Weather Warmth Low North Cooling South Holds Steady
The day’s forecast shows little temperature change in the south and near 40 in the extreme north this afternoon and tonight. Tennessee River holds at 20.20 feet with a high of 98 and a low of 74. Cotton prices posted current middling figures and local cinema listings noted. Military notices report private casualties and multiple service members in hospital or on duty, plus community announcements and travel for several residents.
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Tennessee River
Miners Return to Work as Strikes Continue in Regions
Kentucky and Western Pennsylvania saw large restarts with about 51 000 workers returning in Kentucky and 45 000 idle coal workers reduced in Western Pennsylvania. Alabama faced continued cuts as a third blast furnace went offline and output fell. nationwide idle miners estimated at 149 000 with over 400 000 working. UMW leaders aimed to sustain the back to work movement while steel and coke operations adjusted to rising production.
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Pennsylvania
Ohio
UMW
Wilkes-Barre
Pittsburgh
U. S
Gary
W. V
Lynch, Ky
Illinois
Carnegie-Illinois Steel
Clairton
Michael Honus
UMW District 4
Coal Production In State Reduced
Coal production in Alabama dropped as three large captive mines closed due to non arrival of workers. About 20,000 of 26,000 miners were idle with near normal crews yesterday at two major mines. District fuel supply ran low threatening blast furnaces and steel output as scrap reserves were depleted.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Hamilton
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co
Mulga
Woodward Iron Co
Docena
TCI
Lewisburg
Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co
E. Tf. Evans
Republic Steel Corp
Gadsden
Republics
Roosevelt Backs Food Plan As Davis Resigns
President Roosevelt declared he would back the food price subsidy program to the limit even if it costs a top aide. War Food Administrator Chester C. Davis resigned after opposing the plan, and Judge Marvin Jones was named the new head of the food office. Congress debated subsidy curbs in a two year continuation bill as tensions rise at home and abroad.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Chester C. Davis
Davis
Marvin Jones
Jones
United Nations Food Conference
Hot Springs
Commodity Credit Corporation
Navy
Pacific
War Department
TWO GROUPS OFF TO CAMP
Two groups of Morgan county men depart for training at Fort McPherson and Fort McClellan. Enlisted reservists listed include Paul Robinson and others. selectees completing physicals include Charlie Waldrep Gilbert and several named individuals.
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Morgan County
Fort McPherson
Paul Robinson
Wendell O. Terry
James I. Watson
Douglas E. Burks
Martin
Chenault
Edward H. Dixon
Lee
Grubbs
Floyd L. Hagood
Frank J. McLaughlin
William W. Johnson, Jr
Robert E. Moore
Charles T. McMeans
Milton E. Norris
Ted O. Romine
James E. Sharp
Ft. McClelan
Charlie Waldrep Gilbert
Abel William Ryan
Clarence Aders Culver
Loyd Clyde Kent
Clarence Felix Weaver
Robin Templeton
William Harold Wery
Louis Franklin Tunstill
John Bruce Arrington
Arthur Watkins
Ford Malcolm Brown
Harold Lovelade, Jr
Charles Douglas Smith
John Robert Cook
Claude Mansel Wilson
Charles Harold Widner
John William Howell
500 Gallon Still Taken in Forest
A 500 gallon still was destroyed Monday in Bankhead National Forest thirteen miles southwest of Moulton. Investigators P. H. Sandlin J. E. Pierce ATU J. E. Clem and Sheriff Corum of Lawrence County reported the mash was ready to run off but the operator could not be located.
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Moulton
ABC
P. H. Sandlin
J. E. Pierce
ATU
J. E. Clem
Corum
Lawrence County
Three Hour Hospital Planning Session in Decatur
A Morgan county Decatur city and Decatur Chamber of Commerce committee met three hours Monday at city hall to develop proposals for improving area hospital facilities. Members included Wallace Meadows Jeff Rowe H D Greer Russell Speake Charles W Young Loyd L Lively Barrett Shelton and John M Nelson acted as secretary. A resolution was adopted to be sent to the county board of revenue and control city council and chamber leaders, with details not yet public.
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County of Morgan
City of
Decatur
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
County Board of Revenue and Control
Wallace Meadows
Jeff Rowe
H. D. Greer
Russell Speake
Charles W. Young
Loyd L. Lively
Barrett Shelton
John M. Nelson
County
Chamber of Commerce
Leaders to gather in Decatur for economic development meeting
Representatives from fourteen Tennessee Valley counties will attend a district meeting of the Committee for Economic Development in Decatur on Wednesday. Carl Wolf of Atlanta will address the group as regional chairman for the sixth federal reserve district. Barrett Shelton will preside as Alabama district chairman at the Hotel Lyons.
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Tennessee Valley
Decatur
Committee For Economic Development
Carl Wolf
Atlanta
Federal Reserve District
Alabama
Barrett Shelton
Lyons
For
Montgomery
Moe
Clothing Auctioned in Hollywood to Pay Debts of John Barrymore
Wardrobe and furniture of the late star John Barrymore were auctioned to defray about 200000 in claims against his estate. The shirt he wore as Hamlet sold for 7 dollars as bidding opened, with tuxedo vests at 50 cents and a gray slack suit at 32.50.
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Hollywood
John Barymore
Barrymore
Hamlet
War news from the front and home front effects
The article discusses how coal miners returning to work could influence war production and front lines. It notes that invasions depend on supplies and that maintaining critical production may shorten the war in the Western front this summer. It mentions Hitler hoping for a respite and Stalin’s potential moves.
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Hitler
Stalin
Alabama lawmakers plan interim committees for 1945 program
Alabama legislators move to set up six interim committees to draft the 1945 program. The panels will study appropriation finance agriculture constitution highways and social welfare with 15 members each and meet for 30 days in 1945. The house approved a 65000 funding for automatic voting devices and several bills on housing authorities and absentee voting reform.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
House
Chauncey Sparks
Rep. S
Rapid
George O. Miller
Smyer
Senate
Joe Sullivan
Mobile
Howard Pill
Will O. Walton
Chambers
Walton
E. L. Dodson
Tuscaloosa
Senate Temperance Committee
Wallace retorts on Jones over BEW obstruction tactics
Vice President Wallace as head of BEW accuses Secretary of Commerce Jones of obstruction and of harassing BEW while defending the Board’s wartime mandate to secure strategic materials. He cites authority shifts from RFC to BEW and claims ongoing obstacles hinder total war efforts.
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Washington
Wallace
Commerce Jones
Board of Economic Warfare
BEW
Senate Appropriation Committee
Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Congressional Economy Committee
Byrd
Board of Economic Welfare
War Production Board
WPB
Congress
New Officers Elected at Legion Meet
Officials of unit named American Legion elected J. Colvard as commander Harold Carter as 1st vice commander Sam Wheat as 2nd vice commander L. A. Strain as adjutant W. L Grimes as finance officer and John Broderick as sergeant at arms. Delegates named to state convention in Montgomery July 12 13 and 14 include T. D. Brooks Fred Rob inson J. O. Colvard Butler Hines J. M. Pettey L. A. Strain H. F. Sherrod and W. A. Dougherty. Finance officer reported the post finances satisfactory.
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Legion Hall
J. ©. Colvard
Harold Carter
Sam Wheat
L. A. Strain
W. L Grimes
John Broderick
American Legion Auxiliary
The
Montgomery
T. D. Brooks
Fred Robinson
Butler Hines
J. M. Pettey
H. F. Sherrod
W. A. Dougherty
Treason Case Reversed in Chicago Six
The United States circuit court of appeals reversed the murder treason convictions of Hans Haupt Otto Wergin and Walter Froehling and their wives in Chicago and remanded for a new trial. The six defendants were sentenced to death or 25 years. They were accused of aiding Herbert Haupt one of eight Nazi saboteurs brought to the U S submarine to the United States last spring.
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Chicago
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Herbert Haupt
Haupts
United States
Soldier Ballot Bill Planned for V Mail Voting
Senators Lucas and Green prepare a bill to direct War and Navy secretaries to provide overseas troops with absentee V mail ballots that could be sent back quickly, enabling voting from abroad.
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Washington
Lucas
Green
Dr.i
Congress
Secretaries of War and Navy
Prison fight leaves lifer dead at Kilby
In Kilby prison Mobile county inmate Frank Wamzy a Black man serving life was fatally stabbed with a home made dirk during a cell contest with fellow convict Adams of Pike County Adams also a lifer sustained shoulder wounds Deputy Warden Carl Williams said two crude dirks were found in the cell Adams is held for grand jury both inmates had convictions for serious crimes
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Montgomery
Frank Wamzy
Mobile County
Kilby
Carl Williams
Williams
Adams
Pike County
Wamzy
WPS Takes Over Woodpulp Use From Paper Firms
The War Production Board announced control of all wood pulp use and issued orders forbidding pulp shipments to paper and paperboard manufacturers without explicit WPB authorization. The move centralizes supply during wartime and aims to prioritize critical materials.
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WPS
Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Hamburg T00 Pounded by RAF Bombers
Six more smashing aerial attacks were made against Japanese installations on Kiska island in the Aleutians, Sunday, after Navy reports. Army planes followed up with a raid against the island yesterday.
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Washington
Kiska Island
Aleutians
Navy
RAF Raiders Attack Cologne and Hamburg as Eight Bombardments Hit Nazi Front
RAF bombers strike Cologne and Hamburg in Northwest Germany with heavy losses reported as 25 planes listed missing. Eisenhower reports US and RAF raids in Italy Sardinia and Sicily with Fortresses and Wellingtons hitting Leghorn and other targets. Soviet front shows lull amid ongoing battles. Pacific air combats reduce a Darwin raid and MacArthur forces hit four Japanese bases. Washington observers note ongoing war activity.
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Roger Greene
Rhine
Cologne
Hamburg
Germany
Mediterranean
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Italy
See
Rome
U. S
Sardinia
Leghorn
Reggio Calabria
Messina
Sicily
Eisenhower
North Africa
San Giovanni
London
RAF
Russia
Central
Moscow
South Pacific
Darwin
Australia
MacArthur
Washington
Raid On Cologne In Great Strength
The RAF returned in great strength to Cologne with 1 000 bombers blasting 300 acres of destruction in May 1942. British heavy bombers also attacked Hamburg and continued mine laying that officials said sank at least 400 Axis vessels. The Cologne cathedral dome was hit according to a Berlin broadcast.
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London
RAF
Cologne
Hamburg
Berlin
DNB
Associated Press
Forts Bombard Leghorn In Nine Minute Assault
Allied headquarters reported a heavy bombing of Leghorn yesterday by four engined bombers. The raid damaged a light cruiser and supply ships and caused damage across oil tanks railway yards and industrial plants. The attackers returned home without losses.
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