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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1936
Page
1
West Virginia politics heat up as Frank Knox derides the new deal as an expensive mistake and promotes stock ownership for workers as Republicans seek to regain the state. In New York a court hears testimony about a detective case involving a $1800 exchange, while Washington reports ample U S wheat supplies to meet domestic needs.
In a statement Hoover said crime fell nationwide over the past three years. Meanwhile in Seattle, 50 police formed a cordon around the Post-Intelligencer building to escort 20 newsroom staff from a side entrance as squad cars hurried them away amid a strike called by the Seattle chapter of the American Newspaper Guild.
Officials pushed an investigation today to determine the cause of the crash between two Third Avenue elevated trains. A motorman was killed and nine passengers injured.
Westminster Maryland reports Miss Grace Lippy, 30, died after leaping from a third story window. Deputy Sheriff Walter Shipley said she staged a suicide attempt with an unknown method and tried to hang herself.
Poplar Bluff Missouri August 14 authorities exhumed the body of Thomas Bond 65 for possible poisoning three years after his death. His daughter in jail Mrs Foy Fortner 30 wife of a Bloomfield farmer pleaded innocence and blamed bad liquor.
Oneonta Alabama reports Oscar M. Gray a 40 year old Blount county farmer died in a Hendrix area coal mine when a rock fell trapping him. Two co workers tried to free him as another miner left to seek help but he died at the scene.
New Orleans today saw a sharp drop in cotton prices with near one dollar loss per bale after weak cables and news abroad that the Spanish situation was growing more acute.
At a city meeting the American Legion formed committees to contact civic groups urging letters to the Adjutant General of Alabama for an armory. Decatur has donated land and the Legion can supply local funds for the government building program.
In Alabama Aug 14 plan to appoint women co chairmen in 67 counties progresses with 29 chairs chosen. Mrs I T Quinn states seven more women named to lead in Mobile Baldwin Phenix City Bay Minette Etowah Attalla Marengo Thomaston Greene Lamar and others.
The Birmingham Association for the Blind opens a drive for funds to establish a retail exchange where all blind artisans in Birmingham can sell their wares. Sponsors say the goal is to make the blind people of Birmingham as independent of outside aid as possible.
Judge Baynard L. Malone urged Morgan County to appoint a central purchasing agent to curb about 40 000 dollars in current debt and refinance bonds worth around 260 000 dollars. He warned thirteen purchasing agents have driven spending and stressed competitive buying and legislative action. Meadows and Almon supplemented the discussion before a Decatur Kiwanis audience.
The Rural Electrification Administration announced an additional 36 060 allotment for extending rural power lines in Cullman County Alabama. The Cullman County Electric Membership Corporation will build 35 2 miles of line to serve 215 farms with wholesale power supplied by the Tennessee Valley Authority under contract. Previously 27 000 had been allotted.
Curtis Cicero Roper thirty one died at 7 10 this morning in a local hospital after an extended illness. The body was prepared for burial at Brown funeral parlors. Services will be conducted tonight at the residence of Mrs W Pruitt 616 Sixth Avenue West by Rev James Allen Smith pastor of Central Baptist church. The remains will be shipped tomorrow morning to Gadsden for burial at 2 30 p m. He is survived by his mother Mrs R B Roper three sisters Mrs Leon Ransom Miss Janie Dale and Marie Roper of Tallassee three brothers James T Roper Gadsden R B Roper Jr Decatur and H M Roper Tallassee. Active pallbearers Carlton Lawrence Harold Pruitt Waverly Loosier Irwin Sheats Tearle Craig and honorary pallbearers Lillard Compton Everett Pettey H L Peterson Tom Rainey and Paul Fowler. He was an employee of Morgan County Motor Company for several years.
A Decatur meeting of the American Legion formed a campaign to secure a new veterans hospital. Committees will contact local groups and map a citywide effort. The group cited developments and noted Decatur’s central location to the veteran population and the Alabama need highlighted by Senator Hugo Black.
Extradition papers issued to return J. W. Munford from Bonifay Florida to Houston County. He was charged with biting a finger from Peal Hobbs in a case moving through local authorities.
Washington dispatch reports Norman Underwood a Bureau chemist explains stamp adhesive dextrine from Java cassava, used to make stamps cling. The tester ate a dessert sample, joking he had eaten 500 stamps worth, while noting the 1936 output reached over 14 billion stamps with 600000 pounds of dextrine.
In Owensboro Kentucky on August 14 1936 Rainey Bethea a 22 year old Black man was executed for the rape of a 70 year old white woman A huge crowd estimated at about ten thousand gathered for the first public hanging in the county Bethea was dropped at 5 28 am and pronounced dead at 5 44 am despite reports that his heart beat for 12 minutes Souvenir hunters ripped the hangman hood and rushed the enclosure to take fragments of the scaffold Bethea kneeled before the trap as Reverend Herman Lamimers offered a cross and prayers before the execution authorities declared the neck broken and the sentence fulfilled
Mrs E M Guyton superintendent of Benevolent hospital thanks The Daily and the community for the empty jar drive success. Five hundred jars were exhausted by 9 30 last night and many jars are already being returned filled with vegetables or fruit to help meet food costs.
An army plane crashed and burned on a farm near New Kent Courthouse Virginia killing three of its four crew. Private N D Flinn of McGuffey Ohio parachuted to safety. The killed were Lieutenant Willard B Marvin of Riverside California Private John J Maher of McKeesport Pennsylvania and Private James E Crittenden of Roanoke Virginia. A Langley Field board investigated while two bodies were recovered with the wreckage.
A burglary at the Fred King residence 302 West Church Street occurred after midnight. An intruder used a screen hole to enter, searched a bedroom, took 17 cents from Tom King’s billfold and between 6 and 10 dollars, car keys, and door keys from Fred King’s trousers left in a hallway.
J. K. Ayers of Moulton will go on duty as a memo of the state with highway headquarters here. Ayers, a former Lawrence County sheriff, made a splendid record as an officer.
Two Dadeville women, Mrs. William B. Fulton and Mrs. A. L. Ford, were recovering at home today from shocks suffered when struck by lightning during an electrical storm Monday.
Funeral services for Mrs. Polk set for 10 a m Saturday at Grant Street Church of Christ with Ministers Rufus Underwood and Dewey Crow. Burial at Springs cemetery to be conducted by Brown of Decatur. Mrs. Polk died Thursday noon from a pistol wound in her room at W S Reeves 701 Jackson Street. Coroner said the wound was self inflicted amid ill health and despondency. She left a note about disposal of personal effects. Body prepared at Brown Funeral Parlors then taken to her parents near Gum Springs. Survived by three brothers and two sisters. Flowers from Wells Company employes.
Sam Flynn aged 28 and his wife were found shot dead at their Beau Regard farm home near Wesson. The slayer or slayers fled in Flynn's car after ransacking the residence. Milk truck driver Ben Furlow found Flynn on the porch and wife in the house. a New Orleans fingerprint expert was en route to assist investigators.
The revival at Forest Chapel on Hartselle Danville road drew praise from church members as the most successful in years with more than 50 conversions. Pastor Rev. R. S. Raines leads the church and Rev. Mr. Hogan preaches at all services.
President Roosevelt arrives in Cleveland at 9 40 am to inspect WPA projects and visit the Great Lakes Exposition. Crowds cheer as he waves from an open car, greeted by Senator Bulkley Governor Lee and Mayor Burn. The trip includes a downtown drive to the lake front boulevard and airport.
Funeral rites were held at Mt Tabor Church at 4 PM for Dorothy Mae Pike seven months old daughter of Mr and Mrs Lee Pike who died Thursday night after a short illness. Rev Noah Mason officiated and burial was directed by Drinkard Howell Hart Selle. Surviving are the parents four sisters and three brothers.
Sheriff Burrough said Charley Utley age 39 died in his automobile five miles north of Oakman and appears from natural causes. A man held for questioning in Walker county jail will be released. Utley is brother of W H Utley, a member of the county board of revenue.
San Francisco Aug 14 Testimony started in the mayhem conspiracy case of Ann Cooper Hewitt against her mother Mrs Maryon Cooper Hewitt and two surgeons Tilton Tillman and Samuel G Boyd. Dr Irwin Wallace testified Hewitt forever denied motherhood as prosecutors argued a plot to gain control of her inheritance.
Hundreds of people faced possible execution by firing squads after rebel bombardment of San Sebastian and Irun on Spain s northern coast. Government militias seized Rightist hostages in response to rebel threats and a rebel warship waited offshore in the Bay of Biscay as air attacks continued.
Montgomery reports two new official infantile paralysis cases as upstate spread continues. Unofficial totals show five cases in Lauderdale county and three in Jefferson, with 20 deaths overall. Dr. J N Baker calls the ten day decline encouraging and hopes schools may open next month.
William Rockne aged 19 son of late Knute Rockne was judged insane by County Judge Win G Enoch after a Psychopathic Hospital hearing. He will be transferred to the State Hospital for the Insane at Elgin Illinois for dementia praecox observation.
Superior Judge Goodwin J. Knight formally declared the Mary Astor and Franklyn Thorpe child custody case closed in Los Angeles on August 14.
The Tennessee river gauge held at 3.5 feet this morning. Maximum 64 and minimum 70 degrees recorded over the last 24 hours with no rainfall. Alabama shows partly cloudy skies with showers along the coast tonight and in the southern portion Saturday. Tennessee generally fair and warm to continue.
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