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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1941
Page
8
Gil distributors in Decatur report no fuel shortage in the Decatur district as bulk plants show ample supply. Transportation delays exist but retail demand can be met. one distributor notes a past shortage near Guntersville but new supplies have since arrived to remedy it.
Washington reports gasoline stations across Atlantic Seaboard to shut from 7 am to 7 pm daily in response to fuel shortages. Secretary Ickes and defense officials warn curfews and rationing may extend if demand remains high, risking thousands of jobs and widespread economic disruption.
Bo hwyz Switzerland marks 650 years with torches and bonfires rather than war. Citizens celebrate across the countryside as blackout rules ease. Henri Guisan attends a day of parades in the town.
Andy Morris of Aberdeen Texas will open a series of meetings at Me Tanner Church of Christ Sunday at ten. The sessions will run for two weeks and the public is invited. Dean Lucky of Columbia Tennessee will direct the music.
Pvt. Everett Byron Lane, 19, of Tatwell Minnesota, was struck and killed near the Craig Field entrance in Belma Alabama while flagging an army truck headed for Fort Benning Georgia. The driver was Lt James H York of the fourth engineer battalion. Lane belonged to the 66th materiel battalion Maxwell Field Alabama.
In Montgomery Alabama on August 1 19XX General Walter R Weaver assumed command of the Southeast Air Training Center based at Maxwell Field. The post had recently relocated from Beglin under General orders and continues its independent mission in the region.
In New York markets on August 1, investors pursued advancing rail stocks while industrials lagged. Transfers hovered 650,000 shares as carriers rose early and then mostly held gains. Livestock prices varied with heifers and steers at 7.50 to 9.00, cows 6.50 to 7.00, hogs steady with Good and Choice 190 to 250 pounds at 11.25, and fat lambs around 10.75 with sheep steady. No market Saturday.
N Y Aug 1 features closed 12 to 15 higher with mixed grain activity. Contracts for Oct Dec Jan Mar May and other months showed gains, with prices fluctuating and spreads reflecting notable volatility in the session.
Nashville Tennessee salable cattle 100, calves part of Federal State Market News Service update. Details read as a concise market note from Nashville livestock report.
A realistic thirty minute air raid by a training flight from Tallahassee air base startled Marianna Florida residents at 430 am. The drill involved three dozen aerial bombs and followed a general alarm with lines silenced. Originated locally through the American Legion and defense council, the raid surprised the town of about 5000, described as perfectly timed and entirely successful.
Attorney General Thomas S. Lawson says assessments paid by candidates in qualifying to run for political office cannot be deducted as a tax in income tax returns. He states the so called assessment levied by the Democratic executive committee does not meet essential tax requirements under Alabama law. Revenue officials asked for guidance after a taxpayer raised the issue.
United States pilot Wing Commander Whitney Straight was reportedly shot down in a dogfight over the English Channel today and believed to have landed in occupied France. No confirmation yet on his fate. authorities say he was an RAF hurricane pilot.
Chicago reports today's butter receipts totaling 1 004 689 with firm creamery scores 93 down to 90. Centralized carrots at 33 3 4 and eggs receipts 12 804 with prices unchanged.
Wheat moved up early by as much as a cent a bushel before surrendering gains. Prices finished largely unchanged to modestly higher across contracts with September at 1.06 and December around 1.08 per bushel. Corn rose modestly with September at 3 3-4 and December at 3-1/2 to 78 1/2 cents.
About 8,000 electricians remained on strike across the Metro polis to press Consolidated Edison to hire 600 union workers for a new powerhouse. In Washington a Labor report said June strikes caused 1,375,000 man-days of idle time nationwide, a 39 percent drop from May, with 385 new strikes starting in June versus 500 in May.
Census Bureau figures state that annual production of cotton woven goods exceeds nine billion square yards, enough to cover an expanse about 3,000 square miles equal to Rhode Island and Delaware combined.
Atlanta August 1 Governor Eugene Talmadge said he would urge the legislature to burn books in Georgia schools and libraries that advocate mixed race education. He cited We Sing America by Marion Cuthbert, a Rosenwald library title, and claimed the book promotes white and negro children attending school together.
Temperature readings show extreme heat across the Southeast with 99 in Charleston and 98 in Little Rock and Augusta. Showers dampened parts of the South with Birmingham and Chattanooga reporting inches of rain. Cooler in New England with Boston at 67 and New York at 71 as heat lingers elsewhere.
Police raid on the German Culture Welfare Association in Rosario results in 30 arrests and seizure of books and phials, with some items not reporting Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.
Two young tennis players face Westchester County grand jury action next Tuesday on charges that one raped a 17 year old model and the other threatened her with a firearm. Claire Beringer testified that Robert Decker 22 of Miami Beach Fla assaulted her in an automobile while John March 20 waved a gun. Bail to be fixed by the county court. Police Chief Paul Yerick and the girl's mother testified, along with two doctors.
Reports from London say Japan pressed Thailand for military bases and control of rub ber, rice and tin with offers to restore Laos and Angkor in French Indochina. Britain fears bases within 400 miles of Singapore and threat to Burma and India as Burma air fields are expanded.
House leaders expect a showdown next week but passage likely to miss the August 1 deadline set by General Marshall. The bill would grant the president authority to keep draftees in service until defense needs end or Congress acts. Taft seeks an 18 month limit. Hill signals administration opposition.
An unidentified motorist fired a shotgun at a group after a request for cigarettes. Thomas Monearney 55 was killed, Joseph Idzior 19 was seriously wounded, and another customer was hit by a pellet as the assailant drove by a coffee shop.
Decatur church services include J W Darrah at First Methodist and Rev Edward Ramage at First Presbyterian with no evening services. The town reports a minor house fire caused by wiring, the Boy Scout westward tour reaching New Mexico, and several residents traveling or visiting relatives in Montgomery Louisville and Chicago.
Monday returned an indictment against the husband in a Limestone and La counties welfare case. Bride Amused as Rosson appeared in court with childish giggling throughout the session. Neighbor John Beddingfield swore to a warrant after complaints from welfare residents.
Enoch L. Johnson, known as Nucky, Atlantic City Republican leader, married Florence Osbeck then was sentenced to 10 years in prison and a fine after federal conviction for income tax evasion. He admitted income came largely from numbers game operators in the resort. The wedding occurred just hours before the ruling.
Mexico rebukes Berlin over the Nazi blacklist and affirms sovereignty while Avila Camacho restricts Sinarkuistas as Nazi-Fascist. Argentina orders re export or destruction of a seized radio transmitter as Berlin Buenos Aires tensions rise. Germany defends the blacklist amid Leningrad and Smolensk reports as Hopkins meets Stalin. Japan and Thailand seal a 10 million baht credit deal while border fighting ends between Ecuador and Peru.
Rep Vinson of Georgia urged taxing union assets as the House debates a large tax increase bill. He told Ways and Means that about 150 AFL and CIO unions held assets totaling 42 million dollars as of April 1 1941.
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