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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1942
Page
1
The forecast mentions little temperature change tonight with river levels and cotton prices reported. Read of film showings My Gal Sal Lady For A Night and Black Dragons and a long list of local visits, moves and appointments across Decatur Huntsville and surrounding areas.
In Decatur, J. R. Williams announces start of nationwide salvage efforts. Service stations become scrap rubber receiving centers where residents can sell scrap rubber at a cent a pound or donate to the Office of Civilian Defense. Donors receive receipts.
Americans race to gather discarded rubber from attics cellars and yards as President Roosevelt calls citizens to turn in all spare rubber. Oil industry mobilizes over a million workers to collect, process and deliver scrap rubber to stations for government payment aiding potential nationwide gasoline rationing.
Mrs. W. H. Draper aged 44 of Hartselle route one died at 5 30 AM. She is survived by her husband four daughters seven sons two sisters two brothers and a mother. Services at Mt Tabor Church Tuesday at two o clock with interment in Mt Tabor cemetery Peck directing. Pallbearers and flower attendants named.
The first cotton bloom of the season attracted attention at The Daily office. It grew on Jim Lynne’s 20 acre field near Florette and is expected to be fully in bloom within a week. W. O. Lipscomb brought the bloom. Mr. Lynne planted in March.
Alabama reported at least nine fatalities from accidents over the weekend. RAF cadets James Barnes and Walter Bowden died in a mid air collision near Mt Meigs during night training flights at Gunter Field. Other casualties included Miss Marie Miller and Daniel Fargo in a Birmingham area auto crash, plus Dewey Bell and John Huey Jr in separate wrecks. Additional deaths were reported from drownings and a railway collision, with Tuscaloosa road repairs and $50 000 in damage noted.
In Raiford on June 15 Clyde Hysler of Jacksonville was executed for the 1936 murder of Mrs. Mayme Surrency. James Baker, his Black accomplice, followed in the electric chair after repeated post ponements as lawyers fought to save them. The case twice reached the U S Supreme Court.
Criminal court opened this morning at the Mugigan county courthouse with Judge A. A. Griffith presiding. All civil cases on the circuit court docket were disposed of last week. Eight defendants were arraigned and trials set for June 15 through 18, totaling 37 cases scheduled for trial.
President Roosevelt told Congress that lend-lease through May reached 4.497 billion dollars. He warned distribution bottlenecks remain critical while production advances. He described a shift from goods to fighting weapons and said Britain and the United States act in concert to move men and materiel to launch offensives.
A large group of drafted men from Decatur will depart Tuesday at seven o clock for Army service. The farewell includes a brief prayer by Rev. W. E. Waterhouse and a patriotic performance by the Decatur high school band under Prof. Kenneth Hennessy. No speeches are planned, and families may spend the remaining time with the men before departure. The Chamber of Commerce invites public attendance at seven, with downtown merchants asked to display flags.
The Senate approved a military pay allotment bill allowing Selective Service to consider family ties when drafting. The measure would aid dependents of privates and below with federal allowances, while local draft boards must first exhaust single men before inducting husbands and fathers. The plan outlines monthly payments varying by family size and service, with deductions from a soldier’s pay supplemented by government subsidies.
Ensign Charles Darrah of the U S Navy with the Asiatic fleet phoned his parents Mr and Mrs J W Darrah early this morning after a radiogram yesterday that he would call about ten o clock He asked them not to inquire about his location or duties saying he was interested in hearing about home and Decatur He had been in five engagements and praised his guardian angel for protection
War analyst Dewitt Mackenzie reports staunch Russian defenses in two major fronts. Hitler strains to start a delayed offensive by breaking the Red line at Kharkov in Ukraine and Sevastopol in Crimea. The efforts aim to open a route toward the Caucasus and a tunnel for German advances.
Reported day by day from the front lines describes German forces using World War I style mass attack tactics against the Red defenses. Marshal Timoshenko's Bolsheviks reportedly hold the line, inflicting heavy losses while suffering casualties themselves as German spring blitzkrieg indicators surface.
Chronology of two medals awarded in 1906 to Henry Wormstein and John Laurey for service aboard the USS Connecticut during a Japan visit. In 1942 those medals were sent back to Japan, attached to a bomb, delivered in Tokyo by Lt. Ted W. Lawson with ceremony, per Frank Knox. Laurey later served at Pearl Harbor repairing wartime damage.
The United States Court of Appeals upheld the convictions of the American Medical Association and the Medical Society of the District of Columbia for illegal restraint of trade under anti trust law. They were fined 2500 and 1500 dollars respectively. trial acquitted all individual defendants.
Washington June 15 A split in the Senate appropriations committee is reported over abolishing the Civilian Conservation Corps with two equally strong factions. A majority favors continuing the National Youth Administration, another New Deal relief agency.
In a 1942 reenactment at South Plainfield New Jersey James Powell was treated for a slight head wound after Louis Anderson attempted to shoot Powell’s hat with a .22 rifle. Police Captain Judson Ten Eyck said Anderson fired at Powell at his request.
Eight people are killed and eleven injured when the Seaboard Air Line Silver Meteor collides with a freight train near Kittrell. Hours later division superintendent H M Terrell is shot in Raleigh, with police noting powder burns on his tongue and a pistol near the body.
A 60 year old Birmingham grocer and father of seven, held in Allegany county jail, awaits trial for the 1910 Belfast murder of Constance Norman Chalker. Indicted by state supreme court, the defendant is Luig Vacchiano, believed to be Luigi Vacchiano, under custody with state troopers. Bruce Gleason was killed nearby during the disturbance.
Berlin radio says 683 U S Canadians and Latin Americans repatriated under a Japan exchange plan will sail from Shanghai June 23 to 25 aboard Conte Verde. They will be exchanged at Lourenco Marques for Japanese nationals sent from the United States aboard Gripsholm.
Axis forces clash near Sardinia and Sicily as Rome cites a British convoy of about 30 ships including aircraft carriers and a battleship. Italian communique says two cruisers and four steamers sunk and others damaged, while carrier aircraft claim heavy losses for the Allied flotilla. Concurrent naval actions unfold in the Black Sea and Libyan desert battles around Tobruk as Axis and Allied moves continue.
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