Dixon U K Annistonian: Statewide race tests in Alabama
In Montgomery January 16 the Anniston publisher Dixon U K faces a split among politicians over Carmichael Ayers and Dixon. Senator Bankhead clarifies his stance while Dixon praises Ayers. The anniversary of Dixon’s inauguration highlights ongoing power struggles and announcements for at large delegates.
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Mark Montgomery
Ala
Anniston
Carmichael
Dixon
Ayers
Bankhead
Washington
Will Bankhead
Bankheads
Senate
Ate At Large
Hill
Steagall
E. Homer Books
Birmingham
War prompts Finnish enlistment policy and regional raids
King Gustaf V announced a relations and social welfare plan that forces the unemployed to enlist for Finland to secure wages for fighting Russia. The move comes amid a war budget push and reports of Russian air raids hitting Finnish coastal cities Viipuri and Turku. Russia decorates 2,606 Finnish fighters as Belgium and the Netherlands mobilize against potential German moves on eastern fronts. The new U S ambassador to Brussels departs Dublin amid tense Belgian tensions.
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Gustaf V
Finland
Russia
Sweden
Karelian Isthmus
Viipuri
Turku
Belgium
Netherlands
Germany
United States
Brussels
John Cudahy
Dublin
Riverside night classes set for vocational training
Riverside vocational department of the senior high school starts ten week courses Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7 to 9 for radio service and textile mathematics. John Fowler heads the department.
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Vocational Education Department of Senior High School
Riverside
John Fowler
Independents to Play Two Games Tonight
The Austinville Independents basketball team will host a doubleheader with Flint at 7 p.m. and Upstate as the second opponent. The games will be played on the lawn of the Austinville facility.
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Austinville Independents
Flint
Upstate
Austinville
Stock market steadies as gains show mixed action
Markets opened modestly and then edged higher with many issues unable to advance. Trading was uneven with some point gains on a light turnover, transfers totaling about 500000 shares as the market weakened at times.
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New York
Gaing
Wall Street closes near session highs amid late covering
Active covering by Wall Street interest in the final hour lifted prices from the day’s lows. A surge of spot selling for March and May cotton was absorbed by traders, keeping the market near its best levels as Brazil and hedge activity influenced trading sentiment.
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New York
Wall Street
Cottonseed Meal Futures Ease in Memphis Trade
Prime cottonseed meal futures closed easier in Memphis with contracts for March May and July posting lower quotes. Prices listed at 29.75 for Memphis 28.35 March 27.80 May 27.80 for me and 26.00 for Sept with 500 tons sold.
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Memphis
Tenn
Labor Board Probe May Seek more Money for Hearings
Washington reports the House Labor Committee weighs extending the Wagner Act inquiry funding from about twenty thousand to fifty thousand dollars to finish field hearings. The panel ponders continuing revisions, recommendations, or action as CIO accuses Ford Motor of Wagner Act violations in St. Louis. Dudley, the Ford witness, initially barred then allowed testimony about the St. Louis office and a field examiner's remark to Ford workers.
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Washington
Jan
House
Norton
N-N.j
House Labor Committee
CIO
Ford Motor Company
St. Louis
Edmund M. Tolarid
Tilford E
Ford
Dudley
J. Warren
School loan re repayment of funds in Alabama
Montgomery Alabama January 16 announced today by State Comptroller J C Heck repayment of a 2 000 000 loan floated three months ago to finance teachers and educational expenses was made from school funds plus interest totaling 5 055 41 dollars at one percent for 91 days A second school loan of 1 000 000 will be paid in two installments in June and July
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Montgomery
Ala
J.C. Heck
Want Ads Promote Courteous Service by Phone 46
A compact Want Ad notice urges readers to use phone 46 for courteous service. The fragment hints at a classifieds style prompt encouraging seamless communication.
Cotton futures steady after early decline in New Orleans
Trade buying and covering erased much of the early drop as cotton futures closed steady to 3-4 points higher. Prices held with gains in May and July while other months showed small losses. Chicago wheat weakened after a volatile session with May and July contracts down, along with corn and oats losing ground.
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New York
Bombay
Tome
Wisetdn
Wall Street
Chicago
New Orleans
Jan
Grain and soy markets report Chicago January 16
Cash wheat and corn prices drifted with No. 2 mixed wheat at 1.00 over, No. 2 red durum 97 1 4, corn No. 1 yellow 59 09 1 2, No. 2 59 1 4 3 4, No. 3 50 59 1 4. Oats ranged with No. 2 mixed 52 1 4, No. 2 white 43 43 1 2, sample grades 40 and 40 1 2, soybeans No. 2 yellow 1.16, No. 3 1 141 2, timothy seed 4 5 90 nominal, sweet clover 4.50-5.25 nominal, red clover 12.50-15.00 nominal, alfalfa 17.50-22.50 nominal.
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Chicago
Chicago dairy prices and egg market report
Chicago reports butter at 528 032 and steady prices, eggs at 4089 firm with fresh graded ex tra firsts local 19 1 2 to 19 3 4, firsts local 19 1 4 to 19 1 2. Refrigerator extras 15 3 4 and standards 15 1 2 observed.
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Chicago
Poultry live market steady with minor price shifts
Chicago January 16 report shows 36 trucks delivering live poultry steady overall. Plymouth Rock birds under 4 pounds rise to 16 cents per pound, while springers 4 pounds up 4 cents. Other weights largely unchanged.
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Chicago
Plymouth Rock
Plymouth Rocks
Nashville Livestock Market Report Summary
Salable cattle 200 calves 75 mostly steady on small crop common and medium heifers and steers 6.50 to 8.25 with some 8.50. fed steers and yearlings to 9.25. beef cows 6.50 down canners and cutters 3.50 to 5.00 top vealers 12.00. salable hogs 600 steady to 20 lower weights 110 lbs+ 4.60 to 5.60 light pigs 4.10 sows 4.20. salable sheep 25 steady slaughter lambs 6.00 to 8.25 fat ewes 2.00 to 3.00.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Tenn
U. S. Dept. Agri
Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board appoints Hogan as superintendent
Wilton H. Hogan is named superintendent of enforcement for the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board announced by chairman E. Roy Albright. Hogan moves up from manager of the No. 20 Birmingham store and will oversee enforcement, previously led by R. P. McRee who becomes head of both administrative branches. Field supervisors reporting to Hogan include H. G. Williams in Birmingham FP. M. Hippert in Montgomery and J. R. Southall in Mobile.
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Montgomery
Ala
Wilton H. Hogan
Alabama — Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
E. Roy ‘Albright
Hogan
No. 20
Birmingham
R. P. McRee
H.G. Williams
FP. M. Hippert
J. R. Southall
Mobile
Birth of Sharlet June in Morgan County at Johnson Chapel
Mr and Mrs Edwin Roberts welcomed a daughter Sharlet June born January 14 at Johnson Chapel. The community notes guests include J M Glasgow J B Roberts and families with visits to Decatur Hartselle and Tanner. Local social items mention Sunday school, rock party, hog processing, and several family visits.
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Edwin Roberts
Sharlet
Tanner
This Place
Clem Glasgow
J. M. Glasgow
Jim Hampton
J. B Roberts
Austin
Self
Lucille
Hartselle
Gurmieleen Glasgow
Edweidea McAbee
Mary Lois
Gleenie Roberts
Decatur
BPW Club Meeting Set for Thursday Night
DecaturBPW Club will meet at 7 30 PM Thursday in the Lyons Hotel private dining room. Members will answer roll call with a current event. Mrs Evelyn Peete, committee chair, will preside.
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Decatur
Lyons Hotel
Evelyn.Peete
Louisiana Democrats Choose Future of Huey Long Dynasty
In New Orleans the January primary decides the fate of the Huey P. Long era as Governor Farr faces four reform candidates. Precautions include poll fingerprinting and 1500 deputies to keep order. If needed a February 20 runoff follows the January voting.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Huey P. Long
Farr
Long
Huey
Orleans Parish
Vincent Moseley
Opelousas
James A. Noe
Monroe
Richard W. Leche
Leche
Ane
Vanere
TVA Leaders Seek Full Funding For Navigation and Power
Dr. H A Morgan testified the TVA must receive the full 40 million to advance the program to a critical stage. The plan includes Coulter Shoals Dam and Kentucky Dam along with Watts Bar to complete a 650 mile navigable channel to Knoxville. Total TVA scope, including navigation flood control and power, is estimated at 535 million dollars with 310,069,270 already appropriated.
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Hiwnassee
Coulter Shoals
TVA
H. A. Morgan
Kentucky
Watts Bar
Knoxville
Play Set at Massey School An Era Curtain Raiser
A three act play And Mary Did will be staged at the Massey school Friday night January 19 at 8. Proceeds fund a piano for Evergreen church rebuilt after a past cyclone. The cast includes Mary Sterling Mrs W M Anders Laurence Gray Rey Jones Mrs Sterling Lauer Shoemaker Dressa Rand Jessie Mae Jones Daniel Gray Thurman Bailey Edith Smith Melba Owen Willie Sterling Betty Sterling Alli e Adcock Barber Summerford Mrs O G Whiticker Laura Alice cock Matilda the Cook Louise Blackwood Daniel Gray s Gardener Jack Jones
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Mary Did
Masey
Evergreen
Mary Sterling
W. M. Anders
Laurence Gray
Rey Jones
Sterling
Lauer
Dressa Rand
Jessie Mae Jones
Daniel Gray
Laurence
Thurman Bailey
Edith Smith
Mary
Melba Owen
Willie
Betty Sterling
Allie Adcock
Barber Summerford
G. Whiticker
Laura Alicecock
Matilda
Louise Blackwood
Jack Jones
Lepke and Shapiro Named in New Indictment
Louis Lepke Buchalter and Jacob Shapiro head a new indictment with seven others charging extortion of 514,900 from the garment industry. Filed in general sessions court, the case could expose a 100 million dollar extortion racket. Shapiro is jailed in federal prison and Lepke is serving a 14 year narcotics sentence.
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New York
Louis
Lepke) Buchalter
Jacob
Gurrah) Shapiro
General Sessions Court
Thomas B. Dewey
Shapiro
Lepke
Wide area winter chill hits nine states with frost risk
The Associated Press reports a broad cold snap from the upper Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic Coast as light snows fall in nine states. Temperatures drop eight to 27 degrees from yesterday with cities like Boston, Buffalo, New York, and Chicago registering deep freezes. A mass of cold air moves southward while frost threatens California fruit crops. Four boys drown in Boston harbor amid unsafe ice as the cold persists.
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Associated Press
Mercury
Mississippi Valley
Atlantic Coast
California
Middle Gulf Coast
Florida
North Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Timois
Indiana
Michigan
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Weath Virginia
Boston
Buffalo
New York
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Detroit
Chicago
Milwaukee
Green Bay
Wis
Minneapolis
Duluth
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
Montgomery
Savannah
Atlanta
Mobile
Charleston
Jacksonville
Tampa
Miami
Vanhiedar
Alabama Society for Crippled Children discusses 1940 fund plan
The Alabama Society for Crippled Children proposes a cooperative plan with the National Foundation to avoid county competition. It urges donations to the State organization, limits fundraising to school children with 2,000,000 seals, and authorizes the president to organize the eighteen district boards.
Decatur’s Diary Highlights Local Happenings
Decatur notes a string of local movements and events. Fergueson returns to Mobile while Jack Tipton resumes TVA duties in Chattanooga. Births at Emens Clinic announce James Elbert Seibert and Gordon Brown Sherard Jr. Church activities, illness updates, and community visits fill the week with pastors, meetings, and midweek prayers.
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Jack Tipton
Chattanooga
TVA
Gordon B. Sherard
Canalstreet
Emens Clinic
Gordon Brown Sherard, Jr
Chamberlain details on Hore-Belisha sacking and war outlook
Chamberlain defended removing Hore-Belisha as essential for wartime government efficiency. He denied any ministerial feud, rejected threats of resignations, and said the move was timed with other changes. He reviewed war aims including Finland armaments, Turkey France England loans, Belgian Dutch security, and Japan’s China relaxations. He cited Germany's depopulation policy in Poland and risk to intellectual leaders.
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Sor
Oliver Stanley
Chamberlain
Hore-Belisha
Army Council
Hore- Belisha
Finland
Turkey
France
England
Paris
Belgium
Netherlands
Mediterranean
China
Commons
Germany
Poland
Easter Seal Campaign Expenditures Allocated 1940
A county committee is authorized to spend the 10 percent Easter Seal fund to carry on the 1940 campaign. Funds will pay campaign costs and other fixed Society expenses. Additional authorizations include expenditures for items not in the Crippled Children's Plan to aid children upon returning home after treatment.
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Crippled Children's Service
Long's Political Debut Stumbles Over Voter Registration
Russell Long, 21, son of Huey P. Long and nephew of Governor Earl K. Long, went to vote in Baton Rouge and found he had not registered. He called it his most embarrassing moment as he contemplates a future gubernatorial bid.
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Baton Rouge
Russell Long
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Earl K. Long
Roosevelt seeks new credits to aid Finland and Baltic nations
President Roosevelt told Congress that extending credit to Finland does not imply involvement in European war. He urged Congress to raise the Export-Import Bank revolving fund and authorize the RFC to buy loans to finance export surpluses and manufactured goods, excluding war implements, with a possible cap on loan amounts. He also noted Congress may decide on further increases to promote trade with South and Central America.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Finland
Garner
Bankhead
RFC
South
Central America
Georgia governor faces dictatorship charge amid martial law row
W L Miller ousted highway board chair accuses Governor Rivers of a dictatorship not equalled by Hitler and claims martial law extended to Georgia's military department. He says Rivers and Superior Judge W R Smith conspired to hamstring the National Guard and exposes personal ties between the men. Other protests follow.
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Atlanta
W. L. Miller
State Highway Board
E. D. Rivers
Georgia
Hitler
National Guard
Miller
Judge Smith
Highway Department
Actress Joans Bennett tied to Wanger amid crisis
John Marion Fox, 38, first husband of actress Joan Bennett, lay gravely ill in a Los Angeles hospital after an overdose of sleeping pills. He claimed Bennett had disliked her marriage to Walter Wanger. Fox had swallowed about 100 hypnotic tablets. doctors said recovery hope exists but uncertain timing.
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Los Angeles
Joan Bennett
John Marion Fox
Fox
A. D. Trotter
Miss Bennett
Phoenix
Ariz
Walter Wanger
Wanger
Barbara
Trotter
Want Ads Update Reflects Daily Marketplace Shifts
Daily want ads illustrate ongoing twists in the local market with notices on jobs housing and services. Readers monitor evolving listings as volumes fluctuate and new opportunities appear across communities.
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Dixon U. K.’s
Annistonian
Goidel
Victor Eubank
N. Y. Cotton
ABC
Morgan
Johnson Chapel
BPW
Massey School
Bama Society For Crippled Children
Alabama Society For Crippled Children
National Foundation
Alabama
State
County Society For Crippled Children
Ehan
Society Chasehe
National Society
Decatur’s
Fergueson
Jeff Rowe
Falrville
Mr. Rowe
Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control
Elbert Seibert
Fairview
James Elbert Seibert
W. E. Crawford
Tennessee
Charles Beattie
Sherwin-Williams
Cincinnati
Paul 8. Haley
Jasper
D. C. McNutt
J. L. Decel
Central Methodist Church
Jack English
Pulaski, Tenn
Bennett Zucarello
First Methodist Church
Eee
M. E. Lazenby
F. M. Hamilton
Sixth Avenue
Roland Neill
Nev
Roy Sloan
Ninth Street Methodist Church
Larry Jo Yarbrough
Mrs
Marvin Yarbrough
Sixth Avenue, South
W. L. Spearman
J. O. Flack
Baugh’s Infirmary
Fourteenth Avenue
McAfee, Howell and Young Ambulance
Marshall Haynes
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
Church of God
J. E. Minor
Eighth Avenue, West
Hamil Clinic
Mary Ellen. Cabher
Central Baptist Church
C. N. Garrett
Grady Hutto
Trinity Road
Benevolent Society Hospital
Ike Ledbetter and Son
Washington, D. C
J. W. Miller
John H. Ward
Exie Ward
Somerville
Route 2
J. B. Lawrence
L. O. Glasgow
H. E. Stinson
Albert Stinson
Falkville
A. A. Smithy
City
W. A. Brown
Danville
A. L. Flanagan
Athens
Irwin J. Quinn
L. R. Stone
County Education Board
Ninth Avenue
West
W. Hull
Joan’s
Eta
Tennessee Valley Company
James L. Rankin
Sec’y-Treas
State National Bank
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