Local notes praise farm leadership and political change
Editorials discuss war perception and leadership changes in Alabama. They welcome Czechoslovak and U S figures, highlight farmer Wheat production gains, and praise Rep Rains while noting Congressman Starnes’ departure. The Franklin County Times asks about postwar employment and defends Valley planning efforts amid McKellar's fight.
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C. T
Doc” Bailey
Cullman ‘County
Farm Development Department of Tennessee, Coal, Iron ,& Railroad Co
Cullman
King-Pharr Company
Bailey
Cullman County
North Alabama
Ernie Pyle Wins Pulitzer Prize Election Debate Gleanings
The piece notes Ernie Pyle winning a Pulitzer and praises him as richly deserving. It also references the looming Hitler threat and mentions a curious primary campaign ad paid for anonymously by a nonpolitician. The writer teases potential investigative angles for reporters and columnists.
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Ernie Pyle
Manpower Shortage and Calls for Relief Roll Review
The Daily argues that wartime manpower shortages affect many sectors including the armed forces. It urges reevaluating government relief lists to redirect able-bodied recipients to productive work. It notes widespread job availability and questions trimming relief rolls without harming deserving individuals.
The Only Good Censor
A historical reflection on Thomas Jefferson calling the people the true censors of their governors. It argues that free press informs public liberty and that a government needs newspapers to survive, preferring newspapers even without a government if necessary for informed citizens.
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Czechoslovakia
Germany
Thomas Jefferson
Rains Profiles Victory Over Congressman Starnes
The reelection defeat of Congressman Joe Starnes is attributed by his opponent to district work and persistent campaigning. Rains argues the Dies committee membership was not a factor and notes his eight years rebuilding the district with frequent commencement addresses. He is from Etowah and Cherokee natives link him to DeKalb as well.
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Rains
Alabama
Joe Starnes
Congressman Starnes
Washington
Congressman Rains
O See Rains
Seventh District
Starnes
Dies Committee
Associated Press
Dies
DeKalb
Bowles rationing debate amid corn supply crisis
Washington observers weigh Bowles arguments for ending cheaper meat coupons citing corn shortages and government control of feed. He warns removal of coupon phase may shift hog and cattle flows while election timing influences likely fall rationing.
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Washington
Bowles
Commodity Credit Corporation
Henderson
Europe
Simplicity and a Golf Bunker Tale
A reflection on simplicity contrasts with luxury and ambition, urging plain living and useful service. Grenville Kleiser notes Sam watching a golfer stalled in a bunker as the ball finally rises and lands on the green.
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Grenville Kleiser
First Woman M D Led Difficult Life
The piece profiles Elizabeth Blackwell born 1821 in Bristol England, highlighting her fight against 19th century prejudice to become a physician. It notes her education, rejection by major schools, graduation from Geneva College in 1849, founding the New York Dispensary later the New York Infirmary and College for Women and Children, and her later chairing of gynecology in London before dying in 1910. It also recalls hostile reactions from peers and public figures, and mentions contemporary female medical practitioners educated by her example.
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Bristol
England
America
Elizabeth
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Margaret Fuller
Medical College
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Geneva Medical College
Geneva
New York
New York Infirmary and College For Women and Children
Fanny Kemble
Fragmented letters from readers and quotes from a training program
A collection of remarks and letters features a sheltering note about training from the International Correspondence Schools in Scranton, Pa, a praise for a copper piece, and a domestic dialogue about Good Friday and married life.
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Waldo C. Wright
International Correspondence Schools
Scranton
Zeke Smith
Fragmented Wartime Bazaar of Phrases and Promises
A hazy collage of lines from a wartime notice includes a memory of childhood affection and a grandmother’s glasses, a boast about radar locating missing objects, a ministerial query about a woman’s best years, oblique ages, a May blossom cue, and jokes about tombstones and slogans. It reads like stray snippets from ads and public notices amid wartime rhetoric.
Geoffrey Keyes raid kills Rommel’s rear guard
War report recounts Lt. Col Geoffrey Keyes leading a daring raid with British commandos behind German lines. He dies after a savage last stand to cover his men as Rommel’s staff are overrun. Keyes is buried where Monty's army later advances.
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Ray Brock
Balkans
N.Y. Times
Eurean Theatre
Walter
Ben Tolstoin
Shepheards Terrace
Cairo
Ken Downs
Int'l News Serie
Om Terry Allen
Ing
Geoffrey Keyes
Geoffrey
Roger Keyes
England
Desert Commandos
Ken
Robert Jordan
Jordan
Keyes
Colin Campbell
Rommel
Afrika Korps
Rome
Sidi Rafa
A-Wadi
Monty
Eighth Army
Censon
Coffrey Keyes
The Bell Tolls for Thee by John Donne
Poetic meditation on mortality and shared human fate. The speaker asserts that every man's death affects all, comparing personal loss to a universal toll. The quotation echoes themes of solidarity and existential duty.
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John Donne
War bonds fund monthly service shoe orders
A note states 114,903 war bonds at 75 each are needed to pay the monthly shoe orders issued by the services.
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Decatur
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The
Tennessee Valley Printing Co., Inc
W.R. Shelton
Asociated Press
Michelangelo
Hitler
Tojo
Roosevelt
Wallace
Columbia
Tenn
Herald
A. L. Cain
Somerville 1
TVA
Franklin County
Franklin County Times
United States
Senator McKellar
Tennessee Valley
Tennessee
Congress
McKellar
Valley
Causey
Carr
Jefferson
IEC
Otis
King Feature Syndicate, Inc
Allsrights
Sam
M.D
Elizabeth Blackwell
Rachel Baker
Julian Messner, Inc
Clendening
Womer
L. W
Tam
Omaha
Mary
Adam
James
Robinson Crusoe
Cora
Pappy
Alaroy
Walter Winchell
Dally Mirree
Down
Downs
Rommell
Campbell
Good
Johnston St
National Defense Program
Army
Navy
Southern Bell
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
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