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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1944
Page
7
Classified note seeks five acres near Decatur on a good road. Contact Mrs. H. Kirby at 944 J or write to 1620 Endlam Buld Decatur for details.
At Park Methodist church in Los AngelesRuby Nelson a 28 year old blind bride and Ben Helwig 24 who became blind in an accident nine years ago wed with a guide dog leading the way. Helwig works as an inspector at a war plant.
A raging bull on an island farm in Babylon New York gored and killed two brothers injured another man and stampeded picnickers before state troopers stopped the rampage with gunfire.
A dense listing of across and down crossword hints with clues and a cryptoquote puzzle. Includes many abbreviations and partially legible items from the Saturday edition. The cryptogram reads ANZPD FTMDSDN PZYKWZYDP 20 ZRYTMOQBCDYRX ZY IZRRIDODYTY MTNPYMTNRF and the separate cryptoquote quotes THE ADDITION OF PRIDE CONTAMINATES THE BEST MANNERS CLAUDIUS.
Zenas L. Potter, head of the Office of Congressional Information at OPA, dresses charts to explain price controls to Congress and chambers of commerce. A former advertising man and painter, Potter recalls his varied career from a cash register firm to wartime government work, and plans to return to painting after the war.
Two destroyer escorts were launched in Tampa named for Navy heroes Ensign Neal A. Scott who was killed at the Santa Cruz Islands and Lieut. (jg) Kenneth Hart Muir who perished when a merchant ship was torpedoed in the Caribbean. The ships were christened by their sisters and mark the 50th and 51st launches by the Tampa shipbuilding company.
Glory Sue Mooney two month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Carl Mooney died Sunday night at Decatur General Hospital. Services will be held Tuesday afternoon at Pine Burr Church Lawrence Cove at 2 30 o clock by Rev H G Chambers. Interment at Peck Cemetery Hartselle directed.
An infant son of Mr and Mrs Clyde Miller was laid to rest Saturday afternoon at Moses Chapel Brown directing. The infant born Friday at Decatur General Hospital.
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