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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1944
Page
12
Alabama's industrial sector expanded during 1944, boosting war material output despite labor shortages. Growth occurred in gray iron foundry work, trailer production, ammunition, textiles, lumber, and shipyards, with facilities converted toward peacetime use and private investment planned for future expansion.
About 100 soldiers, former loom fixers and weavers, are furloughed to work in Alabama cotton mills for three months. They choose housing, receive Army transportation and 63 cent daily meal allowance, and their civilian earnings face normal tax withholdings. Supervisors set shifts, and misbehavior leads to discharge back to Army.
Gov. Chauncey Sparks announced that Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad, a U S Steel subsidiary with mining and manufacturing in Birmingham, will be incorporated in Alabama. Originating as Sewanee Mining in 1852, it held a Tennessee charter while shifting operations to Alabama.
S SGT Lonzo Davis serves in India with three years in the Army and a bag in service. His brother Cpl David Davis is stationed in Belgium with similar service in the forces, reflecting families divided across theaters of war.
Allied and Russian guns from the North Sea to the Adriatic ring out as 1945 begins with the odds shifting against Nazi Germany. A winter counterattack stalls, the Belgian bulge shrinks, and Allied pressure grows as Eisenhower and Patton coordinate efforts to seal a total German defeat within the year.
The article describes Allied offensives in Europe with Patton's forces driving a broad front through the Belgian bulge while Russians press Budapest and advance toward the Vienna Danube gap. It notes potential rapid German collapse if the Danube thrust succeeds and mentions MacArthur’s gains in the Central Philippines as a contrast. Canada’s freshwater area is cited at the end.
Joseph D. Nunan Jr. announces that the new income tax withholding rates under the 1944 act take effect January 1 1945 and apply to all wages earned on or after that date. Employers must issue Form W-2 receipts by January 31 showing 1944 wages and tax withheld, receipts usable for simplified annual tax filing.
The notice explains a new feature for withholding tax and requires employers to distribute copies to employees. It urges care in showing employee home addresses and social security numbers for identification, and mandates sending the Form W-4 and a wage withholding reconciliation by January.
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