Morgan county receives industrial survey project
A Morgan county industrial research survey begun by the Alabama Relief Administration covers 1927 to 1933 to map industry strength and weaknesses. Six workers will collect confidential data on firms including inputs, output, employment, transportation costs, and distribution.
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Morgan County
Relief Department
Alabama Relief Administration
Paul D. Vann
Works Division
ARA
Van
Inien
Southern juries likely to stay biased says Bankhead
Senator Bankhead predicted in an interview that the South will continue to handle juries as before. He tied the Supreme Court ruling to Scottsboro defendants Clarence Norris and Haywood Patterson, noting alleged racial exclusion in Alabama. He asked if similar bias would occur with other groups and suggested Southern lawyers may not press for Negro jury inclusion on technical grounds.
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Washington
South
Ala
Supreme Court
Clarence Norris
Haywood Patterson
Scottsboro
Bankhead
Norris
Gasoline Price Up One Cent A Gallon
Gasoline rose a cent per gallon today with the increase in Decatur and other cities. The price shift affects local buyers and state markets as fuel costs adjust nationwide. Ralph Scott near Slaughters is nearing graduation after four years of daily four mile walks totaling about 7,488 miles.
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Decatur
Slaughters
Ralph Scott
German Air Forge Matches British Shows Hitler Claim
London report says Sir John Simon told Commons that Hitler claimed Germany already has an air force as large as Britain. Details follow as Cayzer questions the present size or strength of the German force.
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Burdette T. Johns
Associated Press
London
John Simon
House of Commons
Britain and Poland Reach Agreement on European Security
Great Britain and Poland Agree on Maintaining Close Contact on the European Situation. Authorities Indicate a Pan European Security System Likely. Conferees Prepared to depart for Praha and continue conferences.
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Associated Press
Great Britain
Poland
Peace of Europe
Praha
Nye plan to tax profits and draft executives to war
Senator Nye and the munitions committee unveiled a drastic plan to wipe profits from war, taxing industrial profits above 3 percent and capping executive pay while drafting company officers. The proposal, supported by Baruch ideas, would be introduced after April 8 and aims to curb profiteering and prevent postwar deflation.
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Washington
Nye R
N. D
Senate Munitions Committee
Senate
McSwain
House
Bodies Of Aged Couple Found In A Well In Virginia
In Frederickburg Virginia an elderly couple Mr John Coleman 75 and his wife about 66 were found murdered and stuffed in a farm well. The home was ransacked and valuables stolen. Their automobile vanished and was last seen at a local filling station near Thornburg. A suspect report cited a black man seen in the car.
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Fredericksburg
Apt
John Coleman
Coleman
Tom Payne
Thornburg
H. B. Nicholas
Ees
Chinese government backs low cost weddings for 57 couples
In Shanghai 57 couples married in a simple ceremony officiated by Mayor Wu Teh Chen to promote economy. Each couple paid seven dollars for the ceremony and certificate, with mass weddings planned for a second day as authorities verified physical financial and moral suitability and required grooms to be employed.
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Morris J. Harris
Associated Press
Copsright
Shanghai
Wu Teh-Chen
Mendelssohn
Sun Yat Sen
Heaven
Earth
China
Prisoners in Morgan County Jail Average 29 Plus
The Morgan county jail held about 29 prisoners daily in March with a peak of 40 on March 11 and a low of 19 on March 28.
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Morgan County
Coroner Pushes Investigation Of Freeman Death
The limestone county grand jury will review the death of Benny Freeman 37 a former deputy sheriff Thursday witnesses were called Freeman was beaten and shot about 7 30 Monday night in Cherry Grove beat six in custody on a coroner s warrant Sheriff Welden Dement Johnston and county ships were detained as part of the inquiry Freeman left home to check on a nearby car without lights and was found in a ditch after being assaulted and shot. the case has drawn broad local interest.
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Limestone County Grand Jury
Benny Freeman
Dement
Cherry Grove
Freeman
Holdiin Bobio
Dave
George
Clay
Frank Guy
Lee H
Welden
Johnston
Limestone County
Baker
Wel
Courtland Kiwanis Club Hosts First Night Meeting
Under Fred Hunt, former Decatur Kiwanis president, Courtland Kiwanis plans a 6:30 PM gathering at the Lyons Hotel Thursday. Courtland business men receive an invitation to attend as the Inter-Club Committee S aims for full attendance, with Mr. Hunt yet to announce the program.
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Fred Hunt
Decatur Kiwanis Club
Lyons Hotel
Courtland
Ralph Gilmore
Hunt
Hope for Life of Poet Edward Robinson Fails
In New York on April 3 physicians reported poet Edward Arlington Robinson 74 in a hospital since January 17 with a chronic illness. He suffered a relapse after a recent operation and doctors feared for his recovery.
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New York
Edward Arlington Robinson
Robinson
New York Hospital
Announcing Chet Ray Wget
Unidentified Man Killed by Train Near Greenbrier
An unidentified white man about 30 was fatally struck by a westbound Southern passenger train near Greenbrier around 11 am. He suffered heat injury plus leg and body injuries and died en route to a Decatur hospital. Brown’s funeral parlors hold the body for identification.
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Southern
Greenbrier
Decatur
Brown
Landowner Gets Word of Praise From AAA Chief
Tenn April 3 In a defense of sharecroppers the AAA administrator Cc Davis said landowners must keep a normal number of tenants. He noted the South accounts for about one percent of all farming persons but receives only 31 percent of income from cotton and livestock, calling it a long standing labor problem. The remarks followed case histories of sharecroppers with complaints.
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South
Fewer on Relief Rolls Report Decline in February
Washington reports a drop in relief families from 4,544,933 in January to 4,485,076 in February. Hopkins notes the key point is the lack of February increases, while Congress debates the $4.88 billion work relief program and direct-work provisions. Senator Glass foresees possible compromise as stalemate persists on Capitol Hill.
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Washington
Relief Administration
Harry L. Hopkins
Capitol Hill
Glass
D. Va
Senate
House
Meadows Addresses Morgan County Educational Mass Meeting
A. R. Meadows of the state department of education will address the county wide educational mass meeting at Harteille Saturday morning. Speakers include George T. Woodruff county superintendent of education and W. P. Snuggs Morgan County High principal.
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A. R. Meadows
State Department of Education
Harteille
Decatur
County Board of Education
Board of Revenue
George T. Woodruff
W. P. Snuggs
Morgan County High School
County Teachers Association
Elbert Weaver
Morgan County Council
P.T. A
Treasury plans gold sale to Mexico bank
The Treasury announces a sale of 51 300 ounces of gold worth about 1 800 000 dollars to Banco de Mexico. The deal mirrors a prior swap in which 32 000 ounces were sent to the Mexican Central Bank, part of a broader effort to balance silver and gold flows and manage Mexico's output and the U S dollar credit.
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Washington
Treasury Today
Bankxico
Mexican Central Bank
Federal Red Bank of New York
United
Mexico
Alabama dog Degatur wins novice class at Birmingham Kennel Club show
Degatur Dog First In Novice Class wins for handler John Alabama pointer De Roy F. South tops novice division at the Birmingham Kennel Club's eighteenth annual bench show.
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Alabama
John
de .Roy F. South
Dewan
Birmingham
Demand for Steel Remains Strong Amid Uncertain Business
Iron Age reports continued demand for finished steel products in early April. Capacity usage sits around 47 percent for the nation, up from 46.5 percent last week, with no major decline anticipated. Pig iron production held steady in March, rising from February as more days worked.
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New York
Iron Age Today
Interstate Commerce Commission
Lyddane says charge against wife is untrue in murder plot case
In Rockville Maryland Francis Lyddane a liquor store clerk defends his wife Ann Lyddane after her arrest in a scheme to kill him to gain bank cash and is supported by her attorney Robert Peter Jr While Boland Carnell and a third suspect face charges the police say the trio planned to steal forty thousand from the Farmers Bank and Trust Company with the help of a Philadelphia gunman
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Rockville
Francis
Liam) Lyddane
Ann Lyddane
Robert J. Barrett
Washington
Mra
Lyddane
Farmers Bank and Trust Company of
Barrett
Robert Peter, Jr
Arthur Bell
Bell
Ine
Zion Celebrates Voliva Defeat in City Election
Zion Illinois voters sweep seven of eight offices including the top overseer post for the Christian Catholic Apostolic church leader Wilbur Glenn Voliva as William M Exwords leads the uncontested slate and takes office amid the flat world echo.
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James J. Strebig
Associated Press
Zion
Tls
Wilbur Glenn Voliva
Voliva
People's Party
Voliva B
John
Dowie
William M. Exiwords
White House
Edwards
Bold robbery on Business Street shocks city
Three men roared onto Business Street in a theater district hold up. They fired three shots in the air then fled in a fast car after forcing entry at a business front. Police search for suspects and vehicle.
Bandit Pair Sought After Memphis Robbery Spree
Memphis detectives hunted in rooming houses hotels and stores for Hamilton and a companion in connection with a $1 1000 band holdup at Prentiss Mississippi and a kidnap ride through Mississippi. Police reported sightings in a department store and at a laundry as officers followed tips.
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Memphis
Tenn
Hamilton
Memphite
Raymond Hamiton
Griffin
Will D. Lee
The
West
Prentiss
Miss
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