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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1941
Page
3
A price fixing bill introduced in Senate and House would allow the president to set price ceilings for commodities and rents, with farm protections and licenses on many transactions. Farm bloc objections persist as parity-based limits remain disputed. agriculture spokesmen seek higher protections.
A long reader letter style piece outlines solar activity sunspots and their impact on climate and crops. It discusses blue and orange light for plants Sunlight life on earth and future agriculture, predicting a 1 percent fall in solar energy by 1944 with potential depressions if war ends later. The column also promotes free summer forecasts by Prof Maxwell and includes a Q&A on weather forecasts moon motions and fishing, along with telescope plan offers.
A stylized forecast lists alternating weather impacts by day across regions and forces. It pairs warm and cloudy conditions with favorable winds for the British Russians and Nazis, interspersed with cool clear spells and calm or windy conditions across Florida Alabama Georgia Tennessee and surrounding areas.
Evangelist Monroe Parker delivered a sermon titled What Price Glory at the Fourth Avenue and Johnston Street tent. He compared human worth to cosmic scales, urged belief in Jesus Christ, and announced upcoming services including The Great Tribulation When God Slams the Door and a life story by Dr Parker. Earl Johnston and Mrs Monroe Parker contributed music and readings.
Henry and fellow lodge members confront a web of suspicion after Ives's murder and a near-fatal shotgun trap. Spinelli toys with private clues while the sheriff vows home searches as the investigation unfolds tonight along the tunnel road.
The Treasury reports defense cash expenditures in July reached about 1 billion dollars. Defense saving bond receipts exceeded 1 billion dollars three months after sales began, with July receipts at 342 million and total since May 1 at over 1 billion.
Census Bureau data show twice as many white men as white women in American Samoa, reflecting a gender imbalance in the territory.
Senator Alva M. Lumpkin of South Carolina died aged 54 after a gastric hemorrhage. Sworn in less than two weeks ago to succeed James Byrnes, Lumpkin was a lawyer, judge, and long time state official with ties to the Knights of Pythias and Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Burial plans were set for Columbia, D. C., pending final arrangements.
Sheriff officers raided three locations in Decatur and confiscated 41 pints of moonshine. Two Black suspects were arrested on Maple Street and held at Morgan county jail. A third man on Church Street was bonded for violating the prohibition law. Deputies Bibb Humphrey and B. Pittman led the arrests.
A freak lightning bolt struck the Cooper Wells Hosiery Mill on Second Avenue and Second Street. The bolt burned paint from a flag staff, knocked bricks from a parapet, and injured several office workers with aches and back pains. Damage estimated at about 50 dollars. one employee was briefly knocked to the floor but unharmed.
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