1944 A five pound son was born last night to Mr and Mrs Charlie Choo Choo Justice The father isUniversity of North Carolina star halfback Charles Ronald Justice born last night in Durham North Carolina with family announcing the birth in local notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durham
N. C
Charlie
Choo Choo) Justice
University of North Carolina
Charles Ronald Justice
Frank Waldrop Visited Decatur During Sunday Call
Frank Waldrop, noted Washington journalist, and Mrs Waldrop were guests of Mr and Mrs Foster Pointer and Mr and Mrs E B Garner in Decatur Sunday. Waldrop recently gained national publicity after being named a trustee of the Eleanor Patterson estate and now assists in operating the Times Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Waldrop
Washington
Waldrop
Decatur
Foster Pointer
E. B. Garner
Time Magazine
Washington Times-Herald
Eleanor Medill
Cissie) Patterson
The
Times-Herald
Limestone County
Nashville
Nashville ,Tennessean
New York
Patterson
Joe Patterson
New York Daily News
Col
Robert McCormack
Chicago Tribune
Enrollment to Set New Record in Fall
The Office of Education projects total enrollment near 32 million this fall with 22.797 million in grammar schools 6.27 million in high schools and 2.5 million in colleges. The gain includes 760 thousand more in grammar and high schools. Ex GIs make up about 45 percent of college students this year as non veterans replace roughly 100 thousand veterans leaving school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Education
Gl's
Secret hearings widen Soviet espionage probe in Washington
Testimony shows Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss at odds over an underground network. Additional witnesses are scheduled as the Senate committee probes espionage links and plans a confrontation in open session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Whittaker Chambers
Time Magazine
Washington
Alger Hiss
Hiss
State Department
Chambers
J. Parnell Thomas
R-Nj
Army
J. Peters
Red Unders
United States
Carl
George Crosley
Special
Senate
Earthquake damages Southeast Italy. hundreds homeless
An earthquake struck Southeast Italy with hundreds reported homeless. Monte Sant’Angelo near Bari faced 300 homeless after many houses collapsed, Ortanova roofs failed with two injuries. Taranto observatory marked the quake as third degree on the Mercalli scale and noted deep subsurface origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Italy
Montesantangelo
Bari
Ortanova
Apulia
Taranto
Trial Set For 12 Communists
Federal Judge Harold Medina fixes October 5 as the trial date for 12 top American communists charged with conspiracy to overthrow the government by force. Indicted figures include William Z. Foster and Eugene Dennis among others, with defense attorney Abraham Unger arguing the case is political.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harold R. Medina
Abraham Unger
Unger
U. S
John F. X. McGahey
Washington
Medina
William Z. Foster
Communist Party
Benjamin J. Davis
New York City
Eugene Dennis
John B. Williamson
Henry Winston
Jacob Strachel
John Gates
The
Daily Worker
Carl Winter
Michigan Communists Party
Gilbert Green
Chicago
Gus Hall
Ohio
Irving Potash
Robert G. Thompson
New York State
Survey for diversified trainee placements underway in city
Coordinator Thomas A. Orr leads a city wide survey of business and manufacturing establishments to assess trade and industrial education needs. High school juniors may enroll in D O courses by calling 148 W. seniors may take office practice. Evening classes in multiple occupations are offered free to adult workers, with courses organized where demand exists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas A. Orr
Mr. Orr
Trade and Industrial Education Department
Coast Guard rescues three women drifting at sea near Mokuola
Powlison and a Coast Guard auxiliary crew spotted two women struggling near the bow after a yacht or small craft drifted off course. The group recovers the women despite dangerous seas and mentions missed initial pickups and missing lifebelts left on shore. Mrs Akers called for help, reviving a crew member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Powlison
Mokuola
Coast Guard
Waikiki Basin
Dole
Riverfront plans spark debate on city development
The report explores industrial and recreational options along the river from Dry Creek to Flint Creek. It proposes eight sites for industrial use on the south bank and a modern harbor on Wheeler Lake’s north side. It also suggests a municipal neighborhood park from Joe Wheeler highway to Malone Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dry Creek
Flint Creek
Wheat Futures Plunge On Expected Record Crop
Chicago grain prices fall sharply as wheat drops 1 3 4 to 5 1 2 cents led by a corn and soybean slide. Traders cite a likely record corn crop creating autumn and winter surplus and driving futures to yearly lows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Board of Trade
Glimpses About Your Community and Mine
Cecil McCarver, a Gupton Jones College graduate, joined Brown's Funeral Home in Nashville and resides with Mr. and Mrs. McCarver at 441 E. Moulton. The column notes local visits, a hay wagon fire on Moulton Road, a grass fire near Joe Wilder farm, and a fish fry by Morgan County Sportsmen's Club. It lists arrests for vagrancy and other offenses, and mentions visits to Montgomery and Huntsville relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil McCarver
Gupton Jones College of Mortuary Science
Nashville
Brown's Funeral Home
Mrs. McCarver
E. Moulton
Moulton
Joe Wilder
Somerville Road
Morgan County Sportsmen's Club
Fred Roberson
Priceville
Red Williams
Photographer seized as Berlin street clashes flare at Potsdamer Platz
The incident occurred during renewed Soviet forays into the American sector near Potsdamer Platz. A photographer was dragged into the Russian sector after a clash with Russian soldiers as British and American police rope off the area. Western police and photographers faced raids while Molotov talks loomed and Berlin remained a tense no man s land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olympic Stadium
Erdmann
Potsdamer Platz
Koethener Street
Stumm
Berlin
Russia
V. M. Molotov
Headen
Potsdamer Square
Platz
U. S
Food Left to Tots By Olympic Team
London hospital patients eat donated U S Olympic team food items including orange juice sugar ham and beef from the American team food committee chairman Charles Ornstein. The handouts comprise dozens of cases and hundreds of pounds of provisions supplied after the Games.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Children's Hospital
London
Charles Ornstein
Marriages and deeds listed in Daily Records
Marriage notices show James Mitchell Blair to Faye Ethel Tanner in Falkville and other vows including Posey to Crow in Trinity and Clements to Emma Hardy in Vinemont. Deeds record transfers such as Cora Bean to Austin Shields for 800 dollars and City of Decatur to William White for 1011.17 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Mitchell Blair
Vinemont
Faye Ethel Tanner
Falkville
Robert Edward Posey
Danville
Ruby Gertrude Crow
Trinity
William Thomas Clements
Eighth Avenue E
Emma Roberta Hardy
Thomas Burns
Athens
Ida Elizabeth Burns
Albert Mullins
Hartselle
Artis Evelyn Childers
John William Brown
Decatur
Fana Mae Banks
Cora L. Bean
Austin Shields
City of
William L. White
John H. Day
Kermit W. Day
John W. Maynor
J. Y. Hamil
Morgan County Homes
Calumet and
Hecla Consolidated Copper Company
John W. Wyker
Buford Barns
Hector Davis
J. A. Moyers
Roy C. Griffin, Jr
Peace efforts face UN vote as Trumany backs refugees
Production offer alternate peace proposals are prepared for the United Nations General Assembly in Paris next month with President Trumany showing full support for relief refugees driven from Palestine. Truce observers report peace in most areas except Jerusalem while Ben-Gurion renews Arab outreach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holy Lands
United Nations General Assembly
Paris
Trumany
Palestine
U. N
Jerusalem
David Ben-Gurion
Last Rites for Mrs Richard Walker in Lawrence County
Last rites for Mrs Richard Walker were to be held at Center Church Lawrence County at 2 p.m. Reverend Dan Dutton officiated. Interment followed at the adjacent cemetery with Drinkard's Brown Service of Martselle in charge. The funeral cortege would depart Dansville at 1 30 p.m. Nephews to serve as pallbearers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Walker
Center Church
Lawrence County
Dan Dutton
Drinkard
Brown
Martselle
Danville 2
Babe Ruth Leaves 10 Percent to Kids Foundation
Ruth's will filed for probate provides for his widow Clara Mae Ruth and two adopted daughters Julia Ruth Flanders and Dorothy Ruth Sullivan. Ten percent of the residue goes to The Babe Ruth Foundation to aid the kids of America after Mrs Ruth's death, with rest split among the daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Babe Ruth
America
Ruth
Melvin G. Lowenstein
Memorial Hospital
Clara Mae Ruth
Julia Ruth Flanders
North Conway
N. Yu
Dorothy Ruth Sullivan
New York City
J. Paul Careyenstein
Mary H. Moberly
Baltimore, Md
Frank Delaney
Mary Reith
World Council Assembly Opens Across Europe Deliberations Continue
The World Council of Churches assembly begins in Amsterdam at the New Church cathedral with Russia not represented and observers from the Roman Catholic Church. Leaders including Dr Daniel Poling and Bishop Oxnam praise its unity and potential influence on politics and economics. John Foster Dulles, adviser to Thomas Dewey, will address the gathering tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cavert
World Council
Oxford
Edinburgh
Utrecht
Amsterdam
Holland
Russia
da Iel Alfred Poling
Christian Endavor Union
Constantine
World Council of Churches
Jesus Christ
G. Bromley Oxnam
New York
Assembly of
O. Frederick Nolde
Philadelphia
Commission of Churches On International Affairs
U.S.A
Great Britain
John Foster Dulles
Serene Church
Thomas E. Dewey
Assembly
Mrs Frances Jané McLemore Dies At Home
Funeral services for Mrs. Frances Jané McLemore 55 will be held this afternoon at Memorial Drive Methodist church with Rev. George Rice officiating. The cortege leaves her residence 605 Ninth Avenue W at 2 45 p.m. for the church. Burial will be in city cemetery. Mrs McLemore died at 130 Sunday after a short illness. She is survived by her husband J W McLemore. mother Mrs Walter F Free. two sons Coy Decatur and Wendell G Pensacola Fla. four sisters Mrs Mary Burden Miss Nettie Free Mrs Neattie Aston and Mrs Myrtle Minghamam all of Decatur. five brothers Free Landersville Pruittie Lois and Freeman Free of Decatur. Nephews will be pallbearers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Jané McLemore
Memorial Drive Methodist Church
George Rice
Walter F. Free
Coy
Decatur
Wendell G
Pensacola
Fla
Mary Burden
Moulton
Nettie Free
Anniston
Neattie Aston
Applesee
Tenn
Myrtle M Mingham
Free
Landersville
Pruittie
Lois
Freeman Free
Nieces Named to Arrangements for Funeral Flowers
The notice states Nieces were assigned to arrange flowers for a funeral, with responsibilities in charge of floral tributes and display.
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Zion Gate
Bull’ Conner Club
Terry
W. C. Hunter
C. M. Kennedy
Star
American Cancer Society
Lillian G. Meade
Society
Harold V. Milligan
Riverfront
Floyd Ferguson
Larry
Joe Campbell
Chattanooga
Martha Lyle Owens
W. Moulton
Decatur Clinic
A. E. Burdett
Moulton 3
Baugh and Wiley Clinic
Donnie Ozbolt
Ainslee Wyle
Pennsylvania
Carolyn Williams
Huntsville
Gail and
Martha Williams
Satchel Paige
Cleveland
Cleveland Indians
Satch
Paige
Carl Goerz
Goerz
Memphis
Ellen Curtis
Bill
Indians
Satchel
Penny
Elen
Ellen
Public Library
Chattanooga Lookouts
Memphis Red Sox
Alex Herman
Chattanooga’ Black Lookouts
Southern Association
Herman
Rangoon
Burma
Seoul
John J. Muccio
Kimpo
Orean
Muccio
Tokyo
MacArthur
Maj
Anthony Story
Shanghai
Yasutsugu Okamura
Okamura
McLemore
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