Fifty Teams to Survey Decatur Housing for Newcomers
Fifty two man teams will canvass Decatur on Tuesday to list housing options for incoming industrial and commercial workers. The effort aims to find houses apartments and vacant rooms for families joining local enterprises. The Southern Aviation Training School seeks housing listings to place employees quickly as publishers note ongoing recruitment.
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Decatur
Chamber of Commerce
Southern Aviation Training School
Birmingham speaker outlines aviation school plans for Decatur Rotary
David Black of Birmingham presented details on a new aviation school on a large plantation. The facility would include a one square mile airport, 22 acres of buildings, four hangars, barracks for cadets, an administration building with infirmary, a drill field, and a 60 cadets by October 4 rising to 200 by December. Cadet pay would average 75 dollars monthly and 140 employees would operate the field with a 50 thousand dollar monthly payroll. Eighty to ninety families would be housed in Limestone and Morgan counties.
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David Black
Birmingham
Southern Training School, Inc
Decatur Rotary Club
Black
Army
Wimary School
Tennessee
Limestone
Morgan Counties
John A. Caddell
Norman Harris
Rotary Club
E. W. McLeod
Quinces
Dear
John Cooper
Hartselle
Dave Black
Claude Anderson
Mianoni Allen Gibson
Interest High Here In Defense Clinic at Riverside
Riverside hosts a defense clinic at 9 45 am in the auditorium with Bessie Wade TVA economist outlining saving methods for housewives to aid national defense especially in aluminum. A second aluminum recycling bin is placed on Second Avenue as public attendance for the session grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Riverside “High School
Bessie Jones” Wade
TVA
Second Avenue
Riverside Auditorium
Alabama Power to Resume Power Curtailment July 21
Birmingham July 14 The Alabama Power Company will resume its power curtailment program due to falling river levels affecting hydroelectric plants. The company announced yesterday that an extension of the curtailment was not yet determined.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama Power Company
Nazi Consul Misses Escape Boat For Japanese Liner
San Francisco July 14 A German consul general Wiedemann and ex consul Hans Borchers refused to board the Japanese Yawata Maru fearing loss of safe conduct across the Pacific. The ship sailed with their staffs and families aboard while efforts to halt or return it failed. Washington said they may stay in the United States until the next Japanese sailing at month’s end.
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San Francisco
Fritzwistemenn
Hans’Borchers
Counsils
Nyk
Pacific
Washington
Wiedemann
Adolf Hitler
Tokyo
Nyk Line
Coast Guard
Navy
Germany
State Department
Borchers
Cotton Plan To Be Bared At Mil ton Courthouse
A meeting at Mil ton courthouse Friday at 7 30 pm will explain the new cotton stamp plan. Merchants and clerks are urged to attend for full understanding. State office representatives will explain. penalties exist for mishandling stamps.
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Moulton
State Office
Frank C.pearson
Lawrence County Cotton Industries Committee
Clyde Montgomery
Strong Man Dies After 1000-Pound Lift at Coney Island
New York July 14 reported strongman Travis a 66 year old veteran of Coney Island side shows collapsed after lifting a 1000 pound carrion ball during a performance. His death ends a long career in the carnival circuit.
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New York
Warren Travis
Coney Island
Strike Board Urges Men to Resume Work in Defense Plants
The defense mediation board urged strikers at Sealed Power Corp in Muskegon Michigan to return to work while talks continue. AFL UAW members walked out over wages and a union shop, with other unions delaying strikes in New Jersey and California amid stalled defense orders.
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Defense Mediation Board
Sealed Power Corporation
Muskegon
Mich
AFL
United Automobile Workers
Mediation Board
CIO
Federal Rebuilding Corporation
Kearny
N. J
de- Pee
San Diego
Calif
Cao v
St. Louis
Carpenters’ District Council
International Association of , Ists
Gulf States
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Electric Power
Louisana
Hartselle Matron Dies At Her Home
Mrs. E L Murphree aged 56 died at her Hartselle home this morning at 8 oclock. Services set for four oclock Tuesday at the Hartselle Methodist Church with Rev J F P T Brown officiating. She leaves a husband two daughters Imogene Murphree Hartselle and Mrs E A Miller Lewisburg Tenn a sister Mrs Ella Fricks Birmingham five brothers J N Davidson Cleveland Ala M L Davidson Birmingham TM Davidson Leeds Ala W E Davidson Birmingham M Davidson Cleveland Ala and many nieces and nephews Pallbearers listed with ladies of the Methodist Missionary society in charge of flowers Interment in Hart sel le Cemetery Peck directing.
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E. L. Murphree
Hartselle
J. F P. T. Brown
Imogene Murphree
E. A. Miller
Lewisburg
Tenn
Ella. Fricks
Birmingham
J. N. Davidson
Cleveland
Ala
M. L. Davidson
TM. Davidson
Leeds
W. E Davidson
M. Davidson
L. H. Houston
M. G. West
Charlie Quinn
E. Gibson
John Cooper
Bill Grover
Methodist Missionary
Roosevelt seeks prompt action to extend national guard and selectees
President Roosevelt and congressional leaders agreed to seek quick action to extend the service of selectees and national guard members beyond one year. The conference debated allowing draft units to serve outside the Western Hemisphere but did not finalize that proposal. Hearings on extending service were expected to begin promptly.
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Washington
Roosevelt
National Guard
Senator Hill
Ala
Hemisphere
Hill
White House
Senate
House
Marshall
Army
Barkley
D-Ky
Wadsworth
George
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Youth Pinned Under Truck Near Hartselle
Morris Clemons fourteen was pinned beneath an overturned truck Saturday night four miles from Hartselle on the East Hartselle pike. The driver Seiden McCartney tried to pass a car and the truck overturned after a sharp cut back. Clemons escaped the wreck with chest injuries and was rushed to a Peck hospital where he was reported not in serious condition.
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Morris Clemons
Young Clemons
Seiden McCartney
Hartselle
Hartselle Pike
Clemens
Britain’s Air Power Grows as RAF Bombs Heavier
DEWITT MACKENZIE reports Churchill states the Royal Air Force is now dropping bombs on the enemy at a higher rate than the Germans have in any monthly period. The surge reflects Britain’s wartime effort and American aid boosting home production and airpower. Allies feel encouraged by this display of strength against Nazi air attacks.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Britain
Russia
Western Front
Churchill
Royal Air Force
British Isles
United States
John Bull
Russian Morale Key Issue in WWII Battle Reports
The article contrasts Nazi and Bolshevik claims amid the redacted great mechanized clash. It notes Britain’s view the Baltic port of Leningrad is the pivotal objective and suggests Nazi advances may be occurring while official reports conflict.
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Britain
Moscow
Berlin
Leningrad
Kiev
Bolshevists
London
Baltic
Georgia Dean Fired Today Overboard Fight at U Georgia
The Georgia Board of Regents voted 10 to 5 to not re employ Dr Walter D Cocking as dean of the University of Georgia School of Education in Atlanta The move follows a clash with Governor Eugene Talmadge who accuses Cocking of advocating racial co education The regents also plan to hear charges against Marvin Pittman president of South Georgia College Statesboro in a continued ouster drive
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Atlanta
Board of Regents
Walter D. Opping
University of Georgia
Eugene Talmadge
Talmadge
Dr. Cocking
Cocking
T. Jack Lance
Morris
E. Ormond Hunter
R. D Harvey
George Woodruff
John Pete Cummings
Sparkman to Deliver Talk at Alabama Press Banquet
Congressman John Sparkman will be guest and speaker at the Alabama Press Association banquet in Decatur. Journalists from across the state will tour Wheeler and Wilson Dam reservoirs to view TVA improvements after a Huntsville stop for an afternoon barbecue and dance. The event, organized by Huntsville and Decatur Chambers of Commerce, runs Friday to Sunday with a closing session Sunday morning.
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John Sparkman
Alabama Press Association
Lyons Hotel
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Decatur
Wheeler
Wilson Dam
TVA
Huntsville
Huntsville Chamber of Commerce
Monte Seno
Decatur Chambers of Commerce
W. J. Williams
Ted Major
Ernest Barnett
G. P. Banniza
Gaines Stuart
W. Clopten
Churchill vows relentless bombing of German cities
London reports Prime Minister Churchill addressing 6 000 veterans and civil defense workers, saying Britain has begun a systematic night and day bombing of German cities and industries. He pledges no truce with Hitler, and vows sustained exertions until Nazi rule is toppled.
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London
Britain
Churchill
Myde Park
Germany
Latin American diplomats begin TVA tour of Tennessee defense sites
Thirteen Latin American nations start a three day Good Neighbor tour arranged by the War Department TVA and the Rockefeller office. The group will visit Vulte Aircraft plant and TVA nitrate plant No 2 at Muscle Shoals then end with Aluminum Company of America in Alcoa Tennessee. Dr Carlos N Brin Panamanian ambassador says the visit aims to strengthen friendship and observer American defense facilities.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
War Department
TVA
Nelson Rockefeller
Office of
Vultee Aircraft, Inc
Muscle Shoals
Ala
Washington
David E. Lilienthal
James P. Pope
Nashville City
Carolos N. Brin
Panama
Aluminum Company of America
Alcoa
Draft Board Seeks Help Locating Two Registrants
A local draft board asks the public to aid in locating two registrants. J. P. Canada Jr., 31, formerly of Route Three Decatur, worked for Howard Currey. Van Marvin Morgan, 27, of 14277 6th Ave. S. has not been located. Call the draft board with information.
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J. P. Canada, Jr
White
Route Three
Decatur
Howard Currey
van Marvin Morgan
6Th Ave. S
Draft Board
Kiev Totters and Berlin Sieges Mark War News
German agencies report Soviet lines at Opachka near Pskov broken as Nazi panzer pushes threaten Kiev Leningrad and other targets while Russians deny changes to front. Petain announces Syria defeat as RAF claims daylight raids. Washington says Roosevelt backs prompt action on National Guard training.
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Associated Press
Opachka
Pskov
Berlin
Russia
DNB
Kiev
Leningrad
Vichy
Uel Petain
Syria
Lonedon
RAF
France
Cherbourg
le Havre
Washington
Roosevelt
National Guard
Armistice Signed Ending Syria War at Acre
The armistice ending Syria fighting was signed at Acre Palestine at 32 p.m. today announced by General Clause Auch Inlek British commander in the Middle East. Final terms were settled after talks between British and French commanders General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson and General Henri Dentz. Fighting had effectively ceased two days earlier.
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Cairo
Egypt
Syria
Acre
Palestine
Clause Auchinleck
Middle East
Henry Maitland Wilson
Henri Dentz
Nazis claim drive on Kiev as Red armies falter
German spokesmen via DNB and Hitler HQ brief describe a collapsing Red army as the east ward push nears a climax. Berlin radio reports gains near Leningrad and破 destroyed bunkers while German planes strike Kiev warehouses and waterworks.
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Kiev
Berlin
Ukraine
Kieva
DNB
Adolf Hitler
Eastern Front
Leningrad
Pinsk
Weather Notes From Tennessee River Gauge Reading
The Tennessee river gauge stood at 21.00 this morning and was rising. Maximum temperature for the 24 hour period reached 90s and minimum 73. There was a trace of rain during the period.
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