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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1937
Page
3
Washington observers foresee a party rift as liberal and conservative wings clash in the coming session. Roosevelts wage hour push and a looming 1940 convention fuel the fight with Southern Democrats often pivotal. Predictions vary on whether a showdown would come in primaries or at the convention.
Young Westminster Presbyterian attendees heard four students discuss college life. Edward Davies, Dick Watkins of Auburn, Helebrig of Berea, and Miss Janvis of Alabama College Montevallo answered questions amid Christmas tree decorations.
In Omaha on December 27 a local printing company mailed 200 Christmas cards to Douglas county jail for inmate use. Jailer Joe Rosenbloom received 143 cards for the facility.
Former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker dies at 66 in Cleveland after heart illness. Public rites include lying in state with military guard at Trinity Cathedral and burial at Lake View near Garfield and Hanna graves. Messages pour in from Cordell Hull, Woodrow Wilson widow, and Gen. Pershing.
City police records show a calmer Christmas weekend with six cases on Christmas morning and four today. Christmas morning 3 petty larceny 3 drunkenness and 2 fights. this morning 3 drunkenness and 1 petty larceny charged.
Lucille Merrick warns Jerry Mimi loves him but loves her world more. Mimi’s dresses spark a moment as Mrs Merrick vanishes abruptly, leaving Mimi and Jerry alone with unspoken feelings and a choice between love and circumstance.
In a tense, intimate scene Mimi longs to marry Jerry despite poverty and risk. He promises a life of wealth, land, and artistic dreams, and they hatch a rushed, clandestine plan aided by Mrs. Merrick to elope that night without alerting Mimi’s mother or Andy Fuller. The couple clings to hope amid fear of exposure and loss.
State health officer Dr J N Baker reports last year in Alabama 5 743 pneumonia cases, about 1 in 491 residents. 47 percent of cases proved fatal. He notes higher mortality in November to March and calls for prompt typing to guide serum treatment.
In Albany a New York pastor proposes annual remarriage for American couples. Rev George J Houtain set January 2 as wedlock Sunday at Clinton Heights Congregational Church to renew the family as the nation’s basic structure. He says democracy thrives where the home is exalted and the sacred institution of wedlock is honored.
John V. Terry 70 died Thursday at his Courtland Route 3 residence. Funeral services were held Friday at 2:30 p.m. at the residence with burial in the family cemetery. He is survived by his wife and several relatives.
M. E. Haney of Greenville Texas is visiting his cousin J. B. Patterson in Lacon.
The text notes Isaac Newton developing calculus by age 21 and discovering gravity before age 30, highlighting early advances by the famed scientist.
In Kansas City a mother kangaroo named Jigger panics as crowds gather to view her joey Temon. The stressed animal drops the weak baby from a makeshift incubator, and the infant dies despite efforts to save it.
An advertisement promotes Genuine Bayer Aspirin as fast relief for headaches. It describes quick acting tablets that disintegrate in water, urging immediate use at onset of pain and to ask for Bayer by full name rather than a generic term. It notes availability in drug stores nationwide.
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