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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1945
Page
5
Dorothy Dix compares romance to cake icing and stresses that true marriage rests on lasting substance. She argues affection, partnership, and mutual understanding endure beyond honeymoon thrills, urging servicemen and readers to value calm, true love over mere passion.
An old advertisement promotes Lang’s Gas TRIC Tablets for hyperacidity and related symptoms. It urges acid sufferers to clip the ad and buy at Dothan Drug, claiming to aid digestion and relieve gas bloating and sleepiness.
Army Air Forces Training Command uses frangible bullets that disintegrate on impact to simulate real battle conditions without dangerous return fire. The RP-63 modified Bell B-43 King Cobra fighter trains student gunners at Laredo Army Air Base with a special duralumin aircraft and armored cockpit for safety.
Salt Lake City readers report a Nebraska baton twirler named Harry C. Berson desires an iWhirl baton act at upcoming July 24 celebrations. He describes a long baton and twirling skills to entertain crowds and add pep to the centennial festivities. Separately, the 405th Fighter Group of the Ninth Air Force earned the Presidential Citation for public relations, honoring Sgt. John H. Phillips of Headland who served in England France and Belgium since February 1942 with future family in the South Pacific.
The RP-63 frangible bullet lets gunners see hits on target planes via under-surface indicators and a nose counter. Developed by Maj. Cameron D. Fairchild of Houston since 1942, the bullet enables realistic firing with safety and is praised by combat veterans. The method advances flexible gunnery and may soon apply to fixed-gunnery training, widening the lead over enemy programs.
Staff Sergeant Robert N. Kirk of Ashford Route One and Private First Class James L. Brown of North Rawls are listed in the latest 7th Army personnel announcements. The brief item notes their locations and ranks amid ongoing postings.
A World War II era notice reports Private Joe Damon Lasseter, a former Houston County resident, killed in action in France on December 12, 1944. The same story recounts Winston Churchill’s painting hidden by Fanny, the Belgian guard, at Mane Elliot’s villa in Cannel France and notes Churchill visits and a quip about his daughter’s marriage to an out of work actor.
St Enterprise residents learn that members of the 697th Field Artillery Battalion are serving with the U S Seventh Army in Germany. The report confirms deployment details and identifies unit association with the stationed forces overseas.
War Department release lists Staff Sergeant Frank Maulden brother of Mrs Essie Riley Hartford route two and Private First Class Albert R Shirah son of Mrs Ruby M Shirah Coffee Sprags route two as prisoners of war in Germany.
Pte. Ernest J. Whitman husband of Mrs. Kathleen Hughes Whitman of Slocomb route two is promoted to corporal. Son of Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Whitman of Abbeville route two he is serving in the Philippine Islands. Previously stationed in the Panama Canal Zone before transfer to the South Pacific and has been in service two years.
Corporal Ernest A. Lunsford Jr. USMCR, son of Mr and Mrs Ernest A Lunsford Sr of Eu Faula, is named among Navy dead in a released casualty list.
A fragmented advertisement touts a free prepaid sample of a blended product claiming health benefits. It references vegetables and a claimed marvelous effect by Dr. and urges fast response with a mail order request. The text resembles a generic early 20th century sales pitch.
The readable fragment indicates a military unit reference and a son’s name but the rest is garbled. It mentions a Corporal with a USMUCR designation and a Graceway area, suggesting a wartime death notice with incomplete personal data.
Wounded in action reports show Prvan George W Ma and Sergnam Bel linked to route three and route one, with mentions of Mrs Dissy Bica and Joe Be. The notes reference the War Department and arison status amid Pacific campaigns, offering sparse details on units and exact locations.
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