Truman seeks quick Korea aid despite House reversal
President Truman urged speedy restoration of a 60 million dollar Korea aid bill after last week’s House rejection. Senator Taft signaled possible inclusion in an Economic Recovery Administration measure. Acheson warned of far reaching foreign policy harm if action stalls.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Truman
Korea
House
Taft
Ohio
Congress
South Korea
White House
Connally
D-Tex
Senate For‘ Relations Committee
Knowland
R-Calif
Acheson
Senate
China
U. S
Peiping
Wherry
Nebraska
Formosa
Ursday
Defense
Johnson
Omar N. Dley
Joint of Staff
Far East
John J. McCloy
Occupied
Germany
Truman Sees Tax Loopholes In Motion Pictures And Charities
President outlines tax abuses by producers and charitable trusts, noting temporary film corporations and a dealer exploiting depletion allowances. He cites an oil operator paying little tax on high non source income and warns of life insurance under taxation. Congress weighs higher insurance taxes and permanent reforms to fund deficits.
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Lable
Truman
R. Truman
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Mayors Meet to Discuss Raising Local Revenues in Alabama
More than 200 Alabama city and town officials gathered at the Alabama League of Municipalities convention to address funding struggles. City Commissioner Frank Livingston urged relief through legislation while noting revenue lags behind service demands. Harold S. Buttenheim warned of rising municipal costs after World War II and urged federal tax field withdrawals to benefit cities. O. T. Ray outlined the General Services Administration planning program and how to secure federal aid for local projects.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Alabama League of Municipalities
Frank Livingston
Tuscaloosa
Livingston
League
Harold S. Buttenheim
American City Magazine
Buttenheim
O. T. Ray
Atlanta
General Services Administration
Congress
Ray
Tax policy stance amid postwar transition to sustain growth
The speaker signals readiness to adjust revenue laws in response to inflation or deflation, including raising or lowering tax rates as needed. He notes postwar fiscal strength and an economy above prewar levels, urging a tax program to support enduring progress and essential foundations.
Women set to outnumber men by 700000 by 1960 forecast
The Ninth Century Fund predicts that by 1960 women in America will likely outnumber men by about 700,000, signaling a significant demographic shift.
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Nntieth Century Fund
MARKETS REPORT FOR DECATUR AREA LIVESTOCK AND GRAIN PRICES
Decatur markets list middling cotton and milo at specific per ton or per unit prices. Cottonseed 40.00 per ton. Broilers 20 percent at 4 cents delivered. Hens heavy 2 cents. Hatching eggs 80 cents per dozen. Ear corn white 1.25 per measurement unit. ear yellow 1.2. Wheat 2.10. Oats 0.75. Milo 2.05. Milk Grade A delivered 5.50 per hundred.
Nashville Livestock Prices Reported by State and Federal Officials
Nashville Tenn Jan 23 cattle receipts 900 uneven market with steers and heifers mostly steady, cows slow to weak, bulls very slow. Baby beef type 800-900 lb at 26.00-26.75. cutters 16.00-19.00. cows 11.00-14.75. calves 175 active 29.00-33.00. hogs 1400 steady to higher with 180-240 lb at 16.00-25.00 and sows 11.00-13.00. Sheep 50 steady with lambs 20.00-21.00 and aged sheep 3.00-7.00.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Tenn
Departments of Agriculture
North Georgia live poultry markets firm as demand holds
North Georgia markets show adequate supplies with some growers holding stocks. Demand remains very good in most sections. FOB farm prices for broilers and fryers of all weights range 20 to 28 cents, mostly 20 1 2. Dressing plants paid over 22 cents to their own growers in most instances.
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Atlanta
USDA
North Georgia
F.o.b
Cotton futures steady as market hits new season peaks
New York January 23 cotton futures held firm on mill buying and short covering with demand for textiles boosting prices. Spot markets showed about 112 cents per pound above loan levels with late afternoon bids 30 to 50 cents a bale higher. contracts shifted toward March and later months ahead of February 23 first notice.
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New York
FEPC debate blocked by House rule on foreign bill priority
The House, under Sam Rayburn, postponed FEPC action by declaring a foreign bill unfinished business, triggering the 21 day rule. Roosevelt pressed to move FEPC, but Rayburn prioritized U S participation in international bodies delaying FEPC past Feb 13. Lincoln’s birthday looms as a day for legislating.
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Roosevelt
FEPC
House
Alaska Statehood
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Truman
U. S
U.S
American International Institute For the Protection of Childhood
The
Food and Agricultural Organization
South Pacific
Seals Restored to Abundant Breeding on Pribilof Islands
In a notable recovery, seals once near extinction now breed in abundance on the Pribilof Islands. Conservation efforts have helped restore populations and stabilize regional wildlife.
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Pribilof Islands
Forty Four Weekend Arrests In Four Counties
Law enforcement reports total 44 weekend arrests across four counties. Athens accounts for six arrests with four drunks and one reckless driver. Cullman city police report 16 arrests, including 11 for public drunkenness and one for driving while intoxicated. Other counts include public drunkenness in Morgan and Lawrence counties and a single prohibition violation in Hartselle.
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Decatur
Limestone County
Athens
Johnson
Cullman
Shelley Hyatt
Moulton
Lawrence County
Hartselle
Les Williams
Athens 3 Man Knife Victim
An Athens steam fitter Arlin Howard about 50 was stabbed from the back by Claude Dée Moore Jr. in a Sheffield cafe restroom after refusing to give a stranger a dollar. Howard treated at Colbert county hospital for a non serious knife wound. Moore bound over to the grand jury on 750 bond on charges of assault with intent to rob and assault with intent to murder.
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Sheffield
Arlin Howard
Colbert County Hospital
Edgar Enoch
Claude Dée Moore Jr
Manchester
Tenn
Moore
Howard
Jackson Highway
Colbert Hospital
Miners Vote Split Across States On Return to Work
The United Mine Workers report mixed returns as miners across several states vote on resuming work. Pennsylvania shows the largest return and Kentucky and Ohio show partial back-to-work momentum, while Alabama Tennessee and Virginia largely stay out. Lewis and UMW lawyers pursue multiple lawsuits and injunctions amid the three day week.
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UMW
John L. Lewis
West Virginia
Pennsy
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
NMW
Ohio
Alabama
Tennessee
Virginia
Lewis
Union 1der
Duke Brothers co founder Woodson Henry Duke dies at 74
Woodson Henry Duke, 74, co founder of the Duke Brothers Furniture Co, died in Birmingham after a two week illness. He remained active in the furniture business until becoming a federal probation officer 16 years ago. Funeral services were scheduled today. The piece also notes a 1960 forecast on farm population share.
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W. H. Duke
Birmingham
Woodson Henry Duke
Local notes and arrivals from Huntsville region
Mrs Louis Terry suffers mumps at home in Austinville. Huntsville reports 126 natural gas applications. A house to house canvass starts today. Local visitors Fred Copeland Danville 1 John Page Belle Mina Robert M Johnson Somerville 2 Do Birmingham admitted to Baugh Wiley clinic Do P T Watson Jr Lacey Springs 1 admitted to Hamil Clinic. Tennis Sparkman delayed after eye operation at Jefferson Hillman hospital. R P Thompson 305 Ninth Ave West admitted to Hamil Clinic. Marvin W Barnes Hillsboro and Mrs Barnes welcome a boy born Sunday at Baugh Wiley clinic. Robert West Decatur 2 discharged from Decatur General. TVA reports 66 degrees noon spring weather at valley. 62 at 8 AM Sunday 68 max by 2 PM no rain. Rev Neill G Stevens moves to Tar Heel and White Oak churches in North Carolina. Judge Rice Valdermosa Springs visits Morgan county courthouse on business. he has served 50 years as a Morgan County justice of the peace. John A Meadows Beaumont.
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Neill G Stevens
First Presbyterian Church
Huntsville
Second Presbyterian Church
Pine Bluff
Arkansas
Tar Heel
White Oak Presbyterian
Wilmington
North Carolina
Stevens
Rice
Valdermosa Springs
Morgan County
Mrs. Mary Leona Smith Rites Set at Rock Creek Church
Mrs. Mary Leona Smith 50 dies after long illness. Funeral Tuesday at 2 PM at Rock Creek Church with Rev. Dewey Crow officiating. Burial in Lawrence Cove Cemetery. Survived by husband Virgil E. Smith three daughters two of Eva and Decatur three sons, and several relatives. Born December 16 1900 in Morgan County she lived in the area her life. She was a Rock Creek church member for 35 years.
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Mary
Leona Smith
Rock Creek
Smith
Dewey Crow
Lawrence Cove
Brown
Loris
Floris Smith
Eva
Irmel
Goin
Bourgeois
Decatur
Malinda Lewis
Lessie Lewis
W. L. Lewis
Wendy Smith
Orn
Morgan County
Rock Creek Church
Cotton ginned from 1949 crop rises to 15.64 million bales
Census Bureau reports 15,641,310 running bales ginned before Jan 16 from the 1949 cotton crop, up from 14,140,444 last year and 11,390,100 two years ago. American-Egyptian cotton at 3,558 bales. Sea Island zero to six. State totals show Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee with higher ginning than prior years.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Sea Island
Alabama
Georgia
South Carolina
Tennessee
Bulgaria’s Communist Premier dies after illness
Premier Vassil P. Kolarov, 72, who led Bulgaria’s Red state since last July, died today after a long illness. Three days of national mourning were decreed. Moscow observers noted a near completion of a Russia China treaty as Chinese premier Chou En Lai met Stalin in the Kremlin. Formosa reports Chinese nationalist warships bombarding Chapu near Shanghai with fires and explosions amid air assaults on the mainland.
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Vassil P. Kolarov
Red State
Moscow
Russia
Chou En-Lai
Stalin
Kremlin
Formosa
Chapu
Shanghai
Weekend Guest Texas Visitor Returns Home
Texas was the weekend guest of homefolks here, visiting relatives and enjoying a brief stay before returning home.
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Texas
Alabama Welfare Chief presses social security reform for farmers
Washington officials heard from Alabama Welfare Commissioner Lamberth that Alabama has insufficient aid for the needy despite social security. He urged extending coverage to farmers, increasing old age payments beyond about 20 dollars monthly, and creating a new aid category for the permanently and totally disabled.
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Washington
Alabama
Oetold
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
Lamberth
Welfare Department
Social Security Administration
FBI Probing Jefferson County Board of Registrars
The FBI is investigating the Jefferson County Alabama board of registrars to determine if federal laws were violated. George D. King said the inquiry was ordered by the Department of Justice and began days ago. Dissension among members and calls for a grand jury probe accompany the probe.
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Birmingham
FBI
Jefferson County
Board of Registrars
George D. King
Department of Justice
King
Associated
H. A
Gus) Thompson
R. J. Creel
John G. Hosey
Sam Douglass
Alabama State Federation of Labor
Hosey
Creel
Thompson
Wek
Gov. Folsom
Patent Medicine Bottles Burned by U S Marshal in Birmingham
A U S deputy marshal burned 129 bottles of Atomic Botanical Laxative Compound and 500 booklets at the Birmingham incinerator. The items, held by T V Chumley of Columbus as agent for Atomic Waterbeiora Inc., were destroyed by order of Federal District Judge Clarence Mullins who ruled the word atomic was false and misleading.
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Birmingham
U. S
Chester L. Mullins
T. V. Chumley
Atomic Watertbeiora Inc
Columbus
Forgery Complaint Sworn Against Man Smith
A second forgery charge is sworn against Orbon Smith 37 a mill worker now in Morgan county jail on forgery and bad check counts. An affidavit before Judge W H Long alleges a $150 Lawrence county bank check forged by Smith. He was taken into custody by Sheriff C B Humphrey about a week ago.
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Orbon Smith
Morgan County
W. H. Long
Smith
Lawrence
C. B. Humphrey
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