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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1941
Page
4
The notice shows W. R. Shelton 1912 to 1924 with second class matter at Decatur Alabama. It states Associated Press news rights and republication terms and dates including February 26, 1912 and July 1, 1919 and March 6, 1878.
Readers discuss Rudolf Hess flight to England, Nazi morale, and American policy. Letters urge clearer presidential guidance on lend lease, convoy, and joining WWII, while local items note scouting success and calls for civic help and jobs.
Washington reports on army aircraft engines revealing repeated bugs leading to a redesign aimed at 2000 horsepower. Critics say American aviation overemphasized speed and maneuverability, underestimating fightability as Congress weighs defense measures and education control in wartime restructuring.
Sergt Lynwood Earlhammer Brammer recently switched from civilian to army status at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri. He continues the same tractor driving work at the same location earning 21 dollars a month as a soldier after two months of civilian pay at 1 25 per hour with a raise to 66 dollars monthly delayed until three months in service.
A reader criticizes the president for avoiding blunt talk on the crisis and warns Congress to quit delaying action. The note suggests declaring the crisis imagination and ready to do business as usual. The Dothan Banner urges direct speech.
An article by two Philadelphia physicians notes progress in heart disease treatment over 25 years. It highlights improved management of infections, rheumatism, and syphilis, better thyroid care, and advances in arteriosclerosis, diabetes control, heart surgery, and medications, with renewed hope for patients previously deemed hopeless.
A clipped notice reports bears are quite numerous in Yellowstone Park. The item also notes increased bear sightings at Wall Street and the bathing beach, invoking hunter awareness in the area.
Mrs Crabber and Mr Crabber discuss wallpaper in a tense moment. He praises a bold pattern for the guest chamber while she decries it as hideous, revealing a clash over decor and restraint.
The reply states thick slow blood flow is not diagnosable as a disease and unlikely in healthy people. It adds hereditary factors do not cause mastoid disease, which results from throat infection spreading via the Eustachian tube to the middle ear.
Readers can obtain seven Dr Clendening pamphlets by mail with a ten cent price per item. Titles include Three Weeks 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 scene in an English tavern shows a rich visitor asking a lone guest to sit, then questions why marmalade prompts standing. The remark underscores tension between admiration and slander, with the guest remarking that better to endure slander than praise.
A puzzled patron asks for stationery while a hotel clerk insists on guest status. A wry observation notes that the childless bachelor faces a tough choice for a wedding trip, highlighting humorous urban indecision.
A man entered Emergency Hospital clutching his midriff and asked staff if they were good at sewing. Homer Summers, a relief driver, reminded them doctors sew with sutures. The man then asked Summers to sew on a suspender button and Summers obliged.
A buzzing noise interrupted service on the Snow Hill Quepanco rural line as Jerome Henman, a trouble shooter, traced the problem to a swarm of wild bees disturbing equipment along the line.
Walter Winchell humor column features Lindbergh comments on democracy, major powers, and isolationist jibes. The piece parodies Lindbergh and mocks anti Nazi sentiment with quips about Germany Italy and Japan and a shipboard joke.
From the Times archive a note recalls Charles Dillingham as a leading Broadway producer rather than a stage star. A Montreal Gazette Washington observer reports Lionel Shapiro on Rish Holt, photographed looking lovingly at his bride. The remark hints Holt deserves the long pants he’s begun wearing.
The column cites Hugh Johnson’s World Telly praise of Pegler as an underdog advocate and Pegler’s own rebuke of the underdog sympathy myth. It includes a joke about Bernice Parks and a Greece postwar map anecdote involving Hitler and Mussolini and a quip about parking space for a car.
The broadcast opener has Jimmy Dorsey quipping about the dictators divided over spoils. Hitler is portrayed as conceding nothing while Axis figures are mocked, with a humorous aside about a farmhouse and a chewed telephone wire.
The column urges mothers on Mother's Day not to worry about their sons becoming president. It notes many voters will root for him yet others will oppose to hinder his progress, reflecting enduring political contention.
According to the Associated Press Rip Van Wheeler labels Roosevelt Stimson Knox Winchell and Willkie as warmongers. He accuses Winchell of chanting hate and criticizes Wheeler and Nye for politicizing national unity while others fold papers and discuss politics. Premier Stalin withdraws recognition from Norway Belgium and Yugoslavia as part of Nazi influence. Joe the Boss acts against the Daily Worker while praising impism and robbing communists of words.
The piece notes a change in public mood as Italy moves from colonial ambitions in Africa to nationalist zeal for Rome under Nazi influence. It contrasts past youth chants for Tunisia and Corsica with current calls for Rome.
Circus lions quit Madison Square Garden before the Overlin Soose bout missing a chance to eat the judges decision that crowned Soose champion. The outcome drew sharp comment as the undercard finished.
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