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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1941
Page
2
The Morgan county championship team held a garden mill themed banquet for about 80 people. Students decorated the gym with an old mill wheel stage setting while players received letters from buckets on the moving wheel. Mrs Ciger led a bountiful menu and faculty addressed the group with songs and remarks.
Markets show stocks uneven as import commodities push futures higher. Cotton futures rise to seasonal highs on strong textile notes while meat and grain futures show varied movement across Chicago and New York trading floors.
In New Orleans on May 1 Cottonseed futures closed strong with stable to higher quotes. July contracts at 9.00B, September 9.10, October 9.21B, December 9.17B, with bids steady and crude prices around 8.12 to 28.25.
Spot cotton closes steady with gains of .? points. Sales report shows 769 bales traded, price tiers cited include low middling 9, middling 11.36, good middling 11.91. Receipts zero, stock at 494,870 bales.
In Chicago on May 1 the wheat market showed mild fluctuations as reports awaited. May futures rose slightly to 91 1 8 and July to 89 5 8 3 4 while corn held steady, rye gained 3 4 to 1 1 8, and soybeans were mixed with slight declines.
Butter receipts total 988,274 with no change in market. Egg receipts 36,143 steady. checks 18 1 4. Storage packed firsts 223 4 and other prices unchanged.
Chicago buyers received poultry live stock prices with 37 trucks. Hens strong. Chickens weak. Broilers 2 1/2 pounds and under. Plymouth Rock and White Rock varieties listed with weights 18 1/2 to 21 1/2 pounds. Springs and colored stock noted with 21 pounds and up.
Dorothy Fay Fretwell, Mary Mc Means, Doris Gunn and others appear in a roster of Moulton Heights faculty. Principal Alvis Briscoe leads staff including Faye Bynum English Bud Bynum coach science Dorothy Parker Cleere social studies Irene Sheats grades four and five Mary Terry grades two and three Dottle Lamon first grade Joe Burt music.
Salable cattle 125 head with cows and cutters showing strength. Slaughter cattle and yearlings mostly 8.00 to 11.00 with top fat cattle around 11.00. Salable hogs 500 with good and choice 190 to 250 pounds around 7.25 to 7.65 and sows about 6.55. Sheep 300 with spring lambs 12.00 to 13.00 and fat lambs to 10.00. fat ewes around 6.00.
Sergeant James W. Barnes announced the local Army recruiting office has accepted several men for Air Corps assignments to MacDill Field Orlando Air Base and Eglin Field Florida and for Ordnance Aviation at Orlando. Vacancies remain with a waiting list planned for other branches and applicants are urged to apply in person or by mail.
President Roosevelt asked Congress to authorize a 20 million dollar appropriation for an inter American highway to the Panama Canal. Secretary Hull attached a draft bill proposing the United States pay two thirds of the cost with the road aiding defense. The route reaches the canal through central American terrain.
Andrew Cox father of Sanford Cox died suddenly of a heart attack at his Union City Tennessee home. He was manager of Crescent Amusement company theatres. Mr and Mrs Cox left immediately for Union City. Funeral services not yet arranged.
Belpton Ga May 1 The mayor faced two residents of a negro settlement known as Sweet Heaven charged with fighting and disturbing the neighborhood. Concluding they had been keeping company the mayor ordered a life sentence and required them to marry at once. The couple agreed they would remain a married pair in future disputes.
Decatur Kiwanis Club lost to Cullman Kiwanis despite near perfect April attendance. Decatur will host Cullman next Thursday with a dinner prize for the winning club. Members discussed attending the Kiwanis International Convention in Atlanta in June and the summer meeting schedule.
A Danville 4-H member recounts planting cotton after crimson clover, yielding $31.86, and describes community fairs livestock sales rising to $8,000. He lists leadership roles from 1938 to 1940, speaking at state conventions in Auburn, and credits 4-H for his education choice while noting nine offices and strong club growth.
Webster McLeod of Decatur Alabama son of Mr and Mrs EF W McLeod won the state essay contest on Americanism sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary. His five hundred word essay My Responsibility to America Today and Tomorrow placed first in the state finals and will be sent to national judging with entrants from forty seven states.
The article notes a cooling-off period for defense industry strikes and that Democratic Leader McCormack of Massachusetts wants other bills taken up before the controversial labor measure.
Montgomery officials say nearly all of Alabama's 21 000 idle coal miners have applied for unemployment compensation but eligibility rulings are not yet made. Courts previously ruled that idle workers in labor disputes may be ineligible, while captive miners have qualified. A three week waiting period applies before payments begin if eligible.
Twenty nine members of Courtland High School Junior 2 class visited The Daily Wednesday afternoon. They were accompanied by Mrs. C G Horton teacher Dudley Reding school trustee and bus driver.
Postmaster R. T. Sheppard announced that rural route inspection week will start May 12. He said the post office will cover all rural routes with mail carriers and urged rural box holders to ensure their mail equipment is in good shape by then to avoid adverse reports.
Decatur area residents and visitors are noted in a series of short items. J B Patterson visits on business. W G Blackwell Jr and Dorothy Blackwell return from trips to South Alabama Georgia and Florida. Mary Hughes attends the Kappa Mu Epsilon convention in Warrensburg Missouri. Floyd Ragsdale returns from Huntsville. Several locals are hospitalized or ill at Baugh’s Infirmary and Benevolent Society hospital.
In a three week Tobruk siege British forces report fighting continues as Axis bombardments intensify. Luftwaffe attacks and long range guns rise on Britain’s coast while experts warn of a possible German invasion of England aided by renewed US aid. Soviet Timoshenko pledges a strong counter to any imperialist move.
The Birmingham Barons announce the release of right handed pitcher Moore and the signing of infielder Emil DeJonghe in Birmingham Alabama. Moore, acquired from Indianapolis last year, was a catcher turned pitcher. DeJonghe came from a Montreal trade this spring after delaying reporting.
Police Chief W P Moore returned from Macon Georgia with Almon Jenkins who is charged with burglary and grand larceny in connection with cotton seed theft from Producers Gin. Jenkins was captured in Georgia by Moore and Deputy Sheriff J C Calhoun and is held in Morgan county jail.
The article explains a Merchan t marine restructuring to move 2 500 000 tons of Great Lakes shipping into intercoastal routes freeing vessels for the bridge to Britain. It notes placing a weekly single ship into immediate commission as part of the effort.
Flint Junior High will graduate eight students and the elementary school will issue 20 graduation certificates. The exercises, with the high school seniors led by valedictorian Willard Harvel and salutatorian Juanita Johnson, will be held Thursday night, May 8, in the school auditorium.
The Commonwealth & Southern Corporation says its corporate structure is simple in response to an orders-to-show cause regarding why it should not be required to simplify its organization and have a single class of stock.
The Maritime Commission projects 700000 tons this year 2500000 tons next year and 3500000 to 4000000 tons in 1943 as part of a program to expand shipbuilding and tonnage. It discusses using accelerated legislation to seize or requisition foreign flagged ships now in U S ports including Danish Italian and German vessels to meet national needs. The administration may purchase requisition or charter these ships under the current bill or through direct action if legal obstacles arise.
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