Ninth Fat Stock Show Opens With 400 Calves Competing
The ninth annual Tri-State Fat Stock Show opens with about 400 calves entered, roughly 200 by 4H and FFA youths from Wiregrass counties. Judges begin at 1 p.m. with breed classifications and weight divisions, favoring Hereford Aberdeen and Short horn calves. Winners receive expense trips to Chicago or Kansas City, with housing planned for 4H and FFA youths overnight and sales scheduled for tomorrow at 10 a.m.
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Tri - State
Ramsey and Son Livestock Company
North Oates Street
Penick
Richard Ramsey
Dethan Chamber of Commerce , Livestock Committee
C. M. Ling
Houston County Aseif
Ling
Hereford
Aberdeen
Covington
Barbour
Houston
Henry
Geneva
Dale
Coffee
Chicago
Line Of Defense Prepared As Flood Spreads In Mississippi
Army engineers plug gaps in the last flood line as tributaries crest. The Mississippi runs at flood stage from Montana to the gulf, with Morganza floodway eyed to divert 640000 cubic feet per second. Officials forecast record floods into April, evacuations underway in Warren County and rising Red River levels near Alexandria.
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New Orleans
Mississippi
Towa
Gulf of Mexico
Cource
Morganza
Gulf Co
George H. Hudson
U. S
DeWitt Pyburn
Public Works
James H. Davis
Board of Liquidation
Arkansas
Texas
Missouri
Lousiana
Tennessee
Shreveport
Red River
R. W. Sauer
Vicksburg
Fulton
Arkansas-Louisiana
Warren County
Miss
Yazoo
Mississippi Tivers
Alexandria
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Army
Memphis
World War Fronts Advance Across Multiple Theaters
The Western Front reports British and Canadian forces pressing toward the Zuider Zee as German Army Group H risks entrapment. two thirds of Muenster cleared and Bremen and Hannover menaced. Soviet forces penetrate toward Vienna and advance in the Brat- and Sammarine Passes. Allied efforts widen Rhine bridgehead and push toward the Adriatic. In Asia, U.S. and allied units push along the Japanese perimeter on coastal and island fronts, while strategic movements unfold along the Balkan and Slovak fronts.
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Associated Press
Zuider Zee
Ruhr
Muenster
Bremen
Hannover
Third
Reich
Seventh
Nuermberg
Rhine
Gotha
Kassel
Gotha Jz
Weimar
Caschoslovakia
Leipzig
Jabbad
Fulds
Germany
Whippole
Thuringian
Rateh
George 8. Patton
Subf
Czechoslovakia
Meiningen
Tota
Third Army
Seventh Army
Wuerzburg
Anabach
Neemberg
Lower Rhine
Zuider Zer
Amsaterdam
Rotterdam
Hague
Fort McClellan Polio Outbreak Controlled
AP reports Fort McClellan polio cases not serious enough to halt inductions. Col James T Johnson Jr says he is investigating and has checked with the State Health Department whose reports show no epidemic. Any action to stop or transfer inductions would come from the Fourth Service Command not the headquarters.
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Fourth Service
Draft To Allow Vital Industries More Under 30
Washington AP reports the 30 percent deferment cap for young workers fell again to aid Army and Navy programs chiefly aircraft. An additional 10 000 under 30 will remain deferred, likely expanding aircraft sector relief. McNutt committee led by Paul V McNutt made the decision with details kept private. Army Air Forces may take about 6 000 of the new deferments, Navy Bureau of Aeronautics about 4 000, amid ongoing adjustments to the 8 percent W formula across industries.
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Washington
Army
McNutt Committee
Paul V. McNutt
Navy
Army Air Forces
Bureau of Aeronautics
J. A. Krug
War Production Board
Great Lakes
Airport Building Will Be Enlarged by City Commission
The Airport Committee asked the City Commission for authority to negotiate for extra facilities at Municipal Airport in anticipation of Eastern Airlines service. Dr. D C Halsten said the aim was to plan and obtain bids so the airline can know costs. The group noted the city would fund expansion while the airline would pay higher rent. Members Dr I C Bates M L Hanahan Jr and Jim Spann said the airline seeks a renewed five year contract suspended when Army training occupied the airport and sought permission to install a gasoline tank. The Commission approved the committee’s action and any further steps to attract airlines via Dothan.
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City Commission
Eastern Aarelines
D. C. Halsten
I. C. Bates
M. L. Hanahan, Jr
Jim Spann
Dothan
Ayres Appointed to Short Term on City Commission
John D. Ayres was appointed by Commissioners Miles A. Miller and Clyde L. Coe to fill six months of the unexpired term of resigning McKinney on the city commission. Ayres was nominated for president, then voted to lead. He signed bills as his first official act.
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John D. Ayres
Miles A. Miller
Clyde L. Coe
McKinney
Ayres
Miller
Coe
Commission
T. E. Buntin
Army seeks 122 million for overseas dead burial program
The War Department will ask Congress for 122.9 million to repatriate and bury American World War II dead in 79 national cemeteries. A Senate committee study allocates 109.0 million for cemetery construction and 9.0 million for operating personnel, with other funds for funeral transport and equipment. The plan hinges on 70 percent or more of nearest kin requesting burial. otherwise cases may be handled individually in the theater of death. Cemeteries proposed include sites in Alabama Birmingham 90 090 capacity and Georgia Macon 100 600 capacity, among others, outlining regional needs and international theater contingencies.
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Washington
API
War Department
Congress
Quartermaster General's Office
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Hill DeAlai
United States
Alabama
Birmingham
Georgia
Macon
Observation Planes Use Two Captured Airfields
Observation planes operated from two captured airfields Katena and Yontan as 24th Corps infantry reached Tobera on Okinawa's east coast in a two and a half mile push. Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge's unit split south central Okinawa and stood along Katsuren Bay near Nab...
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Elmont Waalte
GUAM
24Th Corps
Okinawa
Nakafork Bay
Katena
Yontan
Ryukyu Island
Japan
John R. Hodge
Tobrea
Katsuren Bay
Russians Reach Baden Amid Vienna Area Push
London AP dispatch reports Russian spearheads reaching the Baden area about midway between Vienna and Wiener Neustadt, with Second Ukrainian Army units battering Bratislava gates. German high command says Soviets halted south of the Austrian capital. Heavy street fighting described in Wiener Neustadt.
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Austrian
Baden
KY Rickard Kasischee
London
Viennia
Wiener Neustadt
Transocean
Vienna
Rodion Y. Matinovsky
Bratislava
Litvekta
Bruenn
Modra
Malinovsky
Whener Neustadt Transocean
United States backs off extra votes at San Francisco parley
Washington AP reports President Roosevelt will not seek any additional votes at the world assembly to be proposed at the San Francisco conference. Secretary Stettinius says the move does not alter Roosevelt's earlier pledge to back Russia's request for two more votes via Ukrainian and White Russian Soviets.
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Washington
Presi Gent
Moosevelt
United States
World Assembly
San Francisco
Stettinius
Yales
Russia
Forces Hit Kiel Naval Base In Heavy US Raid
The US Eighth Air Force led a daylight strike against Kiel with about 73 Flying Fortresses and 650 fighters, targeting Kiel harbor and subs yards. RAF Mosquitos attacked Berlin and Magdeburg, while 12th Air Force fighters strafed northern Yugoslavia and southeast Austria. weather limited some operations.
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Henry B. Jameson
London
Eighth Air Force
Kiel
U.S
Italy
Tannach-Steil
Klagenfurt
Austria
Britain
Germany
Bremen
Hamburg
Wilhelmshaven
AA. 5
Army Air Force
Diers
Drava
12Th Air Force
Yugoslavia
Berlin
Magdeburg 1
Magdeburg
Holland
Invasion Meats Minor Opposition From Enemy Invasion
In Luzon southern region encirclement neared completion as Lt Army Corps and 158th Regimental Combat Team landed at Legaspi Harbor seizing the city with little resistance. U S Seventh Fleet and air forces subdued Japanese artillery while Grinwold’s 14th Corps pushed inland at Alarhings Busulan and Maputi hills.
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Fred Hampson
Manila
Louzon
Ldth Army Corps
Legsapi Harbor
Hanford MacNider
Navy
Fifth Air Force
Doughbour
MacNider
H. F. McGree
Jefferson Parish
New Orleans
Owesr W. Grinwold
Luzon
Bicol
Legurd
Alarhings
Laguna de Bay
Busulan
Maputi
First Cavalry
Zind
Halete Pass
Cebu
Gochan Hill
Lahog
Philippines
Zamboanga
After V-E Day What Answers Loom in Europe
After Victory in Europe most American soldiers will not return home for long periods. Visits will be brief, lasting two to four weeks, then on to Tokyo or the Philippines. Few will stay permanently. many will be carried home only on stretcher if Japan is not yet won. The news notes the heartbreak for families despite jubilation.
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Europe
Associated Press
Ts Ace
Washington
Iive
Eltom C. Fay
John M. Rightover
Tokyo
France
Philippines
Japan
Miners Idle Across Pennsylvania After Contract Extension
About 3,000 miners were idle of 100,000 in the Pennsylvania soft coal field as a 30 day extension of the United Mine Workers contract was announced. Reports to the Solid Fuels Administration show 45 mines employing 16,978 down in western Pennsylvania with 10,000 more absent from pits. SFA at Altoona reported 11 mines in central Pennsylvania.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
United Mine Workers
Solid Fuels Administration
SFA
Altoona
Nazi Light Cruiser, Four Other Vessels Fired By Bombers
LONDON AP The German light cruiser Koln and Viner probably used as a troopship, plus four other vessels, were set afire and a 270 foot motor ship sunk in a U S Eighth Air Force raid on Wilhelmshaven March 30. Two submarines were sunk and another damaged as 1400 heavy bombers with 900 fighters hit shipyards and docks at Bremen Hamburg and Wilhelms haven causing extensive damage to yards oil facilities and a bridge.
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London
Koln
Viner
U.S
Eighth Air Force
Wilhelmshaven
Bremen
Hamburg
Deschimag Shipbuilding
Wilhelmehaven
Acree Injured Walking Into Auto at Main and Oates
Walter P. Acree, operator of a Dothan parking lot, was injured when he walked into a moving automobile at Main and Oates. Patrolman Sam Rice, an eye witness, said Acree was knocked to the pavement and rushed to a hospital in an ambulance. Noly St Dennis of Dothan Route 2 drove slowly and was unaware of the mishap until hailed.
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Walter P. Acree
Dothan
Main
Oates Street
Sam Rice
Acree
Rice
Noly St. Dennis
Ubill
Rice Zald
Rice Gald Dennis
British Canadian Troops Near German Coast
Allied forces push toward the German coast with the Third Army deep into central Germany, advancing near Kassel and Gotha while British and Canadian columns threaten the Zuider Zee region. U S Ninth and First Armies tighten the Ruhr pocket as crackdowns stall German attempts to break out.
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James M. Long
Paris
Third Army
Fourth Armored
Gathe
Reich
Czechoslovakia
Berlin
Zuider Zee
We North Sea
Holland
U. S
Ninth Army
Weser
First Army
Stremnpta
Nazie
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Limburg
Signal Corps
FFA
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Wener Neustadt
Brat- Fewn
Sammarine
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Als
Myintes
Orremal Bodv
Slovakia
Traytan
Poman
Betwee Valli di Fomanchin
Adriatic
Seeges
Legeepl
Associated Arena
Zellin
Werra River
Eisenach
Reno River
Tomizht
W. P. Acree
Ornabrueck
Vreme
Hanover
Armored
Werre
Herford
Elbe Vilver
Eisenhoer
Recklinghaven
Emcer
Duisburg
Dorland
First
Eisenhower
Winterberg
Tores
Neu Amfenberg
Don Whitehead
Ninth Armored
Bonenberg
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