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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1941
Page
4
The Decatur Daily column reflects on Russia, oil, and wartime morale with notes on cotton surpluses, river terminals, and recreational funds for service members. It also covers baseball antics of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Morgenthau tax installments plan, Alcatraz probe, and Army recruiting gains in the local area.
The article argues that Marine Park at Decatur needs immediate docks for boat owners and visitors. It stresses rapid construction to serve local residents and the influx of visitors, calling for no delay in advancing the project.
Dewitt Mackenzie argues the United States has not yet paid the price for defense spending while warning Axis aims include world domination and demilitarization of bases. He asserts Britain and the US must outproduce Axis powers to deny Hitler victory and predicts British led resistance could topple Axis plans with American support.
Washington May 2 STalin bans army shipments across Russia prompting debate. The commentary argues the move is a clumsy Red imitation of Nazi diplomacy not a verdict, forecasting a forthcoming commercial treaty with Japan to share freight space on the trans-Siberian railway. The piece notes Japan ships cotton rubber minerals and food to Germany while U S metals and machinery are scarce.
The essay argues Germany cannot be crushed without direct hit and notes Nazi reinforcements via British routes and a looming Suez blow. It cites massing 200,000 troops and 2,000 to 3,000 tanks in Libya, with France supplying 300 tanks. It discusses FDR and Admiral Stark distance estimates and the western hemisphere defense stance amid coal strike mediation.
Friday May 2 is set to clean the graveyard with grave decorations preaching Sunday morning and dinner at noon followed by an afternoon singing for the first Sunday May 4. Local illness includes measles and several residents, with Carrol McKee very ill at home.
The column notes nursing specialties expand like medicine with industrial nursing rising in demand. It cites 4,000 Army nurses to be selected by July 1 and 3,271 industrial nurses in 1940, urging more students and hospital programs to support military public health and industry needs.
A U S Public Health Service survey shows only about one third of U S industrial workers have nursing service and estimates a need for about 6000 additional industrial nurses. Nurses require broader public health training and industry specific expertise beyond basic hospital nursing education. It suggests establishing programs now to meet future demand.
A collage of brief items notes Hitler avoiding dentist visits, cites a theory linking poisoned teeth to wickedness, recalls Zangara and Cermak, and folds in a joke about dentistry as a compliment to a poem submission. It also touches on reliability as a badge of honor and a political line about saving America and individual liberty.
Readers may obtain seven pamphlets by Dr Logan Clendening at 10 cents each. To receive a desired pamphlet send 10 cents and a self addressed envelope with a 3 cent stamp to Dr Logan Clendening in care of this notice. The titles include Three Weeks Reducing Diet 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 customer challenges a waitress about the freshness of his sandwich. The waitress confirms each sandwich is wrapped in airtight paper, while the patron remarks he wishes he had known this earlier. The exchange ends with the patron pondering the quality of the food.
A civic exhortation calls residents to drop the word accident from speech and stop asserting right of way. It urges cooperation and focus on living and letting live for communal progress and safety.
We thank the many friends who offered sympathy and help during our time of sorrow. Your kindness and support is deeply appreciated by the family of Pulaski.
The column discusses public reactions to Lindbergh coverage and political pressures. It notes Jack Benny leading a national survey, Fritz Kuhn's parole date, and public boycotts. It mentions Ism gangsters, Willkie, and a Kingston Ohio editorial stance. It hints at a television program renewal with Mrs Winchell's quip.
Diary extracts recount Lec'y H Ickes and wife expecting again and Quentin Reynolds arriving safely for a Collier's convoy article. Franklin D Roosevelt and John L Lewis spar privately, with less venom than public swaps. A critic lauds Steve Early for stealing the Nazi medal line for front pages.
A reader critiques coverage of a New York holdup thwarted by plans to seize Erickson, marital woes over citizenship papers, Mrs. T. Roosevelt Jr resigning from Women United for Peace, and calls for accountability for Bund leaders jailed in New Jersey. The letter praises Journal-American reporting and questions press silence on America First rallies.
Adated chatter mocks Lizzie Diling and her campaign for women to picket the White House while imagining a Kremlin protest. It notes magazine execs fleeing to Geneva Wisconsin and jokes about flit guns. It asks what happened to the Unity campaign and hints at a feud between Martha Stephenson Kemp and Vic Mature.
A collage of sharp jabs and stray names blur into a late night city vignette. References include Henry Lustig and various restaurateurs, a Halloween quip by Pat Harrington, and a challenge to the Department of Commerce. It also touches on Japan export volumes and questions about Broadway figures.
Pat Garfield and Serge Demenco feature in a social scene with Boston banking ties while visiting British sailors boost morale. Eliot Janeway writes a Life piece on Hitler versus Roosevelt. A Dorothy Thompson dinner is set for May 6 at the Astor. Public sentiment turns against perceived political misrule.
George Backer plans a London trip Monday while Martha Raye reportedly wed already and may marry again for the papers. Columbia records with Marie Green sing Intermezzo. Guy Lombardo laments talent favors conceit. Mike Shelley visits from Sunapee to the Stork Club scene. Tommie Manville’s fourth wife Marcelle Edwards becomes Walter McGowan at Aptos tomorrow.
Wetumpka reports a highly exclusive beauty parlor will open soon in the women’s state prison under construction. W. E. Persons, state director of Corrections and Institutions, said two rooms are set aside for the shop in the facility.
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