John W. Pennington Funeral Rites Held
Funeral rites were held in Marianna for John Wesley Pennington, a native of the area, with burial in a local cemetery. Pallbearers included Roy Pennington, Curt Shor, Wilmer Pennington, and Hoy Pennington, among others. Survivors and mourners listed include relatives from Spring Hill and Graceville.
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John W. Pennington
Marianna
Funesa
Aire
B. Ristehr
Saint Andrew
Mes Adis
Graceville
Kiwanis Club Speaker Outlines Health Plan
Brown M Kiwanis Club speaker James 3. Brown Seid representative 6 for the State Department of Health addressed Dothan Kiwanis at noon Tuesday. The talk covered a combined testing program to be organized in Houston County this month. Albert Logue of the Dothan Rotary invited Kiwanians to attend four lectures at Rotary's Institute of Understanding opening in Houston Community Court House. L. J. Thomas Sr. reported on a recent Kawais district convention in Auburn. Visitors included Dr J Perolio and Thomas A Goya from Montgomery and Sant Hall Jr.
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James 3. Brown
Seid
State Department of Health
Dothan Kiwanis Club
Houston
Albert Logue
Dothan Rotery Club
Rotary
Institute of
Houston Comunty Court House
Auburn
L. J. Thomas, Sr
Dr & J. Perolio
Thomas A. 4Oya
Montmery
Sant Hall, Jr
Joseph A Kennedy Wounded In Action
Joseph A Kennedy is wounded in action as Navy Depart ment reports. Allen Hornsby of Dothan and Brinson Spivey of Mobile are named as wounded. The notices provide short biographical details and indicate service in southern Europe with overseas service bars awarded under wartime orders.
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Joseph A. Kennedy
Brinson
Spivey
South Foster Street
Teely
Aay
T Sigtrey
Wombat
Europe
Rabies Prevention Measures After Child Bite Report
A reported rabies prevention case concerns a child bitten by an animal. The Golden Brain Laboratory announced technicians completed a report and noted treatment has begun. A second animal was being tested this year as part of ongoing surveillance.
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Mreerzot
Gree
Private Carle L. Roberts Wounded in Pacific
The War Department announced today that Private first class Carle L Rot erty, son of Mrs Christian Elizabeth Roberts, was wounded in action in the Central Pacific area. The condition or exact status was not specified in the release.
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Carle L. Roterty
Mre
Christan Elizabeth Kelly Hoberts
Anton Jutte
Central Pacific
W Os Department
Allied push through mud near Walcheren stalls as Germans withdraw
Allied columns slog through knee deep mud to pursue retreating Germans across the Maas front. Canadians report 18,000 prisoners and 850 square miles liberated since Oct 6 while Britons reach Capelle and Breda area. Small American actions persist on our east front as Both fronts face minefields and determined resistance.
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Walcheren
Maat
Ien
Maas
Rotterdam
Arnhem
Neder Rhine
Brazzaville
Hertogenbosch
Supreme
Canadian First Army
Masa
Capelle
Oudenbosch
Breda
Moerdijk
Hollandsch Diep
Liesel
Venlo
Williems Canal
Nederweert
Eindhoven
Germany
U. S
Voeges
France
Philippines Reinvasion Insights From Leyte Dispatches
A delayed Leif Erickson dispatch reveals Marine artillerymen joining the Leyte reinvasion. The 24th Corps artillery combines Army and Marine units. About 1,500 to 2,000 Japanese near Dagami were killed in a barrage and flamethrower assault, pushing enemy casualties beyond 24,000. By June 1944 Civil Air Patrol crews had logged over 24 million ocean miles arresting submarines and rescuing ship survivors.
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Franklin C. Siber
10Th Corps
Leif Erickson
Leyte
Philippines
Dagami
Civil Air Patrol
United States
Dead Jap Damaged Australian Ship
Eyewitness reports from Alex Cann aboard the Australia, flagship of Commonwealth warships in the Philippines waters, describe a Japanese bomber hitting the cruiser during the Leste invasion. The attack killed the captain and 18 others. Cann says a dead man was at the controls and the plane burst into flames before sinking.
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Sydney
Australia
Alex Cann
Netherlands
Philippines
Cann
Amendment on Banks Parity If Adopted by Alabama Voters
State banks superintendent Miss Addie Lee Farish announced that Constitutional Amendment No 6 would be submitted to voters on November 7. The proposal would remove the twenty year charter limit and end charter renewal for banks, placing banks on parity with other business corporations.
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Alabama
Addie Lee Farish
Reckless Driving Plea and Fines in Court
Surious Graceson faced reckless driving charges and pleaded guilty. Judge J Norton Muf fins Jr imposed a five dollar fine plus costs. Among 21 calendar cases, 11 continued, six defendants paid five dollar fines with costs for public drunkenness, one was acquitted, and A E Fulford pled guilty under the common carrier act with a five dollar fine and costs.
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Surious Graceson
Court of Common Pleas
J. Norton Muffins, Jr
A. E. Fulford
Hit and Run Driver Injures Mrs Cobb Near Rehobeth
Mrs Mis souri Cobb of near Rehobeth was struck and knocked down by a hit and run driver about one mile south of Rehobeth while near a mailbox. She suffered bruises and shock but did not require hospitalization. Patrolman T F Knight offered few clues as investigators pursued the unidentified motorist.
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Alabama
T. FR. Knight
Missouri Cobb
Rehobeth
Propeller breakthrough powers Army planes in mass production
After three years of research, America's largest four winded hollow steel propeller is now in quantity production for use on Army aircraft. It is designed to absorb 3000 horsepower, marking a major advance in aviation propulsion.
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America
A Million Dollars To Believe Plies
A historical fragment notes that over a million dollars yearly is spent on remedies for piles. It praises Patterson's Ointment as a quick soothing coating offering instant relief, priced at 60 cents a tube, and claims notable satisfaction from use.
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Paterson
Idenson
Fancher Asks Dismissal of Appeal in Murder Case
Irell Fancher, a Dothan woman, asks the court to dismiss her appeal after being convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to 13 years in the State penitentiary by a Houston Circuit Court. The fatal bludgeoning of 64 year old grandmother Mrs Dally Sims occurred at the West Savannah Street home in June.
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Irell Fancher
Dothan
Dally Sims
West Savannah Setreet
Iune, L
Charter Renewal Papers Received for Scout Troop 10
Southeast Alabama Boy Scout Council officials announced receipt of charter renewal papers for Scout Troop 10 of Eufaula. Donke Wars will serve as Scoutmaster for a second year with Elbert Beasley Tyson L. Smith and Joan B. DeVenny on the committee. The troop, organized in April 1635, is one of the council’s oldest and remains sponsored by Cowkee Mulls. It was rated a standard troop in last spring’s inter-troop efficiency contest. Other Buffala units include Troops 11 13 and Negro Troop 64.
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Eufaula Heve
Southeast Alabama Boy Scout Council
Cowkee Mulls
Donke Wars
Elbert Beasley
Tyson L. Smith
Joan B. DeVenny
Buffala
Building permits issued in Dothan total two in $2,000 range
Building records show two permits in the $2,000 bracket issued October 1 by city inspector Jay Johnson of Dothan. Nine permits totaled an estimated $0,500 in expenditures, with repair permits in the same period costing $1,930. A New York Cotton snippet follows with market figures.
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Jay Johnson
Tus
Point Value Changes Only On Applesauce
Officials of the Houston County War Price and Rationing Board announced changes in point values for applesauce for November. New point values are posted in all retail stores and the official point table No 20 has been extended for this month.
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Houston County War Price and Rationing Board
Prohibition Party Leads Minor Party Candidates
Washington AP reports the Prohibition Party tops all minor parties with 73 candidates for President, Congress and Governor this year and has presidential electors on the ballot in 26 states. The Socialist Party trails with 53 candidates, followed by the Socialist Labor Party with 20. The Communist Party dissolved but backs the Communist Political Association. In all, 195 minor or individual-label candidates seek the top offices.
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Washington
Prohibition Party
Congress
Socialist Labor Party
Americans'rs Party
National
Greenback
Communist Party
Communist Politicat Association
Roosevelt
Four Major Campaigns Mark Marine Corporal Draughon
Marine Corporal Julian F. Draughon, 21, son of Do then Chief of Police Julian E Draughon, is identified as a Pacific veteran with four major campaigns. He landed with a Marine raider unit on Tulagi in 1942 and fought on Guadalcanal, where a mortar blast at Bloody Knoll injured him. Evacuated, he recovered, then served as crew chief of an amphibi ous tractor unit participating in the Marshall Islands and Guam invasions this year. Draughon enlisted in 1941, trained at Paris Island, and attended raider school at Guam. His brother, Technical Sergeant Charles Draughon, 22, serves as a bombardier with the Army Air Forces in Italy.
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Julian F. Drauanu
Julian E Draughon
Dothen
Pacific
U. S Mains Corps
Tulagi
Guadalcanal
Bloody Knoll
United Stiles
Marshall Islands
Guam
Draughon
Paris Island
Guamco
Charles Draughon
Army Air Forces
Italy
Grandma's Mutton Suet Penetro Cough Remedy
A nostalgia spurred claim that mutton suet based Penetro provides fast chest cold relief. It markets multimedicated Penetro with mutton suet to ease pain, loosen phlegm, and soothe chest rawness, endorsed as a home remedy by draggists and mothers nationwide.
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America
Grandma
American forces to win China war with British and Chinese aid
The article notes January and February unoccupied China, with Stratton saying victory would depend largely on American forces aided by Britain and China in that order. He cites Chiang Kai-Shek's reluctance to allow large numbers of Chinese to be foreign trained or commanded, fearing eventual mutiny against him. Reports of fraternizing with Japan were common in Chungking.
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China
Stratton
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chungking
Straiton
Number 13portagees to operate at fairground stalls
Air ground officials report a denied effort to permit gaming concessions at the fairground. About 35 to 20 stalls prepared for Monday could not open, as city officials maintain the no concession order. Fairground bosses expect rides and sideshows to fill the week with no midway operators due to the license fees around $1,000.
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Airground
Sinatra backs FDR at Madison Square Garden rally
Frank Sinatra declares government more important than his career while addressing 20,000 fans at a Roosevelt Truman rally in Madison Square Garden New York. He says he may hurt his career by taking sides in a political campaign but Stand by government.
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New York
Frank Sinatra
Madison Square Garden
Romanian Cabinet Reported Resigned
London AP reports the Romanian cabinet resigned and King Michael accepted the move. Moscow radio covered demonstrations in Bucharest, with crowds demanding reinstatement of Gen Radu Rânnicu’s government by a National Democratic Front.
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London
Tur Romeretho
Homalian
Brrvdensi
Associated Press
Michi
Moscow Radio
Io Bucharest
Broadrast
Rannanun Bansieecu
Natione
Race Won’t Disturb Botanical Society Meeting Plan
A botanic society announces its program for a forthcoming meeting at the Cosmo Club next Tuesday night. The agenda includes discussing phytology topics and ongoing election returns in abbreviated form.
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Botanical Society
Washington
Prevention of Syphilis Through Education and Testing
The passage asserts early continuous treatment and vaccination-type preventive care. It cites Dr. Thomas Parran, U S Public Health Service Surgeon General, stating half of people who acquire syphilis are innocent of wrongdoing. It urges blood testing and public education as core strategies.
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Thomas Parran
U. S Public Health Service
Black and White Ointment for Skin Irritations
Advertises Black and White Ointment for eczema acne pimples tetter salt rheum and other skin irritations. Claims 25 years of success with antiseptic healing and cleansing benefits. Offers 10c 25c and 6c site prices and money-back refund if not satisfied. Uses directed.
Unclear fragmentary report on local testing and numbers
A fragmented local notice mentions testing stations in Dothan and booster activity. It includes odd numbers and detached phrases about stations, a county wine reference, and a date hint. The text is garbled with missing context and entities.
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Ingvaideslem
Dothan
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