State Purchasing System Urged for Cities and Counties
Roscoe C Martin of the University of Alabama urged the state to adopt a unified purchasing system for all state departments and local governments. He warned earmarked funds distort budgeting and recommended investigating travel costs, reducing outlays, and using surpluses for sinking funds or bonds to prepare for postwar needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Perardad
Parc
Fenantt Committee
Ter Roscoe C Martin
Department of Business
Adr
University of Abvbarss
Afahsna
Alabama
Martin
Wir
Nance
Tsnation Group
Bonda
Sagalat
Mrs F M Holley Dies At Abbeville
Mrs F M Holley eighty three of Abbeville died at her home yesterday after a two week illness. Funeral services were held at the residence with Rev Mark Lower officiating. Burial was in Abbeville cemetery with Ward Wilson directing. Surviving are three daughters and several grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. M Holley
Abbeville
Mark Lower
Ward-Wilson
Tres Holleywag
Vheville Baptist Church
T A Terry
Governor's Isaa
New York
C FE Crosasdoof
K Sic’ ¢S
Abbewlie
Alster
Tg Reéle Elinper
Colum’ la
Echt Prandchilden
Carter's Little Liver Pills Ad Threatens Health
An old fashioned medicinal jingle promotes Carter's Little Liver Pills claiming they will wake the liver and purge two pints of bile daily. The boastful copy warns of bowel decay if not used and urges readers to take the pills to feel better and rest easy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter
Jay Fel
194 Casualties For Army Listed
Washington AP lists Army casualties by name with killed and wounded in European and Pacific theaters. Entries include soldiers from Georgia Alabama South Carolina and Iowa with next of kin and home towns noted. Most casualties are listed as killed in action or wounded in action across the European Southwest Pacific and North Africa theaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Poldier
Acuon
War Department
Georgia Grant
Mee Hutt
Nongham St
Thomaston
South Pacific
Alabama Cherry
William P
Jun Cherry
Albertsvile
Hanks
Clyde W
P Parson Auster
Gadsden
Bryer Pe
Marshis M Upton
Cromaville
Georgia Crowe
Techith
Wilam E
Margrove
Canton
Hames
S. George
William J. Hames
Marietta
Rainwater
Oscar
Nanote Thrasher
Fairburn
Southwest Pacific
Alabama
Carolina—Bond
Sobeski L
A. E. Bond
Wits
West Main
Clinton
Wilson
W. E
Violet, Wilson
Bycamers
Georgia
Beck
Edward
da Beck
Box 184
Americus
Ford
Leonard W
Jacob R
Carrollton
Johnson
James R
Jecpia Johnson
Lithonia
Killian
Prank BE
Tom Killian
Blairsville
South Carolina
Gibaon
Julius
Aliee Green
Palmetto St
Charleston
Freeman Funeral Planned Tomorrow
Funeral services for Thomas Freeman fifty five of Ashford who died unexpectedly at his home Monday will be held at 11030 am tomorrow at the Mather Aist church in Ashford with Revs Brannon and Wilson officiating Burial will follow in Ashford city cemetery with Ward Wilson directing Freeman had been a real dynt of Ashford for the past fifteen years Surviving are three sons Thomas Freeman of Lake Mary Florida Embry Freeman of Ashford and Claude Freeman of the UV Army several brothers and sisters nine grandchildren and one great grandchild Active pallbearers will be RF Freeman M8 Freeman JM Freeman CC Freeman J L Freeman and Robert Swan
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
T Freeman
Ashford
Mather Aist
Brannon
Cwllen
Wilson
Ward-Wiison
Freeman
Thomas Freeman
Lake Mary
Fla
Embry Freeman
Guadalcanal battle briefing and air actions outlined
The report details major Japs efforts to retire Guadalcanal with initial silence followed by a February update. Communiqués describe a ten day battle up to February 4, then air actions on February 7 destroying two enemy destroyers and possibly three escorts, plus bombardment of Kolombatichun and Munda positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guadalcanal
Arca
Guadalcaga
Kolombaticucn Island
Munda
New Corgin Island
$5 000 Damage Suit Filed in Accident
Bryant G. Windham, for Larry Windham, a minor, sues Airport Bus Company claiming negligence led to injuries on the Montgomery highway May 16, 1942. Windham, knocked unconscious, spent a month in hospital and was unable to walk for three months after a bus mishap at Napier Field. The suit alleges failure to stop for a proper deboarding point and a bus route mishap. Negro teachers meet Morhan today to discuss rationing at North Highland school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryant G. Windham
Larry Windham
Airport Bus Company
Young Windham
Montgomery
Wingham
Montgomery Highway
Napier Field
Windham
Morhan
North Maigh-land
Grimes Urges Greater Hog And Cattle Production
War era guidance from J.C. Grimes stresses higher meat output to support soldiers and allies. It favors boosting farm feed by clearing debris, sowing clover and grasses, planting soybeans and sweet potatoes, and using kudzu and sericea for pasture. It calls for more breeding stock, heavier finishing, and local advice from county agents and the Alabama Experiment Station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.C Grimes
Armed Services
Fermera of
America
Alabama
Hyeatuch
Adatama
Anurn
Record of Deep Freeze Impacts Across Regions
Weather observers report extreme cold with subzero lows in multiple states. Official temperatures reach minus 90 in one area, minus 24 in Hartford, and minus 14 in Heston. The cold threatens crops in Chautauqua County and Florida Everglades, with peach crops damaged and transport hindered by frost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hancock
Warensburg
Heston
Hartford
Conn
New York
Chautauqua County
Everglades
Florida
Farmers Brace for OPA Price Freeze Order
The speaker warned that a new OPA price freeze could ruin farmers. He argued the order would force cows to slaughter as milking stock. He said farmers face feed and labor costs they cannot cover and that enforcement would be useless.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Bailor Visits Navy Torpedoman McKnight at Home
Chief Torpedoman E W McKnight, twenty years in the Navy, visits his mother Mrs Mary McKnight at 207 South Appletree Tree. He has served on submarine duty in the Atlantic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bailor
E W. McKnight
Navy
Mary McKnight
South Appletree Tree
Atlantic
Drinking Held Not Driving Intoxicated
Montgomery AP reports the Alabama Court of Appeals reversed Kenneth Rainey’s driving while intoxicated conviction. Testimony that he was drinking was deemed insufficient to prove intoxication at the time and place charged. Rainey had been sentenced to 90 days in jail and a $100 fine in DeKalb County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Court of Appeals
Kenneth Rainey
DeKalb
Rainey
FBI Holds War Plant Operator As Alien
New York AP reports FBI special agent in charge E. E. Conroy announced that a $5,000-a-year president of a New York City war plant, operating nearly entirely on armed forces contracts, was among 11 aliens rounded up in spot searches. The man, who fought with the German army 1914 16 and later sought Nazi backing, was sent to Ellis Island for questioning and possible internment along with others including his wife and daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
E. E. Conroy
FBI
New York City
Conroy
Mus
New England
Fils Island
This Lad Sits Up And Takes Notice
Virginia Military Institute instructors praise cadet Stuart D Loughborough of Richmond for a remarkable physical fitness test record. He reportedly did two hours and 1371 sit ups before the surgeon advised stopping, with many students quitting after 20 to 30 sit ups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Virgmia Military Institute
Stuart D Loughborough
Richmond
Claag ‘Tong
VMI
Coughborough
Toughborough
Germany Faces Internal Strain and Eastern Invasion Fear
The analysis argues Germany, with a stronger food situation than in 1918, could still crack internally unless penal bombing accelerates disintegration. Yet fear of invasion by Russians, Poles, and Czechs binds the populace, prompting preference for American occupation over eastern devastation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Germany
Stern
Five to One Carjacking in County Ford Heist
Report details a trio of convicts abducting a woman and forcing her to drive after forcing gas and carjacking power near Como. Homer Taylor, a 10 year robbery convict, threatened Power, while a passenger wrestled a pistol from the car as the group escaped with Power’s vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Como
Doion Power
Near Here
Power
Casey
Homer Taylor
Dave Casey
Migg Lenora Jackson
Taylor
Prison escape plot details emerge in chaotic raid report
An incident report describes a seizure of a shotgun and pistol from Powers and a pistol from Murry Biales’s truck during a raid. Trusties aided identification of Taylor’s companion WWwW Mize, a 47 year sentence for robbery, and Frank Moody serving seven years. Three of the remaining fugitives were believed trapped southwest of the prison by guards and officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ber H
Capvicta
Murry Biales
Aidimg
Taylor
Mize
Frank Moody
Night Raid on Swansea Strikes East Coast Town
A heavy air raid struck an east coast town early last night injuring many and causing extensive damage. A five-year-old boy was killed by machine gun fire while in bed. German radio named Swansea as the target in South Wales, while Danish broadcasts reported alerts in Copenhagen and other towns. The article notes a massive aircraft propeller described as a giant hollow steel electric blade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward
Swansea
South
Wales
Copenhagen
Proposal to cancel 1942 taxes discussed by Fed chair
Reported committee vote favored pausing a tax cut plan from Reardghy Rumi of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The plan would cancel 1942 taxes with a pay as you go option, requiring a fourth of 1942 tax due by March 15 and future 1943 income to cover the 1942 liability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oey
Reardghy Rumi
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Coughton
Rowsmen
Inga
Naid
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F M. Holley
Tn Mangle
Cooper
Maine
Naval Medical Center
Mchene
Chicago
Whalley
Whatley’s Seeds Bulk Garden & Field
T. J. Whatley, JR
Foster Street
Gold Coast
Ashapi
Malaya
Vita
Myorid
Lenis
Spa
Tan
Taj
Fairbanks
Alcor Fairbanks
Allis-Chalmers
Carey
Alabama Machinery & Supa
S. Foster Street
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