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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1932
Page
1
A safety notice urges open doors and windows when running engines indoors to vent deadly carbon monoxide. It warns that CO is colorless and fatal quickly, promotes the Prone Pressure Method, emphasizes muffler maintenance, and cites state safety rules requiring working mufflers and no unlawful exhaust modifications.
W W Vinson of Baileytown is reported much improved at Benevolent hospital after being injured when an old store building collapsed during razing for a barn. His son Earnest Vinson died from injuries sustained in the collapse despite his efforts to help.
The Knoxville Smokies climb out of last place by beating the New Orleans Pelicans 9 to 4. Benny Karr debuted for Knoxville in a relief role.
Camp Ki-Y continues to go over in a great way and arrangements have been made to extend it another week. Carleton Kelley will be here Saturday to take applications of boys for the next week.
Alabama license inspector Tidwell announced trailer license tax enforcement from today after Attorney General Knight’s office provided a ruling. The law bases tax on factory tonnage, not load carried, requiring pay of fifty percent of motor vehicle license tax by which the trailer is drawn.
Clayton Buford to serve twelve years in the penitentiary on a robbery charge. Leonard Buford received fifteen years in connection with the same offense. The duo, once jailed in Cullman county during Morgan county custody, attracted strong courtroom attention.
The circuit court will adjourn Saturday afternoon after a steady week of progress and many jail cases. Numerous prisoners remain at Morgan and Madison county jails, possibly prompting an extra term due to crowded conditions.
Gladys Jackson a Black woman was convicted today of second degree murder after a short deliberation. The jury recommended a sentence of one year and one day as the penalty. About two hundred Black spectators filled the courtroom during the verdict.
By council agreement Athol Aldridge and James Aldridge two African Americans pay a $40 fine each for the shooting of Henry Schweitzer a Cullman game warden Schweitzer wounded months ago but recovered previously trial ended in mistrial defended by T C Almon cases not scheduled for this term of court
A Fourth of July celebration is planned at the Odd Fellows Home in Cullman announced by Superintendent Myrick. A basket dinner will be served at noon and the public is invited to join the day with the children.
Rev. Ernest N. Hart, teaching at Athens in a young people's conference, will return to Decatur to preach at Westminster Presbyterian Church Sunday morning. In the evening he will present a program by conference participants featuring James McClendon on the organ.
Jonas Northern Erick Davis and William White, two Black suspects and one White man, went on trial for the robbery of Sam B. Stout, a Ft. Payne youth hitchhiking in Morgan County. Stout testified that Northern ordered him off the highway into a field and forced him to undress amid threats. The grand jury had previously raised funds to send Stout home after the incident.
There was very little difference in the close of the cotton market to day, compared with Thursday's close. Middling seven-eighths cotton is quoted here at about four and one-half.
German woman pilot telephoning from Bangkok reported Siamese army mutinying and holding the royal family as hostages to back a revolution. The royal palace was surrounded, the king and relatives moved to a warship, tanks roamed streets, and machine guns were seen. the army commander was said killed resisting arrest. The cabinet fled.
Federal Judge W. I. Grubb is awarded an honorary LLD by Yale University, the alma mater he left 49 years ago, drawing interest from many Alabama friends.
An uninvited tramp claimed New Orleans as his home and mowed a yard at Rucker Mason’s house after a late visit. He returned early the next day to work then sold the mower for 1.50 at Hosiery Mills before police recovered it.
Urey Woodson the Owensboro editor and publisher is among a small group to have attended every Democratic national convention since 1880. Also noted are William H Warder and Col Nicholas M Bell who did so, with Bell having died five months earlier. Woodson serves as a delegates at large from Kentucky to the Chicago convention opening June 27.
The text recalls the 1880 Democratic convention at Cincinnati Music Hall nominating Winfield Scott Hancock and William E. English. The author notes voting for them in November and remembers key figures like John Kelly and Col. John R Fellows, plus Henry D McHenry and a long tenure as Kentucky Democratic national committeeman.
Washington faces a congressional clash as Speaker Jack Garner and the Senate wrestle over unemployment relief. The Senate sent a relief bill to conference with the House, including 300 million dollars in loans to states, aiming for quick action amid a possible veto.
Birmingham, June 24. Tom McCombs, 38, was shot in the back and killed by federal prohibition agents near suburban Irondale after a raid that led to ten arrests. John McCombs, his brother, helped deliver liquor and was among those arrested. The rifle chamber was found empty. officer Hutto was absolved.
Roosevelt forces press for changing the national convention rule on nominating by a simple majority. Mayor Hague and Al Smith allies push back, while Tennessee and Wheeler back the reform. Georgia's Howell joins delegation to back the rule change.
About 1500 spectators gathered at Crystal Plunge to watch the water carnival organized by Manager E. Walker. Mooning won the senior boys contest and Eaware Meadows the junior boys event.
Mrs Grace J G Grace of seventh avenue south is reported ill at her home. The notice notes her residence and illness without further details.
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