1935

The Loveman's building, shortly after it was completed in 1935. Photo by O. V. Hunt. courtesy BPL Archives

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1935 was the 64th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.

Events

• The Alabama Highway Patrol was founded with former Jefferson County Sheriff Walter McAdory as its director.
• The United States government purchased the former Trussville Furnace site for the planned Cahaba Village housing project.
• The North Birmingham Church of God was founded by Herman Drummond.
• WBRC-AM began airing NBC Radio Network programming.
• The Birmingham School of the Bible held its first classes.
• The Personnel Board of Jefferson County was founded.
• Floyd and Lallouise McGraw planted a live Christmas tree at Vincent's Town Hall.
• Frank Hartley Anderson founded the Southern Printmaker's Society.
• Donald Beatty, piloting a Sikorsky S-43, set a speed record for a flight between the continental United States and the Panama Canal Zone.

Business

• The Drummond Company was founded.
• Theodore Swann sold the Swann Chemical Company.
• Walker Mattison took over as manager of the Pickwick Club.
• Glenn Messer sold his interest in the Messer Field airfield.
• The Waters family purchased the Lyric Theatre.
• O'Neal Steel established a service center at its North Avondale plant.
• The Brown-Service Funeral Company purchased the James Van Hoose residence on 20th Street South for its new headquarters.

Sports

• January 1: The 1934 Alabama Crimson Tide football team completed a national championship season by beating Stanford in the Rose Bowl.
• June 23: Legrant Scott hit a record 4 doubles in a game for the Birmingham Barons against the Atlanta Crackers.
• Jim Hayes pitched in seven games for the Washington Senators.
• Wedo Martini finished his Major League career with the Philadelphia A's.
• 1935 Birmingham Barons
• The 1935 Alabama Crimson Tide football team went 6-2-1
• Billy Bancroft succeeded Shorty Propst as coach of the Howard College Bulldogs football team.
• Howard Bailey appeared in one game with the Philadelphia Eagles.
• Rudy York was selected as the Texas League's Most Valuable Player.

Works

• Robert Van de Graaff patented the Van de Graaff generator.
• Mississippi and Rumba, films starring Gail Patrick

Books

• Black to Nature, and With Benefit of Clergy, novels by Octavus Roy Cohen

Buildings

• The Blach's building was extesively remodeled.
• The Carver Theatre opened on 4th Avenue North.
• The Grant's Mill Road bridge over Lake Purdy was constructed.
• The Horton Mill Bridge over the Locust Fork River in Oneonta was completed.
• A Lane Park Arboretum was completed with the planting of 5,000 trees by the Works Progress Administration and Birmingham Federation of Garden Clubs.
• A new Loveman's building was constructed in place of the one destroyed by a 1934 fire.
• The New Ideal building was completed.
• Construction of Smithfield Court housing project began.
• The Tennessee Coal Iron & Railroad Company opened a new Tin Mill at its Fairfield Works.
• A bridge over the John Allen Branch connecting Alabaster and Siluria was completed.

Music

• "The Object of My Affection" by the Boswell Sisters

People

• Hugo Black was apponted to the Senate Committee on Education and Labor.
• Sonny Blount studied at Alabama A&M University.
• Octavus Roy Cohen moved to Hollywood to write screenplays.
• Claude Fore succeeded Knox Wooley as Shelby County Sheriff.
• Betty Lou Gerson began her radio acting career on "Arnold Grimm's Daughter".
• Bibb Graves succeeded Benjamin Miller as Governor of Alabama.
• Birmingham Police Department dispatcher Claude Gray began working at WAPI-AM.
• William Grubb retired from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
• Arthur Harman succeeded Oliver Carmichael as President of Alabama College, State College for Women.
• Thomas Knight succeeded Hugh Merrill as Lieutenant Governor of Alabama.
• Abraham Mesch succeeded E. M. Levi as rabbi of Temple Beth-El.
• Fred McDuff succeeded James Hawkins as Jefferson County Sheriff.
• Harry Pembleton was hired as a staff architect for the Federal Housing Administration.
• Capers Satterlee was appointed rector of St Andrew's Episcopal Church.
• Charles Whelan, Jr was appointed to the United States Parole Commission.
• Big Joe Williams signed with Bluebird Records in St Louis, Missouri.

Births

• February 14: Robert Miller, 9th Episcopal Bishop of Alabama
• February 14: Sandra Sokol, art collector
• June 9: Kirkwood Balton, businessman
• June 24: Charlie Dees, baseball player
• October 28: Baseball player Bob Veale
• December 17: George Lindsey, actor
• December 24: Cecil Whitmire, president of Birmingham Landmarks
• Doug Barfield, Auburn Tigers football head coach
• Robert Carter, Alabama State University professor
• Chriss Doss, former Jefferson County Commission president
• Henry Emfinger, historian, museum founder
• Rollie Hill, mechanic and "Cookie Man"
• Roland Ingram, Jr, physician
• Jake Reiss III, bookseller
• Nolan Shivers, 49-year veteran of the Birmingham Police Department
• Charles Townsend, former principal of Jackson-Olin High School

Marriages

• July 3: Vet Boswell to John Paul Jones
• Martha Belle Hilton to James F. Sulzby, Jr

Awards

• Miss Alabama: Adelynn Owen

Graduations

• Writer Margaret Walker earned a bachelor of arts at the University of Chicago.
• Football player Don Hutson graduated from the University of Alabama.
• Architect Helen Davis graduated from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
• Architect Hugh Stubbins graduated from Harvard University.
• Restauranteur John Holcomb, Jr earned his bachelor of science in chemical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology

Deaths

• February: Giuseppe Moretti, sculptor
• Patti Ruffner Jacobs, suffragist leader
• Lucille Douglass, artist and printmaker

Context

1930s

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