Weather and local notes from Decatur area
Partly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms Friday and light to moderate winds along the coast. Temperature range 93 high 73 low. Community notices include prayers, service personnel returns, and local church and civic meeting plans. Notables: Sgt Berford Sharp honorable discharge after 27 months overseas. Miss Sam Hayes returns to TVA. FBI training in Washington context. road paving completion on Riverview Avenue to Alabama Flour Mill.
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Sgt
Berford Sharp
D. A. Sharp
Priceville
Sgt. Sharp
Carol Smith
Riverview Avenue
Alabama Flour Mill
Valley Cattle Show Opens Friday at 10 A M
Promptly at 10 oclock Friday morning at the Home Oil Mill grounds on Moulton Street the second annual Tennessee Valley livestock and grain show will begin. Luther Fuller of Birmingham will call the first ring and judging will cover 32 cattle classes plus dairy and 4 H and FFA entries. Special awards of 2500 will reward counties with eight or more registered Jersey or Guernsey females owned by 4 H or FFA members. Reservations from Morgan to Marshall counties indicate a strong turnout of cattle and grain men in North Alabama.
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Moulton Street
Luther Fuller
Birmingham
Decatur
Aitabama
Jersey
Guernsey
FFA Club
W.G. Adsman
Nashville
South
FFA
John Pennell
Alabama
Earl Glenn
Casto Jarvis
Robert A
Bob) Jordan
Franklin, Tenn
Morgan
North Alabama
Limestone
Lawrence
Winston
Colbert
Lauderdale
Madison
Cullman
Marshall
A. H. Prickett
A. L. Johnson
J. N. Sheppard
H. L. Weir
Alabama Department of Agriculture
Mr. Fuller
General Farm Products
E. D. Lamay
Dick Bowen
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway Company of
W. French
Moore-Handley Hardware Company
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce
C. E. Teague
Auburn
R. A. Brown
Alabama Jersey Cattle Club
Guntersville
S. Ross Smith
Alabama Guernsey Cattle Club
Glenn White
American Guernsey Cattle Club
Nashville, Tenn
W. A
Bill) Keegan
American Jersey Cattle Club
O. H. Bowden
TCI
H. Vv
Jaaiellen Farmer
Capt
T. C. Reid
Alabama State Chamber of Commerce
Frank Martin
B. G. Hall
Crump Machine In Tennessee Rapped In OPA Job Scrap
A suit charges Tennessee political machine influence in OPA hiring. Paul O Turner seeks the Atlanta defense area rent director job, alleging Tennessee figures Harris Mosby Finney and McCord block his candidacy to favor Crump and McKellar. The case, supported by senators George and Russell and Rep Barksdale, aims to compel OPA to consider his civil service petition. The suit invokes the Tennessee Valley Authority funding dispute and names District Judge E Marvin Underwood.
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Atlanta
Crump- McKellar Political Machine
Tennessee
OPA
Paul O. Turner
Atlanta Defense Area
E. Marvin Underwood
Chester Bowles
Turner
Bowles
Alexander Harris
John D. Mosby
William P. Finney
D. Elie McCord
Job Turner
Harris
Mosby
Finney
Ed Crump
Memphis
Senator McKellar
McCord
Crump
Ripe
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Eorgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Finley
Sen
Kenneth McKellar
Region Four
Walter George
Richard Russell
Georgia
Robert Barkspeck
TVA Fight
Lawrence T. Mahoney
Harris, Mosby and Finney
Tennessee Valley Authority
Congress
McKellar- Crump
Truman presses Congress for unemployment relief and reforms
President Truman urged Congress to provide up to 25 a week for the unemployed for 26 weeks and pressed for more federal funds during a session with the House Ways and Means Committee. Senate clashes over depressions and future policy intensified as debates on naval and war department merging, term limits, and pensions for lawmakers continued.
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Max Hall
Washington
Truman
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
House Naval Committee
Paneer Fm
Are
White House
Ways and
Charles G. Ross
Capitol
Earl Browder
Communist Party
Browder
Civil Service Committee
Hous
Senate Judiciary Committee
Morse
R-Ore
Roosevelt
War and Navy Departments
Andrew May
D.-Ky
House Military Committee
Carl Vinson
D.-Ga
House Naval
Emperor Hirohito Bows to MacArthur Amid Abdication Hints
The Emperor Hirohito called on General MacArthur as rumors swirled of abdication, while clashes in Indo China left Lt. Col. A. Peter Dewey dead and Capt. Joseph Coolidge seriously wounded. Annamite rebels killed and injured several, with U S and allied casualties reported in Saigon.
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Associated Press
Japan
MacArthur
Indo-China
A. Peter Dewey
Washington, D. C
Joseph Coolidge
New Hampshire
Saigon
U. S
British Broadcasting Company
Hirohito
Tokyo
NBC
New York
Shanghai
Emperor Hirohito
Japanese Central Liaison Office
United States
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Admiral Halsey
U. S. Pacific Coast
Atlantic
Allied
War Department
U. S. Tenth Army
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr
Tenth
Okinawa
Buckner
Joseph W. Stilwell
Tension Mounts As More Strikes Open
The nationwide oil workers strike threat looms as delegates at a Chicago conference near adjournment to Washington. Walkouts spread from Manhattan elevator operators to Pacific Northwest lumber workers as coal miners idle in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The labor turmoil, with widespread closures and millions idle, intensifies amid federal mediation efforts and wage disputes.
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Associated
Edgar L. Warren
U. S. Conciliation Service
Oir
Chicago
Washington
Schwellebach
Warren
Manhattan
WLB
Oil Industry
CIO
New York City
AFL
Pacific Northwest
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Westhouse Electric’ Company
One Third of Meat Supply Ration Free
The CFA announced that from Sunday through Oct 27 no points will be required for lower grades of beef veal and lamb and for hamburger lamb and veal patties and other cheaper cuts. Canned meats sausage luncheon varieties and lower quality veal and lamb will also be ration-free. Pork cuts top beef veal lamb steaks roasts and chops continued on ration list with fats oils and butter. OPA Bowles cites range-fed cattle as key to freeing one third of meat. October civilian meat supply to rise to about 150 pounds per capita.
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Washington
CFA
OPA
Agriculture Department
Chester Bowles
Press Bar At Embassy In Tokyo Meeting Coverage
American correspondents were barred from full coverage of Emperor Hirohito and General MacArthur due to concerns over impairing the dignity of the occasion. MacArthur's press officer said reporters would receive instructions at a briefing the next morning. The meeting was delayed one hour and Hirohito was reported to be at the embassy. officials cited narrow roads and lack of arrangements as the reason for excluding press at the embassy.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
General MacArthur
MacArthur
War Chest drive plans organized in Morgan county
Organization for the approaching War Chest drive on October 9 has expanded to Morgan county with several communities forming committees and quotas. Winton aims for 50 dollars led by A D Williams. Hartselle Rotary backs a 2500 dollar target with C T Cash and D W McNeil guiding. Oak Ridge and Rocky Ford set 50 dollar goals led by Olen Cooper and Andrew Edwards respectively. NeeI and Danville teams target 200 and 300 dollars. A countywide meeting is set for October 1 at 8 00 p m at Oakville Baptist church.
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Morgan County
A. D. Williams
Winton
Priceville
Box Two
O T. Sharp
Forrest Echols
Pauline Turney
Lyle Cain
Bruce Lemons
B. G. Hall
Hartselie
Hugh Townson
Earl Legg
James Sybert
Homer Montgomery
B. H. Lott
Rocky Ford
Andrew Edwards
William Taylor
Ozelle McNutt
Theodore Owen
Ed Eillis
Nee
J. W. Harp
Leonard Harp
R R. Johnson
R E. Puckett
A. L. Singleton
Lillie Ellis
Kyle Johnson
Danville
Frank Martin
Jim Fielding
Burl Hardwick
Nettie McKay
H. L. Heflin
Grady Orr
Arthur Lee
Joan Simms
Jessie Roberts
Frank Puck
Center Planned Mobile City Center Contracts Let
Mobile city planners authorize specifications for a two block square municipal center including a police station and city hall. The contracts advance design work as officials outline tentative plans for the public complex.
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Mobile
Wartime Labor Unions Dissolved in Japan
Domei news reports imminent dissolution of the Patriotic Labor Service Associations, Japan’s wartime labor structure. Leaders of the prewar seamen’s union reunite in Yokohama and Tokyo transport workers plan to form a new union after the PLSA’s dissolution, signaling a reorganization of labor groups.
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Tokyo
Domei Agency
Patriotic Labor Service Associations
Japan
Ole Labor Organization
Indeoen
Yokohama
Tokyo Transport Workers
Unio
Domei
PLSA
Reappointed Alabama officials named to education board
In Montgomery on September 27 Col. Harry M. Ayers Anniston newspaper publisher and Lt. Gov Handy Ellis were reappointed by Chauncey to the state board of education. Terms run to September 30 1951.
Russian Marshal Zhukov to Visit United States in October
The White House announced President Truman invited Marshal Gregori Zhukov of Soviet Russia to the United States. Zhukov will arrive by air in New York City on October 4 to begin a visit arranged by the War Department, with a call on the White House to follow on an undetermined date.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Gregori Zhukov
Soviet Russia
United States
Zhukov
Russia
Allied Council
Germany
New York City
Warment
McClendon Is Handed Order For VA Office Remodel
Dennis McClendon receives a Veterans Administration proceed order in Montgomery to remodel the former Brown Funeral Co. building on Ferry Street for district VA offices. The $5,000 project includes a waiting room, five glassed offices, a physician’s office, supply and rest rooms, and a unified heating system serving nearby buildings. Construction starts after leases are secured, with VA offices to serve nine North Alabama counties and parts of two others.
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Dennis McClendon
Veterans Administration
Montgomery
Ferry Street
Brown Funeral Co
U. S
McClendon
North Alabama
Soldier dies in jeep accident near Fort McClellan
A soldier killed near Fort McClellan on Sunday night in a jeep accident was identified by Army public relations as Pvt. Russell P. O'Brien of Meriden Connecticut. O'Brien, a Pacific theater veteran, died when the vehicle overturned on a highway while serving as an instructor at the replacement training center.
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Fort McClellan
Army
Russell P. O'Brien
Meriden
Conn O’brien
Cen
Times Change for Shiners in September Tax Report
The Internal Revenue Bureau reports state activity in illicit moonshining. In August 1939, 74 stills were seized, while last month none were seized in 23 states. Kentucky and Tennessee showed 38 stills, down from 142 in 1939. Across Alaska, Hawaii, and the District of Columbia arrests occurred as moonshine operations yielded 567 stills nationwide.
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Ashington
Kentucky
Tennnessee
Alaska
Hawaii
District of Co
Internal Revenue Bureau
Carolina
Virginia
West
Need This Man CHIEF CLERK veteran seeking Army job
Age 24 married with one child served three years in the Army discharged September 23 1945 has two years of college and experience as chief clerk and assistant sergeant major of a combat squadron. supervised preparation of correspondence morning reports sick books and records. can type 40 words per minute willing to relocate contact Meredith Woodall U S Navy area for position details.
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Army
Combat Squadron
Air Pospector
Meredith Woodall
U. & Aosee
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