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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1944
Page
5
The notice advertises chair-set embroidery and crochet patterns including two crocheted butterflies with transfer designs. Pattern 554 and a 1945 Needlecraft Catalogue listing 95 illustrations are available for fifteen cents each plus shipping, send orders to The Decatur Daily Needlecraft Dept New York.
The Sub Deb Clubsters will host a dance from 10 PM to 2 AM at the Armory. Honorary members were asked to call 1488 or 698-J to confirm attendance. An important meeting for Sub Deb Club is set for Wednesday at 2 PM at President Miss Mimi Jones's home.
Mrs. T. G. Morrow improves at home on East Walnut Street after illness. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Stovall plan Christmas week travels to Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Counts host Cel Oes and three sons on Sunday at Mt. Hope. Mrs. W. G. Ward returns to Montgomery after visiting sister. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Thombs and baby of Pearson Georgia will be Christmas guests of Mrs. Jessie Thombs and Miss Claudia Thombs. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hefner and son Edward of Murfreesboro Tennessee visit and will travel to Chattanooga to spend holidays with Mrs. Clifford A. Roberts family. Mrs. A T Hanson returns tonight from Gloster Mississippi.
Federal Judge Marion S. Boyd fines U S Marshal Charles W. Miles 1000 for contempt of court after Miles diverted condemned eggs to his farm in Obion county. Judge removes deputy marshal A C Steele as bailiff. Assistant District Attorney Robert Draper resigns after ten years. Miles’s attorney says resignation will be immediate.
Four Alliance girls believed they married air force paratroopers in August after ceremonies in a base barracks they were told was an Army chapel. Judge Romig said there were no marriage certificates on file in Box Butte county. The paratroopers went overseas and the girls have heard nothing since. Air base officers denied any knowledge of the case.
Residents announce guests traveling for the holidays including Mrs Allan Archer and family, Mr and Mrs W E B Hefner, Rev and Mrs Irwin, Mrs S J Hocking and children, Mr and Mrs Robert Harris, and others. Several couples plan stays in local homes, with some relatives visiting from Louisville, San Antonio, and Anniston. A Birmingham school teacher and Rex Rankin depart after furloughs, while Dorothy Dix counsels women to prepare for postwar employment.
In a decisive Western Rhineland gamble, German forces mass infantry tanks airpower and a rumored new weapon while Allied commanders press to cross the Roer and swing toward the Cologne plain. Von Rundstedt pursues initiative rather than await a Rhine crossing disaster.
Guidance for blondes on makeup strategies noting that heavy or bright cosmetics can look unflattering. Recommends softer tones, medium lip colors, and avoiding daylight harshness. Advises matching rouge and lip color, pale powder, light temple shading, and dark brown eyebrow pencils to follow eye contours.
Montgomery December 19. Alabama draft boards are to begin a classification process that may affect thousands of men under new policies to free more men for armed forces and boost war production. Col James T Johnson Jr says older men 26 through 37 face reclassification and greater deferment for those in or transferring to war production and related work.
Miami, Dec. 19 The Miami Daily News hero fund receives $15 from Clair Whitesell a 12 year old paper boy. He explains his brother Joe died in Saipan and cannot phone his mom this Christmas and asks that a boy be allowed to call his mother on Christmas day.
Chronicle notes the 1887 Hoang-Ho River flood caused an estimated seven million Chinese to perish as waters broke banks, triggering widespread devastation and displacement across affected regions.
Pattern 4866 offers a trim button front style with a slimming look in sizes 14 through 48. It lists yardage for size 36 and notes a contrast trim, plus a request for 20 cents and the Pattern Dept address in New York. A free pattern for a hat and muff bag is advertised.
City council delayed action on a proposal to tax soft drinks while Street Department workers sought higher wages. The administration states the operating budget is balanced by the water tax, license adjustments, and operating economies.
The Neel Home Dem club gathered with Mrs. Amber for an all day event in Glasgow. Members brought a covered dish and dinner was served at noon as Mrs. Johnson led the meeting and Silent Night was sung. Scripture was read by Mrs. Glasgow and prayers offered by Mrs. Thompson.
The Miami Herald and editor John D. Pennekamp plan an immediate appeal after a court found them in contempt for publishing editorials and a cartoon critical of court proceedings. The Four Circuit Judges Paul Barnes and Allan C. Wi ordered fines of 1000 dollars to the newspaper and 250 dollars to the editor.
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