Women Will Have Greater Voice In Legislative Affairs In 1941
Washington reports a League of Women Voters poll showing 140 women elected to state legislatures across 29 states in November, up from 130 in 26 states two years earlier. Eight women will join Congress on January 3, including Jeannette Rankin, with Hattie Caraway returning to the Senate. Republicans outnumber Democrats in state legislatures, but Democratic gains rise. New England leads with 25 in Connecticut, 24 in New Hampshire, and 18 in Vermont. Georgia will have three women legislators.
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Washington
League of Women Voters
Congress
Jeannette Rankin
R-Mont
Hattie W. Caraway
Dark
Edith Nourse Rogers
Rmass
Caroline O'Day
DNY
Jessie Sumner
R-Mi
Mary T. Norton
D-Nj
Prances Bolton
Ohio
Margaret Smith
R-Me
New England
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Vermont
Georgia
Local Morgan County Visits and Holiday Guests
Morgan County residents and relatives gathered for Christmas weekend. Willie and Alex Helms of Scottsboro visited their father W E Helms and relatives. Dallis Black and family and many others shared Sunday and Saturday visits with neighbors and friends across the community.
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Owen Edwards
Claudie Edwards
Ed Thomas
Gon
Harvey Helms
Leo Tyler
Wilburn Whisenant
Virgie
Catherine Helms
Wilma Moon
Walter Yancys
Mina Owens
Alta Curry
J. D. Hennessee
M. W. Pettit
Maxine Rogestine
Hazel
Dortha Black
Verlin
Verna
Grace Helms
Opal Curry
Seton Yancy
Amos Fletcher
Anniston
Birdie Moon
Ruby Tyler
Anna Hennessee
Vera Black
War correspondent Harold Anderson dies of heart attack
Harold MacDonald Anderson, a New York Sun editor and war correspondent famed for the Lindbergh flies alone editorial, died today of a heart attack. He was an Sun executive and editorial writer since 1925, stricken on a subway platform after leaving his office.
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New York
Harold MacDonald Anderson
New York Sun
Lindbergh
Anderson
the Sun
Morgan County Social Notes from Enon to Austinville
Johnson Chapel guest lists and illnesses fill this Morgan County roundup. Measles affect Grover James and Leon Poole while Davis Roberts visits from Liberty. Numerous Sunday visits include Robarts Maples Glas gow and Rogers households with mentions of relocations and upcoming arrivals from Leavenworth and Austinville.
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Grover James
Enon
Connie Rocunts
Edgar Maples
Ora Roberts
Uptons Chapel
Ethel Glasgow
Estell Rollins
Mary Lois Maples
Bell Rogers
Eloise
Hendlene
Lewis
Decatur
Eloise Rogers
Lolett Roberts
Hendlene Rogers
Bell
Austin Self
W. Rogers
Herbert Wright
Leavenworth
Wash
V. A. White
Aline and
Howell
C. C. Roberts
Gradie Roberts
Lucian Puck
Austinville
Cc. D. Roberts
Tullahoma
Tenn
Mon J. B. Roberts
Clark Morris
Neel
Ernest White
B. M. Jones
Ernest McDonald
Mathlene
J. R. Glen
Miss Ayers Dies in Hollywood at Christmas
Agnes Ayres, once a silent screen star who faded with the advent of talkies and made a brief comeback attempt, died Christmas Day in Hollywood from a cerebral hemorrhage.
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Hollywood
Agnes Ayres
Two Christmas Services Held at St Paul's Lutheran
Two fine Christmas services were conducted at St Pauls Lutheran church. A Sunday school program featured violin solos by 10 year old Harry Thompson. Christmas morning offered a festive festival service with a vested children’s choir singing hymns. Visitors joined the regular congregation in both services. The piece also notes Wallace P Zachry announcing a January 6 joining of the firm Wright Gordon Zachry and Parlin, and recalls Young Roosevelt, Groton 1933 graduate and Harvard 1937 BA, UVA law degree holder, who married Ethel Du Pont on June 30, 1937.
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St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Harry Thompson
John Thompson
Wright, Gordon, Zachry
Young Roosevelt Gets Clerk's Job in Wall Street Firm
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 26, is slated for a 2100 dollar clerk position at a Wall Street law firm. The announcement notes the New York appointment and outlines the young Roosevelt's entry into legal work.
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Roosevelt
New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Wall Street
Belgians Called to Arms Aged Nineteen to Twenty Five
Belgians between nineteen and twenty five years old including reserve officers have been called to arms by Belgian consul general Charles Hallaert. The decree was announced today in New York.
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New York
Charles Hallaert
Old Man River Weekly Traffic Bulletin Tennessee River
Prepared by the River Transportation Division of Commerce Department. The steamer Clyde of Arrows Transportation Co passed Wilson Locks at 5 p m on December 22 with a corn barge and a barge of oats bound for O J Walls grain elevator in Guntersville Alabama. Also moving upstream was Betty Gardner with two barges of Texaco gasoline via Lock No 1 in the Orleans Canal. Included is a barge of steel draft tube gates for Wilson house addition and the first barge of automobiles reported December 19 arriving Guntersville at 3 p m December 21.
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Clyde
Arrows Transportation Compay
Wilson Locks
O. J. Walls Grain Elevator
Gurnersville
Alabama
Betty Gardner
Roberts Towing
Orence Canal
Texaco
Texas Company
Decatur
Guntersville
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Hen House
Wilson
Eire Seeks Arms From U S To Defend Neutrality
In a CBS Dublin broadcast on Christmas Day Prime Minister Eamon De Valera said Eire plans to buy weapons from the United States to bolster its neutrality while strengthening its army and defenses. He noted shortages from the blockade and urged Americans to help secure essential foodstuffs if the blockade tightens.
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New York
Ireland
Eire
United States
Eamon de Valera
Americana
Dublin
CBS
de Valera
Republic
Austinv ill e Sing Is Set For Sunday
The community sing will be convened Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in the Austinville Church of God. The Vaughn Hess quartet of Haleyville will appear on the program, Luther Turner will be in charge of the program.
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Austinville
Christmas Safari Ends Sorrowful Way in Minneapolis
A Christmas safari by a lone hunter in Minneapolis ended tragically as authorities reported a fatal shooting. Investigators say the incident occurred late on Christmas Day with no immediate suspects described and the case under active review.
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Minneapolis
Hunter in Alley Arrest After Complaints
Police arrested a man after neighbors complained of gunfire in an alley. The suspect claimed he was shooting elephants when questioned by officers.
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Huntsman
Coast Guard hunts for missing crew after schooner wreck
Coast Guard searches are under way for ten men unreported since 10:25 AM Christmas Day after rough seas battered the waterlogged Stanwood off Point Arena. Crews from Shawnee and Shoshone join a dawn air search as the Stanwood, with 22 aboard, fights to stay afloat with lumber deck cargo.
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San Francisco
Coast Guard
Coast
California
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Hedy Lamarr
Claudette Colbert
Clark Gable
Princess
Princess Theatre
Morgan County Johnson Chapel
Miss Ayers
OFFIC
Own’s Supply CO
Bank Street
A. L, Shelton, Prop
Old Man River
Tennessee River
River Transportation Division
Commerce Department
TWA
U.S
Frances Topping
Peabody Museum
Salem
Mass
City Park Flower Shop
Second Ave
Speake
Warren & Ratliff
Santa
Selby
Suedes and Suede
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