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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1948
Page
4
Local civic clubs, including the Decatur Lions, promote charitable giving and community service. The Lions report $3,000 profit from the Tennessee Valley Horse Show in 1947 donated to worthy causes, while urging continued public support and investment in bonds to aid county efforts.
In a column with political musings and social chatter, the writer notes summer heat as a test of endurance while lampooning Governor Tom Dewey and Republican rhetoric. It praises on the scene reporters and warns about inflation era bravado and war talk at the convention.
The Montgomery Advertiser welcomes Dr A H Harman and Mrs Harman returning to the capital after his retirement as president emeritus of Alabama College at Montevallo. Harman began here as school superintendent and helped architect city county consolidation, earning wide educator admiration.
In Montgomery a two vote lead sparked state press debate on the power of single ballots. The piece recalls a county kin’s missed vote altering a runoff and a historic New Decatur to Morgan City tie where neither box achieved a majority. The editorial argues one vote can sway elections everywhere.
The house rules committee secretly voted six Republicans to block the Taft housing bill from reaching the floor despite Senate passage and support from veterans awaiting housing. Republicans Leo Allen James Wadsworth Edgar Chenoweth Ross Rizley Forest Harness Robert Rich and two Democrats Howard Smith Adolph Sabath supported the bill.
Georgia Congressman Gene Cox walked out at the last minute on a housing bill after sending a telegram pledging strong support. Cox, a Rules Committee member, left before the vote, delaying communications with Albany Housing Authority officials.
Freida Hennock, a Democrat, astonished the Republican chaired committee with blunt remarks during her FCC confirmation hearing. She stated she opposed the Republicans and admitted fundraising for Roosevelt radio programs. Senators praised her frankness and quickly confirmed her to the Federal Communications Commission.
Deputy education commissioner E. B. Norton resigns in protest over political censorship. He clashes with Oscar Ewing the Federal Security Administrator who now oversees the Office of Education. A second resignation from Educational Consistence John Studebaker is anticipated as tensions rise between party politics and the Roosevelt era nonpartisan stance.
The Nation reports Berlin split as four allied zones fail to form a single German government. Russians cut food shipments to the US British and French sector while the Marshall plan looms. Western allies push their own governance plan as Moscow seeks to block the aid and maintain influence.
Norton says his decision to leave the Office of Education stems from dissatisfaction with the rapid spread of control by the Federal Security Agency over the professional education bureau. He protests perceived meddling by persons placed between the Education Commissioner and the FSA administrator and criticizes unilateral executive orders.
Ulcerative colitis remains without a known cause or cure though treatment can help some patients. The disease inflames the colon with bleeding mucus in stools and is linked to stress fatigue anemia and mood changes. Treatments include blood injections vitamins diet protein focus and possible ileostomy surgery to rest the bowel.
DeWitt Mackenzie argues communism may collapse due to theism’s rights rhetoric and terror. He notes wartime Russia’s farmers and owners resisted Bolsheviks, some aiding Germans to hasten their downfall, as Hitler eyed Eastern Europe’s potential.
The article outlines a Kremlin strategy to pressure Berlin’s Western zones by threatening food shortages for 2 million Germans. It notes Russian surroundment, blocked freight, and a 25 day food reserve, aiming to force Germans to seek Western withdrawal while Western powers promise to stay. It also cites Warsaw talks and calls for a unified German government with troop withdrawals, amid US Britain and France resisting Soviet pressure.
Westbrook Philadelphia June 25 An unnamed columnist derides the Republican Party as a grotesque hybrid mocking the New Deal and F D Roosevelt. The piece accuses Republicans of pandering to Northern blacks and Eastern immigrants, aligning with communists, and criticizes Truman civil rights and looming anti lynch legislation. It also links Dewey to similar liberal policies and accuses Democrats of propagandistic manipulation.
The author outlines Nazi aims to subjugate nations turning them into colonies with natives as slaves. It argues Hitler’s downfall came from a strategic misstep and describes postwar Soviet control in Eastern Europe as police state domination, with widespread oppression and exile of opponents.
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