Decatur Local Notes On Weather Visitors and Church Events
Partly cloudy Sunday and Monday with scattered afternoon thundershowers. Highs near 90 and lows around 69. Rutland Cunningham of Florence visited Decatur Saturday. Rev W W Glass begins a revival at Memorial Drive Church of Christ with Foy Short leading services at Grant Street Church of Christ. No pastors paragraphs in The Daily for four Sundays. August vacation for the author. Various local movements, hospital moves, and visits noted, including a Lucky Four quartet in Huntsville and several residents moving or visiting nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. D. Underwood
Grant Street Church
W. W. Glass
Southeastern Metals expands to double Decatur employment
Southeastern Metals Company announces a two and a half year lease of the Bailey building on lower Second Avenue to expand production and storage. The plant will add about 50 000 square feet for aluminumware items including pots pans and dishes. The firm ships to 37 states plus Alaska and Hawaii and plans to extend its line with larger articles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southeastern Metals Company
Decatur
Robert T. Harris
Bailey
Lower Second Avenue
A. Z. ~ Bailey Wholesale Grocery, Co
Ragland Wholesale
Harris
Alaska
Hawaii
Southeastern Metals
Governor Sparks Plans Busy Schedule Across Alabama
Gov Chauncey Sparks travels from Montgomery to Eufaula to vote in the primary then to Houston county to open a market. He will visit Mobile Island and review the State Guard before a deep sea rodeo and return to Montgomery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Chauncey Sparks
Eufaula
Houston County
Agri
Cap
Teenaged suspect ready to confess three Chicago killings
William Heirens, 17, announces to his attorney readiness to confess the kidnap slayings of Suzanne Degnan and two other murders. State's Attorney Tuohy will consider a plea deal in return for life imprisonment. The defense plans to present details to Tuohy Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Goldenstein
Chicago
William Heirens
Suzanne Degnan
William J. Tuohy
Malachy Coghan
University of Chicago
Tuohy
Degnan
CPA
Francis Brown
Josephine Ross
Cad dell Appointed by Kiwanis Chief
John A. Caddell Decatur attorney received Kiwanis International’s highest honor for a Decatur member. He was named chairman of the resolutions committee by J N Emerson, Kiwanis International president. Caddell also served on the international committee on resolutions this year and will serve the 1946 1947 term ending at the Denver convention in June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Caddell
Decatur
Kiwanis International
Decatur Club
Caddell
J. N. Emerson
International Committee On Resolutions
Denver
Col
Alabama reports ongoing postwar business boom gains
Alabama remains in a sustained business expansion beyond wartime levels says a State Planning Director. Manufacturing employment rose to 199,400 in April, up from last year and above prewar figures, with deposits in banks bulging as optimism grows for balanced growth between agriculture and industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
OMB
W. O. Dobbins Jr
Alan
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Dobbins
Planning Board
Towboat Built Here for Guntersville Use
An 800 horsepower towboat, built at the Ingalls yard for the N road, was launched on the Tennessee River. The 96 foot boat for the railroad at Guntersville features a 25 foot beam, 9 12 foot depth, a single screw driven by an 800 horsepower Superior Diesel engine, two locker rooms with showers, a captain’s office with a shower, a 32 foot eye level pilot house, and electro hydraulic steering with one main and two flank rudders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Ingallsation
Tennessee River
Guntersville
Decatur Urges Clean-Up Drive After Polio Concerns
Mayor H. R. Summer and County Health Officer L. R. Murphree urged residents to keep cleaning up premises and burn trash to curb polio risk. They noted measures to prevent spread, discussed spraying with DDT, and cited a machine shortage slowing city efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R. Summer
L. R. Murphree
Decatur
Murphree
Summer
Strikes Persist At Sho-Walter Plant In Dalton Georgia
Pressmen and compositors at the A. J. Sho walter Company printing plant in Dalton Georgia extended a four day strike today with no concession from either side. Quickies by Ken Reynolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalton
A. J. Showalter Company
Profit Probe in New Turn
Senate war profits investigators turn scrutiny on a Washington sale of influence on war contracts to a firm that paid for help but did not receive it. Mead committee also probes alleged officer shielding of a munitions maker’s son during war service. Lindsay Warren summoned for public hearing to review improper profits via the GAO.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Mead Committee
War Investigating Committee
Mead
N.Y
Lindsay C. Warren
General Accounting Office
Ferguson
Mich
Detroit
Officers of Georgia Unable to Cope with Lynch Probe Silence
Monroe Georgia July 27 The head of the Georgia state police said we cannot cope with the lynching probe as investigators seek the killers of four Negroes near here. Governor Ar nnall announced rewards above 10000 for solutions and ordered Bureau of Investigation help in Walton county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Bennett Deloach
Monroe
Georgia State Police
William E. Spence
Atlanta
Spence
J. Loy Harrison
Appalachee
Harrison
Ellis Arnall
Ia Bureau of Investigation
Walton County
Eugene Talmadge
Congress 10 Take Recess
The 79th Congress adjourns for a long break after labeling many Truman proposals unfinished. The House set next Friday for formal adjournment with many members already leaving, while the Senate has not acted. Quorum questions loom as Congress ends the session amid wartime record and upcoming November elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Arbogast
Washington
79Th Congress
Truman
House
Senate
McCormack
Mass
Randolph
D-Wv
Koppiemann
D-Conn
Crosser
Ohio
Congress
Anklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Cotton prices tumble as markets reinstate trading limits
New York reports a weekly drop of cotton bale prices from 23 year highs, with a $5 daily limit reimposed after three down days. Exchanges vote to restore a $10 daily limit to restore market flexibility amid price control uncertainty and weather reports affecting the belt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
New Orleans
New York Cotton Exchange
OPA
Two Senate Candidates Make Decatur Campaign Stop
John J. Sparkman and James A. Simpson pressed their bids for the Senate in a whirlwind Valley tour stopping at Decatur and nearby towns. Sparkman touted ten years in Congress and support for TVA REA and veterans benefits while highlighting the Tennessee Valley’s historic first post Civil War opportunity to elect a senator. Simpson planned stops in Athens Falkville and other spots as he contends for Bankhead’s seat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
John J. Sparkman
Tennessee Valley
James A. Simpson
Birmingham
Neta
Sparkman
Decatur
Telephone Company
Kmam
Alabama
John H. Bankhead
States Senate
Lie and Falkville
Tely
Athens
Congress
TVA
REA
United States
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J. H
Buck) Robinson
Mobile Infirmary
David Hunter
B. L. Self
Bertha Jones
Adrian
Hartselle 1
Vocational Service Committee
Veterans Administration
Rotary Club
Frank Stone
Henderson Peebles
Auburn
Jojo
Burl Slaten
Hartselle
Clifford Carnell
Gerald
Eva
Mrs
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Alma Kelsoe
Chestnut Street
Decatur General Hospital
Brown's Ambulance
Harvey Montgomery
Eighth Avenue West
Brown's
W.H. Sanders
West Moulton Street
Dorothy Ann Johnson
Hamil Clinic
West Wilson Street
David Chandler
The
University of Alabama
Huntsville
CME
Elizabeth Mitchell
Delrose, Tenn
A. J. Fincham
Baugh’s Infirmary
Howell's Ambulance
Melvin Morris
Vinermont 1
George Collier
Prospect Drive
Baugh
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Lacey
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W. C. Bradley
Somerville
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Flower Hill
Long Island
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Prospect
Solons
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Morgan County
Uncle Bud
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