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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1944
Page
4
Amid wartime debate, editorials discuss TVA policies and democracy on the march while urging action against bureaucratic drag. The Irish stance on Axis diplomacy is challenged as espionage fears rise, with calls to close German and Japanese offices to aid Allied planning.
A Christian Science Monitor piece argues delinquency starts at home and with adults not enforcing restraint. It cites East St Louis police finding 41 youths at night and dives into parental calls and indifference, then links to Bayside church damage and Mayor La Guardia’s view. The piece urges focus on home and church rather than merely law.
St Patrick, born in Scotland, is credited with shaping Christianity in Ireland and lifting the nation from Heathendom. He died on March 17, 465, a date celebrated worldwide among Irish descendants with renewed friendships and homeland traditions. The piece also recalls a quip about a wedding day scare involving a gun in the back seat.
Local families report visitors and gatherings this week. Elvis Smith and family spent Thursday with Walker Steele. Dewie Hogan and daughter visited Clyde Holladay family. Clyde Smith and wife with baby were visiting Clyde Smith's mother. Lula Smith and children joined Lerline Poole of Florence at Poole home. Evelyn Prater and Easie Eddy stayed with Betty Lou Hill in Speake. Nelene Morris visited Pauline Morris at Massey. A prayer meeting is set for Friday at Sam Prator home. Ellis Poole family from Corinth visited. Fred Sanford of Atlanta spent weekend with Elmer Sanford family. Some residents attended church in Speake Sunday. Seldon Osborne and family also present.
A 1910-era discussion traces Twilight sleep and the shift to continuous caudal anesthesia for childbirth. It explains the risks of earlier methods, the spinal approach, and how injections begun with labor pains reduce pain while preserving consciousness. The method shortens labor and has been used in thousands of deliveries with reported safety.
The text lists several local Sunday guests and afternoon visits in Decatur. Mrs. Lula Ivith and children hosted, Miss Lorene Looney visited Evia and Vera Asherbran, Mrs. Imogene Steele spent time with Mrs. Eudell Steele, Joe Shaw and family visited Bevie West, Thurman Smith stayed with the Walker Steeles, Louis Howell and Baron Hogan visited Billy and Jessie Wayne Penn, and Mrs. Mary Long stayed a few days with the Steeles.
A doctor cannot rely on an x ray to reveal a vocal cord growth. Laryngoscope examination is nearly always final. Vocal cord growths vary but none are exactly desirable to have.
A printed daily menu outlines a Lenten reducing diet with orange slices unsweetened, toasted rye, coffee black, fish timbale with cucumber salad, tea plain, and a dinner featuring calves brains prepared like sweetbreads with green beans and a jello dessert followed by coffee.
Howell Long of the U S Army and Spurgeon Long of Falkville visited here last week, calling on friends.
A sequence of short items records visits and hospital stays in Morgan County. Families including Helms Campbells Edwards Pettit Edwards and Compton host or visit relatives in Enon Decatur Lacey Springs Huntsville and Union Hill. One resident Nadine West recovers from an operation at Baugh infirmary. others spend weekends with kin or call on neighbors.
Walter Winchell On Broadway notes and gossip items from New York clubs and stars. Capt Clark Gable Virginia Grey Ann Mace Billy Rose’s show girl and groom Lt Al Downs of Westchester appear amid backstage and hotel anecdotes.
A sweeping column notes Maria Montez and Esquire’s photog H Waxman, Norma Amis of Follow the Girls, and the Loonygan Set in theatre gossip. It mentions Huntington Hartford’s show producer ambitions, Sheila Barrett’s makeup case, Tiny Clark’s induction rejection, and Dixie Roberts the dancer. Raymundo Medina writes and composes, while Latins and Puerto Rican culture flavor Midtown Harlem cabarets. The piece closes with a Broadway Ballad about spring, romance, and recollected love written in Don W. style.
A compact note links Benny Goodman’s originalist piece Rachel's Dream to his baby Carol Lynne and mentions Robert Merrill’s baritone NBC broadcast, Woody Herman's Decca recording The Music Stopped, with Frances Wayne delivering the pulse across Columbia's Cover.
Marion Hargrove of the Yank staff notes the army paper serial Ar tied Greengrain ranked long ago and not resumed due to few inquiring soldiers. Billingsley’s shadow, the Gregory figure, becomes a soldier soon. Versailles profile planned. A Broadway desk sign mocks hard day’s work. Hooch shortages hit restaurants as hi jackers steal shipments. Sharkey the seal entertained at the White House, a reporter quips about throwing Hamilton next.
A humorous mosaic of overheard lines from New York venues. Quips cover bold declarations at Armando’s Greenwich Village Inn Ruby Foo’s Den and Kelly’s Stable with quips on cats, rats, exclamations and phonies. The Stork Zanzibar Teon and Eddie’s Monte Carlo and Broadway Confucius add witticisms about appearance manners and gender.
An ad features Kruschen Salts promoted by Caddell Drug Co and drug stores claiming relief for dull headachy feelings. It touts 245 million bottles sold over ten years as evidence of value and urges readers to purchase the product.
The lightweight mineral magnesium, vital for war efforts, was first identified in 1808, marking an early milestone in industrial chemistry. This discovery underscored its growing importance for military applications and modern materials.
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