Gifts Pour In On President at White House Christmas
Fragrance and color fill the White House as Franklin D. Roosevelt and family prepare for a seven day Christmas celebration. Spruces poinsettias mistletoe and wreaths brighten the lobby as 12 relatives arrive from across the country and guests including Col Harry Hooker join the Roosevelts for the holiday.
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D. Harold Oliver Washington
White House
Pennsylvania Avenue
Franklin D. Roosevelts
Roosevelt
Col
Harry Hooker
Hyde Park
N. Y
Census shows cotton spinning at 101.3 percent capacity in November
The Census Bureau reports the cotton spinning industry operated at 101.3 percent of capacity on a two shift eighty hour week in November, with 24,973,218 spindles in place and 22,774,170 active at some time. Active spindle hours totaled 8,803,076,810, averaging 353 hours per spindle, with state figures for Alabama Georgia and South Carolina listed.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Navy
Alabama
Georgia
South Carolina
Christmas Tree Event at Penn's School Builds Holiday Spirit
Miss Lee Nell Looney visits Speake sister Mrs Pearl Crowe while a string of local visits unfolds in Morgan County. Danville and Penn communities host guests, ill reports, and a planned Christmas tree at Penn's school on Thursday, Dec 21, with families including Dewey Hogan building a new home.
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Lee Nell Looney
Speake
Pearl Crowe
D. D. Holley
Hartselle
Marie Doss
Nina Fay Kirkpatrick
Irene Dutton
Hazel Crowe
I. J. Quinn
Penn
Little Olen Eddy
Bill Doss
Otto Hill
Dana Crowe
Ione Thomlison
Danville
Lorene Penn
Ed. Carter
Alec Carter
Jtiva Dutton
Dewey Hogan
Christine Crowe
Coy Crowe
FBI to expand Alabama staff with more agents
Edward P. Guinane announced that the federal bureau of investigation will add 5 to 9 agents to Alabama’s staff, raising the total to 15 to 20. Mobile and Montgomery will continue to host resident agents as part of the expansion.
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Birmingham
Ala
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Alabama
Edward P. Guinane
Mobile
Montgomery
Markets. Wall Street Sees Cautious Recovery Bargains
In New York on December 21 traders pursued selective recovery gains amid tax selling and modest reinvestment demand. Steel shares led a quiet forenoon advance before drifting and closing with mixed, fractional moves. Transfers around 700,000. Prices: standards 14 1 4, firsts 13 3 4, others unchanged. Chicago poultry prices show firm for farm products with geese weak and turkeys steady to higher in weight classes.
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Wall Street
Victor Eubank
New York
Chicago
Plymouth Rock
White Rock
Markets at a Glance New York December 21
Markets at a glance show irregular early rally in stocks and steady bonds. Foreign exchange steady with neutral currencies firmer cotton and sugar easy as producer and commission houses sell. Copper duty to be maintained. wool higher on buying. Chicago wheat higher and corn unsettled. cattle steady to 25 off and hogs 25 lower.
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New York
Chicago
Stocks decline and futures rise on New York market
New York stock counters show declines in the broad market while futures move higher. Cotton futures push up about a dollar per bale on active trading with mixed intraday highs and lows across the January to December contracts.
Cottonseed Meal Futures Quiet in Memphis Trade
Prime cottonseed meal futures closed quiet with Memphis bids and offers showing 41 percent meal. Closing prices listed for December 29, January 29.00, March 28.60, May 28.55, July 28.60, September 27.10 with 100 tons sold.
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Memphis
Tenn
Job Memphis
Spot Cotton Figures Steady in New Orleans Trade
Spot cotton closed steady in New Orleans trading on December 21 with prices showing a 22 point rise. Sales reached 1,806 bales, with values listed for low middling to good middling, receipts at 10,824 and total stock at 824,549 bales.
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New York
Ae Suny Oe
New Orleans
Cottonseed Oil Prices Steady in New Orleans Close
Cottonseed oil closed steady in New Orleans on December 31 with bleachable prime summer yellow at 7.05n, prime crude 6.25, December 6.50b, January 6.52b, March 6.67, May 6.80b, July 6.90b, n nominal, b bid.
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New Orleans
Butter Prices Hold Steady In Chicago Market
Butter prices in Chicago on December 21 hold at 913,734 with fees 9,492 unsettled. Receipts total 17 while refrigerator extras measure 14 12.
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Chicago
Nashville Cattle Hog and Sheep Market Report
U S Dept of Agriculture notes steady demand in Nashville area cattle hog and sheep market. Salable cattle 100 calves 75 strong demand top vealers 11.00. Feeders 6.00 8.00 heifers and steers mixed. Beef cows 5.50 down canners 3.00 4.50. Hogs 500 salable good choice 90 lb plus 4.50 5.50. Sheep 25 steady good lambs 8.25 and throwouts 4.50 down fat ewes 2.00 3.00.
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Nashville
Tenn
U. S. Dept
Wheat market ends higher after December rally
Chicago prices show a small pre Christmas profit acceptance with a strong rally of 2 to 3 cents per bushel. Wheat settles 11-8 to 2-3-4 cents up from yesterday, December at 1.09 1-8, May 1.05 3-4. Corn moves 1-4 lower to 3-8 higher, December 55 1-2, May 58 328-1-2, oats up 1-4 to 1 3-8.
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Chicago
Alhough
Grain and seed price report from Chicago market
Chicago dispatch lists bid levels for wheat corn oats and soybeans with No. 2 hard wheat at 1.10 and No. 2 yellow corn at 58 1 2 cents per bushel. It also shows prices for barley timothy seed red clover alfalfa and other seeds with varying grades and nominal ranges.
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Chicago
Alsike
Alfalfa
Lynn Town Socials and Visitors Highlight Weekend
In Morgan County, residents gathered for a Cotaco ballgame Sunday with attendees from the area. Mrs. Mable Gatlin and Mrs. J. M. Lynn made a Huntsville business trip Monday. Lim Maize visited Hartselle on Monday for business. J. W. Lynn traveled to Huntsville Thursday. Jack Thompson and Gilbert Johnson from Wadley visited home folks over the weekend. Earline Roberson visited Magnolia Bartlett Sunday evening.
Kilner Named to National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
The White House announced Brigadier General Walter G. Kilner will join the national advisory committee for aeronautics replacing Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, who recently retired from the committee.
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Washington
White House
Walter G. Kilner
National Advisory
Aeronautics
Charles A. Lindbergh
Americas Prepare Strong Pan American Statement On Neutrality
Washington reports that the 21 American republics including the United States plan to issue a declaration warning Europe’s bellicose powers that further violations of the neutrality zone will prompt a stronger reaction than protests. Incidents cited include the German British naval clash off Uruguay and other zone disturbances near Port Everglades and Santa Rosa.
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Washington
Europe
United States
Panama
Uruguay
Port Everglades
Santa Rosa
Jeane D’arc
Sunday School Attendance and Local Social Notes in Morgan County
Large crowds attended Sunday school and the evening prayer service. The column lists visits among residents, illnesses with flu, and social calls across Morgan County including Miss Thelma Lee visits, Bevadine Golf with Wilma Jo and Lina Ruth Summerford, and plans for a Christmas program next Sunday night.
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Thelma Lee
Charlie Summerford
Frank Yates
Gracie Mae Yates
Miss Bevadine Golf
Wilma Jo
Lina Ruth Summerford
Ruth
Lester Shaneyfelt
Faye Jenkins
Annie Murl
Frann Yates
Ode Collins
Billy Jo
Mattie Mae Smith
Sonny Smith
Thelma
Zadie
Effie Lee
Flora Garner
Inez
Mys
Ratlif Barkley, Jr
Millard Brown
Clayton Hicks
Chester Collins
Hartselle
Sadie Lee
Elmer Lee
Baby
Federated Clubs Tipped for School Repairs by PTA
The P. T. A. of the West Decatur primary school for Negroes through secretary Jamie Troupe thanks City Federated Clubs for help in repairing the school building. Teacher Ethel Baugh says the improvements have made the facility very comfortable for the children.
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P. T. A. of the
West Decatur Primary School
Jamie ‘Troupe
Ethel Baugh
Hill appointed assistant secretary of agriculture
Washington December 21 Grover B Hill of Gainesville Texas was named by President Roosevelt to replace Harry L Brown who resigned to join the TVA Hill age 50 came to Washington in 1936 and has led the southern region range program for the department
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Hill
Washington
Grover B. Hil
Gainesville
Tex
Roosevelt
Harry L. Brown
TVA
Agriculture Department
Smallwood Named Standard Oil Agent in Decatur
Jack Smallwood, a well known Decatur businessman, will become commission agent for Standard Oil in the Decatur area on January 1. He succeeds Buck Rogers who has resigned after eight years. Smallwood plans a vacation after taking over and will continue active civic involvement with Kiwanis and the Chamber of Commerce relations.
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Jack Smallwood
Standard Oil Company
Decatur
Smallwood
R. BE
Buck) Rogers
Ford
Standards Agency
Ond
Kiwanis Club
Rogers
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Helsinki under heavy raid with damage to clinic and school
A large air raid damaged a five story clinic, a four story school for the blind, and nearby hospital rooms in Helsinki. Bombs created craters and wreckage while fire crews fought fires and aided evacuees as fight planes and alarms swept the capital.
Decatur News Briefs Highlight Christmas Plans and Local Events
Decatur community notes a Christmas party at the Rogers home on Jackson Street at 7 30 p m with the Edeavor Union. Ohio State University graduation lists Louis G Hoff of Decatur earning a Master of Arts and planning further study.
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Decatur Christian Edeavor Union
Will
T. B. Rogers
Jackson Street
Beinning
Ohio State University
Louis G. Hoff
Decatur
Young Hoff
Atlee Hoff
Ohio State
Spitale Blamed in Debt of Diamond
New York report from the probation office says Salvatore Spitale drove the assassination of gangster Jack Legs Diamond years ago. The court sentences Spitale to five to ten years in Sing Sing for grand larceny, with the inquiry linking Diamond’s murder to Spitale and Irving Bitz over a failed drug shipment and a $200,000 repayment dispute.
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New York
Salvator Spitale
Court of General Sessions
Jack “Legs" Diamond
Spitale
Sing Sing
Irving Bitz
Halperin
Germany
Alabama Supreme Court Decides Multiple Appeals
The Alabama Supreme Court handed down several decisions from Montgomery and various circuit courts. Cases affirmed reversed and rendered include Bassett Lumber Co V Hunter Benn & Co and Bergeron V Grayson. others granted writs or denied certiorari.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Supreme Court
Anderson
Bassett Lumber Co
Hunter, Benn & Co
Mobile Circuit Court
John Glasscock
Eileen Kelley
Chilton Circuit Court
Holt A. McDowell
Hugene B. Henry
Comm
Jefferson Circuit Court
Court of Appeals
Scarlet fever cases rise in Alabama weekly tally
Montgomery Alabama December 21 1939 the state health service reports 60 new scarlet fever cases for the last week up from 50 the previous week ending December 9 the report notes the continued outbreak in the state and the weekly totals.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
State Health Service
TVA Empire Spreads as Northeast Mississippi Purchase Completed
TVA extends power reach into Northeast Mississippi with a $2,000,000 acquisition of Mississippi Power Co. assets after private-to-public transfer. Krug notes further negotiations with Alabama Power for northern properties while costs are split among TVA and local electric associations and cities including Louisville and Philadelphia.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee Valley
J. A. Krug
TVA
Mississippi Electric Cooperatives
Mississippi Power Co
Commonwealth and Southern Corp
Mississippi
Krug
New York
Alabama Power Company
Four County Electric Power Association
Natchez Trace Electric Power Association
City of
Louisville
Philadelphia
Columbus
Starkville
Aberdeen
Macon
Ron
Itle
Ees
WOO
Fire truck near miss with private car in city intersection
At about 1130 today a collision was narrowly avoided when a city fire truck driven by Ralph Patterson swerved into Sherman street to miss a Plymouth driven by Mrs Bar rett Shelton at the Fourth avenue intersection. The Plymouth occupants included the Shelton children and were headed toward a grass blaze on 15th avenue east.
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Ralph Patterson
Barrett Shelton
Shelton
Sherman Street
Fourth Avenue
Patterson
15Th Avenue
Ruth Etting Wins Heart Balm Suit
Los Angeles reported that Alma Alderman wife number two of pianist Myrle Alderman lost her heart balm suit against Ruth Etting. Superior Judge Samuel Blake ruled Alderman failed to prove the love of her husband was stolen or that Etting knew of any reconciliation between the spouses, ending a nearly five month trial.
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Los Angeles
Alma Alderman
Myrle Alderman
Ruth Etting
Alderman
Samuel Blake
Panama registry boosts ships in wartime trade
The commerce department reported 48 vessels registered under the Panama flag this year, likely due to the European war. Many registrations resembled earlier plans by eight U S lines to transfer to Panama, which sparked a major controversy before the company dropped the plan.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Panama
United States Lines
Pope Pius XII Praises Italian Government in War Stance
In Vatican City on December 21 Pope Pius XII received King Vittorio Emanuele and Queen Elena and praised Italy for keeping the nation outside the war amid a grave moment.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Vittorio Emanuel
Elena
Italy
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