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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1922
Page
1
Police report a doctoral official is shot to death as attackers ambush a vehicle driving toward government offices. Sporadic gunfire from concealed assailants disrupts the scene, and authorities seek clues about motives and the identity of the gunmen.
Berlin reports Dr Walter Rathenau assassinated by pistols in Berlin. a grenade was used from a murder car. Martial law proclaimed in Berlin and a manifesto urged workers to resist a possible Junker uprising. The death removes a key link with Allied relations and the indemnity pact.
In Athens Alabama on June 24 Judge C Kyle began his charge to the twelve jurors examining Russell Malloy a Woodlawn youth charged with assaulting an Epworth League delegate. The courtroom was tightly controlled with deputies as the jury received the evidence previously presented and the legal issues to decide.
Prospects bright for a large audience at the Choral club concert directed by Magic City with Albany Deca Club furnishing the program. The event at the Tabernacle next Tuesday will run about an hour and a half with no intermission. Tickets are twenty five cents for all, proceeds to music purchase and the director’s salary.
Deputy Clyde Sharpe Jr returned from Lacy Springs with Shug Nobles who is wanted in the beating death near Lacy Springs. Four black men were arrested and jailed earlier. two escaped. One surrendered when approached, another fled toward the river area.
Mrs. G. H. Mathis, a notable Alabama woman, will address a tabernacle audience at 8 30 this evening. She will discuss new conditions of women in economic and political life and is expected to attract a large crowd.
Local residents aged 70 and others press the Alabama highway commission to discuss a proposed wagon bridge over the Tennessee River. Albany and Decatur citizens plan to attend the Birmingham meeting to argue the bridge’s highway value. The commission reportedly favors the bridge and included it in Bee Line plans.
The forecast shows generally fair conditions with continued warm temperatures for tonight and Sunday across Alabama. No precipitation is expected and skies should stay mostly clear with elevated daytime highs.
Friday night brought a cooling breeze with a dip in the daytime high, yielding a comfortable evening. The air carried a lake shore resort feel as temperatures eased toward night.
A Ford plant tour narrative highlights the vast visitor flow with 200000 yearly and 48000 in a month. It notes Mr. Ford’s limited time for callers including dignitaries and a 70 year old California traveler, and explains his mail load and appointment system.
Large crowd attends revival led by Rev A V Reese assisting Rev J W Jones at Austinville Baptist church. Reese, with over twenty evangelistic years, reports strong sermons and broad ministry support, inviting attendees to three services including "The Nail Special" Saturday evening and "The Sermon That Keeps the Persons Awake" Sunday morning.
Continuing its policy of returning workers to employment, Louisvilles and Nashville shops report 30 to 50 employees back at work this week, following earlier layoffs. Workers previously laid off are being recalled as production picks up.
Two bandits entered the Merchants Delivery Co office in Kansas City Missouri and shot salesman Edward Myers 56 without a word. Myers died on the spot as the pair jumped from their chairs and fled to a waiting car. The men escaped after the fatal shooting.
Washington dispatch says Henry Ford backers in the House urged delaying the appropriation of 7,500,000 for the Muscle Shoals nitrate plant until October 1 to allow time for a decision on Ford’s offer and possible government resumption of work. Representative Wright and Representative James proposed postponement while Sisson and Mean stressed Muscle Shoals’ strategic nitrate potential and need for completion.
J W Clopton named secretary treasurer and H C Owed elected president of the Clopton Official Creamery Association. The group aims to advance dairy interests in Alabama and invites cooperation from the State Dairy Association and State Farm Bureau.
William Rockefeller, brother of John D. Rockefeller, died in Tarrytown New York of pneumonia. Born in Richmond Tioga County New York he was son of William Avery and Eliza Davison Rockefeller. He married Elmira Geraldine Gossell in 1864 at Cleveland Ohio. Mrs. Rockefeller died two years ago. Estate valued between one and twenty million dollars.
A halfreadable report notes a home on Lafayette Street contained a five gallon whiskey still with a copper button eye ringed by a stove eye. No whiskey was found and the occupant claimed it was in a trash pile nearby. no arrests were made.
P. C. Jordan, a popular engineer of the S. & N. A. division, died Thursday noon in Pensacola after a period of illness. Burial arrangements are being handled locally.
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