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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1944
Page
5
The IRS reported nearly 2.4 million fewer $5 automobile use tax payments in the year ended June 30, amid broader receipts totaling $40.12 billion. Gasoline taxes fell with rationing, while corporate and individual income taxes climbed, boosting overall revenue despite the drop in use tax payments.
Tax totals rise across categories with overall gains in liquor, tobacco, and miscellaneous levies. Notable increases include liquor taxes 1.62b up 195.1m and tobacco taxes 988.5m up 64.6m, plus employment taxes and excise revenues climbing in gas, radios, jewelry, and travel sectors.
Auburn Alabama. The 4-H club enrollment for 1944 totals 118743 with 56805 boys and 61938 girls, reported by T A Sims state 4-H club leader for the Alabama Extension Service.
Mr Julian Butler of Birmingham visited friends here Sunday. Mrs Jimmie Adams and son of Decatur spent Sunday night and Monday with Mr and Mrs Robert Adams. Several locals visited kin and friends from nearby towns. a sacred harp singing drew attendees to Lawrence Cove.
Mrs Hearl Woods and Willie Merl return home after a week with Evie White in Speake. Friends and relatives, including Dotsons, Yates, Hogans, and Williams, visit in Roundtop and surrounding communities amid church revivals and travel to Akron. Millard Williams reports from France via brother.
Rev B B Burks of Southside Baptist Church Decatur will lead a revival starting the first Sunday in August. Sunday school will meet the first Sunday afternoon in August at 2 30. Mrs J J Moon and Mrs Albert Dinsmore attended the W M A quarterly meeting in Hartselle on Thursday.
A large crowd attended the singing at Piney Grove Sunday night. Revival services are being held at Piney Grove this week with public invitation. Edd Luker of Decatur visits, plus local relatives and friends gather at J. D. Bonds home. Lou Rigby returns from Pearl Harbor for vacation before work in Florida.
Washington reports two U S senators lost their seats in the upcoming primary two stalwarts Cotton Ed Smith of South Carolina and Hattie Caraway of Arkansas exit after long terms. The pair joins a growing turnover rate as the 1944 Senate field tightens with three months to go.
The Voelkischer Beobachter reports on remarks by Paul Joseph Goebbels about total mobilization and wartime strain. The Berlin paper notes the party endures harsher tests since the war began.
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