Winners Of 4-H Contest Listed
The Houston County 4-H contest produced winners Mil der Shipper of Rabhwa and Mudred Hmevland of Viewsturg who earned gold medals and a chance to compete in the District Contest in Ozark on Feb 10. District winners receive $25 and War Savings Stamps. Contest production was prepared by the Production Credit Association. county activities are supervised by Miss Frank Mallette Ming Floria Copeland and AH Creel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston Clarity
Heb
Bellmart
Toe Scurthouse
Hay Reiley
Edna Earle Hail
Rabhwa
Mudred Hmevland
Viewsturg
Production Credit Association
Ming Floria Copeland
Resistant Home
AH Creel
Resistant
Winter war updates and troop news from a stalled front
A wartime wire brief notes German radio claims on limited gains and Soviet strategic retreat. It also reports Pvt Ivey W Windham of Hilton Georgia completing the Aviation Mechanics course at Seymour Johnson Field North Carolina after enlisting July 26 1942 in Dothan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Husslang
Soviet Union
Ivey W. Windham
J. ¥. Windham
Hilton
Seymour Johnson Field
N.C
Windham
Ashford
Dothan
Private George Gentle to Fort Knox Armored Force
Private George Gentle of Dothan has been transferred to the Armored Force Replacement Training Center at Fort Knox Kentucky for basic training. Upon completion he will be qualified for duty with the Armored Force, the public relations office announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Gentle
Frank Gentle
Dothan
Armored Force Replacement Training Center
Fort Knox
Iim
Armored Force
Tad
Allied Bombing Campaign and Pacific Front Report
The report describes Allied air raids on Japanese bases and positions across the Pacific theater, including attacks on Madang and Finlayson in New Britain and efforts to neutralize enemy airfields near Garsua. It notes weather delays in Papuan land operations while Allied troops close in on encircled Japanese remnants at Sanananda Point. In Burma, RAF bombers attacked four villages in Akyab and conducted a night assault on Akyab Island with direct targets hit and returning British planes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhett
Dorset
Inde
Allen
al Fenst
Leen
Aled Vetani
Athens
Fientra
Arthur
Madang
Fin & Pnefen
Fin
Sidianon F
Garsuata
New Britain
Travn
Peninsule
Sanananda Pont
New Delhi
Raf Bomere
Akyab
Burma
Theae
Akyah Island
Cairo
United States Air Force
RAF
Lght
Tripolitania
Axia
Acle
Lampedusa
Tunisia
Tripoli
Iran
Miegs
Tripolitante
Ducal Elie
Edgefield prisoner recounts death-house testament amid prison hearing
A rambling statement from George Logue is heard as he and two co‑defendants face execution pleas. Logue mentions a testament on a death-house door while reporters, penitentiary officials, and ministerial onlookers listen. The trio’s bid for executive mercy is denied after appeals up to the state supreme court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Logue
Edgefield County
Penitentiary
Konthiess
Ireus
CM. Helly
George
Bagwell
Joe Fi
Logue
Spartanhill
Mie
Ina
Timmerman
Larios
George Logie
Jefferies
Theepstate Supreme Cour
Alent
Trent Bon
Theo Dambor
Mabeefield County
Sue Lope
Perotti
Wallace
Air war updates from Europe and Africa amid ongoing raids
Allied air forces and South African RAF bombed enemy camps and airfields along the Tripolitania coast and range, with eight Axis fighters downed and 12 Allied pilots missing. Daylight raids hit Lorient and coastal towns, while Axis raiders targeted an English south coast town causing damage and casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Loriant
Royal Canadian Air Force
Lorient
United States Air Force
Britain
Allied air crews tally enemy losses amid raids and arrests
Contirns Freas Page Our reports Allied air forces claim 15 enemy planes downed in three days as Maj Philipp Cochran leads P-40s in bombing German positions at Kairouan. Meanwhile two more arrests tied to the Christmas Eve Admiral Derlan assassination probe and Royalist links surface. European front reports note Spitfires over the northern Tuallan front and four Allied sweeps per Axis mission. In a separate court note a woman testifies on an intimate incident and two rape charges involve Pega La Rue Satterlee, with statutory rape defined under California law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aad
Germeo
Baic
Arsalen
Emery
Buuses
Max Alt
Philipp Cochran
Erior
Kairouan
Tuallan Front
Jean Derlan
Harold MacMillan
North and West Africa
Henri Giraud
de Gaulle
MacMillan
Geisler
Andréss
Lesiie E
Mise Haneen Waneq
Flynn
Pega la Rue Satterlee
Hollywood
Sirocco
California
Fragmented crime report continues on page one
The article describes a murder investigation with multiple names and tied charges. It mentions an Army officer’s wife, a deputy sheriff, a sharecropper, and various indictments related to the killing at the Lagie farm. Details are incomplete and fragmented.
Gas Book Checks Highlight 35 Percent Allocation A and B
RUMORS OF GASOLINE books A and B circulate in Dothan with reports of stickers on cars and Florida checks on Alabama vehicles. Houston County records show 34 percent of 5831 issued books are BY and t books with 1762 AY books issued to renters, plus 1184 B and 5 GC books. A court appeal involves Mrs Alice T Jones against New York Title Insurance Co for 39747. Victory Tax program officials in Dothan discuss record keeping and submission from counties to state headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opatern
Dothan
Florida
Alabama
Houston County War Price and Hationing Board Today
Lnind
Daniel AY
Roy Hill
Howson County
Alice T. Jones
New York Tite Insurance Company
Inaua Ace Company
Dinahutty Venefi
M.A. Lawrence
Montgomery
Auparvisor
Fate
War Labor Board faces miners and senate hearings amid tax debate
The War Labor Board will hear why 17,000 Pennsylvania miners walkout amid wartime policy. Senators weigh Flynn to Australia and Brown for Price Administrator. A payroll tax plan and a pay‑as‑you‑go option surface as options to fund wartime needs. Braxton Broxton Jr., son of Mrs. Eddie Mae Wright Broxton, is named Wing Sergeant Major in the Army Air Forces Cadet Corps at Maxwell Field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waerington
Pennsylvania
War Labor Board
Wiles Barre
Senate Banking Committee
Prennan M. Brown
Michigan
Leon Henderson
Wagner
D.-N.y
Brown
Turan
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Congress
Hoosevelt
Osimun
Teale Braxton
Eddie Mae Wright Broxton
South
Alice Street
Dothan
Aviation Cadet Corps
Army Air Forces
Maxwell Field
Alu
Broxton
Alabama
Maryland National Guard
Napier Field
Brontone
Montgomery County High School
Warrant Includes Blame After Bottle Attack
A warrant issued by Recorder JL Veughomp following a reported incident at Write Castle on Montgomery Boulevard lists suspects including Mistivyd Godein and John Baggett. Baggett alleges an unprovoked attack. the recorder notes no statement from the accused. Other arrests cited Lucilia Powell Teramty Brown Hatph Holland Irving Beil for drunkenness vagrancy petit larceny and related offenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Godein
JL Veughomp
Montgomary
John Baggett
Vaughneld
Baggett
Lucilia Powell
Teramty Brown
Hatph Holland
Irvin Beil
Houston County Circuit Court to hold two-week criminal session
A two-week session of Circuit Court in Houston County is ordered to begin February 15 for trial of criminal jury cases. Judge D. C. Halstead will preside, with the session continuing into February 22 for the second week as officially announced by the court attacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circuit Court of
Houston County
D. C Halstead
Halstead
Front Page War Hospital Nuns Brighten Ambience
In a forward hospital ward soldiers wounded in battle and ill with dysentery receive daily greetings from a plump nun who does not speak English. Her smiles and attempts at a joke lift spirits as Capt Stocknegas notes she is the first welcome for many men each day. Soldiers send small gifts and candy to the caring nun who connects through care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capt
Stocknegs
Englian
Policy of accepting settlements for overcharges criticized
Henderson and Hoover defended a settlement method where violators repay excess charges or contribute to the Red Cross. He cited Interior and Labor Department practices as precedents, noting Congress and the public receive quarterly reports and that the policy has never faced court or congressional challenge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interior Department
Labor Department
Congress
Henderson
Hoover
Red Cross
Navy Sets Weekly Enlistment Quota For Dothan Station
A Navy recruiting quota for fourteen white men aged around twenty to thirty was announced for the Dothan recruiting station for the week beginning January 18. Chief Specialist Cranes La Mertn oversaw the process, with applicants from the local area and future draft-board releases required. Four Negro applicants were also set for the period, including one apprentice plan and three measurement attendants. Two recruits were accepted for the Seabees, Cecil Eugene Merritt of Slocomb and Thomwrg Albert Whitmire of Dothan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sigoleco
Navy
Martin
Seabees
Constructinn
Cecil Eugene Merritt
Slocomb
Thomwrg
Albert Whitmire
Dotheo
OPA to Use Housewife Reports to Set Food Point Values
The Office of Price Administration plans to use daily reports from housewives to adjust ration points. Households will track purchases on a form and submit monthly to determine if a food item like peas is over or underbought. Adjustments will raise or lower point values to balance supply and demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opa
Jauffer
Corporal Rupert Parrish Promoted at Napier Field
Private Rupert T. Parrish son of Mrs W A Parrish of Ashford has been promoted to Corporal. He works as a clerk in the Officers Section at Post Headquarters Napier Field according to the public relations office announcement today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rupert T. Parrish
Mra
W. A. Parrish
Ashford
Parrish
Napier Field
Also Mentioned on This Page
Cena
Sea of the Tote
Malone Motor CO
Ford & Mercury Dealers
Firestone Distributors
Pew
Chg
Wolters
Kuvfie
Hin
RANCH
Ranch Gang
Nick Foran
Martha Mears
Sons of the Pioneers
WAGF
P.M
Prado
Dr. Pepper Botting Co
Vothaw, Ata
Geneva
Capitol
Edward J. Flynn
Australia
Bridges
R-N.h
New York
Democratic National Committee
New York City
Rep
Jarman
Thains
ASN Flier
Nureery
Louise Cooper
Amg
Coltingedd
Ube
Tanied
Tim Robert
Otcss
Dodge & Tiymati Bone
Eternal
Georgia Marble
Speigner Marble CO
Osten Street
Max
Max’s Grill
Udge
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