Idle Nation Strikes Shrink as Regions Return to Work
Massive labor walkouts ease as Massachusetts seizes street railways and New York longshoremen resume work. The nationwide stoppage includes about 400,000 workers across 20 states, with key hotspots in Massachusetts and the Northwest lumber sector. Gov. Tobin assumes control to operate transit lines. wage talks and arbitration shape the ongoing disputes.
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Massachusetts
Associated Preas
Pation
New York
Northwest
Illioois
Calirara
Ohio
Isconsin
Massachusetts Stare
Tobin
Thetate
Frank J. Muray
Boston Corporation
Aungel
New York Shipping Associaton
F. H. LaGuardia
AFL
Northwest Lumber Workers
Willamette Valley Lumber Operators Association
J. J. Metzger
Forest Spot
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
W Farley Ingram Taken By Death
W Farley Ingram 67 a well known Houston County farmer of Dothan route two died early yesterday morning at a Dothan hospital after a several weeks illness. He was a Piney Grove Church member and had lived in the county fifty years. Funeral arranged for this afternoon at 2 oclock at Selma with Dr Bake officiating. Burial in City cemetery. Wilson Funeral Home directing. He is survived by son Glenn Ingram Charleston DC, daughter Mrs John P Knight Orlando FL, sister Mrs C A Brinks Dothan route two, five grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Pallbearers Jim Lofton Louis Adams Jim Hyatt Emmett Adams J Lewis A C Watson. Honorary: C L Tompkins H H McNeill Dr E F Moody Dr H B Burdeshaw Dr Arthur Mazyck Luther Wilson R G Cook Ross Mullins Walter Mullins John Mullins H C Adams J W Hyatt Will Harris Charles Lewis H T Vanm Sam Martin Jasper Brinks Emmett Walden Clyde Barber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Farley Ingram
Houston
Dothan
Piney Grove
Selma
Baral
Rt Wilson Funeral Home
Glenn Ingram
Charleston
D.C
John P
Knight
Orlando
Fla
C. A. Brinks
Jim Lofton
Louis Adams
Jim Hyatt
Emmett
Adams
J. Lewis
A. C. Watson
C. L. Tompkins
H. H. McNeill
E. F. Moody
H. B. Burdeshaw
Arthur Mazyck
Luther Wilson
R. G. Cook
Ross Mullins
Walter Mullins
John Mullins
H. C. Adama
J. W. Hyatt
Will Harris
Charles Lewis
H. T. Vanm Sam Martin
Jasper Brinks
Emmett Walden
Clyde Barber
Unidentified Plane Wreckage Found Near Mount Guyot
Atlanta AP reports Army search teams found wreckage atop Mount Guyot in the Smoky Mountains. The plane, likely a C-45 transport, was reported missing October 5 on a flight to Charlotte North Carolina from Lomia. authorities say it remains to be identified.
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Atlanta
Army
Cragg
Mount Guyot
Tennessee
Caroling Smoky Mountains
Aqanta Army Air Base
Lomia
Charlotte
N.C
Guyot
Knox
Argentina's two man cabinet eases political tension
General Eduardo Avalos and Vice Admiral Vernengo Lima began to restore order in Argentina after Peron resignation. They reopened national universities, reinstated dismissed teachers, revived press freedom, shuffled Army leadership, dispersed police to outside central Buenos Aires, and pressed for resignations of provincial interventors. President Edelmiro Farrell approved actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Atres
Argentina
Juan Peron
Eduardo Avalos
Vernengo Lima
Peron
Rodolfo Marmol
Cordoba
Buenos Aires
Avalos
Lima
Edelmiro Farrell
Halsey 10 000 Men On Way Home From War
The USS South Dakota leads a fleet of four battleships two carriers six submarines and three destroyers toward San Francisco to discharge thousands of men under Admiral Halsey and Fleet Admiral Nimitz. The Third Fleet played a major role in Japan’s defeat as these ships approach the Golden Gate for a noon arrival.
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Francisco
Uncle Sam
Halsey
Third Fleet
Japan
Nimitz
South Dakota
Golden Gate
Stars And Stripes Strikes Colors at London
London Stars and Stripes ends its run with a farewell editorial stating the mission ended and truth was told. The front carried an Associated Press report that Indonesian nationalists declared war on Dutch, marking a final edition after a war with rebirth in another theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Laval Executed After Failed Poison Attempt at Fresnes
Pierre Laval, former Vichy chief, was executed by firing squad at Fresnes prison after attempting to poison himself. He cried Vive la France as twelve riflemen fired, and an officer rushed to finish him when the first volley failed. Doctors revived him after poison delayed death.
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Paris
Pierre Laval
France
Marshal Petain
Fresnes
Vive la France
Laval
la France
Immedi
Last French premier shot in courtyard execution scene
A man fired a revolver into Laval's ear at 12 32 pm. Laval, once premier and cabinet member, was killed in the courtyard. The report notes Laval's prior political stature and a high court of justice condemnation last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ately
Laval
France
High Court of Justice
Senate Group Hears Vinson On 5 Billion Plus Tax Slash
Washington AP Vinson urged a 5 billion dollar tax cut for 1946 and warned against House plans that would add 2 billion for 1947. He told the Senate Finance Committee that the House bill would broadly boost 1947 relief, and stressed two guiding aims: curb reductions due to big ongoing expenditures and shift tax policy toward peacetime full employment and production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Group
Vinson
Washington
House
Treasury
Senate Finance Committee
House Ways and Means
Tee
Houston County Eligible for $75,000 Road Aid
Probate Judge Saxon Poyner announced Houston County qualifies for a $75,000 federal state aid grant for farm to market roads. The funds require no local match and will run for one year if the six conditions including an approved county engineer and road plan are met.
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Houston County
Saxon P. Poyner
County Board of Revenue
Alabama State Highway Department
Montgomery
Poyner
State
Fred L. Mullins
Tthe
State Highway Department
U.S. Public Roads Administration
Bureau of County Aid
U. S. Public Roads Administration
Houston County Peanut Grower Attends National Meet
H. H Knowles president of the Houston County Farm Bureau attends a national meeting in Washington this week as the Houston County peanut grower representative. The gathering, called by growers processors and government, aims to plan next year’s peanut program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H Knowles
Houston County Farm Bureau
Washington
Houston County
Mailers Rush to Beat Oversea Package Deadline
Dothan post office sees steady flow of packages as friends of servicemen overseas rush to mail items before today's deadline. No extension announced. after today only packages with serviceman request proof will be accepted. Assist postmaster notes this year's overseas Christmas may be far below last year's totals.
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Dothan
Formules
John Bell
Post Office
Priorities Taken Off Construction Air Travel
Sterling F. Green reports on removal of wartime controls signaling reconversion progress. WPB actions aim to stimulate business, create jobs, and ease unemployment though labor disputes and inflation risks loom. OPA holds prices. wage demands and strikes threaten peacetime plans. several sectors face changes in rationing and production as veterans return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling F. Green
Washington
WPB
Waxres
Labor
OPA
War Labor Board
WPE
Radins
Lke
War Crimes Tribunal Delays Hearing in Berlin
Berlin AP report says the International War Crimes Tribunal postponed the hearing after Soviet chief prosecutor R A Rudenko said translation of a 35 000 word indictment could not be finished in time. Indictments against 24 top Nazis were handed up. trials likely to open in Nuernberg soon with five day prep for defendants.
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Berlin
Fis
Rucan
R. A. Rudenko
Soviet Union
Nuermberg
Boston business leaders map postwar goods distribution
National business leaders convene in Boston for the 1st annual distribution conference. Saul Cohn of City Stores urges a new bond market and tax policy to reduce hidden taxes on purchases. He calls for bigger government aid to smaller retailers and a focus on cutting distribution waste to lower prices and improve goods flow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Office of Defense
F. E
Wan Ee Ophae
Allies Expose Bayonet Atrocities With POWs Used as Targets
Tokyo reports reveal five Allied prisoners of war were used for bayonet practice by Japanese troops at Gutadal canal and other sites. Officers watched as prisoners were paraded and killed or injured, while Chinese reprisals followed. Japanese soldiers Kakino and Sano describe training with live prisoners in China and the brutal retaliation that ensued.
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Dunanne Wennesy
Tokyo
Mag- Arthur
Alled
Gutadalcanal
Tokuhashi Nakino
NTIS
China
Jong
Kakino
Saburo Sano
Sano
One Day Court Session Opens With Light Civil Calendar
A one day session of flouston Client Court was held with Judge D C Halstead handling a light calendar. About 20 civil cases were set for morning hearings and one for the afternoon. The criminal division will begin next Monday with cases scheduled through Friday. most terminal calendar items involve murder cases awaiting trial.
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Flouston
D C. Halstead
Tenth District Victory Loan Chiefs Meet Here Oct 23
Tenth District Victory Bond workers from six counties in south Alabama will gather here Oct 23 to lay plans for the drive underway Oct 29. Robert Ramay, chairman of the Houston County Victory Bond Committee, announced the meeting at the Houston Hotel at 3 p m. Workers from Houston, Geneva, Dale, Geneva, Coffee and Barbour Counties will attend the session with district leader Stave and district leader. Houston County has a Victory Bond quota of $1,794,000 including special bands and a super bond quota of $557,960.
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Alabama
Robert Ramay
Chaiman
Hewsatan County Victory Bond Committee
Tne Houston
Ramacy
Houston
Fiemy Dale
Geneva Caffe
Barbour
Houuston County
Red Army Tank Industry Closed in Soviet Move
Moscow reports the massive Soviet tank sector is abolished and personnel reassigned to a transport machine building commissariat by decree. The action follows demobilisation orders and could affect U S requests for funds, as Congress members pressed Stalin on spending for peace or military industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Soviet Union
Commissariat
Red Army
U.S
Jasime Stalvin
Auto overturns injures man as others escape
One man was seriously injured and three others suffered minor injuries when the car they rode in overturned on a Saturday night about seven miles north of Dothan. Injured were A. D. Wilkerson, Robert Bars, Brady Skipper, Alfred Mills, and James Allen Rogers. All except Bars were treated and released. Bars remained under ambulance care with severe head injuries.
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Sir Milee Nouth
Dothan
A. D. Wilkerson
Robert Bars
Graceville
Brady Skipper
Slocomb
Alfred Mills
James Allen Rogers
Unk
Wan
Volkergen
Bathan
Wilkerson
U S Moves to Recognize Austrian Provisional Government
The United States says it is prepared to recognize Austria’s provisional government led by Chancellor Karl Renner. The action, disclosed by the State Department, aims to grant full authority over the country despite postwar occupation by Russia Britain America and France across four zones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Austria
State Department
Karl Renner
Vienna
Japan completes demobilization on schedule count
Tokyo reports Japan's demobilization finished within the planned time, leaving the islands without a combat force for the first time in history. Allied headquarters also cites evidence that Japanese troops used live Allied prisoners in bayonet practice on Guadalcanal and in China.
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Buskell
Tokyo
Japan
Guadalcanal
China
Radio network to broadcast General MacArthur address tonight
SPEECH ON AIR NEW YORK AP AUL Radio megworks heve arranged to broad cast General Douglas MacArthur address in which is wil d licens military phases of ar oupstion TM of 6 o'clock EET to night Pro grams have been lamcelled for that ime With the exit of the defeated Giscredited warlords Japanese politics leaders stepped onto the national stage to put into effect a list of democratic principles insribed by Allied headquarters Prince Fumimaro Konoye one of Emperor Hirohito s close advisors amid in an interview that ture te no 18 On Page 2
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AIR New York
AUL
Megworks
Douglag MaacArthern
Lsted
Prince Fumimaro Konoye
Hirohito
Labor Board to study reconversion and wage policy
The Labor Board plans to wind up by January 1 while studying how to handle reconversion disputes and a peacetime wage policy. Acting Chairman Lloyd Garrison and Secretary Schwellenbach briefed the President on wage price policy and the dispute question as industry labor talks set for November 5. Members and labor and industry reps attended the White House session as discussions continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Va: Labor Board
Lloyd K. Garrison
Garrison
Jabor Schwellenbach
Truman
Schwellenbach
WLB
John W. Snyder
J. C. Collet
Snyder
White House
Frank P. Grahar
Lewis M. Gul
Nathan P. Feinsinger
Edwin E. Witte
Puse
Ray McCall
The
Teamsters
John Leonard
Amalgamated Association of Allret Hatfway
AFL
Neil Brant Thomas
United Electrical Workers
Carl Shipley
United Auto Workers
CIO
Earl N. Cannon
George Bahra
Clarence ©. Bkinfer
Vincent P. Ahearn
Industry
War Chest Drive Gains Slow Momentum in Dothan
The Dothan United Charities Chest-War Chest drive under Roy C. Harl aims to raise 20150 by Oct 31 with only about 100 reported this week. Since Oct 2 the Special Gifts Committee led by Walter Morris and S McCuntic solicits contributions as two weeks remain to meet the quota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dothan United Charities
Roy C. Harl
Tittle
Hill
Walter Morris
S. McCuntic
Charities Chest Office
Tacl
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Ma Idle
Nation
le Harre
U. S
War Crimes Tribunal
Bob Johnson
Reading
Mass
Tamako
Islands
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