Roosevelt Veto Sustained Over Subsidy Bill
The House failed to override President Roosevelt’s veto on the subsidy bill as a vote of 2236 to 18 blocked the measure. The veto message described the subsidy as inflationary and costly amid food shortages. Democrats from affected regions joined to sustain the veto, influencing the Senate extension rider on the Commodity Credit Corporation.
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Congress
Pew
Roosevelt
Ead
Senate
Wea
Credit Parociies
Mo Contest Filed in Congress Race After Last Canvass
In Montgomery Alabama AP a Democratic ex executive committee chairman Geserer T McCorvey alleges fraud and corruption in the February runoff in Alabama third district He says formal contests of the election are on file in the district and hopes the election will be contested Navy Lt George W Andrews of Union Springs defeated J Hobart Farmer of Dothan by 44 votes with subcommittee reports noting irregularities at two voting races Andrews brother Lawrence attended but did not comment A general election is set for Ed Andrews in the May 2 primary and Farmer may pursue the full year term race The Secretary of State has not yet received a formal declaration from Farmer
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Montgomery
Ala
Dewetta
Geserer T. McCorvey
Alshama’e
Itcome
Lawrence K Andrews
Henry B
Ed Andrews
Mate
Farmer
Intter
McCorvay
Mobile
Pacific U Battle Report Highlights Massive Air Strikes
Three American planes and carriers report heavy combat against Japanese forces near Pearl Harbor. The wartime dispatch notes intense air and sea engagement with mentions of German threat alongside the Axis.
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U. 3
Warsips
Pearl Harbor
Attack on Truk Reported as War Progresses
Pearl Harbor dispatch details Japan saying Truk base was attacked for the first time in the war. Tokyo radio quotes Imperial Headquarters claiming enemy task force raided positions on Truk with fierce fighting ongoing as American carriers and escorts engage near the central Pacific theater.
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Gharlts
McMurtey U
Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Japan
Truk
Pago
Monitors Proposed to Guard Voting Machines by Poyner
Houston County Probate Judge P Poyner urged special legislation to create monitors or supervisors for each voting machine. The plan would authorize county election boards to appoint a supervisor who verifies and certifies machine results, with the machine manager and clerk also signing the certificate. Poyner, who opposed machines, argues money was spent on them and proper returns must be ensured. he says tampering is unlikely but safeguards should be mandatory.
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Houston County
P. Poyner
Thragr Avery
Boundieg
Judge Poyner
Partisans Force Way Into Northern Italy
Yugoslav partisans crossed the Slovene border into southern Italy and fought German forces near Caporetto. A communique via Free Yugoslav Radio said the 30th Patriot Division crossed the Plavs river between Gorizia and Tolmin and held the right bank amid heavy fighting.
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London
Italy
Caporetto
Manuel Josip Bro
Tito
Free Yugoslav Radio
Plavs
Gorizia
Tolomins
Piream
I Progreas
Tolomina
Caporetta
Gorisia
Sagije
Stethern Vogerleris
Partiens Mhl
Vreefo
Germans Abandon Staraya Russa as Defenses Collapse
London AP reports German forces evacuated Staraya Russa their northern base between Leningrad and Smolensk amid a widening collapse in defenses. The Red Army said it liquidated the German Eighth Army near Kormin by the Dnieper bend, with 82,000 killed and 11,000 captured, plus 21,000 more killed in failed breakout attempts.
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London
Staraye Russa
Leningrad
Smolenak
Russia
Red Army
Lake Simen
Eighth Army
Kormin
Dnieper
Stalingrad
Marshal Stelln
1000 Soldiers Lost As U Boat Sinks Troopship
Washington AP reports the Army confirmed about 1,009 American soldiers died in an Allied troopship attack labeled as due to enemy action. Roughly 1,000 survivors were saved. ship's voyage possibly to the Mediterranean or Iceland, with survivors landed in Britain. The exact date remains unclear.
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Washington
London
Britain
Mediterranean
Iceland
Army
City adopts new traffic code for motorists
Pothan's ordinance adopted February 1 places the new traffic code with motorists in the city and on the press within days. It aligns with state rules and aims to fix traffic by removing right turns on red and designating more streets as throughfares. Police Chief J E Droughon orders warnings against red light turns and insists pedestrians cross only on green to keep traffic moving in the same direction.
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Pothan
City Commission
I. P. Scarborough
J. E Droughon
Droughon
Mrs Marie McKenzie Dies At Home In City
Mrs Marie McKenzie aged seventy four died at her home 204 South St Andrews Street at noon today after a long illness. She was the widow of the late W K McKenzie. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 3 p m at the residence Rabbi Alfred Wolf officiating Burial will be in City Cemetery a short memorial service will follow at the Episcopal Church of the Nativity Survivors include her son Emil F McKenzie Dothan two sisters Mrs Boei Houston and Mrs Haachen Labinski Tel Aviv and several nieces and nephews
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Maria McKenzie
South St. Andrews Street
W. K. McKenn
Alfred Wolf
City Cemetery
End & Short Memorial Vertica
Episcopal Church of the Nativity
Emil F. McKensin
Dothan
Boel
Houston
Taras
Haachen Labinski
Tel Aviv
Palssting
Gleces
Extra Pork Stamp Valid To Feb 26
AP report from Washington notes spare ration stamp Ma A of War Retten Beck Mo and Poh Bo stamps may be used for five points in portions of pork and all sausage products through Saturday with unclear rest of the text.
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Washingtow
Baruch Postwar Plan Awaited By White House
Washington AP Bernard M Baruch prepares a detailed postwar economic blueprint for public inspection within days. The draft, circulating among top officials, covers policy for winding down wartime programs, government settlements with cancelled orders, disposal of federal plant assets, treatment of subcontractors, and postwar price and production controls. Baruch hints at a broad Office of Economic Adjustment to guide peacetime transitions.
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Washington
Bernard M Baruch
Baruch
War Industries Board
White House
Bar‘uch
Roosevelt
Office of Economic Adjustment
Agendes
Three-Judge Panel Weighs AFL Attack On State Labor Act
A three judge circuit panel in Birmingham weighed the AFL petition for a declaratory judgment challenging Alabama s new labor act. AFL leaders argued the Bradford Act violates the Constitution by curbing union dues disclosure and limiting union rights, while claimants cited fear of jail and stress on production.
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AFL
Birmingham
Circuit Court
American Federation of Labor
Alabama
Horace C. Wilkinson
Alabama State Federation of Labor
W. Hare
T. L Wilson
Unio Rolle
Dave Satterwhite
John W. Lapaley
Tarn Te Nuguber
Republicans mock Wallace on Roosevelt fourth term push
The GOP mocked Vice President Wallace over his claim that war effort would suffer if President Roosevelt is re elected noting the word Becey. Acting Senate Leader White framed Wallace's remarks as political posturing while Taft supported the fourth term argument as helpful to wartime leadership.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Wallace
Roosevelt
Becey
Senate
White
Wallase
Enyeme
Humber
Exiled Polish cabinet may bow to Soviet demands for shakeup
London dispatch says exiled Polish cabinet could resign to allow Stanisl Mikolajczys to form a government acceptable to Moscow. Reports on Moscow’s boundary proposals clash, with Poland possibly ceding East Prussia and the Danzig corridor under a Curzon Line revision while underground collaboration looms as a condition. The fate of the cabinet and boundary plans remain unsettled amid private Polish-UK messaging to Stalin.
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Iudeoy
O'Quinn
London
London Polis
Moscow
Stanisl Mikolajacsyx
Russia
Joseph Stalin
Churchill
Stalin
S Talin
Red Army
Poland
Kokberg
Pomerania
Oppeln
Upper
Sileam
Koenigsberg
Frussia
Dansig
Germany
Prusia
Vets Encouraged to Seek Muster-Out Pay Help
World War II veterans eligible for muster-out pay are urged to contact Chester R. Vickery Post 32 American Legion service officers for aid in filing claims. Officers Ray Hill, Marence May, A J Register, Jim Acree, Walt King, T & Deappe, and Abbie Mouse are listed as contacts with necessary papers and information to assist applicants.
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Alvin Mount
Chester R. Vickery
American Legion
Mount
Ray Hill
Marence May
A J Register
Jim Acree
Walt King T & Deappe
Pad Abbie Mouse
Assault on Truk Seen as Ending Jap Domination
Washington AP reports the Navy attack on Truk marks a turning point in the Pacific, eroding Japan's ability to defend a vast area. The strike weakens Truk as a secure base, shifting strategic leverage to American sea and air power and expanding reach toward the Philippines, Guam, and beyond.
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Truk
John M. Mightower
Washington
Navy
Asault
Truk Teland
Pacific Ocean
Pearl Harbor
Philippines
Pacific
Marshall Islands
Rabaul
South China Sea
Guam
Trok
Marshalls
Kwajalein
Japan
Central Pacific
Choctaw County Oil Well in Production
Alabama's first oil well to produce today near Gilbertown in Choctaw County about 76 miles north and west of Mobile. Dr Lloyd of State Geology, citing Hunt Company of Shreveport, said the well comes from a cut over timber section near a prior drill. Capacity is about 76 barrels daily, marking Alabama's 208th drilling attempt with no prior success since 1908.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Alabama
Gilbertown
Choctaw County
Mobila
J. Lioydanting
Lloyd
Kee
Gilbertewa
Eort
Clitertown
Allied and German clash near Cassar and Monte Cassine
Allied troops launched a dawn assault on Cassar and Monte Cassine as German forces pressed along the 10 mile road from Carrocete to Anzio. Helicopters and aircraft supported with heavy bombers as the Mediterranean battle raged, with air and sea power pinning German advances and repelling counterattacks along the beachhead.
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SY Enpwaed Kennedy Ces
Aled
Raph Ples
Cassar
Mt Cassine
Rome
Mediterranean
Casaine
Monastery III
Monte Cansine
Antico
Albe
Cisterna
Germany
Carrocete
Anzio
Lesses
Adolf Hitler
Orem
Elso
Bettie
Altea
Baltes
Angie
Britten
Ray Wi Westonth
Bettie Sm
Masritius
Verma
Fifth Army
Westiege
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Staraya Russa
Korsun
Marie McKenzie
Namur Island
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Namur
Kwajelein Atoll
U. S
Economic Office
GOP
Hocey
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