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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1944
Page
5
Society notes describe the Spinsters Club annual Christmas party as a gala Friday night at the Armory with dancing and refreshments during intermission. The article also promotes pattern 4910 sewing jumpsuits and an Anne Adams pattern book with order details and pricing.
Records of numerous residents visiting relatives for Christmas and holidays. J Graham and Mack head to Tallageda Alabama to see family. Newell couple return from Bessemer. Lucy Coyle recuperating from a broken hip at home in Huntsville. Patsy Patterson travels to Chattanooga for holiday visits with social events planned. Various family gatherings and visits span Birmingham Jasper Parrish Atlanta and Memphis with extended relatives and service members home on furlough.
Relatives in Athens and Limestone County hosted over Christmas weekend. Alfred Hodgins family visited Birmingham relatives. Nona O Terry saw sister J W Peebles in Hillsboro. J D Hames and Gertrude Guthrie visited, then headed to Pine Bluff Arkansas. Carter Kelley and son Carter returned to Denver after stay with Roy Collier and Marvin Cameron. Mrs Chandler of Athens shared Christmas with sisters B L Malone.
A campus must for girls features a quick jerkin knit in worsted with simple pattern stitch. Pattern 546 gives directions for sizes 12 14 and 16 18 stitches. Includes order form and free pattern in the 1945 Needlecraft Catalogue.
The Army will continue WAC recruitment in 1945 with Jan 1 start. Urgent need for medical and surgical technicians in Army hospitals and for pharmacists lab techs dental techs and psychiatric social workers. Also seeks clerical workers typists stenographers tabulating machine operators radio operators control tower operators parachute riggers and cryptographers.
Rev. R. N. Moore delivered a regu lar sermon Sunday at Johnson Chapel. Attendees included Upton Chapel members. A memorial service is set for December 31 for Freddie Hoyt White killed in action on October 24. Nearby residents and relatives traveled from Birmingham and Decatur for family events and services.
An AP correspondent Wade Werner encounters his son George Carleton Werner a private first class in an Alsatian jeep. The meeting ends with a warm handshake and a father son exchange. The elder Werner notes the soldier’s fluency in French and German aiding interpretation.
Western Union told Jane Schneider about a money order awaiting her. It was only one cent, not fortune. She sent an indignant thanks-collect to even the score.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Foster and family of Cherokee Alabama visited Mrs. Sherrod and family for Christmas Eve. Annie Sue Cain will spend Yuletide with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cain in Madison. Floyd Sherrod Jr. is much improved after a chicken pox illness.
Police report 34 percent of Manhattan butcher shops closed today in protest against OPA price controls. A survey showed 506 of 1,448 markets shuttered in the borough and Bronx checks found one in five shops closed. Butchers began a Christmas Day mass boycott targeting ceiling meat prices.
Columbus reports film star Bette Davie spent three months in Columbus and departed today for New York. Corporal Lewis Riley of Fort Bennsuer was granted leave to visit and has been transferred to New York.
Sprouts can be planted any day of the year and need neither soil nor sunshine. They rival tomatoes in vitamin C and cook as quickly as a pork chop.
Georgia asks the U S Supreme Court to find an illegal combination by 20 railroads that discriminates against the South. Governor Ellis Arnall signs a brief urging action to force freight-rate equalization and contend the Interstate Commerce Commission lacks jurisdiction. The court will hear arguments next Tuesday on whether to consider the complaint.
Mrs. Nona O. Terry of 302 Tenth Avenue West was the largest individual war bond purchaser at the Goodyear Decatur Mill drive. She has lived at the mill since 1943 and has two sons in federal service, one in the Army and one in the Navy. Her purchase totaled three $500 war bonds in addition to payroll savings purchases.
Funeral services for Mrs. Dixie Leona Clemons were held at New Center church with Rev. A. W. Bennefield officiating. Interment followed in the adjacent cemetery. She is survived by husband C. L. Clemons, one daughter Mrs. Terry Baldwin, two sons Lannie Clemons and Cleo Clemons, her mother Mrs. Jim Holloway, four brothers and four sisters. pallbearers named.
Vanderbilt University schedules a football game with the University of Alabama for November 17 in Nashville. Coach Doby Bartling says the Crimson Tide had the date open and the two sides closed the deal after contacting Frank Thomas. Bartling lists home games against Mississippi October 6 Kentucky October 20 Florida October 13 LSU October 27 Tennessee December 1 with other games pending.
The article discusses evolving hair fashion with uplifted styles and slicked back looks. It notes bangs and finger waves as flattering options for different face shapes, advising softer frames for some and more defined lines for others.
The Hitler Gang arrives Tuesday at the Roxy Theatre promising a stark history of the Nazi regime. Cast includes Robert Watson Martin Kosleck Alexander Pope Luis Van Rooten and Victor Varconi in roles of Hitler Himmler Goering Hess and Goebbels.
A 60 member crew aboard a J A Jones built cargo ship docked at Brunswick after three days at sea due to heavy fog. Captain A W Henson reported visibility never exceeded 200 feet. Coast Guard delivered food and cigarettes and 100 men were taken ashore. crew slept on life preservers bunks.
Mrs. Rosa B. Gormley, 70, died Monday evening at 1:30 at her daughter’s home, Mrs. Donald E. Ogletree, Sherman Street. She arrived Saturday to spend the holidays with the Ogletrees. The body will be shipped to Montgomery today on the L and N Pan American by Brown.
The Office of Civilian Defense issued precautionary instructions for defense against robot and rocket bomb attacks. The public should stay alert, especially along coastal areas, and recognize the guidance as precautionary.
Mrs James F Davis 80 died this morning at four o clock at her sister Mrs C H Puller s home in Leighton She is survived by her husband a son Theo King Jones three stepsons and others Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Brown of Tuscalumbia
Barney M. Lewis, 45, died in a hospital here from injuries after a Sunday night automobile crash into a telephone pole. The accident occurred as he rode in a vehicle identified with the Lewis family. Further details were unavailable.
Montgomery report says Mrs. Fannieline Wheat age 24 was killed last night when struck by a car while walking along a highway near Demopolis. State patrol released the identification today.
Dorothy Dix notes war expands female courtship as women take initiative in marriage. She cites furlough weddings and rushed proposals, with men often overwhelmed and unsure how to respond. The piece mocks traditional male prerogative, highlighting shifts in mate selection amid conflict.
The Clarion-Ledger highlights Mildred Nungester Wolfe, a prominent Decatur artist and former Decatur schools teacher, in a five oils, 19 lithographs, and 18 watercolors show at Municipal Art Bench on State Street. It notes her national reputation, education in Decatur Athens College Alabama College and Colorado, and prizes from the Alabama Art League and McDowell Gallery.
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