Prince of Wall Street to retire to England citing two futures
The Prince of Wall Street, Morgen Morgan, is likely to retire soon and settle in England where two estates and grouse shooting seasons suit him. His banking house faces a choice under new Congress limits: cease being an investment house or give up banking. Senator Nye returns to Washington with an anecdote about a new maid. Welles and Roosevelt seek to end the Platt Amendment's Cuba linkage, likely modifying or abolishing it.
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Prince of
Wall Street
England
Morgen
United States
Morgan
North Dakota
Gerald P. Nye
Nye
Effen
Washington
Welles
Roosevelt
Cuba
Ferdie Pecora
New York
Senate
Pecora
McKee
Investigation Committee
Explosions Shake Sullivan Prompt Military Patrols
National guardsmen from Shaka mak state park patrolled Sullivan Inds streets after three blasts shook the city early Thursday morning stopping cars on entry roads but uncovering no clues to the blasts origin. Sullivan county had been under military control following clashes between union men and cooperative mine workers.
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Sullivan
Ind
Shakamak State Park
Sullivan County
Labor tensions flare as miners march on Carnegie mills
AP reports mediators push settlement while striking soft coal miners rally at Clairton to win union recognition. State police in West Virginia use tear gas and fire on crowds after Weirton workers are pelted with stones. Mrs. Pinchot accuses steel trust officials amid unrest in Apollo. In California five ranchers are jailed over cotton picker disturbances leaving three dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnegie Steel Mills
Clairton
Pennsylvania
Weirton
West Virginia
Gifford Pinchot
Appollo
Steel Trust
California
Suit in Moulton Hotel Fire Heard
The suit by Earl Jones of Moulton seeking 2500 dollars from Home Insurance Company over furnishings lost in the Moulton Hotel fire of December 26 1931 is before the circuit court. The blaze also destroyed a furniture and grocery store with total losses around 25000. The hearing began Tuesday with witnesses being examined. Morgan county hosts the trial per plaintiff's filing.
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Earl Jones
Moulton
Home Insurance Company
Jones
Circuit Court
Eyster
Decatur
F. W. Davies
Birmingham
Lawrence County
Morgan County
Surance Company
Lawrence County Singing Convention Thanks The Decatur Daily
Resolutions received by the Lawrence County Singing Convention express appreciation for The Decatur Daily for publishing minutes and cooperation. The secretary is ordered to send a copy to The Decatur Daily and record another in convention minutes. Signed Carlton M. Messer secretary on October 11, 1933.
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Lawrence County Singing Convention
Decatur Daily
Carlton M. Messer
Another Dam on River Sought
Representative Miles C Allgood of Alabama returned to Gadsden after urging the White House to fund a $1.5 million Guntersville Dam on the Tennessee River as an unemployment relief project. He said it would make the river navigable to Chattanooga and pressed for more CCC camps for his district.
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Washington
White House
Guntersville
Tennessee
Miles C.aligood
Gadsden
Ala
Aligood
Chattanooga
Civilian Conservation Corps
Tax payments show rise while poll tax lags this year
Tax Collector Hodges Crow reports satisfactory tax payments with 1933 taxes paid ahead of last year. Poll tax receipts run well below normal. Beginning Monday, Tax Assessor H. O. Troup and Crow will tour the county to assess 1934 taxes and collect 1933 dues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hodges Crow
Crow
H. O. Troup
Local W C T U Officers to Attend Regional Convention
Mrs Mary Black state corresponding secretary and local W C T U president Mrs W H Winton state director of the Union Signal and Miss Cleo Levin state secretary of the youths branch will travel next week to attend the W C T U convention. All three will speak before the delegates in Tuscaloosa where prominent national W C T U figures are expected.
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Mary Black
W. C. T. U. Union
W. H. Winton
Union Signal
Cleo Levin
Young People’s Branch
Tuscaloosa
Principals Form Group Named President in Morgan County
Morgan county junior and senior high school principals formed a group led by H F Sherrod of Eva as president. Officers include S O Manor Parkville vice president H R Leeman Austinville secretary and F E Burleson Hart selle treasurer. The body aims to boost enrollment, with action at the Hartselle teachers institute and a resolution urging R F C janitors for county schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan County
Gerge T. Woodruff
H. F. Sherrod
Eva
O. Manor
Parkville
H. R. Leeman
Austinville
F. E. Burleson
Hartselle
Sitton
I. C. Manor
W. T. Snuggs
Woodruff
State Welfare Department
Young Peoples Union Meeting Held Sunday Afternoon
Officers of the Decatur Methodist Young Peoples Union gathered with members from Decatur Elkton Athens Austinville Tanner Flint and Trinity to plan for the new year at the West side Methodist church at 3 o clock Sunday afternoon. Yan cey Vaughn was named president and called the meeting to discuss plans and policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur Methodist Young Peoples Union
Methodist
Decatur
Elkmont
Athens
Austinville
Tanner
Flint
Trinity
Westside
Raids on Khaki Shirt Group Foiled in Philadelphia
Police arrested 27 men as officers sealed three Washington Armory districts and seized pistols clubs knives and blackjacks. Authorities said the khaki shirt movement planned to storm the national guard armory and seize ammunition for a march to Washington and install Roosevelt as dictator.
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Philadelphia
Washington
National Guard
Arthur J. Smith
Roosevelt
Smith
Die
US probes German actions on Nazi attacks on Americans
State Department investigates Germany's handling of Nazi assaults on Americans. Secretary Hull seeks proof of arrests, protection when attacks occur, and speed of prosecutions and reparations. The report cites Roland Welz, a U S citizen in Germany, struck in Dusseldorf on October 8 by a Nazi storm trooper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Hull
Berlin
Geo. S. Messersmith
Roland Welz
Germany
Dusseldorf
Attorneys from Hartselle Attend Decatur Circuit Court
Dr W M Booth Dr W H Love Lady A M White and 8S E Gibson merchants of Hartselle were in Decatur today attending sessions of Circuit Court.
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W. M. Booth
W. H. Lovelady
A. M. White
E. Gibson
Merchant
Hartselle
Decatur
Preparations for Transfer of 4200 Graves Near Norris Dam
Tennessee Valley Authority teams map and number graves from 92 area cemeteries to be flooded by Norris Dam. A historian and liaison interview families to decide grave dispositions for a proposed National Pioneer Cemetery as many churches and graves relocate. Local and national historical groups cooperate. sites donated across involved states. volunteers offer memorial statues.
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Knoxville
Tennessee Valley Authority
W. R. Woolrich
Harcourt A. Morgan
Allegheny Mountains
King’s Mountain
National Memorial Cemetery
Tennessee Valley Church
Uni of Tennessee
Daughters of the American Revolution
Sons of the American Revolution
Boone Family
The
Pioneers’ Societies
Grand Army of the Republic
United Confederate Veterans
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Amparians Legion
National Pioneer Cemetery
AFL Objects to Wild Inflation At Labor Convention
Washington Oct 12 delegates representing three million workers approved unanimously a report warning against direct inflation. The convention instructed the executive council to use every possible means to prevent unrestrained inflation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
American Federation of Labor
Executive Council
Alabama Vaccine Sent to Tampico for Hurricane Refugees
Alabama health officials rushed 50 000 cubic centimeters of anti typhoid vaccine to Tampico Mexico to immunize about 16 000 refugees left homeless after the hurricane. The vaccine cost 400 dollars to produce in state labs and was sought by Dr Bohls Texas health worker for immediate use.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Tampico
Mexico
State Board of Health
State Health Department
8. W. Bohls
Texas
Blame Fixed in Fatal Erie Wreck at Binghamton
Three Erie Railroad employees were held responsible for the September 6 wreck that killed 14 and injured 42. Primary blame fell on Engineer King whose locomotive struck the rear of another train in the incident.
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Washington
Erie Railroad
Binghamton
N. Y
King
Judge Horton Ill at Home. Callahan Serves in Decatur
Judge Horton remains ill at home and Judge W W Callahan of Decatur has been presiding in his absence. A conference between Attorney General Knight and Judge Horton was held on the Scottsboro trials and further talks were expected as Horton’s illness eased. It was hoped Horton would return to Decatur Friday and meet with Callahan later in the week.
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Es Oe
Decatur
W. W. Callahan
Horton
Knight
Scottsboro
Callahan
Accidental Shot Wounds Man at Cherry Street House
Jerry Keller, a negro man, was wounded in a 614 East Cherry street incident when a pistol discharged during a playful scuffle with Cora Humphrey, a negro woman. Keller suffered a broken leg as the bullet struck. deputies say the wounding was accidental and he was treated by Dr. A M Roan and not seriously hurt.
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Jerry Keller
East Cherry Street
Cora Humphrey
Kilgore
Keller
Cherry Street
Humphrey
A. M. Roan
Graves Plans to Run For Governor
Former Alabama governor Bibb Graves filed his declaration with the secretary of state to run in the May primary next year.
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Graves
Montgomery
Als
Bibb Graves
Secretary of State
Choir Practice at St Johns Church Draws Large Attendance
A weekly Wednesday choir practice at St John s Church drew a large attendance as Graven provided an organ accompaniment.
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St. John’s. Church
Machine Gun Kelly and Kathryn Kelly Sentenced to Life
George Kelly known as Machine Gun Kelly and his wife Kathryn were sentenced to life imprisonment under the Lindbergh law for the Urschel kidnapping. The judge noted Kathryn’s untruthful testimony while jurors deliberated. The couple planned to move Kelly by plane to Atlanta. Kathryn will serve in a West Virginia women’s prison.
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Oklahoma City
Okls
George
Kelly
Kathryn
Charles F. Urschel
Edgar S. Vaught
Memphis
Atlanta
West Virginia
Vaught
Kathryn Kelly
Shannon
Paradise
Tex
Urschel
Pauline Frye
Ruth Shannon
Fort Worth
Itedahs
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Prarson
Wert
Allen
Ring Lardner
U.S
Associated Press
Allgood
Sherrod
Young Peoples Union
Prosecution
Mme
Luisa Tetrazzini
Pietro Vernati
Verna
Iva
AFL
Erie
Disa
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