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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Mar 14, 1939

Page

3

Conflicting Talks on Big Power Sale in Tennessee

Conferences aimed at finalizing Commonwealth and Southern sale to TVA and city districts were suspended. TVA officials swirled between Washington and Nashville amid technical disputes over valuation and legal authority, with local boards seeking independent surveys and clearer figures before proceeding.

Tennessee Chattanooga Tenn Commonwealth & Southern Corp Tennessee Valley Authority TVA Joseph A Swidier J. A. Krug Washington Yates Justin Whiting David Lilienthal Capitol Florida Norris Nashville Power Board Tepco Holdings J. D. Goodpasture Krug John H. Bickley Goodpasture Léon Jouromon State Utilities Commission Nashville Tennessee Electric Power Company Jourolmon Commission TEPCO Power Board

Wife Traders Face Charges In Alabama Case

Four residents near Red Bay Alabama await grand jury action on bigamy charges after a Feb 24 ceremony in Fulton Mississippi. Wives Della Brand and Annie Fay Johnson and husbands W D Johnson and Odell Brand faced bonds set at 300 and 1000 dollars respectively as police detailed land and custody outcomes.

Russellville Ala D. C. Nix W. D. Johnson Odell Brand Red Bay Nix Johnson Della Brand Brand Annie Fay Johnson Fulton Miss. Nix L. A. Jackson Anne (Johnson) Brand Sheriff Nix Della Brand Johnson

Scout Activities at Troop Eleven Meeting

Troop Eleven met Monday night at 7:00 with Raymon Baker blowing assembly and taps. A. B. Harvey led as acting senior patrol leader. Gerald Fields and Paul Marion were voted as new Tenderfoot scouts.

Raymon Baker A. B. Harvey America Gerald Fields Paul Marion Speer

Shamrock Texas Embraces St Patrick’s Day Irish Spirit

Shamrock Texas with a population around four thousand stages a big St Patrick’s Day celebration. Men grow beards and dress in green top hats and long-tailed coats while colleens wear festive outfits. The town’s high school groups are nicknamed The Irish and The Colleens with green and white colors, and My Wild Irish Rose is the song.

NEA Shamrock Tex Texas Panhandle St. Patrick's St. Patrick An oTay Colleens

St Patricks Day Festival Draws 20 000 Visitors

The Donegals club sets chinchairs 60 days before St Patrick s Day to ensure lush beards. Events include a long parade with float and comedy prizes a beauty contest a marching band contest and an all Irish grid game. Shamrock festival attracts 20 000 visitors and grows yearly.

Shamrock

Millionaire Founder of Poultry Transit Dies at 78

Francia X. Mudd, founder of the Chicago Live Poultry Transit Company and Knight of St. Gregory, died in 1987 at age 78. His final estate shows donations to the church over 300000 and a remaining value of 56.24 million with adoptive daughter Roseary Mudd as sole heir.

Chicago Francia X. Mudd Chicago Live Poultry Transit Company Pius XI St. Gregory Roseary Mudd

Four men beheaded in Berlin treason case

Four men convicted of attempted treason were beheaded in Berlin today. The executed were Peter Kasper age 31 Hans Hoefer 32 Martin Hemmes 23 and George Gottwald 37 in the public square following a treason trial.

Berlin Peter Kasper Hans Hoefer Martin Hemmes George Gottwald

Alabama State Tax Returns Due By March Fifteenth

Commissioner John C. announces 1938 state income tax returns must be filed by March 15 with the Department of Revenue in Montgomery. Individuals with net income 1500 or more, single, or 3000+ if married and living with spouse, must file. corporations, partnerships, fiduciaries, estates or trusts meeting the income thresholds also must file. Revenue agents will assist taxpayers at key offices in Montgomery Birmingham and Mobile without charge.

Sioner John C Curry Carly Alabama Itecome Taax State Department of Revenue Montgomery Department of Revenue Income Tax Division Capitol Building County Tax Assessor Birmingham Cawthon Mobile

Galveston Quads Placed With Chamber For Publicity

Mr and Mrs W E B Badgett announce their girl quadruplets born February 1 will reside in Galveston Texas under an agreement with the Chamber of Commerce. The chamber may publicize the family but cannot commercialize the children.

Galveston Tex W. EB. Badgett Chamber of Commerce Wollen

Want Ads Prompt: What 40 You Have to Sell Use Ads

A compact call to use want ads to sell items. Mentions a phone number 46 for contact. Encourages readers to list goods for sale and use the classified section as the selling channel.

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