Miners to Resume Soft Coal Production Thursday
The United Mine Workers Union reports soft coal production will resume Thursday in the bituminous fields shut since April 1 over a wage contract dispute. Southern operators agreed to a $1-a-day wage boost and to negotiate a two year agreement retroactive to the resumption date. The move aims to replenish fuel supplies for defense plants and ends a month-long standoff. The pay rise raises the Southern rate from $5.60 to $6.60 amid the back-to-work pledge.
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Washington
United Mine Workers Union
John L. Lewis
Appalachian Coal Area
Southern Producers
Roosevelt
L. Ebersole Gaines
Southern Producers’ Group
Miners’ Union
Appalachian
Stephen Early
UMW
Patton to Lead Decatur Lions Club
Bill Patton was elected president of the Decatur Lions Club, with term starting July 1. Officers named include Rufus Shepherd first vice president Charles Malone Jr second vice president C D Cottingham third vice president Gaines Stuart Lion tamer Bill Dougherty tail twister Sanford Cox secretary Charles Ed Howell treasurer and directors Sam Malone Jr Bill Littlefield J N Freeman Frank Richardson.
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Bill Patton
Lions Clubs
Decatur
Lions Udt
Rufus Shepherd
Charles Malone, Jr
C. D. Cottingham
Gaines Stuart
Bill Dougherty
Sanford Cox
Charles Ed Howell
Sam Malone, Jr
Bill Littlefield
J. N. Freeman
Frank Richardson
Mr. Patton
Knox McMasters
Whole Town Will Be Fishing Thursday in Seymour Texas
Seymour Texas residents vow a mass fishing day as 3,300 citizens close schools banks and businesses for the opening of Texas game fish season. Mayor C. M. Randall leads the event with plans to keep essential services only, and even gasoline purchases end Wednesday night.
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Seymour
Texas
C. M. Randall
C Kemp
Resignation of Col Lindbergh Accepted by War Dept
The War Department accepted Colonel Charles A Lindberghs resignation as a reserve air corps officer. Lindbergh had told President Roosevelt he would resign citing the presidents remarks at a press conference last Friday which left him with no honorable alternative. Secretary Stimson could approve or reject resignations during the emergency period.
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Washington
War Department
Charles A Lindbergh
Reserve Air Corps
Roosevelt
Stimson
Britain
Germany
Lindbergh
Early
Army
White House
Tonn to take up new work at church camp centers
Rev. E. T. Tonn of St. Pauls Lutheran will take a year’s leave to serve as director of a church camp center to be opened near training camps. He will travel to Anniston to plan a center and may be stationed there. his family stays here. A supply pastor will lead in his absence.
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E. T. Tonn
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Tonn
Lutheran
Dixon Seeks Reduction in Alabama Ad Valorem Tax
Governor Frank Dixon said he will seek a legal path to cut Alabama's 6 1 2 mill ad valorem tax. He told a Birmingham citizens group he would ask Attorney General Thomas Lawson to determine if the tax can be lowered using excess income tax receipts above bond provisions.
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Montgomery
Ala
Frank Dixon
Birmingham
Thomas Lawson
Dixon
Lawson
Lindbergh Resignation Sparks White House Debate
President Roosevelt faced questions after Charles A. Lindbergh announced his resignation from the Air Corps Reserve amid accusations of loyalty questions. White House secretary Stephen Early said Lindbergh’s letter had not yet reached the president and noted prior delays in official communications.
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Washington
Stephen Parry
Charles A. Lindbergh
Army Air Corps
Hitler
Lindbergh
Germany
White House
Roosevelt
New York
Air Corps Reserve
Contracts in state are many millions
Alabama contracts and expenditures from July 1, 1940 to April 15, 1941 totaled 197,603,537. Army contracts were 111,004,864 and navy contracts 33,323,818. The emergency ship program ranked third at 20,822,500, not counting about 100,000,000 in Ingalls Shipbuilding work or more than 50,000,000 in privately financed defense projects.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Office of Government
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp
Pascagoula
Miss
Marion Miley Dominates Southern Golf Contest Anticipated
Marion Miley, the Lexington Kentucky pro golfer, is highlighted as the favorite to win the Women’s Southern Amateur in Memphis starting Monday. Her career includes three US team selections and multiple Southern Championship titles. She faces strong rivals Nellie Goldthwaite Betty Jamieson and Estelle Lawson Page while balancing work for Standard Oil in five states.
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Marion Miley
The
Valley Country Club
South
Memphis
Nellie Goldthwaite
Fort Worth
Betty Jamieson
San Antonio
Estelle Lawson Page
Chapel Hill
N.C
Miley
Lexington
Kentucky
Standard Oil Company
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
Mississippi
Louisville
Fred Miley
Hamilton Co
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
Florida State College For Women
Tallahassee
United States
Europe
Scotland
England
Confession in Six Deaths Tells Gruesome Tale
Baker W. Gibson admitted to beating his wife with a chair and killing his five children by pouring kerosene on them and burning the two room farmhouse at Covington near Mobile. The 33 year old unemployed carpenter's helper spoke after hours of questioning by state and local officials. He was arraigned after the mass funeral for his family.
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Mobile
Ala
Bart B. Chamberlain
Baker W. Gibson
Carpenter
Covington
Gibson
Chamberlain
William H. Holcombe
Joe Hyde
Nelson Grubbs
Orknberieth
Irvington
City Hospital
Holcombe
Marie Eloise
Ship repair plans outlined for axis seized vessels
The maritime commission reports readiness to repair 30 seized axis ships for possible government use. Sabotage by crews left most vessels damaged before coast guards took them into custody. The House committee proposes broad presidential powers to take over and dispose of foreign shipping in American ports amid questions on legal reach.
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Washington
Maritime Commission
House Merchant Marine Committee
United States
Montrose Man Retrives Glasses From Water Well
C. Wade of Montrose lowered a bucket for water at Dublin Georgia and dropped his glasses into the shaft. He changed clothes and climbed into the well to recover his spectacles and other articles.
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Dublin
C. ©. Wade of
Montrose
Florida cattle fencing bill killed in committee
In Tallahassee a House livestock committee vote of 19 to 1 killed a bill requiring cattle owners to fence their animals and keep them off Florida highways.
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Tallahassee
Fla
House Livestock Committee
Florida
Churchill rejects plan for streamlined war cabinet
Prime Minister Churchill flatly rejects forming a streamlined supreme war cabinet and says a vote of confidence on wartime conduct will be debated in the House next week. He urges cautious news to avoid endangering troops while welcoming the House’s support for Greece aid and Middle East operations. Foreign Secretary Eden to participate in Balkans and Greek campaign discussions.
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Associated Press
London
Churchill
Supreme War
Balkan
Greece
Middle East
Anthony Eden
Balkans
Axis
Ministry of Propaganda
Tobacco tax hike fought by tobacco maker in Congress
Harry P. Taylor of Winston-Salem urged the House Ways and Means committee to tax sugar and coffee before raising duties on manufactured tobacco. He warned a proposed doubling of the 18 cent per pound tax could destroy the industry and argued for broader, higher taxes to fund revenue. He defended chewing tobacco’s role for workers and urged no disproportionate burden on the Southern tobacco industry.
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Washington
Congress
Harry P. Taylor
Winston-Salem
N. C
House
Ways and Means Committee
Taylor
Treasury
Boland
D-Pa
Joint Congressional Committee On Taxation
Officers raid bust nets whiskey cache on Washington Street
Prom 19 prohibition raids led officers to arrest a man and seize 25 gallons of corn whiskey from a house on Washington Street. A 50 gallon barrel hid under a brick walk in the yard. Alcohol tax unit members W S Lamon J F Pierce and deputies B C Pittman Bibb Humphrey participated.
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Washington Street
W.S. Lamon
J. F. Pierce
Alcohol Tax Unit
B. C. Pittman
Bibb Humphrey
Dewey Leads U S O Drive for Defense Recreation Centers
District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey accepts national chairmanship of the United Service Organizations for National Defense to raise 10,765,000 for recreational facilities serving soldiers sailors and defense workers. The plan calls for 300 defense centers nationwide and overseas bases with clubs near camps and plants.
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
United Service Organizations For National Defense
United States
Decatur Stores Adopt Thursday Half Holiday This Summer
Most Decatur retail stores will close at noon on Thursdays during May June July and August to grant employees a half holiday each week. Beauty shops in Decatur will also observe the Thursday half holiday starting this week.
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Decatur
Oo Beauty Shops
Roosevelt Arrives in Chungking for Talks on Campaign Plans
Capt. James Roosevelt and Maj. Gerald C. Thomas landed at Chungking today for talks with Chinese leaders and to monitor the British Axis campaign in Africa before traveling on to Cairo. The president’s eldest son was greeted warmly at the airport.
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Chungking
China
James Roosevelt
United States Marines
Gerald C. Thomas
Cairo
Woman slain by detective in Chicago case
Chicago April 20. State attorney’s ace detective Captain Daniel Gilbert killed a young woman, Ada Jennie Martin, 24, then beat her mother Ada with his revolver. He said the suspect Daniel Moriarity, 40, appeared mentally unbalanced and that Moriarity’s daughter Marie noted the father seemed dazed. The mother stood indicted for conspiracy to commit an abortion.
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Chicago
Daniel Gilbert
Gilbert
Daniel Moriarity
Ada Jennie Martin
Ada
Moriarity
Marie
Baptist Leader Warns on War Urging
Dr. M. E. Dodd of Shreveport Louisiana told a Tuscaloosa civic club that Americans should consider the personal interests and background of anyone urging war urging readers to scrutinize motives and affiliations before backing conflict.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
M. E. Dodd
Shreveport
Arabs May Align With Axis Over Palestine Threat
War report warns Germany could use Palestine as a base for an attack on Egypt, risking renewed Arab Jew tensions if Britain cannot hold the Holy Land. Axis agents are said to be courting Arab populations with Nazi promises, potentially prompting Arabs to pressure Jews in their new homeland.
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Palestine
Egypt
Holy Land
Near East
Palestine May Be New Battle Scene
The article discusses Palestine as a potential new theater in the war, noting reports of Iraqi “tourist infiltration” into Syria and the fear Nazi forces may use Syria as a base for attacks on Egypt or Turkey. It warns the threat to Palestine could grow if Germany or its allies reach Syria, with reference to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
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Mediterranean
Berlin
Axis
Turkey
Iran
Iraq
Suez Canal
Syria
Dessie
Ethiopia
Salam Escarpment
Sidi Barrani
Athens
Peloponnesus
Greece
Palestine
London
Egypt
Hitler
Nazis girding for invasion as Crete readies and Dover shells clash
German and British forces clash off Crete as Nazi long range guns bombard the French coast and Dover while RAF and bombers strike back. Italian and German troops push toward Crete amid reports of heavy fighting near Salum and Tobruk with Allied counteractions continuing.
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Preas
Alon
Ingland
DNR
Grecian
Peloponnesus
DNB
Yeastere
Crete
Dover
Channel
Boulogne
Cap Gris Nez
Calais
North Africa
Mussolini
Salum
Egyptian
Libya
Weather summary for Tennessee and Alabama regions
The Tennessee river gauge fell to 21.65 feet. Temperatures ranged from 5 to 80 degrees with no rainfall in the past 24 hours. Alabama shows partly to mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers possible on Wednesday and lighter winds along the coast. Tennessee expects increasing cloudiness and showers by Wednesday night into Thursday.
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Tennessee
Alabama
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