Weather, river rise, and local notices in brief
Cloudy with occasional rain tonight and Friday. Tennessee River at 16.10 feet, high 61F, low 56F, rainfall 0.46 inch. Cotton prices quoted: Strict middling 17.54, middling 17.29, strict low 16.79, low 16.29. Local cinema listings include Navy Blues at the Princes, Private Nurse at the Roxy, I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island at the Capitol. Various local notices cover births, visits, hospitalizations, church events, and a deer-hunting anecdote.
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Tennessee
Primces
Roxy
Devil's Island
Capitol
Britain expands manpower mobilization in wartime bill
London December 4 the House of Commons backed Churchill’s plan for broad national service raising the mobilization of men and women. The vote 326 to 10 approved extending conscription to ages 18 to 50 and mandating uniformed service for young unmarried women. Bevin defended the bill saying no interests would block the war effort and noted 17 million had been registered under all headings.
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London
House of Commons
Churchill
Independent Labor Party
Labor
Ernest Bevin
Bevin
Military Service
Libya
Cottingham Announces Lights To Be Turned On Tonight
City Utilities Board chairman T J Cottingham said lights on Second Avenue Lee Street and Bank Street will be turned on tonight following Decatur instructions. The move is reported to not violate the Office of Production Management order limiting lighting.
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T. J
Cottingham
City Utilities Board
Decatur
Second Avenue
Lee Street
Bank Street
Office of Production Management
Aviation boom forecast to reach 50 000 planes annually by 1942
John H. Hollett, head of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, says U S aircraft output could hit 50 000 planes a year in 1942, placing the industry two to three years ahead of earlier projections. Wright had estimated 50 000 yearly by 1945. Aircraft employment would top 390 000 with payrolls over 500 000. Dolan, of the Lafayette Escadrille, notes the U S has surpassed Germany and will soon exceed the rest of the world combined.
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New York
Roosevelt
Congress
John H. Hollett
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce
T. P. Wright
Office For Emergency Management
Wright
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Charles H. Dolan
la Fayette Escadrille
Germany
Two Dead In Plane Crash Near Andalusia Alabama
Lieut. Charles M. Jose and Pvt. Thomas J. Stevens were killed when their plane crashed 15 miles northeast of Andalusia Alabama while en route from Elgin Field Florida to Maxwell Field Alabama to obtain spare parts for Maxwell’s aviation cadets. The cause is not determined. The aircraft was partially burned.
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Montgomery
Ala
Charles M. Jose
Thomas J. Stevens
Birmingham
Andalusia
Maxwell Field
Elgin Field
Valparaiso
Fla
Maxwell
Elgin
Jose
Mai . H. Jose
Greenville
Miss
E. H. Jose
Ksdale Field
Merilyn Tate Moss
Toledo
Wallace shifts strike bill path stirring Senate outlook
Vice President Wallace said the House anti strike bill would go to the Senate Labor Committee not the Judiciary panel. The move signaled possible changes as senators expect the measure to be softened and sent to a conference for final form. The bill would impose cooling off periods and curb jurisdictional and sympathy strikes during a defense emergency.
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Washington
Wallace
House
Senate Labor
Judiciary Committee
Conference Committee
Senate
Connally
ONL
Serene LE Hill
Hill
D.-Ala
Labor Committee
White House
Smith
D-Va
National Defense Mediation Board
Turkey Gets U S Aid for Defense Under Lend Lease
The United States began supplying Turkey with military aid six months ago to bolster its pledge to Britain to defend the Dardanelles. President Roosevelt added Turkey to lend lease eligibility, with future aid seen at about 100 million dollars in plants tanks trucks anti aircraft guns and ammunition. Britain will receive shipments and pass them to Turkey, aiding troop defense and keeping German expansion from Turkish territory and critical oil fields.
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Lloyd Lehrbas
Washington
United States
Turkey
Britain
Dardanelles
Roosevelt
White House
E. R. Settinius, Jr
Great Britain
Spa
Iran
Palestine
Suez
Caucasus
Mosu
Child Struck by Auto Dies in Triple City Crash
A 7 year old girl Phyllis Powers died after stepping from a school bus into a car driven by Edward Lee Johnson on the highway north of Decatur near the Southern Aviation Training School. Johnson was arrested on license and false pretenses charges and released on bond. In a separate crash on the Sixth Avenue block a doctor Frank Chenault was injured. A third collision on Joe Wheeler highway sent six negroes to the hospital with injuries. Funeral services for Phyllis Powers are set for tomorrow at 10:30 from her parents home with burial in Athens cemetery. Survivors include her parents a sister two brothers and grandmother.
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Frank Chenault
Phyllis Powers
Edward Lee Johnson
The
Benevolent Hospital
Johnson
Alonzo Conley
Chenault
Pete Collier
Sixth Avenue
Collier
Ros Wee
Joe Wheeler
William Rome Cleere
Oran Owens
Clementine Allen
Cleere
Owens
Powers
Ster Conley
Conley
Nettie Bevels
Decatur
Southern Aviation Training School
Tokyo presses blast ABCD group encirclement claim
Japanese press reacts with sizzle over the ABCD group alleged encirclement by America Britain China and the Dutch East Indies. Charts note 40 Japanese ships in Cam Ranh Bay and a Western Indo China air base as tensions rise amid Hull’s Pacific terms and U S–Japan talks.
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Associated Press
Far East
Japan
ABCD
America
Brittain
China
Dutch East Indies
Chungking
Camranh Bay
Indo-China
Singapore
Philippines
Secret Service
Gulf of Siam
Thailand
Manila
Burma
Long Road
United States
Secretart
Cordell Hull
Pacific
Tokyo
Washington
Nichi Nichi
Washington Dispatch
Hull
Conference Held Washington December 4 On Roosevelt and Congress
President Roosevelt met with congressional leaders in a Washington conference to discuss reform measures and policy priorities as the session advances. Details of proposals and the agenda remain under discussion.
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Washington
Dec
Roosevelt
Congress
Beloved Man Called Home
William H. Johnson a renowned Limestone county educator died Thursday in Lincoln county hospital Fayetteville Tennessee He led Ardmore high school earlier he taught at Athens agricultural school Survived by wife Zelzie two sons Sgt Woodrow W Johnson and Pvt William H Johnson a daughter Mrs Jack Gillespie and a grandson Services planned Friday at Ardmore school auditorium at two o clock Burial in Decatur with McConnell of Athens directing
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William H. Johnson
Limestone County
Lincoln County
Fayetteville
Tenn
Johnson
Ardmore
Athens Agricultural School
Zelzie Johnson
Jack Gillespie
Decatur
Woodrow W. Johnson
Pyt
Teesler Field
Miss
James Clark Gillespie
McConnell
Athens
Velvet in defeat marks Nazi German onslaught
War analyst notes signs on the Russian front show the Nazis losing strength. The German offensive appears weaker with defensive resistance lowered, producing an unexpected reversal west of Rostov. The piece highlights a notable debacle against Muscovite pressure and questions the “cant be stopped” myth.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Jack London
Rostov
Russians Gain Ground as German Retreat Sags in War Outlook
A Red Star analysis cites Russian General Bodin saying the initiative is now in Russian hands though German strength persists with tanks and reserves. The article notes German retreat past Taganrog near the Sea of Azov and growing Bolshevik offensives, suggesting German exhaustion but not yet decisive.
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Bodin
Red Star
Moscow
Sea of Azovy
Taganrog
Defense stakes rise as TVA Douglas dam veto looms
Production officials warn that Congress rejecting the Tennessee Valley Authority Douglas dam would cripple the national defense program. OPM Director William L. Batt said denial would close the TVA area to new defense industries and worsen blackout risks in the Southeast, while authorities push Fontana dam and Watts Bar expansions. He noted Senator McKellar failed to prove faster Cumberland basin dam construction without Douglas.
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Mae
Congress
Tennessee Valley Authority
Douglas Dam
National Defense
William L. Batt
OPM Materials Division
TVA
House Appropriations Committee
French Broad River
Tennessee
TVA Defense
Fontana Dam
North Carolina
Roosevelt
House
Fontana
Watts Bar
Batt
McKellar
Dtenn
Douglas
Dandridge
Cumberland
OPM
Crash Victim H. C. Motes Laid To Rest
Funeral services were held for H. C. Motes fatally injured in a single vehicle crash near Madisonville Kentucky. The service at Memorial Drive Methodist Church was conducted by Rev. O B Lansbury and Rev Lambuth Archibald with burial in City cemetery. Pallbearers included nephews and honoraries listed. flowers by the church Missionary Society. The cortege departed from 509 Seventh Avenue W at 240 pm. Motes died Tuesday night at about 11 after his car was struck by a truck ten miles from Madisonville on Highway 41 while returning to Decatur from a Kentucky trip.
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H. C. Motes
Madisonville
Kentucky
Memorial Drive Methodist Church
O. B. Lansbury
Lambuth Archibald
McAfee, Howell
Younng
Kyle Martin
Andrew Hall
Elmer Bradley
Ed Gunn
Clyde McRae
Knox McRae
E. C. Barker
J. W. Pettey
Bill Woods
Grover Addison
Missionary Society of the
Seventh Avenue
Mr. Motes
Decatur
Gifts On Way To Solmers From Decatur Workers
The people of Decatur shipped 160 Christmas gift boxes to Kodiak Alaska for soldiers, weighing 523 pounds in 15 parcels. Each man received two tins of cigarettes, a bandana, a pound of candy, and chili provisions. The Daily asks no more funds as all costs are covered. Wrapping was by Frank Longino of the Salvation Army.
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Cone Sign Enginneers
Decaturs
Kodiak
Alaska
Decatur
Parcel Post
Cces Accusees
Neway
B. L. Malone
A. D. Jervis
Frank Longino
The
Salvation Army
Sister Ends Brother's Suffering at Kings Park Hospital
At Kings Park state hospital a 28 year old sister, Edith Reichert, shot and killed her brother George Horn, 26, after he spoke of suicide. The act followed words with their mother in a visiting room as authorities noted the motive was to end his misery.
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Kings Park
N. Y
George Horn
Edith Reichert
Kings Park State Hospital
Edith Horn
Brooklyn
Reichert
Fred J. Mander
Camden youth causes street corner uproar in bus delay
Phillip Caccesse, 19, screamed frantically causing a street corner disturbance in Camden New Jersey. He dashed into traffic on the city’s main street before two filling station attendants restrained him and removed a mouse from his trouser leg.
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Camden
N. J
Phillip Caccesse
Germans Face New Setbacks in Yugoslavia Front
Allied dispatches report Serb guerrillas fighting three Axis divisions in Yugoslavia while German reinforcements flow toward Bulgaria's frontier with Turkey. A Cairo communique cites a general offensive against resistance around Uzice and Morava river. Mass executions in Yugoslavia noted. Paris faces reprisals after terrorist acts against German troops.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
North
Africa
Ukraine
Old
Yugoslavia
London
Bulgaria
Turkey
Roosevelt
Germany
Russia
Balkans
Hitler
Cairo
Dreja Mahailovic
Morava
Uzice
Usice
Belgrade
Mihailovic
Havas
Dujitza
Serbia
France
Paris
Government to probe Tribune report on 5 million AEF plan
White House secretary Stephen Early said the government would investigate the source of a Chicago Tribune story claiming a confidential Army Navy joint board report urged an American expeditionary force of five million for an offensive against Germany by July 1 1943. He noted two war plans branches in separate departments study emergencies and pledged a full inquiry.
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Washington
Stephen Early
White House
Chicago Tribune
Army Navy Joint Board
Germany
Early
War
Stimson
War Department
Navy Department
United States
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Huntsville
Civil Service Board
Southern Aviation Training Shhool
H. C. Weir
John Stevens
Louis Seibert
Robert Edward
Mary’ Ford Tillery
E. A. Tillery
Huntingdon College
Tillery
James P. Tillery
Camp Polk, la
W. ©. Smith
7Th Avenue
South
Noomote
W._ Jones
Harry Rimmer
Central Baptist Church
St. Paue Ts Lutheran
Donald Whitmire
Crimson Tide
Mike McEntire
Benevolent Society Hospital
J. E. Polk
Fifth Avenue
West
Dan Brewer
Hamil Clinic
H. V. Turner
Ollie Isley
G. B. Street
Sare
Maury Hough
Baugh’s
Lacey’s
Mattie Puckett
R. Puckett
McAfee, Howell and Young
J. Lipscomb
Priceville
National Forest
Robert Brewer
Baugh
Pulaski, Tenn
U. S
Abcd Group
Helen Gilmer
Tampa
Ed Thomas
Fort Befining
MacDilleld
Misa Gilmer
Thomas
Blow-At- Tva
Man and Mouse
Tribune Aef
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