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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1944
Page
4
The article discusses Alabama Guardsmen and compensation during active duty, urging employers to continue paying workers while at camp. It argues the Guard serves patriotic ends, praises public recognition, and calls for public understanding of the Guard’s value to the nation and local communities.
A garbled OCR like line from a religious text mix speaks of fear not and God’s coming to save, with impossible neologisms and Shakespearean echoes. It contains no clear person, place, date, or event to anchor a concrete news item.
The Association of Traveling Salesmen backs a plan to abolish sheaplec voting laws after the May 2 primary showed absentee ballots were cast in the names of the dead or people who did not apply. In Houston and other counties absentee boxes produced skewed majorities, suggesting skullduggery. Proponents argue repeal would not harm legal voters who cannot be home on election day.
Commanding officers appeal for volunteers and for employers to grant paid vacation to Guardsmen during July encampment. Many units, including Dothan, report vacancies as the Guard enters its third year after forming to supplement the National Guard. Voluntary service remains the norm, with the force mainly focused on defense and preserving order at home. Guardsmen stand ready for duty.
Maj Robert Johnson warns watchers may think pilots won’t return as planes are shot down in Europe while officials project postwar food demand. Donald Nelson notes agriculture’s staying power after the war. Dr Harry Woodburn Chase says peace requires accepting and maintaining responsibility in the new world order.
Vice Admiral Rose T. McIntyre, Roosevelt’s physician, states the President is in good health and in better physical condition than the average man his age. The return to the White House after illness eased public concern, marking official word that he remains capable of leading the nation through a grave crisis.
The piece argues Republicans should reject anti-poll tax and anti-lynching planks. Southern Democrats resist New Deal meddling and threaten revolt in states like Texas Mississippi and South Carolina. It contends Southern voters gain by aligning with Democrats and warns Southern GOP of limited power while Northerners gain from courting Black voters.
A two page White House briefing on a Texas revolt within the Democratic Party alleges Jesse Jones and Will Clayton led anti Roosevelt forces to influence the Texas delegation. Key figures include George Butler Lamar Fleming John Croker and George Heyer with involvement from oil and gas interests. A Monday Night Club visit to FDR preceded D Day as the president teased Rome and grain aid while a Jap forearm letter opener caused a tense moment.
In New York a debate grows over paying War Production workers $20 weekly during layoffs with extra dependents' grants. Critics cite inequity, praising productive workers while condemning loafers linked to Brewster and Akyon incidents, urging fair selection and truthful wartime service records in reconversion pay decisions.
Radio programs broadcast across multiple networks with time slots from 6:00 to 10:16 PM featuring Mercury’s Music, Milton Berle, Walton Lewis Jr, John Nesbitt, Ron Colman, The Irresistibles, and more. The page also notes political actions, PAC influence, and upcoming hearings as lawmakers discuss campaign expenditures.
In a wartime report the weather favors Allied momentum on an eighty mile Cherbourg front. Allied air forces fly about ten thousand sorties, crippling German reinforcements while Rommel’s forces struggle to shield movements. The Luftwaffe remains weak relative to Allied air and sea supremacy, signaling the buildup of a second front despite German efforts.
A compendium of figures notes that the combined length of oil, gasoline, and natural gas pipelines in the United States would nearly loop the globe thirteen times. Treasury receipts from amusement taxes reached 168 746 625 dollars in 1943.
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