Corsage Note Foreshadows Fatal Discovery in Camden
In Camden New Jersey a 17 year old minister's daughter Wanda Dworecki was found slain beside a muddy lane near the high school. She wore a red and white rose corsage and left home to buy stockings. Coroner says cause of death not yet determined. A recent abduction in Auburn is recalled as authorities investigate possible connections. Her father Reverend Walter Dworecki appears shaken as he recalls his daughter's earlier trauma.
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Camden
N. J
Walter Dworecki
Camden Polish
Auburn
Camden High School
Dworecki
Cleveland murder ties to wartime fund coercion
Detectives report tales of a high tribunal ordering punishments for Cleveland’s Chinese residents who refused a war refugee fund contribution. The alleged coercion surrounds the murder of Wong Youn, 50, whose body was found in Lake. Continued on Page Two.
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Cleveland
Wong Youn
Lake
Tropical Storm Disturbance Forms Near Puerto Rico
The Weather Bureau issued an advisory noting a tropical disturbance forming about 175 miles north northeast of San Juan Puerto Rico. Forecasters expect it to move west northwest with increasing intensity and caution shipping routes in its path. another advisory would follow this afternoon if conditions justify.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Weather Bureau
Atlantic Ocean
San Juan
Puerto Rico
West Indies
Man amputates his own foot after railroad injury
William Capps, 49, of Somerset Kentucky, crushed when he fell from a freight train, amputated his foot with a pocket knife, fashioned crude crutches, and walked nearly a mile to Vermilya before an ambulance carried him to St Josephs hospital. Surgeons later amputated the leg about five inches below the knee.
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Lorain
St. Joseph's Hospital
William Capps
Somerset
Capps
Vermily O
Stars To Wage Verbal War At Union Labor's Gathering
AFL leaders may open a public meeting with movie stage and radio stars to debate union conflicts in Atlantic City. Key figures include Ralph Morgan Sophie Tucker Tallulah Bankhead and George Browne. The exchange follows splits with the Actors and Artists of America and Stage Hands Union.
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Atlantic City
N. J
American Federation of Labor
William Green
AFL
Green
Associated Actors and Artists of America
American Federation of Actors
AFA
Sophie Tucker
Stage Hands’ Union
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes
AAAA
Frank Gillmore
Stage Hands
Executive Council
Ralph Morgan
Screen Actors’ Guild
Wayne Morris
Henry Hull
Edward Arnold
Jean Muir
Mischa Auer
Larry Steens
Chester Morris
Kenneth Thomson
Ralph Whitehead
George Brown
Miss Tucker
Gillmore
NYA Aid To Alabama Students For 1939 40
Alabama will provide aid to more than 10 000 students for the 1939 1940 school year under a NYA allotment totaling 1 991 521 dollars. Preliminary estimates show 10 795 students supported with 2 326 in college. College work program allotment 1 426 200 dollars.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
National Youth Administration
John FE. Bryan
NYA
Department of Public Welfare
GOP to offer own program on housing agri culture and trade
House Republicans aim to present a distinct recovery program at the 1940 session focusing on housing agriculture and reciprocal trade agreements. Minority Leader Martin will likely appoint special committees to draft legislation, while Democrats accuse the GOP of lacking a viable substitute.
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Washington
House
Martin
Mass
Membe
Rep. Rayburn
Texas
Rayburn
Congress
Wheeler
McCarran
Dnew
George
D. Ga
Senate approves Booths plan to curb private utilities
The Alabama Senate voted 28 to 2 to advance a bill, introduced by Senator H H Booth of Anniston, to curb duplication of private electric utilities by municipalities. The measure lets cities offer to buy existing facilities and allows appeals to the state public service commission and circuit court if price disputes arise.
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A. F. Mahan Jr
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Senate
House
Norman
W. Harris
Decatur
Selma
H. H. Booth
Anniston
Pricett
Tennessee Valley
Baldwin County
Alabama
Dixon
Senate
Am Ct Mrs Mobile
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Charles Stakely
Maner Flays Hatch Bill as Young Dems Open Confab
Pittsburg Aug 8 President Pitt Tyson Maner of the Young Democratic Clubs of America says he would back a third term for the president if nominated and notes no official endorsement until after the nominating convention. He denounces the Hatch bill as un-American and un-Alabaman protesters rally against it.
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Pittsburg
Hatch Law
Pitt Tyson Maner
Young Democratic Clubs of America
Young Democratic Organization
White House
Montgomery
Ala
WPA project crews clear Trinity road to mountain base
A 40 man crew worked along Trinity road from the Joe Wheeler highway to the foot of the mountain. The effort, supported by Morgan County and the town of Trinity, aims to widen the road to an 18 foot base and 16 foot perhaps for future paving plans.
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Trinity Road
Joe Wheeler
WPA
County of
Morgan
Trinity
Slashes Wrists After Quarrel With Her Mate
New York society figure Miss Dorothy A. Kelly slashed her wrists following a quarrel with her husband Robert A. Kelly a nightclub owner. Doctors at Wickersham Hospital treated her as an attempted self harm case, with police noting the act aimed at gaining sympathy from her spouse. Detective Tunney said two doctors corroborated the self inflicted wound after the incident became public.
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New York
Mark Kirk Brown
Case Society
Max Baer
Wickersham Hospital
Robert A. Kelly
Dorothy A. Kelly
John Tunney
Miss Brown
Tunney
Harem Girl Wins Riches From Fleishmann Trust
A Turkish beauty, thrice married, won a $25 000 yearly income from a $300 000 Fleishmann trust after a 1935 divorce. Holmes had sought to nullify the settlement claiming she was wed to another man in 1933. lawyers checked her status worldwide but found no evidence.
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New York
Fleischmann Yeast
Supreme Court
Izzet Pasha
Turkey
Carl Flieischmann
Holmes
Jarmani Dass
France
Belgium
England
India
Holmes- Smith
Mazar Abed
Damascus
Syria
Stanley Smith
Rate cut sought for Pullman and parlor cars in Alabama
Railroads operating in Alabama filed with the Alabama Public Service Commission for authority to set a 30 day round trip fare of 2 1 4 cents per mile for Pullman and parlor cars. The current regular rate is 3 cents and 2 1 2 cents round trip is offered in some cases. The commission did not set a hearing date and might act to speed the application. Similar petitions in Kentucky and other Southern states are anticipated.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Alabama Public Service Commission
Vice
Kentucky
South
Railroad Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southern
Decatur Chamber Leader Heads East for Industrial Drive
John D. McKibben secretary of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce leaves tonight for the east to promote diversified industry. He will be joined by Baynard Malone and later by Mayor Tom Harrison as the delegation pursues industrial prospects and appeals for new capital to boost Decatur's growth.
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Decatur
John D. McKibben
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Baynard Malone
Tom Harrison
Chamber of Commerce
Man Injured When Run Over by Wagon in Hartselle
Betto Atkins, 50, of Hartselle, was hospitalized today with internal injuries after being run over by a lumber wagon at the Stone Lumber Co. plant Monday afternoon. He was brought to Benevolent Society Hospital by a Drinkard-Howell ambulance.
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Betto Atkins
Hartselle
Benevolent Society
Stone Lumber Co
Atkins
Drinkard-Howell
Prices Rally but Advances Halt Swiftly
Cotton futures showed moderate activity with early gains fading in afternoon trading. Selling by aggressive commission houses and foreigners, plus professional sales, limited demand as midafternoon quotes dropped 8 to 11 points with October at 8.90 and December at 8.71. The Agriculture Department forecast 11,412,000 bales this year, area planted at 24,424,000 acres, yields around 223.7 pounds per acre, and state by state production figures across Missouri through California.
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New York
Commission House
Washington
Agriculture Department
Census Bureau
Missouri
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Florida
Tennessee
Alabama
Missiggippi
Arkansas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
States
Old Mexico
United States
Carolinas
Alabama and the States Act
Mississippi River
Mississippi
Weather Outlook and River Gauge Report
The Tennessee River stood at 19.6 feet and falling with a 93-degree high and 71-degree low over 24 hours and no rainfall recorded. Partly cloudy conditions with scattered showers and thunderstorms expected across Tennessee Wednesday, warmer in the east, cooler in the far west. Alabama forecast calls for partly cloudy to night with local thundershowers possible in the north, light coastal winds.
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Tennessee
Alabama
North
Nion
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