Local notes on discharges and travel in mid summer
A string of discharges from the Navy after 13 to 20 months service, vacations and visits across states from Alabama to Illinois, plus births and family travels. Individuals named include Bernadine Strickland, Cornelia Thompson, Boyd J. Penn, Anna Crawford, Margaret Anne Butler, Brenda Joan Butler, William David Carrell, Hollis O. Green, John E. Drinkard, Guy E. Bishop, Coy Dyson, Janie Fay, and Jo Ann Ryan, among others. Also mentions Huntsville hospital birth and a Spanish-American War Veterans meeting.
Probers Told of Check for Capital Help
Washington July 30. Eivind Anderson of Tacoma testified he gave $2500 in 1941 to Rep John Coffee secretary to secure representation in Washington. He denied paying for influence or campaign contributions. Senator Connally pressed legality of paying for services. Anderson claimed ignorance of illegality and said the money aimed to obtain hospital contract considerations, with a corridor meeting and assurances from Coffee. See PROBERS on Page 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Henderson
Washington
Eivind Anderson
Tacoma
Wash
John Coffee
D.wash
Anderson
Coffee
Senate
Connally
D.-Tex
War Department
Capitol Building
Paul A. Olson
Paul
John
Washington State
Senator Ferguson
Rmich
Byrnes Pleads For Open Meetings At Peace Conference
Byrnes urged the Paris peace conference to open all committee and general sessions to global press. He stated the United States would back any two thirds majority in the council if the conference opposed by a similar vote. Molotov supported open meetings, noting distortions in Soviet coverage and calling for reporters access to draft texts. Spaak of Belgium also spoke as Byrnes led the effort for press freedom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belman Morin
Paris
U.S
Byrnes
United States
Foreign Ministers Council
General Assembly
Lithuania
Estonia
Latvia
Molotov
Bidault
Andrei Vishinsky
Council of Foreign Ministers
Council
Rules Committee
Lassembly
Loter ‘Seay
Economic Commission For the
Balkans
Economic Commission For
Italy
Romania
Hungary
Bulgaria
Finland
Fight Byrnes
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
H. V. Evatt
Paul Henri Spaak
Belgium
Lee Byrnes
Early Federal Effort Aims to Solve Lynching Case
Attorney General Tom Clark urged an early solution to the Monroe lynching murders in Georgia, calling on citizens to repudiate mob rule and assist authorities. He announced a federal investigation led by the FBI and civil rights division, pledging full department support and transparency to Georgia authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Tom Clark
Stinson
Clark
Justice Department
Monroe
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Georgia
Four Firemen Die In Blaze At Herbert Hotel
In San Francisco a blaze at the Herbert hotel basement killed four firemen during a three hour battle by a large firefighting force. About 240 guests were warned and escaped, many in night attire. Fire Chief Martin Kearns reported one death and three missing, with at least 20 firefighters overcome by smoke. cause undetermined due to heat.
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San Francisco
Herbert Hotel
Martin Kearns
Charles Lynch
Kearns
Relief Drive Underway In Decatur City
Representatives from nearly every church canvass Decatur doors asking for a can for each family member. Canned milk and soups needed for Europeans. Rev. R F Miller outlines house to house plan at Sixth Avenue Church of God meeting. Canned goods stored at Salvation Army boys club awaiting shipment to New York and overseas. Cash donations urged to be mailed to Capt. Oscar Fuller Mrs. L P Troup or Carter Dobbs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Europe
R. F. Miller
Foreign Relief Committee Church Division
Sixth Avenue Church
Huntsville Men Enlist in Army and Air Forces
Twelve men enlisted in the Army through the local recruiting office. Four Huntsville residents, Carl R. Heintz Jr., Asral B. Goins, Homer A. Buchanan, and David T. Moore, joined the air forces for three years. Army enlistments include Dan Hart Wayne L. Pergeus Paul R Nelson Loys J. Lamar all for 18 months. Additional enrollments list George R. Giles Jack Blevins Anice C. Huntsville and John Mercer in various Army branches for three years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Carl R. Heintz Jr
Asral B. Goins
Homer A. Buchanan
David T. Moore
Air Forces
Huntsville
Dan Hart
Wayne L. Pergeus
Paul R Nelson
Loys J. Lamar
George R. Giles
Eighth Street
South
Jack Blevins
Medical
Anice C. Huntsville
Infantry
John Mercer
Quartermaster Corps
Controversy Pause Lets House Debate Proceed
Washington July 30 Rankin and Cantonio temporarily paused their clash over a contempt citation to let the House consider major bills. The delay allows debate on a deficiency appropriation bill and related measures including terminal leave pay, OPA funding, railroad reorganization, a federal hospital construction program, and the social security tax bill awaiting Senate action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Rankin
D-Miss
Cantonio
Amn_ Lab.NV
House
Fey
Gevorge Marshall
Theional Federation For Constitutial Liberties
New York
House Committee On UN- American Activities
Senate
Swim Victim Rest at Funeral for Charles Sherman Thomas
Final rites were held at 2 p.m. today at the residence for Charles Sherman Thomas, 15, who drowned Sunday afternoon in the Tennessee river back waters near the Alabama Flour Mill. Rev. Claud Gossett conducted the rites and interment was directed by Mutual Service in Roselawn Cemetery. Pallbearers were Howard Johnson, Artie Mason, Buford Mitchell, Buddy Spain, Bernice Brown, and Charlie Perry. Survived by parents Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Thomas, a brother John L. Thomas, a brother Raymond Thomas, and a sister Mrs. G. T. Johnson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Sherman Thomas
Tennessee River
Alabama
Claud Gossett
Mutual Service
Roselawn
Ceme
Howard Johnson
Artie Mason
Buford Mitchell
Buddy Spain
Bernice Brown
Charlie Perry
Thomas
W. F. Thomas
1812 Avenue East
John L
Raymond Thomas
G. T. Johnson
Price Increases Granted On Men's Shirts and Shirts
The OPA authorized a general 11 percent retail price rise for men's shirts shorts and pajamas with an extra 10 percent allowed for men's and boys dress shirts and boys sport shirts where totals stay under OPA maximums. Maximums cited include about 1.84 dollars for men's dress shirts 1.04 dollars for one boys shirt type and 1.35 dollars for another.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
OPA
Light Balloting in Senate Fight Reflects Apathy
A Decatur senatorial primary saw about 500 votes by noon and voter interest appears low. Compared with recent Democratic primaries and run-offs, totals are down across boxes including Morgan county courthouse and Carriege library box 2. May 7 record shows 3,700 total in Decatur and 65 at library box 2. officials note indifference to candidates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
John H. Bankhead
Morgan County
Carriege Library
Vernon Wins First Box in Alabama Senate Primary Report
FIRST BOX REPORTS SELMA Ala July 30 Vernon a small Dallas County community between Selma and Uniontown was the first box to report today in Alabama senatorial primary taking honors from Martin Station. Vernon results show Ted Allen 0 Frank Boykin 1 Thomas Maxwell 0 James Simpson 7 John Sparkman 0.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selma
Ala
Vernon
Dallas County
Uniontown
Alabama
Martin Station
Dallas
Ted Allen
Frank Boykin
Thomas H. Maxwell
James A. Simpson
John Sparkman
Voter turnout reports by boxes in city runoffs
By noon 7 ballots were cast in the runoff with multiple vote boxes reporting totals. Railroad Street city hall tallied 41 votes. Box 4 at Braswell’s grocery 38. Box 5 at Namies’ grocery 44. Box 6 at Johnston Street city hall 58. Box 7 at Howell’s funeral home 23. Box 9 29. Box 11 Fairview 34. Austinville 33. Box 13 Moulton Heights 41. Boxes 8 10 and 15 were unavailable.
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Railroad Street
Braswell
Danville Road
Namies
Johnston Street
Howell
Fairview
Austinville
Moulton Heights
Slow voting in Alabama senatorial primary race
Unusually light turnout noted across Alabama in the Democratic U S Senate primary. Politicians speculated on how the weak vote might affect the chances of the five candidates in today’s election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Alabama
U. S
Open To All The Daily Election Party Tonight
Open To All The Daily invites everyone to attend the election party this evening as senatorial results are tabulated and announced rapidly from here to the state. Returning officers are asked to telepose their returns to The Daily and, if needed, reverse charges for long distance calls. The Associated Press wire opens at six, with statewide results expected soon after as the ballot is short.
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Associated Press
Two Brothers in Alabama Truck Crash Deaths
Durel H. Allen, 23, was killed when the GMC truck he rode in went off the Joe Wheeler highway near the old Decatur Flying Field and burned. Driver Henry M. Allen, 33, suffered minor injuries as the truck, loaded with lumber, overturned after sideswipe avoidance. no arrests. Both men lived in Florence and were en route from Birmingham to Florence when the crash occurred.
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Durel H. Allen
Decatur
Joe Wheeler
Henry M. Allen
J. B. Whitmire
Florence
Maudie Allen
Allen Construction Company
Broadrick and Coker
Courtland
TVA
Floyd E]lkins
Allen
Birmingham
Brown
Confession Plan Collapses in Degnan Case Chicago
July 30. An elaborate plan for William Heirens to confess formally the Suzanne Degnan kidnapping and killing and two other slayings collapsed today when State's Attorney William J. Tuohy announced the youth would say only I don t remember.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
William Heirens
Suzanne Degnan
William J. Tuohy
Warehouse Collapse Injures Multiple In Decatur
A large warehouse under construction in Decatur Georgia collapsed trapping and injuring several workers. Early reports put the injured at five and some sources indicate as many as twenty possibly trapped beneath the wreckage. Emergency crews raced to the scene to rescue those affected.
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Decatur
Curfew Clamps On Tel Aviv After Jerusalem Bombing
British troops impose a 22 hour curfew on Tel Aviv's 200000 residents following the Jerusalem King David Hotel bombing. Home restrictions include shot on sight rules, with two hour food access, as searches target Irgun and Stern gang links and arms caches. 2,000 to 3,000 people expected to be arrested as a house to house sweep continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter L. Davidson
Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Fates Af
King David
Alan Cunningham
Holy Land
Palestine
Believ
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Stern Gang
Truck convoy attacked by band on road near Peiping
Three hundred Chinese in bluish uniforms attacked a 100-man Marine convoy southeast of Peiping, killing at least four, wounding 19, and prompting a four hour firefight. Marines launched a retreat under heavy fire as ambushers in cornfields tried to encircle the column.
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Tom Masterson Peiping
U. S
Peiping
Fred J. Frees
Sioux Falls
S. D
Pieping
Tientsin
At Tack
James West
Cincinnati
Frees
West
Pieping Headquarters
Associated Press
Memorial planned Hiroshima three day program Aug. 5 to honor 100000 killed
Citizens of Hiroshima plan a three day memorial starting Aug 5 to mark the Aug 6 1945 atomic bombing death toll of about 100000 and include a citizens peace and reconstruction rally with folk dances.
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Hiroshima
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Bernadine Strickland
Fifth Avenue South
Cornelia Thompson
Falkville 1
Peoria
Ill
Boyd J. Penn
Navy
James Hill
Edmond Garrett
Anna Crawford
Monteagle
Tenn
Margaret Anne
Brenda Joan Butler
Loretta, Tenn
William David Carrell
Twelfth Avenue East
Talmadge Ryan
Hollis O. Green
Wheeler
Pacific
John E. Drinkard
S 1-c
Falkville
Pacific Theatre of Operations
Guy E. Bishop
Edgewood Arsenal
Alvin Lawrence
Decature
Edgewood
Coy Dyson
Huntsville Hospital
Janie Fay
Clarence G.bynum
W.B. Jordan
G. E. Bishop
Mr. Bishop
Oscar Campbell
Horace Milton
Til
Clarence Gary
St. Bernard Hospital
Louise *Hipps
Vinemont
Melba Floyd
Hartselle
Mallory Martin
Verbon Lowery
E. B. Simrell
Sue Jett
Paula
Los Angeles
California
R. F. Simrell
West Gordon Drive
Cumberland State Park
Crossville
Jo Ann Ryan
West Moulton Street
Kearney
Nebraska
Betty
Jane Ryan
Miss Ryan
Pulaski
Frank Strickland
Lee and
Wayman
Gerald Lee Gravitt
B. M. Summerford
By Ken Reynolds
Stone Mountain
Felias B. Nour
Atlanta
Nour
Amer
el Avivach
Uncle Bud
By Bill Baldwin
McClure
Mose Grubbs
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