Trinity Plans Seventh Annual Colt Show in August
Citizens of Trinity met to shape plans for the seventh annual colt show to be held in August at the high school grounds with a luncheon counter. Sam Lyle is general chairman, W A Burt ringmaster, J M Beams ribbons and numbers, Herbert Sivley registration. The event, rising from a small start, is a major regional affair in North Alabama and Southern Tennessee, featuring twin male colts owned by O W Bass of Hillsboro.
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Trinity
Sam Lyle
W. A. Burt
J. M. Beams
Herbert Sivley
North Alabama
Tennnessee
O. W. Bass
Hillsboro
Alabama seeks 2.75 million for national college aid
Dr J B Hobdy head of the Vocational division of the state education department announced in Montgomery that Alabama would request about 2 750 000 dollars from Washington as its share of the 116 122 000 dollar appropriation for the national college aid program SRR.
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Montgomery
Ala
J. B. Hobdy
State Education Department
Washington
Alamo
Visitors Tour TVA Area During Latin American Delegation Visit
Ranking diplomats and naval and military officers from 13 Latin American nations spent hours watching U S Army trainees at Tétin Camp. Maj. Gen. Samuel T. Lawton called the cantonment a typical American defense training center as officials from state department and armed services observed.
Planes Bring Latin American Diplomats to Valley Tour
A formation of aircraft flew over this afternoon identified by Chamber of Commerce officials as carrying visiting Latin American diplomats on a tour of inspection of the Tennessee Valley.
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Chamber of Commerce
Tennessee Valley
Visitors from Nashville Tour Tennessee Defense Plants
A motorcade from Nashville visited Vultee Aircraft factory and conducted an aerial tour of defense projects in middle Tennessee and North Alabama. A soft landing at Muscle Shoals postponed in person viewing, as planes overflew Wilson Wheeler and Guntersville dams, before a lunch departure to Knoxville for further visits.
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Nashville
Vultee Aircraft Factory
Middle Tennessee
North Alabama
Muscle Shoals
Ala
Wilson, Wheeler
Guntersville
Knoxville
Diamond Star Killed In Alabama Crash
Andalusia July 15 Ralph McDuffie 26 left infielder for the Andalusia club of the Alabama State League was killed and L H Evers Andalusia furniture dealer injured when their automobile struck a steel bridge railing in Baldwin County Florida
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Andalusia
Ala
Ralph McDuffie
Andalusia Club
L. H. Evers
Baldwin County
Florida
Steel plant shutdowns in Michigan and Ohio amid labor dispute
The Great Lakes Steel Corporation main plant at Ecorse Michigan closed today under a labor dispute while a strike threat at Copperweld Steel in Warren Ohio left production tied up. Pickets from SWOC patrolled gates as talks promised a 2 PM tomorrow contract signing.
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Associated Press
Great Lakes Steel Corporation
Ecorse
Mich
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
South
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
CSO
Great Lakes
Alvin Gilman
Orville Kincaid
SWOC
Michigan Steel Plant
Hannah Furnace Company
Warren
Ohio
Copperweld Steel Company
CIO
CIO Steel Workers _ Organizing Committee
Course Police
Copperweld
Harry Wines
Cio-Swoc
India to Lead Bigger War Effort In Arsenal Alliance
London sources predict an imminent announcement on India committing to a maximum war effort. The note suggests India, already a major arsenal, may exchange representatives with the United States to coordinate a joint drive as the war intensifies.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
London
India
Russia
Hindustan
Role of India in World War II Geopolitics
The article contends India will gain importance if Bolshevik resistance holds and Nazi advances are checked. It suggests India could serve as a supply base or staging area for Soviet and Allied forces, with Syria’s Allied victory strengthening British footholds in the Near and Middle East and shaping potential Soviet routes via Turkestan.
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Hitler
India
Russia
Syria
Near
Middle East
Caucasus
Russian Turkestan
Marshall cites one year draft limit hampering Iceland plan
Gen. George C. Marshall told the Senate military committee that specially trained army units rather than Marines should have occupied Iceland but were blocked by the one year draft rule. He warned that retaining selectees and guardsmen longer than a year is needed to prevent a national trained force collapse.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Congress
Iceland
Marshall
Senate Military Committee
General Marshall
Hemisphere
Roosevelt
Valley site picked again for aluminum plants
The War Department may approve revised OPM plans to expand U S aluminum capacity by seven new plants and 600 million pounds per year, shifting one plant to Tacoma Washington and creating government owned facilities in Booneville Grand Coulee and other locations to reach 1.4 billion pounds annually with 200 million more imported from Canada and a 400 million pounds alumina plant.
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Washington
North Carolina
Tacoma
Wash
War Department
Office of Production Management
OPM
Grand Coulee
Booneville
Aluminum Company of America
Booneville-Grand Coulee
Arkansas
Massena
N. Y
Uni Jon Carbide and Carbon Company
Spokane
Canada
Defense plan progress aired in Senate hearing
Washington July 15 Undersecretary of War Robert P Patterson told a Senate committee the past year saw great progress in U S defense production yet warned total warfare demands more munitions. He forecast dislocation of peacetime industry as defense work expands and noted only about 15 percent of American output may be devoted to defense. Patterson outlined army strength, air corps growth, and plans for more armored divisions and motorization, stressing the goal remains unmet but advancing.
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Washington
Robert P. Patterson
Senate
Europe
Patterson
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
America
War Department
Navy Department
Air Corps
Three Lives Lost In Highway Crash Near Gain Alabama
At noon yesterday a head on collision two miles north of Gain Alabama killed three people: N. C. Gilbert 60 Pontotoc Mississippi Charlie Wright 37 Guin and Colburn 58 of near Hamilton. Police Chief Jim Burnett 60 and two others injured. Mrs A C Mathews 26 and Miss Jannell Gilbert 18 daughters of Gilbert were hurt but not in danger.
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Gain
Ala
Hway
Here
Jim Burnett
N. C. Gilbert
Pontotoc
Charlie Wright
Guin
Colburn
Near -Hamiln
A.C. Mathews
Jannell Gilbert
Gilbert
Roosevelt seeks year round daylight saving to aid defense
President Roosevelt asked Congress to authorize daylight saving time year round on a regional or national basis to reduce electricity use by about 736 million kilowatt hours. He sent letters to Speaker Rayburn and Vice President Wallace and to eight southern governors warning of a serious power shortage hindering national defense, particularly in the southeast.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Rayburn
Wallace
Mr. Roosevelt
Alabama
Virginia
Tennessee
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Mississippi
Florida
Rayburn and
New England
Middle Atlantic
North Central States
Ve Oey
Women urged to attend Decatur defense meeting at Riverside
Mrs. W. E. Hyde publicity chair announces a mass meeting of Decatur women Wednesday at 9 45 am in Riverside auditorium. The event emphasizes conserving electric current for national defense with TVA home economist Mrs. Bessie Jones Wade presenting methods. A special balcony section is reserved for negro cooks.
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W. E. Hyde
Homemakers Defense Clinic
Decatur
Riverside Auditorium
Hyde
Bessie Jones Wade
TVA
Homemaker’s Defense Clinic
Hartselle Soldier Corporal Rip Smith Injured In Accident
News from Camp Claiborne La reports Corporal Rip Smith stationed there has a broken leg. He was in Monroe La when struck by a car, receiving the injury.
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Camp Claiborne
Rip Smith
Corporal Smith
Monroe
Largest peace time roundup indicts 29 for seditious conspiracy
A federal grand jury in St Paul named 29 persons in indictments charging seditious conspiracy and advocacy to overthrow the U S government. Henry A Schweinhaut said it was the largest peacetime roundup for seditious conspiracy and the first under the Smith Act as of June 1940. All named are officers or members of the Socialist Workers party.
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North Alabama
Lois Irwin Rosson
Beatrice Violet Adams
van Adams
Martin Whitt
Limestone County
Rosson
Edward Goodrich
Adams
Wosson
Whitt
Snake Road
Lauderdale County
E. J. Fulmer
Fulmer
ST. Paul
United States
Henry A. Schweinhaut
Socialist Workers Party
Soviet Offense Maintained Across Dnepr Front
Soviet forces claimed gains on the central front near the Dnepr as they recaptured Rogachev and pressed toward Kiev amid heavy fighting. Moscow asserted German attempts to hold the Dvina and Dnepr lines had failed while Tokyo warned of shipping restrictions and potential naval blockades.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Dnepr
Red
Moscow
Rogachev
Minsk
DNB
Dvina
Tora
Leningrad
St. Petersburg
Tokyo
Japan
Vladivostok
United States
Russia
Joseph Stalin
Rome
Hitler
Berlin
Aletin
Ann Si Reine Vera
Ela Long
Weather summary for Tennessee valley and Southeast region
The Tennessee River gauge stood at 21.99 with high near 73 and rainfall around six percent. Extreme conditions were reported across Alabama and northern Florida with generally unsettled warmth and moisture.
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Tennessee
Alabama
Florida
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Stafford Cripps Cleft
COLT
Diamond Star
Defense Plan
Argentina
Ana Maria Martinez
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New York
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Mayana
Hartselle
Tai
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