Dothan Seaman Loses $10,000 Damage Suit in Houston Court
The Houston jury returned a verdict in favor of Hilton A. Sellers in a $10,000 damage suit over a 1940 auto collision that killed Leywesy T. Faulk. A companion suit for $19,000 in damages claimed Faulk suffered injuries before his death. The case included tribute to merchant seamen and highlighted service courage and sacrifice.
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Houston
Chest Cour
Hilton A. Sellers
Cefengart
Leywesy T Faulk
Seliers
Aart
Cottonwood
Accident &Y
Selier
Faulk
Stata
Pope
Reyalty
Uoes
Air Force Candidates Must Get Job Release
The United States Employment Service and War Manpower Commission announce a regional Stabilization Plan requiring releases from local employers for Alabama youths aged seventeen to twenty six who seek to join the Army Air Forces as pilots navigators or bombardiers without leaving their home communities.
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Basir
Army Air Forces
United States Employment Service
War Manpower Commission
Alabama
United States Army Air Forces
Knox comments on Japan ships and Atlantic front
Secretary Knox says no Japanese interference with U S Russia aid route across the Pacific and no prizes or sinkings by Japan. He notes no international incident and that Russians and Japanese avoid actions against each other. He discusses Kiska’s garrison, carrier program progress, and ample planes for escort. He rejects reports of American fleet units in the Mediterranean.
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Europe
Knox
United States
Russia
Pacific
Ruasie
Knox Wis
Japan
Kiska
North Pacific
Konx
Kus
Axia
Mediterranean
Commodity Market Rumors Clutter New Orleans and Chicago Quotes
A garbled OCR piece mixes cotton futures from New York and New Orleans with scattered notes on grains and metals. It references July contracts, unusual volume figures, and speculative commentary, mentioning wheat, corn, and planes in a chaotic, report-like fragment from 1892-1964 era trading chatter.
Miners Walkouts Expand Across States In 1941 Dispute
Large scale mine walkouts spread from Alabama to Colorado as operators cut coke output by 50 percent. The War Labor Board upheld the 1941 contract for two years while granting payroll increases but flagged underground travel pay as a question for courts. Union leader Lewis lambasted the board as inflexible, while layoffs climbed across Arkansas Virginia Tennessee Oklahoma Wyoming and other states.
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Alabama
Birmingham
Indiana
Ohio
South
Arkansas
Virginia
Tennessee
West
Oklahoma
Idte
Colorado
Utah
Washington
Wyoming
New Mexico
Montana
Lewis
UMW
War Labor Board
WLB
Tckrs
Lewis m
Chatrtan Willan
Rane
Dale Truckers Gas Ration Dates Set
The Deie County Wee Price and Rationing Board announces caseline rations for commercial truckers under Defense Transportation will be issued July 3 73 at the Yoothy courthouse in Car Trepeyrd. The courthouse will be closed for three days. truckers are urged to keep petroleum ration cards for the third quarter on the listed days.
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Deie County
Wee Price and Rationing Board
Defenge Transportation
Yoothy
Car ‘Trepeyrd
Trueckers
Detroit Riots Highlight Postwar Tension and Troop Rampage
Rioting erupts in Detroit over racial unrest with 1,300 arrested as whites and Blacks clash. National guardsmen deploy with tanks and machine guns after a Bellevale bridge incident sparks violence. President Roosevelt and city officials urge calm as casualties and property damage mount, while police struggle to contain mobs and transport crews walk off duty.
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Govern
Detroit
Bellevale Bridge
Johns
Burgas
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Axis
Edward J. Jefferies Jr
Cadillac Square
Roosevelt
Washington
William Guthner
Sixth Service Command
Guthner
Detroi
Aurand
Edward J. Jeffries
Harry F Kelly
Nekro Supers
Lawrence Adams
Maghcborlyg
Regia
Nospitale
Stresiain
Prowler Reported Again on Woodland Drive
Police records describe an elusive prowler active for a second night in Dothan on Woodland Drive near the 1300 block. Officers Wes Herring Taylor Hicks and Cherry responded around midnight but found no trace, with informants not identified.
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Dothan
Woodland Drive
Wes Herring
Taylor Hicks
Cherry
Government Seeks Doctors and Printers At War Service
Federal positions advertised by Mrs Sadie Ward outline needs for doctors in aviation medicine gas analysis and senior medical officer roles with pay up to 5228 yearly plus overtime. Examiners and printing estimators aimed at the Government Printing Office Washington with salaries 3628 to 3928. Also student nurse training at St Elizabeths Hospital with fifty slated, apply by July 21 1943.
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Mra
Sadie Word
Dothan
U.S. Cisis Service
Public Health Service
War Manpower Commission
W. C. Beebe
Baldwin
Beebe
Washington
ID. C
Inco
St. Elizabeths Hospital
D. C
Federal Institution For Mental Disorders
Commission
Sadie B. Ward
8Ial Service Commission
Washington, D. C
State budget moves add over two million revenue from tax plan
Number and continued from Pare One shows tax would give municipalities and counties more than $2,000,000 additional revenue annually. The House took up routine measures delaying until afternoon the consideration of several proposals to employ a State Income tax surplus, estimated at more than $5,000,000.
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House
Alabama House fuels tax and labor reforms debate
The Alabama House debated a proposal by Rep J N Sullivan Mobile to earmark surplus for removing county ad valorem taxes on homesteads, backed by Rep Merk Hode of Jefferson. The House also favorably reported a Senate bill creating a State Labor Department to regulate unions and employer relations, with further labor proposals anticipated. The House approved a $25 000 study of education and discussed various measures, including officer acknowledgments and jury exemptions for bus drivers. The Senate advanced a scholarship fund for elementary teachers and approved a division of race reports, while also considering amendments on insurance reporting and city expense sharing.
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J. N. Sullivan
Mobile
Merk Hode
Jefferson
House Labor Committee
Senate
State Labor Department
Net
Gerald Bradford
Clarke
Gullat- Taylor
Sparks
B Gullat
Labor Committee
Mouse
Alabama
ET. Dodeon
Tuscaloosa
Internm
House
Hoda
Wilburn Tdearman
Sumter
James A. Simpson Jefferson
Elvin MecCary
Anminton
iHouse
House Ind
Lo Cobb
Cnemkee
Calbert
Ry McCrary
Calhoun
British Raid Targets Ruhr and London in Night Air War
Berlin about a 1000 mile RAF mission attacked western Germany including Krefeld near the Rhine, while London faced the heaviest raid in weeks. British bombers damaged Luftschiffhafen factory and other targets, with Berlin minimizing raid weight, as German reports note 38 RAF bombers shot down and 135 catastrophe raids on the Ruhr cluster.
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Berlin
Rhineland
Krefied
Duisburg
Duesseldosf
Air Ministry
Bord
Krefeld
Duisberg
Duesseldorf
RAF
Germany
Kiefeld
London
Sone
Greater London
Friedulehshafen
Luftschiffhan Factory
United States
Priton
City Takes Up Brass Markers For Scrap
Dothan city crews removed several hundred brass diaka markers used to outline pedestrian lanes. Donated by a soft drink bottler, the disks weigh about 2000 pounds and are nearly 50 percent brass. Government officials in the area asked for the metal for war needs, and the city plans to turn them over for a quicker end to the war.
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Dothan
Agea
B. Scarborough
Scarborough
USO Soldier Quiz Program Lauded in Dothan
The USO sponsored Dothan to the Soldier radio quiz on station WAGF attracts many listeners weekly at 4 p.m. Sundays from the USO center on South Foster Street. Contestants donate gifts. correct answers win gifts for soldiers, while wrong answers benefit Napier Field Station Hospital or Camp Rucker patients. A Tad class led by James Pate starts tonight, meeting Tuesdays 8 to 9 p.m. for two or three months.
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Station Hospital
Napier Field
Camp Rucker
USO
James Pate
Napier Faces Liquor Law Charge in ABC Arrest
Napier faced charges of violating the liquor law after a raid by ABC Agent L C Easterwood and City Detective Taylor Hicks. Eight people were taken into custody. women were held for disorderly conduct and vagrancy, one man for public drunkenness, and two Black individuals jailed for disorderly conduct and late hours, according to police records.
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S . Napier
ABC
L. C. Easterwood
Taylor Hicks
Napier
Whire
Francenel Liberation debates Giraud as commander in chief
The French Committee of National Liberation met in plenary session to study a proposal on military power after reports that the United States and Great Britain want Gen Henri Giraud to retain full command of French armed forces while French Africa remains a base for Allied operations from Norway. Counts suggest about four hundred sailors and troops.
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Algiers
French Committee of National Liberation
United States
Great Britain
Hanri Giraud
Courtes
Britain
Cheerles de Gaulle
Gtreaud
Giraud
French Africa
United
Allied Air Attacks Hit Naples Balerns Battipaglia Rails
Enemy targets across Italy face heavy airstrikes as P-38 escorts blast Balerns and Battipaglia yards, Wellington bombers strike Naples port, B-17s hit Naples rail hubs, and Liberators hammer Reggio Calabria and San Giovanni. The Naples rail trackage at Canscelle suffers severe damage, with fires and destroyed arsenals reported.
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Balerns
Battipaglia
Salerno
Naples
Abridah Wellington
Italy
Canscellé
Middle East Command
Reggio Calabra
San Giovanni
Cairo
Middle East
Reggio Calabria
Beatings by Deputies Flaunt Justice in Alabama Case
Testimony recounts beatings of African American suspects by Deputy Sheriff Faucett and another officer near Tuskegee. Eugene Brown described being struck in woods and homes, with a chair and a blackjack, and a later cane beating. Dr. Winters testified Brown showed facial bruising. Lily May Hiddon testified to beatings to force confessions. Walter Gunn’s death is linked to a gunshot and alleged subsequent abuse, with defense arguing death from injuries and a fall, not bullets. additional testimonies describe handcuff abuse and a brutal head beating.
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Eugene Brown
Brown
Tuskegee
Harry H Winters
Lily May Hiddon
Walter Gunn
Faucett
Gunn
Jacob A. Walker
Alabama Bar Association
Evans
Thay
Abbeville Magprepares for new treasurer installation
The Abbeville Magazine reports a newly installed treasurer, with the event held Monday during the regular meeting. All members are invited to attend the installation and participate in the ceremony.
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Katelaryang
Igus
Jare
Attang
Bricker Wilkie distant run for presidential nomination hints
Report from a meeting where Bricker suggests possibly placing his favorite son in a future run. Wilkie said he had not decided on entering the presidential primary, while officials discussed allied strategies and the Nazi challenge, with remarks from General Marshall and Ambassador Davies. John Bassett, M. Borland, and local officials were also noted in attendance.
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Eran
California
Taft
Oia
Michigan
John W. Bricker
Wendell L. Wilkie
Hany Dential
al Jothera
Bricker
Willkie
Coat Marshall
Seid
Africa
France
Germany
Joseph
Davies
Tome Sador
Russia
Hitler
Soviet Union
Shal Stalin
Paul V McNutt
I. Goodsin
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Monroe
State Agriculture Board
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Wilcox
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