City Election Set For September Sixteenth in Decatur
Decatur will hold a municipal election on September 16 1940 to choose a mayor and five aldermen filed candidates must sign petitions by 20 days before the vote J D Cloud is the only mayoral candidate named so far mayoral salary remains at the minimum 1800 to 3000 yearly while aldermen are paid 10 per meeting up to 24 meetings a year a Ninth street residents group asks for a sewer on Eighth Avenue road project expected to proceed Continued on Page Two.
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Decatur
J. D. Cloud
Ninth Street
Eighth Avenue E Road
Tax records checked after resignation in Moulton
State examiners joined by Joiner and Camp in Moulton to audit the tax collector’s books after Isaac Johnson Jr resigned. The probe, tracing back to March 13, ties Johnson to roughly 14 000 owed to state and county. Johnson says he resigned to face the truth, refused a bond increase, and Bragg challenges his June run off for probate judge. Sheriff Byars reports stolen poll tax records with no fresh break expected soon.
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Joiner
Camp
Moulton
Isaac Johnson, Jr
Frank M. Dixon
Montgomery
Johnson
Decatur
Lawrence County
Charles E. Bragg
Democratic
George D. Byars
Repairs Slow Pace of Steel in Alabama Mills
Alabama steel mills reduce overall production to 88 percent capacity as repairs delay output at Gulf Steel Plant in Gadsden. Blast furnaces run at 100 percent in Birmingham, with iron ingot output constrained by furnace limits. merchant iron makers at full capacity and coal output for January to June 1940 exceeds 1939 by about two million tons.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Gulf Steel
Republic Steel Corporation
Gadsden
Grim Warning On Britain Food Supply If Nazis Invasion Occurs
War column by Dewitt Mackenzie warns that a Nazi invasion of Ireland would threaten Britain’s food imports. He notes Britain relies on imports for over eighty percent of bread and fruit, fifty percent of meat and dairy, and a third of fish and vegetables. German occupation would sever key markets like Holland and Denmark, forcing longer sea routes amid submarine and air dangers.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Ireand
England
Harmis
Britain
Holland
Denmark
Threat of Invasion of Ireland Warns of Food Crisis
The nation warned of a looming invasion threat and a crisis in food production as wartime shortages edge up. Lloyd George urged urgent action, warning millions could go hungry next year if production does not increase, with fears echoed across Britain and Ireland about vulnerability to German submarine threats.
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Napoleon
Lloyd George
L. G
England
Kaiser
John Bull
Britain
Roosevelt says wage hour standards stay for defense work
President Roosevelt declared at a press conference that the administration would maintain wage hour standards for defense program work. He read a letter from Philip B. Fleming noting few complaints from key defense industries about overtime pay, while Navy contracts totaled 136.7 million dollars to build up Pacific and Atlantic defenses.
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Roosevelt
Navy Department
Pacific
Atlantic
Mr. Roosevelt
Philip B. Fleming
Fleming
Pearl Harbor
Naval
Rhode Quonset Point Air Sea Island
Flying boat trip to Australia New Zealand via Pacific route
Pan American Airways plans a 50 hour 8 008 mile flying boat flight from Cabrillo Beach to Aukland New Zealand. Mail service starts with overnight hops via Honolulu Canton Island and Noumea with passenger service after a trials period pending regulatory approval.
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E. H. Tipton
Los Angeles
Aukland
New Zealand
United States
Pan American Airways
South Pacific
Boeing
San Francisco
Treasure Island
Cabrillo Beach
Los Angeles Harbor
Honolulu
Canton Island
Noumea
New Caledonia
U. S. Civil Aeronautics Board
Juan T. Trippe
Pan American
Europe
Australia
India
California
Great Britain
Orient
Trippe
Texican Aviation Co
Mexico City
Army Plane Down Over Laurel Mountain in Somerset County
A twin motor Army bomber crashed on Laurel Mountain in Somerset County Pennsylvania. Pilot Lieut. N. R. Dick of Wright Field Dayton Ohio bailed out but failed to open his parachute and died. The B 10 model aircraft burned and destroyed after the crash while en route from Mitchell Field New York to Wright Field Ohio. Federal and state aviation authorities investigated the accident amid heavy fog and shifting winds in the Allegheny mountains.
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Somerset
Alegheny Mountains
Eanin
Lieut. N. R. Dick
Wright Field
Dayton
British Children to Stay at Home Shock Delay
London July 12 The postponement of planned removal of British children to the dominions and the United States was announced by the Ministry of Information. The reason given is that not enough warships are available to form convoys, delaying evacuation plans.
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London
Dominion
United States
Ministry of Information
Roosevelt firm on not going to Chicago for convention
President Roosevelt told reporters he definitely would not travel to Chicago for the Democratic convention and avoided questions about a possible third term stance. He joked at the press conference and indicated no trip is planned, even if nominated, as the squadrennial meeting loomed.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Chicago
Democratic party adopts compromise delegate plan at national convention
The Democratic National Committee backed a Green Rhode Island led plan granting four at large delegates per state and two per congressional district. It keeps district representation and bypasses the Alabama plan which favored southern states with extra at large delegates. The measure awaits convention approval and replaces the two thirds nominating rule in part.
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Chicago
Democratic National Committee
Green
Rhode Island
EB. D. Rivers
Georgia
Alabama
President Roosevelt Plans Summer Cruises and Hyde Park Stay
The chief executive described summer plans to spend alternate weekends on cruises down the Potomac and at Hyde Park New York. He denied any connection to Chicago events and said being president matters most. He avoided committing to personal convention participation or a message. He noted no decision on an unbossed convention.
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Potomac River
Hyde Park
N. Y
Chicago
Roosevelt
United States
Burke-Wadsworth compulsory training bill provisions
Washington outlines Burke-Wadsworth compulsory military training plan with universal registries for males 18 to 65. It imposes training and service for ages 21 to 45, eight month training, a ten year reserve term, annual training up to one month, and lot-based selection with age group targets. The president can defer calls where jobs are necessary and set numbers called.
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Washington
Burke-Wadsworth
Army High Command
United States
Congress
Plot to burn truck fails at Fort MacArthur
An apparent attempt to destroy a new giant secret military truck failed when a fire broke out behind a high board fence at Fort MacArthur after a four month Army test. Two men fled. officials suspect arson to steal truck plans and damage the vehicle. The diesel engine truck could carry 90 tons and was to mount two six inch anti tank guns. FBI agents opened the case.
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Los Angeles
Fort. MacArthur
Trojan Truck Company
C.D Juneau
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Sixth Grade Student Takes His Own Life in New Orleans
Assistant Coroner reports 15 year old Jack Taylor Jr a sixth grade pupil died by suicide today after fatally shooting himself with a .22 rifle. The boy was playing with the rifle in a bedroom when he fired the weapon. His stepmother heard the shot and he said Ive shot myself. The father works as a crane operator for the United States Engineers and the mother lives in Prichard Alabama.
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New Orleans
Philip Montelepre
Jack Taylor, Jr
United States Engineers
Prichard
Ala
Maeterlinck Arrives as War Refugee aboard Nea Hellas
Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian playwright of the Portugal and other works, arrived today on the Greek liner Nea Hellas as a war refugee, the Hoboken port reported.
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Hoboken
N. J
Maurice Maeterlinck
Portugal
Nea Hellas
Trainee Editor's Note Insights at Fort McPherson
John Kilgore a citizen-soldier from Talla hasse Florida shares views on the C M T C course for business and professional men. He outlines motives for enrollment, aims of national defense, and potential roles from officers to home defense tasks in a broad wartime plan.
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John Kilgore
Fort McPherson
Kilgore
Tallahasse
Fla
FT. Mcpherson
United States
Ten bombers bagged today over England
British and Allied reports describe a heavy German air offensive with ten German bombers shot down. King George VI narrowly escaped a major raid as British fighters and bombers struck back, while the war reports claim losses in German ships and Italian naval actions near Malta.
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England
Associated Press
Hitler
Britain
Reich
British Isles
George VI
Hith Command
Jutsland
Winston Churchill
Theritish Isles
Bng
High Command
Tonian Sea
Malta
Sto
London
White Way Pure Milk Company opens new Decatur plant
A milk processing plant named White Way Pure Milk Company to operate in Decatur starts construction at 343 345 East Moulton Street for about $16 000 with a brick building fronting 30 feet on Moulton and 50 feet deep. E P Childs is contractor. C E Winton and E L Barron own the venture. expected completion in six weeks. plant to pasteurize grade A milk and will employ a to be announced number of workers.
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Decatur
White Way Pure Milk Company
East
Moulton Street
E. P Childs
C. E. Winton
E. L. Barron
Treasury vows action against tax profiteers
Washington reports the treasury will prosecute dealers accused of misrepresenting price hikes as defense taxes. A department statement warns fines up to $1,000 or up to one year in prison, or both, for false disclosures of portions of prices caused by federal taxes.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Department
Weather summary for Tennessee and Alabama regions
The Tennessee river gauge read 213 feet with a 24 hour period ending 7 am reporting a high of 84 and low of 71 and trace rain. Alabama sees occasional showers tonight and Saturday with south to southwest winds along the coast. Tennessee forecasts showers and thunderstorms this afternoon, followed by cooler tonight and Saturday with generally fair conditions.
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Tennessee
Alabama
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