War Bond Drive Aims At One Million Quota For County
A county effort to raise a war bond quota nears £1,000,000 as rally reports show progress toward the half way mark. Columbia rally met expectations. organizers believe about $50,000 more will come from the community before the drive ends. The Town Committee led by Rivenbark and Wilker hopes full pledges and continued employee sales will push Houston County past the target with workers pressing to keep momentum.
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Spa
A. D. Wilker
ML Oakley
C. J. Wilasld
Monty
God DA
Quien
Houston County
Fara
Safe Health Unit Dothan Lab Plans Delay Closure
The Dothan Branch Laboratory, slated to close due to staff shortages, may remain open as State Health Director Dr. B. F. Auty asked for efforts to provide personnel. Spokesman and hospital officials discussed possible retention and necessary repairs, noting the lab serves Houston, Henry, Geneva, Dale, and part of Coffee counties.
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Tr Dothan
Wich
Dothan
B. F. Auty
Montpallary
Austin
Houston
Henry
Gene
Dale
C. W. Cooper
W. P. Moo
Cooper
Invasion and Allied Push From Salerno to Sapri
AP reports a major Allied push in Italy with British and Eighth Army advancing toward Sapri and Salerno. RAF strikes target France while Pacific forces bombard Japanese positions. Red Army advances in Ukraine threaten German rail lines from Crimea toward Neowray.
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Ry ‘Tan
Associated Press
Dunkerque
Salerno
Eighth Army
Sapri
Ankara
France
Germany
Tvs
Ukraine
Russians Drive Toward Vital Kiev Railway
Russians captured Novorossisk, the Black Sea port in the Caucasus, as Stalin announced in a radio broadcast. Troops from the northern Caucasus cooperated with the Black Sea fleet in a combined land and sea operation, taking the port after five days of fierce fighting and routing about 50,000 enemy defenders including German divisions and Romanian troops.
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London
Novorossisk
Black Sea
Caucasus
Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Kuban
Hitler
White House and Congress Tackle 1944 Food Output Plan
The White House and Congress examine the 1944 food output program with Marvin Jones set to outline next week the farm production distribution and price plan for next year. Farm leaders seek clarity on government subsidies, while Roosevelt and advisers discuss possibly lowering support prices to keep parity while limiting subsidies.
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White House
Congress
Marvin Jones
House Agriculture Committee
Fulmer
D.N. C
Roosevelt
FDR To Broadcast War Funds Appeal
Washington AP reports President Roosevelt will give a radio address Tuesday night to kick off the annual campaign for the National War Funds, Inc. The White House said the president will speak briefly on the drive and related war effort.
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Washington
Rocnavelt
National War Funds, Inc
Roosevelt
Army Targets 1943 Inductions To Reach Million Mark
Washington AP Maj Gen L B Bershey told Congress that the Army and Navy need 1 221 000 more men in the last four months of 1943. With 775 000 non fathers available, a 446 000 shortfall must be drawn from 586 000 married men of military age with children. He testified after officials refused to rule out postponing or canceling the October 1 pre Pearl Harbor draft.
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Army and Navy
Lawra B Bershey
Congress
Herghey
Senate Military Committee
Selective Service
Army
Navy
Stern
Hernhey
Border Clash Rumors Intensify Russo Japanese War Fears
Washington reports of a Mongolian frontier clash near Pailingmiao fuel speculation of a Japanese attack on Soviet Russia. Analysts split on likelihood, noting Japan faces Allied pressures and potential German push for a second front while Soviet forces shift wealth to the west.
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James D. White
Associated Press
Pieping
Washington
Soviet Russia
Chungking
Lias
Pailingmiao
Inner Mongolian
Outer Mongolia
Russia
Pacific
East Asia
Germany
Weat
Nation wide truck delivery ban extended October 11
The Office of Defense Transportation extends restrictions on motor truck deliveries to the nation, targeting gasoline shortages. Retail deliveries under five pounds or 60 inches combined length and girth are banned. Sunday deliveries are limited to tea, milk or cream. alcohol, tobacco, confections, soft drinks, ice cream, magazines and seeds may be delivered once weekly. Bread and bakery products, meat poultry, eggs, fruits and vegetables, and fish have a three deliveries per week limit. Laundries and dry cleaners are affected.
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Washington
Joseph B Kastman
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Allies Smash Japs Pillbox Defense At Lae
Allied jungle troops batter through pillboxes trenches and machinegun nests near Lae New Guinea aided by artillery and planes. East of Lae Australians reach two miles from the center of the town and about to overrun Malahang airfield. West and south forces close in in Markhem Valley and surrounding garrison areas.
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Olen Clements
Southwest Pacific
Jas
New Guinea
Lae
Malahang
Markhem
Cholera And Plague Strike In Jap-Held Empire Of Pacific
Cholera and plague are reported spreading through Japanese held areas in the Southwest Pacific. Dutch reports cite typhoid dysentery and malaria as complicating factors for Japanese forces. Plague outbreaks are described in western Java with evacuation orders issued. Malaria and cholera epidemics hinder operations across the theater, with malaria blamed for many Japanese disabilities and cholera emerging in the Philippines after Taiwan reports.
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Pacific
Washington
Southwest Pacific
Netherlands Information Bureau
Nippon
Netherlands East Indies
French Indo - China
Domel
Bandung
Java
Malacia
Japanese War Ministry
Lttzen
Hiroaki Kanbayashi
Thailand
Philippines
Italy No Second Front, Say Reds
Pravda the Communist party newspaper insisted there had been no real second front opened by Western Allies in Europe. It counted 212 German divisions on the Soviet front and said none had been withdrawn for the Italian invasion, noting instead that many German troops were shifted eastward during the summer.
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Pravda
Communist Party
Russia
Europe
Italy
Bravde
Stockholm
Six Indicted Over War Contract Brokerage Scheme
Federal grand jury indicted six officers of Engineers Group Inc for fraud in a war contracts racket. James M Curley of Massachusetts and Donald Wakefield Smith of Washington and Pittsburgh lead the group, accused of posing as expert engineers to obtain government work while lacking experience. Retainer fees up to 39000 and contracts granting up to eight percent commissions were alleged. Other defendants include Marshall J. Fitzgerald of Chicago.
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Representatioe
James M. Curley
D. Mass
Counse
Engineer's Group, Inc
Chicago
Boston
Curley
Jong
Massachusetta
Beston
Democratic National Committee
Gelver
Curley and Smith
Marshall J. Fitzgerald
Highway Patrol Radio System Goes On Air In Dothan
The Dothan Alabama State Highway Patrol office installs two way radios with a tower erected weeks ago. Sergeant H B Moody oversees the setup and says the station will soon go on the air joining state communications networks. Miss Mary Will Autrey is among new operators approved by the Federal Communications Commission. The system will connect with other stations across Alabama for faster investigations and calls. The exact start date for operations was not given.
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Dothan
Alabama State Highway Patrol
H. B Moody
Moody
Mary Will Autrey
Federal Communications Commission
Petrola
War Is Merely Beginning For U.S. Morgenthau Says
Treasury head Morgenthau told a national radio audience that the war has just begun for the United States and warned against overconfidence in victory. He cited Sicily as an example of war costs and noted 18 percent of Allied 156 mm howitzers landed in the month-long campaign, urging Americans to support the effort despite losses.
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United States
Morgenthau
Waterie
Sicily
Treasury
Europe
Morgenthauald
Wsten
Islands at gateway to Aegean reported occupied by allies
London AP dispatches quote Ankara reports that two Greek outposts Hamoz and the Dodecanese near Leto were occupied three days ago by Allied forces or handed to Greek gendarmerie after Italy’s surrender. Mentions Ninth Army redeployment from Middle East bases and possible Balkan invasion plans amid German reinforcements to the Nish-Vardar line.
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Stockholm
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WH. Holmes
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U. S
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Salanika
Vardar
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Black Sea
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Pureau Teld
Eayr ‘Ture
Gorazda
Drin
Jine
Kotgrade
Herajeva
Germany
Adriatic
Sra
Last Minute BULLETINS War News Rounds Up Air Ops and Explosions
Last minute bulletins report American fighters and bombers shooting down Japanese air forces with 87 day prior plan. Munda airfield operations. seven teens trapped underground by an explosion at Point Coal tunnel. American Flying Fortresses conduct dusk raids on France as part of Europe air offensive.
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Japanfas
Munda
Navy
Nomgee
Harlan, Ky
There Point
London
Hitler
Europe
Namien
France
Allies At Salerno Won't Withdraw Declared by Stimson
Washington AP Secretary of War Stimson said the allied troops in the Salerno area will not evacuate and that reinforcements and supplies are reaching the beachhead. He noted the enemy holds interior lines while the Allied forces enjoy air superiority and naval gunfire support. Montgomery's British Canadian troops push north in southern Italy as Salerno remains a critical Mediterranean battle.
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Balorns
Serigna
Stimson
Naples
Mediterranean
Saimson
Aldea
Asld
Mark W. Clark
Billig
Salerno
Stmaon
Rh Bernard I. Montgomery
Italy
Sale Of Driver's Licenses Still Lag At Houston County Office
Chief Clerk J. C. Woodham reported 2,500 licenses sold since sales opened this month at the Houston County probate office. Clerical staff has been increased to speed processing as motorists urged to apply early. Alabama Patrol at Dothan may check licenses after September 30, with penalties for holders of old permits. Applicants must show 1941-42 licenses.
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Houston County
Woodham Sald
Oura
Rhief
Alabama
Dothan
Motorista
Court Of Honor For Scouts Set
Boy Scout Court of Honor will be held at eight o'clock in the social service room of the First Presbyterian Church. A. W. Tex Benner, Scout Executive, reports about ten second class first class and star badges and thirty merit badges will be awarded. Beouta and other campers summer awards also to be presented. Myer Blumberg chairs the program.
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A. W
Tex” Benner
Beouta
Campa
Myer Blumberg
Court of Honor
Preel
German Forces Thrown Back At Bridgehead
Allied forces under Lt Gen. Mark W. Clark claim the Fifth Army and Montgom ery's Eighth Army halted a German breakout at the Salerno bridgehead in Italy. The push, described as the Mediterranean’s largest battle, sees reinforcements landing daily while the two Allied commands advance toward Naples and other northern targets. Air forces and naval bombardment support continued as casualties mount.
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