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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1940
Page
2
Oklahoma City businessmen form the Softies program to train for potential arms readiness. Major Henry A. Bootz and 34 reserve officers coach two hour drills weekly for 29 weeks, aiding fitness and patriotism as they prepare to support national defense.
Senators push Burke Wadsworth reform with compromises urged by Byrnes and May Dop, weighing universal registration 18 to 64 and selective training. Norris opposes broad draft, Wheeler challenges Willkie to react as Colorado Springs coverage notes Willkie declines comment.
President Roosevelt returned to the White House after seven hours of inspections around Norfolk and the Chesapeake Bay water route to Washington. He said Washington could feel safer a year from now and suggested more navy yards forts and air bases may be inspected. He also signaled a possible push for a third term using nonpolitical touring to reach voters.
London dispatch reports former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain showing marked improvement today after a period of illness. The brief note says he is making fat progress and progressing with recovery under supervision.
WALL STREET traders saw one of the best rallies in a month led by Industrials including steels, motors, aircrafts and coppers with gains of 1 to 5 points at times. Utilities rails and oils were mixed but climbed late as two buying flurries and a strong session kept indices well ahead.
In a thin market, stocks firm with industrials leading a rally. Bonds up and generally firm. Foreign exchange steady and quiet. Cotton steady with hedge selling and trade buying. Sugar quiet as hedging sales are absorbed. Metals steadier with scrap copper up one eighth cent. Wool tops higher from covering and commission house buying. Wheat and corn higher. Hogs lower. Cattle weak.
New Orleans July 30 cotton markets report an upward trend with buying momentum and strength in related sectors. Prices closed steady four to six points higher, with detailed ranges for Oct, Dec, Jan, Mar, May and July futures, showing bids and bid levels.
Prime cottonseed meal futures closed firm in Memphis with 41 percent protein. Listed prices for August through January ranged from 23.10 to 71.00, with 1,800 units sold.
Cottonseed oil closes steady in New Orleans with bleachable prime summer yellow at 5.95 per notional unit and prime crude at 4.75. Futures offered include Sept 5.48, Oct 5.53, Dec 5.55, Jan 5.58, and Mar 5.60 dollars per hundredweight.
Spot cotton in New Orleans closed quiet with no sales. Prices: low middling 9.30,ae 10.30, good middling 10.75. Receipts 1,336. stock 527,013.
Butter receipts total 1 033 017 with firm creamery scores ranging from 93 to 88 and prices around 27 1 2 to 24 3 4. Eggs receipts 15 215 show steady demand and unchanged prices.
Members clash as Rep Fish argues for rapid completion of additional power facilities while Rep McLean calls it a TVA defense ruse. Cox defends the proposal amid attacks by opponents who accuse Lilienthal and the project of economic or political aims.
J N Tanner Jr a Danville youth was kicked in the face by a mule about seven AM Monday. He was taken to the Decatur Clinic for examination and treatment, then released. Doctors reported no new word by yesterday and warned he could lose an eye from the injury.
Jeff Lewis of Tallahassee representing the University of Florida won regional trials in Birmingham for a $1000 aviation prize offered by an oil company.
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor booked passage on the 9,359 ton liner Excalibur sailing from Lisbon next Thursday and due in New York Friday August 9. Officials declined comment on reports the ship would be convoyed by warships. State Department would decide.
Lumer Welles acting secretary of state said that if the Duke and Duchess Windsor applied for a visa, it would be granted quickly. He noted steps were taken to arrange their sailing on the American export liner Excalibur and added no decision had yet been made on possible objections to their traveling aboard an American ship.
Selma city council unanimously authorizes borrowing 140000 to pay landowners for land acquired near Selma for the United States air corps pursuit school at a total cost of 2300000. The measure followed a special meeting at city hall called by Mayor L P Burns to secure funds from banks for immediate landowner payments.
Los Angeles July 30 Blond screen actress Florence Rice daughter of Grantland Rice was granted a divorce from film actor Robert Wilcox after she testified she lost 14 pounds because of his cruel treatment.
Indications emerged that the Morgan County Court will hold a further session on Wednesday. Judge Seybourn Lynne presides as officials say Monday and Tuesday sessions will not complete the work.
Scout leaders from across the state gather at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa from Friday to Sunday August 2 3 and 4 for the third annual training institute for Scout leaders.
Dr. Richard C. Foster president of the University of Alabama will represent that institution at the Saenae bicentennial week in Pennsylvania September 16 to 21.
Six persons were unaccounted for after a blast and fire at Hollingshead Company's block long plant in Camden. Sixteen employees were treated at a hospital as crews fought the flames and searched the ruins.
British reports say heavy fighting over heavily defended Dover as 80 bombers and fighters attack. Germany claims only three Nazi planes over Dover, while Britain tallies downed planes. After dark raids resume and property damage is admitted. Britain eyes expanded blockade and stricter contraband control for Europe and North Africa ports. In Europe Romania is given seven weeks to settle territorial demands with a Sept. 15 deadline. In Asia Japan targets British business leaders tied to espionage, netting two more suspects. US Ambassador Grew meets Graigie as 13 suspects are rounded up, one dead.
Britain tightens sea power around Spain and Portugal to curb Axis supply routes. Hugh Dalton unveils a policy restricting imports and requiring full navicert clearance for Atlantic shipments, aiming to trap ships with partial certification and limit domestic supplies for two months.
Probate Judge T C Almon led a 1937 push for a constitutional amendment limited to Morgan County to raise one mill for purchasing adjoining courthouse property and building a new jail. A 1939 local bill set up the process. bonds totaling 115000 were sold at 2.5 percent, the lowest rate for county bonds. The new jail now stands as a symbol of progress.
The day saw extreme heat with 99.4 in Detroit the highest in 67 years of the weather bureau. Fort Smith 10? and Little Rock 7? readings were noted. Baltimore endured 90s for 11 days, Harrisburg hit 98 the peak in a decade, and Georgia Florida and Tennessee towns posted 90s.
Citizens meet at Raybourn Neville's store at eight o'clock to plan the Seventh Annual Trinity Colt show set for August 22 this year. Details will be announced later.
Decatur reports from Fort Walton plans and local church revivals. Dr M B E Lazenby returns from Chicago after joining Methodist board. Typhoid clinics run by Roy Murphree. several midweek services listed at Southside and Ninth Street churches. Aubrey Bennett in infirmary. birth announced for Henry Frederick Lackerby. Various residents treated or recovering at Hamill's Clinic. multiple hospital and clinic updates across the city.
Funeral services for James R. Gray aged 84 will be held Wednesday at five oclock from 615 3rd Avenue West. The service will be conducted by Rev John C Cowell assisted by Rev Edwin Wyle and Rev L J Kaylor. Interment in City Cemetery with Brown directing. Pallbearers named Mason Pierce F L Lambert T O Prosser J A Thornhill Wallace Meadows Earl Foster. Flowers by Missionary Society of Westside Presbyterian Church.
A 23 year old convict, James Stilwell once a Memphis area cook, on a road gang at Fort Pillow Prison Farm, loosened a shackle and tried to flee but was shot and died within yards. A companion also broke loose and escaped as gunfire erupted. Stilwell faced a 10 year total sentence.
L. D. Barber of Montgomery will replace Gordon Watson as Sales Representative of the Gulf Refining Company in this division. Watson moves to Mobile. The change is effective August 1 and represents a general shifting of sales representatives across the state.
John H. Peach a Decatur member of the State Personnel Board will leave for Montgomery to attend a three day meeting. Several important matters are to come before the board.
George Cleere of Montgomery won the Alabama American Legion’s seat as state commander in a heated contest with John P. Newsome of Birmingham and Robert Gandy of North Birmingham. At the Birmingham convention July 30 the group debated immigration fears and fifth column threats, praised veteran rehabilitation, and discussed hospital and insurance issues while preparing for departmental leadership votes.
Mrs. E A McBride of Talladega was named departmental president of the American Legion Auxiliary at the 22nd annual convention. Nominations also included Mrs X D Smith of Birmingham for first vice president and Mrs E C Doody of Mobile as chaplain, with Mrs B F Austin of Montgomery for second vice president. Awards honored Mobile Junior activities, Maude Bolton membership, and multiple trophies including Heart, Marie Bankhead publicity, and various poppy and essay prizes awarded to members from Montgomery, Tuscaloosa, Guntersville, and other cities.
Washington July 30 The Senate confirmed Judge Robert Porter Patterson of New York as assistant secretary of war succeeding Louis Johnson in the post described as a little cabinet position.
Gov. Harold Stassen declined to extradite Pauly Walt a 67 year old Negro to Arkansas to finish a 19 year tire stealing sentence after reviewing his claim of flogging in an Arkansas prison camp.
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