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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1936
Page
2
Public Health Service estimates the nation spends about 10 billion dollars annually on sickness and accidents with hidden costs. A 12.5 percent cut could save employers about 15 600 per 1 000 employees, and reducing illness related time loss by two thirds could save about 4 000 per 1 000.
The funeral train from Washington arrived in the mountain time zone as officials followed with bowed heads. The Dern family casket was carried to a waiting hearse outside the station while a guard of state police stood nearby and about 2,000 onlookers watched in mourning.
Decatur Diary reports Nathan Sideman and family back from an east trip. The Decatur Shrine Club hosts a Friday 7 pm banquet at the Masonic temple with entertainment. Lawrence Cooper of Birmingham visits Wilson Crawford. Local residents noted include the Argends at 411 East Vine and Mr. and Mrs. Hine from Aniston.
In Fulton Missouri three Metz brothers Freddie 21 Ernest 23 and Harry 19 died in a shallow shaft after carbon monoxide from a gasoline engine fouled the air. Owner Louis Metz 32 and his father in law T J Wolfe 53 were overcome. Wolfe remained critical. Maynard Chirnside alerted rescuers who narrowly escaped. another man Roy Anthony helped pull them out. The incident follows Missouri's second coal mine disaster in two weeks.
Harvard scholars describe two advances at the Tercentenary. Rudolf Carnap explains a new logic approach bridging Gödel’s incompleteness gap, while Gödel’s work shows limits of universal demonstration. Ronald Fisher presents a three month solvable puzzle on Nile flood fertility distribution among village plots.
After a long illness Joseph J Terry 79 died at his Moulton home at 1 30 this morning Funeral rites were held at 2 this afternoon conducted by Revs Blythe Spearman with burial at Shumaker cemetery directed by Brown Decatur Pallbearers were Masons Survivors include his widow two daughters Mrs Mary Lou Jetton Town Creek Mrs Dave Reeves Courtland three sons Walter Ike Terry Courtland John F Terry Courtland a sister Mrs Emma Terry Hillsboro and a brother John C Terry Courtland
Rodney Dutcher reports on private political calculations shaping the 1936 election. Both parties estimate electoral outcomes by state power, patronage, and fundraising, with Republicans optimistic in New England and New York while Democrats tout Illinois Ohio Wisconsin and other battlegrounds.
Market quotes show selective buying with overall narrow movement in stocks. Grains mixed, bonds steady, cotton higher, and foreign currencies quiet as traders await European market clarity. Major issues include Allied Chemical rebounding 2 points and several industrials near unchanged to slightly higher, while others lagged and transfers traded around 1.1 million shares.
New York stocks show irregular patterns with mines and special ties resisting realization while bonds rise and utilities stay well supported. Cotton futures close steady with minor advances across all contracts, amid mixed domestic and foreign demand and price action in other commodities.
Liverpool碀cotton market reports 14000 bales with 1000 American included. Spot demand moderate and prices rise five points. Quotations listed for strict good middling to strict good ordinary with futures steady at Oct 6.22 and Dec 6.15 among others.
Chicago wheat futures show September opening at 1.09, high 1.10, low 1.08, close 1.08. December bids open at 1.08, high 1.09, low 1.06, close 1.07.
Chicago market note lists live poultry arrivals by car and truck with wholesale price ranges for hens leghorn Plymouth Rock and white rock varieties by weight class. Turkeys ducks and geese are included with current price levels for old and young birds.
Potatoes priced around 2.35 to 2.75 per cwt with modest US shipments totaling 401 thousand cwt. Regions listed include New Jersey Pennsylvania Wisconsin Idaho with US No. 1 and No. 2 classifications and varying prices. demand described as light and supplies moderate.
Chicago market report shows butter at a peak price of 8 478, prices unchanged. Eggs firm at 6 011, extra first local 23 1 4, cars 23 3 4, fresh graded firsts local 22 1 2, cars 23, current receipts 21.
U S Dept of Agriculture report shows hogs in Chicago on September 1 at 15,000 head, led by most animals 15 to 25 cents lower than Monday.
Emily Darst of Kansas City, mother of slain Chicago reporter Alfred Lingle, joins a plea for parole for Leo Brothers jailed 14 years in Joliet for Lingle’s death. Darst and Brothers’ mother pressed Governor Horner and the Illinois parole board, and she met with former Chicago mayor William Hale Thompson to back the petition.
Guy M. Flaut longtime local business man died at 6 30 p m at his home 611 Fifth avenue west aged 54 he is survived by his wife and daughter Joy funeral services will be held this afternoon at 3 at the residence with Rev Ira F Hawkins and Rev A H Nabors officiating interment in city cemetery Drinkard Howell directing pallbearers listed.
Four additional patrolmen were sent to Talladega, bringing the total to six, as Governor Bibb Graves orders the Talladega cotton factory not to reopen after a June shutdown. An earlier report said conditions were quiet while Graves awaited details. A separate incident at another Talladega mill involved a fatal picket line clash.
An official board meeting is scheduled for this evening at 7 30 at the First Christian church.
Expert woodsmen were ordered to close in on two armed brothers after authorities located them in a timbered Siskiyou area twenty miles south of the Oregon state line. John and Coke Brite are sought for killings tied to a feud over a horse and the deaths of Deputy Sheriff Martin Lange, Constable Joseph Clark, and Fred Seaborn. Local officials warned against lynching as California governors mobilized to prevent mob violence.
Alabama officials stage intensified crackdown on rustlers after a farm ambush left a bloody hat and possible wounding. Goode requests state highway patrol aid to monitor truck movements while a Texas trapper joins livestock men to deter raids reminiscent of pioneer days.
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