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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1942
Page
2
A neutral observer recounts April Tokyo raid causing panic and disbelief in government claims of safety. He describes crowds fleeing, red warning balloons, and heavy damage around Tokyo and Yokohama while noting foreigners in the city faced internment and later release.
A Santa Fe train with 42 Cadets toppled a bridge near Parker Arizona on the California line last night. Engineer FE J Parker and Fireman D L Needles were killed and an undetermined number of passengers were injured. The wreck occurred when the first two cars of a three car train plunged into a wash after the bridge was set afire during communications blackout.
Local Civilian Defense officials say readiness is complete for tonight's blackout tests. The exact hour remains undisclosed and residents are urged to continue normal activities while officials aim for a 100 percent successful test.
Funeral services for Mrs. R, who died in Little Rock, set for May at 4 PM at 1608 Thirteenth East, the home of her mother C Wise. Burial with a McAfee and Young funeral home plan to transport the body to Decatur via rail.
In New York today industrials and some transports edged higher while major leaders lagged, a cautious close tempered by weekend hesitancy and mixed war news. Trading slowed after mid day with about 300000 shares changing hands as gains were small and many issues failed to gain traction. In Nashville a Federal State Market News report noted cattle steady with varied prices, hogs up about 26 cents, and sheep steady with higher spring lambs overall, reflecting modest livestock activity.
The June 26 market report shows uneven stock activity with lower priced rails in demand and hedged wheat selling. Cotton futures closed 30 to 60 cents per bale weaker with July at 18.09 and other contract levels around 18.6 to 19.0, while middling spot stands at 19.81.
Forsyth predicts the fattest years ending with no 25 million balance next summer as a war looms and the legislature convenes. State funds show both paid and idle money with a large income tax balance and a $6.8 million educational trust surplus. Sales tax nears one million monthly while gasoline tax cuts loom amid rationing and higher federal levies.
German forces under Field Marshal Von Bock tried a deep breakout in the Kupyansk sector to sever Soviet lines to the South and strike at Rostov while Soviets defend Sevastopol as a key route to the Caucasus. Soviet dispatches claim the German attack faces heavy losses and a stalemate despite the assault.
A 1941 commerce report shows candy manufacturers used between 20 and 25 million dollars worth of dairy products. This reflects the scale of confectionery production during wartime economic adjustments.
Wheat No 2 red 1.17 14 per bushel with various yellow and white grain quotes. Oats No 2 mixed 49 1 2, No 1 white 40 3 4, No 2 60 1 4, No 4 47 48 1 2. Barley value 75 1 04 nominal. feed and screenings 50 58 nominal.
Postmaster R T Sheppard announced special envelopes for ma jor armed services members outside the continental United States. Envelopes are free to patrons and used for letters to men in foreign stations, with letters written on one side and photographed to save shipping space. Rural patrons may obtain them from rural carriers or at postal windows, limited to three envelopes per day.
Irwin J. Quinn announces bi annual trustee elections set for June 30 at eight oclock p m. Notices urge all patrons residents and qualified electors in the attendance district to attend a mass meeting for nominating trustees. State law requires the county board to appoint three local trustees from six nominees chosen by patrons.
A Seneca Springs picnic and reunion Tuesday night celebrated Pickens Sims who leaves June 27 for Army service. Attendees included numerous Sims families from Trinity and Decatur along with relatives and friends.
Pontiac Michigan reports 11,000 striking workers at Yellow Truck and Coach Co have agreed to return to their jobs tomorrow. A company official announced the agreement ending a prolonged labor dispute affecting war production.
A Sunday school sermon expounds Proverbs 21 17 23 32 Isaiah 5 20 23 Hosea 4 11 Joel 3 2 3 Ephesians 5 18 and Proverbs 1 10. It warns that love of pleasure wine and oil leads to poverty and spiritual decay, citing delirium tremens and the moral decline of the unwise, and urges a Christ like life filled with the Spirit.
Virginia Brock, WPA recreational leader, announced free public activities at Delano Park. Sunday at 2 30 p m features a tible-header softball game between Cadets of Southern Aviation and Ingalls Shipbuilders, followed by Mechanics vs Southern Aviation Physical Training. Decatur High School band plays Tuesday nights at 8 15 in the water tower area. Next week a softball league forms with teams from Ingalls, a Decatur Independent squad, Army personnel, Mechanics, and Southern Aviation PT department.
The program lists multiple competitors across classes nine through fourteen including Strollin Jim ridden by Floyd Carouthers for Oakwood Acres and Miss Como ridden by Urban Small. Haynes Haven entries like Knox Fagin and Peavine Golden Eagle with riders J Radi gan and W Hewett appear in senior divisions. Other entries include Suzy Q Gid's Glory Snow White and Broadway Bill with owners Verne Youngblood and Mrs Verne Youngblood in roadster and harness pony categories.
Douglas MacArthur's headquarters said Allied fliers ended a five day lull by attacking Rabaul Salamaua and Dili setting fires visible sixty miles at sea. Interceptors broke up a large Japanese raid on Port Moresby and damaged five Zero fighters.
The Navy announced that a small United States merchant vessel was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of Mexico several weeks ago and that survivors have landed at a Caribbean port near Port.
Mrs Horton Lewis Mrs William M Walker and Miss Willie Griffis return from a Panama City trip Mr and Mrs Baylis Hightower and son Billy vacationing in Tupelo and Biloxi Mrs William M Walker to Barksdale Field for a week with her brother Capt Shelby W Phillips Inez Slaughter to Camp Holt to visit son Lieut James Slaughter ill Clinton Davis Glaze a former real estate operator has joined the marines at Parris Island L C Gilbert taken to Decatur hospital in serious condition R C Martin appointed to district advisory board of selective service Holmes A Turner to Toronto for Rotary convention Patton and McCoy to Gainesville Fla for civilian defense school W S Peebles with the sugar rationing board at the courthouse
I W Davis of Rome Ga visits Decatur. Mrs F T Adams visits Birmingham. Dr Samuel J Hocking in a Tuscaloosa hospital with poor prospects. A J Justice party from Houston and Tuscumbia visit their mother Mrs H T Justice. Wiley Electric moves to Second Ave site formerly Md Rae Motor and Jack Smallwood. Federal use stamps due Tuesday. W F Rauschenberg resumes work at Decatur Box and Basket. First aid class starts June 29 at Mrs Comer Ezell’s Line Street home. Mrs C L Fogg and infant return home from hospital. Mrs Otis Jeffries to transfer from Hamil clinic to home. Loyd Norris improving at Hamil clinic. Fire at Carl’s Grocery damages truck wiring.
The Senate plans an extraordinary closed session later today to present a confidential naval report by Chairman Walsh of Massachusetts to the members. Press and spectators will be barred from the meeting in Washington on June 26.
Daniel Deluce reports from New Delhi that Robert Scott, a Macon Georgia fighter pilot, is assigned to command the American Army’s first pursuit planes in China, the 23rd pursuit group, to replace the American Volunteer Group on July 4.
An early morning collision on Wheeler Dam bridge caused about 75 dollars in damage to a Ford coach driven by M. D. Brown of Cullman and roughly 150 dollars in damage to TVA property struck. Patrol officials noted a TVA push truck and sand blasting machine were parked on the right side with flares 60 feet each side and lights burning.
A conference of Eastern mayors proposed temporary gasoline and fuel oil rationing in Western New York Western Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan and other mid west states as needed to ensure absolute essential petroleum for the host government today.
Rep. Rankin denounces a handful of communists and critics stirring race trouble in the South. He accuses Wendell Willkie of aligning with the Communists in their anti Jim Crow drive and cites Willkie's U S supreme court brief on citizenship for a Communist. Rankin mocks drafting exemptions for PM editor Ingersoll.
In Libya Rommel drives at Allied forces along the Mediterranean coast near Matruh aiming to disrupt air and sea support. Heavy air attacks from Ican and British planes threaten Bengasi as Rommel tries a short route, with air power pivotal to the battle’s outcome. Meanwhile near Kharkov German advances push Reds back to Kupyansk and threaten Donets basin communications.
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