Purge Threat Highlighted By Alabama Democratic Leader
Mobile Alabama political note reports Chairman Gessner T. McCorvey says the state Democratic Executive Committee can manage the Roosevelt Wallace campaign and urges adherence to pledges to support all nominees. He warns against Willkie Democratic clubs and favors keeping primaries among white voters pledged to party nominees.
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Mobile
Ala
Gessner T. McCorvey
Democratic Executive Committee
Alabama
McCorvey
Bird Graves
Lister Hill
Graves
Frank M. Dixon
Hill
Solon Replies to Roosevelt Amid Liberal Charge
Senator Hiram Johnson of California rebukes President Roosevelt for labeling him not liberal or progressive. Johnson says all California Senate candidates run on both major tickets and recalls his 30 year record. He accuses Roosevelt of a planned attack and vows not to bow to pressure or misstate facts.
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Washington
Hiram Johnson
California
Roosevelt
Johnson
United States Senate
Supreme Court
Beauty Winner Miss New Orleans 1940 Overcame Paralysis
New Orleans judges crowned Pau line Powell 18 Miss New Orleans 1940. She contracted infantile paralysis at age three in Houston and doctors doubted she would walk. Her mother massaged daily for 12 years, and Powell learned to walk again. A limp persists due to one leg being shorter and a drawn tendon.
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New Orleans
Pauline Powell
Army Recruits 132 Men For Regular Service Here
Sergeant James W. Barnes announces 132 men were accepted for one regular army in July at the local recruiting office on the post office building’s second floor. Open vacancies include infantry at Camp Jackson and Fort Benning, medical corps, signal corps, engineers, ordnance, cavalry, infantry tanks, and quartermaster duties. high school education is required for signal and evidence depots. Age 18 to 35, single, no dependents, good health and literacy urged to enroll by visiting in person or writing for information.
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James W. Barnes
Army
Barnes
Camp Jackson
Ala
Signal Corps
Last Eligible Man Joins the Colors Morley Tennessee
The last able-bodied youth in Morley Tennessee has enlisted in the army. Roy Branan, 22, 6 feet 2 inches tall and 175 pounds, becomes Morley’s twenty fourth volunteer for military service.
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Morley. Tenn
Alig
East Tennessee
Roy Branan
Morley
Transfer of 115 Enlisted Men to Selma Air Corps School
An initial detachment of about 115 enlisted men will be moved from Maxwell Field to the air corps new pursuit school site at Selma. They will be accompanied by Lieutenants Alfred O. Colquitt and Ralph E. Knapp and housed in tents fed from field kitchens pending permanent quarters.
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Montgomery
Ala
Maxwell Field
Air Corps
Selma
Alfred O. Colquitt
Ralph E. Knapp
Round-up of Japanese by British follows arrests overseas
A British empire wide roundup targets Japanese subjects including London managers Satoru Makihara and Shunsukei Tanabe of Mitsubishi and Mitsui. Authorities deny retaliation while rumors speak of a spy ring spanning Canada Australia and Burma. embassies lodge protests as arrests under defense regulations appear to echo wartime tensions.
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London
Britain
Japan
Mitsubishi and
Mitsui
Satoru Makihara
Shansukei Tanabe
Mitsubishi
British Empire
Empire
Canada
Australia
Burma
Makihara
Tanabe
Korea
Mamoru Shigenitsu
Shunsukei Tanabe
Putney
Scotland Yard
Special Branch
Plantation House
Fenchurch Street
Hunger Strike Breaks as Snake Leader Demands Coffee
Adel Georgia August 3 The gaunt leader of a snake handling sect broke a jail hunger strike for a cup of coffee then prayed for divine deliverance of himself and a follower. The duo began the fast yesterday after refusing breakfast. Authorities investigate a woman’s death two years ago and monitor a six year old girl bitten last week. Farmer Preacher W T Lipham and Albert Rowan are held on assault with intent to murder charges connected with the girl. Rowan's daughter Letha Mae Rowan is involved and Lipham is to be held pending a probe of a 1938 Ray City death.
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Adel
W. T. Lipham
Albert Rowan
Letha Mae Rowan
N. N. Hughes
Berrien County
Lipman
Jeffie Smith
Ray City
W. YT. Lipham
Rowan
Leitha Ann
W L. Daughtrey
Decatur Prepares for Tennessee River Motor Boat Races
Decatur gears up for roughly 30 to 40 speedboat entrants racing for nearly $600 on the Tennessee River between two bridges. Races start at 1 30 Central Standard Time with up to 20 000 visitors expected. A flotilla and fireworks display on Wheeler Lake begin at 8 30 tonight under Commodore Q T Eddens.
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U. S. Highway 31
Wheeler Lake
Wilson
Guntersville
Florence
Sheffield
Scottsboro
Chickamauga
Decatur
Athens
B. H. Richardson
Courtland
W. A. Toms
Cullman
John A. Dunlap
W. A. Collier
National Outboard Association
Dixie
Tennessee
Q. T. Eddens
Charter Members Get Seats for Wheeler Lake Yacht Club Races
Quince Eddins commodore asks The Daily to note charter members will have seats on a barge Sunday to view boat races. Members should come to the gangplank where they will be admitted by charter members and limit each to one guest to ensure seating.
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Quince Eddins
Wheeler Lake Yacht Club
the Daily
Eddens
Baton Rouge Job Board Sets Up Patronage System
Governor Sam Jones launches a pared down patronage drive to distribute jobs taken from Huey P. Long era spoils. A triumvirate oversees the scramble with plan to split benefits 50 50 between Jones and Noe factions. Subcommittees will assign parish level posts. a few legislators oppose directing patronage themselves.
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Baton Rouge, la
Sam Jones
Hie
Huey P. Long
Vance Planche
Lake Charles
Francis
Whitehead
Port Allen
Jones
Charles E. McKenzie
Monroe
James A Noe
Noe
Neu
Huey
Earl K. Long
Brunt Of War Felt By Shipping Lanes
The article details heavy bombing of English Channel and North Sea ports including Hamburg Bremen Wilhelmshaven and Cherbourg as targets for invasion prep. It notes 1000 plus German and occupied territory objectives hit in three months and cites Cross on port disruptions and resilient Thames quays.
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Britain
Chanel
North Sea
Germany
Hamburg
Bremen
Wilhelm-Shaveh
Cherbourg
France
England
Arctic
Norway
Ronald H. Cross
Saale Aan
Cross
Tilsbury
London Bridge
Thames
British Empire
London
Associated Press
British
Air Ministry
Death Edict Possible in Bank Robbery Case
Kenneth F. Hagan, a 50 year old former convict, faces possible death penalty if convicted in the Aug. bank robbery of First National Bank. He allegedly forced Assistant Vice President Carl Grantham to cash a bogus $3,000 draft and to aid his escape. Federal attorneys in Atlanta and Birmingham cite statutes allowing death if jurors direct it for killing or forcing a person to accompany the offender. A preliminary hearing before Commissioner Louise Q. Charlton is awaited. maximum bail may be set at $25,000.
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Birmingham
Ala
Kenneth F. Hagan
First National Bank
Carl Grantham
Jim C. Smith
Hagan
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Atlanta
Grantham
Smith
U. S
Louise Q. Charlton
Why Hitler Seeks Peace Ploy After Early European Wins
The author ponders why the Nazi regime would pause to seek Britain’s peace after rapid conquest. He notes Germany’s powerful army and cites statements by Secretary of War Stimson about Britain's possible fall within a month. The piece suggests strategic reasons behind a peace overture amid vast European expansion.
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Puehrer
Hitler
England
Atr
Europe
Britain
Nasis
Stimson
Great Britain
Peace Pleas Amid War Weighs on Europe and Germany
The article argues that Nazi leaders seek markets and a swift peace to avoid total European collapse. It notes Hitler’s shift toward economic aims over military conquest and warns that without a quick settlement, both sides head toward catastrophe and economic ruin.
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Europe
Hiller
Cordell Hull
Hitler
Germany
Civitan Club of Decatur Receives Charter
The Civitan Club of Decatur was chartered at a Ly Hotel banquet with 35 members and their wives present. District Governor Dick Sanderfur installed officers, and Dr Brakefield of Civitan International spoke on organization principles and Americanism. The club will meet weekly at Lyons Hotel luncheons.
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Civitan Club of
Decatur
Ly Hotel
Seramony Wile
C. E. Lowery
Carl Conley
Civiton
Dick Sanderfur
Alabama
Mississippi
Sanderfur
Brakefield
Civitan International
Howard Collaze
Civitan Club
Lyons Hotel
Mrs Pate Poole Called Home in brief illness
Margaret Pate Poole 25 of 1404 Sixth Avenue South died Friday evening after brief illness at Moapitar. Survived by husband Douglas Poole father J O Pate three brothers Wic Forest Pate of Decatur Morris Pate of Columbus Ga and two sisters Mrs Mary Alice Tucker and Miss Sarah Frances Pate. Services Sunday 4 p.m. at Southside Baptist Church with Rev J C Chambers and Rev W L Spearman. Pallbearers listed. Bur ial in Roselawn Cemetery Brown directing.
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Margaret Pate Poole
Sixth Avenue
South
Moapitar
Douglas Poole
J O. Pate
Wic
Forest Pate
Decatur
Morris Pate
Columbus
Mary Alice Tucker
Sarah Frances Pate
Southside Baptist Church
J. C. Chambers
W. L. Spearman
Ninth Street Methodist Church
James Bryant
Jack Wear
Allen Wallex
J. O.brownsend
O. N. Troup
D. L. Mixson
Roselawn Cemetery
Brown
River Side High Band Practice Starts Next Monday
Band practice resumes at River Side High School next Monday at eight o'clock as announced by Kenneth Hennessy band director who has returned from a vacation in Iowa Illinois and Minnesota. The Decatur band holds three out of town engagement invitations this month.
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Kenneth Hennessy
Hennessy
Iowa
Illinois
Minnesota
Riverside High School
Decatur
Negro Farmhand Sought After Wounding of Hillsboro Man
A farmhand named Melvin Blalock allegedly shot W. Mitchell at Fox's Creek in Lawrence County. Mitchell, wounded in the head, was moved to Benevolent hospital in Decatur. Deputies and bloodhounds were dispatched as a search for the assailant continued two miles east of Hillsboro.
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RE. W. Mitchell
Melvin Blalock
Fennell
Fox's Creek
Hillsboro
Lawrence County
Sheriff Byars
Mitchell
Decaturin & Brown
Benevolent Hospital
Descatur
Decatur
Morgan County
New Morgan County Jail Handover Planned
The Morgan county board of revenue and control may turn over the new jail to Sheriff Willough on Monday after equipment arrival. About 40 prisoners will move from the old jail to the new facility which is described as escape proof and initially houses more white inmates than Black prisoners. County inspection of the property has been completed and accepted.
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Morgan County
Willoughby
Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control
Alabama Woman Plunges From 12th Floor Hotel Room
A 35 year old University Alabama woman identified as Mary Lee Gunter plunged to her death from her 12th floor Stevens Hotel room in Chicago. Investigators found letters airmailed from the woman's mother suggesting a motive or context.
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Chicago
Mary Lee Gunter
University
Ala
Stevens Hotel
Anf
Weather report from Tennessee river gauge and temp data
A weather summary notes the Tennessee River gauge reading at seven feet with a 24 hour max temperature around 72 and a 4 percent rainfall figure. Partly cloudy and thunderstorm chances in the southern coastal area with a southerly wind.
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Tennessee
Alabama
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