Dothan High leads Victory Bond drive with strong showing
Robert Ramsey announced Dothan High School sold bonds and stamps totaling about 15 381.45 during School Week II. The county’s drive quota was 10 000 and bank reports were delayed due to Thanksgiving observance. Ramsey called the early return a fine example of student patriotism as officials plan Farmers Week activities.
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Robert Ramsey
Te Bovricn County Victory Loan
Dothan High
Victory Loan
Ramsey
Dothan High School
Thanksgiving Day Weather Turns Cold Across Nation
Snow, rain, and sub zero temperatures crossed the nation while clear, sunny skies prevailed for most of the country. Bitter cold gripped North Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana with freezing conditions reaching Texas to Alabama. Light snow fell in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, and flurries dotted the Ohio Valley.
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Associated Press
Rockies
Appalachians
Canadian
Gulf
North Dakota
Minnesota
Montana
Texas
Mississippi
Loutiana
Alabama
Michigan
Wisconsin
Dakotas
Ohio Valley
Memorial Shaft Ground Is Broken at Warm Springs
In Warm Springs Georgia a ground breaking ceremony marked the creation of a memorial shaft at a site associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s return to politics after his paralysis. The shaft, donated by the War Department, will stand on pink marble with pedestal inscriptions including Peace Love Thanksgiving and a biblical phrase.
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Warm Springs
White House
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ashworth
The
Columba Ledger-Enquirer
Warminks Foundation
Tin
Franklin Conevelt
Boy Walks 36 Hours With Broken Neck In Salt Lake City
An 9 year old boy, Darryl Underwood, walked about 3 hours after a neck fracture while playing soccer at school. He walked home despite head, ear, and chest pains before medical exams revealed a wedged vertebra. Doctors reported spinal cord pressure was minimal though the injury was severe.
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Salt Lake City
Bay
Darryl] Underwood
Walker Harold Horton
Five-Cent Check Disposal Problem Puzzling Officials
A 5 cent check from the Federal government, tied to airport lease payments, sits uncashed in the County probate office since June 1943. Probate Judge Peynet and the City Commission have debated how to divide the nickel odd split, with no resolution after more than two years.
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Atlanta
Saxon F Peynet
O. K
Union Church Thanksgiving Service Highlights Dothan Observance
Dothan marked Thanksgiving with joint services at First Presbyterian led by Rev. C. H. Hildreth from Lafayette Street Methodist. Clear day followed heavy rains, schools observed the holiday, downtown was quiet, and soldiers at Napier Field and Camp Rucker were served turkey dinner. Tomorrow workers plan tales of fishing and hunting.
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Dothan
First Presbyterian Church
C. H. Hildreth
Lafayette Street Methodist Church
Crty
Naptler Field
Camp Rucker
Damaskinos Plans Resignation as Greek Regent
Archbishop Damaskinos announced he would resign as Regent of Greece after Themis Sophoulis was sworn in as premier and formed a new cabinet. Sophoulis claimed Britain forced the move, and British envoy Hector MacNeil pressed Damaskinos to help establish the government or face protest.
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Athens
Damaskinos
Greece
Themistokles Sophoulis
Sophoutis
Hector MacNeil
MacNew
London
Thanksgiving in Occupied Lands Reverent Observance Proceeds
Troops in Japan Korea Europe and Germany mark Thanksgiving with chaplains prayers and turkey feasts. Army and Navy units, including the USS Enterprise crew, hold services and meals from Yokohama to Southampton. Justice Jackson hosts war crimes proceedings in Nuernberg.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Radio Tokyo Today
Japan
Philipppines
Orient
Great Republic
Tokyo Bay
Korea
Turkey
Yokohama
U. S. Sixth Army
U. S. 24Th Corps
Europe
Red Cross
Germany
Enterprise
Pacific War Zone
Southampton
England
Nuernberg
U. S
Robert H. Jackson
City Deluged By Heavy Rainfall In One Hour Stretch
Dothan and surrounding area saw over one inch of rain in a 1 hour 20 minute period yesterday afternoon. CAA official T M McNiel at Municipal airport reported 27 inches between 4 05 and 6 55 pm and 142 inches for the night, noting it as the heaviest short period rainfall in about six months.
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Dothan
T. M. McNiel
Civil Aeronautics Administration
McNie
CAA
Montgomery
West Mainateeet
Navy Plans To Cut Discharge Points
Washington AP reports the Navy will reduce the Brae charge point score for enlisted men from 41 to 38 on December 1, then to 37 on December 15 and further changes on January 1. The Department announced that about 180,000 more men will become eligible for release or discharge.
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Washington
Navy
Department
Nazi Documents Placed Before High Tribunal
A mound of documents, from intimate Nazi diaries to top secret Luftwaffe files, were presented at the four power trial as prosecutors outline Hitler’s schemes. Col. Storey said hundreds of Reich documents will reveal the Nazis’ plan and aggression, with items ranging from Rosenberg diaries to notes found behind a Bavarian castle wall.
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SY Noland Noegaard Muernberg
Fae Ging
Waz
International Tribune Today Sa Ihe Aled
Hitler
Julius Stretcher
Maria Bormann
Medical Board
Streicher Sane
Geoffrey. Lawrence
Tne
Reichsmasbal
Mermann Goering
Rudolf Hess
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Wilhelm Keitel
Alfred Jodl
Tle
Col
Robert Storey
Dulles
Tex
U. S
Special Army Interaence
Alfred Rosenberg
Eden Urges Scrapping of Nations Veto Powers in Charter
Former foreign secretary Anthony Eden urged scrapping of veto powers under the United Nations Charter in Commons today as a result of atomic energy discoveries. He urged nations to state their present ideas of sovereignty and proposed revision of the charter after Prime Minister Attlee warned that a future large scale war could unleash atomic devastation. Attlee, opening the Labour government’s debate, warned atomic warfare would devastate towns and kill millions and urged peace and understanding, calling for reciprocity in sharing scientific knowledge with any nation willing to reciprocate.
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Lonpon
Anthony Eden
Eden
Attlee
Commons
Atttec
Washington
Truman
MacKenzie King
Canada
Eisenhower backs UNRRA activities in Europe
General Eisenhower told the House Foreign Relations Committee UNRRA is operating in Europe with increasing effectiveness. He supported authorizing an additional 1.25 billion dollars for UNRRA, rejecting calls to scrap it in favor of a new U.S. relief body. He urged immediate continuation of the experienced relief system.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
House Foreign Relations Committee
UNRRA
Europe
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
United States
Eisenhower
Gen A M Patch Taken By Death
Gen A M Patch former commander of the Seventh and Fourth Armies died of pneumonia in Brooke General Hospital San Antonio aged 55 He led the 1944 Allied drive across France and Germany and saw action in the Pacific He observed his 50th birthday tomorrow and his wife and children survived him This obituary notes his WWI service and wartime commands and cites a son killed in 1944.
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San Antonio
Texas
Alexander MecCarrell _Patch, Jr
Seventh
France
Germany
Pacific
Brooke General Hospital
Joseph Patch
U. S. First Army
Sandy Patch
Seventh Army
Patch
Ian
United States
New Caledonia
Foul Hauechura
Anz
G. S . Military Academy
Pennsylvania
Palestine Arab Parties Reconciled After 1928 Rift
In Jerusalem the six Arab parties of Palestine reconcile their political divisions for the first time since 1928. A new 12 member Arab higher committee was formed at the King David Hotel under the leadership of Jamil Mardam Bey. The panel includes leaders from the Palestine Arab party and key figures from the other factions, along with Musa Fl Alaym and Ahmed Hilmi Pasta, now active in finance and organization.
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Jerusalem
Palestin
Arab League
Jami Mardam Bey
League
King David Hotel
Jamil Mardam Bey
Palestine
Patrol Probing Mystery Shooting Near Becks Mill
State Highway Patrol investigates a mystery shooting on the Dothan Montgomery highway north of Ozark. Mrs Barnett in the car with Tra Barnett reports hearing a shot as they passed a parked vehicle near Becks Mill. a 38 caliber bullet was found in a tire. Two other occupants saw four persons in the parked car.
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T. Hutto
Ev “Hiystepiana Bhogteny
Ad Autne Miobie
Dothan-Montgomery Jughway
Ozark
Hutto
Tra Barnett
Montgomery
Mra
Barnett
Gilling Station
Hutte Jaald
Pearl Harbor Air Force Data Sought by Senate Inquiry
Senator Luce pressed for Army and Navy data on Pearl Harbor reconnaissance planes and long-range aircraft under Admiral Richardson and Fleet Commander Kimmel. He sought counts of planes in Hawaii, those under Richardson on June 18, 1940, and the availability of night patrols as of the December 1941 attack.
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Army
Navy
Pearl Harbor Air Force
Jack Bell
Seneta Luce
EAI
Tua Atay
Navy Teatmoens
Antalade
Wip
le Lung
Senate House Committee
Lucas
Repociers
Adm
J. C. Richardson Tealfied Earle
Hawaii
Ilinois
Chinese Nationalists Close On Hulutao Seaport in Manchuria
Chinese forces push within eight miles of the Communist held Hulutao seaport as Nanjing authorities announce captures along the Peiping Mukden line and near Lienshan. reports conflict with Netherlands East Indies officials stall talks while Batavia sees deadly unrest and Dutch pressure.
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Associated Press
Hulutao
Netherlands East Indies
Hingcheng
Peiping-Mukden
Great Wail
Shankatkwan
Lienshan
Jess
Philip Christian
Tyre
Yur Villanes
Bus Rolls Off Florida Highway Injuring No One
Thirty one passengers escaped unharmed when a Southeastern Greyhound bus ran off the road about 16 miles south of Duthan onto the Dulhan Florida highway. Vickery reported the driver Ralph W. Reeves of Ta lti ahexsee said a defective steering mechanism caused the bus to swerve. The accident occurred about 3:50 am as the bus was traveling toward Dothan.
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Southeastern Greyhound Lines
Duthan
Dulhan-Florida
Petrolyaun
M.S. Vickery
Veekery
Ralph W. Reeves
Taltiahexsee
Vickery
Dothan
Two Killed In Ford Plant Blast Fire
An explosion and fire at Ford Motor Company's Highland Park plant killed two workers and severely burned two others. Victims include Thomas H. Geen, 22, a recently discharged veteran, and Leater J. Wright, 42. Raymond E. Keyes, 55, suffered serious burns, while firefighter Matthew Schueller, 48, was hospitalized with back injuries.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Highland Park
Thomas H. Geen
Leater J. Wright
Raymond E. Keyes
Walkout In Auto Plants Jumps Idle Total To Half Million
The CIO UAW walkout in GM plants across 50 cities has idle workers estimated between 462000 and 825000. Washington DC Capital Transit seized by order of President Truman as strike disrupts transit and a wage dispute lingers over 8700 telephone operators. Montgomery Ward and Company employees prepare a week long mall and store stoppage. chairman Avery rejects arbitration while union leader Wolchok says talks could end if closed shop and check off are dropped.
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CIO - Uaw
Truman
Ubnow
Alaiye
Citiles
Cn Cago
Illinois
Montgomery Ward and Company
Chicago
Sewell 1
Avery
Company
C/O United Retail
Wholeaere and Department Store Employee of America
Samuel Wolchok
Amet
Chicago reenacts first auto race in chilly wind
In Chicago a crowd watched nearly forty horseless carriages reenact the nation’s first automobile race. Police motorcycle escorts led ancient autos once part of the original 1895 race held on Thanksgiving Day. Cars moved slowly along the mail route at about 10 miles per hour.
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Chicago
Atl
CIO Car Workers Dig In For Long Fight Against GM
The CIO workers vow to press a prolonged strike against General Motors for a 30 percent wage rise. GM halted production as 162,000 factory employees were idled, with 100,000 others affected through related contracts and labor divisions. Government mediation and arbitration talks loom, with Walter Reuther leading the effort and federal envoy John Gibson arriving to push a solution.
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CIO
Detroit
Chis Auto Workers Union
Todas
Uattle
General Motors Corp
Alrihe
Walter P. Meuiber
Wantag
General Motors
Reuther
Joh W. Gibson
Schwellenbuch
Gibson
Michigan Cio Council
Reuter
Mandal
Meriden
Conn
GM Plania
UAW
Theo
Misirtel
Iranian Leaders Seek Break in Azerbaijan Crisis With Reds
TEHRAN AP Iranian diplomatic and military aides report high level talks to ease the stalemate with Soviet troops in Azerbaijan. About 6000 Soviet soldiers are moved toward Kazvin and Karaj while Red Army units halted Iranian advances en route to government garrisons. Reports blame Seputariat Democratic Parity for unrest. Tass notes bans on Azerbaijani language in Ardabil schools.
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Tehran
Bey
Tass
Ardebil
Gorgan
Two Dead and 46 Hurt In North Western Crash
At Appleton Wisconsin two people were killed and 46 injured when Northwestern train No 200 failed to stop at a crossing during a snow storm. The locomotive crushed the first car of the eight car train, killing Forrest Jabax and M A Wichman both of Appleton. Mrs Wiel fran was thrown clear. Police said they were returning from shopping for the Day holiday. The wreck derailed several cars and two jackknifed into a fence.
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Appleton
Wis
Northwestern Railroad
Feyewlinegses
Forrest Jabax
Law
M. A. Wichman
Ajpleton
Wielfran
Shadtel
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Leweberg
Front
Herman Goering
Jeeteiph Hess
Joachin von Ribbentrop
Wilhelm Ketel
Nazi
High Command
Karl Doentz
Erich Raeder
Baldur von Schirach
Hitler Yeuchwader
Fritz Seuckel
Acme-Nea
Yereld Biegmah
Behan High Banders
Union
A.M Fatch
Gen. A. M. Patch
Red-Held
Ford
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