Largest Class At Cotaco High Awarded Diplomas
Cotaco High School graduates 32 students in a June ceremony held in the auditorium. Principal Holladay and Superintendent Quinn presided as valedictorian Emma Sue Lynn and salutatorian Opal Whitten were announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cotaco High School
Ee Geeioeeter School
East Morwan
Exers
Irwin J. Quinn
Marie Wray
Velma King
Hazel Pence
Ruth Culbreath
Flora Lawrence
Alex Sherrill Wiliams
David Couch
Emma Sue Lynn
Eva
Beatrice Key
Somerville
Kathleen Naomi Johnson
Sarah Edith Humphrey
Hartselle
Modell Wray Garrison
Lacey's Spring
Ella Elizabeth Fowler
Helen Marie Dunn
Ruth Wanda Culbreath
Union
AltanBatrice Cryer
Beatrice Bermient
Opal Whitten
Fiora Lawrence
Truman A Abercrombie
Harold McAnally
Kathleen Riley
Susie Lipscomb
I. J. Quinn
J. A
Emma Sue
Henry Ald
Pistol Slaying Defendant Freed in Alabama Jail Release
Bertha Lee Tucker a Black woman freed on $750 bond after a preliminary before Justice J B Dickinson. Tucker facing murder charge for slaying Mollie Hansend last Sunday afternoon with two pistol bullets, Hansend died shortly after.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha Lee Tucker
Morgan County
J. B. Dickinson
Russell Lynne
Mollie Hansend
Woman Seeks Divorce After Husband's Violent Outburst
Mrs Dorothy C Kipp of Burlington New Jersey testified to the divorce master that her husband Samuel of Altoona Pennsylvania battered her during a car ride. He knocked her down kicked her hit her with a bed lamp pulled a gun and threatened to throw her down a well. After he threw her from a kitchen window she decided to sue and was granted the divorce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camden
N. J
Dorothy C. Kipp
Burlington
Samuel
Altoona
Markets Pulse Grinds Slowly Amid Quiet Rally Tactics
New York May 2 dull yet selective gains appear in steels and motors as minor advances offset by thin volume and scattered pullbacks. Transfers run about 650000 shares with bonds steady while foreign exchange remains cautious and cotton shows mixed demand.
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New York
Pathe
Doric
Cotton futures slip on May session at New York
Futures closed 8 to 14 points lower with old and new contracts mixed. May and July positions showed declines while other months traded near nearby levels as Middling spot prices remained nominal.
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Cotton
New York
Cotton futures dip amid fears of Italy entering the war
In New Orleans on May 2 to 7, prices fell sharply then steadied with losses of 5 to 12 points as traders worried about Italy's potential entry into the conflict. May futures opened 10.88 and closed 10.86 with various contract quotes across the board.
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N. O. Cotton
New Orleans
Italy
Cottonseed Meal Futures Steady In Memphis Close
IPL Prime cottonseed meal futures for 41 percent ended steady in Memphis with May 29 price 60.0, July 20.45, September 25.40, October 24.10, December 23.76, and sales totaling 4 100.
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Memphis
Spot Cotton in New Orleans Edges Lower on Quiet Trades
Spot cotton in New Orleans on May 2 closed quietly five points lower. Sales were 6.68 with low middling at 9.79 and middling 10.79 plus good middling 11.24. Receipts totaled 440 and stocks were 679,219.
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New Orleans
Cottonseed Oil Futures Steady in New Orleans Trade
Cottonseed oil futures in New Orleans show steady activity for May through December contracts. Prices range from 5.75 to 6.51 dollars per hundredweight with each month showing slight variations in the prime summer grade.
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New Orleans
Chicago Butter Prices Steady as Filings Hold
Chicago May 2 Butter 810 631 steady with prices unchanged. Fegs 44 215 steady, fresh graded extra firsts local 17, current receipts 15 1 4, difties 14 1 4, other prices unchanged.
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Chicago
Wheat futures dip then close steady amid war scare
Wheat prices slid briefly by four and a quarter cents from the day’s range as war fears spread to Scandinavia. By session end prices were little changed to slightly higher, May at 1.061 1 4 and July at 1.043 8 1 2. Corn rose about a half to three quarters of a cent, oats up about one half to three quarters.
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Chicago
Scandinavia
Grain Prices Reported in Chicago Market Listing
Chicago market notes on May 2 show cash grain bids for wheat corn oats and barley. Prices include No 2 mixed wheat 1.05 1-4 sample hard 1.03 1-4 and corn mixed ranges with No 1 yellow 66 3-4 to 68 1-2, No 2 67 1-4 68, No 4 67 1-2, No 2 white 78, oats No 1 feed 38, No 3 mixed 39 1-2, mixed grain 45 1-2, No 2 white 41 3-4 42, sample grade white 38 1-2 3-4. Barley malting 53-66 nom, feed 40-53 nom, No 2 malting 65, No 3 malting 66. Soybeans No 3 yellow 1.08.
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Chicago
Cattle Hogs and Sheep Prices From Midweek Sale in Nashville
Salable cattle include 150 calves and 150 other cattle with mostly steady to higher prices. Hogs steady with sales of 150 lb and heavier at 5.65 to 6.25. Sheep 100 head with midweek action showing choice spring lambs around 12.00 and old crop wool lambs about 9.50, wooled ewes to 4.50.
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Nashville
Tenn
Dept
Morgan County Lynn Town Social Notes Rally and Visits
Local residents attended a political rally at Rescue on Thursday night. Miss Marguerite Bonds and Miss Edna Earle Edwards of Lacey's Spring visited Miss Earlene Roberson. Edythe Peck joined Earlene Roberson for the 4 H Club rally in Decatur. The community reports cotton planting and several visits among neighbors.
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Marguerite Bonds
Edna-Earle Edwards
Lacey's
Earlene Roberson
James~ Lynn, Jr
Mabe] Gatlin
Florette
Edythe Peck
Decatur
Willie Lawrence
Will. Taylor
Rowe Roberson
Jack
Marvin Lawrence
Your-Want-Aq Expands to 7000 Local Homes
Your-Want-Aq will go into more than seven thousand homes in this area. Telephone 46.
Wages Hours Repeal Debated in House Controversy
In Washington on May 2 the House debated repealing the one hour wage hour law amid 30 plus exemptions. Rep Buck proposed an exemption for about 200 000 workers in small farm cooperatives. Chamber of Commerce resolutions pushed for a broader Wagner act revision.
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Washington
Dema
House
Rep
Buck
D-Calif
United States Chamber of Commerce
Allies Sound Alarm Over Norwegian Campaign Losses
Chamberlain disclosed Allied ships and German transports sunk or damaged as Norwegian operations near Trondheim unfolded. He said Andalsnes was abandoned with no British casualties, and outlined Allied aims to support Norway, retard the German advance, and aid the Norwegian government.
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Andalsnes
Trondheim
Chamberlain
House Chamberlain
House
Germany
Britain
Norway
Finland
Sweden
Baltic
Holland
Denmark
Norwegian
Scapa Flow
Rosyth
Namsos
Chasseurs Alpins
Strikjer
Decatur Cheese Plant Reports Strong Second Day Milk
By noon today the Decatur cheese plant had received 4500 pounds of milk on its second day, following 8000 pounds on opening day. The plant drew new customers from 12 routes and expects growth as farming communities learn the facility operates daily.
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Decatur
Brothers Convicted in Muscle Shoals Lot Scheme
Thomas Deal and his brother Alfred Deal were sentenced to 2 1 2 to 5 years and 1 1 2 to 3 years for grand larceny in a New York case involving selling fake Muscle Shoals Alabama lots. They operated a grand Fifth Avenue suite selling about 200 investors, including widows and retired teachers, on swampland at prices from 100 to 1000 dollars while paying promoters about 15 dollars each.
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New York
Thomas Deal
Alfred
Muscle Shoals
Ala
Charles Tillinghast, Jr
Fifth Avenue
Decatur Diary Notes Local, Regional Happenings
Decatur diary items include visits by Mr. and Mrs. C W Hudson of Paris Texas to relatives, Derby day plans, church meetings with Dr Ashley Chappell in Ensley, and various local engagements. Also reported are weather forecasts, political rally views, Elks initiations, hospital updates, and personnel movements across Decatur and nearby areas.
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C. W. Hudson and Son
Paris
Texas
G. W Hudson
6Th. Avenue
South
Senate Overrides FDR Veto on Travel Pay for Philippines Service
The Senate voted 16 to 3 to override President Roosevelt and approve travel pay and food allowances for officers and men held in service in the Philippines after the Spanish American War. The House had previously overridden 274 to 82.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Phillippines
Spain
House
Congress
Burke
D-Neb
Violence Marks Strike At Hotel Nashville Tehn
A strike of service employees at the Andrew Jackson hotel in downtown Nashville entered its second day with two violence incidents. A non striking worker was attacked late at night near a garage, police say three assailants fled the scene. A later bullet cracked the hotel confectionery window but did not enter the room.
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Nashville
Tehn
Andrew Jackson
Eugene Dillard
Dillard
Kiwanis Prepare for Danville Trip and Dinner
Kiwanis club members prepared for a Danville visit this evening arriving by 7 30 and dining at Danville High School. Alabama Agriculture Commissioner Hagood Paterson will be the principal speaker in a program organized by Charles W Young and the agricultural committee.
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Kiwanis Chib
Danville
Hagood Paterson
Alabama
Charles W. Young
Waterways bill passes with cuts to New York and Florida projects
A Senate-House conference committee approved a rivers and harbors bill authorizing 110.04 million dollars in expenditures. It struck a 34.5 million New York East River harbor project and a 3.96 million Caloosahatchee river drainage project in Florida, while restoring a 3.7 million Guadalupe river project in Texas. The New York item was rejected as non essential and a potential national defense item per President Roosevelt's letter.
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Washington
Senate-House
East River Harbor
New York City
Florida
Caloosahatchee River
Lake Okeechhobee
Guadalupe River
Texas
Bailey
D-Nc
Senate Commerce Committee
House
New York
Roosevelt
Johnson J Monroe Johnson Nominated to I C C
Johnson of South Carolina is nominated to join the Interstate Commerce Commission. He is praised as a man the South can rely on for fair treatment and described as an old and close friend of the nominating executive. Governors' conference members push for a successor to Marion Caskie.
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J. Monroe Johnson
South Carolina
Dixon
Governors’ Conference
Marion
Caskie
Montgomery
Surviving Short quadruplets return home in Alabama
Faith Charity and Franklin Short, three of the quadruplets born January 14 in a coal miners shack, were back at their Naudon home in Nauvoo Alabama for the first time since their birth.
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Nauvoo
Ala
Faith
Charity
Franklin
De cat ur High School Fin al s and Commencement Dates
Finals start at Decatur High School with class night on Friday May 24. The Baccalaureate sermon will be preached by Lindsay Allen of Grant Street Church of Christ on Sunday May 26 at Riverside auditorium. Finals are set for Monday May 27 in the auditorium.
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Decatur High School
Lindsay Allen
Grant Street Church of Christ
Riverside Auditorium
TIO
Strategic Tactics for Norway and Italy War Outlook
A veteran analyst weighs Allied choices in Norway and the broader war. He argues that risky operations may be needed despite losses, notes Mussolini’s possible delaying stance, and observes Germany’s resource strain from the blockade. The piece frames morale, strategic prudence, and economic pressure shaping outcomes.
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England
France
Ypres
Hell's Fire Corner
Norway
Italy
Signor Mussolini
Phillips
Mussolini
Duce
Tl Duce
Germany
Hitler
Denmark
Collision Injures Man on Wheeler Highway Intersection
John M. Sheats of Moulton Heights was injured when his car collided with a truck driven by W. M. Bendall of Courtland at Wheeler Highway and McCarroe Street on Wednesday afternoon. Bendall unhurt. Sheats hospitalized then sent home. Police investigator Pat Thornton reported.
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John M. Sheats
Moulton Heights
W. M. Bendall
Courtland
Wheeler Highway
McCar Wore Street
Bendall
Mr. Sheats
Benevolent Society Hospital
Pat Thornton
Examinations Set for Alabama State Liquor Store Jobs
John F. Steiner of the Alabama State Personnel Board announced merit system examinations for state liquor store employees and job applicants. The tests will be held at 3 30 p.m. on May 7 by block time in cities including Sheffield Huntsville Gadsden Birmingham Montgomery Opelika Troy Andalusia Dothan and Mobile.
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Montgomery
Ala
John F. Steiner
Alabama State Personnel Board
Sheffield
Huntsville
Gadsden
Birmingham
Gelma
Opelika
Troy
Andalusia
Dothan
Mobile
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Henry Aldridge
America
Will Clown
Bat Harvey
Decatur Elks Lodge
Wall Street
Victor Eubank
Plymouth Rock Springs
R Rankin iv
Poultry
Nashville Livestock
Lynn Town
Given Shoals Property Salesmen
Sally
Whitle
Bort
Decatur’s
Tof
Lonel
Coutsas
Behave Yourself
First Methodist Church
Ashley Chappell
Ensley
R. L. Archibald
The
Central Methodist Church
R. M. Archibald
F. E. Sowers
Fort Wayne
Ind
Robert Sowers
C. L. Dobbs
Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
Bob Harrison
Seventh Avenue, West
Hamil Clinic
Ethel Denbo
Athens
Will H. Pearce
W. A. Liverman
Southern Theological Seminary At
Louisville
Robert Moore
Janie and
Montell
Hart- Selle
Route 2
Detroit
Charley Ed Howell
Rufus Norwood
Joe Pettey
Elks Lodge
M. J. Cagle
Route 1
E. C. Price
J. J. Ogle
J. E. Wright
W. T. Dean
Sapam
Margaret May
Route 4
City
E. R. Graham
Ninth Street
McAfee, Howell and Young Ambulance
Beulah Young
Moulton
Baugh’s Infirmary
E. H. Sharpley
Frances Hundley
Mooresville
Baugh
John D. Davis
Sam H. Malone
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Florence
Johnson
Decatur HP
J. L. Draper
Justice of the Peace
Decatur, Ala
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