Hostages Safe As 3 Convicts Give Up
Three Arkansas convicts surrendered to possemen near Columbia Louisiana releasing two high school hostages unharmed after freeing a third girl. The surrender followed a day of captivity and a failed truce demand as authorities pursued remaining fugitives and recaptured others.
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Columbus
Arkansas
Cummins
Lewisville
Ark
Mississippii River
Vicksburg
Miss
Gillett
Columbia
Louisiana Angola
Vaneelle Williams
Gladys Diamond
Jerry Arrigill
Ray- New Lead Hostagesville
Miss Williams
Hitler vows nightly bombing retaliation against Britain
Adolf Hitler denounces British raids as nuisances and pledges hundreds of thousands of Nazi bombs will fall on England as mass German air power shifts toward a full blitzkrieg. Britain signals fear with nightly RAF raids and Berlin reports a two and a half hour air alarm.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Gland
Puehrer
Berlin
Hitler
Britain
England
Romania
Carol II
Himsel
Iron Guard
Ion Gigurtu
Ion Antinescu
Bucharest
Rumania
Europe
Szalnok
Hungary
Budapest
Foreign Office
Alabama to form local draft boards under selective service plan
Governor Dixon announced about 117 local draft boards would be created in Alabama if Congress passes the selective service bill. Each board would include physicians, an appeal agent, and a registrant advisor, with five regional appeal boards and 25 medical advisory panels planned. Members would serve voluntarily, appointed by the president, to classify registrants and mobilize them for training as called.
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Montgomery
Ala
Dixon
Congress
Ben Smith
Adjutant General
Select Service
Alabama
Mexico City
Juan Andreu Almazan
Almazanista Congress
O Cardenas
Manuel Avila Camacho
Boston Navy Yard Abuzz Over British Destroyers Readying
Boston Navy Yard bustled with activity as about a dozen over age destroyers prepared for departure to a Canadian port for Britain under a naval rearmament program. Secrecy surrounded moves with officials saying no ships had yet sailed and eight were likely ready to sail Friday.
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Boston
Boston Navy Yard
Britain
President Tork
Canadian
New England
Navy Yard
Navy
Production Board Meeting Called by Red Cross Leader
Mrs. Roy Poteet chairs Morgan County Red Cross war relief production committee and has called an executive board meeting for Friday at 10 o'clock. The session will be in production headquarters at 509 Bank Street, with all board members urged to attend.
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Roy Poteet
War Relief Production Committee
Morgan County
The
Red Cross
Bank Street
Helion Lodge to mark 129th anniversary in Huntsville
Helion Lodge No 1 A F and A M will celebrate its 129th founding anniversary with a September 6 program at the Masonic Temple in Huntsville. Masons from other cities are invited to attend the event and enjoy the planned program.
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Helion Lodge No
A. FP
A. M
Huntsville
Masonic Temple
Midlands Not In Bad Shape
Birmingham area survey by Taylor Henry estimates total output reduced by no more than five percent. He notes only two factories severely damaged with production halted, while most plants continued operations despite three weeks of intensive night raids.
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Birmingham
England
Chamber of Commerce
Patrol Gets Heavy Unies: State Troopers Measured for Winter Uniforms
Eleven members of the state highway patrol gathered at the Decatur district headquarters on Wednesday to be measured for heavier winter uniforms matching last year’s design of blue coats and gray trousers. The list includes troopers from Huntsville Athens Russellville Florence and Decatur with the Decatur office serving seven North Alabama counties Morgan Lawrence Limestone Madison Franklin Lauderdale and Colbert.
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State Highway Patrol
Decatur
A. §. Logell
Ed Daniels
Huntsville
Julian McNeese
R.A. Troupe
Athens
J. K. Ayers
Russellville
J. R. Prater
Florence
H. L. Thornton
J. Carter
E. B. Payne
Julius Hale
M. &. Chambers
North Alabama
Morgan, Lawrence, Limestone
Madison
Franklin
Laurderdale
Colbert
Decatur High School 1940 graduates head to college and training
Twenty three members of the 1940 Decatur High School class will enroll in colleges this fall and two will train at hospitals. Others attend Maxwell Field aviation school and several name institutions such as Vanderbilt, Alabama, Tennessee, Florence State, Birmingham Southern, Auburn, and Birmingham schools.
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Decatur High School
Maxwell Field Aviation School
W. T. Jordan
Joyce Wohl
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Madge Eustace
Stranger Hospital
Chattanooga
Kathleen McGlathery
Munsey
Glathery
Wheaton
Hollis Cobb
Denson Barnum
Frank Chenault
University of Alabama
Ann Kimbrough
Bradford
Massachusetts
Academy
Florence Henderson
Hillman Hospital
Birmingham
Marth Frances Kilgore
Nellie Clark Roan
David Allen
Wayne Byars
Leonard Michelson
Donald Nebrig
Frank Vogler
Charles Baker
Pam Littrell
Jimmy Robinson
Alabama Polytechnics Institute At
Auburn
Betty McGhee
University of Tennessee
Knoxville
Doris Lee
Florence State Teachers College
Walter Kemmitter
Millard Lenz
Maxwell Field
Montgomery
Constance Peerson
Betty Foster Pointer
Alabama College
Montevallo
Jack Pitts
The
Citadel
Charleston
South Carolina
Sara Ellner
Birmingham-Southern
Roosevelts destroyer swap stirs House debate wartime policy
In Washington a heated House discussion followed Roosevelts decision to trade 50 destroyers to Britain for air and naval bases. Republicans faulted the move as usurpation of Congress while Democrats praised the action as necessary war aid. White House comment signaled strong stance against Nazi aggression. Eight ships prepared at Boston for transfer, with others at sea or awaiting disposition on the Atlantic coast.
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United States
Navy Yard
Philadelphia
Great Britain
Western Hemisphere
Washington
Roosevelt
House
Rep
Smith
Ohio
Britain
Sweeney
Jefferson
Luther A. Johnson
Tex
Louisiana
Creel
Johnson
Wendell Willkie
Bender
Willkie
Congress
Keefe
Wis
Cox
Stephen Early
White House
Hitler
Barry
Canada
North Atlantic
Navy
Boston Navy Yard
Priday
Atlantic Seaboard
Buying Lifts Stock Levels In Final Trading Hour
A buying surge in the final trading hour pushed many leading shares 50 cents to over $3 higher. Some specialties gained more. Total volume reached about 750000 shares, above recent averages. Brokers cited no specific news but traders speculated that wartime Europe could boost business.
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New York
Waders
Georgia to receive $3 million for anti aircraft training center
Washington reports the War Department plans expenditure of about 3 million dollars for barracks and other facilities at an anti aircraft training center near Savannah Georgia within the next 90 days Representative Peterson of Georgia stated today.
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Georgia
Washington
Savannah
War Department
Peterson
Defense fund snag delays vast wartime appropriation
Senate and House clash over powers to seize private plants for defense frays a 5.256 billion supplemental defense bill. House seeks to repeal authority while preserving value setting. Senate wants to keep existing law until conscription is enacted. Contested items include a New York dry dock and a flood project in East Hartford. Approved provisions push for 200 new ships and 1.2 million soldiers with 800,000 more on standby and 19,000 aircraft.
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Senate
House Representatives
Adams
D.-Colo
Senate House
Secretary of Navy
House
Secretary of the Navy
New York
East
Hartford
Conn
Congress
Anglo American naval base and destroyer deal marks a turning point
The agreement, seen as historic for US England ties, expands bases and destroyer loans. It promises boosted Atlantic defense and expanded American control of eastern North American waters, affecting air and sea power.
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United States
England
Britain Seeks Global Naval Base Network
A long range plan envisions a ship bases system along South America to guard the Panama Canal and oil fields in Venezuela. The base would allow naval and air forces to move toward Africa and Europe, strengthening British presence and boosting U S defense plans. Continued on Page Seven.
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Caribbean
Panama Canal
Venezuela
Africa
Britain
Europe
Far East
European
Four Prisoners Escape From Mobile County Jail
Four inmates escaped the Mobile county jail at dawn using a spoon handle to dig mortar and bricks and slid down a rope made from ripped mattress cover. Officers later fired on the fugitives at the waterfront. L. W. Belcher, 23, was recaptured, and authorities suspected another shot hit a second escapee. The escapees Ollie Robinson, 40 Eugene Pose, 17 and Robert Clark, 18 were all awaiting trial. The jail has been condemned by state prison and city inspectors.
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Mobile
Ala
Bart B. Chamberlain
L. W. Belcher
Belcher
Chamberlain
Ollie Robinson
Eugene Pose
Robert Clark
Old City
State Prison
Gas tax funds may be used to match WPA for warehouse
Judge Charles Bragg of Lawrence county was advised by Attorney General Lawson that gasoline tax funds may be used to match Works Progress Administration funds for a warehouse to store road supplies and to serve as a county garage and WPA office space in Montgomery Alabama on September 4.
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Montgomery
Ala
Charles Bragg
Lawrence County
Lawson
Officers Seize Six Stills In Three North Alabama Counties
Federal Investigator W B Lamon and ABC Officer Herman Sandlin arrested two men and destroyed three stills in Jackson County. They also took one man in custody in the same county for violating the quota taxing act and bagged another in Limestone County for transporting 20 gallons of tax unpaid liquor. T C Burgess and W E Ryan of the ABC made seven cases in Marshall County, resulting in arrests and the destruction of three more stills.
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Alcohol Tax Unit
North Alabama
W. 8. Lamon
ABC
Herman Sandlin
Jackson County
Limestone County
T. c. Burgess
W. E. Ryan
Marshall County
Knudsen Leaves General Motors to Avoid Conflicts
William S. Knudsen resigns as president and director of General Motors and from the policy and administrative committees. The Danish-born industrialist quits amid his role on the defense advisory commission, ending all connections to the firm to prevent conflicts of interest.
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New York
William 8S. Knudsen
General Motors Corporation
Oe Defense Advisory Commison
Industralist
Roosevelt
Commission
Weather update across Alabama and Tennessee
Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with scattered thundershowers in southern Alabama. Tennessee area fair tonight and Thursday with little change in temperature. Tennessee River gauge readings show a measurable level at seven o clock today.
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Alabama
Tennessee
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