Decatur Band Delights Crowd In Concert
A large Decatur crowd praised the high school band at Benson Field last night, the biggest turnout yet. The concert raised about 800 dollars with more expected as Band Mothers’ Club reports final ticket sales. The group hopes to fund a Milwaukee parade trip on September 16, needing around 2,000 dollars, while Alabama and nearby communities rally to support the musical unit.
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Decatur
Benson Field
American Legion
Milwaukee
Wis
Band Mothers’ Club
Trotter Jones
Montgomery
The
Jones
W. A. Dougherty
Dougherty
Decatur Daily
Mr. Jones
America
Congress
Tuscumbia
Trans
Huntsville
Kenneth Hennessy
Sparkman Honored at Huntsville Dinner for Arsenal Role
Congressman John Sparkman, eighth district, was honored Friday night at a Huntsville hotel dinner by the Chamber of Commerce and civic clubs for his role in locating a chemical warfare plant in south Madison county. The tour included other House members and a tour of the arsenal site with Judge Schuyler Richardson as principal speaker.
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John Sparkman
Huntsville
Russelskiffe
Chamber of Commerce
Madison County
Sparkman
House
United States
Arkansas
Short
Missouri
Shafer
Michigan
Arsenal
Schuyler Richardson
Defense chiefs tour Southern powder and high explosive plants
A House Military Affairs subcommittee led by Rep. Thomason of Texas toured defense projects in the south, inspecting an $80 million powder and high explosive facility in Childersburg Alabama and a $47 million Huntsville chemical warfare arsenal. The delegation, with attorney Barrett Knock and Maj. James Hill, lauded Huntsville as satisfactory and discussed Eastern Air Lines route considerations near Muscle Shoals with a Civil Aeronautics Board hearing set for September 8-9 in Washington.
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Childersburg Childersburg
Ala
House
Huntsville Ee
Yester
Thomason
D-Tex
Sparkman
D-Ala
Gathings
D-Ark
Davis
D-Tenn
Short
R-Mo
Shafer
R-Mich
Barrett Knock
Maj
James P. Hill
War Department
Rep
Huntsville
E.S. Gambrell
Eastern Air Lines
Arsenal
TVA
Muscle Shoals
Memphis
Tenn
Greenvilles
Civil Aeronautics Board
Washington
Mobile telephone station used in Louisiana maneuvers
A mobile telephone station with five pay booths is in service in the Louisiana maneuvers for troops and reporters to talk to outside points. The trailer unit can plug into regular lines and may be used in the Carolinas later, with postwar use for conventions and disaster areas.
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Lake Charles
Carolinas
Private Mazur Found Shot Dead Near Fort Dix
Private Theodore A. Mazur age 23 from Passaic New Jersey was among eight soldiers who escaped the Fort Dix guard house. He was found shot to death today near the post rifle range marking a fatal incident at the New Jersey Army post.
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Port DIX
N. J
Theodore A. Mazur
Passaic
Fort Dix
Negro to face trial in fatal 1940 hillside slaying
Melvin Blalock a 27 year old farm hand was captured on a federal warrant and ordered to return to Lawrence County to stand trial for the August 3 1940 pistol slaying of E W Mitchell a 34 year old farm foreman at a Hillsboro area barn. An eye witness Herman Jeffers reported Blalock fired after an exchange of words. Mitchell died hours later in a hospital after being struck in the right eye. Blalock had been in St Louis and other Midwest cities. The case was turned over to FBI agents three months prior.
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Melvin Blalock
Lawrence County
E. W. Mitchell
Richmond
Indiana
Blalock
Alabama
Mitchell
Fennell Farms
Hillsboro
Herman Jeffers
Jeffers
D. Byars
St. Louis
Midwest
FBI
Lawrence
Eleven Schools Closed as Alabama Polio Toll Rises
Eleven Madison county schools were closed with two school official meetings canceled as poliomyelitis cases in Alabama climbed to 444. Superintendent George D. Brown noted four closures in textile villages near Huntsville. Three more polio deaths were reported, totaling 36 for the year, with new cases in Blount Cherokee Franklin Calhoun DeKalb Jefferson and Madison.
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Montgomery
Ala
Madison County
Alabama
George D. Brown
Madison
Huntsville
W. L. Spencer
State Department of Education
Blount
Cherokee
Franklin
Calhoun
DeKalb
Jefferson
Georgia totals up Atlanta infantile paralysis cases
Georgia reports near 500 poliomyelitis cases since June with five new additions from Chattanooga Heard DeKalb and Ford counties. Eight year old Blakely Buck died yesterday in an iron lung. Captain Selby Buck, his father, is Lanier High athletic director in Macon on leave. Morgan county notes no new polio cases as autumn approaches.
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Georgia
Atlanta
Chattanooga
Heard
DeKalb
Ford
Blakely Buck
Selby Buck
Macon
Buck
Lanier High School For
County receives twelve all steel school buses
Twelve new all steel buses arrive from Wayne Body Works in Richmond Indiana to boost the county's fleet to 35 all steel units. The 12 buses replace dilapidated wood bodied buses and bring total cost to 14 500 dollars. Prof Irwin J Quinn notes reduced yearly transport costs and safety gains.
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Richmond
Indiana
Wayne Body Works
Upstate Chevrolet Company
Decatur
County Board of Education
Roe
Irwin J. Quinn
Quinn
Red
Carl T. Jones
Joe Beams
Omer Turner
Marvin Hudson
Ed Blankenship
Elmer Sharp
Elzie Champion
Russell Peck
William Betterton
van Ward
Buron Braswell
S. F E. Clark
A. L. Beggs
Cotton Rust Reports Reach Decatur Farmers
Farmers in Decatur report cotton rust in several fields raising fears that this year's promising crop could suffer extensive damage. The reports indicate rust appears on ready-to-harvest cotton, threatening yields and quality for local growers.
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Decatur
Alabama Parole Board member named ASA vice president
Mrs. Edwina Mitchell of Montgomery Alabama an Alabama Parole Board member was named vice president of the American Parole Association in San Francisco today.
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San Francisco
Edwina Mitchell
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Parole Board
American Parole Association
Detroit and Kearny Strikes Deadlocked Across Nation
The Associated Press reports a scattered strike pattern as CIO steel workers picket Republic Steel in Gadsden Alabama while dockyard walkouts threaten Great Lakes shipyards and Kearny New Jersey shipyards hold defense contracts. Detroit buses and trolleys sit idle amid transit disputes as AFL CIO tensions rise over bargaining rights. In Harlan County Kentucky gunfire wounds a highway patrol lieutenant amid a prolonged CIO AFL mine union clash.
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Associated Press
Alabma
Great Lakes
Kearny, N. J
Detroit
CIO Steel
Republic Steel Corporation
Gadsden
Ala
Birmingham
Kearny
L. H. Korndorff
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
United States Steel
Washington
New York
CIO
Edward J. Jeffries
AFL
Street Railway Department
Senate
Los Angeles
COTO
Donald Douglas
Harlan
Harlan County
Kentucky
Highway Patrol
Benham
Cio-Afl
AFL Progressive Mine Workers Union
Cio’s
United
Japan’s cautious easing hints at pacific outlook
War columnist Dewitt Mackenzie notes Japan’s tension eases not from affection for the West but from economic and military pressures. He cites Japan News Week’s foreign minister permit allowing funds withdrawal as a sign of restraint, with other American firms in Japan still restricted.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Japan
America
Britain
Nippon
Newsweek
Hitler’s Britain drive and Japan Newsweek censorship
The piece notes Hitler preparing a campaign against Britain tied to freezing U.S. citizens’ funds. It cites Japan Newsweek censoring anti Axis editorials as appeasement signals to Washington. It also points to Nippon slowing its war effort due to fear of U.S. and Britain involvement and war risks.
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United States
Japan
Newsweek
Washington
Beloved Lady Weatherly Called Home
Mrs. Sarah Weatherly 85 widow of J. T. Weatherly Sr died this morning at three of a heart attack at a niece's home in York Alabama. Funeral services will be at Brown Funeral parlors Sunday at four conducted by Rev. B B Burks. Survived by daughter Mrs Annie Pallock and five sons C D Weatherly Indianapolis F E Weatherly Albany Ga J F Weatherly Fairfield R A Weatherly Atlanta and Joe Weatherly Jr Decatur. Interment in city cemetery with Southside Baptist Church deacons as pallbearers.
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Sarah Weatherly
J. T.weatherly
Henry Gred
York
Ala
Brown Funeral
B. B. Burks
Southside Baptist Church
Weatherly
Annie Pallock
C. D. Weatherly
Indianapolis
F. E. Weatherly
Albany, Ga
J. F. Weatherly
Fairfield
R. A. Weatherly
Atlanta
Joe Weatherly, Jr
Decatur
City Cemetery
Deacona
Perry Rites Scheduled for William R. Perry
Services will be held Sunday at 11 AM for William Robert Perry 68 of Hartselle Route three who died Friday morning at his home. He is survived by his wife three daughters and five sons plus five grandchildren. Rev A H Mahafey will officiate at Bethel church with Peck directing. Pallbearers include W V Pattillo Curtis Eubanks W C Sharp Oakley Woods Lyman Blevins and Boyd Eason.
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William Robert Perry
Hartselle
Perry
E. J. Adair
Godly
Texas
Walter Warneke
Luling
R. F. Floyd
Houston
W. O. Perry
Fayette
W. W. Perry
Birmingham
Thad Perry
James Perry
A. H. Mahafey
Bethel Church
Peck
W. V. Pattillo
Curtis Eubanks
W. C. Sharp
Oakley Woods
Lyman Blevins
Boyd Eason
Man and Bride Shot in Oakland Home by Ex-Friend
In Oakland California a man and his bride aged 42 and 35 were killed in their new home by James H McDonald 47 an army sergeant and R O T instructor who then shot himself he may die Day ton said McDonald disabled the car before breaking in and firing three times at Newcomb and two more at Mrs Newcomb she ran to the lawn where she was killed two shots fired at McDonald ended the incident neighbors had heard threats Newcomb ran plumbing business Fremont High School Oakland employed McDonald as ROT instructor
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Oakland
Calif
Robert A. Newcomb
Dorothy Dunn Newcomb
Laurene Dayton
James H. Mconald
Insenada
Mexico
Dayton
McDonald
Newcomb
cDonald
Fremont High School
Pilots Begin Course At Southern Aviation Training School
A pilot training course to support the civilian program for United States Army cadets will start next week at Southern Aviation Training School in South Limestone. Cadets are due October 4 for the school opening. Several planes are expected to arrive next week though the exact number was not known.
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United States Army
Southern Aviation Training School
South Limestone
Army
Scout Film Showing Set at First Baptist Church
Premier showing of colored films taken by the Tennessee Valley Patrol of Boy Scouts on their west tour to Rocky Mountain Scout camp. Tonight at 8 o clock in the Scout room. hosts from Troop will welcome parents and friends. Public showings follow for council scouts and service clubs.
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Tennessee Valley Patrol
Boy Scouts
West
Rocky Mountain
First Baptist Church
Scouts_in
Three Ladies Arrive From Charlott City for Visit
Miss Minnie Leeman Mrs Aza Lee Veach and Tootsie Turney arrive this afternoon from Charlott City where they spent the past week with relatives and friends.
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Minnie Leeman
Azalee Veach
Tootsie” Turney
Charlott, D. C
Appeal Prospects Leningrad Under Siege as Soviet Fronts Hold
Soviet dispatches report Marshal Klementi re ahilov urging Russians to dig in as German forces press on Leningrad. Red armies and volunteers counterattack near Odessa and push back nine villages as women join front lines. Finnish forces approach the Karelian Isthmus while bombardments hit Leningrad outskirts and rail lines.
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Associated Press
Klementi Re Ahilov
Russia
Leningrad
Gulf of Finland
Red Army
People’s Army
Odessa
Black Sea
Red
Red Star
Gressing
Moscow
Dnieper
Chailes
Kiev
DNB
Karelian
Theii High
Alee
Shen
Hitler
Geman
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Paul MaMruffi
Eileen Eaton
Children’s Aid Society
Itsy Freckles
Morgan County
Perry Rites
144Th Field Artillery
Centralia
Wash
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