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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1946
Page
2
Eyewitness recounts the Winecoff Hotel blaze with rooms burned down to the base and water ankle-deep throughout. Descriptions detail panicked escapes, asphyxiation deaths of four young girls, scorched walls, melted mirrors, and personal belongings preserved amid the catastrophe.
A district court in Omaha, Nebraska lists a case titled Abraham vs Lincoln. The notice cites a fictional suit amid a collection of disparate data including daily fire deaths and national farm fire losses and exaggerated cigarette consumption figures.
Grady Hospital lists 19 unidentified dead and hundreds injured in the Winecoff Hotel fire with detailed physical descriptions and names of victims and survivors from Georgia Alabama and nearby states. The document enumerates ages addresses outfits and affiliations of many listed individuals and notes officials worked through the tragedy.
An 18 numbered note reports anxiety over a freight embargo tied to a strike, with the Office of Defense Transportation saying orders will be adjusted within twenty four hours of coal leaving mines but not predicting full withdrawal. Normal mail service resumed, and passenger rail will be cut back with one northbound and one southbound train run daily until further notice.
Reported figures note about 24 000 burn fires occur annually in the United States and around 1 000 U S home fires daily while a separate fact states sucrose is the most abundant sugar in plants.
Names of residents reported as dead missing or safe across towns in the Winecoff Hotel stay include Bainbridge Cairo Quitman Rome Hogansville Columbus Donalsonville Gainesville Griffin Milner Manchester Thomaston and related hospitalizations with individuals such as Bainbridge dead Sue Broome Ruth Powell Pat Griffin Maxine Willis and Charles Keith among others. The casualty status spans dead missing safe and hospitalized across multiple locations.
The article describes Premier Qavam's plan to send troops into parts of Iran for five days under national supervision during an upcoming election period. Azerbaijani leaders, claiming their militia can oversee polls, refuse to yield to government troops and threaten confrontation. The aim is to build a parliamentary majority for Qavam's democrat party while Azerbaijanists fear invasion could topple them and force exile.
Virginia Tolbert Christine Hengon and Patsy Uphold are missing. Mary Minor remains safe. Zanier Downs Albany is noted missing along with Julia Hall Mary Anne Scherle and Ann Walker.
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