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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1933
Page
1
Montgomery Alabama March 18 A plan to introduce selective sales tax bills in the house next week was disclosed by an administration spokesman. The measures would levy five percent on retail sales and ten percent on amusements, with details pending.
Luther Parks faced a second trial for burglary of the Brothers Grant street store on January 20 but a mistrial was declared after jurors could not agree. Theo Parks, tried jointly, was released on an affirm ative charge as evidence failed to reach jury threshold. Police traced them to Sheffield January 27 after clues tied to the Parks and a home search found groceries matching the robbery.
Reports from yesterday indicate anti Japanese societies operate in Chinese regions. A Chinese patrol along Hsiefengkow Pass was wiped out according to a Tokyo official report. One Chinese merchant was murdered and two were kidnapped by suspected groups.
The cotton market eased today with a decline of about 15 points. Middling cotton quoted 6.15 at Decatur, while New York May futures hovered near 6.50 at the close.
The community sing will be convened at the Sixteenth Avenue Baptist church Sunday afternoon at 1:30 oclock. Another good program will be rendered by local and visiting singers. A discussion on changing the date back to Thursday night will be held and all singers are urged to attend.
The Negro High School on West Cherry Street was broken into Friday night and thieves carried off several hundred pounds of coal. The coal bin in the basement was double locked but the lock and chain barrier was broken. Police had no trace of the culprits today.
Sewing rooms at Hartselle and Decatur, opened to aid families with no wage earner, now employ a total of 30 workers. Men are paid $1 per day, women receive the same. Red Cross supplies cloth and garments go to county families. The Hartselle room, in the First Methodist church basement, has 15 women at work, while the Speake room at 501 Bank street has 24 operatives, both praised for workmanship and design.
Montgomery March 18. Alabama's bank holiday extended indefinitely by Superintendent Montgomery for 25 state banks lacking permits for normal business. Reopened banks are unaffected. The banking board says the action is for the best and cites a pending Congress act to extend Federal Reserve benefits to state banks as helpful.
News from Chattanooga reports the death of Captain W. A. Billy McMahan veteran conductor on the Southern Railway. His pleasing personality won him many friends throughout the system.
Special services will be held at the Austinville Methodist Church with Dr. L G Sturdivant presiding elder preaching at 11:00 A M and Rev W Brooks of Danville in the pulpit at 7 15 P M A 30 minute musical program by Rev Brooks children quartet is featured in the evening service.
County project laborers will be paid about $8,000 today for the past week. 2687 workers, 8481 days worked, with applications exceeding 5000 as certification reaches half. Roads drainage via ditching aids passable routes, cemeteries and school grounds are being cleaned and groomed.
Horace M Layman returns after two year absence to Decatur for Sunday morning sermon at Central Baptist Church. He fills in for ill Pastor Dr James Allen Smith by invitation of church and congregation.
Rev E N Hart, pastor of West Church, will preach on the last commandment this Sunday. The sermon emphasizes moral duties to neighbors and devotion to spiritual law.
In Paris on March 18 the Chamber of Deputies debated a proposed resolution by radical socialist Rene Richard to pay 19 million dollars in interest on war debts owed to the United States after France defaulted last December 15. The premier Deladier’s stance remained doubtful, though many deputies expected a majority to favor payment. The debate was not expected to resolve within a week.
Washington March 18 a new farm relief plan was advanced in congress proposing a general banking system for farmers. The house agriculture committee began studying the administration proposal with Secretary Wallace and Farm Board chairman Morganthau amid expectations of early approval.
Rev. Peter M. Dennis of St. John's church will address the Pilot Club at their regular meeting Monday night. He will speak on the subject The Present Time. The gathering starts at 6 30 at the Junior Chamber of Commerce hall.
Fire caused slight damage to the residence of W. T. Simpson at 114 Eiggth Avenue West. Sparks on the roof early Thursday morning started the blaze. The house is owned by Charles H. Eyster.
Mr and Mrs Sid Dixon and James, formerly of Trinity, have relocated to Oldham Mississippi where they intend to make their future home.
The Decatur Kiwanis club formal session expresses unanimous appreciation for President Roosevelt’s Tennessee River basin development plan announced at Warm Springs and included in Norris bill. It urges revival of business, job growth across eight states, and pledges full local cooperation to promote the project.
Gilbert Friend of Plant City Florida and his three children were found dead beside the grave of his wife in Philadelphia. Each child had a bullet through the heart, the bodies covered with a blanket except for the heads. A pistol lay near Friend who left a note saying he was grief stricken over his wife’s death on January 5. The children were Robert eight Helen six and Kenneth seven.
Thomas E. Knight Jr. Alabama attorney general, a Decatur visitor, did not reveal his mission but is expected to lead prosecution of the seven Negro defendants in the Scottsboro case. The trial opens March 27, and Knight said he would return around that date.
Sheriff Bud Davis returned Otis Burnett to Tennessee state penitentiary Friday and came back to Decatur last night. Accompanied by Officer Dan Ryan of Falkville, Burnett was a state witness in the Coleman Caraway trial, and is serving a 20 year sentence for a bank robbery in Tennessee.
D W Speake of Speake Warren Ratiff received a Roosevelt reply to a letter about a Republican clothing maker declaring conversion to Roosevelt policies. Speake urged more converts and praised the president noting support.
Attendance at St Pauls Lutheran church Lenten services increases with sermons drawn from beloved Songs of the Cross. Two songs featured so far are Just As I Am Without One Plea and When I Survey the Wondrous Cross. Tomorrow night the song In the Cross of Christ I Glory will be the sermon background at 7 30 p.m. Public invited.
Willie Burt, a Black man, was sentenced in circuit court on Friday to 99 years for the January 5 slaying of Annie D. Pruitt. He claimed self defense saying she attacked him with a knife as she walked to the yard edge. Prosecution noted Burt had borrowed a gun earlier that morning and had prior gun-borrowing attempts.
Memorial service at Westside Presbyterian Church begins 7 15 Sunday evening with piano prelude hymns prayers and readings. Mrs M E McCluskey and Mr Bell Howell read the roll of the deceased and messages from loved ones. Congregational hymns include When They Ring Those Golden Bells and The Haven of Rest. Choir performs Living For Jesus with announcements and offering to follow.
The Junior C E Society plans a Sunday afternoon program at 2 30 in Westside Presbyterian Church. Billy Hopper will lead on The Shepherd, with readings from Psalm 23 by Endeavorers and Dolores McCluskey singing The Heart of a Shepherd as a special solo. Juniors wishing to join are invited to unite with us.
Dr. James Allen Smith, pastor of Central Baptist Church, has been ill at home for weeks but shows signs of improvement. He remains unable to fill the pulpit yet hopes to resume pastorate duties within a few days.
President Roosevelt aims to fast track his emergency program through Congress with two more measures next week including beer revenue and economy. Railroads banking and unemployment relief lead the legislative push as Congress races to finish by late April or early May. The administration expects savings from reorganizing agencies and cutting veteran and government salaries in the economy bill already approved.
Prof A B Murphree of Eldridge Alabama will speak at the Sixteenth Avenue Church in Decatur Sunday at 7 30 p m about the Mountain Mission. He has long taught in the county and now directs mountain mission schools doing important work among the mountains.
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