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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1949
Page
4
Ruth Aberle, 16, told her father in Memphis after surviving four cold nights while 500 searchers hunted for her. She credited Scout training with keeping her self sufficient and healthy enough to endure the ordeal.
The piece mocks Joseph Stalin’s birthday party, noting gifts worth five million dollars from around the world of Communism. It contrasts communal gifting with Western notions of personal ownership and imagines how invitations might read.
The ADA and many Southern Democrats denounce General Eisenhower after he outlines views some call a shift toward a “jungle state.” ADA leaders accuse him of betraying liberal ideals, while others say his positions please Southern factions and city bosses. The dispute marks a rise in his national political stature.
In Douglas Georgia a print cloth mill with 450 workers closed last March leaving many jobless. A revival's minister urged prayer for reopening. seventy eight hands rose. The piece urges Decatur workers to boost productivity and support local business, linking wage jobs to community welfare as 1950 begins.
Washington column recounts Gen. Leslie Groves facing a probe over charges that Henry Wallace urged shipments to Russia. Newsweek claimed Groves planned to invoke a rescinded FDR directive, but Rep. Francis Walter questioned the move and confirmed Groves could testify freely.
In Miami, Vice President Barkley and Senate member Leslie Biffle planned haircuts at the Roney Plaza barbershop. A reserved chair caused a standoff until Walter Winchell, the famed columnist, unexpectedly arrives and sits in the prized chair, prompting whispers among the barbers.
Senator Guy Gillette of Iowa investigates coffee price manipulation and suspected shenanigans at the New York coffee exchange. He reports Brazilian producers and exporters, key suppliers, may be buying up futures to keep prices high, a pattern that could affect U S coffee costs.
The piece by Arlie B Davidson reflects on the Christmas rush’s strain on body mind and finances and its effect on behavior and nerves. It also includes brief Capital News Capsules noting leadership changes in national boards and Britain’s looming financial crisis and a bureau’s success in producing artificial mica for defense.
Westbrook Pegler discusses Catholic priests involved in union rackets and the fear of public criticism within Catholic circles. He cites Jesuit Joseph P. Kitzpatrick and a Fordham sociology professor, noting that many priests publicly support unions while privately criticizing them.
Brokers in New York and Brazilian traders shape coffee pricing as foreign accounts are accepted by firms like Ruffner Burch Leon Israel and Brothers Schwabach and company while some American brokers refuse. Speculation and rumors of a shortage push futures and prices higher, aided by housewives hoarding and record roasting volumes in October and November.
Harvey Hughes, longtime hotel manager and founder of Hotel Lyons in Decatur, died suddenly Monday in Winterhaven, Filia. He opened the Lyons hotel in 1912 and resided there since, except last year. Weather bureau forecasts a White Christmas for much of the United States. The steamer Troxell delivered a large cargo at Bank Street wharf late Sunday. Miss Marjory Workman plans to leave Connecticut December 31 after spending summer and fall in the East.
New York writer reviews Edward R Murrow and Fred Friendly's sound history project I Can Hear It Now. Chronicles voices of F D R Hoover Churchill Hitler Truman and MacArthur detailing prewar and wartime events. Notes volume two expands to postwar themes with Truman Dewey and Hiss hearings plus the rise of public discourse through speech and sound.
Mr. Roberts the Providence RI mayor launches a holiday road safety program by hiring a city employee named J Walker with cash prizes. Residents are urged to ask strangers if they are J Walker to win rewards, while the chooser learns jaywalking risks.
NO CLUES MONROEVILLE Ala Dec 23 Py Not a single clue remains as to the identity of a hit and run driver whose car killed a crippled girl Sheriff E E Nichols said today Vivian Murphy 14 of Uriah died just six days before her happiest Christmas The popular grade school student had recently removed a brace from one polio crippled leg after operations Two negroes were questioned Monday but later released.
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