Roosevelt Adopts Silent Line on Aid to Britain
President Roosevelt announced a policy of silence on future methods to deliver aid to Great Britain. He said army and navy technicians were devising safeguards while officials hinted at possible full convoys. Congress and officials debated emergency powers and the scope of neutrality rules amid ongoing Atlantic patrols.
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Washington
Ent
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Army
Navy
Reynolds
DNC
Senate Military Committee
England
Wallace
United States
Congress
Britain
Atlantic
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Bandit Seized After Cafe Hold Up in Birmingham
In Birmingham on May 29 a bandit entered Kathrine Stickley’s cafe brandishing a pistol. A customer knocked the weapon from his hand with a soda bottle and another tackled him, allowing police to arrest the suspect.
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Birmingham
Ala
Katherine Stickley
Display the Flag Daily in Decatur
The Decatur Daily urges all business houses industrial firms and residents to display the flag of the United States daily as a sign of patriotism during national emergency. The paper asks citizens to make flag display a daily habit and to honor the spirit of freedom and government.
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Decatur
United States
Daylight Saving And Gasless Sundays Urged To Meet Shortages
Interior Secretary Ickes proposed nationwide daylight saving and possible gasless Sundays to conserve power and oil. Federal Power Commission officials warned of a likely power emergency as shortages threaten defense production and transportation.
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Washington
Ickes
America
Federal Power Commission
Act of Congress
Congress
Georgia
T. R. Tate
Tate
Town Hall Friday Meeting Urges Chamber Members
The Decatur Chamber of Commerce holds a Friday 7:30 PM town hall at Hotel Lyons Assembly Hall. B B Pentecost, Membership Committee chair, urges all members and interested parties to attend and participate. The April meeting yielded work suggestions now assigned to committees, with progress updates to come. The drive to reach an $8000 annual budget continues as 14 members remain to be signed.
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Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Hotel
Lyons
B. B. Pentecost
Chamber of Commerce
Barret Shelton
Pentecost
Burns at Home Leave Miss Sarah Osborne Severely Burned
Miss Sarah Osborne a 22 year old resident of Hart Selle route 2 was seriously burned at her home when she tried to start a fire in the kitchen stove with kerosene oil and live coals beneath it. Her brother Jordan Osborne beat out the flames and she was taken to Baugh's Infirmary after being admitted Wednesday afternoon.
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Sarah Osborne
Baugh's Infirmary
Osborne
Jordan Osborne
Battle for Crete Intensifies as Allied Stand Shrinks
The Anglo Greek allies face a grave fight on Crete with Nazi dive bombers sweeping the island for ten days. Cities are pulverized and civilians suffer as air power remains the key hurdle until American aid arrives. If Crete falls, observers fear attention may shift to Cyprus base.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Crete
Mediterranean
America
London
Cyprus
High Price Is Paid For Crete Victory
Germany seeks Crete to gain base options for further operations in the Mediterranean. A by passed Cyprus plan could bring Syria Palestine and Egypt into range with Libyan theater proximity raising the threat to Allied positions in North Africa. The island would require consolidation before use as a major operations base.
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Syria
Cyprus
Palestine
Egypt
Suez Canal
Libya
North African
AFL Leaders Urge End to Strike at West Coast Yards
The AFL executive council urged machinists on strike at 11 San Francisco Bay area shipyards to return to work and back a coastwide master contract. They argued production is vital to national defense and called for mediation and restraint against unions that strike.
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Associated Press
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
APL
San Francisco Bay Area
Federation Labor Unions
AFL
CIO
San Francisco
Broderick
United States Conciliation Service
Paul Broderick
Cleveland
Aluminum Company of America
CLO Die Casters
Monsanto Chemical Company
Fast St. Louis
Packard Motor Car Company
Detroit
OIO United Automobile Workers
Survivors Reported For Hood Casualties
London May 20 informed naval sources say only three Hood survivors identified one officer and two seamen with Hood's crew of over 1300. The battleship exploded after a magazine detonation from a German shell amid fast sinking, leaving limited chances for escape. Robert Tilburn later confirmed safe in Iceland, father J F Tilburn of Leeds notified.
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London
Hood
Bismarck
Robert Tilburn
J. F. Tilburn
Leeds
Iceland
Communists Active in Philadelphia Election Petitions
The House committee investigating un American activities said a study of Communist party election petitions in Philadelphia shows many signers held positions in navy yards arsenals and other government posts. Representative Starnes announced the background probe reveals substantial penetration of the party into key democratic organizations.
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Washington
House Committee
UN American Activities
Communist Party
Philadelphia
Navy Yards
Arsenal
Starnes
D.-Ala
May Opposes Hire Washington Price Chief Testimony
Leon Henderson, price chief, testified he would oppose a 33 percent railroad wage rise if the increase could be absorbed only through higher transportation costs.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
RAF Fliers to Train in U S
Secretary Stimson announced a large RAF training program in the United States starting June 7. The first class of 550 from the British Isles will begin in Alabama Florida and Georgia at civilian and Army schools, with groups every five weeks. About 4,000 pilots will train annually in phase 1 and 2, plus 1,000 navigators under phase 3, at listed schools including Gunter Field Maxwell Field Embry Riddle and Miami.
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Washington
Stimson
Royal Air Force
British Isles
Air Corps
England
Empire
War Department
Alabama Institute of Aeronautics, Inc
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Municipal
Embry-Riddle Go
Arcadia
Fla
Lincoln, Flying School
Lakeland
Carr Aero Tech, Inc
Albany, Ga
Grahm Aviation Co
Americus
Southern Aviation School
Camden
D. C
Chicago School of Aeronautics
Albany
Army
Gunter Field
Montgomery
Macon
Maxwell Field
Barksdale Field
Selma
Miami
Bismarck Crew Rescued. Mashona Sunk in Allied Action
London May 29 More than 100 officers and men of the German battleship Bismarck were rescued after she was sunk Tuesday morning. A subsequent German air attack sank the British destroyer Mashona. One officer and 45 men of Mashona are missing, the Admiralty said.
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London
Admiralty
Officials to Attend Austinvill e Meet
J. P. Edwards of Nashville a Sunday school board member and Mrs. Paul Lain of Birmingham state Sunday school worker will attend the meeting of association Sunday school officers at Austinville Baptist church this evening. The meeting starts at 7 with pastors Sunday school workers and officers from across the county anticipated.
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J. P. Edwards
Nashville
Southern Baptist Convention
Paul Lain
Birmingham
Austinville Baptist Church
Questionnaires urged in Morgan County draft boards
Officials of Morgan county draft boards No. 1 and No. 2 at Hartselle appealed to registrants to use only typewriter or black or blue black ink on questionnaires. Notaries public were asked to witness signatures with black or blue black ink as copies are made.
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Morgan County
Hartselle
Germans Pay for Sabotage in World War I Claim
A U S district court filing shows German interests paid the Lehigh Valley Railroad 10 016 953 60 for property damage from the 1916 Black Tom explosion in Jersey City. The award was set by the American Mixed Claims Commission and paid via the U S Treasury in two installments.
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Philadelphia
U. S. District Court
Leghigh Valley
Jersey City
American Mixed Claims Commission
United States Treasury
Man Hurt Falling From Ladder in Oak Street Painting Job
J A Coughton age 58 of 221 Fourth Avenue West suffered a broken right shoulder and wrist when he fell about 20 feet from a ladder at 919 Oak Street near noon today. The ladder sank in soft ground near the top causing the fall. He was taken by Brown ambulance to the Rear Clinic, treated, and sent home.
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J. A. Coughton
Fourth Avenue
West
Oak Street
Senate OKs Ship Seizure Bill Amid War Gear
Washington May 20 The Senate approved a measure allowing the government to take over more than 860 foreign ships idle in U S harbors by purchase requisition or charter The bill protects seamen with cash benefits and equitable treatment and restricts acquisitions of ships owned by foreign governments as of September 3 1939 The Senate Commerce Committee was told only two small vessels in U S waters would fall into that category
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Washington
Senate
White House
Administration
House
Senate Commerce Committee
Bishop Moore to Head Wesleyan College
Macon Georgia May date Bishop Arthur J. Moore of the Methodist Episcopal church was chosen president of Wesleyan College for one year. The appointment names Moore to lead the girls college in the Methodist denomination.
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Bishop Moore
Wesleyan
Macon
Arthur J. Moore
Methodist Episcopal Church Today
Wesleyan College
Methodist
Soldier Slang at Fort Benning Reveals War Food Codes
An American trooper describes rations in slang at Fort Benning, noting meals like steel wool and canned milk called armored milk while butter becomes gear grease. The piece also mentions camouflage dough and salt as seadust, with Navy influence noted in the slang.
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Fort Benning
Hell On Wheels
Navy
Woman complains squirrels steal pecans in Tampa park
Park Superintendent Penn responds to a resident's complaint that park squirrels are taking her pecans. He offers to arrange a good paper sheet as restitution if she counts every squirrel carrying a nut away.
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Tampa
Fila
Penn
Max Schmeling Dies in Crete Battle During Escape Attempt
Cairo dispatch reports former world heavyweight boxing champion Max Schmeling killed in Crete during an escape from British forces. An New Zealand ambulance driver corroborated Schmeling identified by papers and described him engaging German parachutists before being mortally shot.
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Max Schmeling
Crete Battle
Cairo
Egypt
Crete
New Zealand
Schmeling
Max
Former champ Schmelling wins boxing title seated at Yankee Stadium
Max Schmelling born Luckow Germany September 28 1905 won the world heavyweight title in a seated finish at Yankee Stadium New York eleven years ago as his Jewish manager Joe Jacobs cried foul. Schmelling nicknamed Der Schlager and stood six feet tall. This item notes his knockout of Joe Continuee em Page Two.
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Associated Press
Max Schmelling
Luckow
Germany
Yankee Stadium
New York
Joe Jacobs
der Schlager
Joe
Crete Falls to Germans as Suda Bay Is Captured
Italian reinforcements push from the east as German forces seize Candia and the harbor at Suda Bay. British and imperial troops fight to hold Candia and east of the harbor with heavy casualties reported on both sides. Max Schmeling is listed among German casualties while attempting to escape from British forces.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Crete
Suda Bay
Candia
New Zealand
Max Schmeling
Schmeling
Chutistas
Anthony Eden
Britain
Germany
Europe
Bay
Buda Bay
Hitler
Almyra Bay
London
Manders
Dunkerque
England
Erie
Alabama Supreme Court Bans Gambling Machines Nationwide
The Alabama Supreme Court upholds a 1931 anti gambling statute banning any machine or device that can operate as a game of chance. Chief Justice Gardner says the law prohibits all such devices regardless of payoff to fully suppress the game evil. The decision reverses a Jefferson circuit court ruling on a "5 cent fifth inning baseball machine."
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Supreme Court
Lucian D. Gardener
Jefferson
Gardner
Tennessee River Rising as Heat Peaks Across Region
The Tennessee River gauge reached 17.40 feet after a day with a maximum temperature of 96 and a low of 72. No rainfall occurred in the past 24 hours and Wednesday marked the year’s hottest day. Mild to moderate southeast winds expected tonight with partly cloudy skies.
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Tennessee
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