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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1941
Page
1
Cool Sunday and fair to warm next week with no rainfall. Cotton prices posted: strict middling 17.70, middling 17.45, strict low 16.95, low 16.45. Movie attractions listed at local theaters. Pinky Brown, longtime ambulance operator, assisted an injured man en route to hospital after a wreck near Mountain Brook.
Plans for extended shopping hours will be completed early this week as Sam Alexander of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce says. Several local residents are improving from illnesses and recent incidents as crowds grow in the evenings. A Madison county court decision affects legal liquor sales with a ruling by Judge Schuyler Son. The city recorder Philip Shanks remains at his father’s bedside in Selma. Fire department responded to a small blaze at Empire Grill with no damage.
The first class of 33 cadets at the Southern Aviation Training School will graduate next week after ten weeks of Army air corps flight instruction. Cadets will receive diplomas in programs starting Friday night and then move to Greenville Mississippi for basic training. A second class arrived recently and a third class of 100 cadets is expected later this month as facilities expand to accommodate larger groups.
Inside pages preview features urged by defense czar as lawmakers press for stronger bases. Decatur Athens locals attend services on page five while sports and farming items fill pages ten to twelve.
The three man panel led by Dr John R Steelman aims to finish the coal mine union shop row within 48 hours He noted progress but cautioned certainty remains The board includes John L Lewis and Benjamin F Fairless The eight steel firms and the union agree to accept any free award and the panel plans another session tomorrow.
The United States ordered Finnish merchant vessels in American ports seized and turned over to the Coast Guard. The move followed Britain’s declaration of war on Finland Hungary and Romania and came as Washington marked a shift in Finland from ally to Axis ally. Hjalmar Procope met at the State Department as the action was announced, listing six ships in American ports.
War analyst notes Rostov setback marks a major disaster for Hitler as German forces withdraw under heavy Russian counter attacks. Experts say dwindling oil reserves forced the Russian campaign and question the Nazi pursuit of a Caspian sea oil lifeline and the impact on Europe’s economy.
Analysis notes Hitler’s near oil starvation risk as Soviet and other observers compile figures on German oil reserves and synthetic fuel limits. Russian sources and prewar trade talks are cited as showing oil was the critical prize for Nazi strategy and its vulnerability under British bombing pressure.
Henry H. Newman aged 86 father of 7App Newman sports editor of The Birmingham News died today in Birmingham. He came from a Kentucky family and spoke as a pioneer. Survivors include five sons and two daughters.
British cruiser Dorsetshire credited tonight with the final torpedoes that sunk a German raider and the battleship Bismarck in the South Atlantic. Earlier, Sydney and Devonshire claimed other German raiders sunk. survivors were not picked up due to submarine risks.
Chet Thernberry of Versailles Kentucky fullback and Louis Hatchett of Alabama center were named captains for Transylvania College football here on December 6.
A German radio report claimed King Leopold III of Belgium wed Mary Lelia Baels on September 11. Belgians called the claim incredible and strange, while Stockholm sources confirmed the match. The report says the king’s children from his second marriage would be ineligible to throne succession, the first wife Queen Astrid having died in 1936.
A Birmingham Teachers Association committee asked the city commission for increased school funding and was advised by Mayor Cooper Green to apply for a share of surplus in the state educational trust fund.
The first unit of a $400,000 paving project from Mooresville to Huntsville arsenal is approved and started. A second unit from Whites Crossing to Lee Highway may be approved soon. Seventy workers are on the Decatur to Mooresville to White's Crossing route with fifty more set to start Monday. Completion of unit one is hoped for June 10 1942. The project is funded by Limestone County and the Works Progress Administration.
Police report two youths held in Nashville in connection with the theft of a car owned by W. Johnson of 603 Oak St. The suspects Bruce William son, 19, of New Orleans and Fred Andorvett, 22, of New York were seized with the vehicle after ignition parts appeared modified. The car was stolen from in front of Johnson's house last Thursday night and Alabama tags replaced by Tennessee plates. The boys made no denial.
A collage of brief notes from Los Angeles Chicago and South Bend recount odd scenes. A USC freshman drowns in a dorm roof accident. Burglars steal nothing as Christmas gifts are opened. A dog in distress prompts Yuletide charity. The Compton brothers recount accusations and a missing wife tale from a 1940 court evening.
A sweeping cold front brings light snowfall to the Northern Great Lakes and Western Montana. Temperatures fall sharply across plains to the Atlantic, freezing reaches Oklahoma and Texas, while fog and mist affect shipping on the Northern Atlantic and Florida coasts. Skies clear in the South and Rocky Mountain regions.
Decatur Alabama mothers express gratitude for Christmas boxes sent to Company B sailors on Kodiak near Tokyo. The note notes the boys are far from home and that Decatur honors its servicemen, hoping the gesture steadies them during wartime.
President Roosevelt sent a personal message to Emperor Hirohito as tensions escalate in the Far East. British mobilization and Anglo Dutch Australian plans intensify defense of Southeast Asia while US forces rush work on strategic posts in Alaska.
Massed Red armies repelled a renewed German drive on Moscow in the harsh Russian winter. Nazi forces reportedly overran five towns and pressed toward the Don river headwaters, while in the Far East a British unit ordered thousands to flee and the air force pressed its campaign.
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