Six Hurt In Night Car Crash In City
A Friday night crash in the 1500 block of Sixth Avenue South left six people injured five of them Black. William Whiteside Mitchell fled the scene after his car, carrying four women and two men, wrecked into a parked car and overturned several times. Jack Fuqua suffered a fractured skull and remained unconscious. others were treated. Police and state troopers investigated.
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Benevolent Society Hospital
Sixth Avenue
South
William “Whiteside
Mitchell
Jack Fuqua
Carl Sykes
W. H. Sherard
Mr. Thomason
Registration plans shape alien registration in three states
In Chattanooga officials from Tennessee Alabama and Mississippi prepare for the national alien registration required by a new act. Walter B. Wooten says forms are being familiarized and the August 24 start date looms with an estimated 5000 registrations across the three states. Post office inspectors will then train others and supervise the process.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Congress
Walter B. Wooten
Postoffice
Birmingham
Nashville
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Wooten
Post Office
Auburn summer school speaker warns against dictatorship
Bishop Edgar Blake of Coral Gables told 200 Auburn graduates that the present order with its economic futility and social waste cannot continue, and that America has no need of dictators to solve its problems.
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Auburn
Ala
Edgar Blake
Coral Gables
Fla
Auburn Summer School
America
Willkie Opens Campaign Visit Spreads Flag Topped Town
Wendell Willkie arrives in Elwood Indiana for the Republican presidential campaign opening. A large crowd gathers at Callaway park for his acceptance address while the town decorates with flags and a 35 000 seat outdoor platform. Willkie tours farms and meets newspapermen as Charles Halleck and Joseph Martin participate in ceremonies.
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Willkie
Wendell Willkie
Elwood
Ind
Kansas City
Theodore F.qioop Elwood
Wendell L. Willkie
Callaway Park
Gale
Phillip
Rushville
Charles Halleck
Indiana
Joseph Martin
Massachusetts
National Party
City Suffers as Mercury Rises in Heat Wave
Decatur endured another sultry day as heat peaked at 98 on Friday with 75 degree night. The region seeks relief with no significant rainfall since August 18 and a 95 degree noon reading reported by the weather observer.
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Decatur
Weather Bureau
Weather Oberver
Dyke Dynamited to Save Caledonia Farm From Roanoke Flood
State prison officials blew a hole in the down river section of Caledonia Prison Farm’s nine mile dyke to back flood waters into the lowlands and spare top soil. The cut could abandon the camp, the state’s largest, threatening 3000 acres of convict planted corn and lespedeza.
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Weldon
N. C
Caledonia Prison Farm
Roanoke River
Flood Watch Expands as Roanoke Crest Threatens Carolinas
Raleigh NC August 17 river crests forecast to surpass all prior levels along Roanoke with evacuations possible. Neuse at Smithfield floods five feet and Tar at flood stage. Red Cross urges alert. NC highway officials consider dynamiting a nine mile dyke to save Caledonia farm where 400 prisoners are held. Western NC floods kill twenty with millions in damages. Columbia SC reports Congaree at 26.3 feet highest since 1936, expected to recede soon.
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Raliegh
N. C
Roanoke
Virginia
North Carolina
Weather Bureau
Carolina
Smithfield
Neuse
National Red Cross
Alert
Caledonia Farm
Weldon
South Carolina
Columbia
Blairs
Chappells
Catawa
Piedmont
Dillehay Seeks Re election to City Council Place No 2
A C Jack Dillehay veteran in city affairs announced his candidacy for re election to the city council for Place No 2 He has long been a popular official and has drawn heavy support from across the city He currently chairs the fire light and water committee and serves on finance and police committees.
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A. C
Jack” Dillehay
Dillehay
Fire, Light and Water
Candidates Must Qualify By August Twenty Sixth
Decatur municipal candidates have nine days left to qualify before the August 26 deadline. A new legislative act requires runoffs for mayor or alderman when no candidate wins a majority, and councilors must designate their running place. Incumbents and several hopefuls have filed for mayor and alderman positions with runoff possible on September 30.
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Decatur
H. O. Troup
Mr. Patterson
T. R. Harrison
J. D. Cloud
W.W. Dinsmore
Rufus Norwood
Board of Aldermen
Fred Tidwell
H. H. Hunter
George E
Five Room Frame Dwelling Permitted at Market and Oak
C A Moore has obtained a building permit at city hall to erect a five room frame dwelling on the corner of Market and Oak streets. The structure will feature asbestos siding and an asphalt roof with Athens Lumber Company handling the contract. Estimated cost is about 3000 dollars.
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C. A. Moore
City Hall
Market
Oak Streets
Athens Lumber Company
Health Education Talk by Roy Shelton
Dr Harlan G Metcalf welcomed Roy Shelton of Falkville schools to present The New Approach in Health Education for Southern Grade and Secondary Schools to 75 masters students. Shelton declined NYU boys camp due to conditions but will speak Aug 30 at Urbana Folk Festival University of Illinois and appears at Purdue in the fall.
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Harlan G. Metcalf
George Peabody College
Nashville
Tenn
Roy Shelton
Falkville
Shelton
Hudson River
New York
University of Illinois At
Urbana
Auburn
National Country Life Association
Purdue University
Solons Move in Montgomery on Migrant Relief Survey
A special congressional committee, after three days of hearings in Montgomery, shifts to Chicago to study destitute migrants. Witnesses ranged from economic experts to impoverished farm laborers as the panel reviews conditions, with Chicago slated to chair a Midwestern survey next.
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Montgombery
Ala
Chicago
Mid-West
Dupont Rites for L. N. Official Benjamin Ewing Dupont
Final rites were held for Benjamin Ewing Dupont a senior L N railroad official at his sister's home in Decatur. The Evansville native died at 63 after a sudden illness and was buried in City cemetery with risingsun lodge pallbearers and many railroad officials attending from Evansville Louisville Nashville and Birmingham.
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Benjamin Ewing Dupont
Sabine Dupont
Jackson Street
Obryan
An Pranavillé
Indiana
Decatur
Dupont
George V., Phillip
B. EB. Dupont, Jr
M. A. Phelan
Chicago
Desolation in Channel Seen by War Correspondent
Louis P. Lochner reports from Cap Griz Nez Calais Ostend and Boulogne on the French coast opposite England. He notes an empty sea lanes with no British convoys and only German mine sweepers and a fishing smack in view while many ports show submerged reefs and wrecks. The scene is quiet but ships and funnels remind of battles for Ostend Dunkerque Calais and Boulogne.
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Louis P. Lochner
England
Brussels
English Channel
Germany
Cap Griz Nez
Calais
Ostend
Boulogne
U S Would Seek British Bases in Trinidad and Newfoundland
Washington defense experts named Trinidad and Newfoundland as the most desirable sites for potential U S naval and air bases under Roosevelt’s plan to acquire bases on British possessions in the Western Hemisphere. Debate over price and credit terms followed, with lawmakers split on the strategic move and potential impact on war commitments.
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Washington
Trinidad
Newfoundland
United States
Ite
Sin Progress
Roosevelt
Hemisphere
Price
Britain
Holt
D-Va
Routzohn
Ohio
Guard
Army
Navy
Atlantic
Columbus
Caribbean
Panama Canal
Farmers Mutual Group in Meeting at Cold Springs
The annual meeting of the Farmers Mutual Protective Association of Morgan county drew about 200 members to the 4-H club camp near Falkville. Officers were re-elected and speakers included President Robert Sobotka and county agent B G Hall along with R L Henderson and Bascom Braswell. A barbecue and Brunswick stew followed, described as one of the most enjoyable gatherings the insurance group has held.
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Farmers Mutual Protective Association
Morgan County
Cold Springs
Falkville
Robert Sobotka
Hartselle
B. G. Hall
R. L. Henderson
Bascom Braswell
War Relief Drive Ends Tuesday
Red Cross committees in Morgan county were urged to close the war relief drive by Tuesday August 20. Officials asked for reports by Tuesday if possible and noted several fine reports have been turned in recently.
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Red Cross
Morgan County
Hitler Warns of British Blockade as Raids Spin On
The German radio claims the British Isles face a full blockade and that neutral vessels may be destroyed. German reports say Nazi air raids damaged antiaircraft batteries along the English south coast while the British air ministry reports no raids after sunrise.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
British Isles
English
Britain Uses Mines For Its Own Blockade In Channel
The admiralty announced that the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay are dangerous to navigation without routing instructions from British officers. With Germany declaring a total blockade, Britain also enlists mines to counter the German-dominated continent and defend its waters.
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London
Admiralty
English Channel
Bay of Biscay
Germany
England
Britain
Germany warns neutrals as blockade targets Britain
The German proclamation says the blockade aims to save Europe while crippling British war efforts and warns neutrals to stay away from channel waters infested with mines. Germany claims new bombers will strike Britain’s harbors airports and war plants while Britain conducts retaliatory raids on Leipzig oil facilities.
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Germany
Europe
DNB
Britain
United States
Argentina
England
Teres
Yest
London
Thames Estuary
Air Ministry
RAF
Luna
Leipzig
Neat
Weather Summary for Tennessee and Alabama Regions
The Tennessee River gauge stood at 20.26 feet with no rainfall in the past 24 hours. Temperature ranged from 75 to 98 degrees, with Friday ranking as the second hottest day this year, one degree below the prior high of 99. Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday in Alabama with scattered afternoon showers possible in central regions. Tennessee may see showers late tonight with local afternoon showers in the central area and little change overall.
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Tennessee
Alabama
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Lamon
T. C. Burgess
Candler Pittman
Bibb Humphrey
Herman Sandlin
W. E B. Ryan
U. S
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Augsburg
Junkers
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Ruhr
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