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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1931
Page
1
The city orders citizens and property owners to comply with sanitation laws or face citations and fines. The Street Department, already busy with garbage collection, reports delays due to noncompliance and urges residents to place garbage in proper receptacles for orderly pickup. Chief Riggsbee backs strict enforcement, with fines possible through city courts.
Masons of the district prepare for an all day picnic and public installation of officers in Danville. The program starts at 9:30 AM with a cordial invitation extended to all Masons to attend. This marks the first such event in years in the area.
Mr and Mrs Lucien Royer Clarence Royer and Miss Marie Cagle motored to Pulaski Sunday for a leisure outing according to local notes.
The Albany Broom Works received a large order from a Birmingham jobber for 800 dozen brooms from the Decatur plant. The four week production window will test the factory as W F Weaver reports the order is the largest single order by the Magic City organization. June proves strong for the plant with robust business.
The mid week prayer service study will continue Wednesday at 7:45 p m. The Holy Spirit course concludes that night. Rev L B Hart will teach in place of the absent pastor Rev E N Hart.
Richard A. Fennell son of Mr and Mrs Edgar A Fennell will teach biology at Birmingham Southern College for the 1931 1932 term. He departs for Chicago for a six week University of Chicago course after earning BA and MA degrees and pursuing PhD work. Locals praise the promotion and wish him success.
A Tennessee House bill by Rep. W. F. Story proposes state ownership of power projects and cross state participation to form an interstate authority. It envisions a central generating unit using Muscle Shoals and Cove Creek, with bonds, eminent domain rights, and control of unoccupied water power sites.
Announcement from the Morgan county health department states a tuberculosis clinic will run for one week starting July 20. A state health service team will conduct the sessions at the county health department with adults and residents from North Alabama welcome to attend, though the clinic primarily serves Morgan county.
Officials of the Southside Baptist church announce cottage prayer services this evening at 7 30. Two services are planned at 1412 4th avenue south George Wells home and at 1711 6th avenue south L B Wright home. Members urged to attend.
The Decatur Kiwanis club moves its weekly session to Cullman for the third straight week. About 40 Kiwanians will meet at 7 p.m. in the Cullman Methodist Church basement with R H Mangrum of Alabama Power as guest speaker. Entertainment by Miss Lougene Clem and Clyde Richardson accompanies the program.
New York June 23 cotton futures opened steady with July at 9.40 cents and October at 9.88 cents. December 10.11, January 10.22, March 10.41, and May 10.61.
Gus King in Fort Payne Alabama seeks owners of two photos washed to a Sand Mountain rock ledge by the 1908 Albertville tornado. One image shows a young man and the other a family group at a lodge near Flat Rock. He believes the wind carried them from Albertville 23 years ago.
Harold Gatty and Wiley Post begin their world air voyage from Roosevelt Field to Harbor Grace N F with two others preparing for an ocean hop. Ruth Nichols injured in St John N B hospitalized but undeterred from attempting the Atlantic solo. Otto Hillig and Holger Habris arrive at Harbor Grace awaiting weather for leg to Denmark.
Detroit June 23. The mayor of Hamtrack and fourteen others, including several public officials, were named in six teen indictments by the circuit court grand jury. Howard Bowman announced seven indictments against Mayor Rudolph Tenerowicz. The charges include conspiracy to accept bribes.
The Westminster Presbyterian Church will observe the Lord's Supper Sunday morning. All members are urged to attend. Pastor Rev. B N Hart will return from Athens for the service.
Butler County Farm Bureau launched a campaign to boost cotton use by promoting cotton bagging for wrapped cotton bales and cotton sacks for fertilizers and feeds. The action aims to curb jute imports and unite 1734 county farm bureaus in supporting the Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton Association to improve cotton marketing.
France postpones its answer to Hoover's proposal for suspending war debts and reparations as the cabinet studies effects. Officials give no attitude, but deputies show less opposition. Britain accepts in principle to Washington while Germany Austria and Italy informally back the delay. World stock markets respond with steadier trading after yesterday's bullish run.
In Montgomery on June 23 the house blocked several bills amid objections. Sossaman attempted to bring up the Black bill taxing electric utilities more heavily, but failed. Stokes objected to the St John revenue code revision on license privilege, calling for further study. The senate passed the Tunstall bill allowing probate judges to review the last November election.
More than one hundred residents of the eastern city section attended a typhoid fever clinic at the East Decatur Community House on Monday as two local cases prompted precautions. The Morgan County Health Department runs the clinic, the third and final session will be held next Monday at nine o'clock with no charge for the district.
A mistrial was declared in the murder case of Floyce Tapscott, charged in the death of Gussie Lee Preuitt, after jurors failed to agree at the Morgan County circuit court hearing before Judge W W Callahan. A new hearing is set for Thursday June 25 with J N Powell defending Tapscott and Wade Wright the circuit solicitor for the state.
Wade Wright opens for the State in the murder trial of Sam Terry at the Morgan County courthouse. Terry, a white man, faces a jury over the killing of Tillman Points, a Black man, on Trinity's main street. Defense argues self defense claiming Points reached for a pistol. Jury selection continues in the afternoon.
Judge A E Hawkins presides over the eight Scottsboro defendants in Montgomery for murder tied to a railroad incident. Lawyers file notice of appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court which pauses executions until July 10. Attorneys seek to overturn April convictions. defense funds and appeals are being organized nationally as protests spread from German consulates to American groups.
Heading for Wednesday trial in the circuit court states arson case moving forward. The proceedings are scheduled to begin tomorrow with the opportunity for defense and prosecution to present their arguments.
No information emerged today on the whereabouts of Clayton Buford as searches continue for the missing Cullman man. Authorities say no new clues or updates were available in the ongoing investigation.
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