Alabama Hosiery Mills Face Partial Shutdown Monday
Decatur hosiery plants consider partial shutdowns as outsized demand for synthetic yarns prompts machine changes at Alabama Hosiery Mills while Cooper-Wells Mills faces temporary closure awaiting orders from St Joseph Michigan. Officials promise to keep mills running if possible and Chamber of Commerce offers support to protect jobs.
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Southeast Temperatures Sail Into Heat With Widespread Thundershowers
Temperatures climbed again across the southeast with coastal readings near 100 and interior areas cooled by heavy thundershowers. Cities from Jacksonville to Tallahassee and Savannah reported high 90s, while Memphis and Tulsa reached around 100. Rainfall varied, with Tuscaloosa, Vicksburg, and Jackson recording several inches in places. The heat is expected to persist as afternoon storms scatter through the region.
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Posse Slays Gun Weilder Near Colquitt Ga
Sheriff Felix Tabb says a posse shot and killed Jack Long near his home after he refused to drop a shotgun and pistol. Long had just completed a state prison sentence for assault with intent to murder and was wanted for the shotgun slaying of Lewis DeBary and wounding his wife on the Colquitt porch.
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Colonel Ditto Ordered to Huntsville Arsenal Duty
Colonel Rollo Ditto was ordered by the War Department to duty at Huntsville Alabama in connection with the construction of an arsenal. Previously he served with the Pittsburgh chemical warfare procurement district in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. The exact duties at Huntsville were not announced.
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Car stolen Thursday found near Center Alabama
Deputy sheriff C. M. Garrett informed W. G. Maze that a 1940 two door Chevrolet sedan stolen from the Maze home Thursday night was recovered. The damaged vehicle was abandoned in a ditch along the highway between Birmingham and Center, and Maze left to retrieve the car.
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Powder Mill Strike Threatens Defense Project Jobs
About 2,000 of 4,000 Plum Brook plant workers near Sandusky Ohio plan to strike to press pay demands for overtime and holiday work. AFL unions sought higher rates. nationwide defense labor policy discussed as shipyard contracts and master plans face scrutiny.
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Senate debates extending army service to 18 months
Senators seek a large Senate majority to extend training period and keep selectees, guardsmen, and reserves in uniform up to 2 1/2 years. Taft opposes new plan as Wheeler and Vandenberg split on extending beyond six months. A concurrent House Senate conference approved releasing older selectees and removing a clause granting wartime plant seizure powers.
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Decatur Moves Toward Municipal Housing Authority
Decatur begins steps to form a housing authority with a 25-signature petition filed last September. A public protest meeting called by Mayor T. R. Harrison and the council on Tuesday aims to explain the plan and seek citizen approval before applying for a state charter and federal funding.
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Cotton Rises on Opening Trading Amid Price Bill Hopes
New York cotton futures climbed as much as 4.50 a bale at the open on trader belief that the price control bill allows room for gains. Early gains held near 3 a bale with quotes around 17 cents a pound while New Orleans saw about 2.70 rise to 4.40 a bale on initial trades.
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Roosevelt Tax Bill Revisions Hit by Ways and Means
The House Ways and Means Committee rejected three Roosevelts proposals in the 3.529 billion tax bill including a plan to lower individual income tax exemptions.
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Alabama July gas tax revenue rises over prior year
State gasoline tax collections for July totaled 1 521 809 dollars an increase of 183 506 over July last year. Each county will receive 11 268 dollars from last month’s revenues derived from June sales.
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Slaughter Of Nazis Claimed By Soviet Counter Attacks
Soviet dispatches claim the Red Army repulsed Nazi forces at Smolensk with heavy losses while reporting brutal bayonet charges and multiple German divisions annihilated or trapped. Berlin says a vanguard encirclement and renewed thrust toward Moscow threaten the capital.
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Nazidom claims near German triumph face reality
Washington columnist Dewitt Mackenzie notes Berlin reports exaggerate the imminent collapse of the Russian front while the Red Army claims 3,000,000 fresh troops are ready. He warns a Russian withdrawal along a 1,100 mile line would be perilous and could shape the war's balance.
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Ability of Reds To Retreat Important
The article discusses whether the Red Army can conduct an orderly withdrawal in the Russian theater, warning that panic would lead to catastrophe. It notes the Red army is new and untested on a large scale and may prove defensive in nature with limited offensive reputation. Continued on page five.
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Japan Faces Showdown in Oil and Silk Controls
Washington reports President Roosevelt moves to embargo aviation fuel and tighten oil and silk controls aimed at curbing Japan's expansion southward. The actions freeze Japanese assets in the U S and target exports to limit Japan's war machine while signaling strong opposition to aggression.
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Japan Defies US Britain Oil Pressure Amid Crisis
Japan resisted American British economic pressure after President Roosevelt’s embargo on aviation fuel. Vice Admiral Seizo Sai, minister of Force, bluntly commented that the situation was “so” grave, signaling a deepening rift and potential further actions.
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Five Soldiers Injured in Bee Line Highway Crash
Five people, including three soldiers on leave, were injured when two cars collided head on six miles south of Cullman on Bee Line Highway at 9 30 Friday night. Herbert Conway Edwin Elliott Franklin W Harris and Thomas McNeal plus Miss Ethel Waters were treated in Cullman hospital with head injuries cuts and bruises.
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Polio Waning In Georgia With Fewer New Cases
Atlanta reports five new polio cases today compared with seven yesterday and thirteen on Thursday. Three older cases were found in Barrett county records, bringing Georgia’s total since June 1 to 305, with Atlanta’s city total at 73. Dr. James Hackney notes only five mild cases in the past week, the smallest one-day total in two months.
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Soldier Fights Off Shark At Sullivan's Island
Private Howard B. Sweatman of Whitesburg Georgia a Fort Moultrie motor transport student fought a large shark with his bare fists off Sullivan's Island surf. He sustained deep chest gashes lost much blood and needed surgery though his condition today is reported good at the Post Hospital. He came to Fort Moultrie from Fort Oglethorpe and was bathing chest deep when the shark struck then he drove it away.
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Silk industry stops for war effort orders in 1940s
A government stop order halts silk production nationwide at midnight to conserve silk for armed forces. About 176,000 workers face loss of work as the federal plan provides support measures and outlines the impact on the economy and allied supply chains.
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