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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1939
Page
2
At a mass wedding event in a large stadium 165 brides and guests fainted or felt dizzy amid heat, excitement, and soda consumption during a Y M C A Congress program. About 175 were hospitalized or treated on site as Mayor Houde coordinated first aid.
J Edgar Hoover reports a sharp rise in espionage cases for the FBI in the year ending June 30 with 1651 cases, up from 250 the prior year and 35 on average in the five years before. He cites strengthened counter espionage on the west coast and notes only two of 156 kidnapping cases solved, including Mattson and Levine cases.
Senator Townsend warns of a fight and calls for amendments to curb new borrowing powers. Republicans aim to limit the RFC authority and confine financing to revoking existing lending, while the committee speeds the bill to the Senate.
Alabama attorney James J. Mayfield announced a Supreme Court challenge to the state anti-picketing statute. The Alabama Supreme Court recently upheld the law after Byron Thornhill was fined $50 for strike activity at a creosoting plant.
New York July 24 Stocks in the industrial group slipped fractions to over one point as profit taking offset modest buying in utilities and specialties. Early trading moved quickly then slowed after midday with steels motors and rubbers remaining weak while other sectors recovered slightly.
New York reports mixed stocks with profit taking hitting industrials while bonds are uneven. Guilder rises again in steady FX. cotton firm with foreign buying. sugar higher with Cuban support. coffee lower amid scattered selling. Chicago wheat sharply lower, corn down, cattle steady to strong, hogs steady to down 10.
In New Orleans on July 24 cotton futures closed with modest gains as buyers were buoyed by federal export subsidy plans and positive textile news. Front-month contracts showed steady to slightly higher quotes with Dec and Jan showing small gains amid mixed intraday moves.
Prime cotton seed meal futures (41 percent) closed steady in Memphis with contracts for July 20.25, August 19.75, September 19.40, October 49.40, November 19.40, December 19.40, January 19.50, March 19.50. Sales counted at 5,000.
Spot cotton closed dull but five points higher in Orleans trading. No sales reported. Low middling 8.05 cents, middling 9.20, good middling 9.75. Receipts 3.85 percent, stocks 414,345.
In New Orleans on July 22 the market held steady with bleachable prime summer yellow at 5.70 and prime crude trading around 4.50. Futures showed modest activity with nearby contracts near 5.15 to 5.50 and several months listed at 5.28 to 5.50.
The July Chicago poultry market lists live stock including hens and broilers with weights and trends noted. Hens steady to weak, some underperforming, broilers averaged around 2 1 2 pounds with varying overs and unders in trade.
Chicago market notes show butter steady at 1 253 457 pounds with prices around 93 score for creamery grade and mixed cent values. Eggs steady at 9 712 cases with local extra firsts prices near 15 1 2 for cars and current receipts 14. Stored packed firsts listed at 16 1 4 with extras at 16 3 4.
Wheat slid to 60 3/8 cents in September futures, the lowest since last fall, with December at 62 1/4 to 1/8, while corn declined over a cent to six year lows. Oats fell 3/4 to 7-8.
Farley denies third term opposition reports as he sails to Europe while discussions of a 1940 deal with President Roosevelt unfold. He meets the president at the Hudson estate where Roosevelt plans to sign over 12 acres for a government library to preserve papers for scholars.
A bale of Seadeland cotton believed to be the first staple ginned in the South this season is shown in Ocala Florida grown by Ray Priest two miles west of the city. It weighed 325 pounds and was ginned Saturday night.
Central Methodist Church hosted Rev. Archibald who spoke on Christian imperatives from Romans eight stressing duties beyond salvation and duty to God. Rev. H. S. Gillette followed urging believers to live boldly for Christ and critiquing wasted spend on whiskey ads versus kingdom needs.
In New York City a Dickinson denomination minister denounces the governor for attacking young women and their families, calling the governor's charges an unfair indirect attack on churches homes and communities where they were reared. Reverend Everett Wagner of Union Methodist Church criticizes the governor in a Sunday sermon.
A crowd of about 1000 gathered at a highway bridge to watch Jewell and J E Shirley of the Boys Club dive into the Tennessee river. Additional youths tried diving from the bridge while proceeds from an offering funded club equipment.
An all day singing is scheduled at Valhermosa Springs on Sunday July 30 with leading quartets trios and soloists on the program Invitations have been extended to singers Dinner will be served at noon on the grounds
Chicago July reports show the boomed hog industry with rising pig births, high corn feeds, and prices near pre drought levels. Average hog price last week around 5.60 per hundredweight, down from 8.70 a year ago, while total hog production nears record spring farrowing and a 16 percent rise in fall output.
Survivors tell of the schooner Pandora wreck after heavy seas drove it ashore near Cape St Elias. Dr Homer Flint Kellems and four others sailed toward New York when radio failed. radio operator Leo Clark swam ashore for help and Vivienne Kellems, 21, went to safety. The vessel was a total loss.
The Birmingham Barons purchased 30 year old right handed pitcher Charles Dutchy Leiber from the Los Angeles club of the Pacific Coast League for immediate delivery. Leiber went 10 and 6 with the Angels in 1938 and has a 4 and 2 record this year. He has spent eight years in the Coast League, the last three with Los Angeles. His addition will force the release of a veteran hurler on the Barons roster.
Syracuse paper suspension ends a Hearst contraction. Evening Journal and Sunday American halt publication while Syracuse Herald gains sale of Journal name and features. Post Standard remains the city’s sole daily paper.
County health officer Dr. L R Murphree announced immunization hours at the health office for typhoid diphtheria and smallpox. Shots are given all day each Thursday and until noon Saturday with additional county clinics several times weekly. He reported a fourth typhoid case, a Cedar Lake black patient, with two other cases in Decatur and one near Eva. all three other patients have recovered.
Decatur daily notes report Mrs Riley McDonald visiting Columbia Tennessee en route to New York World's Fair. R M Grantland of Trinity called. Six defendants faced police court with four fined for overparking one for drunkenness and one for fighting. Numerous local residents and visitors listed with hospital, ambulance, and school notices.
A death was found near a grave as the Debrukker family farm near here mourns. The report notes Boyce, a married father of three, and mentions births including Sylvia Gail, a seven-pound daughter born July 24 to Mr and Mrs Clinton Herbert of Austinville.
Sheriff deputies and Hartsville police sought an axe attacker after a Black man, Charlie Sims, was critically injured. The search for the assailant continued as authorities labeled the case a serious crime and investigated leads.
A Black man was critically wounded early Sunday at his Dee Negro settlement home near Hart after an axe strike during a dispute over a card game. Investigators say the assailant, also Black, fled the scene. the victim named Sims was not expected to live this afternoon.
The Agriculture Department announced a program allowing Southern farmers to receive 1939 soil conservation payments as winter legume seeds. Austrian winter pea and hairy vetch will be supplied, with seed limits at 90 percent of each farm’s soil-building payment. areas include 42 Eastern North Carolina counties and other Southern states.
The text nominates Dr. L. K. Williams, pastor of the world’s largest Protestant church and leader of 3,000,000 Black Baptists, for the presidency of the Baptist World Alliance as a response to earlier charges.
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