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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1939
Page
2
Bogard a 17 year old motion picture juvenile was slugged while walking home from a movie near Los Angeles City College. Officers say the assailant used timber similar to that used in the Sosayeva case and fear a serial attacker may be involved as investigators review two incidents with separate victims.
Minor losses appear in early dealings on March 20 with several big names like Anaconda Chrysler General Electric General Motors Loew's New York Central and U S Steel trading fractionally lower. Hesitation lingers in steel and consumer goods as revival hopes dip after Europe crisis.
Fragmentary Reuters style text reports cotton futures opening unchanged to lower with references to Liverpool Bombay and various numbers but lacks coherent details or a clear event. Many distorted terms and stray figures obscure specifics.
Regular devotional service and Bible study at First Christian church Thursday at 7 30. Dr Edwin Wyle reviews The Troubled Lord His Resort and Ours from John 12 27. Four deacons will be ordained at Sixteenth Avenue Baptist church: G W Norwood Eugene Brown Otis Segars Paul Mc Cluskey I G Safley ill but improving.
Miss Hope Brewster, a 24 year old violin teacher and Memphis College of Music instructor, was located safe in Helena Arkansas after a missing persons alert. Authorities say she paddled from Memphis in a two dollar skiff, planning to go to New Orleans, and surfaced after a strenuous journey downriver aided by daylight search by planes and boats.
Hearing on government contracts totaling about 93.18 million dollars criticizes the immigration department. Rep Engel argues deportations fell after Perkins took office due to halting arrests without warrants of aliens suspected of illegal entry. She cites the drop in immigration and the Depression as contributing factors.
The search for Miss Brewster centers on a possible stop in Plaquemine Louisiana near her sister Mrs. W. K. Hester as relatives fear she left to see Priscilla's baby. Rivermen doubt she can navigate unseen chutes due to river hazards while a Memphis sports man doubts she remains on the river.
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