GOP Makes Bid For Farm Vote
The GOP platform outlines a farm program with price supports and flexible pricing to aid farmers and consumers. It emphasizes family-sized farms, soil conservation, cooperative farming, and continued support for bona fide farmer cooperatives while opposing broad international crop selling pacts.
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Ovid A. Martin
Philadelphia
Alicans
GOP
Resolutions Committee
Truman
Congress
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Massachusetts
Delegates Grapple for Party Support at Convention
Texans at the convention have 30 of 33 votes for Taft while seeking southern backing for Shipan. Michigan Senator Vandenberg suitors Texas on a second choice basis, in case Taft stalls. Minnesota’s Stassen claims nine Dixie votes as Dewey defeats Taft in credentials contest over Georgia seats. Mississippi delegates led by Howard gain credentials as an independent all white delegation.
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Taft
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Michigan
Texas
Vandenberg
Minnesota
Harold E. Stassen
Dixie
Dewey
Georgia
Mississippi
Howard
Negro National Comm
Thomas E. Dewey
Arthur Vandenberg
Joe Martin
Herbert Brownell
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Illinois
Earl Warren
California
Joseph Martin
Martin
Resolutions Committee
Brooks
Congress
Credentials Committee
Ohio
Stassen
Taft-Stassen
Col
Robert R. McCormick
Chicago Tribune
New Yorker
McCormick
McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
Herbert FE. Brownell
Green
Leverett Saltonstall
Baldwin
Connecticut
James Duff
Joseph Grundy
Grundy
Welfare talks edge forward at UMW pact pace
Lewis demands pension agreement before new contract talks start. Goldsboro clears the path to resume negotiations by July to avert a potential strike when the current contract expires in June.
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UMW
Lewis
Goldsbor
Maple Street paving and alley lighting approval
The Maple Street project between Grant Sherman is advanced for paving while the Council approves a resolution and authorizes placing two street lights in the alley at Fourth W and Kearn Street. The note mentions bond issues and interest.
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Maple Street
Grant Sherman
Fourth W
Kearn Street
Railroad stocks lead as market edges higher on June 22
Rail shares surge with Nickel Plate gaining sharply after earnings signal and arrears plan. Reading, St Paul, Santa Fe, Illinois Central, Northern Pacific, Southern Railway, Southern Pacific, and Kansas City Southern also strengthen while oils like Richfield and Panhandle improve.
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New York
Reading
St. Paul
Santa Fe
Illinois Central
Northern Pacific
Southern Railway
Southern Pacific
Kansas City Southern
Richfield Oil
Panhandle Producing
Maracaibo
Standard Oil
Gulf
Douglas Aircraft
Lily-Tulip Cup
Owens-Illinois
Distillers Corp
Seagrams
Plymouth Oil
Nickel Plate
Cotton futures rally on short covering and demand
New York June 22 Cotton futures climbed sharply in late trading as short covering and buying met limited offers. The C C F futures closed 75 to 110 cents higher, with spot middling around 38 1/9 cents and notable gains across May July contracts.
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New York
Nashville Livestock Market Report June 22
Nashville stockyards report cattle steady to active with better Monday action. Medium steers and heifers 25.00 to 26.50. cutters and common 13.00 to 16.50. calves good and choice 22.00 to 27.00. Hogs steady with some 25 lower. barrows and gilts 27.25 for 190 230 lbs, sows 21.00 to 20.00. Sheep 26.50 to 29.00 for good spring lambs. common lambs 13.00 to 19.00.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Federal State Department of Agriculture
Grain Futures Rise on Wheat Support After Government Sales
In Chicago grain trading the Board of Trade showed gains across futures as wheat rallied due to government cash sales and rain in winter wheat regions. July wheat advanced to 2.325 4, corn rose 1 to 2.875, oats edged up 0.75 to 95.375, while soybeans fell about 3 to 6 cents.
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Chicago
Board of Trade Today
Poultry Market Holds Steady as Supplies Stay Large
North Georgia live poultry market unsettled with large supplies but good movement. Buyers paid 36-37 cents per pound for poultry picked up today, with larger sizes cleared readily and crosses offered at 1-2 cent premiums.
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Atlanta
USDA
North Georgia
FCB
Bernard Howard Dies After Year Illness
Bernard Howard, assistant ticket agent at the Greyhound bus station in Cullman, died Monday night at 6:30 at Cullman Hospital after a year long illness. He had worked 18 years at Cullman Drug Co and five years supervising Greyhound drivers in Cullman County. He is survived by his parents Mr. and Mrs. W G Howard of Cullman, two brothers, and other relatives.
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Bernard, Howard
Greyhound
Cullman
Cullman Hospital
Howard
Cullman Drug Company
Cullman County
W. G. Howard
Moss
Guard Ranks Swell as Youths Seek to Beat Draft Deadline
Washington reports a swelling Guard as young men rush to dodge the pending draft law. Officials say registration and exemptions will shape the first call, with 606,882 men aged 19 to 25 expected to be drafted for 21 months in the Army, while many categories qualify for deferments.
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Washington
National Guard
Truman
Guard
National
Armed Forces
Organized Reserve
Camp Ord
Calif
Camp Campbell
Camp Hood
Tex
Fort Dix
N. J
Fort Jackson
S. C
Officers Pose as Mourners Nab Cemetery Fugitive
In Rome on June 22 police posing as mourners with flowers surrounded a mausoleum in a cemetery and arrested Gioacchino Montesano, wanted for attempted murder after three weeks in hiding. He emerged from beneath the grave after officers in black carried out the ruse.
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Rome
Palermo
Gioacchino Montesano
Montesano
Gas Experiments Will Be Continued
The Alabama Power Co and the U S Bureau of Mines will extend underground coal gasification experiments at Gorgas Alabama and Alamine. The second test will run deeper to improve gas quality with costs repaid by the project. Last year about 260 tons of coal were used in a shallow test allowing air leaks that lowered gas quality. The bureau notes that a coal block can be fully converted into gas underground.
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Washington
Alabama Power Co
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Bureau of Mines
Gorgas, Alamine
Power Company
Republicans Outline Platform Aims On Defense and Civil Rights
The platform pledges full recognition of Israel, strong national defense with maintained Army Navy and Air Force, and unity in the national security apparatus. It calls for anti-lynching and anti-poll tax measures, opposes forced racial segregation in the armed forces, and supports federal housing aid with local slum clearance under need. It also backs electoral reform to reflect the popular vote and restores tide lands to states.
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Israel
United Nations
Department of National Defense
Congress
Truman
President Truman
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Senate
House
Resolutions Committee
Raid on Camp Said Approved by Area Residents
Birmingham June 22 The raid by robed white men on a negro Gill Scout camp near Bessemer Ala June 10 was approved by a majority of local residents according to Chief Deputy Clyde Morris. Two white women Katherine Nickel and Elizabeth Ijams were ordered to leave the camp during the raid. the camp was closed and investigators pursue further action. The incident prompted a federal inquiry by Girl Scouts national HQ.
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Birmingham
Bessemer
Ala
Clyde Morris
Howard Sullinger
Kathrine Nickel
Elizabeth Ijams
Morris
The
Girl Scouts
Federal Bureau
Ministers Urge Youths to Duck Call to Service
In New York on June 22 a group of more than 200 Protestant clergy and leaders urged young men to refuse draft registration or enlist. They issued a public letter likening compliance to offering incense to Caesar's image and named Rev. Allan Knight Chalmers and Rev. A J Muste as organizers with signers including A D Beittel of Talladega College.
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New York
Caesar
United
Allan Knight Chalmers
Broadway Tabernacle
Boston University School of Theology
A. J. Muste
Fellowship of Reconciliation
A. D. Beittel
Talladega College
Alabama
Surplus Peaks Then Likely To Fall By Fiscal Year End
Treasury data show a budget surplus of 7.997 billion dollars on June 18 with 12 days left in the fiscal year. A brief rise above 8 billion is possible due to income tax payments due June 15, but end-of-year spending on the public debt is expected to push the surplus toward about 7.5 billion by June 30. Refunds may be paused July 1 as the 2.299 billion appropriation is exhausted, though this fiscal year already nears that cap.
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Washington
Treasury
Congress
Platform for statehood and self rule in territories urged
A political platform calls for eventual statehood for Hawaii Alaska and Puerto Rico and for development of Alaska’s communications and resources. It urges self government for the District of Columbia and proposes large improvements while endorsing equal rights for citizens.
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Hawaii
Alaska
Puerto Rico
District of Columbia
Bland Dies At Advanced Age
W. H. Bland aged 78 died Monday night at his Hanceville home. Funeral services set for Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Hopewell Baptist Church with burial in Hopewell cemetery. Survivors include four daughters Iris Bland J C Burham Jeddy Ryan and Jack Hendrix, son John M. Bland, brother Lawson, sister Mrs William Weeks, and four grandchildren. Red Bland predeceased him.
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W. H. Bland
Hanceville
Bland
Hopewell Baptist Church
Hopewell Cemetery
Moss
Iris Bland
J. C. Burham
Birmingham
Jeddy Ryan
Florence
Jack Hendrix
Blountsville
John M. Bland
Lawson
William Weeks
Cullman
T. W
Red) Bland
Dewey Taft Stassen Rival Runners At Republican Convention
The convention's first day focused on a platform pledging aid to peace loving nations and housing efforts. Taft pressed for slum clearance and low cost housing while Dewey, Stassen and Vandenberg backers jockeyed for influence as balloting looms and Perry Taft and Dewey factions pursue pivotal endorsements.
Judge Powell in Cullman court today and local notes
Judge Newton B. Powell is in Cullman court today. Mr and Mrs James A Posey Jr are on vacation in Akron Philadelphia and Washington D C. Miss Lela Belle Roberson is at Decatur General Hospital after an appendectomy Monday. Emblem club calls meeting at 7 30 tonight at the Elk s home. City firefighters answered a call to 718 Walnut Street W Monday afternoon. Bill Ridgeway publisher of The Hartselle Enquirer was here on business today.
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James A. Posey, Jr
Akron
Washington, D
Lela Belle Roberson
Decatur General Hospital
Barrett's Clinic
Decatur General
Brown’s
Emblem Club
Elk’s
Walnut Street
Bill Ridgeway
The
Hartselle Enquirer
Funeral services for Mr Lentz announced in Decatur
Funeral services for Mr. Lentz will be held Thursday at 2 30 P M at the First Methodist church in Decatur with Rev Otis Kiry officiating. Burial in city cemetery. The body remains at Brown's chapel until 2 15 P M Thursday when cortege starts for the church. Pallbearers listed. Survived by mother Mrs A M Lentz two sisters and two brothers. Lentz born in Decatur lived there until Riverside high school graduation then worked in Hollywood before joining WKUL Cullman. He has lived above the station in recent months.
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Sgt. Little
Vinson and
Watkins
Mr. Lentz
First Methodist Church
Decatur
Otis Kiry
City Cemetery
Brown
Brown's
Marion Brown
Tom King
Red Flanagan
Cullman
Carroll Eddins
Verlon Waters
Horace Sheets
Ford Brown
A. M. Lentz
Horace Travis
Glasgow
Harry Green
Columbia
Russians Talk Currency Talks in Berlin Four-Power Meeting
High Soviet officials and Western Allies met in Berlin to discuss a unified currency for the four power city and to protect trade between Soviet and Western Germany. The talks followed a tense period after the Russians left the Allied council in March and debated whether Berlin should use only Russian zone currency or a special joint issue.
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Lynn Heinzerling
Berlin
Germany
Allied Council
U. S
Britain
France
Bs Gested
Vassily D. Sokolovsky
Testimony Details Slay Shooting Involving Junior Woodruff
Jurors heard accounts linking Slim James Thomas and Grady Hays to the shooting of Junior Woodruff after a chalk tent incident on Highway 31. Mrs Lucile Hays testified Junior was shot after leaving the tent and hiding body, with Slim warning of trouble before the truck trip to town ended in death.
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Lucile Hays
Grady Hays
Junior
Slim
James Thomas
Mary Hartselle
Thomas
Jackson Street
Highway 31
Grady
Junior Woodruff
Mary
Somerville
Bob L. Lokey
Lokey
Corinth
Miss
Bev T. Howell
Woodruff
Former Decatur Resident Mildred Hunter Dies in Birmingham
Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon in Birmingham for Mildred Nanny Hunter 68 a former Decatur resident who died at 9 30 this morning at the home of her daughter Mrs B B Wales 2618 38th Avenue N Birmingham after about two months critical illness She is survived by two daughters Mrs B B Wales and Miss Martha Hunter of Birmingham one son Horace also of Birmingham five grandchildren and three great grandchildren She was grandmother of Betty and Glenn Hunter of Decatur.
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Birmingham
Mildred
Hunter
Decatur
B. B. Wales
38Th Avenue N
Martha Hunter
Horace
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Alabama States’ Rights Executive Committee
Tom Abernathy
Talladega
Charles Wiggins
Jasper
Robert Knox Green
Greensboro
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Andalusia
Abernathy
Albritton
Deweys
Nion
Missouri
Kansas
Wisconsin
Tennessee
Utah
Vermont
Iowa
White House
Kenneth S. Wherry
Nebraska
Dwight Green
Clare Boothe Luce
Wherry
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Luce
Hank Wallace
Connecticut House
Francis P. Bolton
Raymond Baldwin
Henry Ee Jr
Mass
Nat Taye
Newton B. Powell
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