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Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jan 10, 1938

Page

2

Justice Cardozo Improves After Shingles and Heart Attacks

The jurist’s personal physician announced that Justice Cardozo has had a severe shingles attack weakened by prolonged bed rest. He suffered heart attacks last week but shows slight improvement as daily consultations with two heart specialists occur. He may not return until after January 18 when Justice Sutherland retires.

Farnest Thomas 8. Lee Washington John H. Keating New York Keating Cardozo Rye N. Y Supreme Court Hoover George Sutherland Roosevelt

Japanese Drive Inland as Shanghai Seized and Tsingtao Falls

Japanese announced unresisted occupation of Tsingtao while preparing a mop up in the Sunghai area. Troop movements, air raids, and shelling disrupted Chinese forces as Hal Chow transports landed bluejackets for inland action and western powers urged concerted measures to safeguard interests.

Tsingtao Aes Shanghai International Settlement K. Kanazashi Y. Fuki London Great Britain France United States Sunghai Tientsin Nippon North China North China Front Nanchang Kwangsi Nank Ing Kwangsi Province Kangare Wanning Martin Nanning Shantung Portia Race Japan

Stock Market Rally Boosts Armaments Shares in Early Trading

Black market leaders especially in armaments surged in early trading as favorites added over four points to last week’s gains. Strength in aircrafts and steels led gains while rails and utilities lagged. bonds lagged. Freight and foreign markets showed mixed activity with notable buyers in major weapons and industrials.

Victor Fubank New York

Markets at a Glance from New York and Chicago

Markets at a Glance notes stocks firm. armaments and rail shares strong. Bonds higher. governments and low priced rails rally. Curb steady with specialties oils in demand. Foreign exchange steady. sterling rises. Cotton steady. trade and Wall Street buying. Sugar steady. trade support. Coffee higher on European buying. Chicago reports wheat firm with securities rally. corn lower on weak export demand. Cattle steady. hogs 220 lbs down ten cents.

New York Armamenta and Raila Wall Street Chicago

Hogs Steady as Markets Open in Early Trading

Hog prices show little change with sows and feeders unsettled. Reports indicate demand steady while discounts apply to certain lots amid mixed futures and warehouse quotes.

Cattle Prices Steady On Grass Beef Cattle Market

Cattle steady with ad listings showing No 2 common steers and heifers at 2 1 3 to Be, No 3 cows 2 1 2 to 3 1 2 cents, No 4 butcher cows 3 1 2 to 4 cents, No 5 bulls 1 2 to 5 1 2 cents.

Nashville Livestock Prices Fold Under Mixed Movements

Nashville Tenn January 10 cattle about 600 calves 100 steady for most classes plain and medium steers and heifers saleable 5.00 6.50 good shortfeds to 7.00 or more beef cows and bulls 6.00 down cutters 8.00 4.00 weanlings steady but top 50 lower at 11.50 hogs 400 steady to ten higher good and choice 160 200 pounds 8.15 8.25 200 250 7.75 7.85 130 160 7.60 7.70 pigs 7.15 sows 6.50 sheep 25 steady fat lambs to 8.00 fat mutton ewes to 3.00

Nashville Livestock Nashville Tenn U. S. Dept. Agr

Cotton futures close higher in New York trade

New York cotton futures ended January 10 with gains of 9 to 11 points across benchmarks. March and May contracts posted modest climbs while December finished near 8.76 cents per pound with a steady spot price at 8.69.

N. C New York N. O New Orleans

Cottonseed Oil Market in New Orleans Steady

The cottonseed oil market in New Orleans closes steady with bleachable prime summer yellow at 7.35 nominal. Prime crude 6.12 1-2. January futures listed at 17.08B and March to October contracts range from 7.12B to 7.20B. Bid prices noted as B-Bid.

New Orleans

Cottonseed Meal Prices Steady in Memphis Trade

Prime cottonseed meal futures closed steady in Memphis with readings for Jan 23.50 Feb 22.50 March 422.40 April 22.25 May 22.26 June 22.10 July 22.20 Aug 22.25. Trade noted for 4000 bales.

Memphis Tenn

Cotton Trend in New Orleans Prices Rise on Trade Buying

Cotton prices advanced about 25 cents a bale in New Orleans trading as buyers covered and traders showed demand. In afternoon activity March futures gained on the market as selling pressure eased.

New Orleans

Live poultry prices in Chicago market report

Chicago buyers receive a detailed live poultry price listing dated January 10 with quotes for hens and roosters by weight, including turkeys and ducks. Heaviest items show No 2 turkeys at about 18 to 21 pounds, various breeds each with multiple weight classes, and dressed market steadiness noted.

Chicago Leghorn Plymouth White Rock Tome

Dairy Prices Report From Chicago Butter Market

Chicago dairy notes dated January 10 show butter prices per hundredweight with varying grades and a total of 777,000 pounds traded. Listings include creamery specials in the 93 score range and multiple grade descriptors with prices ranging from 82 1/4 to 31 3/4 per unit. Fresh graded rags and standard receivers appear with steady quotes and related carload figures.

Chicago

Chicago Wheat Futures Steady After Narrow Gains

Chicago wheat prices edged higher but closed largely unchanged as late buying supported futures. May 97 3-4 to 7-8, July 91 3-8 1-2, corn down 3-8 3-4, May 62-62 1-8, July 62 1-4, oats down to 1-4.

Ohtocago Aeling Chicago

Josh Cody Secures Three Year Florida Coaching Contract

Gainesville January 10. Dean Slagle announces the reappointment of Josh Cody as athletic director and head coach at the University of Florida for three years, effective January 1, 1938.

Gainesville Fla Dean Slagle The Centenanat On Athletics Codeka Josh Fiat Aireotae University of Florida

Tourism decline leads to closure of Hamburg offices

Hamburg reports steadily falling tourist traffic to and from Soviet Russia prompts the closure of the Moscow offices of the Hamburg American and North German Lloyd lines. Intourist offices in Germany were expected to close soon as well.

Hamburg Germany Soviet Russia Moscow Lloyd Lines Intourist Russian Tourist Agency

Senate panel backs FTC probe into auto distribution

The senate interstate commerce committee recommended a federal trade commission investigation of manufacturers and dealers in the distribution and sale of automobiles.

Washington Senate Interestate Commerce Committee Federal Trade Commission

Automatic planes within reach, says air corps captain

Detroit January 10. Captain George W Holloman of the army air corps says a fully automatic airplane that flies from takeoff to destination without human touch is well within the realm of reason in a paper prepared for the Society of Automotive Engineers.

Detroit George W. Holloman Army Air Corps Society of Automotive Engineers

C I O Plans to Organize Workers During Recession

Clinton Golden of the C I O says the organization will push to organize workers in the current recession and concentrate on consolidation across the region. He serves as northeastern regional director.

Worcester. Mass Clinton Golden Pittsburgh Northeastern Committee For Industrial Organization

Navy searches end for missing patrol bomber at San Pedro

Searchers in San Pedro California report the four day hunt for a missing patrol bomber concluded with the navy in port. Officials gave no formal word on whether the search is officially called off.

San Pedro Calif

Three Bandits Rob Local Coal Payroll at Dogwood

State troopers and county officers reported no trace today of three bandits who held up the Little Gem Coal Company timekeeper at Dogwood Alabama and took an eight thousand dollar payroll Saturday.

Birmingham Ala Little Gem Coal Company Dogwood

Mulloy and Toley Upset Grant and Hines in Miami Doubles

Gardnar Mulloy and George Toley of Miami defeat Bitsy Grant and Wilmer Hines in a five set final at the Miami Biltmore tournament. The scoreline reads 8-6 6-3 3-6 5-7 9-7 after a match highlighted by brilliant volleys.

Grant Coral Gables Fla Gardnar Mulloy George Toley University of Miami Bitsy Grant Atlanta Wilmer Hines Hollywood Calif Miami Biltmore Bycoy

Hoffmann halves reward in Lindbergh case split

Trenton New Jersey Governor Harold G Hoff man divided a 25000 reward for the Lindbergh baby killer into more than one hundred shares granting 7500 to Walter Lyle a former New York gasoline station operator and distributing the rest among other contributors.

Trenton N. J Harold G. Hoffman New Jersey Walter Lyle New York

Parolees Still Out From Christmas Vacations

Montgomery Alabama January release shows 15 of 664 parolees failed to return from Christmas vacations while 49 of 564 released for immediate past season kept their word. Hamp Draper, head of the state department, says few defections threaten the program though several cases are noted including deaths and extended paroles.

Montgomery Ala Draper Yale Alabama Bibb Graver

Torch Death Declared Suicide of Augusta Hubbard

In Winston Salem North Carolina coroner W N Dalton ruled the death of Augusta V Hubbard 75 a suicide by self immolation. He said she bought gasoline Saturday night saturated her clothes in a public park and lit a match. Hubbard was a longtime private school teacher and later a contributor of short stories and articles to papers and magazines.

Winston-Salem N.C Augusta V. Hubbard W. N. Dalton

France buys American airplane engine rights

Paris reports the air ministry bought manufacturing rights to an American aircraft engine to secure better motors for fighting planes. The French government did not disclose the company name or the payment amount.

Paris Air Ministry Fehaeister Doister Edouard Daladier Sec

Dog Burned After Early Morning Fire At Norwell Home

In Norwell Massachusetts on January 10 a barking dog alerted George Smith and his wife both 70. They escaped as their house burned and the heroic dog perished in the blaze destroying the home.

Norwell Mass George Smith Smith

Roosevelt critic calls blend of policies morally vague

In Rochester on January 10, Dr. Raymond B. Moley, former brain-truster, says President tries to merge two irreconcilable economic policies. He brands "soapbox phillipes" of Assistant Attorney General Robert H. Jackson as completely vague and accuses big business of influence.

Rochester N. Y Phillipes Robert H. Jackson Raymond FE. Moley

Governor Under Fire as Southern Leaders Target Rivers

State Representative Robert Elliott of Columbus assailed Governor EB Rivers on the house floor accusing him of betraying the south. Elliott denounced southeast governors for endorsing wage hour legislation in Congress and charged a Massachusetts Republican and a southern Democrat with selling out the region for high pay. He criticized governors for meddling in federal matters and mocked southern lawmakers as fools and misinformed.

Atlanta Robert Hiliott Columbus EB. D. Rivers Pujott Southeast Congress Washington New England Filiott Connery Massachusetts

Rehearsal Set for His Funeral in Rockwood Church

Bush Breazeale of Rockwood Tennessee plans a June 25 funeral rehearsal at Cave Creek Church to ensure the service is conducted in the right manner. He wants a regular preacher and has prepared a walnut coffin himself, reflecting years of planning for an accurate life story.

Rockwood Tenn Bush Breazeale Cave Creek Church Breazeale Lfe

Brief illness fatal to Judge Richard Chambers

Lebanon Tennessee reports the passing of Judge Richard Chambers aged 78 after a brief illness. A veteran attorney and former Cumberland University law school dean, he joined Cumberland as a professor in 1920 and served as dean from 1924 until 1933, retiring in 1934.

Lebanon Tenn Richard Chambers Cumberland University Law School Chambers Cumberland

Barbecue King Clement Castleberry Dies at 61 in Augusta

Clement L. Castleberry known as the Barbecue King of the South has died at 61. A former city councilman county commissioner and school board member he once entertained as many as 15 000 people at public functions in Augusta and across the South. He led Castleberry Food Products Company.

Augusta Clement L. Castleberry South Castleberry Food Products Company

Alabama extension workers meet for mid-winter conference

Alabama agricultural extension workers gathered in Auburn to discuss a 1938 rural homes and farms program during the annual mid-winter conference held January 10.

Auburn Ala Alabama Agricultural Extension

Decatur Social News Highlights Local Visitors and Events

Decatur notes include Mr. and Mrs EB Leary of Tus cumbia visiting friends, J B Gillespie and Percy Bowman in town, and Edgar Haneell in Tuscaloosa on business. First Ward PTA meets tomorrow at 2 30 PM, Questers club gathers Tuesday at 7 30 PM, and several residents recover from illness or travel for church and civic duties. Daily life entries cover baptist talks, Sunday school attendance, and cafe renovations boosting service.

Problem of Day Brittle Nail Solved by Tips and Tricks

Gladys notes ancient and modern remedies for dry brittle nails. Suggests internal nourishment, fatty foods, olive oil at night, and multiple polishes to protect tips while preserving white rims. Recommends buffing nails first and applying color polish then clear top coat.

Gladys Glad America Rome

Beauty tips from a magazine

The column offers household beauty advice for common concerns. It covers reducing facial wrinkles with nightly lanolin or cream, hair bleaching with peroxide and ammonia, dental cleanliness for white teeth, shaping and setting eyebrows with cold cream and astringent, and using special hair bluing to add highlights.

Toni

Rotary Club Talk Highlights Epiphany Observance

The Rotary Club met at 12 15 with John Peach presiding and near full attendance. Visiting Rotarians included M W Stoce of St Joseph A L Hipp and Chas Crute of Huntsville Charlie Hardwick of Danville and a Harteelle Clubs member. Rev Cox introduced Rev Buckley of St Ann s Catholic Church who spoke on The Observance of Epiphany noting its historic age relative to Christmas.

Rotary John Peach Pres M. W. Stoce St. Joseph Mich A. L. Hipp Chas. Crute Huntsville Charlie Hardwick Danville Harteelle Bill Kimbrough Oliver C. Cox Cox Buckley St. Ann's Catholic Church

Divorce Plea Ends In Draw In Chicago

The divorce case of Mrs. Mary Catherine Cady and husband Glen ended in a draw as Circuit Judge John Prystalski dismissed both the separation maintenance suit and the divorce cross bill for lack of sufficient evidence. The judge ruled cruelty through acts like kicks and bites was unsubstantiated and noted courts do not regulate spousal duties.

Chicago Mary Catherine Cady Glen John Prystalski Cady

Cubs Trade For Harold Sueme And Move Julian Tubb

The Cubs disposed of a battery today. Harold Sueme who caught for Birmingham last year was sold to Los Angeles for an undisclosed sum and Julian Tubb a pitcher from Helena Arkansas was sent to Birmingham on option. Tubb won 21 games for Helena last year.

Chicago Cubs Harold Sueme Birmingham Los Angeles Julian Tubb Helena Ark Tubb

Supreme Court Fast-Tracks PWA Loans for Alabama Towns

The Supreme Court ordered immediate effect of its ruling on public works administration loans and grants. Four Alabama municipalities Decatur Hartselle Russellville and Guntersville may start building electric plants with PWA funding. Greenwood County South Carolina also gets quick approval for a plant at Buzzard Roost.

Washington Supreme Court Alabama Public Works Administration Hughes PWA Decatur Hartselle Russellville Guntersville Greenwood County South Carolina Buzzard Roost

Hill delays appointment to allow House debate on war referendum

Representative Hill of Alabama seeks to delay his Senate appointment to join House debate on the Ludlow war referendum amendment. Hill, nominated to fill Justice Hugo Black's unexpired term, asks Senator Graves to withhold resignation while a conference is arranged.

Washington Hill Ala Senate House Alabama Hugo L. Black Supreme Court Dixie Bibb Graves Bibb Graves

Presidents talks with utilities on expanded power plans

The president discussed possible utility expansion with executives from Central Services Chicago Texas Power and Light Dallas and Nevada California Electric Riverside. He urged applying prudent valuation for rate making and eliminating write ups while utilities sought changes to the holding company act and settlement of disputes with federal agencies.

Daniel O. Green Central Services Corporation of Chicago John Carpenter Texas Power and Light Company of Dallas A. B. West Nevada-California Electric Corporation Riverside Ohia Prudent Investment Utilities Act Tennessee Valley Authority Federal Power Commission

Radical referendum stance flags shift in representative democracy

A speaker denounces a proposed referendum as a radical attack on constitutional principles. He warns colleagues against abandoning the framers' work and suggests the people still trust their representatives and the president’s pursuit of peace.

House United States

Du Pont predicts 3 million jobs from 25 billion capital plan

Du Pont stated that with closer government business ties, industry could generate about 3,000,000 jobs via a 25,000,000,000 capital expansion program, noting that tax payroll in 1937 rose 25 percent relative to 1936.

du Pont

Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Field Agents School

Thirty two field agents of the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control board began a three day instruction school in Montgomery under R P McRee chief of the enforcement division. Administrator David E Dunn said the program covers enforcement procedure gathering usable evidence and an examination on beverage control law and the act by the attorney general. Dunn will discuss the board campaign against bootlegging noting many recent arrests in dry counties.

Montgomery Ala Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board R. P. McRee David E. Dunn Dunn

Quiet Weekend on Valley Roads Declared by Patrol

The state highway patrol reports a quiet week end with no wrecks and no arrests for drunken driving in the local area. The headquarters here issued the update today stating there were no incidents of note during the period.

State Highway Patrol

Infant of Mr and Mrs Plumer Brown dies in Hartselle

Infant of Mr and Mrs Plumer Brown of Hartselle died Sunday at the parents home. Funeral services were held at 10:30 this morning at Ebernezer with interment at Drinkard-Howell directing. The baby is survived by the parents.

Alabama Senator Resigns. Lister Hill Named Successor

Mrs. Dixie Bibb Graves resigns as Junior Senator from Alabama. Governor Herbert L. Hoover appointed Lister Hill as her successor. The transition occurs with Hill set to take the seat in the near term.

Washington Dixie Bibb Graves Alabama Lister Hill

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