Reds Warned by Lilienthal at United Nations
Lilienthal warned that the United States will retain and grow its lead in atomic energy and weapons until a world agency enforces international control. The U N atomic energy commission debated veto power and jurisdiction as Russia urged council oversight, while Lilienthal urged an effective international agreement to end national rivalries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations
United States
E. Lilienthal
U. Atomic Energy
World Agency
U.N. Atomic Energy Commission
Russia
Security Council
Lilienthal
Andrei A. Gromyko
United States Atomic Energy Commission
U. S
Atomic Authority
Veterans nominate officers for year in Alabama meeting
United States Spanish War Veterans in Montgomery nominated Hughes B. Kennedy of Birmingham and S. Morgan Stewart of Huntsville for department commander. Mobile will host next year’s convention. Charles G. Hurst was unopposed for junior vice department commander. Auxiliary officers were named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
United States
Hughes B. Kennedy
Birmingham
S. Morgan Stewart
Huntsville
Mobile
Pit Aan Guisten
Charles G. Hurst
George J. Flournoy
Mary Emma Houk
Bessemer
Irene Petty
Flossis Johns
Viola Hodges
Laduska McFarland
Attendance Awards At Gordon Bibb School
Perfect attendance awards are given by Gordon Bibb School across grades. First graders Benford Chenault Emley McClary earn recognition, followed by second graders Johnny Raye Goode Kenneth Johnson Neil Daly Mary Ellen Richardson Patricia Ann Milam. Third graders Rupert Billions Billy Ray Wooten Mary Virginia Roan Martha Oden receive honors. Fourth graders Janie Sue Craft Nancy Manley Carolyn Wyatt Thomas Lynn Barn Fifth graders Sammie Schooley Bob Hardeman Bobby Cox Alice Jean Owen Floyd Sherrod named for perfect attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon-Bibb
Benford Chenault
Emley McClary
Johnny Raye Goode
Kenneth Johnson
Neil Daly
Mary Ellen Richardson
Patricia Ann Milam
Rupert Billions
Billy Ray Wooten
Mary Virginia Roan
Martha Oden
Janie Sue Craft
Nancy Manley
Carolyn Wyatt
Thomas Lynn Barn
Sammie Schooley
Bob Hardeman
Bobby Cox
Alice Jean Owen
Floyd Sherrod
Streams Level Off After Floods In Northwestern Pennsylvania
Streams swollen by heavy spring rains leveled off in Northwestern Pennsylvania after flooding a dozen communities and washing out a section of the Erie railroad bed, disrupting a New York to Chicago passenger train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meadville
Markets tilt to recovery on steady trading and grain prices
New York markets show a constructive tilt as offerings thin and corporate notes buoy sentiment. Steel and motor shares lead a midday comeback, with fractional gains near the close and about 700000 shares traded. cotton futures edge higher, and Chicago grain quotes firm with soft wheat at 2.65, white corn 1.98, yellow corn 1.94, oats 0.95. Local Decatur cash grain prices for No 1 Soft wheat 2.65, milo 3.00, barley 1.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Steels and Motors
Chicago
Decatur
Alabama Flour Mills
New York Cotton Futures Jump Across Board
New York Cotton futures closed higher with gains ranging from 0.70 to 2.10 per bale versus the prior close. Market activity shows July through May contracts advancing with midmonth notes and various bid levels, led by middling spot at 36.98.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Butter Eggs Market Report From Chicago
Butter weak with receipts 1,226,021 and scores AA 61 to 92. 90 B 58, 89 C 56. Eggs steady with receipts 22,777.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
North Georgia Poultry Market Steady with Subtle Undercurrent
North Georgia poultry market held near steady with unsettled undertone. Some districts show stronger outside buying while others see less interest. trucks return from North Carolina and Shenandoah Valley. Supplies ample. processors buying at moderate pace. Chicken prices FOB farm for 21 to 22 3 4 lb birds mostly 34 cents with some at 34 1 2 cents.
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Atlanta
North Georgia
North Carolina
Shenandoah Valley
Nashville Livestock Prices Reported With Light Receipts
Nashville Tenn June 3 Federal State Departments of Agriculture cattle receipts light but early sales steady. Loads 850 lbs good steers 23.75. over 1 050 lbs top medium to good 22.00 with some 20.00. Canner and cutter cows 10.00-13.00. good beef bulls to 16.00. calves steady 20.50-26.00 for good vealers. Hogs generally 25 lower. barrows 23.50 180-240 lbs. 22.25 245-300 lbs. over 300 lbs 19.75. Sheep 1300 head. spring lambs 24.50-26.50 top 26.50. heavies 22.50. mds 18.50. ewes 7.00 down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Tenn
Federal State Departments of Agriculture
Markets at a Glance New York and Chicago Updates
Markets at a Glance reports June market notes with NY stock bids steady. Bonds show mixed movement as rails improve. Cotton rises on mill buying while Chicago wheat and corn rise on government purchases and weather. Oats advance with grains. Hogs mix, down to 24 dollars top. cattle steady to 25 cents lower, top 27.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
Grain futures rise on renewed government buying and heat reports
On June 3 in Chicago grain futures jumped as government purchases and weather concerns supported prices. Wheat gained 3 to 4 1/2 cents with July at 2.29 3-4 to 2.30, corn up 3 3-8 to 4 5-8 cents with July 1.83 3-8 to 1-2, oats 5-8 to 2 3-4 higher with July 92 3-8 to 1-2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Board of Trade Today
Sheriff to lead graduation procession at University of Georgia
Clarke County Sheriff Walter E. Jackson will lead the June 13 graduation procession at the University of Georgia. He wears a long black frock coat a plum hat and a red sash in the colorful event noted as among the most vivid in the university’s 144 year history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Clarke County
Walter E. Jackson
University of Georgia
Porter Goes to Brevard for Red Cross Aquatic School
George Porter, chairman of the Morgan County Red Cross water safety committee, leaves Decatur for Brevard North Carolina to serve on the national staff of a Red Cross aquatic school June 4 14. Accompanying him are Ralph Halbrooks Mobby Golden Billy Weaver and Hamil Hamilton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Porter
American Red Cross
Morgan County
Decatur
Brevard
N.C
Red Cross Aquatic School
Porter
Ralph Halbrooks
Mobby Golden
Billy Weaver
Hamil Hamilton
Hart=selle
Halbrooks
Golden
Weaver
Hamilton
Red Cross
Crystal Plunge
W. R. Rogers Jr
Courthouse
Horace Broom
Hartselle
Montgomery Bell State Park
White Bluff
Tenn
Ollie Lee Smith
Zeno Baugh
Negro Aquatic School
Tennessee A
I. College For
Nashville
Graduation Addresses Emphasize Education and New Deal Benefits
Congressman lauds TVA and Roosevelt era programs while urging passage of an income tax amendment. He praises Alabama leaders for social health measures and urges parents to keep children in school as graduates reflect on economic health in the Tennessee Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TVA
Alabama
Bruce Henderson
Henderson
Montgomery
Decatur
Dobbins
Tennessee Valley
Washington
Roosevelt
National Association of Manufacturers
America
Jordan
Pupils Enjoy Numerous School Outings in Late May
The Gordon Bibb elementary pupils held multiple picnics and outings from May 22 to May 30. Teachers and home room mothers organized events at Delano Park and local homes, with refreshments, games, and visits from guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon-Bibb
Elizabeth Peer
Edgar Nichols
Neill
John Goode
Carl Bradshaw
Gordon Taft
Hacker
Wear
Delano Park
Georgia B. White
W. J. Williams
Edmond D. Keith
W. L. White
Bank Building
Bank Street
Public Library
Alabama Drug Store
Book Club
Miss Simmons
A. C. Bailey
H. R. Sherrow
R. B. Odom
E. W. Strother
D. E. Warren
P. W. Nungester
H. M. Layman
Jimmie Gillespie
Lee
Davis
Williamson
Cagle
Miss Gillespie
McClanahan
J. D
Congressional Briefs On Treaties And Economic Issues
The piece outlines U S. moves to approve pacts with Italy Hungary Romania and Bulgaria amid Republican opposition The Senate House caucus considers a veto on the union curbs bill Labor’s injunctions on strikes and the closed shop are debated Taft calls for price hearings while Buck flags rent control disputes Congressional panels probe steel gray market and universal training plans Appropriations rise in Treasury Post Office bill while labor federal security agencies funding is trimmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Bridges
R-Nh
U. S
House
Truman
Senate
Rep. Madden
D-Ind
Taft
Ohio
Senate-House Committee On
Buck
R.del
AD Steel
Universal Training
Andrews
House Armed Services Committee
Treasury-Post Office
Treasury
Probe of Mystery Deaths Postponed in Southport
Coroner Charles Bolton adjourned the inquest into pathologist James Houston’s death until June 24. He tied the case to the unexplained deaths of Dr. Robert Clements and his four wives as inquests for Clements and his fourth wife also set for that date. Houston was found dead in his office with a small bottle nearby as he was to report autopsy results on Mrs. Clements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southport
Eng
James Houston
Robert Clements
Charles Bolton
Bolton
Clements
Houston
Polio Outbreak Costs Over 30 Million, Officials Say
The 1946 polio outbreak, the second worst in U.S. history, is projected to cost more than $30,000,000 to the American people, according to the Poliomyelitis Epidemic Preparedness Conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnstown
Local Names List From Historic Page Revealed
A scattered OCR fragment lists numerous individuals including Gene Lentz Robert Long Kari Mittwede Elizabeth Motes Janet Patterson Patsy Patterson Earl Pettey Wanda Pettey Peggy Port wood Aaron Powers Marie Pruitt and others from the town and surrounding area. The text appears as a partial roster of residents or attendees with several truncated entries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ers
Gene Lentz
Robert Long
Kari Mittwede
Elizabeth Motes
Janet Patterson
Patsy Patterson
Earl Pettey
Wanda Pettey
Peggy Portwood
Aaron Powers
Marie Pruitt
Mary Evelyn Randle
Gene Ratliff
Martha Haynes Rigel
Charles Riley
Mary Anne Rourtree
Carolyn Roper
Paul Rozear
Margie Scroggins
Irby Sherrill
Margaret Simpson
Richard Smith
Denson Smith
Anne Smith
Melvin Stone
John Swat
Birmingham Taxi Drivers Strike Shuts City Cabs
About 275 workers from Whitman’s Black and White and Veterans Cab Co. walked out in Birmingham, leaving all cabs idle and halting white taxi service. AFL Local 887 members seek a 5 to 10 cent hourly raise after wage negotiations stalled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Whitman’s
Black and White, Co
Veterans Cab Co
William S. Pierce
U. S. Conciliation Service
AFL
City Court Action in Decatur May Totals
City of Decatur collected 5231 in city court in May as Chief J. B. Whitmire reports. Drunk and disorderly cases number 54, with 44 disorderly conduct brought before Mayor H. Summer and 15 driving while intoxicated. Gambling and prohibition violations total 13 each, plus 10 assault cases, seven fighting, five driving without a license, and four drunk and disorderly. Minor counts include one carrying a pistol without a permit, one petty larceny, and one shooting in city limits. The police conducted 270 investigations and 14 traffic accidents. Burglaries: five. cars stolen: four with three recovered. two trucks stolen with one recovered. six bicycles stolen with one recovered. Seventeen articles stolen, one recovered. ten missing persons, seven found. One murder suspect turned over to county authorities. One assault case noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Summer
Whitmire
Deestur
Honor Roll Lists Public at Decatur High School
Honor rolls at Decatur High School were released by Principal W T Jordan. The Senior 3 group includes Paul Eubanks Gene Lentz Patsy Patterson Aaron Powers Ann Smith Joann Harrison Raymond Whitt Robert Long. Senior 2 lists Gay Penn Carol Smith. Senior 1 names Betty Zane Douthit Glenn Green Shirley Ann Hill Fennell Garnett Murray Yarborough Benny Ray Flack Gene Brown Mary Ann Blackwell Mary Ann Bagley Jimmy Tatum Alfred Matthews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janett Patterson
Lois Town
Joann Harrison
Kathryn Wiley
Nancy Thomason
Raymond Whitt
Martha Blizzard
Anne Smith
Jack Catlett
Robert Long
Paul Eubanks
Gene Lentz
Patsy Patterson
Aaron Powers
Melvin Stone
Joe Brewer
Richard Smith
Pat Morgan
I Gay Penn
Carol Smith
Vivian Sheats
Ruth Sneed
Melba Halbrooks
Melba Long
Bobby Golden
Margaret Peck
Betty McRae
Dan Crane
Jimmy Carl
Nelda Randle
Gilbert
Darwyn Braswell
Helen Breeding
Laura Carall
Richard Clanton
Kathryn Compton
William D
Compton Geraldine Craig
Wanda Craig
James Cunningham
James Davis
Leslie Doss
Billy Ennis
David Farrer
Marvelene Ferguson
David Feild
Jimmely Floyd
Jewel Flack
Gaines, Jr
Charlyne Garnett
Kara Geary
Nancy Gillespie
Carl Gibson
Decatur High School
W.T. Jordan
Ann Smith
Gay Penn
Betty Zane Douthit
Glenn Green
Shirley Ann Hill
Fennell Garnett
Murray Yarbrough
Benny Ray Flack
Gene Brown
Mary Ann Blackwell
Mary Ann Bagley
Jimmy Tatum
Alfred Matthews
Sarah Vinson
Mary Allen Spencer
Elma Jean Davis
Edna Mae Stewart
Charles Voehringer
Needham Long
Joy Bolin
Betty Faye Julian
Etna Ree Carroll
Joann Clayton
Brewer Kenton
Local residents listed as patients and visitors
Floyd C. Jackson at the Hamil clinic is a medical patient. Harry Bottis of Bank Street merchants is also listed as resting well at the Hamil clinic. Miss Lillian Britton and Miss Gladys Vinson have returned to Anniston after visiting Decatur with Vinson’s parents and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd C. Jackson
East Cain Street
Hamil Clinic
Lillian Britton
Gladys
Harry Bottis
Bank Street
Inland steel official refutes gray market talk
Joseph L. Block of Inland Steel Company testified to a senate subcommittee that reports of large gray market steel sales are empty talk. He admitted several carloads of Inland steel were sold domestically months earlier at prices up to three times their mill value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Joseph L. Block
Inland Steel Company
Chicago
Block
Inland
Senate
Inland Steel
Churchill Warns Partition May Be Near for India
The report quotes Winston Churchill describing a partition proposal as a possible escape from a hideous calamity in India and noting it could offer a prospect of relief from widespread ravages across the subcontinent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Churchill
India
Partition
Plane patrol planned for Alabama gulf coast
In Mobile Alabama the State Conservation Department plans to use an airplane to patrol the Alabama gulf coast to prevent out of season shrimping. Director Bert E Thomas announced the plan after a test revealed large quantities of baby shrimp likely to reach edible size in the off season. Full details of the plan were not outlined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
State Conservation Department
Alabama Gulf Coast
Bert E. Thomas
Thomas
City council approves Enolam Boulevard paving and Sixth Avenue parking
The council ordered paving of Enolam Boulevard from 1600 to 1800 blocks with estimated cost about 4278 dollars and set a July seventh public hearing. Kingsmore delivered a petition to pave the 1800 block and Jim Flowers won approval to allow west side parking on Sixth Avenue from Prospect Drive to Sixth Street. Two new street lights were approved for Jackson Street 1000 block and the Washington Walnut corner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enolam Boulevard
M. L. Kingsmore
Kingsmore
Jim Flowers
Sixth Avenue
Prospect Drive
Sixth Street
Jackson Street
Washington Street
Walnut Street
Mystery of Dog in Ocean Solved
Skipper the sea-going cocker spaniel was found 10 miles from shore near Long Beach by Beverly Hills couple after being picked from the Pacific. The Watsons of Long Beach later claimed the dog, revealing Skipper had been aboard their Catalina island cruiser for a week and likely went overboard when unobserved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dabney
Long Beach
Watsons
Catalina
Linstrums
New Instructor Named to Lead Birmingham Southern Art Dept
Raymond J. MacMahon, an instructor and graduate student at the University of Georgia, is chosen to organize and head the art department at Birmingham Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a Savannah native and Benedictine Academy alumnus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens, Ga
Raymond J. MacMahon
University of Georgia
Birmingham Southern College
Birmingham
Ala
MacMahon
Savannah
Benedictine Academy
Monday Fines Totaling Six Hundred Fifteen Dollars
Thirteen cases tried in city police court Monday resulted in fines or forfeited bonds totaling 615 dollars. Three defendants paid 100 dollar fines for driving while intoxicated. A 100 dollar cash bond was forfeited for a prohibition violation. A 15 dollar bond was forfeited and a 10 dollar fine levied for disorderly conduct. Two 15 dollar fines were for traffic violations. Two drunks were fined 10 dollars, another 15 dollars, and a 25 dollar bond was forfeited in a separate drunkenness case.
Rotary program highlights and birthday notices at meeting
Rotary club committee chair John McGehee led Monday’s program while President Stanley Wyatt was en route to the San Francisco convention. Guests included H E Orr Allison Bailey Kemp Rogers Dobbins and Jackson. The attendance prize went to Harvey Pride and birthdays were celebrated for W J Williams Billy Duncan Frank Stone Dr Sam Pruett and James H Johnson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John McGehee
Rotary
O. S. Hagerman
Stanley Wyatt
San Francisco
H. E. Orr
Hartselle
Allison
Bailey
Decatur
Robert Kemp
Beckley
West, Va
R. E. Rogers
W. M. Jackson
Charles Dobbins
Montgomery
Harvey Pride
W. J. Williams
Billy Duncan
Frank Stone
Sam Pruett
James H. Johnson
McGehee
Hafford Leeman
Germans Return Home After War Internment
In Ludwigshurg Germany on June 3 thirty six Germans deported by the United States will be freed in their homeland in the coming days. The Justice Department calls them a cargo of human dynamite and notes seven are criminals while 29 are deemed too dangerous to stay in the United States. Most were interned during the war and include Nazi sympathizers and draft dodgers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ludwigsburg
Germany
United States
Justice Department
French Ambassador Bonnett Accepts Alabama Speaking Date
Henri Bonnett the French ambassador to the United States tentatively accepts an invitation to address the Alabama chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French at Jacksonville on October 30 He wrote Senators Hill and Sparkman that barring unforeseen circumstances he will speak at Jacksonville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonnet
Washington
Henri Bonnett
United States
Alabama
American Association of Teachers of French
Jacksonville
Ala
Hill and Sparkman
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Le-Roy
le- Roy
A. M
Matthews
Wall Street
Decatur Grain
A. V. Washburn
Baptist Sunday School Board
Dillehay
Grant
East Moulton Street
Youngstown
Pride Motor CO
Hudson
Second Ave
Bank
Pepsi-Cola CompAny
Long Island City
N.Y
Pepsi-Cola Bottling CO
Deep Freeze
E. Moulton St
Firestone Supply Store
Hartselle Firestone Supply Store
Alabama Metals CO
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