Readied Paper Drive Urges Citizens to Salvage Waste Paper
The Readied Paper Drive mobilizes Clyde Coe and four garbage trucks to collect paper from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Residents in homes and districts are urged to place waste paper on the curb for curbside pickup, with Scouts canvassing neighborhoods to urge participation. Officials warn that failure to channel paper to mills could halt operations, and emphasize cooperation amid wartime shortages.
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Buwebelders
Merchgre
Cit
Clyde Coe
Doe
J. B. Cooke
Senate
Don Nelson
Aper Mills
Issioner Coe
Susgerbage
World War II fronts spread across Europe and Asia
Allied forces press across multiple fronts from the Orne River to Leghorn as Soviet breaches widen the German line in the east and Italian ports fall to Americans. Chinese troops unite against sieges while Japanese advances in Burma and the Pacific continue amid air raids on Berlin.
Lear named commander of Army Ground Forces
Former Second Army chief Lt Gen Ben Lear is appointed commander of the Army Ground Forces succeeding Lt Gen Lesley McNair who moves to a key assignment. Lear earned the nickname Yoo-Hoo before Pearl Harbor after disciplining a 25th Division unit for cheerleading during a stale patrol.
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Ben
Yoo-Hoo
Farmers Battle Peanut Cutworms In Houston County
State Extension entomologist W A Ruffin warns a peanut cutworm invasion threatens this year's harvest in Houston County. C M Ling reports poison supplies arriving soon for local dealers and cryolite recommended as the cheapest effective poison. Farmers should inspect fields twice weekly, apply six to eight pounds per acre for Spanish peanuts and ten to twelve pounds for runners, using a dust gun, with lead arsenate as a second option and avoiding calcium arsenate.
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Houston County
W.A. Ruffin
State Extension Service
C. M. Ling
Ling
Extension Service
Ruffin
Autopsy Report Awaited in Alabama Woman Death Case
Circuit Solicitor Keener Huxley said he was awaiting an autopsy report from the State toxicologist at Auburn regarding the death of 85 year old Mrs. Sarah Moss who died at her home two miles east of Cottonwood on July 3. Her husband John Peter Moss, 77, is jailed on a murder warrant. he was taken from a cemetery where he attended the funeral after officials opened a probe into the cause of her death. Scratches on the face and arm injuries prompted authorities to reevaluate the initial heart attack claim.
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Circuit
Keener Huxley
Auburn
Sarah Moss
Cottonwood
John Peter Moss
Moss
Armyrulses
Mowe
Democrats Convening Scramble Over Wallace Nomination
The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago with Franklin D. Roosevelt seeking a fourth term and vice president Henry A. Wallace campaigning for renomination. Leaders and speakers include National Chairman Robert F. and Oklahoma’s Robert Kerr as networks broadcast coverage begins.
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Tonight
Robert F
Charles W. Tit Jett
Robert 8. Kerr
Oklahoma
Jack Bell
Chicago
Roosevelt
Henry A. Wallace
Andrew Jackson
Franklin D. Roose
Virginia Senator Showing Strength
AP report from Chicago notes Georgia delegates head a push to place James F Byrnes name as a potential vice presidential candidate at the Democratic convention. Byrnes urges inclusion of his name while Georgia loyalty pins hope on renominating Roosevelt and Wallace. Awaited decision in Georgia meeting as southern hopes waver for Wallace support elsewhere.
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Max Ball
Chicago
Georgia
2000 American Bombers Strike German Rail Yards
London AP reports nearly 2,000 American bombers and fighters attacked rail yard and airfield targets in southern Germany, including Munich area and Schweinfurt. RAF daylight strikes followed, with heavy losses on both sides and a major push against German oil, rail, and aircraft plants.
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London
Germany
Munich
Britain
Haly
Brenner Pass
Italy
England
Schweinfuri
Hellriegelskreuth
RAF
Berlin
Cologne
Ruhr
France
Normandy
Channel
Helgoland
Halifax
Vaires
Paris
Revingy
Aulnoye
Wesseling
Scholver-Buer
Reich
15Th Air Force
Friedrichshafen
Memmingen
Endorsement Motion Argued By W. L. Lee
Alabama's delegation to the Democratic convention approved Roosevelt for a fourth term and Bankhead for vice president at its first caucus. W. L. Lee argued the endorsement was out of order in uninstructed delegates. he favored Bankhead but voted present. Other delegates split with some not voting. Governor Sparks named delegation chairman and officers selected.
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Chicago
Alabama
Roosevelt
John H. Bankhead
W. L. Lee
Dothan
Lee
James A. McCollum
Tuscaloosa
Roy Davis McCord
Gadsden
W. W. Malone
Athens
Mi Lee
Sparks
D. Hardy Riddle
C. Maner
Montgomery
Albert Houtwell
Birmingham
George Miller
Tokyo Domei promises important news delayed to tomorrow
The Domei Agency in Tokyo announced an important news item for nine o'clock Eastern War Time, then said the news would be held for release until tomorrow. U S government monitors noted Domei announced Tojo being relieved as army chief yesterday.
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Tokyo
New York
Dome
Today
U. S
Domei
Hideki Tojo
Battleships And Bombers Hit Guam In Pacific Drive
Allied forces press Guam shelling as battleships and spotter planes target Japanese defenses. Admiral Nimtz and General MacArthur report continued high tempo in the southwest Pacific with ships sunk or damaged and more supply traffic disrupted.
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U_ & PACIFIC FLEET
Peral Harbor
Guam
Southwest Pacific
Japan
Navy
Adm
Chester W. Nimutz
MacArthur
Nimutz
Pacific
Educational Plans Devised To Control Peanut Damage
The executive committee of the Committee for the Advancement of the Runner Peanut acted yesterday to address concealed damage in peanuts. An educational campaign will help growers reduce spoilage while Alabama and Georgia Experiment Stations join research toward an eventual elimination. Florida aims to stay informed and contribute, given its northwest region's stake. The committee notes a multi year research program is needed and interim spoilage controls will be implemented.
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Committee For the Advancement of the
Alabama
Georgia
Florida Experiment Station
Forrester Dies Here After Long Illness
Floya Forrester of 300 North Foster Street, a well known cotton buyer, died at a Dothan hospital after a long illness. Native of Cowarts, he moved to Dothan 30 years ago, retired a year and a half ago. Survived by wife Gussie Mae, son Richard, sister Meta Jones, and several relatives. Funeral at Johnson & Wilkerson Chapel tomorrow at four with Rev. Clement Ritter. Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers listed. Johnson and Wilkerson Funeral Home in charge.
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Floya Forrester
North Foster Street
Dothan
Cowarts
R. B. Forrester
Houston National Bank
Johnson & Wilkerson Chapel
Clement Ritter
Gussie Mae Forrester
Richard Forrester
Meta Jones
W. C. Farmer
Heard Saxon
Howell Coe
Frank Gwaltney
Lovie Meyrovitz
D. C
Jame L. Acree
Arthur Mortis
Johnson and Wilkerson Funeral Home
Reconstruction at Port Chicago Port Engaged After Massive Explosions
Port Chicago California begins rebuilding after the wartime ammunition depot blast that killed hundreds. Navy and FBI investigators arrive as construction crews rush to stabilize the site and clear wreckage. Officials estimate 900 to 2,000 dead with many missing or unidentifiable amid the two shocks late Monday night.
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Port Chicago
Calif
Navy
Devares
Blagis
Navy and
Federal Bureau
Caen Sector Breakthrough as Allies Reach Farther into France
Allied forces breach Rommel’s Orne river defenses near Faubourg De Vaucelles and push into tank country beyond Caen, with reports of at least five miles gained to Cagny on the road toward Vimont. Montgomery cites 60,000 Germans captured and 8,000 buried in Normandy, while Americans seal off a German salient north of St Lo.
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Wes Gallagher
Allied Expeditionary Force
Erwin Rommel
Orne
Caen
Faubourg de Vaucelles
Cagny
Vimont
Bernard L. Montgomery
Normandy
St Lo
Nazis Press Central Door To Germany Front
Soviet and German fronts crackle with fast moving offensives as Konev’s forces push 31 miles in three days toward the Polish border and threaten Lwow and Brest Litovsk. Reports say Busk and Bortkov fall, while Rokossovsky drives toward Brest Litovsk’s western gateway from the east.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Hitler
Marshal van Shenev
Andre I. Yeremenko
Konev
Ukraine
Lwow
Konel Konev
Bug River
Selets Belski
Sokal
London
Germany
Russia
Ctpsure
Skomorokhi
Lowa
Kaminonka
Busk
Bortkov
Berlin
Cankly
Transocean Agency
Iaid Konev
Iman
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Warsaw
Enty
Brest Litovsk
Polish Troopers Move Into Ancona in Adriatic Advance
Allied reports say Polish troops seized Ancona after a 7 5 mile push through stiff German resistance. In Livorno American Fifth Army gains reached Monte Della PaggiA as British and American forces press the Gothic Line along the Arno and upper Tiber valleys. More than 2,000 prisoners and substantial war materiel fell into Polish hands as they pursued retreating German units toward the north.
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Edward Kennedy
Rome
Mark W. Clark
Amy
Livorno
Italy
Apcona
Adriatic
Leghorn
Pisa
Cty Street
Genoz
Arno
Ancona
Bay of Ancony
Fifth Army
Monte Della Pa
Arezzo
Amo River
Montevarchi
Tiber
Eighth Army
Citta di Castello
Faugna
Badalucco
Luciana
Massan Peninsula
Florence
Rimini
Chinese Crack Hengyang Ring With Counterattacks
Chinese forces shattered the Japanese ring around Hengyang near the Canton Hankow railway city and pressed toward relief forces, reaching 2 to 3 1/2 miles from Hengyang. Japanese detachments were reported retreating northward near Leiyang, as China warned of growing Japanese reinforcements and foreseen climax of the siege. Chinese air raids targeted Chaling and river junks along the Liang, while Pingka’s relief attempt was crushed. Further south, Chinese forces repelled two counterattacks at Lastungpo near Lungling.
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Bpencer Moosa Crungking
Canton-Hankow
Hengyang
Leiyang
P. H. Chang
Joseph W
Stilwell
Chaling
No New Polio Cases Reported In Dothan
No new polio cases have been reported to the Houston County health department since last week. County health officer Dr W T Burkett thanked parents of teenage children and the public for cooperation and urged keep at home all children under 18 who returned from areas with polio cases. He noted no additional suspect cases and questioned when the August situation would be clear.
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Houston County Health Department
W.T. Burkett
Varglion
North Carolina
German Officers Kill One Another Over Nazi Policy
In Athens at the Bretagne hotel a conference of six German officers escalated into a shooting fray over policy. Pistols were drawn, senior officers fired, leaving one chief administrative officer for the Pejoponnesus dead. Austrian Col. Fritz Athens, the provost marshal, vanished, with reports claiming execution for opposing the German Army Command.
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Cairo
Athens
Bretagne Hotel
Chif
Pe Joponnesus
Fritz Athens
Captured General Criticizes Hitler Strategy Of War
Gen Edmund Hofmeister, captured commander of the 41st German Tark Corps, says Hitler’s insistence on holding ground cost many lives and prisoners. He cites Field Marshal Busch and other marshals warning against retreats, noting heavy losses in White Russia and lack of reserves to defend vast eastern territory.
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Eddi Gilmore
Moscow
Edmund Hofmeister
Hitler
Ernst) Busch
Pripyat
Baltic States
Hitle
Hofmeister
Althouth
White Russia
Hater
Brawohitsh
List
von Rurdstedt
Germany
Mrs Miller Dies At Dothan Hospital
Funeral services for Mrs Miles Miller fifty nine of 54 North Foster Street were held at 3 30 this afternoon at the residence with Rev Sam C Reeves officiating Burial followed in City cemetery She was wife of Dothan City Commissioner Miles Miller a life long Dothan resident and First Baptist Church member Surviving are her husband a daughter Claire Simms two sisters a brother and a number of relatives Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers listed from local citizens and physicians Funeral Home Ward Willen in charge
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Miles Miller
North Foster Street
Dothan
Sam C. Reeves
Miler
Miler Miller
First Baptist Church
U. D.C
Joe Miles Miller
Ben Simme
Fred Lane
Willie Bajley
Dan Baker
Claire Simms
Dougie Bailey
W. H. Bailey
Dowling
T. E. Bunun
George Baker
A. B. Miller
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Barnet Maybeaks
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