Rent Control Lifted in at least 82 US cities under local option
Chicago report shows 82 cities ended rent controls since April 1 under local option authority. 168 more communities faced lifted restrictions until recent reversals. five states act under 1949 act. Nevada, Nebraska, Texas, Wisconsin, and Alabama move variedly. court challenge in Illinois tests legality. Federal expeditor Woods enforces, pending Supreme Court appeal.
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Chicago
Congress
Tighe E. Woods
Nevada
Nebraska
Texas
Wisconsin
Alabama
American Municipal Association
Elwyn R. Shaw
Woods
U. S. Supreme Court
Truman says Greece making solid progress in civil war
President Truman told Congress that the Greek government with American help is gaining solid ground against the communist guerrillas. He cited improved leadership, resumed U.S. military aid, months of training, and decisive orders from the Greek high command, while noting guerrilla forces remain strong and still receiving aid via Albania and Bulgaria.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
U. S
Albania
Bulgaria
United States
Mr. Truman
Soviet Union
Dixie Economy Holds Steady Across Southeast
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta reports June and July 1949 show the Southeast’s economy holding up better than 1948. Department store sales are 3 percent below last year with stronger gains in New Orleans Baton Rouge and Jackson. Textile mills and manufacturing employment declined, while farmers’ cash receipts rose 17 percent through April, though future income depends on the cotton crop.
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Atlanta
Southeast
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Tennessee
New Orleans
Baton Rouge
Jackson
Miss
Macon
Jacksonville
Birmingham
Montgomery
The
Banking Review
Amethyst’s Bold Dash Past Yangtze Forts Sparks Crew Smokes Rum Reward
Madden described the Amethyst sloop's 140 mile dash through shifting currents and sandbanks to pass Woosung forts before dawn while fuel dwindled to nine tons. The ship would refuel at Saddle Islands off the Yangtze mouth with escorts from Japan. Royal orders granted an extra rum ration as Britain hailed a new turn in the Amethyst affair amid tense negotiations and communist shore guns.
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Madden
Woosung
Hongkong
Saddle Islands
Yangtze
Japan
Admiralty
London
George VI
Rose Island
Nanking
British Foreign Office
Cmdr
J. S. Kerans
Amethyst
Markets Drift Higher As Stocks Turn Rallying Point
New York August 1 stock market firms slightly for first time since Tuesday with a cautious advance. Wide set of issues show gains though most advances are fractional as turnover runs around 800000 shares led by Commonwealth and Southern. Chrysler boosts activity while several major names like U S Steel Bethlehem Steel GM and Du Pont gain. Central R R of NJ slips about two points.
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Commonwealth & Southern
Chrysler
Sears Roebuck
Teader
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem Steel
General Motors
Goodrich
Montgomery Ward
Sehenley
American Telephone
North American Co. Kennecott Cooper
Phelps Dodge
Dome Mines
du Pont
Allied Chemical
American
Woolen
Northern Pacific
Union Pacific
Gulf Oil
Twentieth Century-Fox Central R. R
N. J
U. S. Rubber
Eastman Kodak
Owens-Illinois
Radio Corp. International Paper
Standard Oil
U. S
Nashville Livestock Prices Report for Aug 1
Federal State Departments of Agriculture cattle and hog quotes from Nashville Tennessee show a slow start with weights and a mostly steady to slightly lower undertone for heavy bulls. Cattle ranges include 21.00-24.00 for good and choice 550-750 lb steers, cows 10.00+, calves 23.00-25.00 for good and choice, hogs 22.25-22.50 for 175-240 lb barrows and gilts, and sheep mostly steady with springers 22.00-23.50 and aged ewes around 7.00.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Tenn
Federal
State Departments of
Cotton futures ease on slow demand and gov estimate
Cotton futures fell 10 to 40 cents a bale as slow trading met liquidation and hedging amid expectations of the first 1949 government crop estimate. Demand for textiles remained strong for print cloths and sheets, keeping prices firm but not reversing futures declines.
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New York
Poultry Market Steady to Firm in North Georgia
USDA reports North Georgia live poultry market steady to firm with very good demand across sections. Dressed demand is good in packing plants, supplies of small fryers under 22-3 lbs are adequate while heavy fryers run short of full demand. Prices paid this morning for farm broilers and fryers ranged mostly 26.5 to 27 cents per pound, all weights.
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Atlanta
USDA
North Georgia
Markets at a Glance New York Aug Markets Overview
Stocks moved higher with leaders advancing slowly. Bonds steady with rails mixed. Cotton easy with liquidation and hedging. Chicago Wheat slightly slower in light trade. Corn steady with small volume. Oats steady following corn action. Soybeans firm with small scale buying. Hogs medium to strong with top at 23.25. Cattle steady to 50 cents higher with top at 28.25.
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New York
Chicago
Grain futures inch higher as rains limit gains
Chicago market closed with listless trade and mixed moves across grains. Wheat fell about 1.5 cents. corn barely changed to up 0.78. oats mixed. rye uneven. soybeans rose modestly with November at 2.36 to 2.37. Lard advanced 20 to 43 cents.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Horton Trial Set Tuesday in Morgan Circuit Court
Matthew Horton is scheduled for trial Tuesday in Morgan circuit court on three charges of receiving and concealing stolen property. He, 27, was jailed in March after fleeing bail in 1945 and was arrested in New York City by FBI agents. Also set for trial are Mary Hartsel and Grady Hays on grand larceny charges for stealing chalk dog figures from Bob Lokey in June 1948, an incident linked to a fatal shooting of Thomas F Woodruff Jr by Lokey. Others include John R. Holmes for arson on a dwelling of Susie Holmes, Eugene Stover on grand larceny, and Thurman Tulney on for feiting a peece vond.
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Matthew Horton
Morgan Circuit
Morgan
New York City
FBI
Mary Hartsellé
Grady Hays
Bob Lokey
Bob Lokey In June, 1948. the Theft of the Chalk Figures From Lokeys U. S
South
Thomas F Woodruff, Jr
Woodruff
Lokey
John R. Holmes
Susie Holmes
Eugene Stover
Thurman Tulney
Peece
Unusual Insect Brought In From Austinville
The Daily’s unnatural natural phenomena desk examines a black insect with white splotches found by Sonny Lee of 425 Cedar Austinville. It resembles a tarry blob with thornlike horns, spiderlike yet balloon shaped, about a quarter inch wide. Experts are studying the specimen to identify it.
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Sonny Lee
Cedar
Austinville
Sonny
Convict dies after attacking guard in Alabama
Henry Gordon, a prisoner serving part of a 10 year robbery sentence, died in a Gadsden hospital from gunshot wounds suffered when he attacked guard R J Croft with a grass blade while laboring on a road crew near Springville. Assistant superintendent Ned P Rogers said Croft fired three times, striking Gordon in the stomach and arm.
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Gadsden
Ala
Henry Gordon
Springville
Sumiten
Ned P. Rogers
Gordon
R. J. Croft
Croft
Rogers
Strike Begins At Reynolds Metals Arkansas Plant
A 72 hour phased strike started at 12:01 am involving 1600 Reynolds Metals workers in Arkansas. The action includes bauxite miners and processors who belong to the CLO Steel Workers of America. Union sub director Charles BE. Smith announced the phased effectiveness.
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Little Rock
Reynolds Metals Company
Arkansas
CLO Steel Workers of America
Charles BE. Smith
Slayer of Two Kills Himself in Brooklyn Tragedy
A Brooklyn patrolman shot his ex showgirl wife and Arnold Myers in bed then killed himself. The officer, William R. Lane, 30, estranged from Blanche Lane, 28, and Myers, 37, were found at the Lane family home. Lane entered with a key, watched from a fire escape, and acted after returning with Myers.
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New York
William R. Lane
Brooklyn
Blanche
Arnold Myers
Lane
Manhattan
Myers
Emil Binder
Binder
Jane
Jeanne
Ruth
Leonard
Norman
Norway
Senate fights over foreign aid and farm policy endure
Senator Taft opposes rushing back to Washington for November action. Senator Lucas plans to keep the Senate busy by passing all appropriations bills, starting with the minimum wage and reciprocal trade legislation. The foreign aid bill of 5.59 billion dollars faces committee tinkering to remove policy-making amendments, with two key proposals: 1.8 billion for surplus farm crop purchases and 50 million for Spain loans. Debate looms on a new farm bill to replace the flexible price support program, as Democrats warn of extended talks over reciprocal trade agreements and the administration’s 1.45 billion foreign arms program.
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Taft
Ohio
GOP
Washington
Senate
Lucas
Economic Cooperation Administration
Spain
House
Congress
NLRB Rules McLellan Stores Election In Alabama
The regional NLRB office announced a ruling setting aside the March 16 vote at McLellan stores in Sheffield Alabama to determine if workers wanted representation by Chauffeurs and Salesdrivers Local 402 for collective bargaining.
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Atlanta
National Labor Relations Board
McLellan
Sheffield
Ala
Contempt charge in Klan records hearing sparks clash
Carmichael contends Morris case is for publicity as Judge Bailes permits testimony on the missing records. Locke accuses the attorney general of political motive while Morris asserts he has control over Alabama Klan records. Morris, who spent 16 days jailed for withholding Klan records, faces indictments against 18 men for flogging and related charges in Jefferson county.
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Morris
Tom
Harry
Carmichael
Locke
Albert A. Carmichael
Grand Jury
Bailes
Emmett Perry
Jefferson County
Patrols Net 10 Cars In Rural Slugger Case In Georgia
Troopers from multiple towns patrolled U S 129 and state road 76 after a farmer reports a brutal attack on his wife. Bloodhounds were used but no trace of the assailant was found. The victim suffered bruising and scratches on one wrist.
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Waycross
Valdosta
Tifton
Cordelo
Thomasville
U S. 129
Georgia
Selma Man Gets 15 Years for First Degree Arson
A Selma man who admitted setting a house on fire after a girl jilting him was sentenced to 15 years for first degree arson. State Fire Marshal L. L. Gwaltney Jr. called the term the longest ever given for that offense in Alabama.
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Selma
Ala
L. L. Gwaltney Jr
Alabama
Local notes from Decatur and Hamil Clinic visits
Norman Sparkman of Hartselle was here on business. Mrs Grover Williams of Decatur admitted to Decatur General Hospital. Mrs Bob Clark and infant son discharged from Decatur General Hospital. Paul Barlow and Miss Helen Bradford admitted to Hamil Clinic Hospital. Mrs George Sletcher and infant daughter discharged from Hamil Clinic. Little Larry Reed visited grandparents H.M. Reed in Center Grove then returned to Decatur with Lynna Reed. Jane and Jo Fuller of Decatur staying with sister Rubie Segars in Gastonia, N C for several weeks.
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Grover Williams
Seventh Avenue East
Decatur General Hospital
Bob Clark
Twelfth Avenue East
Decatur
General Hospital
Hamil Clinic
Paul Barlow
Wadsworth Street
Helen Bradford
Trinity
George Sletcher
Oaks Street
Little Larry Reed
H.M. Reed
Center Grove
Lynna_Reed
Eigen
Jane and
Jo Fuller
Rubie Segars
Gastonia
Death Claims Jessie Oldacre
Funeral services for Jessie Oldacre 55 will be held at his home in Cullman at 4 p m Tuesday. Interment in Hopewell cemetery near Hanceville Mass directing. He died Sunday night after several months illness. Surviving are widow Leda Oldacre and mother Mrs Scott Oldacre of Cullman son Forrest at Auburn daughter Mrs L E Kreel Jr of Washington DC two grandchildren Pallbearers listed.
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Jessie Oldacre
Fourth Avenue East
Cullman
S. O. Kimbrough
Woodlawn Baptist Church
Birmingham
Fagan Thompson
Methodist Church
Hopewell Cemetery
Hanceville
Oldacre
Protective Life Insurance Co
First Baptist Church
Rotary Club
Leda Oldacre
Scott Oldacre
Culéman
Forrest
Auburn
L. E. Kreel
Washington, D. C
A. R. Reid
Conrad Howard Dwight Potant
Bruce Pitant
George Stiefelmeyer Jr
William R. Griffin
Robeson Seeks Testimony on Lynching At Congress
Paul Robeson said he would testify before the House American Activities Committee on lynching in Florida Georgia and Alabama describing the committee as a vicious instrument against the negro He planned to meet Representatives Wood of Georgia and Rankin of Mississippi to defend their records Robeson also refuted claims about American Negroes fighting Russia and praised Jackie Robinson as entitled to his opinion
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New York
Paul Robeson
House
American Activities Committee
Florida
Georgia
Alabama
LaGuardia Field
Chicago
Robeson
John Sr
Wood
D-Ga
John E
Rankin
D-Miss
House Committee
Jackie Robinson
Brooklyn Dodger
Russia
Road Bond Issue and Appropriations Move Forward in Legislature
Gov. James E. Folsom’s eighty million road bond proposal looms over the session as the house calendar awaits action. General and educational appropriation bills recently drew a favorable rules committee report and were added to the calendar for debate.
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James E. Folsom
Folsom
Rules Committee
Infant Dies Graveside Services Held For McKay Son
Graveside services were held at Rose Lawn for the infant son of Mr and Mrs Quentin McKay former Decatur residents. The child died in a Gadsden hospital. Surviving are the parents and grandparents Mr and Mrs Arch McKay Austinville.
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Rose Lawn
T. A. Tampeot
Ifant
Quentin McKay
Decatur
Gadsden
Arch ‘McKay
Austinville
Robber Seated Customers Then Fled From Grill
A masked man escorted the victims into the grill’s main room, sat them, and left after the soda fountain scene. Waitress Mer Hayes recalls a man asking for cigarettes as she left. Police later recovered a hat believed to belong to the thief. The loss is insured. The suspect was described as nervous and was seen Thursday evening in the store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mer Hayes
Miss Hayes
Perry
Watkins
Miner Secrest’s car explodes injuring family and damaging homes
Miner Secrest drove to his Dawson Pa home when his car exploded. Three houses and two cars burned. most of the 25 homes sustained damage from front to back with windows blown out and porches wrecked. A junior high school was damaged and dishes were knocked from shelves two miles away. Secrest and his wife, married about three years, have a two year old son Gary Duane who escaped injury in a back room.
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Secrest
Dawson
Gary Duane
Burglar Threats Demand Money During Home Invasion
Couple Cooper recount the break in as the assailant demanded money and threatened to kill them. A shotgun by the bed and a flashlight on pillows were taken, later recovered near the house.
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Cooper
Fire damages Gurley Manufacturing Co. truck and nearby buildings
Flames swept through a Gurley Manufacturing Co. truck and adjacent areas near a grocery store on the south side around 5 36 a m The store building and stock valued at about 10000 were the only loss insured and covered by insurance
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Manufacturing Co
Deeds and Transfers in Local Property Listings
A dense list of property transfers and deeds shows many individuals and entities exchanging parcels and sums. Notable entries include Margaret F Aycock to Addie B Branch for five dollars and Grady L Golden to William J Browning for six thousand seven hundred fifty dollars, among numerous other registrations and amounts.
Press Committee Plans Buckles Institute Meeting
In Tuscaloosa Alabama on August 13 a committee of Alabama journalists and newspaper publishers will plan the second annual Doyle L Buckles Memorial Press Institute named for the late Alabama Press Association field manager. Chair Prof C Ed Bounds leads the planning group with L O Bracken E H Pierce Ralph Callahan and Jack Pratt as members.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Alabama
Doyle L. Buckles
L. O. Bracken
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
E. H. Pierce
Jasper Mountain Eagle
Ralph Callahan
Anniston Star
Jack Pratt
Pickens County Herald
Carrollton
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Alice
Sam Smithwick
Mason
KBKI
H. P. Sai
Jim Wells
Smithwick
South Texas
Dance Palace
Dixie Economy
Virginia
William M. Tuck
Francis Pickins Miller
Charlottesville
Eisenhower
Horace H. Edwards
Richmond
John S. Battle
Harry Byrd
Remmie L. Arnold
Petersburg
Wall Street
William D. Horgan
Norman Sparkman
Hartselle 2
Gurley
Margaret F. Aycock
Addie B. Branch
Ethel A. Boswell
F. O. Smith
Rube Draper
Robert L. Knighten
J. D Hooper
Clarence Hudson
Marie Mills Humphrey
Ezra Sandifer
O. M. Long
Ernest J. Secreces
J. M. Pierce
D. E. Stoner
James Cecil Taylor
B. S. Momson
W. Townsend
James V. Hargett
W. van Gilbert
Ray Childs
Ryans Baptist Missionary Church
D. T. Crawford
C. B. Kelley
Baron H. Collins
T. Bolding
James C. Taylor
Charles H. Eyster
VR. Lee
Grady L. Golden
William J. Browning
Julian Harris
Annie Lee Fowler
John William Matthews
Clara Jean M. Ryan
David A. McAbee
Grafton Lyle
G. W. Nelson
Glenn Maples
Lila E. Peck
Lillie Mae Hogan Robinson
H. B. Thornhill
M. D
Thomas J. Laine Jr
Eloda R. Thompson
Leonard Sharp
Raymond McAbee
Tallulan Crane
John D. Davis
Stall Warehouse and Storage Co
Joel Cecil Taylor
Sem F. Coleman
Earl Glenn
R. F. Hames
T. A. McDaniel
Mattie Pope
W. L. Roberson
James C. Lott
C. C. Marsh
J. F. Campbell
Annie Bean Lee
Alma M. Price
Elizabeth A. Roberts
Abercrombie
Buckles Institute
Houser
Florist
East Mouiton
Frigidaire
R.C.A. Victor
Baldwin Pianos
Bank
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