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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1938
Page
2
President Roosevelt returns to Washington for a series of meetings to map a new defense program and a sweeping relief budget. Key figures include Harry Hopkins, Bankhead, and William Bullitt as aides and visitors discuss plans and conflicts on fiscal outlays exceeding a billion dollars.
President signals a broad program including national defense with Latin American partners and Canada, tougher taxation on undistributed profits and capital gains, re-enactment of nuisance taxes, social security expansion, crop control, railroad finance reforms, and possible government reorganization. Public relief timing remains tied to employment growth.
Shirley Ross argues hats must suit the wearer’s hair and figure. She notes muffin lids suit some women while tall shapes or moon faces require careful choice, urging personalized millinery and hairdressing for smart effect. Aromatic baths are also mentioned as delightful luxuries.
Lubin, labor statistics commissioner, testified before the legislative executive committee on the Great Depression impact. He cited losses of 132 billion in national income since 1930, with unemployment costs over 119 billion and farm income under 29. The hearing drew about eighty reporters, businesspeople, and spectators as Lubin used charts to explain the data.
Athens Alabama December 1 Special Dr A D Powers announces Powers Hospital of Athens has joined the Alabama Hospital Association. The ultra modern local hospital meets association standards and features one of the era’s most expensive X Rays. Membership allows county residents to buy hospital insurance through the association.
Dr Samuel Leonidas Ledbetter, 83, died after a long illness in Birmingham. He was the oldest Jefferson County Medical Society member. Survived by widow Nettle Morrow Ledbetter. sons Samuel L Jr of Birmingham and Mitchell Porter of Laurel. daughter Mrs. Lee Allen Brooks of Birmingham. brother Charles L. Ledbetter of Birmingham.
The advertisement promotes water softeners with fragrances and powder forms that fizz like champagne. It mentions tonic lotions for post bath use, claiming skin freshness and scent, and urges readers to send beauty questions to the Beauty Box Editor with a stamped reply envelope.
The funeral was held today in the St Bernard school chapel with The Most Rev Thomas J Toolen officiating. Abbot Reger, born in 1872 in Saulern Bavaria, died in a Birmingham hospital of pneumonia after an automobile accident near Scottsboro. He led St Camillus academy in Corbin Kentucky, headed the Lexington deanery, and served at St Bernard after Ripley Ohio.
The I. C. T. club held its first meeting at Miss Lucille Cole’s home on Fourth Avenue West Tuesday evening. Officers elected include President Lucille Cole Vice President Nell Warrick Secretary Jewel Thompson Treasurer Tiny Warrick and Scribe Bertha Sue Edwards. The club plans a party for Friday December 9 and social hour refreshments followed the business.
More than 800 Southern Methodist leaders gathered for the educational council as joint meetings closed and a spring unification with the church’s northern branch was anticipated. Bishops Selecman and Oxnam urged opposition to injustice, with a national conference planned for April in Kansas City to complete the merger.
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