Weather and local notices mix with farm markets and community events
Continued warm weather dominates the afternoon and tonight. Cotton prices clear strict 21.40 middling 21.20 strict 20.00 low 16.70. Local movie listings feature Keeper Of The Flame at the Princess In The Navy at the Roxy Roxie Hart at the Capitol. Various community notices include measles at Decatur 3 and a Boy Scout camporee in Delano. A county campaign to form a venereal disease health organization is set for three o’clock today at the county health offices.
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Keeper of the Flame
The
Princess
Navy
Roxy
Roxie Hart
Capitol
Alabama
Sparks
Poreen
Shipping News Today Is Bitter Dose For Nazis
Washington reports the Navy and Maritime Commission announced a record May for U S shipbuilding with 175 vessels and 1 782 000 deadweight tons. Submarines destroyed seven Japanese ships including a destroyer as dry cargo vessel output grows toward tanker production. The Delta and California shipyards will convert 100 Liberty ships into oil carriers in New Orleans and Wilmington California.
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Washington
Navy
Maritime Commission
Axis
Howard L. Vickery
Commission
U. S
Vickery
Delta Shipbuilding Corporation
New Orleans
California Shipbuilding Corporation
Wilmington
Calif
Alabama Moves to Improve Highway Financing and Health Edicts
A new Alabama Highway Finance Corporation is authorized to borrow up to 4 million dollars to boost road and bridge work and to match federal funds. The Senate also approves land acquisition for airports to aid postwar air transport growth, and a compulsory syphilis testing bill for Alabamians ages 14 to 50 is set for lower house consideration.
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Montgomery
Ala
Sparks
Alabama Highway Finance Corportion
Rep. C. D. Norman
House
Senate
Highway Department
Sen
Bruce Henderson
Wilcox
Henderson
Chauncey
Gov. Sparks
Office of Price Administration
Losses Reported On Attu Island Invasion
The Navy reports more than 1,500 Japanese killed and four captured during the first 20 days of fighting on Attu Island. The communique covers May 11 to May 30, with Bomber and fighter strikes on Kiska and continued mopping up.
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Washington
Attu Island
Navy
Attu
North Pacific
Army Liberator
Tokyo Acknowledges Setback Near Tungting Lake
Tokyo tacitly admits a reverse west of Tungting lake where Chiang Kai-Shek forces defend China’s rice bowl and the Chungking route. Japanese claim “completed operations” with 36 300 Chinese killed or wounded and 5 923 prisoners taken against 476 Japanese KIA. Chinese reports say retreat toward Ichang continues and siege of a Japanese city 12 miles from Ichang persists.
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Toyko
China
Associated Press
Imperial
Tokyo
Tungting Lake
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chungking
Burma-India Frontier
Announ
Giraud Names His Deputy As French Leadership Tensions Rise
Gen Henri Giraud appoints Vice Admiral Emile Muselier deputy and head of police in Algiers amid strained power shifts in North Africa. Letters exchange with Marcel Peyrouton, former Vichy official, fuels tensions as De Gaulle and Giraud factions clash over control and the formation of a unified executive committee to govern liberated Frenchmen and territories.
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Edward Kennedy
Algiers
Henri Giraud
Emile Muselier
Marcel Peyrouton
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Giraud
Algeria
Muselier
London
Miquelon
Newfoundland
Peyrouton
Vichy
Argentina
France
Colonial Infantry Reserve
Syria
Bath
Peyrouten
South America
Dwight D. Fisenhower
United States
Civil Service
Giraud Conten
Plane missing after shot down over Bay of Biscay
A British overseas airways liner en route to London from Lisbon is missing with 13 passengers including actor Leslie Howard and film director Alfred Chaenwall. Lisbon reports say the plane was shot down in the Bay of Biscay amid rough seas. weather hindered rescue attempts and a search for rubber lifeboats was under way.
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London
British Overseas Airways
Engand
Lisbon
Leslie Howard
Bay of Biscay
England
Overseas Airways Spoksman
Howard
Alfred Chaenwall
Spain
Berlin
Atlantic
United States
Aong
Louis Crouch Laid To Rest In Athens Family Mourns
Louis Crouch, 60, of Athens died yesterday at Benevolent hospital after a monthlong illness. He leaves two sons James and Willis Crouch and a daughter Lula Mae Crouch among other relatives. Funeral services were held at 2 P M Wednesday at Antioch North Limestone county with interment at Antioch cemetery. Howell and Young directed.
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Louis Crouch
Athens
The
Benevolent Hospital
James Crouch
Willis Crouch
Lula Mae Crouch
Antioch
Limestone County
Antioch Cemetery
Howell and Young
Injured Teen Dies After Bicycle Accident
James Philip Moats, 15, died in a Birmingham hospital from injuries a week after a bicycle fall. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Moats.
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Birmingham
James Philip Moats
Saboteurs Threaten Decatur With Citywide Chaos
Civil defense officials warn of possible saboteur strikes in Decatur. Mayor and regional Civilian Defense leaders describe potential devastation to bridges, dams, shipyards, and flood systems. Officials outline training plans and air raid wardens instruction to bolster local readiness.
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Decatur
Wilson
Regional Office of
Civilian Defense
Atlanta
Decatu
Germany
Ralph Redel
Defense Corps
Cliff Fligg
Wligg
The War Today Emphasizes Unity of War Machine
The article cautions that war effort relies on all components beyond combat troops from farmers to miners to transport crews. It warns that any quarrel threatening essential production risks prolonging the war, causing more deaths, and imperiling the flag. The message stresses unity over disputes and the need to keep the machine running.
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Uncle Sam
Army
Navy
Air Force
Nazi U-Boat Losses Soar in May War Reports
London reports Allied convoy escorts sank more German submarines in May than any other month, while total U-boats at sea in the Atlantic appeared to fall in the last two months. A V Alexander says 12 months of submarine losses exceed all prior war periods. DNB notes 65 Allied ships totaling 3 000 tons sunk in May.
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London
Atlantic
A. V. Alexander
Admiralty
House of Commons
Alexander
DNB
Berlin
Associated Press
Board protests any yielding to Lewis in war labor conflict
The fourth regional War Labor Board urged President Roosevelt to prevent concessions to John L. Lewis over the coal mine stoppage. In a telegram signed by six members from public, labor, and industry, the board warned that yielding would betray the war effort.
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Atlanta
Fourth Regional War Labor Board
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
M. T. van Hecke
William M
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Marion Smith
Lipscomb Davis
Nashville
T. M. Forbes
Thomas J. Starling
Labor
Theio
Albert Gossett
AFL
Dionne Doctor Dies of Pneumonia in North Bay
North Bay Ontario Dr D A Campbell at the bedside reported death from pneumonia. Dr Dafoe had returned home to Callander from Toronto yesterday morning.
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North Bay
Ontario
D. A. Campbell
Dafoe
Callander
Toronto
NMU BLAMES STRIKES ON LEWIS ACROSS INDUSTRIES
The National Maritime Union issues a strong statement denouncing strikes as harmful to American war goals. It alleges John L. Lewis inspired auto rubber and coal strikes to cripple industry and hinder Allied efforts, while urging use of government labor machinery to settle disputes.
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National Maritime Union
America
NMU
John L. Lewis
NMA
War Labor Board
Hitler
Tojo
Berlin
Tokio
Lewis
Bombardment of Pantelleria Drives Up Allied Assault
Allied forces renewed heavy sea and air bombardment of Pantelleria supported by U S Flying Fortresses. Warships shelled harbor, barracks and batteries while air attacks targeted Pantelleria, Sicily, and Sardinia with limited shore retaliation reported.
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Daniel DE Luce
North Africa
Pantelleria
United States
Tunisian
Sicily
Sardinia
War Labor Board halts coal mine talks. orders pause
The War Labor Board directed the coal mine dispute to President Roosevelt and ordered both sides to cease negotiations while workers remain on strike. The action comes as about 500000 miners stay off the job, with warnings of a coal shortage and potential paralysis of war production if coal flows falter.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Roosevelt
UMA
John L. Lewis
FDR
Geome Suarepriain
Wayne L. Morse
WLB
National War Labor Board
Lewis
Edward R. Burke
Southern Coal Producing Association
Charles O'Neil
Appalachian Joint Conference
Ezra van Horn
Une
United Mine Workers
Ickes
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A. F. Holland Sr
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Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge
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