State to fight clemency bid for McCall in murder case
State Attorney George A. Hoover said he would oppose any clemency for Franklin Pierce McCall, who was sentenced to die for kidnapping five year old James Bailey Cash Jr. If clemency were granted, Hoover would push for retrial on murder charges. McCall had pleaded guilty to kidnapping. attorney Avriett plans to appeal to the pardon board.
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Miami, Fla
George A
Franklin Pierce McCall
James Bailey Cash, Jr
Rae
McCall
C. A. Ayvriett
McGail
State Pardon Board
Avriett
Mchae Ph
Hoover cites formidable hurdles in Cash case investigation
The chief G man described why the case was highly difficult including numerous major suspects, deadly swamps in Florida, bevy of insects and wildlife, and risks of mob violence. He noted escape routes by land and water and the cautious approach to questioning suspects.
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Hoover
Florida
Franklin P. McCall
Morgan County Flags For China Aid Sale Held
Mrs. L. H. Houston of Hartselle announced flags will be sold in Hartselle and Falkville on Saturday to raise funds for civilian relief in China. The effort supports food supplies for starving Chinese victims of the Japanese invasion. Other public drives are planned as national aid proceeds continue.
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L. H. Houston
Hartselle
Falkville
Morgan County
China
Chicago and New Orleans Market Roundup June 17
Prices in poultry butter and cotton markets show modest gains and steady tones. In Chicago poultry and butter levels hold near unchanged figures while New Orleans cotton prices rise with July at 8.47 and Dec at 8.52 amid demand and rain effects. weekly mill takings and exports reported.
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Chicago
Plymouth Rock
New Orleans
Shorts
Texas
Baptists Plan All-Church Revival Across Nation
Southern Baptist leaders meet to launch a southwide revival program targeting all 24 844 churches. The plan follows the recent Richmond Va convention and was developed by delegates from 18 states.
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Nashville
Tenn
Southern Baptist
Richmond
Beer Truck Collision Damages Nicholas Co Rig
A Nicholas Company beer hauler from Birmingham collided with a second truck on Bee Line Way six miles north of here at 5 am. The Nicholas truck carried empty beer bottles and struck the rear of the other vehicle. both drivers were unharmed.
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Nicholas Company
Birmingham
Bee Line Hashway
Here
Nicholas
Capitol session closes amid praise and party rifts
The 1938 congressional session ends with praise for Speaker and Barkley but notes a Democratic split that shapes future clashes. Leaders say the peace-time record appropriations reached 12 billion while anticipating new reorganizing and tax bills next session. A Senate anti trust investigation report remains a pending major topic.
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Capitol Hill
White House
Senate
Congress
Anti-Trust Investigating Committee
Roosevelt
Vacation Bible School Starts Monday at Fairview Baptist
Fairview Baptist Church announces a two week Vacation Bible School from June 20 to July 1. It runs 8 to 11 a.m.Monday through Friday for children ages 4 to 16. Faculty includes Edith Murphree, T. R. Harrison, and Elbert Neely.
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Fairview Baptist Church
Edith Murphree
SLAIN BANDIT IS COP'S SON
In Chicago on June 17 the dawn phantom gunman blamed for 28 early morning holdups was identified as Harold Keen, 23, son of Policeman Ernest L Keen. Police trailed him, seven detectives cornered him at a friend’s home, and when he reached for a weapon officers opened fire. Eighteen bullets struck Keen, killing him and his wife Angeline, 21, who was pregnant. The father acknowledged the outcome, saying the work was done as he expected.
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Chicago
Ernest L. Keen
Harold
Young Keen
Policeman Keen
Two Black Brothers-In-Law Executed in North Carolina Gas Chamber
In Raleigh North Carolina Lonnie Gardner 27 and Apsom Outlaw 28 were executed in the gas chamber today for the August assault and murder of a white woman. Sylvester Outlaw another brother of Apsom was executed April 29 for the same crime.
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Raleigh
N. C
Lonnie Gardner
Apsom Outlaw
State Prison
Sylvester Outlaw
Apsom
Ballot box missing sparks Cherished county election dispute
In Chilton county Alabama the absentee ballot box vanished after a group seized it on election day provoking a state patrol response. Local petitions urged voiding runoff results as McKee and Hines contend counting absentee ballots could flip outcomes.
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Clanton
Ala
Billy Smith
Chilton County
Democratic Executive Committee
Bibb Graves
T. L. McKee
J. A. Hines
McKee
J. R. Hardy
Hines
Karl C. Harrison
Smith
Chilton County News
Democratic Committee
W. M. Polk, Sr
B N. Bently
C. B. Cox
Absen- Chilton
Prediction Aims to Foresee Raymond’s Fatal Year
A spectacled official asserted he predicted Raymond would be fatally injured within a year. He claimed the person who planted the device is laughing at the danger, while Raymond supposedly feels calm and even happy about the year ahead.
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Sibly
Raymond
Christis Life in the Open sermon at Westminster church
Rev. L H Knight will lead the 11 oclock Sunday service at Westminster Presbyterian with Christi s Life in the Open as the sermon theme. Revival activity at Ninth Street Methodist affects Willoughby church evening service.
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Christi
L. H. Knight
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Willoughby Presbyterian Church
Ninth Street Methodist Church
Allen
Grant Street Church
Westside Presbyterian Church
Britain Boosts Subsidy To Airlines To 15 Million
In a sweeping plan to energize civil aviation the British government has increased its annual subsidy to commercial airlines from seven and one half million dollars to 15 millions.
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Parkay
Philadelphia
Chase & Sanborn Coffee
Home Grown
Swift
Tory
House
Barkley
McNary
Oregon
T. R. Harrison
Elbert Neely
J. C. Black CO
Second Ave
Angeline
Detective Bureau
Worth Ala
H. Machine Works
Moulton Street
Decatur’s
H. F. Sherrod
The
Alabama Federated Women's Clubs
Miss Estalre Sherrod
Mrs. Walter Durham
Tuscaloosa
Skeggs Crawford
John H. Peach
South Alabama
J. F. Sparks
Sixteenth Avenue
Louise Argend
Ruby Best
Anderson
Indianapolis
Ind
Marie
Martha Ellen Argend
Chattanooga
Ruby F. Simpson
Miss Joan Simpson
Ada Hazzard
Austinville
Eva Love Wyatt
H. A. Wyatt
Jackson Street
Alabama College
Montevallo
Wyatt
K. L. Heflin
Danville
Sanders Cortner
Montgomery
R. G. Cortner
Louise Hudson
State Employment Service Office
Ozark
B. L. Malone
Mrs. Malone
K. L. Hofmann
H. Papenburg
St. Louis
H. Reuter
Johnny Hartselle
Benevolent Hospital
W. G. Best
Seventh Avenue East
Decatur, Alabama
Decatur
Alabama
Decatur Daily
Charles Rountree
Cliff Nungester
Jim Johnson
City Cab Company
Decatur Cabervice
Esther Walker
Oceanside
Cal
Central Press
Sycamore Street
West Vine Street
Martha White
Betty Blue
Meen
Isoschiacaninaaas
American Fidelity and Casualty Company
Virginia
W. W. Wilkerson
Supreme Court of Alabama
B. D. Meadors
E. Dutton
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