Roosevelt Leader Proposal Roars in War Effort Debate
A debate raged over appointing a new Allied chief to lead the war effort after Tobruk. Senator Pilender urged decisive action and a strong American leader, proposing Franklin D Roosevelt. Critics warned of British leadership strains and Axis threat as submarine and ship losses were reported.
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Roosevelt
United War Effort
Blender
D-La
Tobruk
Pilender
Senate
America
Frankin
British Isles
Potomac River
Mississippi River
Analysis of World War II Frontline Movements and Desert Campaigns
The article describes the Axis advance into Sevastopol and deepening Russian defenses while Rommel’s forces push toward Egypt through the Libyan desert. It notes British withdrawals to Matruh, the Suez region, and references battles on the Sinai and near Sidi Barrani. It mentions a predicted strategic British withdrawal aligned with Libya defeats and Alexandria’s railroad role.
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Crimea
Sevastopol
Berlin
Libyan
Rommel
Sidi Barrani
Thema
Egypt
Sinai
Suez
Matruh
Alexandria
Libya
Mrs. C. D. Farrer Dies in Little Rock
Mrs. C. D. Farrer died this morning at three in Little Rock. Her body will be sent to Decatur for interment and funeral arrangements will be announced later. She is survived by her husband, one son Wilmer Thomas, two daughters Betty Jean and another, her mother Mrs. W. H. Wise of Decatur, brothers W. H. Wise of Sheffield and A. Wise of Charleston South Carolina, and D. Wise of Indiana, two sisters Mrs Marshall Sibley of Anniston and Arminta Wise of Decatur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. D. Farrer
Rock
Markets Watch Sluggish New York Session Weighs on Stocks
Stock buyers and sellers moved cautiously in quiet trading as war news and tax policy offered little inspiration. The market closed near a standoff with about 2 million shares traded. livestock and hog prices showed modest variations across categories with steers and lambs trading in narrow ranges.
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New York
Sevastopol
Markets at a Glance New York and Chicago
New York stocks mixed on narrow price changes with some rails improving bonds irregular. Cotton uneven as trade buys and July liquidation continue. Chicago wheat drifted lower while corn held about steady with fair shipping. Hog futures steady with receipts smaller than expected. Cattle fed steers and yearlings steady to strong while bulls weaken.
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New York
Chicago
Livestock Market Report from Nashville
Nashville market notes weak cattle activity with scarce fed cattle and limited slaughter stock. Calves about 200 head hogs 450 and sheep 1100, with cattle prices for common and medium grades ranging 10.00 to 11.50 per hundredweight amid light carrying demand.
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Nashville
Tenn
Federal State Market News Service
Local notes include promotions and civic notices in Decatur
Decatur residents receive military promotions and transfers as Julian Bibb earns corporal, John Wilford Self becomes cadet lieutenant commander at Corpus Christi, and Ensign Charles Darrah is promoted to lieutenant (junior grade) in the Asiatic fleet. Draft and tax updates appear, with auto use stamps now sold statewide. Several residents attend events in Birmingham and Montgomery, and a Weat side Presbyterian church plans a vacation Bible school with Ruth Solomon directing.
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John Wilford Self
U. S. Naval Air Station
Corpus Christi
Texas
John G. Self
3Rd Avenue
Decatur
Charles Darrah
U. S. Navy
J. W. Darrah
New York Cotton Futures Close Downgraded
Cotton futures at New York on June 25 closed 16 to 35 cents per bale lower with July 1822 at 18.32 and October at 18.61 to 18.85 ranges. Middling spot quoted at 10.83 cents, off 3. Overall market showing declines across near and distant months.
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Cotton
New York
Chicago Grain and Butter Prices Hold Steady in Market
Chicago report shows Butter receipts 1 863 521 steady with prices unchanged. Futures receipts 25 585 firm and price levels remain unchanged.
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Chicago
Buttter
Grain Prices and Grades Report for Chicago Market
Market notes from Chicago list various grain prices and grades for wheat corn oats and soybeans. Prices shown include No 3 red wheat 1.05 per unit No 2 mixed 1 16 3 4 and corn No 1 mixed 86 No 1 yellow 86 1 2 with several lower and higher decimals for other lots. Oats and soybeans also appear with mixed grade values.
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Chicago
Three Die In Road Crash Near Manchester Alabama
Three persons were killed and two injured when a car failed to see warning flares beside a parked coal truck on a highway near Manchester Alabama. Victims are El lis Buchanan Percy Fllla Arn old of Birmingham. Roy Tidwell of Manchester was injured and his brother Paul Tidwell was lightly hurt.
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Birmingham
Ala
Manchester
Here
Flarea
B. L. Allen
Ellis Buchanan
Percy Fllla Arnold
Allen
Roy Tidwell
Paul Tidwell
Local Social Notes Tidy Weekend Visits
Pvt William J Couch of Camp Bowie Texas visited girlfriend Miss Irma Birdsong over the weekend. Mrs H N Menefee of Athens Route 8 hosted relatives for Miss Therica Barkdale eighteenth birthday dinner. Relatives from Nashville and Decatur visited Mr and Mrs Will Broadway. Mr and Mrs Howard Griffin moved to Knox Indiana. Mack Black improving from illness. Pvt Charles Hamley transferred to Australia. Mrs Walker Land in Athens on business. Land and son moved to Macon Georgia for jobs.
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William J. Couch
Camp Bowie
Texas
Irma Birdsong
H. N. Menefee
Athens
Route 8
Therica Barkadale
Bill Smith
Mr. Smith
Nashville
Decatur
Will Broadway
Howard Griffin
Baby
Knox
Indiana
Marvin Taylor
Owens Cross Roads
Floyd Parker
Killen
Mack Black
Charles Hamley
Tacoma
Washington
Australia
Walker Land
Kiwanis Finalizes Tenn essee Valley Horse Show Plans
The Kiwanis club completed details for the Tennessee Valley Horse Show to be held tonight at Benson Field. Guests included L. A. Steere of Akron Ohio and Albert Smith of Ensley. Ewell Gregg chaired the program and assignments were made for the event.
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Kiwanis Club
Tennessee
CIO strike closes National Tube Co. plant in Lorain
An unauthorized strike by 3,300 CIO unionists shut down the National Tube Co. plant in Lorain, halting the war busy pipe mills since they were established in 1896. Wage grievances sparked the action, according to Thomas Tyecraft, recording secretary of the CIO United Steel Workers local. About 6,500 National Tube Co. workers elsewhere remained at work.
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Lorain
CIO
Warbusy Pipe Mills
National Tube Co
U. S. Steel Corp
Thomas Tyecraft
United Steel Workers
Nazis Raze Czech Town in Bohemia
Budapest radio quoted Prague papers reporting the Nazi purge after Heydrich's death. Lesaty village was razed for allegedly sheltering parachute agents, with 350 men executed. other Czech towns faced death sentences and reprisals as anti Axis actions continued.
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London
Lesaty
Bohemia
Reinhard — Heydrich
Bohemia- Moravia
Budapest
Heydrich
Lidive
Prague
Bruenn
Brno
Churchill Faces Criticism as World War II Fronts Expand
Dispatches report Axis forces pressing toward Matruh while Sevastopol endures fierce house-to-house fighting. Red Army counters claim heavy German losses and stubborn defense. Churchill's government agrees to a parliamentary debate amid criticism of war news secrecy.
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Matruh
Egypt
Britain
Adolf Hitler
Sevastopol
Black Sea
Crimea
Red Army
Arbov
Fedor von Bock
Kharkov
von Bock
Churchill
Stafford Cripps
House of Commons
Washington
Roosevelt
Archbishop
York
Alabama Supreme Court upholds Baxter in school post case
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that quo warranto actions to remove current officials serving while drafted are not in the public interest. The decision voided the Etowah circuit court ruling and dismissed the Metcalf suit seeking Baxter’s removal as assistant superintendent of Etowah County schools during Reagan’s absence.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Supreme Court
Etowah
Carl Q. Baxter
Etowah County
F. A. Reagan
Alabama National Guard
Btowah Board of Education
Inouster
Gardner
Metcalf
Attalla High School
Reagan
Higace
Albert Carmichael
Preston Clayton
Charles Weston
Barbour County
Australia
Baxter
Thomas L. Lawson
Services Held For Beloved Little One
The infant son of Mr and Mrs Coyd Flowers of Parkville Route 2 died Monday at Benevolent Society hospital and was laid to rest at Round Top Cemetery Interment conducted by Rev John Hardin The child survived by the parents with pallbearers LeVon Hunt Virgie Wilhite Alfred McAbee and Earsie Wilhite Flower girls were Dorothy Nell Shoemaker Louise Mary Lee Hunt Odell Powell Beulah Johnson and Betty Jean Powell.
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Coyd Flowers
Benevolent Society Hospital
Round Top Cemetery
John Hardin
Parkville
Route 2
LeVon Hunt
Virgie Wilhite
Alfred McAbee
Earsie Wilhite
Dorothy Nell Shoemaker
Louise
Mary Lee Hunt
Odell Powell
Beulah Johnson
Betty Jean Powell
Night raids hit St Nazaire as Birmingham attacked
RAF bombers hit the U boat base at St Nazaire in France while German raiders attacked the English Midlands for the first time in six months. Berlin claimed bombed Birmingham. One Nazi plane over London prompted anti air fire but no bombs fell. London had no alarm.
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St. Nazaire
France
Berlin
Birmingham
London
Methodist Women’s Society Meeting Held in Athens
The quarterly zone meeting of zone one of the Methodist Woman's Society of Christian Service convened all day Tuesday at the First Methodist church in Athens with organ music, a welcome by Mrs. W. S. Garth, and a program focused on the theme Love. Reports and addresses were given by local auxiliaries and visitors from Decatur, Elkmont, and Columbus.
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Athens
Ala
Methodist Woman's Society of Christian Service
First Methodist Church of
R. H. Richardson, Jr
W.S. Garth
Pareneee
B. B. Glasgow
F. H. Armstro
W. A. Caughran
B. T. Waites
J. D. Prickett
Elkmont
Decatur
T. J Cottingham
District
Columbus
Ohio
R. M
Hartselle
J. E. Stone, Jr
Rotary
Stone
Hall
Huel Murphry
Women's Society of Christian Service
First Methodist Church
Circle No. 1
S. M. Nelson
Ernest Ray
W. L. Groover
H. BE. Orr
Paul Cook
America
C. I. Lee
H. M. Betterton
Lloyd Cain
Circle No. 4
Robert Perry
E. A. Elliott
Woman's Missionary Society of the First Christian Church
Elmer Payne
Hartselle Car caravan leaders and club notes
A Sunday start marks an interesting week for Hart selle youth with five in the First Caravan led by Mrs. B B Jordan and four young people from Lake Junaluska. Rotary and Women’s Christian Service circle meetings recap community activities and arrivals.
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Harteelle
Lake Junaluska
B. B. Jordan
Birmingham
Lillian Hayes
Lewisville
N. C
Commission On
Hayes
Penton
Appalachian State Teacher's College
Ernest Webb
Cushing
Okla
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Frances Edwards
Clinton
8. C
Winthrop College
Rock Hill
Wesley Foundation
Winthrop
Commission
Mary Faithstarr
Lithonia
Georgia
Georgia State College For Women
Hartselle
First Aid Class Finishes Course at Central Methodist
A beginner to advanced first aid class sponsored by the Business and Professional Women's Club at Central Methodist Church, taught by Mae Davis, completed Tuesday night with thirteen receiving certificates. Recipients include Mrs. R. L. Archibald Mrs. Earle Calvin Mrs. J. A. Garnett Miss Edna Holland and others.
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Central Methodist Church
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Mae Davis
Morgan County
American Red Cross
R. L. Archibald
Earle Calvin
J. A. Garnett
Edna Holland
W. & Hunter
Cleo Lovin
Horace
Morgan County Sheep Show to Feature 4-H Exhibitors
County Agent B. G. Hall reports the Morgan County Sheep Show on Saturday June 27 in Hart selle invites all county sheep growers to participate. Three 4-H boys Billy Owens Paul Hendrix and John Alton Beal sponsor flocks and prizes include for groups pen of three ewes and buck and pen of three lambs plus bucks. Nonwinners receive a consolation prize. Public invited to see revived interest in sheep farming after years of scarcity.
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Hartselle
Morgan County
B. G. Hall
Billy Owens
Massey
Paul Hendrix
Center Point
John Alton Beal
Centerdale
Iist
Supreme Court Decisions From Alabama High Court Listed
June 25 Montgomery report lists Alabama supreme court decisions including ex parte Fred Newman denied certiorari, Gardner chief justice, various reversals and affirmations from circuit appeals, and cases against First National Bank of Fayette City of Birmingham and Republic Steel Co with orders rendered or reversed.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Supreme Court
Gardner
Fred Newman
State
Court of Appeals
Carl & Baxter
Baldwin Circuit
Equity
Bouldin
Ida B. Pratt
First Naal Bank of
Republic Steel Co
E. C. Willis
Etowah Lee
William Dee Benton
Benton Vs. State
Show Promises Near $700 in Grand Total Purses
Horse master Gilbert Orr of Columbia leads tonight’s show with Ed Stalcup of Franklin as announcer and Lord Smotherman of Murfreesboro as gaited judge along with a walking horse judge. Entries will contest a grand total near $700, ensuring keen competition.
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Gilbert Orr
Columbia, Tenn
Ed Stalcup
Franklin, Tenn
Lord Smotherman
Murfreesbo
Tenn
Farewell Party for Departing Soldier Cline Shaneyfelt
A Monday night farewell gathering honored Cline Shaneyfelt who left Wednesday for the Army. The event at his parents home featured games and supper with many relatives and friends including Opal Eaton Lorene Price and Maurice Knox among others.
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Cline Shaneyfelt
Army
Hubert Shaneyfelt
Opal
Jean Eaton
Materine Pannell
Lorene Price
Elvie
Ruth Shaneyfelt
Berenar Dine Goff
Marcella Matkins
Mary Frances Shaneyfelt
Maurice Knox
Charles Crawford
Billie Parker
Lewis Thomason
Felix Price
Carl
Lester Shaneyfelt
Otto Winsett
Howard Anders
Cecil
Felix . Parnell
Ratliff Barkley
Hubert Lee
Shirley Faye
George Eaton
Bernard Goon
Max
Sterling
Martha Ellen
Josephine
L. B
Nnie
Ruth
Herbert Shaneyfelt
Harold
Bond Set for Decatur Youth on Burglary Charge
Lester Thompson aged 16 is held in county jail on burglary charges after police arrested him following an alleged entry into a West Decatur residence months ago. A warrant was issued before Judge B D Meadors and bond set at 1000 dollars.
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Lester Thompson
Decatur
Bursglary
West Decatur
B. D. Meadors
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