Inquest Called on Helen Baker Death Probe
Coroner Bev Howell announced a coroner's inquest into the death of Helen Baker a 32 year old Black woman suspected of involvement in an insurance poison plot. The inquest at City Hall begins Thursday at 9 am with about eighteen witnesses, as authorities review toxicology findings showing mercury and zinc in the viscera.
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Bev Howell
Helen Baker
State Toxicologist
Auburn
Baker
Howell
C. J. Rehling
City Hall
Melvin Hutson
W. T. Willoughby
W. P. Moore
Hidden Spring Romance Promises Secret Employment
Gayle Dixon seeks work and an intriguing ad for a "pretty young woman" leads to a comic tale of how she outmaneuvers rivals and makes a striking deal with an eccentric millionaire in a breezy springtime romance.
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Gayle Dixon
Local Manager Promoted to Birmingham Post
LEAVING Mr. Alston, five years at Southern Bell in this district, receives a promotion and heads to Birmingham the first of the month. His successor is being selected. Alston, active in civic life, has led Kiwanis, chaired the Chamber of Commerce, served in the National Guard, and headed several campaigns. He will base his new headquarters in Birmingham and hopes to return to Decatur often.
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Alston
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Birmingham
Kiwanis Club
Chamber of Commerce
National Guard
Decat
Canada to speed war effort with new cabinet posts and reinforcements
In Ottawa on May 21, Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King announced accelerated wartime measures. The plan includes two new cabinet ministers, a third army division, earlier sailing date for the Canadian second division, early reinforcements for the first division, and deployment of naval and military forces to the Caribbean and north Atlantic.
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Ottawa
Canada
House of Commons
W. L. Mackenzie Kink
Caribbean
North Atlantic
Decatur High Band Plans Final Concert With New Bass Clarinet
The Decatur high school band schedules its final concert of the year for Thursday at 8 15 PM in Riverside Auditorium. The recently added bass clarinet will debut in performance as an overflow crowd crowds in to honor this top marching and concert band that lately won first place at the Mule Day show in Columbia Tennessee and the Strawberry Festival in Cullman.
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Decatur Higher School
Riverside Auditorium
Columbia
Tenn
Cullman
Roosevelt calls navy leaders to White House defense talks
President Roosevelt convened a White House conference with Senate and House naval committee chairmen and top admirals to discuss the navy portion of the defense program. Attending were Chairman Walsh, Chairman Vinson, Admiral Stark, Rear Admiral Towers, and Rear Admiral Moreell.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
House
White House
Walsh
Mass
Senate Committee
Vinson
D. Ga
House Committee
Harold R. Stark
Naval Operations
John H. Towers
Navy Aeronautics Bureau
Ben Moreell
Bureau of Yards and Docks
Navy orders 15000 extra shipyard workers in three months
Acting secretary Lewis Compton directed all navy establishments to speed defense prep by adding shifts and increasing civilian shipbuilding by at least 15000 within three months. The rise will be distributed across Portsmouth New York Philadelphia Mare Island Boston Charleston Norfolk and Puget Sound yards, with 66 ships under construction or projected including 8 battleships.
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Washington
Lewis Compton
Compton
Navy Department
Marine Corps
Navy
Portsmouth
New York City
Mare Island
Philadelphia
Boston
Charleston
Norfolk
Puget Sound Navy Yards
Navy leaders weigh wage hours and defense work policy
The president may favor exempting defense workers from wage hour rules while navy officials discuss lifting profits caps on naval construction. On Capitol Hill the House naval committee tentatively approved an amendment to purge civil employees suspected of subversive activities, for defense needs. The Civil Service Commission prepared the measure and proposed by Harry B Mitchell.
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Navy
Capitol Hill
House Naval Committee
Civil Service Commission
Ttree
Harry B. Mitchell
Commission
Weed Out
Huntsville Native Col Echols Killed in New York Robbery
Retired Army officer Colonel Charles P. Echols a Huntsville, Alabama native and former West Point mathematics professor died after a robbery assault in New York. He was found unconscious beside Bryant Park and died at Bellevue Hospital from a fractured skull and internal injuries. Police questioned witnesses and rounded up suspects. Echols had registered at the Roosevelt hotel May 13 and taught at West Point until 1931.
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New York
Charles P. Echols
United States Military Academy
West Point
N. Y
New York Public Library
Bryant Park
Sixth Avenue
42Nd Street
Bellevue Hospital
Colonel Echols
Wesley Mann
Mann
Englewood
N J
Lydecker Street
Roosevelt Hotel
Echols
Huntsville
Ala
Philippines
Reynaud faults French command over German invasion
Paris reports Premier Reynaud blaming the high command for incredible faults that allowed German armored blows to breach Meuse defenses. He warned of total disorganization, cited Amiens and Arras fallen, and urged immediate decisive action to save France.
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Paris
Reynaud
Meuse
France
Amiens
Arras
Germany
Eynaud
Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Beutfel
English Channel
Abbeville
Sheriff and police chief injured in Tupelo wreck
Sheriff W. T. Willoughby and Police Chief W. P. Moore were hurt when their car, en route to Denver to pick up a prisoner, was sideswiped east of Tupelo Mississippi. Willoughby suffered bruises and shock. Moore had lesser injuries. The duo returned to town and Moore later drove another car toward Denver.
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W. T. Willoughby
W. P. Moore
Denver
Tupelo
Miss
Willoughby
Chief Moore
French General Giraud Reported Captured by German Forces
Berlin wireless describes the capture of General Giraud and his staff from the French seventh army after a German assault that overran the staff headquarters. The report says Giraud assumed command unaware of the recent losses and was taken prisoner.
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Berlin
Giraud
Local Club Wins Honor at State Convention
Decatur Business and Professional Women's Club won a prize for largest membership increase at the Alabama state convention in Anniston last weekend. The Decatur club doubled from 28 to 56 members, receiving best showing for any club. honorable mention for its scrap book.
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Decatur Business and Professional Women's Club
Anniston
Decatur Club
Carrie Alexander
Montgomery
O. B Smith
W. A Sullivan
Earl Williams
Winifred Sentiff
Carrie” Alexander
E. G. Hamilton
Pearl Crawford
Lora Moody
Mise Clio Levin
Minnie L. Steckel
Alabama College
Judge attacks poll tax bill and absentee voting flaws
Montgomery judge Walter B. Jones denounces the Geyer anti poll tax bill as a southern threat while calling for a full probe into two prisoner deaths. He urges drastic changes to absentee voting and cites Ned Bow Rowland's death in custody as an example of harmful law enforcement.
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Montgomery
Ala
Grand Jury
Jones
Montgomery County
Ned “Bow” Rowland
Rivers Harbors Bill Is Vetoed
President Roosevelt vetoed a bill authorizing 109,985,450 dollars for river and harbor improvements and surveys. He said existing authorized projects already supply a backlog and non military War Department activities should yield to military preparedness needs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
War Department
War map shows Western Front advances across France and Belgium
The Associated Press describes a 12 day war picture with wavering lines of fighting from Longwy along the Maginot east to St. Quentin and Amiens, then moving northwest toward Brussels Ghent and Antwerp with reach into Abbeville Valenciennes and Arras.
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Associated Press
Europe
Longwy
France
Rethel
Laon
St. Quentin
Paris
Chemin Des Dames
Amiens
Abbeville
Peronne
Arras
Valenciennes
Schelde River
Belgium
Brussels
Ghent
Antwerp
German Garrison Short Of Powder Near Narvik
Reports from the Swedish frontier say the German garrison at Narvik is critically short of ammunition. Occupation by attackers may be imminent and Germans could resist to the last man rather than surrender or retreat into Sweden.
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Stockholm
Narvik
Sweden
Last Call on Census Count in Decatur
Civic and church groups push to identify unlisted 1940 residents in Decatur. Volunteers from Rotary Lions Kiwanis and church workers collect data under Prof Hurston in white and Negro sections. Chamber of Commerce urges residents to report uncounted people and tally reports to boost Decatur's census figures.
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Decatur
Chamber of Commerce
Rotary, Lions and Kiwanis Clubs
Lyons
Prof
Hurston
Two Absentee Ballots Returned in Election
Only two of 295 requested absentee ballots for the June 4 election had been returned by Tuesday. Officials expect a large rush of returns in the next few days. Ballots may be cast until election day, but requests must be in at least five days before.
Germans claim to reach English Channel area near Abbeville
Commentary on German advances and Allied risk in early World War I, noting disputed reports of German breakthroughs and the uncertain status of the Allied front. The piece questions whether the German claims indicate a crushed French ninth army and the capture of key officers, urging caution until more facts emerge.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
English Channel
Abbeville
Ninth Army
Gira Ea
Allied Position Seen As Precarious In Somme Push
The fragment notes a precarious Allied hold near Perronne as Nazi forces claim Amiens and Abbeville. It suggests a small mechanized spearhead may have reached the coast with heavy follow-up needed to sustain the breakthrough, echoing Kaiser's spring 1918 Somme gamble.
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Somme
Perronne
Amiens
Abbeville
Nazi Air War Fires Across English Channel Coast
Reports from the southeast coast of England describe intense antiaircraft fire and engine noise from patrols overhead. Residents said the blasts shook the area as crowds gathered in the streets to watch, though no aircraft were visible.
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London
England
Seacoast
English Channel
Straits of Dover
France
German Wehrmacht Near Paris and Channel In West Drive
German forces drive toward Abbeville and the English Channel, reaching 69 miles from Paris and 12 miles from the Channel. Paris reports German claims of Abbeville capture while France’s Reynaud condemns the disorganized Meuse defense amid rapid mechanized assaults. London questions the German communiqué accuracy as European battles widen.
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Paris
English
Acme Telephoto
Weather Snapshot for Alabama and Tennessee
Weather highlights show Alabama partly cloudy and warmer in the north and central areas tonight with a cooler extreme northwest. Winds coastal to moderate southeast by Wednesday. Tennessee forecasts mostly scattered showers Wednesday with cooler east and south portions tonight and a warmer trend in the west and central regions.
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Alabama
Tennessee
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