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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1944
Page
9
Crocker Piano Co advertises a scarce piano market with a selection including the newly designed Harpinette pianos. Located at 204 East Powell, Dothan. Branch store details implied.
State, county and federal officers in three states hunted Thursday for two German POWs who fled an internment camp at Camp Blanding. Hermann Kunkel is 29, 5 feet 7 inches, 140 pounds with green eyes blond hair. Anna Klasen, 20, 5 feet 9 inches, 140 pounds with blue eyes fair complexion. They escaped from a field about a mile north of the camp at LaCrosse, Florida. FBI official Abbaticchio said Kunkel speaks little English. The prisoners wore blue denim jackets and trousers with orange insignia. The report ends with an erroneous line about a sea cow’s evolution.
Agriculture Department reports a 67 percent drop in stating acreage to 4,720,060 acres and a crop around 10,000,000 bales seems indicated. Last year 15,423,151 bales. Carryover about 10,000,000 bales. Consumption near 11,000,000. Declines in large farms, some small farms hold or expand. California up four percent, Oklahoma winds Kentucky down due to floods.
Private first class John L. Vance age 22 serves overseas with the station defense squadron aboard a P47 Thunderbolt. His wife, the former Mary Wright, resides at 907 West North Street.
Private Venee son of Mr and Mrs J W Vance of Booneville Arkansas was transferred overseas on Mars Pyur to serve in the Army. He was employed in Memphis.
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