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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1934
Page
2
South’s labor gains spur future Tennessee Valley program
Miss Perkins notes material orders from construction and public works projects in Alabama fueling employment, payrolls, and 2,200 man months of labor. Tennessee Valley program cited as key to regional development, with auto sales up 50 percent and cotton goods, knit goods, and turpentine industries showing strong payroll gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama Iftems
Tennessee Valley
Secretary of Labor
South
Miss Perking
Birmingham
Valley Leaders Seek Steady Valley Progress
In the Tennessee Valley a balance between industry and agriculture is sought, a long process requiring careful cooperation. Valley residents believe the Tennessee Valley is the greatest section of the South and see growing support from people nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southland
Tennessee Valley
South
Five girl babies born in Ontario family
Mrs. Olivia Dionne of North Bay, Ontario, welcomed six children last Sunday and gained five more girls by a single birth, bringing the total to eleven. Dr. A. R. DaFoe reports the five newborns are all well as the family’s unusual event is noted amid financial discourse and aviation milestones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olivia Dionne
North Bay
Ontario
A. R. DaFoe
Callander
Johnson Warns of Spring Wave of Strikes and Wage Demands
General Hugh Johnson, NRA chief, warned at the Code Conference closing that without voluntary wage increases, shorter hours, and union recognition, workers would strike this spring. He cited a rising labor militancy from Atlantic to Pacific, with steel workers threatening a June 16 picket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NRA
Hugh Johnson
Johnson
Atlantic
Pacific
Great Lakes
Rio Grande
Leisure and reading in a new leisure era
The article discusses the shift from long to shorter workdays and the challenge of keeping life interesting during increased leisure. It notes libraries would need more space and readers, but many would resist "learned style" and heavy books. It argues production could double and excess leisure would not exist if all households had ample goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
US States
Use of Artificial Hands and Arms Requires Concentration
In a discussion with an artificial limb maker, the need for concentration in using artificial arms is stressed. Modern devices allow fingers to oppose and lift heavy objects, with shoulder straps and a wrist ratchet managing positioning. however many users eventually abandon artificial arms and cope with one hand. Properly made limbs are comfortable and durable, with wear on artificial footwear matching natural use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan Clendening
Satia
Ickes PWA funds aid road building and industry
Welles secured 5 million dollars in PWA money to finance production and export of American road building machinery cement and other materials. General Billy Mitchell may lead the new Federal Aviation Commission to draft a national aeronautics policy if he accepts. Henry Ashurst faces a tough bid to keep his Senate seat as the RFC loans to industry bill provokes crossfire with Couzens and Borah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hinds
Harold Ickes
Welles
PWA
Billy Mitchell
Army Air Corps
Federal Aviation Commission
White House
Henry Ashurst
Arizona
Senate
RFC
Couzens
Rockies
Borah
S S Questions Will Be Studied at Prayer Service
Dr Smith pastor of Central Baptist church leads a Wednesday night discussion at 7 30 p m on Sunday school questions. Attendees will be asked to supply questions for a round table discussion and anticipation is high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Smith
Central Baptist Church
Temperature Range in 24 Hours
The past 24 hours recorded a maximum temperature of 85 degrees and a minimum of 57.
Blue Star Ointment Advertises Skin Aid
An old advertisement touts Blue Star Ointment as a remedy for foot itch eczema rash tetter pimples and other skin troubles. It claims the ointment does not burn and that germs die when Star Ointment melts and is used on the skin.
Dr Clendening pamphlets offered by mail
The editor notes six pamphlets by Dr Clendening are available for ten cents each plus a self addressed stamped envelope. Titles include Indigestion and Constipation Reducing and Gaining Infant Feeding Instructions for the Treatment of Diabetes Feminine Hygiene and The Care of the Hair and Skin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clendening
Logan Clendening
Inter-Al lied Memorial Day honors fallen soldiers worldwide
Twelve years ago today marks Inter Allied Memorial Day with millions worldwide wearing the Flanders Poppy to remember soldiers who died in war. Oil news notes English No 1 drilled seven feet yesterday and progress at 2120 feet total depth. Anne and Ernest Tillery travel to Tuscaloosa for an extended relatives visit. Albert Frahan and William Hardage spend a few days at Gulfport. G Goodrich Co has contract to build two miles of road between Courtland and Moulton. Lewis Hardage returns from Georgia Military College where he served as athletic coach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. ©. Goodrich
Courtland
Moulton
Today Horoscope Brief for Born on This Day
Persons born on this day are domestic in their tastes but enjoy public or society work when they can be conspicuous in it.
Rogers Ranch Visit Reveals Western Americana Pleasures
New York Day by Day reporter O. O. McIntyre visits Will and Betty Rogers at their ranch near Los Angeles. The residence displays a trove of pioneer relics from spurs to bronzes, longhorns, and a Ghetto hurdy gurdy, while anecdotes recount a canyon excursion gone wild and Rogers’s understated wardrobe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
May
Will and
Betty Rogers
Argentina
Canada
Rogers
Amon Carter
Rogers Family Sees Young Jimmy Off to School
In a brief family scene at Pomona, Rogers notes son Jimmy is set to attend school while brother Bill studies at Stanford and daughter Mary tours the Old Dominion. Jimmy is described as lean and witty, a skilled horseman, whose parting words reveal his father’s playful warning about safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rogers
Jimmy
Pomona
Bill
Stanford
Mary
Old Dominion
Billie Burke Remembers Circus Childhood in California Visit
Billie Burke, with her debutante daughter Patricia, visits the Rogerses in California. Burke recalls her early years as a circus clown’s daughter and reflects that her world has changed since New York days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billie Burke
Rogerses
Patricia
Miss Burke
New York
California
Frohman
Fresh farm produce and prices plus Hollywood memoir fragment
A list of market prices for mixed produce and fruits including butter potatoes onions and greens appears alongside a narrative fragment detailing actress Billie Burke and socialite Doris Kenyon with a dinner at Brentwood and mentions of the John Barrymore family and Milton Sills. The piece then shifts to a vivid garden scene and a description of Kenyon’s son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brentwood
Doris Kenyon
John Barrymores
Bud Krons
E. F. Huttons
Will Hays
Milton Sills
India
Kenyon
Theda Rava Charms Doris Theaters Scene
Theda Rava, noted as screen’s wickedest lady, visits Doris' with a temperate record, never drinking in her professional career. A modified Dot Parker, she adds a quippy perk to every party and claims a nebulous birthplace below the Mason-Dixon line with a Southern accent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theda Rava
Bohied
Doris
Screen
Dot Parker
Cincinnati
Flowers and Hat Drama at Gallipolis Wild Ride
A hotel scene features a box of flowers for a wife's aunt with a card praising a sport in Gallipolis Will Rogers. A companion notes Bill was pleased she lost her hat twice but kept her head during a mountainside thrill ride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Will Rogers
Bill
Black-Draught Relied On By Kentucky Reader After Forty Years
I am 71 years old and have used Thedford's Black-Draught about forty years. We are never without it. I take it as a purgative when I am bilious dizzy and have swimming in my head. Black-Draught relieves this in many ways.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thedford
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