Louisiana Electorate in Bitter Clash Over Purge Campaign
In Louisiana a fierce political battle unfolds as Governor Sam H. Jones targets ousting all eight U.S. House members tied to the Huey P. Long machine. Long lashes out against Jones and others while a Republican revival emerges with Wendell L. Willkie rising nationally.
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Louisiana
For
Sam H. Jones
Congress
Wendell L. Willkie
Jones
Huey P. Long
New Orleans
Rene A. Derouen
House
Vance Plauche
Earl K. Long
Probe of Death of Agent Spurs Ambush Investigation
Federal tax unit investigators pressed their inquiry into the ambush slay of veteran agent Sam Thefour Barney McNabb in Chattanooga Tennessee. Four men were jailed charged with Internal Revenue Act violations shortly after the death on Tuesday. They were held for liquor offenses tied to an unregistered distillery while questioned about Leeper. no murder charges were filed.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Federal
Sam Thefour
Barney McNabb
Email McNabb
Freeman
Raymond Me
Young Republicans to Organize in Chilton County
Republicans meet in Clanton Alabama to set up precinct organizations for the fall presidential campaign. Chilton County is a Republican stronghold and usually votes split between local Republicans and presidential candidates. Percy M. Pitts was the only Republican in the 1939 Alabama legislature from Clanton.
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Clanton
Ala
Chilton County
Chilton
Alabama
Percy M. Pitts
Fof Clanton
Courtland News Circle Hosts Fifth Birthday and Club Event
Mrs. R P Vaughan entertained many children for twin Billy and Betty Vaughan's fifth birthday with help from Mrs. W H Marsh and others. The Courtland Cubs Sandlot ball club won 11 to 1 against Wheeler youths. Several local residents traveled for family visits, social events, and vacations, including trips to Decatur Birmingham Detroit and Fort Walton.
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R. P. Vaughan
Billy
Betty
W. H. Marsh
Annie Brown
Harriet Godfrey
Virginia Blythe
Doris Claiborne
Betty Claiborne
Ora Lee Randolph
Jane Robbins McGarry
Mary Anne Gilchrist
Nelle Lawrence
Lois and Louise Lawrence
Carolyn Krack
Teasley Ocorthex
Ava Virginia Montgomery
J. B. Gilchrist
Annie L .McGuire
Dothany
Albany
Harris Pippen
Prise
McGuire
Courtland Cubs
Wheeler
Sherrill
Hill - Courtland
E. Lawrence
Wheeler, Davis
Leighton
Points
Florida
R. H. Tweedy, Jr
Bobby III
J. H. Green
Wheeler Dam
Fort Walton
Fila
Eva Fowler
Lavinia Chardavoyne
Birmingham
Chardavoyne
Merger Progress as M&O and GMN Railroads Reach Sale
In Mobile on August 2 a public auction sold bankrupt Mobile and Ohio property for 13.41 million dollars. A bondholders committee bought nearly all assets, to be conveyed to Gulf Mobile and Northern subject to U.S. district court approval, advancing the merger.
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Mobile
Ala
Mobile & Ohio
Gulf, Mobile& Northern
Jear Chattetical Committee
U. S. District Court
Child Returns After Snakebite Abduction in Adel
Six year old Leitha Ann Rowan found after three days missing near Adel Georgia. Sheriff W J Daughtry says the girl was bitten by a copperhead during a rural religious rite last weekend and had been hidden by her mother to avoid medical care. The child is to undergo examination by Dr H W Clement. bonds set at 3000 dollars for her father and the preacher Lipham.
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Adel
W. J. Daughtry
Doughtey
Leitha Ann Rowan
Lawton Rowan
Albert Rowan
Daughtry
H. W. Clement
Rowan
Lipham
Lanier County
Lawton
Methodist Revival and Community Notices in Morgan County
The revival begins Sunday with Rev Brown and Rev Aldredge conducting services. Rev Toon filled his Baptist church appointment Sunday afternoon. Vocational Bible school to be taught next week by Rev Richard at the Baptist church. Home demonstration club meets with Mrs Brasher Lawrence Friday Aug 2. Various local visits and family updates follow including health notes and travel.
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Toon
Baptist Church
Richard
Home Demonstration Club
Brasher Lawrence
Prince
Danville
Hartselle
Cleo Grantland
Trinity
Velma Pettit
Mary Pettit
Margaret Ann
Roy Moore
Mollie Russell
Birmingham
Verona Black Mary
Barton Moore
Hobart Parker
Long-lived former slave Jane Rudley dies at 115 in Heflin
Jane Rudley, an African American woman once enslaved in the district, died at an apparent age of 115. Born Christmas Day 1825, she was freed at 39 and survived by three sons, the youngest 71.
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Heflin
Ala
Jane Rudley
Gulf Mobile trunk line formation announced
A plan to form a 2,007 mile trunk line to be known as the Gulf Mobile aims to unify regional rail and transport networks. The proposal envisions expanded routes, increased cargo capacity, and coordinated schedules to boost commerce across multiple states.
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Gulf, Mobile
Robbery of spectator ends drama at Mobile fishing rodeo
J P Cole of Greenwood Mississippi charged with leaving the Alabama deep sea fishing rodeo when he hired a driver to take him from Sedar Point to Mobile. En route the man struck him on the head robbed him of forty dollars and threw him from the car.
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Mobile
Ala
J. P. Cole
Greenwood
Miss
Alabama
Cole
Sedar Point
Rodeo
Dauphin Island
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