City to Share in Brotherhood Week Ceremony
Dothan proclaims Brotherhood Week with citywide events from Feb 17 to 24 including a Feb 21 high school auditorium meeting with three faith leaders and pastors urged to deliver sermons on Brotherhood of Man. Radio talks and club programs support the theme under the city commission and Dr A E Childs committee leadership. Turn To No. 18 On Page Two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde L. Coe
Dothan
Alabama
Brotherhood of Man
WAGF
Dendy
First Presbyterian Church
Dathan
A. E. Childs
Foster Strett Methodist Church
William Beck
Myer Mlomberg
Clyde Levern
Cairo clash injures over 90 in anti British riot
In Cairo on Saturday more than 90 people were injured as police clashed with Egyptian students protesting Britain’s handling of the British Egyptian treaty. About 50 students and 90 police were hurt, 150 students arrested, as crowds surged from Faud University toward central Cairo. A bus was set afire and a bridge was raised to block the crowd.
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Cairo
Britain
Faud University
Nile
Egypt
Sudan
Lord Killearn
Abdel Hamid Badawin Pasha
Nile Valley
Suspect Held In Dual Murder At Coffeyville
Coffeyville Kansas police hold a male suspect without charges after the nude bodies of Opal Scott about 22 and Carl Benning about 22 were found at a tourist court. They died from head blows. Benning's auto later recovered at Caney about ten miles away. Mrs Scott was married to a soldier overseas and mother of two. Benning had recently been discharged from the military.
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Coffeyville
Kans
Opal Scott
Carl Benning
Benning
Wheat Famine Seen By Big 5
The Big Five urged immediate action to avert a world wheat famine and will bring the resolution before the UNO General Assembly led by Bevin or Attlee. Backed by the United States Britain France and Jenin with Soviet support Moscow seeks formal approval as grain shortages loom and famine threatens global reconstruction. Herbert Lehman of UNRRA also urged action to prevent shortages of wheat rice and fats amid looming disaster for liberated nations.
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William Higginbotham
London
Big Five
United Nations
UNO General Assembly
Ernest Bevin
Clement K. Attlee
United States
Britain
France
Jenin
Moscow
Herbert Lehman
UNRRA
UNO
City Commission Opposition Fails As Primary Deadline Passes
City Commission President Clyde L. Coe is assured of a new three year term after no opposition filed by 6 p.m. in the March 5 Democratic primary. Incumbents on the City Democratic Executive Committee also face no opposition, ensuring Coe’s September general election win and a routine nomination. Executive Committee members returning to office include J. Talley Ward One Smith Hall Ward Two chair Vance Ward Ward Three S. M. Bentley Ward Four and L. S. Deal City at large.
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City Commission
Clyde L. Coe
Democratic Executive Committee
Coe
J. §. Talley
Smith Hall
Vance Ward
S. M. Bentley
L. S. Deal
Race Assured For All Revenue Board Positions
Houston County faces a primary surge as Jack Stuckey qualifies for District One against incumbent L. E. Boswell, assuring contests for all four Board of Revenue seats. The lineup also shows candidates for County Democratic Executive Committee Beat 14 and State Democratic Executive Committee Third District, with several races unopposed in other beats.
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Revenue Board
Natc. Facle
Houston County
Board of Revenue
Jack Stuckey
Distrit One
L. E
Doc Boswell
Incumben
Stuckey
Moon
Beat Two
Dale County
W. L. Pynes
Democratic Executive Committee
J. M. F. Dupree
Ray Parsons
C. W. Sellers
H. R. Batchelor
Euba
State Democratic Executive Committee
W. F. Covington
Dothan
Boswell 2Nd
Ralph G. Cameron
Robert E. Meadows
J. C. “Bob” Fowler
J. R. McArdile
W. Perry Calhoun
L. L. Danzy
H. C. Summerford
B. G. Farmer
J. Walt Cameron
J. Albert Logue
Roy ©. Hill
House of Representatives
G. H. Jordan
R. J. ‘Bob’ Stembridge
D. C. Halstead
Keener Baxtey
Houston
Henry
W. G. Hardwick
Light Of Atomic Star Blast Seen 1000 Years Old
WILLIAMS BAY Wisconsin AP astronomers report a dramatic atomic energy burst observed in a star named Coronae Borealis at Yerkes Observatory. Dr Otto Strove says the event may be of high importance for atomic research and mirrors the 1945 Hiroshima release on a vastly larger scale. The internal gas surge drove the explosion at about 3600 miles per second.
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Williams Bay
Wis
Tthe
Yerkes Observatory
Otto Strove
U. S. Air Corps
Hiroshima
Japan
Stalin Outlines Aims and Sees Science Leadership in Russia
Stalin outlines Russia aims and leadership in science as White House debates wage price policy. Bowles leads fight to hold price controls while Snyder denial circulates. CIO steel strike nears 20 days, with 750000 workers involved. Bowles may move up or be replaced.
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Stalin
Sterling 'F. Green Washington
OPA
Chester Bowles
White House
John W. Snyder
CIO
United
Bowles
Bowles-Collet - Snyder
Economic Authority
Charles G. Ross
Economic High Command
Bill Defeat Ends Debate Limit on Fair Employment Bill
Washington report states the Senate rejected a motion to cap debate on a permanent Fair Employment Practice Commission bill, 48 to 56, blocking cloture. Sponsor Dennis Chavez then moved to consider a $5 trillion independent offices appropriation, and the measure passed.
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James Eeoper Washington
Senate
Gilbuster
Dennis Chavez
FEPC
Chavez
America
South
Peron Offers Peace to America Amid Election Drive
Argentine strongman Juan D. Peron released a published document two weeks before the February 24 presidential election proposing closer relations with the United States. He urged bringing in North American capital and technicians to develop progress and called for a high policy of intelligence and mutual understanding between Argentina and the United States.
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Buenos Aires
Juan D. Peron
United States
Tne
Peron
Argentina
House Committee Tightens Purse Strings Of Forty One Government Corporations
The House Appropriations Committee designated five members to a subcommittee to review all transactions and operations of forty one government corporations including the RFC Mortgage Company and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The move follows a 1940s financial control act requiring annual budgets and aims to tighten congressional scrutiny of administrative expenses and broader activities.
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House Committee
William F. Arbogast
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Mahon
D-Tex
Whitten
D-Miss
Gore
D-Tenn
Ploeser
R-Mo
Jensen
Rtown
As Mahon
Congress
Congresa
Mabon
Commodity Credit Corporation
Federal Intermediate Creditporations
Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation
Farmers Home Corporation
Federal Corp Insurance Corporation
Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporations
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Defense Plant Corporation
Defense Supplies Corporation
Metals Reserve Company
Rubber Reserve Company
War Damage Corporation
Federal National Mortgage Association
RFC Mortgage Company
Disaster Loan Corporation
Inland Waterways Corporation
Tere
GE Electrician Strike Ends Amid Wage Talks
General Motors announced a settlement ending a 25,000 CIO electricians strike in its Hive division plants. The agreement, based on an 11 1/2 cent per hour wage increase, was reached through collective bargaining and submitted to local unions for ratification.
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Presa
General Motors Corp
CIO
Ite Hive
General Motors
James Matles
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Focal
CIO Electrical
General Electric
Westinghouse
Weaslinghouse
U. S. Steel Corporation
White House
Truman
Charles G. Ross
Philip Murray
Allied Industries
Murray
Senate Labor Committee
Benjamin F. Fairless
U. S. Steel
Veterans push for city government shift in Huntsville
Huntsville yesterday joined two other Alabama cities where war veterans lead a petition campaign to replace the mayoral system with a city commission. Similar drives were seen recently in Jasper and Genera, with veterans again steering the change.
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Huntsville
Alabama
Jasper
Long Illness Fatal To F. L. Mullins County Road Engineer
Fred L. Mullins sixty nine of Newton died after a long illness. He served as a highway engineer for Moulton County for three years and previously spent 20 years with the State Highway Department. He was a Newton Methodist church member and a Mason. Survived by wife, two sons, four daughters, five brothers, four sisters, and his stepmother. Funeral 4 PM at home with two ministers officiating. burial in Newton Cemetery. Active pallbearers listed. honorary pallbearers named.
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Fred L. Munine
Newton
Mouston County
Mullins
State Highway Department
Newton Methodist Church
The
Masons
John L. Mullins
Dothan
Hiard L. Mullins
Delaneo
Earnest K. Mullins
Chipley
Fla
Mollie M. Reynolds
Arcadia Fla
Teanie M Parcgh
Pascagoula
Misc
Belle M. Johnson
Alma N. McCormick
Frs
Rebecca L. Mullins
Killebrew
Lansbury
J. H. Hayes
NE Carmichael
M. E Bogers
A. E. Atkinson
Lawrente Snell
W. E. Tembridge
Baleara
Hartsog
Fern W. Wynn
J Barwick
Hebert M. Brown
ST. Jones
Churchill Will See Truman Today
Churchill. former British Prime Minister will fly from Plena to Washington to meet President Truman today. The meeting aims to discuss allied strategy and postwar coordination between the United States and Britain.
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Churchill
Truman
Washington
USP
Winston Churchill
Britih
Plena
President Truman
State Of Peril In New York Amid Fuel Shortage
The New York Department of Health warned of civil disorder and escalating danger as a six day tugboat strike worsened fuel shortages. Hospitals gain priority for coal, utilities and transport are restricted, and homes face rationing while AFL tugboat workers strike for higher wages and owners contest terms. The federal effort to man 400 idle tugboats and barges continues.
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New York
Department of Health
AFL
Franco Strikes Back At Critics In UNO
In Madrid Generalissimo Franco assailed his critics and warned Spain will close its frontiers and pursue isolation if world powers disapprove. Speaking in Segovia he said Spaniards back his conservative capitalist system and support his government.
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Franco
UNO
Madrid
Generalisaimo
Francica
Spain
Segovia
Aussie-French bid to delay UNO site selection fails
Australian and French delegates failed to postpone choosing a permanent United Nations headquarters site. The motion to delay to September was defeated 1 to 19 after a contentious roll call. Several delegates protested the defeat and pledged to appeal to the Assembly Steering Committee.
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UNO
AY & A. Shackford
London
United Nations
New York
Stamford-Greenwich
Assemble
Australia
Belgium
Bollins
Chile
Cuba
Denmark
Ecuador
Egypt
el Salvador
France
Iraq
Lebanon
Luxembourg
Nicaragua
Stalin outlines new five year plan and aims for postwar buildup
In a Moscow radio address, Generalissimo Stalin announced a new five year plan aiming to reconstruction and surpass wartime production. He pledged abolition of rationing, emphasized rapid growth in pig iron steel coal oil grain cotton and set targets far above 1940 levels. The broadcast noted the Soviet Union’s postwar economic basis and forecasted ongoing scientific progress.
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London
Josef Stalin
Moscow Fadio
Stalin
Soviet Union
United Free
Rosaig
Communist Party
Britain Netherlands oppose red demands for Indonesia probe
London AP reports Britain and the Netherlands urged the UN Security Council to reject a Soviet Ukraine request for a commission to investigate conditions in the Netherlands East Indies. The council adjourned without decision as Ukraine protests British operations in Java were noted.
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Britain
Netherlands
Indonesia
London
Great Britain
United Nations
Security Council
Ukraine
Netherlands East Indies
General Assembly
United States
Assembly
Panama
Spain
el Salvador
Nicaragua
Securty Council
Ernest Bevin Ayat
East Indies
Eelen van Klevens
Bevin
Java
Russia Seeks 2.6 Billion Loan Refused by U S
A House Committee report says Russia asked for a 2.6 billion loan and the request was refused. The unrevised Postwar Economic Committee report notes a formal reply and possible later revisions before public release. No official announcement has been made regarding any Russian loan request.
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Washington
House Committee
Russia
House
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F. L. Mullins
N.Y
Publig
Eduardo Zulela Angel
Ane
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