Houston Votes Wet By 1 058 Majority In 5th Referendum
In the fifth liquor referendum in twelve years Houston County went wet yesterday for the fourth consecutive time. Unofficial tabulations show 2 815 votes for continuation of ABC control and 1 757 against, a 1 058 vote majority for retention of the county's wet status. Dothan boxes voted 6 wet, 0 dry, with Beat Three leading wet results. Outside Dothan the wet majority grew, reversing prior dry expectations amid shifts in Beat Ten Ashford. Total votes 4 572. compares to 4 861 in 1938.
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Webb
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Ramseur Outlines City Extension Plan for Do Than North
City Engineer H M Ramseur completed a survey outlining a proposed expansion of Do than city limits. The plan adds areas along Headland highway West Main street Montgomery highway and the Central of Georgia railroad right of way. Boundary extensions follow Chamber of Commerce recommendations led by Archie Carmichael.
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City Commission
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Mitchell To Address Farm Bureau Parley At Cottonwood
Mitchell, secretary of the Alabama Farm Bureau, will be the principal speaker at the Houston County Farm Bureau annual meeting at Cottonwood High School. More than 500 of Houston County's 1,400 families are expected for a day of speeches, singing, entertainment, a picnic dinner, and officer elections.
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Alabama Farm Bureau
Houston County Farm Bureau
Cottonwood High School
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Houston County
Farm Bureau
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Allen Waller
Knowles
Bureau
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Police Search Rugged Countryside For Professor's Missing Daughter
Police and volunteers scoured wooded countryside near Camp Tabor for 3 year old Nadia Evans missing since Monday night from a summer camp. The daughter of MIT physicist Rob ly D Evans was last seen with a saddle nearby and hoof prints found on a dirt road two miles from the camp. State police suggested she may have left the horse voluntarily and headed toward a highway, while her father speculated she might be homesick and returning to Belmont Massachusetts.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Camp Tabor
England
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Brown
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Belmont, Mast
Arson Charge Filed Against Dale Painter
Jesse Ralph Rice, 37, is held in Dale County jail on a first degree arson charge with $3,000 bond. He allegedly set fire July 7 to a four room house he occupied near Midland City, confessed after warrants were served, and cited marital troubles as motive. The house owner is Mrs. Roy Stourh. Rice remains jailed until the August grand jury.
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Jesse Ralph Rice
Dale County
Tom Hall
Rice
J.R. Dykey
Marshal Hall
Hall
Dothan
Roy Stourh
Hall Ar
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Three Transfusions Directed By Radio Save Airman's Life
An Army radioman survived a Palmyra Island plane crash after three blood plasma transfusions directed by radio, aided by an expectant mother. Rescuers airlifted him and four injured comrades to Hickam Field, Hawaii, as the crash wreckage lay on a reef 1,000 miles south.
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Honolulu
Palmyra Ynland
Seventh Air Force
Hickman Field
Palucra
Hawaii
Communist Plot Nipped In Greece
In Athens area more than 2,000 people were arrested in dawn raids aimed at crushing a Communist plot to trigger a nationwide revolution and civil war. Police and military units swept cities and countryside, with some leaders expected to be held for hearings while others face release or further action.
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Congress Committee Reports Anti Closed Shop Bill Incomplete
In Montgomery Alabama the House business and labor committee reported anti closed shop and anti mass picketing bills without recommendation. No action on strikes or lockouts in public utilities. The panel approved the closed shop measure 8 to 5 and the picketing bill 6 to 2, with actions set for the House calendar next week.
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House Business and Labor Committee
Alabama
Charles Pinkston
Mactistoerery
Cnen
J J. Benford
Marshall
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Pute Services
Washington
Senate
Truman
House
GOP
Chatman Millkin
CR Coloe
Senate Finance Committee
Army
Charges Open In Two Inquests At Marianna
In Marianna two inquests opened with manslaughter charges pending. A boat collision near Graces Lake left 26+ aboard dead or injured, with witnesses failing to appear as the coroner’s jury visites the scene and the case proceeds.
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Flying Saucer Trip Sparks Martian Treasure Hunt Tale
New York AP report recounts Safe after a 48 hour, 57 mile Mars flight in Hal Boyle style satire. A Martian pilot nicknamed Balruis takes the narrator on a space voyage to Mars to hunt for objects including Magellan’s gold tooth, as dialogue and wild antics unfold aboard a story about interplanetary whimsy.
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Mars
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Orean Welles
Queen Victoria
Romania Rejects Invitation to Paris Economic Parley
Ashore reports state Romania declines the Paris conference on economic aid and European needs. Officials note the move follows talks with Sofia and Warsaw, with Poland Hungary Yugoslavia Albania Finland Sweden among observers. The French foreign ministry cites formal acceptances from ten nations.
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Grand Slam Seen On Coal Contract
The Southern Coal Producers Association plans to accept the new wage contract already signed by about three quarters of the soft coal industry. Federal officials warn the South may struggle to hold out as the rest of the country sees higher coal prices.
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Southern Coal Produces Association
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Ocnmilion
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Alabama Coal Miners Return to Work
Alabama state authorities report captive miners resuming duties at the coal mine operated by the Seed Corporation under contract. The facility, linked to the United Workers, faced fines and penalties for contract disputes while crews were away.
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Steed Com Setae
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Senator Reveals 1948 Los Alamos Document Theft
Senate disclosures by Chairman Bourke B. Hickenlooper state two Army sergeants stole secret atomic data at Los Alamos in March 1948 while War Department ran the program. The documents were recovered after civilian Atomic Energy Commission took over. FBI traced the theft as souvenir hunting with no unauthorized access.
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FBI
Seregeanta
Princess Elizabeth Engaged to Greek Prince Philip Mountbatten
Buckingham Palace announced the betrothal of Princess Elizabeth heir to the British throne to Lt Philip Mountbatten formerly of Greece. Philip, son of Prince Andrew and Princess Alice, renounced the Greek throne and became a British subject during a leave from the naval training college.
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London
Elizabeth
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Greece
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Eircalor
Crular
Ian
President Truman Piano Show Sparks Labor Debate
President Truman played piano during a radio broadcast as a taxpayer funded matter raises payment questions. The scene touched Congress with remarks from Rep. Graham A. Barden and Rep. Nixon on labor law limits and government use of musicians amid Petrillo and union issues.
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Graham A. Barden
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Mexico City
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Petrillo
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American Federation of Musiciani
Richard M. Nixon
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