Senate FDR Plea Sparks Dairy Price Debate
Tatla Senate debates a bill to boost milk prices via the Price Administration and to require regional dairy pricing. Proponents cite higher support for farm markets while opponents warn about higher consumer costs and taxes. Legislative leaders forecast action on the measure after hearings.
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Dowimantly Hosiile
Femsday
Mabeldy
Is Ofa
Ru Ja High Enrough
D.-Miss
McCiellan
Ondric
Aiken
R-Vi
Wolcott
R-Mich
Dothan Chest Drive Nears Goal Amid Push for Help
Frad Moss, co chairman, announced less than $1,000 more is needed to reach the $31,500 Dothan United Charities Chest War Chsst drive target. Four local firms joined the 100 percent group and about fifty supporters remain. money stays in Dothan for six local agencies with the rest going to the Alabama War Chest for wider relief.
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Dothem United Charities
Frad Mossky
Dothan
Tntent
Taxas Oil Company
Dothan Cigar and Candy Company
Cmpolidetey Producer Company
Dothan Bank and Trust Cmpany
Moseley
Tut Pelleliora
Ace
Dotan
Alabama War Chest
Wen
Langer
Irip
World Today Report On Pacific and Eastern Front Battles
The Associated Press dispatch describes American forces landing on Bougainville and Mewland Island during heavy bombardments around Seelarilie, routing enemy units with cautious advances. German troops in the eastern front press crimes near Kerch as Moscow reports a tightening situation with high casualties.
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U. 2
Merinea
Bougainvills
Afereea
Buka
MeWland
Seelarilie
Kerch
Moscow
Fifth Army Advances Near Rome in Italy Fight
Allied Fifth Army pushes toward Mas sico Ridge and Matese Mountain with gains along the Garigliano and Volturno rivers. British forces seize Casanova on Matese Ridge while American troops advance inland. Eighth Army holds firm on the Adriatic front as Nazi resistance remains stubborn.
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SY Edward Kennedy
Algiers
Fifth Army
Massico Ridge
Matesa Mountain
Italy
Venafro
Garig- Nano
Volturno
Mediterranean
Ares
Lten
Mark W. Clark
Casanova
Mastien Ridge
Matese
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Toma
Maasico Ridge
Farm Bureau Chief Opposes Food Subsidies Across Nation
Alabama Farm Federation president Edward A. O Neal voiced opposition to government food subsidies at the annual federation meeting. He argued subsidies shift costs to taxpayers and could drive demand for larger subsidies in postwar years when wages and living costs change. He noted wage gains outpacing living costs and warned subsidies would burden labor.
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Farm Bureau
Montgomery
Alabama Farm Federation
Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Five Plead Guilty In County Court
An all day County Court session before Judge Sax saw five pleas of guilty, two verdicts of guilty, and one acquittal. Price Hawkins pleaded guilty to resisting an officer and public drunkenness, fined 50 and 5 dollars respectively. Other guilty pleas included W. D. Cobb for violating the liquor law, 50 dollars. John T. Jackson for reckless driving, 25 dollars. Fen Ben Mathis for abusive language, 25 dollars. James Kennedy for reckless driving, 103 dollars. Some defendants appealed or had cases continued.
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Saxom BP. Pogner
Parsons
Ned
John TL. Jackson
Reokies
Fen Ben Mathis
James Kennedy
Rock.com
Kennedy
James Rice
Roy Windsor
Truman
Coal deliveries limited to homes with empty bins
Secretary Ickes urged coal dealers to ship only to customers with no coal and to place orders for those with stock to share with neighbors in need. He warned of possible calls on households with surplus to aid war production areas, asking Batallera to check fuel supplies and prioritize shortages.
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Ickes
Batallera
Napier To Graduate New Class Tomorrow
Napier Field will host the graduation of its first aviation cadet class tomorrow at 10 am. Do than residents and Wiregrass area residents are invited, with many out-of-town visitors expected. The top cadet will receive wings, and Flight Officer LaVelle R. Wilson of Waco Texas linked to inviting his date Miss Martha Frigg of Tuscaloosa as his guest.
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Napier Field
Residanta
Dothan
LaVelle R. Wilson
Waco
Texas
Last Minute BULLETINS Concord AP Update
AP dispatch from Concord NH reports Dr Robert C Blood, a physician, stating he was very upset and ordered all of Bridges' patients canceled amid a disturbance. Also from Houston TX, AP notes more than nine hours of rain in eight locations.
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Concord
N.hl
G. Erner
Robert C. Blood
Houston, Tex
Politicians Eye State Elections For 1944 Tip Off
A light vote was forecast in off year elections across seven states as politicians sense a possible presidential breeze for 1944. President Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie are linked to local campaigns, while Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York hints at a presidential bid despite disavowals, leaving leadership intrigue to unfold.
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Frens
Roosevelt
Wendall Willkie
Thomes E. Deway
New York
Marines Land On Bougainville In Sudden Push
Allied forces launched a surprise invasion of Bougainville, with Admiral Halsey directing landings 45 miles up the west coast. Under cover of naval and air power, troops seized Empress Augusta Bay and pressed toward airfields and land lines, while bombers targeted Bougainville airfields and a naval task force guarded the operation.
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Bougainville
Southwest Pacific
Rabaul
Asault
Philippines
Adm
William F. Halsey
Aupurta Bay
Tile Island
Rabau
Buka
Halsey
Empress Augusta
Solomons
Acarcely
Douglas MacArthur
Admiral Holesy
Moscow Accord Blow At Germans
City commissioners debated consolidating traffic ordinances into a code. Commissioner Clyde J. Coe urged remedial steps to ease traffic, proposing lower speed limits in residential districts from 35 to 25 mph. Police noted eighteen arrests for traffic violations yesterday as talks continued.
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Mitsion
Clyde J. Coe
Police, Fire and Sanitary
Commie
Gione
Rawhine McKinney
Coe
Caen
Nazis Last Hope For Victory Fully Smashed
James D. White reports the Moscow agreement seen as the greatest blow to German hopes. Allied unity against a divided Nazi regime is stressed, with four power talks paving closer military cooperation among Britain, Russia, and the United States.
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James.d. White Warhington
Moscow
Hull
Anthony Eden
Vyacheslav Malotov
Grifein
Russa
United States
London
Washington
Allence
An Allied Leader Echoes In Africa War Year
Algiers reports HAL BOYLE reflecting on a year of fighting in Africa and praising General Eisenhower as a superb Allied commander. He notes veiled biases faded among American and British officers and soldiers after shared hardship, with friction rare once combat proved the bond of action.
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Hal Boyle
Algiers
Disenhower
Tomenta
Eisenhower
Howe
Government Seizes Coal Mines For Second Time
President Roosevelt orders federal control as United Mine Workers leaders confer with Harold Ickes amid ongoing strike paralysis. Government aims to resume operations with workers at posts while union talks hinge on potential penalties and future bargaining.
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Associated Press
Washington
John J. Lewis
United Mine Workers
U. S
Mina Boas
Harold L. Ickes
Lewis
Ickes
UMW
Fer
Roosevelt
Hull Sees Pact End Of U S Isolationism
Moscow AP Cordell Hull, US Secretary of State, praised the Moscow conference for laying a broad base of postwar political and economic cooperation. He said Soviet leaders have abandoned isolationism and embraced a policy of moderate international cooperation, recalling prewar US aloofness.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Cordell Hu
Great Britain
Soviet Union
United States
Tax Framers Seek Study Of Federal Excess Spending
Washington AP report: House Ways and Means backtracked on the out-of-town letter rate to three cents, kept inland rate at three, raised first-class to three, and kept other increases. They freed $2.103 billion in revenue from administration requests and discussed creating a congressional budget committee.
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Warhington
Todey Op
Treasury
House
Ways and Means Committee
Rep
Disney
D. Okla
Congressional Budget Committee
Cannon
D.-Mo
Lta
Naw
Assault To Murder Charged In Attack In Dothan
Maurice Windham, of Dothan, faces an assault with intent to murder charge after an affray Saturday night at a boardinghouse on East Troy Street. The victim, Jim Gillis, a transient, is hospitalized in critical condition with eye injuries. Windham was arrested by City Patrolman Odell Hobby and turned over to the sheriff.
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Saeault
Maurice Windham
Dothan
East Troy Street
Sheriffs Office
Jim Gillis
Odell Hobby
Senate Debates Test Vote On Moscow Arms Parley
Washington AP by Jack Bell reports Senate postwar policy deliberations on a four power Moscow declaration. Some urge a test vote to approve the language, arguing it would strengthen US international hand, while others push to specify military force use and oppose quick approval. Debates over embracing a broader peace framework continue for days.
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Senate
Moscow
Jack Bell
Washington
Loces
Tacas
Lucas
Connally
D-Tex
Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Pep- Ow
D-Fin
Ball
R.-Minn
Ratch
D-N. M
Heveral Benatora
Great Britain
Russia
China
Negro Seaman Faces Navy Court Martial
Cardiff Wagland AP reports the first U S Navy court martial in the country sentry as American merchant seaman Scott, a Negro from Savannah, is charged with attempted murder in connection with the kaffing of a Cardiff girl who allegedly resisted his advances. Six naval officers are present.
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Cardiff
Perekop Falls To Close Last Retreat Route
German and Russian forces clash as Tolbukhin pushes into Crimea from the north, forcing a German retreat from Perekop and threatening key rail junctions. Reorting from Moscow and Reuters describe German losses, Soviet advances toward Kherson and Sevastopol, and widespread German disarray on the Crimean front.
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Perekop Falls
Frasg
London
Crimea
Kerch
Moscow
Bortharm
Garmang
DNB
Bectis
Caucasus
Taman
Russia
Fyodor Tolbukhin
Florida
Rekop
Tolbukhin
Perekop
Kherson
Odense
Rumania
Dehankev
Hines
Mmeleropol
Favastopol
Fandosis
Cruiser Savannah Damaged At Salerno
The light cruiser Ravennah was damaged by a German bomb off Salerno. Some crew members were killed or wounded. Flames were controlled in 20 minutes. The ship, commanded by Captain Robert W. Cary, continued to support landings. Casualties were reported to the Navy, with official residences noted for Cary and his wife.
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Washington
Salerno
Ravennah
Navy
Unmy
Boles
Abe Philadelphia
Buckner Urges Land Invasion of Japan
Lt Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr of the Alaskan Army command calls for a land assault on Japan. The AP report notes Buckner’s position within a wartime defense structure and stresses strategic considerations.
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Buckner
Japan
Alaskan Department
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
Alaskan
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Igainet Weodrow
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AEF
Africa
Peninsula
Hitler
Reuters
Tavgrida Steppes
Perskep
Disputch
Savannah
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