Election Night party and mixed national news notes
A collage of brief items covers an election night party at The Daily, weather hopes, questions about voter turnout in Madison county, and political chatter about Governor Arnall and segregation. It also mentions Russia’s wheat aid stance, Hal Boyle’s foreign dispatches, Pegler’s critics, an advertising copy misfire at 102 Church Street, and Army Navy merger talks with four unresolved points.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama Journal
Church Street
The
Columbia Herald
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Long Range Plan to Block Fascist Threat in America
The piece warns that President Truman may veto the amended Case Bill while Congress debates a long range plan to end employer employee clashes. It contrasts U S unrest with Mussolini era Italy, warns against strikes fueling dictatorship and urges Congress to reform labor laws to prevent a demagogue from seizing power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Mr. Truman
Congress
Foreign policy view on Franco Stalin and Spain
Westbrook Pegler argues for supporting Franco to prevent a Stalinist victory in Spain. He warns against civil war, likens outcomes to global communism, and urges cautious interference while acknowledging Franco’s regime and the need to avoid aiding Nazi affiliates. He frames U S policy as choosing a friend over a broader war, to curb Soviet influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Joseph Stalin
Mussolini
Germany
Poland
Baltic
General Franco
Spain
Stalin
Franco
Red Quisling
Latin America
United States
Lincoln
Ilium
Axis
Hitler
Britain
Russia
Latin-America
LaFayette
Democracy Safeguards Rights Against Totalitarian Temptation
A quotation stresses protecting rights and liberties through ordered democracy to prevent them being traded away for totalitarian control. The line warns against political systems that threaten individual freedoms.
Coal settlement politics under King Trumans mediation
Washington reports the King Truman coal settlement favored John Lewis with a government backed fund run by three trustees including Lewis and a Truman appointee. It allows taxes on coal and raises miners wages, plus a 10 day paid vacation after a 45 day strike. The arrangement bypasses operators and lacks full public clarity.
Years Ago Today Brings Naval Officer Home For Vacation
Robert Pickens fresh from the Naval Academy en route to Moulton for a vacation before sea duty with the U S S Tennessee. Other locals include W J Dunn Somerville 2 visiting, S B Cross departing for Cumberland City Tenn for two weeks, Elizabeth Johnston and John Porter Carroll quietly married at First Methodist parsonage, Q K Henderson at Sheffield game, C M Kortrecht of Memphis in Twin Cities, Helen Higdon’s Corcoran art term exhibit all works accepted for display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Pickens
Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Moulton
Seattle
U. S. S. Tennessee
W. J. Dunn
Somerville 2
S. B. Cross
Cumberland City
Tenn
Elizabeth Johnston
John Porter Carroll
First Methodist
Q. K. Henderson
Sheffield
C. M.kortrecht
Memphis
Twin Cities
Helen Higdon
Corcoran Art School
Washington
Expansion plan approved by Alabama Polytechnic Institute board
Auburn article reports the Alabama Polytechnic Institute board of trustees approved expansion plans for several facilities. The 1946-47 budget was adopted, land purchases were authorized for the Sand Mountain agricultural experiment station and 20 acres to expand the veterinary medicine school. A retirement system for extension service workers was proposed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auburn
Ala
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Board of
Sand Mountain Agricultural Experiment Station
School of Veterinary Medicine
Flournoy Nominated Alabama Dept Commander of US War Veterans
George J. Flournoy of Mobile was nominated for department commander of the Alabama department United Spanish War Veterans at the annual encampment in Birmingham. Col. Hughes Kennedy of Birmingham was named senior vice commander and Morgan Stewart of Huntsville junior vice commander.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
George J. Flournoy
Mobile
Alabama Department
United Spanish War Veterans
Col
Hughes Kennedy
Morgan’ Stewart
Huntsville
Lewis welfare fund taxes and mine wage split debated
The proposal outlines time and a half pay for hours over seven per week, extra pay on the sixth day, and miners may refuse the sixth day with a contrasting minimum wage. It discusses Lewis seeking 25 to 30 million dollars annually from a welfare fund funded by a 10 cent royalty per ton of coal. The plan would require operators to accept the same terms to reopen mines. government gains are unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Labor Movement
Mussolini
Italy
America
John Lewis
Harry Bridges
Truman
Eisenhower
Marshall
Lewis
Broadway Notes Inspire Heavy Theatrical Roster
Walter Winchell reports on Broadway trade marks and 1946 notes from the Daily Mirror. Highlights include Jane Cowl in So Goes the Nation, a busy Annie Get Your Gun period, and reviews of The Glass Alibi, Forever Amber, Tokio Rose, and The Phantom Thief with cast quips and industry gossip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Winchell
Daily Mirror
Jane Cowl
Ira Marion
American Boasting Co
Jennifer Jones
Charles Boyer
Cholly
Jenny Whittle
Paul Kelly
Pat O’brien
Texas Panhandle
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Decatur Daily
Tennessee Valley Printing Co., Inc
Decatur
Alabama
Associated Press
Madison County
Arnall
Ku Klux Klan
Supreme Court
Theourt
Florence Times
Europe
UNRRA
Hal Boyle
Boyle
Atlanta Constitution
Westbrook Pegler
Pegler
Jackson Citizen Patriot
Congressional Record
Pneuclopaenia Britannica
Rome
Facta
Cracy
Westbrook
Chee
King-Truman
Roosevelt
Krug
Ickes
Interior Department
Union
UMW
Bill Mauldin
Heads Vets Group
Allied van Lines, Inc
Bea Lillie
Paris
Old Vic
Elisabeth Bergner
Amber
Milton Schwartzwald
Frankie Carle
Saxie Dowell
U. S. S. Franklin
Gilda Gray
St Ognese
Ne Whiteman
Gilda
Mutual
Georgia
Chicago
Round Table Forum
Jack Benny
Chester Bowles
Simon & Schuster
Third Avenue
John McNulty
Little Brown
New Yorkiana
Kerrikter
Dial Press
Peggy Guggenheim
J. E. Tracy
U. of Michigan
Prof. Tracy
Mencken
Tracy
Linda Basquette
M. Raison
Tiger Thompson
San Francisco Call- Bulletin
Crown
Joe Mackey
Froth
N.Y
Bing
Ted
Robert Parker
Balkans
Yarrop
Rinehart
Budapest
20Th Century-Fox
Harrow
Frank Yerbe
Doubleday
Wm. Murrel
Reynolds Tobacco Clan
Robert Q. Lewis
Elbert Hubbard
Happy Felton
Mme
Deluzy
Alvin Rosensweet
Rita Hayworth
Anon
Phil Baker
Palestine
Gene Tunney
Don Herold
Thornton & Minor
Dr. D. Jayne & Son
Jayne
DeSoto
Plymouth
Ford
Chevrolet
Pontiac
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