Weather and local notices mix with cotton prices
Scattered thundershowers and a small temperature change noted. Tennessee River level at 20.85 feet, max 81, min 68. Cotton prices paid today ranged from 17.00 to 18.75. Local film showings listed, blooms from Nebo farm reported, and residents visiting relatives in Virginia and North Carolina. Community notices cover charity campaigns, church activities, and local travel, with several individuals named in incidents and visits.
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Tennessee
Wildcat siren search aims to locate historic fires whistle
Defense authorities press to find the old wildcat steam whistle once signaling fires in Decatur. It last served at the Alabama Power plant on First Avenue and earlier stood at the Decatur Light Power and Fuel plant near the L N switch tracks. Chairman Marvin Rankin urged any information, saying the whistle is considered suitable for countywide use.
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Alabama Power Company
First Avenue
Decatur Light Power and Fuel Company
Louisville and Nashville
Second
Sixth Avenues
Marvin Rankin
Rankin
U S Airm en beat Italians prizes for rubber drive
Morgan county gasoline distributors announce a $100 prize fund to reward Boy Scout troops and Cub packs for the largest scrap rubber collections by June 30. Prizes total $35 for scouts, $12.50 for Cubs, plus per-pound payments, with proceeds aiding civilian defense and war relief groups.
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Sam
Morgan County
Decatur
Hartselle
Alabama
Scout
Montgomery
Ala
Thomas Bragg
Leon Gilbert
Alabama Salvage Committee
America
Announs
Paul Reveres
Department of Agriculture War Board
USO
Army Relief
Navy Relief
American Red Cross
Bragg
Union
Japs In Aleutians Struck By Third Air Attack
The Japanese Navy suffered heavy losses as American air forces hit Japanese invasion forces in the Aleutians after victories at Coral Sea and Midway. Ships damaged or sunk included the cruiser, carrier, several cruisers, destroyer, gunboat, and transport. no American losses were reported. Continued air attacks kept pressure on Attu and Kiska as strategists noted likely defeats in three major campaigns.
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Washington
Pacific
Coral Sea
Midway Island
Middle Pacific
Navy Department
Aleutian Islands
Alaska
Navy
Attu
Aleutian Chain
Dutch Harbor
Kiska
Australia
Scrap rubber drive gains momentum in nationwide campaign
The mayoral tone notes that the scrap rubber pile in Washington grows steadily as deflated beach objects tires and football bladders accumulate by the thousands of tons. Early reports lack total figures for two weeks of the president's drive, but the general view is the campaign is off to a good start.
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Washington
America
Government to Replace Strikers in Textile Mill
In Fall River Massachusetts the federal government hired new workers to take the jobs of striking Arkwright Corporation textile mill employees. The strike began eight days earlier over wage demands totaling 81.81 dollars per week, and 125 workers refused to return to work as ordered by the National War Labor Board.
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Fall River
Mass
United States
National War Labor Board
Arkwright Corporation
Soldier Receives Medal for Heroism at Maxwell Field
War Department awards the Soldiers Medal to Private Marvin H. Potts now on duty at Maxwell Field Montgomery Alabama for risking his life to save a man from possible electrocution. Potts of Hixson Tennessee was helping the post electrician at the Field March 27 when the man contacted a live wire and Potts freed the man's body from the wire.
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Washington
War Department
Marvin H. Potts
Maxwell Field
Montgomery
Ala
Potts
Hixson
Tenn
Post
Gas Soldiers to Receive Two Girdles Each WAAC Candidate
Fort Des Moines announces WAAC officer training cadets slated to report mid July will receive two girdles on reporting and one more per year. The list includes robes, brassieres, drawers, exercise suits, gloves, stockings, shoes, bath items, grooming kits, and a set of housewares. Soldiers don’t cry as schedule provides six handkerchiefs yearly.
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Fort Des Moines
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Army
Quartermaster’s Department
Waac Officers Training School
Milady
War by Dewitt Mackenzie on a new American air front in the Middle East
The analyst argues that American bomb squadrons in the Southern Russo German theater via Turkey show Allied bases in the Middle East. He notes Syria Iraq and Iran as vital zones with strategic and resource value, suggesting new fronts may arise if Hitler advances toward the Caucasus and Russian supply routes.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Turkey
Middle East
Syria
Iraq
Iran
Persia
Three Cases Not Prossed by Court on Criminal Docket
The circuit court led by Judge A A Griffith began the criminal docket week with three cases not pressed. Burglary charges against Bruce Poole and against Lovie Collins and Welcome Collins were dropped due to service obligations and weak state evidence. The venire lists numerous Decatur Somerville Falkville Hartselle and Eva residents summoned for possible jury service.
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Circuit Court
A. A. Griffith
Bruce Poole
Lovie Collins
Welcome Collins
Eee i Marvel
William O. Rice
Decatur
Carl Sim Brown
Falkville
Richard Compton
Arthur H. Garnett
Sam Garrison
Herman Hale
Lacon
Ben*c. Jones
William — Bert Murphree
Eva
Robert M. McAlbee
Danville
Walter D. McCaghren
Hartselle
William Bethel Nelson
James W. Newton
C. Ernest Poole
Leo F. Puckett
Thomas Ransom
Somerville
Eugene Sams
Arthur L. Singleton
Charles W. Stewart
Hermann Thomas
Baileyton
Alfred D. Williams
Herman R. Windsor
Herbert Ward
Death claims T C Higdon at age 72 in Hartselle
T C Higdon, 72, died at his home on Hartselle route two this morning at two o'clock. Survived by widow, two daughters Mrs J W Rogers and Mrs Homer Henderson, three sons Roman Seldon Roy Higdon, six grandchildren. Funeral Wednesday at four at Johnson Chapel with Rev O B Lansbury and Rev M O Bridges. Interment Peck Cemetery. Pallbearers listed. floral attendants named.
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T. C. Higdon
Hartselle
J. W. Rogers
Homer Henderson
Decatur
Roman Higdon
Seldon Higdon
Roy Higdon
Johnson Chapel
O. B. Lansbury
M. O. Bridges
Peck
Andrew Edwards
Herman Vest
Andrew Taylor
Winfrey Dobbins
Walter Cooper
Robert Wallace
Ozell-MecNutt
Katherine__Edward
Imogene Do
Draft quota for July exceeds June quota
Sam Wheat secretary of Morgan county draft board number one said July quota will be larger than June though exact figures aren’t published. A large group departed for camp today after induction by board number one.
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Sam Wheat
Morgan County
Beloved Man Edmonson Dies at Woodland Mills Home
E J Edmonson aged 51 or 1 1 1 0 died this morning at his Woodland Mills home. He was a prominent planter with survivors including a widow five daughters and four sons. Services set for Wednesday at his residence with Rev I W Myers officiating and Peck of Hartselle directing interment. Pallbearers listed and several honorary pallbearers named. Flowers to be arranged by named individuals.
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E. J. Edmonson
Woodland Mills
Edmonson
R. L. Murphy
W. O. Murphy
Hattie Edmonson
Marcus McAnnally
Herbert Maxwell
Somerville
Route Two
Newt Edmonson
Larings
Lem A. Edmonson
Ontgomery
A. Q. Edmonson
Antigo
Wis
Prances Wilson
Empire
I. W. Myers
Peck
Hartselle
John R. Caine
W. T. Hamilton
J. W. Lynne
Gilbert Johnson
Duke Clemmons
Henry Clemmons
J. W. Day
John Dunn
Emmett Williams
Walker Murphy
W. T. McMullen
Henry Johnson
A. M. Mitchell
Vera Bradley
Velma Smith
Mary Nell Edmonson
Juanita Murphy
Katherine Williams
Mary Virginia Edmonson
Pamphlet on Retail Price Regulations Available
Decatur Chamber of Commerce has received a new pamphlet titled what Every Retailer Should Know About the General Maximum Price Regulation. It replaces Bulletin No two and includes revised cost of living articles, a list of articles designated Summer Seasonal Commods, and forms for adjusting low maximum retail prices. Available to callers at the Lyons hotel office.
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Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Decatur
Chamber of Commerce Iees
Lyons Hotel
Cadet Training Topic Promises Unusual Civitan Program
The Civitan club meets tomorrow at Hotel Lyons for its weekly luncheon. Irwin J. Quinn organizes a program featuring William Adams from the Southern Aviation Training School who will discuss the cadet training program. Charles Jones will provide electric guitar music as a special treat.
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Civitan Club
Hotel
Lyons
Irwin J. Quinn
William Adams
Southern Aviation Training School
Charles Jones
Maine Rep. Oliver Defeated in GOP Primary by Hale
U. S. Representative J C Oliver an isolationist before Pearl Harbor lost renomination in Maine's Republican primary. Robert Hale longtime Roosevelt policy supporter defeated him in the Tuesday vote in Portland Maine.
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Portland
U. S
J. C. Oliver
Pearl Harbor
Maine
Robert Hale
Roosevelt
Nazi Sub Sinks Add to War Losses Across Atlantic
Six new sinkings lift Allied and neutral losses in the Western Atlantic to 271 as U Boats target ships. The navy weighs the fate of the freighter Miraflores missing four months, with reports of American, Panamanian, Norwegian, British vessels among those sunk or lost.
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Associated Press
Atlantic
Navy
Cuban
Gulf of Mexico
South America
British West Indies
New Orleans
Miraflores
Standard Fruit and Steamship Company
U. S. Navy
Cyclops
Brazil
House Naval Committee Backs $8.56 Billion Ship Plan
The House Naval committee approved an $8.56 billion ship construction measure aimed at doubling the U S fleet. It omits new battleships and focuses on aircraft carriers and carrier cruiser destroyer types with over 1400 ships planned. Keels for carriers to be laid immediately and rest of program to start next year.
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Bill O. Ed Washington
United States
House Naval Committee
Vinson
Mystery of Miraflores vanishing off Haitian coast deepens
The Navy reported no sign of the Miraflores and its 34 crew after last seen off Haiti. The 2,168 ton, 270 foot vessel left New Orleans February 6 for a routine voyage to Haiti and returned by February 14 toward New York. Survivors from another Caribbean sinkings described rescue attempts by Brazilian ships and wary crews who urged lifeboat seamen to sail on to avoid the submarine threat.
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New Orleans
Haiti
New York
Caribbean
Training plane crash claims two cadets near Turnerfield
Second Lieut Ellery M. Christian of Albert Lea Minnesota and Cadet Dennis Hope of Cloverdale Gardens Newcastle on Tyne England were killed when their training plane crashed near Turnerfield and burned yesterday.
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Albany
Ellery M. Christianson
Cedar Avenue
Albert Lea
Minn
Dennis Hope
Cloverdale Gardens
Newcastle- on-Tyne
England
Turnerfield
Civilian defense classes to open tonight in local sectors
Hagerman announces Civilian Defense instruction starts tonight at Riverside and Junior high schools with sector classes for groups 20 30 31 32 33 4 OB OO OD and 25 26 27 meeting at the Junior high. Volunteers urged to attend and learn new information and contact their chief warden for class details.
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Hagerman
Riverside High School
Lawson Davidson
Henry Ladner
Ninth Street
Godbey Home Sold to Poer Sisters in Decatur
Terms agreed and papers signed for the sale of the E. W. Godbey residence at Gordon Drive and 5th Avenue East to the Misses Poer five sisters from Decatur. Sale handled by Mrs Gladys Godbey Cowart of Tuscaloosa. the house fronts Gordon Drive on a 100 by 120 foot lot, built about 1911, to become the Poer sisters home.
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E. W. Godbey
Gordon Drive
Th Avenue
Misses Poer
Decatur
Gladys Godbey Cowart
Tuscaloosa
Mabel M
Mary Elizabeth
Margaret L
Clara Altha
Frances A. Poer
Poer
Russell Speake
Largest Quota Leaves Today To Enter Armed Service Of Nation
Decatur's largest quota of men drafted into the United States Army during World War III left for camp today after brief farewell exercises near the Union bus terminal. The Decatur High School band played patriotic tunes as J W Patton Jr and Harvey Pride led the draftees, with Rev W E Waterhouse offering a prayer. Two buses carried the group, delay by one, while the crowd saluted the men and the band played as they departed. Names include George Madison Porter James David Fairbanks Felix Ewing Batts Andrew Ollie Walker J C White Charles Earl Maze Cecil
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Decatur
Union
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Decatur High School
Kenneth Hennessy
America
J. W. Patton, Jr
Harvey Pride
Rev. W. EB. Waterhouse
First Baptist Church
John M. Nelson
Americans and RAF strike in Mediterranean sea air battle
Allied forces led by American airmen and Royal Air Force attacked Italian naval units in the Mediterranean. The raid damaged and sunk ships including a Trento class cruiser, while torpedo planes hit additional targets near Taranto and Pantelleria, with German reports offering a different account of the losses.
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United States
Coral Sea
Midway
RAF
Africa
Malta
Taranto
Pantelleria
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