Oxford Honors Roosevelt With Historic Degree Ceremony
President Roosevelt receives an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from Oxford University in Washington style exchanges after Harvard awards a similar honor to Lord Halifax. The ceremony, held in the capital, marks a historic transfer of academic function and stresses freedom and universal truth.
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Cambridge
Miss
Oxford University
Harvard University
Roosevelt
Lord Halifax
Oxford
Harvard
United States
England
Edwin M. Watson
Watson
University of Oxford
House Ways and Means committee shapes large tax hike
The Ways and Means Committee tentatively backed steep surtax increases on individuals and tighter corporate excess profits taxes to raise about 2.48 billion dollars. The plan would start surtaxes at 5 percent for the first 2000 dollars of income and rise to 75 percent above five million, with the 4 percent normal tax still in place. The new 5.5 percent initial rate for the first income segment plus a 0.5 percent additional surtax would apply after a 10 percent earned income credit deduction.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Doughton
D-Noc
Taken Over First Of 28 Damaged Italian Ships
The Maritime Commission took formal possession of the first of 28 sabotaged Italian ships in U S waters. The Clara 6181 gross tons was seized at Savannah and will be drydocked in Newport News before service. Its final assignment remains undecided.
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Washington
Maritime Commission
United States
Clare
Savannah
Clara
Newport News
Dixon plans tax rate cut in Alabama
Governor Frank M. Dixon proposed using about 750000 dollars from the educational trust fund to cut the ad valorem property tax by about one mill. The move could apply to October 1 1941 levies or, if needed, the 1942 levies. State law requires a gubernatorial proclamation for the transfer.
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Montgomery
Ala
Frank M. Dixon
Special Educational Trust Fund
Alabama
Shay
Supreme Court
Dixon
Germany demands removal of U S agents from several lands
Berlin reports Germany asks the United States to withdraw all consular and American Express Company staff from Germany and eight other areas no later than July 15. The note, handed by the German foreign minister to the U S chargé d affaires, cites objectionable conduct by travel agency personnel.
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Berlin
Germany
United States
Norway
Holland
Belgium
Luxembourg
France
Serbia
Greece
DNB
United States Seeks Safe Conduct for German Officials
The United States asked Britain to provide safe conduct through the blockade for German consular officers in the United States as Roosevelt assigns them to depart by July 10. Officials say the aim is their safe return home and not allowing new bases in Latin America. Sumner Welles hints Germany’s protest will be rejected.
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Lloyd Lehreas
Washington
United States
Great Britain
Roosevelt
Sumner Welles
State Department
White House
Welles
Hars‘Fhomsen
Huntsville to Get Military Recreational Center
Brigadier General James A. Alio announced that recreational centers will be built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in Huntsville Alabama Chattanooga Tennessee Chicago Illinois and Detroit Michigan. Each center will serve troops within a 250 mile radius and accommodate 500 men on weekend passes with free camp facilities and meals available at cost from concessionaires.
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Washington
James A. Alio
Huntsville
Ala
Chattanooga
Tenn
Chicago
Detroit
War Department
Civilian Conservation Corps
Oil Barges Relieve East Is Projected
June 19. River carriers discuss a plan to ship Louisiana oil from near Alleghenies to the upper Ohio by rail truck and pipeline. The defense council asks Ohio and Mississippi valleys carriers to survey floating equipment while lawmakers weigh barges and towboats to ease oil and gasoline shortages.
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Cincinnati
Louisiana
Ohio River
Atlantic
Alegheny Mountains
Office of Production Management
Defense Emergency Council
Ohio
Mississippi Valleys
O’slack Barrett
Mississippi River System Carriers’ Association
Helene Tier
Oil Industry Urged to Unite in Defense of Democracy
Interior Secretary Ickes urged America's $12 million oil industry to unite with the government to prevent disruption in petroleum flow during the national emergency. He spoke at an emergency conference of executives representing most of world production, calling for plans to maximize oil resources and avoid scarcity.
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Washington
America
Ickes
Defense
Morgan County boards prepare second R Day registration
Morgan County draft boards 1 and 2 ready for the second R Day registration on July 4. Officials anticipate registration sites at multiple county points to aid registrants. About 403 men will join the 6432 registered last October as 21-year-olds born between October 16 1940 and July 1 1941. The board seeks five missing October registrants and asks the public to supply current addresses. Decatur board plans to send 10 whites to camp and induct five new groes on July 22. Hartselle board to induct 15 whites on July 15.
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Morgan County
Decatur
Hartselle
Pecatar Board
Avenue
South
James Byrd Franklin Sparkman
Willie Ad Carter
Alabama Street
Johnnie Francis
Walnut Street
Willie King
Church Street
Mary Draper
King
Little Girl Hurt in Lumber Yard Accident
Pauline Hill four years old of Falkville was struck on the head by falling lumber in a yard while visiting her father at a Falkville lumber company. She was brought by ambulance to Benevolent Society Hospital and regained consciousness. doctors said she was not dangerously hurt.
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Pauline
Arnold Hill
Falkville
Benevolent Society Hospital
Drinkard
Five dead in Docena mine blast raises toll to five
John Walter, 44, motor inspector at the Docena coal mine of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., died from burns suffered June 4 in the explosion. He was a TCL employee for 27 years. Of 13 men hospitalized, two have died, two remain in hospital, nine released.
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Birmingham
John Walter
Docena
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co
Walter
TCL
TCI
Conn Marriage License Issued in Brookville Pa
Walter Evans of Jefferson County reports a marriage license issued today to Billy Conn and Mary Louise Smith of Pittsburgh. The license was turned over to Brookville attorney Thomas Stauffer described as a Conn friend who left town at noon without disclosure. The license was previously mailed to Dr J J Mengas of Broadway PA.
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Brookville
Erie
Walter Evans
Jefferson
Billy Conn
Mary Louise” Smith
Pittsburgh
Thomas Stauffer
Evans
Conn
Stauffer
Register
Aad
J. J. Mengas
Broadway
Wheat sample drive at Alabama Flour Mills in Decatur
Farmers are invited to bring five to six pounds of wheat to the Alabama Flour Mills for testing and grading. Henry Glade, manager, says the mill will evaluate for local manufacturing use and buy suitable wheat. The move supports a new farm market as Decatur’s flour industry opens locally.
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Alabama Flour Mills
Henry Glade
Decatur
Ain=bama
Hess Mystery Not Solved Declared Not Public Interest
London June 19 The government faced pressure for a Rudolf Hess statement. Foreign Office Undersecretary Richard Austen Butler said such a disclosure is not in the public interest and Hess is being treated as an officer and kept as a prisoner of war.
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London
Rudolf Hess
Richard Austen Butler
Butler
Héss
Contract Awarded to Tuskegee Institute for Cadet Training
The War Department granted an $80,000 contract to Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to provide preliminary training to aviation cadets for the 99th sub squadron, the first Black unit in the air corps.
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Washington
War Department
Tuskegee Institute
Tuskegee
Ala
Air Corps
Judy Canova's Soldier Husband From Montgomery
Judy Canova reveals her new husband is James H. Ripley of Montgomery Alabama a 23 year old Army volunteer who attended Sidney Lanier High School and is the son of Mr and Mrs A T Ripley. Aunt Jessie Ripley says his mother cried a little yet is happy.
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Montgomery
Ala
Judy Canova
Honolulu
Mia
Alabamian—Corp
James H. Ripley
Sidney Lanier High School
A. T. Ripley
Finley Avenue
Judy
Jessie Ripley
James
Potato Oddities Grow On Separate Farms
Two potato oddities were shown at the Daily office. Charley Stewart and J. M. Briscoe each produced unusual tubers. One vine carried red and white Cobbler and Triumph potatoes planted in the same field but apart. The other grows a white Cobbler from nut grass with roots extending through the potato.
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Charley Stewart
Richard Moebes
Decatur
Stewart
J. M. Briscoe
Jackson Street
Hitler Turkiye Pact Aims to Pressure Russia
The Nazi Turkish friendship treaty tightens German pressure on Russia by cutting western aid routes and closing air bases. It signals a long range strategy to subjugate the Soviets while affecting Britain’s near east position and potential air operations from bases in the region.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Fred Vanderschmidt
Hitler
Russia
Britain
Near East
Germany
Baltic
Black Sea
Turkish Pact Spurs German Influence in Asia Minor
The Turkish pact enables Germany to infiltrate and dominate Turkey, weakening Turkish resistance as a route to Syria and Suez. Britain suspects an escape clause preserves the Turkish British alliance while the two year old pact with France and Britain lies dormant amid regional tension.
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Turkey
Dardanelles
Russia
Germany
Asia Minor
Syria
Suez
Britain
London
France
Mediterranean
Signs Seen of Early Break With Moscow
Reports from Helsinki and Stockholm describe frantic mobilization near the Moscow Leningrad corridor and Finnish preparations for war. Finland tightens civilian transit, elevates cadets to lieutenants, and reserves officers to regulars as Europe eyes a possible conflict with Soviet Russia.
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Moscow
Associated Press
Europe
Finland
Russia
Denly
Germany
Helsinki
Sanomat
Hanko
British Exchange
Sweden
Stockholm
Leningrad
Turkey
Soviet
U. S
London
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Ankara
Gereman
Blitakrieg
Rumania
Tennessee River Gauge Holds Steady at 16.96 Feet
The Tennessee river level remained at 16.96 feet on Thursday with a max temperature of 89 and a min of 69 over the past 24 hours. Alabama sees generally fair conditions tonight and Friday, with possible coastal thundershowers and southerly winds.
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Tennessee
Alabama
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San Francisco
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Bob Ripley
Fort Ruger
U.S. A
Athens College
Athens
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Hubby
Capital
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