Southern Presbyterians Weigh Reunion Plans At Assembly
The 87th general assembly of the Southern Presbyterians heard reports on reunion with the Northern church and on the Federal Council issue. The standing committee on foreign relations recommended study and comment before decisive votes next year, with reunions possibly by 1950 if ratified. An interim study on the Federal Council matter was also urged for next year. Dr Dunbar Ogden led discussions framing a broad mobilization plan and evangelistic drives to boost church activities and Sunday school attendance.
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Lathan
Assembly
Northern General Assembly
Grand Rapids
General Assembly
Federal Council
Foreign Relations Committee
Committee On Cooperation Union
Dunbar Ogden
New Orleans
Robert A. Lapsley
A. Va
Compulsory Training Plan Outlined For National Defense
A proposed compulsory basic training program would run six months with options for Army Navy or Marine enlistment and other service paths. It envisions a three member commission and a public advisory board, costing about 1.75 to 2.0 billion annually and taking about five years to implement.
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Army
Navy
Marine
Aea
West Point
Annapolis
National Guard
Pby
Commis
British Conference Advances Amid Fears of Fresh Demonstrations
Report from New Delhi notes no incidents by midday as Indian leaders exit the palace. Precautions against rioting spread to Bombay, Atta, and the Punjab while conferees show no clear reaction to the Mountbatten plan. Observers expect a Union of Hindu and Muslim states as partition looms if talks stall.
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Couny
Hadeen
Regal Palace
New Delhi
Bombay
Atta
Punjab
Hindu Congress
Grade school kids are smarter now in arithmetic and spelling
Wellesley Massachusetts reports that current grade school students score higher than Springfield's 1846 cohort in arithmetic and spelling. A teacher notes Wellesley juniors outperform peers by about double in arithmetic with strong percentile gains and better overall literacy outcomes.
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Wellesley
Mass
Springfield
Ngfield
Semeie
James
Tce
L. Phillips
Aecee
Ingfield
Prices for Decatur Cash Grains and New York Cotton
Decatur cash grain prices list No 1 Soft wheat 2.70 per bushel Ear white corn 75 lbs 1.95 Ear yellow corn 75 lbs 1.90 Mile 100 cwt 3.00 Barley 1.45 oats 0.95. Alabama Flour Mills Decatur supplied. New York cotton futures closed with mixed to higher and lower moves across contracts. notable middling spot at 36.63 cents.
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Decatur
Alabama Flour Mills
Markets At A Glance New York June 2
Stocks lower in slow decline with leaders retreating. Bonds easy, rails lower priced. Cotton liquidations by commission houses. Chicago wheat weak from hedge selling. corn strong as planting hampered by weather. Oats firm on corn strength. Hogs 25 to 75 cents higher top 24.75. Cattle active, up 25 cents, top 27.75.
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New York
Commission House
Chicago
Butter and Egg Prices and Receipts Report
Chicago market notes show butter receipts 1,337,231.93 with AA 62 92 A 60.75 90 B 58 89 C 56 and ond cars 90 score 58.5 89 56.5-57. Eggs firm with receipts 47,052 and various U S standards and extras prices 44 41.5 39.40 40.5. Current receipts and checks listed among dir ties at 37.5 and 37.
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Chicago
U. S
North Georgia Poultry Market Sees Light Volume and Cautious Bids
Atlanta June 2 The North Georgia poultry market opened with light volume and uncertain price levels. Demand appeared modest with buyers reluctant to pay above last week while processors bought cautiously amid uncertain dressed chicken demand. Outside truckers showed fair to good interest as farm prices for chickens sold Saturday and Monday morning ranged around 33 1 2 to 34 cents with some small lots higher.
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Atlanta
USDA
North Georgia
Nashville Livestock Prices Nod to Steady Demand
Nashville Tennessee June 2 reports cattle Slaughter steers and heifers scarce steady to strong cows steady to strong fat bulls strong with varied lot quality most vealers and calves up to 26.00 Hogs and sheep also show mixed gains and steady trends with prices across weight classes.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Tenn
Federal
China raids kill two students in Chungking crackdown
Police and military actions across Mukden Hangchow Wuchang Foochow Kaifeng Chungking and Tientsin aimed at stopping a nationwide student protest ending the civil war. Ta Kung Pao reports two students killed and two wounded in Chungking where over 1,000 suspects were arrested in a midnight raid.
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Shanghai
China
Mukden
Hangchow
Wuchang
Foochow
Kaifeng
Chungking
Tientsin
Ta Kung Pao
Pope warns rulers not to miss chance for world peace
Pope Pius XII in a radio broadcast urged world leaders not to let the chance to restore normal relations escape them. He warned that the security hoped to come from victory had not yet been achieved and could be lost.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Bilbo to Undergo Jaw Reconstruction in New Orleans
Senator Theo Bilbo of Mississippi sails to New Orleans for the first of two operations to replace part of his jaw bone after a malignant growth led to partial jaw removal months ago. He is reported doing fine at his home in Poplarville.
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Bilbo
Poplarville
Miss
Theo G. Bilbo
Mississippi
New Orleans
Helicopter Mail Service Granted in Los Angeles Area
The Civil Aeronautics Board authorized Los Angeles Airways Inc. to operate a helicopter mail pickup and delivery service in the Los Angeles metro area. It marks the first commercial authority of its kind in the United States.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Los Angeles Airways Inc
Los Angeles Metrotan
United States
Alabama Tops Nation in 1946 Christmas Seal Sale
Alabama led the country in the percentage increase in the 1946 Christmas seal sale. K W Grimley executive secretary of the Alabama TB Association commented on the national surge during the event in Birmingham.
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Alabama
Birmingham
Ala
K. W. Grimley
Alabama T. B. Association
Defense of Capital Eyed Defense of Capital Eyed
Lt Col David B Parker of the Army's secret weapons unit warns Washington must act now to underground vital government facilities and disperse functions to survive an atomic attack. He outlines attack types including airburst, underwater blasts, and stealth radiant spread with plans for blast resistant, reconfigured city and widespread protection. He cites the city’s public structure value at about 1.5 billion dollars.
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Washington
David B. Parker
Engineer Corps
Armed Forces Special Weapons Project
The
Coast Artillery Journal
Parker
Potomac
Anacostia
TVA Plans to Repay Set Up
A House appropriations subcommittee backed a plan for the Tennessee Valley Authority to repay about 344 million dollars to the government over 40 years. TVA would use its annual operating revenues with 40 percent set aside each year and liquidate at least 25 percent of the obligation every decade.
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Washington
House Appropriations
Tennessee Valley Authority
Government Corporations
Wich
TVA
Congress weighs new economy cuts to war budgets
Congress pressed a fresh economy drive targeting the War Department's 1948 budget of 5.24 billion dollars, aiming to shave nearly 100 million to balance War and Navy funding after the House Appropriations Committee trimmed the Navy and overall defense outlays. The miners’ strike impasse stretched to 80 days as a federal injunction loomed.
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War Department
House Appropriations Committee
War and Navy
House
Navy
Mrs Susan Brombaugh Taken Home to Ohio
The body of Mrs Susan Brombaugh aged 61 was sent today to New Lebanon Ohio. She died at Decatur General hospital where she had been a patient for a week. Survivors include her husband and four sons.
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Susan Brombaugh
New Lebanon
Ohio
Hartselle Girl Reported Missing
Francis Wood a 16 year old girl from Hartselle was reported missing from her home today by her father Harvey Wood. Chief J B Whitmire stated the search follows his description of the girl who stands five feet nine inches tall weighs about 140 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair and a two inch scar on the right side of her chin. She was last seen wearing a blue dress trimmed in white and has three other dresses with her.
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Francis Wood
Hartselle
J. B. Whitmire
Harvey Wood
Miss Wood
Countywide Singing Held at Athens Courthouse
A county wide singing convention filled the Athens county courthouse Sunday afternoon. An elderly lady fainted during the event but was revived.
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Athens
Ala
Paris Bakery Strike Hits 40 Percent of Shops
Paris workers halted 40 percent of city bread stores as labor troubles deepen the government’s grip. A broader shopkeeper strike looms nationwide, with plans to protest price ceilings rationing and regulatory controls.
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Paris
Daily Records Marriage Licenses and Deeds
Marriage licenses listed for Joseph M Berber Ira M Franks Clarence C Hudson Tressie Hooper Joseph H LeMay Ida M Gangler George W Jacobs Freddie J Williamson John V Langley Elsie P Oakes. Deeds note Maude S Baker to Maynard M Rippy for $8 000 and W E Howe to R A Sparkman for $4 500. H O L C to Maude S Baker.
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Joseph Melvin Berber
Decatur
Ira Mae Franks
Clarence Clifford Hudson
Tressie Carlean Hooper
Joseph Howard LeMay
Town Creek
Ida May Gangler
Mooresville
George Wade -Jacobs
Freddie Juanita Williamson
John Vann Langley
Louisville
Elsie Pearl Oakes
Deeds Maude S. Baker
Maynard M. Rippy
W. E. Howe
R. A. Sparkman
Maude S. Baker
Ex-Reporter Put On Trial
Douglas Chandler a 58 year old former Baltimore newsman stands trial in Boston for treason over wartime Nazi broadcasts under the alias Paul Revere. A 250 member venire was drawn as his 21 year old daughter Laurette watches nearby in a crowded District of Massachusetts courtroom near Faneuil Hall.
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Boston
Douglas Chandler
Baltimore
Paul Revere
Chandler
Laurette
New
Chicago
United States
German Broadcasting Company
Legislators weigh 2 percent sales tax and highway bonds
The report notes proposals to tax articles now exempt and to raise the gasoline tax from 6 to 7 cents. Governor Folsom backs road bonds as an alternative funding method. The May 6 to May 8 session sees 240 measures in play with 28 House bills and one Senate proposal nearing final action. State workers get Monday off to keep the capitol staffed ahead of the return.
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Folsom
Jefferson Davis
Services Sunday for W. H. Thomas
Graveside services were held Sunday at three o clock for W H Thomas former Decatur resident by Rev John Troxler of Westminster Presbyterian church Thomas died in Kingsville Texas on May 25 Interment was in city cemetery Brown directing Thomas is survived by his mother Mrs Wiley Thomas of Atlanta and four sisters Mrs J O Pylant Daytona Beach Mrs J T Simmons Orlando Mrs A B Counts Myrtle Beach and Mrs R L Odom of Mt Dora
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W. H.thomas
Decatur
John Troxler
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Thomas
Kingsville
Texas
City Cemetery
Brown
Wiley Thomas
Atlanta
J. O. Pylant
Daytona Beach
Fla
J. T. Simmons
Orlando
A. B. Counts
Myrtle Beach
Sheriff's Cars to Have Radios in Athens
Athens Alabama June 2 county board of revenue plans to purchase a two way radio for each of the two sheriff's cars placing them on the same frequency as the state Highway Patrol radio. This will allow calls to patrol cars to reach the sheriff's cars and enable the sheriff to radio the patrol as needed.
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Athens
Ala
County Board of Revenue
State Highway Patrol
Air Force Dedication Ceremony Opens New Gadsden Airport
The city of Gadsden dedicated a new one million dollar airport with Brig. Gen. Norris B. Harbold delivering the main address. He warned that air strength is depleted and urged Congress to pass unification legislation to create a balanced armed forces force, noting his WWII service in England.
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Gadsden
Ala
Norris B. Harbold
Harbold
Eighth Air Force
England
Proclamation Sets Up Economic Council in U.S. Zone
General Lucius D. Clay proclaimed to Germans in the American zone the creation of an economic council to aid agency solutions. A British zone proclamation by Lt. Gen. Sir Brian Robertson followed. The new force takes effect June 10 as Germans begin a turbulent era.
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Berlin
Lucius D. Clay
Economic Council
Brian Robertson
Aew
Gas hearing resumes on Southern Natural extension plan
Federal Power Commission resumes examination of petitions by Southern Natural Gas Company East Tennessee Natural Gas Company and Alabama Tennessee Natural Gas Company to extend services and build pipelines across Tennessee Alabama Georgia and Mississippi. Judge Liddell noted amended petitions would go to Washington as Southern seeks to extend from Calhoun Georgia to Chattanooga and Lexington Mississippi amid opposition from Georgia utilities citing service concerns and gas supply limits.
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Chattanooga
Ten
Southern Natural Gas Company
Federal Power Commission
Southern Natural
East Tennessee Natural Gas Company
Alabama-Tennessee Natural Gas Company
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
Mississippi
Alabama-Tennessee Company
George T. Liddell
FPC
Washington
Southern
Calhoun
Lexington
Miss
East Tennessee
Centerville
Tenn
Knoxville
Mid-East Natural Gas Company
Mid- East
Georgia Utilities Commission
VETS URGED TO ASK FUND SHORT TERM LEAVE PAY
World War II veterans and dependents urged to apply now for unused terminal leave pay before the September 1 deadline. Julian L. Bibb Jr. warns last minute rush and potential loss of due sums. His office, Mor gin county Department of Veterans Affairs, is in the county courthouse.
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Army
Navy
Julian L. Bibb
Morgin County
Tate Department of Veterans’ Affairs
Bibb
Williams Speaker at Union Meeting in Winston-Salem
Aubrey Williams of Montgomery Alabama addressed a Sunday union meeting here saying employers should see higher wages as sound business and lead to broader prosperity. He noted that increased purchasing power benefits farmers teachers and other workers and that he speaks as a payroll paying employer with farms in Alabama.
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Winston-Salem
N. C
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Tobacco Workers Union
CIO
Aubrey Williams
Montgomery
Ala
The
Southern Farmer
National Youth Administration
Williams
Alabama
Mrs. Fannie Sharp Called by Death
Mrs. Fannie May Sharp, 39, of Hillsboro 2, died at Decatur General Hospital after nine days ill. Funeral from Flower Hill church Tuesday at 11 pm? Correction: services at 11 should be 11 o'clock. Interment in Claridy cemetery. Survived by husband J W Sharp, daughters Dorine Ozelle, sons Leonard Robert Joe Don, three brothers and six sisters.
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Fannie May Sharp
Hillsboro 2
Decatur General Hospital
Flower Hill Church
Joe Henderson
Claridy
Brown Directing
Dorine
Ozelle
Leonard
Robert
Joe
Don Sharp
Coal Output Up Washington Announces Peak Production
The one year old coal mines administration nears its end as bituminous coal production from June 1 1946 to May 17 1947 reaches 587 435 000 tons a 13 percent rise over the prior year government operation began June 1 1946.
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Washington
Coal Mines Administration
Navy
N. H. Collisson
Community note roundup from Decatur and nearby areas
Monday visits and weekend travels light up Decatur with residents visiting Chattanooga Florence Pensacola and Birmingham. Alabama Gas manager Sam Brown in Pensacola hospital for blood transfusion. State Employment Service to close for Davis birthday observance.
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Pensacola, Fla
Sam W. Brown
Alabama Gas Company
Decatur
Alabama State Employment Service
Jefferson Davis
O D Carlton Taken By Death In Selma
Oba Dumas Carlton 65 former Marengo county state senator died in Selma after a brief illness. A Wilcox County native and longtime lumberman, he served on the Marengo revenue board 1920 1927 and in the Alabama Senate 1935 39 and 1943 45. Funeral at Thomaston Methodist Church tomorrow at 10 a m burial there. He is survived by his wife Arcola Carlton, mother Mrs N G Pinadie of Tallassee, and three sons and three daughters.
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Selma
Ala
Oba Dumas Carlton
Marengo County
Montgomery
Wilcox County
Marengo Board of Revenue
Thomaston Methodist Church
Arcolaarlton
N. G. Pinadie
Tallassee
Willie the seven tentacled octopus stirs questions at Steinhart
Short note from San Francisco reports Willie the octopus at Steinhart Aquarium may lack one tentacle. Biologist Robert Dempster of the California Academy of Sciences notes Willie has seven tentacles with no stump of an eighth, raising whether he is a septimus or simply unusual.
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San Francisco
Steinhart Aquarium
Willie
Robert Dempster
California Academy of Sciences
Tornadoes hit Oklahoma and Arkansas areas with warnings
A tornado near Leedey Oklahoma killed 102 people on April 9. Wind filled shelters in Pine Bluff Arkansas within two hours of the twister. Jack Sapp warned residents by firing siren and loudspeaker. Rescue teams worked through the night as power was lost.
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Jack Sapp
Leedey
Okla
Woodward
Oklahoma
Texas
Gage
Arnett
Memorial Day Traffic Toll Leads Nation in Violence Deaths
The Associated Press reports 214 traffic fatalities over the Memorial Day weekend, far above last year’s 164, with total deaths across all causes at 480. New York led with 68 total fatalities, including 42 from a LaGuardia plane crash, Maryland had 60, and Arkansas 38 from tornadoes. California posted 31 highway deaths. states list detailed counts for Thursday through the holiday period.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Oklahoma
Arkansas
New York
la Guardia Field
New York City
Maryland
California
Alabama
Arizona
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
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Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
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Massachusetts
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Minnesota
Senate Reverses on Rent Control Decontrol Amendment
The Senate, in a voice vote, struck from the rent control extension bill a proposal by Senator McCarthy to free five percent of controlled areas each month. Fulbright led the reconsideration, arguing the bill already provides decontrol via local advisory boards and moving to extend controls through February. LaGuardia cited a National Fair Rent Committee warning of a family life crisis if the measure passes.
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Senate
McCarthy
R.-Wis
Fulbright
D.-Ark
H. F. LaGuardia
New York
Capitol
National Fair Rent Committee
America
Joan Crawford Adopts Two More Children in 1946
Actress Joan Crawford, still single after a 1946 divorce from Phillip Terry, expands her brood from two to four with the arrival of Cynthia, three months, and Cathy, two months, adopted from an Eastern institution. Their older children are Christina, eight, and Christopher, four.
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Hollywood
Joan Crawford
Cynthia
Cathy
Christina
Christopher
Miss Crawford
Phillip Terry
Couple find stray dog mistaken for seal at sea
Mr and Mrs Fred Linstrum aboard their cabin cruiser near Santa Catalina island spotted what they thought was a seal. The animal proved to be a male cocker spaniel exhausted and emerged from the Pacific prompting the Linstrums to take the dog home.
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Pacific
Beverly Hills
Calif
Fred Linstrum
Santa Catalina Island
Gasification of coal eyed to cut mining needs at Gorgas
Alabama Power Company and the U S Bureau of Mines report a four month gasification test at Gorgas Alabama near Birmingham shows gas can be produced on site from burning coal underground The effort led by Milton H Fies suggests coal gasification could reduce mining and improve recovery while noting risks such as asphyxiation A follow up meeting in Washington is planned for June 11 with proposals for further testing on 60 Alabama acres.
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Alabama
Gorgas
Birmingham
Bureau of Mines
Alabama Power Company
Ohio
A. C. Fieldner
U. S
Milton H. Fies
Fies
Two Men Abduct and Assault Woman in Alabama
Miss Barnickle testified that Saturday afternoon two men forced her into a car near revate ville then drove to Alabama near Veto where they assaulted her, beat her, took rings and cash, and left her for dead before being found by a farmer and his son. One man used a social security card bearing the Marshall name. The suspects described as about 23 and 30 years old.
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Burgess
Revateville
Ernest Marshall
Marshall
Alabama
Veto
Bodenham High School
Littrell names Athens Chamber committees for new year
H J Littrell the Athens Chamber of Commerce president names committee chairmen across eight groups including industrial membership public relations publicity advertising and national affairs with J M McDonald W Van Gilbert T E Williams GB Phillips J E Beasley T S Woodroof Steele McGrew M S Kennemer Dr B T Waites John Harlow J M Holt and A W Stewart. An advisory panel to work with all groups includes Littrell J M McDonald and T S Woodroof.
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Athens
Ala
H. J. Littrell
Athens Chamber of Commerce
J. M. McDonald
W. van Gilbert
W. A. Caughran
T. E. Williams
Gb.phillips
J. E. Beasley
T. S. Woodroof
Steele McGrew
M. S. Kennemer
B. T. Waites
John Harlow
J. M. Holtg
A. W. Stewart
Harry Taft
Littrell
T. 5. Woodroof
Sub machine guns to be purchased in Athens
Athens authorities order four sub machine guns to fight crime. three for the city police and one for the sheriff. Purchases to be made through the War Assets Administration surplus goods division with two guns mounted on patrol cars and one kept for sheriff's office emergencies.
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Athens
Ala
War Assets Administration
Aea
Sheriff's Office
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