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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1935
Page
2
Assistant county agent urges land improvement by terracing to reduce erosion and boost next year’s production. Morgan County Terracing Club offers non profit work with power equipment to fix bullies, stumps, and stones. Landowners may see value gains and quicker yields by breaking and sowing idle land this fall.
Berlin June 25 AP Otto Peltzer the famed German distance runner was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for moral offenses. He lost his running status after arrest weeks ago. Once well respected in Beemans he is nephew of a Deutsche Bank director and connected to Stettin where he served as a spy.
Paterson New Jersey dispatch notes a prison security alert as authorities guard eight inmates amid fears of a jailbreak attempt by underworld figures.
A new post today assumes a 7 hour meeting time with unspecified agenda. The brief notes a 20 BE coreon item appended to the schedule.
Housekeeping notes from Sister Mary describe jelly making as soul satisfying with the aroma and color of fruit. The process uses currants and apples, steps include washing currants, extracting juice, boiling sugar syrup, and sealing in sterilized jars with paraffin for preservation.
Breakfast items include apricots cereal with Gates cream orleen milk and coffee. Lunch features tomato bouillon cheese croquettes toast almond readied biscuits four egg noodles and milk. Dinner lists wheat threads and bacon brochette creamed noodles cucumber jelly salad pineapple date pudding with milk and coffee.
A old fashioned fruit jelly method blending strawberries raspberries currants and cherries. Wash hull and pick fruit then simmer with cherry juice and sugar until syrup sheets from a spoon and seal in sterilised glasses with paraffin for preservation.
Two court cases opened the morning in Decatur, both for violations of pro high laws. Local residents and visitors figure in routine notes, including Miss Sirmons’ return to New Orleans, Miss Maud Thomas visiting Decatur, and several townspeople from Decatur route 4, Hartselle, Athens, and Russellville. Four Scouts plan a Trinity mountain trip while traffic at Johnston street and First Avenue prompts warnings. Sports plans feature Daily softball games at Delano Park between the Quads and TVA Exterminators, and Brothers Warehousemen as TVA guests. Community mentions include hospital stay recovery, theft report on a 1932 Ford, and travel notes about Mrs. Eliza Yeates and son visiting relatives in Indiana.
Francis J. Gerton, director of the Woolen Workers, disclosed plans to request a wage increase of about 20 percent for the industry. The move signals growing labor pressure amid cost pressures and production demands.
Fourteen year old Bassam Ray Jr. and Maurice Sheridan 11 confined after plead guilty to automobile banditry. Judge John L. Sumner revised last week’s life terms, sending Ray to the Indians boys' school with suspension for report to parents and parole agent Carl Yost. Sheridan received the heavier sentence for his age. Sheriff Ed Seugers escorted them in handcuffs.
Montgomery notes a finance committee approves an insolvent tax list to be advertised twice in July to reveal taxpayers able to pay. The bill allows quicker state possession of delinquent property and loosens rules on life-interest property and post sale interest rates.
The Senate banking committee approved a joint resolution extending the temporary bank deposit insurance law by one year from June 30. The measure passed on a voice vote, rejecting a three month extension backed by Senator Byrnes to spur enactment of the administration bank bill. Chairman Glass defended the year extension, saying it is not an effort to drop the broader bill.
A picnic for members of nearby Negro church congregations will be held at Trinity Mountain on Friday June 28 under the Agricultural Service. Farm and home demonstration agents T. W. Bridges and A. Gee will conduct activities. Women are asked to bring baskets. Games and recreation will be featured.
Prof W W Benson superintendent of city schools and one of seven Alabama delegates to the National Education Association convention in Denver from June 30 to July 7 said press of business prevents his attendance. He notified Alabama Education Association secretary Frank L Grove and joins delegates Frank L Grove J D Williams Mabel Coons Mary Force Bend Copeland and S M Tharp.
Washington June 26 The Tombigbee river in Alabama envisioned by E Morgan Tennessee Valley Authority chairman as having possibilities of becoming one of our most important commercial waterways. It may sound fantastic now but some day this waterway will be opened.
Montgomery reports Governor Bibb Graves urged Governor Dave Sholts of Florida to return Charley Campbell who is wanted in Houston County on an assault with intent to murder charge for striking J. O. Nichols.
Roosevelt’s new tax program targets corporation profits and big finance, signaling a campaign to break up large combines. The liberal shift aims to distance the president from Wall Street, pitting big business against smaller firms and reshaping political support for the New Deal.
The Rotary Club of Decatur held its final meeting of the year at the Lyons hotel with strong attendance. Rev Peter M. Dennis and Miss Virginia Fox sang with Miss Geneva Goode accompanying, after which the president praised the entertainment. Officers for the new year will take charge on July 1 including Julian Harris president Joe Duncan vice president John McGehee secretary Owen Watson treasurer James Rankin at arms Bill Kimbrough leader Sonny Jones Wyker assistants.
Addis Ababa notes that Italy’s accusation that Ethiopia is turning the Sultanate of Jimma into another province is non pertinent. The government rejects the claim as baseless and inflammatory in a formal statement.
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