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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1951
Page
4
The Dothan Eagle notes 1504 homes built in Dothan since 1947 amid a nationwide construction surge. A Camden New Jersey tale tells of a boy who reported to the lost and found booth five times and was rewarded with an apple on a stick each time.
Drew Pearson reveals a four year suppressed Senate Banking and Currency Committee report alleging the Baltimore & Ohio railroad borrowed 87 million dollars from the government and plotted a fictitious bankruptcy with RFC officials. The document accuses a collusive reform plan devised before 1944 and cites Cassius Clay denouncing the move as fraud.
The piece notes that fighting in Korea may pause with rumors of peace and urges UN rehabilitation for desolated areas. It warns Russia as a global threat and calls for continued military training and preparedness to deter Communist aggression.
An Anderson Independent editorial urges graduates to rely on themselves, not government, and warns against a proposed federal pension bill that would grant $100 monthly to citizens. It argues such programs burden taxpayers, citing the growing elderly population and the national debt.
The 1947 RFC scandal centered on an $87 million loan to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Senate members Capehart and McCarthy suppressed the report to block disclosure, while the scheme aimed to keep control of B and O until 1965 through a fictitious bankruptcy.
In Las Vegas a convicted gunman and union ally, Ralph Alsup, faces an assault case after shooting a house painter at a union HQ. Pegler argues that local business leaders and politicians tolerate him, linking the dirty union to corrupt local governance and a culture of cartel-like influence.
A Senate report accuses RFC administrators of unprecedented private power as the B&O Railroad, amid peak profits and war demand, used gains to issue long term bonds. Capehart and McCarthy allegedly hid RFC abuses for four years while taxpayers shoulder a $76.3 million B&O balance to 1965.
The piece alleges Alsup was convicted for shooting a union man and cites Foley asserting Alsup and two racketeers were connected to a contractor payroll at 500 dollars weekly. It accuses the AFL Central Labor Council leadership and allied unions of corruption, payoffs, and ties to gambling-house hotel construction, claiming limited action by the Roosevelt and Truman administrations.
Several large U.S. creameries report experiments showing clay tile floors harbor fewer bacteria than other flooring materials. The tests suggest tile flooring may improve hygiene in dairy facilities and reduce contamination risk.
Birmingham city attorneys search for a legal loophole to renew efforts against the citys racial zoning law ruled unconstitutional by the U S Supreme Court. Mayor Cooper Green says the decision leaves little hope for legalization as Mary Means Monks suit sparked a wave of arson and bombings targeting black homes in West Birmingham. About 40 percent of the citys 325 000 population is Black. Fire damage and dynamite attacks on vacant homes have drawn no arrests.
The article notes that cashmere scarfs were introduced to Europe at the start of the 16th century, marking an early exchange of luxury textiles between Asia and Europe.
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