High winds sweep Dixie after deadly tornadoes
Strong winds and thunderstorms swept the South on Saturday extending from Texas to Louisiana and Georgia. Tornadoes killed 22 and injured more than 100 as debris and damage were reported in East Texas towns including Southview, Clawson, Nacogdoches, and Shilo Leon county near Palestine. The schooner Sardine issued a distress call near the Dry Tortugas as coastal storms worsened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Bayou Teche
Louisiana
St. Martinville
Middle West
Missouri
Gulf Coast
Sardine
Georgia
Sturre
Pacific Coast
Port Arthur
Laredo
Texarkana
Pinelad Foothis
East Texas
Southview
Palestine
Clawson
Lufkin
Nacogdoches
Life Underwriters Meet in Decatur With Crowder Talk
Col A C Crowder Jr Alabama state manager Prudent Life Insurance will speak at the Decatur Life Underwriters Association monthly meeting Friday at noon at Hotel Lyons. His topic is Life Situations. H K Deale veterans affairs chairman will announce life insurance matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Crowder Jr
Alabama
Prudential Life Insurance Company
Decatur Life Underwriters Association
Hotel Lyons
H.K. Deale
Veterans’ Affairs
Life Insurance
Award Made for Southern Authors Book of the Year
The Southern women's democratic organization in New York announced the 1945 Southern authors award to Josephine Pinckney of Charleston South Carolina for her book A One O'Clock Dinner. The prize honors the most distinguished book of the year by a Southern author on a Southern subject.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Women's
National Democratic Organization
Josephine Pinckney
Charleston
S.C
Papenburg Receives First 1946 Mercury From Local Firm
Decatur veteran Fred Papenburg receives the first 1946 Mercury from John White Motors in Morgan County. Papenburg, a staff sergeant, served in the Aleutians two and a half years and was discharged September 21, 1945. He had ordered the sedan after leaving the service and works now with Tennessee Valley Insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Papenburg
Decatur
John White
John White Motors Company
Morgan
County
White
Papenburg
National Guard
Camp Claibourne
Aleutians
Fires Cause Little Loss In Multiple Calls
Decatur fire department responded to several calls Saturday with minimal damage. Fire Chief Floyd Elkins said only the Danville Road home of Sidney Johnson sustained slight damage from a fire that burned a window shade and curtain. A trash fire at Flint’s tuberculosis sanitarium caused no loss, a grass fire on Fifth Avenue West caused no loss, and the William Auto Parts Co. blaze on East Moulton Street Friday afternoon, from a defective motor, was extinguished before any property loss occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Floyd Elkins
Sidney Johnson
Danville
Elkins
Flint
Fifth Avenue West
William Auto Parts Co
Moulton Street
Austinville High seniors pick Who's Who for 1945 46
The Senior Two class selected Who's Who members including Deane Nelson as most popular girl and Hillis Tucker as most popular boy. Other honors include best all around Eli Mapette Smith and Garland Hancock, prettiest Mary Kirkland, most handsome Bill Maner, funniest Maxine McGar and Edward Lott, and many more like Mina Dell Owens, Ben Roper Jr. and Margie Grizzard across categories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austinville High School
Deane Nelson
Hillis Tucker
Elimapette Smith
Garland Hancock
Mary Kirkland
Bill Maner
Maxine McGar
Edward Lott
Audra Stroup
Harvey Poole
Maer Carolyn Scruggs
Bobby Pearson
Mina Dell Owens
Gartland Beaswell
Margie Grizzard
Robert Whitman
Joye Narmore
Quartet to Sing in Decatur January 12 Evening
The Homeland Harmony quartet of Atlanta with Big Jim Waits will perform January 12 at 8 o clock in Riverside High School auditorium Decatur. Members are Waits Connor Hall Otis McCoy and James McCoy with Little House Sister as accompanist.
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Homeland -Harmony
Atlanta
Big Jim Waits
Decatur
Riverside High School
Waits
Connor Hall
Otis McCoy
James McCoy
Little ~Hovse
Teacher Certificates Likely Extended Through Next Year
Montgomery reports Dr. W Morrison McCall, head of teacher certification, says emergency certificates will continue into next year due to ongoing teacher shortages. He notes relief is only gradual as supply improves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
W. Morrison McCall
State Department of Education
Hendon Rites Set for Today at Friendship Church
Funeral services for Joseph Henry Hendon will be held at 1 PM at Friendship Church with Rev. Guy F. Ponder officiating. Burial follows in Friendship Cemetery. Brown directs. Hendon died Thursday at his home 1702 Fifth Avenue South after weather caused a shift from Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Henry Hendon
Friendship Church
Guy F. Ponder
Friendship Cemetery
Brown
Mr. Hendon
Fifth Avenue South
Three Negro men jailed for chicken theft in city court
John Henry Horton was fined 25 dollars and given 60 days hard labor for petty larceny in a theft of a coop of chickens from H R Hood grocery. Robert J Walton and Mary Randolph were also involved with the same robbery and pled to related charges. Horton and Walton allegedly admitted taking 16 chickens and tossing the chicken coop into the lake behind Cherry Street School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Henry
Horton
H. R. Summer
H. R. Hood
West Cherry Street
Washington Street
Robert J. Walton
Mary Randolph
Walton
J.o Whitmire
Cherry Street
Crew Walks Off Vessel Over Negro Chief Steward
Twenty crew members of the SS Frank H. Dodd walked off in Mobile protesting the sailing with chief steward William K. Vance. Captain Racouillat and Coast Guard officials investigated. the ship was to carry a UNRRA relief shipment to Greece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Ray
W. Racouillat
Frank H. Dodd
Racouillat
Coast Guard
War Shipping Administration
Isthmian Steamship Co
William K. Vance
New York City
Marine Cooks and Stewards
CIC
Vance
Dodd
Greece
UNRRA
Judge Boozer Makes All Day Campaign Stop in Morgan County
Judge Elbert Boozer of Anniston Calhoun County probate judge visited Morgan County for an all day campaign swing. He spoke with many residents about issues in the forthcoming gubernatorial race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elbert Boozer
Anniston
Calhoun County
Morgan County
Alabama
Jefferson Group Supports Chairman In Democratic Allocation
Jefferson county delegates to the Alabama state Democratic executive committee will back the chairman and support a Boswell amendment to the state constitution. The group favors allowing qualified Netro voters to participate in party primaries and seeks changes to voter registration requirements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Jefferson County
State
Democratic Executive Committee
IRN
Shrine Planned for Roosevelt White House at Warm Springs
Governor Ellis Arnall announced the Georgia legislature will be asked to provide funds to convert the late President Roosevelt's Little White House at Warm Springs into a national shrine. Experts from shrine projects nationwide will be consulted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
of Georgia
Roosevelt
Little White House At Warm Springs
Ellis Arnall
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J. H. Hendon
Judge Boozer
Wheeler Lake
Hartselle Mountain
Hartselle
John Isley
Sis
Printzess
Dion
Alfalfa and
Federal
Paul C. Davis
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