Draft law aims to delay fathers' inductions
The article reports on partial hearings about selective service changes to defer fathers and adjust age groups. Officials discuss potential new standards and the impact on pre Pearl Harbor era lists, with statements from Major General Hershey and War Department officials.
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Haere
Tate Ahoniay
May
Keesling
War Department
Herahey
Army
Mapr
Lewis B
Selective Service
Don Hutson Retires To Coach Packers After Hallmark Career
Don Hutson retires from playing to take a coaching role with the Green Bay Packers. The star end, famed for nine years of dominance, will train current players and help develop successors, leveraging a career that set multiple NFL receiving and scoring records.
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Don Hutson
Packers
Green Bay
Wie
Green Bay Packers
Dos Hatson
Igula
Cosce
Carly
Lam Ben Mateos
Packet Corporat
Aasisis
Coachel
Ukety
Lembesu
Lambesu
Huteem
Laague
Gamay
Count Fleet Named Best Horse In '43
Count Fleet won racing's triple crown and was named best horse of 1943 by track correspondents and editors of the Daily Racing Form and Morning Telegraph. Other top awards included Platter as two-year-old colt, Durex as two-year-old filly, Etefanite as three-year-old filly, and Market Wise as handicap horse.
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New York
John D. Hert
Count Fleet
Victorius
Mendete
Daily Racing Form
Morning Telegraph
George D. Widener
Platter
Brownell
Gombe’ Durex
Low Tufano
Redskins Meet Giants Today In Crucial Pro Grid Game
Washington and New York prepare for a decisive East clash as Sammy Baugh and Exmory Nix lead aerial attacks. The game decides playoff implications with the Redskins needing a win to secure a playoff spot and the Giants aiming to stay in the title race.
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Redskins
Giants
Obriew
Washington
New York Giants
Chicago Bears
New York
Griffith Stadium
Typhoid Case Reported in Houston County Health officials warn
A typhoid fever case was reported in southern Houston County marking the first this year and possibly since 1940. County health personnel urge immunizations for typhoid diphtheria and smallpox with sessions held Mondays and Saturdays, noting low clinic turnout despite multiple immunization campaigns.
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Houston County
Hartford
Meyer to Manage Yanks Newark Club in 1944
MEWARK New Jersey AP Billy Meyer will direct the Newark Bears for a third season in 1944. The Bears, under Meyer's leadership, placed second in the Interstellar League last season and will begin another year with the New York Yankees chain. Meyer earlier managed the Kansas City team in the America Association for four years after starting with Bing-Damien and Oakland clubs.
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Mewark
WN. J
Billy Meyer
Newark Bears
Newark Baseball Club
Meyer
Bears
Intersalions League
New York Yankee
Newark Club
Kansas City
Americas Association
Bing- Damien
N. F
Oskland
Callf
Grass Fire on Cottonwood Road Contained by Firemen
Firemen and volunteers battled a grass and woods fire along a mile long stretch on Cottonwood road for about an hour yesterday. The blaze threatened homes along the road near the Fay Line railroad but was held before reaching any houses. Reports differ on the cause and investigators have not stated a theory of origin.
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Cottonwood Road
Fay Line
Infantrymen to Perform USO Radio Quiz Today
Twelve men from two saparais companies of the First Infantry Regiment will participate in a USO Club radio quiz program titled Dothan to the Beence Man. The show, to be broadcast from the USO Club green room at 4 p.m., is organized with Fay Griffin, staff assistant, and presented through cooperation of Lisuter and Zacharias, special service officers for the regiment.
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Dothan
Beence Man' Yu'z
USO Club
Saparais
Lirst Infantry Regiment
Fay Griffin
Fs Beng
Lisuterant Zacarins
Parcel Post Window To Stay Open Today in Dothan
Postal officials announce the parcel post window at the Dothan post office will be open from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. today and next Sunday to handle Christmas packages. Postmaster Mrs Malone says if staff cannot manage the volume, hours may extend beyond 4 p.m. but only for mailing packages. no deliveries through the window.
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Dothan Post Office
Mre. A
Malone
Volunteers Boost Travelers Aid Efforts at Central Office
A meeting at the South Foster Street central office gathered twelve volunteers for the Travelers Aid program. Miss Patty Buchanan, director, outlined duties at Greyhound Bus Station and central office, and noted its USO membership. Attendees pledged a minimum of 2.5 hours weekly, including Mrs J E Stembridge and several other volunteers.
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Travelers Aid Office
South Foster St
Patty Buchanan
Buchanan
Greyhound/Bus Staton
Traveler's Aid
USO
J. E. Stembridge
Lucy Youn Burng
J. J. Couch
V. C. Lokey
Bob Harvard
Jos Sanders
Gypsy Hooter
Jane Ploory
Frank Gwaltney
Claude Ball
W. T. Burkett
John Crawford
Reformatory Escapee Arrested In Dothan
James Jones an escapee from the Florida Industrial Home Marianna was arrested in Dothan after a railroad worker spotted him attempting to climb a passenger coach. Chief J E Craughon said Jones fled last Thursday and had hidden a pistol in his pack before being jailed awaiting return to the industrial home.
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Florida
Marianna
Wes
J. E. Craughon
Big Line
Dothan
Craughon
James Jones
Campbellton
Cotterwood Road
Industral Home
Pistothet van Atolen
Veteran Coach Gets Coveted Grid Award
Amos Alon Stagg, College of the Pacific mentor, named football's man of the year by the Football Writers Association of America. Stage to receive plaque and a trophy. long career from Yale to Chicago to Stockton highlighted. Sir Christopher Wren noted as 17th century English architect in closing.
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DES Moines
Amos Alon
Stagg
College of the Pacific
Football Writers Association of America
the &Ly Triarch of
Pacific
Chicago
John N. Griffith
Angelo Bertelli
Notre Dame
Marines
Frank Leahy
Harry Stubdreher
Wisconsin
Ted
Bert McCraine
Des Moines Register
Tribune
Stage
Tom Hamilton
Navy
Aldelines
Philippe-Exeter Academy
Academy
Yale
Walter Camp
Y. M. C. A. College
Springfield
Mass
University
Tie
the Midway
Caahing
Stockton
Calif
University of Chicago
Sir Christopher Wren
Meat Stamps Expand For Salvaged Fats War Needs
Howerives and regular pay will be issued two brown mast strips per pound of kitchen fats delivered to grocers. The County War Price and Ration Board announced the plan to encourage more salvaging of fats for wartime use.
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Genami Hershey
Howev
Unking
Hershay
Hershey
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Mayfeld
Malone Motor CO
Daniel Dafoe
Yanks
Newark
Afraratus
Reformatory
Page Drug Store
Main St
Dothan High School
South Oates
Fred Herring
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Mr. Park Avenue
Blumberg
Blumberg’s
Hart, Schaffner & Marx Coats
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