Admiralty debunks Axis claims of British ship losses
The Admiralty exposed Axis wartime claims as exaggerations. It cited inflated tallies of sunk British ships and aircraft carriers, noting Britain had seven carriers as opposed to Axis claims of 13, and 144 ships claimed from 1939 with 185 in hand. It listed motives for exaggeration and highlighted real fleet strength and captured vessels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admiralty
Britain
Tallan High Command
Axis
Alabama Supreme Court Decisions Report March 6
The Alabama Supreme Court handed down several decisions. Cases include Ex Parte Stanton Paul denial of certiorari, Adele Rivers V Bes Sie Rivers affirmed, Birmingham Electric Co V Martha Bell Turner reversed and remanded, National Life & Accident Ins Co V Morris Karasek reversed and rendered, Prudential Life Ins Co V N M Herring reversed and remanded, Amzi G Barber V P D Martin affirmed, Ex Parte C B Adair writ denied, Browser & Co V Doyle Harris affirmed, City of Birmingham V R J Monette affirmed with re hearing rulings, Walter W Patterson V Elizabeth Patterson Leonard overruled, C M T Lawyer W H R Stanley granted, Winchester V State overruled.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Supreme Court
Gardner
Stanton Paul
Paul
State
Court of Appeals
Thomas
Adele Rivers
Pro Ams
Bessie Rivers
G’d'n
Mobile Circuit Court
Equity
Birmingham Electric Co
Martha Bell Turner
Jefferson Circuit Court
National Life & Accident Insurance Co
Morris Karasek
Brown
Prudential Life Ina, Co
N M. Herring
Admr
Bessemer
Amzi G. Barber
P. D. Martin
Ex Parte
C. B. Adair
Adair
Btate
F. Browser & Co
Doyle Harris
Marshal Circuit Court
Foster
Justice
City of Birmingham
R. J. Monette
Walter W. Patterson
Elizabeth Patterson Leonard
Russell Circuit Court
W. H.R. Stanley
DeKalb County Court
George Winchester
Winchester
Stocks Rally As Industrials and Rails Lead Bid
Buying of industrials and rails lifted the stock market with leading issues advancing more than two points. Trading volume reached about 450000 shares as selling faded after the opening and a steady rise followed. Bond and currency directions were mixed with a peso at a new low.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Eubank
New York
Bombay
Chicago
Balkan diplomacy and war moves widen as Axis aims stretch
Russia presses Bulgaria for approval of occupation while Romania mobilizes to front the Soviet border. Britain pressures Yugoslavia to stay out of the axis, and Antonescu meets after Vienna talks with Goering. Far East talks progress on Indochina border mediation as air war in Britain remains quiet. Lofoten raid sinks German ships and captures prisoners. Mussolini reports intensified reconnaissance after Bengali capture by Britain.
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Russia
Germany
Bulgaria
Rumania
Romania
Balkan
Britain
Yugoslavia
Turkey
Adolf Hitler
Ion Antonescu
Vienna
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Far East
Tokyo
France
Thailand
Japan
England
Lofoten Islands
Norway
London
Mussolini
High Command
Compromise bill stirs Western Hemisphere arms debate
Senate debates a compromise measure granting the president authority to deploy armed forces abroad without war declarations. Senator Barkley notes 85 prior deployments since 1799. Ellender presses a clause to limit such powers as opposition lines form over policy implications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Hemisphere
Japan
Far East
George
Ellender
Senator Ellender
Dla
Hull
Orient
Cotton futures close higher in New York trading
March 6 4 futures rose 1 to 2 points with May July and December contracts listed. Prices moved from open to last with May at 10.44 and December around 10.12. Middling spot quoted at 10.82 up nominally.
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Cotton
New York
Cottonseed meal futures close quiet in Memphis
Prime cottonseed meal futures 41 percent closed steady at Memphis F.O.B. with March 22 at 85, May 22.95, July 23.25, Sept 23.40, Oct 23.50. Sales volume 200 tons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
F.O.B
Nashville Livestock Prices Reported for March 6
Salable cattle 225 with steady slaughter cattle and good clearances. Calves 125 steady. Grain fed yearlings and steers up to 10.00 with some 10.50. Slaughter heifers and yearlings 7.50 to 9.00. Beef cows to 7.00. canner cows 4.50 to 6.00. Vealers up to 11.50. Hogs 500 with 190 to 250 lb at 7.50 and 125 to 1895 lb at 6.00 to 6.80. sows 5.40. Sheep 25 steady. fat lambs to 10.00 and spring lambs to 16.00.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Tenn
U. S. Dept Agri
Poultry Prices Steady Across Chicago Market
Poultry in Chicago on March 6 shows 32 live trucks steady to firm. Hens and leghorns at 15 1/2 cents per pound, springs under 4 pounds steady, Plymouth Rocks 21 1/2, stags 18, other prices unchanged.
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Chicago
Plymouth Rock
Wheat prices slip then recover in Chicago trading
Grain prices start the session with losses as wheat falls up to 1 1 4 cents before a slow recovery. May wheat settles at 82 3 8 to 82 1 2 cents, July at 78 3 8 to 1 2, corn steady to up 1 4, May 61 1 4, July 61 1 8, oats 1 8 higher.
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Chicago
Cash Grain Wheat Market Report Chicago
Wheat prices mixed in Chicago cash grain trading with No 1 mixed at 87 1 2 cents per bushel. Market notes indicate variability across grains and demand shifts influencing session quotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cash Grain
Chicago
Home Guard Drill Called For Decatur Armory
A home guard drill is set for 7 30 tonight at the Decatur Armory. Lieutenant J H Sneed urged full attendance. The first drill last Thursday night under Captain H F Sherrod was reported satisfactory.
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Decatur
Home Guard
J. H. Sneed
H. F. Sherrod
Exalted Ruler of Elks to Visit State
Local Elks plan trips to Birmingham on March 11 to meet Joseph G Buch exalted ruler. He will be guest of honor at a dinner and dance at the Tutwiler hotel.
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Elks
Birmingham
Joseph G.buch
Tutwiler Hotel
Parachutist Killed at Fort Benning Training Jump
Sergeant Floyd S. Beard aged 28 of Columbus Georgia died during a training mass jump at Fort Benning when his parachute failed to open. He served in the 501st parachute battalion. The incident marks the army’s first parachute trooper fatality in this unit.
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Columbus
Fort Benning
Floyd S. Beard
Bears Sign Caldwell from Alabama for Newark
The Newark Bears announced they obtained an option on outfielder Blackie Caldwell, a former University of Alabama football and baseball star. Caldwell joins the roster for the International Baseball League season in Newark, New Jersey.
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BEARS
Caldwell
Newark
N. J
Newark Bears
International Baseball League
Blackie Caldwell
University of Alabama
Whipping of Men Urged by Georgia Penitentiary Committee
Atlanta March 6. The House penitentiary committee recommended whipping convicts as a more humane punishment than sweat boxes or dog pens. The panel voted to send a committee to Newton county to investigate alleged cruel treatment of a negro prisoner, including exposure and injuries.
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Atlanta
House Penitentiary Committee
Newton County
Marvin Allison
Gwinnett
Reidsville
T. G. Calloway, Jr
Newton
C. R. Mason
Morgan
Decatur Local Notes and Address Changes
J M Sears and family moved from 326 Johnston street to 327 Johnston street. Ruth Sullivan appointed WPA sewing project director in Moulton. Joan G McGehee home on East Vine street undergoing extensive renovation. John Peach in Birmingham on legal business. Norma Sue Chambers recovering from measles and able to be up. Week of prayer for home missions observed by Southside Baptist church with services at 3 PM daily. David Alen Gibson confined to bed with infected throat and resting better. Mrs FE Perryman returned home after weeks in New Orleans and Jackson MS. G L Ball of Decatur Route 3 in city Wednesday afternoon. E H Payne of Hartselle Route 2 in town Wednesday.
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Southside Baptist Church
Labor unrest and factory walkouts ripple across Alabama and Michigan
Birmingham reports union workers at Ingalls Iron Works in threat of a $100 million defense order shutdown until a wage and job security pact is reached. Other notices mention strike actions, negotiations, and returns to work at Combustion Engineering in Chattanooga and San Diego shipyards, with broader labor activity across Illinois Indiana Maryland Ohio and Michigan.
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Birmingham
Ala
Ingalls Iron Works Company
National Defense Commission
P J. Morrin
Structural Steel Workers
AFS
Defense Commission
U.S. Navy
Maritime Commission
Ingalls
Pascagoula
Miss
Army
Navy
Monro B
Lanier
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation
Ingalls Iron
Decatur
Verona
Michigan
Detroit
Thomas J. Donahue
Consumers Power Company
Office of Production Management
Washington
CIO
Combustion Engineering Company
Chattanooga
Tenn
AFL
San Diego
Calif
Maryland
Orange
Texas
Shell Steel
Pittsburgh Crucible Steel Company
Midland
Army Air Corps
Wright Field
Ohio
International Harvester Company
Cio-Farm Equipment Workers
Hazlewood dominates Hatton tournament senior boys trophy
Community members filled Hatton as Hazlewood High School won the senior boys trophy in the local basketball tournament. Speake captured the junior girls award amid weekend visits from area families and church events.
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Langleegerse
Supreme Court
Vauley Coal & Lumber CO
Wall Street
East Africa
Pascist High Command
Cheren
Asmara
Italian Eritrea
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Barkley
Kentucky
Associated Press
Senate
Walsh
Mass
Senate Naval Committee
Brewster
Rrankin
Los Angeles
Decatur’s
J. M. Sears
Johnston Street
Ruth Sullivan
WPA
Moulton
Joan G. McGehee
East Vine Street
John Peach
Norma Sue Chambers
David Alen Gibson
FE. L. Perryman
New Orleans
Jackson
Mississippi
G. L. Ball
City
E. H. Payne
Hartselle
W. L. Smallwood
United States
Wiliam Cann
Duke Gillespie
Trinity Route 1
Huey Ballew
Laceys Spring
Louis Argend
James Buddy
Martha Ellen
Blytheville
Ark
Bumkum” Carroll
Ave
J. T. Phillips
Fourth Avenue West
Addison Poole
The
Jack Smallwood Motor Company
Ashford Evans
CCC
Hat Creek
Oregon
W. E. Evans
G. B. Lautzenhiser
Touro Infirmary
Lautzenhiser
Mac Tisdale
Little Doris
Sue
Ann Murphey
South
Walter Bracken
Route 2
Baugh's Infirmary
Cape
Winnie Asherbranner
Baugh’s Infirmary
J. B. Fridell
Emens Clinic
E. Church Street
Morgan County Medical Society
County Health
Second Avenue
Carol and
Rose Marie Gee, Dhi
Mittee
Ilinois
Indiana
Charles Gee
Fifth Avenue
Julia Woody
Thursy
George Coots
Ruby Harvey
Parkville
Wiley Hardwick
J. R. Hines
B. D. Wright
Mabel Ryan
Elgin Owens
Town Creek
Lawrence County
Elks Lodge
F. EB. Lowery
Oak Ridge
B. L. Tapscott
Trinity
R.H. Wilks
L. BE. Wilburn
Hariséllé
Marion Vickrey
Glendon Julian
Cecil Julian
Fifth Street
Huel St. John
Florette
Okolona
Hatton
Hazlewood High
Speake
Albert Bond
Henry Bond
Grady Reed
Florence
H. G. Reed
O. H. Butler
Hettie Love Butler
Graysville
Tennessee
Leon Posey
Phil Butler
Baptist Training Union Conference
Moulton Baptist Church
Odus Sanderson
Leighton
Jim Burks
Millard Jeffreys
Will Hagood
Hayes
W. C. Randolph
Wolfe Springs Home
Tennessee Valley CO
Atal
James Gankin Sec’y Treas
State National Bank Building
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