Girls Camp Achieves Success At Cole Spring 4-H Grounds
More than 70 participants including Morgan County girls counselors pastors wives visitors and leaders gathered May 28 31 at the Cole Spring 4-H Club grounds for a Girls Auxiliary camp promoted by Mrs Eu Dugger and directed by Mary Eden Yancy Martha Dawson and Crea Ridenour. The event featured training sessions junior manuals and mission studies and a program led by Rev Joseph Gomes and G A meetings with a recreational schedule including softball horseshoes biking and crafts.
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Morgan County
Cole
EU~ Dugger
W. M
Mary Eden
Yancy
Camp Hill
Ala
Martha Dawson
Decatur
Crea Ridenour
Tennessee
Girls Scouts Play Day Set in Delano Park
A Girl Scout playday will be held in Delano park behind the armory from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Tuesday June 5. Mrs. Erskine Chenault announced that over 200 persons are expected. Eleven troops will demonstrate and compete in events including four relay races a 30 yard dash and a water boiling race. Lunch will be served on the grounds at 6:00 p.m.
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Delano Park
Armory
Erskine Chenault
Bonus Pay Granted to Alabama Dock Workers
About 40 railway employees at the Alabama state docks and terminals receive a dollar daily bonus under a new agreement replacing retroactive pay. Enginemen firemen switch foremen and switchmen had sought four cents an hour from April 1, 1943 and nine cents an hour from December 17, 1943 in back pay disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Alabama State
Chinese health worker studies Alabama sanitation systems
Shu Fang Wang, a former Chinese army captain, examines sanitation work by the Alabama Health Department and health activities in several counties. He will spend about three weeks in Alabama as one of 16 Chinese health workers visiting the United States under sponsorship of the U S Public Health Service.
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Montgomery
Ala
Shu Fang Wang
Alabama Health Department
Shu
United States
U. S. Public Health Service
Records And Events Involving Lindbergh and Local Names
A list of names including Lindbergh Chatman Talucah Eulah D Rodgers and many others from Decatur Hartselle Huntsville Danville and nearby towns appears alongside numerous property transfers and loan records. Entries show individuals such as J Emer son McCulloch and several transfers like Albany Lodge No 159 to J Emer son McCulloch for 4000 dollars and City of Decatur to David Livingston for 250 dollars.
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Lindbergh
Chatman
Talucah
Eulah D. Rodgers
Talucahe
Douglas Grady Prince
Hartselle
Sallie R. Mandy Lawrence
Fred Lyle Wilhoite
Somerville
Alice Elizabeth Johnson
Huntsville
Kyle Calvin Long
Danville
Alma Jean White
Decatur
Thomas Brown
Elizabeth Holyfield
James Lloyd Wallace
Janie Belle Cowan
Roy Benjamin Patterson
Mary Louise Johnson
New Madrid
William Thomas Brown
Valhermosa Springs
Eoma Brown
Lacey's Springs
Emory Hestus Holmes
Bobbie Lee Johnsonn
Arnold Edgar Johnson
Cullman
Alene Sly
Harvey Floyd Self
Ruby Jane Johnson
Albany Lodge No
J. Emerson McCulloch
City of
David Livingston
S. B. Echols
Ely Brandes Praised for Harvard Philosophy Club Talk
Ely Brandes former Birmingham News staffer and Birmingham Southern graduate earned praise at Harvard University for leading the final Philosophy Club session. He presented a May 22 paper on Benedetto Croce and led a discussion with Prof Gaetano Salvemini and others from Harvard MIT. Brandes, Rosenwald grant winner, earned his MA in history at Harvard this year.
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Ely Brandes
W. A. Ellner
Fifth Avenue West
Philosophy Club
Harvard University
Brandes
Birmingham News-Age-Herald
Age-Herald
Birmingham - Southern College
Benedetto Croce
Phillips Brooks House
Gaetano Salvemini
Harvard
University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vienna
Ramsay High School
Birmingham Southern
County home inmate crisis prompts governor’s aid pledge
Jefferson County Commissioner Henry W. Sweet asked the state to take charge of insane patients at the county home in Ketona. Gov. Chauncey Sparks pledged to do everything in his power to relieve the situation as the 37 insane residents and 155 other inmates await relief.
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Sparks
Birmingham
Ala
Jefferson County
Henry W. Sweet
Chauncey Sparks
Ketona
Local Property Transfers and Marriage Licenses Listed
Property deeds record transfers from R L Roberson to James F Roberson for 300 dollars and other transactions including Lawrence C Good to Lyle Mason for 125 dollars, V H Persall to Carson Fergerson for 1600, and multiple marriage license entries with names and rural Alabama towns. Also listed are recipients Dan Letson Eva Turner. Harry W Gray to Richardine Ford. Clifton Hurst to Inas Robbins. Dave Rutherford to Pauline Pierce.
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R. L. Roberson
James F. Roberson
Lawrence’ C. Good
Lyle Mason
V.H. Persall
Carson Fergerson
Ann Terry
Andrew Garth
Floise O'Neal
Mae Terry
Mattie R. Jones
Sid L. Harrison
Pink Key
Pink Key~ and Wife To —Paul—H. Houston
Sallie Walker
Masco
Lula Gray
Byron
Daniel Letson
Rt. 1
Courtland
Ala
Eva Turner
Hillsboro
Harry Walter Gray
Natronal Penn
Richardine Ford
Hot Springs
Ark
Clifton Hurst
Landersville
Inas Robbins
Dave Rutherford
Pauline Pierce
Hodges Comes to Alabama for First Army Day
General Courtney Hodges arrives in Birmingham to meet 40 wounded First Army veterans from Northington General Hospital and address a large war bond rally. He notes he cannot say when units will return home and recalls his 1942 ties to the state. Mrs. Hodges accompanies him.
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Birmingham
Ala
Courtney H. Hodges
First Army
Northington
Géneral—Hospital
Tus
Army Air Base
Army Ground Forces
Hodges
Gen. Hodges
Alabama
Parole Denied for Old Escapee Returned to Kilby Prison
An escaped Black convict captured after 36 years of freedom must serve at least six months of his original 10 to 12 year sentence. He was returned to Kilby prison in Montgomery after parole was denied.
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Montgomery
Ala
Kilby
Summer School Opens Monday at Decatur Junior High
A summer school term for junior high and senior high students will begin at 9 00 Monday morning at Decatur Junior High School. The program was announced Saturday by principal W T Jordan. The article notes that most courses offered will cover a broad range.
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Decatur Junior High
W.T. Jordan
Pardon Board Chair Comments on Escape Inquiry
Chair man Alex Smith of the state pardon parole board said today an escape is under investigation. He offered no further details on the case or potential suspects.
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Alex Smith
State Pardon Parole Board
Private James Mathews Completes First Month in Service
PVT. JAMES LOUIS MATHEWS is stationed at Camp Blanding Florida after completing his first month of service. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Mathews of 306 East Moulton Street.
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Pvt
James Louis Mathews
Camp Blanding
Florida
G. C Mathews
E. Moulton Street
Final class scheduling left to students says Mr Jordan
Mr Jordan stated that final scheduling of classes will be left to the discretion of the students, with English mathematics and history among the subjects involved.
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Deoe
Jordan
State Guard seeks 52 men in Decatur unit
The Decatur State Guard unit needs 52 men aged 18 to 55. A recruiting feed will be held at the armory Thursday at 9:00 PM. New members sign for three years with voluntary participation and receive Army pay and about 300 dollars in equipment. Regular drills are Thursdays 8 to 10 PM with a camp at Camp Siebert, July 22 to 29, optional attendance. Nearby gardening tip notes watering tomatoes eggplants and peppers to prevent wilting.
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Decatur
State Guard
R. B. Freeman
Capt. Freeman
Camp Siebert
Gadsden
Sailor ends 10 month disguise as wife in West Virginia desertion case
Raymond Russell Clark, a sailor from Little Creek naval station, was arrested in Wheeling for desertion after living 10 months as a woman. He cared for two children, did housework, cooked, and sewed while his wife and mother worked. Deputies and an FBI agent traced him to his home where he appeared in a gingham dress. He admitted identity once confronted and was taken to jail awaiting offshore patrol arrival. Hair was cut at county jail.
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Wheeling
W. Va
George Gonter
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Raymond Russell Clark
Little Creek
Gonter
Clark
Stoppage Halts Tennessee Iron Furnaces Idle Thousands
A work stoppage at Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Ensley blast furnaces and 10 other plants left about 5,000 employees idle. The company blamed yesterday’s stoppage on a dispute over an incentive pay plan, with output losses noted at 4,500 tons daily in pig iron and 4,200 tons daily in roby iron.
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Birmingham
Ala
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Ensley
TCI
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M. G. Julian
J. M. Ditto
Pearline Miller
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Renee Hodllimond
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Gordon L. Pesnell
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W. B. Riddle
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David Manning
W. J. Sandlin
J. T. West
Ray L. Patterson
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Gene Ahern
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Water of the
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