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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1928
Page
1
Dorothy Sielagowski aged seven was taken from her bed by a man in a black suit who attacked and killed her, leaving the body at the grandparents' door. Police search for a small man in a black suit as sobbing parents and officers investigate the grisly crime in Toledo Ohio.
President Coolidge signed the postal rates reduction bill and the deficiency appropriation bill totaling 146 million dollars. The package includes 14 million for Mississippi flood control work and items authorizing appointments and international invitations.
The page lists residence for sale at 317 Johnston Street with terms, offers tomato plants by the thousand lots, and household goods for rent or sale including furnished bedrooms or housekeeping rooms. Also notes a dance event and upcoming prospective buyers in the want ads.
An old parlor cupboard with brown patina is valued at $6.75 in a New England second hand shop yet private bidders and owners claim a $20,000 prize. J P Morgan reportedly offered that sum through agents while a legal dispute over ownership unfolds involving Miss Howes and a minister artist antiquarian. The case draws collectors and signals potential futures for similar estates.
Oslo May 29. An auxiliary relief expedition to search for the Italia has been suspended indefinitely as the Italian government favored no further development. Lieutenant Olm, a Norwegian flier, sails from Tromsoe aboard the Hobby to Spitzbergen to conduct an air search along the northern coast. Reports of Italia on Amsterdam island are not confirmed by the mother ship Citta Di Milano.
The highway from here to Birmingham is closed near Garden City causing a long detour. Grading and paving are underway on the closed section at present.
Members of the Wesley Brotherhood of the Ninth Street Methodist Church will hold a picnic at Swan Lake this Wednesday. Ladies are requested to prepare basket lunches and meet at the church at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning.
Reports on the industrial drive will be released this afternoon at 4 o clock with committeemen meeting at the Tennessee Valley Bank. President John C White leads the Decatur Building and Improvement Corporation as committees report roughly 30000 dollars of stock sold to fund housing for industrial workers including textile employees.
The seventieth congress has authorized nearly 200 bridge constructions over navigable streams across the country. Alabama led the bridge bill parade with Tennessee close behind.
Rev. C. D. Boozer chairman of the Morgan County Baptist association executive committee has called a meeting. The executive board will meet Thursday at 10 30 AM at the Hartselle Baptist church. Pastors and board members are urged to attend for important business. Churches not designated their representatives should do so before Thursday.
President Coolidge signs the measure making it law with a net tax cut of $222.5 million. The plan lowers corporation tax from 13.5 to 12 percent, expands corporate exemptions, repeals the auto tax, raises earned income credit and club dues limits, and adjusts wine and narcotics fees while increasing taxes on prizes and non resident source rules. Net effect is substantial corporate relief with limited individual tax changes.
The Decatur curb market drew many addresses from across the county for a Tuesday sale event. Sellers included Charles J. Kemitzer route 3 Mrs E C McRight route 8 J H Scrugs route 3 Ed Hartsell Hart selle Mrs P W Sandlin Priceville Mrs J E Lee Priceville C Henderson Falkville Mrs Eva Freeman Hartselle Mrs H P Jackson route 2 Miriam Burns Courtland road E L Murphree Hartselle D H Mc Clellan Priceville.
Lightning struck the Alabama Power Company substation on First Avenue this morning around nine o'clock, blowing a fuse and interrupting service for several minutes. No injuries reported.
William Butterworth, president of the U S Chamber of Commerce, urges President Coolidge to veto the Muscle Shoals act. The organization says government manufacturing of fixed nitrogen would compete with private enterprise and set dangerous precedents.
Six convicts found guilty of murdering George Baker during the Thanksgiving Day riot at Folsom prison. The jury imposed the death penalty on Tony Brown Walter Burke Roy Stokes James Gregg James Gleason and Albert Stewart. Stewart testified for the state and faced life imprisonment.
Central High School conducted graduation exercises at the Princess Theatre with impromptu speakers after Mr Harmon missed his train from Montgomery. C. W. Mathews presented fifty one diplomas. top students were listed and awards given for academics and leadership.
Fifteen hundred members join the Just Kids Safety Club in Decatur as readers embrace the campaign to boost child and parent caution. Ad Carter of King Feature Syndicate originated the idea, popularizing safety slogans and comic strip characters while urging families to look both ways before crossing streets.
A toddler fell about nine feet to a concrete areaway outside The Daily office on 4th Avenue South. The ear drum fracture was found after examination, with two days home confinement deemed sufficient. Mr and Mrs Overstreet and daughter Violet were present.
Ninety one merchants joined a busines club planning eight trade days in Decatur for fall and winter. Officials aim to publish a complete progress report by six tonight. Six committees remain to give first reports with 28 in total. Partial reports have been filed by twenty two committees. Hope remains that at least 125 will sign to join the cooperative trade movement. After reports, H L Peterson, trade program chairman, will classify entrants by business operation for the trade day.
The fire department has answered no calls for over a week, last responding to an alarm around last Saturday. Officials call the lull unusual in the department annals, noting it is rare to go more than a week without a single alarm.
Washington AP reports scenes of the final hours as the 70th Congress adjourns sine die at 6:86 p.m. The Senate reversed itself voting 46 to 86 to adjourn, then the House approved the adjournment resolution 165 to 9. Discussions on the Boulder Dam bill followed, with political maneuvers surrounding Johnson and Bruce amid the adjournment drama.
Government sells a variety of assets including traction engines, ice plant machinery, shoe finishing equipment, steam gear, war prison remnants, and textiles such as cotton woolen clothing and shoes. The Post Salvage Officer leads the sale scheduled for Monday June 4 with items on trailers and large estimated costs.
Congressman's first public speech after adoption of Musele legislation will detail the benefits to states. Address tonight in Huntaville Ward B, eighth congressional district, expected to cover the bill and its implications.
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