Dothan Explosion Burns Gas Plant Men Seriously Hurt
A major explosion at a Dothan gas plant sent flames high into the air and left several firemen and workers seriously burned. The blast disrupted power lines and water service in the Wiregrass, with rescue efforts ongoing and investigators probing the cause while witnesses described intense flames and scattered debris. Authorities said three firemen and a worker were among the injured, with conditions described as severe for the gravely burned. Further details and the full casualty list were to follow on page two.
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Dothan
Wang
Sur
Jengou
Victor Mavity
Gas Company
Untitled Gas Cemetery Protest Report
An AP wire report from Cleveland notes nameless victims buried as gas plant issues surfaced. The Chinese protestant and Catholic Soviet faiths participated while mourners gathered at a cemetery amid a circular protest.
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Cleveland i
Victins Hid
Chio Gaz Co. Hiquid
Meee Laren
Yale
1 200 Nazis Reported Killed As Tirpitz Sunk
The report states 1 200 Nazis were killed when the battleship Tirpitz was sunk. Australian lecturer M P Greenwood-Adams will speak in Dothan tomorrow night in the Rotary Club series on New Forces in World Affairs. He will discuss Australia New Zealand and the Islands of the South Sea and traces his career from Melbourne to London Washington and the War Department lecturing to armed services. He appears first at 10 50 a m before Dothan High School students.
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M. P_ Greenwood
Adems
Court House
Dothan Rotary Club
Melbourne
Australia
New Zealand
South Sea
Greenwood - Adams
Esate
Sidney Bulletin
Dutch East Indies
Pacific Islands
Europe
United Kingdom
London
England
Philharmonic Hell
Washington, D. C
National Geographic Society
Dreve'pe
Brosdearied
Kearte
Roe
Melbourne University
War Department
United States
United States War Department
Public Service Division
Armed Services
Greenwood-Adams
Dothan
Dothan High School
German ship damaged as Britain bombs Arctic convoy
The Meckham Tidmingen claimed 1200 Germans died and a battle ship faced a British air raid off Norway. The report said greatest dismay in Berlin naval circles as an investigation began into why fighter protection failed on the ship. Berlin speculates British landings in Norway and possible isolation of German forces in Finland.
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New York
Iap
Meckhalms
Tidmingen
Berils
Norway
Finland
Mspatch
Denial in Slaying Confession Case in Montgomery
Worley James, Negro, denied making a confession and pleaded not guilty to indictments charging him with the murder of Mrs. Lynn C. Drew wife of Air Cadet Lynn C. Drew of Maxwell Field. He also entered pleas on charges of rape and carnal knowledge of a 16 year old girl. The nude body of Mrs. Drew was found in a suburban ditch June 16. Capital offenses guard the docket for November 2 with trial planned first on the carnal knowledge charge.
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Seibele
Miss Louise Petham Funeral Rites Held
Funeral services for Miss Louise Petham were held with burial in the local cemetery. The deceased leaves a brother Sam C. Pethaim of Anniston and several nieces. Shae Sha was longtime science instructor at Dothan High School for 19 years. Active pallbearers were How ee Ward Frank Mullins Jr Deere Spann son Kees Forrester.
Britain and France agree on postwar Western bloc
Britain and France have moved toward forming a Western European security bloc to contain Germany after the war. Officials cited Belgum? and Ireland not clear. Norway Sweden and Denmark may join, with Russia Czechoslovakia and Poland forming an eastern counterpart. Discussions point to alignment with a future world security organization.
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Joseph E. Dynan
PARIS
Britain
France
Germany
Belum
Bolland
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
London
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Churchill
Roosevelt
Stilin
World Security Organization
Times of London
Dumbarton Oaks
Byrnes Will Remain War Mobilization Chief
President Roosevelt said James F. Byrnes will continue as Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion until Germany is defeated. Byrnes agreed to extend the temporary appointment at the President’s request to sustain wartime efforts and accelerate victory. He left the Supreme Court to join the administration and lead the war mobilization office.
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Washington
Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
Germany
Byrnes
Stephen Early
Justice Byrnes
Supreme Court
Pest
Cotton Ginnings Drop in Houston and Henry Counties
Census data from 1844 shows Houston County ginned 11 292 bales by November 1, a drop from 17 008 bales in 1843. Henry County records 356 bales for the same period versus 11 908 bales in 1843, with the Department of Commerce in Washington announcing the figures.
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Houston County
Department of Commerce
Washington
Henry County
Bloody fighting as Americans press Limon assault in Leyte
Japanese reinforcements and equipment were routed by American artillery near Limon on the Ormoc road as Doughboys closed in from three sides. Observers counted over six Japanese dead, while Tokyo claimed air raids on Manila Cavite Clark Field with carrier planes. MacArthur and high generals disclosed five divisions engaged, including the First and 26th, with 60,000 Japanese troops in Leyte sector.
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Maanthur
Philippines
Limo
Ormoc Road
Breakneck Ridge
Porth Valley
Limon
Associated Press
Tokyo Radio
Manila
Cavite
Japanzer
Mae
Japancee
Clark Field
Fred Irving
Fred Hampson
Douglas MacArthur
Pinamopoan- Ormoc
Leytenstand
Baptist Convention Opens At Birmingham
The Alabama Baptist Convention opened its annual meeting in Birmingham to review future plans and reports showing anticipated financial gains. Highlights include missions growth, the State Baptist Children’s Home, Judson College, and ministers’ retirement. Notables attending include Gov. Cauncey Sparks and Dr. M. E. Dodd among others, with Dr. Hamilton Reid presiding.
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Birmingham
Mabama Baptist Convention
State Baptist Children's Home
Judson College
Cauncey Sparks
J. N. Barmette
Nashville
Fort Oray Capture: Kaslow Recaptured After Daring Heist
Robert G. Kaslow, 71, ex Army Air Forces officer, captured after escaping from a military prison in a stolen Army plane. Tracked via a woman companion wearing a V ring. Kaslow wore a guardhouse uniform and parachute. He landed in a swamp near New Orleans after a crash near Higgin Field. Charged in New Orleans with possession of a stolen Army plane. similar charge filed in Mobile, Alabama.
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New Orleans
Robert G. Kaslow
Army Air Force
Orleans Parish
FBI
Jack J. van Landingham
van Landingham
Kaslow
Craig Field
Atlanta
Air Force
Higgine Air Field
Nows Canale
Mobile
Ala
Auction Of Cigarettes Brings 83 Cents Pack
CHICAGO AP Twelve car tons of cigarets were sold today for 106, or 8.13 cents a package, at the Chicago post office semi annual sale of unclaimed goods. The auctioneer said here is what youve been waiting for and bidding surged. The first 12 cartons went to the manager of a chain drug store who planned to sell cigarets at 82 cents per package downtown. The second batch of a dozen car tons sold for 80 to a newspaper reporter.
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Chicago
Tompkins Speaks on Veep Presidents at Rotary Luncheon
Oscar Tompkins addressed the Dothan Rotary Club at the noon meeting. He traced vice presidents who became president due to the elected leader's death, detailing circumstances for each. He argued that despite varying backgrounds, men from Tyler to Coolidge were good presidents. Introduced by George Y. Malone.
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Oscar Tompkins
Dothan
Legislators Start Slow in Final Session of 78th Congress
Washington AP reports the Democratic leadership meets with President Roosevelt as House and Senate open with light agendas. No major bills moved this week, though a federal road bill and rivers and harbors measures are on deck. Behind plans loom a new Congress in January with work on postwar economy, tax reform, Social Security, and potentially conscription debates.
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Douglas B. Cornele
Washington
Capitol Hill
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Geome
George
D.-Ga
Fred Vinson
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
South Carolina
America
Patton Greatest Says Returned Veteran Hero Speaks
Corporal Charles W Fey of Louisville Kentucky recalls General Patton as fearless energetic and tough. He describes Patton as noble in battle and defends the soldier slapping incident as overblown while noting the general’s high nervous energy and leadership after serving 28 months overseas with the Central command. He landed at Oran November 8 1942 and was later sent to Camp Rucker before returning home.
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Milton KR. Wallace
Kentucky
Charles W.fey
Loulavile
Fairbanks
The
Central
Oran
States
Camp Rucker
Patton
Bigh
District Ten Sixth War Loan Drive Sets Bonds Quotas
District Ten counties Houston Barbour Coffee Dale Geneva Henry form the area for the Sixth War Loan Drive opens next monday quotas assign official E Bond and Victory targets by county totals. Chair Sid Thomas of Eufeule says the district aims to marshal every idle dollar into healing and lighting efforts.
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Tronday
Sid. Thomas
Eufeule
District Ten
Houston
Henry
Geneva
Coffee
Dale
Barbour
Thomas
Sem E Sawyer
L. Baynes
Geneve
Robert S. Ward
W. L Woodham
B. P. Poyner, Jr
Compulsory Military Service Faces Looming Battle
Washington AP report notes mounting opposition to peacetime draft plans. Backers may delay action until next year as Senate and House committees lack hearings schedules. Senator Johnson calls the plan a display of faith failure, suggesting 100000 volunteer pilots to sustain an Air Force.
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Washington
Reynolds
D-N.c
Senate Military Committee
May
D-Ky
House Military Committee
Woodrum
D-Va
House
Johnson
D -Colo
Senate
Metz Is Neated By Patton's Men In Giant Circle
Allied troops press toward Metz from the south and east as Fort L Yser falls near Gmy and Fort Aisne and two satellites are captured. Fifth Division reaches Corny Verny Liehon and Fort Gray as German defenses collapse south of Metz and along the Moselle amid advancing American forces.
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George S. Patton
Metz
Chateau-Salins
Germany
Saar
Patton
London
Aps
Metre
Supreme Headquarters
Fort L'Yser
Gmy
Fort L’yser
Fort Laisne
L'Aisne
L’yeer
Punh
Hopital Forest
Doughbour
Third Army
Moselle
Cardier
Luxembourg Cor Iiver
Seventh
Vogges Mountains
Fifth Division
Fort Aisne
Verny
Corny
Fommerieux
Vernyv
Liehon
Fort Gray Fallx
Dothan Girl Named in Mann Act Case in Chattanooga
FBI reports a 24 year old employer of traveling magazine sales crews used ads to recruit six boys and six girls for overnight hotel parties with liquor. He transported an 18 year old girl from Dothan Alabama to Jacksonville Florida on October 13 for immoral purposes and debauchery. He posted $1,000 bail.
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Chattanooga
Dothan
Als
Jacksonville
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Dean Schedes
Baptist Convention
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Tompkins
Rotary
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Borate
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Schmidt
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