Parity outlook praised by Senator Bankhead for farm crops
Senator Bankhead says farmers have a good chance of parity or near parity returns for cotton wheat corn tobacco and rice this year if Congress approves mandatory loans at 85 percent of parity. He notes present farm program payments would cover the remaining 15 percent for compliant growers as talks continue with House members on a compromise loan bill.
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Washington
Bankhead
D-Ala
Alabama
Senate
Senate Agriculture Committee
Barkhead
Manasco Leads Democratic Nomination in Alabama District
Jasper residents Carter Manasco and Still Hunter race for the seventh district seat once held by the late Speaker Bankhead. Unofficial returns from 243 of 301 boxes show Manasco leading 11,222 to 9,820 with several boxes still to report. In Birmingham, Cooper Green and two associate commissioners are renominated without opposition based on complete returns.
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Jasper
Ala
Carter Manasco
William B. Bankhead
Manasco
Still Hunter
Walker
Hunter
Yura
M. H
Blount Vn
Cullman
Fayette
Franklin
Lamar
Pickens
Marion
Winston
Birmingham
Cooper Green
Semione
George Sulzby
B. Q. Hargrove
Hardwick Distributes Tax Revenues Totals 4746.23
Tax money from April 15 to 30 was collected by Charles G. Hardwick and distributed to the State of Alabama Morgan County county schools Decatur schools Hartselle Falkville and Austinville.
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Charles G. Hardwick
State of Alabama
Morgan County
County
Decatur
Hartselle
Falkville
Austinville
Fred S. Cook Rites Held in Columbia Tennessee
Funeral services for Fred S. Cook of Columbia were held at West Seventh Street Church of Christ with Elder Leon C. Burns and Elders FS Lowell and Claude M. Woodruff officiating. Burial followed at Rose Hill cemetery. Cook, a long-time Columbia furniture businessman, died at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville after an operation. He leaves a large family and was active in church and business circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Hunter
Decatur
Cook
St. Thomas Hospital
Nashville
Mr. Cook
Columbia
Sam C
Lorisdaé Kirk Cook
City
Columbia Outfitting Company
Church of Christ
Johnnie Morrison Cook
Murdock
Hunter
Eugene Holloway
Murfreesboro
Tennessee
Charlotte Cook
Eugenia Cook
Selma
Alabama
Frank G. Cook
Buford Cook
David C. Cook
Mt. Pleasant
Tenn
Ira A. Cohen
Ira Simpkins
Birmingham
R. G. Maddux
Jack Harshaw
Wallace Tucker
Tom Crowe
R. C. Barrow
John Oakley
Ab Marshall
C. A. Kennedy
Draft boards to send out all remaining questionnaires
Athens Alabama May 7 two local draft boards ordered state headquarters to mail all remaining three thousand questionnaires at once. Advisory board members received letters urging prompt accurate completion. About twelve hundred questionnaires have been mailed so far, and the new order accelerates processing so every registrant is classified promptly. Questionnaires are mailed at about one hundred daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Ala
Board Urges Labor Truce In Auto and Defense Pacts
The defense mediation board in Washington urged a wage dispute settlement among 60 GM plants after averting a strike at Minneapolis Honeywell. CIO UAW seeks 10 cent hourly raises, while GM's best offer is 2 cents. Wage rates vary by job. union recognition was central in Minneapolis Honeywell talks.
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Associated Press
Defense Mediation Board
Washington
General Motors Corporation
Minneapolis Honeywell Regulator Company
General Motors
CIO
United Automobile
Minneapolis Honeywell
Ship Seizure Bill Passes in House for Roosevelt
The House approved a bill granting the president power to purchase requisition or take title to idle foreign merchant ships in U S ports for national defense 266 to 120 and sent the measure to the Senate. It covers 83 ships including 2 German and 28 Italian vessels and would expire June 30 1942 unless the emergency ends earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
United States
House
Senate
German planes shot down as air war rages over Britain
London reports 19 German aircraft downed in 24 hours with seven British fighters lost. RAF counter moves pause only long enough for renewed daylight patrols near the southeast coast and Thames estuary. Hamburg, Clyde shipyards, Liverpool, and Northern Ireland suffer heavy damage and homelessness rises amid raids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Air Ministry
Thames
RAF
Hamburg
Glasgow
Clydeside
Liverpool
Northern Ireland
Clydes
Churchill wins confidence vote as Lloyd George presses aid
London May 7 Winston Churchill won a 447 to 3 vote of confidence in the House of Commons. David Lloyd George blasted Britain’s reliance on American aid while Churchill argued Britain can hold the Middle East and rely on U S merchant ships to see through 1942. Churchill cited nearly half a million troops in the Middle East and pledged U S ship deliveries plus Britain’s own naval program to prevail.
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Associated Press
London
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
David Lloyd George
America
Britain
Germany
United States
Lloyd George
War Stimson
Roosevelt
Stimson
Churchill
Middle East
Atlantic
Valley of the Nile
Suez
mid-Mediterranean
Malta
Archibald Wavell
Anthony Eden
Navy Is Ready Now to Deliver War Supplies to Britain
Secretary Knox said the navy is readier now than ever to deliver war supplies to Britain if assigned. He said the Navy is taking over seagoing activities from the coast guard, a full transfer of ships and crews. He hailed Secretary Stimson's call for immediate naval action to secure Britain's victory in the Atlantic.
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Washington
Knox
Britain
Navy Department
War Stimson
Stimson
United States Navy
Atlantic
Navy
Coast Guard
Vandenberg
Tt- Mich
Emory
Land
Senate Commerce Committee
Miral Land
Stephen Early
War Department
Roosevelt
Stalin Emerges as Russia’s Premier Amid Secret Strategy
The passage notes Joseph Stalin moving from behind the scenes to lead Russia as premier. It suggests he anticipates an imminent crisis and aims to shape Russia’s response. The author highlights Stalin’s enigmatic mind and considers potential catalysts such as growing Asia United States tensions.
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Joseph Stalin
Russia
Asia
United States
Stalin
Washington
Stalin's Move Puts Him In Spotlight
Stalin signals expanding leadership stance as War Secretary Stimson urges navy aid to Britain. Soviet leader weighs potential U S entry into the war and Germany's push into areas Russia deems its preserves. Continued on Page Two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stalin
Ened
Stimson
Britain
America
United States
Soviet Union
Germany
Russia
Three Fort Benning Soldiers in Custody Over Farmer's Wounding
In Phenix City Alabama three Fort Benning soldiers face charges after Dan M. Givens a Russell County farmer died from a pistol wound. James L. Capps is charged with murder and robbery while M. T. Beasley and Joe Nabors are held on robbery counts. Sheriff J Shannon Burch notes a taxi dispute preceded the shooting. Fort Benning authorities say the men had just turned in trucks but not pistols.
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Phenix City
Ala
Fort Benning
Dan M. Givens
Russell County
J. Shannon Burch
Givens
M. T. Beasley
Joe Nabors
Burch
Prominent Athens Merchant Stricken With Illness
A. B. Crutcher, prominent Athens merchant and former Limestone County tax collector, was stricken with a sudden illness at his business Tuesday. He was rushed to Limestone County Hospital where his condition is reported as slightly improved but serious. Crutcher has served three terms as Limestone County tax collector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Ala
A. B. Crutcher
Limestone County
Crutcher
Camporee Set to Open in Delano Park This Weekend
Ten nessee Valley Council Boy Scouts of America hosts a three day camporee at Delano Park with patrols from across the valley arriving Friday afternoon. Activities include campcraft inter patrol events cooking and judgeable meals with ribbons awarded for standards. Night campfires led by Pat Godwin, Saturday signaling and knot tying relays, Sunday religious services and a public viewing of scout training.
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Tennessee Valley Council
Boy Scouts of America
Delano Park
Tennessee Valley
Pat
Godwin
R. M. Howell
First Methodist Church
Scout Organization
E E. Speer
W. F E. Waterhouse
Seven Hurt In Two Mishaps In Decatur And Athens
Seven persons were injured in two automobile accidents in the Decatur and Athens areas this morning. J M Stockton a rural mail carrier suffered facial lacerations and a fractured rib when his car collided head on with one driven by Mrs W L Fretwell of Hillsboro on Joe Wheeler Highway near Decatur. Mrs Fretwell had a fractured hand and minor head cuts with passengers Mrs Paul Cross Mrs Dawson Blax ton Miss Selma Moran and Miss Sue French all from Hillsboro treated for various injuries. All were discharged after treatment at Decatur Clinic and Emens Clinic. Four California residents en route from the Derby were slightly hurt when their car overturned on Bee Line Highway four miles south of the city.
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Decatur
Athens
J. M. Stockton
Seventh Avenue
West
W. L. Fretwell
Hillsboro
Joe Wheeler
Fretwell
Chambers
Julius Hale
Moore
California
Bee Line
Churchill wins decisive wartime confidence vote in Commons
Churchill secured a 447 to 3 confidence vote as he pledged to defend Crete and Tobruk and predicted success in protecting the Nile valley Suez Canal and Malta. He cited nearly 600,000 allied troops in the Middle East and expected new American ships to aid Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Britain
Nile
Suez Canal
Malta
A. J. M. Hudson
Admiralty
Churchill
Isle of
Crete
George II
Tobruk
Archibald P. Wavell
Middle East
Island Kingdom
English Channel
Adolf Hitler
Luftswaffe
United States
Hamburg
le Havre
Strait of Dover
Clydeside
Glasgow
Scotland
Liverpool
Northern Ireland
Dumbarton
Newcastle
Plymouth
Ipswich
Iraq
Near East
British General Headquarters
Habbaniyah
Baghdad
Iraq Radio
Mosul-Haifa
Lake Habbaniyah
Balkans
North Africa
Royal Air Force
Mosul
Palestine
Tennessee River Gauge and Temperature Report
The Tennessee river stood at 20.85 feet on Wednesday with a stationary reading. Maximum temperature reached 79 and minimum 65 for the past 24 hours, with a trace of rain observed.
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Tennessee
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Hardwick
Fred S. Cook
Loyd George
U. S
Nation
Western Hemisphere
North Atlantic
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Leonard Bacon
Sunderland
Reuben Maury
New York Daily News
Jacob Burek
Chicago Times
Robert E. Sherwood
Westbrook Pegler
Marcus Lee Hansen
Habebaniyah
Commons
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