Franklin D Roosevelt launched carrier bears name
In New York the 60,000 ton USS Franklin D Roosevelt was dedicated by Secretary James V. Forrestal as a powerful symbol of U S resolve to defeat Japan. Eleanor Roosevelt attended in mourning and prayed for the ship and crew to return home victorious.
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New York
Secretary of the Navy
James V. Forrestel
Iive
W Win Ineer
Forrestal
Weler
Midway
Elas
Japan
Eleanor Roosevelt
New York Navy Yard
First In First Out Demobilization Urged
Senator Johnson proposes a FIFO demobilization plan to simplify discharge priorities, arguing the Army point system is too complex and biased. He says mass demobilization should release soldiers in the order they were enlisted, reducing paperwork and appealing to GIs, though he has yet to persuade the War Department.
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Johnson
Army
Coloradosn
War Department
Demotion in Europe Drawn as Key War Issue
A defense official outlines plans to speed discharges by four factors: total service time, months overseas, combat credits and decorations, and the number of dependent children under 18. The aim is to ease concerns of soldiers and their families amid ongoing plans for repatriation and demobilization.
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Europe
Fainer
Vilea
Army
Rotary Barbecue Hosts Guests at Covington Home
Members of the Dothan Rotary Club attended a barbecue at Rotarian Frank Covington's home yesterday. Lt. Comdr. Jack Ussery and Sergeant Rufus Davi Jr. were present along with guest Howard Hale. No business was conducted. Private Nelson Golden promoted to PFC. wife resident of Bombay. Inducted June 1944, trained at Camp Fannin Texas, serving in Germany with Ninth Army since December 2.
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Dothan Rotary Club
Rotaran
Frank Covington
Comdr
Jack Ussery
Rufus Davi, Jr
Howard Hale
Nelson Golden
Bombay
Camp Fannin
Tex
Germany
Electric brain speeds plane propeller cutting job
A new device, an electric brain, guides five sharp tools to cut propeller surfaces. It enables a model to be produced in two days, a task that previously required two weeks, accelerating production for fighting planes by about seven hundred percent.
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Fivo
Boarding House in France Publishes Soldier Links
Major Hoople notes Corporal George G. Holmes of Headland serving with the Red Ball Highway trucking unit in France after entering service in March 103. He previously worked for Colonial Baking Co. in Dothan. Technician fifth grade Troy Hall of Dothan Route One is a mechanic at an Air Service Command Depot in England. Harry S Griffin of 604 Moates Street is with the 601st Ordnance Base Armament Maintenance Battalion of the Sixth Army in Germany.
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France
George G. Holmes
T. L Holmes
Hortense Holmes
Headland
Red Ball
Camp Crowder
Colonial Baking Co
Dothan
Troy Hall
Tom E. Hall
Air Service Command
England
6Th Army
Pie Harry S Griffin
Moates Street
601St Ordnance Base
Sixth Army
Germany
Mrs. Ghent Funeral Today At Brewton
Funeral services for Mrs Kate Downing Ghent age eighty four, widow of Robert Taylor Ghent, founder of Dothan s first telephone exchange, will be held this afternoon in the family cemetery at Brewton. She died in Charlotte North Carolina and is survived by two daughters, two sons, six grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. The Ghent exchange began circa 1898 and was sold to Standard in 1906. Also noted, Private Louie Sanford Peel USMCR son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Henry Peel of Melvern was wounded on Guam and has been discharged from the Marine Corps, now assigned to the Naval Hospital Pensacola Florida.
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Brewton
Kate Downing Ghent
Robert Taylor Ghent
Dothan
Ghent
Charlotte
N. C
C. E. LeMassene
East Orange
N. J
Wallace Smith
Raleigh
Ralph Ghent
Fred B. Ghent
Montgomery
Fred H. Brownell
Robert E. LeMassene
John T. Moore
Army Air Corps
Galveston
Tex
F. Lawson Ghent
Army
Monroe
G. Wallace Smith
Fred H Brownell
Robbie Seale Ghent
Standard Telephone Co
Standard
Louie Sanford Peel
USMCR
Thomas Henry Peel
Melvern
Guam
Marine Corps
U. S. Naval Air Training Base
Pensacola
Fla
Naval Hospital
Peel's
Malvern
Mathis Cited For Air Missions In Pacific Service
Thomas E Mathis AMM2-c USNR stationed at U S Naval Air Station Olathe Kansas receives the Air Medal for meritorious acts on Liberator photographic reconnaissance flights over Rota Saipan and Truk on May 22 May 29 and August 6 1844 His 33 Pacific missions and coolness under fire are cited as contributing to Central Pacific campaigns The citation signed by Vice Admiral J H Hoover notes his devotion to duty and high Navy traditions. A cemetery working at New Hope Primitive Baptist Church Thursday invites all to bring tools.
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Thomas E Mathis
USNR
East Pine Street
U. S. Naval Air Station
Olathe
Kansas
Rota
Saipan
Truk
Central Pacific
Naval Service
J. H. Hoover
U. S. Navy
Pacific
Mathis
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FDR
Francis J. Kelly
Washington
Senator Johnson
McOle
Legivaton
Rotarians
Lydis
Pinkhem
Pekhan
Spann-Marchman Bidg
Insurances
United States
The
Dothan Bank
FDIC
Federal Reserve System
E. F. Moody
J. J. Flowers
J. J. Whiddon
F. A. Flowers
J. J. Mowers, Jr
Fubele
Burke
Caesar
Waldo
Carnival
New Hope Primitive Baptist Church
Mauldin
PSS
SPREE
DR. C. E. Blakey
Optome
Foster, Dothan
Witten
J.shars
Sorrells Milling
Critiea
Goodyear
Agaiar
Ta Ae Tires
City Tire Co
Troy
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