Negro Taken To Kilby For Safekeeping In Huntsville Case
In Huntsville Alabama on May 12 a black man named Walter Miller was sent to Kilby Prison to await execution set for June 19 after a jury convicted him of slaying a white woman Vivian Woodward 19. Four companies of National Guardsmen with bayonets and tear gas maintained order during the trial amid mob threats. Miller confessed in a manuscript presented at court claiming he attacked Woodward after peeping at white women. Miller asserted his innocence saying he signed the confession under duress and mob pressure.
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Huntsville
Ala
Walter Miller
Kilby
Montgomery
Paul Speake
Ben Ingram
Birmingham
Miller
Vivian Woodward
Ingram
Speake
Ed Johnston
Terre Haute
Ind
Tax proposals prompt Senate tax revision push
Secretary Wallace submits new tax recommendations to the Senate finance committee as House revenue bill prospects grow dimmer. President Roosevelt signals Congress to set tax methods while seeking $620 million in permanent revenue and $500 million in temporary levies, with moves to tax corporations by profits and discourage underinvestment. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation chairman Jesse H. Jones urges substantial concessions to spur modernization, plant construction, and job growth, while bank holding company tweaks are deemed unnecessary.
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Nathan Robertson
Associated Press
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Wallace
Capitol
Roosevelt
Harrison
Finance Committee
Congress
Fant Co
Wallis
Supreme Court
Jesse H. Jones
Reconstruction Corporation
Jones
TVA Worker Drowns While Clearing Bear Creek Job
George C. Whitfield 21 formerly of Decatur drowned in Bear Creek near Iuka Mississippi while crossing the swift stream on a TVA clearance assignment. His body recovered and expected to be shipped to Elkton Tennessee for funeral services.
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George C. Whitfield
Decatur
TVA
Bear Creek
Iuka
Miss
Elkton
Second Avenue
Whitfield
Associated Press
James F. Sims 48 of Trinity Dies. Funeral Set
James F. Sims, 48, of Trinity Route 1, died last night at Benevolent Society Hospital. Funeral service will be held this afternoon at Dancey's Chapel with Rev. Emmett Byars officiating. interment at Dancey's Chapel Cemetery. Survived by wife, three sons Alfie J O Marvin, a daughter Jennie Lou, mother Fannie Sims, brother W R Sims, seven sisters, and brothers-in-law as pallbearers.
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James F. Sims
Trinity
Benevolent Society Hospital
Mr. Sims
Dancey’s Chapel
Emmett Byars
McAfee
Young
Alfie
J. O
Arvin
Jennie Lou
Fannie Sims
W. R. Sims
Annie McCulloch
Alice Bass
Dottie Lamon
W. O. Norton
Machines begin operation at new Alabama Hosiery Mills plant
Machinery is being unloaded and installed in the Alabama Hosiery Mills expansion. A second carload is due Wednesday and Lloyd Lively predicts the addition will be operating by July. The company will hire more workers but says current applicants suffice.
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Alabama
Lloyd Lively
Ransom Note Demands $20,000 in Irvington NJ
Edward Lapp received a ransom note tonight demanding 20000 dollars for his nephew Harold McGuiness’s return. The 13 year old boy disappeared after leaving a Boy Scout meeting at 7 20 pm and was not seen since. Police report the note found in the mailbox and the family alerted Irvington police.
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Irvington
N. J
Edward Lapp
Lapp
Harold McGuines
Negro Held in Jackson for Attempted Attack
Julius Lee a 19 year old negro is jailed in Jackson Mississippi after an attempted attack on a 12 year old white girl in Copiah County. He was shot in the foot by the girl's father when found in the daughter's bedroom yesterday.
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Jackson, Miss
Julius Lee
Cophia County
Three Die In Wisconsin Plane Crash Near New Lisbon
Three people were killed when a small airplane crashed in a wooded tract on the Martin Wood farm near New Lisbon Wisconsin late yesterday. The victims were Herman Underdahl about 42 from Andrews California the pilot Carl Ristow 29 a New Lisbon farmer and Caroline Ristow 8 the pilot’s daughter.
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New Lisbon
Wis
Martin Wood Farm
Herman Underdahl
Andrews
Calif
Carl Ristow
New Lisborn
Caroline Ristow
Carl
Heart of Hero Buried With Mother in Poland
Funeral rites mark the burial of Marshal Joseph Pilsudski near his mother at a military cemetery in Wilno. President Moscicki and government dignitaries join 100000 mourners as fifty special trains bring visitors for the first anniversary of his death.
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Wilno
Poland
Marshal Joseph Pilsudski
Moscicki
Alabama pardons grant reprieves for three white defendants
Governor Bibb Graves and the Alabama pardon board gave three week reprieves to Elmer N. Arant and Joseph W Gast while denying clemency for two black defendants, Waddie Cosey and Jimmie Stewart. Cosey pleaded insanity after slaying Otto Dillbeck during a drunken spree in Decatur, while Arant and Gast faced the Kilby prison electric chair for killings connected to a wife. The board heard arguments on commutations and heard letters from Gast alleging domestic strife and a CCC background. jurors and residents backed clemency for Gast’s family in Ralph community.
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Montgomery
Ala
Elmer N. Avant
Joseph Wheeler Gast
Bibb Graves
State Pardon Board
Waddie Cosey
Morgan County
Jimmie Stewart
Montgomery County
Cosey
Otto Dillbeck
Decatur
Alabama Pardon Board
Elmer N. Arant
Lowndes County
Tuscaloosa County
Kilby
J. Cosey
Arant
Gast
Civilian Conservation Corps
Albert Carmichael
Pardon Board
Howell Turner
Charles E. McCall
Dr Buck Ruxton hanged amid protests at Strangeways
In Manchester on May 12 Dr Buck Ruxton was executed at Strangeway jail for the murder and dismemberment of his wife Isabella Ruxton and their maid May Rogerson. A protest led by Violet Van Der Elst faced a hostile crowd as police barred further demonstrations near the jail.
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Manchester
England
Buck Ruxton
Strangeway
Violet van der Bist
van der Elst
Isabella Ruxton
May Janet Rogerson
Wee
Edinburgh
Missie
Moffatt
Hei van der Elst
Confession Of Kidnapping Made To Federal Men
J Edgar Hoover announced Thomas H Robinson Jr arrested in Glendale California admitted kidnapping Mrs Alice Speed Stoll of Louisville Kentucky a society figure He said Robinson first planned to kidnap C Stoll the elder Stoll not at home then pursued the son and finally abducted Mrs Stoll as the second target
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Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Thomas H. Robinson, Jr
Glendale
Calif
Alice Speed Stoll
Louisville
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Robinson
C. Stoll
Stoll
Hoover
Sparkman Thanks Voters Asks Continued Support For Runoff
John J. Sparkman, candidate for Congress, expressed appreciation to Eighth District voters for enthusiastic support after vote tabulation. He noted that success depended on districtwide effort and predicted victory on June 9 with backing from Judges Alone Money and Captain Snodgrass. He cited regional vote patterns and launched active runoff campaign.
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John J. Sparkman
Congress
Eighth
Mr. Sparkman
Morgan
Anpparh
Snodgrass
Lauderdale
Colbert
Sparkman
Madison County
Simpson
Italy quits Geneva as League sanctions stand
In Geneva on May 12 the Italian delegation under Premier Mussolini left the city as the League of Nations council refused to modify sanctions imposed for Italy's aggression against Ethiopia. Baron Pompeo Aloisi and the entire Fascist delegation also departed shortly before the council's decision.
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Joe E. Sharkey
Associated Press
Geneva
Europe
Italan
Mussolini
League of Nations Council
Italy
League
Ethiopia
Baron Pompeo Aloisi
Adams Captures Four Foot Venomous Rattle Snake Trophy
Jimmy Adams of the Tennessee Valley Authority highway department killed a four foot rattlesnake near Lacey's Spring by a gravel pit on Monday afternoon. He struck the snake after it coiled and hissed, delivering blows to the head to end the fight. TVA engineers note snakes were more numerous this year, likely due to high waters earlier.
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Jimmy Adams
Tennessee Valley Authority Highway Department
Adams
Lacey's
Kidnapper Thomas H. Robinson Jr Captured in California
Federal agents seize the man known as Public Enemy No. 1 in Glendale California after a tip from a Pasadena clerk. Robinson, dressed as a woman and using the alias John Simons, is brought to Louisville to face death-penalty charges for the 1934 abduction of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll.
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Pasadena
Robinson
Lynn Allen
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hoover
Glendale
Calif
Louisville
Underworld
Alabama Bridge Toll Bill Aims at Tolls Relief
Rep. Boykin introduces a bill to extend tolls on 15 Alabama bridges to 1956 to protect bondholders. If bonds are not retired, tolls resume. Bondholders agree to cut remaining debt interest to four percent. Chochrane bridge remains privately owned. Senate version to follow by Sen Black.
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Washington
Boykin
Ala
Alabama
State Highway Commission
Gaston Scott
Lawrence
Lee
Bibb Graves
Chochrane
Mobile Bay
Senate
Black
Ward fatally shot after domestic dispute near Mt. Tabor
Percy Ward, 26, died from a gunshot wound to the abdomen after a confrontation with his father-in-law E. W. Denton, 43, at the Denton home near Mt. Tabor. Denton claimed self defense and surrendered to authorities after Ward threatened him with a knife and sharpened a weapon.
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Percy GC. Ward
E. W. Denton
Morgan County
Ward
Mt. Tabor
Benevolent Society
A. A. Walton
Court of Justice
J. W. Bailey
Denton
County
Herman Sandlin
Daily
Sandlin
Methodist conference moves to grant board more power
Delegates at the quadrennial conference approved a committee report to revise the constitution of the temperance and public morals board. The action aims to give the United Methodist body greater oversight and authority over board operations and policy.
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Columbus
General Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Temperance
Weather Report From Tennessee River Gauge Reading
The Tennessee river gauge stood at 4.6 feet this morning with a daily high of 9 and low of 66. A total precipitation amount of nearly one inch was recorded, while Alabama observed mostly clear to scattered conditions.
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Tennessee
Alabama
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