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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1941
Page
6
Residents debate Danville road maintenance and support for state highway work. The Daily urges signatures on communications while noting signatures verify good faith. University of Alabama data claim sorority and fraternity members average higher grades than non-members.
Walter Winchell adds to his column a defense minded call to remove Nazi sympathizers and American agents from the country. He argues expelling Nazi consuls was wise but retaining any allied agents poses a threat to national defense. The piece urges the FBI to locate and monitor sympathizers across all forty eight states and sever their links to sabotage efforts.
The Cullman Democrat calls for regional cooperation to complete the Nashville Birmingham Air Line Highway and straighten the Bee Line south of Pulaski to balance mileage. It warns loss of traffic harms local commerce and urges sections served to push improvements and support pavement. The piece notes potential traffic shifts and revenue impacts on towns along both routes.
Dr Manfred Zapp praised the American press in a letter published in The New York Herald Tribune. The Dies committee seized the letter to reveal his critique of American editors and his failure to sell the Transocean News Service. He claimed Americans distrust foreign sources yet rely on American outlets for foreign affairs.
Washington dispatch analyzes Nazi strategy with fifth columnists in Russia, possible realignments, and timing cues. It notes American diplomats warned abroad, Stalin’s indirect signals, and questions how England and Russia fit into Hitler’s two-front plan amid a rapidly shifting war landscape.
Governor Dixon told Montgomery conservation officers that Alabama game and fish laws must be enforced without favor to any violator. He assured wardens and staff of his backing during a lecture by Chester A. Leichardt of the U S Wildlife Service, stressing strong enforcement.
Montgomery June 25 Governor Dixon appoints Joe Lanier of Lanett and Robert Rosson of Quitman to the state board. The action announced today expands the board with two new members.
A medical Q and A column discusses freckles causes and remedies. It covers safe bleaching methods using hydrogen peroxide lemon juice and several formulae for creams lotions and pastes while warning against mercury. It also notes common misconceptions about cancer and tuberculosis and ends with light humorous bits from readers.
In Western Norway a fisherman pulled two pilots from a drifting plane, aided by a shore crowd, then suddenly reeled in his oars, grabbed the airmen, and threw them back into the water before reaching land. The sheriff questioned his motive.
Question and answer discuss gall stones with a medical stance. The article notes stones are not dissolved or removed by nonoperative means but may become quiescent and cause no symptoms for twenty or thirty years.
Readers can obtain seven Dr Clendening pamphlets by mail. Each pamphlet costs 10 cents and 16 cents is due to cover postage and handling. Titles include Three Diets, 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 wartime exchange recalls finding German sailors in a fjord mistaken for Britons. The speaker admits doubts about their fate, noting one claimed survival and attributing it to Nazi deception.
A reflection on varied personal desires and the mismatches in what people want versus what others yearn for. The text laments how desires differ, how help wanted columns grow faster than relief checks, and how personal wants vary with each person.
Pat, weaving home, passes the graveyard where a drunken brother lies cold on a grave. A moaning voice asks to be warmed while Pat jokes about alcohol and blankets, ending with a crude quip as he covers the man with dirt.
An amused reflection notes that women are funny creatures, comparable in humor to men though seemingly exaggerated. It treats humor as a shared trait across genders and hints at social perceptions of female wit.
Underground Dutch resistance stories mock Nazi censorship with clever stunts. Dutch listeners risk arrest to hear BBC broadcasts while a wreath note mocks a Gestapo observer. Berlin underground sells classics that turn to anti Nazi speeches, and anti Nazi slogans appear on coins read by passersby before police seize them.
Nazi authorities in Norway sought a list of fifty leading townspeople for consultation. The mayor submitted names of the town’s Quislings, and weeks later hostages were sent to a concentration camp after residents refused an order. In Paris, French cafe patrons defied occupiers by using alarm clocks to signal a boycott after officers entered.
In Holland on Prince Bernhard’s birthday loyal Dutch citizens wore white carnations, the prince’s flower, as defiance. Nazis tore them from coats but Dutch sailors soon appeared with carnations on their chests, and the Nazi harassment ceased after a concealed razor blade scheme was noted.
The article outlines how anti Nazi groups in Germany spread leaflets by placing them in a smoke stack and dispersing them when smoke clears. It also notes a rooftop board device used to scatter leaflets and water to hinder discovery, detailing methods of covert propaganda.
In Holland a couple used a daily two o'clock signal to expose neighbors as Gestapo stool pigeons. The wife called the husband in at exactly two, timing a London news broadcast, revealing the neighbors as informants. The Gestapo did not arrest the couple, since they did not own a radio.
German posters in Poland depicted a Polish soldier amid ruins pointing at Churchill and Chamberlain with the caption England, this is thy deed. Poles responded by painting Hitler mustaches on Churchill and Chamberlain and replacing England with Hitler in the caption, forcing removal of the posters.
An underground German tale has Goering visiting a munitions plant director and asking if workers belong to banned parties. The director replies percentages totaling 100 percent with all workers labeled Nazis, highlighting Nazi presence among employees.
In Germany underground readers circulate BBC and foreign broadcasts via short wave. Anti Nazi groups smuggle news by using funeral processions as a cover to share information as public gatherings are banned.
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