Farm Matron in Critical Burn Case in Morgan County
Mrs. T W Canada a 22 year old Morgan County farm matron lies in critical condition at Benevolent Society Hospital after fainting and falling into a fireplace at her Falkville route 2 home on Monday night She suffered first second and third degree burns on her back and shoulders The incident drew a rapid response from neighbors including Ed Lawrence and Manuel Lawrence as well as Tom Johnson and others who assisted her husband until a doctor arrived The attending physician called the condition extremely grave but gave no immediate prognosis
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T. W. Canada
Morgan County
Benevolent Society Hospital
Falkville
Canada
Ed Lawrence
Mr. Lawrence
Anuel Lawrence
Hart- Me
Mrs. Lawrence
Emmie Lawrence
Tom . Johnson
Canada's
Mr. Canada
Murray family volunteers for year of army training
John Green Murray of Elkmont brought his two sons Charlie William and James Mack to draft board one in Athens on January 28 to enlist for a year of military training. His older son Booker T. Murray already serves, having volunteered in December. A fourth son Sam wishes to enlist but cannot while married. The mother is dead and Murray raised the four boys.
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Athens
Ala
John Green Murray
Route 2
Elkmont
Charlie William Murray
James Mack Murray
Booker T. Murray
Sam Murray
John
Tax Office Opens All Day Saturday in Morgan County
Charles G. Hardwick Morgan county tax collector said the tax office will stay open all day Saturday unlike the usual noon close to allow poll tax payments before the deadline. Tax books were placed at Citizens Bank Hartselle and State National Bank Falkville to aid payments for 1940 and earlier. all funds go to schools.
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Charles G. Hardwick
Morgan County
Citizens Bank
Hartselle
State National Bank
Falkville
Willkie Hears First Air Raid Alarm In London
Willkie, on a London swing, heard the city’s first air raid siren since Thursday after leaving St Paul’s Cathedral. He visited the Bank of England to meet Governor Montagu Norman, unseated by the alarm, as Buckingham Palace invitations hinted a royal audience with King George VI.
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Willkie
London
Wendell L. Willkie
United States
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Bank of England
Montagu Norman
Sensidential
Buckingham Palace
George VI
Million Dollar Error Found In Government Check
Treasury officials reported a girl examiner let a 1 000 000 error slip past on a government check for 15 22. A cranberry grower from Carver Massachusetts received 1 000 015 22 last week and returned the check. The error came from an electric check writer touching the 1 000 000 figure before 15 22.
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Washington
Treasury
Paananen
Carver
Mass
Padananen
Sub-zero Weather Fades as Northeast Snow Lingers
The Associated Press reports sub-zero conditions retreating across most northern regions while northeast snow storms persist. Temperatures rose in states from Montana to New England, with Havre up 37 degrees to 30 and Caribou Canada? Me measuring 21 below. Newark N J received 3 to 4 inches of new snow in the last 24 hours.
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Associated Press
New Jersey
New York
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Montana
Dakotas
Havre
Mont
Maine
Caribou
Greenville
Fargo
N. C
Minneapolis
Ohio Valley
Illinois
Missouri
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Texas
Great Lake
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Kentucky
Newark
N. J
Gypsy Rose Lee Seeks Divorce From Mizzy
Gypsy Rose Lee filed for divorce from Arnold R Mizzy, after two marriages in 1937. The dancer states cruelty as grounds, noting they wed Aug 13 in a water taxi off Santa Ana, and again Aug 27 in Long Beach. They have been separated since Nov 18, 1938.
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Chicago
Gypsy Rose Lee
Arnold R. Mizzy
North Side
Superior Court
Mizzy
New York
Santa Ana
Cal
Long Beach
Dixie veteran Rev. McClanahan marks 97th birthday in Hartselle
Morgan counties only surviving Confederate veteran Rev. Joh McClanahan celebrated his 97th birthday Monday at home in Hartselle born January 27 1844. Family attended a Sunday dinner with four children eleven grandchildren and five great grandchildren. He is the states oldest active minister in his 74th year in the ministry and has baptised more people than any other minister. He enlisted at 19 and served in the cavalry under General Nathan B Forrest seeing major Civil War actions without a wound. He built the first house at the town site and served as 4th district commissioner and two terms as justice of the peace.
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Joh
McClanahan
Morgan County
Hartselle
Rev. McClanahan
Missionary Baptist Church
Rev.McClanahan
Cavalry
Nathan B. Forrest
Texas
Rev McClannahan
Hartsell
4Th
Morgan county volunteers line up for February 1940 draft call
Morgan county reports 23 volunteers ready to meet the state February and March quota of 1940 men. Decatur and Hartselle boards list white and black volunteers passed medicals awaiting mobilization to Fort McClellan and Fort Barrancas with other counties also naming targets and training dates. State officials advise farmers to volunteer to avoid losing a crop year.
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Morgan County
Morgan
Montgomery
Decatur
Hartselle
Decatur Board
Fort McClellan
Hartsille
Fort Barrancas
Florida
Lawrence County
Limestone County
Board No. 1
Aining
Cullman County
Board One
Joseph M. Pettey
State Selective Service Board
Montgomry
Ill Decatur Resident C C Kilgore Dies at 29
Clark Chester Buster Kilgore 29, a well known Decatur resident and cab driver, died at his home on Fifth Avenue South after long illness. Final rites set for Wednesday at Central Baptist Church with Rev. Homer Britton officiating. Burial at City cemetery. Survived by widow, three sons Carl Henry Billy Don James Chester Kilgore, his mother Ethel Kilgore, brother Clifford Kilgore, sister Mrs James Donnelly of Nashville.
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Clark Chester
Buster) Kilgore
Decatur
Fifth Avenue
South
Kilgore
Central Baptist Church
Homer Britton
Brown
City Cemetery
Decatur Cab Company
Carl Henry
Billy Don
James Chester Kilgore
Ethel Kilgore
Clifford Kilgore
James Donnelly
Nashville
Decatur Cab Service
Rotary Club hears Rev Cumming on Korea mission work
Rev B J Cumming spoke to the Rotary Club about 23 years of missionary efforts in Korea with Mrs Cumming. He described Japanese restrictions and closures of schools and churches, noting natives' eagerness for Christianity despite fear. He conducted nightly services at First Presbyterian. Stanley Wyatt was welcomed back. Next meeting at Woodalls.
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Rotary Club
B. J. Cumming
Cumming
Korea
First Presbyterian Church
Stanley Wyatt
Woodalls
Board Reports Only Three Rejected in Company 8
The 151st engineers passed physical exams with only three rejections by a four-physician medical board. Illness kept four members at home. Guards at the armory endured heat changes, then resumed eight hour schedules with marching drills and classes.
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151St Engineers
Charles H. Ginles
Fort McClellan
William Noble
Port McClellan
Harold D. Freeman
Laurie Gross
151St Engineer Regiment
Rumanian magnate goes on trial in Bucharest revolt case
M Malaxa rich Romanian arms magnate placed on trial for aiding the Iron Guard revolt. Premier Antonescu on sickbed orders military government to restore order. Police report an Iron Guard mayor confessed to killing and robbing 80 people. Passport cancellations and visa requirements bar frontier crossings. Raid on Horia Sima home yields alleged Communist documents as authorities claim arrest.
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Bucharest
M. Malaxa
Iron Guard
Ion Antonescu
Horia Sima
Sima
Reward Offered in Hit and Run Death Near Harpersville
Governor Dixon authorized a $200 reward for the arrest of a hit and run driver who killed Ralph W. Darby in Shelby County last December 25. Darby was struck while removing chains on the road side near Harpersville. Shelby County Solicitor Paul Luck suggested the reward.
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Montgomery
Ala
Dixon
Ralph W. Darby
Harpersville
Shelby County
Paul Luck
Darby
Reynolds to Build 15 Million Aluminum Plant in Shoals
Reynolds Metals Co plans a 15 million dollar rolling mill in Muscle Shoals Alabama with possible completion within six months. Senator Alben Barkley said the project will employ about 1000 workers and produce 60.9 million pounds yearly of aluminum plate for aircraft use, replacing earlier Paducah Kentucky plans due to power limits.
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Birmingham
Ala
Muscle Shoals
Reynolds Metals Co
Alben Barkley
Kentucky
Washington
Lister
Reynolds
Barkley
Paducah
Well Known Woman Sallie McDugall Dies at 82
Mrs Sallie McDugall age 82 died at 8 30 Tuesday morning at her Moulton Rt 2 home Funeral services set for 1 o clock Wednesday at Johnson Chapel with Rev Herschel Brown in charge. procession to leave the home at 11 30. Surviving are a son J H Anders and a daughter Mrs Susan Burden plus other relatives. Born and raised in Lawrence county she was widely known.
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Sallie McDugall
Herschel
Soviet buys U S goods amid wartime trade shifts
London report says Soviet Russia bought cotton, copper, machinery and wheat from the United States to replace shipments to Germany. Hugh Dalton notes U S exports of petroleum to Russia and cites large cotton and wheat flows in 1940, with Britain seeking steps to curb the traffic.
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London
Hugh Dalton
House of Commons
Soviet
Russia
United States
Germany
Britain
Dalton
Morgenthau: Britain must get aid to keep fighting
Secretary Morgenthau told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Britain Greece and China cannot continue to fight without the administration’s British aid bill. He said Britain has exhausted dollar exchange for war supplies and that 2000 planes are blocked for lack of cash. He noted Britain’s war debt to the U.S. and urged quick congressional action.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Great Britain
Greece
China
Congress
Treasury
Britain
United States
House Foreign Affairs Committee
George ©. Marshall
Army
George H. Brett
Roosevelt
Thomas
Utah
Connally
D-Tex
Vandenberg
Mich
War aims and Britain inched toward a declaration
Dewitt Mackenzie notes growing moves in Washington to push belligerents to state their war aims while Britain signals possible definitions through Lord Halifax. He argues the crisis demands clear aims though a negotiated peace remains unlikely at this stage.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Britain
Nye-Wheeler
Senate
America
Washington
Lord Halifax
Definite War Aims Are Unlikely Now
The article argues war aims will stay unclear until Britain’s crisis peak, with Hitler weighing invasion of England against submarine blockade and the Atlantic campaign. It suggests the climax of the Battle of Britain could occur soon, depending on weather and Nazi decisions.
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Hitler
England
Channel
Britain
Empress of Australia Safe in Port Amid London Air Raids
Allied and Axis reports depict renewed bombardment of London with four alarms and a playground blast near children. The Empress of Australia was declared safe in port after submarine torpedo and shelling reports, while British shipping losses rose to 58,212 tons that week. Rome signals Axis readiness for invasions in Africa and potential attack on the British Isles as Mussolini’s forces claim gains in Africa and Greece.
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Associated Press
London
England
Empire Capital
Far East
All and
Siam
West Africa
Atlantic
Australia
Britain
Londdon
Wendell L. Willkie
George
St. Paul's Cathedral
Rome
Germany
Italy
Mediterranean
Africa
Albania
British Isles
Mussolini
Greece
Naples
Satania
Sicily
Yeekers
Weather Summary for Tennessee and Alabama
Tennessee and Alabama forecasts report fair weather with cold nights. Tennessee experiences dry conditions with some northern chill. Alabama sees very cold air in the north, lows around freezing, with light scattered clouds in the south and northerly winds tonight.
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Tennessee
Btn Bern
Alabama
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Winston Churchill
Eddy Gilmore
Mercury
County
C. C. Kilgore
REV. Cumming Club
Daily
Frederick Hunt, Jr
Solons
U. S
Shoals
U.S
Axis
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