Old age pension bill leads Senate debate in Alabama
Sen. James Simpson of Jefferson proposes a state old age pension plan with $30 monthly maximum and 65 plus eligibility. County boards would distribute funds with one third reimbursed by the state as the Senate approves Gov Graves liquor referendum and fire highway consolidation measures in a busy opening session.
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Montgomery
Ala
James Simpson
Jefferson County
Senate
Bibb Graves
Office of Fire Highway
Miller Bopaat
Eerie
Bonner
House
C. M. A. Rogers
Mobile
Beloved Decatur Woman Miss Lorena Banks Dies at 92
Miss Lorena Banks, 92, Decatur, died today at 12 25 PM at 703 Oak Street after a decade long bed illness from a broken hip. Funeral at 2 PM Wednesday at the home with Rev W F Price officiating. Interment City Cemetery. pallbearers named. Survived by sister Miss Mattie Banks, brothers A Z Banks and J P Banks. numerous nieces and nephews. Born in Decatur on Church Street, she was a longtime respected resident, daughter of L S Banks Confederate veteran.
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Lorena Banks
Decatur
Oak Street
Banks
W. F. Price
First Methodist Church
City Cemetery
Brown
Mattie Banks
A. Z.banks
J. P. Banks
Dallas
Texas
W. Foster
E. A. Tillery
Charles Upton
William Moseley, Jr
W. M. Bailey
L. S. Banks
Confederate Pit
Conference on the cause and cure of war opens
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt opens a four day conference in Washington on January 22 to promote peace as an influential agency addressing the cause and cure of war.
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Washington
Carrie Chapman Catt
Merrimack Mill Closes After Strike At Huntsville Plant
In Huntsville Alabama on January 21 1940 an overseer allegedly disparaged the United Textile Workers provoking a walkout by 500 Merrimack Manufacturing Co workers. The big plant shut with no settlement talks as deputies stood by and Huntsville Times reporters were told to leave.
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Huntsville
Ala
United Textile Workers of America
Merrimack Manufacturing Co
Huntsville Times
Noted Speakers to Address Meet Here
An all day mission institute for the Decatur district will convene Monday at Central Methodist church. Noted speakers include Dr M E Lazenby editor of the Alabama Christian Advocate Rev Allen Moore presid ing elder of the Bessemer district Rev J O Hane general evangelist and Dr E R Naylor president of Athens College. Athens College quartet will render a musical program. All ministers of the district are expected and laymen are invited to attend.
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Decature
Central Methodist Church
M. E. Lazenby
The
Alabama Christian Advocate
Allen Moore
Bessemer
J. O. Hane
E. R. Naylor
Athens College
Athens College Quartette
Woman in dark coat sought in Houston kidnapping case
Federal agents hunt a woman in a long dark coat believed linked to the Thomas H. Robinson Jr kidnapping case. Police stopped a car tied to a reported stolen vehicle as agents investigate a pair who rented the machine and fled after a woman left the garage wearing the coat.
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Houston
Texas
Thomas H. Robinson, Jr
Robinson
Alice Stoll
Louisville
Gus Jones
Department of Justice
Charles F. Urschel
Sec
L. C. Brown
Detective Department
Moline
Ill
Chinese Sector Brewing Trouble
Tokyo reports rising tensions as Sinkiang is cited as the potential frontline in a power struggle between Japan and Soviet Russia. Foreign Minister Hirota warns of Soviet economic and political penetration threatening eastern Asia peace and Japan’s regional aims.
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Glenn Babb
Associated Press
Tokyo
Sinkiang
China
Japan
Soviet
Russia
Asia
Koki Hirota
Diet
Kiangsi
Szechuan
Kweichow
Hirota
Communist Party
Plans Mapped for Flint Tuberculosis Sanatorium Campaign
A campaign to raise 6000 dollars to open a tuberculosis sanatorium near Flint was mapped last night. Chair W C Watson presided as the committee discussed circulating circulars across the county and preparing solicitors to canvass all sections. The campaign date will be announced today.
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Flint
W. C. Watson
Jailbreak by eight inmates in Moulton escapes using blanket ladder
In Moulton a jail break released eight black inmates after they broke a lock, kicked a wall, and used a blanket ladder. Notable escapes included Aaron Black and others from burglary and larceny charges. one man remained in custody for the Sid Collier death, with Decatur police and the sheriff seeking them.
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Lawrence County
A. D. Smith
Aaron Black
Town Creek
Fred Weston
Samuel Murray
Cleveland DeLoney
William Vinson
Dick Willis
Emmett Willis
Sheriff Smith
Moulton
George Wiley
Sid Collier
Red Bank
Willie Allbritton
Smith
Decatur
Prediction of quick passage for public works bill
Speaker Byrns and House leaders predicted swift approval of the 4.88 billion dollar public works bill after a White House conference. A Democratic caucus was set for 4 p.m. to consider the measure, with moves to limit amendments to those from the appropriations committee. Mrs. Will Wyker was transported to Mayo Brothers hospital in Rochester, Minnesota.
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Washington
House
Byrns
White House
Buchanan
House Appropriations Committee
Burns
Appropriations Committee
Will Wyker
Rochester
Minn
Mayo Brothers Hospital
Brown's Ambulance
Karpis Campbell Abduction Case Amid Abandoned Car Found
State police say the car taken by Alvin Karpis and Harry Campbell from Dr Horace Hunsicker near Quakertown Pa was found abandoned with its motor running near Monroe Michigan. The fugitives were last reported heading toward Detroit as investigators pursued their trail through Ohio and Michigan.
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Detroit
Alvin Karpis
Harry Campbell
Allentown
Monroe
Mich
Karpis
Campbell
Barker
Here
Horace Hunsicker
Kirpis
Quakertown
Wadsworth
Kidnapping Ties Karpis to Quakertown Hunt Near Doylestown
Philadelphia on January 22 reports Alvin Karpis and Harry Campbell linked to a fresh abduction in Ohio and a highway chase near Quaker Town. Investigators race to Haycock mountain region while federal and state police hunt with orders to shoot to kill.
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Philadelphia
Alvin Karpis
America
Harry Campbell
Karpis
Campbell
Haycock Mountain
Quakertown
Atlantic City
Wadsworth
Ohio
H. H. Hunsicker
Department of Justice
Doylestown
Body of Missing Victim Weiss Found Near Philadelphia
The body of William Weiss, kidnapped and killed by three men, was recovered from Neshaminy Creek near Philadelphia ending a three month search. Harbor police retrieved the wrapped and irons-weighted body under a bridge after guidance from a gang member Martin Farrell who testified yesterday. Authorities linked the case to the tri state gang led by Robert Mats and Walter Legenza, who were captured in New York last week.
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Philadelphia
William Weiss
Night Life
Neshaminy Creek
Robert Mais
Martin Farrell
New York
Robert Mats
Walter Legenza
Twelfth Victim Taken From Gilberton Mine
Grim-faced miners pulled a twelfth body from the Gilberton colliery after a blast at 1000 feet depth. Eleven others were recovered the day before as rescuers, hampered by fumes, worked in four-hour shifts. Injuries reached 71. 25 hospitalized. one man in critical condition. Investigations were started by company and by state and federal mine officials. Names of the dead and injured are listed.
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Gilberton, Pa
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Gilberton
Harry Lengel
Tremont
Stl
Gurney Dunseady
Valley View
The
Richard Evane
Joseph Stoppey
Harvey Morgan
Clark Wagner
John Murphy
Charles Andrew
Frackville
Harry Mauger
City
Charles Rozuskie
Joseph Mazalis
Anthony Weichester
Minersville
Anthony Pichalonis
Shenandoah
Price Puckett Improvement Reported At Hospital
Price Puckett of Hartselle is improved at Benevolent So city Hospital after treatment for an axe wound to the head inflicted Sunday afternoon during an alleged altercation. Police say Morgan struck him with an axe following a quarrel. doctors say recovery possible if meningitis does not develop.
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Price Puckett
Hartselle
Benevolent Socity Hospital
Puckett
Robert Morgan
Winter Grips North Alabama With Snow And Sleet
North Alabama is hit by a first 1935 cold wave bringing snow and sleet from Florence to Birmingham. Temperatures drop to the teens and low twenties with Florence recording 14 degrees and Birmingham 21. Fire damage in Florence totals 10 000 to 15 000 dollars as crews battled a blazed motor firm building.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Tennessee Valley
Florence
Decatur
Huntsville
Gadsden
Tuscaloosa
Frigid North Wind Causes Deaths and Weather Disruptions
The Associated Press reports a cold wave across the nation with about 560 deaths. Floods fog sleet and low temperatures disrupt travel and threaten lives from the Midwest to the Deep South, with Arkansas among reported flood areas.
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Associated Press
Dixie
Florida
Arkansas
Memphis Special Seven Hours Late From Memphis
Memphis Special pulled into Tur Sia at 9 40 this morning seven hours and 20 minutes late due to washouts of tracks east of Memphis. Tracks east of the city were out except the Frisco as trains from Memphis to New York were rerouted via Holly Springs Mississippi and Illinois Central to Grand Junction then over the Southern to Decatur. Southern officials said efforts would restore prompt schedules once tracks are repaired.
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Memphis
Tur Sia
Tennessee City
Frisco
New York
Holly Springs
Miss
Tlinois Central
Grand Junction
Tenn
Southern
Decatur
Major victory by state on ladder decision neighbor says
Two more Sourland residents identify Bruno Richard Hauptmann near Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh’s home before the kidnapping and murder of his infant son. The report notes a legal victory for the state and includes neighbor statements cited by correspondent William A. Kinney.
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William A. Kinney
Oprvebh
Associated Press
Flemington
N. J
Jan
Sourland
Charles A.bergh
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Hauptmann Identified Again In Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was named again as a man seen near the Lindbergh estate before the infant’s kidnapping and murder. Millard Whited testified he spotted a man resembling Hauptmann in February and late March 1932, near the Sourland area surrounding the Lindbergh home.
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Bruno
Flemington
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Lindbergh
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
Millard Whited
Sourland
Lindbergh Estate
Hauptmann
Whited
Evilghod
Haup
St. Raymond's Cemetery
Bronx
Edward J. Reilly
John F. Jassie Camden
Department of Justice
Thomas H. Sis
Washington
Zion
Weather report from Tennessee River with cold spell and rainfall
The Tennessee River ran high at 6.2 feet as a cold snap occurred with a 18 degree minimum and a 10 degree high. Rainfall measured four-fifths of an inch. Alabama snow was probable in north and central areas.
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Tennessee
Alabama
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Merrimack
London
Michigan
Iles A. Lindbergh
Dwight Morrow
Constance Morrow
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