Alabama faces farming crisis as rains persist
In Moulton Alabama on June 17 a farm emergency due to ongoing rains spread across many counties. WPA laborers reportedly refuse to hoe cotton and corn at a dollar a day. Colbert County Agent John F. Yarbrough and state WPA officials describe labor and crop threats with several counties listed and a weather-forecast update.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moulton
Ala
Alabama
WPA
P. O. Davis
Davis
Auburn
Colbert County
John F. Yarbrough
W. G. Henderson
Montgomery
Yarbrough
Colbert Farms
Talladega
Morgan
Fayette
Limestone
Lamar
Lawrence
Madison
Pickens
Lauderdale
Jefferson
Tuscaloosa
Escambia
Cullman City Council Thanks Decatur Daily for Coverage
The Cullman City Council adopted a resolution expressing appreciation for the Decatur Daily's publicity of Cullman activities including the first strawberry festival. The vote includes sending a copy of the resolution to the Decatur Daily and is certified by City Clerk J G Kramer with approval by Mayor J A Dunlap on June 12 1939.
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Cullman
Decatur Daily
Cullman County
Decatur
J. A. Dunlap
J. G. Kramer
Alabama
Rainfall Here 1.69 Inches In 5 Hours
During the five hour period from 7 a.m. to noon today rainfall measured 1.69 inches, the heaviest in months. The downpours followed a windy night with a Gulf hurricane echo and a sighing, sucking wind that reached high velocity but caused no reported damage locally.
Slayer Dies On The Guillotine In Paris Execution
In Versailles on June 17 Eugene Weidmann, 31, the mass murderer known for luring dancer Jean DeKoven, was executed by guillotine after a last minute attempt to withdraw. The scene drew a large crowd as officials forced him to the block within 30 seconds. He had led a murder for profit ring with accomplice Roger Million, who received life imprisonment.
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Versailles
France
Eugene Weidmann
Brooklyn
Jean DeKoven
Leopold” Desfourneaux
Weidman
Leopold
Weidmann
Ida Sackheim
Miss de Koven
Tie
Jean de Koven
Vincent de Moro Giafferi
Anatole Debler
St. Cloud Villa
Roger Million
Lebrun
Indictments Hit 473 Including Bank Officials In Alabama
Federal grand jury for the northern district of Alabama returns 473 indictments. Major charges include liquor law violations with 151 counts and narcotic infractions with 23. Named ex bank officials include Annie M Ward-Ganguet Roy Rogers and Lula Dinsdale Harkins for embezzlement. Ward-Ganguet pleaded innocent previously and is on bond as Bank of Cuba closes. Rollins and agents reported raids that disrupted a moonshine ring in Franklin county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Federal
District of Northern Alabama
T. A. Murphree
Annie M. Ward-Ganguet
Bank of Cuba
Sumter County
Roy Rogers
Leeds
First National Bank of Birmingham
Lula Dinsdale Harkins
First National Bank of Tuscumbia
Franklin County
Joe Rollins
Alcohol Tax Unit
Rollins
Sabotage Hints Rise as Phenix Sub Sinks Near Indo China
Mystery surrounds the disappearance of the 2000 ton French submarine Phenix with 71 crew off Cam Ranh Bay Indo China. Oil ring spotted as questions grow over possible sabotage and links to other submarine disasters. Families in Toulon Lorient and Brest await official word amid mourning and uncertainty.
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Paris
Phenix
Indo-China
Cam Ranh Bay
L’humanite
United States
Great Britain
France
le Havre
Squalus
New Hampshire
Thetis
Liverpool Bay
Tokyo
CamRanh Bay
Saigon
Toulon
Lorient
Brest
Cesar Campinchi
Marine
United States Navy
Albert Leburn
Elysee Palace
Morocco
Refugees aboard St Louis reach Antwerp after heartbreak voyage
German Jews aboard the liner St Louis reach Antwerp after a fruitless Havana Cuba voyage. They formed an anti suicide pact to patrol decks during the 6000 mile journey and kept 24 hour vigilance as they faced denied havens and await entry into the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antwerp
St .Louis
Cuba
Hamburg
Havana
Germany
Great Britain
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Europe
United States
County officials endorse Fra Dixon and pick 1940 convention site
Dixon administration support cited by Alabama county commissioners at their annual meeting in Montgomery. J. M. Wood of Calhoun County elected president. Birmingham chosen as the 1940 convention host city.
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Dixon
Montgomery
Ala
Fra Dixon
Alabama
J. M. Wood
Calhoun County
Birmingham
House approves relief bill with spending limits and WPA changes
The House passed a 1.735 billion dollar relief measure for the year starting July 1, restricting WPA theater and other work. The bill shifts 125 million to the WPA, creates a three member board, and raises Youth Administration funding to 100 million while adding amendments to ease construction caps and limit federal agency allocations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ingernam
Wrington
O.K
Administration
Rayburn
WPA
Rep
Texas
National Youth Administration
Roosevelt
House
Appropriations Committee
Paving Projects Put to Property Owners and WPA Aid
Mayor T R Harrison invites property owners to a Tuesday meeting at city hall to decide paving 34 blocks across 7 streets with an estimated $100,480 cost 74 percent funded by the WPA. Owners would provide cash for their share about 26 thousand dollars while the WPA covers 74 thousand. Estimates vary 70 cents to 1.18 per foot due to curb and gutter work. The plan covers Fourth Fifth Seventh Eighth avenues Gordon Drive Prospect Drive Seventh Street Wells Davis Cain and related blocks. Harrison also signed a new issue of 877 water company bonds to start the plant by July 1 following Mayor Harris death last May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. R. Harrison
City Hall
Works Progress Administration
Harrison
WPA
Watha
Fourth Avenue
Second Street
Danville Road
Fifth Avenue
Prospect Drive
Sixth Street
Seventh Avenue
Eighth Avenue
Gordon Drive
Seventh Street
Sixth Avenue
Somerville Road
Wells Street
Davis Street
Church Street
Cain Street
Ferry Street
Water Company
R. N. Harris
Newspapers Best for Advertisers in 1938, Bank Review Says
The Federal Home Loan Bank review stated that newspapers were the favorite and most effective advertising medium for savings, building and loan associations of all types during 1938.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
The
Federal
Home Loan Bank Review
Gilbert Ferry Bridge Opens After Rainy Ceremony
The new $165000 Gilbert Ferry bridge spanning the Coosa River six miles south of Gadsden, Alabama, was opened to traffic today after decoration ceremonies were dampened by heavy rain.
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Gadsden
Ala
Coosa River
Open Safety Pin Removal At Vanderbilt Hospital
An eight month old Decatur boy Felix Derrick had an open safety pin removed from his larynx at Vanderbilt Hospital Nashville. Surgeons performed the delicate operation after the pin lodged in the larynx when the child swallowed it yesterday afternoon at home. The parents rushed him to the Hamil Clinic and then to Nashville for surgery. Felix is the son of Mr and Mrs Floyd Derrick and is recovering.
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Decatur
Vanderbilt Hospital
Nashville
Fourth Avenue
West
Felix Derrick
Floyd Derrick
Felix
Hamil
School Board Presses Case After Branding Incident
Baltimore reports the school board will hear a case on branding a Jewish student despite the grand jury ending its probe. Board president Forrest Bramble formed a committee to investigate a harassment claim by 14 year old Melvin Bridge who says he was branded with an H at Gywinn's Falls Junior High. The panel will summon 18 suspended students while the grand jury dropped assault charges against Morton Rosen, with two witnesses accusing him of retaliation.
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Baltimore
Forrest Bramble
Gywinn's Falls Junior High School
Melvin Bridge
Bridge
Morton Rosen
Harry Ebberts
Carroll Phillips
Rosen
Trial of Love Suit Against Ruth Etting Postponed
In Los Angeles Alma Alderman seeks 150000 in a suit accusing Ruth Etting of alienation of affection. The trial paused for the week as Alderman, wife of Etting’s husband, endures cross examination while witnesses including Bernard Cohen challenge the marriage legality and a private detective describes a late night tryst at Alderman’s home.
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Los Angeles
Alma Alderman
Ruth Etting
Miss Etting
Myra Alderman
Bernard Cohen
Ickes rejects PWA promotion fee for Georgia hospital project
Administrator Ickes disallowed a $36,000 promoter fee in the L. W. Roberts firm contract for the Milledgeville Georgia hospital project. He ruled no PWA funds may be used for promotion, though state funds might cover the fee if approved, while keeping the $2,381,400 grant subject to federal conditions.
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Washington
Ickes
L. W
Chip) Robert Firm of Architects and Engineers
Atlanta
PWA
Georgia Hospital For
Robert
Democratic National Committee
Georgia
Georgia State Department of Public Welfare
Mill
Lights Fail During Belgian Pavilion Jewel Show
At the World’s Fair in New York, 14 models wearing $2,000,000 in gems entered the Belgian pavilion. A blackout sent attendees into darkness for 45 minutes as soldiers and guards relocated the display to a safe anteroom before the jewel hall reopened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Belgium
Textile output rises in early 1939 surpassing 1938
Textiles press notes that production in the first five months of 1939 led 1938 by 41 percent and stood 14 percent above the first five months of a normal year. The Textile World index signals a strong upturn in activity.
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New York
Textile World
Daylight Robbery in Moulton Street Burglary
Two unidentified white men in blue overalls and caps staged a bold 3 am stick up on O C Roberts at 924 Sherman. One flashed a pistol while the other rifled his pockets taking $13. Roberts, a Valley Coal and Lumber driver, alerted police after seeking help at a filling station. Both suspects about 25 years old, one tall about 6 feet and fair, the other five eight and dark, wore raincoats. Police pursued along Bee Line Highway but, by afternoon, had no leads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. C. Roberts
Sherman Street
E. Moulton Street
Mr. Roberts
Valley Coal and Lumber Company
Roberts
Bee Line Highway
Moulton Street
Bee Line
Local banker at Rutgers to resume graduate banking studies
T. F. Adams vice president of State National Bank of Decatur leaves for Rutgers University New Brunswick New Jersey to pursue the American Bankers Association graduate school of banking his second term there about 600 officers attend and 200 new students enter annually with 200 graduates after three two week resident sessions per year plus two years of extension work and a required thesis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. F. Adams
State National Bank of Decatur
Rutgers University
New Brunswick
N. J
Graduate School
American Bankers Association
Practi Bank
Adams
Highland Park Fire Dept Fails Flaming Demo Attempt
The Highland park fire department tried to showcase new equipment by digging an 85 foot ditch and filling it with oil and gasoline then attempting to ignite the fuel for two hours. Chief C F Baker remarked that they are paid to put out fires not start them after the stunt was abandoned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Highland Park
C. F. Baker
Weather Summary From Tennessee River Forecast
The river level fell to 205 feet over the past 24 hours with a high of 88 and a low of 71. An inland gauge reading near Alabama recorded 45. Mostly clear in the extreme north tonight with Sunday cloudiness and local showers. Moderate to fresh onshore winds from the coast.
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Tennessee
Alabama
Goast
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Paris Press
New ‘Haven
Merritt
D-Ny
Sirovich
Starnes
D-Ala
Philadelphia
Arkansas
Temple University Hospital
Katherine Norwood
Faring Security
Lexa
Ark
Booneville
J. D. Reid
FSA
Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich
Normandie
Lo Dietrich
Uncle Sam
Internal Revenue
J. B. McNamara
School Board
Rutgers
Firemen
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