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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1943
Page
1
The South Carolina Democrat Senator Ellison faces a tense Senate scene as factional lines within the Democratic Party surface. Ben Nelson demands a response as rifts among Southern Democrats with Republicans widen.
A selected war camp near Dothan headland highway will relocate to a new site in the southern section of Dothan. Negotiations continue for access to utilities and water. An informed source notes the former CCC property was used for German prisoners during earlier operations and could be repurposed for a permanent U S Army camp with county water support.
Fragmented OCR summary mentions Fifth Army, Mt Camino, road to Rome, heavy fighting near Tehahan, American and Japanese forces, carrier attack, Moscow reports Russian advances toward a sea port, and partisan activity after Cowcain talks. Details are garbled but reference multiple theaters and ongoing combat.
New York AP Billy Witherow NAM chairman says industrialization of other nations brings benefits for the US. He notes shifts in imports but more customers for American products as South America industrializes. He urges rapid postwar steps: relief funds, lend-lease, and post-lend-lease settlement. Maj. Gen. Hershey warns six more months of draft likely, aging workers favored, 10 million in the Army and Navy, and 18 million eligible 18 38 age group to furnish up to about 2.2 million in six months.
In Chicago AP reports Congress member Henry B Steagall of Alabama received the American Farm Bureau Federation’s distinguished service award posthumously at the group’s annual convention. Steagall, who died recently in Washington, was praised as a staunch advocate for farm price legislation and a leader in the fight against agricultural price manipulation.
Secretary of War Stimson said two years of war bring progress and hope yet the nation faces decisive tests ahead. He described the war as in a drag period, with victory likely during the finish, and praised Russia for bearing the main German force while noting incomplete American ground force confrontation with enemy masses. He also stressed Allied actions in North Africa and overall morale on the home front.
Forty five warrants have been issued for the arrest of persons delinquent on treatment for venereal disease, Houston County health officials announced today. Warrant subjects will be arrested by the sheriff and held in the county jail until their release is ordered by public health officials. Considered under Alabama public health laws, infected individuals may be examined and treated under county or city procedures.
Reports from Bern and Sofia say Turkish and German units are deployed on opposite sides of the border with Bulgaria and Greece. A border emergency is declared with traffic halted as nervousness over a possible Allied invasion grows in the Balkans. Evenska Dagbladet notes a German move toward European Turkey to reach the Dardanelles, amid promises of aid to Russia via the straits.
Turkish Foreign Minister Menemeneloglu said Inonu’s Cairo talks with Roosevelt and Churchill moved Turkey closer to the Allied camp but avoided committing to war. He quoted Inonu praising Roosevelt’s pleasant manner. The statement followed Inonu’s return from Cairo.
Washington reports Representative Lawrence Lewis of Denver died at Walter Reed Hospital after a period of illness. The Senate passed a defense bill authorizing a large Navy spending package for vessels and landing craft. A Stockholm dispatch says Count Galeazzo Ciano, former Italian foreign minister, will be tried soon with other ex-Fascist leaders.
Washington AP dispatch reports Britain may take a sterner line toward King Peter’s exile government as Tito’s partisans, led by Josip Broz Tito, receive the bulk of British support. The Tito faction opposes Mihajlovic’s Mihailovic and threatens a Balkan invasion as Allies weigh strategy.
An explosion and fire at the Phoenix Naval Stores plant near Gulfport Miss killed eight workers, left one badly burned and three injured. Officials estimate property damage around 250000 dollars. The article lists the deceased as Henry Japtha and mentions term Te No 7 on page 2.
George A. Malcolm, authority on Pacific affairs, warned that American complacency left Pearl Harbor and other Pacific outposts unfortified. He spoke to a large audience at the Soldiers’ Recreation Center, in the final Institute of International Affairs talk sponsored by the Dothan Rotary Club. Malcolm argued Japan preferred to attack where allies were unprepared, urging stronger early fortifications at key sites.
Allied dispatch reports British troops stormed Mt Croix ridge near Mt Camino and push toward the Gerigieno river as Gen Clark’s Fifth Army advances down western slopes, breaking mountain defenses and securing ground toward Rome. American units seize high ground west of Venafro despite heavy German artillery. Eighth Army, under Gen Montgomery, strengthens positions amid heavy rain.
Senate Finance Committee slashed about 190.9 million from the House tax bill and moved to study amendments easing contract renegotiations for war materiel suppliers. It creates a central price-adjustment board, rights of appeal for contractors, and excludes sub-500 thousand contracts from renegotiation.
AP reports a sweeping rise in chaos across France as Vichy government loses control. Paria broadcast cites Aujourd H uil saying street killings, robbery, and pillage now plague the countryside. Pro collaborator Marcel Deat laments banditry grows bolder, citing widespread terror rather than isolated incidents.
Pearl Harbor dispatch reports Japan’s navy and air force reinforcing the Marianas and Marshall Islands as U S carrier task forces raided a Jap-held island group near Gilberts. One American ship lightly damaged. 72 Japanese planes shot down. a troop transport and two cargo ships damaged amid a seven and a half hour night attack.
Japanese Imperial HQ claims sunk or damaged vast Allied naval power in the Pacific. The report lists 31 battleships and 20 aircraft carriers sunk or damaged, along with substantial counts of cruisers destroyers submarines and merchant ships. Premier Hayao Tojo prophesies 1944 as Japan’s year, while warning victory will not come easily.
In a Chamber of Commerce meeting with J B Bricken a miner for the DDT Montgomery office taxi owners won permission to draw from next year's gasoline quota to continue operations for the year. They agreed to repay from subsequent quotas and to use fuel carefully for the benefit of all involved.
Russian forces gained near Znamenka and Elizavetgradke threatening a German encirclement on the west bank of the Dnieper. Soviet troops captured Wharovka after a swift 15 mile advance from Pantaevka, while Vatutin's First Ukrainian Army fell back under a major German push backed by heavy tanks. Casualties were reported with at least 2,000 Germans killed and several tanks destroyed as Soviets prepared new defensive lines.
A theft at Camp Rucker stole part of the $40 furlough fund to send a soldier and his wife home for Christmas. Donations poured in from Dothan and Wiregrass towns like Headland and Samson. A donor wrote he would be grateful to any group that restarts the fund so the couple can travel home, and notes accompanied checks. The idea originated from a Dothan businessman who sent $10 and asked The Eagle to accept gifts for the soldiers.
Three Nexto convicts who possibly saved their guard from a flaming death were praised by State Highway Director Robin Swift. Guard James Stoker supervised asphalt work near Townley when a boiling asphalt pot spilled and kerosene splashed him. The convicts Tom Wels Wille Covington and Charney Thomas carried him to a stream and extinguished the flames. Stoker was taken to a Jasper hospital with severe burns.
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