Voter Registration and Seed Loan News in Houston County
The Houston County board reports a small rise in new voter registrations with about 87 added last week amid low activity before off year elections. Regular registration drives will occur in October for residents aged 21 with two years in the county and one in the city. farmers across Wiregrass counties report progress on seed loan repayments, noting unpaid loans from 1933 to 1943. Civil protection plans for test siren alerts face brushed gaps in some areas, with new sirens to be added and a push for full public cooperation.
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Officers Deny Claims They Do Not Fight Vice
Houston County and City officials and a city court judge rejected charges by Camp Rucker and Napier Field venereal disease control officers that authorities failed to cooperate with the Army. Captains Ralph J. Sykes and J. M. Siegel, reporting at the Second Venereal Disease Control Conference in Montgomery, defended their roles and dismissed the accusations.
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German Reserves Bolster Breach In Soviet Lines
German mechanized corps were thrown into the Belgorod sector to widen earlier breaches on the central front but suffered heavy losses as Soviet counterattacks halted gains. From Orel to Belgorod, repeated enemy assaults were repelled by Russian forces, with the daily toll including thousands killed, hundreds of tanks and planes destroyed or damaged.
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Auxiliary Sirens To Assist Warning For Test Blackout
The Houston County Civilian Defense Council announced a July 21 practice blackout for Dothan with sirens from auxiliary devices and railroad engines, along with the fire department siren. Mobile sirens will be placed at multiple streets and railroad switch engines will join the warning output. Noise makers will sound at 8:33 PM, 8:55, 9:04, 9:14, and 9:24 with an all-clear at 9:24. A luncheon with state officials is planned for Tuesday at 1 PM at the Houston Hotel to discuss further measures.
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Park Avenue
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Kornegay
Bay Line Railroad
Cottonwood Road
Lafayette Street
Fourth Avenue
Bay Shore
Burdeshaw
Hesdiand Ave
Spring Street
Pine and
North Streets
Montana
Houston Streets
Houston
Navy officer criticizes FCC chief over wire tapping
A naval officer's criticism of FCC Chairman James L. Fly is released by a special House committee. The officer accuses Fly of prewar opposition to wire tapping and to punitive broadcasts in Hawaii, suggesting two episodes hindered Pearl Harbor defenses.
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Special House
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FCC
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Hawaii
Navy Guns Shell Kiska To Reveal Enemy Batteries
Navy shells struck Kiska for hours as Japanese shore batteries opened fire, revealing positions in Gertrude Cove. The bombardment aimed to aid an anticipated American landing to drive the enemy from the Aleutian base and suggest Japanese orders to refrain from firing on ships.
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Kiske
Aleutian
Gertrude Cove
Truman Group Scores Faulty Plane Engines
Senate Truman committee accuses Curtiss-Wright of negligence in inspection of defective Army and Navy engines from its Lockland Ohio plant. Company president defends, saying no government sales of flawed parts. Reports say P-40 fighters were obsolete and production shifted toward B-48 cargo planes.
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Navy
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Curtiss Wright
Lockland
Ohio
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Curtis Wright
Nazi Air Power Whittled As RAF Hits Ruhr Plants
London reports say Allied bombing of Ruhr factories and French air fields reduced Nazi air strength. Big British bombers struck central Ruhr targets including German Kirchen while U S Flying Fortresses and RAF bombers hit Caen Abbeville bases. Ten British bombers lost and three Flying Fortresses.
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France
Germany
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United States
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Abbeville
Eighth Air Force
Reichmarshall Goerings
English Channel
Napier Field Flier Killed In Crash
A Napier Field plane crashed about eight miles south of Dothan near Cameron's Mill killing the pilot. Sheriff B and G Farmer arrived as details emerged. The pilot was not identified pending Napier Field authorities. It was unclear if the flyer was a cadet or a serving officer.
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Dothan Cottonwood
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Sheriff B& G Farmer
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Nying
Roosevelt says Sicily invasion signals final phase of war
President Roosevelt described the Sicily landings as the beginning of the end for Nazism and Fascism, hinting at further Allied action across the Channel and into Italy. He spoke at a White House dinner and in a message to Pope Pius XI, stressing neutral Vatican City status during operations.
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Allies hail Sicily invasion as first of many in Europe
London observes the Allied assault on Sicily as the opening blow in a campaign to topple the Axis in the Mediterranean. Eisenhower leads a well equipped amphibious force with American, Canadian troops facing stiff Italian German defenses. Operational reports suggest forces may total up to 40000 with air support, and it may take days to define the battle’s course.
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NBC
Houston Residents Urged To Buy War Stamps $1 Each
Houston County residents are asked to invest $1 in War Stamps this month to support a national effort to fund the Shangri La mission and retaliate for Tokyo raids. The goal is $43,500, with 42,500 parches needed, in addition to two existing War Bond quotas. County War Savings Staff plans future reorganization, naming chairmen for banks agriculture women’s clubs payroll savings and more across Dothan and other municipalities.
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Shangri- la
Tokyo
Doolittle
Nippona
Japan
County War Sav
Ings
Clyde Levern
War Savings
Dothan
Three Girls Injured by Auto Near Ashford
A young woman and two girls were injured last night when struck by an automobile on the Ashford highway. Marjorie Hughes eighteen Rasnford and Mary Furth Beil twelve Gordon muffed severe lacerations and bruising. Vivian Hughes fourteen Bascom Route One was discharged after treatment. Driver Alton White Ashford Route One was identified and exonerated of blame by Patrolman A E McGraw.
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Marjorie Hughes
Rasnford
Mary Furth Beil Twelne
Gordon
Jingarten
Fellows
Forrester
A E McGraw
Alton White
Route One
Germans Expect Loss Of Italy's Defense Islands
London reports fierce fighting in Sicily as American British and Canadian troops land. Axis broadcasts claim Sicily’s defense was prepared but the invasion proceeds with strong naval and air support. Berlin notes no surprise to the Axis and promises continued resistance as terms of the attack unfold.
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Italy
Mediterranean
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Pickets Shut Down Pennsylvania Mine
Pittsburg area industrial strike halts operations as U S Steel and Clairton by products workers walk out. Company spokesman cites coal shortages from mine shutdowns. About 24 mines idle, 18 000 workers affected across southwestern Pennsylvania.
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Clairton
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Axis forces land in Sicily coast quickly crushed
Allied headquarters report Sicily invasion began along 100 miles of southeastern coast. Within hours enemy resistance broke, ships and artillery supported the landing, and coastal advance toward Syracuse and Messina began. Paratroop drops behind enemy lines were reported, and observers warned the crucial tests were still ahead as Allied forces pushed inland.
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