Squatters Demand Buckingham Flats as Housing Crisis Grows
In London, 410 empty Westminster flats could shelter 2,000 homeless as squatters appeal to King George and the government for requisitioned housing near Buckingham Palace. Communists denounce the king while police seal off luxury flats and a squatter operations room coordinates efforts.
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Robert Muses
London
George
Westminister
Harry Pollitt
Buckingham Palace
Windsor Castle
Balmoral Castle
Scotland Yard
Pershing Urges U S to Bolster Defenses
General John J. Pershing urged the United States to maintain strong defenses and not weaken offense in the atomic age. On his 86th birthday he emphasized preparedness as the guardian of peace and called for diplomacy backed by power.
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Washington
John “J. Pershing
Erica
Two Autos Damaged in Collision Here
Two vehicles collided at the Dothan Hodgesville road and the Ardilla Panama City road intersection. Both drivers went to Dothan hospital for checkups, not requiring treatment, according to officer M. B. Vickery of the Mitie Highway Patrol. The mishap involved a Memobile driven by Thomas F.
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Dothan
Hodgesville
Ardilla
Panama- City
M. 8. Vickery
Mitte Highway Patrol
Thomas’ F
Marshall cool to Red request in China truce talks
General Marshall and the Chinese government were reported cool toward a Red request to reconvene the three member committee to seek a truce in China’s civil strife. The committee includes Marshall, Chou En-lai, and Hsu Yung-chang.
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John Broderick Nanking
Marshall
U. S
China
U.S
Stuart
Chou En-lai
Hsu Yung-chang
State Council
Committee of Three
Chiang
Wang Ping-wan
Yenan
Marshall Committee
First Tropical Storm Of Year Hits Bahamas
The first tropical storm of the year intensified to hurricane force and moved northeast through the Atlantic. It lashed the Bahamas with 65 mph winds and gusts to 85 mph, with Hopetown on Great Abaco Island bearing the brunt as the storm shifts away from Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
File
Atlantic
Bahamas
Florida
Federal Storm Warning Service
Hopetown
Great Abaco Island
Jewish Underground Hits Three Banks in Palestine Raid
In simultaneous attacks on Barclay and Ottoman Banks in Jaffa and the Ottoman Bank in Tel Aviv the Jewish Underground seized 5 000 pounds about 20 000 dollars after gun battles that killed a Yemenite raider an Arab constable and another person. Eight raiders were captured and security forces imposed a curfew as troops searched for suspects.
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Jerusalem
Jewish Underground
Jaffa
Tel ‘Aviv
Barclay
Tel Aviv
United Press
Rothschild Boulevard
Phosphate ShortageAdds Woes Of Wiregrass Farmers
Wiregrass farmers face a phosphate fertilizer shortage as 1946 crop worries grow. Only two carloads a week reach Houston County with 35 carloads needed by October 15. County agents urge planting blue lupine and Austrian winter peas at the regular time and to apply fertilizer when deliveries arrive. Lupine seed orders already total nearly three quarters of a million pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston County
Houston
Jesse A. Culbreth
C. M. Ling
P&ma
James F Hawkins Dies In Birmingham At 76
James F. Hawkins longtime Jefferson County sheriff and tax collector died unexpectedly in a Birmingham hospital at age 76. He was a prominent figure in local politics and public service.
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Birmingham
James F. Hawkins
Jefferson County
Dixie Democrat Says South and National Parties Are Different
Alabama Democratic official Gessner T. McCorvey states the Southern and national parties are different on some issues. He criticizes Sen. Lister Hill's opposition to the Boswell amendment tightening state voting and registration rules. McCorvey defends militant white supremacy stance and loyalty to party nominees while noting many state leaders favor tougher local measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Alabama Democratic Party
Gessner T. McCorvey
State Executive Committee
Lister Hill
D-Ala
Democratic Party
South
McCorvey
Sen. Hill
Arley
Boswell
Hill
Buncombe
Boswell Defends Alabama White Supremacy Amendment
E C Boswell of Geneva argues at a Houston Bar Association meeting that the Boswell amendment to be voted Nov 5 would safeguard democracy against perceived threats and require voters to understand the Constitution. He dismisses claims it grants registrars arbitrary power and cites past registration practices to support its adoption.
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Boswell
Alabama
E. C. Boswell
Geneva
Houston Bar Association
Geneva County
Dothan
Meat Scarcity Across Cities Revealed In AP Survey
The Associated Press reports meat as the scarcest food item nationwide amid high unemployment in strike cities and severe housing shortages. The survey cites 55 percent meat availability in New York retailers, widespread jobless totals, and shortages of sugar fats and oils across several urban centers.
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Associated Press
Esse
AFL
CIO National Maritime Union
New York
OPA
State Department of Placement and Unemployment Insurance
Washington, D. C
San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce
New Orleans
Chicago
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Metropolitan Home Builders Association
Crawley Re-elected GFA President at Annual Meeting
W B Crawley of Banks Alabama was re-elected president of the Georgia Florida Alabama Peanut Association for a ninth year at the Camilla meeting. New officers include J W Kieve Albany first vice president H E Wallace Camilla manager W B Anderson Greenwood Florida second vice president J D Garner Camilla general counsel. Directors named span Georgia Alabama and Florida divisions with J D McGee Morgan T M Borland Prichard J P M Wise Opp and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camilla. Ga
W. B. Crawley
Banks
Ala
J. W. Kieve
Albany
H. E. Wallace
Camilla
W. B. Anderson
Greenwood
Fla
J. D. Garner
Councellor
Kieve
J. D. McGee
Morgan
J. L. Trammel
Sumner
Georgia
Crawley T. M. Borland
Prichard
John P. M. Wise
Opp
Alabama
Anderson
Florida
Miniature Bottles Return for Alabama Tapers
Alabama’s old taper will again have factory filled miniature bottles. Dr. E. C. Ray, head of the State Alcoholic Board, says Rep. Frank Boykin reports distillery filled minis will soon be available. Production is banned for trains and ships by the Civilian Production Board. Alabama law requires sealed bottles for retail licenses, a rule relaxed during the war.
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Birmingham
Alabama
E. C. Ray
State Alcoholic Board
Frank Boykin
Mobile
Civilian Production Board
George W. Hill Dies at 61 as Tobacco Chief in Canada
George Washington Hill president of the American Tobacco Company died this morning at his summer camp in Canada. He was 61 and had long led the firm, drawing high pay and facing minority investor scrutiny over incentives. He called the company his life work and pledged loyalty in a stockholder letter.
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New York
George Washington Hill
American Tobacco Company
Canada
The
Tobacco Company
United States
Blind Girl Keeps Stand Open Amid Mother’s Illness
Louise Pickens, a blind Montgomery girl, runs a confectionery stand at her mother’s hospital bedside. Lions Club volunteers and Journal staffers operated the shop in shifts for a week selling soft drinks, candy, and cigarettes. Daily proceeds went to a Lions Club member, and the mother showed marked improvement as the girl returned to work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Louise Pickens
Lions Club
Montgomery Advertiser-Journal
Miss Pickens
Near Riot at Peace Parley as Delegates Clash
The Bulgarian Political Commission at the Paris Peace Conference broke up in near riot conditions as delegates shouted to challenge Chairman Kisselev. US Delegate Jefferson Cather denounced the adjournment. Colonel Hodgson of Australia and Britain's A V Alexander clashed, then Alexander walked out amid a military clause vote on the Italian treaty.
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R. H. Shackford
Paris
Kisselev
United States
Jefferson Catfery
Australia
William R. Hodgson
Britain
Admiralty
A. V. Alexander
Peace Conference Military Commission
Slavine
U. S
Richard L. Connolly
Alexander
Alabama
France
City Commission Election Set Monday
Preparations are underway for a general election Monday to select City officials from the March primary. The sole polling place will be City Hall from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. A voting machine borrowed from Houston County will be used, Probate Judge Saxon P. Poyner said. The ballot will list one name, City Commission President Clyde L. Coe, renominated for a three year term to succeed himself.
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Houston County
Saxon P. Poyner
City Commission
Clyde L. Coe
Maritime Board Seeks To Stem Crisis
The AFL and CIO sailors clash over wage stabiliza tion policy as the Maritime Commission hurries to decide on extending wage boosts to CIO seamen. President Truman pressures resignations from Wage Stabilization Board members while the board signals no action taken yet. The session was brief and only informative with no immediate decisions.
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Max Hall Washington
AFL
CIO
Maritime Commission
AAFL
William Green
Wage Stabilization Board
White Horse
Green
W. Willard Wirtz
L. Philips Garman
Earl N. Cannon
A. Colman Barrett
Cannon and Barrett
Truman
Cannon
Barrett
J. Godfrey Butler
AFL Seaman
Commission
No. 9
Drive To Kill OPA By April Under Way Among U. S. Senators
A plan to end price and wage controls by April 1 and transfer rent controls to the National Housing Administration is being quietly pushed by several U S senators led by Senator Taft of Ohio. Taft announced at the Ohio Republican State Convention that food subsidies must end under the existing OPA act.
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Opa
U. S
Taft
Ohio
Columbus
National Housing Administration
Episcopalians Split Over Remarriage of Divorcees
The 55th general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U S A debated liberalizing canons to permit remarriage after divorce. Bishop Davis proposed case by case approval with an advisory panel, while opponents warned of lowering church ideals and resisting civil legalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Protestant Episcopal Church
Cameron J. Davis
Buffalo
Western New York
Davis
Visory Commission
Benjamin Ivins
Milwaukee
Wallace Urges Independent Foreign Policy Speech at Madison Square Garden
Secretary of Commerce Henry A Wallace urged a clearly defined independent U S foreign policy to prevent war. He cautioned against aggressive moves toward Russia and any close cooperation with Britain over Soviet matters. He stressed he is neither anti British nor anti Russian and spoke at a Madison Square Garden event.
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New York
Henry A. Wallace
White House
United States
Russia
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Near East
Wallace
Madison Square Garden
National Citizens Political Action Committee
Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions
Washington
Truman
Diplomats foresee Wallace speech stirring hornet nest
Washington officials predict Secretary Wallace will cause a major controversy in U S relations with Russia. He calls for frank recognition of spheres of influence and opposes close cooperation with Britain on Soviet issues, risking a split with Byrnes at the Paris Peace Conference.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Wallace
Truman
United States
State Byrnes
Russia
Great Britain
Soviet Union
State Department
Man 52 in shooting suicide at Birmingham tourist camp
Earl L. Grady 52 shot Ruth Seay 21 then killed himself on the Birmingham Bessem er highway tourist camp. Seay was wounded in chest and arm and hospitalized. Coroner said no motive found. Grady left a wife and two children.
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Birminghan
Birmingham-Bessemer Super Highway
T. J. McCollum
Earl L. Grady
Ruth Seay
Grady
McCollum
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