U.S. Policy in Critical Era Reemphasizes Economic Aid
The piece notes a shift under Truman and Marshall back toward economic aid for Europe, with Europeans to lead recovery planning. It cites Cohen’s $15–$24 billion estimate and extends focus to Asia, including China, amid Cold War tensions with Soviet influence. Senator Vandenberg proposes a bipartisan council to assess needs and actions.
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Truman
Greece
Turkey
Marshall
Harvard
Cambridge
Europe
Benjamin Cohen
State Department
Canada
Mar
Russia
Hungary
Vandenberg
Cohen
Asia
Congress
China
America
Bible School Head Dies in Los Angeles
Dr. Will H. Houghton, 60, president of Moody Bible Institute, died suddenly in Los Angeles after illness. He was found unconscious in his hotel room and transported to Hollywood Receiving Hospital. Doctors suggest a heart attack or accidental overdose as possible cause, with migraines noted as a contributing factor.
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Los Angeles
Will H. Houghton
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Ambassador Hotel
Elizabeth
Hollywood
J. A. Moon
Peer Institute of Science
J. Houghton
Moon
Houghton
Extortion Plot Admitted by Detroit Factory Worker
A 31 year old unemployed factory worker confessed to attempting to extort 8000 dollars from Mrs Marie Schweitzer a 48 year old dietician and widow mother of his friend The case ties to her son Richard 19 who has been missing since June 23 police say they are seeking his whereabouts
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Detroit
Joseph Krug
George Bruce Jam
Marie Schweitzer
Schweitzer
Tal
Richard
Rocming House
Market Gains Lift Wall Street Amid Summer Rally Talk
Prices rose as the Associated Press 60 stock average climbed to 63.3 in Friday trading, its best since April and fourth straight week of gains. Analysts noted demand despite tax reduction and lending uncertainties, with volume over four million shares on two days and a 4.56 million total for the week.
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New York
Wall Street
Associated Press
Commission House
Decatur Grain Prices and Chicago Feed Grain Market Update
Decatur prices show No 1 soft wheat at 2.40 a bu ear white corn 75 lbs 2.08 ear yellow corn 75 lbs 2.04 mile 100 cwt 3.20 barley 1.50 a bushel oats 0.90. Alabama Flour Mills provides the Decatur quotes. Chicago on June 14 reports feed grains firming after a prior drop with wheat down to 2.11 1/2, corn up to 1.89 1/8, and oats at 0.93 ahead of July contracts.
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Decatur
Alabama Flour Mills
Chicago
Board of Trade
Alabama wins first game of doubleheader to clinch NCAA bid
In Charlotte on June 14 Alabama baseball defeated Clemson 8 2 in the first game as five eighth inning runs broke open the contest. Joe Kirkland hurled effectively in relief to protect the lead and Alabama added insurance on errors. Clemson scored twice late but could not overcome the Tide's early offense.
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Charlotte
N. C
University of Alabama
Clemson
Alabama
Joe Kirkland
Tonsillitis
Tigers
Crimson Tide
Luther Rentz
Jay Byrd
J. F. Sharpe
Rentz
Bill Martin
Bama
Kirkland
Lyn McMackin
D. J. Gambrell
McMackin
Coker
Truman deadlines set on tax and labor bills
President Truman faces deadlines on two measures. He must sign or veto the tax bill by Monday midnight and the Taft-Hartley labor bill by Thursday midnight. If he fails to act, both measures become law automatically.
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Washington
Truman
Girl blown to pieces by shell near Camp Gordon
In Augusta Georgia on June 14 a 10 year old girl Betty Whitaker was killed when a shell from the Camp Gordon impact area exploded while she used it as a hammer. Her sister Mrs Dukes was slightly injured by shell fragments. The area was marked as danger zone and no shells had been fired there for a year.
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Augusta
Betty Joan Whitaker
Camp Gordon
Lynn Norris
Joe Dukes
Ross Stockman
Cardinals Sweep Dodgers in Day Night Twin Bill
The St. Louis Cardinals routed the Brooklyn Dodgers in a doubleheader, winning 12 to 2 in the night game after taking the opener 5 to 3. The Cardinals showcased their strongest batting attack of the season and swept the twin bill in St. Louis.
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ST. Louis
St. Louis Cardinals
Brooklyn Dodgers
Southern Association baseball scoreline summary
Atlanta and Birmingham game totals show Atlanta 010 011 030-4 Birmingham 000 043 01x-8 Diehl Bush Mistos mentioned with 7 and 8 innings.
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Southern Association
Atlanta
Birmingh
Diehl
Bush
Mistos
Cotton plan works out for postwar imports
Senator Maybank predicts Germany and Japan will continue to import 80 percent of their cotton from the United States through March 1948. He cited about 20 000 bales monthly to Germany and 65 000 to Japan, with the rest used in mills in occupied areas. Officials plan to extend the agreement to next March and work on British and American-occupied German zones. The Senate committee members include Eastland Sparkman Knowland Kem and Maybank.
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Washington
Maybank
D-S._C
Germany
Japan
United States
Senate
War and State Departments
Eastland
Miss
Sparkman
D-Ala
Capital Airlines DC-4 crash kills 47 passengers and crew
The Capital Airlines DC-4 Capitaliner Baltimore crashed near Martinsburg West Virginia. Rescue teams found a charred wreckage after a lengthy search failing to identify most of the 47 aboard. Pilot Horace Stark and crew members were among the dead.
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Eugene B. Dodson
Associated Press
James M. Franklin
Capital Airlines
Winchester
E. D. Morris
Chicago
Washington
Martinsburg
Virginia
Maryland
West Virginia
Guntersville Native Among Plane Crash Victims
Miss Margaret Wall of Guntersville Alabama, a Washington, D C carrier on Capital Airlines, died in the Leesburg Virginia crash. A Guntersville High School graduate, she was the daughter of Mr and Mrs John Walls and had four brothers and four sisters.
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Loudon County
Courtney Smith
American Red Cross
Stark
R. N. Creekmore
Margaret Walls
Washington
Creekmore
Wolfe
Texas
Air Transport Command
Miss Walls
Guntersville
Ala
Government
Capital Airlines
Margaret Wall
Leesburgh, Va
John Walls
Welfare probe accuses Conference of communist influence
A government committee report charges the Conference with communist domination and lines to the Soviet Union. It cites figures like Don West and Langston Hughes, links to International Labor Defense, and calls the group a front for the Communist Party in foreign policy.
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Graham
Freedom
Earl Browder
Communist Party
America
International Labor Defense
Central Committee of
The
Paul Crouch
Communist Party of Alabama
Don West
Langston Hughes
Russia
Soviet Union
South
United States
Charge Denied By Conference Head
Dr James A Dombrowski administrator of the Southern Conference of Human Welfare denounces a House un American Activities Committee condemnation as un American The SCHW rejected a request to testify noting no hearing had been held and asserting the group focuses on regional matters while denying Soviet alignment.
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New Orleans
James A. Dombrowski
Southern Conference of Human Welfare
House Committee On unAmerican
House Committee
unAmerican Activities Committee
Dombrowski
Clark Foreman
SCHW
State purchases for May total 1.53 million in Alabama
Montgomery Alabama June 14 state purchases for May amounted to 1 532 788 Purchasing Agent E E Estes Jr said today bringing the total for the first eight months of the current fiscal year to 7 549 136 Estes said the purchases for May were distributed as follows Department of Corrections and Institutions 250 424 State Highway Department 966 835 all other state departments 315 528
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Montgomery
Ala
E. E. Estes Jr
Estes
Department of Corrections and Institutions
State Highway Department
Alabama Sheriffs and Peace Officers Meet in Mobile
State and federal law enforcement officials will join the 15th annual Alabama Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association convention opening in Mobile next Thursday. More than 500 officers from across Alabama are expected to attend the three day gathering.
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Mobile
Ala
Alabama Sheriffs’ and Peace Officers’ Association
Detroit Dealers Propose Six Month Car Bootlegging Clamp
Detroit Michigan June 14 recommendations from the Detroit Automobile Dealers Association urge a six month dealer customer contract on new cars. Purchasers keep the car for the contract term or return it at a 10 percent loss. State officials promise action against dealers accused of selling factory new cars as used and overcharging.
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Detroit
Detroit Automobile Dealers’ Association
Dada
Harold C. Johns
Fred M. Alger Jr
Ben H. Cole
Cole
Eugene F. Black
Broken Arrow Fathers Demand Breakfast in Bed on Fathers Day
A group of 20 Broken Arrow fathers threaten to strike on Fathers Day unless breakfast in bed is served as a sign their demands are met. They call for later curfews, equal speaking rights, no demands for gifts, private calls, and more respectful terms from their children. Cal Tinney of the Broken Arrow Ledger voices the protest and plans to picket if unmet.
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Broken Arrow
Okla
Aria
Cal Tinney
Broken Arrow Ledger
Sodom y Case Ties Student to Murder in Atlanta
The professor Paul Refoule, a Sorbonne graduate, was seized at Atlanta airport after police questioned him and a woman and a young man about a murder linked to his wife Peggy. Refoule volunteered lie detector tests, spoke with his parents, and stayed with his mother-in-law Ott Alston as investigations continue.
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Refoule
Ellis
Atlanta
Robert Refoule
Orleans
France
Ott Alston
Georgia
Sorbonne
Paris
Peggy
United States
Paul
Dunkirk
Poland
Curran era of NY ship unions nears general walkout
CIO affiliates threaten a synchronized walkout if settlements fail as five unions expire contracts at midnight Sunday. CIO President Murray warned of a likely Monday walkout. Meetings led by Federal Conciliator Argolis and talks also in San Francisco with ship owners. Mariners and longshore unions reached extensions with Pacific American Ship owners Association.
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New York
CIO
Philip Murray
Washington
William Argolis
San Francisco
West Coast
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association and the Longshoremen’s Unions
Pacific American Shipowners Association
Local births and hospital news from Decatur area
Mr. and Mrs Roy Peebles announce a daughter Alice Fay born at Baughs infirmary. Several other births are listed with families in Decatur and nearby towns. Hospital admissions include Reba McLain and Jean Lewey at Decatur General. Public notices mention veterans mobility aid deadlines under public law 663 and local trips. many residents are noted visiting, returning home, or entering care at Baughs infirmary or Decatur General.
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Roy Peebles
Hillsboro
Alice Fay
Baugh’s Infirmary
Power shovel dictums: leften aluminum alloy di
The text notes that the power shovels use a di of aluminum alloy by Leften.
Alabama Legislature Faces Revenue Reform and Liquor Referendum
Solons weigh new revenue by removing sales tax exemptions to raise about 8500 dollars yearly while liquor prohibition moves toward a statewide referendum. Supporters see fiscal balance. critics warn of double taxation and school funding loss. A joint hearing on liquor measures may follow a health committee setup.
Brown Nomination Deadlocks in Auburn Trustees Fight
A Senate committee in Dothan reports deadlock on Rep. Roberts Brown’s nomination to the Auburn board of trustees. The panel plans a motion to let the full Senate decide, with Hardwick chairing and a split among fifth district members on confirmation.
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Dothan
Ala
Rep
Roberts Brown
Auburn
Senate
Red Cross To Offer Swimming And Water Safety Courses
Red Cross will offer swimming and water safety courses at Crystal Plunge on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at six. Admission to the pool covers instruction, free for participants. Morgan county chapter leader George Porter directs, with assistants from Decatur and Hartselle.
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Horace Broom
Hartselle
Morgan County
Red Cross Aquatic School
Montgomery Bell State Park
White Bluff
Tenn
Hulon Cockrell
Red Cross
Florence State Teachers College
Crystal Plunge
Moulton
Falkville
George Porter
Morgan County Cross Chapter
Ralph Halbrooks
Bobby Golden
William Weaver
Decatur
Hamil Hama
Validity Arguments on Portal-to-Portal Pay Cases in Alabama
The validity of labor union claims for portal-to-portal pay in two suits filed before the new law will be argued before Federal Judge John McDuffie in Mobile. Supplemental motions in the Aluminum Ore Co. case and the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Co. case are addressed in this brief hearing.
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Mobile
Ala
John McDufffie
Aluminum
Alabama Drydock and Ship
Flood Crest Pushes Flood Waters Across Broad Areas
The Associated Press reports the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers reaching new record crests, inundating more than 1,000,000 acres of land and forcing about 24,000 people from homes. Ottumwa, Tracy, and Rule see rising waters as flood forecasts warn of historymaking stage across the region.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Mississippi
Rule
Neb
Missouri
Ottumwa
Tracy
C. O. Tucker
Icee
Keokuk
Louisiana
Illinois
St. Louis
Quincy
Ill
Hannibal
Nebraska-Iowa-Missouri
US seeks joint probe as Hungary crisis sparks notes
An apparent reply to Sul yok asserts his freedom party with 18 MPs will boycott unless supervised. A new US note seeks international oversight while Russia has not answered a previous protest over the Hungarian communist coup and a joint US British Soviet investigation is proposed.
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Sulyok
Freedom Party
United States
Hungary
Differences Threaten World Peace In UN Talks
Differences between Russia and the United States threaten to stall global peace efforts. At the United Nations, Soviet and American delegates urged progress on atomic controls, armament cuts, and a global police force, with Warren R. Austin warning that East West tension delays peace machinery.
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Russia
United States
United Nations
U. S
Warren R. Austin
Boston
Publication Demand For Molotov Ribbentrop Papers
Senator Ferguson urged the State Department to publish the captured Molotov Ribbentrop documents to inform the public. Nazi papers show pre pact talks between Molotov and Ribbentrop from 1937 to 1941, with U S Britain and France agreeing to joint publication, but no timetable is set.
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Solon Washington
Ferguson
R. Mich
State Department
V. M. Molotov
Russia
Joachim von Ribbentrop
United States
Britain
France
Truman Denounces Three Regimes and Supports Italy
President Truman denounced the communist governments of Hungary Romania and Bulgaria as oppressive regimes while praising Italy with a non communist government as Americans stand beside them. He spoke as he signed the final ratification of peace treaties with Italy and the three Balkan nations after Senate approval. He said US aims to seek changes in treaty clauses through the United Nations if needed.
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Washington
Truman
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Italy
Balkan
Senate
United States
United Nations
United Sta
Morgan Circuit Court Sets July Docket For 102 Cases
A total of 102 cases appear on the Morgan circuit court jury dockets for the July term. Civil hearings run July 7 to July 10, while criminal cases are scheduled July 14 to July 23. Judge H. Crow will preside with sessions beginning at 9 A.M. Monday and 8 30 A.M. each morning.
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Morgan Circuit Court
H. Crow
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James D. White
AP Foreign Affairs
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Julian Broooks
Alexandria
L. T. Easley
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Judith Christine Bryan
Mary Bryan
Indianapolis
Norfolk
Joseph Marko
Cleveland
Horace Stark
W. Va
Baltimore
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N. Y
Port Deposit
Brewster
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Navy
Page
Curran
Kecatur
Ailemalee
L. C. Donahoo
Fourth Avenue South
Edgar Lee Drake
Sixth Street South
Baugh’‘s Infirmary
Harold E. McCoy
Ernest A. Byford
William Campbell
Tennesseee Valley
Flight Service
Reba McLain
Fifth Avenue South
Decatur General Hospital
Westminster Guild
Katherine McRae
Johnston Street
Vista Ponter
Eva 1
Fred Trimble
Wilmington
Delaware
Claude Trimble
W. L. Kelley
Decatur 1
Hamil Clinic
Helen Jeannette Cook
Mintz Hill 2
Jean Lewey
Railroad Street
Carl Murphy
Hartseller
R. H. Klien
Ferry Street
Elizabeth Ann
Baugh
R. F. Howell
Decatur 3
Baugh’s
Bobby Joe
Bob Hunter
Grant Street
Brown's Ambulance
Leo Johnson
Points
Florida
Donald Nelson
Martha Frasa and
Burkett
Bob Nelson
Faye
Tallahassee
Pensacola
Fla
Veto Dobbs
S. P. Bagette
Castlebery
J. C. Larue
Cannon Foods Products
Pryor Field
Dart
Charles Malone
Ann
A. D. Jervis
Roy C. Wyatt
Mrs. D. Wade Jacobs
J. G. McMillan
Dan
Louis Foster
Sheffield
Paul Wayne Foster
W. C. Huddleston
George Webster
Willard McMillan
Louis Foster and Son
A. L. Drake
Sixth Street
Howell
Aaron Jackson
Hamil
J. R. Ogle
Decatur 2
John L. Halpien
Reacue
Loca Veterans Administration Office
Mrs. M. T. Burke
Albertville
Solons
Folsom
Davis
Brown
Uts
al Thiens
Philip J. Hamm
House
Ways and Means Committee
Bruce Henderson
Wilcox
J. W. Brussell
Russell County
House Health Committee
R. S. Ganey
Talladega
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