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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1944
Page
4
A collection of brief notes covers FDR’s bold income tax act, Patton as a poetry writer, a German POW camp execution hint, and evolving meat prices. It recalls Cuban molasses diplomacy, Red Cross subscription drives in Memphis, Birmingham baseball ownership and lost pennant opportunities, plus a big crowd for a Dixie Series game.
The Birmingham Post notes retailers face rising taxes and tighter reporting amid good business and rising liquor prices on April 1. It covers Senator McKellar’s TVA amendments seeking congressional control, including direct appropriations and moving key TVA offices, with details on related spending and project limits.
News Behind The Ne ne analyzes cross country Republican gains as 1944 race begins. Bennet, a 73 year old ex congressman, loses in upper New York district by 1,571 votes while a conservative Colorado victor signals anti New Deal mood. Governors emerge as key party machines. Dewey leads delegate expectations with new Gallup poll showing over 60 percent nationwide. New Hampshire vote looms with five tickets, and by late April results promise state and national implications.
Quietly the Republicans have decided to let election of a new Senate leader go over indefinitely. Private polls show the post would likely go to Senator Taft of Ohio. Within the party, unity exists as congressional leaders work with the Republican national committee, ending a sub Rosa tussle that has persisted for years.
Mr and Mrs Jim English and daughter of Austinville visited Mr and Mrs W B Lamon Sunday. Claude Brady named daughter Scarlett Jane born March 5. Gradie Miller recently in Knoxville plans to return Tuesday with family to live there. Peggy Gingrich of Decatur visited Helen McDougle. Ruthie Phillips of Austinville spent weekend with Mrs Edward.
A wartime column explains three louse species head body and pubic lice their habitats and how war conditions heighten infestations. It notes lice spread via hats clothing and lodging houses and outlines treatments including ether kerosene vinegar soap and mercury ointment with cautions on safety.
The record lists a Lenten reducing diet for Wednesday by Dr Clendening. It specifies a breakfast of orange juice without straining, a rus k with no butter, and coffee with no cream or sugar, followed by lunch of cottage cheese on lettuce, rye crisp, and a raw apple. It also outlines a baked stuffed tomato, a bran muffin with 1 2 teaspoon butter, two cups of coffee gelatine pudding without sauce, and a note that one cup clear bouillon may be added.
Rev and Mrs Dolphus Price of Cleveland Tennessee visited the Standridges Saturday afternoon. Miss Mary McMeans stayed with Mrs Eugene Morrison in Decatur. Albert Lamon of Tanner spent Thursday with his brother and Mrs A B Lamon. Some Jones children ill with chicken pox. Mr and Mrs G S McDougle received a letter from son Pfc Theodore McDougle overseas 17 months, recently moving from Italy to Africa, reporting he is doing fine despite hardships.
A humorous verse by Marion L. Sawyer. It mocks political fabrication and manipulation, suggesting that a few lies and whiskey, plus a bath in the National tub, shape party loyalties. It alludes to wartime enemies and domestic arrogance with satirical tone.
A fragment quotes a speaker urging children to choose self improvement over vanity and novelty. The dialogue hints at skepticism toward Sunday activities and emphasizes personal progress over others, contrasting mov ing pictures with religious duties and ambition.
A Negro soldier on his first sea trip boards a transport at night and awakens to endless water on deck. The commanding officer asks what Mose thinks, and Mose replies in a proverb like line that there is enough of this “one best thing” he has ever seen.
A friend en route to jury service hummed a risqué old rhyme about Mary in a bathing suit, noting she was half exposed once inside. The light moment captures street chatter and the era’s playful humor.
Decatur Junior asks where wicked people are buried after studying tombstones. Dad replies that those who speak least may fear most, as humorous exchanges unfold about a Saturday night and an officer’s Monday morning judge’s tale.
A fractured exchange features a laundress seeking weak joints and tearing buttons, an agency owner noting a windmill-eyed employee, and a businessman reflecting on advice, failure, and a son considering marriage as a conversation fragment ends with an incomplete question.
Walter Winchell surveys Broadway after a wild season with 300 attractions, 25 earning large sums and 18 considered flops. Many hits survive as holdovers like Oklahoma and Othello while critics dine on bold productions and new novels by Helen Hiett and Robert Gessner surface alongside industry chatter.
The piece notes The Purple Heart unsettles audiences with a sharp wartime story about Sneakanese savagery told via a cold steel typewriter. Dana Andrews Sam Levene and Richard Conte deliver strong performances as captured fliers in a wartime Hollywood effort. Nora Eaves contributes a blog angle and a nod to Shine On Harvest Moon.
A radio roundup notes Harry Woodring condemning the Presidents tone on soldiers votes The Bob Hope Florida appearance stands out while Drew Pearsons Berlin remark fades The Sunday punch of all refers to a stage tour Cannin show with guest stars Bert Lytell hosts The Gangbusters program on March 17 will feature the Lepke surrender and an announcers wheeling voice drawing laughs
The column notes Bob Hope as the season’s top comedian and cites his White House Correspondents dinner gag about Willkie and Roosevelt. It jokes about gag writers sharing in applause and mentions the wire services covering the event.
Salvador Dali is praised in Town and Country as artist writer and thinker. Charles Michelson profiles FDR as an enigma for The American while Fred Rodel discusses Wendell Willkie in Harper’s and questions his White House talent.
A wry remark suggests marriage for money may rival failure in value. The line quips that wisdom comes from reflection, and that missteps reveal themselves openly once words escape. The speaker, Albert, muses on luck, wealth, and the irony of fortunes.
The piece recalls Mark Sullivan urging Congress to balance soldiers ballots with constitutional limits while Washington correspondents mock their own think-and-guess pieces. It notes satirical digests from James Wechsler and anonymous brass hats. The report recalls quizzed dailies at Dow Chemical hearings and a Lepke expose, ending with a dream electrocuted in New York history.
A collage of quotes from Burke Wood Thomason Lawes Anon Franklin Twain Norton Spring Mizper and others. The lines touch on sin worry love friendship and character with sharp humor and social observation.
Lawrence County notes record Reverend Stephenson of Courtland delivering a regular sermon at the New Hope church house with a large crowd in attendance. Local families and visitors including Mr. and Mrs. Parker, Mrs. Cross and son, Ruth Cross, and Miss Betty Von Terry are noted in Sunday visits and weekend stays across Courtland, Hatton, Town Creek, and neighboring towns.
In Cape Gloucester a Japanese combatant exclaimed Youre dead as Marines moved in The exchange was met with a retort by Marine Sergeant Philip J D Mattola from Brooklyn New York who fired with a Tommy gun Tech Sergeant Hans R Johansen a Marine Corps combat correspondent witnessed the incident confirming it as a lethal encounter during patrols
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