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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1935
Page
6
The Shakespeare Story Telling Club elected Charles Miller president Elien Marie Massengale vice president and Dorothy Kelley secretary treasurer. Regular work starts Thursday at 9 30 a m at the Junior high through June with puppet and stage making already begun.
Miss Elizabeth Davis and Lou gene Clem will motor to Birmingham to spend Thursday. Mr and Mrs J D Garren left for Springfield Mo where Mr Garren is engaged in business. Mrs Garren will spend the summer there returning in fall to teach. Irene Dubberly and Dalia Beech returned home after visiting here. Mrs R E Catlett and daughter Mary Ann returned from Pennsylvania. Various locals including A W Throgmorton, Lana Davis, Florence Tillman, and Misses Minor and Rhinehart are noted for travel visits and summer study. A baby girl named Elsie Carolyn born to Bill and Elsie Long.
Rev. J. Vernon Rich of West Huntsville Baptist will lead a revival starting Sunday at Sixteenth Avenue Baptist. Rev. C. L. Dobbs will fill the pulpit at Sunday services. Rich will arrive for Monday service as the ten to fourteen day revival runs.
Labor Department reports a small decline in retail food prices for the two weeks ended May 21. Housewives could buy the same amount of food for $1.24 versus $1.08 a year ago and 94 cents two years ago. Meat prices rose while dairy, fruit, vegetables, beverages, fats and oils fell.
Army orders released by the War Department transfer Captain John F. Farnsworth of the University of Alabama to Fort Williams in Maine. The notice lists the assignment announced today.
Premier Benito Mussolini, wary of a black eye from earlier clashes, shooed away photographers as he presided over the 121st anniversary celebration of the Carabinieri, Italy’s national police, in Rome.
The Ritz theatre in Athens will host its annual beauty show and pageant next evening June 11. About forty local contestants will compete while out of town judges select the winners.
In Knoxville Tennessee on June 5 the Blue Eagle was labeled a Soviet duck during chancery court arguments by Tennessee Public Service Company lawyers opposing a dissolving injunction. The case challenges a municipal power system funded by a Public Works Administration loan grant and powered by TVA electricity.
Bridgeport reports the Sikorsky S-43 amphibian flying boat ends its first test flight from Long Island Sound with one engine idle. The craft, built for Hawaiian service, uses two 750 horsepower engines.
The trial of City Judge Lewis T. in Memphis Tennessee was postponed on June 5 amid undisclosed reasons, with proceedings adjourned to a later date. Witnesses and court staff remained on standby as the case awaits rescheduled hearings.
Fitzhugh and three co-defendants are accused of taking part in a city court fine remission racket. The defendants stand charged with involvement in illicit deals that sought to reduce or erase fines through improper means. Proceedings are ongoing.
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