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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1939
Page
2
Article outlines how Roosevelt administration plans to expand farm lending and land purchases. It notes Farm Security Administration and REA efforts to provide cheap loans for buying farms, land, equipment, and electric access, with targets across 44 states and rising loan volumes amid tenancy challenges.
The stock market pulled back modestly while traders watched European weather signals for further storms. Volume was light with about 400000 shares trading, reflecting a subdued session amid a recent rally.
The Alabama State Employment Service office at 1010 Ferry Street will be open Monday to accept continued unemployment compensation claims. The offices will be closed all day Tuesday for July 4 observance, manager P. Bull said.
Tony Galento weighs 233 3 4 pounds while Joe Louis checks in at 200 3 4. New York reports Galento arrives late to the New York State Athletic Commission and vows to knock out Louis. Co managers announce Louis corner for the bout slated around 9 p.m. EST.
The speaker argues for a health and educational program if bond payments and interest can be reduced. A county may be energized by savings, and even if the Revenue and Control bill falters, the public will push for a similar measure. Voters have grown tired of perpetual bond waste and interest paid to out of state bondholders.
Hunter Moody and Wilbur Parrish, Decatur airmen, landed their small monoplane in Springfield at 5 23 a m CST after 58 hours 17 minutes of flight, 218 hours record remain unreachable.
The Alabama aviation commission recommended to the federal government that at least seven pilot training schools be established in Alabama—Montgomery, Tuscaloosa, Muscle Shoals, Mobile, Birmingham, Dothan and Anniston.
New Orleans spot cotton remained dull with unchanged prices and ample receipts. Chicago grain ended near session lows as wheat fell up to two cents, corn and soybeans slid, while lard held steady or slipped slightly.
Salable cattle 150 calves 125 demand good prices firm. Steers and heifers 6.50 8.00. fed steers and yearlings 8.50 9.25 top 9.50. Cows bulls 6.50 down. cutter cows 4.00 5.00. Top dealers 9.00. Hogs salable 500, market 20 higher, good and choice 7.00 170 225 lbs. 120 lbs up 6.00 7.00. Sheep 700, no early sales, undertone steady, lambs to 9.50 mostly.
Butter market notes from Chicago on June 28 show unsettled creamery butter at 22 1 4 to 22, 1 2 for centralized carrots at 22 1 2, with scores 90 and 89. Fees listed at 22 963 and prices otherwise unchanged.
Chicago market report notes live poultry at stable levels with two cars and 33 trucks delivering. Fowls steady while chickens ease. white rock broilers quoted around 17 to 22 cents for various grades and fryers mixed.
Senator Bankhead says Roosevelt and Wallace seek a government crop insurance program for cotton, modeled on wheat, with amendments to the wheat act. A Agriculture Department report shows 170,000 wheat farmers covered across 1,300 counties in 30 states, and that both crops face similar risks and losses.
The state supreme court licensed six University of Alabama graduates to practice law in Alabama. Names announced by court clerk J R Thomas include Robert Munger Montgomery Birmingham Greer M Murphy Mobile Floyd Tippin McConnell Mobile Augustus Bruce Cunningham Collinsville Willie Warren Majone Jr Athens and Margaret Arden Crabtree Ensley.
The Decatur school band will give a free concert in Delano Park at 4:00 p m Sunday July 2. The public is invited. This marks the band's second concert appearance directed by Kenneth Henigg who has prepared for weeks. The program will be announced later and a large crowd is expected.
Atlanta police report an unidentified young woman with a bullet wound to the head found near the First Methodist church. Officers found a bus ticket to Birmingham, a key to a bus terminal locker, and items suggesting she may have been a teacher. the cause of death is a revolver discharge.
A proposed Biennial Session Amendment argues a two year cycle reduces costs from 1.7 million to about 278 thousand over a quadrennium. It replaces annual sessions with ten day inaugurations and sixty day calendars plus a 30 day emergency cap, raising member pay to ten dollars daily.
Washington June 26 Senate proponents push for a 500 million public works allocation if needed to pass a relief measure. The appropriations committee rejected 500 million and 250 million options, with talk of a 250 million allotment on the Senate floor. Debate centers on delaying action until committee amendments to a 1.735 billion relief measure are resolved.
The article notes the first price change since March 1938, indicating silver price adjustments have not occurred for years while the foreign silver price is typically kept updated daily.
In Washington on June 28 the house opened with sharp partisan exchanges over extending the Roosevelt administration monetary program. Rep Fish charged that buying foreign silver, now blocked by the Senate, is "absurd" and says Congress would be throwing American dollars down the sewer.
A Tri Cities delegation asked Governor Dixon to have the state take over and toll free the Tennessee river bridge at Muscle Shoals connecting Sheffield and Tuscumbia with Florence. The $1,000,000 span would be funded by state bridge bonds and tolls from passenger cars and trucks would retire the debt. Dr. Henry J. Willingham said completion could come in two to three months.
The Dixie Clipper a 41 ton Pan American flying boat lands at Port Washington New York at 2 10 p m EST marking the start of regular trans Atlantic passenger service by airplane for Pan American Airways.
Montgomery announces that bids will be opened July 14 by the state highway department for 4.64 miles of paved approaches to the new Alabama River bridge at Selma and 1.8 miles of roadside beautification near Uniontown in Perry County.
The New York Yankees belted eight homers in the first game of a doubleheader against the Philadelphia Athletics, breaking a record that had stood since 1886. The feat marked a stunning offensive outburst by the World Series champions.
An incoming governor would gain a three month window to study state affairs and shape a program before the sixty day session begins in May. The current system forces pre-inauguration work at personal expense, leading to impracticalities and half baked legislation.
Decatur notes travel from H H Hunter to Birmingham and many visits, returns, and small events. Local officials, church services, school band plans, alums meeting in Huntsville, and a police court fine are listed with residents and addresses across Decatur and surrounding areas.
U S District Attorney Rene A Viosca schedules a federal grand jury investigation into WPA projects while Paul Hansen chief investigator and J Emory Adams a former LSU bookstore manager are named as early witnesses. Brig Gen Louis Guerre reports Adams aided the Smiths who checked into a Memphis hotel under a false name and left after two hours.
London reports approve a statement by Prime Minister Chamberlain to the House of Commons and final draft of instructions to Moscow as Britain and France push to bring Russia into their aid agreement. In Tientsin the blockade eases and markets react to replenished goods. In Danzig 1,400 civilian-clad entrants raise total to 2,400 for a free corps with smuggled war materiel. In Shanghai the US consul general joins Britain and France warning Japan over port actions on Foochow and Wenchow.
Police detectives in Chicago searched hotels after a telegram from Brigadier General Louis F Guerre said Dr James Monroe Smith and his wife may be in the city after leaving Memphis. Smith is accused of obtaining 500000 from banks on invalid notes.
Junior and senior life saving and water safety courses are taught at Seneca Springs by John Roberts and Stanley Jones. Fourteen students are enrolled with a separate class of 20 for swimming loss. Instructors aim to offer more classes county wide this summer and ask interested persons to contact instructors or the Red Cross office at 110 W. Vine St. Phone 358.
The article notes Administrator Andrews ruling that CIO and AFL textile unions need not provide documentary data on dues-paying members by state or contracting establishments. This response followed Tyre Taylor of the American Cotton Manufacturers Association requesting subpoenas to compel union data.
The passage notes a split among house conferees over interconnections of properties in north Alabama and north Mississippi. Sparkman blames the rejection on those pushing hamstring limitations, arguing the majority’s adamant stance breaks up the purchase and sustains competition in the Tennessee Valley.
Cincinnati June 28. In a landmark AFL CIO case the Supreme Court unanimously set aside a National Labor Relations Board order for a run off to select a bargaining agent for 3,000 Consumers Power Co. workers in Jackson Michigan. The NLRB had ordered UWOC versus none union after a plant election tagged by CIO as improper.
Governor Frank M. Dixon proclaims a statewide election on July 11 1939 to consider an amendment to the Alabama Constitution of 1901. The proclamation orders weekly newspaper publication for four weeks in every county preceding the vote and details the proposed changes to criminal procedure and grand jury provisions.
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