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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1937
Page
2
The junior board of stewards of Central Methodist church meets Monday at 7 30 PM. Rev J H Chitwood to speak on The Groundwork of Human Sunday at 11 AM. Numerous local residents and officials noted in daily activities and travels across Decatur.
State Senator Schuyler Richardson of Huntsville is named to the 13th judicial circuit court in Madison County succeeding the late Judge Paul Speake. Governor Bibb Graves telephoned the appointment from Washington. Richardson, treated at Walter Reed, will return to Huntsville next week. The judgeship carries a $6,000 salary and runs until the November 1938 general election.
Lawmakers aired two hours of debate on a substitute bill aiming to guarantee farmers a cash income equal to cost of production. Supporters doubted success as administration plans seek to fix payment limits and set minimum farm commodity prices. A final vote was hoped for early next week, with a joint committee to reconcile differences for President Roosevelt.
Washington reports key farm bill items for a final vote. Soil conservation subsidies reward farmers for shifting from soils depleting to conserving crops. Agriculture secretary may curb marketings in bad yield years if two thirds vote yes. Extensions of federal loans for above quota storage. Reallocation of farm funds to dispose of surpluses domestically or abroad. Lenders seek wheat provision revival.
Will and counties deputies captured John at 33 in Whiting and Mike Munjas at 45 in Indiana Harbor after farmwife Hulda Panay, 38, identified them as the robbers who killed her husband Edward Panga, 45, and shot her. The couple had visited earlier seeking inheritance money. Farm vigilantes aided the search as Panga lay bound and pleading.
Britain, among war debt defaulters, formally informs the United States it cannot meet a 994 million dollar December 1 installment. France and Poland also sent default notices as thirteen debtors owe 1.68 billion by December 15. Finland is the only one signaling prompt remittance.
Weidmann confessed to strangling the first victim Miss De Koven, a 22 year old American dancer, whose body was buried under a St Cloud villa porch. Investigators say the villa served as the gang’s headquarters and four victims were killed for money and information. The autopsy notes a brutal struggle and garrote marks as detectives recover her body with $500 in traveler's checks missing.
In Sheffield coroner A L Etheridge ruled death from natural causes for Thomas Garner 75 found slumped over a stove. Birmingham leaders elected to Southern Surgical Association posts with Dr Lloyd Nolan as president and Dr S L Ledbetter as vice president. In Huntsville federal court three defendants received one year and a day for conspiracy to violate internal revenue laws. In Tuscumbia funeral today for Joe Carter Morrison 14 who died of blood poisoning after a school bus injury.
Dixie Tootsie Dunbar a former Montgomery child actress joined the University of Alabama Rose Bowl bandwagon. She offered to entertain the team at home and studio in Los Angeles and Pasadena, with Birmingham star Gail Patrick sending congratulations. Johnny Mack Brown of Dothan, a former Tide backfield ace, is also among those awaiting the Crimson Tide in Pasadena.
A 64 year old former Floradora girl, Margaret B Reeves, learns her ex husband Willis H Reeves left her his entire estate totaling 16 000 dollars after his death. She divorced him in 1906 and pursued Broadway, including the Wizard of Oz, and now hopes to visit Broadway again and help her nieces attend drama school.
A community sing is convened Sunday at 1 30 p m in the Ninth Street Methodist church. The program features Athens quartette Brown quartette of Tupelo Mississippi Hartselle quartette and Osborn quartette with a cordial invitation to the public.
President Roosevelt names John W. Hanes of North Carolina and Jerome N. Frank of New York to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Hanes will replace J D Rom who resigned to run Bonneville Dam administration. Frank replaces James M. Landis who left to become Harvard Law School dean.
Chattanooga Tenn December 10 Utilities contend they will close their case today before the Tennessee Valley Authority as they seek to prove the TVA power program unconstitutional The TVA will begin its defense Monday with chief counsel James Lawrence Fly aiming to finish by Christmas Eve An MIT expert testified that a unified TVA system would cause millions in damages to private utilities and run deficits of at least 9 million annually with rate cuts to TVA levels risking large facility idle costs.
Weather report notes toll details continue from page one while forecasting warmer conditions tomorrow. Temperature rise may affect traffic and outdoor plans as officials monitor storm patterns and precipitation chances.
Three days of unmelted ice linger across Alabama as the Weather Bureau keeps its cold forecast. Meteorologist E D Emigh of Montgomery cautions of slowly rising temps tomorrow with no immediate end to the bitter wave. Early today minimums ranged from 8 in Florence to 26 in Mobile, with Montgomery at 24 as unseasonably cold air persists.
Reports from Tokyo indicate a formal statement on Japan's future China policy will follow the anticipated fall of Nanking. Elsewhere in the Spanish Civil War, insurgents claim a government attack west of Madrid was repelled while government air raids target north of Zaragoza. Palma hosts a second aerial assault with eight insurgent planes claimed shot down.
The American embassy in Moscow reports an unsuccessful search for Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Robinson of New York who disappeared from a hotel near the embassy. Inquiries at the Soviet foreign office and hotel yielded no information, and Lou Henderson says the search will continue.
More than 500 inmates receive two week Christmas gift leaves starting December 16, with 554 names announced by Hamp Draper. A man to man return by January 2 is required. Kilby leads with 131 beneficiaries, others from Wetumpka Speigner Atmore and more prisons.
Westminster plans a full Christmas week with multiple programs. Dr J Wallace Willoughby will preach at 11 during a morning service, followed by senior and youth choirs, a 5 o’clock cantata, a 6 o’clock youth tea, and an 7:30 joint cantata with Athens Presbyterian. A midweek spirit of Christmas and Dec 26 pageant cantata conclude.
California Governor Frank F. Merriam praises the University of Alabama's selection to face California in the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day in Pasadena. He invites Governor Graves and Mrs. Graves to California for the game and lauds Alabama’s sportsmanship and record as a worthy foe for California’s champion team.
Mrs Noble Russell and her infant daughter were removed this afternoon from Benevolent Hospital to their home on Oak Street in Brownam.
A mid day rally in rails gave the stock market a brief lift but gains faded as many key issues held back. Notable names like Banta Fe N Y Central Atlantic Coast Line and U S Steel moved differently with others such as Chrysler General Motors and DuPont retreating. U S Steel's November shipments were down from October though eleven month totals rose vs 1936. Trading was quiet with Seamstew near a million shares and March slipping from 8.06 to 8.11 by mid afternoon.
Markets at a Glance reports mixed results across sectors with gains in some foreign exchange and sugar while oils decline. In New York stocks stumble after an early rally. bonds are mixed and rails show demand. Chicago wheat falls on ample Australian supplies. corn holds firm on ongoing export demand. cattle stay steady and hogs slip 10 to 15 cents, with higher top quotes for top hogs. Agricultural detail lists cattle grades and butcher cow prices, plus hogs and sows pricing notes.
New York market report lists egg prices on Dec 10 with mixed colors and special packs at 29-30 for standards 29, firsts 25-26, seconds 21-22, mediums and dirties No. 1 20, average 17 1-2 18. Refrigerator eggs show similar ranges with special packs 20 1-2 24, standards 19 1-2 20, firsts 19 1-4 1-2, seconds 18-19, mediums 18 18 1-2.
Dairy products market update from New York lists butter at 3,450 and 40 1-4-41 for extra grade, with firsts 34 1-2-39 and seconds 32-33 1-2. Cheese total 66,978 with prices unchanged and overall market quiet.
Prime cottonseed meal futures (41 per cent) closed firm in Memphis with 1900 tons sold. Prices listed for Dec 20.60, Jan 20.00, Feb 19.85, Mar 19.80, Apr 19.75, May 19.85, Jun 19.75, Jul 20.00.
In New Orleans on December 10, cottonseed oil closed steady with breach able prime summer yellow at 6.90 nominal. Crude bids ranged from 5.75 to 5.87 for December to January delivery, with futures for March and beyond listed around 6.56 to 6.60.
In New York cargos and futures markets traders note a slight upturn as southern buying strengthens sentiment in cotton futures. Pressure from crop prospects and export demand keeps prices steady for now.
Southeastern Conference rules prohibit football teams from practicing or scrimmaging with outside opposition. The move targets Vanderbilt University after scrimmages with Western State Teachers College and Murray State Teachers College. Vanderbilt officials argued scrimmages were informal and not governed by game rules, with no admission charged and time unobserved.
Captain Leroy Monsky of Alabama is listed as a guard on Collier's All American team. The roster includes Ends Andrew Bershak and Jerome Holland, Tackles Edmund Franco and Vic Markov, Center Carl Hinkle, QB Clinton Frank, Halfbacks Marshall Goldberg and Byron White, Fullback Samuel Chapman.
Lloyd Lively today was named chairman of the Kiwanis Program Committee for 1938. H. L. Peterson and Barrett Shelton serve with him, while Winston Alston as next year’s club president is an ex officio member. The committee outlines the Kiwanis program for the year.
Eph Ogden, 39, pleaded guilty to second degree murder for killing roommate Oliver Senecal, 28, last August and attempting to ship the body in a trunk to Memphis Tennessee. He received a sentence of 20 years to life at Sing Sing. A probation report notes Ogden escaped from an insane asylum in Birmingham Alabama in July 1920.
Mrs. Foy Lippman was granted a divorce from writer Walter Lippman yesterday afternoon by Circuit Judge George W. Whitehurst in Bradenton Florida.
The Duchess of Windsor is named last among Britain's duchesses in the current Burke’s peerage. Letters patent from the College of Arms did not elevate Wallis Warfield to the same rank as her husband, who is listed as the fourth man of the realm.
Washington December 10 the house reversed and voted 219 to 175 to restore compulsory wheat control to the administration farm bill.
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