Childersburg Mayor Appeals For Aid In Solving Boom Town Problems
Childersburg, Alabama, mayor appeals to Governor Dixon for help as War Department plans to build a large plant turn the town into a boom town. Traffic surges, housing shortages, new taxes, and calls for federal housing funds accompany readiness plans.
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Childersburg
Ala
Alabama
War Department
H. D. Wilson
Frank Dixon
Washington
Mayorne
Supreme Court Decisions from Alabama Announced
The Alabama Supreme Court issued decisions including affirmations and reversals. Gardner chief justice leads with affirmed appeals such as City of Bessemer vs. Lee Ratliff and Alma Littledale et al. vs. N A Brush. Several cases reversed and remanded include Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v Louis D Chapman and Edwards vs Hassie Smith.
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Ala
Alabama Supreme Court
Gardner
City of Bessemer
Lee Ratliff
Jefferson Circuit Court
Bessemer
Alma Littledale
N. A. Brush
Cullman Circuit Court
Board of Education of
Marshall County
Grady Baugh
Marshall Circuit Court
Bouldin
Ardis Cox
State of Alabama
Lee H. Loveman
Tutwiler Investment Co
Jefferson
al Griffin Lumber Co
Sara Owen Neill
Equity
Aetna Casualty & Surety Co
Louis D. Chapman
Tuscaloosa
Sarah Smith Snow
City Nat- Bank
Etronic. Court
T. D. Farmer
Alonzo Hill
A. Dd. Edwards
Hassie Smith
Eppeal
Calhoun
Foster
Oliver Maheil
Arey Mancil
Covington
Mandamus
Ella Johnson, Et al
Orrie Stephens
Chambers Circuit Court
M. Owen
State
Gregory Geo. L. Bailes
Sol
Jefferson Circuit Cour
Cuit Court
Ty of
Personnel Board of
Jefferson County
Jefferson Circuit
Bessemer Ciiy
William G. Wallis
Nancy Elizabeth Wallis
Fayorite Circuit Court
Gertrude Rosenstih
Morris
James Carter Morris
Elliose Wachter
Leeth National Bank
Court of Appeals
Livingston
Dallas Art League
Rose P. Weaver
Dallas Circuit Court
Maude
Pucket
Walter Buckett
End Johnson
Lizzie Barnett
H. S. Whisler
Exparte C. A. Whitehead
Out
Buchman
Alabama Loan Co
W. B. Willis
W. L Buchman
Henry Davis
Houston Circuit Court
Fred Burrell Lane
Pes Ami
J. T. Lane
G’d'n
Houston
Market declines persist as stocks slip amid limited buying
New York stocks drift lower for a fifth straight session with steels and industrials easing. New Orleans cotton futures weaken on hedge selling while New York and other markets show scattered gains and losses as investors pull back after a weak early rally.
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Wall Street
Victor Eubank
New York
Nashville Livestock Market Report
Nashville Tenn January 16. Salable cattle 300 and calves 100 with a firm undertone. Slaughter cattle and yearlings sold mainly 6.50 to 11.00 per cwt, high at 12.50 for top beef cattle. Hogs 500 with good and choice generally lower. prices 7.15 to 8.60 for lighter weights and sows 6.10. Sheep few but lambs up to 9.00. top fat wooled ewes 3.00.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Tenn
U. & Dept. Agr
Woman Will Succeed Hall on State Personnel Board
Mrs. Albert L. Thomas of Auburn, PTA leader and former teacher, appointed by Governor Dixon to the three member state personnel board to fill the unexpired term of the late Judge Grover C. Hall. The term ends in March. other members are E. Kilby, chairman, and John Peach. The board administers Civil Service for state employees.
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E. Kilby
John Peach
Decatur
Tuskegee Campus Displays Posters After Dining Hall Walkout
Tuskegee Institute in Alabama faced student protests as several hundred students walked out of the dining hall in a meals complaint. A joint committee of students and faculty will meet the executive council to discuss the protest while classes proceed on a reduced schedule.
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Tuskegee
Ala
Tuskegee Institute
F. B. Patterson
Patterson
Influenza Closes Schools and Public Venues Across the South
The influenza outbreak forces shutdowns of schools theaters and public spaces. Health officials report rising cases in Atlanta Nashville Charlotte and nearby states with widespread illness causing holiday pauses and event cancellations.
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Atlanta
Greenville
Charlotte
University of South Carolina
Columbus University
Washington, D. C
Alabama
Nashville
Georgia
Tennessee
Virginia
Arkansas
Louisiana
Kentucky
Navy in Fight
An American Naval Reserve unit awaits mobilization orders for influenza vaccine research. Twenty scientists under Commander A P Krueger test the Rockefeller Foundation produced vaccine, with University of California Medical School facilities assisting. The effort, backed by the Navy, Rockefeller Foundation, and UC, aims to advance influenza studies through controlled vaccination trials on ship crews.
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Berkeley
Calif
Navy
Naval Reserve
Navy Department
Rockefeller Foundation For Medical Research
University of California Medical School
Washington
Knox
Rockefeller Organization
A. P. Krueger
Medical School
Rockefeller Foundation
College Relations Standstill Over Disputed Student
A dean warned that normal relations with the college would resume only if the dispute is resolved. If normalcy is not restored, further discussion on the matter will not occur.
Fish Bloom clash over hearings on president's dictator bill
In Washington on January 16 representatives Bloom and Fish traded heated remarks as the House foreign affairs committee completed debate on President Receivelvs bill to aid Great Britain. Fish proposed eight witnesses, provoking an exchange over authorization and the phrase dictator bill.
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Washington
Bloom
Fish
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Wendell L. Willkie
Solons Debate Great Britain Aid as U S Seeks Arsenal Pace
Secretaries Morgenthau and Hull urged quick passage of the defense bill to arm Britain and keep her fleet as a Atlantic bulwark. Morgenthau presented Britain’s balance sheet showing 1941 receipts and expenditures and Britain's limited dollar resources.
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Great Britain
United States
Paraguay
Treasury Morgenthau
Hull
Rep. Fish
New York
House
Bloom
Fish
Wendell Willkie
Joseph P. Kennedy
London
Norman Thomas
Hugh Johnson
Verne Marshall
Morgenthau
Roosevelt
Britain
Japanese press urges swift action in East Asia policy
In Tokyo the Japanese press calls for haste in advancing Japan's southward program and urges the government to ready decisive moves to counter British and American influence in East Asia.
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Tokyo
Japan
East Asia
Alabama plan trains technicians for national defense program
A cooperative effort between the Alabama Highway Department and Alabama Polytechnic Institute will establish a training school here to prepare technicians for national defense work. The school is set to begin functioning within two weeks, reflecting a coordinated state effort to bolster defense-readiness.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Highway Ent
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Experimental Agent Tested Against Mild Type A Flu
An experimental agent was tested as a potential treatment for a mild Type A influenza. The strain recently appeared in Hawaii, moved to California, and spread across the continent to the Atlantic.
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Hawaii
California
Atlantic
Decatur Diary Notes on Local Visits and Health
Decatur's Diary lists Clara Mae Ratliff visiting Gladys Bean in Priceville while Truitt Sewell arrives from Plant City Florida for a brief family visit and will return today. It reports several injuries from a Birmingham area car crash, flu illnesses, hospital updates, and community notices including tax assessments due by January and ongoing efforts to fund Judson College.
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Truitt Sewell
Pittsburgh Pirates
Plant City
Fla
C. T. Sewell
Truitt
Florida
Kiwanis Club Reaches Attendance Goal
The Kiwanis Club announced 100 percent attendance at today’s meeting led by president Webster McLeod. J R Williams noted 1940 attendance averaged 89.5 percent with 24 members at 94 percent or higher and five at 100 percent. The Rhythm Makers provided Swing band music. Next meeting is in Moulton at 6 30 p m. An April attendance contest with Cullman club was announced. Members were urged to attend Huntsville Friday to hear district governor Leon Sparks of Eufaula.
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Kiwanis Club
Webster McLeod
J. R. Williams
Williams
Rhythm Makers
Raymond Baker
Charles Abbott
Paul Stroude
Harold Penigree
Sidney Blackwell
James Couch
Moulton
Business Standard
Inter-Club
Cullman Club
Huntsville Club
Alabama
Kiwanis
Leon Sparks
Eufaula
Desert Warfare Insight From 1916 Track Trick
The article notes German and Turkish forces in World War I defending against desert operations. It recalls a brilliant 1916 tactic where German engineers used desert plants to create a makeshift rail track for artillery across sand, enabling guns to roll into action against British forces near the Suez Canal.
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London
Hitler
Graziani
Tripoli
Bengali
Sinai Desert
Suez Canal
Archibald Murray
Nearst
Navy panel seeks more officers for growing fleet
A Navy committee plans a public hearing tomorrow on a measure to increase officer supply for the expanding fleet.
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Fort
Missouri Solons in Sudden Recess
Jefferson City Mo January 16 The Missouri legislature abruptly recessed for the rest of the week as Democrats ponder new strategy to avoid turning over the governor seat to Republican Forrest C Donnell Gov Lloyd C Stark vetoed a resolution to withhold the office pending an election irregularities probe briefing brief sessions were held by the House and Senate amid confusion over Stark's veto and Donnell's succession race
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Forrest C. Donnell
Pone
Lloyd C. Stark
Donnell
Local residents noted for Thursday visits and illness
Mains ill with influenza at his home on 342 Sherman street. J. C. Short, Pleasant Hill principal, visited Thursday on business. Andrew J. May of the Hartselle route 4 area came Thursday on business. W. W. Childers of Somerville route 2 area was a Thursday Decatur caller. W. H. Bennett of Hartselle was in the city Thursday. W. C. Powell from Hartselle route 4 was here Thursday morning.
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H. H. Hightower
Chestnut Street
Claude Ragsdale
Route 2
R. F E. McMasters
Moulton
Lawrence County
Ralph Bradford
Town Creek
Route 3
Glendon Julian
Mrs
Cecil Julian
Fifth Street
South
Burford Hough
Sherman Street
Carl Gibson
W. Moulton Street
Elsa Aycock
Knoxville
Estill Warren
Avenue
Aycock
Thomas Ella Masterson
Mains
J. C. Short
Pleasant Hill School
Andrew J. May
Hartselle
W. W. Childers
Somerville
Decatur
W. H. Bennett
City
W. C. Powell
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Leigh W. Hunt
Elizabeth Deegan
Cecil MP
Cross
Lisbon
Germany
Paris
Supreme Court
New Orleans
Boston
Chicago
Hall
Tuskegee Campus
Athens
By Rennie Taylor
Associated Press
Solons
Pedro Cerda
Chile
Decatur’s
Clara Mae Ratliff
Gladys Bean
Priceville
S. H. Carter
Birmingham
Wade Tomlinson
Hillman Hospital
Mr. Tomlinson
John’ H. Darby
Auburn
Darby
Don Russell
Benevolent Society Hospital
McAfee, Howell and Young Ambulance
Gladys Barnes
Fourth Avenue
C. E. Lowery
Bessie Bailey
J. E. Stover
Thursay
Roy Loughry
Moulton, Rt. 2
W. FE. Waterhouse
First Baptist
Rutledge S. Thomas
Edith Schimmel
Athens College
Fred Orton
Fred, Jr
Monrovia
Robert King
Hillsboro
Veterans Hospital
McAfee, Howell and Young
J. A. Daniels
Austinville
Lee Bivings
Mooresville
G. G. Blaxton
Sixteenth Avenue
East
Baugh's Infirmary
Luther Turner
Baugh’'s Infirmary
Judson College
W. E. Waterhouse
R. M. Howell
First Methodist Church
C. E. Layman
Flint
Alabama Crippled Children’s Society
Elks Lodge
P. Hamby
Oak Ridge Methodist Church
Grant Street Church ‘of
Peggy
Lula Pearl Spiegel
Ninth Street
Homer Lang
Brown
Eleventh Avenue
West
L. R. Stone
Mrrankin
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