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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1944
Page
4
The column surveys ongoing topics from tax protests and bond drives to spring delays and garden weeds. It notes political voting habits in Alabama, railroads strategizing for postwar business, and wartime troop movements in Italy. It also comments on neutrality claims, school disruptions, and conventions amid wartime rationing.
The City Recreation Commission opens Delano Park on Monday for summer use as a public service example amid city debt and budget constraints. Mrs Earl Calvin supervises the park program this year and emphasizes community effort for the good of all residents.
The column questions minnow shortages for fishermen and links Dewey’s possible victory to wartime beliefs. It cites Senator Simpson reporting over $2,000 in campaign spending, totaling about $4,500 Jim had claimed, and hints at postage stamp purchases.
The University of Alabama, with about 6000 alumni, counts seven generals and many officers among its graduates. It is not a military school yet has built a strong ROTC program over the years, and the results are clear in its leadership contributions to the war effort.
Congressman John J. Sparkman on the Town Meeting of the Air says the war and peace must be linked and warns against isolationism. He cites Roosevelt Churchill Stalin Chiang Kai Shek as a four nation team shaping postwar policy and national security for America.
In the conference on TVA reform Senator McKellar pushes two amendments. One would require Senate confirmation for high earning government employees. The other would force TVA funds back to the Treasury and require congressional approval for all appropriations. Valley residents urge TVA to stay out of politics and remain governed by the original law.
A Washington news round up reports low death rates among South Pacific hospital patients due to improved surgery, sulfa drugs, and air evacuation. It notes Berlin as a possible joint Allied objective and highlights Navy carrier groups returning to duty. It mentions WPB workwear plans, a lengthy sedition trial, Agriculture Department appointee searches, postwar cotton planning, and Uncle Sam’s stance on postwar cartels and exchange of scientific data.
May 23 reports Texas conventions naming 48 Democrats and 33 Republican delegates while Florida holds a Democratic run off for governor between Millard Caldwell and Lex Green. Maryland notes 16 Republican delegates. May 24 North Dakota selects 11 Republican delegates and May 26 Georgia Republicans pick 14 delegates. Connecticut opens two days to name 18 Democratic delegates. May 27 Utah Democrats choose 10 delegates as North Carolina holds a state primary for Senate and governor seats with 12 House seats and full state ticket.
A Mother's Day dinner honoring Mrs Davie Woodall was hosted Sunday at the home of her son Mr and Mrs Paul Woodall. Daughters prepared the meal and gifts were given by the children in the afternoon as relatives gathered.
David Allen Gibson, a Birmingham Conservatory of Music student for three years, will present a piano recital under the tutelage of Dor-.
In a retrospective, Dr. Karl Koller 86 ophthalmologist is noted as the first to use cocaine as a local anaesthetic in eye surgery. Freud influenced Keller, who tested drops in the cornea and conjunctival sac, enabling pain-free eye operations and advancing the conquest of pain.
Sey Whittington will give a recital Thursday evening at 8 15 in Conservatory Hall. The program includes Bach Liszt Prelude and Fugue in A minor Beethoven Sonata Opus 2 No 2 in A major Chopin Ballade Op 47 Op 72 No 1 Nocturne Op 72 No 1 La Danse de Puck Pavane by Ravel Polonaise in E by Liszt and an additional Claudé Debussy piece. The public is invited.
A humorous clipping features jokes about windshield wipers, a speeding case dismissed after a punchline about a rummage sale, and a Decatur man with many degrees. It includes a daughter asking for a riding habit and a father’s witty alternative.
A thoughtful farmer deserves credit for planting rubber trees around dangerous curves. Ferguson of Decatur offers the line. A mother asks a daughter about wanting to be looked up to, and the daughter replies she wants to be looked around at.
A reflective verse on morning joy and courteous conduct ends with a dark joke about an undertaker who, after attending a funeral for Mrs. B, notes she was a longtime client, having buried her four former husbands.
A Decatur boy kneels by his bed for nightly prayers as his mother tucks him in, noting the morning was already difficult. The exchange captures a quiet domestic moment as they face the day ahead.
Walter Winchell relays brisk World War II era culture and politics with quips about Churchill, Mountbatten, and Congress. The column ribaldly pokes at public figures, mentions Dies reseating troubles, and weaves in cartoons, gossip, and a São of Broadway social life.
A devotional reflection cites Isaiah 30 15 and urges calm prayer, rest, and steadiness. It contrasts Jesus not being hurried with human busyness and encourages surrender of haste to God. The piece emphasizes holding silent confidence in divine timing.
Ralph Johnson a Black man from West Newton Pennsylvania was freed today by a U S commissioner who heard testimony that he unlawfully moved from Alabama to Pennsylvania to avoid prosecution for assault with intent to kill. The commissioner found no Alabama prosecution prior to his leaving and Johnson said he fled to avoid mob violence.
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