Nips Move In On Kweilin in China drive toward city
Japanese forces pressed twin thrusts toward Kweilin in Kwangsi province and advanced along the Hunan Kwangsi railway while Chinese positions on the outskirts faced attack. A supporting column moved to outflank Kweilin from the West as Yungmiing and Pingham bases send units toward Liuchow, with Chinese counterattacks aided by the U.S. 14th Air Force.
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Kwangsi
Kweilin
China
Hunan- Kwangsi
Hunan Province
Yungmiing
Fuch‘wan
West River
Pingham
Kweiping
Liu
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Hallo Ween Party At Decatur Service Men Club
Decatur Service Men's club on Bank Street hosted a Hallo we'en party with junior hostesses and guests. Activities included Halloween games and treats such as apples on a string and roasted arene. Music by Flip lake and Bobby Halfacre accompanied dancing. Bobby, leaving for the armed forces, received special thanks. A Monday hostess meeting was canceled, next month features include an officers dance and a Thanksgiving cadets and enlisted men event, with a Courtland USO dance on November 1.
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Decatur Service Men's Club
Bank Street
Hallowe'en Activ
Hallowe'en
Flip Lake
Bobby Halfacre
Bobby
Armed Forces
Oe Ae
Regmade
Courtland Uso
Secatur
Close of Another Year for Alabama 4-H Clubs
More than 120000 rural Alabama youths finished a year in 4-H club work with state winners named in several contests. Betty Joyce James of Dora 4-H Club won the dress revue state title and a trip to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago. Lyle Garner of Ozark won the dairy foods contest, with a $50 war bond awarded to Elizabeth Burrows. Additional state winners included Eugene Stevenson, Frances Gibbons, Hattie Rib Lim bbaugh, Justine Tucker, Doris Jean Edwards, Virginia Tra wick, Eric Reynolds, and health prize winners Mabel Fare and John K Hall Jr. The program emphasizes wartime food production and training for better farming and homemaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin Ezzell
Auburn
Ala
Alabama
Betty Joyce James
Walker County
Lyda Jean Smith
Sardis Club
Etowah County
Audrey Delaney
Ozark Club
Dale County
Thelma West
Orville Club
Dallas County
Chicago
Lyle Garner
Elizabeth Burrows
Live Oak Club
Greene County
Tommye Sellers
Mary Kate Stubbs
Montgomery County
Colbert County
Martha Hunter
Clara Nell.Alewine
Eugene Stevenson
Madison
Frances Gibbons
Elmore County
Hattie Ruth Limbaugh
Talladega County
Justine Tucker
Hale County
Doris Jean Edwards
Virginia Trawick
Eric Reynolds
Butler County
Mabel Fare
Jackson County
John K. Hall, Jr
Marshall County
T. A. Sims
Girl Scout Parade Activities Set For Weeklong Events
A week of Girl Scout events includes hospital donations for patients and uniform displays in J C Penney Belk Hudsons and Wohl departments. The parade starts Monday at 3 30 p m from the junior high and moves toward Second Avenue Lee Street and Bahk pen e area with planned stops on Tuesday October 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Penney Co
Belk-Hudson's
Wohl's Department
Mos
Lee Street
Bahkpene
Decatur Community Concert Association forms to bring famed artists
The Decatur Community Concert Association was organized Friday with Mrs. W P Baugh elected president and a slate of assistant officers. The plan funds concerts nationwide to eliminate financial risk, allowing 550 Decatur citizens this year to attend all events. Campaign runs Monday to Saturday at the Tennessee Valley Hotel and Tristate Chevrolet, with 50 seats donated to service men. Officers and workers meet midweek at the Service Men's club to monitor membership totals and prize drawings.
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Decatur
W. P. Baugh
H. H
John Nelson
W. E. Curry
H. H. Higdon
Freeman
T. F. Adams
United States
Lily Pons
Nelson Foldy
Helen Jepson
Bartlett and
Robinson
Tennessee Valley Hotel
Tristate Chevrolet Company
Decatur Community Concert Association
Service Men’s Club
Bank Street
DeVerner
New York
Dorothy Dix on Fighting Words in the Home
Dorothy Dix surveys common family triggers that spark domestic quarrels over money children and in laws. She notes sayings about shopping bills bragging about mothers recipes and wealth as frequent sparks and asks readers to name their own deadly phrase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Mary
Providence
Congress
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Daily Crossword Puzzle and Cryptoquote Challenge
A puzzle page presents a crossword with clues across and down and a cryptogram quotation to solve. The page lists numerous numbered clues for coin ed terms and wordplay, a cryptogram themed puzzle attributed to a classic quotation, and notes the source distributor King Features Syndicate.
Ohio’s oldest brick road may lie in Steubenville street
Ohio’s oldest brick road is believed to be a street in Steubenville laid in 1882. The finding highlights local history and the city’s late 19th century urban development.
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Ohio
Steubenville
Electors to bolt ticket in Mississippi
Three of Mississippi's Democratic electors said they would cast their electoral votes for Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia in the electoral college. In a statement signed by W. G. McLain of McComb and Ez. FE. Everett of Indianola, they said Roosevelt and Truman would be inimical to the South, citing race policy, Communist ties, and C I O links, and pledged to vote for Byrd on November 7.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
W. G. McLain
McComb
Ez. FE
South
Roosevelt
Truman
Sidney Hillman
Political Action Committee
Harry Byrd
Bulgarians Sign Armistice Terms
Bulgaria signed an armistice with Russia the United States and Great Britain in Moscow on October 2 1944 ten days after talks between Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin. Preliminary terms accepted on October 11 included evacuation of Greek and Yugoslav territories seized by Bulgaria.
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Moscow
Bulgaria
Russia
United States
Great Britain
Churchill
Stalin
Danville group hosts shoe buying lesson and tea
George D. Sims attended the Danville Home station club meeting in October. Members enjoyed artistic dahlia arrangements and a shoes lesson presented by Miss Rowe. Plans were set for a November Thanksgiving meeting with a covered dinner at Mrs. Add Randolph's home. Hostess served cookies and Russian tea after the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George D. Sims
Danville
Miss Rowe
Mrs. Add Randolph
County drive progress noted across several towns
Drive quotas were reported met in Mt Hope Courtland Town Creek Hillsboro and Wheeler with Lawrence County near halfway. Henderson lamented slow progress but believed the campaign would gain momentum. Cullman County aimed to raise 7500 of 16000 with B Hodges calling a mass meeting tonight at the courthouse to push toward the goal.
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Mt. Hope
Courtland
Town Creek
Hillsboro
Wheeler
Lawrence County
Henderson
Cullman County
B. Hodges
Windows Work Stiffness Hinders Operation
A terse report notes windows move stiffly and are hard to operate, with effort required to raise them and apply paraffin to the sash. The description suggests mechanical friction and maintenance needs without detailing the exact location or cause.
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France
Stinee
Bunyan A. Wallace
Frank Wallace
Falkville One
Fort Leonard Wood
Clyde Marshall
Third Ave
Odell Frazier
Vinemont 2
Leonard B. Johnson
Mary Johnson
Birmingham
L. B. Johnson
Austine
Betty Joyce
Juliette Low
Girl Scouting
Switzerland
PTA
Dod
Appor
Dorothy Dix
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Father
Mother
Daily Crossword
Ireland
Great Lakes
Cicero
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Fas
Sally
Bertha
Lome
Oyd
Turner
Turner Coal & Grain Co
Moulton Street
Aristocrat of
Wall
Wanen
Warren
URS
2Nd Ave
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