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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1944
Page
4
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Reading a mix of devotional lines and editorial notes the Dothan Eagle reflects on faith postwar uncertainty and wartime finance. It discusses hay markets in Alabama Chauncey Sparks legislative action war bonds and income tax funds for education and health. It ends with a hopeful view of Alabama becoming an active forward marching state.
A weekly critique from Tokyo mocks American barbarism as the best laugh of the week, reflecting local sentiment and humor about foreign actions. The piece satirizes Western behavior and contrasts it with Japanese cultural norms.
The Alabama Journal notes postwar rural phone expansion tied to electric service. Plans by Southern Bell aim to extend lines to thousands of farms in Morgan and Lawrence counties, dramatically lowering costs via high volume uptake and joint use with electric networks.
Washington observers say FDR defended the steel wage freezing plan to back Byrnes wartime economics, with a gradual, industry by industry reopening of wages. The move avoids inflation, but unions press for increases, while reclassification tricks may bypass the wage cap.
Staff Sergeant Leon Turner 24 of Danville 3, with a medical battalion of the 8th Infantry Division, earned the Bronze Star for heroism in France. His ambulance platoon duties kept him off the front lines yet he bore heavy shell and mortar fire driving a jeep to evacuate wounded. He led litter squads along exposed routes, reconnoitered a new evacuation path, and returned three times to aid wounded men. His father is Arnold R. Turner.
Eight detinning and six ae te tea Ganee ae timeline salvaged cans recovered in the United States amid salvage operations.
In Westbrook Pegler's satirical piece a ball club adopts collective bargaining under Weenie from Harvard and Boris Pantzoff. Rules replace runs with walks, ban extra bases, and impose union discipline, with female players and the owner’s wife shaping the dramatic overhaul.
The article outlines shifts in tuberculosis care from bed rest and open air to pneumothorax and medical supervision. It highlights early case recovery with rest and diet, then notes widespread use of pleural air compression, rehabilitation plans, and a model from Astro Garment workshop showing high long term recovery with structured work and medical oversight.
Dr W T Burkett reports 144 rat borne typhus cases in Houston county this year with losses estimated at 2 221 776 dollars. Outbreak treatment bills total at least 21 776 dollars compared with 84 cases in all of 1943.
Birmingham report notes 16,041 top grade passenger tires allotted for December vs 14,558 in November, but supply remains insufficient to meet pending orders in the North Alabama district.
Betty Bacall, a Julia Richman High School graduate born in Manhattan on September 16 1924, quits Broadway dreams to sign with Warner Bros and star opposite Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep She rises under Howard Hawks guidance amid labels like American Diertrich and Veronica Lake and earns attention as a future film icon.
Betty recalls a facial scar she cherishes learned at age five and modeled after Carole Lombard. A photo in Harper’s Bazaar drew the Hawks wife’s attention, launching Lauren’s acting path. She faced stage fright and two years on Broadway, needing faith from a single strong advocate, press agent Larry Spooner, to persist.
The narrative recalls Lauren Bacall during a low point when she wandered Broadway on a cold December afternoon. She confides to a friend that things are horrible and decides to seek warmth with coffee at Walgreens as radio reports Pearl Harbor attack news.
The narrative follows Lauren traveling to Hollywood after signing a contract, facing meeting mixups at Union Station Beverly Wilshire and Claremont hotels, awaiting real glamor. An agent redirects her to Warner’s where she acts in a test, and Charles Drake, soon back from the army, helps her rise at MGM.
Norman Olsen of the district Office of Price Administration announced that eligible applications are being reviewed for consideration by the executive office.
The piece notes Lauren’s dancing quips and defenses as she jokes about rhumba. It recalls George Kaufman directing a brief role in Franklin Street, not reaching Broadway, who nicknamed her Little Stinker. It mentions a walk-on in Johnny 2X4 and a St. James Theater job at eight dollars weekly, plus a rejected chorus offer of thirty five dollars.
Miss Cecilia Alexander, commissioned ensign in the Waves on November 28 after training at Northhampton Mass naval school, now assigned to instruction at the Navy supply corps school Radcliffe College Cambridge Mass. Daughter of Mr and Mrs Sam Alexander of Decatur Thomas Terrace. Attended Rider College earning BSC, led Hi Y club, sports editor Rider News, historian Phi Sigma Sorority. Before service, she was chief clerk of traffic at Maxwell Field AAF.
In Columbus Georgia nine year old Ernest Bell died of burns after being tied to a tree during a grass fire started during a Cowboys and Indians game. A 10 year old youth set the blaze and Jack King sixteen freed Bell as his clothing burned.
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