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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1939
Page
3
Senate foes of the neutrality program aim to adjourn by July 15 to block action. Reported tactics include delaying future legislation and challenging tax revisions, while other measures push flood control funding and war materials procurement.
Bobby Bedford and Juanita Crutcher, a noted musical duo, will appear on the Princess Theatre stage for one week starting Sunday June 4. Bedford is a golden voice tenor praised by audiences for popular songs, while Crutcher, a renowned organist, has a wide reputation and recently completed a seven month engagement in Nashville.
The Mor gan County Baptist Association sets its monthly gathering for Thursday June and will suspend meetings until September. The program includes devotions by Rev. J A Gomes Betha Steadham sermons by Rev. Frank T. Smith and Rev. Smallwood with a noon lunch and a 1 15 p m business session.
In recess the Banking subcommittee heard Chairs Jesse Jones and Jerome Frank on small business loans and considered extending the administration’s monetary powers. Labor subcommittee continued health program hearings and heard a bill to outlaw labor spying. House debated undersecretary of commerce, WPA testimony resumed, foreign affairs discussed neutrality laws, labor Wagner Act amendments heard, and Ways and Means tax hearings resumed. Yesterday the House defeated Townsend old age pension 302 to 97. Senate raised federal bond issue to 45 billion and a war department civil functions bill passed.
A Norfolk shop proprietor reports a window smashed in a robbery and $5,000 in Confederate currency stolen. The incident centers on the costly glass and the missing money, while a dialogue about manipulation is noted as a teaser.
Chicago reports Mayor Tom Collis suspended three taverns for opening before 6 a.m. while delivering duties. Commissioner Tom Collis reversed as liquor and licenses head, reinstating the licenses. As mayor he warned tavern owners to close on time.
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