Red Shield Donor Drive Prompts Salvation Army Fund
Decatur area launches building fund drive for Salvation Army with Red Shield pins for donors. Campaign chaired by F. Smith targets at least 10 000 dollars to expand spiritual educational and character building programs. drive runs January 8 to 15 with donations urged from local businesses and churches.
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Salvation Army
Salvation Army Building Fund
New Guinea
Iceland
Chungking
Calcutta
Sydney
F. ©. Smith
Building Fund Campaign
Salvation. Army
Decatur
Smith
Decatur Daily
Strikes Prompt Mediation Talks and Possible Government Action
The AFL Central States Drivers Council rejected a Midwest operators offer on mileage and wages. A scuffle near a Western Electric plant led to arrests as pickets and supervisors clashed. The U S conciliation service held another meeting in Chicago with union and management to avert a nationwide meat strike, with possible government seizure as a last resort.
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U. S
Chicago
AFL
AFL Central States Drivers Council
Western Electric
Big Kearney, N. J
Washington
Edgar L. Warren
Federal Conciliation Service
Charles G. Ross
White House
Decatur Peanut Co Plans Remodeling of Old Fertilizer Building
Leroy Denz, contractor, announced remodeling of the old Tennessee Fertilizer Co op building at Ferry Street for $800. The Decatur Peanut Company, led by G E Mac Quin, will occupy the site. City Clerk Joe Pettey issued a permit for interior work and repairs, while Jack M Howell received a $250 permit for work at 1424 Sixth Avenue, involving interior and exterior renovations.
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Tennessee Fertilizer Co-op
Ferry Street
Leroy Denz
Decatur Peanut Company
G. E. MacQuin
Joe Pettey
Pettey
Jack.m. Howell
Sixth Avenue
Club Business Session Led by Mrs. O Smith
Mrs. O B Smith conducted a business session at the Business and Professional Women's club meeting in the clubroom last night. Mrs. E G Hamilton performed several piano selections. Refreshments were served by Miss Carrie Alexander and Miss Mildred Alexander during the social hour.
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O- B.smith
E. G. Hamilton
Carrie Alexander
Mildred Alexander
Pearl Harbor study questions Roosevelt aides and notes
Congressional hearings probe the Pearl Harbor attack. Stark and Gearhart clash over Hirohito policy and Hull’s 26 November note. Knox asserts misread warnings and initial surprise. The Roberts report vanished from archives amid battle-line testimony.
Japan's wartime diet backs Tojo led bloc in elections
The report notes the regent house of representatives with 466 seats, 38 elected under Pearl Harbor premier Hideki Tojo. Most members linked to totalitarian groups, signaling a campaign aligned with the war effort and possible cabinet involvement. Questions arise about overturning entrenched bureaucrats and preventing a rightist resurgence.
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Ners
Regent House of Representatives
Pearl Harbor
Hideki Tojo
House of “Representatives
Tojo
Pastor to conclude evangelism sermon series at First Methodist
At vesper hour on Sunday the pastor Dr. T. L. McDonald will conclude a series on evangelism. Short talks will follow by John H. Peach representing the laymen Mrs. Perry Orr WSCS and Miss Ann Blaw Garner the Youth Fellowship.
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T. L. McDonald
John H. Peach
Perry Orr
WSCS
Ann Blaw Garner
Brown Rites Held Today
Funeral services for John Clifton Brown 61 who died Thursday at his home Falkville were conducted by Rev D D Prince at 11 this morning at Blue Springs. Burial followed in adjoining Peck cemetery. Surviving are his wife six daughters Bernice Fore Ruby Tidwell Viola Roberts Hayes Chanley Pearl Brownen Annie Bradford three sons Leon Gilbert Brown John A Brown two sisters Naomi Russell Dora Wigginton four brothers Tillman Gilbert Will Jerry.
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John Clifton Brown
Falkville 2
D. D. Prince
Blue Springs
Peck
Bernice Fore
Ruby Tidwell
Viola Roberts
Hayes Chanley
Falkville
Pearl Brownen
Alexander City
Annie Bradford
Bay, Ark
Leon
Gilbert Brown
John A. Brown
Hartselle
Naomi Russell
Decatur
Dora Wigginton
Somerville
Tillman
Will Brown
Moulton
Jerry Brown
Harteelle
Morgan denies direct resignation but reports swirl of cables
Morgan faced questions about a UNRRA cable urging his resignation after remarks on the Jewish question. Washington sources claimed he resigned voluntarily, though Morgan disputed the interpretation, insisting his comments addressed local symptoms within a broader displaced person issue and stressed the need for a swift overall solution.
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Morgan
Washington
UNRRA
Teir
Jewish migration to Palestine said financed by Polish Zionist committee
New York Times dispatch reports Polish Jews at a Munich reception center describe a planned and funded exodus to Palestine. Lt Gen Morgan notes thousands of Polish Jews enter the U S zone under a plan to escape Europe. Migrants reveal an underground Poland based network with centers in Lodz and Katowice. false papers and cash are provided for the journey.
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New York
New York Times
Raymond Daniel
Munich
Palestine
Zionist Committee
Daniell
Frederick E. Morgan
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Germany
United States Zone of Occupation
Europe
Poland
Lodz
Katowice
Lena Henry Named to Limestone County Registrar Board
Mrs. Lena P. Henry of Athens has been named by Governor Sparks to the Limestone county board of registrars. She succeeds Mrs. Carl Martin who resigned, with a term expiring September 28, 1947.
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Montgomery
Ala
Lena P. Henry
Athens
Sparks
Limestone County Board of Registrars
Carl Martin
Detective Chief Paul Rapport Improves in Montgomery Hospital
Detective Chief Paul Rapport, aged 70, is reported to be improving at a Montgomery hospital where he remains for several days of rest as attendants note.
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Montgomery
Ala
Paul Rapport
Cotton Futures Drift on Quiet Market in New York
The New York cotton futures market opened dull with narrow price moves as details of the Commodity Credit Corporation offerings were awaited. Light mill buying spurred a rise to 35 cents a bale, but declines followed on local and New Orleans selling. late prices showed small gains with March at 24.58 and May at 24.58.
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N. Y
New York
Commodity Credit-Corporation
New Orleans
Nashville Livestock Market Report January Receipts Steady
Early receipts light with steady undertone across cattle. Canner and cutter cows 6.00-8.75. good beef cows up to 11.50. calves 9.00-17.00 with good vealers 14.50-17.00. Hogs steady with barrows 14.55 ceiling and sows 13.80. sheep nominally steady with good ewes and rams 13.00-14.00 and common lambs 7.00-10.50. Compared with last week, medium to choice dealers up about 50, receipts higher.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashvilee
Federal-State Market News Service
Birmingham official refunds War Labor Board expenses
E. E. Michals of Birmingham Alabama a substitute member of the fourth regional War Labor Board sent a 27.9 refund to the U S Treasury for per diem and expense allowances he did not incur He notes he did not claim all entitled funds and kept accurate records showing 102 41 received and 74 50 spent for the year Michaels heads the Birmingham plant of Chicago Bridge and Iron Company.
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Atlanta
E.E. Michals
Birmingham
Ala
Fourth Regional War Labor Board
U. S. Treasury
WLB
Fourth Regional Wage Stabilization Board
Former resident married December twenty first
Miss Virginia Mae Hiatt the daughter of Mr and Mrs Gordon Hiatt became the bride of William George Papenburg Jr U S Navy son of Mr and Mrs W G Papenburg former Decatur residents The ceremony was at Our Lady of Victory church in Compton California They will live at 1911 Old Government Street Mobile after January 23 The groom is Mobile native and grandson of Mrs Mary Papenburg
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Virginia Mae Hiatt
Gordon Hiatt
William George Papenburg
U. S. Navy
W. G. Papenburg
Decatur
Our Lady of Victory Church
Compton
Calif
Papenburg
Old Government Street
Mobile
Training site offered for air force schools in Montgomery
Brig. Gen. William W. Welsh proposed three air force training schools near Montgomery with 1250 officer students contingent on the city providing suitable housing. The plan, discussed in an interview with The Montgomery Advertiser, would involve the Maxwell Field Gunter Field complex with further details yet to be worked out.
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Montgomery
Ala
Air Force
William W. Welsh
Montgomery Advertiser
Maxwell Field
Gunter Field
Death Takes George Cloud Guntersville TVA Official
George T. Cloud 61 longtime TVA dam operations superintendent died at home in Guntersville Alabama after a short illness. A Polk County Tennessee native he led TVA operations since the 1939 dam construction. Survivors include his wife Effie Kincaid Cloud and six children across Tennessee and Alabama. Funeral arrangements not announced.
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Guntersville
Ala
George T. Cloud
TVA
Cloud
Polk County Tenn
Tennessee Electric Company
Wilson Dam
Alabama
Effie Kincaid Cloud
George L. Cloud
Chattarrooga
William T. Cloud
Tuscumbia
Katie Stonecipher
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Charles Richardson
B. T. Rogers
Troy
Hendon Rites Are Saturday
Funeral services for Joseph Henry Hendon will be held Saturday at 1 p m at the Friendship church near Danville. Burial follows at Friendship Cemetery in Brown directing. Pallbearers will be his grandsons J H Johnson J W Johnson Orville Shaneyfelt Virgil Shaneyfelt Horace Johnson and Harold Johnson. Surviving family includes his wife five daughters two sons one sister one half sister one half brother 27 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.
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Joseph Henry Hendon
Fifth Avenue
South
Guy F. Ponder
Friendship Church
Danville
Friendship Cemetery
Brown
J. H
J. W
Johnson
Navy
Orville
Virgil Shaneyfelt
Marines
Horace
Harold Johnson
Army
Officers of WSCS to Be Installed
Dr. G. M. Davenport will speak Sunday morning on Christianity Or Churchianity at Central Methodist. Sunday evening his sermon will be The Disciple Above His Master. At the close of the service the officers of WSCS will be installed.
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G. M. Davenport
Central Methodist
W. 5
Rites Planned for McAnally Infant
Funeral services for the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas McAnally Madison will be held at 2 o clock Saturday afternoon at Youngtown Lawrence county Burial will be made at Youngtown Howell directing Surviving are her parents three brothers and a number of other relatives.
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Thomas McAnally
Madison
Baugh Infirmary
Youngtown
Lawrence County
Howell Directing
400 New Voters Registered at Courthouse
The board of registrars registered 400 new voters from Oct 10 to Dec 17 at the courthouse, announced by chairman T. H. Gunn. The registrar’s office will be open at the courthouse Monday to register voters and will be in session starting Jan 21 for the next 10 days.
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Board of Registrars
T. H. Gunn
Cour
Butter supplies to drop in early 1946
Civilian butter supplies for January through March 1946 will be 30 million pounds leaner than in Q4 1945. The Agriculture Department allotted civilians 369 million pounds for the period, with a tentative 470 million pounds planned for April through June.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Alabama CIO PAC Chief Takes Active Role in Primary
The Alabama CIO Political Action Committee will participate in the year state democratic primary election. Carey O. Haigler of Birmingham CIO director in Alabama was elected PAC chairman Sunday and will supervise PAC activities in the state.
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Haigler Pac
Mobile
Alabama
CIO
Carey O. Haigler
Birmingham
PAC
Enrollment Up at Howard College Reaches 700
Birmingham January report shows Howard College enrollment at an all time high of 700 students with about one third veterans among the student body. Dean P. P. Burns notes the count is still climbing.
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Birmingham
Howard College
P. P. Burns
Funeral services for W. M. Houze in Memphis
Funeral services will be held at 3 30 p m Saturday at Brown's Chapel for W M Houze who died yesterday in Memphis Rev G M Davenport of the Central Methodist church will officiate Burial will be in the city cemetery He is survived by two brothers J A and G H Houze Birmingham four sisters Mrs W J Trotter Birmingham Mrs H T ter Fayetteville Tenn and Mrs E A Herbert and Miss Mary Houze both of Memphis Pallbearers are A C McKenna R M Moore R H Pettey Robert Sittason Fred Sittason and W A Britain The body arrives in Decatur at 245 o'clock Saturday afternoon
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W. M. Houze
Memphis
G. M. Davenport
Central Methodist Church
Brown's
City Cemetery
Brown
J. A
G. H. Houze
Birmingham
W. J. Trotter
H. T. Ter
Fayetteville
Tenn
Tenn, and Rs. E. A. Herbert
Mary Houze
A. C. McKenna
R.H. Pettey
Robert Sittason
Fred Sittason
Decatur
Testimony Targets Nazi High Command at Nuremberg Trial
Witnesses linked Himmler and Kaltenbrunner to mass deportations and camp horrors while Hitler’s last testament hinted at a rift with Himmler. Schellenberg and Blomberg testified to orders conflicting with Allied rescue efforts as prosecutors outlined the military leadership’s role in Nazi aggression.
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Blomberg
Alois Hoelbriegl
Mauthausen
Kaltenbrunner
Germany
Himmler
Fuehrer
Schelenberg
Fhésegerferaid
Taylor
Local War News and Community Notices From Decatur Area
Discharge notices and furlough updates for Marines Bill Freeman and Cpl John Sherrill. Red Cross secretary visiting Hartselle. Local patients in Baugh infirmary and Decatur General hospital. Furniture show trip to Chicago planned. Church events and choir meetings scheduled. Community members traveling, visiting, or receiving medical care in Decatur area.
Fall Fatal to Athens Resident Susie Beasley
Funeral services were held Sunday for Susie Shu make Beasley who died at her Athens home Friday after a fall. Interment was in Salem cemetery. Survived by son Ed Beasley Athens. daughters Mrs. Bob Thomas Athens Mrs. Evie Patterson Raszell and Mrs. Emma Jackson Lester.
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Susie Shumake Beasley
Athens
Salem Cemetery
Ed Beasley
Bob Thomas
Evie Patterson
Raszell
Emma Jackson
Lester
Reservations urged for Decatur Chamber dinner
Decatur Chamber of Commerce asks early reservations for the annual dinner on Thursday January 10 at Somerville Road School. The event starts at seven o'clock with C. W. Bailey of First National Bank Clarksville Tenn as principal speaker.
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Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Somerville Road School
C._W. Bailey
First National Bank of
Clarksville, Tenn
Youth Arrest Linked to June Slaying in Florence
Sheriff reports 22 year old Leroy Barrett of near Rodgersville charged with murder in the slaying of 60 year old farmer Frank Hammond near Anderson. Hammond died from a blow to the head after his June death, following an extensive state and Lauderdale county investigation.
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Florence
Ala
E. J. Fulmer
Leroy Barrett
Rogersville
Frank Hammond
Hammond
Anderson Ala
Fulmes
Lauderdale County
Haleyville
Bruce Hunter
Winston County
W. B. Little
Hunter
Little
C. O. Hunter
Wilburn W. Sowers Honored With Discharge Return
Pvt. Wilburn W. Sowers of Austinville returned home after three and a half years in service two overseas. He served in the Ardennes Rhineland and Central Europe and earned the World War II Victory Medal Good Conduct Medal American Service Medal and European African Middle Eastern Service Medal with three bronze stars.
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Pvt
Wilburn W. Sowers
Minnie Lou Sowers
F. E. Sowers
Austinville
Sowers
Two Negroes Arrested for Chicken Theft
Robert J. Walton and John Henry Horton were arrested by city police after allegedly stealing a coop of 16 chickens from the H. R. Hood grocery on Chi and Washington Street. They reportedly admitted tossing the coop into the lake behind the Cherry Street school and will be tried in city court this afternoon.
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Robert J. Walton
John Henry Horton
H. R. Hood
Alabama in the midst of influenza epidemic says health official
Alabama is in the midst of an influenza epidemic with many unrecorded cases, State Health Officer BF Austin said. He noted a considerable number have developed into pneumonia and that only 129 cases were reported statewide last week.
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Montgomery. Alg
Alabama
BF. Austin
Austin
Harvey Bates Dies in Atlanta After Illness
Harvey C Bates 56 longtime Southern field representative of the American Guernsey Cattle Club died at his Atlanta home after a long illness He was a native of Inverness Alabama and had lived in Atlanta many years His wife survives funeral services set for tomorrow afternoon
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Harvey Bates
Atlanta
Harvey C. Bates
American Guernsey Cattle Club
Inverness
Ala
Bates
Truman urges substantial action on labor and inflation
President Truman attacks stalled bills he says would strip labor of the right to bargain or strike and pushes for effective labor protections. He calls production the key to counter inflation and urges government use of powers to curb rising prices while noting Congress has done little on major measures including full employment unemployment insurance FEPC and raising the minimum wage.
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Senate
House
Truman
LFEPC
Rules Committee
Congress
Army and Navy dispute over Pacific shipping surplus
An Army reporter pressed for a reconciliation with a Navy remark about ample Pacific shipping. Patterson said the Army transportation corps is doing its utmost and he knows nothing of the Navy.
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Army
Navy
Pacific
Army Transportation Corps
Patterson
Banner Month for Alabama Retail Dealers in November
Alabama's retail dealers posted a strong November with sales 19 percent higher than November 1944 but 3 percent below October’s gross intake. Restaurants led gains at 20 percent, apparel stores up 14 percent, food stores 11 percent, and drug stores 8 percent.
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Birmingham
Alabama
U.s.bureau of Census
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