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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1947
Page
2
An opinion piece argues statistics cannot decide the July 1947 liquor referendum. It recalls Prohibition’s failures and warns that voters remember crime and corruption from bootlegging era. The piece urges supporting state owned liquor sale over bootleggers in Tuesday’s vote.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower will retire after 32 years in the Army to take leadership of one of America’s oldest and largest universities. The move places him in a key role within New York City’s educational and cultural life, guiding students from around the world and shaping future leaders. His decision follows a storied career praised for military brilliance, administration, and diplomatic skill.
Perry Howard, Negro Republican leader from Mississippi, appears as a defense attorney for the Garsson brothers and former Congressman May of Kentucky. He collapsed in court while delivering a speech alleging discrimination against the Garssons for their race. The scene links a prominent Black Republican figure to a case involving a white Southern Democrat.
President Truman signs a rent control bill extending protections to March 1, 1948. It allows mutual rent increases up to 14 percent on leases through end of 1948, eases eviction rules, and permits tenants to sue for triple damages if ceilings are exceeded. Governors will appoint local five member boards to review controls, with powers to remove controls if warranted. Non resident building controls are largely scrapped.
The Distilled Spirits Institute reports U S liquor consumption fell about 20 percent from January to May compared with 1946 figures. Total sales reached 53 968 176 gallons, down from 53 325 122 gallons year earlier, attrib in part to high prices and the 3 per gallon federal tax. The drop is not linked to anti liquor crackdowns in Houston County or Alabama.
This column reports Paul M. Herzog and two NLRB aides offered to resign to President Truman to avoid taint from Taft Hartley enforcement, but Truman refused. It also notes Jed Johnson sworn in as U.S. Customs Court judge by Chief Justice Vinson, the gas shortage probe led by Senator Brewster, and proposed courts martial reforms, veteran loan battles, and Latin American arming opposition.
John Temple Graves argues democracy must prove itself through practical economic success and social equality. He contrasts American ideals with Europe’s distressed states, urging focus on economic achievement over crusading reform. He recalls Lincoln Memorial dedication in 1922 and Taft’s wish for a black speaker from Tuskegee Institute representing the Negro race.
A collage of humorous observations on fashion, travel, relationships, and society. Jabs at motorists wives dresses weather forecasts and quirky headlines touch on knighted actors revenue, pennies, hitchhikers and gypsies. A light satirical snapshot of midcentury manners and curiosities.
A fragment notes coal mine owner Kelley and John L. Lewis on the 1940s labor split. It mentions Harley Kilgore, Senator Revercomb, and Taft Hartley foes and friends, with West Virginia postcards asking voters if they had enough amid labor fights.
Dewitt Mackenzie discusses the Paris conference on the Marshall plan and European rehabilitation. He argues the Soviet Union rejects unified action, pushing Europe toward Eastern and Western blocs, prompting Western allies to act independently in rebuilding democracy and confronting the UN veto issue.
Physicians in Zurich and across cantons staged a two week strike over health insurance fees, arguing wage gains lag living costs while government price ceilings and wage controls complicate negotiations. Building trades unions remain at odds with contractors and the conciliation board over wage increases and weekly hours amid an acute Swiss housing shortage.
In Osaka Japanese black market operators use a short wave radio to direct truck deliveries and warn of police raids. Kyodo reports police learned of the system by accident when a radio repairman fixed a receiver and heard a powerful broadcast. He saw a truck pass with an antenna as officers suspect an old army transmitter powers the ring. The operators even closed deals by radio.
Dr Heinrich Zangger of Zurich resigns as Switzerland's standing delegate to the International Criminal Police Commission. Col Werner Mueller, head of Bern's city and criminal police, is named his successor.
The Danish steamer Gudrun unloaded 68 American-made automobiles in Gdynia Poland for distribution to government ministries and agencies. A separate note mentions a silk-producing organ of a spider called a spinn attached to the under oil lf the abdomen.
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