Pass, Saves This Flyer Pass
1st Lt. Kermit B. Cavedo, Fortress navigator in England, flew 98 missions. His crew was shot down over Kiel during a weekend pass, taken prisoner, and later returned to service. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal and three Oak Leaf Clusters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kermit B. Cavedo
England
Germany
Courtland Army Air
Paris
Bremen
Wilhelm
Cavedo
Kiel
Hoyoya
Nor
Bardier
Stogey
St Nazaire
Brest
Coast Artillery
Lehnfurt
U. S
Frank A. Cavedo
Stuart Ave
Richand
War Manpower seeks 9000 workers for regional plants
In Atlanta on August 18 the War Manpower Commission announced nine thousand workers are needed to staff 21 critical war plants across the south. Of these, nineteen are cord and duck mills in Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina, with two others at Mobile and Pasagoula. Demand is highest in maston LaGrange Cartersville Columbus and Macon. Also listed as seriously needed are Rockmart Hogansville Barnesville Decatur and other towns in Alabama and South Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Ast
War Manpower Commission
WMC
Dillard B. Lasseter
Cord and Duck Mills
Georgia
Alabama
South Carolina
Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co
Mobile
Ingalls Shipbuilding Co
Pase
Thomaston
LaGrange
Cartersville
Columbus
Macon
Rockmart
Hogansville
Ale
Barnesville
Omery
Decatur
Ala
Andro
S. C
Tail-Gunner Smith Completes 54 Marauder Missions in Europe
Staff Sergeant Jasper L. Smith of Guntersville Alabama, tail-gunner with the Nye's Annihilators of the Ninth Air Force, earned the Air Medal with nine Oak Leaf clusters after flying 54 B-26 Marauder missions over Western Europe. He survived the Abbeville raid with seven flak holes in his suit and an engine out landing. He helped spearhead the D-Day air effort and praised the Channel invasion. Prior to service he was a farmer. his father J Leroy Smith lives in Guntersville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jasper L. Smith
Guntersville
Aia
Europe
Ninth Air Force
Ala
Nye
Glenn C Nye
Raleigh
N. C
Sgt. Smith
Abbeville
Alabama
Smith
Channel
Ft. McClellan
Ft. Myers
Fla
J. Leroy Smith
Second Candidate Enters Race for Montgomery Mayor
W M Anderson Sr a real estate broker announced his qualification with the city Democratic committee as a candidate in the special mayoralty primary on Sept 5 to replace the late Cyrus B Brown. With tomorrow the last day to qualify two candidates entered the race David E Dunn formerly with the state revenue department and most recently PR director for the Beer Industries Foundation. A special election will be held on Sept 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
W. M. Anderson, Sr
City Democratic Committee
Cyrus B. Brown
David E. Dunn
State Revenue Department
Beer Industries Foundation
Germans Launch Short Flying Bomb Attack On London
Officials report a brief night attack by German flying bombs against London and the Southern counties causing casualties and damage according to a morning statement.
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London
Social Security postwar plan faces early 1946 revision
Washington observers expect Congress to begin a substantial rewrite of Social Security law next January. Senator George of Georgia outlines three key questions: equalizing public assistance across states, broadening coverage to include more workers, and creating a nationwide medical and hospital care program. An automatic 1 percent payroll tax rise next Jan. 1 could push total levies to 5 percent or more, funding cradle-to-grave protections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis J. Kelly Washington
Capitol Hill
George
Congress
Senate
Ways and Means Committee
House
Ways and Means
Warning to Japs by Morris J Harris on Occupation Claims
Washington dispatch reports Morris J Harris asserts Roosevelt will place Japan under occupation whether it surrenders or not. He predicts shock to Japanese rulers and a shift in their long held beliefs about invincibility as GI patrols reach Tokyo and China contemplates aiding the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris J. Harris
Associated Press
Shanghai
Japan
Washington
Roosevelt
Sons of Heaven
White House
Tokyo
Ginza
Michigan Boulevard
Fifth Avenue
Market Street
FDR
Ise
Dai Nippon
Chungking
China
Warning on Cigarette Prices by Birmingham Officials
District Price Executive B B Burton warns Birmingham and North Alabama retailers to charge no more than state ceiling prices for cigarettes. Prices vary by store, based on March 1942 max, plus one half cent per pack. Customers may request base filings and report overcharges to local price panels for action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
North Alabama
B. B. Burton
Office of Price Administration
Burton
OPA
Mr. Burton
Speegle Receives Army Air Forces Technician Badge
Technical Sergeant Dewey R. Speegle of Hartselle has been awarded the Army Air Forces technician badge for outstanding technical ability. Capt. Joseph D. Morgan Jr. announced the award while Speegle serves as an airplane mechanic in Africa with an air force service squadron. He has over six months in Air Service Command engineering shops and more than eighteen months overseas since enlisting in July 1940.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewey R. Speegle
Hartselle
Army Air Forces
Joseph D. Morgan Jr
Air Force Service
T-Sagt
Speegle
Africa
Air Service Command
Tommy R. Speegle
Hartseller
Army
Congress Eyes Tax Break Link to Military Service
The discussion centers on tying time spent in the armed services to reductions or adjustments in Social Security taxes. No member of Congress has stated they would vote against pursuing this approach, though no explicit vote has been announced.
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Congress
Francis W. King
North Upton St
Arlington
Iowa
Cathedral Defies War Damage at Chartres
In Chartres the cathedral survived heavy combat with only superficial harm. German snipers in a twin tower were routed by French and American troops while townspeople cleared rubble. Inside, five small windows in the South transept broke, and window sections near the altar were ruined, but the structure remains largely intact.
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Hal Boyle
Chartres
Monseigneur
Leon Lenards
Monseigneur Lenards
Father Finet
Local social notes from Morgan County community
Mrs Viola Melson and Mrs Velma Roberts attended a demonstration at Mrs Byrd West. Cottage prayer services were held at Philip England s home with good attendance. Plans to organize B T U and W M U at the church next Sunday. Several visits among neighbors and relatives from Oak Ridge to Decatur and Pleasant Valley. Various families hosted and hosted guests including Rev F O Parker and Edgar Callahan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viola Melson
Velma Roberts
Byrd West
Philip England
Simon Speakman
Little Son
Oak Ridge
Ben Roberts
A. Q
Robert Louis Knighten
Decatur
Claude Roberts
R. T. Brasseale
Willard Russle
Gayle
Mt. Tabor
Katheryn
Luke Roberts
Artie Lois and
Mildred Johnson
Pleasant Valley
Jeff Johnson
Brothers Reunite in Italy After Two-Year Separation
In Italy a happy reunion occurs when Pfc Neal Holland and his brother Sgt Freeman L Holland meet at a Liberator bomb group base. Neal, 32, now with the 2nd Chemical Unit, traced Freeman via the Red Cross and AP0 number. Freeman, 23, serves in the Ordnance Section of a 15th Army Air Force Liberator group.
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Fifteenth Army Air Force
Freeman L. Holland
Pfe
Neal Holland
Italy
15Th Army Air Force
Sgt
Freeman
Neal
Red Cross
Nome
Pfc
Catherine Holland
4Th St. W
Decatur
Holland Transportation Co
T. S. Holland
Hillsboro
Ala
Holland
Europe
Texas Sergeant Escapes After Slaying Two Nazis
A rugged Texas first sergeant from Hargill named Stewart Granville, serving with a reconnaissance squadron, escaped captivity after killing five Nazi snipers. He overpowered his captors in a dust-filled car and walked three miles back to American lines, then returned for chow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Texas
Stewart Granville
Hargill
Tex
Gandhi plea rejected as independence demand denied
New Delhi reports Field Marshall Lord Wavell rejected Gandhi's request for a conference to discuss immediate independence. Gandhi said India must gain strength to wrest power, while the Viceroy offered to consider any definite policy. He noted Britain will not relinquish control over 400 million Indians. Gandhi promised moral effort and wartime nationalist support. He also spoke of a planned meeting with Mohammed Ali Jinnah to seek influence on independence.
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New Delhi
Lord Wavell
Mohandas K. Gandhi
India
Gandhi
Wardha
Mahomed Ali Jinnah
The Road to Berlin Front Distances Summary
Russian front distance 322 miles from War suburbs. Northern France 575 miles from Aunay east of Chartres. Italian front 600 miles from Florence. Southern France 680 miles from near Cannes.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Warsaw
France
Aunay River
Chartres
Florence
Cannes
New League of Nations Proposal Sent to Senate
President Roosevelt plans to submit a new League of Nations to the Senate and later seek authority to enforce peace treaties, according to a New York Times dispatch from Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW League
New York
Roosevelt
League of Nations
Senate
New York Times
Washington
Retonga touted by Huntsville resident in vitamin relief claim
Hundreds praise Retonga with claims of relief from sour stomach indigestion gas pain and constipation. H. W. Widner of Route 3 Huntsville Alabama describes renewed appetite steady nerves and constant activity after using Retonga. Adv promotes Retonga as a vitamin B-1 deficiency remedy available at Caddell Drug Co.
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Retonga
H. W. Widner
Route 3
Box 13
Huntsville
Ala
Caddell Drug Co
FDR and Truman Meet as Dewey Attacks Dumbarton Plans
President Roosevelt held a luncheon with Senator Harry S. Truman to discuss campaign plans for his fourth term. Democratic and Republican leaders clash over Dewey’s calls on the Dumbarton Oaks conference with senators denouncing or defending his stance and arguing over future world peace policy.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Congress
Thomas E. Dewey
Dumbarton Oaks
Vandenberg
R.-Mich
America
Connally
D.-Tex
Seniate Foreign Relations Committee
Dewey
Senator Tunnell
D.-Del
New Yorker
Primary vote trend points to sharp drop this fall
Washington reports a lighter election outlook as the AP survey of 18 states shows declines in governor and senator primaries in 16 states. The combined party ballots in those primaries indicate a turnout far below the 1940 level, with only Ohio and South Carolina exceeding recent primary totals and registrations also down.
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Washington
Associated Press
Ohio
South Carolina
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