Merit Bill Signed Into Law By Alabama Governor Dixon
Governor Frank Dixon signed a merit system bill creating a three member personnel board and a $5 000 a year personnel director to run competitive exams for state employees Present workers face non competitive exams while new applicants must pass tests for hire The signing ceremony featured Senators Simpson and McCall and publisher Bruce Shelton The governor also signed other measures including reform of jury commissions and tax changes for certain federal and government securities income and property Continued debate followed in committee
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Montgomery
Ala
Frank Dixon
Dixon
James A. Simpson
Jefferson
Daniel T. McCall
Mobile
Alabama
Simpson
Houston
Bruce Shelton
Tuscaloosa
Goveror
United States
Congress
Ways and Means
William Bailey
Birmingham Parent- Teacher Association
Alabama University
Alabama League of Municipalities
A. H. Collins
L. P. Burns
Selma
J. H. Meighan
Gadsden
W. B. Mahan
Russellville
Jimmie Jones
Birmingham City Commission
J.D. Moore
Alabama Taxpayers’ Protective League
J. C. Sullivan
Mobile Property Owners’ Association
To Rent A House For 54 Cents In Decatur Daily
An old want ad boasts renting a nice 8 room house at 918 Oak St corner Oak and Davis for 54 cents with a contact number 1411 for more information. Readers are reminded Want Ads offer free tickets to the Princess Theatre daily and to watch for their name.
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Decatur Daily
Oak St
Corner Oak and
Davis
Princess Theatre
Working Wives Issue Divides Solons Sharply
A Massachusetts legislative committee heard a bitterly split dispute over a bill to bar married women from state jobs. Two unmarried women led opposing camps, Mary Heard of the League of Women Voters arguing it would curb unemployment while Florence Birmingham of the Women’s Political Club warned it would harm women’s status. Both sides claimed marriage and partnership dynamics would be affected.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Public Service Committee
Mary Heard
League of Women Voters
Suit accuses film makers in Clayton act case
A 285000 dollar damage suit filed in federal court accuses eight motion picture firms of violating the Clayton anti trust act in film distribution. Plaintiffs John W. Peck Sr and Mrs Gertrude W Peck claim losses from theaters in Syla cauga Alabama and Dublin Georgia after rivals were contracted to supply features. Named defendants include Paramount Pictures Distributing, RKO Pathe Distributing, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Distributing, Vitagraph Fox United Artists Universal Film Exchanges and Columbia Pictures. A C Bromberg of Atlanta is also named as distributor for some firms.
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Atlanta
John W. Peck
Gertrude W. Peck
Sylacauga
Ala
Dublin
Paramount Pictures Distributing Company, Inc
RKO Pathe Distributing Corporation
Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Distributing Corporation
Vitagraph, Inc
Fox Films Corporation
United Artists
Universal Film Exchanges
Columbia Pictures Corporation
A. C. Bromberg
Fire kills Mrs Roy Haynes in Americus home blaze
In Americus Georgia Mrs Roy Haynes died in a house fire that destroyed their country home. Neighbors saved their four children the oldest eight years old. The husband was away at work when the lamp explosion in the kitchen stove started the blaze.
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Americus
Roy Haynes
Petain Named First Envoy to Nationalists in Spain
Reports indicate Marshal Henri Philippe Petain is sent as France's first ambassador to Nationalist Spain amid efforts to halt aid to the Republican regime and push toward ending the civil war. Madrid remains defiant as Negrín’s government resists recognition and awaits a broadcast.
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Marshal Petain
Associated Press
Spain
Henri Philippe Petain
Juan Negrin
Madrid
Negrin
Manuel Azana
London
Kingsley Wood
Britain
Warsaw
Foreign Office
Galeazzo Ciano
Poland
Italy
Rome
Imperial Household
Tokyo
Nagano
Play Presented at Antioch Church
A Peach of a Family will be staged at Antioch Church near Five Points on Saturday night March 4 at 7 30. Proceeds go to the church benevolence fund and all are invited to attend.
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Antioch Church
Moulton-Decatur Highway
Five Points
Princess Born in Tokyo Amid Imperial Birth Announcement
The imperial household announced that Empress Nagako gave birth to a daughter at 4:35 p.m. yesterday. The child is the seventh child of Emperor Hirohito, with only six surviving. The second daughter Princess Hisako died in 1928 at age one.
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Tokyo
Imperial Household
Empress Nagako
Hirohito
Hisa&s
Hopkins May Speak For Business On Amendments Of Labor Act
Senate labor committee members urged Secretary Hopkins to present the business viewpoint as Wagner Act amendments are considered. Hopkins is said to study proposed changes at the committee chair’s request. The administration’s stance remains undeclared while labor groups clash over potential revisions and a forthcoming peace conference shapes hearings.
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Hopkins
Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Thomas
Utah
Labor Mittee
Labor Department
Labor Relations Board
Labor Board
CIO
AFL
Des
Moines
Iowa
Roosevelt
Perkins
William Green
Daniel J. Tobin
Tobin
National Association of Manufacturers
Jors Ellender
D-La
Taft
R-Ohio
Labor Committee
Major flood menage over for Alabama
Overnight rains slowed the fall of Alabama rivers but forecasts show little more precipitation in 24 hours. Coosa Warrior and Tombigbee rivers remain high with crests forecast. lowlands near Gadsden, Miller’s Ferry, and other areas flood. Body sought for drowning in Warrior river above Tuscaloosa. Tombigbee rising but not cresting.
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Associated Press
Alabama
Weath
Coosa
Warrior
Tombigbee
Tuscaloosa
Gadsden
Rome
Montgomery
Selma
Miller's Ferry
Wilcox County
Demopolis
Jackson
Pensacola Weather Bureau
Pea
Conecuh
Choctawhatchee
Geneva
Elba
G. L. Simpson
Warrior River
J. Foster King
Frank T. Cole
Mobile
Mississippi
State flag of Alabama to be returned to capitol
Alabama will receive the Republic flag that flew briefly before joining the Confederacy. An Iowa delegation led by three legislators, with Grand Army of the Republic commander, will bring the banner to Montgomery on March 8, with ceremonies to follow. General John R. Kennedy and Mrs. Marie Bankhead Owen participate in the arrangements.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Frank Dixon
George Wilson
Iowa
Union
Wilson
Grand Army of the Republic
John R. Kennedy
Confederate Veterans
Marie Bankhead Owen
Alabama Department of Archives and History
Inor Dixon
Midwest
Leaders push proposals 10 arm country leaders push proposals 10 arm country
House and Senate leaders speed consideration of major measures to clear the decks before Roosevelt's Saturday address to the 150th anniversary Congress. Barkley predicts quick House passage of the 358 million Army expansion bill and the 499.86 million War Department appropriation. Roosevelt and Chief Justice Hughes attend Saturday ceremonies amid talk of world affairs.
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Washington
House
Senate
Roosevelt
Congress
Barkley
War Department
Pesident
Hughes
Capitol
Sit-down workers fired at J E Mergott plant in Newark
Newark March 2 1945 240 sit-down striking workers at the J E Mergott Company were discharged following a U S Supreme Court ruling that employers need not reinstate strikers The CIO plans to challenge the action while the plant continues to operate with about 550 workers and a union representation vote was pending.
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Newark
N. J
United States Supreme Court
Emanuel P. Scheck
Samuel L. Rothbard
CIO
New Jersey
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Scheck
Mrs Mae Sandlin Illness Victim in Ardmore
Mrs Mae Howell Sandlin 56 died at her home in Ardmore Oklahoma after noon. Body to arrive in Decatur by rail tonight and be taken to sister Mrs Floyd Barnes 309 E Cain St. Funeral 2 30 Friday at sister’s home with Rev William Ware officiating Brown in charge burial City cemetery. Survived by husband F P Sandlin three sisters and two nieces. Born near Milton Lawrence county raised there, longtime Ardmore resident and First Baptist member.
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Mae Howell Sandilin
Ardmore
Oklo
Decatur
Floyd Barnes
E. Cain Street
William Ware
Moulton and Brown
City Cemetery
Sandlin
F. P
Dodd Fined $250 in Man Driving Case
Hanover Courthouse Virginia March 2 Dr William F E Dodd former ambassador to Germany was fined 250 and costs in Hanover circuit court on a guilty plea to a charge of human driving causing injury to a negro child.
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Hanover Courthouse
William — FE. Dodd
Germany
Hanover Circuit
Aged Woman's Desinterment Sparks Investigation in Alabama
Limestone county sheriff moves to exhume Eliza Thompson age 80 after neighbors report foul play chances. Gus Hicks 46 is held in Athens on investigation into burial of his grandmother who reportedly fell at home and was not embalmed. Neighbors recall injuries and a hastily buried body with five neighbors helping.
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Gus Hicks
Limestone County
Athens
Eliza Thompson
Hicks
Rising Star
Belle Mina
Martin F. Whitt
Whitt
Griggsby Griffith
Melvin Hutson
Limestone
Thompson
Decatur
Solon in Relapse After Heart Ailment Recurrence
State Representative C. C. Peacock of Coffee county suffered a light relapse this morning of the heart ailment that struck him Tuesday just after a speech on the house floor in Montgomery.
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Montgomery
Ala
C. C. Peacock
Coffee County
Crew of Stricken Ship Are Saved
The SS Newfound land rescued 150 men from the leaking Ranger after the fishing boat sent radio pleas for help. Rescuers in heavy seas secured a line to tow Ranger toward port while the crew bailed to stay afloat.
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New York
Radio Marine Corporation
Newfoundland
Ranger
Radio Marine
Decatur Lady Godiva draws panicked exits at local restaurant
A hitchhiking woman wearing only a shirt and socks startled patrons near Alabama Hosiery Mills. Police confined her at city hall, fed and clothed her, and she headed toward Tennessee with promises to stop in Chattanooga.
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Decatur
Godiva
Coventry
Ripley
Sebout
Old
Alabama Hosiery Mills
Sixth Avenue
Chattanooga
Proweiies
City Hall
Tennessee
Italian Cardinal Pacelli Crowned Pope Pius XI at First Ballot
Vatican City reports Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli elected pope on the conclave's first day on his 63rd birthday. He takes the name Pius XI, continues policy of late Pope, and is noted for prior US visit in 1936. Coronation date to be announced later.
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Vatican City
Eugenio Cardina
Pacelli
Holy Man Church
Pius XI
Benedict XV
U. 8
United States
Pius XII
Cardinal Pacelli
Camillo
Caccia Dominioni
Borg Ne
Det
Camerlengo
Weather summary for Tennessee and Alabama regions
The Tennessee River gauge stood at 20.3 feet and rising. Temperatures ranged from 36 to 57 degrees with 0.06 inches of rainfall. Alabama faced mostly cloudy, cold conditions tonight with gradual warming Friday. Tennessee expected fair, then colder tonight and warmer inland.
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Tennessee
Alabama
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