Navy official testifies author sought immunity in bomber memo
Washington reports Undersecretary of the Navy Dan A. Kimball testified that Cedric Worth, the memo author, asked for immunity last May before acknowledging authorship. Kimball said he could not offer immunity and did not know who else in the Navy helped prepare the document. The memo sparked scrutiny of the B-36 bomber program amid fraud allegations and political intrigue involving Johnson and Symington, with Worth retracting charges under House questioning.
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Washington
Dan A. Kimball
Kimball
Cedric Worth
Worth
Navy
Air Force
Defense
Johnson
Air
Symington
House Armed Services Committee
Thomas D. Davies
Generating Unit At Watauga Dam Is In Operation
TVA announces its first 25 000 kw generating unit at Watauga dam went on the line early Wednesday August 31 after successful tests. A second unit of similar size is due in about two months. The Watauga project was authorized in 1941, halted by the War Production Board, resumed in 1946, and the dam began storage last December. Over 3000 feet of tunnel will carry water from Watauga Lake to the powerhouse downstream.
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TVA
Watauga Dam
Watauga
War Production Board
Watauga Lake
Ginger Rogers Divorces Third Husband Briggs Jr in Pasadena
Actress Ginger Rogers, 38, obtained a divorce yesterday from her third husband, actor Jack Briggs Jr., 29, after alleging cruelty. They married in Pasadena in January 1943 and separated last July. Briggs reportedly did not come home to dinner and slept through guests on their sixth anniversary. A property settlement grants Briggs $5500 interest in community property. Rogers previously married E. J. Culpepper and Lew Ayres.
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Los Angeles
Ginger Rogers
Jack Briggs Jr
Pasadena
Calif
Miss Rogers
Briggs
Lela Rogers
Ginger
E. J. Culpepper
Lew Ayres
Twenty Three Homes Bequeathed by Mr X to Women Tenants
Newark news reports the will of Wilbur B. Driver known as Mr X, a Newark area industrialist, admitting probate. He left 23 multi family houses to women tenants across Oranges Newark and Hillside to foster independence, with the exact number of beneficiaries not specified.
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Mr. X
Newark
N. J
Wilbur B. Driver
East Orange
Ul Recipiertts
Will
Oranges
Hillside
Charter Granted by Congress in 1905
A historical note states that under a charter, granted by Congress in 1905, a municipal or corporate entity received official authorization to operate. The fragment reflects a formal, legal milestone in the entity's governance and status.
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Congress
Markets rally sparks brisk Wall Street session
New York Sept 7 A brief lively rally propelled stocks higher with fraction gains. Buying activity sharpened before noon and prices moved up while turnover neared 900 000 shares for the day. Rails oils motors and radio and television shares led demand as Barnedmil recovered on merger news with Ogden Corp, amid cautious trading overall.
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William D. Horgan
New York
Barnedmil
Ogden Corp
Corn Prices Rise in Steady Grain Market
Chicago reports show corn advancing over a cent with gains extending into the day, while other cereals lag. Wheat varies from 7-8 lower to 1-8 higher. oats rise about 8. rye mixed. soybeans steady to firm. lard trades 5 to 15 cents above prior levels, around 12.30 for September.
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Chicago
Markets at a Glance in New York and Chicago
New York stocks rise in a brief rally led by leaders while bonds show mixed moves and cotton remains steady. Chicago grain trades ease with wheat light and corn firm. receipts small for cash corn. Oats rise with corn strength. Hog prices hold mostly steady to 25 cents higher, top $22.40, while cattle stay generally firm with gains up to 50 cents, top $31.50.
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New York
Chicago
Poultry market steady as demand holds in Atlanta area
US Department of Agriculture dispatch from Atlanta reports North Georgia poultry market fully steady. Demand fair to good with stocks moving satisfactorily in all sections. Supplies adequate but not burdensome. Dealers note improved quality. Prices paid FOB farm for broilers and fryers picked up Tuesday afternoon and this morning ranged 26-28 cents, mostly 26-27 cents.
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Atlanta
USDA
North Georgia
New York Cotton Futures Steady Amid Active Trade
Cotton futures held steady as deliveries rose to new highs for the season with active trading. Textile mills and commission houses bought, and short covering preceded the government report due tomorrow. Private crop forecasts ranged around 14.4 to 14.58 million bales, while the August 1 government estimate stood near 14.805 million. Futures closed 10 to 40 cents higher with gains across contracts.
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New York
New York Cotton Exchange
Nashville Livestock Market Report Sees Slow Trade
Nashville fed eral state department notes cattle numbers at 1,250 with a slow market. Grainfed stock scarce while grassers and cows remain plentiful. 900 to 1,000 pound fed steers fetch 25.50, grassers 17.00 to 20.00, stocker steers and heifers 19.50 to 20.00, beef cows 14.50 to 15.50, canners and cutters 13.00 to 14.50.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Federal State Departments of Agriculture
Funeral notices and family updates from Decatur area
Out of town relatives attended Miss Clar ice Lee's funeral including L W Lee Louisville Walter Murry Ola Mae Wilson Marjorie Wilson Woodfin Wilson Nashville and others from Elkmont Athens Birmingham Memphis Charleston Hartselle and Murfreesboro A daughter Jennifer Ann was born to Guy H Davidson and wife at Rutherford hospital with the baby in serious condition Mrs Davidson in hospital in Murfreesboro Mrs Barrett-Shelton arrived from New York after addressing a United Nations group about the Decatur Story and TVA cooperation Memorial Drive Methodist revival continues daily services Austinville to hold a community singing Thursday invite extended
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Clar‘ice Lee
L. W. Lee
Louisville
Walter Murry
Ola Mae
Marjorie Wilson
Woodfin Wilson
Nashville
Gilbert Smith
Marvin Coffman
Elkmont
Thomas Spence
D. J. Wilson
Ernest Searcy
Woodrow Wilson
Beach
Athens
David Sexton
Town Creek
Raymond Hodges
Birmingham
John D. Lyle
Memphis
George Reyes
Charleston
S. C
Doc Francis
Hartselle
Edgar
Mabel. Harlow
Veto
Ala
Guy H. Davidson
Murfreesboro
Tenn
Rutherford Hospital
Jennifer Ann
Barrett-Shelton
New York
United Nations
Vacation Cash Lost in Purse
Miss Bertha Timberlake of 209 East Cherry reported her vacation money vanished after her purse fell open in a car she rode in on a Saturday. A $300 billfold containing cash and ID disappeared about three hours before discovery. An intensive search of the car and nearby areas failed to locate the wallet.
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California
Bertha Timberlake
East Cherry
Permit Granted to Erect Home Here
Permission to build a $6,000 six room and bath brick veneer house at 607 West Moulton Street was granted to Ralph Weinman by City Clerk Joe Petty. Tuesday. SG Morrow obtained a permit Monday to add a $500 perch to 2807 Somerville Road.
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Moulton Street
Ralph Weinman
Joe Petty
SG Morrow
Somerville Road
Livestock Market Report With Mixed Hog and Calf Prices
Feeder and slaughter cattle steady to higher with medium to good sausage bulls at 16.50 to 18.00 and calves 300 lb generally 23.00 to 27.00. Hogs active with 190 to 250 lb barrows at 21.50, sows 17.50 to 18.50. Grass calves around 20.00. weights 160 to 185 lb mostly 19.00 to 19.50.
Criminal Jury Docket Begun
County Judge W. H. Long opened trials on the county court criminal docket. Three cases were continued to the next term. One case pressed and one dismissed. Charges against Sneady Cannon Feldman for prohibition violation and Gordon L. Griffin for assault and battery remained. Roy MacCutcheon hunting out of season not pressed. Dewey L. Smith peace proceedings dismissed. William Quinn bond forfeiture and re-arrest order issued. Jane Free found not guilty on obscene language.
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W. H. Long
Sneady Cannon
Margaret Feldman
Gordon L. Griffin
Roy MacCutcheon
Dewey L. Smith
Long
William Quinn
Quinn
Jane Free
Trade Continued from PAGE ONE Senate Conference Planned
Senator Lucas of Illinois the party's senate leader called a conference of all democrats for tomorrow to check over his team defenses. Senator Sparkman D Ala told a reporter he doesn't believe any of the democrats will go off the party reservation on this issue.
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Lucas
Illinois
Senate
Sparkman
Global tensions report and German new government formed
Bevin representatives at Washington conferences. In Moscow Soviet writers predicted devaluation of the pound and European currencies. The first freely elected German parliament convened in Bonn as the bundesrat began work and the Bundestag opens. In China, Red drive slowed as Canton defense ministry recaptured villages near the Canton Hankow railway. Bolivia reports the 12 day rightist rebellion nearly crushed with Santa Cruz as last rebel strongpoint.
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Washington
Moscow
Bonn
Bundesrat
Bundestag
China
Canton
National Defense Ministry
Hankow
la Paz
Bolivia
Mamberto Urriolagoitia
Santa Cruz
Decatur Band to Perform in Delano Park Thursday
Decatur high school band makes its first fall appearance Thursday night with a short concert in Delano Park at 6 30 p m The Decatur Band Mothers club holds its annual ice cream and homemade cake event announced today by publicity chairman Mrs Erskine Chenault
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Decatur High School
Delano Park
Decatur Band Mothers Club
Erskine Chenault
Peck Family Reunion At Decatur Home
The Peck family held its annual reunion Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs J Eral Peck. Attendees included numerous Peck relatives and spouses from Decatur Birmingham Huntsville Hartselle Somerville Anniston Northport Waton and other cities along with friends and extended family.
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Peck
J. Eral Peck
E. E. McCarley
A. A. McCarley
Dallas
Texas
R. J. Dendy
Birmingham
Russell Peck
M. G. Peck
Somerville
Hartselle
Josephine Wilson
Pat Patterson
Pat Baggett
Josephine Peck
Decatur
A. M. Peck
H. M. Turney
J. H. Lorenzo
David Bean
Ben Bean
H. A. Bean
Mable
Henry J. Young
Fayette
C. A. NeSmith
Anniston
Gilbert H. Young
E. B. Mays
S. A. Johnston
Willis Watkins
W. S. Watkins
Jimmie Jones
Raymond Vines
A. .H. Bean
Watson
Howard Bean
Preston Sutton
Neil Hyde
Northport
Arthur Smith, Jr
Auburn
Paul Garmon
Atlanta
Will Fowler
Fayne Peck
Sonny and
Joe
Coy Puckett
Albert Fowler
Robert Blue and Sons
Florida
Howard Weaver
Huntsville
Opal Palmer
Oliver Fowler
Hurbert Palmer
Chattanooga
Tenn
Eula Self
Altha
Myrtle Bean
Cullman
Otto McCarley
Henry Fowler
J. Earl Peck
J.C
Tragic shooting spree ends after grocery shop killings
A divinity student turned suspect, reportedly planning beforehand, killed multiple people on River Road in a mass shooting. Authorities say his motive involved long fled resentment and featured a chaotic sequence across shops and a home, ending with his capture after tear gas and a Bible on a table.
Navy plane crash scatters wreckage over wide area
Residents reported a Navy plane circling with a sputtering engine before a crash near a hill. Observers said the pilot climbed as the engine quit and the craft did not burn. Rain and low clouds soaked a crowd of several hundred who trudged through mud to view the wreck at the site.
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Morrison
J. B. Womack
Peck
Navy
Womack
Infantrymen Held After Rhine Slaying Incident
In Mainz, FRANKFURT Sept. 7 German infantryman killed and another beaten as five U S Army soldiers from the First Division are arrested after a drunken assault during Rhine maneuvers. A German waiter died from wounds, and two more Germans were attacked in Mainz areas as German and French police called in Air Force units to quell the disturbance.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Rhine
U. S
Mainz
U. S. Air Force
Barkley Begins Midwest Trip Amid Romance Rumors
Vice Barkley arrived in St. Louis Sunday and was met at the airport by Mrs. Hadley. Rumors swirl about a possible romance between the 71-year-old widower and the 37-year-old widow, though friends say marriage plans have not been discussed. Barkley plans to depart today for Springfield Illinois for a speaking engagement.
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Barkley
St. Louis
Hadley
Springfield
Ill
Kyle appointed film librarian at University of Georgia
Donald P. Kyle, son of Mr and Mrs Ponsomby Kyle of Decatur, named film librarian for the division of general extension at the University of Georgia, announced by Ernest A Lowe head of general extension. Kyle earned an AB from the University of Alabama and did graduate work in public school administration there.
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Donald P. Kyle
Ponsomby Kyle
Decatur
University of Georgia
Ernest A. Lowe
Kyle
University of Alabama
Mother of Slayer In Camden Connives in Tragedy
In Camden New Jersey on September 7 the mother of Howard Unruh the gunman who killed 13 collapsed in grief. Mrs. Freda Unruh about 50 lay seriously ill at her sister’s home as police guard her son who faces murder charges. Her collapse followed news of the massacre and she spoke of her son’s eyes looking funny. The gunfire occurred while she was with a neighbor. The husband Frank Unruh has been separated and is whereabouts unknown.
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Maurice Cohen
Unruh
Cohen
Rose
Charles
Unrah
Minnie Cohen
Thomas Hamilton
Helga Zegrino
Alvin M. Day, Jr
Emma Matlack
Helen Wilson
John Wilson
Wilson
Madeline Harrie
Armand
Charles Peterson
Camden
N. J
Freda Unruh
E. M. Wonsetler
Howard
Kyle Named Assistant Film Librarian
He served two years as assistant film librarian. Mr Kyle replaces W F Mosteller who has taken a position with the University of Georgia co op store.
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Mr. Kyle
W. F. Mosteller
University of Georgia Co-Op
Dulles May Be GOP Candidate
Senator John Foster Dulles said he would gladly accept the Republican nomination to run for the New York senate in the fall special election. Gov. Dewey appointed Dulles to fill the unexpired term after Wagner resigned for illness. Lehman may seek the Democratic nomination if offered. conventions will name candidates later this month.
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Washington
John Foster Dulles
Senate
New York
Dulles
Herbert Lehman
Robert Fagner
Wagner
Ornas E. Dewey
Lehman
Miss America Contest Opens in Atlantic City
Atlantic City hosts the Miss America pageant with 52 contestants in a four mile parade before 250000 spectators. 1948 winner Bebe Shopp led the march atop a gold flecked float as entrants from 45 states plus four major cities, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Canada, followed on floats and decorated chairs.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Bebe Shopp
Hopkins
Minn
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Canada
Fact-Finders To Report Saturday On Steel Parley
The White House said the steel fact-finding board will report to President Truman Saturday morning. The deadline to hand over wage dispute recommendations looms as the CIO Steel Workers Union seeks a 30 cent an hour package and threatens a Sept 14 strike if unresolved. The board will brief Truman Friday and likely release the report to Sunday papers.
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Washington
White House
Steel Fact-Finding Board
President Truman
CIO Steel Workers Union
Truman
Editor Josiah P. Rowe Jr. Dies in Fredericksburg
Josiah P. Rowe Jr., 54, editor and publisher of the Fredericksburg Free Lance Star, died of a heart attack in his sleep. The veteran World War I figure served as mayor of Fredericksburg, a role inherited from his grandfather Abdslam P. Rowe and his father J. P. Rowe. funeral arrangements have been completed.
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Fredericksburg
Josiah P. Rowe, Jr
Free Lance Star
Rowe
Abdsalom P. Rowe
J. P. Rowe
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