Local Weather And Community Notes From Decatur
Thundershowers this afternoon then partly cloudy tonight and Friday. High near 90, low around 72. Naval discharges at Great Lakes noted for Tisdale, Terry, Keeble. Episcopal services planned at St Johns and Trinity Florence. Local cinema postponed and Tex Ritter feature "Hitting The Trail" highlighted. Community visits, hospital moves, camp reports, and church services detailed for Decatur area.
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Greenwood Park
Tex Ritter
Chenault 10 Heads Board for 12-County TB Sanatorium
Dr. E M Chenault of Decatur named temporary chairman of a 24 member board representing 12 North Alabama counties to oversee a proposed 200 bed tuberculosis sanatorium in Morgan county with $660000 funding. Attendees included state health officials and Rockefeller Foundation physicians. meeting set to select executives on August 14.
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E. M. Chenault
Decatur
Morgan County
Boards of Revenue
Flint
Woodalls
North Alabama
Morgan
W. W. Dinsmore
Cullman
Henry Arnold
J. Robert Rosson
Marion
M. S. White
S S. Busby
Ae C. A. Grote
Archie Ill. Lauderdale
Jewell Archer
J. M. Massey
Winston
O. P. Drake
W. A. Waler
Franklin
J. C. Hardin
James L. Orman
Limestone
H. L. French
John C. Batts
Colbert
Marshall
Jackson
Lawrence
B. F. Austin
D. G. Gill
Bureau of Preventable Diseases
Underwater Blast Proves Deadlier Than First A-Bomb
Elton C. Fay reports from aboard USS Mt. McKinley that the July 25 underwater atomic blast appears more lethal to heavy ships than the July 1 air burst. The air burst damaged two destroyers, a cruiser, and two transports, while today the battleship Arkan- is noted among vessels affected.
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Elton C. Fay
MT. Mckinley
Arkan
U S Presses Baruch Plan Despite Soviet Reply
New York July 25 an authorized source said the United States would press for adoption of the Baruch atomic control plan despite Russia declaring she could not accept the key proposals. The U S delegation did not view yesterday’s statement by Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko as Russia’s final position, but as an argument against the Baruch plan.
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New York
United States
Russia
U. S
United St
Andrei A. Gromyko
Saratoga Bomb Explosion Heights Dramatic Battle Damage
The text notes an immediate victim and the gallant carrier Saratoga succumbing seven hours after an explosion. It references the bomb’s impact on large warships and mentions See UNDERWATER and an On Page note about further details.
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Ses
Saratoga
Polio Cases Rise in Alabama with 164 This Year
Thirty two infantile paralysis cases were reported in Alabama last week, the highest seven day total since 1941. Lauderdale led with 17 cases, others affected included Jefferson, Calhoun, Mobile, and several additional counties, bringing the yearly statewide count to 164.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
State Health Department
Lauderdale County
Health Department
Jefferson
Calhoun
Mobile
Colbert
Fayette
Geneva
Tuscaloosa
Walker
Madison
Marion
Perry
Shelby
Walker and
Wilcox
Nanking Atrocity Testimony Highlights Japanese War Crimes
A prosecution witness in Tokyo described six weeks of rape, bayonet attacks, and arson after Nanking fell on December 12, 1937. Dr. Robert O. Wilson testified of burned victims and survivors, detailing acts by Japanese soldiers as the Tojo case advances.
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Tokyo
Nanking
Eee Ee Sd
Sun Yus
Robert O. Wilson
University Hospital
Hideki Tojo
Wilson
University of Nanking
Mies
William Heirens Charged in Degnan Slaying Case
True bill charging 17 year old William Heirens, University of Chicago student, with murdering Suzanne Degnan, 6, reported voted by the Cook County grand jury. The case follows the Dec 1945 lipstick and ransom note linked killings. earlier handwriting identified by experts. Miss Brown, 33, of Wave, was slain Dec 1945 in a separate case.
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Chicago
William Heirens
University of Chicago
Suzanne Degnan
Frances Brown
Cook County
OPA
Suzanne
Degnan
Heirens
Miss Brown
William J. Tuohy
Tuohy
Herbert Walter
James E. Degnan
President to decide on OPA revival today
President Truman is expected to state at a 4 P.M. news conference whether he will sign or veto the OPA revival bill. The measure, passed by Congress, awaits signatures or a veto and then will name a three member price decontrol board. If signed, rents and many wartime powers would be restored with price controls set to resume later.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Washington
Truman
White House
Congress
House
Senate
Charles G. Ross
Ross
McCormack
Capitol Hill
OPA
Wherry
O'Daniel
Taft
Ohio
Barkley
Dmass
House Appropriations Committee
Mr. Truman
John R. Steelman
Chester Bowles
War Trial Nears End as Hess Defense Is Rejected
In Nuremberg the war crimes court again refused to hear Rudolf Hess defense summations, deeming them irrelevant and referencing the Versailles treaty. Alfred Seidl was told to delete portions before the plea could be accepted as the marathon trial of 22 German war criminals nears its close. Justice Robert H. Jackson postponed his rebuttal to tomorrow.
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Nuernberg
Germany
War Crimes Court
Rudolf Hess
International Military Tribunal
Alfred Seidl
Robert H. Jackson
United States
Communists Claim 50 Mile Penetration North of Yangtze
Nanking news reports say Chinese government troops have penetrated 50 miles into Communist areas north of the Yangtze in Kiangsu, with 500,000 government soldiers involved and 20,000 casualties cited so far in a full scale offensive along a 130 mile front. Shanghai officials and Gen Chou En Lai deny plans to attack Nanking or Shanghai and say no truth to uprisings near Shanghai.
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Nanking
Yangtze River
Kiangsu
Shanghai
Chou En Lai
K. C. Wu
Kuomintang
Shang
Police Respond to Long Island Rapist Killer Case
Nassau county police hunted a six foot black man described as storey-eyed after he shot and killed 52 year old society matron Mrs Marjory Church Logan and raped her daughter Marjory Jeanne 26 before wounding her. Mrs Logan admitted to Nassau hospital with critical condition.
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Flower Hill
N. Y
Nassau County
Long Island
Marjory Church Logan
War Production Board
Marjory Jeanne
New York
Miss. Logan
Nassau Hospital
Mineola
Miss Logan
George Hutchinson
Famous Gillie Ready To Announce Big Show Tonight
Gilbert M. Orr known as Gillie sits at the mike at Benson Field to announce the Tennessee Valley show tonight at 8. Lions Club sponsors urge fans to bring cotton for the roadster bike class as Perry County’s famed horseman entertains with cowboy yells. Show organizers say the event will be a top highlight of the gala program with horse vans arriving from four points.
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Gilbert M
Gillie” Orr
Tennessee
Benson Field
Lion’s Club
Tennessee Valley
Gillie
Sherrow and Wheat
Orr
Alabama
Decatur
Bomb toll rises at King David Hotel in Jerusalem
The death toll from Monday's bombing reached 63 with 55 listed as missing as medical teams and engineers dismantled the rubble. Six people had been rescued earlier and 47 remain hospitalized as soldiers continued work amid grim scenes and heightened tension after a British white paper blamed the Jewish Agency.
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Jerusalem
King David
Jewish Agency For Palestine
May intervened in behalf of officer Garsson before Eisenhower
War Department disclosed Rep. May sent two letters to General Eisenhower in the European theater seeking clemency for Capt. Joseph H. Garsson, son of a Midwest munitions promoter. The letters had no influence on the court martial outcome, which found Garsson guilty and dismissed him, though clemency was recommended. Garsson was later relieved from active duty on January 22, 1945.
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Washington
War Department
Rep. May
D.ky
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Joseph H. Garsson
Department
House Military Committee
Eisenhower
Young Garsson
Garsson
Murray Garsson
midWestern Munitions Combine
Europe
Gries
France
143Rd Infantry
Marine veteran dies after high tension wire contact
Thomas Edison Landers, 25, a Marine veteran who fought at Iwo Jima, was killed when tin on a roof touched a TVA high tension wire at the Trinity gin. He remained conscious briefly, then fell and died at the Hamilton clinic. Funeral services set for Saturday at Trinity Methodist Church with pallbearers from the fifth Marine Division. Surviving parents, seven sisters, and six brothers are listed.
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Thomas Edison Landers
TVA
Trinity Gun
John Sewell
Landers
Sewell
Hamil Clinic
Iwo Jima
S. W. Brooks
Trinity
R. A. Cook
Trinity Methodist Church
Fifth Marine Division
City, Cemetery
Brown
J. G. Landers
Decatur
Lance Cleveland
G. C. Blaxton
Moulton
Rush Delany
Leighton
Aron Bureh
Courtland
H. R. Rogers
Hartselle
H. M. Summerlin
Warren
Ohio
R. C. Keefer
Indianapolis
R. M. Landers
U. D.landers
Austinville
Paper price hike eyed after price control ends
Washington reports a potential four dollar per ton rise in newsprint ceiling as the dollar revaluation in Canada raises costs. Officials say a six eighty per ton increase could follow, depending on OPA actions post June 30. publishers back a four dollar boost to prevent Canada’s supplies draining away.
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Washington
OPA
Canada
Tobe Fling Trades City Life for Farm and Animals
Bill Baldwin reports that Tobe Fling grew tired of city life and bought a farm. He swapped his townhouse for a horse a cow and began keeping bees.
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Tobe Fling
Bee
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Selma
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Decatur General Hospital
Lamon
Church of the Nazarene
Seventh Avenue
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J. F. Dunlap
Elmer Loyd Sr
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Dunreaming
Fayetteville, Tenn
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Bud) Orr
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C. A. Gearish
Billie Gayle Berry
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J. D. Bradford
Birmingham
Jean Smith
Miss Jean Smith
Mrs. Pearl Griffin
F. K. Gamble
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G. M. Davenport
John B. Hampton
Donna Clair
Eighth Avenue East
Brown's
Donald Bollier
Brown's Ambulance
Enolam
Boulevard
J. E. Livingston
Lamar Freeman
Tifton, Ga
Baugh's Infirmary
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Chenault
Bikini
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Crossroads
Jack Rice
Uss
San Francisco
PLAN
REDS
Hutchinson
Theodore Klick
Joseph Teta
Port Washington
Klick
Mrs Logan
Theodore Blunt
Blunt
Logan
Mrs. Logan
May
Thomas E. Landers
Uncle Bud
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