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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1938
Page
20
A Christmas season column rails at the Nazi press while nodding to wartime politics. It notes Alabama safety records, a Roosevelt call for policy talks, and questions Congress's handling of measures. The piece mentions Montgomery firework laws, cotton ginnings, Bertha’s publicity, and Lawson’s new attorney general duties.
A Montgomery Advertiser piece presents a curious headline about the genial Buster. The story hints at an unusual framing but focuses on Buster's amiable character amid the attention it draws.
In 1939 Decatur starts a cleanup drive urging residents to clear premises and cooperate with a new incinerator project to speed garbage collection and replace aging dumping grounds. The schedule is a reminder to act, with individuals urged to start on their own properties to foster a healthier town.
The Decatur Chamber of Commerce seeks a $6,000 budget for 1939, urging new memberships and higher dues to fund expanded efforts. It credits seven years of steady work in attracting new industry and boosting farm product marketing to raise local income and trade. Citizens are urged to support funding to enable timely, effective projects.
One-year old Daily issue highlights severe flood damage across Arkansas Mississippi Tennessee and Kentucky with forecasts of more rain. Oregon is not mentioned. Miss Dorothy Daniel visits Huntsville while Miss Esther Nelson returns from Cartwright Alabama and Miss Madelyn McKnight travels to Birmingham to visit a cousin.
Washington dispatch argues neutrality acts reflect lessons from World War I, curbing profits from war and preventing prompt entry into conflict. It warns repeal would return U.S. to dangerous, undeclared hostilities and urges strengthening safeguards over cash and carry and wartime loans.
Editor notes accompany a discussion by Dr. Clendening on the rise of sulfanilimide as a major medical breakthrough. The piece outlines its potential to selectively kill germs in the bloodstream, its successes in streptococcal infections, childbed fever, meningitis, and brain abscess, and cautions against unfounded hype while acknowledging broad therapeutic promise.
A collage of light humor and social notes on war, pensions, and marriage. Jokes about Christmas turkey, a Decatur mother and a minister’s text, and a pension-age view mix with a brief anecdote about a bride and nervousness at a ceremony. Includes lines on modern art and a limerick style verse.
Kilby state prison chief Warden Frank Boswell announced his resignation after 16 years in the convict department. He said penal methods were creating criminals daily and that too many men were being sent to prison, asking Governor-elect Frank Dixon to relieve him at the earliest convenience.
The Barnett family in Baltimore endures a string of misfortune as a 13th fire in 13 months breaks out at their residence, destroying a carriage house an automobile and farm equipment and prompting fears of a targeted act.
Walter Winchell surveys Broadway and radio in a roundup of first nights and currents. The piece praises a new color actors production and notes box office highs for Hellzapoppin while lampooning autograph seekers and review jibes. It catalogs performances by Eddy, Benny, and Dickens alongside press agents and public notices about theater and radio trends.
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