Mother gives lurid details of serious trip
Police disclosed today the full confession of Mrs. Helen Tiernan allegedly fatally hurt with knife and fire her seven year old daughter and attempted to cause fatal harm her four year old son on Long Island. Her Greek sweetheart George Christodulus is accused of acting in concert. The confession alleges the plot to kill the children in a lonely thicket and then stage a picnic ruse.
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New York
Helen Tiernan
George Christodulus
Salvator Consentino
Christodulus
Long Island
Consentino
George
Tiernan
Brookhaven
Jimmy
Helen
Fire destroys old home at Trinity mountain
The home of A. C. Harris on Trinity mountain was destroyed by a midnight fire of unknown origin. Harris, alone in the house, was partly suffocated by smoke before awakening. The building and its contents including $40 were wiped out, one of the oldest houses in the Trinity district.
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Trinity
A. C. Harris
Trinity Mountain
Mr. Harris
Trinity District
Impeached Sheriff Die in Wrecked Car From Self-inflicted Shot
Tallassee Alabama May 18 Former Macon County Sheriff W C Daniel who faced impeachment on charges of neglect corruption and moral turpitude was found dead by a passing motorist after his wrecked car struck a bridge railing near Tallassee police say Daniel appeared uninjured before asking the motorist to notify his family in Tuskegee of the accident The shooter was found beside the vehicle with a pistol Daniels body was taken to Tuskegee for funeral arrangements Survivors include his widow two sons and several daughters
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Tallassee
Ala
L. B. Meadows
W. C. Daniel
Macontounty
Meadows
Daniel
Tuskegee
Macon County
Alabama Supreme Court
Frank Daniel
John Daniel
Sarah Pittman
Essie Vardeman
Andalusia
Louis May
Foley
Mary Thrasher
Lena Mae Bunn
Glass Window Hit By Slug At Alabama State Store
A plate glass window in a Birmingham state liquor store was shattered early by a lead slug fired from a moving car. Officials labeled it vandalism and hinted union tension may be involved. Detective Chief Giles had ordered officers to shoot to kill any vandal after similar break-ins last year.
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Birmingham
Ala
State Beverage Control Board
G. C. Giles
Anarcho-Syndicalists Refuse to Support Negrin Cabinet
Madrid anarcho-syndicalists refuse cooperation with Dr Juan Negrin's new cabinet amid political crisis after Largo Caballero's resignation. CNT warns members to stay loyal to committees and unite to thwart counter revolution while avoiding peace without victory symbolism.
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Madrid
Juan Negrin
Francisco Largo Caballero
Negrin
National Committee
National Confederation of Labor
CNT
Vergara
Romades
Intermediates to Meet Tonight at Central Baptist
The Central Baptist Sunday school intermediate department holds its regular monthly meeting tonight at 7 30 in the Scout room. Attendance has been high for months with enthusiasm for summer plans. Mrs Huie's Cheerful Helpers class provides refreshments and entertainment for a large turnout.
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Central Baptist Sunday School
Huie
Laymen's League to Meet Tonight at St John’s Parish House
The Laymen's League will convene this evening in the parish house of St John’s Episcopal church. President John Peach said an unusually fine program is arranged with principal address by Mrs L D Patterson. The program starts at 7 30 o clock.
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St. John’s Episcopal Church
John Peach
L. D. Patterson
District Meet Planned at First Methodist Church Hartselle
Decatur district meeting of Methodist missionary societies will be held at First Methodist church Hartselle on Wednesday with a 10 o'clock program. One hundred fifty representatives are expected and Mrs H O Troup district secretary urged full attendance.
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Decatur
Methodist Missionary Societies
First Methodist Church
Hartselle
H. O. Troup
Power Group Appeal Denied on Municipal Power Financing
The U S court of appeals denied Alabama Power Company and Town Light and Power Company extra time to seek Supreme Court review of a ruling on public works financing for municipal power projects. Petition due by May 27, 15 days after the ruling. The decision said private power firms cannot question the constitutionality of public works loans and grants for power projects.
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Washington
United States Court of Appeals
Alabama Power Company
Town Light and Power Company
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
PWA
Work Starts Today on Second Street Paving Project
Preliminary work began this morning with 38 WPA workers excavating the old base along Second Street from the L. N. railroad tracks westward. A crushed lime stone base will be laid before asphalt paving, with completion hoped by late summer.
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Second Street
WPA
Birmingham Votes Under Clear Skies in City Runoff
Under fair skies thousands of voters cast ballots to decide which two of four candidates will serve on the Birmingham city commission for four years, with Commission President Jimmie Jones. The field includes Eugene Connor, John Taylor, Jimmie Morgan, and Lewey Robinson, in the order they placed in the first Democratic primary.
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Birmingham
Ala
Jimmie Jones
Eugene “Bull” Connor
John Taylor
Jimmie Morgan
Lewey Robinson
Missing Negro Found in Chicago Office
The Southern Tenant Farmers Union announced that Frank Weems, a Black member who disappeared June 9, 1936, has been found alive in Chicago and will appear in the office of Chicago attorney Franc's Heisler this morning.
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Memphis
Tenn
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
Frank Weems
Chicago
Franc
Heisler
Night Knight dies at age 38 in Alabama leadership loss
Lieutenant Governor Thomas E. Knight Jr. dies after illness in Montgomery. Tributes flood in from officials and citizens as state flags go to half mast and the capitol closes for his lying in state. Funeral set for Selma with services led by Rev. John W. Frazer. Knight, a 1925 appointee and World War II veteran, was slated as a 1938 gubernatorial candidate.
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Montgomery
Ala
Thomas E. Knight, Jr
Scottsboro
Capitol
Knight
Supreme Court
Alabama
St. Andrew
Bibb Graves
Selma
National
Graves
Hardy Riddle
Senate
J. M. Bonner
Wilcox
O. D. Carlton
Marengo
F. G. Stephens
M. B Trovertson
George P. Quarles
R. F. Hamner
James A. Hare
Dallas
L. A. Sanderson
R. T. Goodwyn, Jr
John W. Frazer
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Live Oak
Greensboro
Alabama National Guard
Postpone Date of Tax Payments in Athens Alabama
Probate Judge A M McConnell and Tax Collector Elmer Winsom postpone the final date for state and county tax payments to June 14 to give delinquent taxpayers more time. More people are delinquent this year than in 1936, though conditions are said to be better.
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Athens
Ala
A. M. McConnell
Elmer Winsom
Van Devanter to Leave High Court June 2
Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter informed President Roosevelt of his intent to retire from active service on June 2 1937 at age 78. The conservative justice has served on the Supreme Court since 1911 and his departure allows Roosevelt to name a successor amid court reorganization debate.
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Associated Press
Washington
Willis van Devanter
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Senate Judiciary Committee
Sutherland Caen
Wvanger
Ving
Supreme Court of the United States
van DeVanter
Froosevelt
Capitol Hill
White House
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Benjamin N. Cardow
Tennessee Valley Authority
Funeral rites for Boots Brackin held at Blackground Cemetery
Triple Drowning investigation in Wheeler area not complete says Coroner J H Highsmith. Boots Brackin laid to rest beside brothers Leon and Abner Etheridge, all three missing after boat capsized in a wind storm on the Tennessee River near Wheeler Dam. Brackin found Monday, decomposed bodies recovered earlier, no signs of violence observed.
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Boots Brackin
Tennessee
Wheeler
Blackground
Lawrence County
R. L. Franklin
Town Creek Baptist Church
Highsmith
Moulton
Brackin
Leon
Abner Etheridge
Clark Brackin
Tennessee River
Wheeler Dam
J. H. Highsmith
Lawrence
TVA
Etheridge
Jesse Hoagland
Clyde Heflin
Town Creek
Buck Smith
Decatur
Plant owners threaten to shut down over picket blocks
Two large independent steel firms Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube threaten to close doors if picketing prevents entry. The five independents employ 188,000 workers and face a union drive led by an organizing committee. The United Automobile Workers seek $200,000 mobilization in Detroit to bring Ford workers into the fold.
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Associated Press
Republic Steel Corporation
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Republic
Youngstown
Inland
Bethlehem
Crucible
Steel Workers Organization Committee
United Automobile Workers
Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Bayonne Hatchet Murder Trial Pictures Fail to Move Girl
In New Jersey on May 18 1915 18 year old Gladys MacKnight showed no emotion at a newspaper photo of her mother slain in Bayonne. Dr Arthur B Hasking testified the autopsy described deep hatchet wounds and five consecutive cuts. Gladys ex-sweetheart Donald Wightman faced the scene with heads bowed. Her father Edgar MacKnight cried as he sat at the defense table.
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Joreby City
N. J
Gladys MacKnight
Bayonne
Arthur B. Hasking
Gladys
Memorial Service at Bell Springs Baptist Church
Memorial services will be held at Bell Springs Baptist Church on Sunday May 23. The program begins at 10 with a welcome address by Reverend J T Blankenship followed by songs and recitations by children. At 11 J N Powell will speak on The Resurrection and at 11 45 there is decoration. A cemetery talk and benediction occur at noon by John Bailey. Committeemen are Lore Shipman and Mrs Tom Hart. The day includes dinner and afternoon singing.
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Bell Springs Baptist Church
J. T. Blankenship
J. N. Powell
John Bailey
Lore Shipman
Tom Hart
Dealey Named SNPA President in Hot Springs
The Southern Newspaper Publishers Association elected Ted Dealey of the Dallas News Journal as president, succeeding James E. Chappell of the Birmingham News and Age Herald. The vote, announced in Hot Springs, Ark, marks Dealey’s new leadership role heading SNPA.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Southern
Pubisher’s Association Today
Dealey
The
Dallas (Tex
News-Journal
James E. Chappell
Birmingham
Ala
News and Age- Herald
Chamber of Commerce Trade Mission Visits Mississippi
Approximately 50 members from the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce divisions will tour east Mississippi to strengthen trade ties. The motorcade will visit Columbus Starkville and West Point on Wednesday and Aberdeen Amory and Tupelo on Thursday.
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Mississippi
Birmingham
Ala
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce
East Mississippi
Columbus
Starkville
Westpoint
Miss
Aberdeen
Amory
Tupelo
Here Today A. B. Dunlap Visit
A. B. Dunlap of Hartselle is in town this afternoon for a local engagement or appearance.
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A. BE. Dunlap of
Hartselle
Duke of Windsor to Wed Wallis Warfield in Quiet Monts Ceremony
Wallis Warfield and the Duke of Windsor will marry at the Chateau De Cande in Monts on June 3 with no member of the British royal family in attendance. The press note said the invited party includes only those who have accompanied them in recent months.
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Wallis Warfield
Tenkle Wallis Warfield
Maryland
Chateau de Cande
Monts
Edward
Gorge V
Mra. Warfield
Rogers
Deeree
Chateau Gates
Duke of Windsor
Trinity School to Graduate 32 Tonight
Thirty two students will receive diplomas at Trinity High School tonight in a program at 8 o clock. The ceremony features a Glee Club, a baccalaureate address by Prof. E C McDaniel, and diploma delivery by the same speaker. Gilbert Couch is valedictorian and Zimmy Robinson salutatorian.
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Trinity High School
Leybach
J. 8
Robertson
Glee Club
E. C. McDaniel
Ben Britnell
Decatur
Gilbert Couch
Zimmy Robinson
Decatur Negro High School to Graduate Ten
Ten seniors will receive their diplomas from the Decatur Negro High School. Principal Hurston announced the graduates. Commencement exercises began April 26 with a class play and will close May 28.
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Decatur Negro High School
Hurston
Alabama snap bean crop doubles last year says report
Alabama snap bean production this season is estimated to be double of last year by the Cooperative Crop Reporting Service. The report also notes higher yields of Irish potatoes, according to statistician J. C. Garrett.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
J. C. Garrett
Henry Perry Dies in Birmingham at 79
Henry W. Perry, 79, longtime Birmingham resident and former Selma business figure, died after a long illness. A Marion, Alabama native, he was the son of the late Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Perry and spent 50 years in Birmingham linked with iron furnace and coal mine operations.
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Birmingham
Ala
Henry W. Perry
Marion
Samuel Perry
Selma
Senate Judiciary panel votes to derail Roosevelt court bill
Washington May 18 The senate judiciary committee voted 10 to 8 to report the Roosevelt court bill adversely to the senate. Democrats and three Republicans opposed the measure to add new justices. Norris supported it with Borah and Wheeler leading opposition. Justice Van Devanter announced retirement, boosting support for passage, while Wheeler urged withdrawal. Wheeler warned the administration aims for a court subordinate to it.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Borah
R-Ida
Supreme Court
Norris
Justice van Devanter
Ashburat
Dariz
Seniator Wheeler
Dmont
van Devanter
Judiciary Committee
Bankhead
Ashurst
White House
Watever
Wheeler
Tennessee River Rises to 209 Feet Amid Mild Temps
Weather report notes the Tennessee river at 209 feet rising with no rainfall in the past 24 hours. Temperatures reached 83 degrees and dipped to 61. Alabama shows mainly cloudy skies with showers tonight and Wednesday in parts, cooler on Wednesday.
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Tennessee
Alabama
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T.E. Knight
HIGH
Wally
Windsor
Bell Springs
Ted Dealey
Newsnpa President
Trinity School
Henry Perry
Bill Helped
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