Oklahoma City Murder Confession Leads to Wife Slaying
Roger Cunningham, facing habeas corpus, abruptly confessed to strangling his wife Eudora Cunningham on March 6. He guided searchers to her eight-foot grave in a partly filled sewer where her body was recovered by flarelight, ending a 19 day mystery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis E. Barden
Oklahoma City
Eudora Cunningham
Roger Cunningham
Cunningham
George Goff
E. W. Brown
FHA
Brown
Foster High School
Eudora
Lewis R. Morris
Morris
Parity Payments Signal Clash in Farm Aid Debate
Washington lawmakers faced a major test as the House opened voting on a record Agriculture Department appropriation. Republicans pressed to drop the 250 million parity payments while Democrats and farm-area members warned of retrenchment and linked aid to the 150 million WPA relief request. Sabath urged rural support for parity and federal relief, prompting Tarver to denounce the tactic as log rolling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
House
Rep. Tarver
D-Ga
Roosevelt
Congress
WPA
Sabath
Chicago
House Rules Committee
Rep
Tarver
D.-Ga
Troop Four Scouts Return From Hike
Members of Troop 4 Boy Scouts have returned from the Rotary Club camp six miles west of here on Moulton highway where they spent Thursday night. They hiked to and from the camp under the guidance of Gilbert Ford assistant Scout master. Participating were Wade Jacobs Billy Ray Love Kenneth Kirby Thomas Brooks Darr a Peebles Travis Odom Travis Letson Theo Putnam Kirkland Sharp Willard Young Milton Pen Gigree Atlee Phillips Homer Louis Johns and G. W. Sellers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troop 4
Boy Scouts
Rotary Club
Moulton Highway
Gilbert Ford
Wade Jacobs
Billy Ray Love
Kenneth Kirby
Thomas Brooks
Darrah Peebles
Travis Odom
Travis Letson
Theo Putnam
Kirkland Sharp
Willard Young
Milton Pen- Gigree
Atlee Phillips
Homer Louis Johns
G. W. Sellers
Mrs Martha Hardin Dies After Illness At Home
Mrs Martha Leana Hardin 66 died at 3 this morning at her son Otis’s home in Trinity Route 1 after a three week illness. Funeral rites were at 3 p m at Oak Grove with Drinkard Howell directing burial. Survived by sons E E and Otis, four brothers Steve John Warren and Riley Anderson of Blount County and 10 set remains.
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Martha Leana Hardin
Otis
Trinity
Route 1
Oak Grove
Drinkard- Howell
Boettiger Replies to Elliott Roosevelt on Garner for 1940
John Boettiger, publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, fires back at Elliott Roosevelt over Vice President Garner as a possible Democratic candidate. In a letter signed “Mrs. John” he urges Garner to back the New Deal and questions his fit for the presidency or any third term.
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Seattle
Elliott Roosevelt
Garner
John Boettiger
Roosevelt
Fort Worth
Tex
Boettiger
Post-Intelligencer
Elliott
Neck of the Woods
Texas
West
Boettinger
John
Fortune Teller Story Again Circulates in Decatur
The familiar fortune telling hitchhiker rumor reappears in Decatur with motorists allegedly picking up a predictor who foretells a corpse at the end of the trip. The tale claims an accident scene and a driver asked to transport an injured man who dies en route to the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Birmingham
Alabama high school spring football training faces uncertain approval
District voting on spring football workouts in Alabama remains unsettled. Alabama High School Coaches Association President Country Oliver reports four districts in favor, two against, with two more yet to vote by mail. If approved, three weeks of workouts would run in January and February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Country Oliver
Alabama High School Coaches Association
Oliver
Alabama High School Athletic Association
Final rites for H F Johnson stroke victim
Isaac Harvel Fred erick Johnson aged 66 died at 2 15 Friday after a stroke at his daughter’s home in Hartselle Route 1 Funeral services were held at Powell Chapel with Rev Albert Jones officiating Burial was by Drinkard Howell He is survived by four sons Floyd Horace Harold and Lionel and two daughters Mrs R O Stinson and Mrs John Looney
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac Harvel
Frederick Johnson
Powell Chapel
Albert Jones
Drinkard-Howell
Mr. Johnson
John Looney
Hartselle
Floyd
Horace
Decatur
Harold
Trinity
Lionel
Tennessee
R. O. Stinson
Decatur Girls Cast in Queen by the Grace of God
Four Decatur girls join the cast of the play Queen By The Grace of God to be staged at 3 pm Sunday at Sacred Heart Academy in Cullman. Cast members are Rosemary McKenna Ann Hughes Doris Laubenthal and Mary Pat Fitzgerald. The production features notable costuming and setting and is billed as a standout school offering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Sacred Heart Academy
Cullman
Rosemary McKenna
Ann Hughes
Doris Laubenthal
Mary Pat Fitzgerald
Favorable Trade Balance Seen In February
The United States sold $60,524,000 more abroad than it bought in February. Exports reached $217,559,000 and imports were $158,035,000. For January–February 1939, exports totaled $431,468,000 with imports at $336,236,000, signaling a favorable trade balance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Commerce Department
Mrs Gurley Dies At 75 In Somerville
Mrs. John J. Gurley, a well known Morgan County woman, died at noon today at her Somerville home after a long illness. She was 75. Funeral rites are set for 2 p m Sunday at Somerville Church of God with Rev. W. W. Owen officiating. Burial will be at Blue Springs, with Peck in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Gurley
Morgan County
Somerville
Somerville Church of God
W. W. Owen
Peck
Blue Springs
Alabama Education Association urges nine month school term and depoliticizing schools
The Alabama Education Association adopts resolutions calling for a nine month school term from grades 1 through 12 and removal of political influence from school administration. It also asks repayment of a long standing debt to public schools and favors state superintendent appointment by the Board of Education. The group seeks new buildings and expanded funding for education, health, welfare and agriculture, plus equitable tax measures and teacher tenure protections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. T. Maynor
Association
Board of Education
Alabama
Frank M. Dixon
Health, Welfare and Agriculture Departments
Two Million Engaged in Struggle Across Chinese Fronts
Shanghai reports that over two million Chinese and Japanese troops clash on multiple fronts along key rivers with heavy casualties. Battles rage in Kiangsi near Nanchang, as Japanese forces push toward the Hankow Canton railway while Chinese counterattacks and guerrilla actions persist across Shansi and other regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Kiangsi
Sui River
Nanchang
Hankow
Hankow-Canton Railway
Hangchow
Tsientang
Shansi
Chengchow
Wucheng
Kidnapping Attempt Thwarted In New York
A 50 year old black butler reported to police that two would be kidnappers tried to seize the three year old granddaughter of Bishop William T. Manning. He says he frightened them off after refusing a $1000 bribe. The child is Griffith B. Coale and Elizabeth Manning’s daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William T. Manning
Butler
Griffith B. Coale
Elizabeth van Antwerp Manning
Mountain Tarzan Durand Dies After Powellt Bank Heist
Earl Durand known as a renegade of the Rockies ends his nine day flight with a self inflicted shot in Powell Wyoming after attempting a bank robbery. A 17 year old boy Tipton Cox fired the fatal shot that killed Durand. Durand had killed four pursuing men and two officers earlier while evading a posse of over a hundred. The attempted robbery left a 20 year old teller dead. Durand left a letter to Sheriff Blackburn from an Undertaker's Office return address and warned his head would be mounted in the courthouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Powell
Wyo
Earl Durand
Rockies
Tarzan
Durand
Cody
Wyoming
Tipton Cox
Clarksfork Canon
Frank Blackburn
Park County
Powell, Wye
John Gawthrop
First National Bank of
Rain-Maker Experiments Move to Florida Drought
Miss Lillie Stoate, a 67 year old rainmaker from Oxford Mississippi, arrived in Frostproof to test her method by sitting beside Lake Reedy for hours daily. She claims clouds form when she stands by water and has had 400 trials with no failure. John Maxcy of the Florida Citrus Commission funded her rail fare and offered a reward if rain arrives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
Miss
Florida
Miss Stoate
John Maxcy
Florida Citrus Commission
Five Die When Car Plunges From Bath Bridge
Five people drowned in Bath when their automobile plunged from a wooden bridge into fourteen feet of water in a canal. Victims from Horse Creek Valley South Carolina were Ernest Rhodes 23 Reville Johnson 21 Wilson Boyd 23 Ernest Barker 22 and Lewis Widener 21. The car left the bridge before dawn. no survivors or witnesses heard the crash. Bath lies about six miles from Augusta Georgia.
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Bath
8. C
Ernest Rhodes
Reville Johnson
Wilson Boyd
Ernest Barker
Lewis Widener
Horse Creek Valley
South Carolina
Augusta
Brown Begins Third Day In Jail On Court Order
Chattanooga photographer Robert J. Brown stays in jail for a third day as he refuses to reveal a confidential source used to photograph a cockfight. Judge Charles Lusk continued the case without a fixed sentence. News attorney Sam Mead Allester weighs seeking state supreme court review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Tenny
Robert Brown
Jal
Charles Lusk
Acme
Brown
Tenn
Robert J. Brown
Grand Jury
The
Chattanooga News
Lusk
Sam Mead Allester
the News
State Supreme Court
Local man found dead in garage at home
C L McDaniel 63 a well known local citizen was found dead in his automobile in the garage at his home 1420 Fifth Avenue south at 5 oclock Friday. Coroner Bev Howell and a physician ruled heart attack after he had recovered from influenza. He was discovered by neighbor W L Carpenter who saw him on the porch about 3 pm. The garage door was shut and the key not in the car. Funeral services Sunday at 1 pm Drinkard Howell funeral parlors and Roselawn cemetery burial. He leaves a daughter Mrs Bessie Orr a granddaughter Mrs Glenn Shirley two great grandchildren Ruby Glenn and Billy Joe Shirley a brother Leonard McDaniel of Florida three sisters Mrs W M Farrar Mrs E E Evans and Mrs Oma Dees. He was longtime employee of L and N shops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. L. McDaniel
Fifth Avenue
Bev Howell
Mr. McDaniel
W. L. Carpenter
McDaniel
Roselawn
Bessie Orr
Glenn Shirley
Ruby Glenn
Billy Joe Shirley
Leonard McDaniel
Florida
W. M. Farrar
Gadsden
E. E. Evans
Tuscaloosa
Oma Dees
Selma Residents Die in Tennessee Air Crash
Elizabethton Tennessee March 25 Sheriff Ernest Brumit said inspectors from the Department of Commerce would investigate a reconditioned biplane crash that killed three men yesterday. Pilot Houston Armstrong 26 of Selma Alabama. passenger George Masdh 25 of Selma. and Ed Laws 28 Elisabethton mechanic died in the fire after the improvised landing field plunge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabethton
Tenn
Ernest Brumit
Department of Commerce
Houston Armstrong
Selma
Ala
George Masdh
Ed Laws
Mussolini Poised to Deliver Potential Turning Speech
European attention shifts from Berlin to Rome as Mussolini expected to outline colonial demands on France in a looming address. Reported Spanish Civil War negotiations raise fears of an Italian showdown, while Britain and France weigh a broader anti Nazi front and a possible triple entente. Germany plans tax measures to ease finances and pressure on Tokyo for a military alliance amid global tensions.
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Europe
Berlin
Rome
Germany
Italy
Mussolini
France
Spain
Madrid
Chamberlain
Britain
Soviet
Russia
Poland
Bratislava
Slovakia
Lin
Diplomitia
Budapest
Tokyo
Japan
J. T. Clemons Dies at 69 in Hart selle Route 3
J T Clemons 69 died at 4 55 this morning at his home Hart selle Route 3 Funeral services set for Sunday 3 PM at Shoal Creek with Rev Titus Aldridge and Rev L B Town Burial by Drinkard-Howell Survived by widow five sons Henry Albert D P Horace J W Clemons daughter Mrs Clifton Tapscott three brothers Walter G R Luther two sisters Mrs B F Butler Mrs Josie Roberts Memphis Ten Ten grandchildren Pallbearers named E Murphy Slate Forrest Jones Monroe Sams Leon Love William Hudson
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. T. Clemons
Hartselle
Shoal Creek
Titus Aldridge
L. B. Town
Drinkard-Howell
Mr. Clemons
Henry
Albert
D. P
Gadsden
Horace
Decatur
J. W. Clemons
Clifton Tapscott
Rt. 3
Walter
G. R
Luther Clemons
B. F. Butler
Josie Roberts
Memphis
Tenn
E. Murphy Slate
Forrest Jones
Monroe Sams
Leon Love
William Hudson
Weather Outlook and River Gauge for Tennessee and South Atlantic States
The Tennessee River stands at 15.6 feet today with a falling trend. Temperatures range from 59 to 84 degrees with no rain. Alabama expects cloudiness and possible thundershowers in the north tonight and Sunday, lighter along the coast with southerly winds. Tennessee reports occasional showers tonight and Sunday with warmer in the extreme east and cooler areas. The outlook notes frequent showers west of Florida with variable temperatures toward week’s end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Alabama
North Portion
South
Riio
South Atlantic States
Florida
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Adams
Senate
Capitol
Martha Hardin
H. F. Johnson
Decatur Girls
Sacred Heart
Beard
Fengsin
Yellow River
Il Duce
Associated Press
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