Tuberculosis Group Holds Annual Meet in Birmingham
Dr Lewis Meerman of Oklahoma City, president of the National Tuberculosis Association, urged continued efforts to end TB. He warned the disease remains deadly and noted progress in reducing death rates. Alabama TB Association officers and directors were elected, with new board members named from multiple cities and counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Lewis
Meerman
Oklahoma City
Natone Tuberceroals Association
Moar
Alahimes Tuberculosis Association
Morton Bimpece
Malle Joseph
Birstngham
Mra
Caldwell Huntsville
Tce
LT. Las
Selmer
W. D. Robertson
Fred Smith
Daprie
A. T. Meeven
Salma
Berman
Montgomery
A. MecCartney
Awalatos
W. 8
W. 8. Armour, Sheingham; Mra. H. Herndop, Alghersa City: D. P. Gulp
Clanton
A. L. Seba
Albertville
John G. Hargraves
Phillip V. Spier
Greenville
Mes
Frank Hornsby
Roanoks
W. Johnson
Langdale
Allied air and ground actions in Italy reported
Front dispatches describe Allied gunners breaking up two German attacks southwest of Carroceto near Rome as heavy traffic moves toward Cisterna and northeast from Udine. Ten prisoners were taken by raiders on the beachhead right flank. Fifth Army notes 103 tanks and 15 self-propelled guns knocked out since the Italian landing, with ammunitions dumps and mortars continuing to be employed against Cassino.
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Carroceto
Rome
Cisteren
Alto
Rowe
Cisterna
Axio
Artene
Vedleth
Ongaleman
Att
Udine
Italy
Garigliano
Fifth Army
Sant 'Ambrogio
Cassino
Wwita
Soviet Infantrymen Break Through with Night Assault
Number 33- Continued From Page One line as they did on the plains Soviet Infantrymen drapagerding enemy fire remove obstacles from the mines and blocked roads scale the heights descend on ropes from the rocks and emerge in the rear of the stunned Germana and Ru tmaniang.
FFA Members Elevate to State Farmer Degree
Two Midland youths Louie Chapman and Darence Ward earned the state Farmer degree after two years in FFA with leadership scholarship and a supervised farming program. J W Reedes noted their outstanding ability. The award comes from the state association recognizing vocations in agriculture education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tao Midland Ciy Fofa
FFLA
J. W. Reedes
Louie Chapman
Darence Ward
Courtroom Atmosphere Draws Payment of Defense Complaints
Yesterday the defense challenged the packed courtroom as Deputy Marshals kept seven defendants in custody in the front row, creating an air of criminality. The judge weighed motions to disqualify jurors amid a Justice Department probe seen as routine by the defense, while German American Bund leader Eitaxg distanced his client from the trial amid disputed photographs referencing Nazi imagery.
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Field Lanham
Lawrences Déenpls
News
Lanham
Justice Department
Rogge
Gerhard Wilhelm Eitaxg
New York
Bund
Thiu
Mins Lolg de
Southern workers face wage issues and mill conditions
The testimony cites regional wage disparities and standard of living details as unions press for 60-cent an hour minimum and 10-cent raises. Figures show southern representation in reserve officers and Navy strength, while mills report attendance losses, lower production, and high turnover. Grenesboro details include housing, village amenities, and 34 cent group insurance.
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Albany
N. Y
Salt Lake City
Richmond
Mil
Banren
Weeks
Mary Tella
Offer Milla
WPB
Georgia
Grenesboro
Rai
An & Union
Sem Beland
CIO
Rabid Cat Reported By Branch Lab Here
A cat brought to the Dothan Branch Laboratory by W C Bremen of Daleville was found dead from rabies. Director Ampie Irwis Cooper reported the animal had bitten a girl earlier and died yesterday morning after scratching and biting.
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Dothan
W. C Bremen
Daleville
Ampie Irwis Cooper
Bregens
Hue
Officers Seek Stolen Automobile In Dothan Case
Houston County and Alabama State Patrol are on the lookout for a 1940 model green coach stolen last night from Mrs. Laurie Cooper at 408 North Data Street in Dothan after 11 p.m. Desk Sergeant Odell Hobby said police believe it was parked in front of the home when taken.
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Houston County
Alabama State Patrol
Laurie Cooper
Dothan
Sargeant Odell Hobby
Unions Press for Continued Federal Price Controls
In a rare joint statement CIO and AFL urge Congress to extend price controls for two years after the war without weakening amendments. They warn against weakening the act and call for keeping price and wage relations as of September 18, 1943 to sustain morale and enforcement funds. The AFL CIO message was presented to Senate Banking Committee.
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Washington
CIO
AFL
Congress
Alec
Senate Banking Committees
William Green
House
Organized Labor
AFT
Compliance Survey Began By OPA In Montgomery District
OPA started a compliance survey on all eating establishments in the Montgomery district covering 87 South Alabama counties. The survey runs through April 22 to gauge operator compliance with price controls. A follow up, similar to food store checks, will verify corrections in noncompliant sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Opa Mont-gomery
Alabama
E. Baskin Wright
Wright
Negro Vote Appeals Dismissed By Judge
Eight appeals by Negroes seeking registration as qualified voters were dismissed by Circuit Court Judge Walter B. Jones for late filing. The board of registrars closed Oct 23 1943 and appeals must be filed within 30 days. Last appeals were recorded Dec 30 1943 and others in January. Attorney Arthur Hoes Birmingham Negro represented the appellants.
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Montgomery, Als
Focal Board of Registrars
Circuit Court
Walter 8. Jones
Board of Regiatrara
Arthur @hores
Birmingham
Five Montgomery Doctors Lost Since War Start
AP reports five Montgomery physicians have died since the war began. Dr Douglas Cannon, secretary-treasurer, announced the fatalities at a meeting of the Alabama Medical Association. Cannon noted 264 state physicians are serving in the armed forces. Birmingham’s Dr Meake Harris Jr. died in the past year, and 25 civilian members of the law association have died since the recent conflict. The vacancy opened yesterday amid reports of officers and committees.
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Montgomery
Mariness Reve
Ube
Dougisg Cannon
Epid
Ubernet
Plea Guilty In Common Pleas Court On Vagrancy Drunkenness
Ten defendants pled guilty in the Court of Common Pleas to vagrancy and public drunkenness. Judge Jahn Norton Mullins Jr imposed fines from three dollars for vagrancy to five dollars for drunkenness plus costs.
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Commer Pleas
Jahm Norton Mullins, Jr
Asc
Warren named as convention candidate after long nominating list
The convention speaker slate was decided after a committee ruled Warren not a candidate for national office though seen as favorite non supporter of California delegates. Twenty two other nominees were considered including Luce Edge Griswold Roe Vandenberg Johnston and others. Spengler noted a single vote decided Warren’s selection as Harold Mason MecKene and Carroll Cate named to minor posts.
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Mambara
Warren
Gpaagier
William Reich
California
Theas
Clare Boothe Luce
Connecticut
Walter Edge
New Jersey
Dwight Griswold
Nebraska
Echoeppel
Kansas
Martin
Pennsylvania
Dwight Green
Milnels
B. B. Hickenkeeper
Jaws
Wharry
Revercomb
West Virginia
Bushfield
South Dakota
Eric Johnston
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Senator Vandenberg
Michigan
Spengler
Senator Ellender Predicts Long Senate Reading Time
Ellender told Interviewers that quotes from colonial history debates during the constitutional convention and other historical mater will require 36 hours of reading, and he joked his own speech could add about 125 hours. He said it would be educational for the Senate.
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Ellender
Senate
Bombing raids pound Solomons and Timor region actions
A captured page notes a 2 000 ton freighter damaged after raids by 125 ton bomb loads. Liberators attacked an airstrip and supply dumps at Faan in the Ka Islands with 21 tons of bombs. Mapia Islands patrol aircraft shot down a Japanese four engine flying boat. Keiglands lie between Timor and New Guinea, Mapia north of the New Guinea turkey neck.
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Rebdaul
Yar
Liberatora
Arssas
Faan
Ka Islands
Mapia Islands
Keigelands
Timor
New Guinea
Turkey Neck
Stockholders and Employees in Annual Report Details
The annual report lists 651,711 stockholders of record globally and an average holding of 20 shares per holder. About 60,000 employees held stock, with individual ownership less than one half of one percent of total outstanding shares.
County Schools To Get New Buses
Houston County plans to receive four or five of the 210 buses allotted to the county school system by the Office of Defence Transportation. County Superintendent Baxter estimates delivery may occur after summer, likely missing the September opening. The county currently owns forty-five buses, with forty-four owned by the river district and one by the county educational base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston County
Office of Defence Transportation
Bolowoe Baxter
Educative
Ssid
Scouts To Distribute 5100 Health Pamphlets Saturday
Dothan Scouts will hand out 5100 pamphlets titled Alabama Fights Vanereal Disease in residential sections Saturday. Veterans of the Dothan Scout troupe will distribute with Dr W T Burkett county health officer stating the pamphlets were prepared by the State Health Department and sent to county health officers. Contents include articles by Governor Sparks and Dr B F Austin, state health officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Vanereal Dphowess
Vetebars of
Dothan
W. T. Burkett
State Health Department
Govarper Chauncau Sparks
B. F. Austin
Burkett
Plant Strike Rumor Sparks Quick Clarification
A rumor of a plant strike at a Dothan fertilizer facility proved brief after an official explained several Negro workers quit when their sect onal contracts expired and hourly pay was offered. The rumor likely stemmed from releases bearing the word atruck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dothan
Kiwanis Hears Albert Logue Speak on Citizenship
Albert Logue addressed the Dothan Kiwanis at a lunch meeting on American citizenship. He urged members to value freedoms, consider citizenship as a community duty, and engage in civic action to keep leaders aligned with forefathers.
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Kiwanis Club
Albert Logue
Dothan Kiwania Club
Irlagrance
Cnange
America
Funeral Services For H W Woolf Tomorrow
H W Woolf a pioneer railway executive and former vice president of the Atlanta and Bay Line Railway Company died Monday at the home of his daughter in Atlanta Georgia. He had lived in Dothan about a year after retiring in 1908 and with his widow to Atlanta. He is survived by six pieces and people all of Atlanta. Funeral services were arranged for tomorrow in Atlanta with burial at 3 o clock. Mr and Mrs Henry A Woolf and Migs Ethel Woolft of Atlanta and A S Holcomb, executive passenger agent of the Atlanta and Bay Line Railway attend.
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OW. Woolf
Reilroag
Tas Atlante
B. Andrews Bay Line Railway Company
Dyikan
Moadey
Miss Ethel Woeelf
Fanta
Woolf
Dothan
Gad
Hie Gapghirr
Atlanta
Hi Ls
Miss Woolf
Atx Peices
Pep Ows
Funure
Tedly Fu Atlantis
Burin Ig
Henry A Woolf
OW. Allen
Ethel Woolft
Holcomb
Panera
Atlasta
Bt Andrews Bay Line Railway
Mosquitos Return to Benin and Raid Report
Allied air forces continued a large scale daytime and nighttime bombing campaign over western Germany and occupied France. Eighth Air Force attacked Kassel Paderborn and other targets while RAF night raids focused on railway yards and workshops around Paris Rouen and Dieppe. Berlin and Berlin area faced heavy raids with German losses reported. U S bombers and fighters escorted missions across Calais and Charleroi with over 2500 Allied planes over the continent.
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Benin
Crewe
Fers
Eighth Air Force
Germany
Kassel
Kachwege
Paderborn
Gutsralen
Werl
U. S
Oranienburg
Rathenow
Berlin
Wittenberge
Luneburg
Hemburg
Forleburg
Wittenbergen
Cuxhaven
Bea
Elbe
Kechewage
Robert C. Sears
Atlanta Liberator
Lauder
RAF
British
Air Ministry
Europe
France
Noisy Je Sac
Juvisy
Paria
Rouen
Terg
Ier
Paris
Dieppe
Abot
Parie
Fle
Pay de Calais
French
Malone Band Wins Concert Honors
Malone High School Band won the class C competition with a concert judged by Victor Green, a noted conductor from Biat University. The festival featured performances by 14 bands and highlighted the Northwest area’s musical talent.
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Malone
Maloes
Ditsien
Wight
Wiedés Music
Tellabesses
Albert
Chas. Greudor
Twulvs High
Sofinel Sendrep Teesnied
Peetival
Victor Greebel
Biatmm University
Deland
Fis
Evacuation and Siege of Odessa in 1841
The account notes evacuation beginning July 1841 with industrial areas and large parts of the population moved via the Caucasus to central Asia. Ques ta's land routes were cut that year while sea evacuation continued as the city resisted bombardment for 70 days into mid October. Industry stayed active in Odessa supplying besieged troops.
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Thom
Caucasus
Central Asia
Questa
H-bour
Abelling
Asrs
Davidenko
Odessa
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C. E. Blakey
Optometrist
Arate Nt
Naan Pissirie
Sanest Trak
Mittee
BOF
Benday
Reboul
New Britsil
Bit
Suppy
Kaltlands
Dotet
New Gainea
Central Pacific
Pingelap
Pakin
Ant
Ulu
Carolines
Marwhat
DNB
kid @ ag
Cambria
Sient Albes United Nations
J. M. Beall
Eagh
Gea BH. L. Beckham
Dethan
Dethan Enterprise Highway
B. L. Beckham
Newton
Ray
Lucille Hicks
Gracevilla
H. M._ Harper
RED
Jersey
C. L. Helme
Slocum
Hartford-Wickeburg Highway
Tabernacle Church
C. B. Kingly
Wiles
J. E. Crockett
Kinsey, Dothan
RFD
A. Ae
W. L. Amos
Ion
Rood Gimssen
Marvin Moss
Tonwood
Cottam
Sa&l
Barksdale Furniture Coy
V. C. Shiver
G. W. Powell
Sentinel and
Call
Coy Hollis
Hartford
McCurdy
Otis , Shelley
Headland
J. L. Sorrally
Blocomb
Hartfond- Vicksburg Road
Marianas
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