June primary races show low voter turnout in Morgan county
Voter interest is described as low with only five days until the June 4 runoff. Six races from the first May 7 primary are decided, including probate judge between T. C. Almon and Wallace Meadows, circuit court clerk John H. Green vs J. Howard West, and Morgan county board of education runoff J. W. Crow vs Abner C. Sample. Justice of the peace nominees in Decatur include J. B. Dickinson J L Draper B D Meadors and George W. Norwood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. C. Almon
Wallace Meadows
John H. Green
J. Howard West
Seybourn H. Lynne
W. W. Callahan
J. H. Crow, Jr
A. M. Smith, Jr
Morgan County
Jeff Rowe
Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control
John F. McCutcheon
Hugh White
Gordon Persons
Public Service Commission
J. Ed Livingston
Davis Stakley
Supreme Court
John H. Bankhead
Lister Hill
A. A. Carmichael
Henry B. Steagall
Lions Return From Meet in Huntsville Convention
Decatur Lions Club delegates Knox McMasters John Wilkes Charles Ed Howell and Bill Patton attended the Alabama Lions state convention in Huntsville from May 26 to 28. The district governor banquet at Russell Erskine Hotel drew 300 Lions. Kenneth A. Roberts and Roy Smith were elected district governors, and 1941 convention slated for Dothan.
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Decatur Lions Club
Lions State
Huntsville
Knox McMasters
John Wilkes
Charles Ed Howell
Bill Patton
Russell Erskine Hotel
Lions International
W. Birch
Milwaukee
Kenneth A. Roberts
Talladega
Alabama
Roy Smith
Phenix City
Dothan
British Force Withdrawals In Good Order From Flanders Trap
British expeditionary force is seen fighting a stiff rear guard action to cover a withdrawal toward safety. The pocketed BEF and French forces are described as sustaining a disciplined retreat with morale unshaken, though heavy losses of equipment are expected as authorities prepare to destroy material to prevent capture. Neutral observers say relief would require mechanized aid matching Germany.
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London
Britain
Flanders
Withdra
B.E.F
Germany
English
Lille
Ypres
Berlin
Ostend
Pep Roy Beenene
Remene
Admiralty
Norway
Naroe Door
Boulogne
France
Decatur Youth Wins Keller Prize for Civil Engineering
P H Sandlin Jr graduate from University of Alabama wins the W Simpson Keller prize for top scholarship among civil engineering students. The award of ten dollars is given by the widow of Alabama’s first highway engineer. He is son of Mr and Mrs P H Sandlin of 609 Prospect Drive and was Decatur High School class president in 1936. He joined Dramatics Club and Lambda Pi Sigma in high school and later Theta Tau at college.
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P. H. Sandlin, Jr
University of Alabama
W. Simpson Keller
Mr. Sandlin
P. H. Sandlin
Prospect Drive
Decatur High School
Lambda Pi Sigma Fraternity
Decatur
The
University
Theta Tau Engineering Society
Ford would build 1000 planes daily in six months
Ford Motor Company could reach a daily output of 1000 planes of standard design within six months under conditions of government noninterference and expert aviation counsel from Lindbergh and Rickenbacker. Henry Ford argued the current war would end soon with the United States staying out and cautioned that a large defensive armament program could become dangerous if hysteria drives policy.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Henry Ford
Charles A. Lindbergh
Edward Rickenbacker
Ford
Hatch Bill Passes First House Test
The House judiciary committee approved the Hatch bill to extend political activity restrictions from federal to federal and state employees. The panel voted 16 to 7 after previously shelving the measure and then reversing course to give it further consideration.
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Hatch
Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Legal fate of Leopold III to be decided by Belgian Parliament
May 29 Paris report says Belgium’s parliament will decide Friday on Leopold III’s fate as king. The cabinet has declared him deposed after surrender to Germany. Parliament plans to meet at the Paris town hall to consider formal action and new statutes for governing Belgium’s displaced people.
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Paris
Leopold III
Emerguns Teaiien
Leopold
Germany
Brussels
Belgium
Belgian King Leopold Hidden Amid Allied Bombing Fears
German sources report King Leopold of Belgium remains hidden with secrecy justified by fear that Allies would bomb his location if discovered. French Premier Reynaud and Belgian Prime Minister Pierlot are cited as reasons for keeping his whereabouts undisclosed.
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Berlin
Leopold
Paul Reynaud
Hubert Pierlot
Firm Changes in Auto Row in Decatur
In Decatur two auto row changes occur this week. McRae Motors, DeSoto-Plymouth dealer and distributor run by G C McRae, suspends new car sales to focus on a new used car lot at Lee and Oak streets. The company will keep its Second Avenue office and Knox McRae, Dodge-Plymouth dealer, runs the service department and moves the showrooms and offices to the two story building housing the service unit. Knox McRae also keeps the Second Avenue used car lot.
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Decatur
DeSoto-Plymouth
Dodge- Plymouth
McRae Motors
Second Avenue
Knox McRae
Dodge-Plymouth
Service
Service Department
Ol Time Minstrel Program Planned at Riverside High
Interest runs high for an ol time minstrel program as part of the Thursday eight o clock variety show at Riverside High School Auditorium under the Workers' Council of the First Christian church. A large Decatur crowd is expected with Sam Alexander as interlocutor.
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Riverside High School
Workers’ Council of the First Christian Church
Decatur
Sam Alexander
Defense plan in brass tacks stage today
Congress tackles raising 683 million dollars in new taxes and borrowing for a 3 billion defense bill. A seven member presidential commission converges on Washington to speed arms production as Stephen Early reports Roosevelt will seek more funding for the army beyond the 1.182 billion emergency program.
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Ed Press
Chakmeroe
Congress
Stephen Early
Roosevelt
Roosevelt weighs expansion of defense program funds
President Roosevelt and War Department officials consider a supplemental defense plan for army equipment planes and mechanization that could add about 600 million dollars to the already projected preparedness expenditures. A congressional request of roughly 600 million to 1 billion may follow within days alongside the 3 billion tax program.
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Washington
Roosevelt
War Department
Morgenthau and
Woodring
Louis Johnson
Assisant
George C. Marshall
Army
Congress
White House
Roosevelt, War Dept Seek Supplemental Defense Funds
President Roosevelt met with Morgenthau Woodring Johnson and Marshall to review supplemental defense estimates as the War Department finalizes figures for Congress. Early noted Navy requests were lacking while a day packed with defense and international affairs included Dorothy Thompson and the French ambassador. Attorney General Jackson joined for talks on aliens and fifth column concerns as defense blueprinting advances with shipbuilding bills and a $1,137,000,000 expansion plan.
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War Department
Barry
Congress
Roosevelt
Morgenthau
Woodring
Louis Johnson
George C. Marshall
Army
Early
Navy
Dorothy Thompson
France
Coum de Saint-Quentin
Jackson
White House
Britain Faces Escape Mission as Army Withdraws
British forces fight a delaying retreat from Flanders with low flying raids on German transport. Narvik falls to allies as Belgian king Leopold capitulates, prompting Churchill and ministers to acknowledge necessary withdrawal from positions near the channel.
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London
Flanders
English Channel
Norway
Narvik
Posit
Dukerque
Admiralty-War Office
Fageness
Forsneset
Alfred Duff Cooper
Leopold
Gallipoli
Black Sea
Mrs Burleson To Seek New Hearing In Slaying Case
Mrs May Walker Burleson of Galveston Texas seeks a new trial after a murder verdict in Columbia South Carolina. She was found guilty of fatally shooting Isabel Knowlton former wife of Col Richard Burleson with mercy recommended. The jury fixed a sentence range of two to thirty years and the defense argued mental disturbance.
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Columbia
8. C
May Walker Burleson
Galveston
Tex
Richard C. Burleson
U. S. Army
Burleson
Isabel Reece Knowlton
Boston
Mass
Camp Jackson
Here
Third Annual Fish Rodeo Closes At 10 Tonight
Morgan County Fish Rodeo wraps up at 10 PM with prizes nearing $400 in cash. Notable catches include Mrs. J W Williams’s three pound one ounce bass and David Hulse’s five pound 15 ounce big string of bream. Anna Marie Chastine tops among girls under 16 with four crappies weighing four pounds eight ounces. Prizes awarded at Delano Park tomorrow afternoon with a fish dinner at noon and TVA experts presenting talks.
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Morgan County
Rodeo
Lee Street
Wheeler and Wilson Lakes
J. W. Williams
Decatur
Spring Creek
David Hulse
Swan Lake
Anna Marie Chastine
Claude Hallmark
H. E
Buddy) Hallmark
Wheeler Dam
Delano Park
Park
C.m-Tarzwell
TVA
A. H. Wiebe
Norris
Fate of Allied Forces in Flanders Faces Critical Day
Commentary notes a half million Allied soldiers trapped in Flanders as German forces surge toward Dunkirk. The piece describes a transforming battle into a massive whirlpool threat, with French command praising resistance and German forces urging surrender or death. It outlines three watchpoints: the whirlpool, the German drive to seize Dunkirk area, and the broader impact on allied plans.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Flanders
Miracle Apparently Saves Men in Coastal Trap
The account describes Allied troops trapped near Dunkirk and the coast eastward toward the Somme. General Weygand reportedly massed about half a million troops to close the gap and seal an escape route toward Paris. Leopold of Belgium faces a difficult decision, while German forces push to seize the coast and the Dunkerque exit.
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Abbéville
Somme
Maginot
Laorghil
Leopold
Dunkerque
Three US Warships Head to Lisbon for Protection
Washington announces three United States warships Vincennes Trux ton and Simpson are en route to Lisbon to protect American interests abroad. The move aims to deter speculation they will escort liners carrying refugees. President Roosevelt to Ireland to collect evacuees. Staff report Americans in Bordeaux Lisbon Genoa Naples and New York locations totaled over two thousand awaiting repatriation.
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Washington
United States
Lisbon
Portugal
Edison
President Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Ireland
British Isles
State Department
Bordeaux
France
Genoa
Italy
New York
Naples
Vincennes
Truxton
Simpson
Herbeckinaon
West Coast air corps strength rises in war drive
San Francisco May 29. Uncle Sam doubles Army Air Corps personnel on the West Coast and boosts the Ninth Corps area by 40 percent since the European war began. Enlisted strength of the Ninth Corps area rises to about 33,573 authorized from 23,566 with current estimates near 31,000. The area covers Oregon Washington California Montana Idaho Utah Nevada Wyoming and Alaska.
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San Francisco
Sam
Army Air Corps
West Coast
Ninth Corps
Oregon
Washington
California
Montana
Idaho
Utah
Nevada
Wyoming
Alaska
Nazi advances push Allied line in Flanders and Dunkirk
Paris and London report German forces storming Ypres and capturing Lille and Ostend. Allied retreat to the Channel continues with stiff rearguard actions as bombardment and evacuations shape a perilous crisis for the Allied forces in northern France and Belgium.
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Flanders
St. Omer
Courtrai
Ypres
Lens
Valenciennes
Scheldt River
Bapaume-Peronne
Ostend
Tennessee River Weather Report
The Tennessee river gauge stood at 20.1 Wednesday with a high near 62 and a low around 5. The day recorded about 0.04 inches of precipitation.
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Tennessee
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Mrs. Burleson
Miracle
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Associated Press
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Berelin
Aisne
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