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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1944
Page
5
The W M S of the First Street Baptist Church will meet Monday at 3 p m in Rose Chapel for a combined business and missionary program. P Cartwright will lead the missionary segment.
Local society notes list Robert Jones visiting his mother in town before further training at a different base. Lt. Stanley Jones, overseas in England, and various relatives and friends from Montgomery to Birmingham are mentioned visiting, traveling, or awaiting arrivals.
The notice promotes pattern number 964 with transfer designs for aprons and small motifs, stating both patterns fit under one yard of fabric. It invites readers to send fifteen cents for the patterns to The Decatur Daily Needlecraft Dept in New York, plus fifteen cents for a 32 page Needlecraft Catalog with 133 illustrations of embroidery knitting crochet quilts and home decor.
The Decatur Alabama city council approved salaries for the mayor at 250 dollars monthly and for aldermen at 20 dollars monthly starting October 1, 1944. A resolution on city elections was adopted. David Smith of French's Lunch Stand drew a 30 day probation after a license revoke discussion amid twelve arrests in three months.
Rev O P Spiegel of Clover Dale Christian Church in Montgom ery opened a series evangelistic meetings at the Hart selle Christian Church on Wednesday night. An audience greeted him and the Osborne quartet will provide songs. Services begin at 8 00 pm nightly with invitations to attend and bring friends for a great bene fit.
News from Rome reports a easing of tensions in northern Florence after German tanks penetrated yesterday. Front activity elsewhere remains light with patrol clashes and artillery duels. U S 91st Infantry now in line with the Fifth Army on the western front. American motor fire damaged four enemy boats in the Arno north of Lalotta and destroyed a German self propelled gun.
President Roosevelt nominated Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Patch Jr. for promotion to lieutenant general. Patch, commander of the 7th American Army now invading Southern France, holds the temporary rank of major general with a permanent rank of colonel of infantry.
The council voted to rehire Frank Sandlin as policeman. The appointment becomes effective September 1.
Anne Adams announces pattern 4521 a beginner friendly house dress that flatters figure. pattern available in sizes 12 through 44 with fabric yardage for size 16. send twenty cents to Pattern Dept 243 West 17th Street New York and add fifteen cents for the larger 32 page pattern book with a free pattern in the book.
GLAMOR is shelved for the duration yet women are urged to stay capable and on the job. A sad drift toward plainness is warned, with tips to revive youth through a new look, cosmetics, outfits, outdoor activity, and daily brisk walks to boost morale and confidence.
Allied forces claim decisive, rapid advances in Europe as Pacific operations intensify with Guam and Saipan secured as springboards for future thrusts. Admiral Nimitz voices confidence in powerhouse tactics and suggests Japan may surrender before homeland invasion.
The lesson recounts Eli’s death and the ark’s capture by the Philistines, its return to Bethshemesh, and the deaths of the watchers. It covers Dagon’s defeat, seven months of Philistine distress, and the ark’s placement with Eleazar. Samuel leads Israel to repentance, God answers, and Ebenezer is established as a sign of divine help. Samuel then serves as judge at Ramah and Mizpah.
War dispatch from Cannes reports Allied advances on the Riviera beachhead with prisoners pouring in. Units under Captain Alfred Makins and Lt. Carl Storm captured multiple groups, including 850 yesterday and 751 today, as doughboys blocked retreat routes and German troops surrendered in waves.
Dr. E. C. Ray, chairman of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, said liquor rations likely will rise by October 1 due to expected higher supplies. He noted current allotments exist but overall stock has not increased, under the government order allowing whiskey production. Each customer now may buy a quart per month at state stores.
In Guam Nimitz outlines a plan for a nonstop war against Japan with quick, decisive strikes. He notes Superfortress raids expanding under Gen. LeMay and petrol fuels for the bombers as critical to the effort. Strategic bases on Guam Saipan and Tinian are growing, while raids hit Japan’s island outposts and Halmahera as part of planned leapfrog offensives toward Mindanao.
Rural Electrification Administrator Harry Slattery says he favors removing the REA from the U S Department of Agriculture and restoring its independent status. He backs the Senate study recommending REA reevaluation and potential structural change.
A 54-year-old man seeks divorce to marry another woman but faces his wife’s refusal. Dorothy Dix condemns divorce for middle age, urges restraint, and warns of lost self respect and family harm. A mother laments her son’s faithless wife during war. Dix advises informing him to spare him false hopes. An antique dealer asks about divorcing a temperamental husband who ruins prized pieces. Dix suggests choosing what matters more.
Report says Hitlerites stack barges on the Seine to ferry fleeing troops while Allied aircraft from England press attacks. He is said to field about 350000 divisions left in Northwest France after brutal losses in the Normandy Brittany battles, unable to spare more from the Russian front, and faces a looming final retreat to Germany.
Tommy Fitzpatrick twelve year old son of Mr and Mrs T H Fitzpatrick of Gordon Drive suffered a broken arm above the right elbow when kicked by a horse in the back yard at 1130 in the morning. The horse owned by A C Bailey 612 Gordon Drive. He was taken to the Decatur clinic and dismissed Wednesday afternoon after the arm was set.
American forces near Orleans clash with a German unit designated the stomach battalion. Comprised of inferior troops with stomach ailments, it was formed into a single unit due to their dietary needs, offering desultory resistance in the Allied advance.
Edward A. O Neal president of the American Farm Bureau Federation joins Senator Bankhead of Alabama in urging cotton growers to withhold the 1944 crop until prices reach approximate parity under the Barkhead Brown amendment to the Stabilization extension act.
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