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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jul 30, 1946

Page

3

Brothers Ordained For The Ministry

Dennis and Hollis Hendon, two brothers, were ordained into the Baptist ministry after examination at First Baptist church and ordination at Austinville Baptist church. The ordination followed a Wednesday service with Dr. J. M. Rogers and a large presbytery, and a Sunday ceremony with Rev. Shaw presiding. The sermon by Rev. Ruse Hendon referenced I Timothy and the brothers plan to enter Howard College this fall.

Dennis and Hollis Hendon First Baptist Church Austinville Baptist Church Jesse M. Rogers J. M. Hendon Girod Cole H. R. Leeman J. M. Rogers Fred E. Vickers W. T. Jordan Harry Wiggins J. N. Norwood H. F. Roberts J. H. McMath J. N. Roper A. M. Armor J. C. Cooper W. M. Bailey C. B. McRae W. T. White A. L. Singleton Jr Ruse Hendon L. G. Manley Bruce Pettey B. P. Collier Grady Austinville Shaw Leeman Rogers Hendon Collier Dennis Hendon Howard College

Daily Crossword Clue Grid From Historic Paper

A dense list of crossword clues in both across and down directions appears with numbers and hints for various words including warp yarn viper seaweeds specter regretful and more. The page also contains a Cryptoquote puzzle with a quotation and the standard attribution from King Features Syndicate.

Lapland

Polly the parrot draws crowds at Rankin office window

Polly, a beady-eyed parrot from Portugal now in Decatur, charms workers on Johnston Street. The bird, age eleven, imitates voices to say Hello Polly and laugh with bystanders as passers-by watch from Rankin's office window, rating beauty with whistles from onlookers.

Marvin R. Rankin Polly Portugal Memphis Decatur Josephine Wilson Miss Wilson Rankin Office Johnston Street

Two Winners To Enter Run Off In Georgia District

Atlanta July 30 The winner of the popular vote and the unit vote in Georgia fifth district will run in the November general election. Incumbent Helen Douglas Mankin Atlanta attorney and Georgia’s first regularly elected woman congressman won the popular vote. Judge James C. Davis won the unit vote. The state democratic executive committee decided that both candidates shall appear on the November ballots as democrats.

Atlanta Georgia Helen Douglas Mankin James C. Davis State Democratic Executive Committee

Ex pastor Hourican dies in Albuquerque

Rev Michael Hourican former pastor of Saint Vincent church Mobile and Visitation church Huntsville died Sunday in Albuquerque New Mexico friends here were notified

Mobile Michael Hourican Saint Vincent's Church of Mobile the Visitation Church Huntsville Alberqueque, M

Mackenzie's Column on Europe as Germany question looms

The Paris peace conference opens while Washington hints at merged German occupation zones to form a single economic unit. Britain backs the idea, France may join, Russia likely rejects, risking a split Europe. De Gaulle and Bidault urge Western alliance as Russia’s role looms large. World peace hinges on Russia's ambitions and Germany’s fate.

Paris Luxembourg Palace Washington Germany Britain United States England Byrnes Reich Europe London France America Russia Charles de Gaulle Georges Bidault Italy Bulgaria Hungary Romania Finland Yeserday

Venereal disease control urged amid treatment progress

The U S Public Health Service notes venereal disease remains a national issue but treatment for gonorrhea and syphilis has sped up since 1943. Gonorrhea cures in hours with penicillin shots. syphilis clears in 9 to 14 days with hospital care, penicillin, arsenic and bismuth. Early treatment reduces spread. efforts focus on prompt care and tracing contacts.

Washington U. S. Public Health Service

Unemployed Pay Case Yields 150 Day Sentences in Mobile Jail

A white man and a Negro were sentenced to 150 days imprisonment and fined 250 dollars each for collecting unemployment pay while serving as trustees at the Mobile city jail. The Interior Court Judge Tisdale J. Touart imposed the sentences yesterday.

Mobile Mobile City Interior Court Tisdale J. Touart

Wreck Claims Two in Southern Railway Train No 142 South of Charlottesville

In Charlottesville area on a Monday dawn a crash of the Southern Railway Northbound Express No 142 killed two men. Hailburton Swan, 72, of Culpeper, Virginia, an engineer, and George Turner, 28, a Negro fireman of Alexandria, Virginia, died in the wreck south of Charlottesville.

Charlottesville

This Mouse Is Unafraid in a German Castle

Hal Boyle sketches a noisy mouse in a Nuernberg castle among Allied reporters. The creature disrupts the quiet of the palace as the writer notes the mouse’s bold traversals from radiator to chair and bed, seeking food amid war reporting chatter.

Hal Boyle Nuernberg Germany Eberhard Faber

Night Mouse in the Castle Kitchen Chase

A gray brown shadow on green linoleum prowls the rooms of a quiet castle like a bold intruder. The mouse muses on breakfast, mocks the old lady’s view of food, and returns to the radiator as the room grows silent and empty.

Convict Attacked at Kilby Prison

Warden R Pitt Williams reports Curtis Ledbetter a 20 year old convict was struck on the head with a baseball bat by fellow inmate Will Kennedy of Jefferson ed Kennedy, serving nine to ten years for grand larceny, accused Ledbetter of taking $11 that belonged to him.

Montgomery R. Pitt Williams Kilby Prison Curtis Ledbetter Will Kennedy Jefferson Ed Ledbetter Kennedy Jefferson County

LE-ROY LOTION offers fast relief for athlete s foot

The ad promotes LE-ROY LOTION as a three action remedy that peels dead skin attacks the fungus and leaves a protective coating. It promises itching relief on first application and claims results in three days or your money back. Available for 50 cents at all drug stores.

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