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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1943
Page
4
Statement that the paper is a second class matter since Feb 26 1912 and a Decatur Alabama post office listing with July 1 1917 date under the 1878 act, noting Associated Press news dispatches rights and republication limits.
The Alabama legislature passed the Bradford bill to regulate industrial relations, placing responsibility on unions and leaders while promising fair labor and capital dealings. The Daily applauds lawmakers who push for balanced outcomes, warns against racketeers, and envisions peaceful progress postwar.
The Alabama State Chamber of Commerce reports wide progress across the state with new withholding tax education and a shift back to school while wartime adjustments limit July Fourth plans. Alabama’s future builders are highlighted as a proud current generation.
In Washington June 24 reports on race riots across Beaufort, Los Angeles, Detroit, Mobile note officials urge calm and reject radical tactics. Editors view PM and CIO as inflaming unrest, while radicals on both sides demand rights. Peaceful, temperate leadership by both communities is urged to resolve the crisis.
The Salvation Army run vacation Bible school closes tonight at People's Church East Decatur with a 7:45 p.m. graduation ceremony. About seventy students will receive certificates for completing the course after attending at least two-thirds of the sessions. A march through the Village precedes the program. Boys and girls from South Decatur can attend the morning session starting Monday at 9:00 in the Salvation Army Hall 1331 4th Avenue South. Supervisors are Mrs. Adjutant Thomas and LieutenantCaullins Smith.
Walter Winchell portrays his wartime diary from the Eighth Army chase after Rommel in North Africa. He describes extreme heat 130 degrees in the desert and New York humidity, improvised hardships, and barter using Stork Club matches for food and water while recounting vivid frontline experiences.
The Boche and Ginzos are scrupulous observers of international law as regards rendering useless the infrequent wells in the desert. Instead of poisoning the vital supply, which is prohibited, they pollute wells.
A veteran recalls mail delays from a week to eight months. Airmail from New York to Tripoli arrived in seven days via the Army Post Office. A Christmas package from Sherman Billingsley via Cairo steamer delivery reached in July, containing six neckties.
In a column reflecting on wartime rationing, Dr Clendening argues the Edinburg milk distribution shows capitalism at work delivering precise bottles daily. He doubts socialist bureaucrats could match such targeted supply and notes supply and demand still govern prices and access despite shortages. He warns of stamp time limits causing stockpiling and waste yet sees no widespread malnutrition from rationing. He cites Surplus Commodities Corp storage as noncritical and urges faith in market forces under a Jeffersonian decentralizing framework. The Q and A then addresses a reader about diabetes and pregnancy prospects, noting many diabetics can have normal babies with proper treatment.
The text notes a Mohammedan man may have up to four wives, with unrestricted concubinage. Divorce is by thrice saying Talak in public, after which a new wife may be taken. A divorced woman may still be kept as a concubine. In common terms the OPA is described as granting an A Card for wives and a C Card for mistresses.
In the North African desert the valued barter is ordinary tea leaves. A pound of tea is about six dollars in Egypt Libya Cyrenaica and Tripolitania. Sugar and hasheesh rank next with Bedouin and Ghurka knife rules noted.
A quirky note describes a New York brash gesture where a woman offers the name Miss Trout and a fake Aquarium number to brush off a man. It adds that in Cairo and Alexandria similar tricks involve the Egyptian Army Barracks number and a coded contact Yamenick Taldta.
A description contrasts North African city Arabs with desert Bedouins. It notes Bedouins clean themselves with dry sand, reportedly seven times daily, to prepare for each of the seven daily prayers to Allah, and mentions extreme personal hygiene practices.
The piece explains Bedouin geography using local place names and contrasts Arabic dialects with a common written language. It recalls ROOSEVELT and Churchill meeting at Casablanca and notes North Africa's Arabic speech varies by region while literacy follows the Koran. It highlights Arab writing as universal for communication.
In peacetime many Arabs rarely owned 25c while beggars in Islamic Africa press for alms. The word backsheesh spans regions from Egypt where one piastre suffices to Libya Tunisia and Morocco where one franc or more is expected. The practice has enriched beggars amid widespread soliciting.
The column quotes Arab leaders in North Africa aligning with the United Nations due to hostility toward Italian conquest. An Arab sheik laments Italian slaughter and declares Arabs will side with forces opposing Italy and its allies, praising German, English, and American fighters while condemning Italian aggression.
A wartime column ties patriotic mood to daily life with sketches of enlisting bravado in WAACs and WAVES, camp injuries, and family misdirection. Dialogues mix humor about money orders, courtship, and a lesson from Napoleon, ending with the resolve to avoid another war.
Poem praising airmen who travel the spanless sky and endure dangers with faith and courage. Grenville Kleiser presents a devotional tribute to military aviators seeking divine protection on their journeys.
A 2nd century BCE exhortation attributed to Lucius Aemilius Paulus compares generals to pilots. It invites only field advisors to join Macedonian campaigns, offering ships, horses, tents, and travel costs, while dismissing armchair counsel from the city.
In a light editorial aside the British editor’s glossary misdefines shellacking as the unvarnished truth causing amusement among the Yankee set. The writer recalls oversleeping and missing the Winchell column, noting the playful collision of American and British phrasing.
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