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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1949
Page
4
The Birmingham street car workers will remain at work while arbitrators settle with the company, avoiding wage loss. The piece notes Iceland’s concern over a vanished annual herring crop and asks about a White House query, while Rankin pushes a new pension measure.
The Pan American Airways lobbying on Capitol Hill includes free rides and perks for senators and reporters as it pursues favorable routes and subsidies. A recent CAB staff junket aboard a Boeing Stratocruser to Miami with six officers raises ethics questions about permissible interactions with the industry.
The city council backs mandatory connections to sanitary sewage lines within 200 feet when available. The measure aims to protect public health and support progressive city-building objectives despite opposition.
Compliments recalled the Decatur fire department and water department for handling a blaze at the Southern Cotton Oil Company. The story credits prior planning with the water mains and an agreement for enhanced protection, noting other industrial operators in Decatur have similar measures. The editorial urges all firms to review fire protection to prevent disasters and costly losses.
Cliff Slusser shaped Goodyear operations in Decatur Alabama guiding investment that created three plants with about 1 600 workers. Known as Cliff by workers he championed open door policy and led early flood relief efforts at Akron plant in 1913. He rose from stenographer to board member and helped run efficiency planning and interplant relations.
George Humphrey of Cleveland tops Truman’s list to succeed Wallgren as Mon Wallgren’s replacement and chairs the National Security Resources Board. Floyd Odlum, Atlas Corp. head and United Fruit, is named chairman candidate and is Jacqueline Cochran’s husband. Bob Hinckley, ex-Commerce Undersecretary now at ABC, is eyed for Undersecretary of National Defense. he favors his current role.
The Republican National Committee faced sharp criticism from Liberal Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon at a recent secret GOP Senate session. Ohio conservative Bob Taft supported the Oregonian strongly, saying he is fed up with national committee dictates to members of Congress.
The obituary notes the industrialist enjoyed watching children perform in a holiday play, reflecting his fondness for community youth activities and festive gatherings.
A reflective exhortation questions whether a person can judge others or oppose wrongdoing while failing to model the standards they demand. It urges active citizenship through speaking up, voting, and supporting community progress rather than retreating into silence or harm.
Senator Morse denounces state and national committees for appointing hacks and failing to reflect rank and file sentiment. He vows to run his own 1956 race without external influence from a new senatorial campaign committee led by Owen Brewster and John Townsend. Taft agrees with Morse on both points.
The report claims Marshal Tito told the US ambassador in Belgrade that Russia secretly builds a major submarine base off the Albanian coast to threaten British American shipping in the Mediterranean. Other items note Sweden radar sales blocked and Germany in Atlantic pact talks.
Joan L. Lewis, famed for control of national coal output, also holds immense authority over mine workers, implying power over life and death in the industry. The piece highlights the hidden reach of a powerful mining figure.
Westbrook Pegler denounces President Truman as ignorant and corrupt for attacking Congress and blaming others for civil rights proposals. He accuses Truman of stoking division, praising the South, and manipulating the 1948 convention through the Humphrey faction and anti civil rights agenda.
Government plans a gas line to Oak Ridge atomic energy plant to supplement coal. AEC and East Tennessee Natural Gas testified at a Federal Power Commission hearing about coal shortages in 1946 47 and early 1948. Williams said gas would save about 1 228 000 annually but coal supply would still be used.
In New York on March 3, various figures discuss the Atlantic pact, urging endorsement as a peace milestone and noting U N changes. Senator Kefauver calls the pact a decisive step ending U N dependence, while other arts and music figures comment on Maugham and Shostakovich amid a Culture and Scientific Conference for World Peace.
Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, aged 43, travels to the United States for a world peace conference, reads a carefully worded apology for his music, and reiterates loyalty to Soviet doctrine while criticizing Western cosmopolitanism and Central Committee controls. The event underscores tensions between Soviet officials and international cultural exchange.
A claim surfaces that a vast number of men in the United States could perform the leader’s duties more effectively. The remark reflects broad discontent and questions about leadership competence and public confidence.
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