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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1935
Page
1
Addison Milligan admits the nerve failed in a July 8 discussion with Mrs. Lorena Daniel on Shoal Creek banks ending in a joint death pact. Mrs. Daniel died. Milligan faces slaying charges amid lurid testimony from bars.
July 31 Addis Ababa officials declare no international League of Nations mandate acceptable including economic control. Haile Selassie summons nation chiefs to a state tent as the council in Geneva contemplates arbitration with Italy.
Local group forwards resolutions asking support for old age pension measures to Governor Graves Representatives Almon Burl and Senator St. John. Signed by John H. Free H. T. Croley and J. M. Engle the resolutions request Alabama action to qualify federal pension payments for dependents over 66.
Decatur GA July 31. Children barred from all seven meeting places after infantile paralysis case found. City physician Homer Allen and state health officer Dr Rufus Evans ordered the quarantine and closure of the locations.
The proposed 5 million dollar cotton sale to Italy could decide AAA subsidy provisions as House and Senate conferees meet to reconcile amendments. Rep Coffee warns the export import bank may finance 100 000 bales if a customs-use provision returns, enabling the Italy deal under Bank of Italy guarantee. The move is pitched to counter Senate opposition to subsidy plans and restore export financing.
The WPA approves 19 non federal relief projects including hospital road surfacing in Decatur city limits. The plan calls for crushed stone surfacing costing 1409 dollars from federal funds and 234 dollars from contributions. City council to discuss details at the next meeting as the project covers from Moulton street to the Bee Line highway about 23 miles if completed.
Francis W. Washington a 21 year old Nashville Tennessee student died at Charity Hospital New Orleans at 8 55 am after being shot twice in the back on the river docks July 21 by a state dock board patrolman The youth had been listed between life and death for ten days and received two blood transfusions in an effort to save his life.
Funeral services were held in the afternoon for Ben F. Donaldson aged 47 who died Sunday night in Wheeler infirmary. The rites were conducted by Reverend Ly n and he resided on route one. He is survived by four daughters and one brother. Interment followed at Rogersville cemetery in High of Moulton.
Counsel for Associated Gas and Electric charged the Senate lobby committee aimed to create an impression. Moultrie Hitt summoned B Hopson on missing heads of the concern as Patton testified he had about 2600 for living expenses after buying four bonds this year. He urged the press to show the committee's questioning produced no clear exoneration and noted witnesses had not been allowed to fully answer.
Governor Bibb Graves named a six member advisory panel to refinance 3.9 million dollar Starnes free toll bridge bonds at a lower rate. The committee includes Senator Shelby Fletcher and Speaker Harry Walker with Representatives M Lee and Clint, aiming to amortize within 30 years using 300 thousand dollars annual gasoline receipts.
Berlin dispatch reports the propaganda office urging Jews not to come to Berlin. It notes an influx of strangers, chiefly Jews, is undesirable and states that arriving needy Jews and their families will receive health care but no public relief. 1933 figures list Jewish populations in major cities.
July 31 report notes serious threat to national unity in Germany due to widespread price rises. Nazi factions contend for control over policy on Catholic and veteran groups as public discontent grows. Farm product prices rise from 90.7 to 1103 in index figures, signaling inflationary pressure.
Iron Age reports steel operations up another 2 points to 46 percent of capacity, the highest since April, marking the fourth weekly advance since the Independence Day period. The review notes stronger scrap strength with price advances across most market centers.
In Mobile Alabama a circuit court jury convicted R P Vaughn of first degree murder for the January fatal holdup of Neil T Lanne. Vaughn received a death sentence by electric chair and his half-brother Frank was also convicted as an accomplice with deferred appeal. Rosa Gerhardt and Mrs Minnie Grace Lanne identified Vaughn at trial.
Senate banking committees report a revised gold clause bill allowing suits on government obligations for six months after enactment. Senator McAdoo of California proposed the amendment shaping the six month period.
M M Swift 66 of 804 Jackson died Tuesday afternoon in Goidel's drug store on Second Avenue from a stroke. Funeral services will be at 3 p m at Hartsville Methodist with Rev F L Haleyville officiating, burial in Hartsville cemetery under Priest funeral home. Survived by widow and aunt Mrs Emma Harlan Somerville. Pallbearers named from Decatur and Hartsville. Lived in Hartsville most his life until moving to Decatur a year ago.
A preliminary hearing for Ernest Holbert on murder charges in the death of fisherman Robert Beasley will be held in Justice J. W. Batley's court at 2 o'clock Friday. E. C. Nix will represent the defendant. About 20 witnesses have been summoned, roughly half for the defense.
Chicago July 1 A bridegroom of three weeks Dr Walter J Bauer was abducted in Ann Arbor Mich and brought to a lonely Chicago area where a knife operation killed him five hours later He told police a former jealous suitor was involved and the abductor forced him to drive into a remote area before the attack Police issued arrest warrants and alerted Michigan authorities for the suspect.
Elbert Hawkins, a Black man, was killed in a fight at Landersville involving several men. Two Black men are jailed in Moulton, with the shooter believed to be at Jorge as officers search for him.
A steel worker was killed at Wheeler Dam yesterday and his body was sent to Chicago for tal tal.cua gerany mes rendored.
The fragmentary OCR text describes a defendant in a death case speaking with Mrs Daniel. It notes a confrontation about taking a thing and escaping, with Milligan and others drinking heavily. The dialogue suggests an ongoing plan amid interrupted conversations.
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