Engineers in Plea for Men
Lt. Beckmann, U S Army recruiting representative, says the services must build before they can fight across all branches. He outlines construction needs from roads and bases to bridges and tunnels and lists required trades for Army engineers between ages 38 and 50. The Niagara Falls brink is receding at about two and a half feet per year.
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Army
Navy
Beckmann
United States Army
Beckman
Army Corps of Engineers
Army Engineers
Corps of Engineers
Niagara Falls
Mexico City Romance Sparks Runaway Homecoming
Jean Martsen, secretary to a Rancho Casolina owner, grapples with a confusing love triangle in Mexico. Curley, the daredevil, arrives to whisk her away to a festive Rancho dinner as she battles nostalgia and fear, while a missing brother inquiry shadows the affair.
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Melvin Marsden
Jean Marsden
Spode
Iteyr Landis
Eee Cent
Mexico
Jean
Curley
Steve
Rancho
Mexico City
Preaching Service Next Sunday in Limestone County Capshaw
Miss Balch notes preaching services Sunday June 20 at 3 30 inviting all. The column lists local families visiting relatives in Cornersville Fayetteville Jeff and other nearby towns, with several Balch and Smith households mentioned among attendees and a silver tea at Mrs Ro complete but readers see local social and church gathering details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hester Smith
W. E. Smith
Leon Swanner
Cornersville
Tenn
Jesse
Ralph
Bruce Balch
Helen
Flossie James
Joe Balch
Coleman Ray
Jeff
P. E. Balch
Capshaw Club Seeks Bert Wiggins
Prosch of Birmingham, Alabama visits aunt Mrs J D Taylor while Bert Wiggins appears in Capshaw club matter through local social notices and letters.
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Bert Wiggins
Capshaw Club
Wuiss
Uvan Prosch
Birmingham
Ala
J.D. Taylor
Britons Obtain Nineteenth Egg Amid Rationing
June 15 report notes Britons receive the 19th egg of the year under rationing. The piece adds that surplus old potato stock in America is valued near $6 per ton for pig feed, drawing interest from potato conscious consumers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
New V mail Plan Lets Soldiers See Baby Pictures
Washington announces a regulation allowing sending a baby's photograph via V mail to overseas fathers. The policy applies to children under one year old born after the father left home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Morgan County Union Hill Social Roundup
Norris Wray and Delmar Bagwell visited Morgan City. A stream of visitors crossed between Morgan City Hartselle Decatur Guntersville and West Point as families hosted relatives and friends through the weekend. Several residents were noted as ill traveling or undergoing operations with others reported in town for errands and visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norris Wray
Delmar Bagwell
Morgan City
Delma Bagwell
Joe
Hartselle
Ruby Willis
Mary Culbreath
Lara Hipp
Eva
Fred Culbreath
Imcee Compton
Robert Wray
Mary Sue Henderson
Nashville
Tenn
N. C. Henderson
Lurline Culbreath
Edna Sue Light
Wilda Willis
Jim Ryan
Guntersville
Gadsden
Joyce
John
Roy McCutcheon
James Brooks
Myrtle Culbreath
Woodland Mill
Clifford Haga
West Point
Freda Henderson
Baugh’s
H. F. Clark
Leo Abercrumbia
Joyce Light
Edna Sue
Ryan
Bobbie Lamon
Georgia
Dovie Steadham
Decatur
Dewey Steadwham
Dock Whisenant
Jim Connors
Dewey Steadham
Sue Light
Lesley Willis
Estell Henson
Joe and
Billy Weathers
Coy Ryan
Baptism by Telephone Marks First in Methodist Records
Four months old Emily Whittlesey of Lakeview Oregon is baptized by telephoning from Lakeview to Upper Montclair New Jersey. Bishop Herbert Welch directs the father in the service from New Jersey as the methodist telephoned baptism becomes the first in church records.
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Lakeview
Ore
Upper Montclair
N. J
Emily Whittlesey
John Herbert
Herbert Welch
Welch
New Jersey
Government places new quota on synthetic shoes
Washington reports an Office of Price Administration and War Production Board move to tie synthetic footwear to leather quotas. Manufacturers may sell only leather pairs per quota, with synthetic shoes under the same limit unless relief is granted. Rationing of leather shoes continues with coupon No 18 taking effect Wednesday.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
War Production Board
WPB
United States Department of Commerce
June 22 Der Tag War Date in Moscow War View
AP report marks June 22, 1943 as the Nazis second invasion anniversary in Russia. It notes Hitler faces limits from weather and a shifted focus to central Russia while the Caucasus campaign appears a decoy as Stalin argues for additional blows from West and East to end Nazi rule.
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Henry Cassidy
Moscow
New York
Russia
Hitler
Berlin
United Nations
Kerch
Crimea
Kharkov
May civilian casualties highest of year in UK air raids
The Ministry of Home Security reports 584 killed or missing and 733 seriously injured in UK air raids last month, the highest monthly toll of 1943 so far. April had 172 killed and 205 injured, while January topped the year before with 328 killed and 507 injured.
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London
United Kingdom
Ministry of Home Security
Local visits highlight weekend social rounds
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Ryan and Richard Godfrey of Guntersville visited Mr. and Mrs. Barney Light on Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Bagwell spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Homer Bagwell.
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Wilson Ryan
Richard Godfrey
Guntersville
Barney Light
Delmar Bagwell
Homer Bagwell
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Hou
Senor Curley
Rosita
Henri
Limestone County Capshaw
Miss Balch
Warren
DUNE
Second Ave
Moulton St
Morgan County
Union Hill
Miss Dovie Steadham
By James Marlow
George Lielke
Caucasus
Baku
Stalingrad
Red Army
Taganrog - Kharkov - Kursk
Josef Stalin
Caucasian
Novorossisk
Stalin
Germany
Ukraine
Don
Winter Garmen
Procase
Ganbiin
Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City
M. Y
Pepgi-Cola Bottiang CO
Nature
Aachen
Ae Saat
Sac
Anaya
Hanes
Winston- Salen
Noth Carolan
Hanes Underwear
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