Decatur imposes compulsory taxi insurance and licensing
The Decatur city council adopted a new taxi ordinance requiring a $300 license for the first car and $10 for each extra car, plus an insurance policy covering personal damages up to $10,000 and property damage up to $5,000. A permit from the city is required and enforcement timing remains unclear. Local operators face difficulty obtaining insurance, signaling a shift from independent drivers to fleet management.
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Decatur
Offici
Mos
Winter Grips Boston Again in Severe Cold
Boston and New England shivered as temperatures plunged to the coldest in over two years. Zero readings appeared in Boston after a seven inch snowfall disrupted traffic, with 25.2 below zero in Northfield Vermont and many towns reporting 28 to 30 below. The Berkshires and Montpelier saw especially frigid conditions.
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Boston
New England
G. Harold Noyes
Boston Weather Bureau
Mercury
U. S. Weather Bureau
Northfield
Montpelier
Newport
Rutland
Berkshires
Massachusetts
Pittsfield
Lenox
Stockbridge
Lee
Dalton
Baptist Mission Secretary to Visit Decatur
Dr. F. M. Barnes Baptist State Mission secretary will visit Decatur Friday afternoon. All Baptist ministers deacons Sunday school workers W M U workers B T U workers and soul winners are urged to meet him at 2 30 at First Baptist Church Corner Oak and Lafayette streets. The meeting aims to reach Morgan county and much of the Tennessee Valley. Reverend J F Ray invites all who can attend.
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F. M. Barnes
Baptist State Mission
Decatur
Barnes
First Baptist Church
Morgan County
Tennessee Valley
Oak and
Lafayette Streets
J. F. Ray
Army recruits bank 334 at Dothan in 1937
Sergeant H Gustafson reported 334 men accepted for the United States Army in 1937 at Dothan Alabama. Seventy eight joined infantry bound for Fort Benning Georgia and 44 chose coast artillery at Panama. Other recruits picked medical detachment field artillery signal corps cavalry and chemical warfare.
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Dothan
Ala
H. Gustafson
United States Army
Infantry
Fort Benning
Coast Artillery
Panama
Field Artillery
Signal Corps
Cavalry
Seven Die As Boarding School Fire Rips St Hyacinthe
A boarding school for boys at St Hyacinthe Quebec burned with seven confirmed dead and about 25 to 30 missing. Police reported six bodies recovered and others dying in hospital as 160 students attended the school. volunteers aided fire crews in the sub zero aftermath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
St. Hyacinthe
Que
A. Bourgeois
Brothers of the Sacred Heart
TVA would buy only assets from Commonwealth and Southern
David Lilienthal, TVA director, said TVA will not buy utilities or pay for water assets. He proposed using a conference method to negotiate sale of Commonwealth and Southern lines to TVA or to valley municipalities. Lilienthal warned against duplication and urged calm, rational talks and no radical schemes.
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Washington
David FE
Lilienthal
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
Tennessee Valley
Wendell L. Willkie
Commonwealth and Southern
Commonwealth
Willkie
Tennessee River
Southern Commonwealth
Governs
Tennessee
Willoughby Seeks Morgan County Sheriff Post
W. T. Bill Willoughby, eight years in Morgan County Sheriff’s Office as deputy, qualified to run for sheriff. He left the force in January 1934 to sell automobiles with two Decatur firms. A past president of the Morgan County Singing Convention, he is active in Baptist church work and plans to meet many county residents during the campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. T
Bill” Willoughy
Morgan County
Willoughy
Decatur
Deecatur
Cullman County
Baptist Church
Willoughby
Defendant Fined for Scrap Iron Purchase from Minor
One defendant was fined $8.60 in police court this morning for buying scrap iron from a minor. Another defendant faced charges of drunkenness in the same session.
Wife Swap Edict Looms In Salem Divorce Case
Salem Mass January 18 Judge Edward B OBrien prepared to hear one or two more witnesses before closing the record in the divorce pleas of Mrs Raymond B Lee and Calvin M Watson Both charged with infidelity They testified to switching partners over nine months Lyman Smith the stepfather of Mrs Lee died during testimony prompting delay and the judge warned the case could go to the district attorney for possible grand jury action
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Salem
Mass
Essex County
Edward B. O’brien
Raymond
Lee
Calvin M. Watson
Topsfield
Tax funds shared by Morgan County schools and city
Tax records show a total distribution of 5,920.44 with 1,289.82 allocated to schools plus 387 from poll taxes. Tax Collector Summer stated no outstanding obligations as of January 15, 1938.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan County
Summer
Fewer Jobs in Alabama Report Cites Unemployment
A national survey shows higher unemployment in Alabama than in other Southern states. Morgan County lists 46,176 population with 3,114 unemployed and 673 emergency workers. Decatur, Limestone, and Lawrence counties also reported figures for population, unemployed, emergency, and partly employed.
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Alabama
Roosevelt
Morgan County
Decatur
Limestone County
Lawrence County
Alabama tops South in unemployment rate of 5.2 percent
Washington reports Alabama has the highest unemployment share in the South at 5.2 percent from November census figures. nationwide 5.821 million people registered, Alabama also shows 3.5 percent partly employed, the highest in the region.
Dixie Howell and wife injured in California crash
Millard Dixie Howell former Alabama star from the 1935 Rose Bowl and his wife Peggy were recovering in Santa Barbara California after a car crash twenty miles north of the city. They sustained minor injuries in the early morning incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Barbara
Calif
Millard
Dixie” Howell
Alabama
Peggy
Here
Funeral services for Edward J. Neil Jr in New York
Funeral services are set for 11 a.m. tomorrow at Guardian Angels Church in Manhattan for Edward J. Neil Jr AP war correspondent who died from shell wounds in Spain. Burial is planned Friday in Methuen Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Edward J. Neil, Jr
Associated Press
Spain
Guardian Angels
Tenth Avenue
21St Street
Neil
Methuen
Mass
Senate filibuster on anti lynching ban described
Senator Eliender urged an anti lynching measure to ban marriages between whites and blacks in every state. He has kept the senate floor since Friday in a southern filibuster against the bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eliender
Ebiender
Senate
Thomas seeks House seat from Morgan County
Rutledge 8. Thomas, chairman of the Morgan county democratic committee, has qualified to run for the House of Representatives from Morgan county. He seeks Place No. 1. A Decatur resident for twelve years, he works in the abstract business and has been active in civic affairs. He serves on the Decatur Rotary Club board. A native Alabamian, he aims to reduce taxation and promote economical government.
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Rutledge
Thomas
Morgan County
Democratic Committee
House of Representatives
Decatur
Decatur Rotary Club
Recreation Council Hear Morgan County wide effort report
A Morgan County Recreation Council meeting at the courthouse chaired by Rutledge Thomas heard Lucille Giles report on April 1 1937 to January 1 1938 54900 participants at Delano Park and four centers. Daily average at Delano Park reached 250 with 313 children and 23 adults in clubs. The December 1937 report lists 5528 participants 375 spectators 54.10 sponsor contributions with 20 workers and leaders. Participation spanned arts and crafts athletics folk dances drama music and singing with hundreds of participants across programs. The council plans to sponsor equipment and encourage participation with elected representatives from local clubs appointed to the council.
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Morgan County Recreation Council
Rutledge Thomas
Lucille Giles
Morgan County
Delano Park
Sadie’s
Morgan County Recreation Project
N.Y. A
Ers
Rotary Club
Seybourn Lynne
Kiwanis Club
W. T. Jordan
Boy Scout Council
Clio-Levin
James Rankin
Chamber of Commerce
Carlton Kelley
Department of Public Welfare
Beulah Kilgore
Mattie Jones
Pilot Club
Virginia Bayliss
Prof. Women's Club
Father and son die in Massachusetts first father son execution
Boston January 18 1930 Frank and Anthony Di Stasio father and son were executed in the electric chair at state prison for the torch murder of Daniel Crowley. Anthony 24 walked to the chair after a late night clemency denial. The priest Rev Ralph W Farrell accompanied them as they prayed and spoke of Holy Mary before dying.
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Boston
Frank
Anthony di Stasio
State Prison
Daniel Crowley
Massachusetts
Anthony
F. Hurley
Ralph W. Farrell
Champlin
Goodby
Holy Mary
Wisconsin family shooting ends with six dead
In Durand Wisconsin a nine months feud between brothers over a barn fire erupted in a mass shooting. Lawrence Leslay 37 killed his wife and four children and niece and nephew and then died by suicide. Marvin Leslay 35 wounded. his wife fled.
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Durand
Wis
Victor Seline
Pepin County
Lawrence Leslay
Virgil
Beulah
Phyllis
Leslay
Marvin
Roger
Tancanee
Séline
Lawrence
Decatur Girls Found After Texas Search
Audria Marie Free and Christine Lawrence two Decatur girls who vanished Wednesday were found in San Marcos Texas and expected home by five to six this afternoon. A nationwide search involved police troopers and the FBI with paroled suspects under scrutiny. Reverend John G Cowell Jr mobilized prayers and coordinated families as Texas authorities located the girls within 24 hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Audria Marie Free
Christine Lawrence
Decatur
An Marcos
Texas
P. G. Pree
Forney Steenson
Homer Britton
San Marcos
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Associated Press
Tex
Ala
Will Burnett
M. M. Wren
Kentucky
Wren
Cowell
Free
Lawrence
Rev. Britton
Forney Breenson
Summer Will Seek Tax Job in Morgan County May Primary
H R Sandy Summer, newly named Morgan County tax collector, announced his bid for re election in the May primary. He outlined his plan to run on competence in tax administration and helping taxpayers, noting a varied career from farming and Army service to education and accounting system work with National Cash Register.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R
Sandy” Summer
Morgan County
Summer
Phillipine Islands
Alabama
Tennessee
Athens
Decatur
National Cash Register Company
Mrs Rubens Held in Moscow on Espionage Probe
Washington reports the Soviet foreign office says American citizen Ruth Marie Rubens is under arrest in Moscow and being questioned in an espionage probe. The case ties to the arrest of a man traveling under the alias Mr and Mrs Donald L Robinson and involves passport irregularities. Authorities seek to establish true identities and nationalities of the couple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Ruth Marie Rubens
Moscow
State Department
Soviet Union
Donald L. Robinson
Hull
Robinson
Mrs. Rubens
France Still Seeking Light Amid Five Day Impasse
France struggles to form a new cabinet after the collapse of Camille Chautemps' coalition. Georges Bonnet and Leon Blum admit failure to form a ministry, while Chautemps pursues a second cabinet amid party rifts. In China, Japanese forces face Chinese counterattacks near the Tientsin Pukow line and Hangchow, with heavy fighting around Hangchow and Manchang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
France
Spain
China
Camille Chautemps
People's Front
Georges Bonnet
Leon Blum
Chautemps
Paty
Tientsin-Pukow
Hangchow
Shanghai
Manchang
Hankow
Chinese counter thrusts halt Japanese on two fronts
Chinese forces staged counter thrusts that pushed Japanese units onto the defensive along the Tianjin Pukow railway north of Nanking and in the Hangchow region as of January 18. Strong troop actions were reported in both zones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Tientsin-Pukow
Nanking
Hangchow
Weather Report On Tennessee River Readings And Alabama Cloud Cover
Tennessee river at seven o'clock shows a 16 foot gauge with a 68 degree high and 42 degree low and no rainfall. Alabama mixed conditions with clouds light rain in the south Lantern area and cooler temperatures tonight in most portions.
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Tennessee
Alabama
South Lantern
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