Ickes' Son Wilmarth Found Dead In Winnetka Home
Wil marth Ickes 37 son of Secretary Harold L. Ickes was found shot to death in his stepfather's Winnetka residence on the first anniversary of his mother's death. Police say the death was by his own hand with a .38 pistol on the chest. authorities note he recently learned of tuberculosis and had possible distress over a prior car accident near Velarde New Mexico. An inquest is set for Evanston tomorrow.
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Ickes
Chicago
Wilmarth Ickes
Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Winnetka
Anna Wilmarth Ickes
Harold Lewis
Interior Department
Washington
Velarde
N. M
Elizabeth Dahlman
Milwaukee
Donald
Anna
Bar
Eric Magnuson
Wilmarth
James Westphal Thompson
University of Chicago
Magnuson
Frank Blatchford
Evanston
Stockyard venture to form Decatur company tonight
A stockholders meeting is set at the Chamber of Commerce office at 8 o'clock to organize the Decatur Stockyards Company. Gilbert G. White, secretary, reports $2,200 in stock subscribed and says the project can move to a quick conclusion. Discussion will cover location for yards and sales barn and other phases.
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Chamber of Commerce
Decatur Stockyards Company
Gilbert G. White
Chamber
Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Committee
Ake
Graves Praises National Guard in Alabama Review
Governor Bibb Graves said Alabama has the most efficient National Guard the state has ever had after returning from Fort McClellan. He spoke on his review of state troops during the annual governor's action ceremonies and cited his experience as former adjutant-general and regimental commander in France.
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Montgomery
Ala
Bibb Graves
Fort McClellan
France
Graves
Alabama
Wage hikes announced by Gulf States Paper and Central Foundry
Wage increases effective September 1 have been announced by Gulf States Paper Corporation and Central Foundry Company in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The moves, reported August 31, mark notable raises from two of the region’s largest employers.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Gulf States Paper Corporation
Central Foundry Company
Traffic Survey Puzzles Motorists on Bee Line Athens
State highway units with a patrolman stopped cars to survey traffic volume and movement. The goal is data for future road construction and to determine peak flows. Thirty three states conduct similar checks with shifting hours from early morning to evening at various points.
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Athens
State Highway Department
Landon to Seek Joint Emergency Freight Rates
Kansas Governor Alf M Landon planned a plea to western railroads for joint emergency freight rate schedules to help drought areas. He aims to preserve the drought rate benefits across routes when shipments cross multiple lines as he attends the Des Moines conference as a governor.
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William H. Beale
Associated Press
Topeka
Roostvelt
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Des Moines
London
Walter Welford
North Dakota
Roosevelt
Landon
Farmers Fight Army Worms in South Limestone
A large number of farmers in South Limestone county are applying poison to cotton crops to combat the army worm outbreak. The pests have appeared in sizable numbers across the county section.
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Limestone County
Truck slides off road near Falkville with tires aboard
A Peters Freight Line truck ran off the Bee Line highway near Falkville this morning. The unit was loaded with tires and a wrecker was called to recover the vehicle. No injuries were reported.
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Peters
Bee Line
Falkville
Tragic Road Crash Claims Hartselle Matron
Mrs. B E Stewart Sr 65 dies from injuries after an auto truck collision on Bee Line highway near Decatur. Her daughter Mrs John Houston and daughter-in-law Mrs W H Stewart injured. funeral planned at Hartselle Methodist church with burial in Hartselle cemetery.
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Hartselle
Decatur
Bee Line Highway
Here
8. E. Stewart
John. Houston
W. H. Stewart
J. E. Thexton
Gila Bend
Ariz
Stewart
Houston
Richard Hampton
Hartselle Methodist Church
J. H. Chitwood
Peck
John Houston
J. B. Thexton
O. H. Doss
Eastland
Tex
S. Etewart, Jr
R. L. Garner
Methodist Church
Four Die In Birmingham Traffic Accidents This Weekend
Four Alabamians died from injuries in weekend traffic crashes in Birmingham. Victims include 16 year old Clara Hodges of Morris and Ell Cowland, a Birmingham resident struck by an automobile. The year’s traffic fatalities in the city rise with this weekend’s deaths, as continued coverage notes further details on page two.
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Birmingham
Ala
Clara Hodges
Morris
Gracie Henderson
8. E. Stewart
Hartselle
Cowland
Two-State Championship Settle Series in Decatur
The Birmingham junior American Legion champions meet Nashville juniors in a three game set at Alabama Mills diamond. A 3:30 Friday single game follows a 2:00 Saturday doubleheader with neutral-site play halfway between Birmingham and Nashville. Proceeds aid Flint tuberculosis sanatorium.
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Alabama
Tennessee
Kiwanis Club
Lawrence Fatum
Birmingham
Charlotte
Nashville
Flint
Tatum
Alabama Mills
Rickwood
Rebels Bomb Madrid Weakened by Warfront Attacks
The Associated Press reports rebels bombed Madrid and struck Iran today as the United States demanded ships be left alone. Vatican churches were burned and German embassies moved to Alicante amid international efforts to curb atrocities.
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Associated Press
Iran
United States
Madrid
France
Roosevelt
Middle-West
State Department
Washington
Spain
Kane
Vatican
Germany
Alicante
Reich
London
Great Britain
Italy
Guadarrama
Toledo
Badajoz
Foreign Legion
Morocco
Burgos
Posse Hunts Two Slavers Near California Oregon Border
On August 31 1935 a large posse hunted brothers John H Bright and Coke T Bright after a killing spree that left Deputy Sheriff Martin Lange Constable Jos Clark and Captain Fred Seaborn dead. The fugitives were last seen near Horse Creek 35 miles north of Yreka as lawmen pursued them into the Siskiyou mountains.
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John H. Bright
Coke T. Bright
Horse Creek
Siskiyou
Martin Lange
Jos. Clark
United States
Brights
Mount Sterling
California
Oregon
Lange
Ata
Clyde L.johnson
F. R. Daw
Dunsmuir
Baker
Chandler
Seaborn
Bright Brothers
John Bright
Coke Bright
Constable Clark
Cate
County high schools open doors for 1936 37 term
Five senior and six junior high schools opened their doors today for the 1936 37 terms in the county. Elementary classes begin October 12. Senior high schools include Morgan County at Hartselle and others at Danville Eva Falkville Cotaco. Junior high schools are Austinville Priceville Trinity Moulton Heights Ryan and Union Hill.
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Morgan County High School
Hartselle
Danville
Eva
Falkville
Cotaco
Austinville
Priceville
Trinity
Moulton Heights
Ryan
Union Hill
Capital Gets Out Shooting Charge
Olin McBride was held in county jail on a charge of assault with intent to murder after W. G. McConnell was shot in the abdomen. McConnell suffered a flesh wound, was treated, and discharged. The warrant was sworn by McConnell in Justice J. W. Bailey’s court. No preliminary hearing was set for early afternoon.
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Olin McBride
W. G. McConnell
McConnel
McBride
McConnell
Court of Justice
J.W. Bailey
U S Plans Purchase of Alabama Pears for Federal Stock
The federal surplus commodities corporation will buy 20 carloads of Alabama pears at 35 cents per bushel loaded in the cars, with 500 bushels per car, from Grand Bay Citronelle and other southern points. Proceeds aid Resettlement Administration distribution to rehab clients nationwide.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Grand Bay
Citronelle
R. J. Goode
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Resettlement Administration
Goode
Gasoline prices cut in Montgomery
Montgomery motorists saw a two cent per gallon drop in major brands. Standard gasoline fell to 22 cents a gallon and third grade to 19 cents. Regional managers did not explain the cause. The cut appears limited to Montgomery, not statewide, with a combined 9 cent tax per gallon.
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Montgomery
Ala
Snow showers melt on impact in Ebensburg
Snow fell in Ebensburg Cambria County during a western Pennsylvania rain Sunday. The flakes melted on contact and the unofficial temperature was 48 degrees.
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Pennsylvania
Ebensburg
Cambria County
Churches Burned in Spain Across Nation Vatican Reports
The Vatican said 162 churches, convents and chapels were burned in Spain, including some chapels in nobles’ palaces, in an unofficial summary dated Aug 31.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Spain
One Dead and Six Injured in Huntsville Crash
A collision on the Huntsville Fayetteville highway near here yesterday injured 12 people and claimed the life of Dorothy Jaco four year old daughter of Mrs. W E Jaco who died at the hospital. The mother remains hospitalized with injuries. Others gravely hurt included Lester Howe with broken ribs and a punctured lung Mrs Jack Smother man Ella Reeves Reedy Mitchell who gave a statement that he had attempted to enter the main highway after a choke motor and that Harvey Flipp of Huntsville crashed into him. No charges have been filed and investigators continue.
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Muntsville
Ala
Huntsville-Fayetteville
Dorothy Jaco
W. E. Jaco
Lester Howe
Jack Smotherman
Ella Reeves
Reedy Mitchell
Helen Esslinger
Bankhead Bates
Charles Barrett
Mitchell
Harvey Flipp
Huntsville
Aim
L B Norris Illness Victim Dies At Decatur Route 3
Lucien B Norris 67 a Spanish American war veteran and longtime county merchant died at 7 am at his home on Decatur route 3 near the Moulton highway. Rites will be held at his residence Tuesday at 3 30 pm with Rev Emmett E Byars officiating and burial in City Cemetery. Survived by sister Mrs Ella Gurley brother A H Norris four nieces and two nephews all of Decatur route 3. Pallbearers will be Spanish American war veterans.
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Lucien B. Norris
Decatur
Moulton
Lawrence County
Emmett E. Byars
City Cemetery
Brown
Ella Gurley
A. H. Norris
Norris
Suit Not To Deter Freeing Of Bridges In Alabama
Alabama officials said the plan to free state owned toll bridges would proceed despite a new suit by C W Gray Jr of Birmingham challenging the program. A bond refinancing deal with dissenting holders would toll free the bridges once approved by about 76 percent of bondholders. roughly $350,000 of the required amount remained to approve.
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Montgomery
Ala
Lawrence H. Lee
Bibb Graves
Alabama
C. W. Gray, Jr
Birmingham
Bridge Corporation
State Highway Department
State Supreme Court
Lee
Boykin Named Head of Alabama Democratic Finance Committee
Robert E. Clarke announced appointments for Alabama Democrats with Judge Matt Boykin of Mobile as State Finance Committee chairman J P Courtney of Mobile as treasurer and Pitt Tyson Maner of Montgomery as secretary He will stay in the state to organize a fundraising drive for campaign funds.
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Montgomery
Ala
Robert E. Clarke
New York
Democratic National Committee
Matt Boykin
Mobile
Clarke
J. P. Courtney
Pitt Tyson Maner
Husband Held in Death of Wife in Phenix City
Chief O O Gay said a warrant is sworn out against R Elmer Phelps for murder after a coroner s jury found Mrs Sarah Phelps died by strangulation at her home in Phenix City The husband was identified as the principal suspect and a preliminary trial was arranged in recorder s court.
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Phenix City
Ala
O. O. Gay
R. Elmer Phelps
Sarah Phelps
Gay
Ory
Recorder’s
Phelps
Daily expands with engraving plant to boost metropolitan coverage
The Daily announces a new engraving plant to enhance spot news picture coverage for Morgan Lawrence and Limestone counties. Workers are preparing a dark room and fixtures as the plant nears full operation, reflecting pride in stronger local reporting for thousands of North Alabama readers.
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Daily
Morgan
Lawrence
Limestone
Tho
Ala
Kane Answers Fire Washington Aug 31 Warfare at Spanish Coast
Naval officers reviewing incident reports of the attempted sinking of the destroyer Kane off the Spanish coast believe American war vessels in Spanish waters may respond with renewed gunfire if further attacks occur. The U S government has protested to Madrid and rebel forces are urged to prevent another such incident while the situation remains unresolved.
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Kane
Washington
Madrid
Weather summary brief for Tennessee and Alabama
The 24 hour period recorded a maximum 88 and minimum 57 degrees. Sunday night was the coolest of the summer. The Tennessee river rose to 3.4 feet today. Alabama saw fair and slightly warmer conditions tonight with Tuesday partly cloudy skies. Tennessee expected fair tonight and slightly warmer on Tuesday.
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Tennessee
Alabama
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S. E. Stewart, Sr
Dionne
Yvonne Leroux
Jacqueline Noel
Emilie
Cecile
Marie
Yvonne
Annette
Calif
California-Oregon
County High School
U. S
L. B. Norris
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