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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1939
Page
3
Washington May 15 Army officials outline plans to spend up to 150 million dollars on war materials for 1942. Contracts will cover tanks, ammunition, guns, and 400000 regulars and reserves. Air corps planes are already funded. Mass orders aim to save delivery time.
The Census Bureau reports April cotton consumption 546 702 bales lint and 69 147 linters, with on hand supply in consuming establishments 1 292 349 lint and 337 664 linters. Public storage holds 12 968 295 lint and 6 204 linters. imports 12 692 bales. exports 178 225 lint and 14 290 linters. Spindle activity 22 109 394 in April.
Eleanor Parrish pleads for restraint as Phil praises her novel and reveals a sale to fiction editor George Brooks. He worries their future may drift apart and muses on shared work, while she revels in promised success and fears losing him.
Dr. Cowell Jr spoke on The Christian Mother in the Modern World during morning worship at Central Baptist Church. He urged that a truly Christian mother is born again through the blood of Jesus Christ and follows Him as Savior and Lord. The service featured My Mothers Prayer sung by Rev John C Cowell Jr and Rev Homer Britton. Evening messages on The Death of the Cross noted the immense love and the crucifixion. Several members united with the church as studies continue on Personal Work through the week.
The House votes on a 405 million flood control bill and weighs changes in the wage hour law. A WPA committee probes relief setup in Civic and finals. The Senate is in recess. Labor panel weighs Wagner Act amendments amid day’s activity in Bloomington. Mrs. Fannie Chaney Miller, 90, fished Vermillion River for her birthday, a long standing tradition.
Washington May 18 reports say House hearings will cover activities in Los Angeles Pittsburgh New York Chicago Birmingham and Washington. Chairman Dies noted dates not yet set and cities tentative but said sessions could run four months. Investigators prepare in several cities and Browder Kuhn may be questioned.
A New York film company is producing a motion picture about the life and work of Dr. George Washington Carver, the renowned Black scientist, on the Tuskegee Institute campus in Tuskegee, Alabama, as of May 15.
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