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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1935
Page
8
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Kansas Republicans and state leaders push Governor Alf M Landon as a likely 1936 presidential contender. State Chair Will T Beck says he "fills the bill" while noting the east shows interest in Landon. Lawmakers Lambertson and Carlson cite Kansas success and a western candidate appeal.
In Tampa, J Thomas Heflin former Alabama senator declares Roosevelt is safe amid political turbulence. He references backing from key factions and points to regional sentiment as reassurance for the president.
The United States Marshal announces a public sale of Blount Robinsons property to satisfy a court judgment. The sale, at Morgan County Court House Decatur Alabama, is on September 23 1986 at noon and covers land in Section 18 Township 6 Range 3 West.
The United States Marshal announces executions against T G Masterson and T Zeno Bailey with property in Decatur Morgan County Alabama to be sold at public outcry on September 23 1935 and September 23 1936 respectively. Descriptions include city blocks and lots in Decatur Land Improvement and Furnace Company additions in Decatur Alabama.
The article notes 2 600 000 people employed today under FERA and the Civilian Conservation Corps with 400 000 CCC workers and 200 000 in the new program, as relief shifts from dole era to a broader work relief effort. It cites 64 880 000 000 for six months and outlines goals to end federal dole and finish the 4 000 000 job Civil Works Administration.
British authorities distributed gas masks to the civil police today drawing large crowds to stations. A lecture accompanied the handout explaining the masks use. In New York, Gloria Morgan Vandervill returned home from a hurried European trip for her regular visit with daughter Gloria.
Prof. George T. Woodruff, county superintendent of education, traveled to Montgomery to join a conference of city and county superintendents led by Dr. J. A. Keller, the state education superintendent, to discuss upcoming plans for the school year.
Col. W. A. Gayle and Col. Sumpter Smith of the 331st Division air service left Montgomery for Washington to confer with WPA officials about Alabama's national guard armory program.
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife Anne visited Red Lake Falls Minnesota to see the colonel's half sister Mrs. George Christie. Townspeople gathered and watched as the famed aviator and his wife moved through the town with small crowds showing admiration and curiosity.
Eddie Gayman and Roy Hamilton were executed at dawn in Southeast Missouri's first double hanging in 30 years for the Christmas Eve 1933 killing of Arthur Cashion, a filling station attendant, during an attempted holdup.
Two men were hanged in the early morning at the county jail. Hamilton, aged two, died at 5:62 after the trap released at 5:35. Gayman, age 40, died at 6:17 following the drop at 6:05. Sheriff Sam Harris officiated the proceedings.
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