Inflation Warnings Roil Capitol Yet No Immediate Danger
Washington observers warn of inflation potential driven by new government spending and pension boosts. Most experts expect 1950 to remain prosperous with high income and production, though disinflation lingers in key industries. Congress unlikely to grant broad price controls, while credit powers may face tweaks. Inflation risks hinge on pension costs and wage hikes, with steel and auto sectors watching for price adjustments.
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Sterling Fb
Green
Washington
Truman
Bank
Douglas
D-Ill
Congress
White House
Federal Reserve Board
Treasury
Federal Reserve
Eccles
Snyder
Thomas B. McCabe
Douglas’ Committee
Atomic weapons and policy debate cited in old article
The piece cites Lilienthal on atomic bomb implications and U.S. peacetime needs while noting beliefs Russians may have tested an atomic device. It also shows classified ad snippets for a travel job, a used car offer, and a Plymouth convertible sale, reflecting era classifieds.
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Lilienthal
Truman
Nashville Markets Clear Broad Range in Cattle Hogs and More
Federal State Agriculture reports Nashville粮 cattle market steady with steers and heifers 18.00 to 24.00, calves 26.00 to 31.00, hogs 15.50 for 180 to 230 lb, sows 13.25 to 13.50, sheep lambs 20.50 to 22.50. Grain and other items include corn 1.20 ear white, 1.15 ear yellow, wheat 2.10, oats 0.18, cotton products and milk $5.50 per hundred.
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Nashville
Tenn
North Georgia live poultry market edges down
In Atlanta on December 5 the USDA reports a weak live poultry market in North Georgia with prices 25 to 28 cents FOB farm for broilers and fryers, mostly 25.5 to 26.5 cents. Supplies are adequate and trucking demand is good while dressing plant demand remains fair.
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Atlanta
USDA
Georgia
Mrs Stroupe Called Home Remembrance for Adah Stroup
Mrs Adah Stroup 78 died Monday morning at her daughter's home in Decatur. Services will be Tuesday at 2 30 PM at Memorial Drive Methodist Church with Rev R L Baker and Rev I H Estes. Burial in city cemetery by Brown's. Surviving are daughter Mrs Hugh Leeman brother Walter Stephenson grandson Robert Hugh Leeman. Pallbearers named. Born in Lawrence County she lived there most of life. Widow of A R Stroup who died in November 1947.
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Adah Stroup
Memorial Drive Methodist Church
R. L. Baker
I. H. Estes
Stroup
Leeman
Walter Stephenson
Moulton
Robert Hugh Leeman
Decature
Lawrente County
A. R. Stroup
Robert Leeman
Cecil Sparkman
Lee Dendy
Kylie Martin
Ferrell Martin
Claude McRight
Burglary Charge Placed on Dee Barnett in Somerville
Dee Barnett a 51 year old Somerville man is jailed in Morgan County on a double burglary charge. He was arrested Sunday after the Dunnaway and Watkins homes were burglarized while families were away. Sheriff C B Humphrey says Barnett took a shotgun from each home some silver money clothing and an alarm clock from Dunnaway and a government check from Watkins. Most of the missing property has been recovered. Barnett was arrested by Chief Deputy W H Kirkpatrick and Deputy Garland Nuby.
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Dee Barnett
Somerville
Morgan County
James Dunnaway
Hoyt Watkins
C. B. Humphrey
Barnett
Dunnaway
Watkins
W. H. Kirkpatrick
Garland Nuby
Woman Witness Key in Wyatt Case at Circuit Court
The case of Mrs. Wyatt involving false pretense forgery and signature fraud hinges on her availability as a witness in ongoing county finances probes. Nine co-defendants await trial as part of the two week circuit term presided by Circuit Judge W J Harrison with other judges handling different dockets. D C Littlefield of Clanton faces eight counts and will begin after the Wyatt matter concludes. his case may extend into the following day.
Six Escape as Car Overturns Near Hart Selle Mountain
Six people including a seven weeks old baby escaped injury when their car skidded on rain slick roads and overturned in a ditch on the Beeline highway near Hart selle mountain while returning to Louisville from Birmingham. About 300 dollars in body damage reported.Authorities said no identifications available and an Associated Press dispatch noted a weekend rash of Alabama traffic deaths in Dothan area including Lemuel Roy Hughes Jr. 21 of WAGF, Mrs. Joseph C. Wilson of Knoxville, Tenn., Isaac Crews 18 of Dothan, and James Edward Ray 30 in critical condition after a bridge incident. Troy Douglas 24 faces reckless driving charge.
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Hartselle Mountain
Highway Patrol
Louisville
Birmingham
Dothan
Alabama
Associated Press
Lemuel Roy Hughes Jr
WAGF
Joseph C. Wilson
Knoxville
James Edward Ray
Troy Douglas
Ray
Dixie League Names Art Decatur President
The Dixie League, a proposed five North Alabama towns and Rome Georgia circuit, elected Art Decatur as president. Members include Rome Gadsden Anniston Florence Decatur and Huntsville. They seek official recognition in Baltimore after Gadsden and Anniston are released by the Southeastern League.
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Gadsden
Ala
North Alabama
Rome
Art” Decatur
Talladoga
Baltimore
Decatur
Anniston
Florence
Huntsville
Ben Chapman
George Trautman
Minor Leagues Association
FHA Sets Rules on Racial Covenants After Supreme Court Ruling
FHA Commissioner Franklin D. Richards issues guidance to field offices to align policies with court decisions. New rules apply only to covenants filed after the effective date and require mortgagors to certify no race based sale or occupancy restrictions. Violations render the mortgage balance due. Rules exclude prior covenants and pre date mortgages, and do not curb owner hiring or sales choices.
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FHA
Franklin D. Richards
Richards
Supreme Court
Indictments Link County Officials to Embezzlement Case
The final indictments name W. E. Huddleston, a gasoline distributor, and probate officials W. L. Parish and J. Lee Smith among others. The year-long audit, covering Oct 1 1946 to Sept 30 1948, alleges $237,296 misappropriated in county funds.
Shirley Temple Divorces John Agar in Los Angeles
Shirley Temple, 21, widow divorcée, testifies that her marriage to actor John Agar, 28, was turbulent. She alleges he paid attention to other women, drank heavily, and once brought another woman into her bedroom while she was five months pregnant. She recalls him leaving her alone in night clubs, dancing with others, and returning home drunk with lipstick. They wed September 19, 1945 in Beverly Hills and have a daughter, Linda Susan, 22 months old. separation began October 12 preceding the divorce filing.
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Los Angeles
Shirley Temple
John Agar
Agar
Miss Temple
Beverly Hills
Calif
Air Force
Movieland
Linda Susan
Evansville youth confesses to unpremeditated murder
Slay told officers he killed Miss Harmon after forcing her to bend over in a car. He described striking her seven times with a hammer from a tool chest while planning to kill himself at a bridge. The victim had a three inch hole in her left temple and seven blows to the back of the head. Slay, son of Griffin Indiana residents, was arrested in Limestone County on a traffic charge and later extradited to Indiana. He now faces grand jury proceedings in February after waiving extradition and admitting guilt to the murder.
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Hansch
Evansville
The
Daily Today
Limestone County
Limestone
John Sandlin
Indiana
Athens
R. A. Troupe
FBI
Marvin Huff
Huff
Nashville
Slav
Mary
Kentucky
Ollie Reeves
Spercer Fayne
Charles Kinsen
Christian County
Hopkinsville
Jorido
W. E. Slay
Griffin
Ind
Miss Harmon
Jeff Harmon
Swift's Packing Co
Harmons
Local Notes and Weather From Decatur Area
Dismissals and admissions reported from Hamil Clinic and Decatur General hospital. Birth announced at Baugh Wiley clinic. Visitors and travel notes include Auburn Alabama game attendance in Birmingham and Decatur sightings. Temperatures recorded with 49 degrees noon and 49 high later. 30 degree low noted by weather observer. Judge and Mrs Crow attended Auburn Alabama game.
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Decatur
TVA
U.S
Southern Held In Contempt for Train Shutdown
Alabama Public Service Commission held Southern Railway in contempt for suspending two Birmingham to Columbus trains without ICC authorization after a coal strike. A hearing on Southern's petition to permanently remove trains No 11 and 16 was scheduled for Fayette on December 8. The commission warned of up to $1,000 daily fines for noncompliance.
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Ala
Southern Railway
Alabama Public Service Commission
Fayette
Southern
Birmingham
Columbus
Miss
Gordon Persons
State Commission
ICC
Public Service Commission
Mrs Rhinehart Dies in Decatur at 76 Final rites set for Tuesday
Mrs Mattie Ozella Rhinehart 76 dies at home on Moulton Street age listed. Final rites scheduled Tuesday at 10 a.m. with Rev W N Guthrie and Rev R L Baker. burial in city cemetery. She came to Decatur in 1907, widow of Eddie Fowler Rhinehart who died in 1949. survivors include three daughters two sons three sisters and seven grandchildren two great grandchildren.
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Mattie Ozella Rhinehart
Moulton Street
R. L. Baker
City Cemetery
Brown
Rhinehart
Moulton
T.E. Speer
Louisville
Ethel Rhinehart
Decatur
Forest Logsdon
Allen C. Rhinehart
Rome
Lewis A. Rhinehart
Decatur 2
D. S. Blackwell
Huntsville
F.B. Chadick
Lake Charles
G.D. Barksdale
Eddie Fowler Rhinehart
Unidentified Hero Rescues Boy From Road Incident
Mrs. Ray Kelly credits an unidentified man with carrying her three year old son Andy to safety after he tumbled from a car on Somerville road near Decatur General hospital. Andy sustained a scalp wound and was kept for observation. the mother seeks the man’s identity.
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Ray Kelly
Andy
Kelly
East Gordon Drive
Jarvis
Casto Jarvis
Decatur General Hospital
Somerville Road
Three State Probe Involves Officers From Three States
Officers from Alabama Indiana and Kentucky participated in a joint investigation with Alabama special investigator Sergeant W B Little Evansville Detective Chief George Hansch Lt Marvin Huff Vanderburgh County deputies Evansville Police Chief Paul Bonham and Kentucky State Highway Patrolmen Spercer Fayne Charles Klason among others.
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Indiana
Kentucky
Ei RA Troupe
W. B. Little
Evansville
George Hansch
Marvin Huff
Vanderburgh County
Sheriff's Office
al” Gross
Paul Bonham
Spercer Fayne
Charles Klason
Atomic shipment charges shadow Great Falls tale
Fresh committee hearings loom as Louis Rus sell prepares to reveal committee findings. Witnesses Wood, Walter, Moulder, and Harrison attend. Ex-officials dispute Jordan’s Great Falls claims of atomic material routes to Russia via Alaska, with other veterans offering conflicting memories and readiness to testify under oath.
Flogging Trials At Birmingham Delayed by Ill Witness
In Birmingham Alabama on December 5 a circuit judge postponed the start of flogging trial proceedings for three men charged in a hooded night rider attack. The delay followed illness of witness Jack Alexander, one of the three flogged victims, who had been sought by court deputies.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alta Kingee Seociants
Jack Alexander
Alexander
Catholic bishops warn of religious fight over Czechoslovakia church law
Czechoslovakia’s Roman Catholic bishops warned a religious clash could erupt if the state does not modify a new church control law. In a 2200-word Nov 17 letter they urged revising the law of Nov 1 to align with church constitutions, saying the state would be responsible for any ensuing religious conflict. There are 9 million Catholics in a 13 million population.
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Czechoslovakia
Miners Stand Firm as Lewis Returns to Work
Miners and operators have not budged since Lewis’s contract expired last June 30. Unions report workers welcomed Lewis back, while Kentucky truck mine operators reportedly mull a separate deal for a five day week and a pay raise to 15 dollars daily with royalty increases to 35 cents. Moody of the Southern Coal Producers Association and Tierney of Eastern Coal urge caution, saying the Kentucky plan is limited and not indicative of broader action. Directors plan a Washington meeting as talks stalled. In Alabama, diggers cheer Lewis’s return as a Christmas boon.
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Kentucky
Joseph E. Moody
The
Southern Coal Producers Association
Laurence T. Tierney, Jr
Eastern Coal Corporation
Bluefield
W. Va
SCPA
Moody
Washington
Alabama
Hoover aide Warns Against Cuts to Outlays in Modern Budget
Senator O Mahoney told a reporter that cutting highway building pollution control and other outlays would curb business and cast a wet blanket on the economy. He said current 75 percent of the budget goes to defense international payments veterans benefits and interest. He urged curtailing only to meet obligations and contend taxes should be revised to spur business and raise revenue. His committee will review budget procedures with Budget Director Pace and hold hearings on business investment with the Commerce Department’s small business advisory group.
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Senate-House Economic Committee
O‘mahoney
Truman
O’mahoney
Air Pace
Defense Opens In Rome Trial
In Rome Georgia December five the defense called witnesses to support alibis for ten defendants in a mass civil rights trial. Woodrow Daniel testified he was in Alabama near Long Island across the state line on April two the night seven negroes were flogged. Prosecutors allege Dade County Sheriff John W Lynch deputies and others conspired to violate civil rights by arresting the men and delivering them to Ku Klux Klansmen for whipping. Judge Frank A Hooper had already directed verdicts of innocence for two indicted men ex Postmaster L C Spears and Trenton city recorder John Wilkins.
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Rome
Woodrow Daniel
Dade County
John W. Lynch
L C. Spears
Trenton, Ga
Trenton
John Wilkins
Soviet Plans Robeson Film
The Soviet Union will make a motion picture about Paul Robeson with the screenplay by Anatole Surov, author of The Mad Haberdasher. The film titled Paul Robeson is announced with few details, while Robeson remains a celebrated figure in the USSR. His bust stands on a mountain peak in central Asia and his portrait is seen in Moscow, where his records are popular and he recently visited as a Peace Congress delegate.
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Soviet Union
Paul Robeson
Anatole Surov
Mad Haberdasher
Truman
Central Asia
Revolution Square
Robeson
Russia
Runge Rites Held Tuesday
Funeral services for Maxie Million Runge age 69 of Falkville were held at Union Hill church in South Morgan county with Rev. Hence Davenport officiating. Burial followed at the adjoining cemetery. Surviving are wife Cora Runge five daughters two step daughters one son and a step son plus two brothers, all named.
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Maxie Million Runge
Falkville
Union Hill
Morgan County
Davenport
Peck
Runge
Harteselle
Mons
Cora Runge
J. W. Haren
C. E. Runge
Lacon 1
T. A. Runge
James C Lang Laid to Rest in Valdermosa Springs
James Clinton Lang aged 60 lies in rest after sudden death Saturday evening. Funeral services and burial at Valdermosa Springs church today at 2 pm conducted by Rev Robert Gle with Peck directing burial. Survived by sons James and Glenn Lang of Manila Ark, sister Delia McCutcheon of Valdermosa Springs, brothers Will of Hartselle Lonnie and Delzer of Huntsville Lloyd of Talucah, half brother Charles Wilson of Valdermosa Springs. Pallbearers listed.
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James Clinton Lang
Valdermosa Springs
Robert Gle
Peck
Arkansas
James Lang
Glenn Lang
Manilla
Ark
Delia McCutcheon
Valhermosa Springs
Will
Hartselle
Lonnie
Delzer
Huntsville
Lloyd
Talucah
Charles Wilson
Woodrow
Jack Wilson
Ollie
Henry
James Brown
Herbert Mce- Cutcheon
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