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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1943
Page
1
Dothan and state highway patrol coordinate a new radio communications network linking seven Wiregrass departments to headquarters. The setup aims to cut response times, with patrol cars equipped and a broadcast station planned at Memorial Stadium. City plans include a community center repurposed from a soldiers’ facility for clubs and events.
Allied air forces unleashed over 100 Flying Fortresses against Messina in the Mediterranean quarrying the city as part of a push to isolate Sicily. Fighter opposition and heavy anti aircraft fire surrounded the raid, raising smoke and dust that obscured damage. A RAF Wellington strike on Olbia in Sardinia followed, igniting port and rail targets and starting fires.
The district OPA set flat dollars and cents prices on 285 food items sold in stores across Houston, Dale, Coffee, Geneva and Henry Counties. Signed by Dr. Albert H. Collins, the community pricing order aims to simplify pricing and involve consumers in wartime price enforcement, effective Monday, June 28.
Washington AP War Production Board official Joseph D. Keenan said two days of penniness rioting in Detroit caused a worse war production setback than all labor disputes nationwide in early 1940s. He noted 1,000,000 man hours lost and urged labor and management to curb racial strife to protect aircraft and tank output.
The Senate and House rejected the OPA food subsidy rollback and voted to transfer future subsidy operations from the Office of Price Administration to War Foods Administrator Chester C. Davis. This marked a major setback for Roosevelt policy amid a broader anti-subsidy push following the veto override on the anti-strike bill.
An Alabama State Guard meeting to form a Regimental Headquarters and Supply Company at Dothan will be held at the Armory on the Montgomery Highway tomorrow night at 8 p.m. Lt. Col. John P. Shealy said about 40 are interested but only 30 can be accommodated. The unit will include four officers and 20 enlisted, with a medical detachment of 19 potential members. The company will serve the Third Regiment of South Alabama and meet weekly, likely Mondays, as did the previous Dothan Company No. 80.
Premier Stalin thanked President Roosevelt for his high estimation of Soviet determination and bravery in a Moscow radio broadcast. He said conditions are in place for the final defeat of the common enemy and hailed the joint effort as ready to strike.
AP dispatch from Pittsburgh notes mounting signs of near normal coal output next week amid uncertain Pennsylvania conditions after mines closed. In West Virginia Kentucky and Virginia more miners returned as UMW leaders predicted most would be back Monday. Pennsylvania still shows large absenteeism. About 210000 idle, majority of 300000 back, Kentucky District 23 UMW members took a 10 day vacation over $20 pay.
Washington reports bitter words from labor spokesmen as Congress passes the war labor dispute bill over Roosevelt veto. AFL and CIO leaders renew no strike pleas while War Labor Board members pledge to stay, though rules on participation clash with potential AFL cases. Uncertainty grows over applying the act to coal mine disturbances as picketing reemerges in the fields.
In Birmingham Alabama steel production slumped to its lowest in three years as many coal mines remained idle or partially operated. Republic Steel announced a second blast furnace pause at Thomas works while Gadaden furnaces ran at 70 percent. District output fell below capacity with 14 of 21 furnaces idle or curtailed and two TCL furnaces down for refining. Open hearths remained at capacity by raising scrap iron in charges. Coal mining employment was cut to about 3,000 of 24,000 Emited Mine Workers, with three non-union mines unaffected.
A Norwegian report notes a mutiny among six German U-boat crews in 1918. Norwegian authorities and prisoners were involved, with rumour of mutiny spreading among submariners and possible transfer to military prisons near Trondheim. The claim fits a pattern of wartime German morale declines.
Alabama's 1945 legislature begins its final week after passing key bills. Gov. Sparks plans to introduce interim committees for the 1245 session and push a study of the education system with a $25,000 appropriation. The Bradford bill creating a State Labor Department and union disclosure requirements cleared the chamber, while liquor bills stalled in the Temperance Committee. A constitutional amendment to raise sales tax was killed, and a dispute over the Conservation Department prompted investigative resolutions.
FBI agents in 40 cities arrested 186 men for evading the draft during a four hour period ending noon Saturday. Director J Edgar Hoover announced the largest total at New York field office with 181 arrests, followed by San Francisco 72, Los Angeles 44, and Chicago. Hoovers statement cited no mass arrests and noted earlier May 15 total of 435 arrests. Violations included failure to report for induction and failure to notify change of address.
U S planes hit Rabaul New Britain with twenty tons of bombs in three waves as reports claim Japanese strength including an aircraft carrier and ships. Medium bombers then struck the Huon Gulf airfield area on New Guinea in a heavy poundings, with fighters and anti aircraft fire active.
Jacksonville announces the names of 12 men killed in a Navy PBY bomber crash in the St Johns River. The list includes Lieut Mark Bolin and several officers and air crew from US Navy, Marine Corps Reserve, Army Air Force, and others from Cordele, Newark, Far Rockaway, Caldwell, Clinton, and New Orleans. One survivor was rescued from a lifeboat and the incident occurred in the South Atlantic region.
A large force of American heavy bombers attacked airfields and industrial targets in France during a week of sustained Allied aerial offensives. The raids, supported by RAF operations, hit Ruhr valley production facilities as the Luftwaffe faced overwhelming losses.
Mei Ling Soong Chiang returned to Macon Georgia to receive an honorary degree from Wesleyan University, a famed Methodist institution she attended as a ten year old. The ceremony took place Saturday in the chapel as war headlines and shaken morale faded for some locals remembering the young Mei Ling.
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