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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1936
Page
8
Word puzzle with animal clues and long list of names including Eloise Graham and Virginia Massengale. The page combines a crossword style set of hints for mammals and other terms with a roster of many female and male names.
Cincinnati. May 8 Derringer the big right handed pitcher won reinstatement to active duty with the Cincinnati Reds today. Manager Larry McPhail said Derringer who was suspended Sunday for failing to slide into home with what might have been the winning run in a game with the Giants would accompany the Reds to Pittsburgh tonight. He won 22 games last year and has two wins and three losses this year.
Decatur junior high school lists honors for the second six weeks. First honor students include Munsey McGlathery Gloria Car lisle Frances Johnson Martha Frances Kilgore and many others. Second group features Leonard Michelson Donald Nebrig Kathleen Garrett Here Hess Caroline Jones Ann Kim h Ollie Mae Shaffer Collette Tanner and additional honorees.
Robert Herrick, an Otel organist in Chicago, files for divorce on cruelty grounds. He cites a specific act of cruelty where his wife pulled out all the organ stops while he played, illustrating ongoing marital strife.
The American Institute of Accountants proposed higher income taxes and a modified tax on undistributed corporate profits to the Senate Finance Committee. A plan keeps current corporate taxes with higher rates and adds a tax on undistributed income, while lowering personal exemptions and raising the normal rate. Other advocates backed tax free insurance for estate taxes, windfall taxes faced opposition, and a flat ten percent tax on investment income from corporations was challenged.
Senate debates a naval supply bill and discusses naval appropriation measures. Finance committee heard a manufacturers group opposing a sail tax bill. Banking committee reviews farm mortgage legislation. House finishes debate on a 2.264 billion deficiency appropriation bill and weighs amendments. Senate yesterday sent the war supply bill to the White House and discussed the naval appropriation. Finance committee heard opposition to the sail tax bill. House debated a 2.364 billion deficiency appropriation bill including a 1.425 billion relief item. Appropriations committee reported the deficiency bill to the House.
Ten Indians among 75 federal witnesses brought to Phoenix for cases on selling whiskey to Indians found liquor, clashed with police, and were jailed. The incident occurred as they prepared to testify in federal court.
Police officer S8 J. Gentry was wounded in a Birmingham clash with a burglar on the north side. An officer pursuing two home intrusions chased the burglar, who escaped. Gentry suffered a hip wound.
Stamp collectors rush to buy the discontinued all blue 16 cent airmail stamp at the U S Philatelic Bureau in Washington as prices rise. Orders for other stamps like the 25 cent special handling and 10 15 and 20 cent airmails are expected to dwindle soon. A special cachet will honor the Hindenburg first eastbound flight on May 9 with covers mailed from New York and Germany. Austria plans charity stamps featuring scientists and inventors and a new Mother's Day stamp next fall.
An unidentified man entered a Tampa restaurant and declared he was hungry. He ate 17 steaks, 34 rolls, and drank 14 bottles of beer in two and a half hours, telling the waiter he did not care for vegetables.
Shamrock the three foot pet alligator of the W. B. Matthews family in Charlotte found last year finally breaks its yearning for goldfish. After weeks of dieting the reptile now prefers hamburger, signaling a shift in appetite at home.
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