Taft Backing Faces Alabama Delegation Split Vote
In Birmingham on May 21 Governor Thomas E Dewey appears to lead the Republic majority in Alabama. State GOP Chairman Claude O Vardaman predicts a strong Taft backing though no clear majority of delegates is assured. National Committeeman B Noojin and others push for Taft while Vardaman notes possible lock for Dewey in Alabama.
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Birmingham
Ala
New York
Thomas E
GOP
Claude O. Vardaman
Dewey
Vardaaman
Pers
Philadelphia
State Republic
Greed
B. Lonnie Oojin
Gadsden
Robert ‘Aft
Ohio
Alabama
Noojin
Taft
Vardaman
J. Foy Guin
Selivilie
Curtis
Adianshville
State Social Club Faces Debt and Showdown in Montgomery
In Montgomery Alabama on May 21 a State Employees Social Club facing a $13,000 debt planned a May 29 meeting to decide the fate of three capital lunchrooms operated for over a year. Miss Annie Lola Price, acting president and Gov. Folgom’s assistant legal adviser, said the board may approve turning the lunchrooms over to a private operator to cover financial obligations. The club, run by state employees, had previously been run by private concessionaires. It inherited about $9,000 in debt for equipment, later reduced to around $5,000, as salaries and low meal prices kept losses rising.
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Montgomery
Ala
Igi
Annie Lola Price
James E. Follgom
Thelub
Fossogg
Miss Price
Solons To Meet Tonight In Their Annual Contest
Washington May 21 Republicans and democrats square off in their annual congressional baseball game at Griffith Stadium raising funds for underprivileged children. Democratic mastermind Rep Richards and Republican Rep Bishop Illinois predict a win if the game follows form and lasts nine innings. Last year rain halted play with Republicans 16 Democrats 13.
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Washington
Congress
Rep
Richards
Republian
Bishop
Griffith Stadium
Washington Evening Star
Soviet Aide Demands End to Foreign Military Actions
Gromyko in a detailed address presses the UN Security Council to halt external military activities, citing the Manchurian incident as a case in point and urging a formal council order for immediate stoppage.
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Gromyko
Endgame in Jerusalem Battle Sets Stage for Truce
Arab forces claim control of 80 percent of Jerusalem’s sacred area as fighting narrows. Jewish defenders hold Beit Yaacov Hurva corridor with 8 000 Arab troops facing 50 000 Israeli forces. Egyptian air raids hit Tel Aviv and Gaza coast while British and American actions shape diplomacy.
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Associated Press
Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Rabais
Arab Legion
Trans Jordan
Holy
Hagarah
Irgun Zyai Leumi
Beit Yaacov
Hurva
Tiferet Israel
Army of Israel
Gaza
Coas
el Aviv
Shu'Fat
Germany
U. S
Russia
Bri
France
Austria
Tely
Markets Rally As Stocks Hit Postwar High
New York May 21 Stocks moved up at the opening and held gains through mid day led by oils rails and liquor shares. Motors sparked a fresh advance while profit taking trimmed some advances. Total volume reached about 2.7 million shares for the session.
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New York
Motors
Live stock markets show uneven demand across cattle hogs and sheep
Nashville AP dispatch reports mixed slaughter figures and steady to higher calves hogs and sheep with gains in hogs and uneven cattle trade. Cattle top to 35 35, hogs 24 75, calves 25-31, sheep 30-32 with spring lambs up to 32 and other grades steady or higher in places.
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Nashville
Tenn
Federal State Departments of Agriculture
Chicago
Nat
Chicago Butter and Eggs Prices Report May 21
Butter firm with receipts of 657 996, prices unchanged except 90 points 1 to 2 cents higher at 75. Eggs firm with receipts 40 567, prices unchanged except checks 1 to 2 cents a dozen higher at 36.5.
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Chicago
North Georgia poultry market eases as week ends
Trading remains light with some sellers holding out for next week. Farm fryers sold yesterday afternoon at 37 to 38 cents, mostly 38, and today continued mostly 38 cents with occasional sales at 39. New York cotton futures slipped to new lows amid slow export demand and high domestic carryover.
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Atlanta
JUSDA
North Georgia
New York
Short-Term Credit Planned for Norris Town Sale
The Tennessee Valley Authority will extend short-term credit to the Norris town purchaser. TVA general manager George F. Gant said the credit is to facilitate sale of Norris on a unit basis. Norris is hoped to fetch at least 1 849 750 dollars at a May 31 public auction, with a winner paying 25 percent down and the rest over four years.
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Knoxville
Tennessee Valley Authority
Norris
George F. Gant
TVA
Garit
Two Representatives Named to Committee Formed by Lions Club
Johanne Aycock has been selected to represent the Lions club on the Sha. Boys-club- committee now being formed. Joe Morrison will represent the Vete- committee and participate in the newly forming group.
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Johanne Aycock
Lions Club
Sha
Boys—club
Joe Morrison
Vete
Lee Named Baptist Head at Southern Baptist Convention
Memphis pastor Rev. Robert G. Lee was elected convention president as reports on ministerial education and civil rights dominated the opening of the Southern Baptist Convention in St. Louis. The social service commission’s stance on civil rights was unchanged, reiterating last year’s unanimous action.
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Memphis
Tenn
Southern Baptists
Robert G. Lee
Social Service Commission
Sion
St. Louis
Baptist Convention Sees Strife Over Membership Ban
The convention debated banning church representatives unsympathetic to its aims and work, provoking strong reactions from Dr. J Frank Norris and Rev Noel Smith. Norris called the move a huge joke while Smith predicted a major split in the Southern Baptist Convention and state groups. The amendment was introduced by Rev L E Barton amid internal criticism.
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Congress
United Nations
J. Frank Norris
First Baptist Church
Fort Worth
Texas
Louie Newton
Atlanta
Norris
Noel Smith
Clarksville
Tennessee
Southern Baptist Convention
L. E. Barton
Montgomery
Ala
NLRB Rules On Union Shop Elections In Virginia Case
The NLRB issued a decision in a Giant Food Shopping Center case involving the Retail Clerks union. The board could not estimate how many workers would be denied union shop elections, citing Virginia law and district store eligibility.
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NLRB
Arizona
Arkansas
Forida
Georgia
Iowa
Maine
Nebraska
North Carolinta
North Dakota
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Bord
Giant Food Shopping Center Inc
Retail Clerks International Association
AFL
Giant Food
Clerks Union
District of Columbia
Ross. Madden
Baltimore
James J. Reynolds
Ate Murdock
J.“Copeland Gray
Paul M. Herzog
John M. Houtston
Press Meet Opened for Buckles Memorial Institute
Alabama newspaper editors gather at the University of Alabama for the Boyle L. Buckles Memorial Press Institute held today. Dr. John M. Gallalee welcomed attendees as Ed Pierce and Jasper Mountain Eagle offered remarks on the late Alabama Press Association field manager.
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Uscaloosa
Ala
Alabama
University of Alabama Today
Boyle L. Buckles
Nightie Wearing Reporter Not Noticed At Paris Opera
London report says Joan Reeder wore a pink and black nightgown to the Paris opera for Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip's visit. She was invited on short notice but noticed no one, remarking that the looks she received were the most old fashioned in the world.
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London
Joan “Reeder
Daily Mirror
Paris
Elizabeth
Joan
Prince Philip
Organizing Committees Shrink to Fifteen Members
The Veterans of Foreign Wars reports most clubs and organizations have responded to form a committee of fifteen. A few groups and some individual members are still being invited to reach the target membership.
Scottish churches criticise Princess Elizabeth for Paris outing
The Free Church of Scotland and Free Presbyterian Synod objected to Princess Elizabeth and Philip’s Sunday visit to Paris including races and a nightclub. The Archdeacon of Lewes defended the royal party, while Coventry Trades Union Council boycotted a planned visit and the London Star labeled the criticism intolerant.
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London
Elizabeth
Paris
Lewes
Lord Beaverbrook
Evening Standard
London Star
General Assembly
Free Church of Scotland
Attlee
Phili
Scottish Free Presbyterian Synod of Inverness
Trades Union Council
Coventry
Free Presbyterian
J. H.L. Morrell
Hastings
Royal House
France
Scotland
Church Assembly
The
Star
Red-Head Held After Shooting Of Police Captain
In Newark New Jersey police Captain Thomas J Rowe was shot and killed in his office at first precinct headquarters A red headed woman identified as Mrs Ann Powers was held for questioning Chief John Haller said she is 39 years old and described herself as a friend of the captain The incident occurred shortly after 4 am when Rowe and the woman entered the precinct and a single shot was heard by Lieutenant William Willie who saw the woman flee as a plain clothes officer rushed to the captain s office
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Newark
N. J
Thomas J. Rowe
John Haller
Ann Powers
Haller
Rowe
First Precinct
William Willie
Plains
Ray Paquette
Willie
Two Movie Writers Sentenced for Contempt of Congress
John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo were each sentenced to one year in prison and fined 1000 dollars for contempt of Congress after denying anew trials. Lawson, author of Smashup and Blockade, and Trumbo, screenwriter of 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, refused to answer the House Activities Committee last fall about Communist associations. Eight other Hollywood figures face similar indictments and plan appeals.
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Washington
John Howard Lawson
Dalton Trumbo
Congress
David A. Pine
Trumbo
Tokyo
Edward M. Curran
Lawson
House
American Activities Committee
Hollywood
Impropriety Cited in State Public Works Transactions
A state grand jury report criticizes $10,000 in equipment purchases as obsolete and dilapidated with two trucks towed in. It cites $3,640 paid to Georgia Alabama Co for extra work that should have been non pay and charged as original contract obligation. The report notes $10,321 for excavation labeled as common and covered by the contract, with no additional payment due.
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State Examiners of Public Accounts
Grand Jury
Folsom
Georgia-Alabama
McKee Company
U. S
Jnl
Postmasters Elect Officers for Term in Alabama
The Alabama branch of the National League of District Postmasters reelected six officers for another year at the annual Montgomery convention. The lineup includes H L Gilmer Marion Junction as President T E Bolding Pike Road as first vice president H J Taylor Cooper as second vice president Mrs Phoebe E Johnson Coatopa as third vice president Mae F Seymour Goshen and A R Morgan Honoraville as board members Laura Herring Alberta was elected secretary treasurer succeeding Bessie M Camp who had served eight years.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Jetional League of District Postmasters
H. L. Gilmer
Marion Junction
T. E. Bolding
Pike -Road
H. J. Taylor
Cooper
Phoebe E. Johnson
Coatopa
Mae F. Seymour
Goshen
A. R. Morgan
Honor
BPW Leader Addresses Club Banquet On Legislation
The state BPW club discussed bills sponsored by the state legislature at a Thursday banquet in Hotel Lyons. Nina Miglionico, state vice president, spoke and installed new officers including Anna Blackwell as president and Ruby Sandlin as vice president. Guests from local civic groups attended the event.
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State Business and Professional Women’s Club
Hotel
Lyons
Nina Miglionico
Ghama
State
Anna Blackwell
Ruby Sandlin
Ingalls
Katherine Thompson
Flossie’ Chandler
B. Smith
Edna Holland
Robert A. McMasters
Lions Club
Frank Seibert
Kiwani
No Public Sale Of Ducats Likely For Grid Contest
Tuscaloosa Alabama May 21 tickets for the Alabama Auburn football game in Birmingham December 4 will be restricted to alumni of the two schools. An official alumni application process will limit to two tickets per applicant. About 17 000 tickets allocated to students and faculty at both schools with 30 000 more for alumni as available. No public sale expected for the first Alabama Auburn rivalry since 1907.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Bama
Birmingham
Wilbur Hutsell
Auburn
Frank Thomas
Alabama
Salvation Army Boys Softball League Set to Start
The Salvation Army city wide Boys Soft Ball League will begin after public schools end. Entries or team participation inquiries should contact Lenard Love at the Boys club. Practices occur in East Decatur and South Decatur under various leaders with field locations listed.
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Salvation Army
Lenard Love
East Decatur
Douglas Cole
South Decatur
Charles Howard
Benson Field
Youngsters Tie Ercoupe Theft to Cheyenne Pilferage Incident
In Roger Mills county the Ercoupe found abandoned eight miles northwest of Cheyenne. Inspectors traced the numbers to Ted Geller, former Ercoupe dealer, and Otis Haltom and Trooper Arch Hamilton led the case. The youths said they slept in a Cessna hangar, flew the coupe, bounced on landing, and rode a farmer’s horse back into town.
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Roger Mills
Cheyenne
CAA
Ted Geller
Goller
Bob Fitzgerald
Manadger
Otis Haltom
Arch Hamilton
Hamilton
Fitzgerald
Preparedness Strikes Snag in Congress Over Draft and Carrier Plan
In Washington on May 21 the preparedness program faces delays as draft legislation awaits House action until after June 1 and Senate debate on a displaced persons measure. A Senate hearing is set for June 3 on the Navy’s proposal for a 63,000 ton carrier.
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Washington
Congress
Navy
Leo E. Allen
R-Ti
Rules Committee
House
Rep. Andrews
Senate
Senate Armed Services Committee
Progress of the DAV memorial fund in Morgan County
The Disabled American Veterans say the fund to erect a permanent World War II memorial for Morgan County fallen remains under halfway. Spokesmen appeal for prompt pledges noting more than 10 local men made the supreme sacrifice. Contributions can be mailed to P O Box 40 or given at The Deity.
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Disabled American Veterans Memorial Monument Fund
Mdre
DAV
Morgan County
P. O
Registration day set for Red Cross swimming courses
May 29 marks registration at Crystal Plunge for Red Cross swimming and life saving classes. A voluntary Learn to Swim campaign is in planning. Police report several arrests for disorderly conduct, driving without a license, petty larceny, and carrying a concealed weapon in Birmingham. Births report sons to Grey of Fifth Avenue West and Weatherby of Courtland. An A G King home birth is noted. Walker Fairview hospital patients and a bone operation for Robert Smith at Hamilton Clinic are listed.
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Crystal Plunge
Red Cross
J. B. Whitmire
Birmingham
R. L. Boatwright
E. Alexander
Birm
Truman Reflects on Youth and the Atomic Age
Senator Kilgore had noted Truman’s hands off stance on the convention. In a ten minute talk to Girard students, Truman recalled Missouri childhood days washing dishes and splitting wood. He contrasted past toil with today’s gadgets and warned the atomic age could mean humanity’s destruction or its greatest era.
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Kilgore
W-Va
Truman
Girard
Missouri
Auto seat next to driver labeled most dangerous
In the Journal of the American Medical Association Detroit plastic surgeon Dr. Claire L. Straith reported the front seat beside the driver as the death seat. She noted guests there are injured three times as often as the driver, based on 50 facial injury cases, with 70 percent of patients being young women in that seat.
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Chicago
Detroit
Journal of the American Medical Association
Claire L. Straith
Harper Hospital
Billups to Speak at Morgan County Training School
Rev A W Billups of Birmingham will deliver the baccalaureate sermon Sunday at 3 30 PM at Morgan County Training School for Negroes in Hartselle The program includes processional invocation music verses choir remarks and the speaker introduction by Principal Stallworth followed by the sermon and benediction.
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A. W. Billups
Birmingham
Morgan County Training School For
Hartselle
Fairest Lord Jesus
I. F. Stallworth
Wide River
Stallworth
Lafayette Students Study Soil And Food Conservation
Fifth grade pupils at LaFayette Street school attended a Thursday lecture by soil scientist R. A. Young on soil and food conservation. He and T. D. All dredge of the Soil Conservation Service presented visual education lessons with films including The Golden Secret and Flood And Soil.
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LaFayette Street
R. A. Young
K C Hamilton Dies At His Home Today
K C Hamilton, 60, of 1615 Fifth Avenue South, died this morning about 8 A.M. at his home after suffering his second heart attack within two days. He was stricken with a heart attack while on a city bus Thursday. Funeral arrangements will be announced.
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K. C. Hamilton
Fifth Avenue S
Hamilton
Morgan Resigns as Head Teacher of Veterans Farm Program
County Superintendent H R Leeman announced Jack Morgan will resign effective May 31 with duties taken over by C D Deloney on June 1. Truitt Tomlinson named assistant head teacher of vocational agriculture for veterans. Deloney brings MSU degree and prior principal experience.
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L. G. Deloney
Jack Morgan
Veterans Farm Training Program
H R. Leeman
Mr. Deloney
Morgan County
Delaney
Trinity
Henry
Mississippi State
Abbeville
Colbert County
Morgan
University of Alabama
Tomlinson
Alabama
Polytechnic Institute At
Auburn
Leeman
Air Force Shifts Strategic Command HQ to Offutt Field
Senator Wherry announced the Army Air Forces will move the strategic air command nerve center from Andrews Field Maryland to Offutt Field near Omaha. The move includes relocating the second air force headquarters and creating two subsidiary commands at Colorado Springs and Fort Worth. Omaha was selected from 44 bidding cities.
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Washington
Wherry
R-Neb
Army Air Forces
Strategic Air Command
Andrews Field
Offutt Field
Omaha
Second Air Force
Strategic Air
Miss Huffaker to Join Decatur Daily New Staff
Miss Mary Huffaker will replace Miss Ken Metzger as reporter for The Decatur Daily arriving tonight. She is a University of Alabama journalism graduate with extensive campus roles including Crimson-White editor candidate and student assistant at University News Bureau. Her home is Atlanta.
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Mary, Huffaker
Ken Metzger
Decatur Daily
University of Alabama
Capstone
Crimson-White
University Press Club
Miss Huffaker
University
University News Bureau
Student Forum and Mortar Board
Corolla
Atlanta
Girls’ High
Memorial Drive minister to deliver Moulton Heights baccalaureate
The Moulton Heights school baccalaureate will be held Sunday evening May 23 at 7 30 in the school auditorium Rev G A Rice pastor Memorial Drive Methodist Church will give the sermon assisted by Rev J M Walker pastor of the Moulton Heights Baptist church Music will be by the school glee club with Mrs Joe Burt The club features Elladora Brown Jessie Duke Shirley Graves Elva Jones Doris Key Marie Lane Margaret Marks Katie Mae McCulloch Ruby MacCulloch Joyce McDaniel Neil Prater Arlene Sticherling Barbara Bryant Neal Allred W R Foutch Jr Bobby Free Kenneth Jackson O 5 Bob Cagle Billy Free Eroy Turner Betty Taylor Bobby Jean Slaton Sylvia Kitchens L A Walden Alton Crow Dennis Allred Bill Spears Elise Murdock Doreen Sticherling Duane Smith O Harrell Jones and Frances Johnson
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Moulton Heights School
G. A. Rice
Memorial Drive Methodist Church
J. M. Walker
Moulton Heights Baptist Church
Joe Burt
Elladora Brown
Jessie Duke
Shirley Graves
Elva Jones
Doris Key
Marie Lane
Margaret Marks
Katie Mae McCulloch
Ruby MacCulloch
Joyce McDaniel
Neil Prater
Arlene Sticherling
Barbara Bryant
Neal Allred
W. R. Foutch
Bobby Free
Kenneth Jackson
Bob Cagle
Billy Free
Eroy Turner
Betty Taylor
Bobby Jean Slaton
Sylvia Kitchens
L. A
Nothing Yet In Fire Death Case
Lawrence County Coroner J H Highsmith said no information could be released pending state toxicologist findings on 61 year old farmer Dave Melson. No arrests have been made. Melson's badly charred body was found in the ruins of a burned home occupied by a Black man. Special State Investigator R A Troup was called to aid Sheriff G D Byars and the coroner in the case.
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Lawrence County
J. H. Highsmith
The
Daily Today
Dave Melson
Melson
R. A. Troup
Lawrence
G. D. Byars
Highsmith
Deeds Recorded In Daily Records
The list shows transfers including Ben Stinson to J H Stinson and Howard Nethery to J W Sivley with a $1,000 transaction. B C Shelton trustee sells to the city of Decatur and H Stinson to J W Sivley with a $2, amount referenced in the entry.
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Ben Stinson
J. H. Stinson
Howard Nethery
J W. Sivley
B. C. Shelton
Stassen poised for convention push in GOP race
Nation notes three wins for Stassen plus a write in tactic in Pennsylvania as proof of broad support among rank and file. Critics warn a convention blitz could mirror Wilkie 1940 if he loses. With 76 convention votes claimed, opponents question his broad appeal beyond the Middle East.
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Pennsylvania
Wendell L. Wilkie
Stassen
Middle East
Dewey
New Hampshire
Taft
Ohio
Union Reaches Agreement To Avert Walkout At 12 Plants
Under Taft Hartley procedures the union extended the contract covering 40 000 workers across 12 plants. A spokesman said the extension delays no strike threat and negotiations will resume next week after the union sought a substantial wage rise.
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Fred E. Grey
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L. E. Weatherby
Courtland
Decatur General
A. G. King
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Wiley Clin
Robert Smith
Madison 3
Hamil Clinic
Billups
Lafayette
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Pride Applian
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Coal Jones Coal Co
Aa Jones
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