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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1936
Page
7
Jeff Dodson applies for parole after 1935 Morgan County conviction for possessing and operating a still with an 18 months to two year Kilby prison sentence. Willie Powell, sentenced in Morgan County Circuit Court to one year and a day, also seeks parole.
Senate today debates revenue bill and opens hearings on Guffey coal measure with interstate commerce committee. House debates new Guffey coal act while Agriculture committee weighs a sugar bill. Sabath committee resumes bondholder probes as Senate yesterday agrees to non controversial tax sections and passes private bills while Bell panel continues Townsend old age pension inquiry.
Sheriff Sid Howell said Wyatt King of Hilton has been arrested and booked for the July slaying of Claude L. Beasley a Blakely and Columbia lum berman. Beasley was found shot near his car on the Blakely Hilton highway with a shotgun nearby. King had been under surveillance and recently traveled to New York and Miami. Money missing from Beasley’s person remains unrecovered. He has made no statement.
The budget tribunal finds J. H. Thomas former colonial secretary guilty of unauthorized disclosure before publication. It states two men benefited privately from the leaked budget information, identified as Alfred Butt and Sir Alfred Butt, linked to Bates advertising.
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