Hatch Act Gift Limit Sparks GOP Jackson Clash
GOP attorney Henry P Fletcher publicly argued that the Hatch Act personal gift limit of 5000 only applies to national party and congressional committees. Attorney General Jackson rejected advisory interpretations and warned no plans to evade Hatch Act limits will be approved. The piece notes campaign fundraising figures and Roosevelt’s third term emphasis as defense and foreign matters keep him near Washington.
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Henry P. Fletcher
Jackson
Pletcher
Republican National Committee
Fletcher
Department of Justice
Ce of Justice
L. Willkie
Des Moines
Roosevelt
Washington
Destroyers Prove Crucial in Anti Submarine Roles
The article notes destroyers with torpedo tubes and depth charge gear as essential to battle fleets. They form anti submarine and anti aircraft screens, protect large vessels, and demonstrated their value in WWI and WWII. It highlights destroyers' speed, mine sweeping, and convoy protection.
Young fiddler to be heard at Civic Center Jamboree
A Friday night concert at the Civic Center features Cowboy Owens and His Lonely Mountaineers and a 14 year old fiddler Chip Sparkmen praised as one of North Alabama’s best. The Boys Club event on August 9 promises lively music and a memorable show.
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Civic Center
Cowboy Owens
Owens
Wall Street Slacks as Leaders Slip in Mixed Markets
New York stocks showed a quiet but downbeat day with limited price movement and broad declines. A wide array of names including Chrysler Douglas Aircraft Santa Fe NY Central Texas Corp Union Carbide GE American Smelting and AT&T under pressure while select issues held steady or resistant.
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Wall Street
Victor Eubank
New York
Chrysler
Douglas Aircraft
Santa Fe
Ny Central
Texas Corp
Union Carbide
General Electric
American Smelting
American Telephone
Cottonseed Meal Prices Steady in Memphis Trading
Prime cottonseed meal futures closed steady in Memphis with August 25.50, September 21.50, October 20.70, December 20.25, January 20.00, March 20.00. F. O. B. prices and sales totaled 2,700 units in the session.
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Memphis
Tenn
Cotton market quiet with steady prices in New Orleans
Spot cotton closed unchanged in New Orleans with sales of 2,134 bales. Prices were low middling 9.30, middling 10.30, and good middling 10.75. Receipts totaled 1,123 with stock at 546,851.
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New York
Cotton York
Pusaree Eigged
New Orleans
Cottonseed Oil Prices Steady in New Orleans Market
On August 5 in New Orleans the cottonseed oil market closed steady with bleachable primé summer yellow at 5.76 dollars per hundredweight and prime peptide at 4.75. Futures listed Sept at 5.32, Oct 5.34, Dec 5.38, Jan 5.40 with bids nominal and non nominal terms noted.
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New Orleans
Butter Chicago Receipts and Creamery Scores Reported
Butter receipts reach 898.531 with creamery firm noted. Carrots eggs and storage packed items show varied weights and prices. Current receipts listed at 12 34 with dirties 11 1 4 and checks 11. Firsts and extras priced locally with car values around 15 1 2 to 16 1 2.
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Chicago
Biutter
Creamery
Nashville Livestock Prices Reported by U S Department
Salable cattle 800 calves 300 including stockers. Cattle mostly steady slow on grassers, active on dryfed. Slaughter heifers and yearlings mixed. few steers 5.50 7.00, down to 4.00 for some, short fed steers to 8.00. 1000 lb fed steers 9.25. Fat cows to 5.50, bulk 5.00 down. cutters 3.00 4.50. Bulls 5.00 5.50. Wealers 8.50 down. odd butcher 9.00. Hogs 350 steady. good and choice 150 lb 5.20 6.35, 145 lb 3.85 4.30, odd sows 4.00. Sheep 300 steady. fat lambs 7.50 down, ewes and wethers 8.50, fat ewes 2.00 2.50.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Tenn
U. S
Reese
Chicago grain prices for wheat corn and oats reported
Chicago market quotation lists cash wheat varieties from No 4 red to No 1 white with prices ranging from 6 3 4 to 75 3 4 and corn No 1 yellow and No 1 white priced around 64 to 74 1 2 cents per bushel Oats No 1 white grades quoted at 31 to 31 1 4 cents with several white and heavy varieties noted.
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Farley
Maling
Chicago
Funeral Rites for Mr Mitchell Held at Old Presbyterian Church
Bla lock charged with murder after a shooting a mile southeast of Fish Pond Branch Morgan County. Deputy Godsey expects a Monday warrant. Mitchell, fatally wounded, received care from a Brown ambulance from Decatur. Funeral at 3 p.m. Sunday, burial in old Baptist cemetery. survivors include widow, a son, three daughters and three brothers.
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Jeffers
Fish Pond Branch
Morgan County
Godsey
Blalock
Old Presbyterian Church
Leighton
Old Baptist Cemetery
Hearby
Brown
Decatur
Alabama Mills 18 Wins Narrowly Over Mount Pleasant
Alabama Mills 18 defeated Mount Pleasant Tennessee 17 to 15 in a free for all game Saturday night. Both sides had many miscues and numerous walks and wild pitches. Nesbitt led Mount Pleasant with two hits in three trips while Alabama's Page and Robertson each went 2 for 3.
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Alabama Mill
Mount Pleasant
Tenn
Alabama
Nesbitt
Page and Robertson
Mt. Pleasant
Ala
Mill
Taylor Child Dies at Hospital Here
Eight year old Mike Taylor Osborn of Sandersville route 1 died at Benevolent Society Hospital after 145 Sunday morning. Funeral service was held at Sanders Chapel with Rev. Olen Cornelius and Rev. W A Haddock assisting. Burial was by Drinkard. Survivors include Mr. and Mrs. W J Taylor and siblings Nina Lee Mildred Josephine. grandparents Mr and Mrs Mike Taylor and Mrs Kate Osborn, all of Landersville route 1. Pallbearers were Stanley Gordon Norman Rucker Carl Carter Billy Hall Norman Brown and Robert White.
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Sandersville
Sanders Chapel
Olen Cornelius
W. AT. Haddock
Drinkard
Benevolent Society Hospital
W. J.taylor
Nina Lee
Mildred
Josephine Taylor
Mike Taylor
Kate Osborn
Landersville
Stanley Gordon
Norman Rucker
Carl Cartee
Billy Hall
Norman Brown
Robert White
Slaughter Pen Burns West of Here on Trinity Road
A fire destroyed the Westside Slaughter Pen a mile west on Trinity road at 9 AM Monday. Firemen arrived after flames grew too large. several beeves were moved from the cold storage, but many were destroyed. no livestock was inside at the time.
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Westside
Here
Trinity Road
Cochrane Bridge Struck by High Tide Flooding
Mobile Alabama sustained awash Cochrane Bridge as strong southeast winds push flood tides. Officials warned of possible gale force winds tonight and prepared to close the bridge and causeway if waters rise further while Cedar Point Road remained partially flooded but open to traffic.
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Mobile
Ala
Pi—Cochrane
Mobile Bay
Alabama State Patrol
Cochrane Bridge
Cedar Point
Bay Front
Dog River
Dr. Frederick A. Cook Dies After Illness at 77
Dr. Frederick A. Cook, 77, the polar explorer who sparked a 1909 dispute by claiming to reach the North Pole before Peary, died after a long illness in New Rochelle. He had been paroled from a 1922 mail fraud sentence in 1930 and received a presidential pardon on his deathbed.
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N. Y
Frederick A. Cook
Arctic
Gook Spran
North Pole
Robert EB. Peary
Cook
Peary
Roosevelt
RAF and Axis Clash Across Med and Africa in War Report
Reports from Stefani say Italian raids hit British bases in East Africa near Iya and Summitt while RAF claims success over Libya with two planes down for one loss. British forces deny Italian claims, noting raids on Mersa Matruh backfired and Italian subs targeted near Massaua. Soviet and German reports vary as midland raids cause negligible damage in England. High tides and improving darkness forecast aid potential invasion ops, while arrests of Japanese in Hongkong and Rangoon rise to nine. Transatlantic service resumes with the Clare. American leaders urge aid to Britain and a European peace plan led by Lindbergh.
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Libya
Cairo
RAF
Mersa Matruh
Massaua
Fritrea
St. George's Channel
Germany
Farflung Raf
English Channel
Midlands
England
Abbeville
Belgium
British
Air Ministry
Kiel
Italy
Africa
Hongkong
Singapore
Rangoon
House of Commons
Japan
New York
Clare
John J
Charles A. Lindbergh
Chicago
Europe
Draft Plan Explains Burke Wadsworth Conscription Bill
Senate military committee approves a plan requiring about 12 million men aged 21 to 31 to register for compulsory service. 400,000 trainees hoped by October with exemptions for officials, ministers, dependents and those unfit. Enrollees face a year of training with 421 monthly pay. National Guard first called, and a 1-year voluntary enlistment option included.
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Senate Military Committee
Congress
Justice Department
Army
National Guard
Decatur Yacht Races Draw Big Crowd And Plans For 1941
Great interest surrounds Wheeler Lake Yacht Club after postponed races in Decatur. Decatur hosts the South’s top boat racers with a fireworks flotilla on the Tennessee River and wants to create a North Alabama marine park across the river. Commodore Quince Eddins says plans for 1941 are being discussed though a date is not set.
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Wheeler Lake Yacht Club
South
Yacht Club
North
Alabama
Florida
Detroit
Great Lakes
North Alabama
Tennessee
Wheeler Lake
Quince Eddins
Roosevelt speaks on federal state roles in subversive activity
Roosevelt argues that unity requires both federal and state action. He favors federal handling of alien registration and FBI information on subversive activity while endorsing joint control on other matters. He warns against haste and prejudice seen in World War I era laws.
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FBI
Roosevelt
Congress
Decatur Daily Social Notes and Local Updates
Decatur listings note visitors from Charlotte North Carolina and New Florence Pennsylvania. Local church meetings, hospital moves, and police court results are reported along with minor accidents, travel updates, and community notices from Decatur and surrounding areas.
Senate Debates Conscription and National Guard Authority
A Senate report outlines alternatives to conscription and a plan to empower presidential callup of the National Guard for a year of intensive drill. The bill delays selective service until voluntary enlistments prove insufficient, with 400000 registrants aged 1 to 30 potentially ordered to training by October 1 if needed.
Arguments Continue by the Associated Press
Across the continent on Sunday appeals for American defense stressed conscription and aid to Great Britain. General John J. Pershing urged that the United States make available military resources and support as part of a broader defense posture.
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Great Britain
John J. Pershing
Washington
United States
Hagerman Heard Today at Decatur Rotary Lunch
The Decatur Rotary Club held a 12 15 lunch meeting with Prof O B Hagerman as speaker on The Pan American Conference and Its Significance. He discussed U S Germany economic war, aims of the conference to unite American nations against fifth columnists, and methods to dispose surplus wartime products. Guests included Prof Quinn and A M Smith of the Civitan Club. visitors Rotarian L E Cree of Montgomery and LE Thomas of Berkeley. Directors meet at Lyons Hotel Tuesday at 6 30 p m.
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Decatur Rotary Club
O. 8. Hagerman
Prof
Hagerman
United States
Germany
Quinn
A. M. Smith
Civitan Club
L. E. Cree
Montgomery
LE. Thomas
Berkely
Calif
Lyons Hotel
Motorcyclists Pass Through City On Bee Line Highway
Eighteen motorcycles rode through the city at 10 a.m. Sunday escorted by State Highway Patrolmen McNeese and Weeks. National Guard units from four North Alabama cities begin intensive training in a Louisiana camp and expect to return by late August.
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Bee Line
McNeese
Weeks
National Guard
North Alabama
Louisiana
Father Death After Snake Handling Rite Ends Hunger Strike
Continued report details a Bay City man who died two years after a snake handling rite bite. Rowan and Lipham resisted arrest, staged a three day hunger strike, and broke their fast with a breakfast of grits sausage biscuits and syrup yesterday.
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Rowan and
Lipham
Scoutmaster Severely Burned In Fire Incident
E. E. Speer Jr., Scoutmaster of Decatur Troop 11 and Tennessee Valley Council BSA district commissioner, sustained burns to face arms and legs when flammable liquid exploded while he prepared a fire at a Scout masters institute in Tuscaloosa. He was treated at Druid City Hospital and transferred to Decatur.
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Decatur Troup 11
Tennessee Valley Council
BSA
Sherman Street
Tuscaloosa
Scoutmasters Institute
Speer
Druid City Hospital
Decatur
Peace Rally Divides on Conscription and Aid
At a Chicago peace rally Col Lindbergh urged American cooperation with Europe and noninterference in its affairs. In Washington officials pressed for conscription and a 1.3 million man army to avoid a delayed war, while Senator McCarran and Rep Fish criticized conscription as undemocratic and dangerous to free government.
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Chicago
Charles A. Lindbergh
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Germany
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The
Navy
Military Training Camps Association
Patterson
War Department
Col
Julius Ochs Adler
New York
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