Alabama Industry Finds 'Silver Lining' To Clouds
Alabama industry concludes 1938 with gains across steel iron and textiles. Equal price basis for steel, revival in pig iron and tin plate, and Mobile port boosts. Huntsville mills resume, Gulf Shipbuilding eyes wartime output, and university building programs bolster activity as 1939 outlook looks toward increased tonnage and possible armament demand.
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Alabama
Ustry
South
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
Birmingham
Gadsden
United States Steel Corporation
Republic
Pittsburgh
Huntsville
Mobile
Pacific Coast
Gulf City
Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation
Chickasaw
University of Alabama At
Iron and Steel
Rent that extra room through Classified advertising
Classified ad copy offers to rent an extra room with a contact phone number 46 for inquiries.
Lost Leather Sinclair Key Holder With V-8 Keys
Lost leather Sinclair key holder containing V-8 keys and a gas cap. Reward offered. Call 58.
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Sinclair
Stocks Rally Then Falter in Choppy Markets
Irregular trading saw a mild rally in select issues centered on steels aircraft rails and specialties while utilities oils coppers mail orders farm implements and rubbers drifted. The session opened with a rally but failed to sustain momentum as most gains faded by close with transfers around 900000 shares.
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Victor Eubank
New York
Spot Cotton Quietly Rises in New Orleans Prices
Spot cotton in New Orleans closed quiet modestly up six points. Sales reached 639 bales with low middling at 7.40, middling at 8.58, good middling at 9.10. Receipts totaled 5,502 and stock stood at 748,878.
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SPOT
New Orleans
Spot Cotton
Germans promise full inheritance transfers to American heirs
The German charge d affaires Dr Hans Thomsen told the state department that all inheritance credits of this kind will be transferred in full, addressing a key friction with the United States. Acting Secretary Sumner Welles discussed the matter with Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff before his departure, confirming that transfers apply to all Americans regardless of race or creed.
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Germany
State Department
Hans Thomsen
Sumner Welles
Hans H. Dieckhoff
Welles
Thomsen
Dieckhoff
Thomson
Three super highway projects announced by WPA official
T B Hudson announces three large WPA freeway schemes in Birmingham total over 1.4 million dollars. Green Springs four lane from Avenue F to Shades Mountain costs 689000 with 138000 state match. Bee Line upgrade Homewell to Shades Mountain at 399000. A new four lane on-
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Birmingham
Ala
T. B. Hudson
WPA
Green Springs
Avenue F
Shades Mountain
Homewell
Governor dedicates Rogers Hospital and Draper Prison
Final construction advances on two new state prison buildings in Montgomery after formal dedication by Governor Bibby Graves. He serves as principal speaker at ceremonies naming Kilby prison’s Rogers Hospital and Draper Prison as Speigner, marking completion milestones.
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Montgomery
Ala
Bibby Graves
Rogers Hospital
Kilby
Draper
Speigner
Cottonseed oil prices steady with near term futures listed
In New Orleans on December 20 bids show steady values for cottonseed oil with seasonally used grades. Prices quoted include prime summer yellow at 7.35 nominal and prime crude between 6.12 and 6.97 cents per pound with various futures contracts and bids noted for Theo and months through July.
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New Orleans
Nashville Livestock Prices Reported for December
Nashville Tenn December cattle and hog market summary notes 200 cattle and 75 calves with overall activity mildly active and prices largely steady. Plain and medium heifers and steers 6.00 to 7.75 with good fed stock 8.00 to 9.00. beef cows and bulls 6.00 down. Hogs around 400 head with most 10 higher and top 170 to 300 head for well finished butchers. Sows 6.15 down. Sheep steady with fat lambs up to 8.50 and mutton ewes to 3.00.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Tenn
U. & Dept. Agr
Poultry Prices Steady in Chicago Market
Poultry live prices steady to firm in Chicago with hens at 27.5 cents per pound, young toms 22 to 23, No 2 turkeys 20, ducks at 4.5 pounds up colored 15 and white 16, small colored and white 14, geese 15, other prices unchanged. Dressed turkeys steady with prices unchanged.
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Chicago
Chicago market notes steady butter prices and wheat price shifts
Chicago reports butter prices steady with creamery specials and various class listings. Snow showers expected to aid crops in the winter wheat belt while wheat futures eased from yesterday's finish and corn showed firmness in late trading with May and July contracts detailed.
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Chicago
State bank forged reports expose drug firm fraud scheme
McCall questions department scope as Murray defends duties in wholesale division. Murray cites Price Waterhouse verified figures for asset claims. Federal investigators seized forged Dun and Bradstreet reports on W. W. Smith and Co and uncovered the printing plant used to produce them.
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McCall
Murray
Coster-Musica
Price, Waterhouse and Co
Noonan
Dun and Bradstreet
W. W. Smith and Co
Smith Company
Musica swindle may top ten million recovered by investigators
Federal officials expressed hope of salvaging substantial cash from the Musica case as District Attorney Dewey said $3.9 million in cash commissions were traced to four Musica brothers through fictitious crude drug sales at McKesson & Robbins. The losses could reach as high as $20 million amid a complex bookkeeping scheme and the suicide of F. Donald Coster.
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New York
Philip Musica
McKesson & Robbins Drug Corporation
Thomas E. Dewey
Musica Brothers
Gory Noonan
Musica
F. Donald Coster
Dewey
Indictments Tie AMA Leaders to Group Health Push
Grand jury accuses the American Medical Association and listed physicians of opposing group medical care and measures to block such systems. It says exclusion from AMA-related societies harms doctors and their standing, with actions rooted in meetings of its local medical society and hospital policy efforts.
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American Medical Association
United States
William Creighton Woodward
Bureau of Leal Medicine
William D. Cutter
Council On Medical Education and Hospitals of the Association
R. G. Leland
Bureau of Medical Economics
the Association
Coursen B. Conklin
James B. G. Custis
Thomas Allen Groover
Robert A. Hope
Leon A. Martel
Thomas EF. Mattingly
Francis X. McGovern
Thomas
Net
Edward H. Reed
William M. Spring
William J. Stanton
John O. Warfield, Jr
Wallace M. Yater
Joseph R. Young
Fishbein
West
Cutter
Leland
Woodward
Washington
Justice Department
District of Columbia
Medical Society
A.M.A
Group Health Association
AMA to defend Sherman act case to the limit
Dr. Morris Fishbein spokesman for the American Medical Association said the house of delegates authorized the board of directors to defend the case to the limit after federal indictments in Washington for Sherman antitrust violations were returned.
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Chicago
Morris Fishbein
American Medical Association
Washington
House of Delegates
Game Wardens Reassign Northern Counties Jurisdiction
H L Brown the game warden shifts from Morgan and Lawrence counties to Morgan county and Lawrence county north of Moulton. The state game warden recently ordered the territory re arrangement reflecting new jurisdiction boundaries.
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H. L. Brown
Morgan
Lawrence County
Morgan County
Moulton
Hartselle Community Sing Tonight at Nazarene Church
The Hartselle community sing will convene this evening at 7 20, at the Nazarene church. The public is invited to attend.
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Hartselle
Sing
Nazerene
Norris Says TVA Alright in Inquiry Finish
Senator Norris states the congressional TVA inquiry has given the agency complete clearance so far. TVA controller Beth Kohler testifies that 1938 power-operation expenses exceeded revenues though not a private-sector loss, while Wolverton presses on losses in recreational areas, dairy farm net expenses, and restaurant operations at Norris. Jenkins labels TVA a giant step toward socialism as Kohler cites Krug and Lilienthal on profitability potential.
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Washington
Dec
Norris
Ind
Neb
Congressional
TVA
Beth Kohler
TVA E
Treasury
Wolverton
Kohler
Tenn
Jenkins
Ohio
Mr. Krug
Mr. Lilienthal
J. A. Krug
TVA Power Planning Division
David E. Lilienthal
Ciphered Hearts A Deaf Blind Girl Learns To Read Touch
Dr Gault describes Joan a five day old foundling born without eyes and deaf who learned to connect words with approval signs. Placed at Cook County Hospital ward of the state in 1936 she faced fear and instability before three years of patient instruction through Braille and tactile machines.
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Dr. Gault
Joan
Cook County Hospital
Gault
Trinity School PTA Holds Regular Meeting
The Trinity School Parent-Teachers Association met at the school house with fifty-five parents and teachers present. Mrs. J. O. Parker presided as Rev. Brookes led devotion and Christmas carols. Mrs. Foster announced the program on child outcomes and the January meeting will be at night.
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Trinity School Parent-Teachers’ Association
J. O. Parker
Brookes
Foster
Brooks
Decatur Notes on Christmas Visitors and Community Updates
Decatur a Christmas season roundup lists arriving visitors from Chattanooga Louisville Birmingham and Washington and City residents traveling to relatives and hospitals. church events a Christmas program rehearsal and new choir loft plus local officials and WPA and Social Security personnel holiday schedules.
Aides of Commerce Secretary Roper Consider Resignation
Fifty four top industrialists and financiers on the Commerce Department’s Business Advisory Council plan to resign to test the next secretary’s policy. They attend meetings without pay to honor Secretary Daniel C. Roper who leaves office Friday. The move aims to give the new secretary freedom in selecting advisers.
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Irving Perimeter
Washington
Commerce Department
Business Advisory Council
Daniel C. Roper
Harry L. Hopkins
WPA
Hopkins
Business Council
White House
Richard ©. Patterson, Jr
Department
Patterson
Radio (Nbc
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Roper
Waverell Harriman
Union Pacific Railroad
NRA
Paroled convict Breed killed by train in Alabama
Breed a life term inmate from Randolph county died after being struck by a train in Kilby prison area. Sheriff Burns said Breed, partially paralyzed, did not realize the approaching train and could not escape. He had been granted Christmas parole for 19 years of good behavior and hoped to visit an aunt in Talladega.
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Ife
Kilby
Breed
Sam Burns
Montgomery
Randolph County
Burns
Talladega
Christmas Program Planned at Memorial Drive Methodist
Plans for Memorial Drive Methodist church Christmas program are set. Intermediate class members of Mrs. Jimmy Holland and Mrs. A E Warren will meet at 10 for gift exchange. At 10 30 the program begins with recital by Mrs. Oscar Hames and Christmas hymns. An offering for the Methodist Children's Home will follow the music. Rev. R D Cook will deliver a brief Christmas message.
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Memorial Drive Methodist Church
Jimmy Holland
A. E. Warren
Oscar Hames
R. D. Cook
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Tuscaloosa
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Brooklyn, N. Y
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Tennessee Valley Hotel
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce
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Lloyd Lively
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Aliceville
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Jackson, Tenn
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State Employment Office
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H. P. Still
Frank M. Martin
Washington and Lee University
Harold Smith
Auburn
Fred Trimble
Clay Glasco
Memphis
Marine Hospital
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Effie Goode
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Flat Rock
Decatur Cleaners
Wise Property
Tennessee Valley CO
James Rankin
Sec’y-Treas
Tennessee Valley Bank Building
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