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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1932
Page
1
Eleven year old Robert Glenn Hargrove is hospitalized with a high fever after a rat bite at his Decatur home. The bite on the right hand led to serious illness though rabies tests were negative. three large rats were killed and examined without rabies germs found.
Claire Windsor admits her failed liaison with Read, Oakland broker, saying I now know I am a goat. Mrs Marian Read sued Read for alienation of affections and Read seeks a divorce. Windsor disclosed she gave Read ten thousand dollars to invest, now gone.
James Rankin, a popular young business man, is improving at the home of Mr and Mrs M R Rankin on Gordon Drive after an operation for the removal of his tonsils last Saturday. He is up but not yet able to return to his duties.
Johnee Casey, a prominent Cullman County planter, hosted a large birthday party on July 11 with about 300 attendees. Decatur guests included Mr. and Mrs. A. Mann and family, Mrs. John Cook and son John Robert, Jim Brown, Mr. and Mrs. K. B. Holland, H. T. Cook and family, and J. W. Waller, manager of Southern Bell Telephone Co., among others.
Morgan County Baptist Association holds a two day meeting July 13 and 14 at Brown's Chapel. The program includes devotions, sermons, and workshops on cooperation among churches with speakers H B Woodward H E Ingraham C L Dobbs Dr James Allen Smith and others. Messengers urged to bring basket lunches.
Stockholders of the Decatur Savings & Loan Company receive the regular quarterly dividend payable in July. The stock carries an annual seven percent dividend, paid out in four quarterly installments.
E L Hayes longtime Morgan county superintendent of education is honored by the county board. The resolution cites his twelve years of service under which Danville high school with 400 students, Falkville vocational high school with 500 students, and Eva school serving 600 students were established.
GC E Lowery the noted local singer and associates perform tonight at 7 30 at Nine teenth Avenue East Church of Christ and will conduct and instruct the congregation in singing.
Albany July 12 After the slaying of Edward Fats McCarthy a New York desperado detectives arrested gunman Michael Basile in connection with the Harlem baby massacre last July Basile surrendered after a shootout that wounded McCarthy's wife Jean George Kelly and Detective Harold Moore Police Commissioner Mulrooney said Basile would be rushed to Manhattan for trial
J. W. Clapton of the Decatur Ice Cream and Creamery Co. is in Columbia Tennessee today on business.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Cook of Bentonville Arkansas and their son Floyd Cook of Kansas City are visiting relatives here for a short time.
Roland H. Gray secretary of the Chamber of Commerce is in Birmingham today and will return late this afternoon according to local notes.
Lawrence County Board of Revenue cut farm demonstration funding from 1200 to 600 dollars and health department funding from 2000 to 1000 dollars for the coming year. No new road contracts issued while road maintenance continues. officials cite treasury shortages, not inefficiency, as the cause.
The annual Hatton picnic in Lawrence county is planned for Friday July 15. The program features Dr. J. B. Hobdy Supt Bryan State Senator Travis Williams Judge J Pred Johnson and others volunteering to organize the event. They invite attendees to hear about school conditions in Alabama and other matters of importance.
Frances Gault was removed from her home on 19th Avenue to a Benevolent hospital after cutting herself with a safety razor Sunday afternoon. Her wounds on the neck and wrist were not serious and she was able to return home today.
Archie Aston a well known Town Creek resident in Lawrence county died after a brief illness. He had just returned from the mid west and his death caused regret in Lawrence where he was highly regarded.
The Morgan County Board of Revenue met in regular session at the courthouse and voted a 20 percent cut in service fees for inspecting roads and bridges and attending court. The same percentage reduction was approved for county highway worker salaries as a cost saving measure amid lower property valuations and likely reduced gasoline tax revenue. Additional routine business included passing county bills and discussing local issues.
In Columbus Ohio five months into the coal strike gun battles and dynamiting erupted. One man died in a Chauncey gunfight. A New York Central bridge was dynamited near Chauncey and an Albany shot was fired in an apparent miners’ intimidation attempt. Unknown numbers fired on the national guard encampment as officers tried to break up a Provident mine picket crowd in Belmont county.
Cotton on the Decatur market barely stayed above five cents as New York closes strong amid a continuing downturn after a crop report showing a 9.5 percent reduction in U.S. acreage. The Tennessee Valley sees only a 1 percent drop. no cotton sales are reported in Decatur at this time.
The board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce will hold its regular meeting next Monday afternoon July 18. The session will cover standard chamber business and community updates.
Decatur civic groups the Ween Club the Pilot Club and the Ivens Club will meet at the Jaycee hall on Second Avenue in the new quarters after the Junior Chamber of Commerce space is vacated. Kiwanis meets next Thursday at noon in the same quarters with Rotary and Pilot Club attending. President A. W. Hill calls for full attendance.
The boll weevil has appeared across Morgan County cotton fields with up to ninety percent infestation in some plots. Farmers cite low cotton prices as reason not to buy poisons, hindering an organized response to the pest. Observers note similar issues in Lawrence County, while Limestone and Cullman counties have no stated conditions.
Bob Almon, Lawrence county deputy solicitor, is ill at his Moulton home after a two week Be nevolent hospital stay. Wade Wright, circuit solicitor, is ill in Decatur, and Earnie Bland faces possible anti rabies treatment after a police dog outbreak in Cullman County.
Members of Morgan County Post No 15 of the American Legion will discuss the state convention at the next post meeting. The post meets Thursday at 7:30 PM at the Tennessee Valley Bank building. The state convention is planned for Gadsden in late July. Morgan post expects strong representation.
The Morgan County Court will open next Monday morning with Judge W. T. Lowe presiding.
Edward Justice aged 12 was wounded in a bedroom at 9th Avenue West when his friend Jimmy Irwin 12 pulled a pistol from its holster. The bullet entered below the left rib and exited the back, and Edward was rushed to Benevolent hospital.
The Sage Carter case may never be solved. A false confession from Columbus Georgia misled investigators and a hobo rumor spread it. Jack Carter died months after a battlefield injury and poison complications despite initial recovery and a home visit.
Chicago July 12 George Bugs Moran arch foe of Al Capone is held in jail for police viewing by witnesses in the machine gun slaying of George Red Barker a labor racketeer tied to the Capone syndicate Moran was seized while driving his sedan into a loop hotel garage despite his claim of being a country gentleman Officers said they want to learn if reports of a Moran comeback are true He quit Chicago after the St Valentine’s Day massacres in 1929.
Tony Sudekum, president of Crescent Amusement Company of Nashville, attended a Monday night performance at the Princess theatre in Decatur. Crescent runs numerous theatres in Alabama and Tennessee.
David White son of Mr and Mrs Gilbert heads to Huntsville for a mission assignment. The article notes his family sponsorship and civic involvement as he prepares to depart from Mile.
Libby Holman and Albert Walker were freed after a coroner's jury found Smith Reynolds death caused by unknown parties. Holman, a Broadway star and Reynolds’ wife, testified he threatened suicide amid marital unhappiness and alleged impotence. Walker, Reynolds’ lifelong friend and secretary, described the party at the Reynolds home and the fatal shot.
Neon quotations list New York and New Orleans futures across January through December contracts. Prices include January 5.94 and 5.00, March 6.06 and 6.05, May 6.21 and 6.21, July 5.54 and 5.60, October 5.71 and 5.68, December 5.86 and 5.84.
Chicago market bulletin for September shows wheat down 48 percent, corn off 31 percent, and oats down 19 percent amid ongoing price shifts.
Neon Quotations note United States Steel and Bethlehem Steel gains. American Telephone and Telegraph and International Telephone show modest moves. General Electric and Westinghouse Electric edge higher. Rail and railroad shares rise with Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe and New York Central among movers. Radio Corporation appears in lighter activity.
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