Decatur Eyes WPA Paving Add On After Protest Meeting
City officials seek a work release from the WPA to start a supplementary 193000 street paving program, to run with the current project. About 25 property owners at a city hall meeting voiced no objections and favored the plan as the first phase is roughly half finished. The total project cost climbs to 346889 with WPA shares of 218165 and local sponsorship of 128724.
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Decatur
WPA
City Hall
National Forests to Be Increased in Georgia and Alabama
Alabama and Georgia will add 484 acres to national forests. Purchases authorized total 64.69 acres for 247,930 dollars. Added units include Georgia Chattahoochee 666 acres, Alabama Black Warrior 80 acres, Talladega 238 acres.
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Washington
Alabama
Georgia
National Forest Reservation Commission
Chattahoochee
Black Warrior
Talladega
Labor Balk Triggers Raids as idle workers urged to take defense jobs
In Macon Georgia police are told to raid idle laborers amid a grand jury probe into men refusing 30 cent an hour defense jobs after 47 cent WPA work. Reports claim bullpen systems and long delays kept workers from the flying school site with contractors staffing far more men than needed.
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Macon
Air Corps
Bibb County Grand Jury
Grand Jury
Work Projects Administration
Georgia State Employment Service
Biblical Pictures At Central Baptist Church Tonight
Two Biblical pictures titled The Way Home and The Rapture will be shown at 7 30 o'clock this evening at Central Baptist Church. The public is cordially invited to attend.
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Central Baptist Church
Gasoline to Be Conserved In Wartime Plea
Washington reports President Roosevelt asks Americans to limit car use for pleasure as war demand grows. Secretary Ickes urges daylight saving nationwide to save electric power for aluminum and magnesium needed for aircraft and lend lease. Congress advances a pipeline bill to move oil from Texas and Louisiana eastward with eminent domain powers.
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House
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Texas
Louisiana
Senate
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C. W. Kellogg
Edison Electric Institute
War Crisis Grows As Dutch Plan To Limit East Indies Exports
In a wartime feature by Fred Vanderschmidt, reporting on Dutch policy under H. J. Van Mook Batavia aims to restrict East Indies oil rubber tin and copra shipments to Japan. The move would tie supplies to Allied needs and exclude Germany, unsettling Yoshizawa the Japanese negotiator.
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H. J. van Mook
Wilhelmina
Batavia
Kenkichi Yoshizawa
Japan
United States
Germany
Yoshizawa
Battle of Wits Nears Showdown in East War Talks
The article discusses the crisis in the Near East with Britain risking oil supplies and Japan eyeing the East Indies. It notes potential clashes with Britain and the United States if Japan pursues East Indies resources. A British economist cites Japan’s capacity to aid Germany depends on East Indies access. Continued on page mx.
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Edinburgh
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Roosevelt weighs new steps to end defense strikes
President Roosevelt said new steps to curb labor stoppages in defense industries are under consideration but he would not commit today while the Defense Mediation Board works to settle disputes at West Coast aircraft and lumber plants. He cited union letters pledging support and noted 52,800 defense workers were idle.
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Defense Mediation Board
North American Aviation Corporation
International Woodworkers Union
Washington
Daniel J. Tobin
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
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Pittsburgh
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White House
New York
War Department
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California
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Idential Eee
Roosevelt denies Winant peace offer rumor in press briefing
President Roosevelt said Ambassador Winant brought no peace terms from England and blasted German propaganda that tried to push a peace talk narrative. He cited two German orders urging Nazis to deny any Western Hemisphere threat and to spread Winant peace scare stories after his return.
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County Roads Project Ok'd for Morgan County
Presidential approval authorized a county wide road program with 431 002 dollars in Federal funds and 231 663 dollars sponsored by the Morgan county board of revenue and control. Work includes grading drainage paving and bridge erection across the county as state WPA releases funds. The program continues paving from Joe Wheeler Highway to Trinity and three miles on the Hartselle Danville route with other improvements planned this summer.
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John Sparkman
Sim Howell
Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control
WPA
Joe Wheeler
Trinity
Hartselle
Danville
Woodland Mills
Live Bullets Advocated for Mock War Training
Army officers in CAMP HUNTER discuss unofficially using a little live ammunition in mock war to train soldiers to stay cautious. They argue a few real bullets could raise realism and safety, with minimal risk of casualties, prompting debate on the value of realistic training versus safety.
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Hunter von Calif
Poll taxes attacked by Farm Security official at conference
George C. Stoney, Farm Security Administration adviser, told the National Conference of Social Work that eight southern states block two thirds of citizens from voting through poll taxes. He cited Alabama as having the most vicious law and named Mississippi Tennessee Georgia South Carolina Texas Arkansas Virginia as others. He linked poll taxes to political control and diminished democratic government in the region.
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N. J
George C. Stoney
Farm Security Administration
National Conference of Social Work Today
Stoney
Montgomery
Ala
Stony
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Mississippi
Tennessee
Georgia
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Virginia
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Billion Dollar Boost In Output Likely For Defense
New York experts push for a billion dollar, 10 000 000 ton annual steel capacity expansion as Washington seeks to speed defense production. Industry leaders meet to survey practical challenges and plan reports to Washington, amid gossip on Ernest T. Weir and National Steel withdrawal from the AIIS.
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Washington Defense Auth Crities
Office of Production Management
Iron and Steel Industries Defense Committee
Washington
Ernest T. Weir
National Steel Corp
American Iron & Steel Institute
Weir
Body Of Em erson Recovered After River Drowning Incident
Coroner Bev Howell ruled accidental drowning in the death of 37 year old William Lincoln Em erson of Somerville Rt 1. The body was found in the Tennessee river opposite Bluff City about 6 pm Thursday, after a boat capsized with Em erson, Sam Bryant, and W G Sivey nearby. Bryant and neighbor James Echols located the body after hours of searching with help from sheriff’s deputies, TVA workers and locals. Bluff City lies about nine miles east of Decatur.
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William Lincoln Emerson
Somerville
Rt. 1
Tennessee River
Bluff City
Whereerson
Sam Bryant
W. G. Sivey
Bryant
James Echols
TVA
Howell
Sivley
Emerson
Echols
Decatur
RAF Bombers Hit Italian Units in Syria
British RAF bombers attacked Italian air forces at Aleppo in Syria, destroying one plane as part of a broader Mediterranean campaign. Reportssaid Axis forces threaten the Suez Canal while Gibraltar and Alexandria face raids amid tensions in the Middle East.
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Indies
Middle East
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Syria
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London Radio
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Pierre Boisson
French West Africa
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Tunisia
Adolf Hitler
Henri Dentz
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Palestine
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London
Hitler
Weather update on Tennessee river rise and coastal winds
The Tennessee river rose to 17.30 feet with temperatures from 61 to 85 degrees and no rainfall in the past 24 hours. Alabama and northwest Florida expect fair conditions tonight with partly cloudy skies Saturday, breezy easterly to southerly winds. Tennessee shows increasing clouds and warmer weather with possible showers and thunder in western portions by Sunday.
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Tennessee
Alabama
Florida
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