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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1943
Page
3
The AFL and allied labor leaders confront a wage dispute with railroad entities. Officials contemplate a proposed hourly increase to about 1 75 dollars a day and a longer 7 to 8 hour workday to cover underground duties. Local union leaders from shop crafts office and track workers discuss action in Chicago with engineers and conductors weighing a coordinated response and potential strike impact.
National Grange leader Goss and opponent O Neal push for talks with the administration on a farm food program that would gradually end financial supports. They believe a compromise is possible if War Food Administrator Marvin Jones is given more leeway to meet the anti subsidy bloc position.
A wartime relief appeal urges even small donations to aid American prisoners of war the sick hungry and needy and the crippled. Moseley notes sacrifices on the home front cannot compare to military service. Local drive adds firms and agencies to the 10 percent program including Malone Motor Singer Sewing Dollar Store U S Employment Service First National Bank Woolworth Leary Roebuck Circuit Court Clark Probate Tax Assessors Montgomery Ward Cash Drugstore Dr G W Binkey and Perlman’s store.
The article lists wartime manpower programs and employment referrals, citing the U S Employment Service office in Dothan serving several counties. It notes six Flying Forts for Houston County and thirteen additional fighters bought in a Third War Loan drive, plus references to Allied leaders and military lines. It also covers ongoing war communications, plans along retreating fronts, and cotton market quotes from New York and New Orleans with daily open high low and close figures.
Gerald P Bluhm died at his parents home at 219 East Main Street on Tuesday aged eight. He is survived by his parents and a brother Larry. Funeral and burial arrangements were handled locally by Fellows and Forrester before his remains were sent to Lincoln Nebraska for final rites.
Two fatalities reported from Napier Field training plane crash near Headland. Second Lieut Donald Albert Gantter, 23, an instructor, died at Flanery General Hospital after transfer from Napier Field Station hospital. Aviation Cadet Lea McBride Morson was killed instantly. Gantter was last year’s wings graduate and remained as an instructor.
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