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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1944
Page
4
A column fuses wartime action with political debate. It contrasts Allied aims with domestic calls for broad freedoms, rails at government wage control, and questions what true freedom means beyond democracy, urging a thoughtful youth stance without endorsing postwar propaganda.
A large Pine Burr sing drew a crowd on Sunday afternoon. Jim Allison and son De Witt from near Cullman visited E. M. Ponter that night. J. L. Bryan family shared Christmas at Tennessee kin. Ira Oden family from Oden Ridge joined relatives for Christmas Day. Hubert Jennings and Gilbert ge from Tampa returned home for holidays. Jimmie Turner family and children stayed with relatives in town.
The remark contrasts senate hopefuls with familiar political names such as the Byrds Georges McKellars and Stewarts, implying a shift in leadership choices. No additional context provided.
Westbrook Pegler argues the War Labor Board oversteps in ordering maintenance of membership and union dues check off at Montgomery Ward. He claims coercion by bosses and unions, criticizes public board statements, and warns Roosevelt policy harms individual workers and national war effort.
An impartial view shows penicillin praised for spectacle but the sulfa drugs offer practical advantages. Sulfa meds are oral, build body concentrations, and combat germs broadly, while penicillin often requires injections and rapid excretion. Sulfamerazine marks an improvement with fewer side effects and strong germ killing, expanding access through doctors nationwide.
Peter Donald forwards a column featuring wartime humor about GIs returning home and a spinster at a restaurant table. The piece also jokes about horse racing stopping, a Christmas program host, Clemenceau questions, a fatigues drill mishap, and taunts about Election Day.
Edward Stettinius, then U S Steel chairman, visited the Paradise with a male companion. Headwaiter Albert Berryman recognized him only after the guest claimed memory. Also noted, John Hersey’s Bell for Adano will be a highly profitable adaptation, written in Italy during World War II for Time magazine.
A lighter owner visited Dunhill’s seeking spare parts but refused flints or wicks. He asked for a “new thumb” as a joke about needing a replacement lighter hand. The quip highlights the era’s humor about scarce lighters and matches.
The reminiscence recalls Ernest Hemingway seeking a Chicago Herald Examiner job with Ted Tod and city editor Frank Carson. Carson demands knowledge of Chicago cops, which Hemingway lacks, leading him to Canada before his rise. The tale also notes wartime conciliation talk and a garbled gag about broom mates.
A war era dispute centers on enforcing an illegal order by the War Labor Board. Ward's company risks loss of material priorities for refusing to aid a union that allegedly shirks duties and taxes. The piece argues that other employers have capitulated, weakening rights and signaling surrender by responsible men.
A San Francisco man of German descent is stopped by a soldier who misidentifies him as Japanese. The soldier boasts of killing Germans in Italy while wearing campaign ribbons. The twist reveals the soldier is Japanese with the 100th Infantry Battalion, prompting reflections on wartime diplomacy.
Alabama farmers saved 1 461 000 pigs from spring and fall crops, second only to 1948’s 1 894 000. The crop reporting service said 23 percent below 1943, but 27 percent above the 1932–42 average, with 115 000 sows to farrow next spring, 18 percent below 1944 but 2 percent above the 1933–42 average.
Captain John G. Crommelin Jr. of Wetumpka Alabama, director of training for fleet air West Coast, receives the Legion of Merit Medal according to a naval district announcement issued yesterday in San Diego California.
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