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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1935
Page
2
The review notes Miss Moore in Love Me Forever with Schertzinger directing and new songs by Schertzinger. It contrasts the film’s dramatic romance and suspense with One Night of Love, praising Moore's prior triumph and the music as graceful and fitting.
Report outlines legislative maneuvers over cotton wheat loan provisions tied to the farm program. Senators discuss options including floor action, referral to Buchanan committee, or recall from the House. Adjournment delays and tensions rise as cotton wheat interests push for decisive votes and the president’s stance remains uncertain.
Senator Will O Walton introduced two bills on the day’s roll call. One requires mortgages after October 1 1935 to be advertised in a newspaper for three weeks before final foreclosure. The other repeals a 50000 yearly appropriation for the state forestry department, saying funds are insufficient.
A 1935 NBA Service report discusses neutrality legislation and State Department opposition to pro neutrality measures urged by Senators Nye Clark and Bone. It recounts 1914 Hitchcock export of munitions resolution, Bryan's diplomatic replies, Chavez’s political clashes with Cutting, and White House protests, plus contemporaneous Alabama local bills on civil service and trade practices.
Chester Davis, AAA administrator, rejects bank reports that he and Secretary Wallace threatened to resign if Congress forced amendments to the third deficiency appropriation bill for 12 cent cotton and 90 cent wheat loans. He says no communication with Agriculture Secretary Wallace since the Byrnes amendment was introduced.
The House adopted the conference report on the Sanderson bill authorising Mobile and Montgomery to regulate service trades by city ordinances. The measure lets cities set up a fair practice code for barbers dry cleaners and dyers and laundries with no floor debate.
The report notes an Ethiopian crisis with a war near the capital. Merchants are advised by the national bank to send stocks to Djibouti in French Somaliland for sale, but locals refuse thalers for export. Export of Ethiopian silver is forbidden under death penalty.
London and Berlin wrestle with colonial tensions amid Mussolini hints at revisiting empire and Count Schwerin Von Rosigk signaling Germany's demand for colonies while Britain reinforces Malta patrols and Mediterranean defenses. Local notes recount arrivals, visits, and community happenings in Decatur.
Firemen and residents near Fredericktown labored until early today to revive a mother, her son, and two daughters after their automobile plunged from a ferry landing into the Monongahela river. The dead are Mrs. Frances Kilar, 40, Joseph Kilar Jr., 22, and two girls aged seven and nine. Corporal W L Jones says Peter Callahan of Martin will be questioned on details. Callahan owned the automobile.
The TVA Ramblers beat Limestone County Woodmen of the World 13 to 6 in seven innings at Athens on Saturday as part of the WOW rally entertainment program. Higgins Stokes Jacks and Johnson led TVA with key hits and scoring drives.
Nea Service writer Mary E Dague shares ways to prepare summer squash. A steamed with cheese sauce, and a tomato layered bake are offered as kid friendly and hearty options. The recipe uses squash onion tomatoes celery sugar salt oil and cheddar with steps to fry bake and brown.
Breakfast includes pineapple juice cereal cream and creamed ham on toast with milk and coffee. Luncheon offers squash scalloped with tomatoes pumpernickel baked peach dumplings milk and tea. Dinner features macaroni and liver timbale creamed onions lettuce with Thousand Island dressing apple crisp milk and coffee.
Four large peaches prepared with flour baking powder salt and shortening dough. Peaches filled with sugar wrapped in dough sealed with milk then baked in a buttered dish with a sugar syrup and extra butter brushed on. Syrup warmed with sugar and cream to serve.
U S note delivered to Soviet officials in Moscow repudiates interference in foreign affairs and cites pledge to the United States. Officials and press respond with cautious silence as questions about other nations actions and Litvinov's whereabouts emerge amid Geneva and Prague travel.
In Montgomery on August 26 bills were introduced in both houses to raise duties and compensate the Dallas county board of revenue with a fixed salary of 50 dollars per month. The measures were authored by Representative George Quarnes and Senator Rus sell.
The article reports that witnesses identified a man named Swan as the driver who disappeared after his car plunged into ten feet of water near the shore. Divers and police searched the scene, while residents recalled hearing a crash and seeing debris before the vehicle vanished.
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