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Small, lean Edward Arthur Hayes. 42. a Decatur, Ill. lawyer, was elected National Commander, succeeding Louis Johnson of Clarksburg. W Va. Son of an Irish immigrant Commander Hayes joined the Navy in 1917 as apprentice seaman, was soon commissioned an ensign. He served at Great Lakes Naval Training Station as aide to the late Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett. After the War he resumed his law practice, helped organize the Decatur Legion Post, became Illinois State Commander in 1929. An acknowledged authority on veteran affairs, he was made vice chairman of the Legion's Rehabilitation Committee, had a large...
...third anti-Long man got an important Federal job in New Orleans last week when President Roosevelt snubbed the rebellious "Kingfish" by appointing New Orleans' Daniel Decatur Moore to be Collector of Internal Revenue...
Year ago Dr. Leon Decatur Young of Dallas, Tex., onetime vice moderator of the Presbyterian Church, set about helping his parishioners recover their "lost sense of sin." He devised a "Sin-Board" with 84 items, to be checked off by self-examining sinners. Last week as the Presbyterian General Assembly closed its annual meeting in Columbus. Ohio. Dr. Leon Decatur Young passed out copies of the Sin-Board among his fellow delegates: the Presbyterian evangelism division had indorsed it. There are small Sin-Boards. 6x9 in., for use during sermons, and cardboard sheets 40 x 48 in., which sell...
...conviction of one Scottsboro (Ala.) Negro on the mortal charge of raping two white girls (TIME, April 17 et ante): indefinite postponement of the trial of the other six defendants; in Decatur, Ala. Grounds: alleged insults to Alabamans by Chief Defense Counsel Samuel S. Leibowitz, creating "sentiment that might not allow a fair trial." Interviewed by a northern newshawk about the Alabama jurors. Leibowitz was quoted as saying, "If you ever saw those creatures; those bigots, whose mouths are slits in their faces, whose eyes pop out at you like frogs, whose chins drip tobacco juice, bewhiskered and filthy...
Last week two cars full of deputies with shotguns escorted the prisoners to Decatur. Sheriff Bud Davis locked them up in a rickety jail which had been condemned for white prisoners two years ago. Thirty young militiamen mounted guard...