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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1935
Page
2
A scanned excerpt presents multiple salad recipes including Cabbage and Raisin Salad and Lima Bean and Celery Salad, plus a Tomorrow's Menu section listing breakfast, luncheon, and dinner items. It describes ingredients, quantities, and preparation steps for each dish and notes serving sizes. The text also mentions country kitchen readers and dining suggestions.
A Decatur diary notes the Athens trip of J L Shumake on business and a Rotary Club meeting cancellation with no new date. It lists local arrivals and visits, hospital transports, church notices, and upcoming municipal business including a license schedule for the next year.
Dr Edmund Jacobson of the University of Chicago reports locating a single brain center near the top left head region that governs jaw activity. Using an implanted electric telegraph in living tissue, he observes jaw clenching raises local brain activity while other thoughts do not. The finding supports the view of brain organization like a department store and suggests specific muscles can trigger localized brain activation.
Probers identify Solon as victim of an assassination as police link the event to a violent era in the Bloody 20th Ward. The piece recalls Genna gang dominance, Morris Eller’s political influence, and the 1928 Granady killing that framed local power struggles during Prohibition.
The U S Civil Service Commission lists openings for Junior graduate nurse at 1620 dollars, assistant to forester technician at 1620, assistant geophysicist 2600, and various accountant and auditor roles from 2000 to 3200 a year. Education and experience specifics required through the Interstate Commerce Commission. full details from H Yarbrough at the Civil Service Board of Examiners office on Bank Street.
Lieut. Gen. Hunter Liggett, longtime Indian fighter and Maine hero, former commander of the Army of Occupation in Germany, died today in Letterman Hospital at the Presidio.
Researchers report the first direct demonstration that specific brain centers exist and participate in normal activity. The findings address previous critiques based on indirect evidence and support the view that these centers play a role in regular brain function.
The region endured hazardous travel as icy winds and snow spread across the area. Florence reported a 16 degree low, the coldest in the Tennessee Valley, while Huntsville dipped to 25 and Gadsden to 26 as skies cleared and temperatures were expected to moderate.
In New Orleans the national government steps into the January 21 primary dispute over a fair vote. Rep Cleveland Dear leads the anti administration effort charging Huey P Long era manipulation while Governor O K Allen defends the process as fair and in control of the election machinery.
The piece notes John L. Lewis and the Committee for Industrial Organization planning their first mass organizing attack in the automobile industry amid AFL tensions. It also reports Father Coughlin claiming 50,000 organizers for Social Justice clubs and Senator Robinson facing renomination challenges after Huey Long's assassination.
A quiet but steady demand for stocks followed by generally rising prices. Big names like American Can and General Motors led gains while bonds and foreign obligations firmed. Two day NYSE delivery rose toward tax list deadlines with many transfers aimed at profits to beat possible tax hikes. Poultry prices in Chicago moved with unsettled demand and varied weights.
Cotton trade in Liverpool reports 1,000 bales with American cotton at steady demand and prices up three points. Quoted levels include American strict good middling 7.08, good middling 6.78, middling 6.58, and corresponding futures as Dec 6.22, Jan 6.22, May 6.11, Oct 5.93 with a quiet market tone.
Chicago market notes report steady butter at 7 748 and egg listings across several grades with central carrots standards and creamery specials. Prices are shown for extra, firsts, seconds and standard lots with multiple fractions and date cited December 30.
Potatoes on track at 71 per cwt with total U S shipments 639 Saturday and 26 Sunday. Idaho Russell varieties U S No 1 1.85 to 2.00, No 2 1.40 to 1.60. Wisconsin round whites U S No 1 sold at 1.15 to 1.25 amid moderate supplies and slow demand.
U S Dept of Agriculture report from Chicago shows hogs at 9 00 to 9 85 per hundredweight with 19000 head traded including 6000 direct. Cattle and calves total 18000 with light activity and softer value across steer, yearling, and heifer grades. Sheep and fat lambs open steady with bids around 11 25 to 11 40 for best western native lambs and 4 50 to 5 00 for native ewes.
Stocks firm as oils aircrafts and steels lead a quiet upturn. Bonds steady with renewed demand in rails. Curb higher as specialties and industrials rally. Foreign exchange mixed with gold currencies improving. Cotton quiet with higher cables local and trade buying.
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