Capital Aroused By Sex Slaying Of Young Stenographer
The capital reels as 23 year old Jessie E. Strieff is found nude and strangled near Le DuPont circle. Police suspect she was assaulted elsewhere and dragged to a garage. autopsy notes a fierce struggle during a storm. The case shocks Congress members from her hometown and ties to two prior nearby slayings. Strieff, recently from Des Moines, had a fiancé, Stanley Le Blanc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie E. Strieff
le DuPont Circle
Miss Strieff
A. Magruder MacDonald
Congress
Hartselle Socials Highlight Juncture of Parties and News
Mrs. Guy Roberts and Mrs. Robert Perry hosted a garden party honoring Mrs. Herbert Payne of Anniston with a table of crystal and white flowers. Guests included Miss Barbara Peck Lyn Stewart and the Payne family, with a musical program by Frances Brown Revelye Parcliff and Martha Lilian Whitman. A campfire supper followed and numerous local residents attended, while library and church activities featured summer programs and a Bible school closing program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Roberts
Robert Perry
Perry
Herbert Payne
Anniston
Barbara Peck
Lyn Stewart
Ritis Payne
Russellville
J. E. Peck
Roberts
Sarah Peck Weaver
Julis Weaver
Decatur
Hal Jean Blair
Virginia Claire Bailey
Louis Galvin Blizzard
Frances Brown
Revelye Parcliff
Martha Lilian Whitman
Marty Lovely
Hazel Payne
Sarah Anne Bennett
Virginia Smith
Bobby Mixon
Blu LA oDorsey
Adriene Jones
Ben Calloway
Billy Warren Pay Bennett
Harold Onson
Ward
Beth Howell
Rachel Ppattillo
Dorothy Jean Owens
Ruth Bradley Puckett
Wil- Me
Ruth Groover
Wilmoth Groover
Margaret Sample
W. T.stewart
C. S. Lee
Francis Lee
J. R. Stone
Dan Ramey
Arthur Howell
J. V. Henderson
Ramey
Ess
Harold Parker
T. F P. Kimbrough
Oliver Blizzard
W. H. Block
Roy Newnan
Donald Wiggal
Hernando
D. W. Day
Tabernacle
Wigat
Rosalind Millican
New York City
Robbie Quinn
Jean Praytor
Jessie Nelle Lee
Joe Cakdwell
Hot Spring, Ark
Barry Currier
William Robert Fouston
EB. R. Currier
Ernest Greer
Houston Johnson
Frances Rutland
W. Wy. Pattillo
G. P. Wiggins
Ernest
Stewart, Jr
Luther Roberts
W Stewart
Simpson
Mary
Frances McCall
G. H. Grisham
Lois Grisham
June Grisham
Margaret Anne Finnin
Wylodine Nelson
Kathleen Wilson
Mary Elizabeth Holland
Elizabeth Peck
Carolyn Stewart
Betty Clark
Minnie Lee Hartselle
Billy Payne
Billy Bennett
Robert Kari Wiggins
John Lee Stephenson
John Montgomery
Horace Broom
Blunt Landers, Jr
Edward Davis Terry
Jack Hartselle
Harry Puckett
William Robert Houston
Tom “Andy Penett-Gorman
William Grisham
Elmer Freeman
Washington, D. C
Hartselle
Garfield Memorial Hospital
Barry Barelift
Freeman
Mary Paul Barelift
Frances Kimbrough
John Dennis
Charley Blair
Jane Burgess Blair
Hal Cunningham
Houston
Texas
A. Blair
Hot Springs
Arke
A. B. Jackson
Marcus Howle
Birmingham
J.A. Howle
Wilbur Bonner
Barbara Walker
John Bean
Prank Reeves
Howard Gibson
Wheeler Dam
Gim Gibson
Thurman Smith
Hillsboro
Josephine Puckett
New Orleans
Tulane University
Nancy Martin
Pattillo
Nancy Allen
Alexandria
Waldermose Springs
J. P. Walters
Willard Nelson
Sheffield
W. E. Gibson
Nelson
Atlanta
Sheffield Club
Guy Guiffith
John
Kennedy Tire Co Named Hudson Sales and Service Agency
The Kennedy Tire Co operated at Lee and Bank streets by E W Dick Kennedy has been appointed sales and service agency for Hudson automobiles. Buddy Roberson a notable Decatur auto man will manage the Hudson agency. Several 1941 Hudson models have arrived and are on display ready for demonstration at the Kennedy station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy Tire Co
Lee and
Bank Streets
E.W
Dick” Kennedy
Hudson Automobiles
Oo. B
Buddy”, Roberson
Decatur
Hudson
Kennedy Station
Courthouse Lawn Given to Receive Aluminum Ware for Defense
The county board of revenue approved placing a container on the courthouse lawn in Tuscaloosa to collect aluminum ware for the defense program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuscaloosa
Ala
County Board of Revenue
Rites Conducted for James Johnson
Graveside services for James Johnson, 55, were held at City cemetery at 10 this morning conducted by Dr. R. M. Howell. Brown oversaw burial. He died Friday afternoon at his Sycamore street home from a heart attack. He had served for years as a steamboat captain on the Tennessee river. Only distant relatives survive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Johnson
City Cemetery
R. M. Howell
First Methodist Church
Brown
Mr. Johnson
Sycamore Street
Tennessee River
Tom Sawyer Leaves for Navy Duty as 19 Bid Him Farewell
Tom Sawyer, 24, bound for duty as a navy petty officer, told 19 young women acquaintances of his departure. Ten showed up at Union station to kiss him goodbye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Tom Sawyer
Union Station
Scouts Meet At Central Baptist Church Campfire
Boy Scouts of Troop Eleven held a regular meeting by campfire behind Central Baptist church on Monday night June 16 1941 at 7 30. Life Scout Hawthorne led the opening and Eagle Scout pat Godwin led the song God Bless America. Scoutmaster spoke of recent weeks and plans for a second plan of camping at Camp Westmoreland with self supplied tents food and use of camp facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy Scouts
Troop Eleven
Central Baptist Church
Hawthorne
Pat Godwin
God Blesserica
Robert Allen
Camp Westmoreland
Sentry halts jeep in humorous wartime exchange
At Fort Jackson in June a guard stops a jeep and asks for identification. The response is a playful exchange where the captain’s jeep is asked to advance to be recognized, reflecting lighthearted military humor of the moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Jackson
S. C
Life As Lived In Camp
AP report from Tennessee and beyond details lighthearted camp anecdotes. A company of infantry encounters donkeys on a midnight hill as dawn reveals praise for their stealthy defense. Other vignettes include a soldier receiving sod from home and a recruit eager to fly before training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Tennessee
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Heinrich Simon
Des Moines
Stanley le Blanc
Farm ‘Security Administration
Cain Street
MissAraie Reed Penn
Morgan County High School
Penn
Jean Freeman
University of Alabama
Hernanda
Mrs. Day
Miss Wiggal
Harry Ourner
Ribble Quinn
Joe Caldwell
Ark
Maybelle Haynes
M. G. West
Frank Roberts
T. L. Roberts
George Wesley West
State Highway Department
Cullman
Charley Robertson
Marvin Black
Camp Blanding
Fla
Walter Black
Wanda Braytor
William Penn
Danville
Richard Parker, Jr
Juda Gail
Joe E. Wright
Joe L
Jackie Freeman
Washington, D. GC
P. W. Barcliff
J. B. Freeman
Elizabeth Robinson
Birm
Ruby Boger
Dorothy Johnson
Florence
W. E. Andress
Ponca City
Okla
Robert Sample
Patsy Sample
W. EB. Andress
George Ashworth
U. S. Air Corps
Selfridge Field
Mich
Sam Ashworth
A. Milholland
Rome
O. L. Millican
America
Fense Industries
Monicient Ariiries Board
City Electric Department
Scott
Peter Deion
R. J. Scott
ARE
Trinidad
Anna Swan
Admiral Dot
Kennedy Company
Hudsons
Huck Finn
Pan Beard
Sittason
Coutmasters
Frederick Mittwede
Scillehay
Grane
National Defense
Make
Glendale Dairy
Pleasant Hill
L. M. Aday and Son
Rhone
Forest Home Dairy
Blanding
Pat Gillis
Baton Rouge
Gillis
Camp Croft
8. C
Illinois
Sam
Randolph Field
Tex
Air Corps
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