Baby Tigers Fall to Tallahassee Lions 21 to 7
Dothan’s Baby Tigers fought hard at Wiregrass Stadium but fell behind after a first quarter touchdown by Morgan Longgrear. Tallahassee Lions answered with two third quarter scores and controlled total yards 217 to 102, as Sheppard and Gray led the visitors.
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Lions
Tallahassee
Wiregrass Stadium
Jere Harris
Ned Walker
Tigers
Little Lions
Sheppard
Sons
Walker
Lion
Gray
Dothan
Joiner
Sitle
Charles Patterson
J. C. Elmore
Don Bennett
Longgress
Ligon Johnson
Harris
Tallahasse
Baby Tigers
Oldest Alabama Civil War veterans listed by pension board
Montgomery AP reports only six thousand of Alabama's Civil War combatants are alive. Names include B P Maddox 102 of Munford sergeant in the 3rd Alabama Regiment Reserves D Company T d Turner 101 Whatley private in the 38th Alabama Regiment J A Stegar 100 Huntville sergeant in the 4th Alabama Cavalry P B Crump 95 Lincoln pirate in Company I 10th Alabama Cavalry Pegnant Miley 95 Dothan treacher in Eufaula Light Artillery Eldridge Battalion J W Moore 95 Selma pirate in Company II 1st Alabama Cavalry. Jacqueline Lewie secretary says no oath in ranks since July 1945 when J W Nixon died at 116.
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Montgomery
Ates
Ate Pension Commission
Clude
B. P. Maddox
Munford
Rgeant
Alabama
Regent
Madne
Alaima Regiment
T.d. Turner
Whatley
Alabama Regiment
J. A. Stegar
Huntaville
4Th
Alamma Cavalry
P. BR. Crump
Lincoln
Alaine Pegnant L. Miley
Dothan
Eufaula Light Artilry
Eldridge Battalion
J. W. Moore
Selma
Alabamaegiment Cavalry
Jacqueline Lewie
Alabama Pension Commican
J. W. Nixon
Egyptian Students Rally for Revolution at Fuad El Awa University
Cairo Egypt UP government owned Fuad El Awa University opened the fall term under army armored cars. About 8000 students immediately held a political meeting. A thousand Student leaders from Wafdists and Muslim Brotherhood approved sending representatives to a treaty delegation with demands to reject the Anglo Egyptian treaty draft. A leader praised Russia for support at the UN Security Council and arms in case of revolution. Another speaker claimed 1000 comrades are fully armed across the country.
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Cairo
Egypt
Fuad el Awa University
Ita
Britain
Russia
United Nations Security Council
Lenuur
Nile Valley
Foyeden
Saadistead Liberal
Miners face pay losses as walkout looms over Christmas
The nation confronts a threatened miners strike as number 10 coal field in Pennsylvania hints at wage loss while Christmas approaches. Government officials dispute contractor Lewis’s claim that contracts can be terminated, with Krug and Clark asserting miners must keep working under binding terms. They consider legal steps and possible radio appeals to enforce the contract. Meanwhile, the government directs captive mines’ coal distribution and tackles claims about a 54 hour underground week, with critics arguing miners’ actual hours and wages differ from official figures.
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Penansylvania
Interior
Krug
Clark
Lewis
Fermain
White House
Tog
Joan D. Battle
National Coal Association
Krog
Battle
America
Bureau of Labor Statistics
U. S
Mississippi hearing topics and political tensions spill over
The report covers election disputes involving Hurley and Chavez, actions on complaints about Senator McKellar, and Bilbo war contract hearings in Mississippi cities near Jackson Grenada and Hattiesburg. It notes tensions with Civil Rights figures, limited inquiry to the 1946 election, and university upheaval over British policy debates.
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Patrick J. Hurley
Dennis Chavez
D-Nm
Hurley
Chavez
Senator McKellar
Edward Carmack
McKellar
Mississippi
Jackson
Grenada
Hattiesburg
Sen
Hilender
Civil Rights Congress
Bilbo
Senate War Investigating Committee
Bilbu
Hisherbocer
Fillender
Terion
Ippi
AEA Seeks Surplus Income Tax Funds For Education Use
Secretary Frank L Grove of the Alabama Education Association outlined a plan to use a substantial portion of Alabama's income tax surplus for education. The proposal calls for a constitutional amendment to dedicate surplus to debt service on the refunding age and offset revenue losses from the homestead exemption, with remaining funds supporting public education.
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Mobile
Frank L. Grove
Alabama Education Association
AEA
James E. Folsom
Alabama
Picket line aims to shut studio as CSU leaders lead strike
Number 12 floor and jail diet scenes mark a protest where CSU leaders and unionists including Sorrell Russell McKnight John R. Martin Carl Head and Charle Sproul urged unity. Mimeographed sheets instruct pickets to keep the line intact and close the studio.
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CSU
Sorrell
Russell ‘McKnight
Film Technicians Local 003
John R. Martin
Carl Head
Charle Sproul
Otie’s War Time Fare and Rhymes in the Mess
The narrator recalls Otie the mess sergeant who turns to poetry for solace amid daily indignities. Night muses at full moons, tasteless rations become curdled reminders, and Otie’s verses trigger payoffs like canned peaches smuggled to the narrator.
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Otie
Leutenant
Edwin Markham
Flanders
Olle
Eisenhower
Conference reports progress on paying hospital debt
A meeting led by Dr. W S Guice and Dr C C Daniel announced that all nonbonded debt of the Methodist Memorial Hospital at Montgomery has been cleared except for three creditors. About 28 559 32 was raised in a one day church collection. Bonded debt was estimated at 350 000. Salaries for seven conferences superintendents were set at 5 000 yearly and expenses plans approved. The conference closes today with appoints for next year. Christopher Columbus was a Weaver by his father’s trade until age 21.
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Aleyhsses
Old Methodist Memorial Hospital
Montgomery
W. S. Guice
C. C. Daniel
Greenville
Costen J. Warrell
Guice
Ile
Commission On World Services
Defeated Candidate Held On Charge of Stealing Ballots
Beckley West Virginia reports former State Senate candidate W A Thornhill Jr surrendered to police posting 2500 bond for a preliminary hearing on charges of breaking and entering a Raleigh County Clerk office vault and removing ballots from six precincts. A Road Commission employee and a janitor were also involved. Police noted guards were unaware of the theft and chances of recovery were slim. Thornhill narrowly trailed winner Eugene Scott by 14 votes and had sought a recount alongside other candidates. the six missing precincts complicate the process.
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Beckley
W. Va
W. A. Atbernhill, Jr
West Virginia
State Senate
Raleigh
Thornhill
United States
Southern
West Va
Court House
State Road Commission
Harry &. Anderson
Pexce Uv
Meadows
Edward Simon
Road Commission
Henry Lilly
D. L. Hedrick
Hendrick
Hedrick
Eugene Scott
U. S
Thomas B. Sweeney
Harley Bf. Kilgore
D-W Va
Anderson
Power Hearing Set for Utilities in Montgomery
The Alabama Public Service Commission set December 2 for a hearing on petitions by Alabama Power and Alabama Gas to extend their facilities in Montgomery.
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Montgomery
Alabama Public Service Commission
Alabama Power Company
Alabama Gas Company
Typhoid vaccine reaches over 100000 in Alabama
More than 100000 Alabamians received typhoid vaccine last year through county health departments and private physicians, said Dr. B F Austin, state health officer. The report notes wide distribution and ongoing public health effort statewide.
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Montgomery
B. F. Austin
Civil War Crisis Threat Prompts Yenan Defense Drills
In a chaotic briefing, Communist spokesman Yang Shan-kun warned of a four-way attack by Chiang Kai-shek forces, with 100,000 to 165,000 troops massing near Yenan. Yenan braces with mass mobilization, evacuations, and drills as Chou En-lai departs Nanking to seek talks.
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Nanking
Yenan
Chiang Fai-shek
Crisia
Yang Shan-kun
Eighth Route Army
Yenay
Yellow River
Shanai
Shensi Province
Ichwan
Lochwan
Yull
Szechwan
Sian
Yan
Chou En-lai
Peiving-Tientsin
Peiping-Hankow
Peining-Mukden
Shan‘tung
Noted confrontation ends with gunfire in car
In a Carless exchange Carnes cursed Nimmher four in Mrs Webb's car. Daniel warned Carnes not to exit then fired four times at close range. Seabrook cited Daniel saying he did not aim to kill Carnes or harm Mrs Webb. The officer noted the empty shotgun shells were collected and discarded.
Taft White Team Favored for Senate Leadership
Washington AP report says Republicans settled on a Taft White leadership pairing for the Senate with White of Maine as floor leader while Taft stayed near his committee post. House contenders include Dirksen of Illinois Halleck Jenkins and Brown of Ohio. Martin of Massachusetts will vacate to become Speaker. Democrats weigh Rankin Mississippi as possible minority leader amid McCormack unease and talk of drafting Sam Rayburn.
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Senate
Taft-Waite
Taft
Ohio
White
Maine
House
Dirksen
Illinois
Whd
Halleck
Indiana
Jenkins Ohio
Clarence Brown
Rep
Martin
Massachusetts
Rankin
Mississippi
McCormack
Masssachusetts
UN- American Activities Committee
Sam Rayburn
Texas
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