Western Hemisphere Arms Plan May Be Sought Again
President Truman will ask Congress to approve a renewed U S participation in a Western Hemisphere arms standardization program. The aim is Inter American military cooperation for training, organization and equiping armed forces across twenty nations and Canada leading to a regional defense framework.
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Donald J. Gonzales
Washington
Truman
Congress
U. S
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Rio de Janeiro
Hemisphere
State Department
George C. Marshall
Robert P. Patterson
Secretary of Navy
James Forrestal
White House
Administration
United States
Canada
Injunction Issued To Halt Prattville Picketing At Gurney Mill
Montgomery AP report says Judge George Walker B Jones issued a temporary injunction against mass picketing at the Gurney Manufacturing plant near Prattville to limit demonstrators to four. Hearing set when Judge Melton returns. Mill closed since May 2 after a wildcat strike. fines levied for blocking truck movement. CIO official calls for FBI probe. several employees are in the Textile Workers Union.
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Mo.rgomery
Circui Jreige
Walker B. Jones
Montgomery
Gurney Manufacturing Glormpany
Prattvile
Jones
Oakley Melton
Prattville
Melton
Clanton
Carey Hargier
CIO
Birmingham
FBI
Textile Workers Union
Tuscaloosa News Sold and New Manager Named
The Tuscaloosa Newspaper Publishing Co has sold The Tuscaloosa News to General Newspapers Inc. Buford Boone editor of the Macon Telegraph was named general manager. He is 29 and a Mercer graduate who worked with Macon papers except for WWII FBI service. Bruce Shelton publisher of The News will move to new duties. Circulation figures list 10,674 daily and 10,820 Sunday.
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Tuscaloosa,fla
Tuscaloosa
FBI
Shelton
Alabama Press Association
The
News
Nellie N. Mudht
Birmingham
Tuskcaloosa Newspaper Publshing Co
Hsts
Ford's Production Is Claimed Normal
Detroit AP report says Ford Motor Co continued operations with a strike reduced supervisor staff after 3900 union foremen walked out. Company spokesmen said production returned to normal levels for the second straight day and offered no forecast for the future. Foreman union questions management’s ability to meet schedules amid the contract dispute.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
S Association of America
Ford
Rev E T Carroll Lions Club Speaker
The Rev E Tipton Carrall spoke at the Dothan Lions Club meeting Thursday noon on The Next Step in Honoring Our Dead. Plans for sponsoring the Horse Show were discussed and more entries are expected. The show is scheduled for Wiregrass Memorial Stadium on Saturday June 7. The club softball team opens its season Monday night against the Rotary club. J P Burnett and Dr Grove attended.
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E. Tipton Carrall
Dothan Lions Club
Wiregrass Memorial Stadium
Rotary Club
J. P. Burnett
Dr. Grove
Deadline Extended For Army Reserves Recruitment
Local recruiters announced the enlistment deadline for the Enlisted Reserve Corps has been extended to June 30. Members won not be called to active duty except by request or in a national emergency, and rank at separation can be retained in the reserve. A regulation guarantees 5 percent extra pay for three-year longevity periods accrued in the reserve if called to active duty.
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Army
Truman Plan Aims to Acquire Foreign Military Gear
From Sweden, Czechoslovakia and other arms producing nations besides the United States, Mr. Truman's program was expected to provide for the purchase of non-standard military equipment from other countries and replacing it with American types.
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Sweden
Czechoslovakia
United States
Mr. Truman
Amateur Radio Ham Fest Set By Dothan Club
The Ben Lane Amateur Radio Club of Dothan hosts a ham fest starting at 10 a.m. Sunday with about 100 amateurs from Georgia Florida and Alabama expected. Frank Fingers of Tallahassee will be guest speaker. steak dinner at noon. Prizes for activities include oldest and youngest hams and a ladies treasurer hunt winner. The club counts 20 members.
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Ben Lane Amateur Radio Club of
Dothan
W. £. Elliott
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Frank Fingers
Tallahassee
Congress approves quick payoff of Commodity Credit notes
Congress inserted a rider to pay off 641.82 million dollars in Commodity Credit Corporation notes immediately. The move reduces the current year surplus and the 1948 budget by the same amount, aligning with President Truman’s proposal to retire the notes in the next fiscal year. Discussions on income tax relief and other fiscal items continued as Republicans defend the action and seek to shape upcoming legislation.
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GOP
Congress
Treasury
Commodity Credit Corporation
Truman
Taft
Flow of refugees across borders prompts minority transfer study
The commission urged the Security Council to have governments study voluntary transfer of minorities. It warned political refugees and those fleeing panic are a destabilizing factor amid inflamed passions from propaganda. Frontiers and Macedonia issues were cited as threats to Balkan tranquility, while Greece handles amnesty for political prisoners.
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Fontiers
Security Council
Thore
Balkans
Greece
Blame for Potato Dumping In State Put On Washington
In Washington blame for potato dumping in Alabama is placed on those in Washington while protests pour in from as far as England. Baldwin County PMA agent George Stough says lawmakers created the destruction rule to keep prices up as farmers dump surplus B size potatoes since harvest began two weeks ago. PMA officials defend the kerosene use and note a non edible dye is now used when kerosene proved unnecessary.
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Bay Minette
Ala
Production and Marketing Administration
Washington
England
George Stough
Baldwin County
PMA
Congress
Agriculture Department
Sen
Johnson
D-Cole
Rep
Murray
R-Wis
Alabama
Grant
D-Ala
Stough
H. E. Rorex
Auburn
Cattle and Hogs Market Summary From Stated Week
Montgomery AP stock market notes show salable receipts around 2,500 cattle and 650 hogs. Trading was moderately active with most prices steady to 50 cents lower than yesterday. key cattle figures include steers 14.00-19.00 for common and medium grades and cows 9.00-17.50. Slaughter calves and vealers traded around 20.00-22.00, hogs closing 12.00-21.50 for various weights, with lighter weights 15.00-19.50 and sows 17.50-18.50.
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Montgomery
Fed- State
Mkt
Union Stock Yards
Bulgaria threatens boycott of UN border group
Number 18 Bulgaria had threatened to boycott the UN by refusing to cooperate with its members or permit them to cross frontiers. The subcommission was set up last month to watch borders as the Balkan Investigating Commission drafts its report. Debates showed Bulputin and Yugoslavia denying accusations of noncooperation. Five powers failed to agree on a Trieste governorship, with Gromyko rejecting several Western-proposed names.
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Bulgaria
Council
Border Watch
Balkan Investigating Commission
Balkan
Bnd
Bulputin
Yugoslavia
United United States
Sabe Commission
Trieste
Andrei A. Gromyko
Russia
May denies profits from Garsson payments in lumber case
The government argues Cumberland Lumber was sold to cover bribe payments. May says Garssons owned the firm and he acted as their agent. Defense plans mid morning cross examination of the former Howse committee chairman, with May denying wartime money profits and claiming funds went to a Garsson owned Kentucky lumber company.
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Senate
Cumberland Lumber Company
May
Garsson
Garssons
Howse
William A. Paisley
Kentucky
War Department
National conscience upholds law against lynching
The Piedmont notes a community demand that cures of this kind must not recur, as the State and country signal the end of tolerating murder or lynching. The Atlanta Constitution says the nation's conscience is shocked and federal law may be invoked if lynchings continue. The Birmingham Age-Herald adds that Southern sentiment may push for new methods when Negroes are killed by white mobs.
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Piedmont
Atlanta ‘Constitution
Birmingham
Alat
Age-Herald
South
Acquittal Trial Sparks Judge’s Grave Remarks
Superior Judge Sylvain J. Lazartty denounced the acquittal of Greenville, S. C., defendant as an atrocity and injustice. He told a San Francisco audience the discrimination and bigotry in the South warrant attention from all decent Americans as the adjournment neared.
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San Francisco
Sylvain J. Lazartty
Dynes
Ant
Greenville
S. C
South
Congress
South Carolina lynching acquittal shocks Britain
London papers led with South Carolina’s lynching acquittal and accused America’s South of trial by fury. The Daily Mail cited the white to Negro attitude as a central issue while reports noted Jim mie Brown, 25, convicted of assaulting a white woman in Sylvania, Georgia, and sentenced to death after a three minute jury debate.
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London
Carollina
Britain
The
Daily Express
America
South
Davis
Daily Mail
Sylvania
Jimmie Brown
Mother to address rally over Willie Earle lynching
Teasie Earle, mother of Willie Earle who was lynched in Greenville South Carolina last February 16, will speak at a Madison Square Garden rally Tuesday night protesting the acquittal of 28 white men charged in the lynching. The event is sponsored by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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New York
Teasie Earle
Willie Earle
Greenville
Madison Square Garden
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Girl Scouts to Aid Kiwanis Club Outing Plans Next Month
Miss Martha Speight announces Girl Scout activity details for the Kiwanis Club outing at Porter's Fairyland next month. Information on established camps is available at the Dothan office, phone 1695, with scrapbook entries due by noon Saturday for the Kiwanis Cup contest.
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Kiwanis Club
Martha Speight
Girl Scout Office
Dothan
Porter’s Fairyland
Chattahoochee Group to Appear Before House Committee
A delegation planning development of the Chattahoochee valley will appear before the House Appropriations Committee on June 10. Rep. George Andrews of Alabama's Third District said the appearance is formally scheduled. The project includes a hydroelectric dam at Chattahoochee and spans Atlanta to the river’s gulf terminus, led by the Chattahoochee Valley Chamber of Commerce.
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Chattahoochee Valley
House Appropriations Committee
George Andrews
Alabama
Rep. Andrews
Chattahoochee
Atlanta
Gulf
Skipperville Man Held On Liquor Laws Violation
John E. Barntine of Skipperville Route One was arrested in Dale County for involvement with an illegal whiskey distillery seized May 19. A Barntine truck was seized at the time. Barntine waived preliminary hearing and posted $300 bond pending Federal Grand Jury action. Three men and one car had been seized in the same case.
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John E. Barntine
Skipperville
Dale County
Alcoholic Tax Unit
R. B. Phillips
Barntine
Four Houston Students Graduate At Auburn
Four residents of Houston County will receive degrees from Alabama Polytechnic Institute at spring quarter end. Graduation exercises in Auburn on June 6 feature a talk by Dr. M. C. Huntley, secretary of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Named graduates are Henry Morris Crine Jr of Dothan in electrical engineering, William Robert Yarbrough of Dothan in aeronautical administration, Henry Douglas Pursnell of Dothan with an MS in agriculture, and James Stanton Rodney of Columbia in mechanical engineering.
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Houston County
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Auburn
M. C. Huntley
Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Houston
Henry Morris Crine, Jr
Dothan
William Robert Yarbrough
Aeronautical Administration
Henry Douglas Pursnell
James Stanton Rodney
Columbia
Mrs. Robert L. Adams Dies Near Headland
Mrs. Robert L. Adams died at her Headland home early today after a long illness. She was sixty and had led the community for 23 years, a Union Baptist Church member. Funeral at Pleasant Plains Church Saturday at 4 p.m. with Rev. H. E. Craughon officiating. burial in the church cemetery. Survived by husband, six daughters including Mrs. A. J. Milam and Miss Ruth Adams, all of Columbus, Ga., three daughters in Georgia, five sons, three sisters, a brother, and eight grandchildren. Active pallbearers named.
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Robert L. Adams
Headland
Adams
Union Baptist Church
Pleasant Plains Church
H. E. Craughon
Dothan
Church
Ward-Wilson
A. J. Milam
Ruth and
Blondell Adams
Columbus
W. G. Henderson
Canton
Edd Beaman
Racheel Adams
U S Regulators Target Greek Economy to Prevent Communism
Nineteen officials will oversee money flow to Greece and seek United States gains. The goal is to rebuild the Greek economy and fortify the nation against communism, a task shared with Britain creating two issues for American officials. One concerns British aid to the Greek army after March 31 and the withdrawal deadline. The other is Britain's ongoing troop presence in Greece.
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United States
Greece
Army Flying Fortress Crashes Near Alambamba Nicaragua
Reports indicate a U S Army flying fortress on a route from the Canal Zone to Kelly Field Texas with 15 aboard crashed 60 miles northwest of Alambamba on the Tungla River. Seven who bailed out reached Alambamba after a one half hour trek. the fate of the others was unknown.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Canal Zone
Egly Field
Texas
Alambamba
Tungla River
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