Walter Boyd Dies at Home in Stella Tennessee
Flora Boyd of Decatur Iron and Steel Company learns of her father Walter Boyd’s death at his Stella Tennessee home this morning after a long illness. Funeral services are set for 1 PM Wednesday in Stella. He is survived by his wife, son Harold, daughter Flora, and nephew Homer Stovall.
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Flora Boyd
Decatur Iron and Steel Company
Stella
Tenn
Walter Boyd
Harold Boyd
Decatur
Homer Stovall
British leaders cite Nazi plans to conquer Europe
The testimony traces steps from 1938 to 1940 showing German aims to destroy Britain’s air base and invade, including Hitler’s 1940 directive to eliminate the English homeland and the 1941 invasion of Russia, framing Nazi policy as seeks to overturn treaties and expand lebensraum. It notes Molotov’s Berlin visit and calls the Nazi leadership master race arrogance.
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Poland
England
France
Shanccross
Hitler
Munich
Europe
Germany
RAF
Shawcross
Russia
Soviet Russia
Molotov
Berlin
Evolution of Navy Air Power Backed by Balanced Fleet
The secretary stressed aviation as an integral Navy element and increasingly dominant, shaping an evolution in air power rather than a revolution. He insisted the carrier remain cutting edge but supported by a well balanced fleet.
Council Eyes Return of Building to Head of Governors
Only three council members attended Monday night Russell Speake Knox McRae and Jack Dillehay The meeting was adjourned until tonight and councilmen Rutledge Thomas and C E Poole were absent The action aims to restore the building to its previous status before it was used for the USO program
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USO
Russell Speake
Knox McRae
Jack Dillehay
Rutledge Thomas
C. E. Poole
Cotton futures rise to seasonal highs on aggressive buying
New York futures surged into fresh seasonal highs as commissions houses and mills pursued aggressive buying. March activity tied to France's cotton purchase, with gains of 85 cents a bale before profit taking cooled the advance. Spot prices remained well above government selling price and late session quotes were 30 to 60 cents higher with December at 24.65, March at 24.60, and May at 24.42.
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New York
Nashville Livestock Market News Report
Cattle receipts light with broad inquiry for fleshy steers. top yearling type steers around 15.00, other steers and heifers 10.00 to 14.00, cows 6.00 to 11.00, vealers 9.00 to 16.50. Hogs 50, steady. barrows 14.5 to 15.5 per cwt, sows 13.8. Sheep 75, steady. ewes 13.0 to 14.0, bucks 7.0 to 10.5, slaughter ewes 6.00 down.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Dees
Keitel outlines prewar war plans and Giraud case remarks
Keitel states Hitler ordered preparatory measures before the June 22 1941 invasion, calling it a preventive defensive war. He describes safe conduct for Gen. Giraud and claims no pressure on his family, while noting he did not partake in Hitler's strategic plans though aware of them. He also says the Wehrmacht High Command bore responsibility for POW camp care until August 1944, when Himmler took over.
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Keitel
Molotov
Hitler
Wehrmacht
Poland
Henri Giraud
Erwin Lahousen
Giraud
Fuehrer
Vichy
Gen. Giraud
France
Kettel
Alfred Jodl
Kkitel
Wehrmacht High Command
Germany
Home Army
Heinrich Himmler
Crusade on Vice Begun in Berlin Germany
Four occupying powers aided by German civilian police launch a drive against vice and delinquency in Berlin. Weekly about 2,500 Berlin women and girls are drawn into exams with half found diseased. compulsory treatment aims to cut that to about 25 percent. A senior American medical officer calls it the greatest morals problem in the world. He estimates 250,000 women of easy virtue in Berlin, with 60,000 professional or semi professional prostitutes.
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Berlin
Germany
Rhumaz Rheumatism Cure Praise Ad in Local Drugstore
An advertisement urges readers with rheumatism to try RHUMAZ, promising relief after daily use. It claims many customers have found relief and invites readers to visit their local druggist to purchase a vial and see happy faces.
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Tom
Slayer Is Put On The Stand In Murder Trial
San Francisco reports Mrs. Annie Irene Mansfeldt the society matron on trial for murdering nurse Vada Martin testified about a life shadowed by insanity. She recalled abuse by an insane sister and pressure from a physician to seek institutional care. Her children described her as dazed the morning of the killing. Defense claims husband Dr John Mansfeldt gave strong sedatives the eve of Martin's death, affecting her control the next day.
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San Francisco
Annie Irene Mansfeldt
John H. Mansfeldt
Vada Martin
Zurs. Martin
John
Terry
Irone
Mansfeldt
Pearl Harbor warnings and statements questioned by senators
Senator Lucas contends the Pearl Harbor anti sabotage alert was insufficient and questions future testimony from Gen. Walter Short and Gen. Leonard Gerow. He notes differences between messages to Short and to MacArthur in the Philippines on November 27, 1941, and compares Caribbean defenses with Pacific orders.
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Philippines
Pearl Harbor
Lucas
D-Ill
Walter C. Short
Army
Ilinois
Leonard T. Gerow
Sherman Miles
Rep
Gearhart
R-Cailf
Marshall
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Man not killed in moonshine death in Alabama
Solicitor J. A. Posey said Winston county grand jury declined to indict Charley Taylor a 60 year old farmer in the death of six year old Fletcher Lee Sellers. The jurors found the boy’s death was attributed to pneumonia induced by alcohol and not solely by the farmer’s actions.
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Double Springs
Ala
J. A. Posey
Winston County
Charley Taylor
C. O. Hunter
Fletcher Lee Sellers
Posey
Taylor
Hospital Death In Birmingham Described As Self Inflicted
William Davis aged 53 of Vincent Alabama died in a Birmingham hospital today. Coroner Joe Hildebrand ruled the death a self inflicted act brought on by despondency. Davis had been hospitalized ten weeks with a broken hip and was found early today with gauze tied around his neck to the bed head.
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Birmingham
William Davis
Vincent
Ala
Joe Hildebrand
Davis
President Is Given Quick Action Today
President Truman won swift action on his call for a new labor law as the House military committee began considering it within 24 hours. The plan aims to prevent major strikes until an impartial board reviews disputes, with debate over whether to compel acceptance of its recommendations. In other congressional business, questions arose about Hawaii’s attack preparedness, UNO participation, and a potential army navy merger, reflecting broader international and domestic concerns. Local veterans’ notices and discharges fill the page alongside moves to a new county health building.
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Max Hall
Washington
Truman
House Military Committee
Congress
House Committees
Andrew May
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Scott Lucas
Illinois
George C. Marshall
James Mead
N.Y
Senate
UNO
UNRRA
Europe
Senate Military Committee
William D. Leahy
OPA
Small Business Committee
Chester Bowles
Iran impasse deepens as Soviets reject withdrawal bid
Washington reports little hope for quick agreement on Iran and Red Army activity. Russia rejects U S plan for Allied troop withdrawal by January while Britain has not replied. Tehran sees prime minister Hakimi resigning if talks with the Soviet Union on Azerbaijan fail, paving way for a government of appeasement under Quavamus Sultaneh.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Russia
United States
Iran
Tehran
Hakimi
Soviet Union
Azerbaijan Province
Truman backs work stop yet CIO-UAW leaders resist
The final back-to-work decision was delivered to union members as a Saturday meeting was set to consider President Truman’s plea. R J Thomas Walter Reuther and George Addes told reporters they would not back workers returning to their jobs, with Thomas noting the proposal would be reviewed at the Saturday session without recommendation. No immediate comments came from General Motors president C E Wilson or U S Steel head Benjamin F Fairless, while CIO President Philip Murray also declined comment.
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R. J.thomas
Cio-Uaw
Walter P. Reuther
George Addes
Motor City
Thomas
General Motors
Benjamin F. Fairless
U. S Steel
CIO
Philip Murray
Steel Workers Union
Packing Plants Idle as CIO Union Launches Strike Action
A one day work stoppage in 12 Cudahy packing plants was ordered by Louis J. Clark head of the CIO United Packinghouse Workers Union. About 10,000 employees across the East Midwest West and South were expected to participate following last week's union vote in favor of a strike. A national strike conference was convened in Chicago to consider further action if needed.
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Associated Press
Cudahy and Co
Louis J. Clark
CIO United Packinghouse Workers Union
midWest
Clark
Chicago
Clothing drive chairman named for January effort
A pointed chairman will lead the upcoming clothing drive scheduled for January. A sizable quantity of garments was collected in a prior drive several months ago and distributed to Allied countries abroad.
Penicillin Pastilles Show Promise For Throat Infections
In 1944 penicillin pastilles were tested on soldiers with streptococcal throat infections in Italy. Ten pastilles daily sped recovery, reduced fever duration, and lowered recurrence. The approach also aided abscess patients and eased erythema nodosum, sometimes resolving skin rash in days. Copyright 1945 King Features Syndicate.
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Robinson
Navy testimony outlines route to Leyte for Indianapolis
Lieutenant Waldron, convoy routing officer at Guam, described the devised path from Guam to Leyte. The plan called for Indianapolis to follow a fixed longitude and latitude at 15 knots, arriving July 31, with zigzagging at the commander’s discretion. Submarine sightings and floating mines prompted a sharp lookout along the route.
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Joseph J. Waldron
Guam
Leyte
Germans to get more food soon
Lt. Gen Lucius C. Clay, American military governor for Germany, announced the United States will move enough food into Germany to assure an average ration of 1550 calories for everyone. He said hunger and starvation have never been the U S objective at a meeting of German officials in the American zone.
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Stuttgart
Germany
United States
Lucius C. Clay
Labor front roils as wage demands clash nationwide
Across the nation labor tensions ground on with 600000 idle workers as CIO and other unions dispute wage hikes and presidential outreach. In Detroit CIO UAW leaders oppose Truman’s plan to end the GM strike, leaving final decisions to strikers at a Saturday meeting. The National Maritime Union’s 24 hour walkout disrupts nearly all ports, while two smaller strikes end: Nickel company workers in Huntington and AFL machinists in Philadelphia gain wage increases and benefits.
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Detroit
Washington
CIO United Automobile Workers Union
Truman
General Motors
Mobile
Galveston
New Orleans
Houston
Gulf
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Pacific Coast
Curran
International Nickel Company
Hungtington
W. Va
Schwellenbach
AFL
J. E Lonergan Co
Philadelphia
Cracked Train Derailment Near Chatsworth Georgia
A Southland Louisville and Nashville passenger train derailed half a mile north of Chatsworth at 11 05 A M with only one slight injury reported an unidentified woman Ambulances rushed to the scene as the northbound train traveled about 50 miles an hour through a cut The engine and three Pullmans remained on the track Chatsworth sits 35 air miles from Chattanooga and 14 miles south of the Tennessee line
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Southland
Louisville & Nashville
Georgia
W. A. West
Rome
Dalton
Cincinnati
Chicago
Chatsworth
Chattanooga
Tenn
Tennessee
Sgt Letson Returns Home From Pacific Service
Sergeant Pruitt Letson of Rogersville arrives home from 18 months in the Pacific under the Army demobilization program. He earned the Bronze Star and Purple Heart after serving with the 34th Infantry at Leyte Luzon and Mindanao. He is married to Rosie Lee Letson and has three years in the Army.
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Larry Riddle
Army Air Force
Pacific
Buckley Field
Colo
Pruitt Letson
Rogersville
Japan
34Th
Leyte
Luzon
Mindanao
Letson
Shikoku
24Th
Walter Krueger
Sixth Army
Sgt. Letson
Bataan
Corregidor
Rosie Lee Letson
Beasley declares innocence in extortion case
Floyd Beasley a 225 pound ex serviceman pled not guilty to charges that he tried to extort 20000 dollars from Shelby county political leader County Commission Chairman E W Hale. Beasley told a Press star reporter he is absolutely innocent and has no idea how he was connected to the case.
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Memphis
Floyd Beasley
County Commission
E. W. Hale
Shelby County
Distribution and production costs split per purchase dollar
The breakdown shows fifty nine cents allocated to distribution and forty one cents to production for each dollar spent. This allocation highlights the relative cost structure affecting pricing and margins.
Fines Meted in Court Here
Prentiss Brown and William Slatten pleaded guilty Monday to violating prohibition law and were fined and costs each by Judge James Crow Jr. Slatten received 62 days of hard labor for nonpayment. Avid Fairbanks pleaded guilty to petty larceny and was fined 25 dollars plus costs. Jessie Burt was found not guilty on assault and battery. Robert Rogers was found not guilty of presenting a gun. Nine cases continued, 10 pressed, and two continued at the county court's opening.
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Prentiss Brown
William Slatten
James Crow Jr
Slatten
Avid Fairbanks
Jessie Burt
Artery
Robert Rogers
Crowes
Ben Britnell
State of Alabama
Nelson Brooks
Johnnie Griffin
Willie Russell
Wallace Sanderson
Edward Jones
James Southern
David Smith
Elmer Story
Arzie -Slatten
Dan ~Johnson
Louise Owens
Ollie Alvis
Coleman Gray
Jim Lawrence
L. D. Hobbs
Link Eldridge
Arzie Slaten
Sam McCrosky
City of
Decatur
Evelyn Roberson
State of
Alabama
Isaac Meeks
Emmett Russell
Ethel Ward
Henry E. Neal, Jr
Forbes Piano Co
Harris, Davis & Co
Robert Robinson
Minne Singleton
Newt Edmondson
J. M. Halbrooks
Harry WG. Walker
J. F. Stewart
L. C. Sandlin
J. R. Watkins Co
John H. Free
J R. Sandy
Howard Ledlow
Mary Ella Blackburn
John Blackburn
Citizens Industrial Bank
Edward F. Parks
J. R. Sandy
Ivan Sams
M. H. Jones
W. B. H. Jervis Foundry & Machine Co
Paul Collier
W. F. Green. Motors Inc
C. E. Maze Coal Co
Bertha Compton Lentz
Ed Harris
State National Bank
P. B. Matkin
National Surety Corporation
H. F. Harper
G. T. Childers
James P. Slaten
Liberty ship Henry Ward Beecher aids 541 troops
A seagoing tug and possibly other ships rushed from Bermuda to assist the Liberty ship Henry Ward Beecher carrying 541 homeward bound American troops after losing its propeller about 340 miles northeast of Bermuda. The Navy tug Restorer was en route within two hours of the distress call at 2:26 a.m. EST, officials said the vessel was not in serious danger.
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New York
Bermuda
Henry Ward Beecher
Third Naval District
Restorer
Doan’s Pills Help Tired Kidneys and Sleep
A vintage health notice explains kidneys contain 15 miles of tubules that purify blood. It warns daytime fatigue and nocturnal urged urination signal kidney or bladder issues and lists backache swelling and dizziness as symptoms. It promotes Doan’s Pills as a stimulant diuretic trusted for over 40 years.
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Doan
Atom power vs mind power promises from Tibet guru
Edwin J. Dingle, famed geographer, claims atom bomb power is far weaker than the human mind’s potential. He says mind power, awakened, rivals universal energy and can yield remarkable success, health, courage, and magnetism. Dingle cites Tibet teachings learned during travels and offers a free 9000 word treatise via the Institute of Mentalphysics in Los Angeles, urging prompt reply before the offer ends.
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Edwin J. Dingle
Tibet
Land of
Institute of Mentalphysics
Hobart Blvd
U-310
Los Angeles
Calif
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