Government Moves Surplus Cotton To Clear Space for New Crop
Washington August 3 The Agriculture Department’s Commodity Credit Corporation took over price support loans on about 3.825 million bales of 1948 surplus cotton from interior warehouses and will place the stock in a pool. The government plans to move the cotton to seaport and mill centers to free storage for the coming crop, with an estimated federal investment near $150 per bale.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
Southern cotton crop to fall short despite higher acreage
The Journal of Commerce reports a slightly smaller Southern cotton crop this season at 14,756,000 bales from 25,897,000 acres, down from 14,868,000 bales last year. Yield is expected at 274.3 pounds per acre versus 313.1 last year due to heavy weevil infestation and July rains hindering control.
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New York
Journal of Commerce
Government surplus cotton fate in doubt for growers
Department experts say pool profits unlikely as prices stay below break even point. With a large crop looming, prices may not rise this year or next, leaving the surplus cotton disposition uncertain despite past profits from wartime sales.
Genius Favorite Wins Three Gaited Stake at Tennessee Valley
Genius Favorite, owned by Gwen Mill farms in Opelika, captured first in the three gaited stake at the Tennessee Valley horse show held here recently. Curtain Call, owned and ridden by Betty Jean Clements of Birmingham, finished second after a reporting error gave top money to the wrong horse. Genius Favorite was ridden by Mickey Samford.
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Genius Favorite
Gwen Mill Farms
Opelika
Tennessee Valley
Curtain Call
Betty Jean Clements
Birmingham
Mickey Samford
Death Takes Roscoe Luke
Roscoe Luke a Baptist lay preacher and former judge of the Georgia court of appeals died in Clarconna at 69. A native of Thomasville he served as mayor of Thomasville and as solicitor of both the Thomas county and city courts. He joined the state court of appeals in 1917, later resigning. He was once exonerated in a fatal shooting case involving Oscar Groover. Luke preached across Georgia and moved to Florida in 1938, later working for International Paper in Panama City before retirement due to ill health. Funeral services will be held in Orlando tomorrow.
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Clarconna
Fila
Roscoe Luke
Georgia Court of Appeals
Thomasville
Luke
Thomas County
Court of Appeals
R. B. Russell Jr
Oscar Groover
Georgia
Florida
Southern Kraft Mill of
International Paper Company
Panama City
Orlando
Education and budget battles fill Alabama legislature
The Alabama House considered a bill to fund publishing constitutional amendments, costing about 100000 per year, while an expansive 20000000 education appropriation advanced with 12 amendments adding to education funding. Senate activity included anti pollution measures, armed forces reform, and farm bill debates amid stalled education aid efforts.
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Senate
Jordan
James E.folsom
Thomas Johnston
Mobile County
Earl McGowin
Butler
Albert Boutwell
Jefferson
Water Improvement Advisory Commission
Alabama
House
Lesinski
D-Mich
Labor and Education
Testimony sought on uniform contracts amid fee dispute
Germany mings executive secretary of the National Association of Uniform Manufacturers Inc. may testify behind closed doors as Rep. Herbert asked Cummings to testify after a report that James V. Hunt sought $25,000 as a fee to rescind an Army uniforms order. Hunt, a former quartermaster colonel, has been accused of offering to use influence for government contracts for a 5 percent fee.
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Mings
National Association of Uniform Manufacturers Inc
Rep
Herbert
D-La
Cummings
James V. Hunt
Hunt
Quartermaster Corps
Unification The House Advances Defense Bill Action
The House yesterday completed congressional action on a bill to give the Secretary of Defense new authorities. The measure seeks to streamline defense management and authorize funding for modernization programs amid ongoing budget deliberations.
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House
Secretary of Defense
Congress seeks details on five percenters in military uniforms
Washington Aug 3 14 A House Armed Services subcommittee voted to ask Army Secretary Gordon Gray for information on any five percenters tied to the military uniform business Rep Hebert said Gray will be heard tomorrow behind closed doors Stanley J Cummings executive secretary of the National Association of Uniform Manufacturers Inc was due to testify today Hebert noted Cummings is on vacation and not expected back at his Brooklyn home until Aug 15 The subcommittee will decide after talking to Gray whether to question Cummings.
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Washington
House
Armed Services
Army
Gordon Gray
Hebert
D-La
Gray
Stanley J. Cummings
National Association of Uniform Manufacturers, Inc
Herbert
Cummings
Brooklyn
N. Y
Smith Rites Held Today
John Henry Smith a retired farmer died yesterday at 11 40 a m at his home. Services were to be held today at p m at the Athens Church of Christ conducted by A J Collins. Burial in Athens city cemetery. Survived by wife Annie Mae five sons Joe Athens Wyatt Lansing Mich George Decatur Oscar Harvey Detroit and three daughters Mrs Severe Pyrtle Decatur Mrs John T Morgan and Mrs Luther Davis Athens and a brother Joe Smith Mississippi.
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John Henry Smith
Smith
A. J. Collins
Athens
Detroit
Severe Pyrtle
Decatur
John T. Morgan
Luther Davis
Joe Smith
Mississippi
Georgia Funds Are Allocated for Talmadge Expansion Plan
Gov. Herman Talmadge unveils a first quarter allocation of 5.05 million dollars drawn from a 6 million dollar surplus noted by State Auditor Thrasher. The funds support education, roads, hospitals, welfare, and pensions, to be spent by September, financed by higher levies on liquor cigarettes gasoline beer cigars wine and corporate income.
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Atlanta
Herman Talmadge
B E. Thrasher
Talmadge
State School Department
Highway Department
Milledgeville State Hospital
Battey Tuberculosis Hospital
Rome
Laxson Rites Set Thursday
Graveside services for E. W Laxson 74 will be conducted by Rising Sun Lodge 29 Masons at the city cemetery Thursday after funeral services at Ninth Street Methodist Church at 4 pm. Burial by Mutual Service. Laxson a Decatur resident for 40 years died Tuesday about 4 am in a Gadsden hospital. He was a past master Mason and had 37 years in the local lodge. Pallbearers are nephews. Surviving are two daughters Mrs W T Thompson Aurora Ill and Mrs H C Lawrence Decatur a brother W H Laxson Athens four grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
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Rising Sun Lodge
City
Ninth Street Methodist Church
E. W. Corley
Laxson
Decatur
Gadsden
W. T. Thompson
Aurora
Ill
H. C. Lawrence
W. H. Laxson
Athens
Body of Woman Found in Lake at Guntersville
Coroner Howard B. Hardin reports a 38 year old woman, Gertie Lee Tucker Martin, found drowned in Guntersville Lake after disappearing Monday. Relatives had searched. she had been despondent and threatened suicide. Survivors include her parents, three brothers, two sisters, and other relatives.
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Guntersville
Ala
Howard B. Hardin
Gertie Lee Tucker
Martlin
Guntersville Lake
Hardin
Lummie- Ticker
Marlin
J. C. Tucker
Zetiler
Tucker
Charles Tucker
Guntersvile
Lola Ridge
Forst Payne
Otha Nichols
Mobile
Police Seek Man Accused After Fatal Family Tragedy
Linden Alabama police search for Abraham Rembert a Black man accused of a deadly incident early this morning involving his wife during labor and her mother in law. Town Marshal Howard Honeycutt described the midwife as saying Rembert fatally harmed his wife with an ax blunt end after failing to provide money for the twins birth.
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Linden
Ala
Howard Honeycutt
Abraham Rembert
Honeycutt
Rembert
Rev Stedham Named Howard Center Director in Decatur
Rev Stedham, appointed by Howard College as director of the Decatur center of the Howard extension school, has long participated in the program since its inception. A Morgan County Baptist Association moderator and State Baptist Executive Board member, he leads a church with diploma-holding Sunday school teachers. He notes the Howard extension opening September 6 at Central Baptist Church with a strong fall enrollment anticipated.
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Beeen
Howard College
Decatur
Howard Extension School
Stedham
Morgan County Baptist Association
State Baptist Executive Board
Montgomery
Nashville
Howard
Central Baptist Church
Indicted Klansmen face recall and court appeals
Eighteen men indicted on flogging and related charges face a quick recall ruling as Morris contemplates an appeal to the Alabama supreme court. Ku Klux Klan leaders hesitate to supply membership lists, arguing it’s up to local klaverns to decide. Morris, released briefly, vows a statement soon while Klan heads weigh whether to reveal rosters.
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Hugh Locke
Alabama Supreme Court
Morris
Ku Klux Klavern
Alabama
Jai
Egyptian King Rameses III Armies Equipped with Iron Weapons
A fragment notes that Rameses III commanded armies well equipped with iron weapons. It also references a man who killed his mother-in-law after threatening her with a pistol before departing.
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Rameses III
Wall Street Gains Narrowly After Mixed Market Day
New York August 3 stock market rallied from morning declines and held near previous levels as narrow gains and losses balanced. Commonwealth and Southern led activity with blocks from 10 000 to 100 000 shares, touch 47 8. Gains came from Consolidated Natural Gas Shenley J I Case Goodrich US Rubber Air Reduction Southern Pacific American Power and Light Armour Montgomery Ward Spiegel’s fell after a half year loss report with leaders Allied Chemical Dow Chemical Johns Manville Studebaker US Steel and others retreating.
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New York
Commonwealth and
Southern
Schenley
J. I. Case
Goodrich
U. S. Rubber
Southern Pacific
American Power and Light
Armour
Montgomery Ward Spiegel
Allied Chemical
Dow Chemical
Johns-Manville
Studebaker
U. S. Steel
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Phelps Dodge
Great Northern Preferred
Twentieth Century-Fox
Markets at a Glance New York and Chicago Summary
Markets at a Glance reports mixed bonds with wavering trading, irregular cotton as traders hesitate, and Chicago wheat easy with cash prices down. Corn weak but crop outlook excellent, oats steady with fair Northwest yields, soybeans weak after early strength due to profit-taking. Hog prices rise 25 to 50 cents to a top of 23.25 while cattle are uneven 25 cents lower to 50 cents higher, top 28.00.
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New York
Chicago
North Georgia live poultry market steady amid good demand
USDA dispatch notes North Georgia live poultry market fully steady with solid demand. Dealers report weekly stock clearance and few heavy fryers available in most sections. Prices paid FOB farm for roilers and fryers picked up Tuesday afternoon and this morning ranged from 26 1/2 to 27 cents per pound, across all weights.
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Atlanta
USDA
North Georgia
Cotton futures uneven amid farm policy uncertainty
New York August market dull with hesitancy as traders await government crop estimates and farm bill clarity. Scattered liquidation and hedging were absorbed by mill buying and short covering, closing 30 cents higher to 25 cents lower than a prior close.
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N. Y
New York
Grain futures weakened as wheat and corn drop on profit-taking
Chicago headlines show selling pressure late in the session on the Board of Trade. Wheat settled 3-4 to 1 3-8 lower with September at 2.02 7-8. Corn slid 2 to 2 1-4 lower, September 1.25 and oats mixed from 1-8 to 3-8 higher. Rye fell 1 to 1 1-2 lower, September 1.49 1-4 to 1.49. Soybeans dropped 13-4 to 2 3-4, November 2.33 1-4 to 3-4. Lard declined 17 to 40 cents per hundred pounds, September 12.47 to 12.52.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Nashville Livestock Market Report Highlights Mixed Prices
Nashville buyers and sellers moved through cattle hogs and sheep with mixed results. Cattle mostly steady to lower on common and medium offerings, veal and good yearlings higher, cows and bulls varied. Hogs showed gains in good and choice weights, while lambs and sheep remained uneven with late bids softer.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Federal
State Departments of Agriculture
Premier star program to break up Japanese trusts
Eleven large corporations were targeted for de concentration under a premier star program. Some observers hailed the plan as successfully executed while others called it a failure, reflecting differing opinions on its effectiveness.
Florida vacationers return from trip to Hartselle
Mr and Mrs Max Sabotka, with sons John Bob and Joe, and Mrs J T Burch of Hartselle, came back from a week in Florida. Also noted temperature readings at T V A sub station with a noon high of 87 and a morning rainfall of 0 5 inches. In recorder's court two cases were tried for public drunkenness and assault and battery.
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Max Sabotka
John Bob
Joe
J. T. Burch
Hartselle
Florida
Recorder’s Court
Patrolman Is Freed by Jury
Pensacola Florida August 3 a quick acquittal in major cases from a six month anti gambling drive. Patrolman Clyde Johnson freed by directed verdict in a gambling charge at the San Carlos hotel Judge Ernest E Mason after a jury acquitted Whipple Gandy who claimed immunity for providing information. Hamp E Gandy former deputy sheriff and brother of Whipple freed on a charge as accessory in operating a gambling house. Gandy denied accepting $35 to permit gaming at Martines last September. More than 30 gambling cases tried since last March produced a 4500 dollar fine for Pete Pearl and smaller fines for others. Only two or three minor cases remain.
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Pensacola
Fla
Clyde Johnson
San Carlos
Ernest E. Mason
Whipple Gandy
Gandy
Hamp E. Gandy
Whipple
Hamp Gandy
Martine
Peté Pearl
Mrs. Starkey Laid to Rest in Athens
Funeral services for 82 year old Mrs. Mary E. Starkey of Athens were held at Spry chapel with Rev. RB Lavender officiating. Burial followed at Sandlin cemetery. She had been a Methodist for 68 years and is survived by six children, 11 grandchildren, and 11 great grandchildren. Pallbearers named. honorary pallbearers listed.
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Mary E. Starkey
Athens
Spry
RB Lavender
Sandlin
Starkey
Walter
Blanche
Tenn
Carloss
Nelson
Florence
C. C. Lockmiller
Ed Tuten
Hal Sherber
Red Cross Swim Lessons Close Under Miss Gunn
The Morgan Red Cross announces Miss Gunn will leave to attend a free school in Brevard North Carolina by August 2. She has conducted beginners classes for 25 students and an adult intermediate class for four persons. Classes were closed as she departs.
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Betty Gun
Red Cross
Morgan Red Cross
Miss Gunn
Brevard
N. C
Faricy Named Head of Civilian Reserve Policy Board
Chicago attorney and railroad official William Thomas Fariey was appointed head of the national military establishment's new civilian reserve policy board. The appointment by Secretary of Defense Johnson marks another step to strengthen the nation’s military setup.
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Faricy
Washington
William Thomas Fariey
Chicago
National Military Establishment
New
Civian Reserve Policy Board
Farieyy
Defense
Johnson
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