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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1934
Page
1
Washington May 7 A growing circle says General Hugh Johnson should leave the NRA to restore order after the Blue Eagle furor. The President hesitates due to loyalty to Johnson and the difficulty of naming a successor, while Johnson faces blame for over promotion.
Miss Martha Mansfield 13 daughter of Mr and Mrs A Mansfield will advance from the elimination contests in class C sponsored by Federated Music Clubs to the state final in Montgomery at Jefferson Davis hotel. She defeated rivals from several North Alabama counties with Haydn Sonata Opus II first movement and The Mosquito by Ganz.
Brents Preuitt, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Preuitt, arrives for a short visit from Atlanta where he serves as a technical assistant in the United States Public Health Bureau. A Vanderbilt University graduate, he has enjoyed a rapid rise in his field.
The Philathea class of Central Baptist church will present a Mothers Day program at 7 30 in the church parlors. Mothers of visitors and class members are invited to attend.
Marie Stover and Martha Witt jointly win the scholarship to Alabama College Camp for Girls as top all around competitors. Prizes awarded at the inter high school meet after interviews and records judged by a committee. The camp runs two sessions from July 23 to August 4 and August 6 to August 18 under Dr Minnie L Steckel.
Washington May 7 AP Senate debate on the stock market control bill centers on the capital agenda. President Roosevelt cancels Jamestown trip for urgent business. Supreme Court restrains North Dakota from enforcing grain embargo pending validity ruling. Senator Pletcher urges national demand for market regulation. Court to rule on Huey Long libel suit case.
Washington rumors say President Roosevelt may move to settle war debts owed to the United States. In London Britain is believed to plan a June token payment, acknowledging a four billion forty six million debt and hoping Washington submits a new final settlement plan before June 15.
Superintendent W W Benson and city principals praised the safety measures at the Youth Day parade on Saturday. Officials and police coordinated to protect children as they marched over two miles, with no injuries reported and high marks for the Boy Scouts, policemen, and Legionnaires handling traffic duties.
In Canon City Colorado two convicts volunteer for a tuberculosis preventive test tube study. Mike Schmidt 53 and Carl Erickson 62 receive serums at Denver National Hospital under Dr H J Cooper. Schmidt grows seriously ill while Erickson remains unaffected by the first injection. Both men serving life terms face commutations after the experiments officials say.
Tax commissioner Guy T. Helvering announced that 1932 individual income tax returns totaled 4,078,640 filings and 3,405,337 were counted as returns, with gains shared across states except New Mexico which recorded nine fewer returns. The figures reflect a strong rise over 1931 filings.
The Morgan county berry season opens with the first carload of strawberries sent from Hartselle. Officials report good berry prices and improved quality, with shipments likely from Detatur by week’s end and acreage up, promising higher cash income for growers.
Postmaster Leroy McEntire reports strong demand for Mother’s Day three cent stamps featuring Whistler’s portrait of his mother. Critics in art circles condemn the reproduction for altering balance and colors from the original painting, calling it a mutilation and faulting the post office for changes that spoil the artwork.
Jacksonville May 7. Florida emergency relief director Julius F Stone Jr said relief workers will be paid under an escrow system. All physically able relief clients will be eligible for work and pay will be issued weekly by case workers, addressing cries of dole.
Samuel Insull announces he will fight for vindication after two years in exile. He admits mistakes but calls them errors of judgment not fraud. Authorities plan to bring him from the Exilona steamer near New York to face embezzlement and related charges. Samuel Insull Jr. accompanies, awaiting a possible meeting with his father.
Lawson Jackson and Willie Hill, identified as Negroes, faced police court arraignment this morning for assaults within the Negro community over the weekend. Jackson allegedly slashed Williams Rhodes with a knife near West Vine Street Saturday night, while Hill was charged with wounding Jelly Roll Jackson, a Negro woman, by hitting her over the head with a bottle. Both were fined. The injured received medical attention and were released.
Miss Katherine Haynes underwent tonsil removal last week and is reported improved.
A San Francisco analysis notes strong anti war sentiment in foreign papers urging the United States to avoid war with Japan. It argues other nations seek U S involvement while China garners sympathy. the fleet is deployed elsewhere, limiting immediate military action.
A. McKenna has returned home after attending the Derby in Louisville Kentucky.
The Sluttsboro cases involve two men convicted of assaulting a white woman aboard a freight train near Jackson on March 25, 1931, and sentenced to death. The circuit clerk's office started transcript work on the bill of exceptions, handed to Judge W. W. Callahan, with assistants Lawson and the attorney general’s office reviewing files. Officials aim to forward the record to Montgomery as quickly as possible.
Belgian newspapers ridiculed Col Graham Seton Hutchison for claiming King Albert was killed by a back of the head tap. They denounced the charge as odious German propaganda and an insult to the king’s memory. Some papers branded Hutchison as allied with Hitlerites, explaining his assertion as a motive.
The Bureau of Railway Economics reports class one railroads earned $12,276,806 in the first quarter, up from $4,? million the previous year, yielding a 2.23 percent return on property. Data from 184 roads covering 239,426 miles support the rise in operating income.
Deputy reports belief June Robles, kidnapped heiress, is alive and could be returned within 24 hours. Authorities note a man and a woman with a child resembling the heiress were seen crossing the border Saturday. Dillinger pursuit yields no solid clues as Chicago police sweep suspected hideouts.
The Associated Press reports three separate plane crashes kill nine people Sunday. In Texas a private plane went down near Houston injuring a woman and three men. the pilot was listed as Oyetee 51 with passengers Gladys Woods 20 Fred Burnett 23 Leroy Grandy 22. In New Jersey a woman and two men perished in a 300 foot fall at Fulton. the dead include Irene Clark 20 and J King 24. A trio from New Market, New Jersey, died when their craft crashed. Lowell Markwith 39 was the pilot and George J Kunz 24 was aboard.
M. Vickery of Birmingham spent the weekend in town visiting friends and enjoying local hospitality.
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