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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1934
Page
2
President Roosevelt attended the Groton School commencement and encouraged readers to seize chances to revisit the old school. The message urges lifelong learning and reflection for those who have not yet returned.
A caller urges readers to save the June 3 edition for full Tennessee Valley coverage. The note emphasizes the issue’s historic value and its wide, valley-spanning information beyond any single section.
The Daily argues TVA advances deserve fair testing before judgment. It notes opposition in Tri Cities but urges patient faith while awaiting plant operation results. Also outlines Morgan Limestone Lawrence county election details and returns procedures with AP leased-wire coverage plans.
Local voices in Decatur applaud the Tennessee Valley Authority and urge residents to support the Authority’s development programs. Citizens acknowledge limited understanding of the Authority’s scope but stress the benefits of cooperation and press help to convey the Authority’s activities.
At a city council meeting the city attorney was instructed to draft a new ordinance authorizing an election to issue bonds probably totaling $80,000. Also noted: the Geronimo Club organized for boys at the Y Mo meeting, and Alabama Retail Food Dealers officers plan a North Alabama tour arriving around June 12.
A Mississippi valley incident reports Miss Nettie Witt visiting her father in Belle Mina when kidnappers were lynched by a mob. Governor Rolph faced blame for his initial approval and public reaction shifted after photographs of the lynching emerged. The federal rule clarifies brandy labeling and protects consumers.
In New York state the cost of carelessness in industry is high as accidents rise among workers handling dynamite. The piece urges safer handling of explosives and more vigilant use of safety devices on machinery.
Dr Logan Clendening argues baseball trains body and mind for life. He compares human and insect muscles, notes rapid decision making and emotional control boost hits, and urges practice to improve muscle tension timing. Editor notes offer six pamphlets for ten cents each.
County officers pursue Louis Orr in the fatal shooting of James Griffin at Gus Orr’s home near McKendry Chapel west of Parkville. Witnesses say a quarrel over a crap game led to a 38 caliber pistol discharge, Griffin dying shortly after.
Rainfall over the 24 hour period ending at 7 this morning measured twelve hundredths of an inch in the area.
The Tennessee river rose today with a gauge reading of 44 feet noted at 7. The report cites increasing water levels along the river, signaling potential localized flooding and movement warnings for nearby communities.
Fred Overstreet announced an annual singing at Woodland Mills school on Sunday June 10 inviting all Morgan County singers. Special invitations were issued to Decatur groups the Bonanza Quartet Wallace Quartet Sparkman Trio and the Friendly Five Band and individual Decatur singers are urged to attend.
Mrs J B Striplin will arrive Wednesday from Ballinger Texas to visit her mother Mrs BE Nelson for a short time. She will then go to Birmingham to visit sister Mrs T E McCaddon and later spend time in Talladega as guest of Mr Striplin's parents before returning to Texas.
The piece surveys the rise of ranch living from 25 to 300 acres as a new out-of-town ideal. It notes vacant mansions, Parisian-market aesthetics, and $14 000 ranch bargains, contrasted with interior decorators profiting and a shift from roaming to domestic permanence. It also flits through celebrity sightings and social scenes along Broadway and Beverly Hills.
A waiter captain asked Irvin Cobb if he would have a nut sprinkled hamburger named nut berger. He reflected and declined, noting he would not eat it, but requested oysters with whipped cream instead.
A concise observation notes only one taxi seen amid the length of Hollywood Boulevard and in outlying districts, highlighting a rare urban ride scarcity during the evening.
Daily Washington Merry Go Round notes the White House maintains its own greenhouses supplying fresh flowers for the residence and offices. A First Lady arranged a year round blooms bed with jonquils phlox and hydrangeas, creating a lasting display. It urges grafting White House stock to home yards for prestige.
Mrs. Fay Robinson has returned to her home in Town Creek after a weeklong visit with friends.
Mrs Levert Russell of Monrovia is visiting her daughter Herman Puckett in Hartselle.
A first person vignette notes a nodding taxi driver and a Bel Air 10 car garage packed with luxury cars, surpassing Ziegfeld’s Rolls-Royces. Distances render fixed meters impractical as most happenings lie twenty minutes away, a reality only plutocrats can afford.
In a vivid vignette a dashing bachelor named Gene Markey is invited by three matrons to dinner and flees in a frenzy after a wildly chaotic double dating scene ends with him shouting I was never in California in my life and escaping to the night.
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