Caribbean defense reorganized with new Puerto Rico department
The War Department creates a Caribbean defense department with HQ at San Juan Puerto Rico to defend the Panama Canal and Gulf regions. Brig. Gen. Edmund L. Daley to command starting July 1. The move decentralizes Caribbean military affairs from Governors Island and centralizes control for regional bases.
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Washington
War Department
Panama Canal
Caribbean Sea
Woodring
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Roosevelt
Keys
Virginygislands
Unittates
Canal
Puerto Rican Department
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf States
Edmund L. Daley
Department
United States
Western Hemisphere
Navy
Caribbean
Second Corps
Governors Island
New York
Uncle Sam
England
Dixon vows to uphold law in Birmingham coal dispute
Governor Dixon told George Googe that his stance in the Birmingham coal labor crisis is to uphold the law as sworn. He said protection for any specific group of miners returning to work has not been presented and he will address that issue when it arrives.
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Labor Movement
Edwin Smith
CIO
AFL
Green
Rental ad for furnished 2 or 3 room downstairs flat
Daily Want Ads note another cancellation but rental still available. A furnished downstairs apartment with living room, bedroom, kitchen, private bath, electric stove and refrigerator, hot water, and day and night service. Viewable 4 to 9 pm at 812 Line Street. Phone 46 for details.
Bolber Surrenders In Poison Ring Murder Probe
Philadelphia reports say Morris Bolber known as Louie the Rabbi surrendered on a murder warrant amid a wide probe into a poison ring that may have claimed up to 100 lives across Pennsylvania New York New Jersey and Delaware. Detectives say a dozen suspects face homicide charges including a woman alleged as a ring lure and a man who supplied poison in wholesale lots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Morris Bolber
Louie
Bolber
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
James A. Kelly
Herman Petrillo
Carina Favato
Rose Carina
Cesare Valenti
Alien Exconvict
William J. Connelly
Valenti
Charles Ingram
Connelly
PRESS TRIAL OPENS IN MOBILE ON FREEDOM OF THE PRESS CONSPIRACY
Six defendants go on trial in Mobile Alabama federal court on charges of conspiring to interfere with press freedom. About 100 witnesses are expected as prosecutors allege Henry P. Ewald, former Mobile Press Register editor, was beaten and photographed during a lottery expose.
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Mobile
Ala
United States District Court
Barty B. Chamberlain, Jr
Sam B. Powe
John Powe
Sam Powe
Peter V. Crouch
George
Miriam McKenzie
Henry P. Ewald
Mobile Press Register
Francis H. Inge
Ewald
Boys Voices to Get Tests at Decatur First Methodist
An audition event for 9 to 13 year olds will be held at Decatur First Methodist Church from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday May 6 offering entry to a northern choir led by Emmerich Eber. The group will tour the South. six weeks of training begin June 5 at Moore's Camp on St. Andrews Bay.
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Decatur
Hartselle
Cullman
Athens
Huntsville
First Methodist
Emmerich Eber
Eber
Vienna
Vienna Boys Choir
University of Vienna
George Gruber
Mozart Boys Choir
Norman Mehr
Mr. Mehr
Birmingham Southern College
Birmingham Conservatory of Music
Northwestern University
Moore’s Camp
St. Andrews Bay
Lynn Haven
Panama City
Florida
Louis J. Yelanjan
Carlton Wynn
Billy Barksdale
J. C. Adams
George Bragg
Henry Brookman
C. C. Barber
B. F. Tingle
Harry E. Moore
Birmingham
Earthquakes Shake Akita Residents In Northern Japan
A powerful quake in Akita Japan on May 1 sent about six thousand terrified residents fleeing to open spaces. Reports say parts of the nearby Oka peninsula and southern Akita prefecture coastline have sunk beneath the sea with no reported casualties so far.
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Akita
Japan
Oka Peninsula
AFL Leader Urges Displacement of Labor Board
President William Green of the AFL asked the Senate labor committee to replace the three member National Labor Relations Board with a five member Federal Labor Board. He charged the Wagner act has been distorted to favor one union and harm others, citing cases of AFL bias and urging amendments to broaden court appeals and restrict board power.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Senate Labor Committee
Green
Federal Labor Board
AFL
Walsh
Mass
Burke
Neb
John L. Lewis
CIO
AFT
National Association of Manufacturers
Five held in Birmingham for safes robberies linked to Russellville post office theft
Three men and two women in Birmingham jail confessed to burglaries at Sterchi Bros Furniture and Valley Coal and Lumber Co. They may first be handed to federal authorities for the Russellville post office safe blast before other charges. The group includes Maude Collins LeRoy Seals Thelma Green Jack Spencer and E Clyde Collins.
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Birmingham
Sterchi ° Bros. Furniture
Valley Coal and Lumber Company
Russellville
W. P. Moore
W. T. Willoughby
Tennessee
Maude Collins
LeRoy Seals
Thelma Green
Jack Spencer
E. Clyde Collins
Valley Coal and Lumber Co
Fourth Avenue
Sterchi
Second Street
Second Avenue
Fashionable Yonkers Quizzed by Father Divine Move In
Residents of Park Hill react to Father Divine and followers taking over a 16 room frame house with three acres of grounds valued at 25000. The new heaven ownership traces to follower Brother Devout, a white persuader, amid a quiet secret prior to arrival.
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Yonkers
N. Y
Father Divine
Park Hill
Alarico Valle
Maurice H. Blinken
New York
Hudson
President Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Dates in town memory of the Decatur tavern
Residents recall the tavern’s founding year 1871 linked to Mrs. BE M Monroe of Bangor Michigan and 1886 cited by Henry Albes. The aged hostelry burned to the ground in 1923, with elders noting other dates in Decatur history.
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BE. M. Monroe
Bangor
Michigan
Decatur
Henry Albes
Cupid to have day in Castle Castle Death Valley wed
Death Valley Scotty declares a castle wedding in progress with plans for a marry between Dorothy Drew in Boston born Dorothy Drew and a Los Angeles lawyer named Joseph Choate. Carrie Jacobs Bond to sing and a host of notable guests expected at the ceremony with Stewart Maclennan officiating.
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Death Valley
al Johnson
Scotty
Wal
Joe Choate
Boss Tweed
New York
William Cullen Bryant
Dorothy Drew
Cambodia
Joe
Greece
Mars Hill
Athens
Saint Paul
Mt. Olympus
Boston
Stewart Maclennan
Hollywood
Choate
Santa Ana
California
McKibben Installed as Decatur Chamber Secretary
J D McKibben of Talladega arrives to assume duties as secretary of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. He brings years of experience from Talladega and McRae Georgia chambers. He plans to move his family here after Talladega school ends and meets directors at 4 PM Tuesday.
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J. D. McKibben
Talladega
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
McKibben
Chamber of Commerce
Inducements Offered to Athens Chamber of Commerce
W V Gilbert and J E Gray offer free office space to the re organized Athens chamber of commerce. Gilbert also offers two or three acres of land near the city for a factory site and urges the city to provide free TVA electricity to attract new industry.
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Athens
Ala
W. V. Gilbert
J E. Gray
Chamber of Commerce
Gilbert
TVA
Three die in weekend Alabama highway crashes
AP reports three fatalities and 16 injuries from weekend crashes on Alabama roads. A crash near Gordo killed Cecil Smuthers 18 and Ida Smuthers, with four others injured, while a second collision between two cars between Foley and Oak Airport, Baldwin County, killed David Stanley 24 of Tampa and injured 12 others.
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Alabama
Cragh
Gordo
Cecil Smuthers
Ida Smuthers
Joe Acker
Marie Fife
Lizzie Crimm
Tuscaloosa
David Stanley
Tampa
Fla
Foley
Oak Airport
Baldwin County
Obie Stanley
Foley Hospital
Denver
Stanley
Doris .Hickman
Lucy Hickman
Eva Guy
Bon Secour
Ala
Mildred Guy
Anna Guy
Herbert A. Lew
Landon to Speak on European Crisis at Methodist Conference
Alf M. Landon United States delegate to the Pan American conference will address the Methodist unification conference in Kansas City on Wednesday night. A Methodist spokesman said Landon is greatly concerned about the European war and may suggest changes in Roosevelt’s policy. He previously praised preparedness but opposed a hasty, costly program.
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Kansas City
Alf M. Landon
United States
Lima
Landon
Roosevelt
Methodit
United Church
Fort Worth
Tex
James H.raughn
Baltimore
John
Broomfield
Fairmount
W. Va
Death by own action note found in Schneider car
Kansas City May 1 A death by own action note was found today in the automobile of Edward L. Schneider secretary treasurer of seven corporations led by T. J. Pendergast. The car stood on the Fairfax bridge over the Missouri river near Kansas City.
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Kansas City
Kas
Edward L. Schneider
T. J. Pendergast
Fairfax Bridge
Missouri River
Here
Nations mobilize as Poland Danzig dispute escalates
In Berlin Hitler proclaims Germany heavily armed as Poland, Danzig, and the Polish Corridor threaten a showdown. Soviet May Day displays stress military might while France Britain discuss air power and conscription. Halifax signals progress toward bringing Soviet Russia into an Anglo French front amid possible Polish actions.
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Associated Press
Europe
Poland
Danzig
Berlin
Red Square
Klementi & Voroshiloff
Paris
Daladier
Guy la Chambre
France
Britain
London
Count Halifax
Hitler
Russia
Prussia
United States
Hitler Youth
Germany
Labor Front
Roper Named Minister to Canada by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt sent to the Senate the nomination of Daniel C. Roper former secretary of commerce to be minister to Canada. Roper, a South Carolina native born in 1867, has held government posts since 1894 and left commerce after December. Norman Armour was the last ambassador to Canada in 1938.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Daniel C Roper
Commerce
Canada
Roper
Commerce Department
Harry Hopkins
Marlboro County
South Carolina
Trinity College
Duke University
Census Bureau
Post Office Department
Tariff Commission
Internal Revenue
Norman Armour
Chile
Weather Digest for Tennessee and Alabama Regions
The Tennessee river gauge showed 2h with no rainfall and a 48 degree minimum. Alabama and Tennessee forecast fair skies tonight and Tuesday with gentle variable winds.
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Tennessee
Alabama
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J.B. Whitmire
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Kilby
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