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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1939
Page
4
Cullman announces a May 18 event featuring a parade with fifty floats to promote local strawberries to the valley state and nation. Community supporters offer help to bolster civic pride amid modest turnout at a recent Birmingham league game.
A collage of quotations and musings from the Decatur area covers tax, politics, oratory, travel trends, and local concerns. It notes rooms for rent, rising tensions in global leadership, baseball standings, and the Tuscaloosa News optimism, reflecting community chatter and editorial sentiment.
Decatur's golfing contingent competed over the weekend as Birmingham's fishing crowd drew heavy participation. The piece notes significant spending by fishermen and suggests abundant local dollars ready to be spent if markets are publicized.
The text notes abundant iron in Alabama but no plow or hoe factories. It mentions sending raw iron to northern states for manufacturing, and buying plows and hoes at prices, highlighting a mismatch between resources and local production.
An excerpt reflects on the South advancing under its own power with limited legislative aid. It contrasts regional striving for autonomy with a long history of effort and reform over the past fifty years.
President Green of the APL argues the labor board misuses the law and should have its members displaced. He says the board has disgusted the American people and that continuing old members would harm both labor and business.
Letters from The Decatur Daily and Selma Times Journal discuss Marshall Johnson portrayed as Alabama’s mystery man. Maurice Bloch claims he is “the people’s representative” while Governor Dixon’s staff puts him as a personnel executive, deepening the intrigue about his public role.
The Daily notes Decatur cannot obtain Cullman county strawberries in local markets while fine berries are shipped by fast express to eastern cities. The piece argues southern growers benefit when vegetables stay local and residents cultivate their own gardens to access top produce.
Paul Mallon summarizes Roosevelt era view that war anxiety and government spending barely steady business. He notes stock markets overpriced relative to earnings, a 4 point April drop in industrial production led by steel and coal, mixed PWA activity, and hopeful but limited gains in housing and retail as auto output stabilizes.
In Montgomery on May 2, W. E. Persons chief of corrections reported a small packet of white tablets found with a prisoner. He said the tablets were believed narcotic and authorities are trying to determine how they entered the prison. Classified advertising note about using the practical way to buy and sell appears at end.
A physician answers questions on intestinal worms with emphasis on pinworms roundworms and tapeworms. It explains symptoms chiefly itching around the anus and recommends enemas with quassia and santonin to destroy intestinal parasites and prevent reinfection.
A collection of brief comic exchanges and whimsical lines. Includes a grocer customer dispute, dentist banter, a party story with Tillie, and quips about chess history and gardening. The snippets present playful domestic humor and slapstick dialogue.
A reader asks about yellow jaundice in a child and its cure. Jaundice is caused by bile entering the bloodstream from obstructed bile ducts or infections. it is curable, often resolving in about three weeks with a fat free diet and sodium phosphate.
Readers may obtain seven Dr Clendening pamphlets for ten cents each by sending a dime in coin plus a self addressed stamped envelope to Dr Clendening, care of the paper, listing titles such as Three Weeks Reducing Diet and Indigestion and Constipation.
A sermon on being lost and saved. It argues that people without Christ live under the power of eternal death and must freely choose to accept him. The talk compares lost souls to someone near a precipice and urges personal repentance and return to God.
If you buy or sell use the Want Ads for fast results and better value. The notice highlights easy listings and local reach for trades or sales.
Walter Winchell shares gossip from Broadway and society circles. He riffs on celebrities like Anne Lindbergh and Dwight Morrow Jr, mentions hearings, hotel rates, and film chatter, and notes policing moves at nightclubs while railing at press and industry figures.
Amusing Times snippet teases readers with Offhand itemization of radio acts, theater shows, and celebrity chatter. Mentions Grenadiers choir, Crystal Lassies exhibit, Saul Grauman act, Ronnie Lanthier wedding, Pierre ice cream cost, Skyblue Fink lipstick, Neal O Harra book, and Constance Moore elopement.
Senate considers regulation of dentures trust and monitors cotton export subsidy. Banking subcommittee reviews Leon Parca nomination to securities commission. Labor, foreign relations, and ways committees hold hearings on acts, neutrality, social security, and wool labeling. Yesterday Senate loans and grants to curb stream pollution. House boosts veterans pensions.
Reports from Mineral California say Lassen Peak, long dormant and mainland America's only active volcano, was belching steam and smoke prompting a National Park Service naturalist to hurry to the area north of Mineral.
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