Delano Park Set to Open May Twenty Second
Delano Park will open May 22 at 7 PM with a band program by the Decatur High School under Carl Schwachow. Mayor Harrison will give the principal address, followed by a large parade of Scouts, Red Cross, and school children forming a V and singing the Star Spangled Banner. The park will operate 10 AM to 10:30 PM daily except Sunday, with monthly band concerts and extensive recreational facilities from Eighth to Twelfth Avenue East.
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Delano Park
Decatur
Queen City
Decatur High School
Carl Schwachow
Decatur Boy Scouts
Delano’ Park
Schwachow
Entre Meres Club
Mothers Clubs
Thomas
Salvation Army
Robert McRight
Carol Smith
McRight
Red Cross
Alvis Briscoe
Moulton Heights
Letter praising TVA book and proposing government printing
Lem A. Dever writes from Decatur praising Lilienthal's TVA Democracy on the March. He urges congress friends to print it as a government document at cost and distribute widely, lauding the work and thanking Mr. Eddens for lending the book. He signs off from Portland, noting travel on No. 4.
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Decatur
Q. E. Eddens
Mgr
Eddens
Robin
Tva-Democracy
Lilienthal
TVA
Congress
Bankhead
Hil
Bureau of Printing
Holman
Oregon
Bonneville
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America
Southland
Roosevelt
Norris
Portland
Lem A. Dever
McLemore Is Given Rank Rise in Ninth Air Force
Wendall G. McLemore of Decatur has been promoted from sergeant to first sergeant (acting) by the Ninth Air Force Service Command Group in England. He serves with a mobile reclamation and repair squadron assembling sinders and is the son of Wade and the late Mrs McLemore. His wife Ve gal and their two year old daughter Sherry Lane live in Florida. A Moulton Heights high school graduate, he entered service in 1938 and has nearly a year in England. The Ninth Air Force Service Command maintains high standards of efficiency for bombers fighters and troop carriers.
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Wendall G. McLemore
Decatur
Ninth Air Force Service Command Group
England
McLemore
Sienders
Wade McLemore
Ninth Avenue West
Vegal N. McLemore
Sherry Lane
Barrancas Avenue
Warrington
Florida
Moulton Heights
Ninth Air Force Service Command
Sgt. McLemore
Ninth Air Force
U.S. Holds One-Third Of World Rail Mileage Yet Small Land Share
The United States covers about 5 percent of the globe's land area but accounts for nearly one third of the world's railroad mileage, highlighting its vast rail network relative to its size. The fact underscores the nation's intensive transport infrastructure.
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United States
Senate U. K. S New Tax Bill
The Senate approved a plan to simplify income tax by exempting about 30 million of 50 million taxpayers from filing returns. It reshapes rates and exemptions, lowers total burden slightly, and shifts withholding to cover most tax obligations starting next January. The measure ends the two year old victory tax and standardizes a flat $500 exemption per person with a 10 percent gift to religious and charitable giving.
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House
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Langer
McCarran
D.-Nev
Finance Committee
George
D.-Ga
Falkville Plans Homecoming Day
All former residents teachers and preachers are invited to Falkville's annual Home Coming on May 28 at 11 o clock in the high school auditorium Rev O P Spiegle of Montgomery will speak Lunch will be served and singing in the afternoon Singers are invited to join for fellowship worship and music.
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Falkville
O. P. Spiegle
Montgomery
Place High School
Army Increases Shell Production Millions Per Month
Army ordnance now produces more than 18 million artillery shells each month, a significant rise from 2.7 million monthly output during World War I.
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Army Ordnance
Hidden Room Sparks Suspected Spy Plot on Upper Nelson
Colin and Blair uncover clues in a remote camp that hint at Dave Dove using a hidden room for a powerful radio and possible German spying. They plan restrained investigation while ignoring police orders, and confront Olsen about trapping on the Nelson as tensions rise ahead of a cracking boat visit.
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Blair
Benedict
Dave
Jonathan—Dove
United States
Canada
Mounted Police
Cod Blair
Winipeg
Selkirk Gaxs
Winnipeg
Bearmonth
Selkirk
Olsen
Nate
Alec
Nelson
el Oe
Miss Blair
Rae
Alec Gunn
Southern Democrats plan fight over convention seating
Senator Maybank says Southern Democrats will resist seating Negro delegations and oppose anti-poll tax and anti-lynching planks at the Chicago convention. He notes South Carolina may back a two-thirds rule for nominations and Texas eyes uninstructed delegates amid white primary debates.
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Maybanks
Maybank
South Carolina
Chicago
National Party
Texas
Supreme Court
Ing
South
Carolina
Alabama
Arkansas
Louisiana
Health contest plans set for Morgan county 4-H girls
All four H girls ages 10 to 20 may enter the Morgan county health contest on May 27 at 9:00 a.m. at the county health department in Decatur. Erien Rowe, home agent, notes the county winner advances to the state contest at Auburn with a chance to reach the national event in Chicago in October.
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Morgan County
Decatur
Erien Rowe
Auburn
Chicago
Train Runs Wild in Bethlehem Tragedy
Philadelphia Bethlehem express on Reading railway went four miles with its engine driver dead from an unexplained head wound. Fireman halted the train with emergency brakes after discovering the problem near Perkasie. Engineman Charles Kruse of Philadelphia may have struck his head leaning out of the cab passing through a tunnel.
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Bethlehem
Philadelphia
Poppy Day Proclaimed in Decatur by Mayor
May 27 1944 was proclaimed Poppy Day in Decatur by Mayor T R Harrigan. The mayor urged citizens to wear memorial poppies honoring service members who died in World War I, noting the poppy as a symbol from The American Legion and American Legion Auxiliary.
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Decatur
T. R. Harrigan
Redlonanare
United States of America
American Legion
American Legion Auxiliary
I. T. R. ‘Harrison
America
Alexander the Great Conquers World with 35,000 Men
Historical note recounts Alexander the Great leading 35,000 troops to conquer the known world. The account highlights his decisive campaigns and the scale of his classical-era military power.
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Alexander the Great
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