Willkie Campaign Pushes On In Industrial East For Delegates
Wendell Willkie a 48 year old utilities executive rallies in the industrial east claiming 70 votes on first ballot and more after. He travels to Boston Hartford Providence and Brooklyn as he asserts growing strength and urges aid to allies while criticizing New Deal deficits and central government powers.
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French Premier Appeals to Roosevelt for Aid to Defend Paris
Reynaud urged the United States to provide decisive help, noting the gravity of any gesture and the need to sustain France as German forces push toward Paris. He recalled Roosevelt's 1937 warning and described Paris under heavy pressure with divisions fighting without rest.
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Paris
Africa
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Germany
France
Roosevelt address fully meets Reynaud aid request
The White House stated President Roosevelt’s recent address to the allies offered complete support and all material resources except an expeditionary force. Stephen Early, the president’s secretary, said Reynaud’s appeal had reached the State Department after Roosevelt’s return to Washington.
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White House
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United States
Paul Reynaud
France
Stephen Early
Reynaud
State Department
Negro Girl Injured Struck by Southern Rail Engine
Pearlie Amerson a 16 year old Negro girl of 605 Water Street was injured when struck by a Southern Rail Switch engine at 3 20 Wednesday afternoon on the EF Market Street track near the highway bridge. Railway officials said the engineer George Nieman saw her on a path and the engine knocked her aside. The pilot caught her and threw her to one side as the train, traveling slowly, passed. An ambulance took the injured girl to Benevolent Society Hospital.
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Megro
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Benevolent Society Hospital
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Wednnes
Market Street
Highway Bridge
George Nieman
Markets End Slump On War News And Hesitant Trade
New York stocks faded after European dispatches soured sentiment with fears of Paris open city. Traders cut profits, transfers reached about 900000 shares as leaders declined and a few gainers appeared. Cottonseed meal futures in Memphis closed steady with July at 20.00 and Sept at 21.15 dollars per ton.
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New York
Paris
Wall Street
Reynaud
Cotton prices hold steady across southern spot markets
New Orleans reports on June 13 that middling 15-16th inch cotton at ten southern spot markets remained at 10.54 cents per pound. The thirty day average sits at 10.03 cents, while middling 7-8th inch averages 10.35 cents.
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Spot Cotton Prices in New Orleans June 1844
Spot cotton closed quiet with no change. Sales 40. Prices were low middling 9.94, middling 10.94, good middling 21.39. Receipts 605, stock 605752.
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New Orleans
Market roundup from New York June rally and declines
New York traders report stocks heavy as war news fuels a rally while bonds hold steady. Cotton and wool show uneven activity with hedging. metals and sugar exhibit irregular liquidity. Chicago grain weak with wheat and corn sharply lower. cattle and hogs down 10 to 15 cents, top around 5.26.
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Liverpool
Chicago
Grain futures slide to minimums in Chicago trading
Heavy selling pushed most grain futures to minimum pegs in Chicago. Wheat and corn fell sharply with July corn near the limit, July wheat and September wheat also down, oats and rye mostly steady or lower, trading virtually deadlocked in the pits.
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Poultry Price Report Chicago June 13
Chicago market report lists live poultry and poultry products with 52 trucks. Prices show heavy foul steady and balance weak with hens under 5 pounds and various weight classes for broilers and colored Plymouth Rock and White Rock varieties. Ducks priced 4 1 2 abs up. small colored and small white noted. other prices unchanged.
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Plymouth Rock
White Rock
New York Cotton Futures Slide Amid Closed Old Contracts
In New York on June 13 futures markets show old contracts closing lower while new contracts edge up. July opens around 10.92 with highs near 10.33 and lows around 9.98. October and December trade between 9.10 and 9.14, with near terms varied. Middling spot remains around 10.86 with nominal status.
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New York
Chicago Butter and Figgs Prices Steady on Market
Chicago pricing shows butter at 1,564,335 with no change and figures at 32,043 also steady as market rates remain unchanged.
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Cotton futures steady after nervous New Orleans session
In New Orleans, cotton futures stayed nervous and irregular with closing prices mostly steady. July rose 5 points to 10.14, while other contracts showed small gains or losses amid a cautious market.
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Nashville Livestock Market Report June 13
Salable cattle 150 calves 150 mostly steady good demand. Beef cows 7.25 and down to 5.50 canners 3.50-5.25. Fed yearlings to 8.50, common to 6.50, top vealers 9.00. Hogs 500 salable 10 cents lower, 15 plus pounds 5.15, few sows 2.85. Sheep 1500 salable, undertone weaker, spring lambs 11.75, fat ewes to 3.00.
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Nashville
Tenn
U. S. Dept. Agr
Cottonseed Oil Prices in New Orleans Market
In New Orleans on June 13 the cottonseed oil market closed steady with bleachable prime summer yellow at 6.00 and prime crude at 5.45. July futures 5.45, September 5.58, October 5.60 dollars per hundredweight.
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New Orleans
Balazice Taken to Hospital After Incident
Attendants say Balazice's condition is not dangerous after she was transported to a hospital following an unspecified incident.
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Balazice
Decatur Festival Sells Tickets for Queen Pageant
Prospective buyers were urged to purchase decorations and tickets as candidates seek queen honors by popular vote. The queen will be crowned during the pageant prologue and the coronation ball follows at the Armory. Richard Mahar of John B. Rogers Producing Company and the Decatur Chamber of Commerce sponsor the event.
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Richard Mahar
John B. Rogers Producing Company
Senate finance panel backs multiple drink and tax hikes
Senate finance committee members floated a package of added levies including a one cent per bottle soft drink tax and a range of amusement taxes that could raise about 60 000 a year. They also proposed raising the admission exemption and scaling down the 40 cent threshold, with other estimates targeting gasoline taxes whisky taxes and cigarette taxes though tobacco farmers warn of offsetting relief costs.
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Allies receive promise of aid as Senate approves massive defense bill
In Washington a sweeping defense appropriation nears final approval with a 401 to 1 House vote for 1.7 billion dollars covering army and navy needs. The CCC gains noncombat training while debate over universal military training continues, and Allied aid expands with planes and materials moving toward Britain and France.
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Nazis Claim Rapid Front Advances In France
Nazi high command announced rapid progress along the entire front with Charons-Sur-Marne reported captured and Reims claimed fallen. French forces counterattacked near Beaumont and Rethel as Paris faced imminent danger and Britain ferried troops and equipment to bolster defenses. Egypt pledged aid to Britain as Mussolini’s Italy loomed thus widening the war.
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Decatur's Diary Notes Local Events And Visits
Community life in Decatur is captured with mentions of Floyd and Cooper families visiting Hartsel le and Mobile relatives, a birthday picnic for Speake Warren and Ratliff store employees at Hatfield Lake, and various church, school, and civic activities across the week. Military and PTA plans, Legion meeting, and local traffic details accompany a snapshot of daily life.
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Southside Baptist Church
Showers Ahead In Southeast Weather Report
The Associated Press notes continued scattered thunder showers in the southeast with temperatures near seasonal norms. Northern rain from Michigan to the New England coast brings cool air, while recent lows across the Mississippi Valley edge toward warmer readings. Yesterday’s highs reached 76 in Vicksburg 77 in New Orleans and Memphis and 78 in Little Rock signaling cooler mid June conditions in contrast to 90s in the southeast.
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Japan seeks status quo in Dutch East Indies amid Allied moves
The report outlines Japan’s insistence on maintaining the economic and political status quo in the Dutch East Indies after the Holland invasion. Britain France and the United States echoed similar stances, while Germany said it was not interested.
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Turks in the Eastern Mediterranean Report Lacks Confirmation
Officials in Istanbul and American consulates heard of a report but provided no details or confirmation. The company operates about a dozen tankers in the eastern Mediterranean, flying British or Panama flags.
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Italians Hold Ground in Italian Air Raid Skirmish
In the latter town of Gura hangars were demolished but despite fierce opposition from fighter planes and anti aircraft batteries all planes returned. One Italian fighter was shot down possibly two and a third damaged.
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Alabama appoints three delegates to uniform laws conference
Governor Dixon named Leon G. Brooks of Brewton Robert Harwood of the University of Alabama and Lee C. Bradley Jr of Birmingham to represent Alabama at the national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws in Philadelphia. The delegates will attend a week of preparatory meetings before the American Bar Association gathering.
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Second U S battleship joins Navy fleet at New York
The North Carolina, a 35 000 ton battleship and sister to the Washington, enters New York harbor as the second US warship launched since postwar disarmament. At 750 feet, she ranks among the world s most powerful vessels and signals a broad naval expansion plan.
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Paris Crisis and Allied Front Threat Across Meuse and Marne
The report warns the German breakthrough may threaten the Allied line in Meaux and on the Marne, risking encirclement if Paris falls. It notes Paris may be open city policy, with global repercussions and a broader impact on social order. It also highlights Italian mine-field moves near Malta to sever the Mediterranean.
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Five Die In Crash Near Aredale Iowa
A plane crash near Aredale Iowa last night killed five people including Chester Barnett 20 the pilot and owner his mother Mrs Clarence Barnett 42 his brother Clark Barnett 18 and two others Miss Mable N Vane 19 of Dumont and Carl Pfaltzgraff 27 of Hampton.
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