Small Shippers Seek Full Benefits of River Traffic
Alabama business leaders and farmers press for less-than-bargeload river service on the Tennessee River. Senator Hill testifies that small shippers miss cheap water transport, with TVA development used by large shippers. Amendments co sponsored by Hill and Sparkman aim to authorize and expand capitalization for general barge service, improving Tombigbee Warrior routes and extending cost savings nationwide.
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Hill
Alabama
Tennessee River
Senator Hill
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Inland Waterways Corporation
Sparkman
Bob Jones
House
Tennessee
TVA
Tombigbee Warrior
Mississippi Inland Waterway
Birmingham
Mobile
Senate
Tombigbee
Tennessee Valley
Midwest
Jurist Murphy Honored With State Funeral Plan
Tribute day at his Lake Huron harbor home follows Roman Catholic rites at Our Lady of Lake Huron church. His body to lie in state in Rock Falls cemetery family plot. Officials from Washington to attend with Maurice Tobin representing Truman. Supreme Court Chief Justice Vinson and Justice Black expected. Congress to be represented by Senators Vandenberg Ferguson and Representatives Dinger Rabaul Woodruff Shafer. Murphy, a Supreme Court justice since 1940, had been ill but his death shocked friends and associates.
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Harbor Beach
Lake Huron
Our Lady of Lake Huron
Rock Falls
Marguerite Teahan
Washington
Maurice Tobin
Truman
Murphy
Supreme Court
Vinson
Justice Black
Michigan
Vandenberg
Ferguson
Dinger
Rabaul
Negro Masons Convene Next Week in Dothan Meeting
In Dothan Alabama on July 20 a local wire-service report says about 1 600 Negro Masons will gather for the 79th annual grand communication of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons Prince Hall affiliate. Delegates will be welcomed by Grand Senior Warden J H Ganion of Dothan and by city officials with train and chartered buses arriving from Decatur and Mobile.
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Dothan
Prince Hall
Decatur
Mobile
J.H. Gianion
Infant Dies Graveside Services Held At Cove Cemetery
Graveside services were held Saturday at 3 00 P M at Cove cemetery for Deamon Eldred Smith infant son of Mr and Mrs Bourgeois Smith. Survivors include the parents grandparents Dotson Gatlin of Arkansas Mrs Mable Gatlin Eva Mr and Mrs Virgil Smith Eva and three great grandparents Mrs R I Roberson of Athens Malinda Lewis of Eva and S E Smith of Arab.
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Lastwrence Cove Cemetery
Deamon Eldred Smith
Bourgeois Smith
Dotson Gatlin
Arkansas
Mable Gatlin
Eva
Virgil Smith
R. I. Roberson
Athens
Malinda Lewis
S. E. Smith
Arab
Markets lift on steel and rail, broad gains in New York
New York July 20 stock market gains led by steel and railway issues with unusual activity in two low priced utilities Commonwealth and Southern and United Corp. turnover about 1.4 million shares. C and S remained active. United Corp. rose to 33-4 in heavy volume, a 1949 top. Nashville cattle hogs and sheep prices mixed. cattle slow, calves steady, hogs mainly steady with narrow demand. spring lambs about 25 lower, top springers 23.85, older ewes 7.00 down.
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New York
Commonwealth
Southern
United Corp
C and S
Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Tenn
Wheat climbs as flour demand boosts Chicago futures
Wheat and grain futures rose on the Chicago board as flour business signs supported prices. All contracts closed higher with July wheat around 2.00 and soybeans near 2.66, while corn and oats gained and lard eased.
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Chicago
Board of Trade Today
Markets at a Glance July 20 New York
Markets at a Glance reports higher stocks led by steels and rails amid strong demand for rails. Bond markets also rose as rails demand supported prices. Cotton remained quiet as profit taking trimmed some activity while mill buying slowed.
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New York
Wheat and grains mixed as July prices ease in Chicago
The Chicago market shows July wheat softer while deferred months rise. Corn trades mixed with firm cash oats for export sales. Hog prices vary 50 cents lower to 50 cents higher with top at 23.00. Cattle hold steadier to 50 cents lower, peak 28.50.
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Chicago
Poultry market steady in Aplanta as demand holds
In Aplanta Georgia on July 20, a North Georgia live poultry market remained steady at unchanged prices. Demand stayed good and supplies appeared more freely than earlier in the week in some sections. Very few fryers over 3 pounds were available. Prices paid for broilers and fryers picked up Tuesday afternoon and this morning ranged from 26 to 27 1-2 cents per pound, mostly 26 1-2 to 27 cents.
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Aplanta
North Georgia
Funeral Service For James Grace Is Held
Services for James Monroe Grace, 79, were held this morning at the Ninth Street Methodist church by Dr. A. H. Nabors and Rev. Carl Roberts. Burial followed in City cemetery. Grace died at his home Tuesday about 1 am. Born in Georgia he spent most of his life in Decatur. He is survived by his wife two daughters Mrs. W. A. Wise and Mrs. FE. F. Turney of Decatur three grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Pallbearers were E. F. Turney W. E. Wise G. A. Baker C. T. Roberts W. L. Teichmiller and J. O. Barnett.
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James Monroe Grace
Ninth Street Methodist Church
A. H. Nabors
Carl Roberts
City
Brown
Grace
Georgia
Decatur
W. A. Wise
FE. F. Turney
E. F. Turney
W. E. Wise
G. A. Baker
C. T. Roberts
W. L. Teichmiller
J. O. Barnett
Revival topics announced for Dr Otis E Kirby at Priceville
Dr Otis E Kirby leads a revival at Priceville Methodist Church with tonight's message A Man. Tomorrow morning the topic Influence is set for the service. Youth from the community will be guests Thursday evening. The public is invited to attend all services.
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Otis E. Kirby
Priceville Methodist Church
New Church to Open with Revival Services
Fairfield Church of Christ marks the opening of its new $8,000 frame building with revival services at 10 a m and 2 30 p m on Sunday and daily 10 a m and 7 30 p m for a week led by Alfred Thompson of Memorial Drive Church of Christ Decatur. The church sits five miles east of Moulton on the Decatur highway and attendees are asked to bring a picnic lunch.
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Fairfield Church of Christ
Alfred Thompson
Memorial Drive Church of Christ
Decatur
John H. Bass
Bass
Moulton
Decatur Highway
James Ray
Budget, vacancies, and bills move through Alabama legislature
The Alabama legislature advanced several measures including a vacancy filling bill for city commissions with special elections for six months, or appointive power for the other two commissioners for shorter terms. Senate and House committees debated budgets for two years, with education funding referred for study and general appropriations stalled. A revenue bill to raise driving license fees faced a tied vote, while economy bills affecting the revenue department were later passed after a sudden return of Rep. Frank Evans. The Senate sent bills to the governor on highway financing, a conservation board to depoliticize the Conservation Department, and permitting REA systems to enter the telephone business in unserved areas. A wage garnishment exemption bill passed the Senate, setting exemptions by taxpayer status and dependents, with a cap on total exempt earnings.
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Ces
House Judiciary Committee
Senate
Senate Municipal Organization Committee
Guy Hardwick
Houston
Hardwick
Dothan
Alabama League of Municipalities
Florence and
Opelika
House
Ways and Means
Senate Finance and Taxation
J.V. Jordan
Jordan
Folsom
Rules Committee
Frank Evans
Choctaw
Chamber
Evans
Revenue Department
Highway Department
Conservation Department
REA
Joe Langan
Mobile
Niceville votes against Sunday liquor sales ban
Niceville voters rejected a proposal to permit Sunday liquor sales in the city. The measure drew 186 favorable votes versus 352 against in a municipal election noted as having one of the biggest turnouts in city history.
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Niceville
Fla
Midweek prayer services planned at Central Baptist
Reverend Will Wear to lead the midweek prayer services at Central Baptist Church this evening. Ancel C. Jones of Portland Oregon visits daughter Mrs Earl Jones at 414 Johnston Street. James N Bloodworth improved after Tuesday operation at Hamil Clinic hospital. Mrs Cecil Hampton Madison 3 admitted yesterday to Hamil Clinic hospital. Two youths in custody and a third sought for theft of a purse and $24 from Decatur Country Club. Police Chief J B Whitmire said the incident occurred about 7 30 p m Monday.
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Will Wear
Central Baptist Church
Ancel C. Jones
Portland, Oregon
Mrs. Earl Jones
Mr. Jones
Johnston Street
James N. Bloodworth
Hamil Clinic
Cecil Hampton
Madison
Hamil Clinic Hospital
Decatur Country Club
J. B. Whitmire
Peace Guard Restores Order After Groveland Tensions
Gov Fuller Warren orders National Guard to Groveland as racial unrest flares. A tear gas bomb disperses a trigger-happy mob, but reports say white rioters burn three black-owned homes two miles west. Guard strength reaches 300. patrols cover town and outlying black communities. No casualties reported.
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McCall
National Guard
Fuller Warren
Groveland
Trials Set At Arraignment In Morgan Circuit Court
Trials of Dee Sheffield and Wille Ed Spraggins charged with the fatal shooting of Claude Jackson were continued in arraignments before Circuit Judge James H Crow Jr. Bonds set at $2,500. Trials for James Jenkins and Lee Cornelius on first degree burglary set for Aug 1. Sam Toney pleaded guilty to illegal whiskey transport and seeks probation. Morgan docket trials begin Aug 1 with Judge Crow presiding.
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Dee Sheffield
Wille Ed Spraggins
Claude “Nylon” Jackson
James H. Crow Jr
James Jenkins
Lee Cornelius
Sam Toney
Morgan Circuit Court
James H. Crow Jrr
President argues for lower spending to spare peace
He says spending could be cut to a level we can bear and contrasts it with the cold war and the European Recovery Program. He requests the country spend less than a third of sixty billion in war contracts and focus on reviving Europe and Asia for peace. He asks whether three to five billion yearly for peace is better than a hundred billion for war and urges maintaining a militant UN for global welfare.
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Europe
Asia
Sales Tax Measure Introduced as Part of Talmadge Plan
ATLANTA July 20 A three per cent general sales tax bill moved in the Georgia house as debate opened on Gov Herman Talmage plan to spend 21 5 million in four point tax measures. Floor Leader Frank Twitty urged beer tax hike from two to four cents per bottle to raise revenue to keep rural schools open. Rep Frank Myers of Americus introduced the sales tax bill as a coin-proposal to the plan, urging full funding now for adequate state services.
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Atlanta
Georgia House
Herman Talmade
Talmadge
Frank Twitty
Frank Myers
Americus
Myers
Three suspects arrested in Padgett attack, sheriff says confessions
A third suspect has been arrested in connection with the Padgetts attack. Sheriff McCall reports all three suspects have confessed, detailing the ongoing investigation.
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Padgetts
McCall
Rufus Bethea Dies In Atlanta
Rufus Bethea 58 former Alabama American Legion commander died in an Atlanta hospital after a short illness. He had lived in Atlanta three years and was stricken by a blood clot entering Crawford W Long Memorial Hospital. Body to be taken to Birmingham this afternoon for funeral services tomorrow at Rideout Funeral Home. Burial at Elmwood Cemetery with Rev. Harry Bryan officiating. Survived by wife two daughters a son two brothers and a sister.
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Atlanta
Rufus Bethea
Alabama Department of the American Legion
Birmingham
Bethea
Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital
Rideout Funeral Home
Elmwood Cemetery
Harry Bryan
First Presbyterian Church of
Bessemer
Ala
L. Glenn Parham, Jr
Lucile Bethea
Rufus, Jr
William M
Philip P
Charles Riddie
Bronxville, N. Y
Witness testifies sheriff knew of illegal whisky ring
In Alabama on July 20, Oscar Cox, the state’s star witness, testified before the Alabama supreme court that Sheriff G B Baggett was aware of an illegal whisky business in Walker County. Cox said Baggett warned him not to prosecute a man paying bribes, and that whisky deliveries came to Cox’s home near Jasper. Additional witnesses described bootlegging activity linked to Chief Deputy Fitzpatrick and Deputy involvement under Baggett’s oversight.
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Montgomery
G. B. Baggett
Oscar Cox
Alabama Supreme Court
Walker County
Cox
Baggett
John Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick
Clarence Hanley
Hanley
Atomic relations and uranium debate in Blair House session
Proponents Thursday night report that 16 national leaders and Truman discussed U.S. Britain and Canada atomic ties. Questions focus on sharing postwar atomic know how, method of action, and uranium supply leverage. Other items include farm bill fights, probes into contract influence, and no-arms clause in the NATO treaty.
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McMahon
D-Conn
Blair House
Truman
Great Britain
Canada
Congress
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Britain
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
U. S
House
Washington
Mundt
R-Sd
Connally
D-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Mob violence case tightens as Rev Lyons jailed
At Graysville Alabama Rev Lyons was jailed amid a wave of hooded mob violence in which Alexander says a mob stripped him and awaited a lash. He recalls a Klan member threatening his mother on May 20 as the house was broken into. Lyons denies Klan ties and says he was praying when seized. Officials Perry and Bailes reveal prior Klan membership while vowing full prosecution of those charged.
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Alexander
Lyons
Rev. Lyons
Graysville
Ala
Emmett Perry
Ku Klux Klan
George Lewis Bailes
Alabama
Bailes
William Hugh Morris
Federated
Ku Klux Klans
Ine Morris
Robert J. Wheeler
State Supreme Court
Morris
Walter Fisher To Head Lions International
Walter C. Fisher of Queenston Ontario was nominated for president of Lions International at the 32nd annual convention. Fisher, a peach grower, faces no opposition and will be elected at the final session. Also nominated were Herbert C. Pethy Jr Harold P. Nutter and Edgar M. Elders for vice presidencies, with eight directors to be chosen from a list of candidates including Har Brave Nye Bramb Dickinson Gibson Welter Muniz and others from multiple states and countries.
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Walter C. Fisher
Queenston
Ont
Lions International
Fisher
International Associations of Lions Clubs
Eugene S. Briggs
Enid
Oklo
Herbert C. Pethy Jr
Carrizo Springs
Texas
Harold P. Nutter
Camden
N. J
Edgar M. Elders
Maywood
International Directors
Herbert R. Har- Brave
Fresno
Calif
Henry Nye
Honolulu
Arnott R. Bramb
Coffeyville
Kan
Roy W. Dickinson
Liggett
William S. Gibson
Robinsdale
Minn
H. Ray Welter
Great Falls
Mont
Alfredo Muniz
Rio Piedras
Puerto Rico
Melvin
Salt Lake City
Utah
H. Barker
Carrollton
Ronniers
Greenwell
Haiti
Earl D Baumann
Mariano Vivanvo
Havana
Cuba
Albert J.exter
Albuquerque
Funeral services for William S. Grice in Hartselle
Funeral services for William S. Grice age 77 will be held Thursday at 10 30 a m at Peck s funeral home Hartselle Rev Frank P Smith pastor First Baptist Hart selle Rev Clifton J Draper Hart selle Methodist and Rev Otis Kirby First Methodist Decatur will conduct. Interment in Hartselie cemetery Peck directing. He died Tuesday at 1 p m at his daughter s home on Fery Street Decatur surviving two daughters one son one sister and two brothers plus pallbearers named in the notice.
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William S. Grice
Peck
Hartselle
Frank P. Smith
First Baptist Church
Clifton J. Draper
Hartselle Methodist Church
Otis Kirby
First Methodist Church
Decatur
Hartselie
Peck Directing
Grice
E. E. Hargrove
Fery Street
Hargrove
Coleman Berry
W. D. Grice
Orlando
Fla
Mattie Grice
Carrolton
Larry
Garry
Claude Mitchell
H. L. Grover
Roy Groover
Gordon Groover Coy Stephenson
F. M. Speake
Death claims Van A. Bittner dies at 64 in Pittsburgh
Van A. Bittner longtime labor organizer and CIO vice president died at Mercy hospital at 64 after a heart ailment. He rose from miner to district president and key figure in UMW and later CIO organizing campaigns spanning West Virginia Kentucky Tennessee and Alabama. CIO president Philip Murray mourned the loss noting his powerful voice and diplomatic leadership.
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Pittsburgh
van A. Bittner
CIO
Mercy Hospital
Atlanta
CIO Southern
New York
Philip Murray
Bittner
United Mine Workers of America
United Steelworkers
Murray
West Brady
W. Va
Morgantown
United Mine- Worker
West Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Tennessee
Birmingham
Ala
West Virginia
John L. Lewis
UMW
Charleston
Truman aides linked to influence probe details
The Washington Post reports General Vaughan may have been involved in a conversation with President Truman directing a full inquiry. Vaughan joined Truman on a Chicago trip. officials say they remain on friendly terms and no investigation targets Vaughan. The probe centers on claims by Paul Grindie that he paid Hunt for influence with Alden Waitt Feldman and Vaughan. Hunt denies trying to sell influence.
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Alden H. Waitt
Chemical Com
Herman Feldman
Washington Post
Vaughan
Truman
Johnson
Chicago
Paul Grindie
Massachusetts
James V. Hunt
Army
War Assets Administration
Grindle
New York Herald Tribune
Hunt
Waitt
Feldman
Ground torn roofs fly as guards shield crowds
A house roof was flipped off by the blast and lay in the street while two hundred National Guards formed lines to keep back a thousands-strong crowd threatened by live power lines. Flames burned for miles as the rescue unfolded, with many passengers on the grounded plane being servicemen on furlough.
Lost color horn rim glasses near 2nd Ave and Bus Station
A natural color horn rimmed pair vanished near the second avenue and bus station area. A reward is offered for return. Contact 188 days 1778 A nights with details.
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2Nd Ave
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