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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1943
Page
2
The War Price and Rationing Board allows ration-free sales of over 664 lots of shoes, letting retailers offer to move stock quickly. Stores will cut prices to clear inventory, with emphasis on reducing prices while maintaining rationing rules.
After July 1, items offered for Jamie weder the odd-lot sale will re turn to the ratios Met. Unused shoes returned are automatically identified and currency may be refunded.
MOULTAIR Ga 11 days after midseason pause Bpence Wicks edged Napier Field 4 1 to 3 5 in a make up game. Marianna Army Air Field stands 17 7 with three games left. Sgt Red Franz earned the win and Sgt Chester Rogers led with a homer and a triple.
A Pomeranian named Midgy owned by Mrs. W B Burnham reportedly reared a litter of puppies in Tooele Utah. The incident involves questions about animal behavior and local pet records. Authorities and residents await further details.
Napier Field authorities said Technical Sergeant Leon Harris was arrested July 21 on a prowler report on South Oates street but exonerated. He was handed to Napier Field military police after being picked up by city police and later found not guilty of prowling. Harris lived in Dothan at the time.
Governor Sparks urged counties to expand governing functions to cover finances health and welfare at the Alabama Association of County Commissioners and Probate Judges convention. He called for a plan allowing counties to approve or divvy up appropriations and noted recent legislative actions on salaries and programs. Senator Lister Hill was slated to speak at the banquet this evening as delegates gathered for the convention.
Police arrested two men in a city street truck park amid reports of a porishie bookie operation. Inspector C B Recore described it as the city's first and noted long lines of customers waiting to place wagers at the makeshift gambling setup.
Twenty one cases appeared on the Court of Common Pleas calendar before Judge Lawrence Oakley. Four defendants pled guilty to vagrancy and four to drunken beat offenses. The docket itemizes those charged with vagrancy.
The docket notes fines of one dollar and costs for several defendants, with others facing the judge on drunkenness charges fined five dollars each. Multiple cases were continued and no affray case was pressed.
The USO Club outline for the week lists dances, bingo, broadcasts, craft classes, radio programs and a free movie. Highlights include Friday dancing class, Saturday dance with the Military Maidens, Sunday bingo and Talk Home broadcast, Monday bridge and art, Tuesday radio and crystal set assembly, Wednesday dance, and Thursday free movie If I Were King starring Ronald Colman.
Circuit court convenes in Abbeville Monday with Judge D C Halstead presiding. Twenty two cases on the docket include three murder cases two first degree murder prosecutions State vs Coleman Williams and T J McAllister and State vs Henry Floyd all Negro. Also listed is the arson case of Arthur Kelley Dest and George Lee Scott tied to the burning of the Abbeville Hosiery Mill in November 1939.
A Kopperston West Virginia mining office bulletin titled Just a Little Arithmetic explains coal production in terms of enemy casualties. It states one man day underground equals five and one half tons of coal, four tons of coke equals three and three quarters tons of steel, and 375 shrapnel shells equal eight Nazi casualties.
Mrs. Foster boarded a Grand Trunk Canadian National train to Detroit. After departure she feared the electric iron kept power on. Conductor Washburn sent a message to a section foreman who alerted Muskegon Grand Trunk agent J. Sse. The fire department was contacted and extinguished a wood fire before serious damage. no one harmed.
Anderson fire chief Jack Bone considers asking the CPA for a crystal ball to estimate trips, gasoline usage, and miles to be driven as he fills required forms for fuel for fire department trucks.
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