There’s Gold In Them Consumer Pockets
Experts argue consumer purchasing power remains strong with 1948 income figures rising to 141.9 billion and savings around 200 billion. Analysts say high wages, savings, and manageable debt imply sustained demand, despite some forecasters predicting a downturn. The mood hinges on continued income growth and discretionary spending potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bears
Thomases
Mavoc
Department of Commerce
Clifford S. Young
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
John Q
Ernc Johnson
J. Walter Thompson Co
American Marketing Association
Commerce de
William A. Duvel
National Credit Office
National Association of Credit Men
Atlantic City
Johnston
AMA
CIO convention to tackle left wing issues at Cleveland meeting
The CIO board and Murray pledge decisive action at the October Cleveland convention against left wing leaders and factions misaligning with CIO policy. They denounce Iry Bridges and withdraw CIO from the WFTU, threaten expulsion of Farm Equipment Workers Union, and back the Truman fair deal while urging passage of labor measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
CIO
Board
Murray
Iry Bridges
CIO Longshoremen
World Federation of Trade Unions
AFL
GIO
WFTU
Farm Equipment Workers Union
James Carey
United Auto Workers
Walter Reuther
Farm Equipment
Truman
Thomas Lesinski
Congress
Bell Telephone Companies
Communications Workers of America
Franklin D Roosevelt Jr
Rape Hearing Slated Friday In Limestone County
Gene Herndon 31 of Grenada Mississippi faces a preliminary rape hearing set for 10 a.m. Friday. He is accused of abducting and raping an Athens waitress on a date night, driving to a country road west of Athens. Herndon is represented by W W Malone and W W Malone Jr. The case was reported by Sheriff John G Sandlin and charged by Limestone County authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Limestone
Thomas G. Steele
Gene Herndon
Grenada
Miss
Herndon
Athens
John G. Sandlin Herndon
W. W. Malone
W. W. Malone, Jr
Alabama Supreme Court Decisions Reported May 19
The Alabama Supreme Court handed down numerous decisions from Montgomery. Petitions for certiorari to the Court of Appeals were denied or dismissed in several cases including Ex parte Nancy Price and Ex parte Harold Tingley. Other cases affirmed in whole or in part, reversed and remanded, or amended, involving Madison, Mobile, Conecuh, Russell, Houston, Coosa, Etowah, Baldwin, Marengo, Jefferson, Marion, and Madison circuits. Notable mandamus granted in State ex rel. Attorney General v Walter B. Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Supreme Cout
Brown
Justice
Nancy Price
W. T. R. Ward
Court of Appeals
State
Arthur Parham
Ivingston
Madison M. Drummond
Sadie L. Franck
Mobile Circuit
Equity
J. C. Hooks
Conecuh
Lilliah Inez Hawkins
J. F. Snellings
Russell
Adams
Allon Jeffcoat
Houston
J. A. Vick
L. R. Bishop
Coosa
Harold Tingley
Harold N. Tingley
Annie Vinson
Et al
Robert Turner
Etowah Circuit
Simpson
Swift and Co
Johnnie J. Rolling
E. W. Walt Hall
E.M. Yohn
Baldwin Circuit
Royal Ins. Co. Ltd
Royal Ins. Co
T. BR. Story
Theo Dye
Alias Vatatey
Attorney General
Walter B. Jones
Hays Lazana
Hays Lavana
Elizabeith B. Robinson
Adele J. Eppes
Marengo Circuit
J. R. Waters
Beatrice Anthony
Jefferson Circuit
Preston
H. Henderson
Department of Industrial Relations
Norman Krasner
Mitchell Gurley
Carrie Lee Grissom
Dehart Ice Cream Co. Inc
State, &x
Maenetta Steele
Board of Education of Fairfield
Alex Boggs
Kershaw
Butler. Engineers, Ltd
Madison Circuit
Decatur General Hospital Admissions and Local Notices
Rev Otto Stucki to visit Church of the Nazarene next Wednesday night. Petit larceny charges against two white men after siphoning gasoline from an automobile they did not own. Officers Kirkpatrick and Nuby arrested them. Births announced for Connard in Decatur and McAbee in Hartselle. Admitted to Decatur General Hospital: Seminettee Hill, Mary Ruth Collins, Stella May Standridge, Margaret Davis, Barbara Ann Pence. Mumps confine Barbara Ann Pence at home. American Legion Memorial Field flood lights to be tested tonight at 7 30. Decatur team opening game Saturday at eight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Stucki
Church of the Nazarene
W. OH. Kirkpatrick
Garland Nuby
Decatur General Hospital
Seminette Hill
DeCatur
Mary Ruth Collins
Second Street
Athens
Stella May Standridge
Moulton Road
Margaret Davis
Fifth Avenue
American Legion Memorial Field
Quince Eddens
Decatur Electric Department
Filibuster Rages Over Thurmond Johnston Senate Skirmish
In Columbia a midwifeish former teacher faces a week long filibuster as Thurmond lobbies to control the state industrial commission by appointing Faith Clayton. Johnston and Thurmond duel over labor policy and party alignment with potential 1950 Senate stakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
S. C
South Carolina
U.S. Senate
J. Strom Thurmond
Olin D. Johnston
Thurmond
Johnston
National Democratic Party
Faith Clayton
State Industrial Commission
I. L. Hyatt
Hyatt
Engineers
Miss Clayton
Senate
O. T. Wallace
Charlesten
U. S
State Federation of Labor
Clayton
Labor
Commission
Thurmond-Johnston
Alabama House Moves On Pending Bills And Amendments
Continued from page one the house judiciary committee approved a bill to end rent controls on February 1 1950 a public hearing was held last week The panel favored a measure by Rep Norman Iris of Morgan county to legalize horse and dog racing and pari mutuel betting The liquor advertising ban was killed by the house health committee In the senate Rankin Fite proposed reapportionment provisions while Sen Robin Swift warned the plan would increase Jefferson county seats adding a protest against the measure by Esambia county officials
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rives
New York
Gessner T. McCorvey
State Democratic Executive Council
House ‘ Judiciary Committee
Norman Iris
Morgan County
Judiciary Committee
House
House Committee On Business
Aaa
Alabama
House Health Committee
Senate
Constitution Committee
Rankin Fite
Robin Swift
Escambia
Beune Protestaut
Jefferson County
School committee leaders and instructional materials groups named
In group one Evelyn Price chairs school community relations with Novel Bradford as co chair and Francis Harwell as recorder. Group two is led by Julia Sharp with L E Bagwell as co chair and Dixie Coltier as recorder. Jane Wooten heads special interests with H L Paul as co chair and Lizzie R Penn as recorder. Helen Blackshear Ed Summers and Opal Stewart supervise daily living problems. Instructional materials have two groups led by F E Burleson chair and Jean Freeman co chair with Jo Hamilton recorder. second group led by G O Spencer chair Elizabeth Mowell co chair Martha Childers recorder.
Masked Bandit Robs Memphis Drug Store Haul
Memphis police seek a 200 pound masked bandit who forced three employees to lie face down at gunpoint and escaped with nearly 13 thousand dollars. The bandit entered the store early and emptied the safe of 7 thousand four hundred dollars in cash and five thousand four hundred eight dollars in undsorsed checks before fleeing through a basement exit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Gunoint
Clas
Guy Davis
Bowen
Lucillest
Davis
Golfers Sought to Face Florence at Decatur Club
County club pro M. L. Lowery invites 20 to 25 players to form a team to play Florence Country Club on Sunday in an opening 1949 tournament. A luncheon precedes a straight match. The schedule also lists Jasper on June 5 and Huntsville later. last year the club met Florence and Huntsville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur Country
Florence Country Club
M. L. Lowery
County Club
Lowery
Jasper
Huntsville
Theeater Club
Florence
Decoration Day Observed at Flower Hill Church
Decoration Day will be observed Sunday at Flower Hill near Flower Hill Baptist Church. Services at the cemetery and at the church are announced with dinner to be served at noon. Everyone is cordially invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flower Hill
Clardy
Byrd Calls for Large Scale Civil Service Cuts in U.S.
Senator Byrd sharply criticizes federal spending and says civilian employment in the executive branch rose by about 322 daily for 15 months, totaling 2,111,257 by end of March. He urges at least 500,000 civilian cuts without harming essential functions and blasts new proposals for expanding programs. He notes related farm aid and REA funding battles, with amendments defeated in the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byrd
Virginian
United States
Res
Executive Branch
Congres
Byrd Long
White House
Truman
Congress
House
Rural Electrification Administration
REA
Langer
Humphrey
D-Minn
Senator Long
Dla
Russians, Poles clash at UN over Eisler debate
In New York the UN general assembly's spring session closed after delegates rejected a Polish bid to discuss Gerhart Eisler, a communist fugitive. In Washington, Brazil’s President Eurico Gaspar Dutra received the forum of the U.S. Congress and was welcomed by President Truman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United Nations General Assembly
Gerhart Eisler
Brazil
Eurico Gaspar Dutra
U. S
Washington
Truman
Postal Receipts Here Show Gains In Current Year
Post office receipts in Decatur rose 20 percent from last year. Postmaster R. T. Sheppard said today that in his office up to May 19 the receipts were 46 210.83 while during the same period of the current year they amounted to 55.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
R. T. Sheppard
Cotton consumption and stocks across states April report
The Census Bureau reports April cotton use of 597 031 lint and 119 985 linters, with March at 720 892 lint and 134 063 linters and last April at 629 960 lint and 7 144 linters. Nine months end April totals show 6 162 162 lint and 1 055 838 linters. Outputs detail lint and linter stocks in consuming establishments and public storage, spindle counts, and regional breakdowns for cotton growing and New England states.
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Washington
New England
New England States
Remodelling Plans For Kress Store Remain Indefinite
James Rankin said construction work on the Kress Store at Second Avenue and Grant remains indefinite. The New York office has not completed plans, with initial June or July 1948 target and later May 1, 1949 revisions. The three-store block was leased by the five and ten cent Store from E. W. Strother and J. F. Smither.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kress
Second Avenue
Grant
James Rankin
Rankin
New ‘York
Sg0
E. W. Strother
J. F. Smither
Deeds and Transfers Around Decatur Area
Daily records list numerous real estate deeds and transfers in Decatur and vicinity. Notable entries include Clifford H. Sims to Thelma M. Tribble for unspecified terms, Decatur Development Company to C. H. Odom for 9500, and Southeastern Metals Co. to Earl Glenn for 7000. Other entries show multiple $100 to $7,600 transfers between individuals and local firms, with several blocks of names such as J. L. Sullins to Lamar N. Speake and Ed C. White to Ed C. White Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deeds
Pe McNnear
J. P. Rowe
H. L. Puckett
Ida Counts
Clifford H. Sims
Thelma M. Tribble
Irene Wills
L. R. Bates
J. J. Leach
A. H. Woodard
L. R. Long
Goody J. Long
Earl C. Marshall
Ronnie Jett
J. L. Sullins
Lamar N. Speake
Lloyd McReath
S. R. Long
P. H. Vaughan
Dave Mendelson
Howard H. Bennich
R. L. Adams, Jr
Decatur
C. H. Odom
Decatur Cemetery Association
J. F. McLang
Davis ‘Hodges
Floyd Baker
Guvy
B. C. Patterson
Decatur Land Co., Ltd
W. D. Wheeler
Lyle Hough
Robert Atkinson
W. O. Oden
C. A. Lott
Bertha Widner
George Ashebranner
Ed C. White
Ed C. White Jr
James Floyd Dilfehay
B. B. Cavner
Willard F. Gillespie
C. L. Asherbranner
John W.bradford Jr
L.L. Bates
EF. H. Holaway
John W. Russell
W. A. Russell
Southeastern Metals Co
Earl Glenn
J. A. Thornhill
R. B. Templeton
John H. Wood
Donald A. Williams
Sam Alexander
Elsie Alexander
Thomas Chester Bryant
James C. Dixon
James Floyd Dillehay
Bessie Lee Watikns
Theo J. McKee
Sullins
Mental Patients Reported Missing After Fire at State Hospital Dormitory
Eleven patients were reported missing after a dormitory fire at Eastern State Hospital in Knoxville. Officials said no bodies were found and all 152 patients were believed evacuated unharmed. The blaze began around 9:30 p.m. and caused about $200,000 in damage to the building and equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Tenn
State Mental Hospital
L. O. Campbell
Eastern State Hospital
Hospital Farm
Here
Asst
Benjamin Popejoy
Shorty Ogle to join Auburn clinic June 6 8
A new high school football coaching clinic will be held at Auburn June 6 to 8 under Head Coach Earl Brown. Clinic participants for the first two days include Rip Hewes, Hot O'Brien, Ed Eubanks, Nick Ardillo, Jimmy Angelich, Shorty Ogle, Ernie Teel, George Zivich, Emma Samson, Tim Rigid, and others. Dr. Dudley DeGroot of West Virginia University will lead a general discussion on day three, with Wilbur Hutsell and Kenny Howard addressing conditioning and injury treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auburn
Earl Brown
Rip Hewes
Dothan
Hot” O'Brien
Tallassee
Ed Eubanks
Nick Ardillo
Ramsay
Jimmy Angelich
Tim Rigid
Elba
Dudley DeGroot
West Virginia University
Wilbur Hutsell
Kenny Howard
Free on Bond in Distilling Charge and Jail Reports
Cecil Cooper was released on a 750 appearance bond after arrest on a distilling charge for manufacturing or possessing a still. Lonnie C. Layman remains in jail on the same charge, with bail not posted. A separate case saw another individual released on a 300 bond after a DWI arrest. Morgan County sheriff’s reports note one public drunkenness arrest and one bastardy case, with the latter released to Madison authorities after a Madison county warrant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Cooper
Lonnie C. Layman
Morgan County
Morgan Sheriff's Office
Madison
Tax Distribution Dwindling in Morgan County May Receipts
Tax collector reports dwindling distributions as real and personal property and automobile taxes near full collection. In the first fifteen days of May, total receipts were $989.96 with allocations to Alabama, Morgan County, custodian C. L. Allgood, treasurer J. T. McMullin, Austinville, City of Decatur, Decatur Daily, Probate Judge T. C. Almon, and revenue board chairman Sim L. Howell.
Rabies Found In Many Heads At State Lab
Sixty percent of heads examined by the state Health Department laboratory, Decatur branch, in the past ten days were rabid. Rabid heads came from Shef field, Florence, Decatur, and Athens. several other heads were not rabid. The local lab sent seven anti rabies treatments to Decatur doctors and smaller numbers to nearby towns including Tuscumbia Florence Athens Phil Campbell and Russellville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Health Department
Decatur
Sheffield
Florence
Athens
Courtland
Tuscumbia
Phil Campbell
Russellville
Enloe Brothers Die Within Two Hours In Roanoke
Harvey Enloe Jr. 49, a federal security agency official, died at 1 30 A M in a New Orleans nightclub. Sam Enloe 47, a textile mill executive, died at 3 A M in a Roanoke hospital after three weeks ill. Funeral services Friday at 10 A M conducted by Rev. Franklin. Survived by widow and children. mother, siblings, and other relatives noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanoke Ala
Point
Harvey Enloe Jr
Federal Security Agency
New Orleans
Sam Enloe
Benson Franklin
Gadsden
Ala
Harvey Enloe
Harvey Enloe Sr
Storm toll rises as storms hit Texas region and Oklahoma
Storms lashed St Francis rail siding and Crane Texas with ruined shacks and damaged roofs. In Dallas the flood area downstream faces possible days of serious flooding though city levees held. Fort Worth reported three more deaths raising flood toll to nine and 13 000 homeless. Amarillo death toll climbed to six after a tornado. Overall Southwestern Storms death toll over four days reached 18 with 160 plus injured. Oklahoma recorded one death and 38 injuries from twisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Panhandle
A. R. Fango
Paris
Texas
Oklahoma
Cooking in a Show Promotes Modern Kitchen Devices
Eddens announced a three day cooking show featuring demonstrations of electric ranges with automatic clocks dishwashers and garbage disposers. The event will cover oven surface and broiler meals plus home freezing processing packaging of fruits vegetables meats salads and desserts with practical tips on marketing nutrition and budget cooking. Morning sessions include free attendance prizes such as electrical appliances and food baskets.
House committee debates housing bill and FEPC hearings
In Congress the rules committee weighed the housing bill while the labor subcommittee continued hearings on creating a fair employment practices commission to police industry against job discrimination based on race color or religion. Lobbying drew substantial attention as the proceedings remained closed to the public and press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
China
House
Fair Employment Practices Commission
FEPC
Wobbying
Alexander Suit Dismissed as Deed Executed
The Alabama Drug Company building title and a dress shop interest were settled after a quit claim deed and a bill of sale. The suit by Mrs Elsie Alexander was dismissed in the circuit court on Tuesday afternoon. Attorneys for the plaintiff were listed as part of the record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie Alexander
Alabama Drug Company
Samuel Ladies Shop
Ion 0Gan Circuit Court
tMe Drug Company
Dress Shop
Sam Alexander
Market Mixed As Trading Backs Gainers And Losers
Markets on Wall Street opened in a tight struggle with losses slightly outnumbering gains. Decliners included Woolworth Public Service Electric & Gas Allied Chemical RCA Gulf Oil and Loews while risers featured American Telephone Great Northern Preferred Chesapeake & Ohio and J I Case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Aedae
Woolworth
Public Service, Electric & Gas
Allied Chem
RCA
Gulf QA
Loews
American Telephone
Great Northern Preferred
Chesapeake & Ohio
J. I. Case
Poultry Market Steady with Stronger Demand in Atlanta
North Georgia live poultry market remains fully steady with an under tone of improved demand. Trucking demand is good across sections. Reds and Barred Rock Crosses are common Porbanes, prices paid FOB farm Tuesday afternoon and this morning ranged from 24 to 27 cents for New Hampshire Reds and White Crosses and 24 to 26 cents for Barred Rock Crosses, mostly 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
USDA
North Georgia
New Hampshire
Nashville Livestock Prices May 18 1950s
Nashville Tenn May 18uP Federal State Departments of Agriculture cattle 175 mostly steady on small receipts. Steers and heifers 24 25.00. good to low choice 950 lb steers 25.75. Canner cows 13.00-16.50. bulls 17.50-19.00. Calves 27-275 active 24.00-28.00 vealers top 28.00. Hogs 700 steady to 25 higher. barrows 18.75-19.00. 240-285 16.75-17.50. Sheep 1,000 active steady. spring lambs 32.00-33.75. old crop lambs 27.00 down. slaughter ewes 11.00 down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
Federal State Departments of Agriculture
Grain futures drift with May wheat lagging on trade board
Chicago futures edged higher for most contracts with modest gains across grains except May wheat which fell more than 3 cents after the open and failed to rally. May wheat settled around 2.22 per bushel while corn, oats, rye and soybeans posted fractional advances and lard slipped 15 to 30 cents per hundredweight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Board of Trade
Markets at a Glance May 18 Mixed Stocks and Commodities
New York stocks mixed with declines in steels and irregular bond activity. Cotton hedging and short covering. Chicago wheat mixed with May easy and new crop firm, corn steady on small receipts, oats firm with short covering. Hogs active up 25 to 50 cents to a top of 19.50. Cattle uneven with gains to 25 cents, mostly steady, top 28.00.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
New York Cotton Futures End Higher on May 18
May 18 cotton futures closed 55 cents a bale higher. Notable quotes show Oct at 29.02, Dec at 28.77, and May around 28.58 with middling spot at 33.59 in nominal bid-offer terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bids Sought for Leasing Facilities at Holston Ordnance Works
The corps of engineers invites bids to lease standby industrial facilities at Kingsport Tennessee related to Holston Ordnance Works. Bids are due for opening at Mobile district office at 1 p.m. on July 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Corps of Engineers
Holston Ordnance Works
Kingsport
Tenn
the Engineers
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Supreme Court
Lpkmaki
Dock Kilpatriex
Vinemont
Baugh-Wiley
Buster Connard
Third Avenue
South
Henry McAbée
Hartselle
Decatur General
Wriss Barbara Ann Pence
Fifth Avenue East
David K. E. Bruce
ECA
France
Campbell
Shorty’ Ogle
Enloe Brothers
Alexander
Wall Street
Birmingham
Tom McCord
R. P. Keller
Pulaski, Tenn
Bob Bell
Fla
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