Birmingham future eyed for postwar economy
A U S Labor Department study warns Birmingham’s postwar fate hinges on iron and steel demand. If wartime orders hold, the area may prosper. if plants idle, a postwar depression could follow. The report urges planners and unions to prepare for either outcome to cushion declines or build rising prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia van der Veer
Washington
Iron and Steel
Birmingham
U. S. Department of Labor
South
Jefferson County
Labor Department
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Rheem Manufacturing Company
Bechtel-McCone-Parsons Modification Center
Mobile
Talladega
Irén
Allied Air Offensive Strikes Romania Rail Hubs and Ploesti
Allied air units attacked Romania with heavy bombers and fighters targeting rail yards along main routes from Bucharest to the Southern Russian front. Bombs hit Brasov Pitesti Craiova and Turnu Severin while rail yards and oil storage near Ploesti burned. Maj Gen Cannon praised air force impact as German train movement falters on Pisa Rimini line amid Anzio clashes.
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Medjerda
Tunisia
Tunis
Formia
Romania
Bucharest
Brasov
Charest
Pitesti
Ecthean
Craiova
Camina
Ploesti
Severin
Iron Gate
Danube
Turnu Severin
Pescara
Italy
John K. Cannon
U. S. 12Th Air Force
Pisa-Rimini
Anzio
Allied Plans Made For Occupation Of Germany
London May 6 report says Allied planning for occupation of Germany and liquidation of Nazi control has nearly been completed by the European ad hoc commission with the possibility of final up....
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Germany
Ad Ree Commission
Final Up
Local Notices and Property Transfers in Decatur and Nearby
A list of individuals from Decatur and surrounding towns including Willie Glenn Tapscott Annie B Bishop Edward Crochan Edelweiss Edmonson Halbert Hines Eva Harold Leon Glover Alice Porter Thomas Goodwin Ruby Prince and others linked in deeds and intercity mentions. Property transfers show Decatur deeds with Lively Landers Jones and several loans and sales including Decatur Coca Cola Co and First Federal Savings items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie Glenn Tapscott
Trinity
Annie B. Bishop
Decatur
Edward
Albert Crochan
Chicago
Edelweiss Edmonson
Halbert
Robert
Springfield
Tenn
Tne
Mae Dose
William David Northington
Rena Mae Williams
Cedar Hill
James Hazzard Jr
Grace
Juanita Boyce
Rutherford
Ci Mead Harvel
Hartselle
Grace Henson
Herbert Hines
Eva
Viola Tinlley
Elvin Moore
Nellie Burns
Markets Wall Street May 6 steady recovery week ends mixed
On the best Saturday volume in a month the market closed with a modest rebound. The Associated Press 60 stock average held at 51.9 for the week up 0.8, while the industrials rose 1.4 for six days with no loss since April 24. Liquors and specialties led gains in the final session amid profit taking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street
Bernard
O'Hara
New York
Associated Press
Chicago
New York Cotton Futures Narrow Weekend Trade
Cotton futures in New York closed mixed with gains to 10 cents a bale and losses to 5 cents amid light activity before the weekend. May spot month faced liquidation as traders anticipated weekend closing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
N. Y
New York
Kennedy Marquis Weds Kathleen Kennedy in Civil Ceremony
Kathleen Kennedy becomes Marchioness of Hartington and prospective Duchess of Devonshire after a civil marriage at Chelsea town hall with registrar Frederick Stream. The couple, aged 26 and 24, travel to Eastbourne for a honeymoon, with a potential church service to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loon Ng Maren
Kathleen K Kennedy
Hartington
Devonshire
Cavendish
Joseph Kennedy
Count of St. James
Eastbourne
Comption Place
Church of England
Neckwear woes in Casablanca during ATC layover
The narrator recalls a necktie shortage in Casablanca where uniform rules clashed with post exchange bans. Sergt Ed Schuh lends a tie and a promise to his nurse sister in England while Air Transport Command accommodations and meals ease the long wait. He tours the medina with Col Maynard Ashworth and reflects on Casablanca's charm and the tedium of waiting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casablanca
Post Exchange
Sergt
Ed Schuh
Altoona
Schuh
England
Air Transport Command
ATC
Maynard Ashworth
Columbus
Colonel Ashworth
Medina
Medinas
Seashore Road
President Roosevelt
Tom Cassady
Pittsburgh
Maj
Charlie Moore
Inglewood
N.J
Marakech
Dakar
Big Three May Hold New Conference After Moscow Talks
The Allied commission, working since Moscow, has kept details secret to avoid enemy distortion. It focuses on core postwar Germany handling questions, with final agreement possibly prompting a new meeting of Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin after the armistice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Proval
Moscow
Churchill
Roosevelt
Stalin
Average cotton prices slip across Southern spot markets
The average price of middling 15 16 inch cotton at ten Southern spot markets declined five cents to 20.93 cents per pound. The 30 day average was 21.03. Middling 7 8 inch averaged 19.78.
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New Orleans
Escatur's Diartr Jpemae Glimpses Continued Page
Fragmentary OCR mentions continued items from page G ef, with unclear phrasing and limited readable names or details. The text requires reconstruction from context, presenting a brief notice of ongoing sketches or columns without identifiable persons or events.
Women urged to aid in Red Cross May quota drive
Numerous local notices report women urged to report to the surgical dressings room for May quota work while tire inspection records must accompany applications for tires and tubes. The column lists names, moves, and local incidents including arrests, travel, and hospitalizations relevant to Morgan County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Christine Midgett
Morgan County
OPA
Prosperous Era in South Foreseen by Coca Cola Leader
Atlanta May 6. Harrison Jones, Coca Cola chairman, told district chairmen of the Committee For Economic Development that postwar prosperity in the South depends on leadership not imitation. He urged no tariff return and warned against immediate relaxation of government restraints, saying isolation would be bad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Harrison Jones
Coca Cola Company
Committee For Economic Development
Jones
South
Story of AP Will Go Around World
The Associated Press non-fiction best seller AP The Story Of News by Oliver GrafMin will be issued for Armed Services Inc. Editions for servicemen are distributed worldwide each month. Farrar & Rinehart publish the work detailing the AP birth and growth, among 30 new titles with 100,000 copies planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Associated Press
Oliver GrafMin
Armed Services Inc
Council On Books
Armed Services
Farrar & Rinehart
Bravery Rewarded With Medal For Valor At Leighton Bank
P W Barcliff of Leighton Alabama earned a National Surety Corporation Medal for Valor after disarming an armed robber at State National Bank on March 1 1944. A bank employee opened the door allowing Barcliff and guests to escape danger and the bank presented a $100 war bond as thanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barcliff
Adams
Rankin
P. W
Leighton
Alabama
National Surety Corporation
Vincent Cullen
New York
State National Bank
Rains Campaign Speech Defends Liberal Stance And Wartime Authority
The article describes Rains stating he is liberal in thinking and campaigning with a 95 speech fair aided by a soundtrack. He condemns the current congress over a makeshift soldier vote bill while supporting a law that lets any qualifying soldier vote. He favors a strong central government in wartime but seeks to abolish overlapping bureaus. He carried Etowah Cherokee and DeKalb counties and, as a 1943 legislator from Etowah, voted against the Bradford act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rains
Congress
Etowah
Cherokee
DeKalb
Union Regulating
Bradford
People's Friend
Nazi Roundups in Paris and Westward Threats Warned
Paris radio reports Gestapo mass identity checks detaining hundreds of thousands and sending thousands to camps. Algiers radio warns German leaflets urge revolt and notes Marseille siege plans. Berlin quotes Doenitz planning renewed U boat offensive with massed underwater craft in the Atlantic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Paris
Gestapo
North Africa
Algiers
Marseille
Vichy
Berlin
Basic National Zeitung
Karl Doenitz
Bethlehem Steel converts 53 ships for Army Navy in 1943
The Bethlehem Steel Co shipbuilding division announced completion of 53 major conversions of vessels into Army and Navy fleet auxiliaries in 1943 in addition to building 380 ocean going fighting and cargo ships. Conversion work valued at about 100 million dollars, mainly turning ships into troop transports amid Allied offensives against Germany and Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bethlehem Steel Co. Shipbuilding Division
Navy
United Nations
Germany
Japan
Tax simplifier aims for quick Senate passage
May 6 2 The House approved the tax simplifier 358 to 0 and Chairman George of Georgia said his Senate Finance Committee would take it up Monday. He predicted it could be ready for the Senate next week. The main effect is to eliminate withholding for individuals earning up to $5 000 at the source of income.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
George
D.-Ga
House
Senate
Dairy Day Confab Draws 400 In Marion Junction
Approximately 400 dairy men bankers and businessmen attended a special dairy day program at the Black Belt station. Test reports on feed rotation production and management were highlighted. Over 300 dairy men from Hale Greene and Autauga counties will attend a later meeting for their benefit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Junction
Ala
Black Belt Station
Hale
Greene
Autauga
Negro Hero Receives Carnegie Medal for Rescue
In Tuskegee Alabama on May 6 R C Daniel a 32 year old Black man was awarded a Carnegie bronze medal for heroism for rescuing Air Cadet Andrew H Doswell 26 from a burning wreckage after Doswell’s aircraft crashed into a pile driver in a creek near the town last September 22 Doswell was trapped in the cockpit as gasoline ignited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuskegee
Ala
R. C. Daniel
Air Corps
Andrew H. Doswell
Here
Doswell
Kpit
Gesoline
Peanuts Surpass Cotton for Oil in Alabama Survey
A wartime survey by C. D. Walker of the Agricultural Adjustment Agency reports peanuts yield more oil per acre than cotton on 78 percent of Alabama farms surveyed. The results support a 1944 peanut acreage goal of 975,000 acres, about 11 percent above 1943, with state and national fat and oil needs rising for armed forces and civilians.
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L. G. Brackeen
C. D. Walker
Southern Division
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
cowOhun
Alabama
Faramis
Walker
United States
Europe
Middle Coastal Plain
Coffee County
Limestone
Black Belt
Piedmont Plateau
Appalachian Highlands
Upper Coastal Plain
Sur
Middle Coastal Plains
Limestone Basin
Cullman County
High Mountain
DeKalb
Sand Mountain
Coffee
Henry
Cullman
Hale
Lamar
Calhoun
Appalachian Highland
Franklin
Hale County
Lee County
Polish Priest Sees Stalin as Friendly to Catholic Church
Rev. Stanislaus Orlemanski, on a 12 day Russia visit, said Stalin is friendly toward the Catholic church and that Poland should stay independent. He reported Stalin desires a strong Poland and voiced hope for future events confirming this stance. He praised Stalin and Molotov and noted priests serving as chaplains at Polish army HQ in Sumy.
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Moscow
Stanislaus
Orlemanski
Russia
Joseph Stalin
United States
Stalin
Poland
Molotov
Kremlin
Sumy
Rep
Lesinski
D.-Mich
Rev
Hull
Chicago
Canada
Alaska
Siberta
Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Church
Springfield
Mass
Allied Mights advance and raids target Japanese positions
Allied forces push west from Fonyang near Anhwei while Liberators return to Truk and Ponape for bombardment. Bomber strikes set large fires and explosions in Ponape docks as air forces intensify on the diminishing Marshall Island defenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fonyang
Anhwei
China
Japan
Truk
Ponape
Army
Navy
Marshall Islands
Tigers Schedule Potential Night Game With State
Birmingham May 6 Coach Carl Voyles of Alabama Polytechnic Institute announced a game here November 11 against Mississippi State with a possibility of a night kickoff. Auburn's coach also listed a tentative schedule including Howard Georgia Tech Tulane Sewanee Georgia Miami and a service team.
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Tigers
Birmingham
Ala
Carl Voyles
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Mississippi State
Voyles
Auburn
Howard
Georgia Tech
Tulane
Sewanee
Georgia
Miami
United States Blacklists 38 Irish Firms in Disapproval Move
The U S government blacklisted 38 Irish firms and businessmen accused of aiding the enemy. The action marks the first use of economic measures to express disapproval of Eire's February decision not to eject Axis officials accused of espionage by the Allies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Fife
Gas Savings Reported for 1943 Government Travel
The Office of Price Administration reports state government official automobile travel cut by nearly 330 million miles in 1943 compared with 1941. This saves about 22 million gallons of gasoline and 44 thousand tires, roughly 5,500 vehicles and about $15,000 in costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Price Administration
Japanese advance narrows Chinese railway gap to under forty miles
Reports say Japanese forces push south along the railway from Chungkien toward Yencheng while converging on Paofeng, 60 miles southeast of Loyang. Loyang’s fall could threaten China’s wartime capital Chungking and route to Szechwan as refugees flood from the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kioshan
Chumatien
Chenghsien
Yencheng
Paofeng
Loyang
China
Szechwan
Chungking
George E Teague Taken To Hospital After Car Hit
George E Teague of 519 12th Avenue West was taken by Brown's ambulance about 10 30 PM Saturday to Decatur General Hospital after being struck by a car while walking along the highway north of the river bridge. The extent of his injuries is not yet known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George E. Teague
12Th Avenue West
Brown's
Decatur General Hospital
River Bridge
Nine Alabama Counties Meet Cancer Foe Enlistment Goal
May 6 Montgomery Alabama nine counties including Madison Dale Morgan Col bert Lauderdale Coosa Etowah Autauga and Jackson have reached or exceeded their women's field army enlistment goal to combat cancer. Mrs Ray Meade of Birmingham says 1944 will be a banner year for us. The group is a branch of the American Cancer Control Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Madison
Dale
Morgan
Colbert
Lauderdale
Coosa
Etowah
Autauga
Jackson
Ray Meade
Birmingham
American Cancer Control Society
Court adjourns for farmers in Florence session
Judge Raymond Murphy adjourned the May term of his county law and equity court to allow those on the docket and the jury time for farm work. Both criminal and civil cases were continued to the August term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence
Ala
Raymond Murphy
County Law and Equity Court
Pipe for ponds aid helps Blount County pond builders
Farmers in Oneonta Alabama and Blount County may obtain cast iron drain pipe for pond construction this summer without priority concerns. County agents will serve as information sources to assist pond builders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oneonta
Ala
Moroline Hair Tonic Promises Lustre For Unruly Hair
Advert says Moroline Hair Tonic smooths unruly hair in Sette offering lustre and shine for 25 cents. Sold every evening.
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Birmingham Future
Morgan, Lawrence and
Limestone Counties
John—H Harvey
W. T. Murephree
Alvin_ L. Joey
N. L. Kelley
Vista
Dan Lile
Lucille Crist
Jo Lee G. Malone
Tiel Allacete
Newell
S. O. Mater
Xee MecGlathery
Leda B. Almon
C. P. Poteete
James E. Weaver
John T. Per
Jly
Miss. Kennedy, Marquis
Pyle
Escatur’s
Diartr
Brook
Fort Knox
P. E. A Ith
Lee A. Dendy
Claybrook
Kathleen Nenad Me
Paul Ventress
Key West, Fla
Horace Moore
H. H. Hargrove
Canal Street
Sgt. Moore
Pecos
Texas
H. M. Jones
Atlanta, Ga
Homer Louis Jones
State of College
Joe Curry
San Pedro
California
U. S. Navy
ABC
ATU
Lacey Springs
R. N. Moore
Danville
Cpl. L. T. ‘Hill
Courtland
Susie White
Knoxville, Tenn
Mrs
J. C. White
Priceville
A. H. Burman
Sherman Street
Baugh's Infirmary
Brown's Ambulance
Station 2
Olive Street
Neal Stevenson
Faye King
Austinville
Nashville
R. A. Sparkman
Henry Wallace Shaw
Tanner
F. H. Kirby
Mary Berryhill
Home Service Conference
the Red Cross
Hunttsville
The
Robert Harris
Lewis Brown
Floyd E. Napps
Fourth Avenue West
Baugh’s Infirmary
J. R. Craig
W. C. Hodges
Elkmont
A. H. Burnham
Herman Lang
Dairy Day
By Henry C. Cassidy
U. Senate
County Hill Simpson Autauga
Bibb
Oaneeee Blount
Bullock
Butler
Chambers
Clarke
Cleburne
Covington
Crenshaw
Cullman Serene
Dale Anton
Jefferson
Lauderdale Seeee
Lawrence E
Lowndes
Macon
Seennee
Marengoe
Marion E
Marshall
Mobile Sheewege
Monroe
Morgan Sos Sheenereecassiae
Perry Me
Pickens
Pike
Randolph
Russell
Shelby
St. Clair
Sumter A
Tallapoosa
Tuscaloosa
Troy
Troy Messenger
Wao Ted
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