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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jul 03, 1939

Page

8

Red Biplane Returns to Airport After Dr Smith Extradition

Louisiana State University airplane with two officers aboard departed for Brookville Ontario to extradite Dr Smith who was captured with Mrs Smith after his disappearance. Governor Earl Long inaugurated a successor and the grand jury had indicted him for embezzling one hundred thousand dollars in university funds.

Louisiana State Univrsity Louisiana State University Brookville Ontario Murphy Roden Bryan Cilemmons District Attorney's Office Ltd Pp. Frain University Aeronautical Department Natchitoches Earl K. Long Richard W Leche Dr Smith Dr. Smith Parish Dewey Sanchez deBretton-and District Court Will

Smiths Await Bond Decision After Cross-Border Arrest

Dr Smith and his wife faced charges of harboring and assisting a husband as authorities prepared to jail him pending bond. Deputy Trimble traveled by train to Brockville while the couple stayed in a top floor hotel suite as Canadian officials guarded them, with Dr Smith claiming he was unaware authorities sought him.

Smiths

Limestone County sixth graders to receive diplomas

Graduating exercises for 330 Limestone County sixth graders will be held at Athens High School auditorium on Friday night July 7. Diplomas will be awarded to all who passed the county-wide exams and sixteen honor roll students with averages of 90 or better will be specially mentioned.

Athens Ala Limestone County Athens High School

Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic for Malaria

Advertises Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a malaria medicine containing quinidine and iron. Claims it dissolves malaria parasites in blood and relieves chills and fever, with wide appeal including children. Promotes availability at drugstores and value of large sizes.

Grove Idren

Refugee speaker recounts Nazi Germany at Fort Stephen Decatur

Hanns B Gutenstein tells Boys Club audience in detail how Hitler rose to power, created dictatorship, and imposed propaganda, conscription, shortages, and oppression. He contrasts life under Nazi rule with the freedoms of the United States, urging appreciation of liberty and a hopeful future.

Hannah, Gutenstein Germany Fort Stephen Decatur United States Hitler Munich Reich Matarice Concentra Russia

Padlock Hearings Set in Athens for Prohibition Violations

Circuit Judge A A Griffith will hear padlock proceedings in Athens on July 6 against alleged liquor nuisances. County Solicitor George C Johnson leads the case, naming prominent defendants. A later Municipal Court trial in Limestone County on July 17 seeks hard labor penalties for prior prohibition law convictions.

Athens Alu A. A. Griffith George C. Johnson Limestone County Johnson

Fox Attacks Farmer. Daughter Kills Animal in Burga w NC

John Sikes, a farmer, tried to rescue a prize hen from a fox raiding his coop. The fox bit him deeply before his daughter arrived and decapitated the animal with a large knife. They freed his leg after prying open the jaws.

Burgaw N.C John Sikes Sikes

Delegates assemble in New Orleans for maritime union convention

Delegates gathered in New Orleans for the National Maritime Union second bennial convention amid factional strife over alleged communistic influences.

New Orleans National Maritime Union CTO

Leap Fatal to 3 Girls in Youghiogheny River Tragedy

Three sisters Elenore Mirella eighteen Ann twenty and Louise twenty two of Collinsburg drowned when a skiff they borrowed capsized in the Youghiogheny near West Newton Pennsylvania. Firemen searched through the night with grappling hooks as flood currents carried the bodies downstream.

West Newton Youghiogheny Margaret Skrrance Pennsylvania Elenore Mirella Ann Louise Collinsburg Mirella Margaret

New paint uses motor oil and Alabama clays

In Tuskegee Alabama on July 3 A W Curtis Jr laboratory assistant to Tuskegee project announced a development of house paint made from used motor oil and Alabama clays.

Tuskegee Ala Alabama A. W. Curtis, Jr Tusk New Industries Phelan

Alabama Power Pushes State Industrial Growth

In letters from Alabama residents, supporters praise Alabama Power Company's role in economic development. They cite cheap power attracting new industries, job creation, and expanded markets for farmers, with optimism for Alabama becoming a major manufacturing center in the South.

Alabama Power Company South

Beloved Strickland Dies Surrounded by Family

BELOVED or CALLED HOME of J. A. Strickland East Morgan resident. Survived by two daughters Ruth Wade of Moulton Martha Evans of Hillsboro route one three sons J T Strickland Mobile Ww J M Strickland Hillsboro route one and J A Strickland Somerville route three two brothers one sister Mary Tingle Addison B L Hayes Cincinnati Pyphia Strickland Spruce Pine. Funeral Tuesday 10:30 at Friendship with Rev Berry. Interment Peck. Grandsons pallbearers granddaughters flowers.

J. A. Strickland Ville Strickland East Morgan Ruth Wade Moulton Martha Evans Hillsboro J. T. Strickland Mobile J. M. Strickland Somerville Mary Tingle Addison L. Hayes Cincinnati Pyphia Strickland Spruce Pine Friendship S. E. Berry Peck

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