Aging Bridegroom Weds Much Younger Bride in Florida
In Miami on July 6 an 84 year old retired building contractor, John S. Smith, will marry 23 year old Doris Akins, a Miami divorsee with two young daughters. The couple met seven weeks ago after a long acquaintance of Smith visiting Akins’ father, Andrew Taylor, who is ill. Akins divorced her first husband for desertion, now in the Army. The wedding is planned for Ft Lauderdale with a honeymoon to Virginia and Michigan.
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John S. Smith
Miami Beach
Doris Akins
Miami
Andrew Taylor
Taylor
Ft. Lauderdale
Virginia
Michigan
Decatur conducts first school census in four years
The Decatur school census began this week in all city districts and will run through July as part of a statewide program. Enumerators record every child age two to twenty including those who have finished or left school, and note residents within city limits as well as outlying county residents. The count also lists persons aged two to fifty who are crippled, blind, deaf, or near disabilities to aid rehabilitation funding for the next four years.
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Decatur
Scottsboro TVA Office Closed and Staff Moved
The Scottsboro TVA land division office has closed with personnel to be transferred to the Chattanooga office. E. W. Cowling Jr. had served as manager of the Scottsboro office.
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Scottsboro
TVA Land Division
Chattanooga
E. W. Cowling Jr
German Girls Find Problems Are Real
In a Hal Boyle column from Berlin a 23 year old middle class fraulein voices her worries about life in the occupied Reich. She outlines daily hardships from scarcity and rationing to romance and marriage prospects while expressing loyalty to German culture and hope for American understanding and future contact.
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Hal Boyle
Occupied
Reich
Berlin
Ito
States
Australia leads with arbitration courts for capital labor relations
Australia became the first nation to place capital and labor disputes under special arbitration courts. The move shapes how labor conflicts are resolved, signaling a new era of collective governance and labor relations.
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Australia
Peebles Released From Marine Duty
Marine Second Lt. Withers G. Peebles of Mooresville has been discharged after serving at Kwajalein atoll with Operations Crossroads. A Webbd school and University of Tennessee alum, he commissioned in 1945 and began overseas duty in July 1945. He plans to return to college after discharge.
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Kwajalein Atoll
Withers G. Peebles
Mooresville
Peebles
Tine-Stara' Keep! Stantings
Kwajalein
Bikini
Oy Army and Navy
W. G. Peebles
Mooresville, St
Bell Buckle
Tenn
University of Tennessee
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