Miss Love Named Coffon Maid Here
Miss Love, age 19, named Coffon Maid for Dothan county’s Queen of Cotton contest in Alabama. The event, announced by chairwoman Albert Logue and committee members, will include a statewide selection with local attendees and a ceremony at Cotton Queen headquarters.
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Miss Love
Coffon
Abby Flard
Rae Love
Houston County
Eminty
Alabama
Otiun
Prokoty
Albert Logue
Cormmitton Chaterina
Miss Have
Amminghany
Mallee
Alabami
Moe Bris
Gomntlg
Montell Garvett
Wonmok
Hugh Knowles
Ling
Multygly Mouse County
Winnie
Tale
Wales
Cotto
Cotto Contere Fe Eputwured Statewide By Wie Aibang Para Boren
Federapung Vrd
We County
Kase Boreas
Army And Navy Set Biggest War Games
The Army Navy and Air Force plan the largest war games in U.S. history, scheduled for January through March in the Caribbean theater. The exercise will involve more than 90,000 personnel testing combined operations and environmental conditions across massive simulated battles.
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Army and Navy
Wasiington
Wavy
Air Force
Mick Nivassay
Ren Wal
Aliaiber
Smine
Army Wid Navy Line
Park
Yio War
Viennesteland
Rastern
Puente Rea
Sore Parket
Rose Jury in Deadlock Over Tokyo Rose Case
The San Francisco jury in the Iva Toguri D AQuino trial nears its fourth day of deliberation on charges tied to wartime radio broadcasts as the panel debates the fate of the accused Tokyo Rose figure. The group reportedly spent about twenty hours and two minutes before recess, with jurors urged to continue deliberations promptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Ivn Toguri D'Aquino
Tokyo
Wiregrass Hog Show crowns grand champion at 50 cents a pound
The Wiregrass Hog Show and Sale at Ramsey and Son Stock Yard saw Pratk McCraney’s hog win grand champion at 329 pounds, bringing 50 cents per pound while buyer Wyatt Oates purchased the top pen. Reserve champion hog weighed 225 pounds and sold near 32 cents per pound. James Chaves Charty and Houston Covely led other top awards as the event paid strong prices, with blue ribbon hogs averaging $22 to $24 per 100 pounds. A memorial service honored Jimmy Regey Knowles, who planned to enter hogs. The Dothan Chamber of Commerce sponsored the show with Ann Turner as co-sponsor.
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Pratk McCraney
Beaughy
Wyatt Oates
Frank
Kenny County
Ramsey and Son Stock Yard
Henry County
Doyle Etot
Wilson
James Chaves
Houston Covely
Tammie Kirkland
Hichard Rambey
Othur
Bekany
Jimmy Regey Knowles
Much Lo
Jackie Hingler
Dothan
Wiregrass
Conemerce
Factory Employment On Rise In Alabama
Alabama manufacturing gains reported by Carnley as total non-farm employment rose to 203,800 in August. Textile mills reopened adding 1,200 jobs. shipyards, mining, and lumber sectors also showed gains. Local offices placed 11,644 non-farm workers, the highest since closures.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Allmusk
Tituschat
S. Fivelwood Gurney
Somme
Uld Ful
Hsiean Gust
Debng-ny
Mabie
Wnd
Enal
Walker County
Carntey
Chenille
Lay Panally
Carey
Langan Considered for Mobile County Commissioner
The Monle Press reports Gov. James E. Folsom offered Mobile State Senator Joseph N. Langan a county commissioner appointment. If accepted, Langan would resign the Senate. Mitternight’s term ends in November 1930. The position pays $3,000 annually.
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Mobile
Monle
James E. Folsom
Joseph N. Langan
R. Mitternight
Mitternight
Langan
Folsom
Assessor Fees Salary Conflict in Houston County
Houston County officials face a split over pay for Tax Assessor E G Collins as he shifts from a fee to a salary. The question is whether he receives fees already earned plus the salary, with collections starting the next day. Attorneys general review is sought to resolve the fee salary overlap and tax collection timing.
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Houston
E.G. Collins
Stertlog
Dee
Cols Jing
Carl Sellers
Board of Revenue
A. A. Careinlch
Montgomery
Sejbs
W. Perry Calhoun
Carmichael
Isdmusor
Bosox Yankees Tie For First Place As Cards Lead
Boston and New York moved into a tie for first in the American League after losses by Boston to Washington, 3 2, and a Yankees win over Philadelphia. National League leaders Brooklyn were a game ahead, with St Louis meeting Pittsburgh and Brooklyn facing Boston in a dunker header.
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Bosox
Yankees
Boston
New York
Red Sox
Washington
Philadelphia
Lovie
Brooklyn
St. Lewin
Pittsburgh
Bonton
Truman Opens Missouri Tour Aims For 1980 By-Election Strategy
President Truman launches his Missouri whirlwind tour as part of an election strategy, praising party leaders and Kansas City figures like Boyle. He attends a Masonic ceremony, then speaks at the Municipal Auditorium with about 3,000 attendees, to be broadcast statewide at 9:30 p.m. CST. He arrived aboard an Air Force Constellation, then stayed at the Sheraton Hotel after a brisk arrival and handshakes with Masons and politicians.
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Truman
Missouri
Msrriman Smith
ST. Louis
Terry
William Boyle
Kansas City
Boyle
Bogle
Air Force
Sheraton
UN Votes To Hear China's Charges Against Russia
UN assemblyoverrode Soviet objections to hear China's charges that Russia is aiding the Chinese Communists in China’s civil war. Vote 45 to 4 with five abstentions to place the complaint on the agenda. debate goes to the 58 nation political committee. Yugoslavia opposed intervention, calling it internal and a risk of a world war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max Harrelson
Lake Success
United Nations Assembly
China
Russia
Mas ‘Tze-Tong
Assembly
Nathon
Yugoslavia
U. N
Yurgoslavs
Warren R. Autin
Mixiatev Ales Bebler
J. X
Bebler
da Tegate
T. F. Tsiang
Oriefly
Tsiang
Vladimir Clemoentis
Czechoslovakia
pEie
Foreign Arms Bill Clears Congress to White House
The administration moved weapons aid to allies as a $1.314 billion foreign arms bill passed the House 223 to 109 and the Senate approved soon after. It directs cash from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and aims to accelerate surplus American equipment shipments to Western Europe, with broader economic aid approved in a companion package.
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Tosermic
Goodwin Washington
America
Russia
White House
Tlowse
Senate
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Suplus
Congressional Appropriations Committees
Congress
House
Europe
Two Italian Fliers Are Believed Alive
NEW YORK AP TWA announced it had received dispatches from its Paris office stating two station fliers missing since Sept 17 on a transatlantic flight in a single engine plane are alive and adrift near the Bahama Islands. The Coast Guard had reported an Ariy plane had departed San Juan for the search area, but radio contact was limited and no sighting was confirmed.
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New York
TWA
Paria
Siges
Bahama Jelandy
John M. Brondeilo
Camiltio
Barioglia
Azores
New York v
U. S. Coast Guard
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Saat
Paris
Coast Guard
Tnes
Marine Radis
Tp x. Blirid ‘Thessan
Bahamas
Dynamite Used At Strip Mine Halts Digging
Violence flared in a three day dispute as dynamite halted operations at Grasa Flat White coal mine in Pennsylvania. Nonunion truckers were attacked by United Mine Workers pickets. About 45 men were employed at the operation, now shut for at least four weeks.
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Associated Press
Wy Pation
Dunedale Coal Company
Grasa Flat
Rabely W. Smith
United Mine Workers
Hanced
Ford Product
Ford
Cio-United Avian
Galis
Fota
Philip Murray
CIO United
Steel
John L. Lewis
United Mine
Alabama
Pennsylvania
Pickals
Rookie officer nabbed safecracker in Dothan heist
George Whittington reports in Houston County that Pensacola man Silas Fennimore Campbell was caught by a two month rookie policeman Henry W. Hilson after chiselling into a safe at Dothan Auto Parts. The burglar’s loot valued at over 302 dollars was recovered and a burglar’s tool kit seized. Campbell reportedly worked for over an hour, using tear gas to aid entry before being spotted in an alley. Police timed the arrest around 9:27 pm as clocks showed 9:13 and a main switch cut off indicated the break in. The case was investigated by Police Chief Eddie D. Kelley.
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Dothan Auto Parts
Silas Fennimore Campbell
Pensacola
Henry Hilton
Nathan Greenberg
Campbell
George Whittington
Houston County
Fennimore Campbell
Henry W. Hilson
Eddie D. Kelley
Gard Campbell
Dothan
Kellay
Atetley
Hilson
Kelley
Hilton
Mark Is Devalued by West Germans
BONN Germany The West German government announced an immediate devaluation of the deutsche mark the rate changing from 30 to 29 8000 cents. Chancellor Adenauer said the Allied powers had no objection to the new rate and the move was at the request of the Bank Deutscher Laender. He earlier met for four hours with U S British and French high commissioners to protest coal price controls proposed by the Allies.
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Bonn
Garieny
Commission
Central Banking Council
Bank Deutscher Laender German States Bank
Konrad Adelnauer
Knoxville Police Lose Black Maria Wagon
Knoxville police officers on patrol at a restaurant were interrupted when a vehicle drove off with the Black Maria. A broadcast alert went out as county officers aided Knoxville to pursue and recover the patrol wagon.
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Knoxville Police
Knoxville, Térin
Wagom
Knoxville
Laborite Demands Churchill Retirement in Debate
London reports Health Minister Aneurin Bevan denouncing Winston Churchill as peddling fraudulent generalities and urging retirement from public life amid a heated Commons devaluation debate. Bevan lambasted Churchill, accusing him of misrepresenting Britain’s position while Churchill defended his stance and objected to Bevan’s language. The exchange followed a parliamentary ruling on Bevan’s quotation.
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R. H. Shackford London
LLP
Winston Churchill
Aneurin Bevan
Labor Party
Churchill
Bevan
Great Britain
America
Britain
Barkley Eludes St Louis Newsmen
Vice President Barkley slipped into St Louis unguarded and avoided reporters at first. He joined a dinner party at Mrs Carleton S Hadley’s apartment before heading to Kansas City for the Kennedy dinner and a planned trip to attend William M Boyle’s terminal dinner as new Democratic Party chairman.
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BT. Louis
Barkley
Carleton S. Hadley
Buridor
Washington
Dothan Girl Scouts Offer Community Programs
Scouts in Dothan promote arts life skills and safety through activities for members including girls and 50 adults. They support community needs via the Chest drive starting Oct 19, with intermediate troops and homemaking activities teaching cooperation and organized supervised activity across local schools and Parent Teachers associations.
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Dothan United Chest
Girl Scouts
Dothan
Paregt Teachers Association
Tach School
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Fot
Richard Ramsey
Frank Mc Cronny
Honey Cavity
Pirate
Emmet
Sizemore
Jarvee
Charias
Cherry
Wale
Doyle Elliott
Penaf
Wer
Tommie Kirkland
Champ Porker
Carnley
Ford Auto Workers
Mark
Ia Gare
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