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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1947
Page
2
The snippet shows an old Dothan Eagle publishing detail with editors William Theodore Wall and Julian O Hall, postal markings, subscription rates, Associated Press note, and miscellaneous quotes. It resembles a whole-page masthead and notices rather than a single event.
The piece argues another 1930s style downturn would force government overreach and erode freedoms. Senator O Mahoney warns unemployment could push Washington to seize power, risking a drift toward totalitarian controls and the end of a lived way of life.
Dothan and Wiregrass residents react as Eastern Air Lines reduces daily Dothan flights from forty three to a smaller number. The change affects the Memphis to Miami run via Birmingham Montgomery Dothan Tallahassee and Tampa. Officials say the payload from Montgomery to Tallahassee was insufficient though the 8:55 pm arrival attracted more Dothan passengers than the other three. The revised schedule shifts connections for Montgomery and Birmingham business travelers who could previously depart at 10:30 am and return that night. The new return from these points is at 2:39 pm, altering convenient same day trips.
Dothan residents urge Eastern to restore their once popular flight, arguing the cutback hurts airport use and mail service. They note the city invested in an airport and rely on air travel for growth, warning fewer nights hinder development and push traffic away from Dothan.
A former Nazi Gestapo chief in the Far East, Charley Schmidt, was dragged from a Pit under a Peiping house by Chinese police after two years in hiding. He is described as emaciated and coughing with tuberculosis, lacking his former bravado. He faces Allied justice with a pistol confiscated and kept for later. The article notes Treasury probes into auto price evasion and OPA-related profits, warning taxpayers to include extra money in income tax. A jet speed record and unrelated Maryland lab claim are mentioned as coincidental.
Senator Taft plans a preconvention tour with unprecedented press coverage across California Oregon and Washington to outline hard hitting positions on foreign policy social welfare housing and taxes. He will travel with 35 correspondents and photographers and speak in Los Angeles San Francisco Portland Tacoma and Seattle meeting GOP leaders and writing his own statements.
Liberty and the Town Meeting of the Air program last Thursday explored Can Free Enterprise Here Compete with Socialism Abroad. The Phoenix debate featured Nerbert A. Leggett and Anna Roosevelt Boettiger against socialism apologists, exposing tensions between free enterprise and planned or controlled economies.
A Montgomery Advertiser and Dothan Fagie report James Harden sues Elba police chief Fred Marper and others for 50000 alleging rights violations. Testimony in a Federal hearing centers on Dewberry claims and disputes over trial venue and perjury charges, with local officials facing criticism as publicity for Elba grows.
United Nations Palestine committee splits over Arab Jewish state models, urging Britain’s quick relinquishment of the mandate. Majority favors partition with independent states by 1949 and a regional economic union. minority backs a federal Arab Jewish state. India joins calls for federation. Australia abstains. The plan highlights Britain’s failing role and the UN path to resolve the Holy Land crisis.
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