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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1949
Page
4
Advocates for all holidays on weekends ignore the high death toll of celebrations and the growing difficulty of escapes. The article notes recent reports of convicts fleeing prisons only to be recaptured soon after.
Roosevelt urged Pan American World Airways to build a global hotel chain to spread dollars after the war. In Turkey, an export-import bank loan at 4 percent was set to finance a hotel, but an ECA expert recommended Swiss or Belgian builders and cheaper ECA funds, undercutting American business. The deal hangs in the balance as Turkish officials weigh the options.
General Smith, writing in the Saturday Evening Post about his Russia experiences, recounts negotiations linked to the Berlin blockade. He claims the Russians favor a strong central German government to更加 infiltrate and control, arguing they would prefer a single federal US system over 48 independent states.
J Hoyt Shepherd a wealthy political figure of Phenix City survived a third assassination attempt. After offering 25000 in rewards for earlier plots he narrowly escaped another shot while in his yard during Christmas lights. The shooter missed.
Tito of Yugoslavia is described as a successful gambler balancing a budget with a $520 million surplus in the treasury. The piece notes loans from Uncle Sam, a trade pact with Great Britain, and support from Western powers as it seeks to study Tito's finance.
A Congressional debate theme argues higher income taxes threaten business profits and the incentive for venture capital to fund new manufacturing, risking job creation in the United States. The speaker warns President Truman’s stance could slow economic wheels by reducing incentives for enterprise and growth.
Farm Bureau plans meetings across Alabama to learn what cotton farmers want in quotas. Alarm over acreage allocations has Alabama's cotton belt worried farmers may have to reduce tenant families. messages will be carried to Washington for quota reassessment.
The State Highway Department delayed bids for the Lacon Cullman link on U S 31 from December to January. Local concern centered on Morgan county rights of way. The piece urges Morgan county to push through deeds to avoid delays and endorses reconstructing U S 31, praising Governor Folsom if he handles it.
The American Legion toy train to Europe grows, with Governor William Tuck urging Virginians to join. Richmond faith leaders promote the program as Christmas Sunday outreach while police stations and firehouses in Richmond serve as toy collection depots and Pier 38 in Philadelphia handles shipment by care.
The article discusses a fierce dispute between the Agriculture Department and the Interior Department over who should oversee the forest service. It notes that during the Roosevelt era Ickes and Wallace clashed over park control, fueling tension between the agencies.
ARLIE B DAVIDSON writes on inspired living urging belief in life’s importance under God. She emphasizes daily Bible reading, prayer, and personal effort to improve, plus associating with good people and serving others to move toward the will of God.
Westbrook Pegler argues Walter Reuther and the United Auto Workers leadership aim to shift toward a Marxist Democratic slate. He cites alleged dynamite hoax plots, past plant confrontations, and Eleanor Roosevelt citations to portray the Reuthers as insurrectionary figures aided by Bowles Lehman Tobin and others, alleging militant organizing in 1937 Chevrolet and Fisher Body plants and a broader labor revolt.
The forest service remains in agriculture while Wallace’s control persists. Secretary of Agriculture Brannan and Secretary of the Interior Chapman, both Denver locals and longtime allies, face a potential clash as policy battles over lands and forests surface. Their friendship and cabinet roles may ease tension, though aides worry about optics and interdepartmental friction.
Charming Johnny Hanes, a New Deal era misfit turned finance and transit director, clashed in a Bankers Trust meeting demanding an apology from Ralph Damon of Trans World Airlines. Damon had accused Hanes of pressuring TWA via Bankers Trust on behalf of Pan American Airways. Hanes refused to resign.
Premier De Gasperi asks the American embassy for support in tracking Salvatore Guiliano, known as an Italian Robin Hood in Sicily. His bandits are blamed for 100 police deaths and mass kidnapings of wealthy landowners. Communists attack the government amid the crisis. Two American officers advising Greece may be sent to Sicily to assist Italian police.
Work for India in New Delhi reports that 277 British officers serve in India's Army Navy and Air Force. Defense Minister Sardar Baldev Singh told the legislative assembly. About 100 British civilian officers are also employed.
A detailed profile of the new 20 ton bronze center door and seven arch panel at St Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Sculptor John Angel led the Brooklyn fabrication. 44 workers over 82 weeks. The tympanum depicts Christ sending apostles with St Matthias replacing Judas. Six statues honor St Joseph, St Patrick, St Isaac Jogues, St Frances Xavier Cabrini, Catherine Tekakwitha, and Mother Seton. Cardinal Spellman presided as rain fell, recalling a 40 year old Fordham memory of Cardinal Farley.
Howard W. Blakeslee reports to the American Association for the Advancement of Science that fungi, tiny invisible plants, were found in 20 human cancers and 100 mouse cancers, with no healthy tissue showing the organisms except in certain susceptible mice. Dr Irene Corey Diller describes fungi such as altenaria and synchephalastrum racemosum, notes uncertainty about causation, and observes tropical forms can kill cancer-susceptible mice while losing potency after cultivation outside hosts.
A $250 reward was posted today by W. W. Garrett for information leading to the conviction of an automobile driver who struck and killed a polio victim girl in Uriah Alabama. Garrett, a family friend, told a Highway Patrolman he posted the reward so the case wouldn’t die.
Mobile Alabama recorded the warmest December day to date with a high of 76 degrees on December 28, surpassing the previous record of 73 degrees set in 1942 and tied in 1946.
The figure shows Western states now hold about 21,120,000 acres under irrigation through a mix of federal and private schemes. Government and private sources mark continued expansion of water use for agriculture across the region.
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