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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1947
Page
4
The Decatur Foundation formed to address housing for Wolverine Tube workers. Need for several homes remains as construction slows and prices rise. Citizens with houses for sale or rent urged to contact Barl Glenn to aid the community effort.
A wartime column recalls the loss of 800 American paratroopers over Sicily and two days of heavy Allied shooting down of transport planes in July 1943. It argues censorship hid these facts and criticizes military governance amid peacetime conscription debates.
Road Commissioner Wallace Meadows told the Rotary Club that Morgan County will retire its first road bond issued in 1908, marking a milestone in county finance. After this, a second bond from 1922 amounting to $400,000 remains to be retired.
A Daily office item notes the fleeting nature of fame while describing an effort to spell Mussolini correctly. The brief reflects gossip and spelling curiosity rather than a broader event.
Secretary Harriman backs a general wage and price freeze as inflation pressures rise. He argues for early preparation and a possible broad freeze if voluntary controls fail, warning that removing controls worsened the wage price race. Congress weighs options as supply demand balance remains skewed and greenbacks devalue.
The column recounts that Lieut Col David Laux urged an investigation into paratrooper safety and was exiled to Nome Alaska during the war. Brig Gen Ray Dunn who protested safeguards over Sicily was reduced to colonel and sent to the Pacific.
A documented effort by officers to fit self sealing tanks and armor to paratrooper transports is described as stalled though approved by Maj. Gen. Williams and Col. Bagby. The push intensified after Sicily, aimed before D Day for Normandy flights, but no action followed until Col. Laux wrote to Secretary Stimson and was briefly punished with reassignment to Nome, Alaska.
June 1 1944 letter from Colonel Laux quotes responses to July Sicily troop carrier losses. He recalls being ordered to draft a defense for the Army air forces arguing against self sealing tanks and states he declined to prepare such a document.
A veteran recounts overseas service in Sicily and Italy and urges self sealing fuel tanks for troop carrier aircraft, stating pilots and officers agree on the necessity after witnessing enemy fire and downed planes.
Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers testified he bought as much as four million dollars in war bonds on margin and earned about ninety thousand dollars paper profit. He argued others did similar, noting no law against it, while the government sought to curb such speculation with bank-backed purchases.
The text explains recognizing bladder and kidney infections with symptoms on urination and outlines germ types. It lists penicillin and streptomycin options, three drug groups including sulfonamides mandelic acid and hexamine, dosing durations, and the need to monitor germs in urine. It also notes cystoscopy and possible surgery, and briefly covers varicose veins treatments such as exercise massage elastic bandages and possible removal or injection therapy.
Liberty National Life Insurance Company announces foreclosure on the Decatur Better Built Homes Inc mortgage dated August 26 1943 to Brown Service Insurance Co. The property Lot 19 Block 59 Decatur Land Improvement and Furnace Company Addition 4 and Amendment A will be sold at public auction to the highest cash bidder at the east door of the Decatur courthouse on December 22 1947. Attorneys Harris & Harris. Nov 26 Dec 2 9.
Pegler argues an official Teamsters magazine misleads about poverty among drivers like Mr Mitchell. He cites stagnant wages, high living costs, butterless meals, and long hours, charging union leaders with graft and failed price controls. He notes Cincinnati power broker Brockey Farrell and Padway links, demanding higher wages and accountability.
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