Truman signs armed services unification measure
President Truman signed the new armed services unification bill in the Oval Office, aiming to create a balanced national defense and give Secretary of Defense Johnson expanded control over the military. Johnson moved quickly, naming a defense management committee led by General Joseph T. McNarney to cut defense costs while preserving effectiveness.
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Washington
Armed ‘Services ‘Unification
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Oval Room
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Army
Navy
Air Force
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National Security Council
Commission On Organization
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Council
Tydings
Gray
Symington
Matthews
Johnson
National Defense Management Committee
Defense Department
Joseph T. McNarney
Daniel A. Kimball
Eugene M. Zuckert
McNarney
Air Force Material Command
Department of Defense
Senators Seek Pacific Views on War Aid Plan
A group of ten senators urged Secretary of Defense Johnson to recall General Douglas MacArthur from Japan to obtain his view on the foreign arms aid bill worth 1.45 billion dollars. The letter noted global implications and asked for MacArthur and Vice Admiral Oscar C. Badger to be consulted before the vote. Senator Knowland and twelve others proposed earmarking 175 million for non communist China. Signers included Knowland Byrd Bridges Smith Hickenlooper Morse Wiley Saltonstall Baldwin Gurney.
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Virginia
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Pacific
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R-Calif
China
Iowa
Morse
Oregon
Wiley
Wisconsin
Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Baldwin
Connecticut
Gurney
South Dakota
Strategy for 67 senator bill delays in Alabama Senate
In Montgomery on August 10, the Folsom administration pushes a 67 senator bill by using a calendar strategy. Two identical bills exist, one in the Senate and one in the House. the Senate version sits idle while awaiting action on the House bill to avoid risking a deadlock. With seven days left, leadership hopes an all night session will speed the reapportionment bill to a vote before appropriation measures consume time.
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Folsom
Senate
House
Thic Rasean
Valley Forest Lands Gain Fire Protection Status
All public forest lands in the Valley totaling 2 643 000 acres now receive adequate fire protection. Private lands in the Virginia portion are included. TVA demonstrations spur organization in North Carolina and Alabama counties, while five million acres in Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee still lack organized protection.
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Virginia
North Carolina
Alabama
Georgia
Kentucky
Mississippi
Tennessee
Saw yer to Visit Birmingham on Economic Tour
Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer will visit Birmingham tomorrow as part of a 17 city tour to study economic conditions. He is set to hold a press conference and then a closed meeting with business and industrial leaders.
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Sawyer
Birmingham
Commerce
Charles Sawyer
Market gains extend fraction to near two points
A steady recovery move in New York stocks pushed gains to about two points with rails and oils leading. Air lines barely budged. West Penn Electric hits a yearly high for demand while Alleghany preferred rises over two points to a fresh high. Several majors including Superior Oil, Barnsdahl Oil, Santa Fe, U S Steel, Chrysler and others show higher quotes.
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New York
West Penn Electric
Alleghany Preferred
United Corp
Superior Oi
California
Barnsdal! Oi
Anderson- Pri
Cotton futures steady on trade buying and hedge activity
New York August 10 The cotton market showed firmness as traders covered short positions and bought on trade. A large spot purchase of 6,000 to 7,000 bales was attributed to a leading buyer. The ECA added a cotton credit totaling 10,675,000 with 8,000,000 for Bizone Germany and 2,675,000 for Austria covering deliveries through March 1970.
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New York
ECA
Germany
Austria
Grain futures close mixed on Board of Trade
Chicago grain prices ended with partial recovery but mostly lower. Wheat fell about 4 cents to around 2.04 a bushel for September, corn down 4 cents to roughly 1.24, oats and rye eased, soybeans gained about 10 cents to near 2.38 for November, and lard rose 2 to 10 cents a hundred pounds with September at about 12.77.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
North Georgia live poultry market steady amid good demand
Atlanta reports the North Georgia live poultry market held steady with demand strong. Supplies have cleared to near heavy fryer levels, with prices paid FOB farm or picked up Tuesday afternoon and this morning mostly at 26 1-2 to 27 1-2 cents per pound, averaging around 27 cents for most weights.
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Atlanta
USDA
North Georgia
Nashville Livestock Market Report August 10
Nashville reports cattle at 500 head with steady demand across medium to good grades. Bulls, heifers, and yearlings show firm prices, calves at 25 to 27, hogs steady with overs 22 to 25, sows 15 to 16, sheep at 17 to 24 for slaughterers. heavy weights scarce.
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Federal
State Departments of Agriculture
Guo
Moulton Man Hurt in Crash Near Home
H P Warren 56 a Moulton car penter is treated in a Moulton hospital after an 11 am crash near his home two miles south of Wren road. He has a compound fracture of the left arm and heavy bruises. The jeep was struck by a county rock truck driven by Luther Boyles Jr 19 of Mr Hope. Warren’s wife says he was turning into his driveway when the accident occurred.
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Wren Road
Warren
Theo
Tommy Montgomery
Luther Boyles, Jr
Hope
Highway Patrol
W.B. Little
D. A. Hansard
Southern Page Resents Being Called Rebel
A 17 year old Arkansas house page Tucker Oliver, serving for a month, knocked down a New York page after objecting to being called a rebel during a discussion on segregation in a Washington pool. Oliver and the New Yorker later shook hands and became friends.
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Proctor
Ark
New York
Arkansan
Tucker Oliver
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Gathings
Oliver
Texas
Capitol Pages
New Yorker
West Germany Membership Debate in Council of Europe
In Strasbourg August 10 former French premier Edouard Herriot said a division of minds exists on admitting Germans to the new Council of Europe. He noted Western Germany must show it bears no aggressive aims as delegates discuss life and death issues for Europe and strive toward greater unity outside the Soviet orbit. France fears German aggression given history.
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France
Edouard Herriot
Council of Europe
Council
Consultative Assembly
Herriot
Germany
Europe
Western
Agriculture forecast for 1947 corn and wheat crops
The Agriculture Department projects this year's corn harvest at 3,538,257,000 bushels and wheat at 1,131,830,000. Corn output rises by 8,072,000 bushels from last month while wheat drops by 56,860,000 bushels. Compared with last year’s records and the ten year averages, corn exceeds and wheat lags the prior figures.
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Bulletin Washington
Agriculture Department
Fire damages Mrs Fodders home on Eighth Avenue West
Decatur fire department reports heavy damage at Vera Fodders home 45 Eighth Avenue West with porch and kitchen destroyed and smoke throughout the five room house. Neighbors spotted the blaze about 5:30 p.m. Mrs Fodders was away. Fire started on the back porch and the house is insured. A second call reported on Sam Hobbs residence 1717 Tenth Avenue East with no serious loss from a switch box fire. Alarm at 2:15 p.m.
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Eighth Avenue West
Elkins
Sam Hobbs
Tenth Avenue East
Senate Battles Over House Amendments and Tax Bills
The Senate backed delaying a roll call while awaiting the house vote, as two constitutional amendments remained alive. The house defeated a 5 percent corporate income tax measure 47-38, then reconsidered it. A $40 million road bond plan died for that bill, but a companion measure stays under Senate review as anti reapportionment senators stall a 67 senator bill. The house failed to reach a three fifths majority, ruling out the proposal though it could be reconsidered.
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Norman Harris
Morgan County
Senate
Pacific Pact Backed by Quirino and Chiang
U S moral support urged for a new Pacific anti communist pact proposed by Quirino and Chiang. Australian Defense Minister Dedman said Canberra would welcome a far East alliance like the Atlantic pact. U S military chiefs reported to Senate committees after surveying European Atlantic treaty defenses. Lt Gen Van Fleet announced 49 American dive bombers will be delivered to Greece. Greek staff reported advances against guerrillas in Grammos. Czechoslovak newspapers mocked the Vatican and claimed Eastern bloc democracies would defeat the Pope's excommunication of militants.
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John Dedman
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Athens
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Prague
Nickel production in Canada surpasses five thousand tons by 1902
In 1902 Canada produced more than 5,000 tons of nickel, marking a notable increase in domestic mining output. This milestone highlights the growing scale of Canadian metallurgy and its impact on industrial development at the turn of the century.
Vandenberg Plans Half Payment for Atlantic Armies
In a closed door House Foreign Affairs meeting Senator Vandenberg proposed funding half of the 4.16 billion dollar European re armament program with the other half authorized to contract for arms later. The plan spreads costs over two years without reducing total arms for Europe. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson said he could accept the plan if the overall arms total remains intact, noting delivery cannot occur in one year.
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Vandenberg
Congress
Europe
Louis Johnson
Safe Is Robbed At Courthouse
Tuscaloosa county deputies report a double theft last night with a large safe in the county courthouse clerk of circuit court Perry Hughes Jr unseen at opening. About 3000 to 4000 dollars vanished from the safe while a separate burglary at Caffey Junction on the Tuscaloosa Birmingham highway netted merchandise valued at about 1000 dollars.
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Ala
Caffey Junction
Bibb County
John Henry Luther
Perry B. Hughes Jr
Suther
Luther
Hughes
Tuscaloosa-Birmingham
Tanforan track blessing eyed by Senate committee
Senate investigators questioning ties between government action on the Tanforan track and possible improper influence in federal contracting. The panel plans to hear from Albert W. Lewitt Clarence H. Oehler and others while pursuing charges tied to five per center dealings and a war asset sale of the Lido Beach Hotel. Rescue scenes described as late as a mass of ruins with workers passing stones and mournful cries.
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Vaughan
Tanforan
Hoey
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Woods
Albert W. Lewitt
Lewitt
Albert Hawkes
New Jersey
Hawkes
Clarence H. Oehler
War Assets Administration
Chicago
Oehler
American Industrial Development Corporation of
St. Louis
Lido Beach Hotel
Long Island
N. Y
James V. Hunt
Paul D. Grinedle
Massachusetts
Hunt
Army Quartermaster Corps
Hawaii Ships Blocked as Union Engineers Stand Firm
Hawaii officials including Stainback order engineers not to sail while a Hawaiian legislature emergency law bans strikes or concerted activity that could disrupt government dock operations. John Perry confirms the order from Washington. Isthmian Line plans for a 10 day Hawaii to Atlantic coast sailing schedule may be wrecked as two ships already sail under a non union stevedore firm. The seizure targets McCabe, Hamilton & Renny Co. and Castle & Cooke Terminals Ltd.
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John Perry
Honolulu
Washington
Stainback
Marine Engineers
Hawaii
Atlantic Coast
Isthmian Line
Castle & Cooke Ltd
McCabe
Hamilton & Renny Co
Castle & Cooke Terminals Ltd
July Rainfall Above Normal Totals
July rainfall in the Valley was well above normal for the second consecutive month with about 5.9 inches, 123 percent of the 4.79-inch monthly norm. June reached 134 percent of normal, while Chattanooga saw 7.1 inches above and 4.7 inches below the city’s July norms. Across the Tennessee River basin for 1949, rainfall averaged 36.3 inches, 112 percent of the 32.46-inch July baseline.
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Chattanooga
Tennessee River Basin
Ambato road scene amid rainfall drought areas
Men lined the dirt airstrip road near Ambato a provincial capital of 35 000 residents fifty miles south of Quito as rain stayed away in many areas.
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Ambato
Quito
Air Force ships water purifying chemicals to Ecuador quake area
A giant C-74 Globemaster flew from Mobile carrying 2000 pounds of water purifying chemicals and 1700 pounds of blood plasma to aid earthquake victims in Guayaquil. The mission, arranged by the 1601st air transport group, bypassed Puerto Rico and went via the Panama Canal Zone for the final leg. The appeal from Ecuador’s health minister warned that without purified water an epidemic could follow.
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Ala
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Globemaster
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Panama Canal Zone
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MATS
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School Lunch Reimbursement Rates Set and Records Urged
Leeman announced group lunches will be reimbursed at seven cents each for A type meals, up from last year’s six cent maximum. The county urges permanent student records from grade school through high school, timely school repairs, and county support in maintenance with supplied materials. Attendees include S M Dollar Austinville Floyd Key Falkville L E Wooten Ctaco D M Waldrop Pleasant Hill QO Williams Moulton Heights Randolph Ryan S D Whitten Flint Murray Braswell Neal E C McDaniel Union Hill G O Spencer Danville L E Bagwell Trinity D A Cox Eva Malcolm Stephenson Massey C O Bone Plainview John Harding Morgan County High School F E Burleson Hartselle Elementary Floyd W Briscoe Priceville Paul Tidwell Florette.
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Falkville
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Pleasant Hill
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Moulton Heights
Randolph Ryan
Ryan
S. D. Whitten
Flint
Murray Braswell
Neal
E. C. McDaniel
Union Hill
G. O. Spencer
Danville
L. E. Bagwell
Trinity
D. A .Cox
Eva
Malcolm Stephenson
Massey
C. O. Bone
Plainview
John Harding
Morgan County High School
F. E. Burleson
Hartselle
Floyd W. Briscoe
Priceville
Paul Tidwell
Florette
Grand Larceny Charged To Negro In Decatur
A 21 year old black man, John Henry Terry, is jailed in Morgan county on grand larceny charges. Police say he stole a girl’s bicycle from Cornelia McCann of 316 Fourth Avenue West and tried to sell it for 10 dollars. Officer Wade Jacobs investigated.
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John Henry Terry
Morgan
Decatur
Terry
Cornelia McCann
Fourth Avenue West
Wade Jacobs
Tribute to Herbert Hoover at Stanford University
Herbert Hoover, 75, receives worldwide tributes on his birthday with a Stanford University ceremony in Frost Amphitheater to honor the former president and notable alumnus. About 12 000 to 14 000 expected as Governor Earl Warren proclaims Hoover Day and letters of congratulations pour in.
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Calif
Herbert Clark Hoover
Frost
Hoover
Mr. Hoover
Arkansas
Maryland
Earl Warren Califonia
New Mexico
Vermont
Idaho
Alabama
Virginia
South Dakota
Kansas
New York
Washington
Iowa
Leland Stanford University
United States
Truman
Lou Henry
Stanford
South Dakota Farm Tests Aided by TVA
Test demonstration farm activities are being initiated in South Dakota under a contract with TVA. This brings to 33 the number of test demonstration contracts executed with land-grant colleges. There are now 27 states actively participating, or ready for participation, in test demonstration activities.
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South Dakota
TVA
Lavoptik Eye Comfort Sells With 16 Years Of Trust
An old advertisement urges readers to protect eyes during long work by looking up and focusing distant points. It promotes Lavoptik as soothing for tired itchy eyes, boasting sixteen years of success and a money back guarantee at all druggists.
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Lavoptik
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