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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1938
Page
1
Shanghai dispatch reports Japanese ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe saying negotiations are off for the present and Japan should back a new Chinese regime under its guidance. The note follows Chiang Kai-Shek's reorganization aimed at strengthening resistance to Japan.
Senator Borah joined Southern lawmakers in opposing the anti lynching bill asserting the South faced race issues with patience and success. Southern Senators bar further speeches until tomorrow in a filibuster over the measure.
Hill postpones departure from Montgomery as Governor Graves signals Lister Hill will be appointed to the Senate once ready. Hill will seek a six year term in the May primary after winning the nomination to fill the unexpired Black term, with Dixie Graves serving temporarily.
John Patterson, veteran of Decatur industrial building, to lead the Chamber of Commerce as president for 1938. H. L. Peterson named first vice president and L. L. Lively as second vice president with Roland H. Gray again treasurer and Gilbert White secretary. The board elected new officers. nominating committee chaired by John A. Caddell with James H. Johnson and Joe W. Duncan. Patterson aims for a productive year stressing agricultural marketing, industrial growth, and industrial peace amid reduced debt.
The House Appropriations Committee trimmed the Tennessee Valley Authority budget for fiscal 1939 by 2.9 million dollars cutting Gilbertsville dam project funds and reducing several program allocations including chemical engineering soil and fertilizer research and farm equipment development while leaving a small study fund.
Local residents urged to send cards to Kate Smith in New York City voting for Julian McNeese to win a $1,000 hero award for saving companions from drowning in Wheeler Lake. The program aired last night and requests voters to state their vote for McNeese to claim the cash prize.
Seven Southeastern governors met in Washington to press the Interstate Commerce Commission to lower commodity freight rates from the South to the North. The push aims to place the region on parity with other sections, and a March 28 hearing date was set before Commissioner William E. Lee at the Thomas Jefferson Hotel in Birmingham.
The United States embassy in Moscow sent a formal note to the Soviet foreign office seeking information on Ruth Marie Rubens of New York and whether she is under arrest in Russia and, if so, the charges. The note, per Washington instructions, requests details about Rubens disappearance from a Moscow hotel on December 9.
Morgan County Singing Convention begins Saturday at 10 o clock at the county high school and in Hartselle. Helpers are asked to bring well filled baskets to feed visiting singers.
In Richmond Virginia a night watchman Charles Davis 63 was found dead near his broken lantern after fire destroyed the Richmond Structural Steel Co fertilizer plant. Thieves sought two safes containing about 300 dollars and trundled gas tanks toward the office before the blaze.
New York dated story reports Darryl Zanuck says the cow in In Old Chicago took three days to get the hang of it while handling five to six thousand extras posed for the world premiere. He calls the production colossal and notes extra management was a major challenge.
A missing 33 000 pound VP 7 seaplane prompted a massive search by battleships cruisers destroyers and coast guard cutters between Santa Barbara and San Diego. The aircraft carried emergency rations a water still and a crew including pilot Lieut Truman E Carpenter co pilot Aviation Cadet Philip O Browning and radioman Joe Adair.
The Supreme Court today permitted Greenwood County South Carolina to start construction at the Buzzard Roost power plant. Chief Justice Hughes ordered immediate notice to the South Carolina federal district court of the decision. The ruling followed last Monday's finding that Duke Power had no right to challenge loans and grants for the dam. Normally 25 days elapse before the mandate issues to the lower court to allow a possible rehearing.
William Green of the American Federation of Labor urged maximum hour limits in industry to fight unemployment. He testified to a Senate unemployment committee and outlined a seven point recovery program including shorter hours and maintained wage standards, public works, and social security expansion. William S Knudsen of General Motors was cited as signaling hoped for upturn as the hearing touched on business sentiment and policy.
Federal authorities close the case of Black Jack Morgan after a grand jury fails to indict Robert Horne 27 and George Spernak 19. Horne and Spernak admit jettisoning Morgan from the yacht Aaffe after five days of terror. Mrs Lillian Morgan released as material witness along with others aboard.
G. P. Frost of Hartselle, an automobile dealer for twelve years, today declared his candidacy for Morgan County county commissioner from the second district. He was born and raised in the county and will make further announcements later.
President Roosevelt designates Joseph P. Kennedy as ambassador to Great Britain to succeed the late Robert W. Bingham. Joseph E. Davies becomes ambassador to Belgium succeeding Hugh Gibson, with Wilson to Germany succeeding William E. B. Dodd. Norman H. Armour also nominated. Davies' transfer had long circulated.
President Roosevelt questioned government subsidies for newspapers and magazines noting the post office spends 38 million dollars to transport papers while only nine million is collected in revenue. He said reform should come from the press, not the government, as delivery service improves nationwide.
The Tennessee river gauge stood at 16.6 feet at 7 o clock. The 24 hour high reached 53 degrees with a low of 31 and rainfall of 0.60 inches. Alabama forecast fair and colder with frost in the south and near freezing temperatures tonight, below freezing in the north. Return to fair, continued cool conditions with light to gentle west to north winds along the coast.
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