Afternoon Anniversary Party for James T Coulter Jr
Mrs James T Coulter Jr celebrated his tenth birthday with a party at 103 West Seventh Street. Guests included Mary Dean Stinson John Hurst Gale Allgood Sarah Katherine Hoppers Billy Edggar Danny Henry Jackie Coulter Charles A Thomas Jr and John Paul Thomas. Central Baptist W M S meets Monday at 4 pm with Esther topic led by Mrs C E Malone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James T. Coulter
James T. Coulter Jr
Jackie
West Seventh Street
Honore
Mary Dean Stinson
John Hurst
Gale Allgood
Sarah Katherine Hoppers
Billy Edggar
Danny Henry
Jackie Coulter
Charles A. Thomas Jr
John Paul Thomas
Personal notices of moves visits and departures
Mr and Mrs Eddie Edwards and family plan a move by August first from 510 Jackson Street to 917 Oak Street Mrs A Z Bailey and Mrs N L Kelley will live at 510 Jackson Street after August Mrs Roland L Baker and son Donald of Detroit Michigan visit their mother and grandmother Mrs H C Motes Sgt Stanley Harrison left to resume duties at Ryan Texas after furlough Mrs Harrison will stay with family in Elkton Tennessee and Tullahoma Tennessee Mrs R G McClure will visit Florence with her daughter Mrs John Thomas Miss Mary McClure recently finished at Alabama College Montevallo Alabama leaves for Atlanta Georgia to begin six months at Rich's Miss McClure has a job there Pvt Willard Bowen left for Fort Riley Kansas after a fifteen day furlough
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddie Edwards
Jackson Street
Oak Street
Stanley Harrison
Ryan
Texas
Mary McClure
Alabama College
Montevallo
Ala
Atlanta
McClure
Rich
Pineapple edging and peacocks needlecraft set ad
Today’s Needlecraft offers a pineapple crochet edging with peacock stitchery for buffet or table. Pattern 925 includes transfer designs and crochet directions along with decorative motifs for linens and garments. Send fifteen cents for pattern and address to The Decatur Daily Needlecraft Dept New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur Daily
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
New York
N. Y
Residents and visitors in Decatur area social notes
Mrs. and Mr Rufus Adams and son John, former Birmingham residents, stay with Mr and Mrs Perry Orr on route home from Nashville. Camp Gordon staff sergeant John Smith visits his mother Mrs L G Smith. Grad Smith and children of Knoxville visit Mrs L G Smith. Mr and Mrs W J Williams buy R L Stephenson place on Sherman Street. Mrs Jimmy Priest of Chattanooga returns from visit with Decatur relatives. Mrs Joe Duncan and daughter Maryleen spend two months in South Carolina then New York. Miss Martha Ann Gregg to spend term holidays with parents E K and Mrs Gregg. Mrs Z P Connell rogtine Miss laas returned home after a visit peeson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rufus Adams
John
Birmingham
Perry Orr
Nashville
Jimmy Priest
Chattanooga
Tenn
Martie McLin
Johnny Horton
Decatur
Joe Duncan
Maryleen
South Carolina
W. J. Duncan Jr
New York
Martha Ann Gregg
Huntingdon College
Montgomery
E. K. Gregg
Gas Ruling Tightens Inventory Coupon Handling
After July 15 1944 dealers may not transfer gasoline for inventory coupons. Dealers have until July 24 1944 to dispose of coupons. From July 15 to July 24 dealers with coupons must attach 16 guiii med sheets R 120 and summarize on form R 541. Forms and coupons must be turned in by July 24 1944 for a gasoline deposit certificate in exchange.
Maginot Line Guns Reoriented to Defend Germany
A London report says Germany has turned the Maginot Line guns to defend Germany rather than France. Field Marshal von Kludge inspected the revised fortifications after Todt labor work and post-Fall of France preparations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Maginot Line
Germany
France
Guenther von Kludge
Todt Labor Organization
Barons acquire pitcher Dick Coffman on option
Birmingham Barons officials announced the purchase of right handed pitcher Dick Coffman on option from Syracuse club. Coffman, who pitched for the Barons in 1927 and for Knoxville Smokies last year, is set to report here Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Birmingham Barons
Dick Coffman
Syracuse
Illness Strikes Mrs Dozier At Country Club Home
Mrs W P Dozier is ill with malaria at her home in the Country Club area. Mr and Mrs L G Connell are cited in the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. P. Dozier
Country Club
Junior Miss Pattern 4526 For Tennis Wardrobe
Anne Adams promotes Vacation outfit Pattern 4526 in junior miss sizes with a low neck blouse trim shorts and ruffled skirt. Offered for twenty cents with 2 12 yard fabric guidance and mail order to New York 11. N Y. Includes a larger 32 page pattern book and a free pattern in the book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Decatur Daily
Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Time and Absence Heal Love in Dorothy Dix Column
Dorothy Dix counsels a Navy wife to let her husband wait before divorce, urges him to reflect and choose, and warns against pressured separations. Another reader is advised to keep her own apartment while her husband later returns from service. The advice is practical and pointed, urging independence and thoughtful decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss DIX
Albertville Soldier Hero in New Guinea Fighting
Advanced Allied reports from New Guinea describe savage hand-to-hand combat on the Aitape beachhead where Americans and Japanese clashed. At least 50 Japanese were killed in a Monday night action. a sergeant was pinned by his own bayonet. Heroes named include Pvt. Edwin Bard of San Antonio Texas and Albertville residents R. L. Hill and Richard Lee from East Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marlin Spencer
New Guinea
Aitape
Hayden Lennard
Edwin Bard
San Antonio
Tex
R. L. Hill
Albertvillery
Richard Lee
East Point
Goering Delivers Talk to Civil Air Patrol Cadets
Warrant Officer Goering, assistant superintendent of maintenance at Southern Airways, spoke to Civil Air Patrol cadets at Riverside High School. He discussed Principles of Rocket Propulsion after roll call and scripture reading by Cadet Judson Hawthorne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goering
Southern Airways
Civil Air Patrol
Riverside High School
Judson Hawthorne
Ned Frazier
CAP
Rabbit dies after milk feeding and wartime camp notes
The narrative recalls a rabbit in wartime care that died after five succumbed to bombs and lack of nutrition. It also describes Montebourg on the Cherbourg peninsula as wrecked from shelling, with a white rabbit found among ruins near a McCormick mower. A sergeant named Leopold Lampar ty uses an electric iron to heat chocolate in a dugout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wescott
Montebourg
Cherbourg
Montebourge
McCormick
Sergt
Leopold Lamparty
Franklin St
Youngstown
France
Lamparty
Unusual staff captain braves Cherbourg front in Normandy
Wireless profile of Captain John Jackson, known as Brinck, a 32 year old bachelor with German language skills who works on the Ninth Division staff and retrieves German generals in Cherbourg. Born in Dinard, he claims New Mexico as home and previously ran a ranch near Wagon Mound. Also featured is Pic Ivan Sanders, the Ninth Division “Mister Fixit,” a versatile electrician who repairs diverse items around the unit.
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Normandy
John Jackson
Crender
Ninth
Cherbourg
Jackson
Dinard
Captain Jackson
New Canaan
Conn
New Mexico
Wagon Mound
Klines Corners
Santa Fe
Pic
Ivan Sanders
Sanders
Fixit
Cadet Group Plans Next Meeting At High School
Cadets adjourned after a feature and schedule a next gathering for Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the high school. They urged every cadet to recruit a new member with a cross country flight promised to each new recruit.
Matching Colors to Moods in Fashion and Home
The piece discusses how colors influence mood and appearance, offering guides on red for warmth, yellow for joy, greens for freshness, blues for sobriety, and purples for drama. It notes caution with extremes like black and orange and advises soft neutral wall colors for home decor.
Sanders the stubborn cleaner of Normandy unit
The piece profiles Sanders a 43 year old auto mechanic from Vinton Ia now serving in a Normandy brigade. Despite being indispensable and highly conscientious he is kept busy fixing things and denied rest to wash. Also recalled is Byron Wallace a former Indiana University student now in Marine Corps recreation work who landed on D plus one and will join an infantry battalion. His wife Ruth Ann and daughter Margarette live in Falkville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sanders
Vinton
Red Cross
Byron Wallace
Indiana University
Delta Upsilon
New York
Bowery
Los Angeles
Pittsburgh
Normandy
Marine Corps
Ruth Ann
Margarette
Falkville
Falkville Marine Finishes Courses
Marine Private Curtis Blanken Blankenship of Falkville has graduated from the infantry and Browning Automatic Rifle section school at Camp Pendleton California. He completed training with M 1 Garand and Carbine rifles hand grenades anti tank grenades and is skilled with bayonet and knife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curtis Blankenship
Roscoe Blankenship
Falkville
Infantry
Training Command
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Blankenship
Urges London Families to Evacuate Amid Bomb Attacks
London and southeast England faced aerial bombardment as flying bombs exploded. Home Security Minister Herbert Morri son warned mothers to evacuate the capital and danger zones, urging parents not to wait for quiet nights to return. He promised continued efforts to defeat the weapon despite ongoing strain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
Herbert Morrison
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B. M. Bloodworth
Central Baptist W. M. S
Esther
C. E. Malone
A. Z. Bailey
N. L. Kelley
Roland L. Baker
Donald
Detroit, Mich
H. C. Motes
R. G. McClure
Florence
John Thomas
Pvt
Willard Bowen
Fort Riley
Kansas
Bank
Paul
Fia Wheeler
Bee Line
John Smith
Camp Gordon, Ga
L. G. Smith
Grad Smith
Knoxville, Tenn
Z. P. Connell
Rogtine
Laas
Peeson
Aah
Austinville
Clark’s Fishery
Mrs. L. G. Connell
Dorothy Dix
Sailor
The
Bell Syndicate
East 37Th Street
New York City
Swank Union League Club
Albertville
Pyle
Chicago
Bamem &, Mb
J. M. Harmon
Fryers
Hens
B. Bag
Helen Follett
All
Colurs
Claire Trevor
Falkville Marine
Moye
Crystal
Cosby-Rodges Milling Co
Ale
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