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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1940
Page
7
Scout activities of Troop 20 at First Baptist church covered a January 2 meeting led by Reverend W E Waterhouse. They organized groups for the February 6 rally and awarded office badges to Charles Scales and the troop scribe.
In Albany Georgia Ralph McGill urged adding an open stake to the 1941 Southern Amateur Field Trial Association trials. Leaders pledged over 1 for the stake next year. Insufficient time prevents starting the new event in the 1940 trials beginning February 19. Bob Sealy of Cottonwood Alabama urged building more barns for horses at the annual trials.
Alabama’s veteran Crimson Tide basketball team heads to Georgia to face Georgia Tech in Atlanta and then Georgia in Athens. Prather returns at center after injury as Alabama holds seven conference wins and two losses. Georgia Tech has two wins in four starts and recently beat Vanderbilt and Mississippi by similar margins.
An unprecedented investigation of farm conditions in the old Democratic South is planned by the House Republican agricultural committee. Wilson Williams of Washington, representing the Republican National committee agricultural section, said the effort seeks to learn the specific troubles of Southern farmers and ways to help them.
The new 700000 bridge across the Alabama river at Selma will be open to traffic by mid April. State Bridge Engineer J P Trotter reported today.
National Safety Council reports 1939 fatal accidents killed 93 000 people and injured 8 800 000 while costing about 3 300 000 000. Traffic deaths led with 32 600, home accidents 32 000, and occupational 16 000. Utah cut fatalities 24 percent, Georgia 14 percent.
In Dripping Springs Morgan County reports show many visits between neighbors as B G Hall and Carl Hall visited W J Bates and Hubert Hall. Frigid weather cancels school for the week and health conditions in the community appear poor with Mammie Dunlap nursing a broken arm.
The Justice Department said it received over months many complaints about Rev Charles E. Coughlin the Detroit radio priest and that all are being investigated. A department statement noted each complaint was acknowledged with a form reply addressing alleged federal violations of this kind.
A ruling by Attorney General Thomas S. Lawson states that a naturalized citizen who wishes to vote in Alabama must pay poll taxes for every year he has lived in the state, whether as an alien or a citizen.
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