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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1927
Page
2
President Coolidge calls for strong law observance to safeguard national institutions and to project American influence abroad. He warns that unity and self-government have made the nation powerful and urges discipline to meet world challenges.
The speaker calls for substituting reason and law for force in international relations, aims for arms limitations, and stresses domestic strength as the path to moral global influence. He notes efforts with China, Nicaragua, Mexico and invites Japan and Britain to a three power naval talk.
The article describes a campaign to secure new laws regulating roadhouses including booth curtains immoral dancing and inspection by state police. The law applies to all establishments with common victuallers licenses even small dog carts and any radio victrola or orchestra can bring a venue under regulation.
A battery of boilers was moved into position at Borger Texas to hurl steam at the CochriH McIlroy number two gas well fire started by a derrick house explosion. An expert well shooter directs steam and high explosives to battle the blaze while flames are visible for miles and no buildings are endangered.
May 30 AP reports matinee crowds in Times Square were drawn into a riot by 500 blackshirt Fascists from the League of North America. They brandished whips and clubs while trying to seize three Italians who had attacked one of their own. Police reserves quelled the furious demonstrators who had just marched in a Memorial Day parade after two blackshirt marchers were killed earlier in Manhattan.
Friends of L B Wyatt report he is back at his desk today after injuries from an automobile collision last week. Wyatt endured painful bruises and had been confined to his home during the past week.
Relatives here receive word of the death in Miami Florida of Dr. H. T. Bracken former local resident. Funeral in Miami today.
A large cortege accompanied the funeral of W H Junkins age 70, a Falkville farmer, laid to rest Sunday at Lebanon Church after services at 2 PM officiated by Rev J D McClanahan with Masonic rites at the graveside. He died Saturday afternoon at his residence and is survived by his family and friends.
Fifteen pilots and aides prepared for a national elimination race in Akron to select the American racing team for the Gordon Bennett Cup. They will take off at 4:45 this afternoon in staggered intervals to determine the team that will compete abroad next September.
An explosion at the Lee Stanley saw mill in Montecillo Miss kills Frank Stanley 19 and severely injures C H Dodson 64 and John Stanley 44. The blast virtually destroys the mill and the cause is undetermined. Surviving relatives include a wife two sons W L and W G Junkins of Falkville and two daughters Mrs J L Martin and Miss Rena Junkins also of Falkville along with 18 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
In Augusta Georgia a tribute of wilted flowers and four flags draped on a broken propeller marks the crash site of a bomber that killed four army aviators yesterday. The crew perished as a plane from a San Antonio to Langley Field maneuver group slumped from 500 feet into a nose dive and burned. The four were identified by their following official notice.
M R Rankin state Kiwanis music director and Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce member will leave Tuesday for Huntsville to lead a junior group in state events. An air squadron including Captain Cha T Rust and Sergeants Voorhees Reid and Melvin Andrews arrived from Montgomery last Friday. A crash near South Carolina involved three planes that encountered storms during a return flight.
Work started today on a handsome brick veneer residence to be erected by Mr and Mrs HH D Burnumson on Ferry Street between Line and Walnut streets.
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