American Legion mission studies Britain convoy needs
A Toledo commander reports the Legion's four man mission to Britain found convoying munitions and food from the United States could decisively boost Britain's war effort. The group, in England Feb 8 to Feb 26, urged actual convoying to ensure supply delivery and noted British resolve and air and army confidence.
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Apolis
American Legion
England
Milo J. Warner
Toledo
Legion
Britain
Mit Ie
Warner Sait
Air Force
Eng
Joseph 8. Deutschie
Coldnt O
Frank D'Olier
Newark
N. J
Prudential Life Insurce Co
Frank Parker
Washington, D. C
Army Inn
Tanks and arms pace in wartime drive to October tests
A two day defense meeting outlined US tank plans. Heavy 58 ton tanks from several plants aim for October or November production with a pilot model due for summer tests at Aberdeen Maryland. German tanks lead in battlefield use prompting France to deploy 75mm guns. Government spending on armaments set to rise from 12 to 30 billion dollars with a 17 1 2 billion increase within nine months.
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Gulle
Aberdeen
United States
Robert L. Mehernay
Theovernment
President’s Subcommittee Review of Marshall Budget Request
The subcommittee heard Gen George C Marshall and budget director Harold D Smith and later Rear Admiral Royal E Ingersoll and an army general staff officer. They debated reducing the amount but admin leaders doubted any cut would succeed.
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George C. Marshall
Army
Harold D. Smith
Adral Royal E. Ingersoll
Admin
Stock Rally Mixed Signals on March Market Close
Victor Eubank reports a dull turnover near 350000 shares with mixed guidance from earnings and commodity gains. Industrial and cotton strength boosted sentiment while oats futures showed varied quotes amid cautious buying.
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Victor Eubank
New York
New York Stocks Steady Bonds Improve as Markets Rally Quietly
New York reports steadiness in stocks with small gains across groups. Bonds improve and foreign exchange shows a narrow rise in the Argentine peso. Cotton remains strong with broad buying while wool tops mixed on March cover. Chicago wheat rises on light speculative demand. corn solid, oats up to 8.06 at top, hogs steady. cattle supply meager yet generally steady.
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New York
Chicago
Cotton futures rise on New Orleans buying amid active trading
Cotton futures gained over a dollar per bale in New Orleans trading as buying support and local covering pushed markets higher. May and July contracts closed near the day’s highs while nearby months held around 10.6 to 10.9 per bale with middling spot at 11.10.
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New York
Cotton futures rise to season’s new highs in steady close
Cotton futures in New Orleans traded up to a season high amid strong consumption data and active trade buying. The March 1941 contract closed steady, with modest gains and a range of prices around 10.66 to 10.93.
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New Orleans
Nashville Livestock Market Summary Report
Salable cattle 75 calves 75. Prices generally firm with good clearances. Grain fed cattle in broad demand. Slaughter heifers and yearlings 7.50 to 8.50 with some to 9.00, top vealers 11.50. Salable hogs 400 with market about 10 lower. 190 250 lb at 7.70 and 125 185 lb at 6.40 to 7.20. sows 5.80. Salable sheep 25. lambs steady on wool.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Tenn
P—U. & Dept. Agr
Poultry Price Ledger From Chicago Report
Chicago markets list live poultry deliveries including 26 trucks hens over 5 pounds at 171-2, 5 pounds and under at 21, broilers 2 1 2 pounds down, white rock springs under 4 pounds at 21, other prices unchanged.
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Chicago
White Rock
Chicago grain prices report with mixed bids
Chicago market notes show Wheat No 1 hard at 82 with slight weevil presence and Corn prices listed for No 2 yellow at 66 No 3 at 64 and No 4 at 63 with various sampled bid figures.
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Chicago
Wheat market nicks gains as prices edge up
Chicago reports a modest rally in the wheat market with May closing at 86 1 8 and July at 82 3 8. Corn and oats show smaller moves with oats up 1 8 to 1 2. Receipts for butter and creamery products listed with varied scores and prices.
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Chicago
Court weighs segregation in travel rights case
The U S Supreme Court weighs Rep Arthur Mitchell s bid for equal railroad accommodations for blacks traveling between states arguing federal guarantees require equal facilities. Mitchell recalls being ejected from a Pullman car in Arkansas in 1937 and finishing his trip in second class as Justices question ICC counsel.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Arthur W. Mitchell
D-Tsh
Mitchell
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Arti Fipr
Northern
Justice Department
ICC
Francis Biddle
Chicago
Hot Springs
Ark
Arkansas
J. Stanley Payne
Stone, Black
Prankfurter
Defense sabotage penalties extended to cover dams
The House Judiciary committee approved a bill expanding a defense materials law to include sabotage against dam operations. The amendment, authored by Rep Walter of Pennsylvania, would impose up to ten years imprisonment and ten thousand dollars fine for interference with defense materials or their production facilities including power dams.
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Washington
House _Judiciary committee
Walter
D-Pa
Hank Greenberg Deemed Unfit for Full Army Service
The Detroit News reports Hank Greenberg, MVP of last season, is found unfit for full military service due to flat feet by a Lakeland Pennsylvania physician. Dr. Grover C. Freeman recommends placing the Detroit Tiger outfielder in 1-B, allowing limited service.
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Detroit
Detroit News
Selective Service Board
Lakeland
Pla
Hank Greenberg
Grover C. Freeman
the News
Greenberg
Detroit Tiger
Cullman WPA Pay Rate Up After Population Rise
WPA workers in Cullman county receive higher monthly wages as Cullman moves to the 5,000 to 25,000 population bracket. Increases apply to unskilled, intermediate, skilled, and professional levels. Decatur and Anniston also see corresponding shifts in Morgan and Calhoun counties.
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WPA
Cullman County
Decatur
Cullman
Calhoun
Morgan County
Anniston
Calhoun County
Greeks claim Greek divisions shattered in seven days of Fascist offensives
British reports say fires from overnight battles were controlled by dawn and casualties described as not numerous. RAF night fighters attacked Nazi bombers as Italian forces in Albania and Tepeleni area faced furious fighting. Greek fronts in Albania and Cheren saw heavy losses and claims of shattered Italian divisions.
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RAF
France
Albania
Mussolini
Tepeleni
Rome War Bulletin
Valona
East Africa
Cheren
Asmara
Eritrea
Stefani
Former resident dies in Pulaski after Decatur move
News comes of the death in Pulaski Tennessee of R. L. Bob Worley. For years a Decatur resident he moved to Pulaski about four years ago. He served as a justice of the peace here. The body will return to Decatur for interment with funeral plans not yet completed.
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Pulaski
Tohn
R. L
Bob) Worley
Decatur
Tennessee
Worley
Decatury
Glee Club Spring Concert At Athens College
The Athens College Glee Clubs present a spring concert at First Methodist Church in Athens on March 16 at seven. The program features both glee clubs and the college orchestra directed by Ralph Naylor with solos, trios, and choruses totaling fifty voices. The lineup includes operatic selections, sacred pieces, and solo violin and piano numbers, with arrangements by Brahms Schubert and Wagner among others.
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Athens College
First Methodist Church
Athens
Ralph Naylor
M. Church
Haydn
God
Palestrina
Beethoven
Glee Clubs
Legender Tehaikowsky
Brahms
Schubert
Athens College Glee Club
Wieniawski
Frances Cojean
Bonnie Doon—Miller
Bendemeer
Stephen Foster
The
Sunset—Garstin
Dawn—Sheldon
Frank M. Church
Reichardt
Strickland
Mary Erima Peck
Fifty Die in Seville Powder Depot Explosion
Fifty killed and about 480 injured as the Santa Barbara powder depot near Seville detonated. The blast wrecked a 300 house workers suburb, left 2,500 homeless, and damaged a nearby textile factory under construction. Five soldiers guarding the depot were among the dead with many women and children injured.
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Seville
Spain
Santa Barbara
AFL resolves steel plant threat at Ingalls Iron Works Birmingham
Threat of a strike at two Birmingham Alabama Ingalls Iron Works plants ends after a new labor deal raising wages for 650 Birmingham workers. A Pasagoula Mississippi shipyard unit remains on strike with 150 AFL riggers and erectors.
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AFL Structural Steel
Birmingham
Ala
Ingalls Iron Works Company
Defense
Pascagoula
Miss
South
Baytown
Tex
Key West
Fla
AFL
Oakland
Calif
OTO Union Auto Workers
General Motors
Eastbay
Man Falls Unconscious In Steep Seed Chase at Stewart’s Gin
Alford collapsed unconscious under a seed chute at Stewart's Gin on W Main Street in Hartselle shortly after noon on September 26 last year and died later at a Decatur hospital without regaining consciousness.
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Stewart’s Gin
W. Main Street
Hartselle
Decatur
Athens buyers sell large cotton bale lot in 1910s sale
Nelson and Grisham of Athens reported the largest cotton sale here in recent years, selling 1019 bales belonging to themselves and friends to Garth Cotton Company. The sale brought slightly over $54,000 with the cotton graded strict low middling bright and price at 10 1/4 cents per pound.
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Athens
Ala
Nelson and Grisham
Garth Cotton Company
Local notices highlight church sermons and community visits
Decatur area readers learn of sermons at First Christian Southside Baptist Memorial Drive Methodist and First Presbyterian churches this Sunday. The column lists hospitalities, travels to San Antonio and Pontiac, family visits in Montgomery Mobile and Birmingham, and assorted residents’ activities across town.
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Edwin Wyle
First Christian Church
Roy Chandler
Birmingham
Southside Baptist Church
O. B. Lansbury
Memorial Drive Methodist Church
Abraham and Lott
Edward V. Ramage
First Presbyterian Church
Apples Kept Over Season
Apples from last year’s crop kept asleep by a special process at Cornell University and four New York storages will be sold in May and June. The method lowers respiration by sealing rooms at 40 degrees with two percent oxygen and five percent carbon dioxide to suspend aging. The result is fruit that remains fresh with no detectable flavor change for many months.
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Harold W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Ithaca
N. Y
New York State
Cornell University
R. M. Smock
Delaware Repeals Old Blue Laws
Governor Walter W. Bacon signed a bill repealing Delaware’s ancient blue laws permitting only essential Sunday work. Sunday horse racing auctions dances and theater remain prohibited outside municipalities, but cities may regulate secular activities. The repeal follows a test drive arrest spree on March 2.
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Dover
Del
Delaware
Walter W. Bacon
President Roosevelt Eyes Vacation And Travel
President Roosevelt told reporters he hopes to travel soon and may leave next week for the South possibly a spring fishing trip. He has no dates between next Monday and March 29, the Jackson Day dinner, but plans to be away about a week during the ensuing ten days.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Tong
Nex Eek
South
Arrest Near in Kansas City Death Revealed
Police Chief Lear B. Reed announced an arrest in the killing of Leila Adele Welch, a 24 year old heiress. An initial in blood was found on her left calf and described as a possible slayer's trademark or misdirection. The initial letter was not disclosed.
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Kansas City
Leila Adele Welch
Lear B. Reed
Reed
Solons Inspect Southern Defense Locations on Trip
Ten members of the House, led by Representative Boykin, left by air to survey southern defense sites. They will assess needs for federal help on housing, schools, streets and water systems. Stops include Charleston, Montgomery, Mobile, Pensacola, Valparaiso, Fort Benning, and North Carolina, with return to Washington expected Monday.
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Washington
Charleston
8. C
Montgomery
Ala
Mobile
Pensacola
Fla
Valparaiso
Georgia
Fort Benning
North Carolina
Lanham
D-Tex
Boykin
Dala
Capital
Cotton consumption and stocks fall in February report
The census bureau shows February cotton consumption at 793,628 lint bales and 106,937 linters. January had higher lint and linters, while February last year was lower. Stocks in consuming establishments and public storage rose versus January, with exports and spindle activity also detailed for cotton growing and New England states.
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Washington
Census Bureau
New England
Presidential Race Row Ends Fatally
In Russellville Alabama on March 14 a dispute over the Roosevelt Willkie contest led to a fatal fight. Sheriff H C Nix said Bud Hacker 62 a Republican was killed and Jeff Parrish 35 was charged with murder after Parrish allegedly insulted Hacker for voting Roosevelt.
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Russellville
Ala
Roosevelt
Willkie
H. C. Nix
Bud Hacker
Kille Nix
Jeff Parrish
Parrish
Hacker
Prison term given to Frazier for theft to avoid draft
Clayton New Mexico March 14 Russell E Frazier pleaded guilty to stealing a cash register from a filling station three days before induction. Judge Livingston N Taylor, noting his own son serves in the U S Army, sentenced Frazier to 10 to 15 years in prison. No parole recommendation will be asked.
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Clayton, N. M
Russell E. Frazier
Livingston N Taylor
Frazier
United States
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