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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1937
Page
5
Reader directed call to farmers to submit ads to the Farm Exitor column of the Daily This issue. The service promises regular use for farm needs and asks sellers to draft an advertisement using farm products and benefits.
A notice offers a near new violin in exchange for a pig or calf. Contact Howard Shelton on Trinity Route 1 J-9 7. Also selling five nine week old pigs from Mrs. C A Poole on Decatur Route 4 J-9.
Kansas City reports Barney Mahoney, a traffic patrolman, stops a motorist making a forbidden left turn. The driver, saying no English, hands a book titled English into Spanish. After 15 minutes of study, Mahoney shouts Vamoose and the motorist flees.
The annual sacred harp singing at Red Oak Grove is set for the fourth Sunday in June. Lovers of the sacred old songs are invited with song books and a ground dinner to follow.
In Montgomery on June 23 the U S Weather Bureau reported Alabama corn and vegetables largely need moisture but show generally good condition for corn and thriving cotton. The survey notes scattered showers, some heavy rainfall, near drought conditions in parts, with healthy potato harvests and pastures overall in good shape.
In Lafayette Alabama on June 23 1944 Joe Louis home folks gathered at Ada Finley’s home. They listened to radios cheered the heavyweight contender and danced on Powder Line after his victory. Louis once left Lafayette at age ten for Detroit and his Barrow kinfolk remain noted résumés of local labor.
Paris reports an exhausted 10 billion franc gold stabilization fund signaling deep financial strain. Economists Rist and Baudouin warn the plan to raise 5 billion francs via taxes is insufficient while the Chautemps cabinet seeks a broader tax push and a balanced budget to restore France's credit.
Government operations report capacity at Amarillo run below needs. The unique helium source tied to sun discovery in 1868 is now produced solely at a Texas facility. Wartime act constraints influence pricing, with potential costs cited at eighty five thousand dollars if used to inflate the ill fated airship.
An Amarillo report traces helium’s discovery from 1868 sun observations to its wartime rise and postwar limits. It notes the 1917 act restricting exports and commercial use, the Fort Worth and Amarillo plants, extraction methods, and diverse modern applications from medicine to deep sea diving.
New crisis in the Spanish Civil War erupts as Germany and Italy pull out of the international non intervention committee, repeating a May 31 action after Britain and France refuse to join a naval display. German ships move toward Valencia while a fleet division enters the Tagus at Lisbon. Madrid reports strategic Basque cities and munitions hubs falling to insurgents.
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