Glimpses of Decatur Community Life Weather and Notices
Fair and continued cold this afternoon and tonight with lows of 10-16 north and 16-20 south. Maximum 34, minimum 11. Local service notes Army discharge recipients Master Sergeant Rufus P. Ham and Tech Sgt Horace W. Lane with medal ribbons. Readers learn who returns home from service and who visits Decatur during holidays. Community events include Home Demonstration Club meeting at 1:30 pm Friday and the first ward school Christmas Pageant at 7 pm. Also reported are hospital admissions and births, plus local residents ill or visiting over the holidays. Continued on Page Two.
Sub-normal temperatures persist across vast regions
The Associated Press reports continuing sub-zero temperatures from the Canadian border to the Gulf and eastward. A new bulky cold air mass from Canada threatens further drops across the Midwest, Southeast, and central plains, with snowfall in parts of New England and the mid-Atlantic. Readings vary by city, with notably low values from Boston to Chicago and Birmingham to New Orleans.
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Associated Press
Gulf
Mississippi
New England
Middle Atlantic
Ohio Valley
South Carolina
Georgia
Middle Plains
Mercury
Canada
Dakotas
Minnesota
Montana
Canadian
Plains
Nashville
Memphis
Birmingham
New Orleans
Montgomery
Florida
Jacksonville
Miami
Boston
Maine
Augusta
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Washington
Minneapolis
Salt Lake City
Denver
Pacific Coast
Kansas
Atlantic Coast
Cold snap grips Dixie with freezing temps across states
Coldest winter spell yet lowers readings from eight above in Nashville to eleven above in Memphis. Sub freezing extends into Florida with 29 degrees in Cross City and 25 in Tallahassee. Jacksonville 31, Daytona Beach 39, Miami 56 as forecast calls for continued cold, with Louisiana and Georgia towns recording near to below freezing and warmer conditions expected inland from Lake Okeechobee tomorrow.
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Dixie
Erners
Nashville
Memphis
Florida
Cross City
Tallahassee
Jacksonville
Daytona Beach
Miami
Lake Okeechobee
West Palm
Atlanta
Montgomery
Ham
Chattanooga
Jackson
Oceans
Three Killed When Freight Slams into Southern Railway Fast Limited
A freight train collided with Southern Railway Piedmont Limited near White Sulphur, Georgia, killing three people including F. B. Means of Toccoa and two sailors. Eight others were injured and taken to Gainesville. The Piedmont Limited, en route from New Orleans to New York, stopped due to a signal light failure caused by an ice coated control line shorting wires.
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F. B. Means
Toccoa
Piedmont Limited
Southern Railway
Lula
White Sulphur
Washington
Piedmont
F. B
Means
Navy
Gainesville
Gulfport
Miss
Norfolk
New Orleans
New York
County $90,000 Short of War Bond Quota
Morgan county faces a $90,000 gap to reach the Series E war bond quota by December 29. Through early week investments total $2,618,432 toward an Alabama county goal of $2,041,000 statewide. locals urged to buy another bond, preferably $100, by year’s end to boost county and national wartime funding.
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Morgan
War Finance Committee
Morgan County
County War Finance Group
Alabama
Barrett Shelton
Welfare report highlights illness in financial need cases
The Montgomery report for December 20 indicates illness or disability accounts for more than a third of financial need cases. State Web Commissioner Loula Dunn reports the data.
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Montgomery
Loula Dunn
Man and Wife Killed in Alabama Gunfire Duel
In Pen City Alabama a man Morgan Gibson thirty four and his wife Irene Gibson thirty died after a shooting at a closed roadhouse seven miles from Atlanta Birmingham highway. Coroner H E Scott labeled it murder and self inflicted death after a gun duel with Deputy Sheriff I Z Patterson who fired six times wounding Gibson once. Irene Gibson was an official of a waitresses union at Anniston.
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Pen City
Ala
H. E. Scott
Scott
Morgan Gibson
Birmingham
Irene Gibson
Anniston
Atlanta-Birmingham
Gibson
I. Z. Patterson
Patterson
Gibsons
Yank Returns to England for Girl Engagement Ring Flight
Dominick Casciari, 22, ex paratrooper from New Canaan, arrives in Nottingham with an engagement ring, a wedding ring, stockings, and two U S tickets. He says he came by air from Boston to see Rita Blankley, 17, whose father Ferdinand Blankley had urged him to visit after the war. The father comments on the long journey and reception.
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Nottingham
England
Dominick Casciari
New Canaan
Ferdinand Blankley
Public Works
George C. Kittle Dies in Mobile Leader of Gladioli Cultivation
Funeral services were planned today for George C. Kittle who died on Tuesday in Mobile. He was credited with being a leader in introducing gladioli to the Gulf Coast.
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Geo, Kittle
Mobile
George C. Kittle
Gulf Coast
Boards Begin Crucial Test in Auto Labor Row
The CIO United Auto Workers rejected Ford's 12.4 percent wage offer as inadequate for rising living costs, listing four main objections including uneven raises and delayed implementation. President Truman's wage dispute boards, including GM hearings, prepared decisions on profits and prices while GM withheld book details to contest union claims of profits.
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Associated Press
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Ford Motor Company
Truman
General Motors
Lloyd K. Garrison
Congress to Rest Ending War Era Session
Washington Dec 20 The 79th Congress ends its session begun January 4 as it prepares to reconvene January 14 for its second-year. It ratified the UN charter and funded UNO activities while extending lend-lease and trade acts. Domestic moves include $62 billion appropriations, extending the draft, raising debt limits, and revising the G I Bill.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Truman
Capitol
Senate
White House
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
79Th Congress
United Nations
UNO
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Ttaw
Joint Pact For Navy Action Is Revealed
The Senate agreed to extend the joint congressional investigation of Pearl Harbor to February 15 with a House decision pending. Leader Barkley indicated the panel may seek another extension to complete its report. The move follows a British-American naval agreement signed December 6, 1941, about a potential U S attack on Truk if Japan entered war.
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Washington
Senate
Pearl Harbor
House
Barkley
Jan Waeseia
Hooves Tor
Fireman saves family by catching children from blazing window
Hoffmayer, returning home from work, rescues four leap to safety from a second story fire. He catches John Jr 4, Mary 2 Walter 5 and Mrs Doyle from the smoke and flames after directing them to drop to him. The children suffer only minor bruises while Mrs Doyle is shocked by the ordeal.
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Ray An Srtmayer
Hoffmayer
John Jr
Frances Yle
Hoffmay
Soviet, British, U.S. ministers press on at Moscow talks
Moscow reports say the foreign ministers of the Soviet Union Great Britain and the United States made steady progress in their fifth day of talks while signaling the likelihood of stretching beyond Christmas. Byrnes Bevin and Molotov held sessions as weather delays and tight security shielded the negotiations. Stalin who had returned from a 68 day vacation met with Byrnes and Bevin with Harriman noting the Generalissimo looked well and rested and had a fine tan.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Soviet Russia
Great Britain
United States
James F. Byrnes
Ernest Bevin
Berlin
London
Byrnes
Bevin
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
Stalin
U. S
W. Averell Harriman
Archibald Ey Kerr
Harriman
Electricity outage hits Decatur's South Side for hours
A main switch failure cut power to a South Decatur section for about two and a half hours around 5:30 last night. Line crews traced the short circuit and sectionalized the line, restoring part of the circuit soon after and the full service within the allotted time.
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Decatur
Quince Eddens
Sat
Trie
Inerrapton i
Authority is Weakened by Close of War
President Truman issued an order continuing until June 30, 1946 the authority of the Fair Employment Practices Committee to investigate and report on discriminations in private industry engaged in military or reconversion production. FEPC hearings are planned for February in the Midwest to assess discrimination in reconversion hiring as legislation moves through Congress.
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Truman
House
Senate
Congress
Armed Services
Washington
Fair Employment Practices Committee
Indust
FEPC
Midwest
Senate Labor Committee
House Rules Committee
Weather aid in Nip attack on Pearl Harbor day
Navy pilot Saburo Sakai says weather delayed Japanese takeoff by five hours, allowing planes to strike Clark Field on December 8, 1941. Grounded U S planes were fueling and three fourths destroyed. He notes no kill credited for a B 17 last seen near Lingayen Gulf.
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Tokyo
Philippines
Navy
Saburo Sakai
Japan
Clark Field
U. S
Sakai
Kelly
Haruna
Annual Meeting Set for January Twenty Second
The Decatur Community Chest board of directors set the annual membership date for January 22. At the meeting three new directors will be named and the board will later designate officers for 1946.
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Decatur Community Chest
Pigeons Lose in Court Over City Gas Death Law
Philadelphia in December 2002 saw Common Pleas Court Judge Joseph L Kun uphold a city ordinance that condemns disease infected pigeons to death by gas and declares feeding them a criminal offense, cementing the city action.
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Philadelphia
Common Pleas Court
Joseph L. Kun
Need This Man? Veteran Meredith Woodall Interviewing
A Veteran, Meredith Woodall, age 22, married, three years in the Coast Guard, boatswain's mate, is available for interview via the UK Employment Service. Phone 167 to arrange an interview. He served on deck duties and ship details. seeks work experience and references.
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Meredith Woodall
UK& Employment Service
Coast Guard
Chteks Wet Deel Exewien Commission
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Gscatur
Irlimale
Rufus P. Ham
Moulton Street
Richard F. Gouveai
Honolulu
Hawaii
K. H. Sneed
Mrs. W. E. Bean
Tech
Horace W. Lane
Arthur Howard Garnett
Naval Center
Charleston
S. C
A. H. Garnett
Seventh Avenue West
South Pacific
Richard Marlar
NROTC
Georgia Tech
Jack Draper
J. T. Bryant
Jack Bryant
J. T. Bryant Jr
Fla
Paul Bryant
Savannah
Austinville
Travis Hardwick
Canal Street
Decatur General Hospital
Brown
Paul McKenzie
Decatur General
Seventh Avenue East
Fred H. George
Hartselle
O. H. Reeves
James H. Crow, Jr
M. R. Olson
Mable Andrews
Grant Street
Ruby Walker
Third Avenue East
First Ward
Johnny Hampton
Ace
First Presbyterian Church
Mary Louise Garrett
Charles Malone
William G. Barker
Langley Field
Virginia
E. C. Barker
Frank Morgan
Decatur 1
Sam C. Alexander
Thomas Terrace
Ats
Lancy
Wba
Ken Reynolds
Deep South
LI Nadavane
Yank
Girl
Russell Brines
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