Subscriptions and wartime cautions amid Alabama college change
The note covers subscription rates and carrier delivery terms, warns about Christmas tree lighting safety, and reflects postwar recovery. It reports Alabama College at Montevallo ending male enrollment after the term and cites John L. Lewis attacking AFL leaders. It discusses 1941 newsprint shortages, Huntsville retirement plan details for 1948, and TVA scrutiny by Republicans. It closes with Christmas ticket gift ideas for stadiums and sympathy for duck hunters.
Rights and Strikes Clash Over Labor Tensions in Birmingham
Four men were arrested in Birmingham on charges of assault with intent to murder in the shooting of a milk truck driver, linked to a dairy labor dispute. The editorial argues both workers and strikers have rights and calls for lawful protection and restraint from violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Folsom visit contrasted with Miller governance critique
The Decatur piece compares Governor Folsom's anti self starter amendment stance with Governor Miller's 20th century push to retire warrants and restore Alabama's finances. It praises Miller's decorum and rational arguments while noting Folsom's administration shaped the current constitutional push and public response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Folsom
Decatur
B. M. Miller
Miller
Treasury
Rea
Alabama
Unknown atom bomb target Kokura hid under fog in 1945
The inside story explains how Maj. Charles Sweeney attempted to bomb Kokura on August 9 1945 but cloudy conditions led him to drop the second device on Nagasaki instead. Kokura remained obscured while Nagasaki suffered massive destruction with tens of thousands killed and wounded. Sweeney barely made an emergency landing with minimal fuel. Kokura lies between Hiroshima and Nagasaki with coal and industry nearby.
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Washington
Hirohito
Hiroshima
Peror
Nagasaki
Kokura
Maj
Charlies Sweeney
Tinian
U. S
Sweeney
Japan
Kyushu Island
Okinawa
Kyushu
Subversive Lists and Labor League Figures Feature in 1940s Labor News
Attorney General Tom Clark kept a list of subversive organizations at home for weeks to study before public release. The AFL considers ex Senators Mead and La Follette to head Labor's Educational and Political League. Mrs Chase Going Woodhouse criticizes the Democratic National Committee's women’s division while India Edwards leads the division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Clark
Jim Mead
New York
Bob LaFollette
Wisconsin
A. F
Labor
Chase Going Woodhouse
Connecticut
Democratic National Committee
India Edwards
Money Printing for U S Army in Germany and Korea
The Bureau of Printing and Engraving quietly printed new paper money for U S Army units in Germany and Korea. Guards and heavy secrecy surrounded the Tudor Press in East Boston as workers checked in under floodlights behind tinted windows. The operation moved sheets to Washington for cutting and numbering, then shipped to Brooklyn under rail police protection. A driver’s delay spurred aDispatcher inquiry by state police before the tale leaked to a Philadelphia newspaper.
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Germany
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
U. S
Korea
Tudor Press
Boston
Orleans Street
Treasury Department
Washington
Seb Margiali
Maryland
New Jersey
Delaware
New York
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Pennsylvania Railroad
Theory
Crunical Investigation Division
Taft Hartley cases draw national attention in Washington
In Washington on December 15 two major Taft Hartley cases go to court. A three judge federal panel will hear the CIO National Maritime Union challenge to non Communist oaths and financial reports required by the act. A separate NLRB trial will address unfair labor practices by the International Typographical Union in the newspaper industry.
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Max Hall
James Marlow
Washington
CIO National Maritime Union
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
AFL International Typographical Union
Maritime Union
United States
Great Lakes
National Maritime Union
U. S. Court of Appeals
Wilburn K. Miller
Elijah B. Prettyman
U. S. District Court
Bolitha Laws
International Typographical Union
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Robert N. Denham
Tanforan track rebuild after housing-violation case
The Tanforan race track near San Francisco wins permission to rebuild remaining buildings after owners were convicted of housing-priority violations that favored veterans. Separate political notes mention Ed Pritchard declining a Civil Liberties Bureau post and Navy leadership shifts involving Vice Admiral Radford and Rear Admiral Reeves Jr.
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Tanforan
San Francisco
Ed Pritchard
Kentucky
Fred Vinson
Justice Department Bureau
Horrow
Navy
Naval Operations
Arthur W. Radford
White House
Johm’w. Reeves Jr
NATS
Moffett Field
Calif
Reeves
Bell Syndicate Inc
Three Escape Plane Crash Kills Three in Pennsylvania
A twin engined Army airplane crashed on a Howard area farm near Williamsport on December 15 killing three aboard while three others parachuted to safety. The aircraft bound for Olmsted Field from Chicago ran out of gas and exploded after impact. two crewmen who parachuted to safety were identified as Sgts. Gillen and Fitzgerald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamsport
Howard
M. W. Zimmerman
Army
Zimmerman
Howard Telephone Company
Air Force
Middletown
Olmsted Field
Prchard Place
Chicago
Harrisburg
S-Sgt
C. Gillen
Peter M. Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Gillen
Preventing Tooth Decay Through Early Detection And Fluorination
The article explains that modern dentistry can save teeth by early decay detection and fillings. It discusses fluoride in water and direct fluoride applications to reduce decay, weighing benefits against safety, and mentions zinc chloride and potassium ferrocyanide as another preventive method. It also includes a Q and A about leukoderma with no known cure.
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United States
Romanian King Mihai May Seek Permission To Marry
In Geneva guests included King Mihai of Romania and Princess Anne as guests of King Leopold III of Belgium. Mihai’s private secretary said last week the king would ask Romania’s communist dominated government for permission to wed Princess Anne.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Mihai
Romania
Anne of Bourbon-Jarma
Leopold III of
Belgium
Jacques Vergotti
Anne
Hearing on Denham case may reach Supreme Court
A one day hearing was held in Indianapolis last Tuesday. A hearing Friday will finish preliminary points and form the complaint. Testimony starts likely in January with Trial Examiner Arthur Leff issuing a preliminary decision. The five man NLRB would then decide to stop the alleged practices or dismiss the complaint. If the board orders against the union, an appeal to federal courts is possible, potentially sending the case to the Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Denham
Arthur Leff
NLRB
Supreme Court
Hollywood Loses Ten to Un-American Hearings
Washington column argues movie industry fired ten members for Communist links after congressional hearings. It predicts more dismissals while praising the public for demanding accountability and denouncing Hollywood for glamorizing poverty and vice.
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Washington
United States Congress
Communist Party
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Decatur Daily
Tennessee
Valley Printing Co., Inc
W. R. Shelton
Associated Press
Alabama College At
Montevallo
John L. Lewis
American Federation of Labor
Lewis
AFL
Geing.o
Huntsville
F Street Journal
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Valley
Sparkman
Hill
Bob
Washin
Congress
Camden
U Trade
Sy Onw Pearson
Jarek
By Herman N. Bundesen, M.D
Features Syndicate, Inc
Pegler
By Westa
Committee On un-American Activities
House of Representatives
Representatives
Hollywood
Europe
Moving Picture
Hollywood Giants
King Peatures Syn., Inc
Elliott
Royal Air Rides
Arvin
Hagler
Royal Tire Service
Lee
Electric Department
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