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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1932
Page
3
A four man crew debates Pauo’s disappearance on Tarea as Livingston and Utato plot. They decipher a coded log, suspect Livingston’s auto, and vow to uncover the truth while Pauo remains missing on the silent Pacific.
The U S last year yielded 62 percent of world cotton. World crop set at 27.5 million bales with foreign production at 10.404 million. U S acreage near 82.7 million with yields higher than foreign nations. India, Russia, China, Egypt listed with respective acreages and bale outputs.
In Birmingham on May 30 the Supreme Court ruling granting R A Bridges a new trial prompted his barber in Jefferson county jail to give him a fresh shave. Bridges, convicted last July for throwing the bomb that wrecked the Pure Milk Company during a milk price war, had a beard that nearly reached his shoulders and made him look like a wild man.
A list of commodities with unit pricing includes spring onions, parsley, sorghum, radishes, strawberries, green peas, new and white potatoes, carrots, green beans, and pole beans. Prices range from a few cents per unit, reflecting a historical shopping catalog.
Carload hay prices list Johnson hay and Timothy with U S numbers and prices. Grain bulk prices show No 2 white and yellow corn and white oats with steady market. Poultry eggs and hens priced by type, fryers and roosters with a small decline noted. Fruits vegetables and staples priced, noon spot middling cotton unchanged.
Across clues cover homes of ancient Irish kings to shelter and tools. down clues include expel misstatement of fact and narrow opening. Names include Greek letters and pronouns. a rhyme reference asks about a man who could eat no fat. fringe clues mention walking in yielding substance and licking up.
Captain William J. Flood and Lieutenant Haynie McCormick, both on duty with the air corps, represent the U S army at the national elimination balloon races in Omaha Nebraska on May 30. Flood pilots the army bag and McCormick serves as his aide. The pair won the national race in 1925.
The annual convention of the Alabama Parent Teachers Association will be held here October 17 21 with the Birmingham council serving as host.
Alabama crop reporting service says about 262000 farms will be operated this year, up from 256000 in 1930. Commissioner Seth P. Storrs notes migration from industry to farming as the main cause, with 8000 families moving to farms and 3000 leaving, net gain around 5000 farms.
Police Chief Fred McDuff ordered police to stop pouring confiscated liquor into the gutter near city hall. All contraband will be poured into a sewer built for this purpose to prevent ignition risks as Rum river dries up.
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