Cotton Prices Swing Wide Amid Market Uncertainty
New York August 3 The cotton market showed wide fluctuations over the past week with active New York futures gaining 7.9 to 11.8 cents per bale. Gains were strongest for distant deliveries while nearby contracts rose after prior losses, aided by higher textile ceilings and sustained export demand despite liquidation and profit taking.
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New York
New York Cotton Exchange
France
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Hollywood celebrates talking pictures amid mature industry talk
Hollywood notes mark Warner Brothers twenty years of sound film with a premiere for Night and Day and praise for Cary Grant and Jane Wyman. Louis Calhern comments on humility for actors arriving from Broadway and the growing strength of leading men in cinema.
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Howard C. Heyn
Hollywood
Louis Calhern
Glamorville
Calhern
Morosov
Dan Duryea
Warner Brothers
Talking Pictures
Warners’ Theatre
Cole Porter
Cary Grant
Jane Wyman
Max Factor Jr Warns Against Using Television Make Up
Lawrence County notes advise against television makeup for everyday grooming. Factor calls the product too light and chalky looking and hopes non professional use will fade. The column also lists local social visits and dinners among residents including the Waldrops and Parkers.
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Max Factor Jr
Hollywood
Factor
Young Hollywood Grandchildren Visit Cullman
Mrs. M L Hooten hosts her daughter Lorene Hairston and her children Dee Ann seven and Randy five and a half in Cullman. Randy acted Pinnocchio in Too Young To Know and stars in Festival of Spring. Dee Ann is Hollywood Roller Bowl mascot and aims for a future like Marilyn Miller. South Africa mines more gold annually than the US, Canada and Australia.
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Cullman
the Tribune
M. L. Hooten
F. B. Hairston
Lorene Hooten
Dee Ann
Randy
Hollywood
Calif
Pinncchio
Marilyn Miller
Miller
Vigilantes Run Athens After Six Hour Gun Battle
Veterans backed by a vigilante committee seized control of McMinn County Tennessee after a six hour gun battle that toppled Sheriff Pat Mansfield and his deputies. The ex GI ticket led by Knox Henry will govern from Sept. 1 as patrols and hospital cases are addressed.
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Athens
Tenn
McMinn County
Bernie Hampton
Pat Mansfield
Mansfield
Hampton
C. F. Webb
Chattanooga
J. W. Neal
Bryan Sharp
Biscuit Farris
Knox Henry
Jim Buttram
Buttram
Quarterly County
Community News from Morgan County and Rocky Ford
Southern Bell Telephone continues line construction in the Morgan County area. Weekend visits include Rev and Mrs Addie Wallace of Forest Chapel and families of Higdon, McNutt, and Rodgers. Discharged sailor Bernard McCloskey and Pvt Hollis Sparkman both appeared in local social rounds.
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Southern Bell Telephone Company
Addie Wallace
Forest Chapel
J. W. Rodgers
Dorothy
Roman Higdon
Arlene McAbee
Mary Higdon
Roy Higdon
Amandie Aldridge
Edd
Lorene
Danville
Gaines McNutt
Ozelle
Imogene
Alyne West
Silous Leeman
Birmingham
Bernard McCloskey
Navy
J. H. Edwards
Willie Pred
Jewel Roberts
Hollis Sparkman
Pittsburgh
Calif
Loyd C. Betterton
Decatur
Milisa Woodall
Sara Stephenson
Sue Stephenson
Purein Wallace and Son
A W. Taylor
Cullman Golf Club Rejuvenates Local Course
The Cullman Banner reports work on the Cullman Golf Course has begun as the Cullman Golf Club renovates to offer a locally playable course soon. Members urge timely dues payment to cover the year running from July to July, with Dr. Harry Fuller Jr. serving as treasurer.
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Cullman
Cullman Golf Club
Cullman Club
Harry Fuller, Jr
Tobacco grows in Alabama counties boost farm income
Conecuh County Agent H. E. Logue reports rising tobacco farming in Conecuh Butler and Covington counties. Seventeen Conecuh farmers last year netted about 12 000 dollars and about 120 people are employed this season in the tobacco trade.
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Ala
Conecuh
Butler
Covington
H. E. Logue
Logue
Miss Verner Named Director of Tuscaloosa Guidance Service
Miss Clara Verner long time principal of Tuscaloosa High School is named director of a new counseling and guidance service in the Tuscaloosa school system. Dr J H Hadley, the school superintendent, announced the appointment.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Clara Verner
Tuscaloosa—high School
J. H. Hadley
Insurance sets for vets moving files in five states
Six billion dollars in life insurance for World War II veterans is being organized in five Southeastern states. Vans from New York delivered National Service Insurance files to Montgomery as part of a larger 20 million file project. VA staff began sorting the 1.3 million records into 100000 file cells to establish numerical order.
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New York
Montgomery
National Service
VA Thruout
America
Incomplete regional inquiry on a tie landing line
Fragmentary report notes a tie landing in a line of about 100000 during decentralization, contrasting with a prior line of around 20 million. No clear person, place, or event names are identifiable.
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Georgia
Alab Nan
Aete
Florida
South
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