Soviet Rejects American Plan On Atom Control
Soviet delegate Andrei A. Gromyko announced the rejection of almost all American proposals for UN oversight of atomic energy. He rejected the idea of an international development authority and the elimination of the Big Five veto, while accepting some parts of Baruch’s plan. The committee focused on memorandum No. 3 detailing Baruch's control framework.
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New York
Andrei A. Gromyko
United Nations
United Nations Department of Public Information
UN Atomic Energy Commission
Gromyké
Security Council
Public Information Department
Gromyko
Bernard M. Baruch
United States
Russia
Baruch
Ay A
16 Men Arrested On Liquor Charges In Round-Up Here
State Department of Public Safety undercover agents posed as surveyors on Dothan streets to arrest 16 men for liquor violations. Arrested were eight white and eight Negro men, including bell hops, with a city court hearing set for 2 30 this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dothan
Law Enforcement Division
State Department of Public Safety
Z. E. Craughon
J. L. Vaughn
Jasper Barnes
C. H. Napier
Lloyd White
H. C. Cherry
Hilson, Garrett, Jones and
Cherry
Draughon
Montgomery
Department of Public Safety
Pullman Car Conductors Threaten Nationwide Strike
The Order of Rail Conductors ordered a strike against the Pullman company set for August 7 over wage increase applications. The move would halt Pullman sleeping and chair car service on most railroads, with the Milwaukee Road partially operating its own cars. Conductors would quit at 6 p.m. railroad time in each time zone.
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Ghicago
C. Johnson
Pullman Company
Johnson
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Milwaukee Road
House rejects Senate plan for GI terminal leave bonds
The House rejected paying terminal leave to GI and Gobs in bonds cashable after five years and sent a $3 billion terminal leave bill to a conference. Supporters argue cash for officers should apply to enlisted men, while opponents favor immediate cash payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Senate
William F. Arbogast
Gobs
Senate House
Sikes
D-Fla
Chamber Proceeds on Napier Field Transfer Plan
Dothan Chamber of Commerce directs action to move Napier Field to Dothan and Houston County. Brennan to coordinate with city county officials and Washington lawmakers Lister Hill and George Andrews to push the inactivated air base transfer. Chamber aims to speed definite action and secure government installations while city planners discuss a municipal park on W Main Street.
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Napier Field
Dothan
Houston County
Dothan Chamber of Commerce
J. Y W. Brennan
Chamber
Washington
Lister Hill
George Andrews
Brennan
Clyde Levern
J. H. Bryson
City Planning Commission
W. Main Street
Bryson
E. M. Wells, Sr
I T
Cabmter of Commerce
Lovern
Authorities Hope To Avert Polio Epidemic In 1945
The nation faces more polio cases this year than in 1944 but health officials hope a major outbreak will be avoided. Public Health Service notes scattered cases across many states and potential leveling off before explosive spreads. Texas leads with 39 cases through July 13, while Minnesota reports epidemic activity in Minneapolis.
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Frank Carey
Associated Press
U.S
Washington
Public Health Service
The
Health Service
Texas
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Florida
Alabama
Colorado
California
New York
Louisiana
Dollar, Knife, Wine Involved In Robbery
Cecil Lawrence of Dothan faces a robbery warrant sworn by Brown of Dothan. Lawrence allegedly took $1, a pocket knife, and a half quart of wine from Brown after a dispute over wine possession. Lawrence was arrested for assault and drunkenness prior to the warrant.
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Cecil Lawrence
Dothan
Houston County
Bumbe Brews
Brown
Lawrence
Patterson
Hebby
Aged Assistance Gets $796 Check From Revenue Agency
Probate Judge S. P. Poyner said Houston County received a $796.14 check from the State Department of Revenue sales tax division for old age assistance and a $40 check from the Alabama Beverage Control Board from beer license sales. The funds go to the county general fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston County
State Department of Revenue
S. P. Poyner
Alabama Beverage Control Board
Poyner
Arabs Threaten Action To Keep Down Terrorism
London reports a white paper based on intercepted telegrams linked to the Palestine roundup of over 2,500 Jews. Arab leaders warned Britain to stop terrorism or Arabs will intervene, as the King David Hotel bombing heightens tensions and forces in Jerusalem search for Irgun Zvai Leumi leaders.
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London
Palestine
Hagana
Palmach
Jewish Resistance Movement
Jewish Agency
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Stern Group
Kel Israel
Carter L. Davidson
Jerusalem
King David Hotel
Iroon Zvai Leumi
Associated Press
Holy Land
Egypt
Iraq
United Nations
New York
U. N
Attlee
House of Commons
New York Justice Dickstein Testifies Before War Panel
New York Supreme Court Justice Samuel Dickstein, former Democratic congressman, testifies to the Senate War Investigating Committee about alleged phone calls to Murray Garsson of a Midwest munitions group. He initially denies but then says any calls were purely social.
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SWIC
Dickstein
New
Oklahoma Voters Defeat Three Oklahoma Congressmen in Runoff
Oklahoma City reports voters rejected all three Democratic congressmen seeking renomination in a runoff. Reps Jed Johnson Lyle Boren and Victor Wickersham were unseated by newcomers Glenn Johnson Preston Peden and Toby Mor ria, amid price control debates and rising grocery costs.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Jed Johnson
Lyle Boren
Victor Wickersham
Peden
Johnson
Boren
OPA Revival Bill To Receive Prompt Action By Truman
Nationalist forces push along a 150 mile front threatening Nanking as Chinese Communists suffer a series of reverses. The Central News Agency reports attacks, counterattacks, and renewed operations near Nanking Shanghai Tsingtao and other fronts with American truce efforts continuing in north Jiangsu.
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OPA
Truman
Shengkeng
Riangyin Naval Base
Nanking
Shanghai
Kiangsu
Ysinan
Central News Agency
Tsingtao Naval Base
Chimo-Mashan
Tsingtao
Peiping Executive Headquarters
North Kianwsu
Yangtze River
Qukao
Tienebang
Tungetai
Yellow Sea
Senate Debates Compromise OPA Bill as President Peers Action
The Senate inched a compromise OPA revival bill toward the White House while President Truman faces a prompt decision. Press secretary Charles Ross said action would come soon, with a co written message to Congress possibly signaling veto or approval. House Democrats indicated Truman would back the trimmed down measure.
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Washington
Congress
White House
Charles G. Ross
Tru Tran
Tross
Truman
House
McCormack Mase
Ross
Wretary
Price Decentrat Board
Senate
Liston
Ora
All In Readiness For First Underwater Test Of A-Bomb
The U S nuclear test program readies the first underwater explosion as a submarine target fleet awaits, with Vice Admiral Blandy and top officials monitoring weather. A small craft towed the explosive device toward Bikini Lagoon amid reefs and shore batteries, as meteorologists track clouds and high pressure.
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Apia
Tachian
U.S
Bikini
U. S
McKinley
William H. P. Blandy
Bikini Atoll
Marshalls
Russian reporter calls US caste system in Izvestia
Ilya Ehrenburg reports in Izvestia that America has a legalized racial caste for Negroes and informal caste for Jews Italians and Chinese. He says the United States lacks feudalism yet maintains a racial hierarchy with whites at the top and Negroes at the bottom.
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Moscow
Ilya Ehrenburg
Izvestia
United States
Ehrenburg
America
Assault To Murder Charged In Fight In Dothan
A warrant was issued for Fulford after a fight with Askew left Askew with knife wounds to the back and neck. Fulford was arrested yesterday and released on bond today as city police investigated the disturbance outside a room on Foster Street.
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Dothan-Montgomery
M.S. Vickery
T. ¥. Brooks
St. Petersburg
Fla
Louise Dooley
Alta Dooley
Sarah Dooley
Dothan
Pitroimen
Dooley
Halph
Alfercesten
Foster Street
Five Burglary Counts Face Negro Escapee
A sixteen year old Negro, Arens Ward, was arrested on five counts of burglary after he confessed when identified by J. Burton of the Department of Public Safety. The burglaries spanned May 20 to July 10 in Fu feula, including four houses and a store. items stolen included watches lighters and money. Two warrants for first degree burglary and two for second degree burglary were filed. Ward had escaped in April from Mount Mhiens reform school after a prior burglary in Birmingham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Burton
Department
Pubific Safety Sagt
Arens Ward
Jamey Burton
Aim
Fufeula
Burton
Ward
Mount Mhiens, Ale
Birmingham
President Lions Bill Authorizing Waterway Projects
Washington AP President Truman signs two large flood control navigation and water power bills but says he will withhold any funds request this fiscal year. One rivers and harbor measure would authorize about 43.0 billion for river improvements and the other a flood control bill totaling 952.0 million. He notes these are authorizations to guide War Department planning and that actual appropriations will depend on budgets. The combined river and harbor authorizations approach 55.0 million, with projected completion times of 35 years for river and harbor works and 20 years for flood control projects.
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Washington
Traonan
War Department
Truman
Congress
Roosevelt
Last Day For Absentee Ballots Ahead Of July 30 Primary
Houston County voters plan to be away on July 30 for the special Democratic Senate primary as the last day to apply for absentee ballots approaches. Probate Judge Saxon Poyner reports 52 ballots issued so far, a small number blamed on low campaign interest as a successor to the late Senator Bankhead will be chosen.
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Houston County
Saxon FP. Poyner
John H. Bankhead
OPA Plans To Use June 30 Pricing Levels
OPA rushed to reimpose June 30 price ceilings across much of the economy as legal life resumes. Rents would revert to prior ceilings in 20 areas, with exceptions for major foods and some products not to be reched before August 20. Temporary ceilings may be restored while waiting for new standards under the pending bill.
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Marvin
L. Arrowsmith
Washington
OPA
Barkley
Paul Porter
Pravda Attacks FBI Over U S Russia Ties
The Moscow radio and Pravda accuse the FBI of trying to sever U S Soviet relations by arresting Soviet naval enlistee Nicolas G Redin in Portland on espionage charges. Redin was acquitted after a Seattle trial. Pravda cites Zaslavaky alleging American secret police rearms and brutal actions in Berlin and Germany.
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London
Moscow
FBI
United States
Russia
Portland
TA Nicolas G. Redin
Seattle
David Zanlavaky
Vilriniie Soavies
Redinku
U. S
Germany
WU. S
Berlin
Zaslaveky
Amercan
Uninsured Fire Loss in Dothan for June Report
June fire activity in Dothan totaled 60 dollars uninsured with total loss and insured figures combined at 2697.66. Fire Chief R. HH Ryan notes 11.7 thousand dollars’ property at risk, with 10 thousand dollars protected by insurance. Calls numbered 18 inside city limits, with automatic fires and burning rubbish among top causes.
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R. HH
Ryan
City Commission
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