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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1941
Page
2
Washington reports early tax payments run 8 percent ahead of 1942 under the defense tax, with 10,000,900 taxpayers due by March 15. Treasury predicts 15 million individuals and 3.5 million corporations will file. exemptions cut to 2000 for heads and 800 for singles, and a 10 percent surcharge is added.
Laidie Alex Pete Andrews 26 died at 5 30 AM Monday at 1021 Grant Street after a long illness. Rites set for 1 PM Tuesday at the residence with Christ officiating Drinkard directing burial in Antioch cemetery Limestone County. Survived by mother Mrs Willie W Andrews three brothers H F Andrews Alva J Andrews Robert L Andrews and two sisters Mrs E O Walker and Mrs W R Spark Birmingham. Pallbearers named Neil Cagle Arthur Martin Ben Colfey S T Ne
AID Po continues as Walsh, leading the Naval committee, objects to the British aid measure. He argues the proposal grants blanket approval of policies likely to push the United States toward war in Europe or Asia and says the bill is neither wise nor prudent. Smathers and Tunner wrap up brief remarks before Walsh takes the floor.
French officials in Vichy acknowledged concessions to Japan over Indochina but denied Tokyo had full terms. They said Thailand or Siam was involved and that only parts of provinces were yielded, with details not disclosed. One official noted Paris yielded to Japan, not Siam.
Stocks eased with steels and rails leading the decline while overall volume stayed light. Futures closed little changed with mixed grain prices and hogs and cattle showing modest moves in Chicago and New York trading arenas.
A House committee faults overlapping agency work and last month procurement practices in rural programs. It urges reexamination of research grants and supports full REA loan levels with stable annual funding. The panel also backs deregulating payment holds for farmers who miss acreage rules under crop control.
City hall issues a building permit to Tennis Odom to erect a five room frame dwelling with a composition roof at 1224 East Eighth Avenue. The project cost is listed as 8750 dollars.
Butter receipts reach 15 317 with steady prices. Creamery scores show mixed numbers and carrots listed at 20 12. Eggs receipts total 26 393 with steady quotes for graded extra firsts and locals around 16. Eggs, local and firata lines show 16 12 to 16 34.
U S Dept of Agriculture report from Nashville on March 3 shows 700 cattle and 160 calves salable with slaughter cattle steady. Hogs 600 salable, market 20 cents higher to steady. Sheep 50 salable, fat lambs up to 10.00 and springers up to 16.00 with cattle and hogs mix steady.
Cash grain prices in Chicago on March 3 show wheat at 74 cents for a hard sample, corn values for various No. groups ranging from 66 1/2 to 55 1/2, oats with mixed grain at 35 and white grades around 34 to 38, and soybeans at No. 2 yellow 04 1/2 to 95 1/2 with other grades listed. The report covers No. 1 through No. 5 corn, No. 1 and No. 2 oats, and No. 2 to No. 4 soybeans with multiple price points.
Campaign organizers announce a list of volunteers joining the effort led by Rogers and Fitzpatrick. The schedule foresees monthly meetings with directors and Chamber of Commerce members to gather suggestions and criticisms, making participants feel part of year’s programs.
Drivers escaped unharmed when two cars collided on Joe Wheeler Highway two miles west of Decatur at 10 oclock Monday morning. Ollie J. Stone of Wylam drove one car and Tom Sullivan of Decatur Route 1 EE led the other. Damage was about 300 dollars to the Wylam car and 35 dollars to the Sullivan car.
Excavation is nearing completion for a large warehouse at the Southern Cotton Oil Company plant on Holly Street. Construction will start in coming days to provide substantial extra storage space. The project cost was announced and the building is slated for occupancy in the near future.
Federal grand jury in Washington indicted Dr. Friedrich Ernst Anhagen a Nazi propagandist for failing to register as a paid foreign agent. The charge covers disseminating German propaganda in the United States through lectures meetings motion pictures articles and leading the American Fellowship Forum and its journal Today's Challenge.
Britain and Bulgaria edge toward break in diplomatic ties as German formations push toward Greece and Turkey. Eden and Dill arrive in Athens for crisis talks while Bulgaria leans into the axis. Ploesti raids and Dardanelles restrictions amplify regional instability.
Wetumpka Alabama March report says Thomas A Mims bookkeeper at Draper prison was arrested in Birmingham on two warrants for embezzlement and forgery. Col. W E Persona says audits found 5936 in discrepancies. Mims released on 500 bail on one charge and handed four checks deemed forgeries to Attorney General Lawson along with the Draper audit.
Blue proprietors milkmen street car workers newspaper deliverers and many others faced charges for violating a law. J Gordon Walsh radio manager was arrested while Rev A H Kieffman defended broadcast as necessity. Officials cited state house action rejecting a repealer amendment as the trigger for the enforcement push.
Baynard L. Malone rests at home as local churches plan meetings. Howard College student Halbrooks Jr. visits home folks. Deacons of Southside Baptist and First Presbyterian note Monday and evening gatherings. Several residents attend court, visit Birmingham, or host/recuperate from illness. A Moody Bible Institute representative shows slides at Central Baptist. Local residents and travelers are listed with several brief updates.
A homing pigeon from the A. Kahrs loft in San Diego raced 260 miles through high winds snow and rain from Gila Arizona to San Diego at about 33.5 mph. In Colorado four trainmen stranded in a Denver & Rio Grande Western freight cabin cooked emergency rations as a blizzard dumped 12 inches of new snow atop 96 inches. A missing North American Aviation training ship en route to Canada prompted search flights from Kingman to Salt Lake City while Cedar City Utah and dust storms hindered recovery efforts. West coast rainfall brings Los Angeles total to 23.16 inches since mid December, more than double normal.
Bill McCathren of Moulton route 2 was arrested after a police chase following a collision with three other cars on Second avenue. He had struck vehicles owned by Aubrey Fuller and Leon Moody on Fourth avenue near Jackson street, causing substantial damage to all three cars.
The report notes Hitler aims to coerce Greece through threats at the Bulgarian frontier while Athens debates peace terms. Yugoslavia may join the axis, and Sofia’s move is seen as a diplomatic coup that widens Nazi influence across the Balkans and toward an Aegean corridor.
Baynard Malone is ill at home yet joins four Decatur Chamber of Commerce memberships for 1941 and plans to take on civic tasks once back at his desk.
An ad promotes Mentholatum as a modern remedy for blocked nostrils and cold discomfort. It urges direct nasal use and external application to ease stuffiness and sneezing, claiming rapid relief and universal benefits.
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