Fire Chief Calls on Property Owners to Aid Fire Prevention
Fire Chief Johnson urged property owners to clear waste and inspect buildings for defects that could start fires. He announced routine inspections of premises and emphasized motorists must stop and give way to fire trucks during alarms to ensure rapid, safe response.
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Jay John
Jodes
Snepecuem
Fre
Department For the Protection of
Esc Coset Jonnean
Cern
Ari v
Trs the Cruel
Johnson
Mrs Frances Morgan To Be Buried Friday
Funeral services for Mrs Frances Ride Morgen of Ozark die Sunday at her daughter’s home. The service is at 5 PM tomorrow at Webb Baptist Church with Rev A D Zbinden officiating. Burial at Webb Cemetery, Johnson and Wilkers Funeral Home in charge.
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Frances Ride Morgen
Ozark
Sam Shulman
Headland Avenue
Webb Baptist Church
A. D. Zbinden
Houston County
Headland Avenue Baptist Church
Jess Bracewell
Alfred Reynolds
A. D. Kirkland
Joe Smithan Shulman
J. D
G. W. Blakey
L. Hilson
Lannie Cain
Oowald Spivey
Maggie Wright
Will Green
Lila Miller
L. P. Gaus
Webb Cemetery
Johnson and Wilkers Funeral Home
Cotton and Rayon Challenge to Southern Textile Power
The Bankhead Committee will study the clash between cotton and rayon as cheaper, mechanized methods press on the southern economy. It will examine whether rayon, a new industry, should be curbed to protect the cotton dynasty amid rising cheap labor abroad in Brazil, China, and elsewhere.
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Freus Fagr
Braz
China
India
Egypt
Bankhead Committee
Bomb plot leads to arrests and damage near Munich
Berlin radio said last night that American bombs cratered a Nazi shrine city. Col. Gen. Geyer von Schweppenburg of a German tank division in Normandy was reported shot. Gen. von Machenfeldt was arrested in the Hitler bomb plot, according to the same newspaper.
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Munich
Berlin
Freiherr Geyer von Schweppenburg
Normandy
Stockholm
Marcon Tiningen
von Machenfeldt
Aamme
Knowles Represents Houston Af Auburn Knowles
A Houston official details Knowles transfer to Auburn training school amid an outbreak of a disease in North Carolina. The move, previously set for North Carolina, was announced today as the case affects the Houston County public health response.
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Knowles
Houston
Auburn
Press Association President Visits Alabama Papers
W. Campbell publisher of the Pressive Age and Jackson County Sentinel and Hunter Golatin Tumpka publisher and legislator led a field inspection trip for the Alabama Press Association visiting The Eagle. Doyle Buckles APA manager accompanied the group. Gulson, a past APA president, publishes several papers statewide.
Sniper Drama and Narrow Escapes On World War II Front
Sergeant James J Hercock and crew engage German snipers while rescuing prisoners and tending a wounded American. Hercock tracks the German medic to a foxhole, frees seven prisoners, and copes with a wounded Yank. Lt E S Sledge survives a German shell strike that rips a hole in his helmet but leaves him largely unharmed.
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Gaydos
Farry
Mike
Puzzy
James J. Hercock
Garrett Hill
Hercock
Maz
E. S. Sledge
Mobile
Ala
Argentina Defends Sovereignty Amid Allied Isolation Critique
President Edelmiro Farrell and Peluffo rebut United States charges of deserting the Allied cause. Argentina vows adherence to international obligations and continental harmony despite diplomatic estrangement. Police permit a 6 pm Eastern War Time demonstration in support of government policy.
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Wrea
Jas
Edelmiro Farrett
United Sistea
All
United and Associated Nations
Ar.gentina
Peluffo
Piraut
Argentina
United States
Cordell Hull
Pelutto
Clemency Plea Made For Headland Black Person
Clemency plea entered for a Black individual in Headland facing multiple charges. Court transcripts indicate extended consideration, with defense urging mercy and potential sentence relief. Local officials and witnesses named in records remain unidentified in available text.
No Japanese Beetles Are Found In County
After six weeks of intensive tests Houten County is declared free from Japanese beetle infection by NJ Jersey plant quarantine official Rychard Church Iugersbor. Over 200 traps were used May to mid June. vandals damaged about 80. Traps used lantern style jars with aromatic oil to lure beetles. few bugs were found on removal.
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Houten County
Rychard Church
Iugersbor
NJ Jersey
Cuyan
Alabama Officer Survives Bomb Attack Wounded
Comdr. Ralph T. Eiland of the U S Coast Guard recounts surviving a German buzz bomb attack in London. He sustained about three wounds as glass shattered his apartment near a convent where two nuns were killed. He was carried to hospital by sergeants after the ambulance broke down.
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Birmingham
Amer
Ralph T. Etland
Euland
U. S. Coast Guard
J. T. Eiland
Homewood
Sid Glass
London
Liberator Group Sets Unmatched European Mission Record
United States bomber unit in Europe completed 200 combat missions praised by Col. Jack Wood of Riverside California as unmatched globally. Bronze stars awarded to Master Sergeant Eluding Manon Weidenbanch of Tarrant Alabama for meritorious achievement. The group supported campaigns in North Africa Sicily Italy and a historic low level attack on refineries.
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Europe
Jack Wood
Riverside
Calif
Manon Weidenbanch
Tarrant
Ala
Wood
Germany
North Africa
Sicily
Italy
Pioeats Oul
Endurance of Allied Forces in Pacific and China Operations
The report notes heavy resistance by Gen Douglas MacArthurs troops at Northwest New Guinea with breakout attempts repulsed. In China the US 14th Air Force downed or damaged 44 Japanese planes near Hengyang and Yochow while British forces increased losses on retreating Japanese. Myitkyin advances by Chinese-American troops continue, and a Sabang raid targets the Malacca Strait area near Singapore.
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Rembert James
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
China
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Hengyang
Yochow
Chu
Hankow-Canton
Chennault
India
Myitkyin
Sabang
Sebang
Malacca Strait
Sumatra
Malaya
Singapore
Georgia and Florida tobacco markets face indefinite closure
A five day holiday delays (Continued from Tage One) reopening of Georgia and Florida flue cured markets. Gov Broughton in Raleigh questions lasting postponement of any auction season and warns of possible crop damage while officials say delayed openings won’t concern later markets. Wingate vows to rally tobacco interests and seeks support from Senators and Governors in the belt.
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Georgia
Florida
Broughton
Raleigh
North Carolina
Wingate
Burley
OPA
Vingon
Locke
Andrews to Address Dothan Exchange Club Meeting
Announcement that George Andrews congressional representative from Alabama's Third District will be guest speaker at the Dothan Exchange Club noon meeting. The towing regular business session occurred during the luncheon, and all members are urged to attend with a Wil tor present.
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George ‘Andrews
Alabama
Dothan Exchange Club
Jackson Succumbs After Long Illness
W. W. Jackson, 2, of 206 East Washington St., died at home Wednesday after a long illness. Born in Albany, Ga, he lived in Ashford, Columbia, and Dothan. He belonged to the First Baptist Church. Funeral Friday at 4 p.m. at the residence. Burial in city cemetery. Survivors include his widow Nancy, four daughters Myrle Damon, Sammie Mae Johnson, Royce Ivey, C. L. Graham, two sons William Jr. and Clarence D. Jackson, two brothers Charlie L. Jackson and Dock Jackson. Active pallbearers listed. honorary pallbearers named.
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W. W. Jackson
East
Washington St
Albany
Ash- Nford
Columbia
Dothan
First Baptist Church
A. D. Zbinden
Nancy Jackson
Myrle J. Damon
Sammie Mae Johnson
Royce Ivey
Miami
Fla
C. L. Graham
Scranton
Penn
William Jackson, Jr
MacDill Field
Tampa
Fia
Clarance D. Jackson
North Africa
Charlie L.jackson
Ashford
Dock Jackson
Atlanta
H. G.gustrap
A. Z Stokes
Allen Hathway Bud Minthell
George Campbell
Chester Woodham
Charles L. Jackson
W. T. Burkett
Mal W. Morris
Br. Bic. Chalker
Farmers Urged To Help Lumbermen In War Time
Houston County farmers and others in the Wiregrass were urged by Walter W Barnes of Troy to use their off season time to aid the lumber and logging industry. A prior agreement allowed 6,900 farmers to enter pulpwood cutting and sawmill work, boosting production by 7 to 100 million feet. The War Manpower Commission notes rising war demand for lumber and warns every deployed service member uses 900 feet for packing and 50 feet monthly for ongoing needs, with about 77 million board feet needed in the first three months of 1944, up from 1943.
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Houston County
Walter W Barnes
Troy
Project Forester
US Forestry Service
Barnes
Selective Service
War Manpower Commission
WMC
Cauley to Attend School at Fort Sill
Second Lieutenant Wale W Cauley has been selected to attend the officers communication course at Field Artillery School Fort Sill. Cauley, son of Mr and Mrs AR Cauley of 409 North Alice Street, attended Alabama Polytechnic Institute and entered candidate school at Fort Sill.
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Fort S Onla
Pathe
Paday Mat
AR Cautex
North Alice St
Alapama Polytecan
Institute
Corr Muncwipey
OF Beer
Fart 'S
Ben McNair Killed in Normandy says War Department
War Department announces Lt Gen Lesley J. McNair, former general in charge of the U S Army ground forces, was killed in Normandy during the recent offensive. Ben Lear succeeds him, and Gen George C. Marshall calls McNair a great loss while praising his battlefield leadership and anti tank innovations.
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Ben
Lesley McNair
Normandy
War Department
Washington
Lesley J. McNair
Wrar
Beyr
J. McNair
McNar
Army
McNair
Ben Lear Hat
McNeil
George C. Marshall
General Headquarters
Chhef
Tunnistan Front
Marshall
Final Rites Held For Mary E Tedder
Funeral services for Mary Evelyn Tedder six year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Roy L Tedder of Cottonwood route two were held at Smyrna Church this afternoon. Burial followed in Smyrna cemetery with Ward Wilson in charge. Surviving, besides her parents, are sisters Sylvia Lucile and Ruby Lee Tedder and grandparents Leonard Tedder and W A Sandera of Dothan area.
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Mary Evelyn
Mary Evelyn Tedder
Roy L. Tedder
Cottanwood
Dothan Hospital
Smyrne Church
Smyrna
Ward-Wilson
Sylvia Lucile
Ruby Lee Tedder
Leonard Tedder
Dothan
W. A Sandera
Route Four
Air battles batter German air power in Budapest strike
Rome reports that Allied and Mediterranean heavy bombers attacked the Manfred Weiss Works in Budapest Hungary, with up to 50 bombers involved. Bombers and fighters claimed numerous victories boosting three day total to 193 enemy planes as Liberator and Fortress crews described the target enveloped in smoke and well hit.
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Rome
Manfred Weisz Steel
Budapest
Hugary
Manfred Weiss
Hungary
Liberator
Fortress
Veterans Bureau to Lead Community Job Training Plan
The War Manpower Commission Bureau of Training says vocational guidance for veterans should be a community task. It notes 115 Veterans Administration offices and 17,000 towns, with only 1,615 government offices offering guidance, implying a broad local effort is needed to provide options for veterans.
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Bureau of Training of the War Manpower Commission
Lodz and Radom Stand Within Striking Distance From Front
Lodz and Radom lay within 95 miles of the front while Krakow sits 95 miles away. Warsaw faces threats from the southeast and east as Hed Army plains and tanks, cavalry, and trucks move forward aided partly by U S land lease.
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Lodz
Radom
Hed
U. S
Poland
Krakow
Warsaw
Yank Doughboys Earn Expert Badge After Tough Training
The 76th Division reports Doughboys earning the Expert Infantryman badge after passing a rigorous three-stage test program at Camp McCoy. The process covers basic weapons, hand grenades, physical endurance including long marches, and a demanding assault course with field firing, concealment, and reconnaissance tasks, highlighting the elite selection among soldiers.
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76Th
Survey of Hodgesville Road Funding Plan
A survey of Hodgesville road work was proposed this week by county officials. The plan calls for paving the road at about five dollars per mile, funded from county accounts and state aid, with the project awaiting approval from the county superintendent.
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Aden
Gibson And Root Returned To Jail After Robbery Escape
Convicts George Root and Henry Gibson, escaped during a robbery, were recaptured and returned to the county jail before being sent to the State penitentiary. The two, held by a Houston County grand jury, faces trial at the Spring term, after a chase that involved two city policemen and a passer-by in Dothan.
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George Root
Barmygan
Dothan
Root
Gibson
Houston County Grand
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