Students Aim for Better Citizenship Through Health Work
Ninety seven boys in the health class at the school joined committees and led safety efforts. They taught first aid, surveyed campus hazards, and improved crossing safety with local officials. Doctors aided health exams. most had defects corrected through dietary changes, glasses, or dental work as the group pursued better citizenship through patriotism.
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Red Cross
American Red Cross
Second Street
Safety Patrol
Ma For
Police Department
Terous Ugh
Ne Council
National Safety Council
Safety Education
F. L. Chenault
L. R. Murphree
J.w. “Hughés
Bue ‘Wene
Chenault
Austinville Team to Face Lincoln Mills in Alabama Park Tilt
The Austinville baseball team meets Lincoln Mills of Huntsville at Alabama Park at 3 60 o clock. Austinville won 13 7 over Slip Up at Austinville Thursday afternoon and is rapidly shaping into first class form.
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Austinville
Lincoln Mills
Huntsville
Alabama Park
Farms and City Property in Want Ads Listed
Regular Want Ads showcase farms land and city property for sale or rent. The classifieds highlight multiple listings across rural tracts, homestead parcels, and urban plots for buyers and renters seeking investment or residence options.
Markets wobble as slow bidding caps gains across sectors
The stock market showed a hitch with timid bidding and slow dealings. Closing fractional gains spread across steels motors rails and specialties while declines appeared in several issues. Turnover was about 300 000 shares, among the smallest since early March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street
Victor Eubank
New York
Markets at a Glance New York May 16
Markets at a glance show steady stocks with narrow price changes and irregular bonds with some rail gains. Foreign exchange stays narrow as the German benevolent mark leads, cotton rises on price fixing and mill buying, and sugar remains mixed amid hedge pressure. Metals hold steady while tin rises fractionally. wool is quiet with active spot buying and local selling. Chicago grains firm on loan worries and demand. hogs slow with a top of 9.20. cattle and yearlings slow and steady.
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New York
Chicago
Cotton futures hover as traders await Roosevelt action
Trading in cotton futures saw buying absorb hedge selling amid anticipation of Roosevelt's loan bill. May 1941 futures closed around 12.92 with steady gains of several points, while other contracts moved higher with modest daily increases.
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Roosevelt
Robert N Logan Dies at Coffee County Hospital
Robert N Logan 22 of near Moulton died at 8 p m Thursday night at Coffee County Hospital Florence where he was taken for treatment after months of illness Rites set for 2 p m Saturday at Moulton Church of Christ with Herschel Patton officiating burial in Aldridge Grove cemetery Survived by mother Mrs T A Logan five brothers Morris Logan Sheffield George Clifton and Curtis of Moulton and Rayburn Logan of Sebring Florida Former Lawrence County High School classmates will be pallbearers
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Moulton
Coffee County Hospital
Florence
Moulton Church of Christ
Herschel Patton
Brown
Decatur
Aldridge Grove
Logan
T. A. Logan
Morris
Sheffield
George
Clifton
Curtis
Moulton and
Rayburn Logan
Sebring
Florida
Lawrence County High School
Man suffers broken leg in bread truck crash near Joe Wheeler Hwy
Cliff Rowland aged 26 of 309 Grant Street sustained a fractured right leg when a bread truck owned by McGough Bakeries rolled over on Joe Wheeler highway six miles west of here. Hor t Ryan of 1312 Sixth Avenue was in the truck. he had minor injuries and was discharged after first aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cliff Rowland
Grant Street
Benevolent Society Hospita
Hort Ryan
Sixth Avenue
Joe’ Wheeler
Here
McGough Bakeries
Ryan
Benevolent” Hospital
Senate approves amended bill on production management control
The Senate passes an amended House bill giving the production management authority statutorily over raw materials and military equipment. The measure returns to the House to consider the Senate's removal of a proposed priorities division outside the OPM under the Munitions Control Board amid opposition from Defense officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Aiea
Enate
OPM
Munitions Control Board
Defense
Gadsden Club Taken Over as City Plans Fund Drive
The Gadsden baseball franchise was seized by the Southeastern League today and civic leaders launched a campaign to raise funds for a new organization to retain the club for the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gadsden
Ala
Southeastern League Today
Cottonseed futures close steady with mixed bids
In New Orleans on May 16, futures for cottonseed remained steady. Prices show bleachable prime summer yellow at 10.55A, prime crude 9.50, May 10.308, July 10.30B, September 10.30, October 10.27B, December 10.30B. A lists asked prices while B notes bids.
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New Orleans
Cottonseed meal futures close steady in Memphis
Prime 41 percent cottonseed meal futures finished steady with May 25.00 and January 26.50 F.O.B. Memphis. July 25.40, September 25.90, October 26.35, December 26.60. Sales totaled 1 100 tons.
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Memphis
Tenn
F.O.B
New Orleans Cotton Market Closes Steady Up Nine Points
Spot cotton in New Orleans closed steady and nine points higher at a sale day with 1,639 lots sold. Quotations on low mid, middling and good middling ranged from 11.22 to 13.22, with receipts of 3,157 and a stock of 497,038.
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Cotton
New York
Epicures
Ovis
Ceenctive
New Orleans
Cmtton
Cattle and hogs mixed in Nashville market report
Nashville market report shows cattle steady to higher with good fed yearlings to 10.25 per hundredweight and vealers up to 11.50. Cows around 7.00 and canners 5.00 to 5.75. Hog prices 8.70 to 6.80 for 190 to 250 lb grades. Sheep and lambs: spring lambs 11.00 to 12.00, ewes 3.50, total salables about 800.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
Federal-State Market News Service
Chicago grain prices on May 16 recorded changes
Cash wheat steady with No. 2 mixed at 1.07 1 4. Corn prices moved across grades with No. 3 mixed at 79 and No. 1 yellow 73 1 4. No. 2 12 1 4 74, No. 3 1 1 2 73, No. 4 69 1 2, No. 5 67 1 2. Sample white 58-66. Oats No. 1 mixed heavy 37 1 2 and No. 1 red heavy 37 1 2. Soybeans No. 2 yellow 1.33 3-4 to 1.34 and No. 3 1.32-1.33.
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Chicago
Wheat futures rise then ease on demand and crop doubt
Wheat prices moved up about a cent at first in Chicago trading on May 16 as milling demand softened and crop prospects improved. May and July contracts closed near unchanged to modestly higher, while corn climbed then slipped within narrow bounds amid program uncertainty.
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Chicago
Butter and Egg Market Report From Chicago
Butter receipts total 1 155 881 pounds with no change in price. Egg receipts reach 92 398 cases with firm demand for fresh graded extra firsts. Local market prices for cars and firsts show small variations amid current receipts and storage totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Church Lists War Musts for Southern Presbyterians
The General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church sets four war musts: nurture international brotherhood, stay church not state instruments, highlight sin, and oppose evils of war like impurity and bigotry. The report, public yesterday, will be presented May 22 in Montreal North Carolina. Rev. Stuart R Ogtesby of Atlanta chairs the committee.
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Atlanta
General Assembly
Southern Presbyterian Church
Denomination
Montreal
N. C
Stuart
R. Ogtesby
Cost of living rising with war lingering
The labor department reports cost of living up 3.7 percent since August 1939, with a one percent jump from mid March to mid April mainly due to higher food prices. Sugar costs up 7 percent since April 1940 amid shipping uncertainties and other foods rising 10 to 20 percent over the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Europe
Labor. Department
H Départment
Baptists Plan 1942 Convention in San Antonio
The Southern Baptist Convention voted to hold its 1942 meeting in San Antonio Texas starting May 16. Dr Ellis A Fuller of Atlanta was chosen to deliver the convention sermon and serves as president of the Baptist Home Missions Board and the Georgia State Convention. Dr T D Brown of Louisville was named first alternate to Dr Fuller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Uthern Baptist Convention
San Antonio
Tex
Ellis A.fuller
Atlanta
Baptist Home Missions Board
Georgia State Convention
T. D Brown
Louisville
Fuller
Dixon Plans New Building for State Departments
Governor Frank M. Dixon said he would push to construct a twin to the $500,000 state highway department building if legal authority exists. A. R. Forsyth was instructed to explore funding under current powers, possibly seeking Supreme Court advisory opinion. The plan could cost up to $1,000,000 with little WPA help expected. The building would replace residences on Dexter and Bainbridge, facing the Capitol, housing multiple departments and the Public Service Commission.
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Montgomery
Frank M. Dixon
Thevennor
A. R. Forsyth
Forsyth
Attorney General's Office
Supreme Court
Statels
Capitol
Dexter Avenue
Highway Department
Education, Health, Agriculture and Commerce
Public Service Commission
Dexter and
Bainbridge
Labor unrest spans multiple cities and industries
In Detroit CIO UAW workers strike at Hudson demanding 15 cent an hour raise while another 8500 CIO UAW members walk out. AFL craftsmen and lumber truckers seek recognition and wage gains. San Francisco Pearl Harbor in labor disputes. Perkins calls strike actions disruptive. Winchester arms raises wages. Dublin VA powder plant ends dispute. Madrid New Mexico miners push for closed shop and basic scale. Atlantic Birmingham Coast Railroad strike delayed by emergency board. pay demands rise across locomotive crews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Cio-Uaw
Hudson Motor Company
AFL
San Francisco
Golden Gate
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Perkins
CIO
San Francisco Bay Area
Pearl Harbor Naval Reservation
Winchester Repeating Arms Company
Dublin
Madrid
N. M
Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad
Hostlers
Beiruts Tension Echoes Across War Fronts In Asia and Africa
Propagandists and specialists reportedly landed in Iraq as Hitler forges Asia campaign. Eden signals RAF strikes in Syria while Britain targets Berlin and northern ports. Mussolini's forces repel elsewhere as Washington questions Petain. Italy plans Croatian monarchy restoration amid Yugoslav upheaval.
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Iraq
Adolf Hitler
Asia Minor
J W Thornton Appointed Manager at Gunter Store
J W Thornton of Nashville arrived to become manager of Gunter's store at 524 Second Avenue. He chose the Decatur post over similar offers in two other Valley cities. Thornton has broad experience managing finance firms and in mercantile operations.
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J. W. Thornton
Nashville
Gunter’s
Second Avenue
Thornton
Decatur
Gunter's
FDR weighs farm aid bill amid parity questions
President Roosevelt discussed loans up to 85 percent parity for five crops and cash benefits in farm parity calculations. He noted cotton growers receive about 23 4 cents in benefits toward parity of 15 to 15 1/2 cents per pound, and asked how these payments affect overall price levels. He did not commit to a veto and urged suggestions for cutting non-defense spending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sident Roosevelt
Ferner
Roosevelt
House
Senate
Congress
Decatur Diary Documents Local Bible Institute Enrollees
Decatur notes list three residents among Moody Bible Institute enrollees in Chicago and report a record spring term with 1 760 students in day and evening classes. The piece also catalogs church sermons, meetings, hospital visits, nursing association events, and local residents’ activities during the week.
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Joe T. Weatherly
Sixth Avenue Weat
John O. Drew
Jackson Street
Dolphin L. Price
Fourth Avenue Weat
Moody Bible Institute
Chicago
City and theater firm clash over school site and bonds
Decatur civic matters involve Crescent Amusement Company facing city tax recognition and a school site plan at Delans Park. Residents protest park use while council seeks park abstracts and a bond issue of 80000 dollars to fund street paint programs amid fire safety building inspections.
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Bauleh
Decatur
Crescent Amusement Company
Delans Park
Eighth
Twelfth Avenues
R. L. Maury
Karly Phinizy
Park
Nashville
Floyd ‘Elkins
Elkins
Dedati
Noted inmate Hess speaks with Kirkpatrick despite limits
The Mesa patient has shown willingness to converse with Kirkpatrick on several occasions. A physician advised restraint, and he is restricted to light reading and limited radio broadcasts without access to newspapers.
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Mesa
Kirkpatrick
Hess as Embarrassing Guest Presses British Views
Berlin reports Rudolf Hess an embarrassing guest in England as he warns Britons they cannot win the war. Nakp spokesman says Churchill and Eden avoid Hess, who claims war continuation would be England's catastrophe and expects Hess’s theme to trouble Britain in days ahead.
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Berlin
Rudolf Hess
England
Nakp
Hess
Churchill
Anthony Eden
Germany
Equipment for Decatur Home Guard Arrives at Armory
Part of the equipment for Deca tur s Home Guard unit arrived at the Armory today announced by Captain H Floyd Sher rod Rifles and portions of the uniforms such as shoes caps loggins and belts were in the consignment The remainder of the equipment expected to arrive within the next week The local guard unit is composed of 40 men and three officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
H. Floyd. Sherrod
Mine Strike Looms Anew In Soft Coal Region
Southern soft coal operators and United Mine Workers of America CIO adjourned wage talks with little hope of reaching a settlement to avert another strike. John L Lewis warned of possible action, while L P Putnam urged continued negotiations as a new session was scheduled. The Appalachian coal area accounts for about 70 percent of U S soft coal production.
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New York
Ers
United Mine Workers of America
CIO
UMW
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Aad
L. P. Putnam
Southern Apolieaman
Atate Appalachian
Roosevelt warns Vichy overcollaboration to aid Germany
In a White House address President Roosevelt rejects any Vichy collabo ration with Germany and warns of a possible alliance that would betray France and its colonies. Earlier Petain urged backing collaboration as a future path while U S authorities seized French ships.
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Vichy
United States
France
Atlantic
White House
Marshal Henri Petain
Roosevelt
Britain
Germany
William D. Leahy
Marshal Petain
Leahy
Petain
Dances Prolonged at Camp Show Floor Amid Talks of Reopening
McCLELLAN hosts a floor show with dancing during a break period. Mrs. Beddow notes about half the girls attend regularly and call the dances swell. She adds her own daughter participates, while maneuvers may end the dances until next fall.
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E.E. Speer, Jr
Lincoln
Lawrence CO
Nashville ‘Livestock
DIXON
GMC
Beirut
London
House of Commons
RAF
Syria
French Mandate
Iroq
Eden
London News Chronicle
Reich
Hannover
Hamburg
Cuzhaven
French
Channel
Boulogne
Calais
Hitler
British Isles
North-Afra
Mussolini
Amba Alaji
Ethiopia
Normandie
Marshal
Actre
Frince
Martinique
French Guiana
Italy
Vittorio Emanuele
Yugoslavia
Gunter
Decatur’s
Pr. R. M. Howell
First Methodist Church
First Methodial Church
Kathleen Smith
Selma
Mra Jd
J. Higdon
Freeda Mae
John A. Troxler
Weatminster Presbyterian Church
Charles Landers
Carl Green
Southside Baptist Church
Mr .Landers
Mr Green
Alabama State Nurses Association
Morgan County
Grant Street Church
Clarence Horton
Courtland
Veterans Hospital
Preferred Life Assurance Society
Lelia Cantwell Seton Hall
Decatur Negro High School
Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
Harrison Hill
Charlie Herring
James, Johnson
Cullman County
O. B. Lansbury
Memorial Drive Methodist Church
First Christian Church
Women's Council
The
First Presbyterian Church
Hartwell Beasley
Edward Crane
Greer -Hendon
Greer Chunn
Gene Erskine
Excelsior Springs
Missouri
Mr. Hendon
Harry Wyatt
Jimmy Aes
Cullman
Edward V. Ramage
New Haven
D. J. Cumming
Korea
Cumming
Iane McCall
B. Kenison
Hamil Clinic
Wilson Avenue
Fornice Ray
Third Avenue, West
Robin Thomas
F.E. Burleson
Hartselle City
B .D. Jamieson
W. C. Williams
Hartnelle Route 2
Priday
McClellan
Decatur Yard
Somerville
Middlebrooks Lumber CO
Canal St
River Phone
MR Rankin
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