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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jul 24, 1941

Page

3

TVA Action Opens Leasing For Recreation And Industry

President signs a bill allowing the Tennessee Valley Authority to handle 60 plus applications and hundreds of inquiries for summer cabin site leases and waterfront recreation projects. It permits leasing or selling lands for docks factories and warehouses with congress approval and includes provisions for two industrial conveyances to Ingalls Shipbuilding and Commercial Barge Line. Cabin areas set up for twenty three summer vacation sites are noted, alongside prior TVA leasing activity through 1935 to last year.

Gordon Fr! Clapp Tennessee Valley Authority TVA Act of Congress Boy Scout Congress Waco Muscle Shoals War Department Ingalls Shipbuilding Company Decatur Commercial Barge Line, Inc Guntersville

Rifle club tension and hospital visit unfold in chat

In a tense scene Jones and Spinelli discuss a local rifle club and a hospital visit where Hans, a surgeon, reveals his uncle left him $6,000 after dying a month ago. The dialogue touches on expenses and relief as Jones notes they will not play and depart after a brief check-in.

Hans Henry Jones

8.8.8 Tonic Claims Digestive Revival and Vitality

An advertisement asserts 8.8.8 Tonic restores stomach digestion and builds red blood to revive vitality. It targets those with poor appetite and fatigue from illness or stress, promising quicker relief and stronger health through liquid formula.

TVA sets aside cabin areas on major reservoirs

TVA reserves cabin sites across Norris Chickamauga Guntersville Wheeler and Pickwick reservoirs with eight Norris sites on 94 lots and 154 on Chickamauga 205 on Guntersville 65 on Wheeler and 112 on Pickwick plus five areas on Pickwick. Ground rents range from 15 to 70 dollars yearly. Long term leases offered. Inquiries go to reservoir property management offices with contacts in Norris Chattanooga Guntersville Wilson Dam and nearby towns.

TVA Norris Lake Chickamauga Guntersville Wheeler Pickwick Cherokee Watts Bar Fort Loudoun Kentucky Norris Reservoir Arthur FE. Carpenter Norris Tennessee A. D. Rieger James Building Chattanooga Herbert E. Hudson First National Bank Ala D. C

Plough Firm Wins Trademark Battle Over Penetro Names

The U S Court of Customs and Patent Appeals ruled Plough Inc liable to trademark registration for Penetro for liniment and Penetro for mouth wash. It cancelled Penetrine registration held by Penetrene Corporation, deeming a 1897 transfer as an abandonment of the mark.

Plough, Inc Memphis U. S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals Penetrene Corporation Penetro St. Joseph Aspirin Penetrene Plough Gustav H. Frommann

Murder at the lodge meeting haunts Jones and crew

Jones and Henry pursue suspects among seven people at the lodge meeting for Ives murder. They doubt Hans Svenson and learn Spinelli is alive but wounded, while a hospital visit reveals motives and potential framing tied to the Ives estate.

Henry Hans Svenson Jones Hans Ives Bisbee King Marcia Susan

Boothton Woman Credits POW-O-LIN For Relief

Boothton resident Mrs Forrest Davis says POW-O-LIN eased her acid indigestion gas and bloating and improved sleep and daytime energy. The la xative liquid is marketed as relief for constipation and is sold by Caddell Drug Co and H O Godel.

Alabama Forrest Davis Boothton Ala Caddell Drug Co H. O. Goidel

Two Air Corps Officers Die in Fort Benning Crash

Fort Benning Ga July 4 two air corps officers Major Fred S Stocks and Captain William B Hargen were found dead in wreckage of an army plane near Seale Alabama after a four day search across five states. Stocks radioed he was near Maxwell Field then turned back toward Fort Benning. Hargen from Pine Grove Kentucky was flight surgeon. Wreckage spread over a 150 yard area on a wooded knoll near a new parachute maneuver section. Other pilots from Lawson Field and Fort Bragg reported loss of contact shortly after takeoff Saturday.

Fort Benning Air Corps Fred S. Stocks William 8. Hargen Seale Ala Beale Maxwell Field Kelly Field Tex Stocks Fortenning

Motive hunt leads Henry to tunnel search

In a tense scene Henry steps outside and declares he will reverse the investigation by seeking the tunnel, rejecting the idea of chasing motives as the case progresses.

Henry

First Presbyterian Plans Approved for New Church Building

Church officers and members expressed unity at an informal Wednesday night meeting in the Sunday school annex regarding the new building program. A full report on the financial campaign’s accomplishment will be presented to the congregation.

Fhrst Presbyteriana

Local Debt Compared: Federal vs Local Across U.S. History

The report notes federal debt runs two and a half times local debt based on latest Census figures, with narrative references to pre Civil War and World War eras. It mentions a church pledge drive tied to a Sunday service for an IG program and building financing, but no figures yet on the investment.

Fr Sary United States

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