The Daily's Decatur Platform and Election Control Debate
The Decatur issue outlines platform points including industrial location, a city auditorium, parks, a rural market for the Tennessee Valley, and municipal reforms. The article then warns of a serious threat to white control in the South via federal oversee of party primaries and election regulation, exploring debates over congressional power to regulate campaigns and primaries.
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Alabama
Heflin
John H. Bankhead
Democratic Party
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Pennsylvania
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Congressional Committee
Congress
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Death penalty urged for Marian McLean slayer
A Cincinnati tenement killing of six year old Marian McLean prompts renewed calls for swift and certain execution. The Daily argues that the murderer deserves instant death to match the crime and deter future fiendish acts, while noting justice often misfires in courts.
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Marion McLean
Cincinnati
Marian McLean
Ohio
Mildred McLean
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Mrs. McLean
Nye committee and primaries raise calls for federal control
The Nye committee argues that without federal oversight, primary elections in states cannot be effectively regulated. Senatorial contests like Newberry, Vare, and Smith highlighted heavy spending and money corruption in state law primaries, provoking the Nye probe.
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Nye Committee
Congress
Newberry
Vare
Pennsylvania
Smith
Illinois
Morgan County National Bank Stock Increased
Twelve years ago today the Morgan County National Bank stock increased to 200000 at a stockholders meeting in the directors room. Marjorie Beard left Saturday to visit Jane Odom in Nashville Tennessee. W B Edmundson returned from Montgomery. Lucille Osborn is guest of Miss Mary Harvey. United States Marshall Henry A Skeggs will return to Birmingham to resume duties after Christmas. Daphne Graves returned from Cullman where she visited Florence Young.
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Morgan County National Bank
Marjorie Beard
Jane Odom
Nashville, Tenn
United States
Henry A. Skeggs
Birmingham
Daphne Graves
Cullman
Florence Young
A Division of Death Declares Encyclical Rights
Arthur Brisbane reports a bold column alleging a religious or political clash over wealth and power. The piece titles a controversial encyclical urging restitution of vast fortunes and condemns punitive measures as excessive. It frames the debate around a hypothetical or symbolic struggle for control of billions.
Japan and the air war in Manchuria and a papal encyclical
The article compares Japan’s Manchuria activities to U S involvement in Nicaragua, noting Japan’s strong air force and a unit of 200 pilots pledged to die for national efficiency. It also reviews Pope Pius XII calling for a united Christian church under the Papacy, and warns of a looming rise in national debt. It ends with a Paris guillotine execution scene at dawn.
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Pius
Ephesus
Nevtorius
Constantinople
Denyine
Mary
Unwise Men of the East and the Paris Execution
A Paris crowd gathered at Place de la Roquette to watch Gauchet, who squandered an inherited fortune and murdered a jeweller for money. He refused clemency and confession, and walked to the guillotine with a priest blessing him. A prior criminal once used a crucifix to brain a priest at execution.
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Paris
Gauchet
Hs Face
Twas the Night Behind Christmas and New Year Laughs
A humorous string of holiday quips and sketches from Decatur, recounting holiday woes and family banter. Observations range from overspending and medical bills to fashion mishaps and witty exchanges between parents and children. The piece blends Christmas sentiment with light satire.
McFadden Conservative Republican Attacks Hoover Moratorium
Congressman Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania, long an orthodox conservative, called Hoover's moratorium an infamous proposal and questioned secret talks with foreign powers. A former head of the Pennsylvania Bankers' Association, he wields deep banking ties as he challenges administration policy amid ongoing Senate finance committee investigations.
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Washington, D. C
Louis T. McFadden
Pennsylvania
Hoover
America
McFadden
Washington
Uncle Sam
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Pennsylvania Bankers’ Association
House of Representatives’ Committee On Banking and Currency
House
Henry B. Steagall
Alabama
Health Commissioner forms committee on child tuberculosis
New York City Health Commissioner Wynce creates a special committee to address tuberculosis in children. The text notes tuberculosis often begins in infancy and warns that mothers kissing babies on the lips can seed infection, urging parents to avoid mouth-to-mouth contact and to limit kisses to the child's own caretakers.
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Wynce
New York City
Patterson Home After Weeks Long Illness
A. Patterson of West Decatur returns from several weeks illness at Baugh's Infirmary and is on the road to recovery. Friends express pleasure at his improvement.
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T. A. Patterson
West Decatur
Baugh
Carbohydrates In The Science Of Diet By Logan Clendening
A discussion on the energy role of carbohydrates in the U.S. diet. It notes sugar consumption in candy and soda, estimates calories from carbohydrate foods, and argues carbs should be about half daily calories. It explains sugar as pure carbohydrate, lists vegetables by carbohydrate content, and mentions historical notes on sugar in European history.
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Europe
Logan Clendening
M. D
Stefannson
Two Acquittals in Childs Death in Harlem Shooting
Vincent Coll and Frank Giaradano were acquitted on a murder charge in the Harlem street shooting that killed five year old Michael Vengali and wounded others last summer. A key prosecution witness, George Brecht of St. Louis, admitted lying about prior trial testimony under cross examination.
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New York
Vincent Coll
Frank Giaradano
Michael Vengali
Harlem
Coll
Gioradano
Little Italy
Vengali
George Brecht
St. Louis
Ciaradano
Brecht
Texas Joins Union On February Anniversary
Today marks the 179th anniversary of Texas admission to the United States in 1845. The admission legislation completed Texas statehood and shifted its status to a U S state within the growing nation.
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Texas
Union
One Man Killed In Gangster Shooting
In Philadelphia police report a gangster shooting affray on a building roof left Albert Skale dead and Samuel Grossman critically wounded. Four suspects were arrested as both victims were bail witnesses in the Mickey Duffy case.
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Philadelphia
Albert Skale
Mickey Duffy
Atlantic City
Samuel Grossman
Skale
Duffy
How Much Does the Earth Weigh and Planets Count
The earth’s weight is estimated at 6 000 billions of billions of tons. More than 800 small planets circulate around the sun. An average touring car has between 2 400 and 32 parts.
Hidden Motives and Everyday Deception in Society
A fragmentary observation notes that curing low mood begins with breaking the patient’s belief in personal success as a liar. It comments that the average man learns to lie with little practice while remarking that wealth can ruin happiness. The piece also jokes that a street car conductor directs his wife, and hints at tobacco odors in another’s pipe.
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Society
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