Airlines Fight Examiners on Short Haul Plan
Air Transport Association of America objects to two CAB examiners proposals to expand local feeder service. The letter warns against peacetime misreads of wartime limits and anticipates rapid private aviation growth alongside faster surface transport and new light aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James J. Strebig
Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
CAB
William J. Madden
Albert E. Beitel
Air Transport Association of America
Cullman County Gardeners Plant Potatoes In Spring
The community enjoys favorable weather as farmers plant potatoes and tend gardens. Visits marked by families from Cullman and Birmingham. Alfred Taylor, two years overseas with the U S N, visits kin. Mrs Frank Mitchell dies Sunday March 11. Burial at Fellowship cemetery. Sympathy extended. W L Williams returns home to farm. Joe Winton of Somerville visits brother Frank Mitchell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilburn Veal
Cullman
D. H. Phillips
Birmingham
W. L. Williams
Alfred Taylor
VU. S. N
Odis Taylor
Frank Mitchell
Fellowship
Joe Winton
Somerville
Evening PTA Program Promises Family Fun at Hazlewood High
Hazlewood Parents Teachers Association hosts an evening of games and stunts on Tuesday March 21 at 8 PM in the high school auditorium Town Creek designated as fathers night All patrons urged to attend. Entertainment directed by Celia Martin Etta Sanderson and Robert Berryman Refreshments led by Bennie Burnham with Roosevelt McCormack and O N West as committee. Fred Adkins is PTA president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazlewood
O. N. West
Fred Adkins
Leaning Pisa tower began to tilt before completion
The article notes the Leaning Tower of Pisa started leaning during construction in the mid fourteenth century, indicating instability appeared early in its building.
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Pisa
Murder at the Penthouse Endangers Syria Verne
Investigator Argus Steele reconstructs a fatal shooting after Syria Verne is found dead in her locked penthouse. The scene ties to Pierre Sturgis, Bill Carstairs, Ellen Curtis, and a sallow stranger. Grange questions Sturgis and Carstairs as a web of lovers, rivals, and possible blackmail unfolds around a Hollywood contract and a vanished phone list.
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Syria
Martinelli
Hollywood
Ellen
Pierre Sturgis
Pierre
Argus
Bill Carstairs, III
Roger Flagg
Grange
Lucy
Steele
Butch
Smith
Sturgis
Carter
Carters
Maison
Ben
Frippley’s
Dancer Martinelli
Ellen Curtis
Dancer
Flagey
India
Flagg
Bill Carstairs
Penguin Club
Dorry
Carstairs
Syria Verne
Herr Himmler
Kansas
New York
Mona New Pin-Up Girl For Soldiers
Mona becomes a famed Caribbean pin up for U S service members across bases from Trinidad to Greenland. Created by Charles B Flory and Maj James W Twitty Mona's image spreads via The Thunderhead drawing attention from 500000 servicemen. Her face evolves while the body remains iconic, a wartime morale symbol with a possible postwar future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Thale
Miami Herald
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Gods
Betty Grable
Mona
Trinidad
Africa
Greenland
James W. Twitty
Antilles Air Command
Technical Corp
Charles B. Flory
Chicago
Thunderhead
Flory
AAC
Caribbean
Ex-Minister Pucheu Executed in Algiers
Pierre Pucheu former Vichy interior minister was executed today by firing squad for treason and collaboration with Germany. The five man court convicted him of treason malfeasance in office and collaboration while acquitting conspiracy to overthrow the Third Republic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algiers
Pierre Pucheu
Pucheu
Henri Giraud
France
Leon Verin
Third Republic
Court of Justice
Stolen cash recovered in Decatur robbery incident
Decatur police recovered fifty three dollars stolen Sunday morning from the Gulf filling station on Sixth Avenue and Church Street. Two young Negro juveniles were taken into welfare custody as they were deemed too young for formal prosecution. One boy talked with station owner C. E. Movers while the other rifled the cash register. the missing money was found hidden in several places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Gulf
C. E. Movers
Sixth Avenue
Church Street
Whitmire
Movers
Winds Flatten Homes in Perry County Alabama
Strong winds and heavy rain swept through two sections of Perry County injuring at least one person. A cotton warehouse and two Negro dwellings collapsed in Uniontown SE, another house on highway 80 near Marion was damaged, and five houses plus a dairy plant nearby suffered damage. A Negro woman, Ethel Lewis, 30, suffered a broken arm when her farm dwelling was flattened near Marion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Ala
Perry County
Uniontown
Highway 80
Here
Ethel Lewis
Fishermen To Get An Extra Meal
Washington dispatch reports the Office of Price Administration authorizes commercial fishermen and inland water workers to receive ration points for four meals daily. Applicants must apply to local rationing boards. OPA says boat crews eat one meal every six hours and require extra food rations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Three Questions Before Buying Any Laxative
A vintage ad asks three questions about laxatives and promotes Black-Draught as effective. It asserts demand a satisfactory remedy, notes prompt relief when used as directed, and claims 25 cents covers 25 to 40 doses with a caution to follow directions.
Vogue Editor Edna Chase Rejects Bad Taste In Scraps
Edna Woolman Chase, editor in chief of Vogue, explains a fierce rejection policy and a plain office as she built Vogue into a top fashion authority. She values editorial discernment, explains staff selection for taste, and weighs whether Paris or New York will lead after the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adelaide Kerrap
Edna Woolman Chase
America
Vogue
Mrs. Chase
New York
Hhttle Edna Alloway
Brooklyn
Ologue
Arthur Turnure
Conde Nast
Paris
Francis Chase
Richard Newto
Ilka Chase
France
War Food Administration extends hog slaughter without permit
The War Food Administration has extended indefinitely the period farmers may slaughter hogs and deliver pork without permit. State supervisor William R. Sewell said the suspension, first set from Nov 17, 1943 to Feb 17, 1944, was extended to March 17 and Amendment 12 to Food Distribution Order No. 75 imposes no termination date on the suspension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Food Administration
William R. Sewell
WFA
Office of Distribution
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King Features Syndicate
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Buck
BELK
Scotts
Yosemme
Mexico
R J. Scot
Pettey
Pet Ena
Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City
N. Y
Pepsi-Cola Bottling CO
War
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
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