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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1935
Page
4
An editor’s note from W B Shelton outlines Associated Press republication rights and exclusivity for content credited to AP or its writers, marking the paper’s policy on using AP material and the latest news within the publication.
A weather note quotes Batchelor's Buttons with a line urging cheer and referencing a light hearted local expression about an "idiot" near the corner. The fragment preserves a humorous regional tone and character names without fuller context.
The editorial urges Morgan County to fund a $50,000 federal supported tuberculosis sanatorium project. It stresses countywide fundraising for a $6,000 equipment goal and predicts operation soon if met. It also notes global newspaper quirks and silent edits around the Hauptmann trial.
In Marget, Lawrence, and Limestone counties farmers embrace terracing and crop diversification to boost land values and reduce cotton reliance. Leaders urge local markets to link surplus production to fair prices, stressing home living and farm-driven market use.
The report urges Morgan County residents to unite for the opening and operation of the Morgan Munty Tubercular Sanatorium. Citizens are urged to back a common cause to combat tuberculosis in the county and support the bond effort.
The storied baseball icon Babe Ruth, famed for home runs and public adulation, grows despondent in Paris amid neglect and cultural distance. Paris scenes include a horse sighting and Ruth's longing for American attention and home.
A local incident unfolds with 75 000 telegrams mentioned along with five little girls and rising gas and electric bills. An outlaw strikes, prompting swift community concern and calls for action.
The piece notes the Senate did not act to push the world court or snub Washington, despite 75 000 telegrams against joining. It cites Roosevelt politics and electoral leverage for Democratic senators. It also praises the Dionne quintuplets and criticizes utility charges as indecent.
In New York City about thirty thousand teamsters walk out defying union leaders amid court injunctions stopping interference with non union truckmen. The disruption risks prosperity as rank and file action clashes with leadership.
Dr. Logan Clendening explains rickets prevention and early detection. Early signs include head swelling restlessness irritability and the beading along the rib margin called the rickety rosary. X rays and blood phosphorus tests confirm diagnosis and guide treatment.
A man using the name William B. Poling of Kansas City was sentenced to life at Raiford State Prison Farm for four armed holdups in Florida last month. He confessed in court and spoke of a separate robbery in Montgomery Alabama. He also said he finished a ten year term at Leavenworth federal prison last November and was arrested in Brooksville while being treated for gunshot wounds from a Tampa druggist during a holdup attempt.
Captain Bob Anderson billed as Little Sampson performs at the Capitol Theatre for two days this afternoon and Thursday at 2 45. He will pull two full grown males tied to a tree and other feats including driving spikes through a 2 by 4 with his bare hands and tearing Sears Roebuck catalogs.
A collage of light verses and wry quips. Includes a seasonal prayer for health and humor, a cobbler joke about hides, a salesman's snub at customers, fishing banter, a jail motto pun, a grandmother and stockings gag, and a bank overdraft quip.
A terse incident describes an innocent man turning with a greeting when touched, while a suspected criminal recoils by reacting with a jump. Detectives are requested to investigate the event and gather details.
The treasury could pursue gold hoarding charges against Bruno Richard Hauptmann if acquitted of the New Jersey kidnapping and murder case. Under the amended federal reserve act, hoarders face fines up to twice the gold held, plus potential criminal penalties of 10 years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine.
Edward Foster, aged sixteen, stood before Judge Smith in Anderson Indiana charged with stealing twenty pounds of groceries. The judge sentenced him to walk to Alexandria twelve miles away and back each day except weekends, carrying twenty pounds as punishment. He carried out the order faithfully preferring the daily trek to reform school confinement.
In Alexandria last Sunday the boy told Father Scheets that his walking was not as bad as expected. The priest spoke with the judge and the boy’s walks were discontinued with no reformatory sentence. The judge was swayed by the priest’s discussion and ruled in favor of ending the walks.
After a long gap out of office the party may struggle with allocating the 4.88 billion dollar relief fund. The piece notes lingering prudence and the need for time as Democrats proceed.
A Madison barber school plans introductory courses in conversation and rhetoric with potential addition of a haircutting class. The program aims to prepare students for client communication and technical skills in barbering.
A court case describes a brutal domestic dispute where Helen was battered by her husband. the trial reveals the wife would not admit to the beating, while a noted conductor comments that few ...
A mosaic of wartime curiosities and anecdotes from 1912 to World War I era. It notes Britain and France evading neutrality, Belgian invasion details, espionage plots, and early air combat mischief including a bricks-throwing incident. It blends sensational quips with historical tidbits and oddities.
The excerpt argues that German forces might have shattered the French fortress line if Skoda guns had been deployed in Belgium instead of France. It contends this could have preserved Belgium's neutrality and kept Britain out of the conflict. It also claims German agents under Van Papen sought to undermine German Americans to drive them back to Germany.
Sergt Halyburton of the AEF recalled being shown a stool stamped Kriegs G Lager meaning War Prison Camp. The stamp bore the 1908 date. The tale notes Germany’s wartime readiness and mentions 366 tailors sewing sleeve stripes on U S Army officers’ overcoats.
In 1914 the German fleet clung to harbor as Admiral Jellicoe sent a playful wireless to the German admiral. The Magdeburg ran ashore and Russians aboard found signal books used by Britain for four years to locate German ships. The Boston Associated to Abolish War was barred from printing the Sermon on the Mount without note. In Parliament a member warned German ships could be seditious, and quotes from the Declaration of Independence were halted.
Fragmentary wartime note asserts hundreds of British officers died from breeches cuts in Flanders rather than combat. The line hints at punitive wear or equipment failure contributing to deaths.
A Decatur resident laments current attitudes toward thanks and value, suggesting some people squander generosity and fail to appreciate what they have. The brief meditation emphasizes prudence and mindful spending amid changing attitudes.
A Decatur man recalls Rip Van Winkle as a reminder of days before neighbors owned radios. The tale emphasizes long sleep from a bygone era and contrasts past and present technology.
A colorful exchange rails against the GOP’s future with a call for a bright young leader to restore vigor. A debate touches on divorce in Paris and a mention of the American Separator Company as a point of contrast. Amos Tash offers a quip about pride in hard luck.
In 1917 the United States spent long months and six million dollars to duplicate the English Bristol plane. The finished sample could not carry the Liberty engine, though the design would have worked with the Rolls Royce engine.
The piece laments that the U S Navy kept key officers abroad uninformed of its plans by radio or cable to avoid interception. Ironically a naval official in Paris learned of the first American convoy through social talk with a Parisian. U S secrets were casually discussed in Europe.
A digest lists wartime claims and feats: Turks at the Dar danelles fought with bows and arrows. the war killed 30 million non combatants. U S Navy personnel fought at Meuse Argonne near Verdun. French German trenches near Albert were 9 ft apart. the Lusitania carried 173 tons of ammunition. U S aviators earned the DSC for a parachute jump.
El Dorado base ball club of the East Dixie League announced a contract with the Fort Worth Club of the Texas League replacing an agreement with Cincinnati of the National League. President J. S. Brooks said the East Dixie entry would get 1700 dollars in three installments and Fort Worth would have option on five players. Fort Worth is the Southern farm of Cincinnati.
Richard Roiderer a naturalized American with a Chicago home will be indicted today or Thursday on treason charges. He is to be brought before the Volksgericht the peoples court as the first American tried by that body.
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