Dease Infant Dies at Local Hospital
William Ronald Dease four days old infant of Mr and Mrs Dease of Dothan route five died in a local hospital early today. Survived by parents grandparents Mr and Mrs B H Dease of Dothan Youle five and Mr and Mrs W R Beaves of Marianna along with aunts and uncles. Funeral services held today at 3 p m at Wiggins church the Rev Jeter Baldwin officiating interment in church cemetery Johnson Wilkerson funeral home of Dothan is in charge of arrangements.
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William Ronald Dease
Dease
Dothan
B. H. Dease
Youle
W. R. ‘Beaves
Marianna
Wiggins Church
Jeter Baldwin
Cehurch
Fred Draughon Assigned to Abbeville Patrol Post
Fred Draughon, former Dothan city detective who resigned to join the Alabama Highway Patrol, has been assigned to the Abbeville Station. Another recent addition is William H. Hayes, assigned to the Geneva office.
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Fred Draughon
Dothan Fcrty
Alabama Highway Patrol
Abbeville
William H. Hayes
Geneva
Scout Ranch Film to Be Shown at First Baptist Church
A Philmont Scout Ranch film will be shown at First Baptist Church tonight at seven. Boy Scout officials invite 18 and older Scouts and Katy Invita to attend the screening.
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Philmont
First ‘Baptist
Katy
Farm Bureau Chiefs Meet Tuesday Night
Houston County Farm Bureau board of directors will meet at the courthouse annex Tuesday night at 7 30 o clock. President H H Knowles said the meeting will lay plans for the annual membership meeting set for July 11.
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Houston County Farm Bureau
H. H. Knowles
Knowles
Bureau
Negro Faces Charge of Murder Intent
Austin Smith, a Black man, was arrested near Gordon this morning on a charge of assault with intent to murder per Sheriff Eldridge Cameron. A county court warrant from Sally May Smith accuses him of beating his mother with a chair and threatening to burn her house. He is jailed in county custody on $300 bond.
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Austin Smith
Gordon
Eldridge Cameron
Sally May Smith
Smith
Thirty Arrests Over Weekend On Minor Charges
About 30 persons were arrested here during the weekend by city and county officers. Sheriffs officers took five into custody and city police 26. Most charges were for assault and battery public drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
Floods and quakes hit multiple states as Mississippi floods ease
About 30,000 people were homeward bound across five states as the Mississippi receded from record highs. Damage neared 250 million dollars as the river fell from 30.18 feet, with levels expected to drop further though cresting remains possible in spots. Volunteers aided levee duty while storms battered Iowa and Virginia, and new quakes added to the week’s disasters.
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Mississippi
Missouri
Alton
Here
Illiois
Chonteau Island
Degognia
Buser
Granite City
Jcveen
Swimming Classes at Napier Field This Week
Swimming and junior and senior life saving courses set for Tuesday to Saturday mornings at Napier Field. Minimum swimmers age eight. Enroll via Dothan Recreation Center. Charles Beck, Red Cross instructor, leads with assistant Miss Florence Daly.
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Napier Field
Dothan Recreation Center
Charles Beck
Red Crass
Mias
Florence Daly
Masonic Installations Planned for Dothan Lodges
New officers for Dothan Lodge No. 466 and Pythagoras Lodge No. 659 to be installed in a public ceremony at the Temple basement at 7 tonight. Dothan Masons and their wives and daughters invited to attend. Regular meeting of Dothan Lodge at 7:30 Tuesday night, and Dothan Commandery business session Thursday night.
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Dothan Lodge
Pythagoras Lodge
Dothan
Hollywood pays record $1 million for Harvey rights
Hollywood sources report the price for screen rights to the Pulitzer Prize winning comedy Harvey reached $1,000,000, the highest sum ever paid for a play or book. The deal underscores a booming film market and interest in classic works.
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Hollywood
Branham Heals Crowd At Tent In Rural Service
Branham a former Jeffersonville game warden attracted a long line of worshippers when he spoke at a tent meeting. He claimed to have cured hundreds of illnesses and recounted a childhood visionary encounter. He said a divine call prompted him to begin healing about eleven months ago.
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Branham
Jeffersonville
Ind
Forest Lawn's 30-Year Growth Lets Death Become Art
In three decades Forest Lawn expanded to twelve times its original size and introduced innovations such as Babyland a heart shaped cemetery for children bronze markers flush with turf and a pastel mortuary called The Slumber Room. Its grounds house 200 marble statues 50 stained glass windows and a bronze floored Garden of Life. Notable interments include Gutzon Borglum Carrie Jacobs Bond and Will Rogers buried nearby Jean Harlow Carole Lombard and others rest in platnum silence. The cemetery has hosted 106000 interments and 16000 weddings and plans a second larger Forest Lawn nearby while promoting Everything in one place.
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Forest Lawn
America
Garden of Life
Eaton
Weatminister Abbey of
Gutzon Barglim
Scuplter
Carrie Jacobs Bond
Forest Town
Marie Dresaler
Flo Ziegfeld
John Gilbert
Edna May Oliver
Lan Chaney
Russ Columbo
Tom Mix
Wallace Reid
Charles, Ray
Ruth Roland
Chic Sale
Ben Turpin
Golden Gate Bridge
Glendale
Sach
San Fernando Valley
Ife
Congress weighs vast 1948 budget cuts and must bills
Congress reviews House GOP demands to slash Truman's 1948 budget by up to 6 billion while Senate recommendations seek a 4.5 billion cut. Major must bills include terminal leave pay bonds for servicemen, a presidential succession fix, higher interstate wage floor, unified armed services, mail rate retention, and creation of a National Science Foundation. Additional actions cover Greece and Turkey aid and existing wartime tax and policy measures.
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Senate
House
Truman
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Commodity Credit Corporation
GOP
House Judiciary Committee
Armed Services
National Science Foundation For Scientific Research and Development
Congress
Greece
Turkey
Prison Star Virgil McGraw Absent For Swim Break
Virgil McGraw, 23, star pitcher for the Atmore State Prison farm team, left the game claiming illness but was found swimming at a Fairhope pier near Mobile Bay after bloodhounds traced him from the field. Fairhope won 3 to 2.
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Fairhope. Ala
Virgil McGraw
Atmore
Fairhope
Cullman County
S. W. Hixon
McGraw
Mobile Bay
Hixon
Air Scouts To See Army Combat Film in Dothan
Air Scouts and prospective members are invited to a Dothan Recreation Center meeting Wednesday at 7 30 p m. Capt J J Krause of the Army Recruiting Office will show Army combat film. Boys 15 years and older may join the Air Scout squadron and learn details at the meeting.
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Air Scouts
Dothan Recreation Center
J. J. Krause
Army
Dothan
Air Scout
Unlicensed whiskey sale charge in county arrest
Elijah Johnson, a Black man, was arrested early Sunday by County officers on a prohibition violation charge. Chief Deputy Sheriff Eldridge Cameron said he sold whiskey without a license. Officers confiscated 17 quarts of whiskey.
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Elijah Johnson
Eldridge Cameron
Global talks face secrecy shake up over aid fear
Number 14 dominated countries as Molotov warned the United States might fund non communist European governments under the cloak of aid to all. Conference secrecy, urged by Bevin, could be revised in light of Tass and French agency dispatches.
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Molotov
United States
Bevin
Tass
Legislature Reconvenes With Major Funding Bills
As the Legislature reconvenes the House faces key items on its calendar. The Alabama Special Educational Trust Fund totals 49,029,946 for public school operations and teacher salaries, pending a diversion amendment. The general appropriation bill stands at 19,943,964 for state agencies, with prior House approval. A sales tax extension would apply to tobacco, alcohol outside state Stores, used autos, and personal withdrawals from stores.
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House
Alabama Special Educational Trust Fund
Miastre
ASETF
Education Department
James E. Folsom
Ways and Means
Truman Urges Long Range Housing Bill Against Real Estate Lobby
President Truman denounces a virtual elimination of building material controls and calls misuse of housing aids by the real estate lobby. He warns Congress failed to act on long range housing and urges passage of the Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill to expand aid and resist lobby pressure blocking essential programs.
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Truman
Congress
Research labs reshape the South as patents lift regional prosperity
The piece argues heavy investment in US laboratories over a decade of gloom, noting $500 million in annual patent activity and urging the South to build scientific organizations similar to those in the North and Far West to better utilize natural resources. It stresses that lone scientists cannot advance progress alone and calls for coordinated research efforts.
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United States
Palmer
North
Far West
Livestock arrivals and hog prices from Alabama and Georgia plants
At eight plants in Alabama and Georgia plus Dothan and Jacksonville, arrivals totaled 600 cattle 230 calves and 000 hogs. Hog market active and steady with medium to choice barrows 180 lbs and up mostly 23.00 23.50. sows 18.00 21.00. Montgomery market notes slow trade with steady to strong hogs 180 250 lbs 23.75 24.25 and 160 180 lbs 22.50 23.00. Union Stock Yards closes Friday July 4.
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Thomasville
APY
USDA
Albany
Columbus
Moultrie
Tifton
Dothan
Ale
Jacksonville
Tallahasseia
Montgomery Market
Montgomery
Federals
State Livestock Market News Service
Union Stockyards
Stags
Montgomery Union Stock Yards
Miner demands seek wage raise and shorter workday
The text states Krug gave Lewis 13 terms last year and reports Lewis seeks a 38 cent hourly wage increase and an 8 hour day instead of 9 hours, plus a 54 hour week. He also requests doubling the nickel a ton royalty for miners welfare and retirement, noting the fund yields about 25 to 30 million dollars annually at five cents per ton.
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Krug
Lewis
Suspect Identified in Fulton Cab Hold Up and Shooting
Ged, attracted by the shooting, fired at a man who fled. Barnett hid in tall grass until found by Cates and Fulton police with bloodhounds. Miss Saylor identified Barnett as her assailant and Miss Pinnell later identified him as the foot‑shooter in the cab hold up. Barnett admitted the hold up but said the gun went off accidentally while rifling the purse.
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Cates
Fulton
Blodhounds
Barnett
Miss Saylor
Bartett
Grady Hospital
Cateosx
Miss Pinnell
Dunklin Wins Southwest Open Tennis Title in Little Rock
Pine BluffArkansas net star George Dunklin won the Southwest Open men's singles at the Little Rock Country Club defeating Leslie Longshore of Anniston Alabama after reaching his second tournament win in as many weeks despite serving trouble.
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Longshore
Little Rock
George Dunklin
Pine Bluff
Ark
Lesie Longshore
Annirton
Ala
Little Rock Country Club
South forms SASI and Southern Research Institute
A speech calling for regional self help led to the formation of SASI and the Southern Research Institute. They began work on Southern resources with several million dollars raised to promote and coordinate research in the region.
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South
SASI
Southern Research Institute
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