Postwar Jobless Problem Shaping Up In Dothan
The Dothan United States Employment Service expects a reconversion wave as war workers and veterans seek steady jobs. Manager L H Kirk said the USES shifted services last May and will now place workers in permanent positions, urging employers to list all job needs to ease unemployment. The note mentions prior wartime recruitment and doors opening in Ozark Enterprise and Go to serve local counties.
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Dothen
Dothan
United States Employment Service
Fect
L. H. Kirk
Houston
Henry
Dale, Coffee
Geneva
Ivei Ozark Enterprise
Dale
Coffee
Kirk
State Building Commission Talks School Needs
Alabama’s school system faces needs for men, enlarged buildings, and worn equipment. The State Building Commission opened its postwar program with school modernization near the top. The 1924 law allocates 25 million over two years, with 2 million from a surplus trust fund for education debt service and capital outlay. 440 thousand goes to higher learning, and 10.56 million to county and city school boards based on teacher units. Local boards will propose uses for their shares, subject to approvals by the State board and the Building Commission. Dr. E B Norton notes several counties already have proposals.
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Montgomery
Alabama
State Building Commission
Holding Commission
Building Commission
E. B. Norton
Mrs. U. G. Watford Rites Today
Funeral services for Mrs. U. G. Watford aged 53 will be held at Ward-Wilson Chapel at 2 p.m. with Rev. Charles Hildreth officiating. Burial in City cemetery. Survived by husband A. G. Watford, son Buell, daughter Mrs. Don Smith, six McDaniel brothers, two grandchildren Carol and Ed Watford. Active pallbearers listed. Lafayette Street Methodist Church Class No. 28 members attending.
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U. G. Watford
South St. Andrews Street
Ward-Wilson Chapel
Charles Hildreth
Ward-Wilson
Dothan
Houston County
Lafayette Street Methodist Church
A.G. Watford
Buell Watford
Don Smith
Coley
Grady McDaniel
Jacksonville
Loren McDaniel
Archie
Victory
Henry McDaniel
Ashford
Carol
Ed Watford
E. P. Golson
Foy Mizelle
Oliver Tidwell
Will McCarty
H. T. Scarbro
Meeting Series Explains War Prisoner Use in Peanuts
A sequence of community meetings in Houston County aims to explain the use of war prisoners in peanut harvesting and outlines the National Peanut Council program to expand the peanut market. County agent CM Ling said applications to use war prisoners will be taken during the gatherings, with a detailed schedule at local schools and courthouses through August 29.
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National Peanut Council
Houston County
CM. Ling
Ling
Webb School
Ashford
Vicksburg
Harmon
Jeltien
Columbia
UNRRA sanctions aid for refugees wishing exile
London AP reports UNRRA backed aid for war refugees who prefer to stay outside their homeland despite opposition from Russia Poland Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. Delegates warned non-repatriation could affect European politics as Yugoslav proposals to restrict aid were defeated.
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London
Russia
Poland
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Council of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
UNRRA
Foland
Herbert H. Lehgnan
Rent Control to stay as Napier Rucker close
The Dothan Ozark rent office states federal rent control will continue at least six months after Napier Field and Camp Rucker go inactive. Director F Z Donk cites housing shortages, noting 25 homes under construction and another 25 approved but only half likely to be ready before Oct 1.
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Dothan and
Ozark
Napier Field
Camp Rucker
F. Z. Donk
Dothan-Ozark
Dothan
National Housing Agency
Lend-Lease End Notice To Recipients
Washington AP reports that all sea nations receiving Lend-Lease aid will be notified Monday or Tuesday that the program has been terminated. The vast war aid system delivering goods to Axis foes is being shut down by order of President Truman under the wartime termination provision.
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Washington
Truman
Work To Start Monday On New Depot For Dothan
Construction of a modern railway terminal for the Atlantic and St. Andrews Bay Line on East Main Street will begin Monday at the site of the old depot destroyed by fire. The project costs about 50 thousand dollars with completion aimed for January 1, 1946. The War Production Board approved rebuilding. HLH Brown Construction of Dothan, low bidder, says work is set to start tomorrow.
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Atlants and
St. Andrews Bay
East Main Street
Dothan
War Production Board
John M. Strever
HLH. Brown Construction Company
Loudspeaker To Be Installed in County Court
Probate Judge Saxon P. Poyner says county court will get a loudspeaker system to improve acoustics and make witnesses easily heard. A microphone will hang over the witness chair for witnesses and court attaches, with the $176 system delayed but now underway.
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Saxon P. Poyner
Federal Judge Cuts Prison Terms of 2 Houston County Men
A federal judge in Montgomery reduced the sentences of two Houston County men for violating the internal Revenue act. Foy Lee Bedsole saw his sentence cut from three years to 84 days and will be released August 28, due to his family’s economic hardship. John Loyd Renisole’s term was reduced from three years to two years to meet ends of justice.
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Chirie
Kepmunier
Fridd
Montgomery
Houston County
U. S
J. W. Daughtry
Southern Drovision
Middle District
Alabama
Foy Lee Bedsole
U.S
Kennamer
John Loyd Renisole
Truman Lines Inflation Curb As It Can Be Con
The United States warns Bulgaria’s postwar regime to hold free August 26 elections without fear or intimidation or no peace treaty with Bulgaria. Maynard Barnes relays Byrnes stance to Bulgaria while Britain backs the common front. Moscow supports principle but keeps Communist-aligned regimes in power.
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John M. Bightower
Washington
United States
Byrnes
Bulgaria
Russia
Britain
Foreign Office
London
Ats
Maynard B. Barnes
Barnes
Byres
Moscow
Truman
Tara
Army Units Set to Reach America Today
The Queen Mary arrives from Southampton with infantry, hospital units, and parts of the 11th and 154th Army units aboard. In New York, units under General Stewart include the 715th Railway Operating Battalion, 328th Cargo Mail Transport Squadron, 1st Ordnance Heavy Maintenance Company, 474th Aviation Squadron, and other service and support detachments awaiting arrival from Europe.
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Associated Press
Southampton
England
New York
11Sth
United States Army
United States
Europe
Army
General Stewart
Engineer Combat
Ordnance Heavy
Signal Service
350Th Air Service Group
Treasury plans no ban on cashing in war bonds
Treasury officials said there will be no attempt to stop cashing in War Bonds. They urged holders to retain them, noting the United States has and will meet its obligations. After Japan’s surrender some bond holders reportedly cashed in bonds fearing a freeze.
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Washington
API
Treasury
United States
Japan
Secretary of the Treasury
Vinson
National War Bond
Ted R. Garibdle
Vingen
United States Treasury
Gamble
35 MPH Speed Limit Lifted In Alabama
Gov. Chauncey Sparke ordered the wartime speed limit of 31 miles per hour lifted in Alabama and urged motorists to observe precautions to prevent accidents. The action follows the Office of Defense Transportation canceling the national order restricting highway speeds. The revocation is effective at noon.
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Montgomery
Ala
Chauncey Sparke
Alnharm
Office of Defense Transportation of
Ma Johnson Back From War After Red Cross Duty
Mrs. Ma Johnson, long known as Verna Hart Johnson, returns home from Red Cross service after more than two and a half years overseas in North Africa and Italy. Her husband, Lieutenant Commander H. T. Johnson, has been a prisoner of the Japanese since February 1992 following a carrier attack on the Marshall Islands. Johnson joined the Red Cross in 1943 to rally troops and support morale, serving in the Allied Club in North Africa and later through Italy, with news of her husband’s captivity spurring her efforts to aid prisoners and servicemen.
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Ma" Johnson
H. T. Johnson
Marshall Islands
Johnson
Shikoku
Germany
United States
Pacific
North Africa
Korsan
Red Cros
Jap Foregin Minister Says Japan Beaten Faces Truth
San Francisco AP reports Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu told Japanese to face the fact they have been defeated and must accept the surrender terms. He warned against over-optimism while urging acceptance of Potsdam terms and paying a high price for defeat. The broadcast notes Japan must win world sympathy amid mixed signals from occupation authorities.
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San Francisco
Mamoru Shigemitra
Daniel
Federal Communications Commission
Uresa
Shigemitsu
Arahi
McArthur
Shigerutsu
Shigemitau
Japan
Piers
Federal Tax Rate Change Not Expected To Occur Immediately
The Internal Revenue Service in Alabama says a federal tax rate change will not occur immediately after the war. The luxury tax remains 20 percent on items like luggage and jewelry, and theatre admission stays at one cent per five rents. Tax changes will be announced when established. collectors noted no immediate repeal.
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Internal Revenue Office
Dothan
Harry J. Willingham
District of Alabama
Revenue Office
Anid
Chinese Sino-Japanese Surrender Talks Reported Near Chungking
Chinese tension eases as Chiang Kai-shek government and Mao Zedong era discuss terms for surrender of Japanese forces in China. General Ho Ying-chin to receive capitulation from Lt. Gen. Yasuji Okamura. ceremony may move to Chungking or Canton with allied interned nationals freed in Shanghai.
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China
Chiang Kai-shek
Mao Trelung
Chungking
Chiang
Chinklang
Yunan Province
Ho Yingchin
Yasuji Okamura
Chisel
Cibkiang
Okamura
Canton
South China
Shanghai
London
Burma
City Commission To Name Election Officials Monday
The City Commission will name election officials for voting machines for the general election on September 17. John J. Ayron is to be elected to a three year term. Dothan voters will decide on the City-manager form of government. Ayres was appointed in April to fill the unexpired term of former President Pawling McKenney, with Miles A. Miller not seeking reelection.
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John J. Ayron
Miles A. Miller
Group Expected To Get M Arthur Orders Monday
Japann surrender envoys landed by pm at this tiny island west of Okinawa this afternoon at 1:35 p.m. They were escorted by American B 25 bombers and P 38 fighters as they prepared to transfer to Manila on American planes. Hundreds of American personnel watched behind barbed wire at the air strip where the field was newly completed for Superfortress raids on Japan. The envoys were to relay details of surrender talks between Japan and the Allies.
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Shima
Okinawa
Eamera West Tite
Tokyo
Manila
Japan
Amy Pera
Government Drops ABA In Reshaping Farm Aid Policy
Washington reports the Agricultural Adjustment Agency known as the ABA is dropped in a restructuring of the Agriculture Department. A new Production and Marketing Administration assumes broad powers over production pricing and marketing of farm products. Local and state AAA committees are retained. The new agency will decide on payments to farmers for production curtailment and is led by Undersecretary J B Tutson who also heads the Community Credit Corporation banking arm.
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Washington
API
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
Agriculture Department
Anserton
AAA
Prouction and Marketing Administration
Department
Alhken
Era
Anderson
Congress
J. B. Tutson
The
Community Credit Corporation
Soldier Injured After Night Spot Brawl Near Dothan
A Camp Rucker soldier, unnamed by officials, fought with a man identified as Will Adams at a night establishment about three miles southeast of Dothan. Adams said no soldier was warned, the soldier struck him, injuring Adams who suffered a broken nose and glasses. The soldier's injuries are described as severe.
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Ewikhan
Jas
Dothan
Will Adams
Farmer
Adams
Adame
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Fruman
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