Infantry Show Aimed At War Bond Drive In May
The county plans a giant infantry show titled Here's Your Infantry to aid the Seventh War Loan drive. The event is set for May 16 at Wiregrass Memorial Stadium with about 70 service members in three phases, including a living tableau and assault team. Houston County quota is $1,817,000 with $93,000 in E bonds.
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Dothan
Robert Ramsey
County War Finance Committee
Houston County
Ramsey
Truman Leads Nation's Mourners At Last Rites
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was buried Sunday in the Hudson valley garden he loved, as eight government dignitaries and notable guests gathered for simple, majestic rites. The Presidential train returned to Washington, and the nation began its mourning for a four term leader who guided the country through war. Alfred Clay and Prime Minister MacKenzie King attended, with a 21 gun salute marking the solemn burial in Hyde Park.
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Howard Flieger Roosevelt
Ryde Park
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hudson Valley
Roosevelt
Touman
Washington
Presid Roosevelt
Truman
White House
Hyde Park
Supreme Court
MacKenze King
Canada
Alfred Clay
Si Fu
Warren G. Harding
Krum Elbow
Military Guard of Honor
Church Attendance Shows Gain Here
Attendance at Sunday School and worship services rose slightly from the prior week in a weekly church attendance report. Morning worship reached 1,733 and evening worship 952, with several local churches listed as contributors to the tally.
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Ing
Real
Weing
First Lafayette Street Methodist
Renal Steet Methodist
Grandview Adiand Avenue Baptist
Apacopal
First Presbyterian
Ministerial Association
Rotary, Lions, Siwanis
Exchange
World War fronts and actions across Europe Pacific fronts
The report outlines Allied advances and German offensives across Western and Eastern Europe, with Canadian forces trapping Germans in Holdad and Brtish French siege efforts at Branen and Bordeaux. On the Soviet front, a massive push toward Berlin and Vienna is noted as the Oder line buckles under pressure. In Italy, Allied troops push Bologna from the southeast as Fifth Army advances near Bólona. The Pacific theater reports 400 Superform attacks on Tokyo, landings near Okinawa, and U.S. advances toward Lat Ws and Baguio in counteroffensives.
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Associated Press
Grmany
Nuemberg
Elbe
Holdad
Branen
Bordeaux
Oder Line
Berlin
E Tront
Vienna
Eighth Army
Bologna
Tokyo
Ka- Stak
Okinawa
U.S
Lat
Baguio
YMCA Plans Takeover Of Dothan Recreation Center
City officials move to transfer operation of the Dothan Recreation Center to a private body with YMCA likely to assume control. Commission President John D. 4 and Commissioner Clyde J. Coe met with Teo Andrews of the Federal Security Agency, discussing future management as the center’s obligations are phased out. The recreation center committee led by Jim Spann is expected to seek city relief and invite YMCA representatives to discuss taking over operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dothan
Commission
John D. 4
Clyde J. Coe
Teo Andrews
Federal Security Agency
Recreation Center Committee
Jim Spann
YMCA
Y.m.ca
Decrease In Jap Artillery Fire On Okinawa Noted
AP reports a noticeable decrease in Japanese artillery fire along Okinawa's southern front as the campaign nears its third week. The 10th Army extends control across central Ryukyus while operations blind enemy resistance. U S Marines advance toward the island’s northern tip and Kerama group landings push the broader offensive closer to Japan.
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Leif Erickson
Guam
Okinawa
Japan
Tenth Army
Ryukyu Island
Wert
Rapid- SE
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Com
Munique
Doughboys
Kenfu
Kerama
Kerama Islands
77Th Army
Okawa
City Heads Discuss Light Plant Service
City officials addressed maintaining water and light plant services amid wartime equipment shortages. Mayor John D Ayres noted demand for facilities while Ralph Goodwin, the department head, said the greatest need is more electrical wire and a shortage of suitable meters. He cited war priorities delaying equipment and that only about 3,700 meters are in use with limited stock allowed under War Production Board rules.
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City Commission
Commission
John D.ayres
Ralph Goodwin
Ayres
Goodwin
War Production Board
Birmingham Steel Mills Cut Output
The Tennessee Coal, Tron and Railroad Co. reduced steel and iron output in Birmingham as coal miners stayed idle for a third week. Ensley steel works halted steel production except two of six furnaces. Fairfield steel works saw two of three furnaces down, with plate and structural mills closed for shipbuilding. Estimated daily loss was about 4,500 tons.
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Birmingham
Tennessee Coal, Tron and Railroad Co
U.S. Teel
Enssey Steel Works
Southeast
Fairfield Steel Works
Alabama
Allied Spring Offensive Opens in Italy Front
Gen. Mark W. Clark announced the spring offensive in the Mediterranean has begun with the U S Fifth and British Eighth Armies engaging along the Italian battlefront. The Fifth attacked central and western sectors after the Eighth struck on the eastern end, following 1233 heavy bombers smashing targets south of Bologna. The German defense aims to hold northern Italy as the push moves toward the Po Valley.
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HY Flynn Heinzerling
Rome
Mark W. Clark
Mediterranean
U. S. Fifth
Eighth Armies
Ialtian
Eighth Army
Fifth
U.S. 15Th Air Force
Bologna
Italy
President Truman vows unchanged grand war plan
President Truman pledged that the grand strategy of the war would remain unchanged and unharmed as he spoke to a joint session of Congress. He said the United States must join Allies to punish those who started the war and work toward lasting peace, crediting Allied leaders and Roosevelt’s legacy while noting ongoing hard fighting and the UN war direction under Leahy, Marshall, King, Arnold, Eisenhower, Nimitz, and MacArthur.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Trumen
United States
Hitler
Germany
Armiee
Tokyo
Admiral Leahy
Marshal
King
Arnold
Evyenhower
Admmiral Nunite
MacArthin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
America
Mr. Trumen
Capitol
Brettinius
Stettinius
Anthony Eden
Lord Halifax
Joong
House
Valen
Touiium
Roosevelt
Yalta
Price Hikes Sought on Meat to Curb Black Markets
Senators and witnesses urged higher OPA retail ceilings and about 112 cent rise per pound to reduce shortages and black markets. They blamed feeders and packers for price bottlenecks while House and Senate panels sent teams to Chicago for on the spot inquiries into the meat crisis.
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Washington
Senate
State Agriculture Commissionery
Senstor Wheeler D-Mont
Agsid
Wherry
R-Neb
American Meat Institute
Chicago
OPA
Johnson
House Food Investigating Committee
Anderson
D-Nm
Jenkins
Ohio
Germans Report Great Eastern Offensive Opens On 60 Mile Front
Adolf Hitler announced that Soviet forces launched a massive offensive on a front over 60 miles long. Berlin reports say Russians broke German lines and advanced toward Berlin, with Hitler warning soldiers of treachery and urging furious defense to protect women. Roosevelt’s death noted as context.
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Richard Rasischke
London
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Bertn
Berlin
Hitler
Reich
Roosevelt
Russia
Tern
Changes Seen In War Effort On Home Front
Washington AP reports changes in home front war programming driven by President Truman after clashes with the Army over production and supply. As chairman of the War Investigating Committee, Truman criticized civilian usurpation of military functions but acknowledged superb leadership. He now pledges full support to military leaders and strategy.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Truman
Third Army Advances Toward Czechoslovakian Border
Paris dispatch reports Third Army infantry near eight miles from Czechoslovakia as German forces retreat. Ruhr pocket surrenders reduce German resistance while Magdeburg and Berlin fronts shift to meet advancing Allied columns. Donn Whitehead notes potential further Ruhr pocket capitulations today.
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Third Army
Czechoslovakia
James M. Long
Paris
Germany
Eastern Front
Berlin
Ninth Army
Magdeburg
Elbe
Barby Ward
Brandenburg Plain
Ruhr
Donn | Whitehead
Big Three Relations Improve Yet Again Amid War News
American forces near Baguio report heavy Japanese losses of 4 154 killed and 205 captured, while Philippine First Corps approaches the city. Laurel flees to Tokyo as Mikolajczyk seeks Polish inclusion. Soviet policy hints at shifts, signaling possible smoother Allied ties ahead of San Francisco talks.
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Philippines
Cayampaign
Fourteenth Corps
Cagararay
Juzon
Legacap
Public opinion channels at San Francisco Conference
The United States invites 42 national organizations to send representatives to the San Francisco Conference. Delegates will relay daily American views to shape the world peace league, a democratic step by the State Department to learn public sentiment via varied consultants from major groups. This plan aims to connect the conference with millions of Americans.
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San Francisco
Washington
United Nations
State Department
Rep
Russians Use Germans to Rebuild Soviet Cities
AP reports Soviet policy to move tens of thousands of Germans into Russia for postwar reconstruction, with estimates of about 70,000 from Yugoslavia and 100,000 from Hungary and surrounding areas. The program, debated by Allies, aims to repatriate displaced Germans as Russia seeks manpower for rebuilding efforts.
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John M. Hightower
Associated Press
Washington
Russia
Balkans
Germany
Istaumania
Soviet Union
Moscow
Ruama
Yugi'Mavia
Marshal Tita
Seema
Rone
Yugoslavia
Tsd
Besaarabia
Huswan
Ramana
Red Army
Hungary
Bulgaria
Truman
Molotov
Yalta
White House
Massive B 29 Fire Raid Strikes Tokyo Again
Reported incendiary bombardment by B 29s hit Tokyo early today, tying into Saturday’s fire raid that burned out large swaths of the arsenal district and industrial zones. Photographs show extensive destruction across a 27.5 square mile area, with fires still burning in Kawasaki and surrounding sectors. This marks the sixteenth raid on Tokyo since the war escalation began.
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AY Elmont Waite
Guam
Tokyo
Rey
Ttbishi
Toheo Bay
Tokyo Bay
Tami River
Kawasaki'i Industries
Tama River
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New York Herald Tribune
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Laurel
Tomoyuk
Yamashita
Flora Lewis Washington
Marshal Stalin
Stalin
Bondon
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Mikolaczyk
Ruana
Crimea
Poland
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