HL F Lee Dies Here At Sister's Home
Funeral services for HF Let ttarty-Live of Grecesne Finery died at the home of Mrs Gypsy Holloway 4 West Woah Tag'on Btrvel. Bol be held at Panther Crk Church. Rem Howad Tropics Of Biamb off cisurg Buri will follow. Active pallbearers listed include Roy Golden Sam Hester George Courtney Roy Boagry Ted Brown and Ebert Brows. Parents Mi and Mra R A Lee of Dothan survives include wife Janet Jen Nusy Grace, Grady Medusa Mon Freark Lae Graceville sisters Grace Willems Daleville and Mrs Gypsy Holloway Dothan and Mrs Mildred Johnson Macon Georgia and Mrs Jewell Smith New Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gypey Holoway
Panther Crk
Cisurg Buri
cSuren
Vad Wilson
Aearge
Sunning
Eidsee
Janet Jen Nusy
Grady Medusa
Mon Freark
Eli
Graceville
Parenta
R A Lee
Dothan
Grace Willems
Daleville
Wade Lae
Time Lee
Bots
Newton
Roy Golden
Sam Hester
George Courtey
Roy Boagry
Ted Brown
Ebert Brows
Sugar allotments for home canning set in Dothan area
A. D Wieeroon, chairman of the county War Price and Rationing Board, announced sugar for home canning will be limited to 25 pounds per household. Applicants will receive one pound per four quarts, with a 25 pound cap. The period runs March 1, 1943 to February 28, 1944, and any sugar saved after March 1 will be deducted from the total. Registration details to follow and no applications will be accepted until registration is held.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dothan
Hoomen County
A. D Wieeroon
County War Price and Rationing Board
Rome
Brief Session Seen At May Court Term
May term of Houston County court opened with Judge Saxon P. Poyner presiding. Several cases continued, eight calendars to dispose of, many involve farmers, and the judge said farmers should stay in the fields and attend later when matters are more urgent.
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Houston County Court
Saxon P. Poyner
Poyner
Shortage of 100 octane gas and rubber in war brief
The Witness warned air strength would be reduced without more 100 octane gasoline and rubber. Ickes said petroleum industry met earlier needs, but Patterson cited a leaked April memo predicting shortages of 30000 barrels daily for April and 44000 for May, heightening concern over essential war supplies.
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Sterson
Ickes
Pattergon
Farm labor relief and troop promotions noted in wartime items
Article reports improved farm labor deferment due to a new bill and announces the promotion of Private Cecil Dyken of Midland City to Technician Fifth Grade, Corp Dykes. Dyken trained at Fort Ethan Allen and now serves with Coast Artillery at Camp Davis, NC.
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Bivate
Cecil Dyken
W. W Dyken
Midland City
Army
Fort Enathy
Vale
Camp Dmis
Coast Artillery
Incentive Pay Still Offered On Potatoes
Georgia growers face revised incentive plans for potatoes and other crops. The board discussed suspending a special fund for incentives, but the program remains in place with payments based on yield and acreage. Eligible truck crops include carrots, beans, beets, tomatoes, cabbage, onions, and green peas, with payouts per acre for excess production beyond a set goal.
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Athens
Pasineois
Huse Ap
Ryriaticuma Lee
Ube Ecuruilure & Eroprisiies
Ebeliean
Georgias
VSUA
Breedlove
Tre ¢Brittee
Apecial Fonda i
Jasnen
Beache
Freir
War Bond Drive Surpasses Goal by Four Billion
In the Second War Loan Drive about 17 billion dollars was raised, exceeding the goal by roughly 4 billion. Most proceeds came from non banking sources as Treasury eyes a May 10 final vote. Morgenthau praised the drive while signaling higher future targets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury
Morgenthau
Desert War Report Continues Amid Shelling and Mines
Descriptions show troops digging in harsh trenches under a scorching sun as Bedouins adjust positions and loot appears, including British clothing and canned goods. Desert natives face unexploded mines left by retreating Germans and Italians, complicating movement for Allied advances.
Continged from Page One Indicates Division Staffing Rules
The text explains that divisions require a full crew, one day to seven days work, with men in every position. When not needed, workers are moved to other divisions to cover shortages or absences. McNatt and the order aim to reduce losses to higher paying war plants by reallocating labor, while Steeanokeaman notes the industry has not suffered greatly from recent shortages.
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McNatt
Steeanokeaman
Audh
Government jobs opened for war workers and cameramen
Civil Service secretary Mrs. Sadie B Word announced openings for MUIHWh operators and other war industry positions. Base pay is $1820 yearly with overtime. applications available at post offices and mailed to the Civil Service Commission in Washington DC. War workers of equal standing not desired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sadie B Word
Focal Civil Service
Inday
Cle Service Commission
Washington, DC
Coal Mines See Resumption Amid Labor War Turmoil
War Labor Board face off with United Mine Workers over government seizure as Ickes orders production reset and workers return. Roosevelt urges duty while regional offices and price controls push full or near full operation across Alabama and Pennsylvania mines despite lingering contract disputes and potential six day week talks.
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Webby
Ulfar
Pane
Unico
Ickes
Lesie Wall
Lew Hes
Atall
WLE
Morrig L Cooke
Philadelphia
WLB
Roosevelt
Brown
UMW
EWT
New York City
Lewis
New York
Washington
Tates
Ronanvelt
Trespt Son Company
New York Lewis
Trren
Eam Tipi
Telera
Iokes
War Labor Board
Presdent
Wort
Funeral Tomorrow For Mrs Stagg
Funeral services for Mrs Mildred Adair Stagg will be held tomorrow afternoon at First Lepit Church with Rev. Sam C flentes officiating and burial in the ecuy cemetery. The deceased, longtime Dothan resident and organist for First Kapitet Church for over fifteen years, was the wife of Loring Stagg and mother of Nathan Adair. She is survived by her husband, a daughter, and several relatives from Dothan and surrounding areas. Funeral arrangements are in charge of Ward-We gos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midred Adair
Nathan
Misamis
Lepit
Freeclerk
Sam C Flentes
Peter
Byres
Ecuy
Wegos
Inter
Adair
Dothan Tighthoor
Judson Coceye Sneta
Io Dothan
Hustand Loring Stagz
Kennett
Dothan
C RR Bennett
Fufsula
Emmet Bennett Hoht
Henne
Jin Capell
Louisville
Clayton
Roy Hail
Court reverses self on religious papers ruling
The Supreme Court, in a five to four decision read by Chief Justice Stone, vacated its June 8 ruling and reversed state court judgments upholding municipal ordinances taxing the sale of religious literature. Justices Reed, Roberts, Frankfurter, and Jackson dissented.
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Washington
Alt
Supreme Court
Stone
Reed
Roberts
Frankfurcher
Jackson
Black
Douglas
Murphy
Bulledge
Tax plans mull 1942 income tax relief amid divisions
A Ways and Means panel considers three approaches to 1942 tax relief including a compromise canceling the 6 percent normal and 13 percent first bracket surtax for most taxpayers. The administration favors phased 1942 liability with three year amortization while a Robertson Forand plan aims to erase 1942 taxes for about 90 percent of filers. Republicans weigh alignment with the compromise if the plan advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ways and Means
Robertson
Forand
Weekend Police Sweep Totals Fifty-One Arrests
City police and sheriff reports show 51 arrests over the weekend, with 32 city personnel and 19 sheriff’s officers involved. Most offenders charged with public drunkenness, while other details note mining and fuel supply tensions impacting operations.
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Sheriff's Office
Ciy
U S Raids Kiska Thirteen Times In One Day
Washington AP reports American shore bombers struck Kiska in the Aleutians thirteen times on Saturday, causing a heavy blast at North Head, lighting fires and injuring the airfield runway. Attu was bombed the same day but results were not released, and Munda in the Solomons also saw a new raid.
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Washington
Japan
Aleutians
Kiska
Saturdy
Navy
North Head
Kiska Harbor
Attu
Munda i
Solomons
Davis Defends OWI On Deferment Charges
Elmer Davis head of the Office of War Information tells a House subcommittee that insinuations OWI is a heaven for draft dodgers are untrue and unjust. He cites 58 deferments on occupational grounds and notes 108 of 155 OWI overseas personnel are of draft age with more awaiting transport. He warns of casualties as operations expand and frontline deployment increases.
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Washington
Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
House
OWI
Owfs
Dares
OWT
Davis
England
North Africa
Davie
Giant Turnip Exhibited Near Ashford
A giant turnip weighing five pounds was grown by Mr. Ervin at his garden on Ashford route one and shown in Dothan today. It stood out as the only unusually large specimen among the crop, despite receiving the same fertilizer and care as the others.
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Ervin
Ashford
Dothan
Mariannan To Head Jewish Welfare Fund
Ram Piavick of Marianna was elected president of the Jewish Welfare Fund at Temple Emanu El. Officers include Dothan vice president and others from Florida towns. Rabbi Edmund A Landau spoke on service to others. a period of mourning for European Jews was observed with a public intercession prayer at 8 p.m. Rabbi Wolf to preach. Miss Helen Schneider of Chipley was organist.
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Ram Piavick
Marianna Fis
Ted
Jewin Welfare Fund
Temple Emanu- el
Cer
Herwah Biymbe
G. Dothan
Sax Broom
Eufaula
Bey
Theodore Basman
Dothan
Alfred Wolf
Murray Minkoff
Instan
C Davis Turner
Marianna
Cre I Rumson
Mike Bachar
Joe Kraselsky
Nathan Kraselsky
Bernard Schreiber
Grace
Goa
Israel
Europe
Wolf
Helen Schneider
Chipley
Super Egg Laid By Columbia Hen
Mrs D O Nall of Columba reports one hen in her flock laid a huge egg weighing about four and a half pounds with eight inch circumference and five and a half inch length. Inside the shell she found a normal egg, a remarkable double egg event for the farm yard.
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Columbia
D. O Nall
Columba
Allies report gains in Tunisia push and Giraud predicts end in 1944
Allied troops continued mop up near Hull 609 and along a 125 mile front from Tunisia’s north coast to the Gulf of Hammamet repelling counterattacks. Gen Henri Giraud in Algiers forecast May would see Boche defeat in Tunisia and victory for the Allies in 1944 while praising French and Moroccan Goums advancing along the coast toward Marsa Bourba and forcing enemy losses.
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Henri Giraud
Tunisia
Algiers
Hull 609
Dyebel Tahient
Gulf of Hammamet
Enfidaville
Marsa Bourba
Wis
Tepuloch
Pont du Faha
Girsud
Allied and Japanese air warfare reported across Asia theater
A wartime communique describes heavy aerial combat and RAF strikes across the Pacific, Burma, and India. It notes Allied losses and Japanese raids with limited detail, mentioning ships felled near Timor, airfield attacks in Bengal, and sustained clashes along Mayu ridge with no major strategic shift.
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Ainao
Tunuiao
Mats
Rane
Pacific Area
Imen
Kaljing
Fane
Timor
Chad
Aaid
Burme
Mayu Ridge
RAF
Chindwin River
Bengal
India
Allied Powers Praise United Front in War
The document lauds the United States and Britain for their roles in the United Nations against Germany, notes Hitlerite plans for a second front, and highlights Pravda's claim of the Red Army’s great Stalingrad victory. It also mentions American air strikes on German and Italian targets and a sign outside the U.S. embassy praising allied unity against fascists in North Africa.
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United States
Britain
United Nations
Germany
Union
U. States
Europa
Hitlerlte
Pravda
Italy
Europe
United State
Ena
Africa
Mocor
Rustia
Ber Union
Lawmakers debate pre Pearl Harbor draft amendments
Senator Taft faces Wheeler's plan to add a pre Pearl Harbor amendment to the Selective Service Act. Officials oppose the Wheeler measure and claim the House action on a Kilday substitute pins a draft law to bar service by fathers while single men remain in states.
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HL. F. Lee
Sister
Cottonwood
Dothan Bank and Trust Company
First National Bank of Dothan
Farmers and Merchants Bank
First National Bank
Bank of Cottonwood
Bank of Columbia
Fage
U. S
Syum
Leonie
Stee
Eien
Jewia
Khloe
Uncle Sanvs
Icken
Ickee
Cora
Boar
Birmingham
Aja
Uni- Jen
United Mine Workers of America
Joun J Hianyatty
Bean
Majin
Narmal
Moabama Ry Products Corp
Allita
Wnion
Dothan Savings & Loan CO
Dothan's Bank
Troy St
Mrs. Stagg
Qard Murvey
New Castle
New Pome Cowl Mining Co
Sens Furl & Iron Co
A¢mar
Margaret
Red Diamond Coal Mining Co
Red Diamond
Gilmore
Dorothy Gilmore
Hollywood
United States Army
And
New Orleans
Chicago
GON Doo Cossmnar
Mariannan
Jewish Welfare Fund
Neo Fade
Osc
ASPIA
J. L. Harris Roofing Co
P. O
K. Wala
J.B. Davis
Sinclair Refining Co, Agt
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