Hogs and Cooperation Drive Dale County Hog Sale Profits
Dale County farmers sold hogs through a cooperative, earning 254712.95 dollars this year and planning for more as hog numbers rise. The Dale County Swine Breeders Association formed after Boll Weevil devastation spurred diversification, with ongoing year round sales benefiting hundreds of farmers and supporting cattle and hogs alike.
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Thomason
Alabama
Dale Cooperative
Dale County
Dale County Swine Breeders Association
M. A. Creel
Ozark
B. F. Paust
Dale
Midland City
Eith
Water Elevations at Wheeler and Wilson Lakes Reported
Wheeler Lake sits at 5544 feet and will be lowered to 553 feet by week end. Wilson Lake is at 5043 feet and expected to rise to 5048 feet by Tuesday as TVA oversees stage changes.
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Wheeler Lake
TVA
Wilson Lake
Spanish retaliation drives cleanup after executions
The government carried out a cleanup push following the execution of sixty people in retaliation for the assassination of a military police inspector and two others. The forces were not involved and the protest was handed to Japanese army authorities.
Validating PWA Bonds Sought in Alabama Fort Payne Proposal
Montgomery Aug 7 The administration Governor Dixon announced plans to ask the senate judiciary committees to insert in a bill validating Alabama PWA ponds provisions for electric projects in Fort Payne. Controversy over the projects origin and details had arisen.
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Montgomery
Ala
Dixon
Senate
Judiciary Committees
Alabama
Roosevelt Restores Lieutenant General Rank and Air Corps Raise
President Roosevelt approved a measure reviving the title Lieutenant General for the Army and authorizing it for four Major Generals. He also signed an act allowing about 80 reserve officers and veteran pilots marginally over 30 to be commissioned as second lieutenants in the regular Army Air Corps.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Army
Regular Army Air Corps
Decatur Residents Tour Memphis and Local Happenings
Decatur diary notes Sterchi Brothers executives visiting Memphis on business. It records moves to Birmingham by Hal Richeson family, church services and revivals, hospital patients and operations, weekend visits, travel to World’s Fair, and numerous local residents’ activities and outings around Decatur and nearby towns.
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A. L. Burns
Sterchi Brothers
Sterchi
Memphis
Market Day planned at Memorial Drive church event
The W M of Memorial Drive Methodist Church invite all circles to a joint session at 7 30 pm tonight. This Market Day asks attendees to bring a salable article to participate in the sale.
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Methodist Church
Filipino mother birth of baby with heart outside body
A baby girl born to 24 year old Esperanza Rafael in Manila with the heart outside the body resting on the chest. The infant was alive twelve hours after birth and the heart was beating normally, with a glass bowl placed over it as doctors observed the condition.
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Manila
Esperanza Rafael
Hatch Bill Ruling Allows Federal Workers at Convention
The Justice Department issued an informal opinion saying federal employees may attend the National Young Democratic Clubs convention in Pittsburgh but cannot act as delegates or vote on convention business. Civil Liberties Division based the view on Hatch Act provisions restricting political activity by federal workers. Attorney General Murphy was expected to announce a formal decision.
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Justice Department
Young Democratic Clubs
Pittsburgh
Justice
Pitt Maner
Young Democrats
Civil Liberties Division
Murphy
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Job Holden
Congress Ends Seven Months of Turbulence With Key Reforms
The final session closes amid limited opposition as Congress passes the deficiency appropriation bill with 119 million dollars for commodity credit loans. It also approves broad social security revisions and major reforms including government reorganization, defense program adoption, extended presidential powers, farm aid, and tax structure changes, plus postponement of old age insurance tax increases.
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Hand
Congress
Shushan Trial Links Rebates to Lake Pontchartrain Bond Refund Plan
In September 1935 ex governor under whom Shushan served faced a prominent case tied to rebates on Lake Pontchartrain work. Levee board minutes show New man Harris and Company received a 496000 dollar fee in 1936 37 for advising on bond refunds, with 25 percent of savings to the firm. The Bureau of Governmental Research asked who presided the investment firm that shared in the payment.
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Lake Pontchartrain
Newman Harris and Company
Bureau of Governmental Research
Levee Board
Markets wobble as stocks ease on light bids
In New York trading on August 7 Victor Eubank reports a broad market pause with many declines trimmed by weak selling. Volume for five hours about 600000 shares. Steel shares find late support as mill operations seen at 60.1 percent capacity. New Orleans cotton closes barely higher with modest gains and steady receipts.
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Wall Street
Victor Eubank
New York
Stumbeld
Class of 1929 Reunion At Woodall's
Central High School’s class of 1929 held a reunion Friday with 26 of 59 members attending at Woodall's. Miss Jean Humphrey presided in place of president Fred Eaves. a barbecue supper was served. Many graduates are married, with some bringing children. The prophecy was read and the class song sung. The officers know the present addresses of all 59 members and another meeting will be announced later.
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Central High School
Woodall’s
Jean Humphrey
Fred Eaves
Democratic leader faces new charge in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg report says District Attorney Carl B. Shelley expanded the extortion case against Democratic State Chairman David L. Lawrence with a bill of particulars accusing him of blackmail involving $5,000 from Pioneer Materials Co. of Kittanning. Lawrence to be tried separately from other Pennsylvania Democratic leaders amid a special grand jury probe from the 1938 primary. Three men accused of conspiring to monopolize state bonding business with road contractors pleaded innocent.
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Harrisburg
Carl B. Shelley
David L. Lawrence
Lawrence
Pioneer Materials Company
Kittanning
Pennsylvania
Toad
Chicago Livestock and Dairy Prices Snapshot
Chicago market notes show butter at 1 163,089 with weak demand and 93 creamery score. Eggs steady with graded fresh products and local car lots. poultry prices listed for hens, broilers, fryers, ducks, geese, and turkeys across various weights and colors.
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Chicago
Plymouth Rock
White Rock
Markets At A Glance From New York And Chicago
Stocks weaker on light selling, bonds generally down, and oils and industrials in easy supply. Cotton steady with mixed domestic buying. coffee easier from local liquidation. Chicago wheat and corn fall on favorable weather. hogs steady to firm, cattle mixed with lighter weights steady.
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New York
London
Chicago
Cotton futures steady as crop estimates near release
In New Orleans traders held even before the government crop estimate due tomorrow while futures closed steady, with gains of 3 to 5 points. In New York, futures rose 4 to 5 points with each contract showing higher opens and closes, spot middling at 9.60.
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N. C
New Orleans
Nashville Market Report Cattle Hog and Sheep Prices
Nashville reports salable cattle 900 and calves 250 with steady to active bidding. Grass steers 6.00-7.50, good fed 8.00-8.75, beef cows 5.00-5.75, stock calves 9.00-11.25, dealers 8.00-9.00. Hogs 400 steady with 170-225 lb at 6.25, sows 4.35. sheep 400 steady with spring lambs 7.25-8.25 and yearling ewes 9.00-9.50 per head.
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Nashville
Tenn
U. S. Dept
Head of Cotton Firm Dies in Texas
Monroe Dunnaway Anderson 66 president of Anderson Clayton and Company died at his Houston home after a long illness. Funeral services are set for tomorrow, body to be sent to Jackson Tennessee for burial. Survived by sister Mrs. Thomas A. Andrews of Jackson and brother James A. Anderson of Tuscaloosa Alabama.
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Houston
Tex
Monroe Dunnaway Anderson
Anderson, Clayton and Company
Jackson
Tenn
Anderson
Thomas A. Andrews
James A. Anderson
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Wheat futures dip on favorable weather reports
Chicago prices slipped as much as a cent a bushel with favorable weather in domestic and Canadian spring wheat belts. Wheat closed 1 8 1 2 to 63 3 4 7 8 for September and 64 3 8 1 2 for December. Corn and oats also edged lower amid the market lull.
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Chicago
Cottonseed Meal Futures Close Steady in Memphis
Primed cottonseed meal futures for 41 percent closed steady in Memphis. Prices listed for Aug 20.00, Sept 19.25, Oct 19.25, Nov 19.25, Dec 19.40, Jan 19.40, March 19.40 with sales of 1700.
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Memphis
Tenn
Cottonseed oil prices steady on market notes
New Orleans reports steady close for cottonseed oil with bleachable prime summer yellow at 5.75 nominal and prime crude at 4.50 nominal. Futures show Sept at 5.20B, Oct 5.25B, Dec 5.39B, Jan 5.45B, March 5.57B with bids.
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New Orleans
Revival Begins at Union Grove Church
Revival at Union Grove underway with Rev. R. D. Cook of Memorial Drive Methodist church preaching. He recently closed a successful meeting at Caddo and plans are discussed for erecting a church at that point.
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W. L. Spearman
Ninth Street
Union Grove
R. D. Cook
Memorial Drive Methodist Church
Cook
Caddo
New Orleans Middling Cotton Up 3 Points to 93.1 Cents
The average price of middling cotton in New Orleans spot markets rose by three points to 93.1 cents per pound. The 30 day average stands at 93.6 cents per pound.
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New Orleans
Two of Seven Men Recaptured Near Kankakee
In Illinois two of seven escaped federal prisoners were recaptured at a tourist camp near Kankakee. Gerald Montague 21 of Kankakee and Walter Smith 22 of Cincinnati identified themselves after deputies surprised them in a cabin as they slept. They were armed but offered no resistance. The men were among seven who escaped July 26 while being transferred from Atlanta to Lawrenceburg Pennsylvania.
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Kankakee
Ill
Thornburg
Gene LaFontaine
Gerald Montague
Walter Smith
Cincinnati
LaFontaine
Walter Bauer
County officials deny county boat funds for sheriff
Alabama official rules Dallas County has no authority to furnish the sheriff with a motorboat for river patrols. Attorney General Lawson notes the county governing body is limited to powers conferred by statute and has previously ruled it cannot provide law enforcement equipment such as handcuffs or pistols.
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Montgomery
Ala
J. E. Kennedy
Dallas County
Alabama
Thomas S. Lawson
Watkins Vaughn
Dallas Board of Revenue
Vaughan
Board of Revenue
Lawson
Social Security Amendments Outline Benefits and Retirement Rules
The letter explains monthly benefits for widows orphans and dependent parents, eligibility dates, and how benefits start on a birthday after amendments shift payment to January 1 1940. It covers continuing work before retirement, pensions for those with 18 months of old age tax payments, and current maximum and minimum benefits of 85 and 10 dollars monthly.
Government adds corn loans amid storage and price support plan
The government offers loans at 55 to 57 cents a bushel while midwest markets show corn as low as 98 cents. It also pays farmers seven cents a bushel to retain 257 million bushels stored under loan for another year. Upon loan expiration, farmers may repay to reclaim crops or surrender them as payment. Loans supplement $778 million in farm benefit payments authorized by Congress.
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Midwest
Cong
Classified Ads for Housewives Advertisements
The notice promotes classified ads for housewives with a contact phone 46 and instruction to ask for the Ad Taker.
Parole Application Filed by George Burks in Morgan County
George Burks, convicted of grand larceny in Morgan County spring term, sentenced 18 months to 2 years, will apply to the Governor and Board of Pardons for parole. Notice dated August 7 to 14.
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George Burks
Morgan County
Governor and Board of Pardons
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