Power outage hits Decatur area during severe storm
A severe storm cutting a TVA 110 000 volt line between Gunt Dam and Huntsville triggered Decatur’s first power outage of over an hour in years. TVA attempted a 144 000 volt feed from Columbia but line capacity failed. Service resumed by 4 54 p.m. with widespread disruption to industry, gas stations, theaters, and traffic signals.
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Gunt Dam
Huntsville
North Alabama
Delar
BE. Eddens
Ty’s Electric Department
TVA
Land
Wilson Dam
Decatur
Columbia
Tennessee
Elec
Area Meeting Planned by Alabama Parent-Teacher Group
The Alabama Congress of Parents and Teachers schedules August area meetings across the state with Decatur as North Alabama host on August 14 at Decatur Junior High School from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Lauderdale Limestone Ebert Lawrence Free Madison Cullman and Decatur city attend. A. M. Roan asks school officials and council leaders to attend. mileage allowances apply and lunch is to be brought by attendees.
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Alabama Congress of Parents and Teachers
Ellen Walker
Alabama Congress
Harry Nelson
Decatur
North
Alabama
Decatur Junior High School
Lauderdale
Limestone
Ebert
Lawrence
Free
Madison
Cullman
Decatur City
A. M. Roan
Parent-Teacher Magazine
Pp. T. A. Congress
Birmingham Area Sees Industrial Employment Surge
The Birmingham district shows a sharp rise in industrial employment since 1995, per a Chamber of Commerce survey. Estimates list 1935 35,000. 1986 45,000. 1939 83,000. 1940 67,895. 1941 July 83,250, with dual industrial payroll around 90 million vs 40 million in 1986. peak was 70,123 in 1900.
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Birmingham
Ala
Chamber of Commerce
State opens postings for diesel heavy equipment mechanics
Deputy State Personnel Director John Steiner announced an eligible list will be created for heavy road equipment mechanics. About 10 positions will be filled once qualified candidates are found, requiring extensive Diesel engine repair experience on tractors power shovels mixers graders and similar machinery.
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Ala
John Steiner
Steiner
Japs Worry Over U S Moves To Aid Russia
Tension in the Far East grows as Australia calls a wartime cabinet session. Koh Ishii Japan warns against any U S or Russian munitions shipments to Vladivostok and urges peace in the Pacific. Reports from London Tokyo Melbourne Washington Shanghai outline Japan’s concern and possible war outcomes.
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Associated Press
Far East
Australia
Robert G. Menzies
Britain
Koh Ishii
United States
Russia
Pacific
Vladivostok
Japan
Five Men and Two Cars Nabbed in Grassy Mountain Raid
Officers from the alcohol tax unit arrested five men near Grassy Mountain in Marshall County, confiscating two cars and destroying a 100 gallon copper still and 1000 gallons of beer mash along with 15 gallons of whiskey. Suspects named include Herman Sandlin T C Burgess and J E B Pierce.
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Alcohol Tax Ait Office
Grassy Mountain
Marshall County
Guntersville
Herman Sandlin
T. C. Burgess
J. E B. Pierce
Woman Seeks Defense Stamps in Bank Name Mixup
A woman at a bank asks for defense stamps and is asked for a denomination. She replies Baptist, prompting a misunderstanding in the small town scene dated August 12.
Decatur City Schools Set to Open 1941-42 Term
Decatur city schools begin the 1941-42 term Monday September 8 under City Superintendent Prof. B. E. Alverson. Repairs and improvements have been made to buildings. New state adopted textbooks will be issued as available. Parents urged to vaccinate beginning students. A new physical education course will be added in the Junior High with Miss Marjorie Bradston directing. Enrollment expected to rise with many new residents.
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Decatur City
Decatur
8. E. Alverson
Marjorie Bradston
Birmingham
Alabama College
Montevallo
Navy Secretary Knox weighs plan to take over big Kearny yard
Navy Secretary Knox and L H Korndorff of Federal Shipbuilding confer on turning over the strikebound Kearny New Jersey yard to the Navy. The talks follow Korndorff’s offer to restore work on defense contracts while Sid Hillman and other officials monitored the session. The dispute centers on union membership clauses and wage issues with potential government action debated as workers remain idle.
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Associated Press
Navy
Knox
L. H. Korndorff
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Kearny, N. J
Korndorff
Tall
Sidney Hillman
Office of Production Management
Peter Flynn
CIO
Kearny
Navy Department
Mediation Board
National Defense
Roosevelt
National Railway Mediation Board
Cologne Blitzed In Great Daylight Raid
London reports a large RAF daylight raid on Cologne described as possibly the heaviest daylight attack on Germany. Blenheim bombers and fighters attacked the Rhineland city and a major foray struck the French coast with a vast bomber armada.
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Associated Press
London
RAF
Cologne
France
Britain
Reich
Rhineland
British Press Association
Germany
French
English
Channel
Blenheim
Rhine
Netherlands
Odessa Is Reported Near Fall As Axis Push Advances
Japanese high commands plan to deploy 180000 troops in French Indo China with most in West Cambodia near Thailand border. Berlin reports encirclement of Odessa and a rapid Soviet withdrawal as German forces push toward Nikolaev and Kiev amid heavy aerial combat and disrupted rail traffic.
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Saigon
Indo-China
Cambodia
Thailand
Russia
Odessa
Berlin
Black Sea
Vichy
Jean Darlan
Marsal
France
Darlan
England
Moscow
Red
Europe
Cologne
Atekara
Turkey
Germany
Ocer Yugoslavia
DNB
Ukraine
Ochakov
London
Semeon Budy
Adolf Hitler
Nikolaev
Uman
Kiev
Gereman
Luftwaffe
Ugde
Road meeting in Huntsville weighs road priorities
Morgan and Limestone county officials plus Madison and Marshall county members gather at Huntsville courthouse to press access road priorities into the arsenal reservation in Madison county. Major McKay calls the meeting with Public Roads Administration and state highway officers present.
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J. B. Carrington
WPA
Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control
Huntsville
Madison County
Limestone County Board of Revenue
Madison
Marshall Counties
Major McKay
Arsenal
Public Roads Administration
State Highway Department
Morgan
Limestone
Mooresville
Hartselle
Whiteside
Marshall County
Decatur School Building Plan Faces Delays
Plans for several new school buildings in Decatur may be delayed as WPA shifts toward defense projects. Superintendent E. Alverson says completion is unlikely now and only one building is under construction. He seeks a share of defense emergency funds to aid future construction.
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Decatur
E. Alverson
Daily Today
WPA
Alverson
Credit Freeze Explained Under Roosevelt Order
Washington report outlines how Roosevelt's credit control covers consumer durable goods bought on installments and excludes cash purchases. Initially the rules focus on installment credit, with exemptions for farm tools and new homes but not for remodeling old houses or pianos.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
A. Weeles
Local man stabbed in street fight on Fourth Ave
Jewel Shirley 25 of 1616 Fifth Ave South was stabbed in the chest about 8 PM Monday in a fight with Vernon Sylvester in the 1300 block Fourth Ave South. Shirley remained in serious condition at Benevolent Society Hospital. Sylvester was arrested and released on $300 bond as investigators continued. Police and officers moved quickly to seize the knife and separate the suspects. Brown Ambulance transported Shirley to the hospital.
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Shirley
Fifth Avenue
South
Benevolent Society Hospital
Vernon Sylvester
Liberty
Fourth Avenue
W. P. Moore
W. H. Parker
W. ©. Hunter
Sylvester
Moore
Brackin Injures Self Diving in Montgomery Cell
Montgomery police report Robert Bruce Brackin held on assault charges against his wife with pliers injured himself in his cell when he climbed the bars and dived onto the concrete floor. His head suffered a bad cut and bruising but he did not appear seriously hurt.
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Montgomery
Ala
Ralph King
Robert Bruce Brackin
King
Brackin
Japan weighs strike options against Russia Siberia
War analysis notes Japan may seek to attack Russian Siberia as a less provocative move than southward expansion. The piece cites fear of provoking the United States as the main deterrent to Japanese action, referencing Kaname Wak asugi, the Japanese minister in Washington, and his warning to the public.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Japan
Russian
Siberia
United States
Indo-China
Britain
Sam
Kaname Wakasugi
Washington
Wakasugi
Los
Little Doubt Japs Study Siberian Raid
Angeles reports a trans Pacific telephone interview with a Japanese minister stating the United States is prepared to meet worst eventualities. The article analyzes Japan's opportunist stance and the risk of an escalated Far Eastern crisis linked to the Russo German war, noting the balance depends on European developments.
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Angeles
Tokyo
United States
Nippon
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