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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jun 25, 1945

Page

5

Society Notes from Mobile Range Ties and Travels

Edward L Uptain finishing Navy School of Music in Washington DC and heading to Brisbane Australia for first Navy band assignment. Carolyn Peurifoy returns from Montevallo for weekend visit. Various local residents relocate travel and family updates including Lt Atlee Hoff critical illness and Lt William Eyster promotion amid postwar assignments.

Edward L. Uptain C. E. Uptain Navy School of Music Washington, D. C U. S .Navy Brisbane Australia William Bibb Eyster US. N. R Eyster Norfolk C. H. Eyster Orange Texas

War Day By Day Bombardment To Fall On Japan

A wartime column predicts a massive aerial bombardment of Japan as the prelude to amphibious invasion. General Arnold states Germany faced only amateur bombing and foresees 2,000,000 tons of bombs hitting the Japanese home islands in the coming year, aiming to cripple industry by autumn.

Japan Arnold United States Army Air Forces Germany

Lost gas ration book mislaid by Mrs Homer M Jones

Notice lists Mrs Homer M Jones of 303 West Gordon Drive as having lost a B gas ration book. authorities remind owner to report found items and request return to rightful owner.

Homer M. Jones W. Gordon Drive

Argentine hotel proves a rebel writer’s costly ruse

Terry Arnold, a young American novelist, travels to Buenos Aires to hide from Europe and pursue a second book. Mistaken for a Boston heiress, she is treated as royalty in a royal suite. A flirtation with Don de Vera and a looming mistaken-identity plot drive the tale toward a cliffhanger.

Terry Arnold Terry States Miss Ainsworth Boston Buenos Aires Senorita North America Louis Fitz Turner Don de Vera

Bombing Will Cripple Japan as 1000 B-29 Raids Loom

The speaker asserts that sustained air attacks on Germany proved decisive and argues Japan is more vulnerable. They predict effective raids against Tokyo with 1,000 B-29s running regularly may force capitulation without eradicating every Japanese fighter, while warning against overconfidence.

Japan Germany

Sibert to Train Medical Units in 1945

The Fourth Service Command selects Camp Sibert Alabama as an Army service forces medical unit training center for troops redeploying from Europe to the Pacific. About 4,500 men will retrain in August with numbers rising to full capacity by year’s end.

Atlanta Fourth Service Command Camp Sibert Ala Army Service Forces Europe Pacific Sibert

Postwar Wiring Courses Planned for Alabama Extension Workers

Auburn Alabama extension workers will attend ten one day courses on wiring and insulating electric services P O Davis extension director at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute announced the plan.

Auburn Ala Alabama Alabama Polytechnic Institute

Nazarenes Begin a Tent Revival

The Church of the Nazarene has started a tent revival in a structure on 7th Avenue West near Moulton Street. Evangelist Rev. L. L. Mathis of Princeton Florida preaches each night at eight, with Leon Cook and wife of Sheffield directing music.

Church of the Nazarene 7Th Avenue West Moulton Street L. L. Mathis Princeton Fla Leon Cook Sheffield

Dear Miss Dix advice column on money control and family duty

Dorothy Dix answers readers about financial independence inside marriage and managing a frugal husband. She urges the war bride to assert money rights, warns of peonage risk, and notes practical options. Other letters cover leaving an unstable home with a stepfather and advising a sixteen year old on dating and self‑confidence.

Miss DIX the Treasury Yale

Recognition Of Skin Disorders

Article reviews how skin symptoms can signal internal diseases notably diabetes. It lists necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum xanthoma and scleredema as conditions seen on arms legs and skin, stressing sugar tests and diabetes treatment, plus notes on boils, erythema multiforme, and postnatal breast rash with allergy considerations.

Anson Cannon Columbia University Cannon

Cholera Fatalities Reported in Chungking

Lt Cmdr Frank Herrington of the U S embassy said cholera outbreaks in Chungking since early this month have produced at least 4000 cases and no fewer than 800 deaths, a conservative estimate.

Chungking Cmdr Frank Herrington Usnr U. S

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Carolyn Peurifoy Alabama College At Montevallo H. N. Peurifoy Albert Frahn Birmingham W. L. White Panama City Tyndall Field Courtland Army Air Field Roy Horton Wilder Place Peoria Ill Ted Dupés W.C. Pirtle Nashville, Tenn Shirley Braswell Annie Lou Hooten Mrs. Sasser Montgomery Cornelian Hotel Ben Nagy Allen Harrisburg Sgt. Nagy Lt. Atlee Henkel Hoff Naval Base Hospital Brooklyn N._Y George Morris Francis Johnson East Moulton Street North Carolina Michigan Johnson Frank Rymer Albert Betty Rose Jerry Lynn Lillard Reliance, Tenn Harry Higdon Higdon Dorothy Frazier Dye U. S. Marine Corps Santa Anita Calif A. J Frazier I. M. Eubanks Fayetteville Tenn G. E. Marr T'ed Major and Son East Cain Street Curtis Gover Florida Department of Agriculture Back Bay Virginia T. M. Wiley Kathryn Ann Fayetteville, Tenn S&s .Pekoe Lydia E. Pinkham Pinkham Goidel’s Drug Store Madam Harrison America Highway 31 Deer Springs State of Decatur All Business Princes Central Press Association Lois Eby OS John C. Fleming Chapter Uncle John Ethel Vermont New York John Happi Reich Nazarenes Dorothy DIX J. R Goode-Mirae Second Ave King Fame Syndicaiained Moye’s Decatur Cleaners Johnston St 2Nd Ave Remington Rand Agency—Sales and Service Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company Loyd’s WSGN the News-Age-Herald Station Alabama Flour Mills
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