Questionnaire outlines facts on school taxes in county election
County Superintendent Prof George T Woodruff releases a questionnaire detailing the May 26 election to re vote three and one mill school taxes. The tally shows a total annual loss of 969156 dollars to all schools if taxes lapse, with no tax increase implied by re voting. Districts would be affected: Decatur 23243.82 and city Decatur 44118.88, totaling 966.156.17.
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George T. Woodruff
County Board of Revenue
Woodruff
Syscom
Decatur
Tennessee Valley Horse Show Date Set at Deatur
The Tennessee Valley Horse Show under St. John's Episcopal church is scheduled for Thursday June 13 at Benson Field Decatur High School athletic field. Committees are forming as details are finalized. Last year’s event drew entrants from Alabama and nearby states, bringing many visitors to Decatur.
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St. John’s Episcopal Church
St. John’s
Valley Point
Alabama
Decatur
Benson Field
Decatur High School
Three Heads Roll As Pardons Refused
Berlin reports Hitler rejected pleas for pardons at dawn. Sophie Deber and akil Schulze were decapitated at Ulm while Gottfried Fast was executed at Dresden. All three were found guilty of murder in the first degree.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Sophie Deber
Akil Schulze
Ulm
Dresden
Gottfried Fast
Alabama milk control bill gains House committee hearing
In Montgomery on May 14 a House agriculture committee hearing on the Hamner bill to create a state milk control board drew about 200 milk producers and distributors. The proposed five member board would include a producer and a consumer, and would fix prices and production across different milk sheds to ensure a fair share of the consumer’s dollar. Satterwaite of Birmingham urged stability and fair prices, criticizing distributor price cuts that hurt producers while not benefiting consumers.
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Montgomery
Ala
House Agriculture Committee
Satterwaite
Birmingham
Imi
Black Belt
Dust Bowl Welcomed by Heavy Rains Across Kansas and Oklahoma
In the Southwest dust bowl washed clean by rains observers report crop advances and health improvements across the 18 million acre area. Heaviest rainfall in three years touched much of the region with streams flooding in Kansas and Oklahoma. Smiles and encouragement follow the wet spell as sections report widespread precipitation.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Okla
Fisher Body Workers End Strike Vote in Cleveland
In Cleveland on May 14 union members at Fisher Body Company's plant voted unanimously to end their strike and return to work. Oliver Haydenreich, vice-president of the local union, announced the result. Company officials declined comment but planned to reopen the plant, which normally employs about 9,000 workers, within a day or two.
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Cleveland, O
Fisher Body Company
Pas
Oliver Haydenreich
Italy Ready For Any Eventuality
In a Senate address Mussolini stated Italy could meet any event. He claimed three classes under arms and a fourth in readiness as Britain and France faced the Ethiopian crisis.
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Rome
Benito Mussolini
Senate
Great Britain
France
Italy
Africa
Prewitt Case Near Jury as Final Evidence Is Presented
In Russellville Alabama the state rests its case against Geo Frank Prewitt an escaped Mississippi convict accused of fatally shooting Walter Sanderson Vina police chief. The 14 year old mute daughter Tula Prewitt testified through an interpreter that her father shot Sanderson while en route to jail and that Mrs Cochran stabbed the officer.
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Russellville
Ala
Geo. Frank Prewitt
Mississippi
Walter Sanderson
Vina
R. T. Simpson, Jr
Tula Prewitt
Sanderson
Prowlers Ransack Home of J. D. Ligon
Prowlers entered the J. D. Ligon home at 616 Gordon Drive on Monday. They scattered clothes and cut open a purse belonging to Mrs. Ligon. A rear porch screen was cut. intruders possibly fled from a second story porch. Nothing was reported missing.
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J. D. Ligon
Gordon Drive
Georgia Gov Hails Orderly Hearing on Political Speeches
In Atlanta on May 14 Governor Eugene Talmadge urged citizens to extend a respectful and orderly hearing to anyone entering the state who conducts himself as a gentleman to deliver political speeches.
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ASES
Atlanta
Georgia
Eugene Talmadge
Senate Rejects Long Probe of Postmaster General Farley
Senate voted 62 to 20 against investigating Postmaster General Farley after Senator Long alleged misconduct and influence peddling. The defeat followed affidavits from former Stewart and Co. staffers tying Farley to courthouse contract changes and alleged improper actions.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Farley
Long
McKellar
Post Office Committee
Pto
Senate Office Committee
Secand
Aed
Reans
Eto
LaFollette
Wheeler
Mont
Aye
Robinson
Senator Long
James A. Stewart and Co
New York
Parley
Stewart and Company
Lottie Koch
Buffalo
Stewart and Co
Helen Semootphreys
Miss Kochet
Jim
Marksman Houston Wins Southwestern Division Field
J. B. Steele, 34, captured the Southwestern divisional zone handicap in Houston Texas after breaking 94 of 100. Steele had fired his first clay pigeon two months prior and defeated top shooters including Markre Campaign I and KE F Boece.
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Marksman
Houston
Tex
J. B. Steele
Y Mark Re
KE. F. Boece
Four Die In Alabama Farmhouse Fire Near Birmingham
Four members of the Rich family perished in a fast moving farmhouse blaze near Bradford Alabama. Arthur Rich 26 and his son Carl 5 and James 1 and mother in law Mrs Minerva Abels 69 were killed. Marie Rich 23 was rescued but injured and taken to a Birmingham hospital where doctors expect improvement. Fire was discovered by miner Ercy Scaggs and his wife who tried to rouse the family but flames trapped them.
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Bradford
Ala
Here
Arthur Rich
Carl
James
Minerva Abels
Marie Rich
Birmingham
Ercy Scaggs
Abels
Rich
Jimmy
Old 86-year-old donor gives bonds to former workers
Willard A. Van Brunt, founder of Van Brunt Manufacturing of Horizon Wisconsin, aged 86, sent 89 veterans and five widows $1000 U.S. government bonds each as a token of loyalty. He refused to discuss the gift, noting a photo of his "boys" and recalling leaving Horicon in 1918. The firm is now a Deere subsidiary.
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Los Angeles
Willard A. van Brunt
van Brunt Manufacturing Company
Horizon
Wis
United States
van Brunt
Horicon
van Brunt Company
The
Deere Company
Quintuplets Wealth Soars After Ontario Action
The Dionne quintuplets are now valued at 175000 dollars, six times their prior sum. The Ontario legislature three months ago named them special wards of the king through the welfare ministry, boosting their financial standing.
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Toronto
Ontario
Fifteen Miners Hurt in Clash at Glen Alden Mine
In Wilkes-Barre area on May 14, fifteen miners were injured during a confrontation involving pickets, miners, and state police at the Nottingham mine of Glen Alden Coal Co in Plymouth. Police reported stones and clubs used as disorder resumed before entry to the colliery, with five hospitalized and multiple others treated at home.
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Wilkes-Barre
Nottingham
Glen Alden Coal Company
Plymouth
Collery
John Yastram
Anthony Oxechoski
Courtdale
Joseph Kuanen
Stanley Musial
Richard Protheroe
United Mine Workers of America
United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania
Lai Zerne County
Glen Alden
Toledo Chevrolet plant ends three week strike
The three week strike at the Toledo Ohio Chevreet auto plant ended with plant officials planning to reopen immediately. William Knudsen announced that Toledo will resume transmission production and about 30 000 idle workers can return to work. Workers accepted a four cent hourly raise to 54 cents plus overtime and Sunday and holiday pay. A shop committee will be formed and the memo sent to Washington. No signed contract was granted.
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Toledo, O
Chevreet Auto
Dillon
Norwood
William 98. Knudsen
General Motors Corporation
Toledo
Department of Labor
Washington
Lamson Jury Remains Deadlocked in Second Wife Murder Trial
In San Jose on May 14 the Lamson murder trial jurors remained unable to reach a verdict after reporting hopelessness twice. The panel showed fatigue as they prepared for a fourth night in hotel confinement without a decision.
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San Jose
Calif
David A. Lamson
Grand Jury Begins Its Investigations
Grand Jury sessions resume after non juried docket hearing held June 3 by Judge A A Griffith. Jurors called back into session again, with a report likely not ready before Friday.
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A. A. Griffith
Griffith
Aeenere
Callahen
Wil Peery Taal Doce
Philippines vote for constitution marked by strong pro independence mood
Voters across the archipelago show support for a ten year Commonwealth plan with women voting avidly for the first time in an oriental country. Police and guards guarded polls after incidents linked to Sakdalista factions as lines were cut and vigilance remained high then.
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Sakdalista
United States
Manila
Thousand Mile
Philippine Constabulary
Santa Rosa
Cabuyao
Laguna
San Pablo
Princess Barbara Becomes Countess
Count Kurt Haugwits-Reventlow, a Danish nobleman, attends the ceremony at the home of Dr and A J Hood at 10 30 a m today. The event marks Princess Barbara’s elevation to countess with attendance by local and visiting guests.
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Reno, Neéev
Kurt Haugwits
Farmers Rally for AAA as Roosevelt Set to Speak in Washington
About 3000 farmers from the south and west gathered at Constitution Hall to praise the AAA and await an afternoon address by President Roosevelt. Delegations arrived by train and bus as leaders urged a square deal for farmers and thanked the president for the program.
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AAA
Roosevelt
White House
Washington
Constitutional Hall
W. H. Robertson
Loachapokay
Alabama
Constitution Hall
Robertson
Kerosene Converts Woman Into Human Torch
In Birmingham Alabama Mrs Ila Kane 23 was burned when kerosene ignited on her body causing fatal injuries. She died at a hospital a few hours after the incident. Relatives noted a recent nervous breakdown. County Investigator Gyp Evans is probing the case.
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Birmingham
Ila Pealing
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Valerie Hobson
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Lamson
Philippines
Barbara
Wallace
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