Oregon Coast Hit By Shells Of Sub
Submarine shelling of Estevan Point on Vancouver Island and gunfire off Oregon coast near Seaside sparked a wartime alert. No casualties reported. residents were urged to dim lights as Royal Canadian and U S naval forces hunted the submarine.
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Vancouver Island
Canada
British Columbia
Oregon
Pacific Northwest
Estevan Point
Kenneth Stuart
West Coast
Seaside
Astoria
Columbia River
Pacific Ocean
Washington
Strait of Juan de Puca
Clallm Bay
Wash
Colurbia River
Cathlamet
Columbia
Ocean City
Coumbia
Ia River
Robert Laucas
Lucas
Japs Inch Along Aleutian Islands
U S Navy update says Japanese landing forces moved along the Aleutians toward Alaska and now hold positions at Kiska near Dutch Harbor. A communique notes bombing of a small enemy force in Kiska harbor and an attack on a cruiser and transport by Army air forces.
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Washington
Aleutian Island
Alaska
Kiska
United States Navy
Dutch Harbor
Kiska Harbor
Aleutians
Attu
Aleutian Chain
Parleys Continue Between Roosevelt and Churchill
Washington reports vital conferences between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill are progressing day and night in a very satisfactory way. They plan a joint statement when ready and are meeting with military, naval and air experts while continuing off the record talks with other parties.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
White House
United Nations
Stephen Early
Mr. Roosevelt
Europe
North
Africa
Early
J L Holliday Called Home
Funeral services for James L Holliday 35 will be tomorrow at 2 PM at 1112 White Street East Decatur. Interment at Johnsons Chapel with Rev Coffey McAfee Howell officiating. He is survived by a widow three sons mother five sisters four brothers two uncles pallbearers and a floral committee of ten named individuals.
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James L. Holliday
Danville
White Street
East Decatur
Johnson's Chapel
W. W. Coffey
McAfee
Howell
Young
Mr. Holliday
Alton
J. W
Joe
O. B. Harris
Annie Lanier
Atar
Ethel Dugger
Orence
Elsie McDaniel
Decatur
Bonnie Kitchens
Lela McDonald
Daniel
Trinity
Doyle
Louis
Altoona
William
Arkansas
John Lively
George Holliday
Baileyton
Oscar Gossett
Claude Gossett
Earl Gossett
Arthur Harris
Howard Perry
Edgar Loggins
Flowers
Misses Montez Lively
Tarluse Lively
Johnny Knighten
Mildred Olinger
Inez Morgan
Myrtle Barnes
Mozelle Kitchens
Selma McDonald
Synthetic rubber demonstration at Decatur Rotary meeting
Decatur Rotarians met at the Cornelia Court hotel at noon to view a demonstration of synthetic rubber made with the B F Goodrich formula by J E McClary. He discussed rubber industry efforts to ease the national distress, detailing consumption demand and supply, with Charles Hardwick John Pennell and Emmett McClary in attendance and birthday roses given. McClary and James Rankin won attendance prizes.
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Decatur
Cornelian Court Hotel
B. F. Goodrich
J. E. MecClary
Mr. McClary
United States
Charles Hardwick
John Pennell
Emmett McClary
James Rankin
Laval openly courts Nazis in new Europe plan
Pierre Laval told French workers to support Germany's victory and work in Germany to secure France's position in a New Europe. He claimed Hitler would free many prisoners and argued this policy would save France and protect it from Bolshevism, framing it as necessary for liberty.
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VICHY
Pierre Laval
Germany
Europe
Laval
France
Hitler
Conveyor fire destroys Alabama Flour Mill belt system
A fire at the Alabama Flour Mill Sunday afternoon demolished the rubber belt conveyor used to move grain from barges to the grain elevator. Gordon L. Payne, the mills sales manager, said sparks from smoldering shocks ignited the 36 inch wide belt along a 200 foot run between the marine leg and the elevator. Temporary arrangements were planned pending replacement of the conveyer.
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Alabama
Gordon L. Payne
Payne
Bonds Forfeited In Police Court
The police court docket this morning lists three public drunkenness cases seven petty larceny cases five of which involved shoplifting from local stores where bonds were forfeited and two charged with stealing gasoline from cars on the streets four gaming cases one prohibition violation one bicycle on sidewalk charge and another traffic violation.
Steel Mills Run At 98 Percent Capacity This Week
The American Iron and Steel Institute reports scrap shortages kept mills operating at 98 percent of capacity, down slightly from 98.3 percent a week earlier, in New York.
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New York
American Iron and Steel Institute
WPA District Offices Here to be Closed
WPA District 1 offices in the Courthouse block will close on Saturday June 27 under a state retrenchment plan. About 50 administrative employees affected locally with the district manager becoming staff engineer. Some projects will be discontinued and Montgomery may offer transfers. Community service projects in Morgan county will also close for now though a few may decrease. Sim Howell notes no official decision on post closure use for the WPA building.
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J. B. Carrington
District 1
Works Projects Administration
Montgomery
WPA
Mr. Carrington
Carrington
State
Somerville Road
East Hartselle Pike
Elizabeth Dlarady
Morgan County
Sim Howell
Morgan County Board of Revenue
Boston Holds First Metropolitan Daylight Air Raid Drill
In a surprise daylight test in Greater Boston sirens warned 3,000,000 people to safety. Downtown cleared within minutes as 499 square miles emptied, then city life resumed after the all clear at 11 50 a m affecting 41 cities and towns and hundreds of thousands of commuters and shoppers.
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Boston
Tobruk in jeopardy as Rommel presses Stalingrad–style surge
War analyst Dewitt Mackenzie notes Rommel’s capture of Tobruk and renewed German pressure on Sevastopol, linking these actions to a broader push toward the Caucasus and Middle East. He highlights British defenses around Alexandria and Suez and questions London’s failure to reveal full details.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Marshal Rommel
Tobruk
Russia
Sevastopol
Hitler
Caucasus
Middle East
Air Power Seen As Turning Point In Egypt Defense
Columnist argues air power could decide the Egyptian battle as the British face a strategic scramble to defend the canal. He notes the British salvage from the shattered Eighth Army, the 40 000 strong Egyptian army and 100 000 Allied guards, with Rommel's tank superiority but uncertain manpower. The outcome may hinge on air strength.
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Egypt
Canal
Eighth
Libya
Rommel
Libyan War Setback Could Prolong Allied Struggle
London reports a major Libyan military disaster may delay a second front in Europe this year. The crisis threatens Allied hopes for a swift victory, with Rommel’s armor and Tobruk’s fall described as a decisive, dangerous shift in North Africa.
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Libya
London
Europe
Germany
Middle East
Far East
Churchill
House of Commons
United States
Axis
Tobruk
Britain
Bir Hacheim
Rommel
Gas Rationing Unlikely Now
Washington reports predicted abandonment of nationwide gasoline rationing as Sen Maloney seeks a five member, $5,000 inquiry into shortages and delivery methods for ordinary consumers. Dry pumps stranded motorists along the Atlantic coast with Philadelphia hardest hit, only 11 of 1000 stations open in D C.
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Washington
Maloney
D-Conn
Connally
D-Tex
Thomas
D. Okla
Wheeler
D-Mont
Jon
Connall
Dokla
Atlantic Seaboard
Philadelphia
Churchill to Stalin on anniversary of German invasion
London reports Prime Minister Churchill sent a message to Joseph Stalin on the first anniversary of the German invasion of Russia. He pledged Allied support and expressed admiration for Soviet defense, wartime effort, and civilian work, predicting further achievements in coming months.
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London
Churchill
Joseph Stalin
Russia
United States
Naval Hero Saves Fliers In Pacific Rescue
Ensign George Carlton Cook, 24, of Hy-Gate Marblehead Rock Mass, receives the Navy Cross for swimming ashore on a Japanese occupied Timor island in the Netherlands East Indies to locate stranded Australian airmen and direct their transfer to a submarine. The submarine commander, Lt Hiram Cassedy 33 of Brookhaven Miss, also earns the Navy Cross for the mission.
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Washington
United States
Southwest Pacific
Navy
George Carlton Cook
Hy-Gate
Marblehead Rock
Mass
Hiram Cassedy
Brookhaven
Miss
Timor
Netherlands East Indies
Thao Island
Axis forces push toward Egypt as Tobruk falls
Allied lines in the Middle East crumble as Tobruk surrenders and Axis troops under Rommel advance toward the Egyptian frontier. British defenses along the Libyan border reel while the RAF strikes Rommel’s forward transports and supply ships. Meanwhile German and Italian forces report successes on the Dutch coast and in the Mediterranean air war as the Russia campaign continues.
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Clyde A
Associated Press
Tobruk
Libya
Eighth Army
Axia
Egypt
United Nations
Middle East
Rome
Marshal Rommel
RAF
Rommel
Cape Bon
Tuniala
Sicily-Libya
Sidi Azelz
Fort Capuzzo
Sidi Barran
Fuka
Hitler
Berlin
Britain
North Africa
Axis
Russia
Sevas
Germ
Caucasus
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University of Alabama
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Cook Springs
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W. H. Aday
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T. O. Prosser
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Moore
David Stevenson
Johnston Street
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Martin
Baugh
Bape
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Aleutian Islands
J. L. Holliday
Madeline Webb
Flora Susan Reich
Greenwich Village
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Westfield State Prison
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Drew Middleton
the Mirror
Sir Archi
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