Coast Strike Ends After 95 Days of Idle Ports
After 95 days the Pacific coast reopened with CIO unions and non striking AFL Sailors Union Of The Pacific agreeing that contracts would not infringe their jurisdiction. Longshoremen and other CIO unions returned to 280 ships tied up, ending a costly stalemate that strained shipping, rail and airlift across the coast.
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific
CIO
AFL
U.S
Tacoma
Wash
Seattle
Alaska Steamship Co
Baranoff
Alaska
Alaska Highway
Waterfront Employers Association
Pacific American Shipowners Association
Marine
Marine Engineers
Cotaco Hope Playground Project Leads PTA Meeting
The Cotaco High School PTA held a well attended meeting with about fifty people. A committee led by Rev Robert Glenn was formed to select playground equipment for the elementary school and report January 6 with a fundraising plan. About 160 dollars is expected to fund the project this year.
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Cotaco High School
PTA
Tom Russell
A. F. Turney
L. M. Whitten
Karl Hough
Lemuel Murphy
J. W. Rolfe
John Blackshear
Robert Glenn
Mesdames
Paul Thomas
L. E. Wooten
Shirley Temple Holds Line Against New Film
Hollywood gossip notes Shirley Temple refuses to be loaned for another Selznick picture after Mr Belvedere Goes To College citing a bad script. The piece tracks her first career turn down and potential suspension from the studio. Also covers Betty Grable, Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Howard Hughes topics, and industry moves including Universal International, Hal Wallis, and Diana Lynn marriage plans.
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Hollywood
Shirley Temple
Shirley
Selznick
Mr. Belvedere
Betty Grable
Santa Anita
Betty
Bob Hope
Jack Benny
CBS
NBC
Jack
Bob
Jane Russell
Jack Beutel
Beutel
Russell
Howard Hughes
Dennis Day
Phil Harris
Alan
Young
Jimmy Durante
Universal International
Quianna
Alaska
Arctic
June Fulton
South Africa
Baby
Lovebug
Hal Wallis
Corinne Calvert
John Bromfield
Diana Lynn
John Lindsay
Wallis
Kristen Miller
William Schuyler
Los Angeles
Maria Montez
Jean Pierre Aumont
France
Christiana
Marseilles
Paris
Anne Baxter
20th-Fox
Shaun Robinson
Untouchables Granted Rights in India New Draft
DeWitt Mackenzie lauds India’s draft constitution banning untouchability. Ambedkar chairs the drafting committee, Gandhi and Nehru cited as humanitarian figures. Author contrasts untouchables’ Dantean misery with hopes of a rights era and social reforms.
Mobile Negroes plan study on unfair agencies
A Mobile group of about 100 Negroes met for the third Sunday session to plan a study of agencies or institutions in the community deemed unfair to Black people. A committee was formed to report on Sunday and to present demands to The Mobile Press Register and related papers. The group seeks changes in editorial policy and use of titles for Black women.
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Mobile
Ala
Mobile Press Register
Register
the Press
Sunday Press Register
Dc. C. Coleman
State Street A. M. Zion
Press-Register
Coleman
Press- Register
Alabama Woman Shot to Death in Georgia Roadhouse
Dixie Scroggins 37, once of Sylacauga Alabama, was killed by a single bullet to the left breast at a roadhouse in Tifton Georgia. Sheriff J M Walker Jr said three men are being held for questioning. two were with her when she was shot around 3 AM. Relatives from Alabama planned to claim her body.
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Alabama
Georgia
Tifton
J. M. Walker Jr
Dixie Scroggins
Sylacauga
Ala
Tragic Toll in China Rises From Kiangya Disaster
A late report places Chinese deaths at about 6 000 from a crowded evacuation ship near Southern Manchuria and Shanghai. The Kiangya disaster may total 9 200 lives from this and related incidents. Official sources in Beijing confirmed a boiler blast on a merchant ship evacuating troops of the 52nd Army from Yingkou. The blast ignited ammunition. all aboard perished. China Merchants Steam Navigation Co said 536 passengers and crew were known rescued from Kiangya. nearly 4,000 refugees were aboard.
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Shanghai
Manchuria
Wanking
Yingkow
China Merchants Steam Navigation Company
Kiangya
Committee votes to canvass attitudes toward The Press Register
The committee voted 52 to 16 to continue the panel and survey other Negro organizations about their attitudes toward The Press Register, with many members abstaining or not voting.
Death of Farmer in Blaze at his Home Under Investigation
In Eutaw Alabama a 35 year old farmer Roger Williams was found dead in the ruins of his West Greene farmhouse after a blaze that destroyed the home. An autopsy was ordered by State Criminologist Nelson Grubbs of Mobile as investigators probe the cause. Neighbors say Mrs Williams escaped the fire by jumping from a window and called to her husband without response.
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Eutaw
Ala
Roger Williams
West Greene
Here
Nelson Grubbs
Mobile
Williams
Cork legs once made from solid core and cork
Artificial limbs were nicknamed cork legs because early models used a solid core wrapped with cork layers, a construction that gave a lightweight but sturdy prosthesis.
Avers Auburn Above Politics At Alabama Talks
Alabama Polytechnic Institute president Ralph B. Draughon says institute aims to stay above partisan politics during a week of extension service meetings in Birmingham. He defends Auburn’s role in educational services and recalls football reactions, with a wartime analogy about beating.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Ralph B. Draughon
Draughon
Auburn
Alabama
Craughon
Joe’ Stilwell
Burma
Publication Notice in Morgan County Court
Ida Lee Payne sues Homer B Payne and others in Morgan County Alabama in equity. Homer B Payne is not found and address unknown. publication required for four weeks in Decatur Daily to plead by December 23 1948 or be treated as confessed. November 20 1948. Bryan McAfee. Nov 22 29 Dec 6 1948.
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Ida Lee Payne
Homer B. Payne
Jefferson County
Alabama
Register
Decatur Daily
Morgan County
Bryan McAfee
Decatur Alabama to Sell 100000 Principal Public Improvement Bonds
The City of Decatur Alabama will sell at public auction beginning at 2 00 p m on December 13 1948 one hundred thousand dollars principal amount of Public Improvement Bonds dated December 1 1948 consisting of 100 coupon bonds of 1000 each maturing in aggregate principal 10000 on December 1 in each year from 1949 to 1958 inclusive The bonds are general obligations of the city secured by a pledge of assessments on benefitted properties and will be sold to the bidder with the lowest net interest cost to the city The city reserves the right to reject any or all bids Bidders may name the rate of interest payable semi annually on June 1 and December 1 but no bid will be considered if less than par and only one interest rate may be named
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Clude
Federal Reserve System
Messrs
White
Bradley
Avant
Decatur
Joe Pettey
City
Alabama
What To Do For A Cold
At the first sign of a cold follow three rules rest warm and well hydrated. Take CALOTABS a laxative intestinal antiseptic and diuretic that cleans the system and aids recovery. Follow label directions and rest liquids at the onset of a bad cold.
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Florence
Huntsville
Cotaco Hope
By Bob Thomas
Ted Atkinson
Hialeah Race Track
Lewyt
Monsel
H. Ryan
East Moulton St
Palmist
Pullman House
Grantland
U. S. Highway 31
Decatur City
Hartseile-Decatur
Bartena
Land Hook
Masked Marvel
Ama
Phil
Aunt Mildred
Wilda
Mildred
Scotland
Cearlo
Daily Mail
MR. Kirby
Desmond
Owen
Sawyer
Garrison
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I Mackenzie
By DeWitt Mackenzie
India
New Dominion
United States
British Isles
B. R. Ambedkar
Gaekwar
Baroda
Ambedkar
Columbia University
New York
New del
Ndia
Mahatma Gandhi
New India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Nehru
Gandhi
Raphael Zelter
Wusih
China
Farmer
O. P. Stinson
White's Jewelry Store
2Nd. Ave
Fillies Uy
Clements Drug Stores
East Marlton St
Sixth Avenue East
Homer GB. Payne
Motorola
TS Radio Service
Home and Auto
Decatur Typewriter Co
First Ave
Moulton St
J.r.daniels
Act
Walnut ST
Trad
Easy
Belk
Belk Hudson Co
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