Methodists pledge to oppose war and seek peace
Boston May 10 Nearly ten million Methodists abroad and in the United States are pledged to oppose war and work for peace between the United States and Soviet Russia. The stand was adopted by the general conference and becomes church law, with a ban on universal military training retained amid some dissenters. The report notes a minister shortage with 18,164 ministers for 8,567,772 members locally.
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Mary. E. Prim Srb
Boston
Soviet
Russia
United
State of the Church Committee
Judicial Council
Methodism
Supreme Court
Prohibition
Board’ of Temperance
Peekskill
N. Y
Committee of Temperance
Wass
Commission of Ministerial Training
Funeral Rites Held For Stabbing Victim A B Letson Jr
Funeral services for A B Letson Jr fatally stabbed in Childersburg Friday night were held Sunday afternoon at Black Ground Cemetery. Rev A L Etherton officiated. Interment followed in the adjoining cemetery Brown's directing. Parents Mr and Mrs A B Letson Sr, a sister Juanita Turner and four brothers Samuel William B Ralph and Toney Letson all of Childersburg survive.
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A. B. Letson Jr
Childersburg
Black Ground Cemetery
A. L. Etherton
Brown
Rasta
A. B. Letson Sr
Juanita Turner
Samuel
William B
Ralph
Toney Letson
Owls and Bluejays Tie Through Walks Heavy Series
In Salina Kansas May 10 the Topeka Owls and Salina Bluejays combined for 81 walks over four game series. Eight pitchers worked Sundays game lasting 3 hours 12 minutes, while Saturdays game ran 3 hours 50 minutes.
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Salina
Kas
Topeka Owls
Western Association
Owls
Salina Bluejays
Petition to Probate Will in Morgan County Alabama
Madge Irwin Boulware petitions Morgan County Probate Court to admit Maggie Boyd deceased's written will to probate. Hearing set for June 2, 1948. notice to William Hayes of Nashville and all interested parties to appear if they wish to contest. Judge T. C. Almon signs the notice with dates May 10 17 and 24, 1948.
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State OF
Alabama
Morgan County
Madge — Irwin Boulware
Maggie Boyd
Wheliam Hayes
Nashville
Tennessee
Madge Irwin Boulware
T. C. Almon
Mrs Georgianna Morgan Dies in Beverly Hills
Funeral services for Mrs Georgianna Louise Morgan 63 wife of actor Ralph Morgan will be held at a mortuary chapel today. She died Saturday in Beverly Hills California following illness.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Georgianna Louise Morgan
Ralph Morgan
Three Momentous Years Recall An Old Timer
HAL BOYLE reflects on the three year VE day anniversary noting widespread veteran fatigue and muted triumph. He describes global shifts including China’s poverty worsened Yuan devaluation Russia's tightening control Britain shifting toward socialism and Greece’s democratic revival.
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China
Diana Weds Bey in California Wedding
Diana Bennett Fox Anderson, daughter of Joan Bennett, married John H. Anderson, airplane parts maker, at All Saints Episcopal Church. Rev J Herbert Smith performed the ceremony. Diana, born to Joan Bennett and John Fox and adopted by Walter Wanger, was the bride.
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Diana
Lyn Hills
Calif
Joan Bennett
John —H. Anderson
J. Herbert Smith
All Saints Episcopal Church
Miss Bennett
John Fox
Walter Wanger
Three Die In Plane Crash At Troy Municipal Airport
At Troy Alabama three men about 25 years old died when the light aircraft they were riding crashed and burned at the municipal airport on Saturday. The victims were Pilot John Bonds of Troy Winston Stubbs of Ramer and James Arthur Bundy of Troy, identified by Coroner Robert E McGehee.
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Troy
Ala
Robert E. McGehee
John Bonds
Winston Stubbs
Ramer
James Arthur
Bundy
Anniversary of V E Day Reflected in Global Turmoil
The piece recalls civil war shocks and mass executions in a war torn region while world Jewry seeks homeland gains after centuries of wandering. It notes displaced persons in Germany and Korea as centers of East West tensions. The UN, key postwar force, grows as a forum for rival ideologies and fear.
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Europe
Japan
Ivan
G. I. Joe
Elbe
Cracy
Palestine
Germany
Korea
United Nations
Russia
United States
America
U. S
Masonic District to Meet in Fayette for Conference
Fayette Masons prepare to host the fourteenth district conference on Tuesday afternoon during their quarterly meeting. Grand Master Irving E. Farmer and senior officers of the Alabama Grand Lodge have received special invitations. W Liffey Legg of Jasper will lead district lectures amid arrangements by Fayette lodge under J W Ayres. The district includes Fayette and Walker counties.
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Masonic District
Fayette
Catlett Named Alternate for NROTC Training
Jack C. Catlett of 314 East Cherry Street Decatur was chosen as an alternate for training in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps for the 1948 fall term in the Eighth Naval District HQ. From 24 117 applicants who took the Navy aptitude test 1 786 became principals and 560 alternates. The NROTC offers four years of college education at government expense with regular degrees plus Naval Science, two summer cruises and a summer aviation indoctrination.
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Jack C. Catlett
East Cherry Street
Decatur
Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps
Eighth Naval District
Navy
NROTC
Welding and Machine Shop Services Promised
T R Harrison advertises a welding and machine shop offering comprehensive welding and machining capabilities with personal attention and prompt completion.
Ship’s cook recalls murder at Charleston union quarters
Rudolph Serreo, 49, a ship's cook, told detectives he had no recollection of stabbing Robert W. New Jr., 28, a port agent for the National Maritime Union, at union quarters in Charleston. Police said Serreo was charged after New allegedly angered him by inviting him to a communist meeting and a rally at a Negro church.
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Charleston
Rudolph Serreo
Robert W. New, Jr
New
National Maritime Union
Union Quaters
Herman Berkman
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