Guard Captain Nominated Leads Local Company B
Capt. Frederick Hunt Jr named commander of Company B 151st engineer regiment as members mobilize Monday at 7:00 A M at the armory for a year of training. Lt Richard Watkins promoted to first lieutenant and Lt Murray House returns to duty. Sunday drill set for 2 PM at the armory to assign Monday duties. Guardsmen go to Camp Shelby Miss after Feb 5 with Athens Huntsville and Hartse lle units joining en route. Breakfast and meals outlined with $1500 spent locally. leaves restricted initially but later liberalized. Capt Hunt praised for military experience including ROTC at the University of Alabama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Hunt, Jr
151St Engineer Regiment
Richard Watkins
Murray House
Reserve Corps
Camp Shelby
Miss
Alexandria
Athens
Huntsville
Hartselle
Tri-Cities
North Alabama
151St Regiment
Hunt
Daily Today
University of Alabama
Draft figures for selective service across eight states
The army lists February to March induction for 12 000 whites and 2 771 negroes from the fourth corps area. Alabama Florida Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee and a final transfer plan show camps and destinations including Fort Barrancas McClellan Camp Blanding Fort Benning Camp Livingston Camp Shelby Fort Bragg Camp Jackson Fort Oglethorpe and Fort Knox with hundreds to thousands allocated per camp and subsequent transfers to permanent stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Fourth Corps
Army
Alabama
Fort Barrancas
Fort McClellan
McClellan
Florida
Camp Blanding
Fort Benning
Fort Men
Benning
Louisiana
Camp Livingston
Livingston
Mississippi
Camp Shelby
Shelby
North Carolina
Fort Bragg
Bragg
South Carolina
Camp Jackson
Jackson
Tennessee
Fort Oglethorpe
Oglethorpe
Barksdale Field
MacDill Field
Fort Knox
Fort McPherson
Camp Stewart
Britain girds for possible invasion as Lindbergh comments
War column notes Britain speeding up preparations for a spring Nazi invasion attempt. Emphasizes gas masks as prudent civilian safeguard, while Lindbergh doubts England could invade Europe or win the war without a German collapse. Page Two continuation teased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Lindbergh
Washington
Germany
England
Herry Hitler
Fuehrer
London
United States
Steel plant picketed as talks fail in Milwaukee dispute
Pickets patrolled Bethlehem Steel plant entrances in Bethlehem Pennsylvania as SWOC protesters accuse the firm of poor working conditions and blocking federal state conference. In Milwaukee Allis Chalmers plants idle over defense contracts while federal conciliators seek a peace conference between CIO United Auto Workers and management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Bethlehem Steel Company
Bethlehem
Milwaukee
Allis - Chalmers
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
CIO
Case Miller
SWOC
Pennsylvania
New York
Maryland
Miller
Allis-Chalmers
United Automobile Workers Union
Msgr
Francis J. Haas
Maj
James P. Holmes
Dodge loses suit for estate share
Detroit, Jan. 25. Circuit Judge Theodore J. Richter dismissed John Duval Dodge’s bid to claim a $13,000,000 share of his father John F. Dodge’s estate. The will created a $40,000,000 trust for other children with a $150 monthly life income for Dodge. The second suit to overturn the trust cited a Michigan statute against perpetuities. the first suit ended with Dodge receiving $1.7 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Theodore J. Richter
John Duval Dodge
John F. Dodge
Michigan
Dodge
General Nix Claimed by Death in Alabama at 93
Gen Inge Nix 93 year old commander in chief of the first brigade of United Confederate Veterans of Alabama died at his home in Deatsville. Funeral services planned for Sunday. He was the last survivor of Camp Lomax Confederate Veterans. Son Inge Nix Jr survives him. Mrs Belle Allen Ross of Montgomery is an honorary member.
Effort Made to End Strike at Mobile Naval Yard
Federal conciliators met with union spokesmen and Alaha Drydocks & Ship Building Co officials in Mobile to resolve a strike by 3400 workers of the CIO’s marine and shipbuilding union over eight cent hourly raises. Negotiations followed a walkout that began yesterday. a conference was hoped to settle the wage dispute quickly. In Pascagoula Ingalls Shipbuilding saw 77 burners accept five cents hourly rise while 25 crane operators and engineers began talks for higher pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Alaha- Drydocks & Ship -Building Ia Company
Ytsak
Navy
Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America
CIO
Naval Repair
General Shipbuilding
Bryce P. Holcombe
O. T. Flournoy
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation
Pascagoula
Miss
Bullitt Blames German Propaganda for War Entry Rumors
Former ambassador William C. Bullitt testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee that German propaganda fabricated claims he urged U.S. entry into the war. He warned invasion of the Western Hemisphere was likely if Britain’s navy fell, urging continued British power and U.S. fleet timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
William C. Bullitt
France
United States
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Bullitt
Atlantic
Pacific
Rogers
Dupes
Britain
Europe
Remodeling underway on 400 block East Cain Street
Work began on the one story frame building housing Morgan County Department of Public Welfare. The structure will be veneered with native stone to harmonize with the WPA office next door, part of a courthouse block beautification project costing 11219 dollars. Completion is expected in about two months per WPA District One director R W Shepherd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cain Street
Morgan County Department of Public Welfare
WPA
Ferry
Davis Street
Davis and
Cain
R. W. Shepherd
WPA District One
Troops Reach St John’s to Staff Newfoundland Base
The US troop transport Alexander arrived off St John’s to unload the first American troops for the new Newfoundland defense base. Weather may delay harbor entry. The base, a British gift, will include an air base, an army site of 160 acres, and a naval base of 22 acres with 1,250 feet of wharfage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. John’s
Mid
United States
Alexander
Newfoundland
Britain
Wolfe Novel Wins Elizabeth Marbury Southern Authors Award
Thomas Wolfe's You Can't Go Home Again receives the Elizabeth Marbury Southern Authors award for best book by a Southern author in 1940. Wolfe died in Baltimore in 1938, two years before publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Thomas Wolfe
Elizabeth Marbury
North Carolina
Baltimore
Career of Iron Guard's Fuehrer Reverses in Romania
The career of Horia Sima, 40, Fuehrer of Romania's Iron Guard, has swung from exile to vice premier under Antonescu, and now he is reportedly arrested as the revolt leader. Once an ally of Carol, he shifted sides again amid Romania's weeklong terror. Details of the latest turn are unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Horia Sima
Fuehrer
Romania
Iron Guard
Carol
Ion Antonescu
General Antonescu
Antonescu
Sima
Tarian Party
Germany
Guard
Ion Gigurtu
Associated Press
Ton Antonescu
Bucharest
Budapest
Iron
Halifax Arrives as UK Ambassador Seeks Faster U.S. Aid
Lord Halifax arrived in Annapolis aboard the King George VI and met President Roosevelt aboard the Potomac yacht. He said his mission is to coordinate timely British military aid from the United States to defeat Nazi power and enslave Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill
Britain
Bullitt
United States
France
Germany
Atlantic Ocean
Congress
Halifax
U. 8
King George V
Chespeake Bay
Annapolis
Associated Press
Washington
London
Lord Halifax
British
Chesapeake Bay
Potomac
Roosevelt
Ambassdor
Lady Halifax
War Cabinet
Europe
J B Powell Dies at Rural Home
John Byrd Powell 58 died Friday at his Somerville Route 2 home. Funeral services were held at Powell's Chapel at 2:30 pm, with McAfee Powell and Young directing burial. He is survived by his widow, two sons J B Jr and Virgil, four daughters, two grandchildren, five brothers, and four sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Byrd Powell
Somerville
Route 2
Powell's Chapel
McAfee
Powell
Young
J. B. Jr
Virgil Powell
James Ryan
Oscar Mitchell
Charley Frazier
Hartselle
Betty Jewel Powell
Hitch-hiker Feeds On Milk In Athens Pasture
A hungry hitch-hiker en route to Versailles Ohio stopped in Athens Thursday afternoon to drink milk directly from a cow. Luther Whitt found the youth beneath the cow and fed him a meal. After supper the boy resumed hitchhiking northward, thumb out for a ride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Ala
Versailles
Ohio
Luther Whitt
Bossie
Whitt
Man Held in Theft Probe in Decatur Garage Burglary
Bailey Clanton, 20, of Decatur, held for investigation after burglary at Square Deal Garage on Bank Street. Tools and a three ton truck were stolen. truck later found on Lafayette street. Clanton admitted breaking into the garage after initial denial. transferred to county jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bailey Clanton
Decatur
Square
Moore
Charles A. Rogers
Lafayette Street
Bank
Railroad Streets
Chief Moore
Clanton
APC to Build More Lines
Alabama Power Company plans about 6.5 million dollars in 1941 construction. The program includes 2 million for the Chicksaw steam plant near Mobile, 500 thousand for new rural lines, and more than 2 million for extensions and improvements to rural and distribution facilities. It also calls for completing the Gadsden Piedmont line, boosting the Gorgas Tuscaloosa capacity, and adding a new Birmingham district delivery point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama Power Company
Chicksaw
Mobile
Thomas W. Martin
Gadsden-Piedmont
Gorgas-Tuscaloosa
Martin
Reynolds to Build Aluminum Mill in Alabama Plant Area
Industrial sources say Reynolds Metals Co may construct a rolling mill at its new Lister Alabama aluminum plant in Muscle Shoals district. The mill would cost 10 million to 15 million dollars and process alloys used in airplane construction, using metal from the nearby Reynolds plant under construction at Lister. The Lister facility is expected to produce about 60 million pounds of aluminum annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Reynolds Metals Co
Lister
Muscle Shoals
Reynolds
Bloody purge toll mounts in Bucharest
Reports from Bucharest describe a four day civil conflict as Horia Sima and the Iron Guard resist while Premier Antonescu vows capture. Rebels reportedly hold Brasov Ploesti Arad and Constanta with Jewish casualties and executions claimed in Jilava prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucharest
Berlin
Mediterranean
Romania
Sima
Bulgaria
Brasov
Ploesti
Arad
Constanta
Jilava
Tron
Germany
Italy
Ionescu Patro
Derna
Tobruk
Cairo
Rodolfo Graziani
Cirene
RAF
el Mechill
East Africa
Eritrea
Asmara
Albania
Klisura
Weather summary from regional observations and gauges
The Tennessee River measured 16 feet while rainfall was 0.6 inches. Temperatures reached a high near 60 and a low around 40 with warm, cloudy conditions in Alabama’s western areas. Tonight and Sunday bring cooler spells in extreme northwest with moderate east and southeast coastal winds.
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Tennessee
Alabama
Southeas
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General Nix
Eleanor Strading
Greenwich
Conn
Bridgeport
Joseph Spell
ST. John's
Wolfe
North Atlantic
J. B. Powell
APC
Albarria
Antanovere
Lauket
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