Wiregrass News Toss Sparks In Weekend Crime Patrol Report
Section summaries show multiple arrests for drunken driving and juvenile theft across the Wiregrass region. The Highway Patrol detained several individuals, including a man named Few Clothes and another linked to theft from henhouses. Police reports mention a taxi driver involved in a collision and a trooper hospitalized after an assault. Community notices highlight a Chamber meeting with a barbecue dinner and a tax deadline update stating poll taxes due for county residents.
Weekend Fire Destroys Todd Company Plant in Birmingham
AP reports a weekend fire at the Todd Company Birmingham plant caused about 150.00 in damage to book checks and payroll pads. Mite budding was gusted though stocks and equipment were not fully lost. The Rochester, New York firm employs about 3 in Birmingham. A second Sunday blaze burned a room at the Red Font Hotel on the seventh floor causing about 3500 damage.
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Birmingham
Todd Company
Rochester
N.Y
Ieee Ig
Yesiar
B. J. Heinz Company
Red Font Hotel
Livestock Prices and Movements Across Southern Plants
Livestock arrivals totaled 90 cattle 100 calves and 280 hogs at eight major plants in Albany Columbus Moultrie Thomasville Tifton Dothan Atlanta Jacksonville and Tallahassee. Hog prices held steadier with ranges from 5.80 to 7.50 for various weights. calf and hog categories show mixed levels, with medium to good slaughter cattle and vealers trading around 14 to 16 dollars, and lighter hog and sow classes varying. Montgomery market receipts 600 with active trading and higher quotes for certain calf and hog categories. Washington forecasts suggest potential price shifts for butcher weight ranges and vehicle market impacts amid broader commodity outlook.
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Homasville
USDA
Albany
Columbus
Moultrie
Thomasville
Tifton
Dothan
Atm
Jacksonville
Tallahassee
Fia
Montgomery
Webb
Monty BD Tower
Eae Eth
Ashington
Eood
Pask
Speculation on Early British General Election Dates
The piece notes talk of a February 23 date for an election and reports Labour organizers booking across England for February 22. It cites observers doubting this and suggests potentially dissolving parliament immediately, which could set the earliest date as Saturday January 23, with traditional Thursday elections making February 2 the likeliest option.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labor Party
England
Daily Telegraph
Aitles
Telegraph
LN Discontinues taceville Service
The LN railroad announces the discontinuance of four trains today to save dwindling coal supplies. Master W. P. Glover said two trains run from Nontmomers to Mew pans, while the others operate from Sel te Flamaton and from Geor gv iiba.
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Ontcomery (Ap
Fain
W. P. Glover
Nontmomers
Mewpans
Sel Te Flamaton
Georgv Iiba
Dothan Slings and Loan Association Annual Meeting
Annual meeting of the Dothan Slings and Loan Association will be held at the association offices on Foster Street Alabama on Wednesday January 1 1930 at 11 00 o clock. Officers Tay Bod and Farry P. Hail President Cecil H. Baker Secretary terse notice of adjourned business and time.
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Ers
The
Dothan Slings and Loan Association
As Niion
South Foster Street
Alabama
Farm loan plan and cotton futures rise in New Orleans
Florida rural housing funds face eligibility limits as farmers seek improvments and loans. Christmas owes 1800 on a 4100 loan with four percent interest and an annual amortization of 288.01. Cotton futures advance in New Orleans on steady demand and short covering amid reports of 60000 bales traded, with prices up modestly at midmorning.
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Christmas
Christ
Florida
New Orleans
Truman sets out 1951 budget and tax plans
President outlines a $30 trillion defense and foreign program, with a $12.8 billion domestic core for welfare, military and veterans costs. He projects a $6.183 billion deficit for 1951, calls for tax increases on Social Security, payrolls and mail rates, and urges Congress to enact measures to raise revenues and shrink the deficit. The plan would lift the debt to $285.6 billion by June 30, 1951.
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United States
Spen
Cannon
House Appropriations Committee
Committee For Economic Development
Truman
Congress
Educator Directors Open Annual Meeting on Hospital Standards
In Montgomery Alabama delegates at the County Education Supervisors and Directors of Instruction opened the six day conference with a focus on their work. The College of Surgeons announced Frasier Ellis Moody Hospital facilities on its approved list, noting a 60 bed general hospital with nursing programs and a Moody Hospital of 78 beds with accredited nursing schools. The list spans 3,234 hospitals in the United States and abroad, with a point rating system used in the survey.
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College of Surgeons
Montgomery
Alabama
Misa Bernica Dilworth
Marshell County
Jts
Frasier Ellis and
Moody Hospitale
American College” of Surgeons
The
College For Surgeons
Frasier-Eltis
State Board of Nurse Examiners
Moody
State Board of Wurke Lxaminers
United States
Canada
Ministers Meet At Piickard In State Conference
About 300 Methodist leaders are expected for a district meeting at Piickard Methodist Church. Speakers include Rev. Geen ast Sib Bor superintendent of the Mort gomery District and Rev. Euusor delivering the principal sermon. Representatives from Methodist colleges will attend. conference runs from 9:33 a m to 4 p m with lunch served at home.
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Pinckard
Plaukard Methodist Church
Geen Ast Sib Bor
Mortgomery
Dorinis
Gilmore
Tre
Euusor
Jbome
Bob Hope Injured in Auto Accident Near Riverside
In a rainstorm the comedian Bob Hope drove his car off a road and overturned eighteen miles south of Riverside California. Passenger Fred Williams, one of his writers, was removed from the wreck with Hope. Doctors report a dislocated shoulder but Hope says he is fine and a physician notes only a shoulder clavicle dislocation.
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Riverside
Calif
Bob Hope
Here
Fred Williams
Hope
Willams
Frarchise Community Hospital
Flying Arrow shelled near Shanghai by Chinese Nationalists
Hong Kong dispatch describes the freighter Flying Arrow attacked while bound for Shanghai. Captain Jones reports shells hitting the afterdeck and water tank as Chinese warships bombarded the vessel. British and American ships aided as the crew fought the blaze and fled toward the Yangtze River.
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Hong Kong
Jones
Yangtze
Wayne Richardson
Associated Proas
Flying Arrow
Shangbak
Shanghai
Na. Honaustag
Flying Cleid Woo
Sir John Zeeddin
Talen Om
Black Swan
Masonic Meetings and Tax Notes From State Ledger
The report notes Masonic activity with Pythagorean Lodge 69 meeting Tuesday and Dothen Chapter 48 Thursday for business. It cites government tax proposals previewed by President Truman, including possible excise tax hikes and corporate tax reforms aimed at broader revenue and investment incentives.
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Pythagorean Lodge 69
Dothen
Scout Drive Chairman Reports For Barbour County
Roy Crow finance chairman for the South ess Alabama Scout Council announces Barbour County met its $2,000 goal in under two weeks of the drive. Drive Chairmen C Blackshear and John Gray report a total of $2,800 raised toward financing Boy Scouts activities.
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Roy Crow
Finaance
Barbour
Fala! Barbour
Blackshear
John Gray
Eetiv
Wea
Crow
Negro Booked Here Wanted In Florida
Negro arrested here December 28 for grand larceny after allegedly stealing a suit of clothes from a parked automobile, and a holdover request was sent to Florida authorities for Westley or Wealey Hurd. Sheriff J. Walt Cameron said Hurd, a Pennsylvania Negro, was arrested by city police and turned over to the county for prosecution on an identical charge. Officers said Hurd took a suit of clothes from R. G. Shurley's car parked on East Burdeshaw Street in December.
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Pensacola
J. Walt Cameron
Florida
Westley
Miners Walkout Hits Steel Region and Pitt Contol Mines
Leaders of Mine Operators unite against President Lewis of the United Mine Workers. Miners vote not to work at Pitt Contol mines near Library Pa and shut down many operations in Greene County and West Virginia. UMW says 16 000 miners quit. some see it as discontent with wage and pension fund demands while others expect a return to work soon.
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George H. Love
United Stend
John T. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Library
Pitt Contol
Pittsburgh
West Virgin
Greene County
Pennsylvania
Steel Companier
United States Steel Corporation
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Weirton Steel Company
Crucibly
Amerie
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
UMW
Boringfield
Hugh White
Atard
Conteds
Uute
Pruman
Old Pics Found Of Big City Fire In 1918
An Ashland Virginia man promised a Dothan man old snapshots taken in Dothan years ago. The letters to the Dothan Chamber recount a July 1918 fire at the Central Comprege Plant that burned, destroying 5000 bales of cotton and causing about 200000 in damage. Wallace Hand recalls a request from Sierd Welton for copies before the blaze and says the photos were never recovered.
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Ashland
Virginia
Dothan
Dothan Ao
Bucha
Dothan Chamber of Commerce
Wallace
Hand
Detroit
Papelae
Per
Blote
Sierd Welton
Chamber
Delegations Push Road Upgrades at Houston County Board
Delegations appearing before the Houston County Board of Revenue requested road improvements to multiple routes. The board voted to advertise for a sheriff's office automobile and to open bids at a special session next Monday. Other actions included purchasing steel chairs for county offices and continuing bids on public works projects near Hilltop Mt Gilead Bevtal Bell's store Whitehead's Crossing Linnberg Cain's Store.
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Houston County Board
Home Demonstration
Mt Gilead
Bevtal Church
Bell
Whitehead's Crossing
Garden
Linnberg
Cain
Wemion
Mme Chiang Pins Blame On United States For Nationalist Struggles
Mme Chiang Kai shek denounces the United States for not answering Nationalist appeals and keeps urging Americans to support Formosa while charging the Nationalists are abandoned and alone. She says Hu t has shown kindness but the United States remains unresponsive and warns that the guerrillas on the mainland are under Communist control as her husband fights a final battle from Formosa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shing
Mme
Chiang
United States
Formosa
Yous
Reds
Jmona
Tibet and its disputed status amid Asian tensions
An OCR fragment discusses Tibet as an isolated Buddhist-ruled region near China, Burma, India, and Kashmir. It notes alleged Communist aggression near Hainan and regional tensions, with Lowell Thomas describing Tibet as highly anti Communist. The piece mentions the Dalai Lama and the long-standing sovereignty claims over Tibet.
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Camas
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mambeo
Himalayas
Dalai Lama
Buddha
Hing
Tibet
Death notices from Wiregrass region funeral details
Multiple obituaries from Wiregrass area list services in Headland Headland Methodist Cemetery Geneva Pleasant Hill Church and Wagains church cemetery. Names include Mrs Glenn Creel of Headland Mr Glenn Creel and two sons Reed? and Richard Creel survivors Mrs Sara Oberry Hartford Mrs Mary Setzer and Captain Lewis C Pritchett Aaron M Sellers Rev H G Vann and relatives. Funeral homes Pittman Johnson and Wooten Panera Home oversee arrangements.
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Glenn Creel
Gery Todata Eee
St. Ganceate Churen
Thomas Kennedy
Creel
Waterpueyt Conn
Yes
Headland Methodist Cemetery
Headland
Bily Creel
Richard Creel
Misa -Josephine Dillon
Migeis Dillon
Ell
Waterbury
Tee Brothers
James J. Dillon
Willam F. Dillon
Thomas J. Dillon
Mem
Sara Oberry Bartford
Fuberal Teryigos
Says Gertrude Oberry
Lily
Hartford
Dey
Mi Enoo
Aod
David Dykes
Micanopy
Fla
Fous
N. Sanders
Dathan
Mary Sanders
A. Spooner
Clio Townson
Pensacola
Mary Wood
Melvins Elmore
Laconchee, Jr
Mys
Tilda Dunn
Lavoochee
Robert Ara Lewin Wood
Thee
Lee Wood
Bonifay
Bilis
Ben Wend
Hart
Wotman Panera
Mary BK Setzer
Abbeville
Mary Katheryn Setzer
Tuscaloosa
Atiarnagy
Pleasant Grove Cemetery
Peyi
Holman
J. L. Setzer
Andalusi
A. A. Core
Kit
Andilusia
George Setzer
Jackson
Miss
Ollie Hutto
Andalusia
Tom Keily
Atlanta
Inez Ansley
Rome
Jack Hutto
Monroeville
Paul Setzer
Baltimore
Setzer
Raleigh
Capy
Lewis C. Pritchett
Geneva
McDit Field
Tarape
Frovida
Starke
Florida
Mirat Baptist Church
Robert HH Helmes
Mr Brothers
Howard
Jackson-ville
Mera
M.C.' Lanier
Ruby Brewster
New Orleans
Aaron M. Sellers
Aaron Montes Sellers
Geneva County
Pleasant Hill Church
Bonlay
H.C. Rudolph
Willis
Slocomb
William
Graceville
Ewell
Germany
Tw Brothers
Eene Sellers
T. L. Sellers
Siater
Pee Jole i
Chipsey
H. G. Vann
BG. Vann
Dothan
Longines
Grimes Methodist Church
Mev
Judkins
Schafer
Jeter
Baldwin
Wagains Church
Johnson Fneral
Cloady Horne
Naplet Plelay
Philip Horne
Napise ‘Eld
Weekend fires kill 63 in U S Canada and deaths at hospitals
Weekend fires across several states and Canada killed 63 people, including 16 children, with a major blaze at Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, where 35 patients and one nurse died. Additional fatalities occurred in Medway Maine, Fort Dodge Iowa, Duhamel Quebec, Cleveland Ohio, Mount Clemens Michigan, Yorktownia, and South Bend Indiana as families and communities reel from the deadly weekend blaze spree.
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Canada
Then & Borenvier
Issa
Mersy Hospital
Davenport
Maine
Grace Jones
Medway
Iowa
Fort Dodge
Duhamel
Muebec
Ottawa
Leopold Faubert
Wear Fulton
Marion Warren
Jean Davis
Marion
Marion ¥. Bowen
Cleveland
Margaret Cotton
Moxtive England
Mount Clemens
Mien
Hanry Helzer
James Kellas
Yorktownia
Brenda Forbes
Willd Foren
Gloria Forbee
South Bend
Ind
John J Wilks
Myrna Loy and Gene Markey Separate
Actress Myrna Loy 44 says her marriage to producer Gene Markey 51 has ended. Loy, in Hollywood, says Markey is in Europe en route from Vienna and the couple agreed to separate after her telephonic announcement.
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Myrna Loy
Hollywood
Adrent
Myra Loy
Gene Markey
Miss Loy
Europe
Vienna
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Tua
Carl E.lore
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Ring
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Enterin
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MNUAL
Farry P. Hail
Cecil H. Baker
Hampshires
Marianna, Fla
New York
Piickard
Fruman
Sweeling
Whee Press
Bob Woodrutt
University of Florida
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Scout Drive
Speigner ‘Concrete Block CO
Fargret
Big
Gweeziwe
Tour Coles' Iseries
Venn
Hink
Frank
Peeter Vann
Jack Deer
Mra. Exyther Qutlaw
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J. T. Brooking
Comer Smith
Floyd Ward
T. Adkins
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