Rommel’s Tunisian Stand Faces Long Final Battle
War dispatch analyzes the push toward Tunisia as Rommel seeks to move African corps to defend Tripoli and Ben Gardene. Allied air power targets westward columns while German armor fights to hold the route to the Tunisian coast. The odds rise as Rommel, Von Arnim, and Axis forces attempt a last stand with 40,000 to 70,000 troops and Sicily air support shaping the outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn Baeb
Rome
Tunisia
Mussolini
Roman Empire
Hitler
Cohmmaos
Veo Ar
Rommel
Gulf
Gabse
Sfax
Vahielas
Tripotend Ben Gardane
Ka Alamein
Remmiel
Algeria
Elma
Montgomery
Caire
Eighth Army
Homy
Tripoli
Africa Corps
Generel Giraud
Bex
von Arnim
Sicily
Italy
Atalingrad
Mrs Mittie Register Dies Near Graceville
Funeral services held for Mrs. Mittie A Megister seventy of Graceville who died Wednesday morning after a short illness at her home. Rev H F Chunn and Rev MG Wilson officiated at Graceville Church with burial in the church cemetery. Blackburn Funeral Home of Chipsey directed. Surviving: three sons Hugh Max Register and RM Register of Graceville route two and a son in Picayune Miss. Several daughters and a brother and sister in law live in nearby states. Active pallbearers listed as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mite A Megister
Graceville
Yastardey Church
H. F. Chunn
MG Wilson
Blackburm Funeral Home
Chipsey
Hugh
Max Register
RM Register
Af Picayune
Miss. Abrea ¢Au
J A Franklin
C. P. Davidson
Columbus
C . Hartaog
Poplarville
Mim
J A Speight
Shcomb
Mias Fannie Speight
Phenix City
PLFF
Barnes J. W. Skinner
C.H. Walford
R. Colt
Alabama war housing allocations by NHA reach over five thousand units
The report details 12 continued frees days with 5800 plus family units allotted to private builders and public housing across Alabama. Cities include Anniston Birmingham Birmingham Courtland Decatur Foley Gadsden Huntsville Mobile Montgomery Muscle Shoals Tuskegee and more. Approximately half completed and occupancy expected by mid summer for war workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Mobiin
Hampton Roads
Norfolk
Virgini
Annieton
Birmingham-Bessimat
Homewood
Fairfield
Childeraburg
Talladege
Courtland
NHA
Anniston
Birmingham
Childersburg - Sylacauga-Talladega
Court
Dethan
Decatur
Axis retreat tightens as Allied air blitz closes Tunisia front
The article describes Axis forces withdrawing toward Tunisia from Libya, with Allied air and naval pressure from east and west. It notes mounting bombardment at Tripoli and Sidy, the Libyan border position 25 miles west of the frontier, and forecasts Rommel’s possible withdrawal as Allied advances shorten Axis supply lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neap
Gardane
Axia
Tunisia
Malta
Tripolitania
Algeria
Sidy
Tripoli
London
Libya
Ob‘norvera
Rommel
Africa Corps
Tunialan
Tunialae
North Africa
Unclear fragment hints at Dunkirk era air supremacy
Fragment discusses fate and African Dunker que, British naval dominance in central Mediterranean, doubt Hitler can achieve air superiority, and whether Dunkerque was possible for the British.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mediterranean
Hitler
Market reports Chicago commodities uncertain words
Market reports from Chicago list grains and fats with unclear wording. Wheat corn oats lard and other items appear but the text is fragmented, offering no clear prices or specific details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Commodities
380 672 Jars Of Food Canned By Women
Houston County farm women plan to can more food in 1843 to meet annual goals. Ming Fran Malletts, home demonstration agent, said 300 672 jars were canned in 1942 by Nome Demonstration Club members. Fruits vegetables meats preserves pickles relishes and jams were included. Brining drying logging and storing were listed as methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston County Farm Farmieg
Nome Demonstration Clubs
Ming Fran Malletts
Misa Malletts
Ming Mawiatte
Price Panel to Aid War Price Board Functions
The panel will provide price regulation information to firms and individuals and forward non compliance reports to OPA officials. Three members were named to devote their time to this patriotic task and the panel will meet Thursday at 10 a.m. at the War Price and Rationing Board offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seseried
OPA
Legel
Wilkeresn
Wilkerson
Price Panel
War Price and Retioning Board
RAF and USAAF join daylight raids on occupied Europe
In a fierce attack last Saturday Berlin saw about 00 aircraft involved with 22 reported losses the next night. RAF bombers escorted by USAAF fighters hit Caen Tricqueville and Cherbourg while Ventura aircraft targeted Le Havre. Docks at Cherbourg and the Netherlands faced strikes. All daylight aircraft returned. three German planes were shot down by Spitfires. A few German fighters attacked southeast England at night with no damage reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Germany
France
United States Army Air Forces
Ventura
Caen
Tricqueville
le Havre
Cherbourg
Netherlands
Coal Strike Continues as Workers Pledge Demands
On the Dec 30 walkout, 9000 idle ahead of Roosevelt’s deadline. War Labor Board urged end to disruption amid a developing coal shortage. Spokesmen and strikers, back yesterday, demand a $2 daily cost-of-living bonus and a 60 cent cut in union dues. Average mine wagon wages estimated from $3.50 to $6.50 daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
War Labor Board
Atrikera
Number 7- Industry groups stay active in policy
The piece notes continued efforts to keep industry groups functioning with the Iron and Steel Industry Committee actively advising CPA on price trends and aiding in reforming trade practices and policing the sector. It mentions plans affecting business parties and a persistent concern for broader industry oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iron and Steelcrap Industry Committee
CPA
Crown
All Business
Chamber Committees Plan Stock Show Hikes Delivery Rate
The Daymaker of Commerce Agriculture and Livestock committees will meet Monday at 3 pm at City Hall to plan the seventh annual Fal Mark Show and Sele. Arthur Johnson, secretary manager of the Dothan Chamber, said farm groups are preparing entrants. prizes and event details will be discussed. GADSDEN, Ala APs The Gadsden Times announced a Sunday home delivery rate increase to 1.50 per week due to higher costs and war conditions, with carriers receiving part of the raise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gadsden
Agricullture and
Daymaker of Commerce
Arthur Johnson
Dothan Chamber of Commerce
Jeess Fotreater
Agriculture Committee
Land Clyde Coe
Livestock Committee
Gadeden
Als Aps
Gedaden Tunes
iRationing and Controls Nearing Their War Goals
Miss Elisabeth Eepy of the Housing County War Price and Rationing Board says price control has kept war costs down while production rose about 100 percent. She cites 1942 savings of 26 billion dollars in war materials and six hundred dollars per family, with expectations prices and rationing will further improve this year. A rationing system covers scarce goods like sugar and gasoline, designed to ensure fair shares during wartime. The stakes are large, but victory in the war aims to curb inflation and future shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elisabeth Eepy
Housing County War Price and Ratloning Board
Miss Eepy
Kepy
OPA
Wat
Misa
Ist
Miss Zapy
Amelia
Lieut Dykes Assigned to Fort Jackson
Lieut Franklin E. Dykes with two years service is assigned to the Reception Center as an assistant records officer. A Dothan Alabama native, he graduated Blue Springs High School and attended the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa for two years. He entered service as a private in 1933, served in the Infantry and two tank units, earned a non commissioned rating, and was commissioned January 12. Mrs Dykes currently resides in Anniston Alabama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Jackson
Franklin E. Dykes
Lieut Dykes
Dothan
Ala
Blue Springs
University of Alabama At
Tuscaloosa
Armed Forces
Infantry
Regular Army
Mra Dykes
Anniston, Ala
Survey underway for day nurseries in Dothan
A survey by the office of the county superintendent of education, aided by Flora McGuire of the State Child Welfare Department and Claude Cotton, aims to determine if Dothan needs day nurseries. The program would care for children ages two to five while mothers work, with trained staff and government funds available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dothan
Us Education
Flora McGuire
State Child Welfare Department
Mra
Claude Cotton
Houston County
Armed Services
Fadera
Misa McGuire
Mise McGuire
Alabama
Ming McGuire
Andalusia
Burfaule
Selma
Mobile
Montgomery
Birmingham
Huntsville
Decatur
Florence
Phenix City
Talladega
San Mra
Dethan
Miss McGuire
Airfield fire truck uses carbon dioxide to smother flames
A new fire fighting vehicle for airfields releases thousands of pounds of carbon dioxide onto burning aircraft to smother the fire and allow rescue work to begin.
Taxi Owners Called For ODT Meeting
Taxi owners operating under the ODT Certificates of War Necessity are notified to attend a meeting at the Houston County courthouse annex on Friday January 23 at 1 30 pm. John Baggett, examiner of the temporary ODT branch offices, says the meeting was called by the regional DDT office in Atlanta. The exact purpose was not disclosed but will address gasoline mileage allowances and allocations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston County
John Baggett
Atlanta
Baggatt
Flynn defense contests paving of courtyard with city materials
In a continuing Benals committee hearing Flynn denies knowledge that New York City owned materials and labor were used to pave a Putnam County courtyard on his estate, describing the site as an automobile area. He argues losses in New York mortgage securities stem from a 1928 real estate tumble. Washington notes include delays in Rutledge Supreme Court nomination and a broad manpower study by the Senate, plus agricultural and aviation policy debates and calls for committee reorganization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benals Committee
Flynn
New York City
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Edward C Pletcher
Washington
Fletcher
Rutledge
Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Reynolds
D-Nc
Soviet Offensives Extend From Rostov To Armavir Front
Dispatches report Red Army gains across a broad arc from Rostov toward Kharkov and Voroshilovgrad, with advances 60 miles east of Rostov and thrusts between Kursk and Kharkov near the Donets basin. Encircled German units west of Stalingrad suffer heavy losses as Soviets seize towns, capture prisoners, and move toward Armavir to secure oil fields near Nevinnomysskaya.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mascox-Rostov
Don River
Beck Naxelecks
Red Army
Rostov
Don
Donets
Russian High Command
Kharkay
Voroshilovgrad
Likhaye
San of Azov
Don Valley
Voronazh
Kursk
Kharkov
Src
Doneta Basin
Voroshkovgrad
Lakhaye
Stalingrad
Voronezh
Ares
Ostrogorhek
Mega
London
Voroshilovak
Caucasus
Nevinnomysskaya
Beku-Roetov
Armavir
Kuban
Black Sea
Novoroasiak
Sea of Azov
Service volunteers listed in wartime personnel call
The article lists names of individuals including Charles Culpepper Clifton Burdeshaw and many others as volunteers in express wartime service. It notes new express service now provides three mile per minute transportation between production centers in the United States Canada and Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Ralph Culpepper
Clifton Burdeshaw
Roy Milton Arnold
Coy Lee Brunson
Ralph Hynson
Raymond Wright
James Drewery Richardson
Donald William
Ralph Hughes
John Howard Adams
Shelby Lee Thomas
James Wondfin Parkman
Samuel Alex Cherry
Charles Herman Bates
James Moir Fringie
Ashly Carnell Sellara
Samuel Helms
James Hubert Davis
Arthur Phillipe Holland
Leroy Peacock
Cap Randolph Bell
James David Tyner
John Lewis Daniels
Charley Lafayette Thoma
Wayne Robert Smith
Aubrey Cecil Todd
Elbert Winifred Bush
Freddie Wilner Yohn
James Leonard Baxter
James Martin Everidge
Frank Otis Tuttle
Max Marah
Thomas Albert Whitmire
Terrell Warren Hutchinson
Robert Alexander Ross
New Are
United States
Canada
Mexico
Japs Threaten Chile Over Diplomatic Break
Japanese spokesman Tomokazu Hori warned in Berlin radio remarks, broadcast via the Associated Press, that Chile, by severing ties with Japan and the Axis, would later be forced to host U S troops and face Japan's disapproval. He said Chile was relinquishing its leading Pacific shipping role and could not expect Axis favorable treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tomokazu Hori
Japan
Hori
Berlin
Associated Press
Chile
United States
Aori Sale
Pacific
South American
Alabama Banks Join in Coupon Program
Alabama banks both state and federal will participate in a nationwide coupon banking plan starting January 27. The system will pass ration stamps and coupons back to suppliers through commercial banks, reducing paperwork for local War Price and Rationing Boards. Dealers will open accounts for each rationed item. gasoline dealers and some distributors are excluded based on December sales. The public is not affected. banking begins where consumer purchases of rationed goods end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Fulmer
House Agriculture Committee
Roosevelt
House
Sabath
D-Ii
May
D.-Ky
Miliary Affairs
Lea
D-Calif
Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
White
Vivnon
D,-Ga
Naval Affairs Committee
Crticiam
Board of Heonomic Warfare
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Watllace
BEW
Taft
Ohio
Senate Banking Committee
William M. Jaff
Gilletts
Senate Agriculture
Sala War Production Board
Donald M. Netsop
Maritime Commission
Activi- USA
Federal Communications Commies
Montgomery
Alabama
A. 8. Colibos
OPA
Collins
Colling
Ration System Rules For Retailers And Wholesalers
The paper explains that once ration stamps are deposited they do not expire and retailers or wholesalers may draw checks against them to restock shelves. Banks will not accept outdated or invalid stamps or altered documents. Retailers and wholesalers must follow directives to conform with regulations or risk being denied face value of coupons for improper filing or endorsement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O'Mallie
O’malle
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Georgia Marble Speigner Marble CO
N. Oates Street
Max’s Grill
Orlyans
New York
Etta Gray
Peggy
Dick Foran
Martha Mears
Sons of the Pioneers
Dr. Pepper Bottling Co. Vous
Geneva
Polar
Johnson
Teen
Beve County Way Tien Board
Rm Tons
Hartford
Ang
Memban
Ald
Johns
Dyoyaer-Un
Houston County Farmers
Fire Dept
U. S
Alabama State
St Andrews
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