Bitter Congress Battle Looms Over Truman Welfare Plan
In Washington the fight over President Truman’s Fair Deal looms large as Republicans brand it socialist. The debate centers on expanding social security, possible national health insurance, housing programs, a new farm plan, and federal aid to education, with taxes likely to be the fiercest clash. White House allies push for a bold first term push in January as the 81st Congress convenes, while opponents warn against expansion and higher taxes.
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Francis M. LE
Washington
Truman
Key West
Congress
House
Senate
State of the Union
Florida
Capitol Hill
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Police officer recounts fatal hit and run incident
Floyd says he clipped a man named Tatem after a truck swerved, then realized the casualty. He returned to the scene but the ambulance had taken Tatem away. Floyd walked home in shock and will face recorder's court at 4 PM for leaving the scene. authorities believe the crash was unavoidable and no other charges expected.
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Floyd
Whitmire
Pack Self
W. C. Hunter
Ninth Avenue West
Tatem
Recorder’s Court
Monks Perfected Stain Craft in 14th and 15th Centuries
Monastic workshops advanced stained glass and other decorative crafts during the 14th and 15th centuries. The monks refined color, leadwork, and metallic glazes, influencing Gothic church aesthetics across Europe.
Markets snapshot from farm prices report week
Cotton middling 29 00 and strict low 28.00. cottonseed per ton 4000. broilers 2300 delivered. hens heavy 2c light 16c. hatching eggs 80c per dot. hogs lights 14.00 to 14 50. cattle tops 15.50, canners and cutters 8.50 to 13.50, good bulls 16.00 to 17.00. corn ear white 1.20 ear yellow 1.15. wheat 2.10. oats 2.00. milk Grade A delivered 5.50 per hundred.
North Georgia live poultry market steady in Atlanta report
USDA North Georgia market notes a steady to unsettled tone with adequate broiler offerings of 2 1 2 pounds and under. Heavy fryers are scarce in some areas and adequate in others while demand remains fair to good for heavy fryers and slow for light broilers. Prices FOB farm Monday afternoon and today 21-27 cents, mostly 22 to 22 1 2 cents, with higher prices where plants bought from their own growers.
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Atlanta
USDA
North
Georgia
Nashville Livestock Prices Report Dec. 20
Federal State Departments report: Cattle 250 head with varied demand. Cows mostly 11.00-14.00, common beef cows 14.50-16.00, medium bulls 16.50-17.00, vealers 26.00-32.00. Hogs steady to active with base 13.00-15.50 for lightweights, sows 12.00-12.50. Sheep 50 head. lambs 15.00-21.00, ewes 7.00.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Federal State Departments of Agriculture
Cotton futures mixed as year end dullness spreads
New York reports irregular cotton futures amid slow trading and quiet textile markets. Heavy hedging and liquidation ease through modest mill and export covering. ECA launches a 3.6 million dollar cotton purchase credit to Austria covering about 20 000 bales. Census data show December 13 ginnings at 14 715 000 running bales, up 1 285 259 from a year earlier. Prices drift around 15 cents per bale by late afternoon with March at 30.55, May 30.34, July 29.72.
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New York
ECA
Austria
Census Bureau
Mrs Evie Shelton Sherrill Dead at 61
Funeral services for Mrs Evie Shelton Sherrill 61 will be held Wednesday at 2 PM at Central Methodist Church. Rev W Nelson Guthrie and Rev O E Burton will conduct rites. Interment in city cemetery Brown directing. She died Monday night at home 723 Ninth Avenue West. Surviving: sister Hattie S Cowan of Moulton brother Willie Shelton of Moulton stepdaughter Ora M Chenault of Decatur stepson Joan W Sherrill Jr of Decatur. Pallbearers listed.
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Evie Shelton Sherrill
Central Methodist Church
W. Nelson Guthrie
O. E. Burton
City Cemetery
Brown
Hattie S. Cowan
Moulton
Willie. Shelton
Ora M. Chenault
Decatur
Joan W. Sherrill ,Jr
Frank Vaughn
Phil Vaughn
W. W. Dinsmore
William Chenault
C. D. Patterson
Cliff Nungester
Cotton ginnings reach 14.7 million in 1949 crop at Dec 1
Census data show 14,715,660 running bales ginned by December 1 from the 1949 cotton crop, up from 12,744,152 a year earlier and 10,046,013 two years ago. American-Egyptian ginning rose to 3,026 bales. sea island none. State totals list Alabama 846,651, Florida 9,312, Georgia 599,946, Mississippi 1,451,216, South Carolina 556,318, Tennessee 609,448, with prior-year figures alongside.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Sea Island
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Mississippi
Welfare Leaders Press Direct Action for Low Income Help
Sparkman construction leaders and welfare chiefs urged direct, positive federal, state and private action to aid low income groups. Proposals included raising the family income tax exemption to 2500 and on the job training for unskilled workers.
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Negroes Suit Delayed Today in Alabama Supreme Court
The Alabama Supreme Court postponed a hearing on a suit by Manley E. Banks Henry C. Moss Clarence E. Moses and Henry L. Pearson to practice law without a bar exam. Arguments set for Jan. 16 before the court's eighth division.
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Montgomery
Ala
State Supreme Court
Alabama
University of Alabama Law School
Supreme Court
Manley E. Banks
Henry C. Moss
Clarence FE. Moses
Henry L. Pearson
Birmingham
Dam on access road to Site referenced in government plan
Dam via an access road to the Site is discussed with plans indicating government involvement and the expectation that the dam will be completed under governmental oversight.
Proposals Build Ways to Boost Income Levels
Sparkman argues the set of proposals fits the broad problem of low income, though none alone provides a full solution. He notes several options aim to raise earnings without guaranteeing a cure, emphasizing combined impact rather than single fixes.
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Sparkman
Dawson Coal Fund Controversy Halts $13 Million Payouts
Dawson royalty on coal, $13 million since June 30, frozen after Van Horn and Senator Bridg es challenged spending. The expired contract left miners in limbo under extended terms. Lewis refuses to recognize Dawson and seeks a new board of trustees with Howard W. Showalter and Josephine Roche to govern funds from past three years as of January 1 with a new contract involving small operators.
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van Horn
Senator Bridges
R-Nh
Lewis
Dawson
Howard W. Showalter
West Virginia
Josephine. Roche
Development plan details for dam and spillway project
Col. Wilson described a dam development costing about 113000 annually for maintenance and operation. The project includes a lock a concrete gravity spillway and an earth dike to impound a reservoir covering around 10000 acres. No hydroelectric power generation is planned.
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Wilson
Hiss Denial Is Given to Jury in Perjury Trial
Charles Mercer reports Alger Hiss denied passing U S secrets to Whittaker Chambers during his second perjury trial. Hiss described preparing a 1939 memorandum supporting aiding Allies under neutrality rules and said he circulated it to State Department officials. He testified that a letter replying to a Jesup Hyde inquiry was written at his urging by Clyde Eagleton.
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Charles Mercer
New York
Alger Hiss
America
Hiss
Hitler
Communist Party
Whittaker Chambers
State Department
Columbia University
Charles Cheney Hyde
Philip C. Jessup
New York Times
Jessup
United Nations
Jessup-Hyde
Clyde Eagleton
New York University
Chambers
U. S
Neighbors clash with substandard housing moves
Murphy told the Council residents will sue to halt moving or erecting substandard one room houses with no sanitation or electric meters. Health inspectors will assess conditions as the city reiterates zoning rules requiring plumbing and wiring. Council debated bills timing and graveling unpaved streets but set no action due to funds. The audit, plumbing board, and municipal plans were reviewed as 1949 ends and the Jan 5 meeting is scheduled after a New Year holiday.
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Murphy
Council
H.R. Summer
Rutledge Thomas
William Christian
City Electric Department
A. R. Frahn
Joe Pettey
Montgomery
Protest Over Negro Voter Rights In Alabama Hearing
Eugene Wells and John Playfair led protests regarding the Alabama voting board. They urged removal of Chairman Schnell and Mrs Randle while others cited hurdles for negro veterans and unequal registration practices. Witnesses claimed discrimination against negroes and white voters alike, and officials stressed the law guarantees non discriminatory eligibility to vote.
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Playfair
Alabama Cio Council
John Playfair
Birmingham
Mobile
Schnell
Randle
Ray Holland
Central Trade Council
Montgomery
Rufus Lewis
Folsom
Lewis
State Registrars
Dan Thomas
Haygood Paterson
Henry County
Jurors Probe Maragon Case in Perjury Inquiry
A grand jury in Washington began considering an indictment for perjury against John Maragon, a former White House figure linked to Kansas City bootblack origins and a confidant of Harry Vaughan. Witnesses testified about payments and attempts to obtain government contracts, amid ongoing five percenter investigations.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
John Maragon
White House
Maragon
Kansas City
Harry Vaughan
Senate
Gilbert Halasz
Harold Ross
Allied Molasses Company Inc
Perth Amboy
N. J
Milton Polland
Milwaukee Life Insurance
William P.rogers
Carmine S. Bellislo
Polland
Allied Molasses Company
Allied
Ross
Vaughan
Justice Department
Gifts From Poles And Others To Stalin Parade Across Europe
A freight train of 11 cars from Warsaw carried presents for Stalin, displayed in six to eight halls across cities like Riga and Moscow. The gifts include dolls, bicycles, and a kitchen of luxury items, with debate over redistribution and a mysterious radio headdress from an unnamed tribe.
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Muinst
East Germany
Warsaw
Poland
Stalin
Milan
Prague
Sofia
Riga
Faellite
Latvia
Britain
France
Sweden
Moscow Radio
Romania
Mrs Dill Dies In Birmingham After Fall Injuries
Mrs Caroline Dill aged 68 died in a Birmingham hospital from injuries received a week earlier in a fall. She retired in 1947 after more than 25 years of YWCA work in the city and was injured at the Oak Bowery home of her in law and sister, Commissioner and Mrs Ford H McElvain, Friday.
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Dill
Birmingham
Caroline Dill
Y.W.C.A
Ford H. McElvain
Oak Bowery
Ala
Domestication Of Chickens And Other Birds In Europe
Before the Christian era, chickens pea cock rabbits and guinea fowl were domesticated in Europe. The note summarizes early animal domestication across regions with emphasis on avian species and small mammals.
Charity Patients Load at Hospital Ordered Reduced
Jefferson-Hillman Hospital administrator Arthur L. Bailey ordered an immediate reduction of charity patient load due to a surge from steel and coal strikes. The annual appropriation of 693500 is insufficient for current charity care. Last month 993 charity inpatients were admitted and 9750 out-patient visits occurred. Decisions on admissions will involve physicians and social workers. pay patients remain unaffected.
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Birmingham
Jefferson-Hillman Hospital
Arthur L. Bailey
Bailey
Jefferson County
Radio makers say TV receivers account for sixty four percent of dollar volume
Report shows television receivers comprise 64 percent of the value of output for radio manufacturers. The finding highlights television's rising share in the market alongside radio sets during the period.
Five Children Die in House Fire Tragedy
Bethway, a 37 year old farmer, and Irene, 33, battled to save family as fire swept the upstairs bedroom. The mother woke to heat, carrying two youngsters to safety while the grandmother saved another child but was badly burned. Freddie 3 Beverly Ann 4 William 7 Thomas 5 perished in the blaze. An overheated stove cited by sheriffs as cause. The house, 15 years old, replaced a former homestead lost to fire.
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Bethway
Irene
Freddie
Beverly Ann
Owed
William
Thomas
Sheriffs Office
Douglas Fir spreads over 70 percent of the Northwestern U
A study notes Douglas Fir trees cover more than 70 percent of the Northwestern United States university campus area. Researchers map tree distribution, confirming fir dominance across the grounds and adjacent woodland zones.
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U. 5S
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