Army orders streamline munitions production plans exposed
John Johnson says 10,000 production plans chosen for wartime mobilization and 7,300 items target readiness. He urges simplification of weapons and gear and cites foreign examples like stripping nonessentials from aircraft to speed mass manufacture.
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Army
Washington
Louis Johnson
Ware
San Sm
High Comb
Congress
War Department
Johnson
Germany
Premiers and Workers Face Widening Strikes Across Regions
Northern industrial strikes dwindled after the general strike call as agents campaigned to repress. About twenty five thousand miners were mobilized to occupy coal tests, while five thousand northern metal workers returned to posts though twenty thousand stayed on strike. Mobile guards dispersed pickets at northern metal plants and several plants in Paris area remained closed along with a Lille aviation plant and a naval arsenal in Lorient. Streetcar shops also refused work after yesterday’s strike.
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Paris
Lille
Bordeaux
Lorient
Alabama Supreme Court Decisions Delivers Rulings from Mobile to Chilton
The Alabama Supreme Court issued a batch of equity rulings. Anderson and Brown justices authored opinions affirming most appeals while affirming in part and remanding Alexander City Bank v Federal Land Bank. Knight, Thomas, and others concurred or issued decisions on several cases from Mobile, Chambers, Randolph, Chilton, and Pike circuits.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Supreme Court
Anderson
Theater Co
J. E. Manning
Mobile Circuit Court
Equity
Alexander City Bank
Federal Land Bank
Tallapoosa
Thomas
Leota Jarrett
Jennie Hage‘orn
Chambers Circuit Court
Brown
T. C. Foster
W. W. D. Wilm
Randolph Chit Court
Thomas J. Arledge
Chil. County
Chilton Court
Knight
L. H. Bailey
G. W.mn
Ph Circuit Court
Injured man in custody improved after assault charge
Paul Kimball, a Negro, was receiving medical treatment today for injuries from several nights ago when he was taken into custody on a charge of assault with a weapon. Police said Kimball was ill while resisting arrest and was transferred to a hospital. His condition was described.
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Paul Kimball
Kimball
Markets drift after steel selling dampens trading
New York stocks opened lower as steel sales cooled demand with leaders dipping slightly. rails utilities and specialties followed a jagged, uneven decline though many closing quotes stayed above intraday lows. Cottonseed oil in New Orleans closed steady with varied bid ranges. Chicago poultry stock turned light on weak duck prices while dressed turkeys held firm.
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New York
Market Report Turbulence Across Commodities And Bonds
New York stocks eased while steel shares fell and bonds held steady. Sterling softened as the curb market drifted with leaders slipping. Cotton declined on liquidation and hedge selling. sugar and coffee showed mixed activity with Cuban support noted for sugar and buying in coffee. Chicago wheat rose on export sales, corn held firm amid European demand. Cattle and hogs faced no activity due to labor trouble.
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New York
Chicago
Nashville Livestock Report from December Trade
Nashville Tennessee December first cattle run shows 350 cattle and 75 calves with undertone steady for others. Prices list cows at 6.00 down, top vealers 11.00, hogs around 6.70 to 7.25 per hundredweight, sheep and lambs steady with good and choice ewes and wethers at 8.00 to 8.50.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Tenn
Cotton futures close steady with mixed daily moves
New Orleans markets show cotton futures ending with a steady net change from 1 point up to 1 point down. Prices for Dec through Dec are listed with openings highs lows and closes, including Jan March May July Oct futures and notes on 1940 figures.
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New Orleans
British wheat purchases lift Chicago futures
Chicago on December 1 saw futures rise after news that British buyers, not the government, bought a sizable lot of United States Surplus Commodity Corporation wheat. Dec futures closed up 5 8 11 2 cents, May up 1 2, corn and oats also higher on the session.
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Chicago
United States
Oara
Sweethearts slain with a .22 rifle in kitchen tragedy
In Winchester Indiana Harriett Jordan 16 and Austin Roberts 22 were found shot in Harriett's kitchen with a .22 revolver between them after a struggle and a radio playing swing tunes. Authorities say the couple had dated about a year and a half and Harriett had recently dated another young man. Roberts told his stepmother Harriett won't do that again.
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Winchester
Ind
Harriett Jordan
Austin Roberts
Harriett
Lester Mann
Young Roberts
Cottonseed meal futures close steady in Memphis
Prime cottonseed meal futures closed steady in Memphis on December 1 with contracts for December 22.10, January 22.10, February 22.40, March 22.80, April 22.70, May 22.85, June 22.90 and July 23.10. Sales totaled 3,400 tons.
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Memphis
Tenn
Cotton futures hover with little change in New Orleans
In New Orleans on December 1 trading was largely stationary as hedging and liquidation weighed on distant months. Prices held near the prior close with Dec at 8.79, March 8.55, May 8.37, and Oct 7.81, unchanged to 2 points lower.
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New Orleans
Tickets On Sale For Faculty Play Crazy House
Miss Mary Turley announces tickets for the faculty play Crazy House on sale today. The City PTA Council sponsors the benefit for the school band and presents the show on December 8 and 9 at Riverside High School. Decatur school students are urged to assist in ticket sales. Rehearsals continue nightly with the director reporting progress.
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Mary Turley
P.T.A. Council
Riverside High School
Decatur
Spot cotton closes steady in New Orleans market
New Orleans December 1 reports spot cotton closing steady with no sales and a stock of 764,679 bales. Prices listed show low middling 7.51 cents, middling 8.66 cents, good middling 9.21 cents. Receipts zero.
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New Orleans
Butter Prices and Egg Rates Amid Creamery Specials
Butter in Chicago market declines show varied classes with scores from 93 to 88 and prices from 26 to 29 4. extras and firsts listed. Eggs steady at 3.312 with refrigerator extras at 23 4 and standards at 23.
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Chicago
Aging couple seek license for unlikely romance wedding
In Philadelphia on December 1 a 60 year old great grandmother Dora Robinson and 63 year old Nathan Alperowitz a twice married cigar and candy shop owner applied for a marriage license after a month long romance.
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Iladelphia
Dora Robinson
Nathan Alperowitz
Prize steer auctioned sets record price at expo
Dee, the grand champion Aberdeen Angus steer named Mercer sold for 3.35 dollars per pound at the international livestock exposition auction. Irene Brown of Toledo Illinois showed the 1,130 pound animal, bought by Firestone Tire and Rubber Co of Akron Ohio. Auctioneer Roy G Johnston led bids from 2.75 up, totaling 3785.50 dollars to Miss Brown for college savings.
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Chicago
Dee
Irene Brown
Oledo
Mercer
Firestone Tire and Rubber Com
Akron
Ohio
Horace Mi i
Farm Service Bureau
Roy G. Johnston
Belton
Miss Brown
Crash Victims List After Bus Collision Hospital Overwhelmed
Witnesses describe screams as youths aged 15 to 18 were involved. The hospital released a list of identified dead including bus driver F. H. Silcox and five others: Duane Parkinson Dean Winward Kenneth C. Peterson B. H. Glazer Bayard Larsen Helen Young Helen Lloyd Harold Sanstrom Louis Johnston. Dozens more were mangled and unidentified for hours as mothers cried and hospital staff created a special room for the distressed.
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F. H. Silcox
Duane Parkinson
Dean Winward
Kenneth C. Peterson
B. H. Glazer
Bayard Larsen
Helen Young
Helen Lloyd
Harold Sanstrom
Louis Johnston
Parente
Train School Bus Crash Scene Described by AP Reporter
Gordon W. Kirby of the Salt Lake telegram bureau reported for the Associated Press on the crash scene south of Salt Lake City where a train collided with a school bus.
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Gordon W. Kirby
Salt Lake
Tragic Utah Train Crash Leaves Dozens Dead
Dozens of stunned parents and relatives line the tracks in Salt Lake City as a train strikes a school bus killing many children. Volunteers search mangled remains along the length of the train while authorities move bodies toward ambulances and trucks. The front of the locomotive bears the impact. The train traveled 52 miles per hour before the collision.
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Gordon W. Kirby
Salt Lake City
Hundred Attend Safety Club Meeting on Joe Wheeler Highway
About one hundred people attended the state highway department safety club meeting held Tuesday night at the highway shop on Joe Wheeler highway. H D Barnum, a state highway commission member, attended. Instructor H L Thornton spoke and noted no lost time accident since August when the club started. A barbecue dinner followed.
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State Highway Department Safety Club
Joe Wheeler
H. D. Barnum
State Highway Commission
H. L. Thornton
Plaster falls in Tuscaloosa courthouse basement
Four people narrowly escaped injury when a large piece of plaster fell from the ceiling in the curb market office located in the basement of the Tuscaloosa county courthouse at about 9 this morning.
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Plaster Falls
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Curb Market
Tuscaloosa County
Project Delay Hits Montgomery Underpass Bids
J P Trotter said bids for three underpasses at Irondale Jefferson county were delayed as the city and county failed to secure the necessary right of way.
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Montgomery
Ala
J. P. Trotter
Irondale
Jefferson County
Farmer Killed in Allgood Road Accident
Daniel D. Harris a 45 year old farmer of the Allgood community was killed when struck by an automobile on the highway near his home. Sheriff Ed Miller was investigating the incident today.
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Daniel D. Harris
Allgood
Ed Miller
Judge Knox Defends Fair Trial In Spy Case
Federal Judge John C. Knox urged international restraint by praising the U S spy trial as fair humane and free of bias. Three defendants German and former U S Army private were convicted of conspiring to steal military secrets and face up to 20 years. Knox warned against secret trials and noted possible foreign espionage observers among the spectators.
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New York
John C. Knox
America
Johanna Hofmann
Otto Hermann Voss
Erich Glaser
Knox
Waynesburg
Guenther Gustave Rumrich
U. S. Army
Tide Is Cold To Bowl Bids
Alabama coach Frank W. Thomas announced the 1938 Crimson Tide would not participate in any bowl game despite overtures. Alabama tied Tulane for second in the SEC and finished with three key injuries after the Rose Bowl appearance last year. Meanwhile St Marys College coach Slip Madigan will decide with Cotton Bowl officials on January 2 invitation terms as Texas Tech weighs its options with Holy Cross and others.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Frank W. Thomas
University of Alabama
Crimson Tide
Thomas
Alabama
Tulane
Tide
California
Dallas
Edward
Slip) Madigan
St Mary's College
Cotton Bowl Athletic Association
Texas Tech Road Raiders
Madigan
Los Angeles
Pete Cawthon
Texas Tech
Holy Cross
Morgan Teachers Attend Curriculum Study Meeting
A group of Morgan educators and officials joined a Florence State Teachers Colleges curriculum study meeting. Participants included Prof. George T. Woodruff county superintendent Miss Ola Barnard and several supervisors from Decatur Falkville Hartselle Danville Austinville with others.
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Morgan
Florence
Florence State Teachers Colleges
George T. Woodruff
Ola Barnard
Clio Levin
Decatur
J. D. Elliott
Sara Tomison
Spurgeon
Falkville
Fannie Gurey
Hartselle
Jacqueline Wraaenon
Danville
H. R. Leeman
Avie Rains
John Short
Austinville
Negro CCC Boys to Present Minstrel at Decatur High
A group of boys from Negro CCC camps in the state will stage a minstrel show at Decatur Negro High School on Friday night at 7 30. The troupe has undergone special training in this entertainment form and the minstrel has been a big hit wherever shown.
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Decatur Negro High School
Decatur News Briefs A Host Of Local Notes
Mrs Ruth Coker of Huntsville visits daughter Nettie B Coker at 1311 Sixth Ave S. Pageant Songs of Praise planned at First Methodist with Elizabeth Elam and Renan Carrell directing. John Sparkman and family vacationing in Florida. Various patrol, church, hospital, and community events noted including baptisms, surgeries, and a window shopping contest with cash prizes.
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Ruth Coker
Huntsville
Joe M. Coker
U. 8 Marine Corps
Quantico, Va
Nettie B. Coker
Sixth Avenue
South
Young People's Department
The
First Methodist Church
Elizabeth Elam
Renan Carrell
Sparkman Urges Support for AAA Program in Alabama
Congressman John J. Sparkman spoke to a large audience of farmers at West Limestone High School urging a December 10 vote for the AAA. He warned opponents would oppose the Domestic Allotment Plan and cautioned that passage could ruin southeastern cotton growers and push prices to four cents a pound or lower. County Farm Agent G B Phillips organized and presided the meeting.
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Athens
Ala
AAA
John J. Sparkman
West Limestone High School
Sparkman
Congress
G. B. Phillips
Engineer Speaks to Key Club at Riverside High
L. M. Smith of Birmingham chief electrical engineer of Alabama Power spoke to the Decatur Key Club at Riverside high school at noon. His talk focused on engineering as a vocation and drew unusual interest from attendees.
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L. M. Smith
Birmingham
Alabama Power Company
Decatur
Riverside High School
Smith
County Education Board Will Meet Saturday Night
The county board of education will meet in the office of Prof. George T. Woodruff, the county education superintendent, Saturday night at 7 o'clock to discuss routine matters.
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County Board of Education
George T. Woodruff
Alabama school building program receives financing
Dr. R L Johns director of finance and administration announces practical completion of securing financing for a 4 million dollar public school building program in Alabama.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
R. L. Johns
State Department of Education
Balboa Visit With Relatives Planned
Balboa in the Canal Zone reports a woman will spend several weeks with relatives.
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Balboa
Canal Zone
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John Sparkman
Florida
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van Gilbert
State Highway Patrol
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Memorial Drive Methodist Church
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Frank Dixon
Homer G. Tidwell
Claude Drake
Lacon
Garnett
Cecil Young
Mr. Karter
Garland Orr
Dayton
Baugh’s Infirmary
Somerville
M. E. Lazenby
Decatur District
R. B Conner
Ralph Brown
Benevolent Society Hospital
Maybelle Wilson
Elkmont
Alice Clayton
D. O. Matthews
EF. Vine Street
Ruby Sandlin
Mary Briscoe
Mary Emma Gargus
L. H. Knight
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Ministry of Reconciliation
W. P. Maxwell
Presbyterian Church In
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