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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1935
Page
8
Major Hennessey led police into a battle on Waterloo street where hundreds of Nazi adherents faced off against opponents of the Saar Basin proposal. Propaganda papers scattered as police lorries arrived and surrounded the area, with many names taken but no arrests reported.
The Hartselle church hosts the Baptist Missionary Society circle with Mrs. D. W. Burson in charge and readings from the twentieth Psalm. The Methodist Missionary Society met at the parsonage with devotional by Mrs. Doyle Larkin and a New Year program. G A members elected Naomi Keller as president, Virginia Smith as vice president, Lurline Praytor as secretary, Virginia Claire Bailey as treasurer, and Virginia Smith as membership chair.
A beauty column advises women on manicuring with long flexible files from professionals to shape nails into attractive ovals. It warns against using stiff short files or cutting nails at the sides to avoid widening and blunt tips, promoting careful filing for smooth, well-shaped nails.
The Hart-Selle Girl Scout Troops met at Miss Jean Sample’s home with high attendance. Eight scouts aim for a gold star by full-year meeting attendance. uniforms and Scout handbooks urged. They discussed First Aid, Second class work, and held a joint business session.
A newly discovered planet was named to honor Vassar College in a bid to engage girls beyond their look at flashy satellites.
The note suggests consulting the department of health or medical associations for plastic surgery questions. It also offers home remedies including eye washes with boric acid and tepid water, an eye cup, and a liver spot treatment with hyposulphite of soda in water.
Representative Starnes of Alabama announced plans to introduce a bill authorizing 34 million dollars for developing the Alabama Coosa river system in Alabama and Georgia. He acted after army engineers advised Congress that river development is not warranted at present. Representative Taver of Georgia dismissed the engineers report as a mere transmission of known figures.
Two convicts slipped past guards and fled the State Prison in Robton before being recaptured after attempting to scale a wall. The escapees were Lawrence Baldway and William Baker, while Joseph Levesque and Thaddeus Zakrewski were later seized on the yard wall as alarms sounded.
Mr and Mrs Ben Russell returned to St Louis Missouri after visiting the former's parents Mr and Mrs John Russell. J W Lynn was a business visitor in the community Saturday. Etheridge Mason and Mrs Mason hosted Thursday night guests Mr and Mrs G C Vincent and daughter Winifred. Carl Charles Anna Lee and Lucille Vice visited the Florette area Friday. G C Vincent and Russell Peck were business visitors in Hartselle Saturday. Mr and Mrs Gilbert Johnson were also noted in the report.
Sunday visitors include Alva Out Our Way and Robert Bailey at Mrs Buble Johnsons Lynntown home. Marvin Peck suffers an infected hand. Blue Springs guests Mr and Mrs John Earl Smith and son visit Mr and Mrs J Bradford. Various local families hosted and visited over the weekend as students resume school on January 7 after Christmas vacation.
Federal agents aimed to end the kidnaping gang led by Alvin Karpis and Arthur Barker. Russell Gibson known as Slim Gray, a 32 year old ex convict, was shot by agents during a siege in a Northside Chicago apartment. His bullet proof vest failed to stop a fatal hit. Gibson died in a hospital after the exchange.
The Morgan County High School library in Hartselle Alabama has received a new fiction order. The collection features standard and contemporary titles by authors such as Willa Cather, Edna Ferber, Booth Tarkington, and James Fenimore Cooper plus classic works like Giants in the Earth and The Virginian. The library also subscribes to major periodicals including The New York Times The Atlantic and National Geographic with Miriam Bowers as librarian.
A derailment occurred when an engine and a Chicago Burlington freight train were bombed near Waltonville, part of a series of blasts since last August tied to the Illinois mine dispute. Fireman C. J. Jones of Centralia was bruised. engineer John Tiemeyer escaped unharmed.
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