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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1946
Page
7
Hollywood May 31 A 38 year old Bette Davis asserts sex appeal remains with figure skin and youthfulness. She contrasts 21 with 38 noting style and poise are learned and that she looks glamorous in Deception. The piece also mentions Albert Dekker returning to grease paint in The Killers due to family support concerns.
A column notes varied items from politics to film. It cites an assemblyman proposing civic engagement steps and mentions Decter’s book title Ali Baba And The 40 Senators. It also covers actors Henry Wilcoxen Dinah Shore Claudette Colbert Roddy McDowall Peggy Ryan Eddie Albert Mischa Auer Yvonne De Carlo and film updates.
Mrs Annie Murray, long-time Dothan Alabama Sunday School teacher now living in Abbeville, credits Retonga with rapid relief from nervous indigestion. She says meals now agree with her, digestion improves, sleep tightens, and strength returns after years of bloating gas pains and laxative dependence. Retonga advertised as aid for insufficiency of digestive juices and constipation, sold by Caddell Drug Co.
The Decatur Youth Rally of area Methodist churches will meet Sunday at 2:30 PM at Central Methodist Church with Dr. Glenn Bartee of First Methodist Shef field as speaker. Organizers target 1,000 attendees for this fifth rally in a monthly series through year.
In Montgomery a state highway safety conference will meet late June or early July at the governor's request to reduce road accidents. The planning committee, led by H. G. Dowling, notes 378 persons were killed on Alabama highways last year.
The Bethany visits of Jesus unfold with Mary Martha and Lazarus. Mary anoints Jesus, Martha serves, and Jesus proclaims I am the resurrection and the life. The narrative covers their sorrow, the anointing at Bethany and the later supper at Simon's house as Passover nears. Jesus weeps with those who mourn and raises Lazarus.
In Columbia Tennessee the Maury County circuit court prepared for a lengthy hearing on indictments against 26 Black defendants tied to February racial unrest. Defense attorney Z Alexander Looby threatened to call every Black resident as a witness to prove alleged decade long jury exclusion, while prosecutor Paul F Bumpus dismissed the tactic as a legal filibuster.
Washington reports that new cars and appliances remain three months farther from average families due to soft coal tieups and strikes. John Small notes April production hit records for several consumer goods but coal disruptions cause overall economic scars. Porter cites price ceiling delays and cost to stabilization. Employment rose to 54.8 million as layoffs declined, though postwar labor absorption remains uneven.
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