Weather and local notices from Decatur area
Tonight will see little temperature change with scattered thundershowers in the southern portion. Tennessee river level at 20.85 with a high of 92 and a low of 72. Cotton prices posted including strict middling 21.30 middling 21.10 strict low 19.90 low 16.60. Movie listings show Immortal Sergeant at the Princess Varsity Show at the Roxy Aloma Of The South Seas at the Capitol. Local obituaries and social items note visits, military updates, school honors, and civil service announcements. Officials invite ex-service members to a Legion meeting. post inspection led by First Vice Commander Joseph M. Pettey.
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Portion
Tennessee
The
Princess
Roxy
Aloma
South Seas
Capitol
American Legion
Caddell
Joseph M. Pettey
Fathers of draft ages to be called by year end
The House appropriations committee and War Manpower Commission officials warned that the majority of physically fit fathers would be inducted by year end. Inductions for 1944 set to begin in August with total armed forces reaching about 10.9 million, while earlier manpower pools and replacements were outlined as the pool of suitable men shrinks.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Paul W. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
WMC
House
McNutt
Hershey
Armed Services
Supreme Court Overrules Flag Salute Rule
The Supreme Court ruled that compelling schoolchildren with religious scruples to salute the flag is unconstitutional. Justice Jackson delivered the decision reversing the 1940 ruling, involving Jehovah's Witnesses sued against the West Virginia board of education. The May June case noted dissent from Roberts Frankfurter and Reed, with Rutledge and Jackson joining the majority.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Jackson
Jehovah's Witnesses
West Virginia Board of Education
Roberts
Frankfurter
Reed
Minersville
Pennsylvania
Stone
Black
Douglas
Murphy
Justice Frankfurter
Rutledge
West Virginia
United States of America
Walter Barnette
Paul Stull
Lucy McClure
Kanawha County
Committee On the Bill of Rights
The
American Bar Association
American Civil Liberties Union
American Legion
Chinese Win New Ground On Yangtze Front
American airmen and Chinese Commandos struck Japanese bases along the upper Yangtze. More than 100 bombs hit Nanchang airfield in Kiangsi, gasoline dumps burned, runways torn up, and 400 Japanese killed in behind front lines attacks near Yochow. Meanwhile US warplanes fought over the Solomons with losses and rescues as Kiska base faced heavy Allied pressure.
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Associated Press
Yangtse
Chungking
Nanchang
Kiangsi
China
Shanghai
Hankow
Yochow
Yangtze
Sangtze
Ichang
Shasi
Solomons
Russell Islands
U. S
Bougainville
North Pacific
Kiska Island
Amercan
Attu
Navy
Kiska
Burma
Funeral Rites Set for J. Brooks in East Morgan County
Funeral services for J. Brooks who died in Denver Colorado will be held at 3 pm Wednesday at Union Hill in East Morgan County. The body will arrive at Brown funeral home Tuesday on No 1. Interment will be at Union Hill cemetery with arrangements announced later by Brown.
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J. ¥. Brooks
Denver
Colorado
Union Hill
Morgan County
Brown Funeral Home
Brown
Redus Loses Round as Rehearing Seeks Stay of Execution
Robert Redus, a Negro defendant, won a rehearing and a stay of execution for his planned July 16 electrocution in the slaying of Birmingham police officer Walter Smith. Attorney for Redus said the case would go back to the U S Supreme Court after its previous denial to reverse the conviction. Redus alias Reddus was convicted in June 1941 of killing Bedford Brackeen. multiple stays have been granted pending further litigation.
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Robert Redus
Athens
Walter Smith
Birmingham
United States Supreme Court
Redus
Reddus
Bedford Brackeen
Courtland Fire Claims Nineteen Mules At Ashford Farm
A late week fire at the Fred Ashford farm in Courtland destroyed nineteen mules and large quantities of feed. Cause under investigation but believed to be started by a dropped cigarette. Nearby residents reportedly lent mules and farm work continues.
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Fred Ashford
Courtland
Mr. Ashford
Sewerage disposal pump at station hit by storm
A sewerage disposal pump motor at station No 1 was knocked out by a Saturday electrical storm in Decatur. Officials said damage was slight and repairs were expected within a few hours.
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Station No. 1
Decatur
Farmer victim of mayhem in Cullman County
Hubert Wood, about 32 and a farmer from Vinemont 3, was treated at Benevolent hospital after an alleged attempt at castration on a roadside near White Kitchen on U S Highway 31. Elmer Milligan and D L Owens, both farmers in North Cullman county, are jailed awaiting possible mayhem charges. Milligan says he does not remember the incident, Owens claims Milligan did it. Wood's condition is satisfactory though badly lacerated. prognosis is recovery barring infection or complications.
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Hubert Wood
Vinemont
Benevolent Hospital
Wood
Elmer Milligan
Cullman County
D. L Owens
J. D. Mitchell
Mitchell
Cullman
White Kitchen
U. S. Highway 31
Owens
Milligan
Hoover
Howle
Hart- Selle
TVA Fight Moves To Strip TVA From Confirmation Bill
Senator Hill Alabama seeks to exempt Tennessee Valley Authority employees from a Senate confirmation clause for federal workers paid over 4500 yearly. Taft and Vandenberg oppose, noting TVA staff should follow the same rules as other agencies. Hill estimates about 397 TVA workers would be affected.
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Washington
Hill
Ala
Tennessee Valley Authority
Senate
McKellar
Tenn
TVA
Taft
Ohio
Vandenberg
Mich
Mahoney
D. Wyo
O’mahoney
Federal Bureau of Investiga
White House
Utive
Diet session looms in Japan as nation mobilizes
Max Hill reports on a brief Diet session likely to be packed with pro forma announcements for UN consumption. He recalls Tokyo rhetoric about total mobilization and restructuring, noting theDiet’s role and suggesting a look back to pre Pearl Harbor era to understand current motives.
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Max Hill
Japan
United Nations
Tokyo
Pearl Harbor
Amer
Labor Bills Focus of Alabama Senate Panel
In Montgomery on June 14 the senate judiciary committee focused on the Bradford bill to create a state Labor Department and oversee employer worker relations. The panel approved a section requiring unions to file annual financial reports and passed a tie break by Chairman Shaver. Bradley’s substitute bill would mirror governor proposals and include voluntary arbitration. The session also targeted several liquor measures and other labor bills ahead of Monday’s reconvened legislature.
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Montgomery
Ala
Senate Judiciary Committee
Bradford
State Labor Department
Charles F. Shaver
Huntsville
O. B. Hill
Florence
Shaver
Gerald Bradford
Clarke
Chauncey Sparks
Vincent Kilborn
Mobile
Alabama
House Temperance Committee
Senate Temperance Committee
W. L. St. John
Anti-Strike Bill Moves Toward White House
The senate approved a broad anti-strike bill targeting government operated industries and mines. It imposes fines or imprisonment for instigating work stoppages and seeks to curb actions against President Roosevelt's wartime priorities. Labor groups oppose the measure and vow to seek a veto.
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Associated Press
Washington
White House
Senate
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Roosevelt
Lewis
Capitol Hill
Congress
Alabama
Pennsylvania
Interior
Ickes
War Labor Board
WLB
Nnd
McKellar
D.-Tenn
Middle East Bombers Strike Sicily Air Bases
Allied Liberators escorted by Spitfires bombed Gerbini and Catania airbases in Sicily. About 250000 pounds of bombs caused smoke and damage to hangars. Mediterranean offensive pushed into Sicily as Northwest Africa air power limited to patrols.
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North Africa
U. S
Middle East Air Command
Sicily
Catania
Gerbini
Mediterranean
Italy
Pantelleria Surrenders After Prolonged Bombing
Premier Mussolini ordered the surrender of Pantelleria after a report from the island that Allied bombing, food and water shortages, and civilian suffering made resistance untenable. Brig. Gen. Achille Maffei relayed that Admiral Gina Pavesi said the situation was hopeless, Mussolini approved surrender to spare civilians.
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United States
Associated Press
Pantelleria
Mussolini
Achille Maffei
Gina Pavesi
Maffei
Massive Allied Bombing Redates Axis Bases North of Malta
About 250000 pounds of explosives were dropped on Gerbini and Catania fields by Liberators of the Ninth U S Air Force. Malta Spitfires escorted the bombers on their approach from the Middle East and on the return. The targets lie roughly 125 miles north of Malta. U S bulletin notes about 25 Axis aircraft observed in revetments and dispersal areas at Gerbini with runways cratered and bursts. Three other island stepping.
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Gerbini
Catania
U. S
Middle East
Malta
U.S
Rhineland Bombardment Continues In Allied Night Raids
The RAF bombed Siestides’s in the Rhineland and German targets last night while laying mines in enemy waters. No losses announced. American bombers had attacked Bremen and Kiel earlier, and German night raids returned fire causingAlerts and light damage along the Northeast coast.
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Rhineland
London
RAF
Siestides
Germany
Air Ministry
Channel
United States
Bremen
Kiel
U. S
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