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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1941
Page
4
Local chatter covers rain relief, drought impact, and a city’s airport need after a near miss by an army flier. Editorials critique wartime labor policy, British raids on Berlin, and civilian risk. References to Roosevelt, Hoover, Wilkie, TVA defense needs, and quotes on English usage appear amid Decatur’s weather woes and civic concerns.
The piece argues Germany’s air superiority doomed Crete and Dunkirk as Britain faced defeat since 1939. It cites two large US bomber contracts of 500 aircraft monthly, claiming loyal workers can curb the Nazi edge and hasten Germany’s end.
A memorial editorial extols Lou Gehrig for unwavering sportsmanship and team devotion. It contrasts him with Babe Ruth, noting Gehrig’s quiet courage and iron-hard work as the Yankees’ enduring iron horse who left the field for the team.
A critical editorial argues Americans misread President Roosevelt’s wartime stance. It decries ongoing strikes as un-American and urges decisive action to clear the world of Nazi domination while preserving the American way of life and economic stability.
Washington reports the agriculture department’s hog buying for Britain is tangled with Canada’s exports and U.S. lending and leasing to London. Canada increases hog shipments to the United States while the British buy pork with lend-lease funds, raising licensing and pricing tensions. Hitler may wait for invasion after fall as channel nights shrink and fogs rise.
The president names Interior Secretary Ickes as director of the oil industry, a move he long sought through legislation and committees. Roosevelt’s action follows US seizure of certain assets for British aid, with industry leaders predicting continued resistance and questions about unity and cooperation under Ickes. The piece also notes Allied concerns over Axis plans in the Middle East and doubts about German bombing capacity on Crete and Britain.
In Westchester Pennsylvania a tailor started a public auction with $10,000 on a three story building after no bids. He admits it was a joke and says he does not want the property and cannot pay if bids fall short. A trust company will handle the sale but the tailor faces liability for any shortfall.
Weary inmate Lorenzo D Agostioh, 19, escaped the Brooklyn City jail before sentencing on a burglary conviction. He climbed an elevator cable to a fourth story skylight, broke through, descended a flagpole rope to the street, and fled toward parts unknown.
Dr. Logan Clendening notes national health gains but warns vacations bring more accidents. He cites April as the healthiest month and July as the worst for accidental deaths, driven by careless driving, swimming, electricity, and twilight risk.
A collection of light city items and jokes about weddings kitchen aprons customs questions and a photographer dispute. The notes poke fun at travel honesty licensing and liquor laws with brisk moral quips and social commentary.
In the late war hours an American sergeant commands a private to enter a dugout and purge any Germans inside. The private, described as a colored gentleman, blanched and hesitated before responding.
The editor notes Dr Logan Clendening offers seven health pamphlets at 10 cents each. To obtain a pamphlet, readers should mail 10 cents and a self addressed stamped envelope to Dr Clendening in care of the paper. Titles include Three Weeks Being Diet, Indigestion and Constipation, Reducing and Gaining, Infant Feeding, Instructions for the Treatment of Diabetes, Feminine Hygiene, and The Care of the Hair and Skin.
A collage of comic vignettes and letters includes Oswald in love with Dearest Annabel and playful exchanges about school woes. A thrift of punchlines features Willie and a kindly old lady, a joke about dyspepsia, and a quip about workmen attending funerals.
Troop Eleven Boy Scouts met Monday night June 2 at 7 30 in Central Baptist church. Claude McBride led the Pledge Allegiance while Gene Ratlif led the Scout oath. James Carl Osborn presided as reports were given and Flying Eagle patrol showed advancement. The meeting ended with games and Taps. Frederick Mittwede Troop Reporter.
June 4 report notes Utah bids on colored plastic tax tokens. Tax commission staff see bright potential but Commissioner D F Hammond warns if used for buttons women must drill them. Tokens will lack holes unlike current aluminum pieces.
The text contains a jumble of lines urging scheduling and devotion, including a note to notify the foreman before noon on the game day and lines of personal affection between Mack and Virginia. The fragment hints at a sports or work context with emotional undertones and a statement about avoiding excuses.
Walter Winchell notes a cadre of scribes joking about editors and promises. Anecdotes cover Jack London rebukes over a delayed story, Percy and a socialite, and Arthur Murray renting to a Nazi agent. A clippership tale explains phony air fields fooling RAF bombers. Broadway talk turns to navy versus train defenses. Duke Daly suggests Hess proposals to Coventry widows.
New York showmen scoff at critics while Shaw fires back at Augustin Daly. He quips that Daly will die peacefully while presidents of republics fall to reformers who killed the wrong people, a barb aimed at literary and theatrical censure.
Editors in several cities suppress abusive Pegler and Winchell columns as their war of words fronts for readers and advertisers. The piece flags the financial risk if newspapers continue the public feud.
Passage recalls photographer Martin Munkacsi and a boy named Jimmy with a scratched face after a fight with Jack. It notes Jimmy’s description of the start of the fight and references views on Japan and China, with a Hungarian joke about a Turk.
A Hollywood joke has a housewife interviewing a European girl for a maid position. The girl declines each task and finally replies she can assemble a machine gun. The line is attributed to actor Phillip Dorn.
A wave of income tax jitters sweeps Hollywood as producers grow cagey about their earnings. One producer boasted that his latest picture had broken all money records at a New York release, underscoring the high stakes and public interest in film profits and tax exposure.
The thumbnail contrasts Sergeant York and Charles Lindbergh as American icons. York, the World War hero who refused lucrative offers to commercialize his heroism, later funded Tennessee schools. Lindbergh, celebrated on return from Europe, accepted a high salary for using his name and is portrayed as aligning with Nazi Germany versus America first.
It is M. A. Revett's argument that the country needs less respect for cows and more for sacred duties. He contends that the nation requires not new leadership but old loyalties and steadfast values.
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