WPA Director to Lose Mug of His Power
Senate unemployment committee informally backs a simple relief distribution formula to strip the WPA administrator of discretion in state quotas. Senator Murray favors amending the $875 million emergency relief bill with the formula, while President Roosevelt asks for prompt funding and careful consideration of changes.
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Washington
Senate Unemployment Committee
WPA
Byrnes
8. C
Murray
Mont
House
Roosevelt
Congress
Clark
United Tes Employment Service
Social Security
Hearing Date Moved Back for Will Clark New Trial
The hearing on Will Clark's motion for a new trial, sentenced to die for the crime of assaulting Mrs. Eugene Clem, has been postponed from January 10 to January 24. Judge A A Griffith granted the delay at the request of Clark's Chattanooga counsel George W. Chamlee, with completion required before February 6 due to Judge Griffith's Cullman county term. Clark faced two trials at Athens for rape. a mistrial occurred in the first.
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Will Clark
Limestone County
Limestone Circuit
Eugene Clem
Circuit
Melvin Hutson
Chattanooga
Clark
Griffith
Cullman County
Athens
Chamlee
Scottsboro
Decatur High to list three captains for next season
Decatur High School will name three captains for the Red Raiders football team next year after a tie in voting. Marvin Worley Donald Whitmire and Carl Green were announced at the Riverside building banquet where about 100 attended including squad members and board members.
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Decatur High School
Red Raiders
Riverside Building
H. L. Ogle
Marvin Worley
Donald Whitmire
Carl Green
Riverside P.T. A
Russell Britton
Mr. Britton
R. Britton
W. T. Jordan
A. H. Hoff
Education Board
Board of Education
Ifehe
Fred Scarborough
Homer Meadows
Scarborough
Meadows
Ogle
Mack Jacobs
Jackson Hodges
Eldridge Cockrell
Sidney Evans
Earl Alverson
Pete Henderson
Pete Drake
Paul Shafer
Lindbergh Delivers Confidential Germany Air Report
Charles A. Lindbergh, still in the U S Army Air Corps Reserve, submitted a confidential report on German aviation to government officials. He has studied European facilities, visited Berlin, and inspected Soviet airfields while facing Russian accusations of bias. The administration plans a large aircraft buildup as Roosevelt eyes more than 10 000 planes for the Army.
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Washington
Charles A. Lindbergh
Germany
Hide
Army
Lindbergh
United States Army Air Corps Reserve
Europe
Berlin
Paris
Field Marshall
Goering
Soviet Russia
Chamberlain
Great Britain
Lindberg
London
Roosevelt
Congress
Tortured Father Seeks Cure as Daughter Faces Cancer
William Lewis a WPA carpenter in Brooklyn endures his eight year old daughter Dorothy's fatal cancer. Doctors give a one in twenty chance of survival if the leg is amputated, but he clings to hope for a cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brooklyn
William Lewis
Lewis
WPA
Dorothy
Kate Smith
Eddie Cantor
Japan Irked by U S Move Across Asia
Tokyo papers report rising strain between United States and Japan after Washington notes and sanctions stance. Asahi calls Japan a target of U S preparedness plans and warns relations may grow more acute under the Kiichiro Hiranuma government while studying the Dec 31 note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
United States
Evita
Pn Today
Tokyo Ashahi
Japan
Ashahi
Asahi
Foreign Office
China
Washington
Joseph C. Grew
Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma
Noted speaker to be heard Monday
Rev. R. Lambuth Archibald announced Miss Lucy Foreman of the Southern Methodist board of Christian education will meet Decatur adult division representatives at Central Methodist church Monday at 10 o clock. Foreman, an authority on adult work, travels with Rev. C F E Tatum of Birmingham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Lambuth Archibald
Central Methodist Church
Lucy Foreman
Board of Christian Education
Southern Methodist Church
Nashville
Four Methodist Churches
Decatur
Miss Foreman
M. Leo Rippy
C. FE. Tatum
Birmingham
Morgan convict among missing parolee list
Associated Press dispatches from Montgomery report Luther Daugherty of Morgan County as among Christmas parolees unreported at Speigner. He was convicted on a charge of second degree murder.
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Associated Press
Montgomery
Luther Daugherty
Morgan Courty
Speigner
Roosevelt Says DOJ Probes Nazi and Communist Groups
President Roosevelt announced the justice department is investigating alleged violations of criminal statutes by Nazis, communists, and related groups in the United States. Dies committee evidence claims the communist party acts as an agent of the Soviet led third international and that German American Bund represents Nazi Germany.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Justice Department
Murphy
Department
Dies
D.tex
Stage
War
Navy Departments
Arthur J. Hepburn
Navy
Congress
Congressional Committee
Capitol
Sumner Welles
Cummings
Communist Party
Bund
Communist Party of the
United States
Communist Third International
Moscow
League For Peace and Democracy
International Labor Defense
Civil Liberties Union
Germany
Wife Faces Life in Cell in Poison Death Case
In Lebano Tennessee Gladys Oakley a 31 year old mother of two faced a life prison term after a trial ended with her guilty plea to poisoning Levy Oakley. Assistant AG Allison Humphreys introduced letters alleged to show her admission while Barbee 53 was also implicated with a murder indictment set for February 7.
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Lebanom
Tenn
Gladys Oakley
Levy Oakley
John Mitchell
Allison Humphreys
Humphreys
Jim Barbee
Barbee
Mitchell
Oakley
Identification bureau fingerprinting at police headquarters
Dothan Alabama January 6. A new identification bureau has been set up that will fingerprint every person docketed at police headquarters. The service aims to streamline records and enhance public safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dothan
Ala
Visit Of Rublee with Hopes to Bridge US Reich Gap
Berlin reports Nazi hopes rest on next week's Berlin visit by American director George Rublee and a delegation to discuss Jewish emigration. The plan includes 150000 younger Jews moving from Germany. Berlin signals appeasement by agreeing to receive Rublee and colleagues.
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Berlin
United States
Reich Center
George Rublee
Naki
Rublee
Robert T. Pell
Washington State Department
Joseph Cotton
New York
London
Germany
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Evian Conference
Intergovernmental Committee
Europe
Ice cream for breakfast as Colorado death row awaits ruling
A 23 year old man Joseph Arridy, classified with a mental age of six, awaits execution for the 1936 murder of 15 year old Dorothy Drain after a parole board or governor decision. The warden ordered ice cream for Arridy’s meals today amid a clemency review following psychiatric testimony.
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Canon City
Golo
Joseph Arridy
Teller Ammons
Ammons
Gali Ireland
Ireland
Roy Best
State Prison
Arridy
Grand Junction
Pueblo
Local Law Drafted to Restructure Morgan County Board
Morgan county lawmakers announced plans to introduce a bill to reorganize the board of revenue into a board of revenue and control, keeping personnel and naming Sim L Howell as chairman. Members from districts one through four receive four, four, two, and two year terms respectively and must devote full time to county business with a $2400 annual salary plus five cents a mile. chairman Howell earns $3600. The act shifts all purchasing authority to the board and sets bid procedures, with governor appointment if no majority for chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan County
Board of Revenue
Board of Revenue and Control
Sim L. Howell
Wallace Meadows
Fred M. Speake
Lee L. Rowe
John McCutcheon
Mr. Meadows
Mr. Speake
Messrs. Rowe
McCutcheon
Diatricta
Howell
Vader the voice robot wows scientists at Franklin Institute
The Vader voice operation demonstrator built by Bell Labs can imitate human speech and animal sounds. A trained operator shows its keyboard and foot pedal to produce 23 tones and wide modulations, stunning scientists though regional accents like Philadelphia prove challenging.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Bell Telephone Laboratories
New York
San Francisco
Franklin Institute
Helen Harper
Vader
Mississippi
Border flare ups as Czecho-Slovak, Hungarian clash at Munkacs
Budapest reports two artillery bombardments on Munkacs as Czecho-Slovak and Hungarian forces fight near the border. Fire hits include a hotel and the municipal theater. Hungary protests to Prague and informs Berlin and Rome.
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Alvin J. Steinkopf
Budapest
Munkacs
Munkacsis
Czecho-Slovakia
Hungary
Foreign Office
Prague
Vienna
Herp
Mukacevo
Carpathian Mountains
Ukraine
Czecho- Sovakia
Largest Chamber of Commerce dinner set for Jan 10
Indications show the largest attendance ever for the Chamber of Commerce annual dinner to be held Tuesday night January 10 at 6 30 PM in Lyons Hotel. The event promotes Decatur prospects for 1939 focusing on agriculture and industry while watching Montgomery and Washington for legislation. Members yet to reserve were urged to do so today.
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Chamber of Commerce
Lyons
Decatur
Montgomery
Washington
Congress
Limestone solons soon on the way to Montgomery
State Senator W. W. Malone and Representative J. E. Christopher will depart for Montgomery next Monday to attend the new legislative session. They were elected to this session and plan to introduce several local and state interest bills at the opening.
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Athens
Ala
W. W. Malone
J. E. Christopher
Montgomery
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