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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1927
Page
9
Government crop report shows cotton yield about 1 million bales below expectations, triggering a wild buying movement on the cotton exchange and a full limit rise. New Orleans and New York reports detail state by state conditions, acreage, and potential final output for 1926 with last year’s totals and 1924 figures for comparison.
Petition for stay of execution not granted by Judge Boston. Sicacickee and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, condemned to die in the week of August 10 for murdering a mail clerk during a mail robbery, had writs denied and no authority found to grant a stay. worldwide radicals protest the executions.
Gov. Bibb Graves decides there will be no election in Morgan County amid the eight month old courthouse controversy. The decision, announced after a hearing with Decatur and Hartselle factions, ends petitions demanding an election and leaves the courthouse matter unresolved.
A Decatur Canning Co plant near the river ferry on Bee Line highway reported 6500 cans of tomatoes as a record on Saturday. About 60 workers are employed. operations paused awaiting tomatoes from Morgan and Limestone. 150 boxes on hand. Manager Tra E. Tranter said work to resume Tuesday at seven oclock.
Morgan county deputies seized five 120 gallon stills and 1000 gallons of beer near Lawrence Cove on Saturday, with one white man captured and jailed. A Sunday raid north of Eva resulted in one more still and one man taken, with the same deputy team present.
In Huntsville Arkansas on August 8 Price McLoud three year old son of Mr and Mrs Everett McLoud was killed by a horse kept for past service. The animal ran the boy down and pawed him to death when the child approached with a bridle. Parents rescued him but he died shortly after.
Franklin Louisiana August 8 AP The defense counsel says they wont hang after the jury verdict ordering Ada LeBouef and Dr Thomas Dreher to be executed while James Beadle the trapper faces imprisonment for the murder of James LeBouef on July 1 Mrs LeBouef shows collapse sobbing as she faces the gallows and Dr Dreher grows older and impassive with the outcome.
From Greeley Colorado Paul Glenn reports a sunrise view from Pike's Peak with a party of local boys en route to Yellowstone Park. He says they reached the summit at two o clock and were 38000 feet above timberline while all were well except Mitchell Littrell who fainted briefly.
The Tennessee river is dropping slowly with a local gauge reading a little over three feet indicating a gradual fall in water level and no immediate flooding. Local observations note steady decline throughout the day and the river may stabilize at this level.
In Oneonta Alabama on August 8, the Calloway flogging defendants pleaded guilty and were fined 500 dollars and ordered to six months in jail. Names including Dr L S Fennell Amos Covington Peteree Chester Clayton and Clifton pleaded to inciting a riot replacing kidnapping charges. Eugene Doss and L A Clayton earlier received eight to ten year terms.
Indefinite reports of cotton leaf worm activity have been made to County Agent J. C. Ford. Ford says there is no confirmation of worm activity in the county, but any sightings should be reported at once to his office in Hartselle.
City records show building permits issued since August 1 at Johnston street city hall total $19,500 all for residential properties.
A Coast Guard battle near Fort Lauderdale ends with the capture of three alleged rum runners aboard a motor boat bound for Miami. Secret service operative Robert Webster and guardsman Sidney Sanderlin are dead. Victor Lamby, Jodie Hollingsworth, Horace Weech injured as the patrol boat recovers 1600 cases of liquor and seizes the craft.
Seven year old and five year old children of Mr and Mrs Ed Jourdan of Blount Mississippi died in a hospital after a barrel exploded spraying flaming tar on them and their mother who was seriously burned while trying to save them.
Morgan county educators report 150 adults enrolled in Opportunity Schools. Miss Clutie praises community support while organizer O Patterson brings long teaching service from Sykes Creek to Rusell Covington camps. J E Howell leads Liberty Florence program with Alabama education ties.
Morgan county has been found to suffer cotton wilt, according to county farm agent J. C. Ford. He says no remedy is available this year and recommends planting wilt resisting seed next season to prevent the disease. if such seed is not used, discontinue cotton cultivation.
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