Cotton Crop Forecast Up In December Report
Washington reports 1936 cotton production at 12,407,000 bales with a 197.6 pound acre yield and 30,054,000 acres harvested. Compared to last year and prior averages, details show state by state output, ginnings, and abandonment, with December estimates aligning closely to November projections.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Census Bureau
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Missouri
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
States
Old Mexico
United States
Decatur Rotary Holds Open Meeting on Christmas Baskets
An open meeting of the Decatur Rotary Club was held with one member absent. Tom Fitzpatrick chairman of the Lone ly Child committee urged members to provide one or two names to receive Christmas baskets.
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Decatur Rotary Club
Tom Fitzpatrick
Lonely Child Committee
Interceptor Connections Underway in Local Sewer Project
Connection of six outfall sewers to a 20 inch Dry Creek interceptor progresses amid high water. project cost estimated at 500000 dollars. Riverview pumping station will move sewage to the interceptor, with TVA engineers and E R Whitton supervising pumps.
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Dry Creek
Tennessee
W. Vine Street
W. Vine
Alma Street
Second Avenue
Joe Wheeler
Riverview Avenue
E. R. Whitton
TVA
Madrid Under Siege as Government Hails Defensive Fire
Bitter cold stalls fascist assaults on Madrid outskirts while 21 killed in an insurgent air raid on Guadalajara. Government says 3,000 fascists near Frenchman’s bridge and asserts German troops man the frontline. Julio Alvarez Del Vayo to lodge protests with the League of Nations with photos of torpedo and bomb fragments.
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Madrid
Emergency Defense Council
Guadalajara
el Escorial
Escorial
Pozuelo de Abacora
Milicianos
Manzanares
Julio Alvarez del Vayo
Italy
Germany
League of Nations
Cartagena
Mitchell Bros Low Bid on Paving Jobs in Alabama
Mitchell Bros Construction Co of Birmingham submitted the lowest bids for paving two sections one on W Vine Street and the Joe Wheeler highway, each about a mile long, with bids opened in Montgomery on December 3 but no contract awarded yet. The firm also built part of the Decatur Somerville road project.
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Mitchell Bros. Construction Company
Birmingham
W. Vine Street
Joe Wheeler
State Highway Department
Montgomery
Mitchell Bros
Decatur
Somerville
Indians Pitcher Blaeholder Sold to Milwaukee
The Cleveland Indians today sold pitcher George Blaeholder to the Milwaukee club of the American Association. It was the first deal of the major league meetings.
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Au Wee
New York
Cleveland Indians
George Blaeholder
Milwaukee Club
American Association
Cotaco Creek Claims Life of Local Farmer
William Smith a 38 year old Somerville route 1 farmer drowned Monday afternoon while swimming Cotaco Creek. Ira Whitehead reported they planned to row to a Woodland Mills landing for supplies. Smith sank after struggling in icy swollen water as searchers extend downstream.
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Cotaco Creek
William Smith
Somerville
Lewis C. Brown
Ira Whitehead
Smith
Woodland Mills
Whitehead
Brown
Morgan County Bank Designated County Depository
Morgan County Bank is named the depository for county funds by the county board of revenue. The bank has served as depository for several years. Commissioners reached an adjustment agreement on a small segment of right of way on the Decatur Somerville road during yesterday’s meeting.
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Morgan County ,National Bank
County Board of Revenue
Decatur-Somerville Road
Alabama House Readies 5 PM Vote On Tax Liquor Bills
Alabama House rules committee adopts Boswell resolution to vote on tax and prohibition repeal bills by 5 p m tomorrow with final action set before adjournment. Debate centers on gross receipts tax and liquor controls, with party lines cited and two major measures scheduled for quick passage.
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Montgomery
Ala
House of Representatives
Rules Committee
Alabama
E. C. Boswell
Friends
Yea—Hill
Marion
Byars
Lawrence
Cox
Chilton
Goodwyn
Kirby
Jackson
McPaul
Baldwin
Pool
Marengo
Taylor
Mobile
Nay — Chichester
Jefferson
Hodges
Fayette
Lusk
Etowah
McGowin
Butler
Sanford
Fimore
Sparks
Barbour
Chichester
House
Bell
Yea
Alson
Arnold
Bateman
Blann
Boswell
Braswell
Buffington
Bulger
Burleson
Carter
Castleberry
Delany
Denson
DeVane
Douglas
Ellis
Glover
Goolsby
Haley
Hamner
Hanks
Hendley
Henson
Hill
Hollis
Johnston
Langdon
Merrill
Miles
Miller
McDermott
McPhaul
Owen
Owens
Madison
Parish
Henry
Posey
Winston
Props
Rayburn
Reeder
Reynolds
Walker
Staples
Terry
Tidmore
Tolbert
Tompkins
Waldrop
Wallace
Clarke
Wright
Nay—Austin
Britten
Calhoun
Connor
Cook
Domnick
Doster
Hall
Hare
Jones
Kelly
Lee
Bullock
Livingston
Long
Matthews
Moore
Norman
Lowndes
Pike
Petrey
Quarles
Robinson
Sanderson
Shaver
Shipman
Lightler
Spence
Street
Todd
Toomer
Welch
Whighampo
Eugene Connor
Birmingham
Death of J W Carter Aged 76 Hartselle Farmer
J W Carter 76 retired farmer of Hartselle route 1 was found dead in bed at his home at 6 this morning likely from a heart attack. Funeral services set for Wednesday at Moss Chapel with Rev A M Jones. burial by Drinkard Howell of Hartselle. Survived by son J W Jr, two daughters Ada Hayes and Georgia Gunter, brother Henry Carter, five grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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J. W. Carter
Hartselle
Route 1
Carter
Moss Chapel
A. M. Jones
Drinkard-Howell
Ada Hayes
Danville
Georgia Gunter
Cullman
Henry Carter
Somerville
Dionne Pictures On Page Eight
The quins are shown as the Bethlehem babe story unfolds for the readers in photographs on the back page of today’s Daily.
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Dionne
Dionne Quins
Bethlehem
Rail Empire Lost and Regained Without Funds
Senate investigators heard that the Van Sweringen brothers lost their $3 billion rail and industrial system on September 10, 1935, and regained control the same day without spending any money. The testimony came as JP Morgan faced possible summons to explain relinquishing control of the nation’s largest transportation setup.
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Washington
Senate
van Sweringen
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
J.P. Morgan
Capitol
WPA Worker Killed in Collision on County Project
Jit Hill a 50 year old WPA worker was killed when he fell from a county road paving machine as it slowed to stop. He struck his skull on the paving and died en route to Hartselle. Hill a Flint resident is survived by his widow four children two brothers and two sisters. He had worked for the WPA two years on county projects.
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Jit Hill
WPA
Ful Fromen
Mr. Hill
Hartselle
Drinkard-Howell
Hill
Flint
Alabama tops nation in illicit distillery seizures says official
Robert Tuttle, district alcohol tax unit chief, reports bone dry Alabama leads in distillery seizures with 1,371 stills seized in the year and 48 per 100 000 population. He assigns blame to the coastal moonshine belt from Virginia to Mississippi and notes a historic Pennsylvania origin with moonshine raids once ordered by George Washington.
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Atlanta
Robert Tuttle
Alabama
Tuttle
North Carolina
Virginia
Georgia
North Cancion
Florida
Mississippi
South
Atlantic Seaboard
Pennsylvania
George Washington
Speake Joins Huntsville Motor Co as Plant Manager
Friends announce Gilbert Speake left Tuesday to relocate to Huntsville where he has accepted the position of plant manager at A. J. Moore Motor Co. and Chrys ler Plymouth agent. Speake previously spent eight years here and three years as sales manager of McRae Motor Co. Both he and his wife will be missed by many friends.
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Gilbert Speake
Huntsville
A. J. Moore Motor Co
Chrysler
Plymouth
Speake
McRae Motor Company
Former banker dies at Birmingham aged 66
Robert E. Chadwick former president of the Bank of Ensley died last night in Birmingham He was born in Greensboro Alabama on May 7 1880 The obituary notes his banking career and local ties in Alabama
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Birmingham
Robert E. Chadwick
Bank of Ensley
Greensporo
Ala
Merchants Reject Tax Plans in Morgan and Lawrence Counties
At a Monday meeting in Decatur merchants from Morgan and Lawrence counties voiced strong opposition to proposed gross receipts and sales taxes. Speeches from Rep Forrest Burleson and Sen Vernon St John urged preserving fair taxation while merchants cited dire revenue impacts and possible business closures. Continuous discussion highlighted regional tax tensions with further remarks expected on pace two.
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Morgan and
Lawrence
Forrest E. Burleson
Morgan
Vernon L. St. John
T. ©. Alman
Montgomery
St. John
Burleson
Alabama
Oath
J. D. Ligon
Merchants Committee
Chamber of Commercce
Barrett C. Shelton
H. L. Peterson
Decatur
Elmer Loyd
Adlai Sample
D. W. McNeil
L. H. Houston
Hartselle
Dismissal Sought In Alabama Unemployment Suit
The Alabama Attorney General asked Judge Walter B. Jones to dismiss suits against the state unemployment insurance law filed by firms that failed to meet a temporary restraining order. Hearings began as the judge postponed a final ruling until pending state and federal challenges are resolved.
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Montgomery
Ala
Walter B. Jones
Alabama
Jones
A. A. Carmichael
Sewing Room Moves to Bank Street
The WPA sewing room moved today from Fourth Avenue South to the building on Bank Street adjoining WPA district offices. About 73 women are employed here on the sewing project.
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WPA
Fourth Avenue
Bankstreet
Ruler Likely To Give Final Say On Plans
Cannes France December 8. Wallis Warfield Simpson and friends say she intends to press for a Morgantic marriage with King Edward VIII despite offering to give him up.
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Cannes
France
Wallis Warfield Simpson
Edward VIII
Baldwin and King Seek Final Edward VIII Decision at Belvedere
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin rushed to Fort Belvedere as Edward VIII weighs renunciation of the throne or Wallis Simpson. Reports say a decree nisi holder and officials may push for a swift, possibly April finalization, with Mrs Simpson at a Cannes villa and a private air flight from Croydon to Marseille en route to Cannes.
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Frank H. King
London
Stanley Baldwin
Fort Belvedere
Edward VIII
Wallis’ Warfield Simpson
Royal Lodge
England
Empire
Baldwin
Edward
Duke of Kent
Verglove
Belvedere
Duke of York
Mra. Simpson
Great Britain
Croydon
Marseille
France
Cannes
Mrs. Simpson
Theodore Goddard
Simpson
Ernest Aldrich Simpson
Sidney Barron
Douglas Kirkwood
Goddard
Treasury
Trio
Home Office
Onte
Women's Joint Legislation Council of Alabama formed
Mrs. Nannie R. Nash, president, described the new group as a united front of organized women to obtain constructive governmental reforms. The council was organized in Birmingham on Sunday with the aim of pushing reforms.
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Birmingham
Weather Update for Tennessee and Alabama Regions
The Tennessee river gauge reads 13.6 feet and rising. Temperature ranged from a high of 55 to a low of 28 with no rainfall. Alabama expects frost in the south tonight with partly cloudy skies and slightly warmer conditions in the northwest. Tennessee remains mostly cloudy with a small warming trend tonight and Wednesday.
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Alabama
Tennessee
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Clement Clarke Moore
St. Nicholas
ITVA
Father Slayer
Edith Maxwell
Ezra T. Carter
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Wise
Trice Maxwell
Morgan County Bank
Gil Speake
Almon
Bank Street
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