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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1939
Page
4
Deputy sheriffs are being assigned to crime prevention and detention schools in Birmingham as part of efforts to improve public safety. The move aims to train officers in handling youthful offenders and reducing crime through education.
A local column blends political jabs with highway plotting and church attendance notes. It toys with a Dixon highway idea from Tennessee to the Gulf, satirizes 1940 politics, and calls for Alabama state road progress and Tuscaloosa support for Denny Stadium.
Local officials report little progress on finishing the Decatur Guntersville road, the county’s only designated state road. They expect continued efforts to secure countywide approval and complete traffic links to Memphis Decatur and Atlanta.
A May 8 Washington column weighs how senators and witnesses mix emotion and reason in the debate over the U S role in Europe. It contrasts administration calls for cash and carry with neutrality advocates seeking isolation and safety at home.
A local employer shares "Ten Commandments for Safe Drivers" urging motorists to watch for children slow down near intersections avoid speed and back up with care and be courteous to others The list highlights risks of passing trolleys speeding and improper right of way and warns that careless driving ends in hospital or worse
The piece lauds the Decatur Garden Club for a spring flower show at Lelia Cantwell Hall and applauds city leadership in Delano Park. It credits the Decatur Chamber of Commerce 4 H club sponsors and the school board for community programs. The Kiwanis donate to 4 H camp. Boy Scouts lead malaria control with TVA help. pastors aim for 12 000 in church. Elbert Drinkard and Charlie Bust are noted figures in local civic pride.
Walter Gifford president of American Telephone and Telegraph earned 200 350 in 1938 leading a list of executives with over 100 000. Robert Stanley chairman of International Nickel of Canada earned 204 700. Others earning above 100 000 included William Knudsen Alfred Sloan Jr Paley Sarnoff Atherton and McCarter.
A collage of quips and scenes including two men fleeing a farmer's hen roost with buckshot in pursuit. Banter about life, Hollywood worth, school, and a refrigerator joke frame a slice of daily humor and morals on habits shaping character.
A reflective verse ends with the idea that true peace comes from the warmth of home and family. A newspaper note mentions a couple marrying after 50 years of courtship. A joking line about a young man kissing forty coeds at a dance is included, but the tone remains playful.
A list details executives from major firms including C. P. Cooper of AT&T and Seton Porter of National Distillers Products Corp with sums ranging from 100000 to 178360. Other names feature Charles L. Jones, W. S. S. Rodgers, T. Rieber, J. W. Van Dyke, and Frank W. Lovejoy with similar amounts.
A playful exchange urges praising friends who do well a note to celebrate others. In a separate scene a boy with a football is stopped by police after a broken window and vandalized flowers, his peers taunting him as he says he was asked to play for the cops.
In York shire near Driffield a motor cycle with sidecar and an automobile collided. From the wreckage a grandmother, grandfather, mother, father and baby were found. The mother and father had slight injuries. the others were unharmed.
In Tulsa on May 8 a disheveled man asked Detective Leo Granger, “can you tie a tuxedo bow tie.” The detective succeeded after an hour of futile effort during an emergency call at a residence.
Historic architecture and gardens in Alabama will be photographed for a Library of Congress collection. The project aims to document local houses and gardens with archival prints and records.
The piece surveys New York entertainment amid the Worlds Fair talk with Billy Rose Aqua Opera highlighted as a major bargain. It notes critics John Mason Brown and Heywood Broun on Abe Lincoln in Illinois and covers films, radio, and press reactions with names like Weissmuller Hoffm Sacha Guitry and Lou Gehrig referenced.
The editor notes seven Dr Logan Clendening pamphlets are available each priced at 10 cents. To obtain a pamphlet send 10 cents plus a self addressed stamped envelope to Dr Logan Clendening care of the paper. Titles include Three Weeks Reducing Diet Indigestion and Constipation Reducing and Gaining Infant Feeding Instructions for the Treatment of Diabetes Feminine Hygiene and The Care of the Hair and Skin.
Senate considers a 1.216 billion dollar agriculture appropriation. neutrality hearings feature Prof James T Shotwell. Beryllium industry study begins. slum clearance program expansion eyed at 4 pm. AFL seeks labor act amendments. House continues 770 million dollar Navy appropriation debate. WPA probes Mayors LaGuardia and others. foreign affairs hears Secretary Woodring on neutrality bills.
Peoria reports Park board secretary Pat Moore finds his son biting the family dog Betty after overhearing a whine. The boy explains with a quip that he bites Betty because Betty bit him first.
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth aboard the liner Empress of Australia enjoy smooth seas to Canada and the United States. Some party members suffer seasickness while the royal pair remain comfortable. The journey began with favorable conditions on May 8.
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