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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1941
Page
1
Decatur shifts to daylight saving time at 12:01 Sunday as Mayor T. K. Harrison and local officials urge full city wide and rural cooperation. Industrialists, pastors, and the Ministerial Alliance endorse the faster tempo to support President Roosevelt's defense program.
The union service at Delano park begins Sunday evening at eight o'clock daylight saving time. Dr. George Lang of the University of Alabama will be the speaker, as announced by local pastors.
Most Valley cities voted to observe daylight saving time starting Sunday at midnight. Decatur acted after Learnt of decisions, with Hartselle following the move, despite last year’s confusion from partial adoption. The nationwide emergency boosts support for the change to one hour ahead.
Governor Dixon announced broad public support for Roosevelt’s daylight saving plan. Clocks have been moved up or will be this weekend in at least 136 cities and towns, including major centers, while Autaugaville Billingsley Orville Piedmont and Thomaston plan to stay on standard time. Some towns still consider polls in Town Creek Leighton Demopolis and Centre. Dixon said rural areas would follow nearby towns, calling it a patriotic duty.
Acting secretary of state Sumner Wells announced Peru agreed to set a definite time and date to end hostilities with Ecuador. He said Ecuador was ready to follow. Peru’s foreign minister Alfredo Solfey Muro told envoys from Arce do Brazil and the United States in Lima that a fixed date and hour would be accepted to end fighting along the disputed frontier.
Alabama young Democrats gather for their annual convention with over 700 attendees as Reps George Grant and John Sparkman, Gov. Frank Dixon, Bibb Graves and W. Cooper Green urge unity behind President Roosevelt. They praise the peace administration and wartime economy while stressing individual rights and defense goals.
Dr Monroe Parker will headline the city wide revival at 8 PM Sunday under a large tent at Fourth Ave and Johnston St. Sponsored by the Decatur Business Men's Evangelistic Club, the event invites all denominations to unite for winning souls to Christ. Dr Parker arrives Sunday from Cincinnati. Earl Johnson leads about 50 singers rehearsing under the tent.
The article argues Japan’s occupation of French Indo China could lead to seizure of the Dutch East Indies for vital resources. Thailand near Indo China could signal Japanese plans, with a move on Thailand indicating a drive toward the Indies and Britain’s Singapore base. The Japanese press claims Tokyo was forced to occupy parts of the region.
Report notes competing interests from British French American factions and Japan over Thailand. Tokyo official statements claim to safeguard territorial integrity while asserting allied designs on Thailand. Japanese press hints at Japan protection, with observers awaiting possible actions as U S Britain curtail Japan trade.
United States Navy considers using civil service workers to complete defense projects in Key West Florida if 800 plus striking laborers stay away. A 10 cent rise to 50 cents an hour was offered. workers demand 62 1/2 cents. One hundred workers returned to work after a private contractor agreed to wage raises on two housing projects.
Decatur Chamber of Commerce heard Frank Hulse outline needs for a permanent housing stock as 80 aviation training staff and army officers arrive. The meeting urged building houses and apartments, improving hospital facilities, and boosting local business to support the aviation training school and related facilities in Madison County.
In Birmingham Alabama on July 26 the Juvenile Court ordered treatment for two year old Clarence Allen Englebert after his parents refused diphtheria antitoxin citing religious scruples. Deputy Troy Tate said the child was gravely ill and only the serum could save him.
James Jackson of Moulton, a TVA malaria control pilot, escaped serious injury when his duster plane clipped the top of a tree along Beaver Dam creek. The light aircraft suffered minor wing damage but Jackson managed a limp return to the field.
The murder charge against Mrs Curtis Warren for the slaying of her husband a Donalsonville Ga businessman was found tied to a later confession by Wash Palmore a laborer who claimed he was hired by Warren to kill the man Palmore refused to answer questions at today's preliminary hearing as Solicitor Baxley pressed for a noire proof Dr W T Burkett Houston county health officer testified that the death resulted from two pistol bullet wounds
William A. Lockey, a 53 year old farmer from Crockett Texas, told a naval recruiting officer that his daughter is a naval nurse and his sons are in naval training, but he was rejected due to age.
Washington announces all Philippine organized forces are placed under General Douglas MacArthur. President Roosevelt orders their muster into the U S Army as a response to Japan's actions in Indo China and the Pacific, with MacArthur holding temporary lieutenant general rank. The move centralizes command under U S authority.
The Chinese news agency cites Kumming sources reporting a Japanese force of 30,000 near landing in Indochina as Japan expands economic retaliation against the United States and Britain. Roosevelt mobilizes armed services and Philippines forces amid regional tensions.
The British RAF raiders, using heavy bombs and flares, hit Berlin last night in Britain’s strongest raid yet. Nine bombers did not return, and Hamburg and Hannover were also targeted as the air ministry reported the 46th raid since the war began, the first on Berlin in two months.
The report describes Japanese occupation moves in Southern French Indo China and the expected follow on from Axis allies. It notes a joint defense agreement touching off economic strain and mentions a Russian mission to Washington and broader US support. Chinese coast and Shanghai remain tense as concessions may be yielded.
Ty7 HA TV 23 reports on ice conditions and weather near Alabama. Fair tonight with partly cloudy skies and a chance of light to moderate coastal thundershowers.
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