Child Care Talk By Club Leaders In Houston County
A leader training meeting for Houston County clubs focuses on child care and family life. Miss Fran Mar fete announces the session at 1 30 p m in her office with Miss Ella Majors presenting Personality Development of Children to attending club leaders from numerous districts.
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Houston
Fran Marfette
Ella Majors
Auburn
Barber
Mary Enfinger
Paul Southerland
Big Creek
A. D. Barbery
Alice Roland
Center
Roy Whitehead
Essie Mae Wade
Cowarts
A. K. Jordan
J. C. Thorneil
Cowarts Creek
Eugene Thornley
C. B. Crowley
Crosby
Otis Jordan
Yates Willoughby
Dupree
Allen Waller
Wayne Alley
Gordon
Alton Jeffcoat
W. F. Lee
Grangerburg
231 U S Lynchings Recorded In 1892
At least one lynching occurred annually in the United States since 1882, Tuskegee Institute records show. The peak year was 1892 with 231 total lynchings, including 69 white and 162 Negro victims.
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Tuskegee
Ala
United States
Tuskegee Institute
H. S. Carnaby
One Dead Fourteen Injured In Sea Explosion
Long Beach Calif AP one sailor was killed and fourteen injured when an explosion tore through the destroyer Duncan 200 miles at sea. The 290 foot ship reached port under its own power with a Navy tug guiding it in. Six sailors were hospitalized, none in critical condition. The blast, in the shipfitters shop, was blamed on acetylene gas from a leaking container.
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Long Beach
Calif
Duncan
Navy
F. S. Rice
S$ Ic
Conyers, Co
Cmdr
Paul van Leunen Jr
Cincinnati
San Diego
Mrs J N Porter Dies Near Marianna
Mrs J N Porter a lifelong Jackson County resident died of poisoning yesterday at her home eight miles south of Marianna Surviving are her husband two daughters and her mother Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
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Marianna
Fila
J. N. Porter
Jackson County
Marianna Trucker Granted Permanent Hauling Permit
The Florida Railroad Commission granted a permanent hauling permit to Roland Ruth of Marianna for transporting household goods and other materials anywhere in Florida by direct routes. The hearing, postponed previously, resumed in a special session yesterday with Jerry W. Carter of Tallahassee presiding and attorney Robert H. McCrary presenting Ruth’s qualifications.
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Marianna
Florida Railroad Commission
Florida
Roland Ruth
Ruth
Jerry W. Carter
Tallahassee
Robert H. MatCrary
Senator Brewster cites GOP path to 4 presidency and Senate
The report notes Senator Brewster says Republicans could win the presidency while preserving the Senate if the contest remains close outside the South. Southern Democrats plan a second strategy meeting at 2 p.m. Dothan time to shape plans against civil rights measures. Crump accuses Truman of pandering for Negro votes and plans to vote for a Democrat in November, while South Carolina and Mississippi Democratic leaders react to the national convention and leadership. Governor Laney urges Southern Democrats to repudiate national leadership as the party seeks unity before March. The piece references the Southern Governors Conference and the outlook for the 22 Senate seats tied to the party split.
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Brewster R-Mer
GOP High Command
Senate
South
P.m. Dothan
Brewster
Dixie
Truman
EH. Crump
Tennessee
Shelby County
Democratic Organization
Henry Wallace
Dewey
New York
Crump
South Carolina
Democratic Executive Committee
Adam Crunken
Jacksom
Mics
Mics. the Prerts Mate Executive Comiitneached the Delegates To the Nntioncahens
Mself
Ben
Laney
Arkate Sive
Souther
Democrats
Thos Inca
Strom
Tharemond
Seyith
Heavy Snow Causes Midwest Floods And Road Closures
A heavy snow blanket from the Hoocky Mountains to the Great Lakes caused floods across Nebraska Iowa Illinois Wisconsin and Michigan leading to road closures rail disruption and farm land inundation. Des Moines reported eight inches of snow while Chicago had five inches as rivers rose and trains faced delays. Local water systems issued boil notices in Kankakee Indiana amid sediment concerns.
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Hoocky Mountains
Great Lakes
Nebraska
Iowa
Ilinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
Des Moines
Chicago
Platte River
Fremont
West
Union Pacific Railroad
Omaha
Waterloo
Big Sioux
Sioux Falls
Middlewest
Indiana
Lafayettes
Peru
Ind
White River
Martinsville
Kankakee
Water Company
Kankakee River
California
Water Conservation District
Santa Clara Valley
Towa
Wever
Missouri
Mississippi Valley
Texas
Lubbock
Fort Worth
Maine
North Dakota
Canbou
Minot
N.W
Untitled notes on city permits and contracts controversy
The record outlines discussions over a master switchboard and door coverings at Yooost Marsage gear with build ers and scenery costs. It notes small seating capacity, insurance requirements, and rhetoric on permit fees and height restrictions, plus a school property purchase linked to a housing project and several officials involved in the bid process.
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Corrupsion
Edoby
Anna Neope High School
Hogees Foory Tae Sebuont
Tow Amford
Chairan
Craton
Hereford cattle top price at Southeastern sale in Birmingham
Donna Mixture, the champion cow, sold for $2,350 the highest price of the first annual Southeastern Hereford Association sale in Hereford, with consignor F.C. Wagner and buyers Coolston and Pinion Farms. Real Silver Domino, a bull, fetched $1,850 for Hills and Dales Farm. Mischief Domino, the champion bull, went for $1,325 to J. F. McClendon. Total sales exceeded $25,000.
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Birmingham
Donna Ht
Maxture
Southeastern Hereford Association
F.C. Wagner
Dunleith
Miss
Coolston and Pinion Farms
Phil Campbell
Als
F. Graham Willams
Atlanta
Hills and Dales Farm
LaGrange
Mischief Domino
Mountain Cove Farm
Kensington
J. F. McClendon
Miss Mallette to discuss enriched corn meal methods
Fran Mallette Houston County Home Demonstration agent will speak on enriching corn meal at two Farm Bureau meetings. She will attend Beat Two unit at Bay Springs church tonight and Dupree school tomorrow night for the community bureau gathering.
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Fran Mallette
Houston County
Farm Bureau
Beat Two
Bay Springs Church
Dupree School
Jefferson Records First Polio Case This Year
Jefferson County records its first polio case of the year a seven year old girl from Birmingham was admitted to the hospital Sunday and diagnosed with polio shortly after. Hospital staff noted polio is unusual for this season despite warm weather.
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Birmingham
Jefferson County
Janice Dewitt
Coffee Man Fined For Drunken Driving
Wade Andrews, 50, of Enterprise, pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated before Justice of the Peace Sumpter Smith. He was fined $200 and his license suspension of 12 months was recommended.
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Wade Andrews
Enterprise
Justice of the Peace Sumpter
Alabama electors face clash over civil rights platform
The article notes a legal test for the statute guiding Alabama and Southern electors. It discusses possible direct court action, Democratic Chairman Gessner T. McCorvey’s plan to withhold electors from Truman if he supports civil rights, and the 1945 Bentley bill adding a line to require electors to vote for the party nominee.
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Gessner T. McCorvey
Alabama
Truman
Congress
FEPC
McCorvey
National Party
Charles 8. Bentley
Coosa County
Love and death sentence in Memphis murder case
Jeanne, a Pittsburgh woman, defends Danny, a death row inmate, saying the judge should not commute his sentence. Governor McCord weighs a possible commutation today or tomorrow. Under Tennessee law a divorce cannot follow a commutation to life. Jeanne recalls a girlhood romance with Danny, a Catholic, and recalls their South Side High School days. Danny and Richard Reilly were convicted for the Samuel Colsky murder in Memphis on November 2, 1946, with Reilly as shooter.
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Pittsburgh
Jeanne
Danny
McCord
Tennessee
South Side
Richard Reilly
Samuel Colsky
Memphis
Reilly
Colsky
St. Louis
Tennessee Supreme Court
Coroner's Job and JP Deadlines Filed with Probate Judge
The probate docket shows two deadline entries filed yesterday with Judge Al beth logue for justice of the peace posts in Beat Six and Beat One. Previous JP candidate WA White Dead is noted in Beat Six, with Be a Ode and UP qualifiers listed as ADL Ha sem and C. W. Adkinson of Newton route one.
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Albeth Logue
Bernice J. Lewis
Justce of the Peace
Sumter Smith
Justice of the Peace
Bea Ode
Tyo
Adl
Hasem
C. W. Adkinson
Newton
Vandenberg Declines To Speculate On GOP Candidacy
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan refused to speculate on accepting a GOP presidential nomination. He asked Nebraska editor McConnell not to file his name in the April 43 primary, saying he would not discuss the matter further and urged voters to choose others. Petitions list Dewey, MacArthur, Martin, Stasse, Taft, Warren for the Republican ballot. Truman for Democratic nomination. O Mahoney for VP.
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Washington
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Raymond A. McConnelt Jr
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
McConnell
Michigan
Life
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Tom
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Douglas MacArthur
House
Joseph Martin
Harold E. Stasse
Robert A. Taft
Earl Warren
California
Truman
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Condon Disloyalty Probe Reported By Un American Group
The committee and the White House discuss the House Group report on Dr. Edward A. Condon amid calls for his removal. Hoover letter says FBI files show contact with a Soviet espionage agent, though Hoover declines further comment. Truman vacations at Key West, no comment from the President. Senator Hickenlooper convenes Senate energy panel to review the findings. Foster states royalty board found no grounds for disloyalty.
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Mittee
Truman
Commerce Department
Bureau of Standards
Key West
Thomas
White House
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
House
un-American Activities Group
Condon
Secretary of Commerce
Dr. Condon xxx
Harriman
Washington
William C. Foster
Royalty Board
Dr. Condon
Foster
United States
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Edward A. Condon
Washington, D. C
Hoover
Cotton futures swing in mixed New York trading
New Orleans New York AP reports cotton futures showed wide activity in mixed trading. Prices declined late, with March at 33.73, May at 33.83, and July at 33.02 cents per pound, down from the prior close.
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New York
Alabama tax receipts rise over prior year
Alabama's revenue from about 40 taxes in the first five months of the fiscal year totaled 934,504,319, well above last year's 931,461,242. February collections reached 96,368,834 versus 95,382,007 a year earlier, with the two percent sales tax showing 2,300,541 last month compared with 1,872,946 previously.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Philip J. Hamm
Alabama extension leaders tout corn and hybrid progress at Dale meeting
Director Davis and Agronomist Lowery of Auburn spoke on Dale County’s corn and hog successes and the promise of hybrid corn. They noted Alabama’s corn acreage outpaces cotton, detailed past yields and the 1947 corn club results, and urged soil prep seed quality and heavy fertilization for higher returns.
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Alabama Extension Service
J. C. Lowery
United States
Davis
Alabama
Dale
Dale County
Lowery
Auburn
Rio Grande Valley
Extension Service
Thomason
Corn Club
S. E. Lavendar
Andy Mixon
C. H. Jackson
F. Maud
Bobby Marshall
Herschel Pipkins
Will Chapman
Adrian Parker
Jerry Smith
Jimmy Parker
H. H. Yarborough
Jimmy
Mr. Yarborough
Wilmer Parker
Douglas Baker
Durwood Tyler
Gordon Hubbard
Chamber of Commerce
Dale County Corn Club
Ifarmers
Harvey Snell
D. L. Henderson
Guy W. Carlisle
Fred Averett
L. R. Averett
T. H. Nolin
J. L. Parker
J. S. Dassinger
C. H W. Jackson
CLUB
Tommy Martin
Livestock prices at Montgomery market report
Estimated salable receipts cattle 300 hogs 300. Active cattle market up to 50 higher. yearlings 24.00 25.00. medium slaughter steers 20.00 23.50. cows 18.50 20.00. canners 12.80 16.00. bulls 18.50 22.00. stockers 18.00 20.00. Calves bid 24.00 down, Monday 23.50 25.00. Hogs barrows gilts 20.50 21.50 240 300 lb 19.00 19.50. sows 14.80 17.00. pigs 12.50 16.00. weights 90 120 lb 12.50 14.00.
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Montgomery
Mkt
Union Stock Yards
Alabama delegates race heats up as filing looms
Number 14 delegate at large to the convention and State Docks Director Henry W. Sweet seek alternates. Candidates must qualify with McCorvey and the Secretary of State, with five days left. Alabama’s 26 delegates to Philadelphia loom, as Sparkman and nine congressmen seek re election amid civil rights tensions. Mobile report details Gould Beech’s late filing attempt and the missed deadline. Kansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma remain the three dry states.
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Henry W. Sweet
McCorvey
Secretary of State
Alabama
Sparkman
Robert E. Jones, Jr
Scottsboro
Gordon Persons
Alabama Public Service Commission
Thomas S
Buster) Lawson
Robert T. Simpson
Montgomery
State Supreme Court
Mobile
Gould Beech
James E. Folsom
Alabma
Gessner T. McCorvey
Aubrey Williams
NYA
Sam Shackleford
Demopolis
Doyle McRae
Cliiton
County
New Orleans
Mr. McCorvey
Martin a Bainbridge Ga resident dies after long service
Martin a Bainbridge resident Jamet Forest Caldwell an employee of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad died after a long service career. Survived by wife Annie Pryor Gunn Caldwell and many sons including Cecil Brannon Kelly Kang Jack Forest Cars gene Larry Jerry Caldwell, brother Marvin Caldwell, four sisters and Mrs. Eula Mor Atlanta. Funeral held at FE and Sons Chapel with Olin C Cooper officiating. Active pallbearers named.
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Bainbridge
Jamet Forest Caldwell
Atlantic
Batrirane
Caldwell
Annie Pryor Gunn Caldw
Cecil Brannon
Kelly Kang
Jack Forest
Gene
Larry
Jerry
Bainbii
Marvin Caldwell Bridge
Mia
Hammett
Willie
W. L. Hodged
Fis
Eula Mor
Atlanta
FE. and Sons
Olin C. Cooper
Oak City
Forrester
Bubba Gibson
Rollins
M. .E. Golicke
J.rett
Mark Williams
Firefighters battle trashpile blaze in rain on N Oates street
Floyd Harris stated the fire outside the building and an age were reported as firemen from Standard Heating Ventilating Company responded to a burning trashpile amid rainfall on N Oates Street.
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Theng
N. Oates
Floyd Harris
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