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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1938
Page
1
Washington reports five government spending agencies pledged a rapid start on a 3.753 million relief and public works program. Outlines cover bridges sewers roads schools airports housing dams harbors flood control and more awaiting the president's signing.
Tokyo announces an extension of the China war zone about 700 miles inland and urges foreign nationals and vessels to evacuate areas south of the Yellow River and east of a line through Lian, Ighang and Hengyang. Authorities will monitor and protect foreign property and require immediate information on such property.
Alabama will discontinue state run exams for teacher certificates effective July. Since 1915 certificates could be issued on exams or credentials and numbers issued by exams declined to 32 in 1937. Instrumental music certificates may still require exams in Montgomery if needed.
Ballot boxes and polling sites announced for the Decatur Alabama municipal election to decide between aldermanic and commission government forms. Absentee ballots reached 86 requests, with 76 cast, and observers expect a high turnout if weather improves.
A man who gave the name Char lie Mitchell was picked up by Chief of Police Bill Moore last week for investigation and handed to United States deputy marshal Shelby Phillips. He is charged with impersonating a government officer and has a record dating to 1909 with multiple aliases and prior terms at Leavenworth. He has previously faced charges for impersonating Treasury Department officers, Secret Service agents and claim agents.
Federal authorities hold Senta De Wanger in protective custody in New York as a key witness in a current spy investigation. She owns a Hempstead liquor store and is said to know many army flyers. She was taken into custody just before sailing for Germany. Central Press.
Three indictments naming 18 persons were returned by the federal grand jury in New York. The probes followed four weeks of closed hearings and months of inquiry. Witnesses Johanna Hofmann and Private Erich Glasser were called before the panel and are held on $25,000 bail each on espionage charges.
Florence Alabama June 20 Sheriff J L Potts announced Mrs Virgie Peden wife of Emmett Peden is being held as a material witness on orders of Circuit Judge Charles P Almon in connection with the fatal shooting of 23 year old James T Crouch. Potts said Peden is held on a murder charge as three men with Crouch gave varying versions of the incident. Funeral services for Crouch were held yesterday. He was survived by his parents one sister and five brothers.
Ten persons were tried in police court today on charges including five for drunkenness, two for drinking and fighting, two for violating the prohibition law, and one for carrying a concealed pistol.
Danville Alabama plans its 1938 fair to top all previous events. The Danville Fair Association prioritizes diversified farming livestock and poultry with emphasis on home economics cotton and horticulture. Leadership includes F. E. Martin president Murray Landers vice president J. C. Mattox secretary J. B. Lee treasurer and Mrs. H. L. Heflin publicity chair. The group expects several thousand visitors and aims to attract state wide attention.
Reports from Red Star cite Moscow’s purge of alleged enemies to Bolshevize the Soviet army as Ukraine leaders face actions. In Berlin anti Jewish violence grows with shops vandalized and Aryan exclusion. In Spain the Valencia front stalls near 30 miles north as Italy Britain discuss implementing the April 16 Anglo Italian pact amid Spain’s war.
Morgan County Conservation Club announced that no game fish caught in the upcoming rodeo will be cooked or sold at the Wheeler Lake Skeet Club fish fry. The fish will be displayed for photographs and then returned to catchers or given to the Morgan County Tubercular Sanitarium if not needed. Registrations for the rodeo neared six hundred.
Little Dorothy Blankenship 13 months old daughter of Mr and Mrs P B Blankenship of Somerville Route 3 was laid to rest this morning at Friendship after a four week illness. She passed away Saturday night at Ben evolent hospital. Survived by her parents three sisters Wilma Flora Lee and Mary Joyce services were conducted by Rev I W Myers pastor of the Southside Baptist church and interment was directed by Drinkard and Howell.
In New York for stage appearances a grand jury will probe accusations against Earle and thirteen others. Jackie Coogan, former child star, sues his mother and her husband. His wife Betty Grable remains working in Hollywood.
Dyer Electric Company of Birmingham president announces immediate construction of the municipal electric power distribution system. The Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta wires a $271 246 78 payment for bonds, with $271 245 78 to Decatur and $3 245 78 interest, transferred to settle PWA docket 6587 P. The city’s attorneys and local officials confirm funds transfer and awaiting details from Washington.
J W Clark of Fort Benning Georgia and Tuscaloosa field director of the Red Cross will visit Friday and Saturday to meet veterans about filing compensation claims. Clark will be at the local Red Cross headquarters 119 W Vine Street and veterans are urged to call ahead to arrange appointments.
Philadelphia reports a state supreme court decision approving a grand jury probe into Governor George H. Earle and 13 other Pennsylvania Democrats on graft and coercion charges. Judge Paul M. Schaefer to oversee the inquiry, following petitions by Dauphin County officials and District Attorney Carl B. Shelley.
U S Ambassador Joseph P Kennedy states he will not seek the democratic nomination in 1940 describing any bid as a breach of faith with President Roosevelt. He plans a White House meeting to report on his economic and political observations and will attend his son Joseph Jr’s Harvard graduation in Boston. James Roosevelt met Kennedy on the bay as the Queen Mary neared New York.
The Decatur Rotary outgoing and incoming directors meet next Monday at 7:30 p.m. at H. O. Goidel’s home. At 8:30 p.m. Goidel will host a stag party for the entire club membership.
Eleven bodies were recovered from sleeper B of the Milwaukee Olympia n, bringing the toll to 27 from the wreck that plunged into Custer Creek near Miles City Montana. Officials said two or three more could be buried under debris as salvage continued in flood waters.
The Morgan County Home Demonstration Clubs sponsor the fourth annual rally at Morgan County High School in Hartselle. The 9 30 a m program features a period style review from 1960 to now, an electric fence demo, sack style review, vocal and instrumental numbers, tap dance, and a refrigeration display. Between 400 and 500 rural women are expected to attend with entertainment by Decatur School of the Dance pupils led by Mrs G P Banniza.
Japanese forces press on along the Yangtze river advancing toward Kiukiang and Susung while shelling shores above Nanking. Allied guards at Kiukiang prepare to evacuate neutrals. Floods near Kaifeng drown and displace tens of thousands as dikes breach amid July rise forecast.
Billy Steed Jr. and companions fished off Solomon's Island in Chesapeake Bay, 15 miles out, netting 400 fish weighing 600 pounds in two and a half hours. Steed led with 65 fish over 100 pounds as the group blamed bait shortage for a smaller haul.
The river gauge reached 20.4 feet with 88 degrees as the high and 68 as the low in the past 24 hours. Rainfall measured 2.10 inches as conditions shifted with mostly unsettled weather across Tennessee and Alabama with moderate southwest winds along the coast.
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