Acheson urges pact ratification and arms aid
Secretary of State Acheson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that ratification of the North Atlantic pact and approval of military aid are vital to the United States policy toward the Soviet Union. He cited the Paris Big Four foreign ministers conference as showing the need for congressional action to sustain momentum from Western policy, including after the Berlin blockade.
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Washington
I(p
Acheson
Russia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Paris
Congress
Europe
Berlin
Council of ‘Foreign Ministers
Senate Committee
Council of Foreign Ministers
Wall Street Opens Lower as Stocks Drift All Day
The market moved into lower price ground and stayed there with losses ranging from fractions to about a point. Trading was slow with about 600000 shares changing hands and many issues scarce or barely moving while a few names rose slightly after news of a federal court appointment for Third Avenue Transit trustees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William D. Horgan
New York
Wall Street
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem Steel
General Motors
Studebaker
U. S. Rubber
Sears Roebuck
Douglas Air Craft
Commonwealth Edison
Phelps Dodge
American Smelting
Dow Chemical
Owens-Illinois
Santa Fe
N. Y. Central
Nickell Plate
Standard Oil (Nj
Mission Corp
Loew's
Texas Pacific Land Trust
Brewing Corp., of America
Electric Power & Light
DuPont, Chespeake & Ohio
Barnsdalet
Third Avenue Transit
U. S
Hurdle Cleared By Bond Issue In Alabama Vote
Montgomery June 22 The house transportation committee voted out a favorable recommendation for a 40 million dollar road bond issue in a constitutional amendment form. The substitute mirrors the earlier measure by Reps. Martin and Benford and includes technical changes. Ed Rodgers supported the proposal while automobile dealer groups and motorists opposed it. Martin argued private firms finance expansions with bonds and the state should do the same.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
House Transportation Committee
W. L
Doc) Martin
Greene County
J. J. Benford
Marshall
Martin-Benford
Ed Rodgers
Alabama Road Builders Association
Rep. Martin
Alabama Power Company
Arnold Rites Held Friday
Funeral services for Mrs. Elvin Arnold 23 will be at Central Baptist church Friday at 3 PM Rev J A Gomes officiating The body will rest at her mother Mrs Frank Pooles home until services Interment in city cemetery Brown directing She died in LaSalle Colo June 18 of a heart attack while driving her car She was a Decatur resident moved a year ago Survivors include husband Elvin Arnold LaSalle Colo mother Mrs Frank Poole Decatur sister Miss Sarah Poole and brothers L C Ennis Bruce Jackson Miss
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Elvin Arnold
Central Baptist Church
J. A. Gomes
Frank Poole
Sixth Avenue North
City Cemetery
Brown Directing
Arnold
Mary Lee Poole
LaSalle
Colo
Decatur
Cole
Sarah Poole
Pope
L. C. and
Ennis
Jackson
Bruce
Nashville Livestock Prices Mixed as Markets Steady in June
Nashville June market report shows cattle generally steady from Tuesday with broader mix of lower grade stock. medium to low good slaughter steers and heifers 20.50 to 23.00, cutters 16.00 to 20.00, cows 10.00 to 14.50, bulls 17.25 to 18.50. Calves steady with good and choice dealers 2.00 to 4.00, hogs weak though some loads sold early at 20.75, sheep active and largely steady to 25 higher with springers 23.00 to 25.00, odd lighter weights 8.00.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Federal State Departments of Agriculture
New York Cotton Prices Edge Higher on Covering Infirm Trade
New York June 22 Cot ton futures showed irregular action in slow trading with nearby July firm on cover ing and hitting a season high of 33.22 cents a pound ahead of the first notice day. The rest of the market sagged on light profit taking while deferred deliveries drew some buying due to overnight rains. Persistent trade program reports discuss financing cotton for Spain, which needs the American staple for its textile industry.
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New York
Spain
Grain futures slip as corn overtakes wheat on CBOT
Chicago June grain trading shows wheat retreating from leadership while corn advances after a government forecast of a large pig crop. July wheat at 1.99 3-4, corn up to 33 3-4, oats 60 3-4, rye 1 41 1-2, soybeans 2.34 1-4, lard steady to 10 cents lower.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Agriculture Department
Markets at a Glance New York June 22
Stocks fell gently while leaders drifted lower. Bonds mixed with selective improvement. Cotton irregular and slow trading. Chicago wheat easy with profit taking. Corn firm on higher pig crop estimates. Oats steady in quiet trade. Hogs generally 25 cents lower to a top of 21.50. Cattle steady to 3 cents higher with a high of 29.00.
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New York
Chicago
Poultry Market Report From Atlanta Weak Prices Decline
POULTRY ATLANTA Ga June 22 USDA North Georgia live poultry market weak and lower. Demand moderate with stocks moving satisfactorily in most quarters. Supplies ample to liberal in all areas. Prices paid for Barred Rocks Crosses 1-2-1 cent under NH Reds in many instances. Prices paid FOB farm Monday p m and this morning ranged breeders and fryers all weights 221 2 28 cents mostly 231-224 1-2 cents. Higher prices were paid by dressing plants to own growers in most instances.
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Atlanta
USDA
North Georgia
N.hs
Mother Pushing Her Crippled Son on Open Road Today
Mrs Julia Roka St Clair wheels her seven year old son Adolphius in a wheelbarrow on a 1000 mile trek from Jacksonville to Detroit. She left the day before and aims to improve after a 20 mile first day. She, once Miss Hungary of 1918, hopes the journey aids her health amid city traffic and curiosity of her boy.
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Detroit
Julia Roka St. Clair
Adolphius
Jacksonville
Fla
Mich
Dolphie
Fila
Georgias Piney Wools
Hiss Case and Communist Trial Back in New York
The Alger Hiss perjury case resumes in New York with a predicted late stand by Hiss. In the same city, 11 Communist leaders face trial for advocating overthrow, as Gilbert Green testifies the party abandoned its period of striving for a workers revolutionary government over a decade ago. A separate witness may be deposed in Foster case.
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Supreme Court
Hiss
New York
Communist Party
Harold R. Medina
Henry A. Riley
William Z. Foster
Foster
Miss
United Nations
Gubitchev
Alger Hiss
U. S
Gilbert Green
Illinois
Workers Revolutionary
Czechs Continue From Page One Area Today
No serious damage reported after blast near the British freighter Anchises damaged by nationalist bombs. Shanghai remains a communist held port as nationalist China announces a blockade of such ports.
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Anchises
Shanghai
Nationalist China
China
Birth announcements and local notices from Decatur area
Births announced at Decatur General Hospital include a son for Mr. and Mrs. James McConnell of 805 Grant Street and a son for Mr. and Mrs. Almon Gillespie of 1603 Eighth Avenue East. Dismissals and admissions at Hamil Clinic Hospital are noted for Henry Jones with R W Carrell, and Mrs. Calvin Blizzard. The Hartselle Youth Revival ends tonight after starting June 12, led by four Howard College students. Local officials, Red Cross delegates, church services, and weather details close the notice, including rainfall figures from TVA and a 85 degree high.
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James McConnell
Grant Street
Decatur General, Hospital
Almon Gillespie
Eighth Avenue East
Decatur General Hospital
Hartselle
Howard College
Johnny Smith Jr
Bob” Ferguson
W.C. Dudley
Helen Johnson
Strickland Rites Set For Saturday In Missouri City
Services for John A. Strickland a former Decatur resident will be held Saturday in Sieskton Missouri The 72yearold Akron Ohio Goodyear mill employee was found dead of a heart attack in his bed In Decatur Strickland was a farmer and blacksmith who left the city about 12 years ago Survivors include two eaters Mrs C M Kennedy Decatur Oval Arbuckle Canalou Mo four sons Virgil and Lloyd Canalou Al mon Akron and Leslie Topeka Kan Other survivors include a brother Robert Strickland Birmingham and five greatgrandchildren Among the di surviving grand
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John A. Strickland
Decatur
Sieskton
Akron, O
Goodyear Mill
Strickland
C. M. Kennedy
Oval Arbuckle
Canalou
Virgil
Lloyd
Almon
Akron
Leslie
Topeka
Kan
Robert Strickland
Birmingham
Governors Back Indirect Aid Plan For Europe
Colorado Springs June 21 governors signaled support for the administrations 1.13 billion arms aid package for Western Europe while debating a 20 percent cut in federal grants in exchange for the government retreat from certain tax fields. The 41st annual conference ends today as it prepares to elect a new chairman, likely Governor Frank Carlson of Kansas, and to approve a measure endorsing implementation of the North Atlantic treaty and related aid programs.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Western
Europe
William Preston Lane Jr
Maryland
Kansas
Frank Carlson
Executive’ Committee
United Nations
Security Council
State Department
Rev Pepper Assigned to Vina Church in Alabama
Rev Roosevelt Pepper of Pleasant Hill Baptist Decature resigns after two years four months to become pastor of First Baptist church at Vina Alabama. He starts July 1 and led the rural Pleasant Hill church to 50 plus additions, tripled budget, full time work, a ten room educational basement building, new heating, and top vacation Bible schools in Morgan county. Deacons J T Robinson J T Russell and W R Foutch laud his leadership and pray for his family as he moves to the new field.
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Roosevelt Pepper
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church
Decature
First Baptist Church
Vina
Alabama
Pepper
Morgan County
J. T. Robinson
J. T. Russell
W. R. Foutch
Christ
Brother Pepper
First Baptist Church of
Labor and legal battles roil Capitol Hill
Labor leaders back a compromise bill as the administration seeks to repeal Taft Hartley and replace it with a Wagner style act. Senators Douglas and Aiken propose government seizure of industries in critical strikes with Petrillo praising the effort. Debates stall while committees study democracy in unions and consider poll tax repeal, reorganization, and ECA spending. A push for a crime mob probe and possible FBI involvement also looms.
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James C. Petrillo
AFL American Federation of Musicians
Westbrook Pegler
Labor
Capitol Hill
Atomic
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Atomic Energy Commission
David E. Lilienthal
Pact
Acheson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
ECA
Senate Appropriations Committee
Economic Cooperation Administration
Europe
Westchester County
N. Y
Decatur Family Named in Kennedy Case
Mrs. J. C. Hughes along with Marvin, Aaron and Roy Kennedy of Decatur are listed as involved family members in the local report.
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J. C. Hughes
Marvin
Aaron
Roy Kennedy
Decatur
Two Suspects Freed in VFW Hall Burglaries
William Robinson 25 and Henry Holmes 18, both African American, were arrested in Decatur for burglarizing the Negro Veterans of Foreign Wars club on May 28. Robinson posted a $750 appearance bond after admitting theft totaling about $66, with loot allegedly tossed into the Tennessee River.
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William Robinson
Negro Veterans of Foreign Wars Club
Henry Holmes
Morgan County
Decatur
J. B. Whitemire
VFW
Robinson
Holmes
Marriage licenses and deeds listed in Daily Records
The page lists marriage licenses for Henry Russell Bolding and Mary Counts, Leonard Prater and Gladys Moses, and Luther Roberts to Alma Alvis, among others. It also itemizes numerous deeds and transfers of property or funds including Robelawn Cemetery Co to Oscar Loosier, and notes Babe Ruth earned 910,900 in salaries during 1914 to 1935.
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Henry Russell Bolding
Grant
Mary Virginia Counts
Mount Hope
Leonard Elvis Prater
Decatur
Gladys Eva Moses
Babe Ruth
Younger Vets Share Bigger GI Insurance Dividends
Washington reports the Veterans Administration expects larger dividends for younger World War II veterans from a $2.8 billion National Service Life Insurance payout. Converted policy holders may receive more due to higher premiums, while mortality differences favor younger veterans. the VA continues finalizing the dividend scale details for distribution in early 1950.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Carl R. Gray, Jr
VA Spokiesman
Veterans Agency
Mask ban eyed as Klan robes spark debate in Alabama
State senators hear testimony on a bill prohibiting masks and other devices to conceal identities amid Klan and hooded group activity. Veterans and labor representatives back the measure while urging officials to disclose any hooded affiliations. A deputy sheriff guard duty followed a Klan meeting as groups plan a broader fight against night riders and mob violence.
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William Hugh Morris
United States
Sen. Mize
T. H. Walker
Montgomery
Veterans of Foreign Wars
John S. Foster
Birmingham
Gen. Gorgas
American Legion
CIO
Gene Wells
Labor
Senate
David Solomon
Gen. Gorgas Post
The
Solomon
Adamsville
Holt McDowell
McDowell
Fisticuffs at Sabath Session Over Housing Funds
An altercation broke out near Sabath with fists exchanged before quieting as Cox moved away laughing. The dispute concerned federal asherities for low rent housing. proposed spending was cut from 400 million to 306 thousand dollars annually.
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Sabath
Cox
Day
Cullman Masonic Officers Elected for 1949 50 Year
At the Cullman Fraternal Lodge 421 regular meeting officers for 1949 50 were elected Worshipful Master H M Crawford senior warden Alton Suggs junior warden Guy Hodge treasurer Toy Rodgers secretary John Sparks senior deacon Tom Hesterly junior deacon Barney J Chandler ryler J H Burns The new Masonic temple was recently completed.
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Cullman Fraternal Lodge
H. M. Crawford
Alton Suggs
Guy Hodge
Toy Rodgers
John Sparks
Tom Hesterly
Barney J. Chandler
Ryler
J. H. Burns
Masonic Temple
Bishop to Be Consecrated in Huntsville Ceremony
Huntsville Alabama June 22 for the first time an overflow crowd is expected as Rev Randolph Royall Claiborne rector of the Church of the Nativity will be consecrated suffragan bishop of the diocese of Alabama in a morning ceremony at the church on June 29. Alabama has had seven Episcopal bishops and nationwide 480 men have been elected bishop since 1784.
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C. E. Chandler
Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
Florida
Huntsville
Ala
Randolph Royall Claiborne
Church of the Nativity
Alabama
Samuel Seabury
Scotland
America
Christ
Congress weighs Alabama incidents and mob power issues
House members describe the Alabama disturbances as a threat to order and probe whether local or state authorities have failed. They urge the Justice Department and federal officials to assess broad mob influence and potential loopholes in laws that hinder action. The Federal Ku Klux Klan offers 500 dollars for proof of member involvement.
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Waler
Justice Department
Congress
Alabama
Ku Klux Klan
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Harvard Law School
Frankfurter
Justice Holmes
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Diarte
Henry Jones
Sycamore Street
R. W. Carrell
East Church Street
Hamil Clinic
Calvin Blizzard
Fourth Avenue South
Mattie W. Tolleson
Selective Service Board
F. H. Kirby
American Red Cross
Washington, D. C
National American Red Cross
East
HM. Layman
Lee Deal
G. M. Davenport
God
Saul
First Methodist Church
Satteck
Charlies A. Wells
TVA
Strickland Rites
Missouri City
Vina Church
House Administration Committee
House
Norton
Senate House
General Services Agency
Senate Expenditures Committee
FBI
Luther Washington Roberts
Falkville
Alma Milodene
Alvis
Falkille
Deeds M. C. Lee
James Henson
Sam E. Pruett
R. D. Gibbons
Roselawn Cemetery Co
Oscar F. Loosier
J. R. Doss
J. L. Doss
Hubert M. Cagle
Royce C. Maase
Ian E. Forbes
Jeanie K. Edgil
J. E. West
A. B. Clark
W .D. Hamiltten
HA. Manaimey
Emma T. Laymon
D. W. McNeill
W. L. Waits
Bernice Garrett
R L. Waits
Hazel Dean Martin
Klan
Cullman News
Barnard Theatre
Virginia Clark
Jean Schlosser
Catherine Blanchard
Marilyn Kornegay
Carolyn Cagle
Fef. L. Hill
Bertha
Alfred Schlosser Jr
Chantilly
E. L. Hill
Alfred Schlosser
W. C. Cagle
Schlosser
Courtehary Road
Betty Browner
Jane Smith
Harry Levy
Bill Murry
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