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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1929
Page
4
A new traffic light will be installed in Decatur drawing mixed responses from residents. Some welcome the modernization as a sign of progress while others hail the change as unnecessary or pretentious, reflecting local opinions on urban upgrades.
In spring maneuvers at Columbus Ohio two army aviation units clashed in a supposed training exercise. The event turned deadly as several aircraft crashed injuring and killing aviators, highlighting the dangers of military drills.
Half a dozen more fliers lose their lives in Sunday plane crashes. The inventor of the parachute, crucial to saving disabled aircraft, is urged to hurry the completion of his device.
Press dispatches say Tom Taggart’s son may follow his father as Indiana Democratic leader. If he fails like Theodore Roosevelt II, a new career might be wise for him.
Five more defendants arraigned in court on charges of violating the traffic code show city officials are serious about warnings to motorists to obey the law or face consequences.
Textile districts in Tennessee feel pressure from ongoing rumors and a few outrages as leaders contemplate a half hour of earnest conversation and give and take to end the argument.
A Kilby escapee was recaptured in New York. The report notes that Kilby fugitives tend to return to criminal trouble.
The Anniston Star notes that Raskob’s debt reduction has quieted push for his resignation. It comments that demonstrations of his financial wizardry have tamed demands for accountability.
Reports say consolidation of Gadsden and Attalla is advancing at the rate of progress. Citizens may soon see the two cities growing into one, regardless of local opinion.
People discuss building levees to shield regions from river overflow. In North Alabama a few strategic levees along the Tennessee River and near two northern lakes could create a highly desirable residential area noted for beauty across the country.
A rain outbreak at Yankee Stadium caused a crowd rush for cover, triggering a stampede that killed two and injured eighty. The incident highlights the lack of sense some people show in seeking shelter during sudden weather changes.
Allen Quinn writes on Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, once Paris bound May 21, 1927, now a prominent businessman. The piece notes the shift from glamor to enterprise while noting many in the U S view him as a modest hero.
The Huntsville paper lauds The Daily as a valued journalistic neighbor and commends Decatur Daily for its service to the Tennessee Valley. Editors Barrett Shelton Ben Bloodworth and the Sheppard family are highlighted for their able team and constructive city-building work in Decatur. The Daily expresses deep appreciation for the commendation and pledges continued high standards.
The Knoxville News-Sentinel notes Capone’s one year prison term for carrying a concealed weapon and questions why he was jailed while other cities allowed him to evade punishment. It cites two theories: Capone fearing retaliation and using jail to escape leadership pressure, plus a Chicago reformer’s call urging him to help curb lawlessness.
The piece presents a high paid editorial writer's stance presented as top authority, aligning with the authorial voice and asserting influence in national opinion. The excerpt hints at a persuasive, opinionated editorial stance without detailing events.
The crowd overpowers the real passenger as Susi the female gorilla captivates on the Graf Zeppelin. She rests quietly in her cage amid high winds and buffeting while a proud man reflects on her lack of awareness of floating through the clouds and being sailed.
A reflective, enigmatic piece questions human tether to earth and faith, hinting at floating beings and cosmic ownership. The narrator muses on Susi's kinship, airship flight, and divine order, blending surreal imagery with existential doubt.
The passage likens Earth to a heavy airship circling the sun at vast speeds, estimating 1,000 miles per hour on its axis and over 1,500,000 miles daily around the sun. It invites reflection on our hidden journey and cautions not to despise Susi as she contemplates her own voyage.
The French, wary of reconnaissance value, offered to host the damaged Zeppelin. French soldiers helped, and landing fields and hangars were provided. French and German mechanics worked together to repair the airship at this hour.
Col. Lindbergh announces an 80 hour mail service between New York and Buenos Aires. The plan includes extending lines and Lindbergh taking to the cockpit as pilot. Marriage is not expected to temper his flying career.
Mexico announces its first postoffice air lines as Britain already runs regular flights between London and India. This brief notes expanding international air links and postal aviation developments.
With vast industrial and sea power, and giants like General Motors Ford and National City Bank competing in aviation, America is urged to become the world’s greatest airplane producer. Despite government slowness the nation will steadily gain air protection as planes carry machine guns and bombs and are capable of dropping them.
Henry Ford announced plans three years ago for a groundbreaking air vessel described as a superdreadnaught of the air. The design envisions at least 12 powerful engines and 100 new innovations, with an integrated machine shop and crews, costing about $1,000,000.
Sloan of General Motors or Mitchell of National City contemplate a project to build a machine ten times larger than current scales. The note hints at a massive industrial venture potentially altering production scope and regional impact.
Henry Ford advanced the concept of a small, powerful, safety minded aerial runabout capable of performing like larger machines. He demonstrated several devices but a setback from a photo flyover led him to pause the project temporarily.
A director at United Aircraft and several professionals including architects engineers and surgeons travel between distant projects. Col Deeds keeps an all metal aircraft permanently anchored in his front yard as he flies between assignments.
The text notes China experimenting with a new war idea as airplanes dropped a few 100 pound bombs in the ongoing war. It contrasts these with 6000 pound TNT bombs and laments Westerners losing confidence as Asia's influence grows.
Dalhousie University experiments led to heart damage in a cat. A rubber, electrically operated heart was installed to keep the cat alive for several hours after the organ ceased functioning. Doctor Gibbs oversaw the work in Nova Scotia.
Mrs 8 N Garnett and Mrs O P Stinson left Nashville Tennessee on Monday for Birmingham. They spent the weekend with daughter Mrs C H Burke. Mrs Hugh Curry left Friday for the Louisville races and plans a two week visit with relatives.
In Washington May 21 Joseph S. McCoy, treasury actuary, is the man who estimates the nation’s revenue future. The article portrays how he uses papers, notes, and calculations to forecast income tax receipts, cigarette sales, deaths and estates, revealing little of his methods.
The article notes McCoy and two other analysts prepare national financial estimates for Secretary Mellon and Undersecretary Mills beside Robert G. Hand and J. F. Ebersole. McCoy’s figures guide budget balance, with Mellon often vindicating his cautious surplus and deficit projections despite public debate.
Richard Maslock reports in New York on two massive sub sea tubes planned beneath the East River. Within three years residents will travel to offices by rapid trains through submerged tunnels linking Manhattan and Brooklyn. The project envisions concrete lined, tiled caverns with rail tracks for swift steel passage.
The piece details underground work 80 feet below the river, where workers enter through air locks up to 35 pounds per square inch. Sand-hogs dig, bolt curved tube segments, and push a 9000 foot pipe while under pressure, earning at least $11.50 an hour with brief shifts and poker breaks.
Marcus L Moore a 91 year old war veteran from Roseburg Oregon marks sixty eight years of continuous membership in his Masonic lodge.
In a summer health piece from New York, ROYAL 8S. COPELAND, M D, urges proper food handling and refrigeration to prevent food poisoning and worm infections. He lists tapeworm varieties and other parasites, notes symptoms, and emphasizes consulting a physician for diagnosis and treatment.
A reader asks about the raw food diet for a 54 year old and whether prior cooked-food habits matter. The expert says raw grated vegetables are nutritious but a more balanced diet is better. some cases benefit from raw diets, doctor judgment advised.
A humorous fragment features song cues like All Through the Night and Rock of Ages interwoven with light domestic lines about onions biscuits and a radio. It closes with a quip about employment as a mason and a joke about Free Masons suggesting a period piece humor column.
A short exchange features a boy asking which is worse a bus or a train to him, his mother replying bus as the worse fate, and a punchline about dropping a dozen eggs she sent. The playful riddle-like humor uses everyday danger and a kitchen mishap to land the joke.
A sultan conflicted with his harem devised a prank involving a freed mouse. He released it in the house hoping to frighten them, initiating what locals dubbed the first haremscare tale.
A mother entertaining a famous aviator notes Nellie never flew. Nellie sighs she forgot what it feels like to sail the air. Mother corrects her, and Nellie quips that the stork brought her, humorously recalling infancy.
The remark compares two practices noting that a hoss-trade offers a chance to break even while wife swapping lacks that financial angle. It presents a humorous take on risk and profit in different social arrangements.
A playful verse about a sweetheart giving a rain bow kiss after a storm, with light humor on the afterstorm romance and a curious exchange about what constitutes such a kiss.
A fragmentary text hints at debates over urban development forcing churches to be torn down and cemeteries abolished to make way for filling stations. A small boy asks about paint, and an artist remarks on an old house needing paint, suggesting a deteriorating town scene.
A playful exchange unfolds as a guest complains of thirst while the hostess promises to fetch water. The guest clarifies the thirst is not about dirt, adding a humorous edge to the brief interaction.
Mrs Timkins insists her son needs a thorough education and Latin. The schoolmaster agrees only to be told by the mother that Latin is a dead language, to which she retorts that it will matter because he is destined to be an undertaker.
A playful line notes that when a slicker wants to clean a friend he uses a lot of soft soap in lighthearted humor about practical jokes.
Beezle recounts a last night dash home in poor health as Bub questions whether his wife noticed. Beezle explains he was out of breath upon reaching his wife, noting he ran the final block and arrived exhausted.
A glossary note defines 3 A DAY as to compare critically, Farnia as a fine flour or meal from cereals or vegetable starch, and Languor as a state of bodily or mental weakness from exhaustion. The terms cover scholarly, culinary, and physiological senses.
A devotional excerpt cites Romans 3 17 to 22 noting that many do not know peace, that God’s law reveals sin, and that justification comes through righteousness apart from the law. It emphasizes universal guilt and the necessity of faith.
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