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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1946
Page
3
State tax collections for August reached 96,201,070, a gain of about 1,000,000 over the prior August. For the first eight months of the current fiscal year, revenues from 38 taxes totaled 906,063,316, up 10,007,128 from the same period last year. Officials warn wartime gains cannot persist and urge budgeting for normal income levels.
Secretary Byrnes warned in Stuttgart that Germany must not be a pawn in a military power struggle between East and West. He urged self reliance for Germany, continued occupation, and U S leadership in world affairs while opposing force, stressing Germany should not be a satellite or dictatorship. The speech criticizes Allied missteps and calls for a united, democratic Germany participating in world trade.
Governor Chauncey Sparks denounces Communist influence and foreign ideologies in a Mobile speech to the Alabama State Bar. He warns against limiting freedoms and urges reeducation of patriotism while arguing for vigilance against infiltra tion and propaganda amid rising prices.
The piece questions why the stock market dropped sharply, musing about possible causes. It hints at an old law suggesting everything that rises must fall, leaving readers to infer the reason behind the dramatic decline without presenting concrete details.
Washington reports the FBI led intelligence and counterespionage across the Americas in World War II, coordinating with South American police to curb sabotage and espionage. It cites Nazi funds, Micro-Dot messaging, and undercover FBI work in Brazil, Chile, and beyond, noting thousands interned or arrested and a secret wartime radio station run by agents.
The piece critiques Van Bittner and the CIO Southern drive at Oak Ridge, arguing communists influence high places and predicting the CIO’s near-seizure of Southern labor. It urges a move to more effective, non communist organizing and warns against total union power, labeling that fascism. It also notes editorial resilience and a theory of political forces as a clock advancing toward tyranny.
George T. Knight of Tumbleton, farmer and World War I veteran, trades his first elective office for a seat in the Alabama House. He plans to push for county road supervisor reform, supports Governor-elect Jim Folsom’s program with caveats, backs teacher pay, and weighs constitutional changes. He aims to attend the inauguration and sees value in Wiregrass legislators uniting, though pooling two men into a bloc may be difficult.
In Aurora Newfoundland Lyon Metal Products operates on a trade-in plan. Customers may select any Lyon finished product in current production on a pound-for-pound basis with the steel they furnish. The company makes steel shelving rockers shop equipment kitchen cabinets filing cabinets and similar items.
In Columbus Ohio, Beatrice Stuart, a five foot tall grandmother, proves no man power shortage can stop her home projects. Over two years with occasional help from men, she built a new basement sun porch and living room, completing the work herself to save money.
Merrill Wisconsin report notes Clifford W Hill known as Tiny won the Republican nomination for the Wisconsin Senate defeating incumbent William H McNight in the primaries. At 28 Krueger twice served in circus roles and continues entertaining at political group events. He previously belonged to the Progressive Party before its merge with the Republicans.
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