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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1938
Page
4
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The column muses on national politics with Bankhead and John L Lewis, notes Alabama state job pay and graft questions, and highlightsBee Line highway improvements near Birmingham. It praises Elks aiding Lonely Children, and cites a Philadelphia judge rejecting German estate claims as a diplomatic win.
A friend asked to donate but deferment due to debt prompts reflection. The writer notes thirty years of personal effort to clear debt and optimism for 1939, while expressing gratitude and perseverance despite ongoing financial strain.
The text reviews annual progress in Decatur and Morgan county and advocates for continued improvement in 1939. It highlights the Danville road project and a city incinerator as significant developments and urges higher, steady efforts in the coming year.
Merchants report a robust holiday season with Christmas business higher than 1937 and often rivaling 1934 levels. Decatur’s retail volume around six million yearly, up from five million in 1935, supported by better farm trade and diversification efforts to sustain consumer purchasing power.
One year ago today Cecil McMillan and Otis Jeffries, both university students, were home for the holidays. Mrs Comer Evel is ill with flu and Mrs Charles Rountree is recovering at home. Frank Duffey plans to depart Friday for holiday visits. From the 12 Years Ago column Joe Woods Sidney Patterson and Leroy McEntire are back from the University of Alabama. H R Davis, Kiwanis Club president for 1927, will be installed December 30 at the final meeting of the year, succeeding retiring chief A A Jones.
Washington reports the Justice Department doubts its case against the American Medical Association. Prosecutors question if physicians fall under trade and commerce and note group health resembles insurance but may not meet antitrust criteria. Indictments may be dismissed, with possible Supreme Court appeal looming. The piece also previews Senate election reform recommendations and potential criticisms of WPA activity.
Dr. Logan Clendening discusses hand anatomy and infection risks in a column. He explains how hand tendons and fascia can spread pus from cuts, signs of blood poisoning, and treatment by rest and dressings, with notes on Dupuytren's contracture and related causes. He also advertises seven pamphlets available by mail.
This column wishes Decatur Daily readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
The Loosier pie supper Friday night drew a large crowd and was a great success. A Christmas program is planned for Loosier schoolhouse Friday afternoon with everyone invited. A prayer meeting at New Bethlehem is set for Saturday night with all invited, including Mr and Mrs Henry Patterson. Visitors from Decatur and Russellville are noted with local residents.
John Rutledge a 25 year old Grady negro was killed in a gunburst last night as officers tried to arrest him over a $4 holdup. Coroner M B Kirkpatrick called the shooting justifiable homicide.
A seasonal message extols Christmas as simple yet rich in its tradition and charity. It links happiness to spiritual alignment with Christmas values and ends with wishes for peace, joy, and a prosperous New Year.
A dialogue laden page notes a librarian, a girl, and humor about reading, christening, and old prizes. It includes quips on biblical stories and a joke about retired baseball heroes spending winter with a popular breakfast food.
Mrs Nash Bishop died Friday evening at 10 in Winfield Alabama ending her residence in the community of Corinth. She leaves a husband four sons Walter Barron M D and Chester and three daughters Edna Morgan Lindy Praytor and Julia Skidmore with extensive kin. Funeral services were held at Corinth Baptist church conducted by Rev Dan Dutton.
A dated collage of dialogue features a judge and officer quarreling over bigotry and polygamy, a debtors creed on loyalty and teamwork, a farmer resisting a new contraption, a chorus about an upright piano, a Chinaman and lighthouse in fog, and a watch warning that looking too long may spoil plans.
A prose survey tracks a long line of Broadway drama critics and editors from 1924 to the early 20th century. It names Robert Welsh Gilbert Gabriel Sidney Whipple Alan Dale George Kaufman and others, noting mergers retirements and shifts in press coverage and theater criticism.
The Sun’s 1924 lineup included Stephen Rathbun as the initial fighter, with Woolcott and Gabriel following. Lockridge replaced Gabriel, Charles Darnton moved from P. M. World after Cinéma gold paid him off, and E. W. Osborn died while Darnton briefly returned before a bombing struck the paper. Bide Dudley, the alternate, was wounded yet rescued during a radio review task.
A round of literary and cinema names surface from assignments and premieres. Kenneth Mac Gowan surveys cinema, Clay ton Hamilton pursues Pulitzers and talks league play, Baird Leonard writes for mags, St John Ervine returns to London, O O McIntyre and Ralph Barton are noted for recent work and tragedy, John Farrar of Farrar and Rinehart attends premieres.
The Tennessee Valley Authority announced a 350 acre state park for Negroes will be built in the Chickamauga reservoir area in northeast Tennessee near Bartlebaugh eight miles from Chattanooga. CCC workers under the National Park Service will construct the park in the Chickamauga lake vicinity.
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