Alabama Sets June Defense Day For Youth
Governor Frank Dixon proclaims June 1941 as Alabama Defense Day to focus on youth training and war work. NYA directors coordinate activities across Morgan County with projects at Coatcoeol Eva school and Hartselle. Groups like 4 H Clubs Boy Scouts and Sons of the American Legion urged to assist.
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Frank M. Dixon
Mal Youth Administration
NYA
Morgan County
Coatcoool
Eva School
Morgan County Ng School
Hartselle
E. Bryan
State
FPA
Ional
Boy Girl Scouts
Sons of
Morgan County Nya Ts
Frank
ASA
Wage disputes widen over defense plant pace and union demands
CIO and union clashes push for higher pay and benefits as strikes ripple Puget Sound and Apollo regions. Labor groups reject a master agreement and call for industry-wide bargaining while transit and shipyard labor disputes threaten production. Clarence Dykstra resigns as Mediation Board chair July 1.
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Puget Sound Area
CIO
CIO National Maritime UN
Ison Transit
Great
Com
Washington
House _Naval Committee
Clarence A. Dykstra
E Mediation Board
Wisconsin
McKeesport
Pa Jcipal Service
Apollo (Pa
E Steel
Ittee
Apollo
Control outlines fuel rationing study amid shortages
A government spokesman indicated that a ration card system for gas is under consideration to address a projected petrol shortage in the East. The discussion follows an estimate that 70 percent of consumption is tied to automobile tires, with annual use around 600 units under current baselines.
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Ickes
Markets Turn Lower As Light Trading Prefaces Week
New York and New Orleans report a light trading week with stocks generally down and no urgency to sell. Cotton futures reach new highs on price fixing. grain and hog futures show mixed moves as markets react to thin commitments.
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Wall Street
Victor Eubank
New York
New Orleans
RAF Targets Hit Cologne and Dusseldorf in Latest Raids
War dispatches report renewed Allied bombing on Cologne and Dusseldorf as events unfold over Europe. The piece notes Moscow’s stance on Germany and Russia, and cites Britain’s push to aid Russia if Germany moves on the USSR.
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Cologne
Dusseldorf
Adolf Hitler
Russia
Moscow
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Hitler
London
Lord Beaverbrook
The
Evening Standard
Germany
United States
Washington
Roosevelt
Italy
United
Cottonseed Oil Prices Reach Summer Highs
Cottonseed oil markets closed firm with gains across contracts. Bleachable prime summer yellow quoted at 11.85N, prime crude at 10.75, July 1h-77B, Sept 11.708, Oct 11.57B, Dec 11.48B, Jan 11.50B B-Bid N-Norpinal.
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N-Norpinal
Cottonseed meal futures close higher in Memphis trade
Prime cottonseed meal futures 41 per cent closed strong in Memphis on June 20 with July at 26.75 cents, September 26.20, option 28.60, December 29.50, January 29.50. Sales reached 3,900 tons.
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Memphis
Tenn
Market Report for Nashville Cattle Hogs and Lambs
Salable cattle 100 calves 200 with small supply steady. Canner and cutter cows mostly 5.00 to 6.50, some 7.00. Bulls 7.25 to 8.00. Late Thursday 925 lb steers 10.85 to 11.00. Hogs 500 with prices 26 higher and peak since Oct 18 1937. Spring lambs not early under tone with 26 or more higher, generally 12.25 tops.
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Nashville
Tenn
Federal State Market News Service
Creamery Butter Receipts and Prices Reported in Chicago
Chicago market report shows butter receipts totaling 1,438,957 with various grade scores and prices. Biggs firm receipts amount to 26,001 with storage packed extras listing at 27 1-2 and firsts at 26 3-4, other prices unchanged.
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Chicago
Biggs
May Shipping Losses Decline From April Figures
London reports May merchant shipping losses at 98 vessels totaling 461000 tons, down from April. The admiralty cites Eastern Mediterranean military operations as included in May, with German and Italian claims totaling 861460 tons for the month and year to date.
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London
Brlton
Admiralty
Mediterranean
Greece
War propaganda and German strategy in Europe 1941 analysis
The piece analyzes Hitler's likely avoidance of a straight war with Stalin, possible use of Finland and Romania as shock troops, and Turkey's precarious neutrality. It stresses Britain's need to tighten defenses in Syria, strengthen eastern and African positions, and sustain air attacks on German western arsenals as diplomatic efforts end in Europe.
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Paganda
Hitler
Stalin
Finland
Rumania
Russia
Turkey
Germany
Britain
Stern Ceanup
Reich
Europe
Wheeler Yacht and Lions Club plan Fourth of July boat races
Quince F. Fxidins and Bill Daugherty co chair committees for the city Fourth of July boat races with Lions Club and Yacht Club aid. Committees include racing, advertising, course and pit, safety, seats, fire works, concessions with Lions members and Champer of Commerce support.
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Quince F. Fxidins
Wheeler Yacht Club
Bill Daugherty
Lions Club
Cochairman
Yacht Club
Champer of Commerce
Q. EB. Exidens
W. Dougherty
Jack Mel Laughlin
Roosevelt to Congress Warns Against Yield to German Threat
President Roosevelt sent a forceful message to Congress declaring nonyield and warning that Germany threatens world domination. He offered no concrete retaliation plan and kept strategic actions secret to avoid tipping off Germany, noting the sinking of the Robin Moor despite its clear American nationality and flag.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Roosevelt Blasts German Sinking of Robin Moor
President Roosevelt cites the May 21 sinking of the American steamer Robin Moor by a German submarine in the South Atlantic. Survivors report the ship was sunk within 30 minutes after a first warning, with no flag shown and nationality withheld. The United States holds Germany responsible and seeks reparations while condemning Germany’s policy of frightfulness.
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Berlin
Germany
United States
Secret Service
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Congress of
United States of America
South Atlantic Ocean
South Africa
Robin Moor
German Reich
Fifth Division Wins Honors in Tennessee Battle Near Manchester
Soldiers of the fifth division battle through Manchester as tanks from the medium and light tank corps roared into town. The unit, part of the Army in Tennessee, resisted a larger force before retreating southwest toward Tullahoma and Camp Forrest after a 36 hour ground and air assault. Local townspeople witnessed the heavy armor and army units in combat and retreat.
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Rice Yahner
Tennessee
Little Middle
Manchester
Second Army
Fifth Division
Duck River
Doughty Fifth
Army
Tullahoma
Camp Forrest
Shooting victim Wyatt Halbrooks moved home amid recovery
Wyatt B. Halbrooks of Hart selle route 4, hospitalized ten days for a chest wound, was moved Thursday in a Brown ambulance to a relative’s Sixth Avenue south home and is rapidly recovering. Clarence Ward of Hartselle route 2 is jailed on assault with intent to murder for the farm shooting on Hart selle route 2.
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Wyatt B. Halbrooks
Hartselle
Benevolent Society Hospital
a_ Brown
Sixth Avenue
Clarence Ward
Morgan County
Ward
Roosevelt condemns German terror and piracy threaten US seas
In a strong wartime address Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces German cruelty and piracy aimed at forcing US acquiescence. He warns the Robin Moor sinking signals a plan to seize the high seas, threaten Britain, and compel American restraint, asserting the United States will not yield to Nazi world domination.
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Man Reich
German Reich
United States
Germany
Robin Moor
Austria
High Seas
Great Britain
Seven Seas
Britain
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Decatur City Council Meeting Postponed Amid Absence Of Aldermen
Local council postpones Thursday night session due to aldermen being out of town. The report also lists residents and visitors arriving for visits, church revival plans, medical updates, and upcoming community events across Decatur and nearby areas.
Prices climb higher in May in southeastern district
Atlanta reports May and early June price advances as industrial activity rises in the Sixth Federal Reserve District. The index reached 149 percent of the 1935-39 average, with gains in machinery, aircraft, shipbuilding, textiles, food products, and chemical and shoe sectors.
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Atlanta
Federa Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Federal Reserve District
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Tennessee
Louisiana
Mississippi
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bible School Ends Sunday at Central Baptist Church
Closing exercises mark two weeks of daily vacation Bible School at Central Baptist Church. Certificates will be awarded for perfect attendance, and a school group photo plus mementos given to each child. 338 registrations with 303 attendees and an average daily attendance of 244 set a church record. About fifty students will be baptized as new church members this Sunday.
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Central Baptist Church
Bible School
Freda Cowan
Pearl Matthews
Harold Wright
George Collier
E.W. Strother
Bill Gilbreth
Charles Williams
Hollis Mitchell
Marshall Sandlin
Thomas Wilson
D. F. Green
Jean Sandy
Guistle Black
Mickey Green
Webb. Hunter
H.H. Higdon
Greer Black
Covell Keenum
Emory Keith
Pat Brock
Helen Dunnayent
Estelle Cowan
Bess Robinson
Sarah Witt Freeman
Evelyn Murphry
Alma Ray
Mildred Swatzell
Mae Matthews
Arthur Matthews
Frankee
Doris Cowan
Katherine Harvey
John C. Cowell, Jr
Charles Landers
W.W. Knight
Dorothy Brock
Bill Simrell
Cowell Keenum
Bricks Shipped to Reynolds for Alabama Construction
The Alabama Brick Company today ships three carloads of brick to the Lister area for Reynolds Company construction work. Reynolds also ordered 800,000 more bricks recently, boosting local deliveries.
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Alabama Brick, and. Thle Company
Lister, Ala
Reynolds Company
Reynolds
Tuscumbia Horse Show Returns With Kiwanis Sponsorship
The Colbert County Horse Show will be held Thursday night at Tuscumbia starting at 7 30. George Lawrence, a former Decatur resident, directs the event sponsored by the Kiwanis club of the city.
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Tuscumbia
George Lawrence
Decatur
Kiwanis Club
Local Boy Joins R C A F Heading for Windsor Flying School
LeRoy Pete Henderson Decatur High School alumnus and star left halfback plans to travel to Windsor Ontario next week to enter the Royal Canadian Air Force. After an interview with Major Clayton Knight Henderson will undergo training as a combat pilot. Henderson, 21, graduated in 1939 with strong academics and athletic record and believes Canada will release Americans to join their flying service. He hopes to complete training and, if the U S enters the war, follow orders to England or elsewhere. He is the son of Mr and Mrs L R Henderson of 707 Fifth Avenue West and is widely popular in Decatur.
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LeRoy
Pete” Henderson
Decatur High School
Windsor
Ontario
Royal Canadian Air Force
RCAF
Hyp4eon
Henderson
Memphis
Clayton Knight
Memphia
Flying Corps
Canada
United States
England
Young Henderson
L. R. Henderson
Fifth Avenue
West
Duchess Spinelli reprieved. first woman to escape execution
In California, Evelita Juanita Spinelli known as the Duchess of the underworld, was granted a 30 day reprieve from execution. Governor Olson halted her planned gas chamber death sentence after trial testimony and new information. companions Gordon Hawkins and Mike Simeone also received reprieves.
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San Quentin
Calif
Mrea
Evelita Juanita Spinelli
California
Ahe
Culbert L. Olson
Raymond Ft. Coughlin
Sacramento
Lloyd H. Locke
Clinton Duffy
Spinelli
Mike
Simeone
Power Need Given Study To Save Power With Daylight Time
The Federal Power Commission proposed daylight saving as a means to conserve electricity but Georgia power officials say it would save little. Several southern states plan a regional shift to a two shift system starting next Monday, including full-time operation of non-defense industries from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. and a continued one third reduction in usage during regular hours.
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Associated
Power Company
Federal Power Commission
Washington
Georgia Power Company
Georgia
Mississippi
Alabama
South Carolina
Battery Sets Account for About Quarter of Production
The Department of Commerce states that batteries make up about a quarter of current production in Tadtics, underscoring their role in the industrial output and economic activity.
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Department of Commerce
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