Counterfeiting and Prohibition Era Observations Highlight Washington
In Washington concerns rise over rising counterfeiting tied to hurried Federal Reserve notes and a skilled gang flooding the nation with bad money. Secret Service probes a lead from Alexandria as officials debate currency issues and looming congressional sessions. Captain Ferdinando Casardi’s marriage to a Washington society figure garners attention while liquor policy debates surface with foreign imports, blending whiskey ideas, and bottled in bond regulation questions amid end-of-prohibition preparations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Federal Reserve
Secret Service
Alexandria
New York
Congress
LA Belle Casardi
Ferdinando Casardi
Royal Itellam
Washington . Her Looks Are A Legend Throughout the Diplomatic Corps
Cassahanhoe
Ser Ae
Madame Cas
Madame Casardi
Captain Casardi
Penn-Mar Company
Kentucky
United States
W. H. Chaplin Company
London
British Empire
California
Celler
Arthur BE. Mor
Scottsboro Case Set Likely In Morgan County Court
Officials say Judge James E. Horton may return Thursday and a new trial date for the Scottsboro defendants could be announced soon. Attorney General Knight discussed new trial dates with judges as Morgan County court sessions proceed amid prior juror attacks coverage.
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Scottsboro
Morgan Court
James E. Horton
Athens
Bcotteboro
Horton
W. W. Callahan
Callahan
Judge Horton
Circuit Court
Thomas E. Knight, Jr
Victoria Price
Ruby Bates
Jackson County
Morgan County
Samuel Simon Leibowitz
Pointer Harlow Grocery hit by burglars on First Avenue
Burglars pried the front door of Pointer Harlow Grocery, ransacked the office, and opened an unlocked safe scattering papers. No items were taken and no clues were left. Police are investigating with no immediate leads.
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Pointer-Harlow Grocery Company
First Avenue
Central PTA Names Officers and Award Winners
The Central P T A met Tuesday afternoon with good attendance. After a devotional led by Prof. O B Hagerman, officers were elected: Mrs. W R Johnson president, Mrs. Rufus Warren first vice president, Mrs. Lenz second vice president, Miss Lila Jolly secretary, Miss Janie Elkins treasurer. Jolly's room won the attendance banner and prize a potted plant.
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P.T. A
Repeal Studied by Roosevelt and Federal Groups
President Roosevelt will coordinate federal agencies next week to map steps if repeal proceeds. With 33 states having passed repeal, officials focus on actions between repeal and potential legislation, and no special session is planned.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Alabama Farmland Drainage Drives Malaria Control Effort
In Alabama, RFC funded county ditching drained thousands of acres of swampy land under state health supervision. Counties such as Houston Calhoun Jefferson Dallas Morgan Etowah Sumter Tallapoosa and Washington reported miles of drainage ditches and acres dried, with broader campaigns across the state though reports were incomplete.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
State Health Department
RFC
Jaguéro
Houston County
Calhoun County
Jefferson County
Dallas County
Morgan
Etowah
Sumter
Tallapoosa
Washington
J. N. Bakes
State Health Office
Airline Tragedy Near Chesterton Claims Seven
Seven people died when a United Airlines twin motor transport crashed near Chesterton Indiana. Witnesses heard a terrific explosion after the plane radioed all well moments before impact. The victims were Dorothy Dwyer Arlington Massachusetts Warren F Burris E Smith Fred Shhoendorf H R Tarrant A T Ruby and Alice Scribner all of Chicago.
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Chesterton
Ind
United Airlines
Dorothy Dwyer
Arlington
Mass
Warren F. Burris
E. Smith
Fred. Shhoendorf
H. R. Tarrant
A. T. Ruby
Alice Scribner
Chicago
Kathryn Kelly 18 on Stand in Trial
Kathryn Kelly wife of gangster George Kelly testifies in the Urschel kidnapping trial as the government rests its case. Her daughter Pauline Frye describes Kathryn aiding three girls at Shannon's farm with Fort Worth trips while Urschel was held blindfolded. Defense reveals Kelly told a federal agent the wife had nothing to do with it.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Kathryn Kelly
George
W. A. Rover
Birmingham
Kelly
A M Smith III Attache Confined With Illness
Friends report A M Smith III a veteran post office attache is confined to his home on Jackson Street with an attack of flu.
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A. M. Smith
Post Office
Jackson Street
Hartselle backs municiple power plan in landslide vote
Hartselle voters approve municipal ownership of a power plant by 296 to 18 in a single box election. The result mirrors a regional trend as Florence and Sheffield had earlier voted in favor, with nearby Birmingham voting down a similar measure. A TVA transmission line plan from Muscle Shoals adds context. A postvote conference with Tri-Cities officials and TVA reps followed.
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Hartselle
North Alabama
Birmingham
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Morgan County
Tennessee Valley Authority
Muscle Shoals
Decatur
TVA
Florence
Tuscumbia
Sheffield
Tri-Cities
Lewlyn Evans
Polokofff
W. H. Richeson
R. R. Hill
Hoyt Greer
W.W. L. Farr
Hal Sargent
Dr. Delaney
Lyons Hotel
Heavy Police Court Docket on Monday
One of the heaviest police court dockets in months saw 25 offenders arraigned for hearings on Monday. The charges included gaming violation of the prohibition laws drunks driving while drunk and disorderly conduct.
TVA seeks bids for 675 miles of copper line to Norris Dam
The Tennessee Valley Authority calls for bids on 675 miles of copper conductor for a tie transmission line from the Muscle Shoals plant to Norris Dam near Knoxville. Local labor will clear rights of way, with landowners receiving timber and brush disposal rights.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Muscle Shoals
Norris Dam
Knoxville
Board of
David E. Lilienthal
Tennessee Valley Authority Power Program
Wilson Dam
Wilson
Norris
Tennessee River
White Creek
Chattanooga
Lilienthal
Norris’Dam
Southern Railway directors re-elected at Richmond meeting
At the 40th annual stockholders meeting in Richmond Virginia on October 11 directors with expiring terms were re elected for three years including Fairfax Harrison Jeremiah Milbank and Jackson E Reynolds George A Sloan and Robert M Hanes. John Stewart Bran was named to fill the 1935 class vacancy created by E L B Springs death.
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Richmond
Stockholders of Southern Railway Company
Messrs
Fairfax Harrison
Virginia
Jermiah Milbank
Jackson E Reynolds
New York
Robert M Hanes
Winston- Salem
N. C
George A. Sloan
E. L. B. Springs
Harrison
John Stewart Bran
Jonathan Bran
Death Notice for J. M. Sellars at 47
J M Sellars 47 died this morning at 6 30 at his home 1409 Ninth Avenue South. Survived by wife six sons Luther Roscoe Leonard G W J L and Robert M Sellars of Decatur five daughters Etta Mae Cole and Cansady Hazel Lorraine and Janita Sellars mother Mrs Monroe Sellars one sister Mrs S C Massey. Body to Priest s prepared for burial later returned to residence. Funeral at 12 30 pm Thursday at the residence with Rev J D Pickens and Rev J D Mohntgomery. Cortege to Lawrence County for concluding services and interment with Priest in charge.
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J. M. Sellars
Ninth Avenue
South
Luther
Roscoe
Leonard
G. W
J. L
Robert M. Sellars
Decatur
Etta Mae Cole
Cansady
Hazel, Lorraine
Janijta Sellars
Monroe Sellars
C. Massey
J. D. Pickens
J. D. Mohntgomery
Lawrence County
Education Board Announces Third Quarter Certificate Payments
The board of education announced arrangements to pay certificates dated March 3 for the third quarter. Certificates are payable November 1, with payments being made today and tomorrow.
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Board of Education Today
McAdoo Named Counsel for Dillon Read for 12 Million Loan
Senator McAdoo was named to the Senate investigators as counsel for Dillon Read and Company over a 12 million dollar South American loan floated in 1921 for Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Bonds are now trading at 16 per 100. Robert O. Hayward said McAdoo aided in straightening legal difficulties to allow Dillon Read to handle the issue.
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Washington
McAdoo
Senate
Dillon, Read and Company
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Robert O. Hayward
Dillon
City Institute for Teachers Convened Thursday
The Decatur school system holds its annual teachers institute Thursday afternoon at Central junior high at one o clock. Dr W J Spencer from the state department of education will conduct the session. Classes proceed as usual Thursday morning.
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Decatur
Central Junior High
W. J. Spencer
The
State Department of Education
Missing Baggage Recovered Near Oakworth Yards
A suitcase owned by freight car tourists with an infant daughter disappeared while the parents sought milk. It was recovered below the Oakworth yards by railroad worker Macon Cole who reported it to police and hopes to reunite owners.
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Oakworth Yards
Macon Cole
Cole
Farm Income of Nation Up to 6.36 Billion This Year
The gross farm income for the nation is estimated at about 6.36 billion dollars for this year, up from 5.143 billion in 1932. The figure includes 6.1 billion from farm product sales and 20 million in rentals and payments under the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
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Washington
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Agricultural Adjustment Ac
New Power May Be Asked to End Industrial Wars
Washington October 11 The administration warned Congress it may seek power to end labor disputes unless workers settle internal dissent and arbitrate before strikes The warning targets carpenters and iron workers who halted construction on the justice department building over radiator enclosure installation The message follows AFL meeting where Gen Hugh Johnson NRA administrator criticized labor unrest
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Washington
Apy
Congress
Carpenters and Iron Workers
Justice Department
American Federation of Labor
Hugh 8. Johnson
NRA
Cotton pickers strikes flare across states in violence
Across West Virginia Indiana California Pennsylvania and New York clashes involve cotton pickers longshoremen and teachers. Police and troops patrol troubled areas as dynamite and tear gas disrupts communities.Several killed in Bakersfield clashes and eleven hospitalized in Buffalo.
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Associated Press
Cees Tn
West Virginia
Indiana
Bakersfield
Calif
Scranton
Buffalo
N. Y
Republic Steel
San Francisco
Jessup
Pringle
Pennsylvania
Bids Requested For New School Building At Hartselle
Morgan County education officials seek bids to replace the destroyed Morgan County Training School for Negroes with a one story seven room frame building two rooms in the basement. Bids must be received by noon October 27. Approximately 8000 dollars available. County Superintendent George T Wooruff announced details at the courthouse office.
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County of Education
Hartselle
Morgan County Training School
George T. Wooruff
Garage Destroyed By Fire Tuesday
A woodhouse at 1021 Wadsworth was destroyed by fire on Tuesday. Firefighters contained the blaze but the structure sustaining heavy damage. No injuries reported, and cause under investigation.
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Wadsworth
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