Local church notices and community updates in Decatur
Local clergy schedules for Sunday sermons at Flint Baptist Sixth Avenue Church of God Austinville Baptist and St. Pauls Lutheran noted. Vacation Bible school July 19–23 at Summit Baptist with picnic Friday. Baptism at Wheeler Lake and annual church picnics planned. Community births hospital admissions ambulance transfers and prayer services also listed along with garden-variety civic notes and a city weather line.
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Summit Baptist Church
Austinville
Willoughby Presbyterian Church
Delano Park
Death ends long career of Gen Pershing
General John J. Pershing 87 died today after illness since February 1938. President Truman announced the death as the nation prepared for Arlington burial and a state lying in the Capitol. Pershing will lie in state on a catafalque built for Washington before burial at Arlington.
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Washington
John J. “Blackjack
Pershing
Truman
White House
Philadelphia
Tucson
Ariz
Walter Reed‘ Hospital
George Beach
Warren
Miss May Pershing
Shelley Marietta
Arlington National Military Cemetery
Potomac
Arlington Hills
Capitol
George Washington
Fleet Convict Outraces Dogs on Escape From Tennessee Prison
A 19 year old convict identified as Bob Johnson of Springfield Tenn escaped from the Tennessee state prison yesterday morning. He slipped away about 7 30 am while working at the prison truck farm and fled pursued by bloodhounds into Hillwood estates and along Charlotte Pike. Despite fresh hounds the fugitive outpaced guards and dogs, and the chase paused only as the hounds rested.
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Nashville
Tenn
State Prison
Webb Williams
Bob Johnson
Springfield
Williams
Hillwood
Charlotte Pike
Johnson
New Apartment Building Permit Issued Here
City clerk confirms permits filed for two new one family frame houses and a four unit apartment building. A 12 room concrete block apartment at 1006 Chestnut Street costs 7500 with J C Taylor as signer. J W Warlow obtained a six room home permit at 1502 Seventh Avenue E costing 4500. A 2000 dwelling with four rooms and bath is planned on Eighth Avenue W by Clifton W Hurst.
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Chestnut Street
J. C. Taylor
J. W. Warlow
Seventh Avenue E
Eighth Avenue W
Clifton W. Hurst
Congregations Plan Joint Service Sunday
The First Presbyterian and First Methodist congregations will unite for a joint service this Sunday with Rev. W. Glass of the First Presbyterian delivering the sermon.
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First Presbyterian
First Methodist Churches
Ww. W. Glass
Kiwanis Club Views Tube Production Film
The Decatur Kiwanis watched a color 42 minute film on copper tubing from ore digging to finished product. The program at Hotel Lyons included Rev. W W Glass presiding and Capt Oscar Fuller in invocation. Richard Frank joined as new member.
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Decatur Kiwanis Club
Hotel Lyons
W. W. Glass
Oscar Fuller
Marvin Rankin
Bill Schelbe
Richard Frank
Rose Jewelry Company
John A. Caddell
Kiwanis Education Committee
T. A. Bowles
Oktarrong
c.Earl Hese Son
Rex Rankin
A. B. Baker
C. L. Carrow
Kiwanians
Front Royal
Walter Clopton
Arthur Jones
R. E. Rogers
Frank Seibert
Clopton
Frank Oakes
Wolverine Tube
Don W. Blend
Decatur
Bob McGregor
Oakes
Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Cooper
Michigan
Detroit
Police Meter Warning Sent to Citizens as Meter Week Ends
Police Chief J. B. Whitmire reminded citizens during the first week of parking meter operation that coins must be inserted and the red flag lowered. Many have not turned the knob enough to register payment, with at least one woman unaware coins were required before shopping. Courtesy warning cards were given for line violations and meter misuse. Instructions appear on the meter fronts.
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J. B. Whitmire
City Planning to hold hearing on rezoning three lots
The City Planning Commission will hold a public hearing Wednesday at 7:30 PM at city hall on rezoning three Second Street S and Second Avenue W lots from residence C to light industrial. A map is available for inspection in the city clerk's office.
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City Planning Commission
Second Street
Second Avenue
Decatur Iron and Steel Company
Dry Creek
Gas blast origin still unknown by probes near Ashland City
Nashville July 15 officials from Tennessee Gas and Transmission Co. had not determined the cause of a dawn explosion near Ashland City that sent flames 500 feet high. A lightning ignition theory was offered but not substantiated as crews worked to control the fire by 3 30 A M and restore service. A small section of the main ruptured in a hollow near Sulphur Springs two miles east of Ashland City. A child was found safe in a bed after evacuees fled the blast area.
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Nashville
Ashland City
Tennessee Gas and Transmission Co
Midstate
Iman Ten Bunyan Gafford
Victim Rests Well After Tennessee River Drowning Incident
C. L. Marlow of Harmon Indiana is reported resting well at Decatur General Hospital after a capsizing on the Tennessee River Monday night. Five others were aboard the boat. William D. McMurry drowned and funeral services were set for this afternoon at 2 at the Austinville Church of God. Euel Atkins, who helped rescue the men, was dismissed from Baugh and Wiley clinic Wednesday.
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C. L. Marlow
Harmon
Ind
Decatur General Hospital
Marlow
Tennessee
William D. McMurry
Austinville
Rebels Rally for States Rights Candidate at Birmingham
Rebel Southern Democrats split from the national convention and travel to Birmingham to nominate a states rights candidate and draft a states rights platform. President Truman presses civil rights in a pre dawn challenge and urges Congress to act on anti lynch anti poll tax anti Jim Crow and anti job discrimination laws. Gov Fielding Wright announces the Birmingham conference as Mississippi and Alabama dissidents walk out in protest.
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Francis M. LE May
Philadelphia
National Party
Birmingham
Abraham Lincoln
White House
Dixie
GOP
Acs
Truman
Congress
Motor Company Bought Here by Rickenbacker Motors Inc
Rickenbacker Motors Inc announced the purchase of Thomas Motor Company on Second Avenue for about 60000 dollars. Rickenbacker serves as president with O R Moore of Atlanta vice president and Mrs Dorothy C Rickenbacker as secretary treasurer.
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Thomas Motor Company
Second Avenue
Rickenbacker Motors Inc
B. L .Rickenbacker
Rickenbacker
O. R. Moore
Atlanta, Ga
Dorothy C. Rickenbacker
Arthur E. Brittell
Sam Clendenon
Chester Sartor
Dodge
Plymouth
Westinghouse
Morgan
Lawrence Counties
Atlanta
Georgia Tech
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
Gadsden
Ala
American Discount Co
Army
South Pacific
Rotary Club
Etowah
Scouts of America
Chamber of Commerce
Rickenbackers
Decatur
Thirteen Alabama Delegation Walks Out of Convention
Thirteen of Alabama’s 26 vote delegation quit the Democratic convention in protest of civil rights, leaving 13 to vote for Georgia’s Senator Russell for President and Vice President. Handy Ellis led the walkout as part of a pledge to Alabama voters, with the group to attend a Southern rights conference in Birmingham to push a ticket for November. The departure was delayed by floor access and interrupted by Eugene Connor’s demands for recognition.
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Leroy Simms
Philadelphia
Alabama
Georgia
Russell
Handy Ellis
Truman
Birmingham
Ellis
Eugene
Bull) Connor
Sam Rayburn
Truman Calls July Session and Bashes Republican Poppycock
President Truman won the Democratic nomination on the first ballot at Philadelphia and pressed for a July 26 special session to push civil rights anti inflation and housing bills. He mocked GOP pledges as poppycock and warned Congress will be judged by its record not words.
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Jack Bell
Adel Pete
Truman
Congress
Philadelphia
Richard Russell
Georgia
Paul V. McNutt
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
Senate
Mississippi
Alabama
Birmingham
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Opportunity For Dairying Great Through Valley
William O. Dobbins of the Alabama State Planning Board calls the Tennessee Valley the Wisconsin of the South for dairying growth. He spoke in Decatur after visits to Moulton and Huntsville about forming local planning boards, citing Alabama land use studies and Carnation Company’s decision to locate in the Valley at Decatur.
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William O. Dobbins
Alabama State Planning Board
Tennessee
Wisconsin
Planning Board
Alabama
The Daily Apology for Telegraph Report Shortfall
The Daily apologizes to readers for a curtailed telegraph report in today’s issue. The Associated Press leased wire ran into trouble as American Telephone crews worked to restore the tready, still engaged after noon.
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Daily
Associated Press
Meen
Area Delegates Appointed To Dixie States Meeting
Gessner T. McCorvey named Alabama delegates for the Dixie states rights gathering in Birmingham. The delegation includes party officials, national convention delegates, a slate of electors candidates, and ten citizens from the Tennessee Valley. Attendees include Walter J. Price Huntsville W W Malone Athens Carl T Morring Huntsville Walter F Miller Tuscaloosa Norman Harris Decatur Ben Bloodworth Decatur.
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Tennnessee
Birmingham
Gessner T. McCorvey
Democratic Committee
Alabama
Walter J. Price
Huntsville
Democratic State Executive Committee
Dewey Attacks Democratic Platform Over Foreign Policy
New York July 15. Gov Thomas E Dewey Republican presidential candidate criticized the Democratic platform as partisan and provocative on foreign affairs after a conference with John Foster Dulles. He argued that the party claims to handle foreign policy beyond politics and accused President Truman of violating bipartisan norms.
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Berlin
Democratic Party
Democrats
Europe
Asia
Truman
States' Rights Group To Meet In Birmingham
Governor Fielding Wright of Mississippi leads a call for a Dixie Democratic convention in Birmingham to nominate a states rights candidate against Truman. Wright says delegates from several Southern states will attend and a separate platform will be drafted. Former Alabama official Frank Dixon blasts the national party over civil rights policy.
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Birmingham
Ala
Truman
Fielding Wright
Mississippi
Harry S. Truman
Alabama
Philadelphia
Wright
National Party
Frank Dixon
South
Area seeks annexation into Decatur city limits
A petition from McGlathery addition property owners asks Decatur to extend city limits south to include Legion Field, the Somerville Road area south of North Avenue, and the McGlathery addition. About 20 to 25 homes would join the city upon annexation.
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McGlathery Addition
Decatur
Legion Field
Somerville Road
North Avenue
Joe Petty
Similar Names Cause Confusion in Decatur
Diary items about two Mrs. Billie Nelsons in Decatur caused numerous phone calls to the wrong household. The Daily was told midweek that Mrs. Billie Nelson of Eighth Avenue West and Mrs. Billie K Nelson of 1401 12th Avenue were mistaken for each other, prompting clarification.
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Decatur
Billie
Dixie States Rights Convention Moves to Birmingham Auditorium
The Associated Press from Birmingham reports the Dixie states rights convention has definitively been moved to the municipal auditorium in Birmingham and will convene Saturday morning.
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Associated Press
Birmingham
Municipal Auditorium
States Rights Democrats set Jackson meeting plan
The States Rights Democrats agreed to hold a national convention platform meeting in Jackson Mississippi if civil rights objections were addressed. Alabama named a 52 member delegation including 26 delegates 11 electors and party leaders though attendance was not certain. Ex Gov Dixon noted initial plans at Tutwiler hotel and potential move to the 6000 seat city auditorium.
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Jackson
Miss
Gov. Wright
Southern States Committee
Alabama
Gessner T. McCorvey
Mobile
McCorvey
State Democratic Executive Committee
Dixon
States Right Campaign Committee
Tutwiler
City Auditorium
Mistrial Declared In Hazel Versus Coca Cola Suit
Jurors deliberated until 9 PM Wednesday in the civil case of Louis Hazel versus Decatur Coca Cola Bottling Company before a mistrial was declared. Hazel claimed illness from drinking a Coca Cola containing a copper wire. Other docket cases were continued to a future session.
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Louis Hazel
Decatur Coca Cola Bottling Company
Hazel
Bottling Company
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