Democracy price highlighted by Dr. Farmer at Women’s club
Dr Hallie Farmer of Alabama College Montevallo told Business and Professional Women's Club members that democracy requires active citizen involvement. She said democracy is for adults not the illiterate or lazy and urged minute education courage and work to prevent government of the people by the people for the people from fading away.
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Hallie Farmer
Alabama College
Montevallo
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Farmer
Wone
Gage
Dr. Farmer
Italian Eighth Army presses on toward Cesena area
The Eighth Army advances along the Bologna Rimini highway, seizing Balignano Massa Badia and Montiano as it pushes toward Cesena. German reinforcements stiffen the southern hills while Italian patriots in the mountains harass Nazi troops. Three heavy bombers and 17 planes missing from yesterday’s Mediterranean aerial operations.
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Eighth Army
Adriatic
Bologna-Rimini
Savignano
Balignano
Massa
Badia
Montiano
Cesena
Mediterranean
Austria
Hungary
Roosevelt weighs law on Petrillo music ban
President Roosevelt said he may act if law permits removing the Petrillo union ban on recordings. He plans to study the legal issue in coming days after earlier urging the ban be lifted if RCA Victor and Columbia sign contracts. The question is whether he can legally intervene with union rules on record production.
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Washington
Roosevelt
James C. Petrillo
Musicians Union
Petrillo
Rca-Victor
Columbia
Sparkman Unable to Attend Reunion at Oak Ridge
Tennis figure Sparkman misses SundaySparkman sends telegram from abroad stating he cannot attend the Sparkman West and Roberts family reunion at Oak Ridge where he planned to deliver an address. The text also mentions British sailors neckerchiefs and a reference to Lord Nelson in 1805.
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Sparkman
Bob Sparkman
West
Roberts
Oak Ridge
Lord Nel
Say 8s Purity Guaranteed Aspirin Ad
An old advertisement touts Say 8s purity of aspirin claiming 8t Joseph Aspirin as the world’s largest and selling at 10 cents. It markets guaranteed quality and value for buyers.
A Good GI Joe From Amache Center Gathers War Service
At the Granada relocation center in Amache Colorado a service flag shows 585 youths have gone to war. The Blue Star Mothers club, with president Mrs Chikayo Matsukawa, serves 5918 residents by entertaining servicemen, promoting war bonds, and bridging language gaps between soldiers and Japanese American mothers.
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Amache
Colo
Granada Relocation Center
West Coast
Joe Nisei
America
Italy
Yamaji
Kikuchi
Muranaga
Ohki
Saito
Yasuda
Smiths
Kinses
Joneses
Blue Star Mothers
Chikayo Mastuoka
Masuoka
Blue Star
The
Blue Star Club
Gold Star Heroes
Boy Scouts
Cotton futures drift lower while cattle and hogs hold steady
New York Oct 13 reports quiet trade ahead of CCC talks in Washington on domestic and export programs. Cotton futures slipped 5 to 65 cents per bale as hedging liquidated. Concurrently livestock markets show moderate gains for top beef and steady cattle and hog prices with varied calf and sheep movements across grades.
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N.Y
New York
CCC
Washington
Markets at a Glance from New York and Chicago
New York stocks mixed as specialties advance while bonds hold steady and rails rally. Cotton declines on hedge selling. wheat and corn weaken in Chicago with favorable crop conditions but soft demand. Baer Aatne remains fully steady at 14.75, cattle steady with top price 17.25.
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New York
Chicago
Cattle Market Summary from Nashville on October 13
Federal state market news reports light supply and slow opening in Nashville. Steers and heifers traded mostly cutter to common at 6.00 to 8.50 with canners 4.00 to 6.00. beef cows ranged 6.50 to 8.00, bulls unavailable. Trade activity described as ongoing with few early bids.
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Nashville
Tenn
Federal-state Market News Service
Bumper corn crop may bring second whiskey holiday
Trade reports from Chicago on October 13 indicate this year’s bumper corn harvest will permit a second whiskey holiday in December. The outlook suggests ample grain supplies could enable relaxed distilling rules during the festive month.
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Chicago
Greek proclamations urge unity and order across Greece
Three proclamations by Wilson, Scobie, and the government call Greeks to obey only proper instructions, assist British forces, keep roads clear, and stay put. Officials remain at posts, supplies must be conserved, and guerrilla leaders align under Scobie to present a unified front until the enemy is defeated and relief arrives.
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Wilson
Scobie
Prizes Awarded in Sales Contest at Decatur High
Miss Annie Sue Cain won first prize of 20 dollars for selling 181.25 dollars in magazines in the annual senior and junior class campaign. Second and third prizes went to Gene Smith and Emma Sue Wright, with a list of other small prize recipients. In the junior class Eloise Reithmaier earned 20 dollars for 102 dollars in sales, followed by multiple place winners. Also noted is a brief item on the Great Sphynx of Gizeh and ancient Egyptian eye surgeries.
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Annie Sue Cain
Decatur Senior High School
Charles Woods
Judson Hawthorne
Geraldine Hill
William Edgeman
David Allen Gibson
Betty Simmons
Johnnie French
Cheri Chandler
Jimmy Hill
Eloise Reithmaier
Mary Elizabeth Burks
Martha Jean Holloman
Raphael Thompson
Grain futures end lower amid short covering and mixed wheat gains
Stimulated short covering in the grain pits today left prices mostly down from Wednesdays close. Wheat eased 1 3 8 to 1 3 4, December 1.62 7 8 to 3 4. corn fell 1 1 8 to 1 1 4, December 1.12. oats slipped 3 8 to 3 4, December 63 5 8 to 1 2. rye declined 1 2 to 1 5 8, December 1.06 5 8 to 3 4. barley rose 1 8 to 1 2, December 1.03 5 8.
Butter and Eggs Market Report from Chicago
Butter firm with receipts of 261,944 while eggs show 5,926 receipts. U. S. extras move 43 to 47.8 cents, standards 36 1 2 to 40, current receipts 37 1 2 to 38, dirties 28 to 32 1 2, checks 28 to 32.
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Chicago
U. S
Decatur News Briefs: Docket Cases and Local Births
Two city cases listed on the docket with fines for driving while intoxicated and public drunkenness. Local hospital notices include patients at Decatur General and births at Baugh's infirmary with related families named. A church service topic noted as well as an official board meeting at First Christian church.
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The
First Christian Church
Prisoner escapes by forging discharge papers at Draper prison
C Harvey George, serving life for murder in Mobile and ten years on each of six robbery terms, escaped Oct 10 by forging discharge papers at Draper prison. Chief Clerk S M Lufkin said George used temporary parole papers stolen from another inmate, erasing names and numbers to gain freedom. The escape occurred unnoticed until papers reached state prison administration. George, once part of a Mobile gang, was sentenced in 1938.
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Montgomery
Ala
C. Harvey George
Mobile
Draper Prison
S. M. Lufkin
State Corrections Department
Lufkin
George
State Prison Administration
Confessed Slayer Faces Early Trial
Worley James, a Negro man who confessed to police on Oct 4 to the slaying of Mrs Lynn Drew, waived a hearing on two charges of rape in Montgomery county court. He will face a grand jury on Nov 6 to answer criminally assaulting a Negro woman and a Negro girl 10, and the grand jury will probe his connection to the Drew case. No murder warrant has been issued. James was returned from Muncie Indiana before his admission and is held at Kilby prison.
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Montgomery
Ala
Worley James
Lynn Drew
Maxwell Field Aviation
Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas
James
Drew
Muncie
Ind
Ester Thomalla
Decatur
Ill
Kilby
Aerial Hero Doyle Parker Visits Sister Before Reassignment
Staff Sgt. Doyle D. Parker, an aerial gunner on a Liberator bomber with the eighth air force, visits his sister Mrs. C. R. Thomas at 1210 Seventh Avenue East. A Detroit native, he earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, enlisted in 1931, and has been abroad since January. He will depart Saturday for reassignment in Miami, Florida after a stay in town.
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Doyle D. Parker
Eighth Air Force
C. R. Thomas
Seventh Avenue East
Naccery
Parker
Army
States
Panama Canal Zone
England
Detroit
Michigan
Sgt
Miami
Florida
Allied Drive Near Aachen Drives to Break German Hold
Allied forces pound Aachen with heavy air and artillery as German armor massing near the city prompts fears of a major tank clash. Canadian units seize Biezen near the Leopold canal while U S troops fight hand to hand at Meizieres Les Metz.
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Holland
Arnhem
Aachen
Metz
George S. Patton
Third Army
Meizieres Les Metz
Fort Driant
Verlautenheide
Haaren
Wurselen
Hell's Highway
Biezen
Leopold Canal
Bel
Antwerp
Kelde
Europe
Germany
Oostburg
Sluis
Schoondijke
Fort Frederick-Henrik
Knockerere
Nijmegen
Amersfoot
Appeldoorn
Flaming
Messerschmitts
Focke- Wulfs
Russian advances bypass much of Budapest in war report
Russian forces push toward Budapest driving on wheat country and using three all weather roads. Budapest lies largely on the east bank of the Danube and remains defensible only in limited areas. German and Hungarian troops are bypassed and left to be mopped up by the Red army later.
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Budapest
Kansas
Danube
Red Army
Visiting Minister Heard by Kiwanians
The Decatur Kiwanis club met at the Lyon's Hotel with L. L. Lively presiding. Rev. Adrian DeYoung pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Tuscumbia spoke on the Bible as the group observed Bible Week. Dwight Mixson, Buck Rogers and B. T. Gardner reported on the Kiwanis district convention at Auburn.
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Decatur. Kiwanis Club
Lyon's Hotel
L. L. Lively
Edaintenry Fleming
W. B. Neher
Kiwanis International
Kiwanis
Auburn
Dwight Mixson
Uck Rogers
B. T. Gardner
Seven-year-old dies from home stove fire in Birmingham
Juanelda Crumley, seven, died at a hospital after being burned while attempting to fire a coal stove at her parents' home. She is the second child in two days to die from home accident burns, following 14 month old Jewel Dean Campbell who died after her bed caught fire from a stove.
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Burns
Birmingham
Juanelda Crumley
Jewel Dean Campbell
British Push Into Dutch Town Near German Border
British infantry surged into the German held Dutch town of Overloon ten miles from the German border after a sharp attack west of the Meuse river. The assault began at noon yesterday targeting German positions to seize the town.
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Holland
Overloon
Meuse River
Woman Held for Snatch Kidnapping Case in Detroit
Detroit October report says a Black woman pleaded innocent to kidnapping a week old Bobby King after gaining nursemaid access to the King household. Bond set high by Judge Stein as case draws public alarm. Infant later found at the defendant’s home. she ends a 57 hour hunger strike with ice cream.
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Detroit
Smith
Bobby King
Corder
Stein
William
Doan
Dowling
Clarence King
Albert Delamielleure
Franco Downplays Risk as Spain Faces New Pressures
The article examines Generalissimo Franco's fragile position after the 1939 takeover and ongoing war fallout. It notes reliance on scarce resources, influence from Moscow radio calls, and shifting ties with Washington and London amid Allied pressure, oil shipment suspensions, and wartime alignments with Germany and Italy.
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Moscow
Franco
Hitler Mussolini
Washington
London
Germany
Russia
Caribbean
Hitler
Madrid
Spain
Street by street fight for Aachen as U S troops advance
Allied forces under Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges push into Aachen street by street supported by air and artillery. Captains Smoot and Weeks spearhead the assault while German reinforcements rush in from the east. Col. Beason Walker waits for a signal to cross. By night, the northeastern Schlachthof district is seized amid fires and smoke.
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Don Whitehead
Aachen
Courtney H. Hodges
U. S. First
Ozell Smoot
Oklahoma City
Okla
Roland Weeks
Long Island
Schlachthof
Smoot
Weeks
Beasor Walker
Tuscaoosa
Ala
Walker
Rome
Adolf Hitler
Cologne
Settled Lady Boarder Seeks Day Work Call 1668 W
Notice seeks a settled lady as a day worker boarder. Contact via telephone number 1668 W for arrangements.
Pathologist Links Aimee McPherson Death to Barbiturate Overdose
Oakland California October reports show pathologist Dr Mary Ruth testifying at the inquest into the death of Aimee Semple McPherson. She states the cause was shade of barbiturate overdose and kidney ailment with possible accidental outcome due to forgetfulness in taking pills.
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Oakland
Calif
al Semple McPherson
Eva List
Mary Ruth
Mark L. Emerson
Oldt
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Ernie Pyle
Dugger’s Book Store
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Third Avenue South
Decatur General Hospital
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Fourth Avenue West
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Fourth Avenue South
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Davis Street
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Baugh’s Infirmary
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