Weather and local notices from Decatur area
Partly cloudy outlook with afternoon thunder showers. highs near 88 and lows around 71. Local residents receive Navy discharges at New Orleans center. several veterans listed by name and home towns. Community events include church services, Legion convention travel, and upcoming local sing at Decatur’s 16th Avenue Church of God.
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Robert Lewis Starr
Decatur
Navy
New Orleans
James Edward Hamilton
Third Avenue South
16Th Avenue Church of God
Rent Control Plan Pushed In Alabama
Montgomery July 8 Machinery is being set up for Gov. Sparks rent control plan to replace OPA regulation. State Rent Administrator Charles M. Cooper said Alabama will maintain an organization to regulate rentals even if Congress does not act. Local mediation boards are forming to arbitrate landlord tenant disputes to avoid litigation.
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Montgomery
Ala
Cey Sparks
Charles M. Cooper
Congress
Cooper
Alabama
Sparks
OPA
W. T. Fields Dies at Daughter's Home
W T Fields former Decatur resident dies at his daughter Mrs Horace Allfrey home near Athens at age 75. He ran a Decatur meat market for years and was well known. Body to remain at Browns until services. Funeral arrangements pending arrival of relatives.
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W. T. Fields
Decatur
rMs
Horace Allfrey
Athens
Mr. Fields
Brown's
Brown Funeral Home
May hike print prices linked to Canadian dollar shift
Newsprint price increases are seen as more likely after the Canadian dollar revaluation. Observers note price control uncertainty could slow any rise for now, while Canadian mills may move independently.
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New York
Two Begin Work in Register Office
Mrs. Wallace Meadows of Trinity 1 and Paul Wilson of Decatur now work with Bryan McAfee register in chancery at the county courthouse. Meadows previously served 15 years as deputy clerk in the circuit clerk's office. Wilson recently discharged after three years in Say, returning three weeks before entering service. He was with the late A. W. Goabey, attorney, for four years.
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Wallace Meadows
Trinity 1
Paul Wilson
Decatur
Bryan McAfee
Register In Chancery
Reds Order Germans Out of Vienna Occupation Zone
Vienna reports Soviet authorities ordered about 54 000 native Germans and other foreigners to leave the Russian occupation zone of Austria by 6 am. They were to be sent to the French zone in Germany. Tractors and Austrian communist party vehicles protected the move as residents could take only 30 pounds of belongings.
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Vienna
Austria
Germany
Austrian Communist Party
London
Moscow
Republic
Bomb Cargo Unloaded Halted as Burns Rise to 35
In Mobile Alabama on July 8 the unloading of 500 pound German aerial bombs from a vessel was halted as burn injuries climbed to 35. Two new victims, both Negro stevedores, were added to the mustard gas burn tally yesterday. The bombs were brought for Army and Navy experiments.
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Mobile
Ala
Army
Navy
Nazis Had Money To Put In 40 Campaign
Washington reports claim that Germany planned to spend large sums in 1940 to influence the U S presidential election to block Roosevelt's third term. Assistant AG Rogge described Goering’s frank talks in Frankfurt about funding to influence the reaction, while noting the specific amount remains undisclosed. Further dispatches cited a Goering plan to invest in U S industries, with Rogge saying the claimed figure was not $50 million and that details were not yet revealed.
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Washington
Germany
Roosevelt
O. John Rogge
Frankfurt
Reichmarshal
Hermann Goering
Rogge
Tom Clark
Goering
City Court Tests Fines Totals 920 Dollars In Weekend
Twenty four cases resulted in fines and forfeitures totaling 920 dollars in city police court over Saturday evening and Monday morning. Violations ranged from prohibition to drunkenness and reckless driving with multiple cash bonds forfeited or paid.
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Rutledge Thomas
Ee Sengenot
H.R. Suite
Sims Injured in Automobile Accident in Decatur
Charley Sims of Hartselle was injured when his car exited Prospect Drive and was struck by a South vehicle at 11:30 Sunday night. He is hospitalized with a badly cut left arm at Decatur General Hospital. Damages totaled about 450 dollars.
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Charley Sims
Hartselle
Prospect Drive
12Th Avenue East
J. B. Whitmire
Sims
Decatur General Hospital
Jack L. South
John M. South
Decatur
W. A. R. Martin
Hartseller
Moore
Stanford
County Singers Convene Sunday in Morgan County
The Morgan county singing convention will convene Sunday at 10 A M at the Hartselle tabernacle. President B T Howell announced. Out of town participants include the Ha Five quartet of Birmingham Edgar Pace and Mr Walbert of Vaughan Music Lawrenceburg Tenn and the Guntersville quartet.
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Morgan County
Hartselle Tabernacle
B. T. Howell
Ha Five Quartet
Birmingham
Edgar Pace
Mr. Walbert
Vaughan Music Company
Lawrenceburg
Tenn
Guntersville
Parma Soldier Loveless Convicted for Slapping Prisoners
8 PTC William C Loveless of Parma Missouri was convicted today of assaulting two Soldier prisoners at a guardhouse and fined $100. Loveless, 24 a combat veteran wounded in Normandy invasion, admitted slapping prisoners on witness stand but said he acted on a direct order from an officer.
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Ptc
William C. Loveless
Parma
Loveless
Mead Attacks Senate Probe as Testimony Deemed Inadequate
Rep Andrew J May faces sharp rebuke from Chairman Mead over testimony to the senate war profits inquiry. May insists he used only his own money amid charges of attempted influence and withheld open session testimony. Investigator O Connell testifies receiving 500 dollars in Chicago to withdraw from the probe and take a New Mexico job. Fields linked to the campaign offer is described as a Washington connection to the munitions firms. Mead pushes for May to testify publicly as he defends the committee’s handling of the inquiry.
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Washington
Andrew J. May
House Today
Senate
May
House
Mead
N.Y
Senate War Investigating Committee
Capitol
Thomas O’connell
Chicago
New Mexico
O'Connell
House May
House Military Committee
Addre
Joe L. Martinez
Mead Committee
O’connell
Mexico
Benjamin ¥. Fields
Joe Freeman
Munitions Combine
Fields
Mitchell
Wash
Erie Basin Metal Products Company
Combine
Five Die In Alabama Auto and Drowning Accidents
Five people died or were badly hurt in Alabama incidents over the weekend. Annie Lee Mizzell 16 and Hat tie Sue Lenoir 17 of Isabella died in a vehicle collision near Clanton on the Selma highway along with other passengers. James Kelly and Sam Neighbors were seriously injured and treated at Maxwell Field hospital where Neighbors was in critical condition. James Monroe Watts 60 of Oak Grove was killed on a Bessemer street. Willie Jones 15, a Negro, drowned at Ketona lake after cramps while swimming.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Annie Lee Mizzell
Hattie Sue Lenoir
Isabella
Clanton
Selma Highway
James Kelly
Sam Neighbors
Maxwell Field Hospital
Ham
Mobile
Ton P. Lowery
Mobile Hospital
James Monroe Watts
Oak Grove
Bessemer Street
Willie Jones
Ketona Lake
Peace Parley Hopes Hang in Balance Today
Paris July 8 The question of convening a European peace conference in Paris before month end hung in the balance at a foreign ministers meeting. The Big Four were split on inviting the conference while Tass reported secret talks excluding Russia. Russia pressed for a two thirds vote rule. American sources warned it would block treaty changes.
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Louis Nevin
Paris
Foreign Ministers Council
France
Tass
Germany
Russia
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Molotov
Big Four
Poland
Ukraine
Yugoslavia
Holiday Toll Less in 1946
The nation counted 224 traffic deaths during the four day Independence period, well below expectations. The National Safety Council had projected 450 road fatalities and 1 300 violent deaths, with states like New York reporting 37 fatalities and 16 road deaths in Ohio and Texas. Michigan logged 20 drownings while Delaware and Vermont reported no violent deaths.
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The
National Safety.Council
New York
Ohio
Texas
Michigan
California
Delaware
Vermont
Escapees Nabbed After Brief Atmore Prison Break
Two inmates from Atmore state prison, Dorsey A., 25, and Ernest Thomas, escaped for a few hours yesterday. Mobile policemen captured one suspect, while guards nabbed the other beside railroad tracks while awaiting a freight train.
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Mobile
Ala
Atmore
Dorsey
Ernest Thomas
Barkley backs compromise on price control revival in Senate
Democratic Leader Barkley told the Senate he had disregarded some of Truman's objections while drafting a substitute price control bill. Taft pressed for changes and predicted Truman's likely sign if Congress passes the measure, as debate opens with expectations of a week or more of work on reviving controls and subsidies. The administration indicates Truman will sign if leaders advance the compromise through the Senate and House conference.
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Washington
Barkley
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Truman
Congress
Chester Bowles
Capitol Hill
Mr. Truman
Agai
OPA
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