Funeral rites set for Wade Martin gun death
Wade Martin 28 a Lawrence county farmer of Courtland route 1 died from a shotgun wound in a field near the Muston farm. Sheriff and coroner said a warrant for assault had been sworn by his wife after a quarrel. No one hurt on a school bus incident. Martin survived by two children.
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Wade Martin
Lawrence County
Courtland
Claude Muston
Martin
J. H. Highsmith
Moulton
Randolph
Stoops
Highsmith
Cleveland Jacobs
Lawrence
Alabama Faces March Old Age Insurance Claims Totals
346 federal Old Age Insurance payments were issued in Alabama in March. W. W. Foster of the Decatur Field Office cites 41 Alabama claims certified in his nine county area. Nationwide totals show 324,813 claims certified and 15,721,642.00 dollars paid.
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Alabama
W. W. Foster
Social Security Board
Decatur
Mr. Foster
Colbert
Cullman
Franklin
Jackson
Lauderdale
Lawrence
Limestone
Madison
Marion
Morgan
Winston
United States and Territories
United States
Alabama Supreme Court Upholds Dismissal in Mobile Election Contest
The Alabama Supreme Court rules Judge J McElroy must dismiss Hartwell’s contest against City Commissioner R V Taylor in Mobile. Hartwell, a former mayor, had challenged Taylor’s 1937 City Commission election victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Supreme
J.mcelroy
Mobile
City Commission
Harry T. Hartwell
R. V. Taylor
Hartwell
Tax Relief Plan Shapes Social Security Reforms
The House Ways and Means Committee outlined a broad social security revision to cut employers' state unemployment taxes, freeze old age insurance taxes at 1 percent, cap wages subject to unemployment taxes at 3000 dollars, start old age payments in 1940, expand exemptions for some agricultural workers, and raise federal aid for dependent children to 50 cents on the dollar. Chairman Doughton announced the plan with discussion to begin in three weeks and noted no detailed figures beyond the tax cut method.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Ways and Means
Social Security Board
Doughton
N. C
Danville High to Close 1938-39 Term with Exercises
Danville high school will end the 1938 39 term with final exercises Thursday night May 11. Other county high schools closed last week but Danville is making up time off given to students last fall during harvest.
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Danville
Publication plan for United Church stalled by conference
Kansas City May 4 The committee on publishing interests of the Methodist united conference abandoned attempts to design a weekly publication and drafted a resolution to turn the matter over to a coordinating committee. The resolution will be presented on the conference floor.
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Kansas City
Methodist Uniting Conference
United Church
Increase in Farm Benefits Approved by Senate Subcommittee
A Senate subcommittee approved a total $378 million increase in farm appropriations, adding to the $835 million voted by the House. The package includes $225 million for parity payments, $113 million for the surplus removal program, $25 million for the tenancy act, and $15 million for other agricultural activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Russell
D.-Ga
House
Agricultural Department
Elaine Barrymore Declines Comment Amid Suit for Separation
Elaine Barrie, 24, wife of actor John Barrymore, withdraws from public view in New York and refuses to discuss the separation suit and $300,000 accounting. Barrymore alleges a conspiracy with her mother and a money adviser to defraud him. he cites property including a Bel Air house and two cars as part of the misused funds.
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Elaine
Barrie
John Barrymore
Doris Dudley
New York
Hollywood
Omaha
St. Louis
Elaine Barrie
Sioux City
Iowa
Barrymore
Don Juan
Miss Barrie
Edna Jacobs
David Fisher
Bel Air
West
Los Angeles
Decatur Garden Club Holds May 5 Flower Show
The spring Flower Show of the Decatur Garden Club will be on May 5 at Lelia Cantwell Seton Hall. The public is invited to view exhibits in the historic hall and organizers anticipate strong interest as residents value an attractive town created by flowers.
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Decatur Garden Club
Lelia Cantwell Seton Hall
Rites Conducted for Mrs Thompson
Funeral rites for Mrs. Mary Frances Thompson aged 88 were held at Basham Chapel at 2 p.m. conducted by Rev. Z R Carpenter of Austinville Methodist Church. She died at 5 40 p.m. yesterday at her Hartselle Route 2 home after a three week illness. Survived by husband W H A Thompson and 16 grandchildren along with 10 great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Frances Thompson
Basham Chapel
Z. R. Carpenter
Austinville Methodist Church
Stewards to Meet in Called Session at Memorial Drive
The board of stewards of Memorial Drive Methodist Church will meet in a special session Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the church parlor. Pastor Rev. R. D. Cook urges all members to attend for important business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memorial Drive Methodist Church
R. D. Cook
Lasser to Speak to WPA Workers in Birmingham
David Lasser, president of the Workers Alliance, arrived in Birmingham to tell WPA workers the truth about the congressional investigation in Washington. He will address a mass meeting at 7 p.m.
Equalization Boards Begin Task Across Alabama
Alabama prepares to start statewide tax equalization on or about June 1 with most counties forming boards. Morgan County selects John W. Jones, Phil Orr, and Robert Samuel Ferguson. Members’ salaries range from 400 to 4000 dollars yearly based on total property value. Many counties announce appointees this week. Jefferson will begin when members qualify.
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Alabama
Jefferson
Morgan County
John W. Jones
Decatur
Phil Orr
Hartselle
Robert Samuel Ferguson
Trinity
Equalization Board
Bibb, Butler
Colbert
Covington
Franklin, Lee, Marshall, Russell
Talladega
Tallapoosa
Washington
Autauga
B. V. Pearson
Mountain Creek
John William Pattillo
Billingsley
Ala
Columbus
Eugene Thomas
Prattville
Baldwin
Wilter Douglas White
Bay Minette
Jay B. McGrew
Misling
A. B. McPaul
Seminole
Barbour
Alex A. Stanley
Baker Hill
Albert &. Andrews
Louisville
James Gorman Houston
Eufaula
Blount
Johnh. Blackmon
Warrior
David Enoch Alldredge
Liberty
Otto G. Taff
Oneonta
Bullock
Thomas Bristow
Fitzpatrick
Aldred A. Adams
Midway
Calvin William Fenn
Unior Springs
Calhoun
Richard H. Dobbs
Anniston
Edgar M. Moss
Bastaboga
James A. Mickle
Chambers
Alonzo
Jarrell
Abanda
James T. Whitehead
Shawmut
Walter Clifford McCoy
Lafayette
Julius Norman Stephens
Centre
Luther A. Burkhalter
Gaylesville
John EB. Webb
Chilton
B. M. Killingsworth
Montevallo
J. N
Conecuh
Lyman J. Foshee
Red Level
J. ©. Brown
Repton
James Ellis Skinner
Castleberry
Coosa
Bradford B. Killgore
Weoguska
Daniel Speaker Crawford
Nixburg
Lofton Thomas
Goodwater
Crenshaw
Oscar L. Morgan
Brantley
W. L. Massey
Honoraville
Erskine Bachelor Sikes
Laverne
Navy gets $770 million defense bill boost for shipbuilding
The House Appropriations Committee backs a $770,473,241 Navy appropriation adding two 45,000-ton battleships and eight destroyers among 144 ships planned. The panel trims $19.9 million from estimates but allows $50.8 million in contract powers, with delivery of 2,100 aircraft projected toward a 3,000-plane goal.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
House Appropriations Committee
Navy
Army
Congress
Army Air Corps
William D. Leahy
Britain
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
Leahy
Panama Canal
Dirigible
Continuce
Sage
Conferees Fail To Agree On New Contract In Soft Coal Industry
W L Robinson chairman of the bituminous miners and operators negotiating committee announced the conferees failed to reach a new contract for the soft coal industry after eight weeks. The disagreement will be reported to the Appalachian conference at 2 p m tomorrow with 338000 miners idle monthly and a checkoff dispute over union dues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
W.L. Robinson
Robinson
John Steelman
U. S. Labor Department
James F. Dewey
Appalachian
United Mine Workers of America
T. U. M. W. A. Policy Committee
John L. Lewis
CIO
Local Prophet Predicts Snowless Winter Ends Amid May Clashes
Rufus Norwood, a local resident, forecasts no snow for the rest of winter and outlines a series of May cool spells on May 2 3 May 9 May 18 19 and May 27. He says his old system proves accurate across his winter prognostication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rufus Norwood
Norwood
Landon Urges Peace Talks While Cautioning on War
Alf M. Landon addressed church leaders in Kansas City warning that economic quarantines and aid could draw American troops into Europe. He accused Roosevelt of abandoning neutrality and urged pursuing peace talks with Hitler while advising readiness to resist any forceful power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Alf M. Landon
Europe
Roosevelt
United States
Hitler
America
Britain
France
Ickes Says He Has Hopes For Forthcoming Fatherhood
Secretary Ickes told reporters he has hopes of becoming a father. At 65 he blushed and hesitated before saying he has hopes when asked for congratulations at a United States Chamber of Commerce dinner by Senator Clark of Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ickes
United States Chamber of Commerce
Clark
Hillsborough Lawmakers Threatened After Pistol Display
In Tallahassee on May 4 Rep. Raymond Sheldon drew a pistol in the Florida House amid a dispute over three Tampa utility bills passed by the Senate. He declared his life had been threatened and warned he was not carrying the weapon for fun.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Hillsborough County
Tampa
Senate
Raymond Sheldon
Alabama Supreme Court rules pill boxes taxed by state sales tax
Montgomery May 4 The Alabama supreme court held that pill boxes and other containers sold by wholesale druggists to retailers are subject to the state 2 percent sales tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Supreme Court
Correction of santonin dose for a child
The Daily corrects Dr Logan Clendening's medical column dosage for a three year old. The originally reported dose of one quarter to one half a gram was in error and the accurate dose is one quarter to one half a grain. The correction comes via wire from Dr Clendening's agents The King Feature Syndicate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan Clendening
The
Daily
Byrnes Reports Britain Open to Cotton Barter Plan
Senator Byrnes says London advised the United States that Britain is interested in negotiating a barter agreement trading American cotton for British rubber and tin. He notes talks focus on cotton for rubber with possible later inclusion of tin. no decision on quantities, and any needed legislation would await a barter treaty sent to the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Byrnes
London
United States
Great Britain
Tondon
South Carolina
Senate
Britain and United States Open Raw Materials Exchange Talks
Prime Minister Chamberlain said negotiations are opened between Britain and the United States for exchange of strategic raw materials. The talks aim to trade cotton and wheat from the U S for rubber and tin from Britain, with the initiative coming from the United States government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Chamberlain
United States
Great Britain
Britain
House of Commons
Ned Bentley Dies at Vanderbilt Hospital Nashville
Ned Bentley 28 of 1414 Sixth Avenue South died early this morning at Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville. Funeral plans to be announced Friday by Drinkard Howell. He is survived by his widow, a daughter Jewel Nance Bentley, his parents, a brother R. Q. Bentley, six sisters including Mrs. L. G. Wooten Athens and Mrs. J. W. Wilson Decatur, and others in Decatur and Brooksville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ned Bentley
Sixth Avenue
South
Vanderbilt Hospital
Nashville
Drinkard Howell
Move hailed as blow to Allied plans
Resignation of Maxim Litvinoff as Soviet foreign minister shocks diplomats. Vyacheslav Molotov takes over, while Britain and France weigh effects on plans to include Russia in a new security front. Nazi circles greet the move as a potential boost to a northern neutrality pact strategy.
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Associated Press
Europe
Moscow
Russia
Maxim Litvinoff
Litvinoff
Vyacheslaff Molotoff
Joseph Stalin
Britain
Italy
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Count Galeazzo Clano
Adolf Hitler
Latvia
Sweden
Finland
Norway
Denmark
Germany
Hitler
Poland
Joseph Beck
Danzig
Pomorze
Molotoff
France
Paris
London
Johannes von Welczeck
Herbert von Dirkse
Berlin
Sir Nevile Henderson
Robert Coulondre
Czecho-Slovakia
Count von Welczeck
von Dirksen
Nevile
Coulondre
Foreign Office
First Aid Class Initiated in Austinvile
A Red Cross first aid class started in Austinvile with 20 students. Classes meet on Monday nights at the Methodist church. Kenneth Carpenter serves as instructor with Edwin Carpenter assisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Austinville
The
Methodist Church
Kenneth Carpenter
Edwin Carpenter
Reverend Cook Heads to Union Grove For Board Meeting
Reverend R. D. Cook will travel to Union Grove church today and has called a meeting of the church board of stewards. The gathering is set for this evening at the home of A. G. Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook
Union Grove
R. D. Cook
Union Grove Church
Board of Stewards
A. G. Jones
British Britons Ordered Out Of Germany In Retaliation
Six British subjects including Hugh Carleton Green Berlin Daily Telegraph correspondent were ordered expelled from Germany by May 24 amid British reprisals for the ousting of 50 Nazis. The group also includes five British businessmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
London Daily Telegraph
Germany
Britain
Hugh Carleton Green
Weather Snapshot Tennessee River Stays Steady at 21.1 Feet
The Tennessee river gauge held at 21.1 feet with no rainfall. Temperatures ranged from a high of 68 and a low of 43 over the past 24 hours. Alabama shows fair conditions with warmer interior and near the coast, while Tennessee expects fair to partly cloudy skies and slightly warmer temperatures into Friday and Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Alabama
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Lawrence Farmer
Thompson
Jones, Ferguson and
Orr
Morgan Board
Landon
Solon
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