OPA Grants Price Increases Controls Lifted From Items
The OPA raised June 30 prices on numerous items and lifted controls on many others as authority lapse ends. Temporary boosts cover coal, coke, and similar fuels while meat dairy eggs poultry and petroleum remain exempt until Aug 20 under the revival law. President Truman warns inflation risk remains and a special session could come. NAM opposes OPA and UAW pledges to continue buyers’ strike amid claims of inflation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Washington
OPA
Truman
Congress
Robert R. Wason
National Association of Manufacturers
New York
NAM
Detroit
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Chicago
American Meat Institute
Local Breezes Bring Mild Warmth Across Decatur
Partly cloudy outlook with a high near 90 and low around 73. Community notices include church services with Dr Edwin Wyle in South Barker NY and Dr W P Lockygood in Chattanooga. Guard members head to Daulphin Island encampment as others report travel and hospital moves.
Honors paid to Bankhead by Alabama farmers
In Belle Mina the Bankhead Jones farm ownership association formed by more than 700 new land buyers under the Farm Security Administration honored the late Senator John H Bankhead. The meeting drew about 1200 attendees from eight North Alabama counties and named District President George B Hayes and secretary treasurer Matthew McMann of Athens with a July fourth memorial day set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellemina
Ala
Bankhead-Jones
John H. Bankhead
Farm Security Administration
North Alabama
Extension Service
Belle Mina Experimental Station
FSA
Bankhead
George B. Hayes
Athens
Polio Reported Case in Morgan County
Kay Wilder four year old daughter of Mr and Mrs W K Wilder of 434 Grant Street was admitted as a polio case to Jefferson Hospital in Birmingham at noon today. Dr R Murphree health officer says this is Morgan counties first polio case and the patient is described as fairly severe.
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Kay Wilder
W. K. Wilder
Grant Street
Jefferson Hospital
Birmingham
4. R. Murphree
Morgan County
Murphree
Yfar
Wilder
Goodyear Mills
Jeffers Hospital
Brown
Ambuce
Veterans training program may be expanded to meet flood of GIs
Washington July 26 -- Educators predict the government may need to quadruple veterans training as VA reports show applications arriving at roughly 17,000 daily. The surge reflects many former GIs seeking schooling under new programs.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Mobile set to break its rainfall record this year
The weather bureau says Mobile has the heaviest rainfall of any U S city and may surpass its own record. Through July the city has 52.61 inches, within about eight inches of the annual high mark.
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Mobile
Weather Bureau
United States
Decatur Local Man Named to Agricultural Center Board
Maynard Layman of Decatur has been appointed to the Agricultural Center Board by Governor Chauncey Sparks. Layman, longtime Decatur Daily circulation manager and farm columnist, has years of service to Tennessee Valley agriculture.
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Maynard Layman
Decatur
Agricultural Center Board
Chauncey Sparks
Alabama creates panel to locate cow coliseum site
Gov. Chauncey Sparks names five members including Sen W W Garrett to choose a site for Alabama's $500000 cow coliseum and to select regional showplaces. The group will advise the state building commission, oversee exhibit sites, and manage a $25000 annual fund. Terms end with the governor's January departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
W. W. Garrett
Uriah
Chauncey Sparks
Alabama
Garrett
State House of Representatives
Monroe County
Agricultural Center Board
Thomas P. McCord
Ervin Jackson
Birmingham
Maynard Layman
Decatur
Glass Chosen for Monteagle Duties
Rev. W. W. Glass pastor of First Presbyterian Church is chosen to supervise evening prayer services in August at Monteagle Tennessee. Glass and family depart Monday. He will also lead Sunday worship and preach one Sunday. William B. Young will supervise Sunday school and morning worship at First Presbyterian in his absence.
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Edwin Wyle
South Barker
N. Y
First Christian Church
Wyle
Decatur
Christian Church
W. W. Glass
First Presbyterian Church
Monteagle
Four Marriages Tied To China Construction Trip
In Decatur two couples on a work crew en route to China wed at 9:45 AM. James Mitchell electrical foreman from Louisville and Dorothy Herr, and Almer Shepherd electrical engineer from Dayton with Ida Spicer of Indianapolis, both brides previously with OPA offices.
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China
OPA
Southern senators weigh fate of anti poll tax bill
In Washington senator Morse R Ore says the poll tax repeal bill has no chance of passing though House approved it. Russell Ga and O Daniel Tex threaten filibuster, opposing the tax but favoring states rights. If brought up Monday the measure would bar poll tax as a voting prerequisite in seven states Alabama Arkansas Mississippi South Carolina Texas Tennessee Virginia.
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Washington
Morse
R-Ore
House
Senate
Russell
D-Ga
O'Daniel
D-Tex
Alabama
Arkansas
Mississippi
South Carolina
Texas
Tennessee
Virginia
Pepper
D-Fla
May sick man doctor avers by Alex H Singleton
Dr Henry Lowden told a closed committee session that Rep Andrew May is too ill to testify for ten days or two weeks due to a heart condition He spent a restless night and a bulletin said his condition remained unchanged Developments include a White House tax data inquiry and Garsson related notes in the committee records
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Alex H. Singleton
Washington
Henry Lowden
Andrew J. May
Lowden
May
Kentuckian
House Military Committee
Garsign
Mead
N.Y
Senate
White House
Truman
Garsson
Labor Department
Murray Garsson
Munitions Combine
al Capone
Sparkman Given Endorsement by Morgan County Farm Bureau
John J. Sparkman won unanimous backing from the Morgan County Farm Bureau board at its annual Hartselle meeting. Bascom Braswell announced the endorsement as 900 members heard talks by P. O. Davis and E. E. Hale. Braswell was re elected president as H. E. Owens and D. C. Prince named officers. The bureau, one of Alabama’s largest, has about 1300 members.
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John J. Sparkman
Morgan County Farm Bureau
Hartselle
Bascom Braswell
Sparkman
United States Senate
John Bankhead
Bascom E. Braswell
Decatur 2
Farm Bureau
P. O. Davis
Farm Extension
Seven States Represented In Show In Tennessee Valley
Prize winning horses from seven states walked to blue ribbon honors at the Tennessee Valley Horse Show. Kaial Kissee’s Black Angel won the walking horse stake, ridden by S. W. Beech Jr. Oaklawn Farm’s Gold Genius, owned and ridden by Max Luther, won the five gaited stake. The event featured Ocean,, Gillie Orr’s loud announcing and a standout Roadster to Bike class led by Albertville’s W. S. Hewett with Flowing Gold. Local favorites included Wilson Starlight and Lucky Star among many entries in a bustling, crowded show.
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U. S. Army
Benson Field
Kaial
Kissee
Black Angel
S. W. Beech Jr
Oaklawn Farm
Max Luther
Huntsville
Gillie
Orr
Columbus
Tennessee
Lion's Club
Big Jim”Folsom
Alabama
Albertville
W. S. Hewett
Kate Buford
Swarmstables
Tuscaloosa
R. B. McDaniel
Speed Boy
L. L. Keith
Nashville
Sam Wheat
H. R. Sherrow
Mr. Wheat
Decatur
Wilson Starlight
Willie Young
Athens
Gold Eagle
Young and Massenberg
Bobby Young
White Lightning
W. F. Jacobs
Moulton
Strolling Fox
Audry Todd
Allen Young
Gypsey Sue
W. R. Ransom
Hartselle
Bit of Heaven
Tiny Young
Douglas Evans Winton
Lucky Star
W. T. Smith
Robert E. Neely
Andy
Chenault Joins Decatur Clinic after Army Service
Dr John Chenault ex assistant chief of surgical service at Keesler Field Miss joins Chenault Clinic Decatur He is a Decatur high school graduate AB degree University of Alabama medical degree Orbilt University intern Charity Hospital New Orleans married 1941 to Miss Montgomery Tuscaloosa He now directs Morgan County Tubercular Sanatorium and Tri County TB Scottsboro member of state and county medical societies diplomate of national board fellow AMA 426 Johnston Street residence.
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John Chenault
Medical Corps
U. S. Army
Keesler Field
Miss
Chenault
Decatur
Decatur High School
University of Alaa
Orbilt University
Charity Hospital
New Orleans
New Orlas
Armed Services
Montgomery
Tuscaloosa
Morgan County
Tri-County
Ium
Scottsboro
National Board of Medicar E i
American Medical Association
Johnston Street
Federal inquiry ordered into Monroe Ga lynching massacre
Attorney General Tom Clark announced a complete investigation by the Justice Department Civil Rights Section into the slayings of four Black individuals near Monroe Georgia. A mob of 20 to 25 men fired about 60 shots, killing two men and two women as they rode with Lou Harrison toward his farm. Harrison was held at gunpoint.
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Washington
Tom Clark
Monroe
Civil Rightt
Department of Justice
Georgia
E- S--Gordon
W. T. Brown
Lou Harrison
Appalachee River
Harrison
Oconee County
First lynching reports in 1946 noted in Georgia
Tuskegee Institute official says four Black men were killed by white men in Georgia this year, the first such incident reported nationally. He cites Madison Florida 1945 murder and a 1942 Quitman Mississippi lynching of two 14 year old Black boys as the last recorded multiple lynchings.
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Tuskegee
Ala
Tuskegee Institute
Georgia
United States
A. L. Halsey
Institute
Madison
Fla
Halsey
Quitman Miss
Slayings Near Monroe Reported by Walton County Sheriff
The Monroe area killings involve several African Americans, including Roger Malcolm a released suspect in a July 14 stabbing, his wife Malcolm and George Dorsey with spouses. Coroner Brown noted multiple 12 gauge and pistol shots, one through a back, suggesting postfusillade firing. Bodies left at scene. coroner and sheriff describe quiet aftermath. The inquest jury ruled death by unknown parties.
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Roger Malcolm
Barney Hester
Hester
Malcolm
George Dorsey
Brown
Gordon
Harrison
Monroe
Walton County
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Wherry R.neb
Bill
Jplimale
W. P. Lockygood
Chattanooga
Westminster Presbyterian Church
S. R. Garrison Jr
Alabama State Guard
Daulphin Island
Mobile Bay
Everett Powell
San Francisco
South Pacific
Fort Sam Houston
Central Methodist Church
R. F. Miller
Sixth Avenue Church of God
F. K. Gamble
D. H. Turner
Westside Presbyterian Church
George Rice
Memorial Drive Methodist Church
E. L. McFee
Ivan M. Fisher
Pulaski, Va
Douglas Fisher
Wallace Terry
C. E. Amony
Sixteenth Avenue
L. C. Radford
Ralph Delmore
Moulton Heights Baptist Church
Charles Dean
Sandra
Florence
John T. Berry
Beacon and Joy Union
BTU
Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
Pearl Wilber
Endlam Boulevard
Decatur General Hospital
Malcolm N. Jackson
Decatur Iron and Steel
Claude Boyles Jr
Mr. Hope 1
Air Forces
Pacific Theatre
Fort McClellan
Little Brenda Tuten
Memphis
Lowell Tutes
W. J. Craig
Ken Reynolds
Army
Thomas Farrell
Boston
Mass
Helen Stavrou
Miss Stavrou
Farrell
Avers
Bikini Lagoon
Navy Radio
Lions Club
By Cheri Chandler
Clinic
Clark
Uncle Bud
By Bill Baldwin
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