Texas Company begins gas terminal near Tennessee River
The Texas Company starts a 1.25 million dollar gas terminal project near the Tennessee River in Decatur. The first unit includes a 600000 gallon tank, 85 foot dock, a 400 foot pipeline, and 200 feet of spur tracks for tank cars. Output will ship by truck to Huntsville and nearby cities.
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The
Texas Company
Bank of the Tennessee
Tennessee
Chattanoora
Paduach
Tne
Decatur
Huntsville
Cullman
Athens
Haleyville
Ingalls Iron Works
Jack Cothran
Gulf Refining Company
Bank of the Tennessee River
W. Market Street
First
Washington
Americas in Nazi Protest Across the Americas
The 21 American Republics denounce Nazi Germany for invasions of neutral countries. Uruguay drafted the declaration and nations from Chile to Nicaragua ratified it. Protests in Montevideo and Buenos Aires include street clashes and attempts to disrupt transit. Panama reviews foreign census to curb subversive activity.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
United States
Alberto Guani
Chile
Nicaragua
Buenos Aires
England
France
Jose Maria Cantilo
Guani
Argentina
Paraguay
Colombia
Panama
Leoid Avosemena
Weather Summary for Tennessee River Region
The Tennessee river rose to 20.2 feet with no rainfall reported in the past 24 hours. Temperatures ranged from 61 to 82 degrees. Alabama experienced partly to cloudy skies with showers in the north, lingering tonight and Sunday with cooler conditions and southerly winds along the coast.
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Tennessee
Alabama
German gains push deep into France and overrun Belgium
The Associated Press reports German forces advanced into northern France within 60 miles of Paris and captured major Belgian cities including Antwerp Brussels and Louvain. About 2 000 Dutch and French prisoners were taken in Zeeland as the front shifted along the Meuse toward Namur and near the coast at Antwerp. The Allied line buckled at the Dyle and bulge fronts but remained unbroken as both sides suffer heavy casualties.
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France
Belgium
Holland
Antwerp
Brussels
Louvain
Paris
Zeeland
Netherlands
Dyle
Bulge
Rethel
St. Michel
Maubeuge
Meuse
Nam
Louis P. Lochner
Berlin
Germany
England
Mechelen
Malines
Walcheren
Schouwen
Beveland
Fter
Mauveuge-Montmedy
Two Conn. Bankers Cleared In McKesson Fraud Case
Two Connecticut bankers Rowley W. Phillips and Horace B. Merwin, directors of McKesson and Robbins, were acquitted on all counts in the $21,000,000 fraud case. Former controller John H. McGloon was acquitted on mail fraud and conspiracy and convicted on one SEC violation, with possible penalties up to two years and a $10,000 fine.
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New York
Connecticut
McKesson and Robbins, Incorporated
F. Donald Coster-Musica
McKesson
John H. McGloon
SEC
Rowley W. Phillips
Waterbury
Conn
Horace B. Merwin
Bridgeport
Coster- Musica
Grover Moscowitz
Coster-Musica
McGloon
Antwerp Reputed Vital Port Falls to German Forces
The German army claims rapid capture of Antwerp, a key European fortress and port on the Scheldt Estuary. Once a major hub, Antwerp stood as Belgiums chief commercial city with Notre Dame Cathedral and a population around 275000. The city has shifted hands in earlier wars and remains strategically significant for northern defense and potential threats to the Channel ports.
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Associated Press
Antwerp
Europe
Belgium
Berlin
Brussels
France
North Sea
Winston Churchill
Admiralty
Kaiser Wilhelm
London
Rotterdam
Scheldt
Notre Dame
Belgium and
Holland
Receiver Appointed for Decatur Ice and Coal and Packing Firms
John A. Caddell appointed receiver for the Decatur Ice and Coal Company and the Decatur Packing Company after the firms entered receivership on May 15. The ice business continues with the plant operating as before while the packing operation is discontinued and meats valued at $5,000 are being sold. The debt totals about $34,000 with assets around $76,000, and the ice and coal plant sits on Market Street near the Tennessee River bank. The Decatur Ice and Coal Company, started in 1887, is among the city’s oldest industries with a modern plant replacing an older facility in recent years.
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John A. Caddell
Decatur Ice and Coal Company, Inc
Decatur Packing Company
Ice and Coal Company and Packing Plant
Market Street
Tennessee River Bank
Decatur Ice and Coal Company
Presbyterian assembly to debate church union and Vatican envoy
In Chattanooga on May 18 the Southern Presbyterian assembly prepared for next week’s debate on two major questions. A union with the northern church and Roosevelt’s appointment of Myron C. Taylor as his Vatican representative will likely be acted on by committees and reported to the full assembly early next week.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Presbyterian Church (Southern
United States
Roosevelt
Myron C. Taylor
Vatican
Defense Drives All Fronts for Massive Armament Program
Washington May 18 The House naval committee chair Vinson urged emergency powers for Roosevelt to suspend wage rules and relax financial controls to speed a 1.182 billion defense drive. Senate subcommittee backed 647.65 million in extra army appropriations and 50 million for regular troops as bipartisan support grows for rapid mobilization. Col. Knox reported Roosevelt authorized disclosure of a Plattsburgs plan for training camps to build military fliers.
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Washington
Vinson
D.-Ga
House Naval Committee
Roosevelt
Teady
Republican Party
Congress
Senate
House
Herbert Hoover
Alfred M. Landon
London
White House
Landon
Col
Frank Knox
Plattsburgs
Senate Military Appropriations Subcommittee
Eer
Nazis Say Antwerp Now In Their Hands
German forces push toward Paris after breaking through in northern France and entering Antwerp. High command reports a 62 mile wide breakthrough near Maubeuge and gains south toward the Maginot Line as Dutch resistance ends on Zeeland islands.
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Antwerp
Rumania orders foreigners to leave as tensions rise
Foreigners in Rumania faced a wartime clampdown as the interior ministry ordered all aliens without permits to depart and cancelled permits issued before May 1. At least 10,000 were affected, with noncompliant individuals to be interned in a new concentration camp.
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Bucharest
Itaans
Rumania
Balkans
Ministry of Interior
French Admit Nazi Pocket Now Widened
German forces widened the pocket in northern France using 2600 to 3000 tanks as French artillery and tanks countered near Vervins Avesnes Sedan and Montmedy. Allied air power and bombings targeted German supply lines while the French declared their tank tactics improved and the battle described as the most gigantic of all times.
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Paris
France
Vervins
Avesnes
Oise
Sambre
Sedan
Montmedy
Comat
Pattle
French
War Ministry
Dunkerque
Itler
Germany
Nazis reach 60 miles from Paris as Antwerp falls to Germany
German advance tightens grip on northern France and Belgium. Antwerp is claimed as a German victory threatening the Allied line to Paris and the Channel ports. German tanks armor and air power push toward Paris while British and French forces resist with heavy losses and continued air battles.
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Associated Press
Antwerp
Adolf Hitler
Paris
Belgium
Dnb
Europe
Channel
First Census Figure for Decatur Sets Growth at 16 373
The first preliminary 1940 census figure for Decatur is 16 373, up from 15 593 in 1930 and 780 more than the prior decade. J K Thompson Huntsville office supervised the count within city limits as Decatur checks for additional evidence of residents. Local chambers civic clubs and city officials met to plan next steps.
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Decatur
J. K. Thompson
Huntsville
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Civic Clubs
City of
Belgian Forces Hold Namur as Leopold Urges Resistance
Paris dispatch reports Belgian forces in Namur still resisting with King Leopold sending a message urging continued defense for the fatherland. Berlin reports 29 civilians killed and 51 injured in a Hamburg air raid with damage to homes. London notes ten German Junkers 87 bombers shot down by Hurricane fighters over France.
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Belgium
France
Holland
Walcheren
Zeeland
Air Ministry
Associated Press
Paris
Namur
Havas
Leopold
Berlin
DNB
Hamburg
London
U.S. Advises Americans to Leave Turkey Immediately
The U.S. embassy in Ankara on May 18 urged American nationals to depart Turkey at once for the United States due to unspecified safety concerns, advising transportation arrangements and caution.
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Ankara
Turkey
United States
German Foreign Pa Reported by Berlin Radio
Berlin radio quotes German foreign policy discussions as the exchange Telegraph News Agency reports from London with details continued on Page Two.
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London
Exchange Telegraph
Berlin
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Aleksandar Vukcevic
Metaxas
Yugoslavia
Russia
Stockholm
Tidningen
Moscow
Nancy
Air Ministry Today
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