End Pact Now Cay Japanese In High Anger
The United States denounces its 1911 treaty with Japan, prompting Japanese and British reactions and signaling possible shifts in Far East policy. Hull’s note makes the pact lapse January 26, while China praises U.S. stance. European observers weigh embargo and anti-terror actions follow across Britain and China.
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Associated Press
China
United States
Japan
Hull
Europe
London
Britain
Washington
Kokumin
Tokyo
East Asia
Chungking
Wang Chung- Hui
Pittman
Ney
Senate’ Foreign Relations Committee
Great Britain
Far East
Ban on liquor ads studied by Alabama committee
The house temperance committee voted to reconsider Beck anti liquor advertising bill and sent it to a subcommittee for further study. The move delays bringing the measure to a full house and follows plans by Rep Beck to force a committee report. Also referred was Roy McCord's local alcohol sale prohibition bill in Etowah county. The subcommittee includes Earl Tucker M L Robertson Cullman Guy Hardwick and W A Davis.
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Montgomery
Ala
House Temperance Committee
W. M. Beck
DeKalb
House
Beck
Roy McCord
Etowah
Etowah County
McCord
Earl Tucker
Clarke
M. L. Robertson
Cullman
Guy Hardwick
Houston
A. C. Davis
Power Plant Bill Offered by State Solons
Senator H. H. Booth of Anniston offered a bill to avoid duplication of private electric facilities by creating a state acquisition system. The proposal appears as a counter to the statewide stock law, while Senator P. F. DeVane of Silas filed a plan to require fencing of highways in open range counties as part of the session’s vast bill influx.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
P. F. DeVane
Silas
H. H. Booth
Anniston
Legislative Council Bill Fails by One Vote in Alabama House
An administration backed bill to create a Alabama legislative council failed in the House by 47 to 48. The plan would have formed a council with the speaker, seven house members, president pro tem, and five senators to study government, welfare issues, and prepare a legislative program for the next session.
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Montgomery
Ala
Legislative Council
Alabama
A. C. Davis
Dixon
House
Senate
Alabama Power and Cities Clash Over Utilities Measure
Lawmakers report a proposed bill from Representatives and the Alabama Power Company via the Alabama League of Municipalities to require cities and counties seeking electric service to acquire existing utility properties at an agreed price or PSC set price. Disputes would go to hearings and appeals through circuit court, with possible city duplication options if terms remain unresolved. The measure echoes tensions in North Alabama where TVA power already operates.
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Alabama Power Company
Alabama League of Municipalities
Alabama Public Service Commission
Public Service Commission
City
Power Company
Circuit Court
Alabama
TVA
Charles Stakely
Emmett Hildreth
Utah
Marie Bankhead Owen
Archives and History
Oliver Young
Vernon
Jim Simpson
Birmingham
House
D. A. Walden
Henry
Dick Kennedy Named General Tires Wholesale Distributor
E W Dick Kennedy longtime manager of the Goodrich retail store is appointed wholesale distributor for North Alabama and retail dealer for Decatur and nearby areas. His two story building at 304 Second Avenue will host a wholesale warehouse on the second floor, and a retail shop with a modern tire retreading plant on the first floor. The plant operates continuously and some new tires are already on hand for retail. The warehouse will open once shipments arrive from the factory.
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E. W
Dick” Kennedy
Goodrich
North Alabama
Decatur
General Tires
Second Avenue
Senate plan blocks bill on social security changes
A Senate proposal to add 80 million dollars a year to aid the elderly stalls broader social security revisions. The Connally plan would require a two to one government to state match with up to 10 dollars per month from the government and 5 from states for those 65 and older. House conferees favor no revision, fearing Townsend plan implications, while Sen Connally argues broad, equal benefits.
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Washington
Senate
House
Connally
D., Tex
Conference Committee
Townsend
Eighth Annual Tennessee Valley Horse Show Planned
Plans for the eighth annual Tennessee Valley horse show sponsored by St. John s Episcopal church are under way likely for late August at Benson Field. The committee will meet Monday night to set a definite date. Committee members A H Hoff G P Banniza Henry Goad and E B Graves attended the Huntsville event and said many horse men intend to enter the Decatur show.
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St. John’s Episcopal Church
Benson Field
Commit
A. H. Hoff
G. P. Banniza
Henry Goad
E. BE. Graves
Huntsville
Decatur
Justice indicts four typewriter firms for price fixing
The Department of Justice reports a federal grand jury in New York has indicted four major typewriter manufacturers and their presidents on charges of conspiracy to fix prices and monopolize the market.
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Bulletin
Washington
Department of Justice
New York City
Central Service Association Opens Billing Offices in Decatur
The Central Service Association based in Tupelo, Mississippi, opens a Decatur office to handle water and light billings for the city and other TVA power users. The nonprofit firm, with four staff, plans to expand. contract sets four cents per bill up to 1 000, then lower with more customers. Jackson and Tupelo currently bill about 70 000 customers, Decatur will raise totals.
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Central Service Association
Tupelo
Mississippi
Bank and
Walnut Streets
TVA Power
Mabel Jensen
Tupelo and
Jackson
Ruth Brumfield
Decatur
Municipal Utilities Board of Decatur
T. J. Cottingham
Harry A. Wyatt
James H. Johnston
The
Service Association
Cottingham
TVA
Ino
Jackson and Tupelo
Rites Held For Mrs Pennie Lanier At Union Hill
Final rites for Mrs Pennie Lanier 67 of Moulton route 1 were held at Union Hill church with Rev Dee Montgomery officiating. Burial was by Drinkard Howell. She died at 505 p m Thursday at the home of her daughter Mrs Ethel Taylor Hartselle route 1. Survived by five sons Virgil Claude Wilburn Clifton Skusy and a daughter Mrs Taylor plus 21 grandchildren.
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Pennie Lanier
Moulton
Union Hill
Dee Montgomery
Drinkard-Howell
Lanier
Ethel Taylor
Hartselle
Skusy
Florence
Virgil
Flint
Michigan
Claude, Wilburn
Clifton
Mrs. Taylor
Lewis Attack Helps Garner Friends Over Labor Row
The attack by John L. Lewis on Vice President Garner sparked a congressional storm and could affect wage hour law actions. The House Labor Committee pursued non controversial amendments as the rules committee sent three wage hour bills to the floor for a vote. President Roosevelt dodged comment while praising Garner’s reception in Congress. allies rallied to Garner amid claims Lewis hurt his own cause.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Garner
Lewis
Congress
House Labor Committee
CTO
AFL
Labor Committee
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Sheppard
Tex
Luther A. Johnson
Cold Storage Plant Planned for Demopolis by State Group
A $15,000 Watson Cold Storage Plant will be built in Demopolis to serve Southwest Alabama. The 400 locker facility will handle chilling aging processing quick freezing and smoking of perishables and is expected ready by early fall. Construction starts in two weeks with local chamber help and regional stockyards nearby.
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Demopolis
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
G. Arthur Cook
Alabama State Chamber of Commerce
J. C. Watson
Gastonburg
Airvey
Hhe
T. C. Reid
State Chamber
Watson Cold Storage Company
Breitling’s
John M. Ward
Five Convicts Return to Cells After Alabama Shootout
Five Florida convicts, pursued from Crestview, Alabama, were cornered in Covington County. A stolen car overturned during a hot pursuit. officers fired as the suspects fled on foot. Four were captured, the fifth caught hours later. No one wounded. The five to be returned to Florida today.
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Andalusia
Ala
Florida
Covington
Alabama
Sano
Pia
H. Gantt
Crestview
Fla
Tom Head
Alabama-Florida Line
Gantt
R. J. Langfort
Wyatt
Peninsula
Alabama Power planned electric rate reductions statewide
The Birmingham News reports an authoritative source says the Alabama Power Company intends to cut electric rates across the state soon. Birmingham tariffs will align with TVA rates in Bessemer and Tarant City, though exact amounts and timing are not yet set. Commission President James M. Jones estimates roughly one million dollars annually in Birmingham area savings based on current consumption.
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Birmingham
Ala
Birmingham News
Alabama Power Company
Birmingham Electric Co
TVA
Bessemer
Tarrant City
The
Alabama
Birmingham Electric
Commission
James M. Jones
Executed Greenville County Mountaineer Otis McGill
Otis McGill a 35 year old Greenville county resident was electrocuted for the murder of A P Southerlin. He spoke cheerfully as he was strapped in the chair and was pronounced dead four minutes and sixteen seconds later.
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Columbia
8. C
Otis McGill
Greenville County
A. P. Southerlin
June Death Toll Rebounds After Months of Decline
The national highway death toll rose in June to 2,330, up 20 from June 1938, ending a 20 month streak of improvement. Despite the monthly uptick, the first six months of 1939 show a 5 percent reduction from the same period in 1938, with 13,500 deaths versus 14,160.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Two Claim To Be His Widow In Georgia Case
In Macon Georgia two women, Mrs Odessa Reynolds and Nina Roberts Reynolds of Fort Worth Texas, claim to be the widow of Ronald Reynolds of Augusta. Investigators exhumed the body for poison tests as a possible murder, while Odessa and her son Arthur Bell are jailed on murder warrants. A grand jury decision may come after further evidence in the next two days.
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Macon
Ronald 8
English
Nina Roberts Reynolds
Fort Worth
Texas
Reynolds
Odessa Reynolds
Negro Held in Poison Death In Alabama Cornfield
Andrew Smith a Black man was jailed in Talladega County Alabama today over the poison death of 32 year old Margaret Mines employee Ralph Taylor. The body was found in a Lincoln cornfield on June 26.
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Talladega
Ala
Andrew Smith
Ralph Taylor
Margaret Mines
Lincoln
Roosevelt skeptical of Hatch plan on political activity
President Roosevelt voiced dissatisfaction with the Hatch measure to prohibit pernicious political activities while signaling a real problem with the broad language. He warned it could curb attending rallies or contributing to a friend's campaign and noted enforcement and state employee issues. Hatch said final restrictions would depend on who pays salaries.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Hatch
Dr. Charles A. Brown Dies at 67 in Birmingham
Dr. Charles Allen Brown 67 longtime Birmingham schools official died after a long illness Funeral services set for 11 am at First Baptist church He joined the city system in 1893 when only three elementary and one high school existed He held leadership roles in Alabama education groups and was a former tennis champion in his youth Born Sumterville Alabama August 5 1872 he came from a prominent family and leaves a widow sister and eight nieces and nephews
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Birmingham
Ala
Charles Allen Brown
First Baptist Church
Brown
Alabama Nic Institute
Auburn
University of Tennessee
University of Chicago
Ard College
Edna Earle Moore
J. Cancroft
Alabama Educationation
Obama Society of Dental Hygiene
Sovern Association of Colleges Secondary Schools
Sumterville
Weather roundup with river rise and storm chances
The Tennessee river gauge stood at 20.5 feet and rising with 1 inch rainfall and high temperatures near 91 degrees. Alabama and North Florida face partly cloudy skies tonight with scattered thunderstorms and coastal winds, while Tennessee expects showers tonight and Saturday with later fair conditions.
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Tennessee
Alabama
Florida
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