Progress Made by Legislators on Major Laws
Alabama's 1935 session shows major bills advancing or being rejected. The House passed the general revenue bill with a $2000 homestead exemption and tax changes, while the Senate killed the Colieman horse racing bill 16 to 9. The Arnold pay raise for legislators, halted by a Leedy injunction, drew the week's most noted attention.
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William S Truby
Associated Press
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
House
Senate
Nena’ & Group
Con- Se Weta
Gor Ees Tedlen
W. B. Leedy
Birmingham
Supreme Court
Bibb Graves
Rites Sunday For Henry Schlittler
Funeral services for Henry Schlittler will be held at 2 p m Sunday at Priest Funeral Home. The Rev O G Payne will officiate and burial will follow at Rose lawn Memorial Park. Surviving are the widow a son in Co C three daughters and a brother Herbert Schlittler of Atlanta Ga.
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Priest Funeral Home
Henry Schlittler
Benevolent Society Hospital
O. Payne
Willoughby Presbyterian Church
Roselawn Memorial Park
Co. C
Virops Madina
Frances Schlittler
Herbert Schlittler
Atlanta, Ga
Markets at a Glance June 15 New York and Chicago summaries
New York markets show stocks steady and bonds firm with gains in nails utilities and specialties. Cotton trades quiet amid unfavorable weather while grain and coffee close steady with rain benefiting wheat and hogs at a $10 nominal top. Chicago reports wheat down on rains, cattle firm at about 500 head, and steady hogs with light demand.
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New York
Chicago
Woman Slayer of Rival Cleared in Kentucky Trial
Mrs. Eva Cooper Wilson, 38, acquitted of murder for killing her rival in a theatre lobby last February 24. She claimed temporary insanity and unwritten law after testifying that Marie Dutton Burns Wilson taunted her and provoked the act. A circuit court jury deliberated two and a half hours before the verdict.
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Stanford
Eva Cooper Wilson
J. Truesdale Wilson
Serious Injuries Escaped by Child
Joan Carter five year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Clayton Carter escaped serious injury when she fell from a car at Second avenue and Lee street Friday night. The right door flew open as the car turned onto Lee street and she slid face down onto the sidewalk. She suffered scratches to knees elbows and face. The lack of curbing likely saved her from head injury.
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Joan
Clayton Carter
Twelfth Avenue
West
Second Avenue
Lee Street
Lee
Dickinson Praises Local Show Field
Colonel J. M. Dickinson owner of Travelers Rest Farm near Nashville praises the Tennessee Valley horse show venue as ideal and beautiful. He is familiar with show rings and has exhibited pure-bred Arabian horses across America.
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J. M. Dickinson
Travelers Rest Farm
Nashville
Benson
Col. Dickinson
America
Intruder Admits Killing His Wife After Delivery of Evidence
A man confessed to stabbing his wife Stella 28 to death in their apartment in front of their seven year old son Perry. Police say Kostes Koulouras 40 was shot in hospital after the lover was attacked. Peter Christ 32 led officers to the bodies and confessed to the killing and the shooting in a dispute over divorce.
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New York Daily Mirror Today
Jim Hurley
Kostes Koulouras
Hurley
Peter Christ
Stella
Koulau- Tas
Perry
William Farrell
East Fifty-First Street
Francis J. Spear
James J. Lyons
Britain raising her air defense units in wartime
London reports the War Office ordered eight battalions formed immediately for anti air craft defense. Five units become searchlight battalions and three, including the Royal Fusiliers, become anti air craft artillery brigades. Units will train for first line defense ready on outbreak of war.
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Roger D. Greene
Associated Press Foreign Staff
London
Great Britain
War Office
Royal
Plans Talked For Road To Moulton From Hartselle
Hart selle business men meet with Lawrence county board of revenue to discuss a new gravel road from Hartselle toward Moulton. Proposed connections include linking with the Decatur Moulton highway at Five Points and routes via Hogan’s or Woodward’s stores or via Wren to Moulton. A current westward segment toward Neel may extend to connect with an eastbound Moulton segment. Travel in Lawrence and Morgan counties would rise with the completed route, tapping traffic across the two counties.
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Hartselle
Moulton
Lawrence County Board of Revenue
Decatur-Moulton
Lawrence County
Hogan's
Woodward's
Wren
Neel
Lawrence
Morgan Counties
Morgan County
Straps
Governors End Session Back Roosevelt Confidence Vote
The nation's governors adopted a unanimous resolution expressing confidence in the Roosevelt administration after two days of sessions in Biloxi Mississippi. They praised cooperation without partisanship and rejected a push to move relief funds to state control while urging nationwide minimum wage and maximum hour standards.
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Biloxi
Miss
Roosevelt
Gulf Coast
Relief Administration
Bibb Graves
Alabama
Olin D. Johnston
South Carolina
NRA
Executive Committee
Murray
Oklahoma
TVA Appeal Set for Monday in Circuit Court
Seven TVA lawyers traveled to Atlanta to argue before a special sitting of the U S circuit court of appeals on Monday appealing Judge Grubb's injunction. The injunction bars TVA from buying North Alabama transmission lines from Alabama Power Co. Lead attorney is James Lawrence Fly with John Lord O'Brien and others in support.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
Atlanta
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
TVA
W. S. Grubb
Birmingham
Grubb
North
Alabama
Alabama Power Company
James Lawrence Fly
Body of missing New York child recovered from East River
The body of 5 year old Jackie Kaul was found in the East River after a search that began June 6 near Sutton Place. Father John Kaul identified the body at Fordham hospital morgue, then fainted. Salvatore Lia found the body and alerted police.
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New York
Jackie Kaul
East River
Sutton Place
Manhattan
John Kaul
East Fiver
Bronx
Fordham Hospital
Salvatore Lia
Prisoners Taken to Birmingham in Scottsboro Case
Sheriff Sandling and deputies transferred Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris from Kilby Prison to Jefferson county jail in Birmingham. Seven other defendants in the Scottsboro case are held there. The two, once on death row, had sentences reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court due to jury exclusion of Negroes.
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J. Street Sandling
Walton and
Kilgore
Haywood Patterson
Clarence Norris
Scottsboro
Kilby
Montgomery
Jefferson County
Birmingham
Patterson
Norris
United States Supreme Court
Morgan Circuit
Victoria Price
Jackson County
Sandlin
Wetumpka
Supreme Court
Clipper Soarg On Her Return Flight
Pan American Airways clipper took off from Pearl Harbor bound for Midway Island covering 1,323 miles. Flight started at 5:57 a.m. Honolulu time, 11:27 p.m. Eastern. The return leg signals resumed activity in the Pacific.
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Honolulu
Pan-American Airways
Pearl Harbor
Midway Island
No “Hockey” Here Grace Richards Graduation Record
Wilkes Barre notes a proud family record from Harry J. Richards truant officer. His daughter Marjorie had a perfect attendance 12 years at school and last night Grace Richards also graduates with a similar record.
Miss Decatur Crowned in Riverside High Pageant
Theda Mae Handley of Decatur won Miss Decatur among 64 contestants at Riverside High School. She heads to the State Miss Alabama contest in Birmingham, aiming for the August 22 23 pageant winner to advance to Atlantic City. Handley, daughter of Mr and Mrs A L Handley of 640 Jackson Street, is a Decatur High student and star basketball player with interests in drama and swimming.
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Theda Mae Handley
Decatur
Riverside High School
Birmingham
Atlantic City
America
A. L. Handley
Jackson Street
Handley
Roosevelt appoints Johnson as assistant secretary of commerce
Washington June 15. President Roosevelt names John Monroe Johnson of South Carolina to be assistant secretary of commerce replacing Ewing Y Mitchell of Missouri who has been dismissed after refusing to resign. The department cites desire for stronger engineering and administrative leadership and notes Mitchell declined to comment.
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Washington
Roosevelt
John Monroe Johnson
South Carolina
Commerce
Ewing Mitchell
Missouri
Roper
Ewing Y. Mitchell
Mitchell
Secretary of Commerce
Two German Planes Chased by French Forces
Metz France June 15 report says French pursuit planes chased two German planes back into German territory after pursuing them from frontier fortifications.
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Metz
France
Roosevelt pushes social security action amid mining strike talks
Congress met in rare Saturday session as United Mine Workers cancelled Monday strike orders. President Roosevelt urged swift social security legislation while Senate leaders sought action and Lewis ordered union and work condition stays through month end. Secretary Roper dismissed Missouri’s Ewing Y. Mitchell. Johnson of South Carolina named to replace him. Congress to move utility holding company regulation on pass.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Lewis
Roper
Ewing Y. Mitchell
Missouri
John Monroe Johnson
South Carolina
Mitchell
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Rayburn
D., Tex
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Con
Bicycle dealer Herbert Morrill found dead in West Falmouth cellar
The body of 63 year old bicycle dealer Herbert L. Morrill was discovered buried under loose earth in his West Falmouth home cellar. His wife was detained for questioning as police and the county attorney investigated the disappearance reported by his son and daughter in law.
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West Falmouth
Meéc
Herbert L. Morrill
Morrill
Walter M. , Sr
Portland
Guy Hamilton
George R. Bryant
James
Bryant
Merrill
Graves signs multiple bills expanding state oversight and local funding
Gov. Bibb Graves signed 16 bills this week. The Parish of Henry bill authorizes warehouse inspections and audits by the agriculture commissioner. Other measures set guardians ad litem fees in Jefferson county, establish a mobile county board of education budget, fix salaries for Tuscaloosa county officials, and regulate probate, tax, and inferior court matters in Morgan and surrounding counties.
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Montgomery
Ala
Bibb Graves
Parish
Henry
Commismissioner of Agriculture
Douglass
Jefferson County
McDermott
Mobile County Board of Education
Austin
Dominick
Tuscaloosa County
Toomer
Burleson
Morgan County
Offense Tangles Police Chase Over Wanted Man Mahan
Reports conflicted on the gunfight involving Alvin Karpis and William Mahan. Malone later clarified Karpis was the suspect. Powells and Jasper county officers pursued in the vicinity near a COC camp. A car passenger, believed to be Mahan, fled after a warning shout and was arrested after a Friday chase. he offered no comment.
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Alvin Karpis
Publi Enemy No
Malone
Karpias
N. B. Powell
Wirbyville
Sai
Mahan
Jasper County
COC
Ag Powell
Trial Still in Doubt as Kidnappers Face Dual Court Paths
In Tacoma on June 15 the fate of Harmon and Margaret Waley in the George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping remains uncertain. Washington and federal authorities discuss whether the trial should occur in federal or state court with potential death penalty implications. Pierce County Prosecutor Harry H Johnston expresses willingness to proceed with reservations and aims to arrest the fugitive leader William reputed brains of the gang before proceedings.
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Tacoma
Harmon
Margaret Waley
George Weyerhaeuser
Federal District Court
Edgar Hoover
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Washington
Harry H. Johnston
Pierce County
Johnston
William
Young Wey
Olympia Ne
George
Weather summary for Tennessee and Alabama regions
Readable weather notes report a 4.4 foot river gauge and 79 degree high with .31 inch rainfall. Interior Alabama shows mostly cloudy conditions with local showers and periods of overcast skies.
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Tennessee River
Alabama
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Harmon M. Waley
Margaret
George Weyerhaeuser, Jr
Salt Lake City
Wash
Waleys
Joan Carter
Dickinson
Britain
Lawrence Revenue Board
River
Miss Decatur
The
United Mine Workers
Maine
Graves
Tip Man
William Mahan
Texas
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