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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1936
Page
2
York market notes show stocks tumbling early then recovering as buyers returned for industrials and select commodities. Cotton futures in New York and New Orleans closed mixed to steady with gains and losses in the 2 to 4 point range, spotlighting American and international demand.
Markets show a steady to uneven tone with blocks steady after an early slump. Bonds mixed while rails, utilities curb irregular. oils and tes decline. Foreign exchanges uneven with a strong pound. Cotton quiet with favorable weather aiding trade. Brazilian prices higher but oversold pit weaker. hogs steady to 10 lower. Liverpool cotton at 8000 bales with American nil. Spot.
In Chicago on May 4 the wheat futures market shows irregular quotes with May at 4.97 to 4.98 and July around 8.54 to 8.87, reflecting shifting demand and supply concerns amid volatile trading.
Chicago reports mixed but steady poultry pricing. Live fowl and turkeys show varied weights with hens under five pounds at 20 to 21 cents and heavier birds around 19 to 27 cents per pound. Leghorn, Plymouth Rock, and White Rock varieties appear with small differences in price across ages and sexes.
Market notes from Chicago show butter at 11 826 unsettled creamery specials with 92 score and various 27 to 28 cents ranges. Eggs quoted for firm extra firsts local cars and fresh graded lines, with current receipts and storage packed items listed.
Chicago market notes show hogs around 16 000 head with 7 000 direct. prices slipped 5 to 10 cents from Friday's average, top 10.55. 150-250 lb hogs 10.20-10.50, 250-300 lb 9.80-10.25, 300-350 lb sows 8.90-9.15. Cattle and calves: 13 000 cattle and 1 500 calves, steady demand but little activity, mix of medium to good grades seen.
Col Michie, executor of the late Miss Anis Dancy, donates a set of 85 large photographs from Europe to Lafayette school. The images cover sites in France, Italy, Ireland and England plus Irish and Roman landmarks. The school will project them for class use with explanatory notes, enhancing history lessons.
A Chicago auction described a stenographer who retrieved from a wastebasket two pre cancelled one and a half cent stamps with the misspelling Athol Mass as Althol The stamps sold for sixty dollars in the Chicago pre cancel club sale.
Prices show broad demand for lighter yearlings and steady weighty steers with no change in bulls and vealers. Sheep activity slow but steady with wooled lambs bringing 11.75 to 12.00 and natives over 12.00 for springers. clipper and woolly ewes in the 5.00 to 6.25 range.
Potatoes show varied movement with 209 on track for 339 and total U S shipments 6838 Saturday and 44 Sunday. Old stock remains about steady as demand stays slow and supplies stay moderate. Idaho russet burbanks US No 1 200 25 new stock slightly weaker with moderate supplies and good demand at lower prices. Alabama Bliss prices US No 1 2 75 85 and US No 2 1 75 77 1 2.
Chattanooga police renewed the probe into the killing of 23 year old Mrs Elle Mae McConnell found beaten and stripped in her apartment. Her funeral was held in Montgomery Alabama where her parents live as investigators seek suspects and new clues.
The French minister in Ethiopia reported mutinous Ethiopian guards at the legation and a siege lasting all night. American minister Cornelius Engert said the situation worsened after repelling an early assault, with two native women wounded, and he appealed for British help to protect the legation as Italian forces were still distant.
Washington reports an American minister says Ethiopian marauders attacked the legation in Addis Ababa between 6 45 and 9 00 am. The defenders repelled the assault with heavy rifle fire from behind trees and fences. Mrs Engert and American adviser John Spencer were nearby in the backyard.
Delegates at Columbus Ohio vote 470 to 83 to unite the Methodist Episcopal Church with the Methodist Episcopal Church South and the Methodist Protestant Church. Unification would create a 8,000,000 member church, largest Protestant body. South and Protestant bodies expected to approve. Protestant meeting May 20 in High Point North Carolina.
Forty six members of the Decatur high school senior class plus three faculty and one guest enjoyed a weekend educational tour to Nashville returning via Muscle Shoals. They visited the Hermitage Parthenon and a large packing plant, with travel through Fayetteville Shelbyville Murfreesboro Columbia Mt Pleasant Lawrenceburg Florence and Muscle Shoals.
The two room state highway patrol office on Bee Line highway between Church Street and Wilson Avenue is nearly finished. Captain Van Gilbert said equipment installation should occur Thursday with concrete approach to the building and landscaping to follow. A roof sign will announce headquarters and a phone line will be added for 24 hour calls.
The junior high school presents its play tomorrow night May 5 at Decatur Negro High School. The production titled Redheaded Stepchild is directed by Instructor Lanier.
Florence Alabama May 2 1936 ministers certify the character and habits of Robert T Simpson Jr of Florence and candidate for Congress The Florence Ministers Association signs praise from church leaders across the city The notice ends with a radio appeal at 6 15 PM on WMFO and a paid political advertising disclosure by Morgan County friends of Bob Simpson.
Attorney reports Mrs. James drowned in her home bath after a claimed snake torture session. James and Hope each accuse the other of the murder with Hope allegedly saying she was drowned after being placed in a tub with a snake. James cites a prior Colorado case as context for the act.
C. E. Lowery of Decatur, a well known tenor, sang at Athens College Sunday afternoon to a large crowd. It was his second school recital with strong applause after each group. Organist Miss Aline Beaird and Frank M. Church provided accompaniment.
Major General Johnson Hagood, after a brief Chicago command of the sixth army corps area, requests immediate retirement. He plans to return to Charleston to write a book arguing for stronger national defense at lower taxpayer cost.
Slight damage occurred to the grandstand at the Alabama Hosiery Mills baseball park when seats caught fire around 9 p m Bott companies responded to the alarm origin of the blaze unknown. Local residents and visitors' names are listed with travels and events including Derby attendance and visits to Decatur. Twelve persons were arrested by state highway patrol for driving while intoxicated in Morgan and Limestone counties last week.
Music clubs observe National Music Week with programs including an organ recital at Central Baptist church by the Woman's Music Study club. Mrs L R Nash hosts a Friday afternoon event. Mrs W P Bruch organizes the musical program as the week runs through May 9. David Sarnoff urges renewed public support to preserve and grow musical assets.
Ben Franklin stores district employees met May 1 in the Tutwiler Hotel Colonial Room. John L. Barrie opened the session and introduced K P Jones. J L Culver, national head of 2600 Ben Franklin Stores, spoke twice and led the afternoon program. A Pine Room luncheon followed. The meeting ended at 4 o'clock.
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