Dothan Drive Urges Households to Save Waste Paper
The drive aims to conserve polio precautions and gather waste paper from homes and businesses. The Merchants Association and Scouts seek cooperation to place scrap paper on streets for collection, with workers visiting residences and stores to boost participation. Clyde L. Coe notes garbage crews will shift to collecting paper on Thursdays to support the effort.
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Johoson
A Commerce
Merchants Association
Dothan
Ate
Joner
Clyde L. Coe
Busi- Dothan
Impossible to parse obituary for Herbert C Sanders
Herbert C Sanders 53 found dead in Florida Sunday. Services at 4 p.m. in Johnson and Funeral Home chapel Rev Sam C Reeves officiating. Survived by a daughter and two sons Alvie, Jee, and Jr Sanders. siblings J D Sanders, John Sanders, W D Sanders. born Geneva County 1892. long moved to Dothan Panama City area. member First Baptist Dothan.
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Herbert C
Dead Field
Fla
Johnson and Funeral Home Chapel
Sam C. Reeves
Alvie Jee and Jr
Dothan
J. D. Sanders
John
W. D. Sanders
Geneva County
Panama City
First Baptist of
Joe Sanders, Jr
Ed Sanders
Bil- J. L. Acree
Jim
World War Fronts Report Dramatic Allied Pressure Across Europe
Chronicle of multiple Allied offensives in Normandy near St Lo and along the Grodno Tosala corridor, with Soviet advances toward Latvia and Kaunas. Reports mention German resistance and Japan's naval actions as U S Navy ships engage in pounding operations in the Pacific theater.
Allied Positions Firmly Established In New Guinea Area
Allied forces hold the west bank of the Driniumor River as two Japanese attacks are repelled in the British New Guinea campaign. Reinforced Americans encircle the Nipponese who crossed the river, with three divisions involved and 612 Japanese dead. swift sea and air operations target Jap forces from the Driniumor to Wewak and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Guinea
Drimiumor River
British New Guinea
U. S
Ariape
Driniumor
Wewak
Sorang
Manokwari
Dutch New Guinea
Timor
Post War Planes Bigger Than Pullman Cars Says Delta
Delta officials returning from California describe two postwar airliners as bigger than Pullman cars inside and twice the size of planes then in use. Led by C E Woolman the party toured reconverted DC4 and constellation models seating about 50 passengers each, with civilian airliners typically carrying 21.
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Atlanta
Delta
California
Pullman
C. E. Woolman
Genel
Woolman
Kiwanis To Hear Napier Field Commander Daly
Colonel Charles J Daly Jr. will speak at the Dothan Kiwanis weekly luncheon Tuesday. It is his first public appearance in Dothan since becoming commanding officer of Napier Field and he will discuss Napier Field and Deen.
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Dothan
Napier Field
Charles J Daly, Jr
Allies Storm Across Halian Arno River In Speedy Advance
Allied forces cross the Arno River near Florence in a rapid push that opens a path to the German Gothic line. British and South African units join American troops in repeatedly driving toward Livorno, Arezzo, and Pisa as Fifth Army enhances pressure along the line.
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Halian Arno River
Noland
Norgaard
Rome
Arno
Florence
Italy
Arezzo
Pisa
Briish
Siege Of Hengyang Battle Rages Amid Tokyo Drive
Allied and Japanese forces clash around Hengyang as Tokyo presses toward securing the Canton Hankow railway. Chinese High Command claims heavy toll on attackers with 14,000 Japanese reported killed or jailed from June 23 to July 14. Further south, Japanese offensives threaten Yinziak while fighting continues in Liling and near Yuhsien. House to house combat also reported at Tengchung in Yunnan province.
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Canton
Hankow
Hengyang
Kwangtung Province
Yinziak
Liling
Yuhsien
Leiyang
Hengyang An Siangsiang
Yunnan
Tengchung
Burma Road
City Refuses Carnival Show Amid Polio Alarm
In cooperation with county health authorities the City declined to permit a carnival to operate this week in Dothan to curb infantile paralysis risk. The move aligns with suspending activities involving children as two polio cases are reported and officials urge parents to keep kids from crowded public places to prevent an outbreak.
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Dothan
Reich Is Attacked By Yank Planes Again
AP dispatch reports up to 750 U S heavy bombers attacked river bridges to the Normandy front and Belfort road yards in eastern France. Up to 500 fighters escorted four engine bombers. Radio Berlin claimed the Reich itself faced a fifth day of attacks in a week as clear skies allowed intensive Allied air power. Belfort near Switzerland and Rheims lie northeast of Paris, with batteries on the Calais coast bombarding London.
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Gladwin Bill London
U S
Normandy
Belfort
France
Rheims
Radio
Switzerland
Rheimsie
Calais
London
Jap Naval Minister Relieved Of Post Nomura Succeeds Him
Tokyo radio reports Admiral Shigetaro Shimada has been relieved as Navy Minister and Admiral Naokuni Nomura named his successor. The broadcasts say the change aims to unite efforts for victory amid the grave war situation, with no details on the Navy Chief of Staff role. Shimada, appointed Navy Minister in November 1941, previously became Navy Chief of Staff in February in a high command shakeup.
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New York
Shigetaro Shimada
Naokuni Nomura
Tokyo
Shimacha
Navy
Shimada
Nomura
Federal Communications Commission
Gen
Hedakti Tojo
Four Auto Mishaps On Week-End Reported
Four highway accidents over a 42 hour period left three people injured, one seriously. Two crashes occurred on Enterprise Highway, two south of Dothan. Captain Cecil E. Love of Camp Rucker was seriously injured when his car struck a bridge and he was unconscious from the impact. He was taken to the Station Hospital at Camp Rucker for treatment.
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Dothan
Enterprise
Cecil E. Love
Camp Rucker
Farr Henley
OPA Pushes Nationwide Car Pool Drive Starting Aug 1
James Marlow reports that the OPA in Washington plans a fuel saving push to form neighbor pools for home to work trips. Drivers with extra ration cards must join pools or lose renewals after 30 days, with board verification via pool signatures.
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James Marlow Washington
OPA
Uon
Motors
John Jones
Ins Board
Lessay Appears Lost To Germans
Supreme Headquarters announced that American forces under Omar Bradley pushed toward Lessay in the Normandy siege, entering the town across the Muoded Ay river with moderate center opposition. Lt General Miles Dempsey’s British army extended a mile front southwest of Caen, seizing two villages as the Allied drive aimed to break the German line near the St Lo–Periers road and St Lo.
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Wes Gallagher
Allied Expeditionary Force
Omar. Bradley
Si Lo
Normandy
Supreme Headquarters
Miles C. Dempsey
Caeé
Lessay
Muoded Ay
Byadiey
Periers
Les Mhilleries
St. Lo- Periers
St. Lo
Supreme
Barkley Emerges In Tight Democratic VP Race
Chicago reports show Alben W Barkley gaining momentum as Byrnes and Wallace also vie for the Democratic vice presidential slot. Byrnes mobilization director and backers urge a majority of votes, suggesting a wartime ticket pairing Eisenhower era leaders and top Senate backing amid Roosevelt era maneuvering.
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Chicago
James F. Byrnes
Henry A. Wallace
Alben W. Barkley
Byres
Roosevelt
Wallace
Byrnes
Supreme Court Justee
South Carolina
Burnett Maybank
Tarn W Nb
US and Japanese clash in Marianas bombardments
U S naval and air forces attacked Guam and Rota for a 12th straight day, with bombers and rockets hammering targets and starting fires. Navy Chief Admiral Nimitz reported the strikes, noting one American bomber was downed but the crew rescued, and described Iwo Jima bombing details using land based Liberators.
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U_ s
Fleet Headquarters
Pearl Harbor
Guam
Rota Islands
Marianas
Tokyo
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
United States
Rota
Saipan
Nimitz
Iwo Jima
Doubi- Jens
Germans March Through Moscow As Prisoners
AP dispatch from Moscow reports the German Army entering the city as prisoners. About 57 800 Germans trudged through streets while over a million Muscovites watched calmly with no displays of emotion. German generals led the column as Red Army forces transferred captives from northern and western routes into city streets.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Red Army
Rad
Rais
Polar Bear Attacks Girl at Central Zoo in New York
Miss Catherine Searles, 24, of Rahway New Jersey, loses right arm to a male polar bear named Soc at Central Park Zoo after a group of visitors woke the sleeping bears. She was taken to Roosevelt Hospital in critical condition. Police described the incident and actions by bystanders during the attack.
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New York
Catherine Searles
Rahway
Missy Gertrude Brady
New York City
Henry Brady
Corp
Edward Cheney
Manchester
Conn
Wiliam Chick
Boston
Soc
Germans Annihilated as Reds Reach Near East Prussia
Moscow reports Russian forces push along a broad front from the Baltics to the Pripyat marshes after taking Grodno, the gateway to East Prussia. Grodno lies 45 miles from the border as German defenses retreat to the Niemen River.
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Benry P. Cassie
Moscow
Rea
Baltics
Pripyat
Grodno
Stalin
East Prussia
East Prussian
London
Fallen Gradno
Lwow
Berlin
Tarnopol
Luex
Niemen River
Niemen
Alytus
Red Army
Wilno
Tare
Negroes Push Voting Rights in Democratic Platform
Walter White of the NAACP led 6.5 million Negro organizations to demand the right to vote in all states without poll taxes or white primaries. They also pressed to keep an anti discrimination employment policy and urged fair farm income distribution amid Roosevelts programs. A southern bloc coalesced to oppose racial equality plank while farmers urged preserving the family farm and broader democracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis M. Lemay
Chicago
Democratic Platform Committee
Walter White
National Association For the ‘Advancement of Colored People
Negro Organizations
Platform
Platform Committee
E. B. Germany
Dellas
Tex
Mneet
James G. Patton
National Farmers Union
Roosevelt
Patton
Houston Bond Sales Exceed Fifth War Loan Quota
Houston County reports Fifth War Loan Drive bond sales totaling 44,180,189 by Saturday night, nearly double the 2,209,000 overall quota. EH bonds topped 545,953, about 90,000 above EE quota, with continued E bond purchases urged to raise excess further.
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Houston County
B. P. Poyner, Jr
Cha Man
Povner
Houston
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Bert C. Sanders
Tosala
Kaunas
Uaden Saphel
Brest
Litovak
Bialy
Germany
U. S. Coast Guard
Kiwanis
Napier
Livorno
Leghorn
Monte Maggi
Montenero
Era
Fifth Army
Poggibonsi
Pogzibonsi
Carnival
Reich
Sweden
Alben Barkley
BY Jack Bell
Yank
Rota Isles
Fleet Airwing
Desroyer
Marine
Marshall Islands
Girl
Central Zoo
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