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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1945
Page
4
A Birmingham Post column notes Manville weddings and ongoing postwar issues, including housing remains a problem, politics heat in Alabama with Poole’s gubernatorial bid, and reflections on war training, snow disruption, and a curious aviation anecdote. It also mentions Alabama football status, a suicide case in a hospital, and a purse found with a pistol. The piece touches on national figures Eisenhower and Clay in a humorous anecdote.
Morgan countians are asked to invest 641000 in Series E bonds as the final war bond drive nears December 8. Through Retail Week three days in, sales have risen to 77000, leaving 48000 short for the week. Morgan Mountains must invest 237000 more to complete the drive, with every bond, from 25 to higher denominations, urged to participate to ensure victory in this final drive.
The newspaper notes heavy damage from record snow in North Alabama and says rural electric lines were not built to withstand conditions. Decatur dodged outages due to robust construction and crews, while rural areas suffered interruptions. calls for improved, ready rural infrastructure and action by the electric agency to prevent future failures.
General Patrick Hurley who resigned as ambassador to China cites colleagues George Atcheson Jr and John S Service as lobbying for lend lease aid to the Communists. He argues this would topple Chiang Kai Shek’s Nationalist regime and says American diplomacy is off course. He returns home and continues naming names.
The piece details Franklin D Roosevelt and Frederic Delano ties to the Wintondale and Graceton coal towns in Pennsylvania. It describes company stores high profits, guard patrols, anti union actions, and later union organization in 1933, arguing the public deserved disclosure of these financial interests.
Washington notes credit John R. Steelman and Labor Secretary Schwellenbach for drafting the Truman administration’s labor cooling program. The plan aimed to stabilize auto and steel disputes via fact finding, though unions and AFL resisted. Internal White House missteps led Truman to seek congressional action for a binding public hearing.
Mauldin argues unions may yield to mediation once the wage rise between 15 and 20 percent is forecast by a fact finding panel. He notes the railway base program worked when both sides cooperated and warns resistance could delay national policy and invite tighter union oversight.
A town tale shows a patient mistaking a visiting physician for a preacher on his first day. The daughter corrects her mother as the unfamiliar arrival proves to be the doctor. Humorous quips follow about Decatur’s married men and puzzles.
A playful exchange imagines two sons at the cinema while a wife hints at choosing her husband for a rollicking spree. The humor centers on perceptions of fun and partnership in a domestic scene.
A compact musing notes fashion fades once all own it and discretion comes late after youth. The piece contrasts trends with restraint, hinting at timeless irony in style and judgment.
Walter Winchell surveys Shirley Temple's My Young Life book and a flood of show business chatter. Madeleine Carroll shuns screens for Red Cross work while Dinah Shore rules polls with gas thrushes. A Midtown hotel hushes a major airline exec robbery and a Hollywood director’s party incident sparks intrigue. Truman’s White House mood shifts with Senate favors, and film profits lag behind a few hits. Retired figures, new machines, and rumors about Ike hover amid a collage of stars, politics, and show business tensions.
Fragmentary notes report a Forest Hills hack driver named Davis and claims of high salaries for Miami headliners tied to publicity schemes. Other items mention cafe society embarrassment over a pistol drop at Zan Zanzibar, a New York cabbie Msellem N. Msellem, and press on Technicolor newsreels with Jacqueline Susann’s first play and Edda Ciano’s romance rumors.
A playful exchange describes a strawberry blonde with a peach complexion and cherry lips captivating Henry, prompting a lighthearted note on romance as Spring arrives.
An eager dry fly fisher encounters a freckled youth with a 20 inch contraption of plugs, spinners and bucktails. The boy jokingly explains the lure as cafeteria bait, saying fish pick out what they want as it is dragged by.
In a terse exchange, Sambo jokes about fearing a spook last night and Rastus confirms it, noting relief after slowing to a gallop. The fragment hints at a rural or colloquial scene with folkloric fear eased by daylight.
A concise reflection on happiness notes that inner attitude drives joy more than social rank or status. The quote emphasizes mindset over external standing as the key to fulfillment.
Two members of the Eighth Air Force wait for redeployment in England. They pass time by a country churchyard near their station and read memorial stones. One inscription calls a lawyer Thomas Sitter honest man. A second remark jokes about why three are in one grave as some people are paid for talking and others for not talking.
Philadelphia news notes Theatre Guild pressing to house playwright Eugene O’Neill in an upstairs flat at its headquarters. Mentions Frank McCarthy’s possible return to head a Hollywood outfit. Sailors’ pleas to aid prisoners of war and Nazis reaching home. Army reports German factories intact. Ballet in Billion Dollar Baby described as a dream sequence.
The recent meeting between Attlee and Truman settled the Franco issue with a warning that relations will end if Franco is not purged within 90 days. A disparate mix of items follows, including a soap ad boasting a new bounce shower soap and a football forecaster tied to lager ads. Also noted are a Philadelphia waiter, Gertrude Niesen song, Hazel Baker composer, Hal Winters’ rise from bellhop to crooner, and Frankie Hyers at Miami Copa.
A hotel benefit for Fenrico gathered doctors and surgeons who watched as the magician declared an unprecedented trick and then collapsed dead on stage. The report notes tax declarations by waiters, wool shrinking methods with Lanaset, psychiatry probes, fraud against veterans, and weeks of heavy rains crippling cafe trade with owners distressed but not blaming Roosevelt.
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