Napier Field Hosts Open House For Ruhr Visitors
Seventeen Dothan and Wiregrass youths toured Napier Field during the Independence Day Open House. They explored planes, questioned cadets, and watched a spectacular air show forming the letters U A. Colonel James L. Daniel Jr. directed staff to give full courtesy to the guests, who left with a better understanding of the Army Air Forces and Napier Field’s Advanced Flying School. The event was part of a series across Fort Worth and the Southeast Training Center.
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Dothan
Wiregrasa
Napier Field
James L. Daniel
Army Air Forces
Napier Pistol
Flying Training Command
Fort Worth
Army Air Forces Southeast Training Center
Napier Find
Best-Dressed Man In Atlantic Ocean
PORTSMOUTH AP Men of the British Corvette Azalea rescuing survivors in mid Atlantic spot a man aboard a raft wearing a spotless suit and kid gloves with a bin over one shoulder He is described as the whipper of a torpedoed merchant ship and had spent seven hours on a raft.
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Portsmouth
Mid - Atlantic
bin Binoch
OPA To Continue Radio Broadcasts
Elizabeth Expy a county War Price and Rationing Board member says OPA will continue radio programs for Wiregrass residents despite Congress withholding appropriations. OWL Montgomery office prepared weekly broadcasts at 1 30 p m on Wednesdays to convey rationing and price regulation news and updates.
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Office of War Information
Raio
WAGF
Misa Elizabeth Epsy
County War Price and Rationing Board
OWL
Montgomery
Congress
Sikorski Death Sparks Polish Political Tremor in 1942
The cabinet names Deputy Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk acting premier after Sikorski's death while General Martian Kukiel takes command of Poland's armies. Sikorski met with Anthony Eden hours before departing Cairo, and a coalition pact requires a premier acceptable to all four parties. The republic proclaims a national day of mourning.
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Pollah
Andrej Marecki
United States
Victor Alexander Cazalet
Sikorak
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Polish Peasant Party
Sikorski
Martian Kuklel
Skieski
Middle East
Anthony Eden
Poland
Russia
Cairg
Sklorski
Beirut
Lebannon
Lawmakers show mixed views on food subsidies bill
The Banking Committee signaled the bill acceptable to the administration and most of the Senate while a renewal of the fight to bar subsidies not paid directly to producers was anticipated. Four major farm groups attacked the plan, urging deferral until after summer recess. Wagner warned sharp subsidy limits could prompt another veto. The House previously sustained Roosevelt’s veto.
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Banking Committee
Senate
National Grange
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation
Wagner
House
Roosevelt
Bombing raid confirms heavy opposition over France
Number 7 continues from Page One describing a 600 mile La Pallice run and a 200 mile Le Mans leg. Allied bombing was effective with several enemy fighters destroyed despite heavy fighter opposition at La Mans and Mantes. Lt Harvey H Wallace of Carthage Mississippi and Sgt Marshall R Crow of Wanh ington Georgia praise a Te Mans engine factory hit, Crow noting many bombs hit the target.
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la Pallice
le Mans
la Mans
Mantes
Anid
Harvey H. Wallace
Carthage
Mias
Te Mans
Marshall R. Crow
Waanington
Go Palace
SEACTC Commander Promoted to Major General Rank
MAXWELL FIELD Ala AP Confirmation was received to day for promotion to temporary rank of Major General for Brig Gen Thomas J Hanley Jr commanding general of the Air Forces Southeast Training Center General Hanley formerly was deputy chief of air staff Washington
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Maxwell Field
Ala
Thomas J. Hanley, Jr
Air Forces Southeast Training Center
Hantey
Washington
Warplane life and propeller safety notes
The article discusses aircraft design and safety features such as armor steel and glass, wing and fuselage strength, and the practice of engine handling before shutdown. It notes propeller cleaning in a hot vapor chamber at 180 degrees Fahrenheit and mentions Messerchmitts with no fuel jettison provisions. It ends with Captain Wiley C. Faulk arriving in the Pacific after training at Camp Tucker.
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E Propeller Ag
Pacific
Wiley C. Faulk
Campucker
Capt Faulk
Camp Tucker
Registrants Leave for Fort Benning reception center
Officials report Willard Wilson and Melvil Fryer, registrants from Boards One and Two, left for the Fort Benning reception center in Georgia. They were inducted into the Army there on June 16 and have returned home for a fourteen day furlough.
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Willard Wilson
Melvil Fryer
Fort Benning
Private Promoted at Seymour Johnson Field
Private Horace M. Covington of Seymour Johnson Field at Goldsborough North Carolina has been promoted to Private First Class in a well announced ceremony today.
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Horace M.covington
Seymour Johnson Field
Goldsborough
N. C
Acre
Allied and Axis Air War Intensifies Across Mediterranean
The report details Allied bombings on Lido di Ostia, Trapani, and Catania with Italian bases attacked and Axis losses including 108 Allied planes claimed destroyed. German communique notes heavy fighting on the Kuban bridgehead and Arctic convoy actions, with 2,000 enemy dead and prisoners and 700 ships damaged or seized.
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Lido di Monis
Rome
Trapeal
Catanic
High Command
Cpm
Associated Preas
Swerme
Gaerman
Itillen
Catania
Actna
Et Ostia
Tiber River
Ostia
Lida di Roma
Ostia Trapani
Comiso
Jetin
Berlin
Associated Press
Eastern Front
Lagoon
Kuban
Arctic
Weissenberger
Mediterranean
Fleres
Cup
al Or BS
Germen
Contained tensions plague President's domestic policy clashes
The passage notes battles over salary caps, a $16 billion revenue request, and the slow pace of key appointments like Edward Flynn to Australia and James Allred to the Circuit Court. Senate opposition and Judiciary committee action are cited as the main obstacles, with Van Nuys blaming a growing legislative independence and Pepper urging alternative home front solutions.
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Edward J. Flynn
Australia
James V. Allred
Texas
Circuit Court of Appeals
Flynn
Senate
Allred
Senate Judiciary Committee
van Nuys
van Nuys Culd
Pepper
D.fis
Coal miners back to work as UMW promises pace recovery
Promises from United Mine Workers officials and local votes boost morale as about 117,000 workers return to mines. Tennessee shows near full operation with 10,000 miners back, Alabama expects rapid resumption, while Cleveland area warns of production curtailment if chaos continues. Andas reach over 10,000 feet in Peru.
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Ite
UMW
Tennessee
Knotville
Alabama
Cleveland
Republic Steal Corp
Youngstown and Gadsdan
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Dothan Savings and Loan Company
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Solomons
Houston County
Solomon Islands
James Stewart
S. W. Stewart
Slocomb
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Xaid
Ble
Murray
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