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Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jan 08, 1950

Page

5

Atlanta Social Notes Highlight Local Visits and Travel

In Atlanta Mrs. W R Major hosted a card Friday afternoon. Mrs. R P Johnson and son Rich ard and Mrs. Finis Morgan returned from a visit with relatives in Knoxville Tennessee. Byron Hobbs leaves Tuesday for Pensacola Florida after a month with Mr. and Mrs. D C Fuller. Joyce Griffin of Birmingham will spend the weekend with her mother Mrs Ruth Griffin. Mr and Mrs Jesse Mayor enjoy time in Florida. Dr and Mrs Leroy Bledsoe and guests Mr and Mrs Lawrence Keith of Newman Go stayed at their cottage in Guntersville. Mr and Mrs T E Tiftin and children returned from Memphis with relatives. Mrs Marion Robertson of Bingham visited sister Mrs Wm R Griffin this week. Miss Ruth Fuller goes to Birmingham. India growth rate noted at about 3 000 000 per year.

Atlanta W. R. Major R. P. Johnson Richard Finis Morgan Knoxville Tenn Byron Hobbs Pennsacola Fla D. C. Fuller Joyce Griffin Birmingham Ruth Griffin Jesse Florida Leroy Bledsoe Lawrence Keith Newman Guntersville T. E. Tiftin Memphis Marion Robertson Bingham Wm. R. Griffin Ruth -Fuller

Odd Triangle In The Long Night At Capitol

An unusual romantic triangle drives The Long Night at the Capitol today starring Henry Fonda Barbara Bel Geddes Vincent Price and Ann Dvorak. The RKO release blends romance murder and turmoil with a tenement siege and a hero defying arrest to protect his beloved.

Ann Dorvar Henry Fonda Barbara Bel Geddes Vincent Price Capitol Barbara Bél Geddes Ann Dvorak Barbara ‘Bel Geddes Robert Raymond Hakim Anatole Litvak John Wexley

Rats blamed for two billion dollar annual damage

The text notes rats cause about 2 billion dollars in annual damage in the country with roughly half of that affecting food supplies they consume.

Alias Nick Beal to Arrive at Princess Theatre Next Tuesday

Paramount drama Alias Nick Beal stars Ray Milland Audrey Totter and Thomas Mitchell with George Macready Fred Clark and others. Screenplay by Jonathan Latimer promises spine tingling phenomena as Milland the devil incarnate plots against a reforming district attorney and yields suspenseful entertainment.

Ray Milland Paramount Nick Beal Princess Theatre Audrey Totter Thomas Mitchell George Macready Fred Clark Geraldine Wall Darryl Hickman Nestor Paiva Henry O'Neill Jonathan Latimer Mindret Lord Milland Mitchell Miss Totter

Force of Evil offers a dramatic look at the numbers racket

The film Force of Evil opens at the Princess Theatre with John Garfield leading a strong cast in a story based on Ira Wolfert’s Tucker's People. Set in 1930s New York, the drama follows two brothers amid a racketeering empire as they face a climactic fixed number game.

Princess Beatrice Pearson John Garfield Princess Theatre Miss Pearson Tucker People Ira Wolfert New York City Garfield Numbers Thomas Gomez Jay

Fighting Man Of The Plains: Nat Holt western at Princess

Randolph Scott stars as Jim Dancer a guerrilla peace officer in Fighting Man Of The Plains a Nat Holt Cinecolor production set in Lanyard Kansas a composite town based on Abilene and Dodge City Directors built a fifty acre western street in the San Fernando Valley and staged 750 beef cattle on the main street Victor Jory Jane Nigh and Joan Taylor co star in the cast

Randolph Scott Nat Holt Twentieth Century -Fox Lovely Jane Night Princess Theatre Lanyard Kansas Abilene Dodge City Prairies Edwin L. Marin San Fernando Valley Victor Jory Jane Nigh Apear Joan Taylor

The Sainted Sisters at Capitol Theatre

Veronica Lake and Joan Caulfield star in Paramounts The Sainted Sisters a romantic comedy about two unsaintly dames who swindle a rich mark flee to Canada and end up in Grove Falls where Barry Fitzgerald teaches them humor and humility while William Demarest George Reeves and Beulah Bondi support the cast in a tale of mistaken virtue and comic reversal set in a small New England town.

Paramount Capitol Theatre William Demarest Veronica Lake Barry Fitzgerald Joan Caulfield George Reeves Hollywood Sisters Vera Joan Miss Lake Fitzgerald Canada New York New England Grove Falls Beulah Bondi William D. Russell Mindret Lord

Cullman to Host Our Schoos Council Meeting Saturday

A county wide Our Schoos Council gathering is set for Saturday January 14 at Cullman High School Auditorium. Dr E B Norton president of Florence State Teachers College will speak L W Yates will preside R E Moore will outline the council’s aims and several executive board members will discuss. The group includes about 240 representatives from Cullman County organizations aiming to study educational conditions share information and boost cooperative school programs.

National Guard building near convict camp almost ready

Captain Glenn R. Reid, commander of the Cullman National Guard unit, reports the Motor transport pool building near the convict camp grounds is nearly finished. Three large doors from war surplus will arrive in a few days to complete the brick structure.

Cullman National Guard Company.1 167Th Infantry North Cullman Glenn R. Reid

New Quarters for Cullman Electric Co-op Grand Opening

The Cullman Electric Cooperative opens its new West Side office and plant on Saturday January 14 with TVA officials attending. Visitors will tour all departments and view a first of its kind water pumped air conditioning unit. The co-op serves about 10,000 members. W. T. Clemons is president.

Electric Co-Op Cullman Electric Co-op Claude Wood TVA Cullman

Henry Oden laid to rest in veterans funeral

Funeral services for Henry Oliver Oden 76 a Spanish American War veteran were held at Lawrence Cove at 2 p.m. January 6. He died at his home on Eva January 5. The services were led by Rev. Horace Chambers.

Henry Oden Henry Oliver Oden Lawrence Cove Horace Chambers

Mrs Verdie Sue Duke Buried In Cullman Funeral Rites

Mrs Verdie Sue Duke 43 died January 5 after illness at Cullman Hospital. Funeral services January 6 at 2 p.m. from Fairview Methodist Church with Rev P A Green Rev Gus Guthram and Rev T E Bright officiating. Interment in church cemetery. She was born November 7 1906 in Cullman County. Surviving husband Buffalo L Duke one son Michael Vann Duke five brothers and seven sisters. Wm R Griffin noted in personals.

Verdie Sue Duke Cullman Hospital Fairvietvy Methodist Church P. A. Green Gus Guthram T. E. Bright Church Cemetery Cullman Conn Buffalo L. Duke Michael Vann Duke W.C Ernest Ed Pruitt Ilah Akins Elmer Dye Wilbur Brock Carrie Mae Randolph Wynell Walker Edna Davis Estell Baggett

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