Auto Dealers Meet in Birmingham Tonight
The Alabama auto dealer association holds a meeting at the Cornelian hotel tonight at 7. Joe M. Edwards of Tuskegee will report on state association activities. W Edwards of Birmingham discusses national issues. Joe M. Gatts of Atlanta outlines a new group life insurance plan for dealers. Local officers present include W S Brewbaker Joni H Marting J C Austin and Rush Stallings. John White serves as association president.
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Association of Alabama
Cornelian
Joe M. Edwards
Tuskegee
Preent
Atlanta
W. S. Brew‘baker
Joni H. Marting
Birmingham
Tusaloosa
Rush Stallings
Montgomery
John White
Election Returns Show Shifts In Democratic Balloting
Detailed counts from 1 680 boxes reveal leaders and pledges in the Public Service Commission race with Sen Lister Hill and lawmakers like Handy Ellis and Eugene Conn or among top vote getters. The tabulations also list delegates and electors for the state party, illustrating shifts and pledged standings in the contemporary contest.
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Thomas H. Maxwell
Wallace Alst
Thomas F. Harlin
Public Service Commission
Gordon
M. J. Williams
Mack R. Heatherly
Rushton
Lister Hill
Handy Ellis
Chaurncey Sparks
Eugene
Bull) Connor
J. Miller Bonner
AS “A. Carmichael
Ben Bloodworth
Walter , Co.a
Norman Atris
Edmund, Blair
Tulley A. Goodwin
W. R. Withers
Roger, Snyder
Verde Elmore
Walter F. Miller
Roy F. Parker
James A. McCollum
Forrest Castleberry
Gouy W. Hanna
Ralfe Searcy
Roy Mayhall
Herbert Meighan
Bart J. Cowart
J. A. Carnley
Elvin C. McCary
J. E
Snake) Bains
A. M. Sithmons
Florida Run-off Opens With Rapid Campaign Push
Florida governor runoff began as Dan McCarty and Fuller Warren moved quickly to build support after a seven-candidate field was narrowed. Warren led unofficial tallies with 150,387 votes to McCarty's 146,627 as the May 25 runoff date approaches in Gainesville and Fort Pierce.
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Jacksonville
Dan McCarty
Fuller Warren
Florida
Warren
Gainesville
Fort Pierce
Paving Hearing Set On Eighth Street Route
A public hearing will be held Monday June 7 at 2 PM in City Hall regarding paving of Eighth Street from Sixth to Nineteenth Avenues. Affected residents will be notified to appear and express support or opposition to the project.
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City Hall
Eighth Street
Sixth
Nineteenth Avenues
Southern states rally behind George in Democratic nominee push
Washington May 6 A move to nominate Senator George of Georgia for the Democratic presidential ticket gains support among Southern members. Governor Wright writes that five or six Southern electoral votes could back George, with Florida Alabama Arkansas Georgia and possibly Texas on board. Mississippi signals willingness to back any pro states’ rights candidate, while George remains at home due to his father’s illness. Southerners aim to reclaim the party for its traditional principles.
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Washington
Johnston
Senator George
George
Florida
Alabama
Arkansas
Georgia
Texas
Mississippi
Truman
Congress
Vienna
Macon
Democratic Party
Principales
J R Shaneyfeld Claimed By Death In Hartselle
J R Shaneyfeld 67 died at his home in Hartselle after a long illness. Services at Hartselle Methodist Church at 2 PM Saturday conducted by Rev Doyce Mitchell. Burial in Hartselle cemetery Peck directing. Survived by wife one sister Mrs Myrtle Gilbreath Warren O and five brothers Willis Hart s le Elmer Hart s le Louis Vida Ala Frank Calera and Fred Ens Jey Pallbearers listed including Yancy Glass cock L H Houston Phe Poole Sr Henry Clemons M D Shaney felt and Jack Evans.
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Ala
Frank
Calera
Fred
Ens Jey
will_be-Yancy-Glass cock
L. H. Houston
Phe “Poole Sr
Henry Clemons
D. Shaneyfelt
Jack Evans
Taft And Stassen Claim Ohio Victory In Primary
In Columbus on May 6 Harold E Stassen captured nine Ohio Republican presidential delegates while Senator Taft won the remaining 14 contested delegates plus 30 with no opposition. Both hailed the results as personal victories and said their delegates pledged support strengthens their path to the Philadelphia nominating convention.
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Taft
Stassen
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Harold E. Stassen
Earl Hart
Mrs. Stasen
Columbus
Sen-Rovert
Minnesota
O ’ Taft
Washington
Philadelphia
Minneapolis
Rites Wednesday To Be Held For Collins
Final rites were held Wednesday at the Union Church for L. D. Collins 70 of Somerville 2 who died Tuesday at Decatur Pace Hospital. Burial was in Valdermosa Cemetery with Peck of Hartselle directing Rev. Kilpatrick conducted the services. Surviving are one daughter Mrs Earnest Bartlett one brother T S Collins and five grandchildren. Pallbearers were Lovick Collins Sherrill Williams Willis Williams Herschel Dean Luther Williams and Louis Williams.
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The
Arab forces in Middle East vow to invade Palestine after May
An Arab newspaper quotes King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan saying he will lead armies from Trans-Jordan Syria Lebanon and Iraq into Palestine. He rejects a general truce as submission to Zionist demands and asserts his stand to enter Palestine with his troops after May 15 despite changing troop movements in the region.
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Trans-Jordan
Abullah
Syria
Lebanon
Iraq
Palestine
Children Burned To Death In Selma Fire
Two young children died when a house burned in Selma Alabama as parents worked in a field. The four year old boy Henry Dawson and his one and a half year old sister Hary were left with a six year old brother who had gone to tend a cow when the blaze broke out.
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Selma
Ala
Conover Renard Reynolds
Henry Dawson
Hary
Reading Basis For Teaching Reading Basis For Teaching
Miss Julia Teasley lectured at the Morgan County Teachers association meeting in Hartselle on reading as the core of teaching. She urged teachers to emphasize reading in the curriculum and discussed plans for the coming year. The session included a straw vote favoring nine months of salary. County Superintendent H R Leeman urged summer school and noted higher training boosts pay by about 300 dollars yearly.
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Julia Teasley
Morgan County Teachers’ Association
Hartselle
Teasley
Scott, Foreman Company
Faye Parker
Randolph Ryan
Office of the Sound Superintendents of Education
Markets at a Glance May 6 1930s United States
Markets show gains in stocks with rails and oils recovering. Bond activity mixed with rails improving. Cotton steady as mills buy. Chicago wheat firm with small mill purchases. corn firm amid rail strike threat. oats firm with short covering. Hogs unevenly steady to 50 cents higher top 21.00. Cattle mostly steady to 50 cents higher, top 32.00.
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Chicago
Nashville-Evstock Nashville Livestock Prices May Six
Nashville May 6 Four Federal State Departments of Agriculture report cattle prices scarce outlet light few early sales near steady. Steers and heifers 26.00 27.25 cows 21.50 med bulls 22.50 hogs 190 230 lb 20.25 235 290 lb 19.00 over 300 lb 16.50 sows 14.50 down. Sheep 200 head steady good and choice spring lambs 26.00 28.00 medium 20.00 21.00 old crop wool lambs 22.00 24.00 shorn lambs 20.50 22.50.
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Nashville
Federal State Departments of Agriculture
Grain futures hold firm as strike talks draw attention
Chicago May 6 grain prices show mixed moves with wheat ending barely higher, corn up small amounts, oats gaining modestly, and soybeans slipping. Early losses gave way to a rally, keeping grain futures steady despite rail strike concerns.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
North Georgia live poultry market steady on fryers
In Atlanta on May 6 the north Georgia live poultry market stayed steady for good quality fryers with prices unchanged. Light-weight fryers were ample but not as readily offered as earlier in the week, while heavy weight fryers remained in short supply. Some off quality bareback fryers were offered but not purchased, and shippers paid 35 to 36 cents for farm fryers picked up Wednesday afternoon and this morning.
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Atlanta
North Georgia
Cemetery Cleaning Dates Are Announced
Pleasant Grove church Joppa 3 schedules cemetery cleaning for the Saturdays before the second and fourth Sundays in May with a joint program by Pleasant Grove and Ryan Baptist. All are invited to report, there will be a preaching service, and dinner will be served.
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Pleasant Grove
Ryan Baptist
Bill Passed Washington War Funds for Air Force Expansion
Senators approved a $3.233 billion defense bill to start a 70 group combat air force, with strong support. The measure heads to the House to resolve Senate amendments after the House already backed expanding the air forces and Navy air arm 343 to 3.
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Washington
Senate
House
Clergy conduct morning services and local notices
Westminster pastor Rev John A Troxler speaks on A Mothers Great Hope and other services are listed. Rev Eugene Chapman topics The Mother Came To Jesus. May 9 gospel meeting starts at South Decatur Church of Christ with R D Underwood preaching. Dr J G Dowling ill at St Vincents Birmingham. Sheriff reports no arrests. Harrison Hill to attend clerks convention in Montgomery May 7-8. Robert Pruitt Masterson Jr recovering from tonsil surgery. Ewell K Gregg vacationing in Havana Cuba.
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John A. Troxler
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Jesus
Eugene Chapman
St. John’s Episcopal Church
South Decatur
Harrison Hill
Morgan County
Ac Ee Association of
Montgomery
Whitley Hotel
U.S. Delegation Opposes Charter Change In UN
The House Foreign Affairs Committee debated altering the United Nations charter but Secretary of State Marshall and Ambassador Warren Austin argued against it. They urged continued aid to non communist nations and stronger U S military effort abroad. Rep Eaton said he reversed his earlier support after testimony.
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House Foreign Affairs Committee
United Nations
Marshall
Warren Austin
U. S
Rep. Eaton
R-Nj
Senate votes shift on oleo taxes and press leak bill
In a senate test vote opponents of repeal faced a setback as oleo tax repeal moves toward probable passage. Separately a House bill threatened reporters with jail for printing leaks but Rep. Hoffman proposed dropping that provision, saying it targeted neither reporters nor confidential information.
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House
Senate
Agriculture Or Finance Committee
Congress
Rep
Hoffman
R-Mich
E A Rogers Laid To Rest At Antioch
Final rites for E A Rogers 82 of Athens were held at Hayes Mill Church of Christ at 2 PM. Rev A W Rollins led the service. Burial was at Antioch cemetery with Spry of Athens directing. Survived by wife four sons Lukas C Nettleton Ark Jesse H Will T Athens 8 Joe G Elkmont 7 one daughter Mrs J A Faulk Athens 8 ten grandchildren four great grandchildren and other relatives.
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Hayes Mill Church of Christ
E.A. Rogers
Athens
A. W. Rollins
Antioch Cemetery
Lukas C. Nettleton
Ark
Jesse H
Will .T
Joe .G
Elkmont
J. A. Faulk
DeKalb Resident Found Dead In Ditch
The body of 71 year old R. Lee Harrison, a prominent DeKalb County resident, was found yesterday in a ditch near Fort Payne Alabama. Police investigated the death as a probable accident with details pending. Local officials noted Harrison’s standing in the community and his involvement in county affairs.
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DeKalb
Fort.payne
Ala
R. Lee Harrison
DeKalb County
Deeds Listed In Daily Records Transfers
Daily Records shows multiple real estate transfers including H H Higdon to O M Hutcheson for 500 dollars. Nora Metcalf to Fred Green 400. B C Shelton trustee to Amanda L Pok 171. Lillie D Tanner to Melvin J Blackwood 100. James H Wright to D Earl Craze 7500. D L Blackwell Jr to G A Blackwell Jr 250. Claude A Chambers to Alton B Martin 1000. J F Cole to Ora M Jones 1250. William M Johnson to Felton Stone 1000. King to J D Caldwell ak fa. Felton Stone to Harvey F Self 1000.
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Deeds H. H. Higdon
O. M. Hutcheson
Nora Metcalf
Fred. Green
B. C. Shelton
Amanda L. Pok
Lillie D. Tanner
Melvin J. Blackwood
James H. Wright
D. Earl Craze
D. L. Blackwell Jr
G. A. Blackwell Jr
Claude A. Chambers
Alton B. Martin
J. F. Cole
Ora M. Jones
William M. Johnson
Felton Stone
Co. O. King
J. D. Caldwell
Ak Fa
Harvey F. Self
County Group To Be Given Banquet By Chain Stores
Decatur chain store merchants plan a dinner for Morgan County Home Demonstration officers Friday at 7 30 P M at First Ward school. It is the first annual dinner with prizes for Home Demonstration Woman of the Year. Robert Cromwell will be featured as organist.
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Decatur
Morgan County
First Ward
Robert Cromwell
Marks Leads Montgomery County Judge Runoff Field
Alex A. Marks of Montgomery led the race for judge of the court of common pleas with 4,370 votes and advances to a runoff against incumbent T Lomax Crum who had 3,841 votes. Marks is married to Frances McMillian of Decatur.
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Alex A. Marks
Montgomery
Claude McMillian
Third Avenue
Court of Common Pleas
Marks
T. Lomax Crum
Frances McMillian
Decatur
Local Teacher Justice of the Peace Hit by Suspected Vehicle
Officers say a longtime Rainsville resident and former North Carolina native was struck while crossing the road near the Rainsville Fyfte highway late Tuesday night. He was a schoolteacher and justice of the peace for many years.
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Rainsville-Fyfte Highway
Rainsville
Harrison
North Carolina
Yost Speaks at Decatur Kiwanis Meeting
Raymond Yost governor of Alabama Ki District spoke at Hotel Lyons to a Decatur Kiwanis audience presided by Charles Winston. He praised Decatur for club activities and noted plans to form new clubs in Arab and Hartselle while inviting attendance at Cullman Strawberry Festival.
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Decatur Kiwanis
Raymond Yost
Cullman
Alabama
Hotel Lyons
Charles Winston
Joe Wheeler
Lois Hoppers
R. S. Hicks
Decatur
Mike Dilling
Birmingham
Joe Guyton
Dick Kennedy
Fred Hunt
Redus Collier
Dwight Mixson
Sam Malone
Ned Polhill
Tom Bowles
Mr. Yost
Kiwanis
Hartselle
Yost
Direc#tors
Decaturely
Folsom Bride Wedding Ties to Alabama Politics
Governor Folsom and his bride returned to Montgomery after a brief talk with reporters. He recalled meeting the young woman who becomes Alabama's first lady as he paused a speech to greet her. The ceremony occurred as Folsom's presidential ambitions waver, with a May 12 hearing set for a paternity case and his poll position in a crowded Democratic field.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Folsom
Ensley
Ala
Rachel
Melissa
Christine Johnson
Hanceville
Rail unions hold line amid talks and looming rail strike
President Truman weighs options to end the dispute as unions press for a 12 12 cent hourly raise and rules changes. With mediation stalled, plans for a Tuesday strike loom while L and N and Southern Railway embargo perishables starting Friday and Saturday.
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Mr. Truman
White House
National Mediation Board
Congress
Mediation Board
Frank P. Douglass
Francis A. O’neill, Jr
John R. Steelman
D. B. Robertson
Washington
Legislative Committee
Louisville
Nashville
Southern Railway System
Southern System
Ernest E. Norris
Rabies tests find no evidence in three animal heads
The Decatur Branch State laboratory examined a dog head from Decatur, a cat head from Cullman, and a horse head from Russellville this week. No rabbis found in any. The lab issued rabies treatments but received no requests locally. five were sent to Huntsville, three to Scottsboro, and one to Hartselle.
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Decatur Branch State Laboratory
Deecatur
Cullman
Russellville 2
Huntsville
Scottsboro
Hartselle
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St. Vincent's Hospital
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Cullman County
Talladega School For
C. B. Humphrey
Little Robert Pruitt Masterson, Jr
Prospect Drive
Emens Clinic
Ewell K. Gregg
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
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Cuba
Holy
Mishmar Haemek
Patent
E. A. Rogers
Antioch
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