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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1937
Page
4
A fragmented item notes debate over accident policies for Birmingham baseball club players. The piece references prominent families and public interest as Ethel and Franklin Jr Roosevelt Du Ponts are mentioned among fans. It hints at subscription rates and newspaper distribution details.
The Farm Extension Service faces a clash over political engagement with funds sourced from state land federal programs and county resources. The text argues the service should stay out of politics yet remains entangled in broader public support and governance.
A Van Buren Arkansas resident received a letter dated twelve years prior. The communication raises questions about its origin and purpose, prompting local interest and potential investigation into the sender and circumstances surrounding the delayed correspondence.
The city notes vacant properties should be cared for in appearance as much as improved ones. If owners fail, the health department or city administration will intervene to ensure the work is completed.
Dr. Cornelius Kruse of Wesleyan University warns that fascism could enter the United States disguised as a defender of faith and churches may be drawn to its rhetoric. He outlines six likely developments including loss of individual personality liberty of speech and a warrior ethic, urging churches to stay vigilant and become a force for resisting such influence.
The Atlantic and Pacific Tew Company has leased business locations in Albany and Decatur. Plans for remodeling the Masonic building will be submitted after the Masonic Board of Control meeting and Herbert Graf of P Graf and Bons of Knoxville. Mrs Etoile Caldwell returns to Birmingham after a visit here. Miss Annie Mae Gardner improving after two weeks illness on E Vine street. Miss Marie Handy and Roy Mandy of Little Rock are guests here. Jack Gillespie has gone to Kansas City for Sweeney Automobile school. Joseph A Woods remains ill at his Jackson street home. Miss Julia Lee Lynne returns from Bikmont Springs Tennessee.
A Delaware County man, Jim Dougherty, is dubbed the snoring champion drawing four calls and two telegrams from admirers. Letters compare spouses’ snoring to ceiling-cracking, curtain-knots, and even bed fires, while noting rival claims and humorous anecdotes from boxing and politics. Denmark’s Christian X is noted as a tall monarch in the same column.
A quirky collection of humorous exchanges on attention versus respect, uniforms, and marriage. A subaltern adapts to a mustache request, a lamp purchase prompts light dialogue, and political jabs compare public roles to loaded ambitions.
A collection of brief, playful exchanges among townspeople. A wife jokes about a lemon dress while a father admonishes, children chatter about time, and neighbors reflect on aging, abuse perceptions, bigamy, and regrets in a vignette of everyday speech.
Mr and Mrs W O Simmons visited Birmingham Monday. Mrs Annie Compton of Moulton Route 2 spent the weekend with her daughter Mrs Woodrow Holmes en route to Huntsville. Mrs Arthur Garrison took her nephew William Ray Garrison to Birmingham for infantile paralysis treatment. Charley Halbrooks visited his father near Somerville. Jessie West and Wesley West spent Wednesday night with their mother Mrs W O Simmons and Mrs Woodrow Holmes remained unimproved. Mr and Mrs Thomas Thompson visited her mother on Sunday. Mr and Mrs Coleman Holmes of Lebanon Tennessee visited here Saturday. Frank Knight remains at home. Mr and Mrs John R Holmes and family of Bladen Springs plan to visit soon.
In Van Buren Arkansas a letter addressed to Greenlee Jones finally arrived June 30. The missive dated 1925 carried a loan request from a friend in Oklahoma. The postman noted the delayed delivery and Jones paid a one cent postage due due to rate changes.
A clipped exchange snippet ponders national duty over personal bonds as a friend laughs at a soldier’s inability to return to his wife. The dentist jokes that the bill remains to be extracted, signaling ongoing penalty or debt yet unpaid.
Judge Morris Saylor drives a wholesale deputy sheriff dismissal in Harlan county Kentucky after the murder of former deputy Wash Irvin who testified to the senate civil liberties committee on alleged union activity by coal operators. The committee probes Irvin's death.
The essay argues dog pounds are a necessary evil to prevent street overrun by stray dogs. It critiques human eugenics while urging responsibility for both people and pets, noting legal gaps in punishing owners who abandon dogs. It frames pounds as a humane but repugnant reality we must decide to keep.
In recess, the La Follette committee investigates the Chicago steel riot. The Agriculture committee continues hearings on a power flood control bill while the Labor committee weighs a wage hour bill. The House considers minor legislation and the joint committee keeps hearing on tax dodging. Appropriations reviews CCC and railroad retirement funds. The Army committee hearings on a new helium bill proceed. Yesterday the Senate ratified Pan American treaties and the House passed a farm tenancy relief bill and sent it to the White House.
A tiny maple sapling grew from plaster inside Chestnut Street School after flood repairs. Investigation found workmen who replastered the building mixed in plaster with a maple tree seed.
Walter Winchell on Broadway column entry notes gossip about Gershwin Runyon Ripley and other figures. It mentions Hollywood deals, columnists, actors, and industry rumors, with personal quips and plans for future guest columns and broadcasts.
Hillsboro residents and families are listed with visits and hospital notes. Mr and Mrs Stanley Bush of Birmingham and son Ray visit Detroit. Edgar Landers and son visit Decatur. Edina Gray and J W Gray reconnect with relatives. Paul Horton visits in south Alabama. D P Woodall hosts Mrs Durrance from Cotton Wood. Also church and club activities, a tacky party at Billy Sparkman’s with prizes to Joe Hames Jr and Elois Jacobs.
In Yakima on June 30 a wagon load of lumber shifted while crossing a trestle tipping the wagon forward and pinning Stephen Carrico between the wagon and the trestle. He sustained a sprained back and was taken to a hospital.
In hot weather digestion slows and distress like belching heartburn and irritability may appear. The ad promotes Calo tabs, an improved calomel compound tablet offering relief with a trial package ten cents and a family pack for twenty five cents at drug stores.
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