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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1937
Page
8
Decatur notes detail Patersons from Birmingham visiting with family, delegates from Montevallo to be transported home, and many residents traveling to Birmingham Nashville and Florence for events. Report covers car crashes, hospital ad missions, court attendances, weddings, and social visits across Limestone Morgan counties.
The Morgan County Department of Public Welfare appointed a finance committee at a last night board meeting to secure funds for Hough Lacey's Spring Falkville and J T Munn of Decatur with J Munn chairing. Mrs J M Givens of Decatur was elected field worker for July replacing Josephine Puckett who will study social work at Tulane University. An OCC enrollment deadline between July 1 and 20 was discussed but district quotas are not yet certain.
Continued from page one, the actress lived in a modest home with her mother, earning around $4,600 a week and holding nearly $1,000,000 in estate value largely in insurance and annuities. Heralias Herlean Carpentier, known as baby by her mother until screen name adoption.
A. L. Moye owner of Moye's Beauty Shoppe receives a letter from the Southeastern district manager of a national shampoo company praising Birmingham show work. The note notes high satisfaction and increased business since the Birmingham beauty show due to Moye's instruction and help.
The week features a Baptist church meeting at 7 30 PM with Miss Tonn Tomlinson of Havana arriving as a guest. Rev E T Town hosts a Lutheran teachers class and a Westminster Bible class speaker Walker McAfee is announced for Sunday. Residents from Decatur and nearby towns are seen shopping and visiting relatives in Florette, Cincinnati, and Athens.
Market quotations list butter and eggs prices and grades in Chicago. Butter ranks include extras firsts and standards with prices from 20 to 31 cents per pound, while eggs show categories like easy extra firsts fresh graded and storage packed with prices ranging from 12 to 22 cents. The report also lists roosters turkeys ducks and geese with varying prices and weights.
Chicago on June 8 reports potato trading with light demand and steady to modest firm tones. Idaho Russet Burbanks and North Dakota Ohio varieties show limited activity with prices around 1.05 to 1.25 per cwt for certain grades, and new stock noted as steady with slight strength in Southern Cob and Triumph types. Alabama Bliss and related stock showing decay and lower prices in limited sales.
Chicago reports live poultry prices across categories with two car lots and sixty trucks on hand. Hen weights over five pounds bring 17 1/2 cents. leghorn hens under five pounds 13 1/2. fryers colored 22 1/2. Plymouth Rock 23 1/2. White Rock 25. bare backs 19. broilers colored Plymouth and White Rock 21. bare backs 18 8. leghorns under two pounds 16. two pounds up 20. colored Springs 24 1/2. Plymouth Rock 26 1/2. White numbers incomplete.
Miss Mary Young, winner of this year's Rotary club trip to Washington, was introduced and thanked the club. The trip goes to the senior with the highest three year average. W. C. Watson chairs the club service committee. Dent F. Green joined. Bill Kimbrough returned from leave. Next week's meeting will be led by the international service committee with Julian Harris in charge.
The annual life saving and swimming classes by the Morgan County chapter of the American Red Cross closed Friday with fifteen students passing the final exam. Senior Red Cross instruction winners include Mahlon Yarbrough Bruce Pettey Jessie Jones Donald Nelson John Roberts and Jane Malone. Junior instruction graduates listed include Homer Draper Caroline Jones Seth Pitt Kenneth Ployd James Ployd Jones and Bess Beatty.
Two women grapple in a hair-pulling eye-gouging match at the Martin Arena with Miss Robbie Parker from Boston facing Miss Kitty Nelson. Referee Harry Nixon resists further women’s bouts after a shirt-tearing incident, while Bullet Joe Gunther returns to meet Leo Newman in the feature.
Chicago market notes show hogs at 13 000 head with 3 000 direct, prices 10 50 to 11 60 for most, few 10 50, top 11 50. Cattle and calves 7 500 and 2 500, steers weaker 10 15, yearlings steady, fed heifers 12 15 to 12 75, cows 5 57 to 9 50, bulls to 15, hogs and cattle mixed with higher sausage lots. Sheep 3 000 with 800 direct, lambs 12 50 to 13 00, yearlings steady, ewes 3 00 to 4 50.
Troop 11 Boy Scouts held their regular meeting led by Acting Senior Patrol Leader Elbert Lee Jolly. They recited the Scout Oath and Pledge, heard devotions by Norman Safley, and heard speeches by Norman Safley Eugene Wright and Elbert Lee Jolly on scouting values and first aid.
Rev. I. W Myers of Southside Baptist Church, assisted by Fred Halbrooks, conducted Sunday afternoon services at Courtland Negro Baptist Church with a large crowd in attendance.
Readers learn that students who could not finish the Red Cross instruction will be offered a chance to complete the required period of study and pass the examination later in the summer.
Little Rock beat Birmingham 3 to 2 while Knoxville edged Chattanooga 1 to 0 and Nashville defeated Atlanta 8 to 6. Only games scheduled.
New York defeated Pittsburgh 5 to 2 as Brooklyn rallied to beat Cincinnati 5 to 4 in ten innings in the other NL game. The results reflect late rallying and two high scoring matchups.
Detroit beat New York 4 to 3 while Chicago defeated Philadelphia 12 to 6. St Louis topped Boston 9 to 6 and Cleveland routed Washington 17 to 5. The results reflect a busy AL schedule with varied outcomes across the league.
Pensacola and Mobile faced rain as Selma blanked Montgomery 4 to 0 while Jackson routed Meridian 15 to 9 and Indianapolis edged St. Paul 5 to 4. Louisville defeated Minneapolis 7 to 2 in a day full of shaky weather and close outcomes.
Triplett Nashville 402. Home runs Duke Nashville 8 Alexander Nashville 7. Runs batted in Wright Chattanooga 46 Alexander Nashville 39. Stolen Bases Bush Memphis 14 Nonnenkamp Little Rock 12. Double plays Little Rock 50 Chattanooga 49. Runs Atlanta 285 Little Rock 4. Least opponents runs Little Rock 184 Memphis 185.
Attorney General A A Carmichael ruled the Medical Association of Alabama is a state instrumentality for federal social security taxes. Officials anticipated full matching of federal funds within 90 days. The fate of Roosevelt Collins, a Calhoun County Black man on death row for assaulting a white woman, rested with Governor Bibb Graves and the state pardon board as the term began July 19.
The tax commission said revenue from the two per cent sales tax effective since March 1 totaled $612 125 48. In TRON Alabama on June 8 Joe Weakless a Black truck driver faced man slaughter and driving while intoxicated charges after a collision between a Greyhound bus and a heavy truck killed a company employee and injured 23 people.
Nearly 300 delegates attend Alabama veterans of foreign wars annual convention in Anniston for officer elections. Birmingham reports 2 100 new telephones added since Jan 1 bringing city total to 43 204 up from 30 740 in August 1935. Gadsden police investigate a beating of a man claiming U R W A membership.
In Talladega Alabama Homer L Welch a textile organizer who is free on appeal was chosen president of the Alabama Federation of Textile Workers. Welch is also charged with murder in another labor confrontation and previously convicted of manslaughter in the death of Chief Deputy Sheriff John J Bryant with a ten year sentence.
Florence Alabama June meeting opens the state Elks convention with the first business session. Officials are to be elected today as delegates discuss routine agenda items and local lodge activities.
Delegates gathered in Anniston for the annual Veterans of Foreign Wars convention with a preliminary session held yesterday and the first main session planned for today. The meeting runs through tomorrow.
Frank Russo, 43, has been formally charged with the murder of his wife whose body was found June 2 in a wooded area near Bessemer Alabama. He had been held for questioning since the discovery. Birmingham Chamber to hear explanation of interstate shipping suit filed by southeastern governors for members with shipping interests.
Montgomery Alabama June 8 Walter Davis a Black man had his death sentence for slaying a police officer set aside by Circuit Judge Eugene Carter. Davis now faces a second trial on the murder charge in the same case with the question of penalties to be resolved.
The list highlights top hitters Medwick and Vaughan with 37 runs, 62 hits, and 411 batting average notes. Medwick leads in runs batted in with 44 while Bartell and Kampouris tie for homers at 9. Pitcher Bryant leads with 4 0 and Hubbell 8 1.
Batting leaders include Walker of the Tigers with 71 hits and 54 RBIs credited to Greenberg. Bell of the Browns drives 66 hits while Bonura and Lary contribute for their teams. Greenberg hits 14 home runs, Selkirk leads with 10, and Hudlin posts a 6-0 mark for the Indians as Pearson tabs 4-0 for the Yankees.
Tonight Birmingham visits Little Rock Nashville plays Atlanta Knoxville faces Chattanooga New Orleans travels to Memphis St Louis goes to New York Chicago meets Brooklyn Pittsburgh vs Philadelphia Cincinnati visits Boston.
New York at Chicago. Philadelphia at Detroit. Washington at St. Louis. Boston at Cleveland. Meridian at Jackson. Montgomery at Selma. Mobile at Pensacola. Ozark at Andalusia. Union Springs at Dothan. Panama City at Troy.
Decatur will crown its checker champion Friday at the Civic Center. Games start at 1 PM with all players invited. Directors Charlies B. Roberts and Paul S. Keltner oversee the event.
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