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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1948
Page
4
The Montgomery Advertiser reports a Christmas week roundup: Huntsville beer licenses denied, a Birmingham liquor store robbed with missed cash, and editorials linking Tojo’s execution to Buddhist imagery. It notes Wisconsin football coaching changes, Barons manager honors, and census-driven South migration trends.
Antonio Bermeze s, Aleman’s top oil adviser, tells the State Department he will deny news leaks about secret negotiations for a US Mexico oil deal. Negotiations stall over American funding and legal protections against confiscation. Aleman seeks US loan to expand oil under Mexican management amid communist fears.
President Aleman arranged a private Mexico trip for Rep. Bob Crosser of Ohio and his family, plus aides, to discuss upcoming oil policy. Crosser may chair the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, shaping Mexican oil loans, refinery plans, and Pemex export terms.
Senators who rode the Dew Drop plush plane to a Town Hall dinner honoring Alben Barkley find the trip costly in time. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg escorts Joe O’Mahony Clinton Anderson Lyndon Johnson to New York, but a Mitchell Field snowstorm and bogged traffic force them to walk and ride subways for hours.
Five thousand White Russians in Shanghai face a grim future as refugees plan mass self harm rather than fall to the communists. Intercepted letters reveal poison and suicides as potential escapes while aid groups evacuate Jewish refugees to Palestine and South America. The U S consulate closes its doors to visa seekers.
Franklin van Zelm recounts the tale of Shanghai's White Russians after V J Day. Soviets offered citizenship, thousands fled to Vladivostok, some escaped, many renounced citizenship, ending as political lepers in Shanghai with no safe country or embassy to aid them.
In Washington Truman teases an understanding with Russia at a Kansas City luncheon. The Nation piece imagines Stalin and the 12 politburo members debating Truman’s remarks and a cited Eugene Oregon speech. The narrative speculates on whether such talk influenced Moscow and concludes with uncertainty.
A 1948 medical note explains burning tongue symptoms from vitamin deficiencies especially niacin and riboflavin, diabetes, bowel disorders, dehydration, pernicious anemia, iron deficiency, and smoking. It notes relief from neostigmine after meals to stimulate saliva, hydration, stopping smoking, and professional examination.
An anonymous letter urges Alcoholics Anonymous as a path to sobriety reflecting on last Christmas among several alcohol dependent neighbors. The writer notes varied Christmas experiences, stresses mutual help, and invites others to join Tuesday meetings at the Ep Church Parish House in Decatur to work through doubts and stay sober.
The text argues Mr. Truman’s remark risks heightening distrust with communist leaders who believe communism must eventually prevail. It notes their possible suspicion of the politburo and portrays any understanding as only temporary.
A narrator recalls baseball season tensions with the International Brotherhood of Right Fielders. The piece describes leagues signing unions, slowdowns to force overtime, and comic exchanges about race religion and atheism. It notes a shift to ten inning games and a master mind’s secrets offer.
Mobile city commission approves coin music machines in licensed liquor and beer spots with a 500 annual license per machine. The charge applies uniformly, with prior practice of denying licenses for alcohol sellers now changed to regulate music via higher fees.
Alabama's 1949 legislature will lack interim committees as neither chamber set them up in 1947. Only a call from Gov. Folsom for a special session could create them, an unlikely step. The body will wait until May to address budgets and appropriations, while the prison investigates and 1947 recommendations await enactment.
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