Army supply bill biggest since World War days in 1941
The House appropriations committee sent a $10,009,655,187 army supply bill to bankroll the air corps to 40,000 planes, warning funds are insufficient. Robert P. Patterson warned of a military need for all planes, citing Germany's growing capacity, as total defense outlays approach $30.1 billion since last July. The bill allocates major sums for warplanes, army pay, bases, defenses, and equipment with contingents for future orders and armored divisions.
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Washington
Air Corps
House
Appropriations Committee
Robert P. Patterson
War Department
Germany
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
George C. Marshall
Marshall
Army
National Guard
Sis
Adna R. Chaffee
Tole
World War II Middle East crisis widens with Syria action
Secretary Hull said France policy aims at aggression and oppression as Britain lines up for possible Syria invasion. British forces bombard Alexandria killing over 100 as Turkey and Germany move troops into Syria, intensifying the Persian Gulf theater and jeopardizing the Suez route.
Death sentence for Frank Bass affirmed by state supreme court
The state supreme court upheld the death sentence for 23 year old Frank Bass of Trinity. He was convicted in Morgan County Circuit Court in October 1940 of burglary at night with intent to ravish and to murder in the February 22 home invasion that seriously injured Miss Virginia Canterberry. The execution was scheduled for Friday, August 1.
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Frank Bass
Trinity
Newton B. Powell
Alabama
Bass to die under 1936 burglary law in Alabama
Frank Bass a 23 year old Black man convicted in Morgan circuit court faces execution in the electric chair on August 1 under Alabama’s 1936 burglary statute making it a capital offense to break into an occupied dwelling at night. The Morgan grand jury charged him in February 1940 for breaking into J. J. Canterberry’s dwelling with listed intents. The Supreme Court affirmed the lower court ruling with all justices concurring except Knight who did not participate.
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Montgomery
Ala
Frank Bass
Morgan Circuit Court
Alabama
Bass
J. J. Canterberry
Morgan Grand Jury
Supreme Court
Knight
Heavy rains end drought in spots across the region
Drought lingered in the east and south as widespread rains provided uneven relief. Ohio reported its worst drought in 25 years while North Carolina Governor Broughton credited a three inches rainfall with a potential million-dollar county impact.
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Associated Press
Ohio
J. M. Broughton
North Carolina
Weather Bureau
South Carolina
Eastern Seaboard Oil Shortage Remedies Urged
A special findings committee recommends boosting use of existing transport facilities and building new pipelines and tankers to ease an anticipated oil and gasoline shortage on the Eastern Seaboard. A Texas to New York pipeline was highlighted with an estimated cost of 70 million dollars and construction time of 12 to 15 months.
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Washington
Eastern Seaboard
Office of Production Management
Harold Ickes
Texas Fields
New York
South must boost power for defense in two years
A federal power official from Atlanta urges the South to raise electric power production by about 20 percent within the next two years through democratic cooperation to meet defense requirements. He stresses coordination of effort to counter a threat from across.
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Atlanta
South
Oil Restrictions Likely In East Within A Month
Petroleum Administrator Ickes said oil consumption curbs in the East are probable within a month and may require voluntary measures. He urged daylight saving time and warned of worsening power shortages. Reallocation of the tanker fleet to British service is seen as certain as lawmakers consider oil pipeline funding.
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Washington
Ickes
C. W. Kellogg
Edison Electric Institute
Office of Production Management
America
Roosevelt
Lane Plant Closed by CIO Strikers in Inglewood
A CIO strike shut North American Aviation Corporation’s Inglewood California plant today as the Defense Mediation Board considered the dispute. President Roosevelt signaled possible drastic steps to end defense stoppages while calling for prompt use of a national mediation machinery. The plant halted for the first time since 1928. the company holds contracts worth 196 million with U.S. and British governments.
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Associated Press
CIO
Defense Mediation Board
North American Aviation Corporation
Inglewood
Calif
Washington
Roosevelt
North American
Mediation Board
W. P. Goodman
United Automobile Workers
North America
CIO Lumber Atta Haatdiantis
Northwest
United States
National Defense Mediation Board
Three Die in Docena Mine Blast Near Birmingham
In Docena mine near Birmingham Alabama, a coal mine explosion killed three workers Henry G Myers, Carl Wolfe, and Will Hamilton. Thirteen others were hospitalized for burns. Officials cited methane gas or fire damp as the cause and continued operations except at the blast site.
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Birmingham
Ala
Henry G Myers
Carl Wolfe
Docena Village
Will Hamilton
Pratt City
William L. Trammell
Docena
Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company
Miss Lorene Parsley Called by Death in Athens Area
Miss Lorene Parsley 18 of Athens route 1 died at 11 PM Sunday at her home near Carey after a short illness. Funeral services were held at the home Monday at 1 PM conducted by Bro. P C Abernathy of Elkmont. Burial followed at Huntsville highway cemetery near Athens. She was a Holiness church member and is survived by her father Everett Parsley a sister Flora Mae Parsley a brother T J Parsley and grandparents Mr and Mrs Reubean Green of Carey. Pallbearers were Carey friends.
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Lorene Parsley
Athens
Carey
Bro. P. C. Abernathy
Elkmont
Holiness Church
Rainey
Ardmore
Huntsville Highway
Miss Parsley
Everett Parsley
Flora Mae Parsley
T. J. Parsley
Reubean Green
Addresses of five registrants sought by Decatur draft board
Draft Board No. 1 at Decatur asks the public for current addresses of five registrants now unreachable. Questionnaires returned as mover left no address or unknown at this address. Names and last addresses listed include Clyde Brindley Tapscott Decatur route 2 Johnnie Francies 414 West Walnut Street Curtis Arlo Sharp Decatur route 2 Hartsville route 2 Willie Beard Bel negro 202 Nine Brick Decatur.
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Draft Board No
Decatur
Featisns
MING
Draft Board
Clyde Brindley Tapscott
Johnnie Francies
Negro
West Walnut Street
Curtis Arlo Sharp
Hartselle
Charlie Willie Busbey
Willie
Preacher) Beard
Bel Negro
Nine Brick
Coast Guard to Transfer Sailors to Navy Transports
Secretary Morgenthau announced that over 3000 Coast Guard sailors will move to the Navy to man new transports. About 700 will crew the liner America under a wartime executive order. Additional transfers follow Coast Guard cutter handovers to England and nationwide station recalls.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Coast Guard
Navy
Roosevelt
Treasury
America
Maritime Commission
United States
England
R. R. Waesche
Mrs N R Nichols Victim Of Illness In Athens
Athens Alabama June 5 funeral services for Mrs N R Nichols 81 68 prominent Athens woman who died Tuesday night after a sudden illness were held at 10 a m Thursday at her residence with Dr B T Waites pastor of the First Methodist church officiating Burial followed in the city cemetery McCornnell directing Surviving are her husband one daughter Mrs Bonner Neville of Eutaw Alabama and three sons N R Nichols Jr of Athens Robert Nichols of Johnson City Tenn and Dr William Nichols of Lake City Florida The community mourns her passing
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Ala
N.r.nichols
B. T. Waites
First Methodist Church
Buxjal
City
McCornnell
Bonner Neville
Eutaw
N. R. Nichols, Jr
Robert Nichols
Johnson City
Tenn
William Nichols
Lake City
Florida
Nichols
Hundred killed as Nazi bombs hit Alexandria in Mediterranean blow
Reports say a heavy bombing killed more than 100 people at Alexandria, base of the British Mediterranean fleet, as Axis forces threaten Suez defenses. Britain declares Syria and Lebanon enemy occupied and reinforces forces in Palestine, Iraq, and Cyprus amid fears of a broader Middle East crisis.
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Crete
Axis
Britain
Nag
Associated Press
London
Syria
Vichy
Nagis
Alexandria
Egypt
Lg West
Bgypt
Lebanon
Adolf Hitler
Palestine
Cyprus
Suez Canal
United States
Hull
Mediterranean
Suez
Trans-Jordan
Turkey
Iraq
NBC
Ankara
Charles le Gaille
Stimson Pushes Seizure Power for Defense Needs
Secretary Stimson said property seizure powers sought by the president are needed to clear machine tool bottlenecks aluminum shortages and German patents hindering defense production. He warned against frivolous objections in Congress and indicated support for a time limit while noting broad backing from the War Department Navy and OPM. Congress pressed for drastic amendments to the bill.
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Washington
Stimson
Congress
War Department
Roosevelt
Navy
OPM
United States
Allenby of 1941: Britain’s need in the Near East
Dewitt Mackenzie writes from abroad as Pred Vanderschmidt covers war notes. Britain seeks a conqueror like Allenby to deliver a swift stroke in the Near East to preserve Turkey, aid the Mediterranean, and lift morale. General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson may be the expected leader in Palestine and Transjordan. no decision to move armies into Syria is shown, while Syria and Lebanon are described as enemy-occupied territory.
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Britain
Allenby
Jerusalem
Damascus
Near East
Turkey
Mediterranean
New World
Henry Maithland Wilson
Palestine
Transjordan
Wilson
Syria
Lebanon
Britain Eyes New Allenby Style Campaign in Syria
The article argues Britain must deploy a second Allenby like force to confront German infiltration in the French mandate now said to number 15 000 troops. It notes bombing of Beirut oil facilities, aims to strike Germans in French territories, and contemplates reestablishing oil flows to Haifa via Mosul as a precursor to a land campaign in Syria with Free French support.
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Turkey
Sukru Saracoglu
Franz von Papen
Syria
Saracoglu
Iraq
Ankara
Rumania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Beirut
Anthony Eden
Hitler
Mosul
Haifa
Vichy
Tennessee River Gauge Holds Steady at 17.23 Feet
The Tennessee river remained stationary at 17.23 feet with a max 86 and min 64 degree temperatures and no rainfall in the past 24 hours. Alabama forecast calls for light to moderate northerly to easterly winds along the coast tonight and Friday.
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Tennessee
Alabama
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