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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1939
Page
4
Fragmentary remarks reference Birmingham address and Southern Conference for Human Welfare. Mentions noteworthy events of the year and a missed bomb as a potential defining moment. No clear persons or organizations fully identifiable in readable text.
Local reads note Salvation Army drive nearly finished and Decatur’s Christmas business boom. Reports praise farming gains with better cotton, note Tennessee golf hopes, Alabama football plans, and upcoming Democratic convention delegates. National finance shows the U S debt limit at 3 1 billion, while airplane makers back a moral embargo on Russia.
Thirteen teams of young men conclude a final week of appeals to raise five thousand one hundred dollars for the Salvation Army. The article praises the army as a tireless, all inclusive service reaching from cradle to grave and urges generous subscriptions as workers call.
Alabama bankers plan a Clarksville trip to study safer lending for diversified farms. They aim to back livestock and tobacco loans, improve cotton yields, and connect farmers with markets to reduce reliance on cotton. The effort follows years of debt from the single crop system.
The group used the session to deny being Communistic with Mrs Roosevelt in attendance. Starnes appeared flustered as Rhea Whitley questioned him, while youth leaders quickly presented a resolution demanding Congress end the Dies Committee. The hour and a half hearing ended with little new factual detail.
James Dewey of Madame Perkins lake department conciliation service led negotiations that produced a settlement between Chrysler and labor representatives. Attorney General Murphy briefly joined by phone without effect. Dewey’s firm stance and timely intervention secured agreement after a 3 am wake up call and 6 am settlement, with both sides later entrusting him to resolve 13 discharge cases.
The NLRB under Leiserson considers turning the board into a mediation agency with no direct legal authority. AFL CIO oppose the move, as do business groups, leaving the agency without broad backing. Critics warn it would be unwelcome as a mediator due to lack of confidence from labor and industry.
The Chrysler settlement raises wages by 3 cents an hour over General Motors. Labor’s next move targets GM for a similar raise. GM’s labor contract is a timing agreement that either side can terminate on notice.
Walter Winchell surveys the New York scene with first nights and actors. Paul Muni is rumored to have interned in Hollywood. Maxine Anderson’s Key Largo is mentioned. Ethel Barrymore performs Farm of Three Echoes. Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong headline Mid Summer Night’s Dream. Critics praise and puzzle over Shakespeare’s inclusion and the season’s whimsy. Artie Shaw and public culture topics also appear in the culture digest.
A wide flash of film and radio notes covers Elizabeth and Essex with Bette Davis, Paul Muni at the Music Hall, Meet Doctor Christian with Jean Hersholt, and Destry Rides Again starring Dietrich. It cites Kay Kyser’s band piece, Toscanini and La Guardia on benefits, John Gunther’s Europe notes, and critiques radio romances by Westchester women.
A Wednesday column survey of pundits and stars notes Ray Clapper railing against being typecast as a politician’s man. It also references Ben Stolberg on Communist bust ups, E V Darling, Robert E Sherwood, and jokes from Stern headlines and stars like George Raft Wendy Barrie Ann Sothern and David Niven.
Detective Douglas Arthur stormed into the automobile theft division to report his car stopped directly in front of headquarters. He returned a short time later with a reddened face and a terse account of the incident.
Reader questions whether stomach ulcer treatment with alkaline medicines causes kidney stones. Dr Clendening cites studies finding a slight increase but stresses alkalis rarely lead to stones, and only 1.2 percent of 1260 stones had prior ulcer treatment. The note lists books on heredity and pamphlets offered by Dr Clendening.
The annual White Christmas celebration will be presented at the First Methodist church of Athens on Sunday afternoon December 17. The pageant will be the principal feature as in past years and the Christmas offering, usually several hundred dollars, will be given to the Alabama Methodist Orphanage and the superannuated preachers of Alabama.
A note details that Jack, 9, visiting from college, took the car for the evening while his father was away, highlighting a family incident during a home visit.
Funeral services were held in Huntsville for Mrs Mamie Fletcher Coleman sister of the late Senator Shelby S Fletcher of Madison County She died at home Saturday night after several weeks illness in Huntsville Alabama on December 4.
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