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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1947
Page
1
Police Chief Eddie D. Kelley said extra parking on the east side of the stadium and a cleared area on the south side have reduced complaints and improved traffic on football game nights. He advised late arrivals to use the south side lot to speed departures via Sixth Avenue and Third Avenue.
Grantham said the delay followed Paparello requesting counsel. J Edgar Hoover announced from Washington that the two men Thompson and Paparello were arrested and that all stolen property had been recovered. The arrests bring the total of former soldiers charged with stealing confidential Los Alamos project material to several, with each case separate and involving secret photos.
Houston County Farm Bureau committeemen will complete appraisals of peanut farms to establish allotments for 1948. County PMA officer Jesse Culbreth said reports cover 1944 45 46 acreage and determine voter eligibility for December referendum on controlled acreage with a 90 percent parity price if two thirds favor it. Reports must reach Auburn by October 15.
Rep Eugene Cur speaking after returning from Europe praised the Marshall Plan as Europe’s only hope, arguing it prevents USSR expansion and must be implemented alongside Truman Doctrine. The House foreign aid advisory committee seeks joint hearings with the Senate foreign relations panel on November 10 to hear Secretary of State George C. Marshall present the administration's emergency program.
News notes a food program debate at St Louis and New Orleans restaurant concerns over menus and waste. Minneapolis chef Matthew Bernatski criticizes egg scarcity policy while markets react to government price support and a two cent rise per dozen in egg futures amid announcements on frozen egg sales.
Montgomery AP chairman Lama Kelly of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board said rationing of whiskey in Alabama could return within three days because of grain shortages. He noted no official action yet and the board was preparing. A Washington forecast suggested distilleries might shut for 60 days to conserve. If rationing occurs it may use purchase limits rather than wartime ration cards. More details to follow after the board meeting.
United Mine Workers head John Lewis faces a $3.81 million penalty from Federal Judge Alan T. Goldsborough for striking against government orders. AFL official Padway, amid a heated confrontation, collapsed and died during the convention as tensions over the Lea Act and broadcaster hiring limits sparked a dramatic scene. Padway’s death follows a life of labor activism and legal battles, with funeral plans to be announced at the AF of L convention.
The industry battles over a grain conservation plan with opponents seeking tighter limits and supporters arguing the program would save millions of bushels. Leaders from the National Grange, Farm Bureau, and Farm Cooperatives praise broader cooperation while some lawmakers push for faster funding and action to aid Western Europe’s winter needs.
Five lawmakers from Alabama Florida and Georgia plan to urge President Truman to include 1943 budget money for continuing construction of the Chattahoochee Apalachicola Flint waterway The group plus Reps Andrews Pace Davis Cox and Sikes aims to have funds available next fiscal year and will meet with Budget Director Webb at the White House The first dam on the waterway was begun near Chattahoochee Florida using more than 1 million in remaining planning funds from earlier appropriations
The Agriculture Department announced 50 counties will offer curtailed cotton insurance in 1948, with 699 counties overall having contracts. Congress set a maximum of 86 counties for 1948, citing heavy government losses in 1945 and 1946. The list includes Alabama counties Dekalb Houston Madison Pike Tuscaloosa and Georgia counties Burt Carroll Dooly Jackson.
MONTGOMERY AP Leroy Scott a 20 year old Calhoun County Black man faces execution by electric chair at Kilby prison unless Governor James E. Folsom grants clemency. Scott has four prior reprieves and was convicted for assaulting a Louisville Mississippi white girl near the Anniston Ordnance Depot.
Funeral services for Ralph Waldo Andrews, 46, of Ozark route three, who died yesterday in Dothan, will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at St. Carmel Church. Headland Mortuary in charge. Survived by widow, a son, no brothers, and three sisters.
The United States and Soviet Union trade charges as a 57 nation Palestine committee awaits policy declarations. A U S plan for partition with possible edits is anticipated while Herschel V Johnson may speak. Britain proposes Trieste governance be decided by Yugoslavia and Italy with Cadogan convening talks.
Mrs. D W Faust, sixty two, died at her Ozark area home after a long illness. Funeral arrangements to be announced by Holman Funeral Home of Ozark. Survived by husband nine daughters two sons and many relatives.
Funeral services for Matthew Daniel Deese age seventy nine were held at Mr Ararat Church this morning with Rev W A Dean of Slocomb officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery Johnson Funeral Home in charge Surviving are his widow three daughters including Mrs Mitte Pipkinsa and Mrs Bessie Kirkland of Webb and Mrs J W Co Donalsonville route one a son C B Derse Dothan route four a sister Mrs Daisy Snead Fla and eight grandchildren seven great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews Active pallbearers were I W
A fragment lists Bush, Willie Smith, W. M. 'Rist land, Jesse Peeples, W. H. Tien, Lawrence Burdeshaw among names in a partial notice, with no readable context or action.
New York cotton futures at noon showed gains of 20 cents a bale in some contracts while others fell as much as 40 cents, reflecting a mixed trading session on the commodity market.
The record details a prominent 6th National Guard officer who entered the Army in 1940 after serving as executive officer and assistant adjutant general since August 1944. He later faced political turbulence amid administration pressure over votes, including a controversial threat to discharge him unless aligned with the administration, ultimately refusing to support a candidate.
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