Mrs Turney, 83, Dies in Hartselle Home
Mrs Mary Turney 83 died at her Hartselle home Friday at 8 30 p m She is survived by one granddaughter Mrs E M Warwick Hartselle three grandsons Joseph CG McDanile Haines City Fla John W McDaniel Hartselle and T Frank McDaniel Knoxville Tenn and four great grandchildren Services will be Sunday at 10 a m at Naz arene church Hartselle with Rev J A Manasco officiating Interment in Hartselle cemetery Peck directing Pallbearers listed Honorary pallbearers named She had lived in Hartselle 50 years wife of the late Dr J S Turney member of Naz arene church.
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Mary Turney
Hartselle
E. M. Warwick
Joseph CG. McDanile
Haines City
Fla
John W. McDaniel
T. Frank McDaniel
Knoxville
Tenn
the Nazarene Church
J. A. Manasco
Peck
Charlie Sandlin
W. V. Pattillo
L N. Whitman
Ben Drake
Louie Houston
Walter Poole
W. H. Lovelady
G. W. Mynatt
Robert Sobotka
John Houston
Guin Puckett
Jim Cain
Sanatorium keeps 54 beds serving public health patients
Dr Teagarden praises the sanatorium's work and its 54 bed capacity while detailing kitchen and dining operations, patient care routines, and staff roles. The piece notes the facility treats both white and Negro patients and highlights custodial trust support from Drs Chenault Howle Murphree and others.
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Mildred Malone
Department of Public Health
Teagarden
Louise West
Morgan County
Miss West
On Rt
Dr. Teagarden
War Plant Head Loses Coupons for Nine Years
The Office of Price Administration barred Cleveland Kinzig Tool Co. president Carl H. Kinzig from buying rationed canned goods for eight years and 10 months. He lost 5 068 blue stamps after failing to declare 36 cases of canned foods and purchasing 58 more without surrendering points while giving rationed items to three employees and two associates.
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Cleveland
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Glover
Carl H. Kinzig
Kinzig Tool Co
Kinzig
Florida dredging to join Intracoastal Canal work
Representative Green said Army engineers advised dredging on the Gull county canal in Florida would keep 10 days in conjunction with intracoastal canal work. The Mobile district engineer will supervise the project.
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Washington
Green
Army Engineers
Gull County
Florida
Mobile
Markets Turn Tepid as Coal Labor Strife Caps Week
In a slow session the market edged through a weak week amid unsettled trends and a coal labor dispute threatening fuel supplies. The Associated Press average of 60 stocks held at 50.5 with a weekly loss. 646 issues traded showed more declines than advances. volume fell to 4,965,740 shares.
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Wall Street
Bernard S. O’hara
New York
War Labor Board
Associated Press
Chicago
Washington Glimpses of Fiscal and Draft News
Treasury seeks higher taxes and possible sales levy as Congress nears a new tax bill. Draft quotas by age groups 18 to 38 set to balance forces. Navy limits service for some draftees amid debate on training vs combat roles. Rubber source debate favors natural rubber. Weekly highlights include tax pauses, ration changes, deferments, subsidies, and a school flag salute ruling.
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Selective Service
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
OPA
Allied Air Fortresses Rain 33 Tons on Rabaul Raid
Allied fighters and liberators dropped 33 tons of bombs on Rabaul New Britain yesterday. Attacking Vunakanau airdrome before dawn, raiders hit ground aircraft and started a fuel dump blaze visible for miles.
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Australia
Rabaul
New Britain
High Command
Noom
Vunakanau
Truk
Southwest Pacific
New Guinea
Port Moresby
Bena
Lae
Mubo
Salamaua
Buna
Pro League Announces Eight Team MERGER for 1943 Season
The NFL will feature eight clubs after approving a merger of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles. Chicago Bears and Chicago Cardinals withdraw. merged team to play mainly in Philadelphia with Walter Kiesling and Earle Neale as co coaches. Remaining West teams are Cardinals, Bears, Lions, Packers. East teams are Giants, Dodgers, Redskins, and the Pittsburgh Philadelphia combine. The Cleveland Rams withdrew in April.
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Chicago
National Football League
Pittsburgh Steelers
Philadelphia Eagles
Chicago Bears
Chicago Cardinals
Philadelphia
Walter Kiesling
Pittsburgh
Earle Neale
Cardinals
Bears
Detroit Lions
Green Bay Packers
New York Giants
Brooklyn Dodgers
Washington Redskins
Pittsburgh-Philadelphia
Cleveland Rams
Transportation plan urged to cut delivery distances
The Office of Defense Transportation promotes voluntary pooling of facilities to squeeze the last wasted mile from trucks tires and gasoline. Business cooperates with drastic reductions in delivery service as goods may be delivered via laundries wagons or hardware trucks and department stores may bring furniture directly to customers.
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Jones Department Store
Smith's Furniture Shop
Office of Defense Transportation
Battle of Washington over coal crisis and wartime plant output
Secretary Ickes and Undersecretary Fortas clash with Wayne Morse of the War Labor Board over coal crisis handling. Ickes taunts Morse in a sharp exchange as the struggle shifts to how to allocate materials. Plane production nears completion of new plants, with focus on squeezing more output from existing facilities.
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Washington
Ickes
Abe Fortas
Wayne L. Morse
War Labor Board
Morse
Front line map in WW2 lore shifts toward Velikie Luki
Soviet report outlines continued Anglo American aid and equipment, notes grave defeats yet stiff morale. By end of year two, front extends from Leningrad to Velikie Luki area and southeast to Mtsensk, with key points near Yartsevo and Viasma.
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Leningrad
Kholm
Velikie Luki
Velish
Yartsevo
Viasma
Kirov
Mtsensk
Congress Likely to Await Rollback Plan Results
Congress appears set to hold firm on the food price subsidy dispute until it observes how the administration’s rollback proposals unfold. The debate centers on subsidy levels and potential market effects as lawmakers weigh options.
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Congress
Congressmen Cite War Manpower Agency as Chief Officer
Congressmen accuse the War Manpower Commission of luring workers with higher pay by halting pirate recruitment and restricting employer changes. Manpower chiefs deny this yet admit an automatic raise for over 300 employees under a reclassification by creating a bureau. Notable increases include one employee rising from 2400 to 3800 dollars and another from 1620 to 3200 dollars.
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War Manpower Commission
Army warning on equipment shortages hurts overseas troops
An Army ground forces briefing warned that ongoing strikes and management diversions threaten critical equipment for overseas troops. The speaker cited mine walkouts starting in Alabama after the WLB decision and spreading to Pennsylvania, with all soft coal states affected by noon.
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Alabama
WLB
Pennsylvania
Senate and House Agree On Big War-Effort Bills
The senate and house back large appropriations for the Army and Navy with little dispute. Disagreements arise over small items like salaries for federal officials and the National Resources Planning Board delaying enactment. The War Labor Board, created to keep wartime production moving, asserts power to settle labor disputes in war. A NY waiter wage case is certified to the board.
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Senate
House
Army
Navy
National Resources Planning Board
War Labor Board
New York
Animals in the Spotlight: Badger Digs Fast When Cornered
The text notes a badger’s rapid underground retreat when cornered and a raccoon that refuses food, washing its meal with care, indicating distinct foraging and behavioral traits in these mammals.
Wife Slain by Husband in Birmingham Triple Shooting
Birmingham coroner describes a fatal shooting at a residence where Thelma Gray 26 and her sister Geraldine McGraw 17 were wounded and William Wil Gray 31 killed himself. Thelma Gray and Gray’s wife’s sister were injured. Bettyue, the five year old daughter, was asleep upstairs.
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Birmingham
Ala
Gip M. Evans
William Wil Gray
Carbon Hill
Geraldine McGraw
Gray
Thelma
War News Roundup From Europe and Pacific Fronts
Allied aircrews claim heavy raids across Sardinia Sicily and Italy with numerous bombings and air battles. Reports note German and Russian troop mobilizations on the Eastern Front as Hitler’s Russian campaign nears its second anniversary. In the Pacific, the Guadalcanal fight yields higher Japanese losses and New Zealand fliers credited with multiple kills.
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Golfo Aranci
Sardinia
Sicilian
Messina
Pantelleria
Handy Field
Milo
Trapani
Henri Giraud
Orel
Adolf Hitler
Russia
Germany
Duesseldorf
the Ruhr
Westen Germany
Guadalcanal
Army
Navy
Marine
New Zealand
Navy Transport Service Runs Vast Flight Network
The Naval Air Transport Service operates several hundred planes over more than 50 000 miles of routes supporting troop and cargo airlift and long range supply lines.
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Naval Air Transport Service
The Rock of Corregidor and a Year of Bombs
Clark Lee recalls Corregidor during January when twenty seven Japanese planes bombed the fortress daily. The attack shattered buildings, killed and wounded, and forced underground defense as MacArthur faced a determined siege and the island’s escape from immunity through bomb runs.
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Corregidor
Manila
Joe
Bataan
Joey
Clark Field
Red Cross
MacArthur
General MacArthur
Jolo
Philippines
Borneo
Dutch East Indies
Travellers Defeat Smokies 8 to 1 In Home Series Win
Little Rock Travelers blast Knoxville Smokies 8 to 1 to take series two games to one. Lopat allows two earned runs on 14 hits while Knoxville pitchers yield four unearned runs in early frames. Power Ogden and Lewis drive key hits as the Travelers plate four in the second and add runs through the eighth.
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Little Rock
Lopat
Knoxville
Power
Ogden
Lewis
Bolton
Von Papen Said to Have Been Fired
Stockholm dispatch reports Joachim von Papen dismissed from foreign affairs ministry. No reason given and no confirmation from other sources.
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von Papen
Stockholm
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Legislature approves key bills amid war emergency powers
The legislature passed several Governor supported measures including a war emergency funds pool an emergency finance corporation a state planning board and executive war powers with a 64 to 16 vote. A Sparks backed bill for county aid to build farm to market roads also advanced to the senate.
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Sparks
Senate
Community and Mine Births and Local Updates
Mr and Mrs James H Tyler announce the birth of a daughter June 16 at Baptist hospital Birmingham former Decatur residents. Corporal and Mrs W A Irwin announce a son Charles Anthony born Saturday at Baughs infirmary. Mrs Emma Turner of Hillsboro learns her son Frank in merchant marine reached England. Mrs Edward White and children visit Fort Knox where Staff Sergeant Edward White is stationed. First cotton loom from Southeast Limestone county arrived from George W Henderson farm. Prof O S Hagerman improving at Hot Springs Ark through June. Delegates from First Presbyterian to Montevallo young people's conference return Tuesday.
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James H. Tyler
the Baptist Hospital
Birmingham
Tyler
Decatur
W. A. Irwin
Somerville
Charles Anthony
Baugh’s Infirmary
Emma Turner
Hillsboro
Frank
Merchant Marine
England
Edward White
Fort Knox
Slight Traffic Collision on Highway 31 Causes Minor Damage
A 1936 Ford coach driven by Mose Strong and a 1940 Dodge truck driven by Ollie McDonald collided south of Decatur on Highway 31 around 10 o clock Saturday night. Sgt. Morgan said glare from lights blinded the car driver. no arrests made. Estimated damage totaled about $100.
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Highway 31
Decatur
Mose Strong
Ollie McDonald
Hartseller
Sgt. Morgan
State Highway Patrol
Wage Increases Granted to 2000 Alabama Tennessee Pipe Workers
The fourth regional War Labor Board reports wage hikes for more than 2,000 employees at eight soil pipe plants in Alabama and Tennessee. Increases, retroactive to December 18, 1942, align pay with steel and chemical plant rates in those communities.
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Atlanta
Alabama
Tennessee
Fourth Regional War Labor Board
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Sea Services
Congressional
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Jones
Earl N. Bressman
Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences
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Office of War Information
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Top
Keuhn
Friedelbottom
Joan B. Kelly
Paul McNutt
Kings — Orchestra
Harry James
Frank Sinatra
Pacific
Clark Mee
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Izuki
Suzuki-san
Malinta
Eg Tne
S Paren
Von
Orregidor
Travellers
Smokies
Gilinale O.moes
C. C. Towne
Hamil Clinic
Thelma Clifton
Rose Porter
Twelfth Avenue
The
Benevolent Hospital
McAfee, Howell & Young
Joe Dwain Curry
Limestone County
George W. Henderson
Virginia Graham
Grant Street
Mr. McBride
Mrs. Davis
Memphis, Tenn
J. A. Bennett
Brooksville
O.S. Hagerman
Gordon Bible School
Hot Springs
Ark
Hagerman
Jean Link
Mimi Jones
Neal Speake, Jr
Montevallo
First Presbyterian Church
Ocean Navy
U.S. Treasury Department
MR Rankin
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