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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1946
Page
7
Authorities search for two convict patients from Kilby prison who cut bars in the tuberculosis ward and fled early Monday. The men are identified as Robert Owen Narramore of Mobile County and Onké Hodge of Lauderdale, both serving Robbery sentences.
Four men were rescued unharmed after being stranded on a small island in the Chattohoochee River near Columbus Georgia. Brothers James and Archie Lee Autry endured 48 hours on the island, while James T. Clark and Louis Chaple also survived a capsize near shore. An Army unit from Fort Benning conducted the rescue using a breeches buoy from the riverbank about 150 yards away.
Crewmembers of a relief vessel to Greece staged picket duty after a protest aboard over a Negro chief steward. Protesting crewmen deny racial motive, saying the objection was personal. Captain Racquillat said the crew walked off and reported the incident to the Coast Guard, War Shipping Administration, and Isthmian Steamship Co.
Colors for tinting white exterior paint are ground in linseed oil to a thick paste. Cobalt blue, an oxide of cobalt metal, is the most expensive color on most artists palettes.
War Department notice outlines drawdown of Kentucky Reservoir on the Tennessee River if Cairo stage exceeds 35 feet. It states the reservoir may be lowered to elevation 346, leaving a nine foot channel with two feet overdepth at Kentucky Dam.
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