War prisoner labor debated for peanut harvest in Houston County
War labor plan would use prisoners to harvest peanuts, reducing farm labor shortages as troops might be diverted. Contracts would pay Army fees, prisoners moved between farms, with about 50 prisoners expected to work in Houston County. Reports on traffic incidents and new driver licenses described, while voting machines and city elections on September 20 were outlined, including costs and procedures.
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Dothan
Cyda L. Con
Elec
Stiryone
WMC Tightens Labor Controls On West Coast
Washington AP report says War Mobilization Director Byrnes announced tight labor controls on the West Coast to ensure shipbuilding and aircraft plants have enough workers. Effective Sept 15, the program aims to fill shortages with 180,000 more in shipbuilding and ship repairs and 2,000 more in aircraft construction, with potential expansion if successful.
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Washington
APY
West Coast
James F.byrnes
Buffalo
N.Y
Byrnes
Georgia Whiskey Tax Policy Shifts in County Court
Judge Saxon P. Poyner ruled to dismiss convictions against three defendants accused of possessing Georgia tax stamped whiskey unless officers prove the liquor was acid or for sale. The defendants, Joseph L. Sylvester, Joseph Williams, and Estella Clerk, were released after brief hearings as the policy extends to whiskey taxed in other states. The ruling comes amid rising Georgia taxed whiskey cases linked to Alabama imports and weekly rationing.
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Georgia
Saxon P. Poyner
Joseph L. Sylvester
Joseph Williams
Estella
Poymer
B. G. Farmer
Alabama
Houston County
Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control System
Poyner
Florida
Mich Torn
Tri-Partite Meet Arranged Amid Allied Plans
Washington AP reports a three nation tri partite meeting among Russian British and American reps has been arranged with a Mediterranean commission to include Russia. The panel will address wartime Mediterranean issues and Italy’s fate after surrender. No location or date given as Stalin remains abroad from talks.
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William T. Peacock
Washington
Russia
Italy
United Nations
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Allied Bombers Level Lae Base in New Routine Strike
Allied headquarters in the Southwest Pacific say eighty four tons of bombs hit the Japanese headquarters at Lae, 15 miles above the ground fighting at Salamene, New Guinea. Mitchell units bombed northwest of Lae while Beaufighters sank barges used by Japanese supply lines to Salamere and nearby Parrigans.
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Southwest Pacific
Lae
Salemene
New Gainea
MacArthur
Madang
Mitchell
Salamere
Dale Ration Board Resigns Over State OPA Interference
Dale County War Price and Rationing Board and eight panel members quit amid protest of interference by State OPA officials in Montgomery. Ard cited calls between state and local offices over ration approvals as the key friction. A State OPA rep was to be sent to Ozark to reorganize the board.
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Dale Ration Board
OPA
Dale County War Price and Rationing Board
Montgomery
Ard
W. M. Sorrell
M. J. Garner
Paul Kolb
Helen Carter
Dan P. McNair
Louie Tam
A. H. Colling
Ozark
Colling
Virginia
Bond Salesmen Map Wide Selling Tour
Washington AP reports a 22 day campaign for the Third War Loan by 5,000,000 volunteer bond salesmen. National Director Teg Gamble says callers will visit factories farms homes and schools to sell bonds and meet a target of 50,000,000 bonds. The drive mirrors earlier jeep campaigns with children urged to buy bonds equaling jeep costs and funds for amphibious and flying jeeps.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Teg Gamble
America
Gamble
Miitons
Railliona
Germans Reported Unable To Mount Counterattacks
London dispatch from James M. Long reports Soviet forces pursuing a German retreat toward the Dnieper and Doma rivers seized the Azis supply hub in the Donets basin. One Russian column stood 18 miles from Stalino as more than 2,500 Germans were killed and three railways into the city were held. The fall of Stalino appeared near.
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James M. Long
London
Dnieper
Doma Rivera
Donets
Stalino
Moscow
Ito
Associated Press
Henry C. Cassifiy
Ukraina
Bomb Load Heaped On Berlin
The Dothan headquarters and supply company of the Third Regiment Alabama State Guard will depart today for Dauphin Island near Mobile to join other units for a week of encampment and instruction. Commanded by Colonel John F. Shealy, the unit serves as headquarters and supply for the regiment with First Lieutenant Alto V. Lee as commander and Captain Raymond E. Spann as regimental adjutant and acting personnel officer.
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Dothan
Alabama State Guard
Dauphin Ipland
Mobile
Alto V. Lee
John F. Shealy
Raymond E. Spann
Roy ©. Hue
Service
Tarnam No. 1
Speedy Lancasters Launch Concentrated Berlin Bomb Raid
Hundreds of RAF Lancasters unleashed a new air attack on Berlin and the Rhineland, dropping 3,000 long tons of bombs in 20 minutes, the third generation assault designed to reduce losses to night fighters. Twenty-two bombers hit Berlin with additional raids on French airfields and mine laying. compared with 47 missing in the prior raid.
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SY Gladwin Hill
London
Herlin
Germany
Berlin
Rhineland
Mussolini Reported Held Near Naples by Germans
La Stampa said Mussolini remained on Ponza Island 65 miles east of Naples under German protection. The report claimed a clash between Badoglio's government and the Nazis, with Mussolini possibly moved to a German location. Ciano also is said to have fled to Germany after Nazi aid.
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Turin
Benito Mussono
Ponza Island
Naples
Castoday
Duce
Pietro Badoglio
Rum
Mussolini
Possib Bly
Roberto Farinacei
Italien
Count Galeazzo Ciano
Germany
Rome
Nazis May Abandon South Part Of Italy
London AP reports Axis forces retreating in southern Italy with a potential Tunisia-like withdrawal. Germans fall back through rough terrain as Allied lines push from the north shore of the Marettina Strait. southern Calabria remains largely under Allied control except for a possible eastern segment.
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Italy
William Smith White
London
Tunisia
Calatia
Mearina Strait
Neighbors And City Folk To Aid Farmers In Harvest
Alabama farmers will harvest crops with help from neighbors city workers state officials and even enemy aliens The War Department released 3000 war prisoners for southeast Alabama peanut harvests and six tent camps were set up at Troy Andalusia Daleville Dothan Enterprise and Geneva to house them Each camp will hold several hundred prisoners under U S Army guard The effort aims to aid a crop valued at about 20000000 across Henry Houston Geneva Coffee Covington Pike Barbour and Crenshaw counties with thousands of local workers plus prisoners to meet the need
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Hoyt Ware
Montgomery
Alabama
Chaunely
War Department
Jtha
Troy
Andalusia
Daleville
Dothan
Enterprise
Geneva
U. S. Army
Henry
Hauaton
Coffea
Date
Covington
Pike
Barbour
Cranshaw
P. O. Davis
Auburn
Prisoners to Help Harvest Peanut Crop in County
About 350 war prisoners are expected in Houston County to work the peanut harvest. Farm agent C M Ling said growers began signing contracts with the government for use of the prisoners who will be housed at a tent camp on the Do Than Headland highway. Farmers must transport prisoners, fed by the Army, and will receive 20 prisoners per contract as harvests move among farms.
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Jewston County
Fupeanut Ares
Prizoner
Houston County
Earty County
Bogton County
Alabama
Ute Highway Patrol
Aighway Patrol
Sheriffs Office
Mége
Perwa
Wiel
Wing
Montgomery
Houston
C. M. Ling
Ling
Dothan-Headland
CCC
Farmera Alaea
Army Finance
Axid
Tank production cutback by 40 percent say Army official
Maj. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, head of materiel for the Army Service Forces, reports a roughly 40 percent reduction in medium tank production over six to seven months due to British and Russian orders. The cutback, he says, lowers this year’s dollar value by over one third and halves the 1946 outlook, with production slightly ahead of 1943.
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William F. Frye Washington
Army
Tucius D. Clay
Army Service Forces
Clay
Prima
Jeffers Resigns Post As Director Of Rubber Program
William M. Jeffers resigns as rubber program director to return to railroad duties. He says he wants to help at his company while noting he contributed to the war effort and that two‑thirds of synthetic plants will be operating this month. Deputy director Col onel Bradley Dewey may take over Jeffers duties.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
Wiliam M. Jeffers
Union Pacific Railroad
White House
Hoowevelt
Jeffers
Bradley Dewey
Dewey and Army Chemical Company of
Boston
Dewey
Army
Navy
Iast
Only Postoffice To Close Tomorrow
Only the post office will close tomorrow for Tabor Day while city stores banks and offices including the courthouse annex War Price and Rationing Board Health Department Chamber of Commerce Boy Scout Headquarters three Selective Service boards and the OPA area office will stay open. The Dothan branch laboratory will be closed all day. Parcel post and general delivery windows will operate 10 am to 11 am.
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Bupinensa Firma
War Price and Rationing Board
County Health Department
Chamber of Commerce
Boy Scout Headquarters
Three Selective Service Board
OPA
Dothan
A. ¥. Malone
Invaders Drive Deeper Inland In Fast Advance
Allied forces push from the Italian beachhead toward Reggio Calabria while capturing ports on the mainland. Montgomery consolidates gains as Sicily routes supply a heavy naval movement. Axis defenses show limited tank action and heavy demolitions fail to slow the advance.
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Bictly
al- Hed
Axim
Reggio Calabria
Regeio Calabria
Genecal Montgomery
Sicily
Italy
Alles
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