Government rounds up 21 communists in nationwide crackdown
In New York 17 party members were seized as FBI agents arrested 16 here and one in Pittsburgh. Bail totaling 191000 was set for 16, with 15 jailed overnight. The 21 face criminal conspiracy charges tied to teaching and adopting subversive aims under the Smith Act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
FBI
Pittsburgh
U. S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court
U. S
Irving H. Saypol
Federal Grand Jury
Samuel Kaufman
Washington
Robert H. Jackson
Senate and House push to curb inflation and credit rules
The House Banking Committee rejects two anti inflation provisions, limiting credit to old housing and raising margin requirements for commodity traders. In the Senate Maybank vows to oppose outright rollbacks but expects fresh amendments. Debate starts Monday with a Friday finish goal before the June 30 expiration of old controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capitol
House Banking Committee
Senate
Maybank
House
Peace Controversy Spills From Page One
Secretary of Defense Marshall was described as masterminding a great conspiracy without the President's knowledge. Mr. Truman said he did not know how that Senator could read his mind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of Defense
Marshall
Mr. Truman
Fire Ruins Polk Milk Plant Ice Cream Stock
A blaze at the Polk Milk Company plant in Indianapolis destroyed six thousand gallons of ice cream and caused estimated damage of forty thousand dollars. Fire crews battled the flames into the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Io East Side
Polk Milk Company
Markets in Decatur Farm Prices Report
Middling cotton 45.75 cents, strict low 43.70. Cottonseed 60 dollars per ton. No 2 wheat new crop 2.33. No 2 oats 83 cents. No 2 Ear Yellow corn 1.62. No 2 Ear White corn 1.62. No 3 Ear White corn 1.59. No 2 Mile 2.36. No 2 Barley 1.22. Corn basis 152 percent moisture. Other grains basis 1342 percent moisture.
North Alabama live poultry market slips slightly at Birmingham
North Alabama live poultry markets show a slight weakness in broilers and fryers while other stock remains steady. Supplies are ample for the fair demand with prices at FOB farm 29-30 for broilers and fryers and 27-28 for heavy hens, 23-24 for light hens, and 12-13 for roosters.
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Poultry Market
Birmingham
Federal State Market News Service
North
Alabama
Nashville Livestock Market Report June 21
Nashville Tennessee cattle steady as receipts stay light with prices mixed by class. Calves and hogs show varied bids with most beef cattle at 30 to 38 dollars, hogs 19 to 23 dollars per hundredweight, sows around 18 to 19 dollars, and sheep at 16 to 32 dollars, reflecting steady demand.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Tenn
Federal State Departments of Agriculture
Cotton futures slip as orders weigh on market
The New York cotton market opened weak and extended losses as liquidating orders and thin demand pressured prices. Slow business in the textile sector contributed to the downward trend with late afternoon quotes showing July at 44.83, October 36.95, and December 36.74 per bale, down 60 to 150 cents from the prior close.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Campaign spending limits raised for statewide offices
Senator Tru man Reneau from Elmore county won a favorable senate committee vote on a bill to raise campaign spending limits. Governors and U S Senate candidates could spend up to 50000, other statewide races 5000, and congress 10000, versus current caps of 10000 2000 and 2500 respectively. Committees called the current law a subterfuge but sent the bill back with a favorable report. A separate measure by Rep George Wallace would make violations of the small loan company law a misdemeanor and allow courts to forfeit illicit interest and principal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman Reneau
Elmore County
Senate
Reneau
U. S
Congress
House Judiciary Committee
George Wallace
Barbour
Dothan Golfer Opens Smoky Mountain Invitational Match
Gardner Dickinson of Dothan Ala tied the course record with a 66 to lead qualifiers as Smoky Mountain Invitational match play began in Knoxville Tenn Garrard Rawlings of Harlan Ky faces Dickinson and Hobart Manley meets Bill Roberts in the lower bracket top pairing Manley North South champion trails early.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Tenn
Gardner Dickinson
Dothan
Ala
Garrard Rawlings
Harlan
Dickinson
Holston Hills
Hobart Manley
Savannah
Manley
Bill Roberts
Employment in Mobile County Rises Overall in May
In Mobile Alabama the State Employment Service reports an overall rise in county employment for May despite a May drop of 1 115 workers due to shipyard slumps. Employment among service aged persons increased by 6605 from May 1950.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Mobile County
State
Baby typically triples birth weight in first year
The article notes that a baby usually triples its weight during the first year of life, highlighting expected growth milestones and developmental standards for infancy.
Baptists Oppose Unity Moves at San Francisco Conference
The Southern Baptists convention with 13 000 delegates adopted a committee report resisting attempts at Protestant unity with groups that deny core doctrines including the virgin birth and inerrancy. Dr T C Gardner authored the report and speakers urged its approval. Delegates also backed expanding the Baptist Hour radio program and television missionary work and approved a $10 000 000 cooperative program budget for 1952, up about 2 500 000.
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San Francisco
Southern Baptists Convention
Southern Baptists
T. C. Gardner
Dallas
Baptist Training Union
Robert G. Lee
Memphis
Long Illness Ends for Mrs Frances Emma Evans
Funeral services for Mrs Frances Emma Evans 83 will be held Saturday at 2 PM at Ninth Street Methodist church with Rev E L Ellis officiating. Interment follows in Athens City cemetery. Survivors include five daughters and one son plus grandchildren and great grandchildren. Active pallbearers are the six grandsons. She belonged to Ninth Street Methodist church in Decatur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ninth Street Methodist Church
Frances Emma Evans
St. Ave. E
E. L. Ellis
Athens City Cemetery
Brown
Mattie Evans
Decatur
T. B. Brock
Waxacacie
Texas
G. L. Mitchell
Athens
H. M. Miller
Dillard Clardy
George Evans
Pascagoula
Miss
Evans
Premier calls oil threat bluff amid tanker receipts dispute
Maki declares visas as pure bluff and says oil workers can stay or go. He threatens to turn off Abadan refinery valves unless receipts for oil pumped to AIOC tankers are handed over. Drake warns a sudden valve closure could cause a catastrophe if pumps aren’t shut down first.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maki
Abadan
AIOC
Drake i
Vacation Plans at Grant Store Expand Sick Leave
W H McAuley manager of the W T Grant Company store in Decatur outlined the expanding vacation policy granting three full weeks of paid vacation after five years of service. The plan increases benefits for long-tenured workers with four weeks after 25 years and two weeks for those employed 1 to 5 years, with eligibility starting after six months if hired before February 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.H. McAuley
W. T Grant Company
Decatur
Bishop Devine and Strong To Attend Synod Meeting
Elmer Bishop George Devine and Rev W B Strong plan to attend the Synod of the Mid South Presbyterian church USA meeting at Maryville College Maryville Tenn on June 25 and 26. They will represent the Westside Presbyterian church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer
George Devine
Rev
W. B. Strong
Mid-South Presbyterian Church
U.S.A
Maryville College
Maryville
Tenn
Devine
Strong
Westside Presbyterian Church
Earth tremors shake Formosa capital without damage
Sharp earth tremors lasting about a minute were felt in Formosa's nationalist capital at 6 54 AM today. No casualties or damage were reported. The notice is dated June 21 7 and indicates time in EST.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tripeh
Formosa
Fox makes dining date with North Hollywood man
In North Hollywood California a gray fox from Wardugo Hills began visiting John P. Hatteberg for scraps. After initial scaring, Hatteberg welcomed the thief and now leaves a nightly plate for the animal at 9 30 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Hollywood
Calif
Wardugo Hills
John P. Hatteberg
Mr. Fox
Mr. Hatteberg
Hatteberg
Five Strikers Face Charges In Georgia Strike Death
Five defendants are charged while seven are cleared of murder in the death of Nellie Tucker a 45 year old non striker crushed when strikers overturned her car near Berryton Mills. Harper Byars action set for today and Roy McGraw Frank Campbell and Roy Bryant bound over for grand jury. A truckload of flowers arrived from Anchor mill non strikers in Rome with a note of solidarity. Superior Court Judge Freeman McClure earlier convicted 14 for contempt and mass picketing yielding jail terms and fines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Summerville
Berryton, Mills
Louis McGraw
Harper Byars
Nellie Tucker
Happy Chandler Quits as Baseball Commissioner
Cincinnati June 21 A B Chandler resigns effective July 15 ending his run since 1945. Warren Giles confirms Chandler’s $65,000 salary will be paid through April 30 1952 and indemnity for personal losses. Chandler vows no future plans while a $150 000 suit is served in the case against him Brooklyn Dodgers and league presidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
A. B Chandler
Baseball Club
Giles
Chandler
Baseball
Executive Council
Mutual Broadcasting System
U. S
Brooklyn Dodgers
Walter J. Kowalski
Brooklyn
Flying incubator speeds newborn care in province
Seventeen months ago St. Pauls hospital started a flying incubator service to move premature babies from remote Interior regions to the clinic at St. Pauls. Forty infants have been transported by ambulance or air with incubators as teams of nurses aid and return them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
St. Paul's Hospital
St. Paul's
Penicillin Used Early in Labor to Cut Infection Rates
A study of 1131 patients shows penicillin given at the onset of active labor reduces illness from 4.19 to 1.37 percent and fever from 10.6 to 3.1 percent. The report suggests routine prophylaxis in active labor and adoption by many hospitals, especially in complicated deliveries.
Hurley accuses State Dept in Yalta testimony
Senate inquiry into Far Eastern policy hears Patrick J. Hurley allege a deliberate State Department white paper aims to disparage him. Wiley highlights Alger Hiss as a Yalta attendee and questions subpoenaing him while Hurley notes witnesses present at Yalta but cites his absence from the conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Patrick J. Hurley
State Department Today
China
Hurley
Senate
Douglas MacArthur
Wiley
R-Wis
Alger Hiss
State Department
Hiss
U. S
Yalta Agreement
Yalta
Allied front wary as April 22 offensive looms
Allied patrols advance near UN lines while Chinese watchers may seek to trigger a false sense of security. North Korean probes near Inje and Hwachon were repelled, with artillery fire thinning in the Yanggu sector as the front remains in a cautious hold.
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U. N
Manchuria
James A. van Fleet
van Fleet
East Central
Inje
Hwachon Reservoir
George A. McArthur
McArthur
Yanggu
Richmond Academy Reaches Southeastern Prep Finals
Richmond Academy of Augusta Ga advanced to the Southeastern High School Baseball Tournament final with a 3 0 win over Jackson Miss Don Berry the Richmond pitcher allowed three hits and earned the victory Jackson pitchers Jimmy Wells and Phil Patton combined for seven hits Kinard had two Mississippi hits a double and a single The Georgians meet the Lanier Mulberry winner in the title game tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Richmond Academy
Augusta
Jackson
Miss
Lanier
Mulberry
Fla
Don Berry
Richmond
Bill Kinard
The
Academy
Jimmy Wells
Phil Patton
Britain rejects equal pay for women in government service
Britain's labor government affirms men and country cannot afford it delaying pay parity for women in government service. Chancellor Hugh Gaitskell told the House of Commons last night that matching men's pay would fuel inflation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Britain
Hugh Gaitskell
House of Commons
Maintaining Rights Of Others Sermon At First Methodist
Dr. P. D. Wilson will speak at First Methodist Church Sunday morning at 10 55 on Maintaining Rights Of Others. In the evening at 730 he will preach on Tongue Exercises. Father’s Day guests from Hartselle and Alabama City attended celebrations with Mr and Mrs H B Johnson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. D. Wilson
First Methodist Church
H. B. Johnson
Hartselle
Walton Johnson
Alabama City
Loyd C. Johnson Hartselle
Pauline Jones
Spann Named Special Judge for Mobile Union Case
Governor Gordon Persons named Norman Spann a special justice for a state supreme court case involving Mobile and John J. Hickman et al. The appointment follows an equal division by six justices on the appeal from a Mobile county circuit court ruling. The dispute centers on a Mobile ordinance barring city police and firemen from union membership and the dismissal of officers who refused to renounce unions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Gordon Persons
Norman Spann
Supreme Court
Mobile
John J. Hickman
J. Ed Livingston
Gov. Persons
State Supreme Court
Mobile County
Mobile City
Cecil F. Bates
Mobile City Commission
AFL
Englishmen adopt military style in postwar fashion
London fashion reports that men will cast off tweed and sagging trousers for a military look with high jackets, back slashes, and narrow cuffless trousers. The Tailor and Cutter notes the shift as a reaction to wartime excess and Hollywood trends fading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Britain
Gazine
Hollywood
Briefcase lost in Addis Ababa unveils missing papers
Ethiopian Airlines and civil aviation officials investigate the disappearance of important papers from the briefcase of Dr. Eduardo Anze Matienzo, Bolivian UN Eritrea commissioner. He left the briefcase on a plane after a May Addis Ababa visit. officials recovered it through an indirect route but all papers were gone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Addis Ababa
Eduardo Anze Matienzo
Bolivia
Eritrea
Senor Matienzo
Matienzo
Alberta Legion backs UN conscription worldwide
The Alberta command of the Canadian Legion passed a resolution urging conscription for service anywhere in the world under the United Nations flag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lethbridge
Alta
Alberta
Canadian Legion
United Nations
1949 Cancer Death Toll by Gender
In 1949, 102671 men died of cancer versus 101980 women. The figures show men with slightly higher cancer mortality than women in that year.
WSCS Speaker Urges Stronger Christianity Amid UN Debate
Mrs. Frank Bell of Birmingham told the Wo man’s Society of Christian Service at the Alabama Methodist conference that the United Nations must be preserved as intended and that Christianity must lead the world in these decisive days. She warned atheism spreads through communism and cited missionaries in prison and vast ill housing as signs the world stands between Christianity and communism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
United Nations
Frank Bell
Birmingham
Woman’s Society of Christian Service
Alabama Methodist Conference
U. N
Women’s Division
Methodist Church
Mrs. Bell
Japan
America
World War III fears and a soldier honors list in 1950
A speaker recalls the 1950 Korea conflict moment when the 38th parallel was crossed, warning of World War III if the free world faltered. The piece then lists eleven honored service members and their relatives, detailing ranks, regiments, divisions, and next of kin across multiple states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Free World
North Korea
Red China
Cpl
John W. Collier
Earl Collier
Worthington
Samuel S. Coursen
1St Cavalry
Samuel, Jr
Morristown
N. J
Reginald B. Desiderio
Patricia Jean Desiderio
el Monte
Calif
Don
Gladys Hillertz
Linden
Luther H. Story
M. H. Story
Jackson Avenue
Americus
William Thompson
25Th Infantry
Mary Henderson
Brooklyn
N. Y
Richard G. Wilson
187Th Airborne Regiment
Yvonna L. Wilson
Cape Girardeau, Mo
Robert H. Young
Ment
1St Cavalry Division
Melvin D. Young
Vallejo
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Bishop
Modest Maidens
Patent Office
Pacific
Atlantic
Happy Chandler
Kentucky
Warren Giles
Cincinnati Reds
By Herman N. Bundesen, M.D
C. P
Dept. of State
Decatur General Hospital
Danville
R. N. Harris
Oak St
L. T. Couch
5Th Ave. S
Deoma Willingham
Beech St
Edwin F. Pearson
E. Vine St
Somerville Road
Spann
WSCS
Neil Kirk
Moulton ST
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