Sickly Youth Held By Federal Agents After Betty Grable Threat
James Willard Parker, 18, of Washington PA, is in custody on a federal warrant after threatening Betty Grable in a letter sent December 6. FBI says he authored 16 letters claiming selection for the Yellow Hornets Club and demanding $2,000, with other targets in Washington, Pa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Grable
Ull of Investigation
Beaucous Ipotey Grable
James Willard Parker
Washington, Pa
U.S
FBI
Samuel K. Meee
Miss Grable
Yellow Hornet
Porter
Yellow Hornets Club
Betty “Grable
Washington
David Morris
Baptist Clleryman
James
Australians Break Through Bardia Defenses In Desert Dawn
Allied dispatches report the Australians striking at Bardia in the Libyan theater with dawn assaults and night bombing. By noon a deep penetration breached the blockhouses and machine gun nests as the British noted a swift breakthrough across the southern sector. Italian pomposity claimed the line held fast despite the rapid Allied advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt
Bardia
Car Crash Kills 22 Year Old in Birmingham
One person died and four others were seriously injured in a January crash in a western Birmingham residential area. Willie Charles Williams Jr., 22, was killed when the car struck a telephone pole a parked car and another pole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Willie Charles Williams, Jr
Markets Mark Time After Last-Minute Rally
The New York stock market opened with a stalemate between modest gains and losses. Trading was lively in intervals totaling about 400,000 shares, while bits of optimism appeared as large blocks of American securities moved to private syndicates for liquidation. Cotton futures in New Orleans showed irregular losses and slight gains with closing prices steady to marginally higher.
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Wall Street
Victor Eubank
New York
Steels and Motors
New York Markets Open With Mixed Signals on Stocks Bonds and Commodities
Stocks show irregular movement with leaders narrowing gains in New York on Jan 4. Bonds mixed as rails rise slightly. Foreign exchange steady as sterling improves. Cotton up with buying in New Orleans. Sugar trades with covering. Copper scarce at 12 cents. Wool tops firm amid trade support. Chicago wheat firm on mill buying, corn firm with country bookings. Cattle steady, hogs fully steady with top at 7.35.
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Trace
New Orleans
Chicago
Cotton futures slide as hedge selling pressures markets
New York cotton futures weakened in late trading as hedge selling met weak demand. Prices fell about three points as contracts could only be taken up with sacrifices in the final minutes of trading.
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New York
Jan
Cotton price report from southern spot markets drops
Average middling cotton at ten designated southern markets today falls three points to 10.06 cents per pound. Thirty day average stands at 9.87 cents. Middling 9.84 cents and half a penny per pound.
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New Orleans
Cottonseed meal futures close steady in Memphis
Prime cottonseed meal futures closed steady with F.O.B. Memphis prices 28.50 for January 28th, 27.50 for March, 26.85 for May, and 26.40 for July. Sales volume reached 600 tons.
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Memphis
Tend
F.O.B
Cotton market closes steady in New Orleans
Spot cotton in New Orleans on January 4 closed quiet with sales of 972 bales. Prices for various grades ranged from low middling 9.07 to good middling 10.67 while middling stood at 10.17. Receipts were 402 bales and the total stock 536,428 bales.
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New Orleans
Nashville Livestock Market Report Summary
U S Dept of Agriculture report from Nashville Tennessee shows salable cattle at 25 calves and steady to stronger prices week over week. Good fed cattle and yearlings bring 10.00 to 10.50, medium short finishes 8.25 to 9.00, slaughter heifers and yearlings 6.50 to 8.00, beef cows 7.00 to 6.50, canner cows 4.00 to 5.00, good fat bulls to 6.75.
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Nashville
Tenn
U. S. Dept. Agr
Market Report From Chicago Grain and Livestock Prices
Top hogs and lambs traded steady with bids for salable porkers and sheep, while the wheat market rose on hopeful demand and crop damage fears. Cash wheat and corn prices were listed, with oats and soybeans showing minor moves as markets adjusted to winter conditions.
Butter and egg market receipts reported in Chicago
Butter receipts reach 803 837 with firmer prices and a 93 score. Market shows centralized carrot prices at 30 1 2. Eggs receipts 7 827 steady with refrigerator and other prices unchanged.
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Chicago
British Invasion Plans Seen Tied to Atlantic Fleet
Analysts say Britain can mount a continental invasion once armor and air power improve, aided by American support. The plan may target a Western front via the Brenner Pass or Dundurkque-style landings, contingent on neutralization of Italy and a strong fleet.
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Fuehrer
France
Britain
Brenner Pass
Italy
Romania
Balkans
Germany
Dunkerque
Chinese claim Japanese losses exceed 1.8 million
Chinese military headquarters announced that since the war began July 7 1937 Japanese casualties total 1 800 000 killed and wounded. The report was issued from Chungking and described the toll as of tonight January 1.
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Chungking
China
Kidney extract lowers high blood pressure in humans and animals
A new kidney-derived chemical compound described in the Rockefeller Institute Journal of Experimental Medicine reduces high blood pressure in dogs rats and 11 human patients including six with incurable or malignant forms. Effects vary by dose and the extract is lethal in overdose but safe at therapeutic levels.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
New York
Rockefeller Institute
Journal of Experimental Medicine
Irvine H. Page
O. M. Helmer
K. C. Kohlstaedt
P. J. Fouts
G. F. Kempf
Lilly Laboratory For Clinical Research
Indianapolis City Hospital
Greek air sorties evade Italian defenses at low level
Greek fighter pilots describe flying at about 600 feet then dropping to 200 feet as they weave through mountain passes. They maneuver under mist to stay hidden from higher Italian planes.
Jackson County School Fires Damage Two Alabama Buildings
Destruction of two Alabama school buildings was reported to state authorities. One blaze hit Sumiton in Walker county and the other Skyline Farms in Jackson county. origin of the fires was not immediately learned.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Sumiton
Walker County
Skyline Farms
Jackson County
Ireland
Dublin
Neutral Ireland
Eire
County Kildare
Terenure
Decatur Notes Highlight Local Health and School Affairs
Decatur reports Mrs. D. D. Burleson improving after a car accident at Hamil clinic and Rev. Cecil J. Brown ill with flu. Charles Landers to enter Florida Bible Institute. Dr. M. F. Ham to address Business Men's Evangelistic group at Central Baptist. PTA Pleasant Hill meets Tuesday. Munsey McGlathery to resume Wheaton College studies. Various residents reported visiting, ill, or traveling. fires damage a home and a car. multiple school events announced including Baptist Training Union rally and Morgan County Principals Association meeting at Austinville High School.
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M. F. Ham
Central Baptist Church
Doris Laubenthal Dies At Home In Canal Street
Miss Doris Laubenthal died at one o'clock this afternoon at her home 714 Canal Street after a long illness. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Brown Funeral Company.
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Doris Laubenthal
Canal Street
Brown Funeral Company
New RAF Backward-Firing Gun Aims to Beat Attacks
London reports a new RAF weapon, a backward-firing Vickers machine gun mounted under the aircraft nose. Operated by the navigator through mirrors, it targets attackers coming from below and behind the plane.
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London
RAF
President Coolidge sails from Kobe with missionaries and naval families
The President sails from Kobe aboard a return voyage for 200 missionaries and families from Shanghai and 800 wives and children of U S naval men from Manila, following State Department guidance for homeward travel.
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Tokyo
Consul George K. Donald Assigned New Post in Canada
The State Department announced that George K. Donald of Mobile Alabama, consul general at Southampton England, would become consul general at Windsor Canada after the Southampton office closes.
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Washington
State Department
George K. Donald
Mobile
Ala
Southampton
England
Windsor
Canada
Dr White urges action against pacifism at conference
Dr W White president of Hardin-Simmons University told delegates at the Southwide Baptist Training Union Conference in Memphis that there is no place for moral pacifism in the world today as the gathering closed yesterday.
Union Owning Webster Shoe Plant Marks Landmark Labor Lease
Webster Mass Jan 4 By completing purchase of a factory the Webster Independent Shoe Workers Union has become landlord to the employer of 900 of its members The union spent 71000 to buy repair and enlarge the structure The project began seven years ago after the factory closed The union first obtained a 110000 loan from local business men and took over the building then persuaded an experienced manufacturer to locate there as the Webster Shoe Company The workforce grew from 100 to 900 as business improved The union paid the final 3000 to clear title yesterday funds raised by 35 cent weekly assessments on factory workers and 25 cent weekly assessments on other members
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Webster
Mass
Webster Independent Shoe Workers Union
Martel Eugene
Webster Shoe Company
Convent Hit By Japanese Bombs Anew
HUPET PROVINCE CHINA mission buildings and residences including a church and school were destroyed after repeated Japanese bombing. Mission head Hjalmar Gravem of Minneapolis reported most personnel fled, travel from Hanchang to Shanghai took three weeks, aided by two Chicago women. The effort yielded few gains for the Japanese despite trenches nullifying mechanized advances.
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Shanghai
Hupet
Hjalmar Gravem
Minneapolis
Minn
Iesion
Gravem
Port of Bremen Is Bombed Again
London reports RAF bombers hit Bremen for the third straight night turning the German seaport’s industrial area into a sea of flames. Officials say Bremen suffered heavier bombing and more damage than any other raid to date.
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London
RAAF
Bremen
Air Ministry
RAF
Governor Dixon Signs 7500 Contract for Justice Code Publication
Montgomery Alabama January 1 Governor Dixon signed a 7500 contract for publication of a special justice of the peace code set to be distributed this spring to the state's about 200 magistrates.
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Montgomery
Ala
Dixon
Roosevelt orders 5700 guardsmen to one year active duty
President Roosevelt signs an executive order calling 5,700 National Guardsmen from seven units to one year of active duty starting January 27. Units affected include 112th and 186th field artillery, 178th field artillery, 101st cavalry, 151st engineer regiment, 261st coast artillery, and 134th medical regiment. Training locations include Fort Bragg North Carolina and Claiborne Louisiana.
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Washington
Roosevelt
112Th Field Artillery
New Jersey
178Th Field Artillery
South Carolina
186Th Field Artillery
New York
101St Cavalry
151St Engineer Regiment
Alabama
261St Coast Artillery
Delware
134Th Medical Regiment
Fort Bragg
N. C
151St Engineers
Claiborne
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Capitol Sundy
Wayne Morris
Eddie Albert
Jane Bryan
Ronald Reagan
Decatur’s
D. D. Burleson
Hamil Clinic
Cecil J. Brown
Charles Landers
Tampa, Fla
Florida Bible Institute
PTA of
Pleasant Hill
Schol
Munsey McGlathery
Wheaton College
Robert E. Williams
Trinity
James E. Thompson
Hartselle
C. C. Turner
Jackson Street
Baugh’s Infirmary
Ann McCutcheon
Hartsille
A. N. Roper
Route 1
Estelle Speer
Fifth Avenue,east
C. H. Huckaba
Route One
Ternoon
Lelia Hall
J. A. Cullom
Shelbyville, Tenn
Baptist Training Union
Moulton Heights
Billie Maples
Pell City
Mrs. M. Carroll
Foe A
W. Wilson Avenue
Forter Harrison
Fourth Avenue
A. A. Tucker
Sixth Avenue
South
Benevolent Society Hospital
Trinity School
Morgan County Principals Association
Austinville High School
H. R. Leeman
Cavan
Drogheda
Westmeath
Offaly
Tipperary
Kildare
Carlow
Borris
Wexford
Miles
Liner Sails
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