New Deal Cabinet Portrait Sketches and Standings
The piece profiles key Roosevelt aides like Henry Wallace Harold Ickes Frances Perkins and Henry A Wallace assessing their alignment with the President. It notes Wallace Ickes Perkins Dern Hull and Roper as in step with FDR, while detailing personalities, pressures and political roles within the New Deal’s inner circle.
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Woodih
Cabi
Henry A* Wallace
Roosevelt
Wallace
Harold Ickes
Wallace Herates
Ickes
James A. Farley
Eral
York
Jim
Post Office
Ftiende
Frances Perkins
Labor
Hoover-Coolidge
Labor Department
Miss Perkins
George C. Dern
Dern
Hull
London
Hully
Joe C. Roper
Com
Dan
Alabama Farmers Shift To A Christmas Produce Cash Harvest
Alabama farmers facing high fall prices and strong cash income shift to Christmas sales of produce, turkeys, flowers, and farm wife crafts. Department of Agriculture notes 43 percent price rise versus last year and 50 percent income gain since March, aided by subsidy payments. Excluding subsidies, fall income up 16 percent from spring, with higher purchase costs eroding gains. Officials urge production cuts to avoid deep surpluses that depress prices and jobs. Farmers and merchants report brisk curb market sales as women earn cash from quilts and lace pillows while men read the weekly.
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Auburn
Ala
Alabama
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington
Roosevelt
Dad
Irish Free State Crisis Stirs British Cabinet Session
London December 4 The British cabinet spent two hours in a special session addressing problems in the crisis between the Irish Free State and the British commonwealth. A dispatch from President Eamonn De Valera to Dominion Secretary J H Thomas signaled awaiting a British attitude toward the Irish republic declaration with a response expected tomorrow.
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London
Irish Free State
British Commonwealth of Nations
Eamonn de Valera
Dominion
J. H. Thomas
de Valera
Three Drunks Charged In Police Court Session
Three men identified as negroes were fined at the morning police court session for drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
Doctor Wynekoop too ill for murder arraignment in Chicago
Dr Alice L Wynekoop unable to appear in county court for arraignment on the indictment for the murder of Rheta Wynekoop due to illness. Judge Sullivan said the warden reported she is too weak to bring to court. No plea entered and no trial date set. She has exhaustion bronchial cough and dangerously high blood pressure.
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Chicago
Ill
Alice L. .Wynekoop
Rheta
Phillip L. Sullivan
David Money Penny
Alice
Langford Fatally Wounded in Avenue Affray
Dave Langford died from wounds received in an affray on Thursday at the corner of Commercial avenue and Maple street. A shotgun fired by John Willie Coleman badly mangled Langford's arm, leading to amputation after an operation. Coleman was arrested, held, and a murder warrant was issued for the preliminary hearing set for Thursday afternoon before Justice Bailey.
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Dave Langford
Commercial Avenue
Maple Street
John Willie Coleman
Langford
Coleman
Justice Bailey
City Hall
Three Held In Car Theft Questioning
Three white youths were arrested Sunday afternoon for questioning in connection with the theft Saturday night of a Chevrolet coupe belonging to J. T. Pettey. The car was taken from in front of the Princess Theatre, abandoned and out of gas on the Mooresville road. A truck driver provided a description, leading to the arrests of the described youth and two companions.
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J. T. Pettey
Princess Theatre
Mooresville Road
Aims of Legion in State Outlined at Montgomery Meeting
Decatur Legionnaires returned from a state conference in Montgomery where Harold L. Plummer outlined the Legion's goals. Highlights include rehabilitation of disabled veterans, defense and military strength, universal draft, aid to children, child welfare, health facilities, anti crime measures, opposition to war debt cancellations, NRA cooperation, and prudent fiscal policy.
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Decatur
Montgomery
Harold L. Plummer
Alabama
Adjutant Plummer
National Defense
Navy
Department of Justice
NRA
Morgan County Bank Again Designated County Depository
At a county board of revenue meeting the Morgan County National Bank was again named depository for county funds. State engineer reviews jail building plans submitted to the PWA board and data expected to Wynneillon this week.
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Board of Revenue
Morgan County National Bank
PWA
Oia
Ee Val Data
Wynlineton
More Men Placed At Work In Morgan County
The report notes 122 men added to relief rolls for work under the CWA plan, bringing total employed to 964 with regular salaries. About 883 remain on relief rolls, drawing cash aid. The National Reemployment Bureau aims to supply workers for state highway projects including Joe Wheeler Highway and Sixth Avenue paving. More plans and projects in Morgan County roads are being approved, boosting future placements.
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CWA
Child Well Department
National Re-Employment Bureau
State Highway Department
Joe Wheeler
Sixth Avenue
State Board
Montgomery
Employment Bureau
Four Die As Freight Wreck Near Spokane
Four killed and two injured when a Great Northern freight train hit a rock slide north of Spokane Washington. The engineers W J Barrett and fireman William Kruger along with brakemen Leonard Hargrove and J T Towhey died in the wreck. The locomotive and tender toppled onto their side with a train of 97 cars. Bodies were removed with difficulty.
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Spokane
Wash
Great Northern Way
Here
W. J. Barrett
William Krugere
Leonard Hargrove
J. T. Towhey
Report For November Of Decatur Charity Council
The Decatur Charity Council reports November activity by worker Miss Lillian Wheelis. It records 17 home visits, 522 interviews at the charity store and office, 166 families aided with food clothing fuel and medicine, 1519 garments distributed, 35 letters written, seven Thanksgiving baskets provided by local churches and clubs, four ex service men’s papers signed, one charity ticket, and five cases turned over to the county nurse. Kiwanis and Rotary special committees will complete the financial drive this week for the Charity Council.
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Decatur Charity Council
Lillian Wheelis
First Methodist Church
Berean Club
Hi-Y Club
Free Masons and Friends
Kiwanis
Rotary Clubs
Charity Council
Ayer of Strickland Paper Company Visits Decatur
T Ayer of the Strickland Paper Company Birmingham made a business call in Decatur today.
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T. Ayer
The
Strickland Paper Company
Birmingham
Decatur
Revising Tax Structure Takes Time for Solons
The House Ways and Means Committee tackles a plan to lift federal income by 40 million annually and considers liquor taxes after repeal. A sub committee study seeks revenue without raising rates. Treasury hints proposals will miss December 15. President returns to White House amid monetary policy controversy as market indicators show no shift in the gold plan and $700 million in December maturities loom.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Morganthau
The
White House
Second fire strikes Danville again damaging business district
Fire swept through Danville early Saturday causing costly damage to R. L. Gibson’s drag, hardware and grocery store, the post office, and an undertaking establishment run by Gibson and H. M. Priest. Priest, returning from Danville, noted unclear causes with reports of possible arson after a robbery. the same community had a prior blaze one month earlier.
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Danville
H. M. Priest
Decatur
R. L. Gibson
Danvile
Burglary Attempt Is False Alarm at Happy Feed Store
Benson Bryant owner of the Happy Feed Store on First Avenue reported a light on the second floor Sunday night. Police and Bryant found no signs of a burglar after a thorough check. investigators suspect an employee may have left the light on Saturday night.
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Happy Feed
Benson Bryant
First Avenue
Bryant
VFW to Sponsor a Little Exposition
The Veterans of Foreign Wars announced plans to sponsor an exposition in December featuring miniature cars for children similar to those at Chicago’s Century of Progress. The exact fair location will be announced later and proceeds will go to the VFW relief fund.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Century of Progress
Chicago
VFW Relief Fund
Scottsboro trial recounts Bates deposition in Norris case
The Scottsboro retrial of Clarence Norris resumes as Ruby Bates denies Victoria Price’s accusation of a 1931 mob attack. The deposition from Bates is read in New York while Judge Callahan limits references to prior events. Defense attorney Leibowitz clashes with the judge over procedure as testimony focuses on the alleged assault aboard a freight car near Paint Rock and Scottsboro.
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T. M. Davenport
Associated Press
Ruby Bates
Victoria Price
Clarence Norris
Morgan Circuit Court
New York
Heywood Patterson
Joseph R. Brodsky
International Labor Defense
Luther Morris
Jackson County
Orve Gilley
Leibowitz
Gilley
Callahan
Montgomery
Thomay E. Knight, Jr
Bates
Huntsville
Mrs. Price
Carter
Scottsboro
Price
W. W. Callahan
Samuel 8
Clarencé Norris
Orvel Gilley
Albertville
Ala
Norris
Thomias E. Knight, Jr
Mr. Knight
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Ben Chapman
New York Yankees
Nashville
Tenn
Wynekoop
Morgan County Bank
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Ayer
VFW
Lords
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