Britain backs huge postwar loan deal in Bretton Woods talks
AP reports a 54.4 billion dollar loan plan subject to approval by Britain’s Parliament, linked to Bretton Woods. The package, repayable over 50 years from 1948 with no payments for five years, carries a 2 percent rate and funds partly for Lend-Lease items. Newspapers deem it a world trade turning point, with mixed views on economic tightening and postwar recovery.
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Labfcon
Washington
London
Meeter
World Trade
Britain
Laborite
Daily Herald
Salire
Bruin
Bretton Wood
United States Congress
Bretton Woods
The
Daily Mail
United Flex
Labor Pariyamgan
Commonwealth
Dominions
United States
Hurley accuses Acheson of Iran policy defeat before Senate
Maj Gen Patrick J Hurley testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee alleging Dean Acheson and State Department officials undermined Roosevelt administration Iran policy. Hurley, resigning from Chungking, accuses Acheson of leading the defeat of allied aims in Iran and hints at documents to support his claim. He criticizes other career diplomats during a stormy session.
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Washington
Acheson
China
Hurley
Chungking
Connally -Tex
State Department
Bridges
R-Nh
Aches
Roosevelt
Stettinius
Dean Acheson
John §. Service
Ip4
Kat Shek
500 Bed Vet Hospital For Birmingham
AP reports a 500 bed veterans hospital will be built as part of Birmingham medical center with no site yet selected. Dr Roy Kracke dean of the Medical College of Alabama says the hospital’s cost will be about 600000.
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Birmingham
Veterans Hospital
Td For
Roy Kracke
Medical College of Alabama
Kracke
Prince Konoye Ordered Nabbed For War Guilt
Tokyo reports Gen. MacArthur ordered the arrest of Prince Fumimaro Konoye and Marquis Koichi Kido as war crimes suspects. Seven other senior figures tied to prewar and wartime activities were listed as wanted. Tokyo grapples with the shock as government officials consider the implications and potential resignations.
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Tokyo
Fumimaro Konoye
Koichi Kido
MacArthur
Konoye
Japan
Mido
Hirohito
Teait
Kijuro Shidehara
Kyodo
Supreme Allied Command
City Studies Plan For Added Water
The Dothan City Commission considers installing two new wells to bolster the water supply. J. J. Goodwin reports potential shortfall next summer, with estimated cost $36,000. A well company rep says the additions would supply adequate water and save about $6,500 yearly in electricity charges.
Widespread Search For Six Navy Torpedo Planes
A vast recovery operation in the Atlantic off Florida seeks six Navy planes missing after a training flight from Fort Lauderdale. Five torpedo bombers with 14 crew aboard vanished with fuel to late afternoon yesterday, while a PBM Mariner with 13 plus crew joined the rescue mission and is reported down at sea.
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Miami
Fla
Atlantic
Florida
Navy
Fort Lauderdale
PBM Mariner
Strike Control Law Begins Its Path Through Congress
AP reports a strike prevention bill, introduced by Norris D, heads to Labor Committee after Truman request. The measure would authorize the president to form factfinding commissions to resolve major labor disputes and bar strikes or lockouts for 30 days, while protecting employee consent and rights.
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
Truman
Congress
House
Norton D - Ndts
Ramspeck
Dgar
Re. Porters
Secretary of Labor
School Band Safe Drive Nears End in Houston County
Houston County students begin a band safe drive tomorrow on Pearl Harbor Day and run through December 14 to raise funds. IOE bonds sold total $167,428.05 with $209,577.95 remaining to reach the $377,000 goal. Dothan and the county have already surpassed their overall $1,155,000 target with $60,000 in other series.
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Houston County
Pearl Harbor
Robert Ramsey
Charman
Peporla
Ramsey
Dothan
Houston
War Department Declares Napier Field Surplus
War Department declares Napier Field surplus effective today Rep George Andrews announced the action settles the airbase status activated Nov 1 194 in Dothan and Houston County, allowing local owners to negotiate for surplus installations without cost The Meld was expected to be placed on the surplus list within a week by Washington news reports
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War Department
Napier Field
George Andrews
Dothan
Honaton County
J. H. Bryson
Chamber of Commerce
Commission
Clyde L. Coe
Washington
Raing
Wage Talks Resume as GM, CIO Discuss Uprising
Detroit AP reports General Motors and the CIO United Auto Workers resumed wage talks after a stoppage that closed most GM plants. The union seeks a 30 percent raise under a new government wage price policy offset by price increases up to 33 percent from January 1941 levels. Officials avoided comment on a proposed presidential fact‑finding board.
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Detroit
General Mowrs Corp
CIO
United Auto
Daw-Cio
Pittsburgh
General Motors
iMegal Pickering
Stabhizalun
John C. Collet
OPA
Trumian
Rays From Atom Bomb Kill Jap Soldiers Weeks After Blast
Dr. Philip Morrison told the Senate Atomic Energy Committee that rays from atomic bombs killed Japanese weeks after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He said the radiation damaged blood and immune cells, leading to fatal infections among survivors, with deaths often occurring two to three weeks after exposure.
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Wassington
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Philip Morrison
Senate Atomic Energy Committee
Morison
Tadiabon
University of Minos Physica
Morrison
Mr. Fivow
Cost of living rise eyed as wage talks move
Washington AP dispatch notes administration revisions on living costs since 1941 with Collet citing 38 percent, not 29.5 or 30, potentially unlocking wage negotiations. Industry and government officials weigh using new figure to justify price and wage adjustments amid stalled talks and policy signals from Truman.
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Harold W. Ward Washington
John C. Collet
Collet
Trina
Truman
OPA
Dassing
Cellet
General Motors Corporation
Ch - Auty
de la Cellet
Tabor
Willam H. Davis
CFA
Hitler Planned Polish Invasion Five Months Ahead
Documents reveal Hitler secretly fixed September 1 1939 as the invasion date, five months before. British and Italian memos show duplicity in claims of aggression, with Allied prosecutors framing the plan as a prelude to World War II.
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Hitler
Daniel Veluce Muernberg
Poladid
Reichstag
Pa Jang
Mervyn Griffith - Jones
Germany
Tlaly
Poland
Mussolini
Geoffrey Lawrence
Four Power Tribunal
Ww.s
Justce
Robert J. Jackson
United States reduces atomic bomb material production
The United States cuts production in at least one key plant where the weapon was developed. Oak Ridge Tennessee shows a November drop in employment as production declines and labor demand loosens. President Truman says bombs are for experimental use, not peacetime pursuit. The USES report covers 24 industrial areas with nearly 70 million persons in scope, noting changes in only a few regions.
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United States
Marvin Larrowsmith
Washington
Jnb
U. S Employment Service
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Knoxville
Ita
Idan
Truman
Knox Twile
Fir
Rapids
Mich
Jabor
Ucarce
Wea
Census Bureau
UBER
Salesman Charged With Manslaughter In Traffic Fatality
A salesman identified as Willian Edwards Quittoes of Alabama faced manslaughter charges after a fatal traffic accident on the Dothan Montgomery highway yesterday. Homer Farmer of Midland City, struck after alighting from a bus near the Tala County line, died at Dothan hospital. Funeral arrangements set for Midland City resident with surviving wife, daughter, and mother. Active pallbearers named from local community.
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Aotran
Willant Edwards
Billoupham
Ala
Salen
Dothan
Montgomery
Homer @armer
Midland
Tate
Ben Allen
Allen
Birmingham
Dale County
Tala
Quittner
Land Say
Midland City
Heo
Ape
Ward Wilson
Cherse
Shirley Faye Passer
Ruvie Ower
Mia
Anna Hacciken
Pater
Mere
Mane Oliver
Tothan
Actiive
Obie Adkins
Austin Parrish
Herman Oliver
Mr Seegers
Will Trammell
Tot Morehead
J. C. Snell
George Holl
County Reports Four Diphtheria Cases
The October morbidity report from the Alabama State Health Department lists 126 diphtheria cases across the state, including four in Houston County. The statewide total rises by four from the prior month but falls 37 from October of 1943.
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Alabama
Houston County
State Department of Health
Bureau of Preventable Dintaner
Coxswain Testifies Accused Skipper Gave Abandon Ship Order
Edward H. Keyes, coxswain, testified at a Navy general court martial that Charles B. McVay, Jr. shouted orders to abandon ship after the Indianapolis was struck by explosions. Keyes described attempts to relay alarms over faulty loudspeakers and being directed to pass the word below. He testified the ship’s order to abandon came soon after the first blast near the after section.
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Thomas J Ryan
Jef
Charles B. McVay
Washington
Cor Navy Yard
McVay
Indianapolis
BBC of
Navy
Edward H. Keyes
Tate
Me- Vay
Lely
Guam
Leyte
Keyes
Antigo
Wis
Kolopaide
High Court Affirms Negro Death Verdicts
The Alabama Supreme Court affirmed death sentences for Peter Paul Hall and Ernest Johnson. Hall faced execution for drowning a white woman after raping a prisoner, while Johnson was convicted of killing Hale County farmer Jack Walton with a shotgun, then sinking the body in the Warrior River.
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Hall
Wyeerold
Ethel Luck
Eufaule Cottan Mil
Ater Nolding
Supreme Court
Junoon
Ernest McGrudgel
Jack T. Walton
Hales County
Walton
Bear
Warrior River
Johnson
Dr Davie To Report On Dothan Lab Decision
Dr M S Davie will present the full decision of the State Board of Health to keep the Dothan Branch Laboratory open. He is a board member and will speak at the Houston County Medical Society meeting at 7 30 pm. Campbell, president, and Turner, board of county, represented the county at the meeting.
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State Board of Health
Dothan
M. S Davie
Houston County
A. Campbell
Houston County Medical Society
W. H. Turner
Houston County Board of Cansory “Tap
Erate Ao
Marshall Says Power Adequate To Smash Attack
General George C. Marshall told Congress Pearl Harbor testimony that the Army and Navy had enough strength to break up the Japanese attack and lessen its damage if the United States had been alert. He said pre war talks did not commit the U.S. to war without an attack, and noted plans were limited to possible eventual war.
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Washington
Gene George C. Marshall
Army
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Marshall
Gouldnr
United States
Mege Ia Bor
Chet
William Mitchel
Marahall
Weather Clears Across Southeast After Snowfall
Clear, cold conditions spread over the Southeast after a heavy snow event swept Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, and the Carolinas. Temperatures dipped into the 20s and 30s with a winter storm dropping up to a foot in parts of East Tennessee and Nashville.
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Associated Arena
Alabama
Ten- Neagee
Acrove Mississippi
Yarmouth
Florda
Pensacola
North Georgia
Carolinan
Nashville
Tenn
Airc
East Tennessee
North Carolina
Carolina
Kentucky
Virginia
New York
Maine
Soouthern
New England
Mercury
Hartford
Conn
Boston
Florida
Pacific Northwest
Bismarck
N. Dak
Texas
Planos
Mississippi
Ohio
Lakes
Buffalo
Cleveland
Terry Heads State Personnel Bureau
Montgomery AP A former technician in the State Personnel Department has been named director. Charles W. Terry succeeds I J Browder who resigned Sept 1. The $5,000 a year post was filled from 31 applicants. Terry joined in 1939 left 1942 for the Army. he served overseas and attained captain rank. A Hale County native, he holds a law degree from Jonas Law School.
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U.S
Iran
Vet Hospital
Jean Gloor Carbone
Harold Carbone
States
Darrell Beschen
Dubuque
Prince Konoye
Marquis Kido
M‘arthur
Takuo Godo
Shigeo Odate
Politico Economst
Taketosa Ogata
Asahi
Pittsburg
U. S
Dr. Davie
Terry
State Personnel Bureau
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