Moonshine Bust Stuns Alabama Track Pursuit
Officers chased a truck fleeing reckless driving and found moonshine whiskey stashed inside. Two Black men, Robert Brown and an associate, were arrested by sheriff’s deputies as federal agents joined in. They faced charges including illegal liquor possession and driving offenses. The suspects were later taken to Houston County for preliminary hearings.
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Alabama
Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff's Office
Robert Brown
Ear
Henle
Earl Smith
Haswiy
Purple Heart Awarded to Pte Joseph W Shutes
Pte Joseph W Shutes husband of Mrs Cercline Shutes of Hartford Route 2 has been awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in the Philippine Islands in April. His wife reports he is serving with the Sixth Infantry Division in the Philippines and has been overseas since last May.
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Joseph W Shutes
Cercline Shutes
Hartford Route Two
Sisth Infantry
Philippnes
Army Slows Down Cadet Training Amid Closure Plan
Fort Worth based report states the Army Air Forces Training Command will terminate contracts with nine civilian flying schools supplying primary instruction to aviation cadets. The move follows a strategic phase end and aims to cut back the aviation cadet program. Termination dates align with final class graduations. Hawthorn School of Aeronautics in Orangeburg South Carolina listed among those affected.
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Fort Worth, Tex
Army Air Forces Trainiing Command
Barton K Yourt
AAPTO
Hawthorn School of Aeronautics
Orangeburg
Traiig
No Extra Hosiery Production Seen
CHATTANOOGA AP No possibility of increased hosiery production for civil use was seen before year end by Earl Constantine of New York president of the National Hosiery Manufacturers Association in an interview. He said production is at its lowest due to yarn shortages and military requirements. He predicted a heavy postwar demand for at least five years. About 75 hosiery mill executives from east Tennessee north Alabama north Georgia and southeast Kentucky are expected to attend a conference.
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Chattanooga
Earl Constantine
New York
National Hosiery Manufacturers Association
Constantine
East Tennessee
Alabama
North Georgia
Kentucky
Enterprise Revival To Close Tonight
The revival meeting at First Baptist Church in Enterprise will close tonight under Rev B R Justice with the Ordinance of Baptism to be administered. Dr Claude Ammerman, pastor of First Baptist Church in Troy, conducted the service and several members were added by letter and baptism. In other news, James Ralph Tindell, Seaman First Class, received a commendation for seven months of continuous first time operations against the enemy in the Southwest Pacific aboard his ship which never failed in its mission according to a letter from Captain USS Smelair W 8 Navy.
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First Baptist Church
Enterprise
R Justice
Claude Ammerman
Troy
James Ralph Tindell
Southwest Pacific
Uss Smelair
Navy
W E Clark Dies In Hospital Here
W E Clark aged seventy six of Midland City route two died yesterday in a Dothan hospital after a long illness. He lived in the route two community 50 years and was a Baptist. Surviving include wife a stepson Dr A R Gussendanner Dothan a stepdaughter Miss Wynona Guissendanner Dothan three relatives and seven grandchildren. Funeral will be at Pinckard Methodist church at 4 pm today with ministers officiating burial in Pinckard cemetery. Ward Wilson in charge. Pallbearers listed. Honorary pallbearers named.
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W E Clark
Midland City
The
Baptist Church
A. R Gussendanner
Dothan
Wynona Guissendanner
Registers
J.D McKinney
Columbus
H P
Newton Receives Combat Infantry Badge
Private Pete Newton of 400 North Foster street has been awarded the Combat Infantry Badge, his wife reports Saturday. He has been overseas since November and serves with the Seventh Army. Lloyds of London handles no life insurance.
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Pete Newton
North Foster Street
Seventh Army
Stork Sighting and Textile Terms Echo Through Censorship Fragments
Fragmentary OCR recounts a large bird, described as the exty stork, seen in the United States, and notes censorship gaps leaving uncertain details. It also mentions the origin of the term rayon for artificial silk, replacing the earlierglos usage.
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United States
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Hathcock Lumber Company
Hathcock Lumber CO
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Opereiers
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