Rumor Mill and World News Highlight Socialist Headlines
The column mixes global threats and political talk from wartime America. It notes Nazi tactics, alleged Hitler survival rumors, and a Tennessee primary race featuring Rep. Gore versus Judge Turner, with Esquire magazine controversy and Pullman porter scams in Birmingham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Rep. Gore
Peck Turner
York
Congress
Fort Ogiethorpe
Roosevelt
Washington
Cngress
New York Chef Patents Coffee Soap Method
A note from The Birmingham Post mentions Robert Brown of New York City patenting a process to make soap from coffee. The remark highlights an ironic reversal of a kitchen practice noted in some restaurants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Birmingham Post
Robert Brown
New York City
First annual Tennessee Valley Livestock Show in Decatur
Friday marks the debut of the Tennessee Valley Livestock Dairy and Seed show in Decatur with Governor Chauncey Sparks attending. About 2,000 farm people are expected and local businesses are urged to greet guests warmly to support farm production and Decatur’s representation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee Valley
Decatur
Chauncey Sparks
Calls for full probe of Alabama Pardons and Parole Board
The Birmingham News says it has no stance on the merits but urges a complete investigation into parole practices. It notes public interest across Alabama and expects Governor Sparks to act if the allegations merit action, warning leniency could be carried too far.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham News-Age Herald
Alabama Pardons and Parole Board
Chauncey Sparks
Birmingham
Americans rally behind home front in early wartime outlook
The piece urges calm about Germany's collapse timing and calls for continued support at home. It defends President Roosevelt as a humanitarian and promotes buying bonds, rationing, and avoiding black markets while awaiting victory. The author discourages defeatist talk and election timing as factors in the war’s end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Hitler
Himmler
Goering
Goebbels
Bretton bank plan misnamed a credit guarantee fund
Washington observers note the Bretton Woods institution is not a bank but a credit guarantee facility. Four fifths of its proposed loans would be guarantees by private bankers, with Russia and others securing favorable participation and exchange power. The system aims to aid foreign rehabilitation, not profit, while rates remain unstable and future gold payments constrained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
International Bank
Bretton
Bretten
Lord Keynes
Harry White
Monetary Exchange
Mexico
China
France
Latin America
Russia
Local Residents Share Weekend Visits in Lawrence County
Sunday guests include Miss Jeanie Hamburger of New York visiting N.05 Reubin Hall with Mrs Walter Hall. Sam Garrett travels to Knoxville for work. Families from Falkville Leighton and Moulton visit relatives in the area while J. Bradford and kin attend a birthday dinner.
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Walter Hall
Jeanie Hamburger
New York
Reubin Hall
Sam Garrett
Knoxville
Tennessee
Bill Saint
Falkville
Austin Beck
Russell Childs
Lee Sanderson
Leighton
J. Bradford
Russellville
Simon Mitchell
Price Mitchell
Nina Maye White
Louise Kerby
J. D. Jeffreys
U. S Navy
Will Jeffreys
Jeffreys
Claudia Sanderson
Moulton
Lois Hall
Flora Maye
Rubye Beck
Glynnee Hagood
Mollie Garrett
John Beck
Mises Helen
Verna Steadman
Mobile
Ray Berryman
Flossie Briley
Education of the Public About Cancer and Its Treatment
Dr. Clendening explains cancer education aims for balanced public knowledge to avoid fear and unnecessary treatments. He outlines warning signs, the biopsy process, and emphasizes that surgery, X ray, and radium are the proven treatments while no blood serum test exists. Prevention focuses on skin and breast cancers and early detection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Society For the Control of Cancer
Local Farmers Plan Annual Meeting and Barbecue
Farm Bureau members in Woll Springs plan to attend the annual meeting and barbecue at Moulton High School on Friday following Thursday gatherings. The Friday event gathers farmers to discuss community agriculture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woll Springs
The
Farm Bureau
Moulton High School
Front Distances Reported For Key World War II Theaters
The Associated Press lists distances to major fronts: 328 miles from near Warsaw on the Russian front, 605 miles from Senigallia on the Italian front, and 630 miles from Troarn on the Normandy front.
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The
Associated Press
Warsaw
Senigallia
Normandy
Troarn
Tuberculosis cases total 277 in listed Alabama counties
The Alabama Health Department reports 277 tuberculosis cases last month across Mobile Jefferson Montgomery Tuscaloosa Walker Etowah Marion Cullman Calhoun Lauderdale Pickens Colbert DeKalb Madison Morgan and Russell counties. The first electric organ in the United States was built and patented by Hillborne Roosevelt an ancestor of the President.
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Montgomery
State Health Department
Mobile
Jefferson
Tuscaloosa
Walker
Etowah
Marion
Cullman
Calhoun
Lauderdale
Pickens
Colbert
DeKalb
Madison
Morgan and Russell
United States
Hillborne Roosevelt
Office Cut Office Cut Punchline in a Wisecracking Exchange
A humorous dialogue where a doctor consoles a worried husband over money. Linwood L. Russell stands in as the doctor figure. Decatur Wife asks about her husband while the doctor offers reassurance.
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Decatur
Decatur Satirical Jokes and Humorous Exchanges
A collection of short jokes and wry observations from Decatur featuring money misers, barber banter, a banker with a glass eye, a nurse hiring for odd jobs, a draftee quip, a classroom joke about Washington, and a gag about holiday gardening and the ship gender.
Presidential Convention History From Early American Times
Walter Winchell notes on how national party conventions evolved. He cites early 19th century anti‑Masonic strategy, Lincoln’s 1860 rise, and later events including Bryan, Taylor, Greeley, and Taylor’s mail issues. He surveys vice presidential deaths, electoral votes, and third party twists shaping U S presidential history through 1924.
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Republic
Lincoln
William H. Seward
Fdr
Republican National Committee
Cox
Roosevelt
Harding
W. J. Bryan
Willkie
Zachary Taylor
Zack
Louisiana
Taylor
Quotations on the Presidency From The American Mercury
The passage surveys remarks by Jefferson Buchanan and Adams on presidential office, then notes electoral and biographical curiosities from 1800s to 1900s. It highlights Van Buren’s rise, Roosevelt’s Maryland vote, Taft’s state result, and three-way 1836 Whig votes. It ends with J Q Adams’s biographies of Madison and Monroe and Monroe Doctrine ghostwriting.
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U. S
van Buren
W. H. Harrison
Tyler
Confederate Congress
White House
Adams
Johnson
Senate
Kentucky
John Bell
Jackson
Horatio Seymour
Seymour
N. Y
Hughes
Wilson
American Mercury
Thomas Jefferson
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
John Adams
Martin van Buren
Great Britain
Navy
Navy, Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Labor
Secretary of Interior
T. Roosevelt
Maryland
Taft
Hugh White
Daniel Webster
Harrison
Gerry
Madison
J. Q.adams
Monroe
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Decatur Daily
Tm Decatur
Tennessee Valley Printing Co., Inc
W. R. Shelton Wonsen
Alabama
Michelangelo
Europe
DeWitt MacKenzie
Mr. MacKenzie
Atlanta
Esquire
Westbrook Pegler
Post Office Department
Supreme Court
Pardon and Paroles Board
Pau Mallon
King Feature Syndicate
Ino
Lawrence County Hatton
Flora Maye Beck
For Cancer Control
By Logan Clendening, M.D
Dr. Clendening
Berlin
Gene Ahern
More T. B
Junius
Linwood L. Russell
Mr. Spaulding
Pat
Decature
Delaware
Jim
Bill
Charlie
Walter Winchell
Daily Mirror
Horace Greeley
Thomas Hendricks
Nicholas Murray Butler
V.P
Samuel J. Tilden
Rutherford B. Hayes
Cleveland
Lionel Sackville-West
Sackville-West
FCC
Robert T. Lincoln
Abe
GOP
Benjamin Harrison
Victoria Woodhull
Clare Luce
Equal Rights Party
Belva Lockwood
Anna Milburn
National Greenback Party
National Greenback
Prohibition
Norman Thomas
Claude A. Watson
la Follette
Pettey Cleaners
Studebaker Weasel
Normandy Beach
Studebaker
Office of Scientific Research and Development
War Department
Studebaker Engineers
Ordnance Department
Army Service Forces
Studesarer
Boeing Flying Fortress
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