Increases Of Influenza Cases Draw New Warning From State Health Chief
State health chief warns Alabamians about the rising influenza outbreak. Total cases reach 1,862 in a single week, led by a county with 565. Counties reporting higher counts include Bibb Colbert Etowah Franklin Jackson Lawrence Limestone Madison St. Clair Walker Winston. Dallas Houston report zero cases. Mobile 3 Tuscaloosa 12 Montgomery 23. Senate staff illness and absences noted. Lt. Gov Carmichael coping with a cold while presiding.
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Ala
Alabama
Bibb
Blourt
Colbert
Etowah
Franklin
Jackson
Lawrence
Limestone
Madison
St. Clair
Walker
Winston
Dallas
Houston
Mobile
Tuscaloosa
Montgomery
Senate
Paul Speight
Oliver Young
Vernon
Speight
Hart Weir
Ralph Macon
Z. L Weatherford
Red Bay
J. M. Rowe
Biba
Albert A Carmichael
Dixon
Atlanta
Southeastern Governors
Delony
Sheffield High School
Hode
Graves
U.S
Allen and McCord
Wiem
DeKalb
Lauderdale
Lee
Shelby
Marshall
Cherokee
Morgan
Tallapooga
Talladega County
Weatherford
Sheffield
House
George Quarles
Calhoun
W. M. Beck
Forest Castleberry Conecuh
Castleberry
House of Representatives
Black Belt
Market Opens With Broad Declines On Wall Street
Stocks opened lower amid substantial selling, erasing earlier gains as U S Steel Bethlehem Chrysler American Telephone Montgomery Ward U S Rubber United Aircraft and Johns Manville fell. The Iron Age noted demand slackness in steel as a temporary reaction to the European crisis. Cotton futures opened unchanged to lower under Liverpool Southern hedge selling as local business eased.
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U. S. Steel
Bethehem
Chrysler
American Telephone
Montgomery Ward
U. S. Rubber
United. Aircraft
Johns Manville
J Trade
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Liverpool
Britain Eyes German Moves and Baltic Frontiers
Report notes Britain watches German military expansion and pressures on France while Hungary and the Baltic region become flashpoints. Memel’s return to Germany and Danzig’s status as a nominal free city spark Nazi sympathies amid fears of a broader push toward Poland and southeast Europe.
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France
Germany
Europe
Memel
Ger
Danzig
Hitler
Ernst Neumann
Ania
Britain
Italy
Japan
Lawrence Singing Held at Moulton
Large crowd of singers expected at Lawrence County event in Moulton on Sunday afternoon inviting all singers to attend.
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Lawrence
Moulton
Lawrence County
Amendments Move Through Legislature Amid Tax and Reapportion Dispute
Lawmakers debated reapportionment poll tax changes and administrators proposals as the Senate and House split on voter qualifications and a modernized pardon system. Dixon urged submitting amendments to voters while opponents argued over two years back taxes and county representation shifts.
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House
Bate
Dixon
Black Belt
William B. Bankhead
Ala
National House
Max Branyon
Fayette
Bankhead
Poole Says Legislature to Adjourn Next Friday
After a conference of Senate and House leaders Senator Joe Poole announced the plan to adjourn the extraordinary session sine die Friday of next week with legislative days Tuesday through Friday. The recess allows Montgomery hotels to accommodate about 5 000 teachers attending the Alabama Education Association convention.
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Montgomery
Ala
Senate
House
Joe Poole
Alabama Education” Association
John J. Putman Dies at 34 in Birmingham
John J. Putman, 34, sports editor of the Birmingham Post for 12 years, died at a Birmingham hospital after an operation. He had been ill for weeks. Previously he worked as a reporter in Muskogee Oklahoma Phoenix Arizona and on the Tampa Tribune sports staff. Survived by widow Margaret O Byurne Putman a son John J Putman Jr father W B Putman four brothers and a sister. Funeral arrangements not set.
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Ala
John J. Putman
Birmingham Post
Putman
Muskogee
Okla
Phoenix
Tampa
Fla
Tribune
Margaret O'Byrne
W. B. Putman
Fort Smith, Ark
Smith Sentenced to 24 Years in Alabama Robbery Case
Mobile March 22 Circuit Judge J B Thornton sentenced Buford Smith an Alabama prison parolee to 24 years in the penitentiary for the robbery of William B Tucker a Birmingham salesman for an Atlanta surgical instrument concern.
Dixon invites Roosevelt to Montgomery visit
Governor Dixon invited President Roosevelt to visit Montgomery as his guest if he tours Warm Springs within the next month. The invitation was extended from Montgomery, Alabama, on March 22.
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Montgomery
Ala
Dixon
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Birth records and proof needed for Social Security claims
The Social Security Board in Decatur informs claimants that proofs of birth are required for lump sum benefits over 100 dollars, except for heirs of deceased workers. Lump sums equal 12 1/2 percent of wages since 1936. Beginning 1942, monthly retirement checks start for qualifiers, with 1940 as a proposed earlier start date.
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W. W. Foater
Social Security Board
Decatur
Foster
Congress
Memel Returned to Germany as Nazi Flags Rise
The Memel region is returned to Germany after a night withdrawal. Germans celebrate in Memel with swastikas and banners as Lithuanians abandon banks and offices. Massed crowds, planes, and a dawn switch mark the transfer, with Memel factories and schools closing for the holiday.
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Tilsit
Memel
Community Sing Here Postponed At Local Chapels
The community sing at McAfee Young chapel on Grant street is postponed. Singers will appear on the Flint Methodist church program tomorrow night at 7 30 under the direction of W. R. Wallace. All singers and the are cordially invited.
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McAfee Young Chapel
Grant Street
Flint Methodist Church
W. R. Wallace
Sunrise Service Plans Grow for Outdoor Easter Event
Plans for a third annual outdoor sunrise service at Delano Park are forming with Kenneth Kennessy coordinating singing groups. If weather fails, the event will move to Westminster Presbyterian Church as attendance expands each year.
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Kenneth Kennessy
Delano Park
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Alabama Senate Considers Amendment After Court Ruling on Markets
In Montgomery on March 22 the Alabama Senate reviewed a supreme court advisory opinion that the agriculture department cannot constitutionally spend funds to establish concentration produce markets. The court held the department lacked authority to establish operate or maintain such markets. Senator Norman W. Harris of Decatur then introduced a proposed constitutional amendment to authorize construction and operation of these markets.
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J. M. Devers
Jackson
Jackson County
County Commissioners’ Court
Bidney Amyer
Jefferson
Jefferson County Commission
Amyer
George Bilas Jones
Lauderdale
Cordova
Norman W. Harris
Morgan
Mit
Department of Agriculture
J. B. Henderson
Wilcox
Dan T. McCall
Mobile
Alabama
D. Carlton
Marengo
Herbert H. Conway
Marshall
Jackson County Commissioners Court
Board of Revenue
Conway
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Senate
Supreme Court
Department
Decatur
Seaboard Granted 10 Days to Study Chattahoochee Canal Plan
The rivers and harbors board of the War Department has given the Seaboard Airline Railway ten days to investigate how a proposed canalization of the Chattahoochee River would affect the company’s properties.
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Washington
the Rivers and Harbors Board of the War Department
The
Seaboard Airline Railway
Chattahoochee River
Representative Hobbs backs federal claim on subsea deposits
Rep Hobbs of Alabama urged a House Judiciary sub committee to declare federal ownership of subsea petroleum deposits along the California coast to avoid another Teapot Dome style scandal. The Decatur Kiwanis Public Affairs Committee will host a noon program at the Tennessee Valley Hotel on Thursday featuring TVA malaria mitigation talk.
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Ala
House Judiciary
Congress
California
Decatur Kiwanis Club
Tennessee Valley Hotel
TVA
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