Diverse Decatur News Highlights Local Life
Weather reports show scattered afternoon showers and a Tennessee River rise to 20.15 feet with temperatures up to 93. Cotton prices posted today include strict middling 18.66 and 18.40 middling. Local movie listings feature Kings Row at the Princess and Murder In The Big House at the Roxy. Community notes cover promotions, travel, church sermons, and social visits across Decatur with multiple residents and nearby cities mentioned.
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Tennessee
Kings Row
The
Big House
Roxy
Capitol
Smashing Victory In Coral Sea Reviewed
American fliers in Tulagi Harbor on May 4 pressed into dawn dives and sank nine to eleven Japanese warships and transports, while carriers returned unscathed. Officers Taylor and Burch described the attack as a prelude to the Coral Sea battle, with sunken ships and heavy damage to the Japanese armada near Florida Island.
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Coral Sea
Walter B. Clausen
F Harbor
T. H
Pearl Harbor
Tulagi Harbor
Solomon Islands
Joseph Taylor
Danville
William Burch
Paducah
Tulagi
Taylor
Bill
Burch
Washington
United States
Lexington
Australia
Clark Lee
The Lexington sinks after five hour battle fire and explosion
The Lexington carrier goes down after a brutal five hour fight to save the ship. The explosion and fires follow a mid battle attack by Japanese aircraft at Coral Sea, with most crew rescued and losses among enemy forces outlined.
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Lexington
United States
Coral Sea
Japan
Australia
Big Three Emergence Shapes Postwar World Order
War analyst Dewitt Mackenzie notes the United States Great Britain and Russia solidify as a protective trio guiding the postwar world. The alliance pools vast resources to form an invincible but benevolent partnership, shaping a new global order with dominant Western powers steering events.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
United States
Britain
Russia
America
Pact Brings Russia Into Anglo Allied World Order
The article lauds a new epoch marked by Russia joining the Anglo American alliance. It cites the Anglo Russian treaty of mutual assistance and postwar cooperation with Washington and Moscow. It frames the Roosevelt Churchill Atlantic plan as a historic eight point program toward a better world and signals a unified path forward.
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Russia
Europe
Asia
Washington
Moscow
America
Britain
Roosevelt
Churchill
Tenant Held for Shooting in Limestone County Farm
Theo Pepper, 55, was shot to death about 7 30 a m on a Limestone county farm east of Athens. Arnold McLemore, 36, a tenant, was arrested and jailed after being found in bed with a shotgun by his side. Sheriff Whitt cited a farm dispute over chickens and cotton as the fatal cause. Pepper’s body was sent to McConnell’s Funeral Home. services are set for Saturday at two, burial at Johnson’s Graveyard. Pepper is survived by his wife and three children.
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Theo Pepper
Limestone County
Athens
Arnold McLemore
Pepper
Martin Whitt
McLemore
McConnell
Whitt
Aherit McLemore
Hargrove
Sandlin
Johnson’s Graveyard
Trials Scheduled as Circuit Court Concludes Noon
The circuit court disposed of civil cases by noon and continued others to a later term. Five defendants were arraigned, with two civil trials ending in verdicts for the plaintiff in Richard Preuit vs Charles Roberts and for the defendant in L B Suit vs Southeast Greyhound Lines. Several defendants’ trials set for June 17 include rape, robbery, murder, and grand larceny cases. The grand jury remains in session and criminal court opens Monday for a two day session.
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Ateor
Circuit
A. A. Griffith
L. B
Southeastern Greyhound Lines
Richard Preuit
Charles Roberts
Jim Jones
Walter Mears
Bill Cohen
Dan Olinger
Russell Lynne
Troy Puckett
Powell and Powell
L. O. Oldacre
T. Tapscott
Sherman Powell
Hartselle
James Sledge
Blackgal
Herschell Rollins
R. W. Holland
Criminal Cort
Draft Board Seeks Missing Local Registrants in Morgan County
The Morgan County local board number one seeks the whereabouts of registered men listed here. They include Buford Dicky Billings Decatur Joe Blackwell Dalton Hubert Blankenship Decatur William Brown Decatur James Drake Decatur Dewey James Decatur William Johnson Chattanooga Raymond Moore Decatur Earnest Norman Decatur James Roper Decatur Ira Sivley Decatur James Smith Decatur Henry Terry Decatur Charles Walter Decatur James Waugh Decatur. Report any information to the board.
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Morgan County
Buford Dicky Billings
2Nd Ave
Decatur
Ala
Joe Blackwell
Thomas St
Dalton
Hubert Lawrence Blankenship
4Th Ave
William Western Brown
6Th Ave
South
James Cleveland Drake
North Avenue
Dewey James
William Austin Johnson
T. Wheeler Russell
Harold Crawford Little
James Louis McDonald
Paul Bernard McElderry
Cowart St
Chattanooga
Tenn
Raymond Hart Moore
Box 233
Earnest Eugene Norman
3Rd Ave
James Franklin Roper
8Th Avenue
Ira Franklin Sivley
James Smith
BE. Market St
Henry Growth Terry
Charles Rudolph Walter
James McKinley ‘Waugh
E. Moulton
Roosevelt Announces Nationwide Scrap Rubber Drive
President Roosevelt announced a nationwide scrap rubber collection campaign from June 15 to 30. About 400,000 filling stations will serve as depots, paying one cent per pound, with government reimbursement. The effort aims to gauge available rubber as Japan’s wartime losses constrain supply. The program is directed by the Bureau of Industrial Conservation and Rubber Recovery Corporation, with oil firms aiding pickups from stations and farms.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Bureau of Industrial Conservation
War Production Board
Rubber Recovery Corporation
RFC
Petroleum Industry War Council
Vervice
Ions
Uly Bellet
Navy
Red Cross
Southwest Pacific
Army
Morgan County education board delays start to September 7
The Morgan County Board of Education met at the courthouse and, on Irwin J. Quinn’s recommendation, voted to push the new school term to September 7 from July 20. The board cited teacher shortages and farm work schedules as reasons, noting October and November had the best attendance last year and potential loss of teachers. Dr. B R Emens was elected chairman to replace Jim Crow, with members W O Clark John T Kyle and W J Briscoe attending.
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Morgan County Board of Education
Irwin J. Quinn
Quinn
B. R. Emens
Mplace Jim Crow
Dimmens
Wv. O. Clark
Falkville
John T. Kyle
Hartselle
W. J. Briscoe
Joppa
Two Robberies Investigated by City Police
City policemen Whitmire and Terry investigate two night robberies both involving smashed windows. At Lee Campbell filling station on West Church Street about $6 to $8 in coins and small bills were taken, while Joe Reed Martin Negro cafe on West Cain Street reported losses from a peanut machine, a Crippled Children’s jar, a candy box, a tokens jar, and assorted small items including a new pair of men’s shoes and gum.
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Whitmire
Terry
Lee Campbell
Weat Church Street
Joe Reed Martin Negro Cafe
West Cain Street
Ac Ee
Mrs Susan F Poteet Dies After Illness
Mrs Susan Frances Poteet aged 74 died this morning at nine o clock at her home on Athens Route five after a ten week illness. Her home is on Buck Island road four miles west of Athens. Funeral services are set for Saturday at two o'clock with interment in Athens cemetery. McConnell directing. Survived by her daughters and four sons.
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Susan Frances Poteet
Athens
Poteet
Buck Island Road
McConnell
Dent
Ers
Two Women Involved In Severe Cutting Incident
Laverne McDonald is in serious condition at Benevolent Society hospital after a cutting fracas on East Moulton Street. Gertrude Sykes was injured and arrested after receiving treatment. both incidents followed a blood filled attack near Holly and Moulton Streets. Sykes faces assault with intent to murder while McDonald awaited trial for a prior second degree murder charge.
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Laverne McDonald
Benevolent Society
Gertrude Sykes
McDonald
Sykes
Benevolent Hospital
Circuit Court
Second Avenue
Sandlin
Morgan County
Joe Ausley to be laid to rest today
Joe Ausley aged 25 will be laid to rest this afternoon at four o'clock at Legg cemetery Limestone county following services at his home in Greenbriar He is survived by his widow two brothers Irvin and Oliver of Greenbriar and a sister Mrs Marle Isom of Athens Interment will be by Mcfee Howell and Young after the service conducted by Creel minister of the Church of Christ.
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Joe Ausley
Greenbriar
Irvin
Oliver
Marle Isom
Athens
Legg
Limestone County
Creel
Church of Christ
Mcfee
Howell
Young
Allied chiefs shape blows against Axis in new war plans
Allied capitals debate striking Europe in 1942 with a second front and a possible Soviet attack on Japan. Washington hopes a Molotov pact could give U S bomber bases in Vladivostok access to Asia. China urges immediate Soviet action against Japan as Pearl Harbor talk grows.
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Roger D. G
Associated Press
Germany
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
United
Trons
Europe
Japan
Washington
Conquarters
Roosevelt
Russia
Vylav Molotov
Vladivostok
U. S
United States
Papan
Wheeler
D.mont
Hitler
China
Chiang Kai Shek
Ch ]King
Ta Kung
Alaska
Soviet Kamchatka
Siberia
China Times
Pacific
Pearl Ha
May
Britain
Washington-Moscow Accord Wiping the Dollar Sign Off United States
Long Awaited Nazi Drive Reported Near Kharkov
Nazi forces reportedly renewed a major offensive east of Kharkov amid growing signs of a decisive summer push. Soviet dispatches acknowledge German progress though claim fierce Russian resistance and no major changes to the front.
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Associated Press
Fedor von Bock
Kharkov
Pittsburgh
Ukraine
Red Army
Crimean
Sevasto Black Sea
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Sonny Pitt
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Trinity
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7Th Ave
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Elko
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Jim Smith
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J. H. Hendon
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