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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1944
Page
13
Andrew Gembie La France casualty reported amid World War II action. Survived by two brothers, Cowack Gamble in the Navy and Joma Edd Gamble, both named as next of kin. Details on unit and ship are incomplete in the fragment.
The budget committee of the Dsthan United Charities Ches} t anl will meet Tuesday morning at the Charities Chest office in City Hall to approve budgets of agencies and organizations participating in the War Chest-Chair Chest drive. The meeting, set for 10 a.m., was called by Raymond E. Spann, chairman. In addition to the Alabama War Chest, eight separate funds in Dothan have been set up for appropriations.
OUT OUR Way reports that Teen-Age and Girl Scouts will request appropriations. Budgets expected to be approved include funds for underprivileged and crippled children, Educational fund, hospital fund, Salvation Army, Boy Scouts, County Tuberculosis Association, and Christmas Basketford. The committee comprises Spann as chairman Betts Slingoff Albert Logue Horace Hull and A D Ussery.
Foster Street USO program details a busy weekly schedule at the USC Club on South Foster street. Activities include morning Java hour from 9 to 12 hosted by Mr and Mrs Arthur Johnson, bingo in the game room 1 to 3 pm, radio program Dothan to the Soldier 4:30 pm, free movie Coney Island at 5 pm, pie bingo and arts and crafts Monday 8 pm, game night Tuesday, a Wednesday dance with Napier Field Airliners, Timber Queen free mailiz Thursday 8:30 pm, 66th Division party Friday 8 pm with 262nd Orchestra, and Saturday night featuring 283rd Orchestra.
Col Charles J Daly invites Wiregrass residents to a weekly Napier Field parade today at 4 30 p m on the parade ground at the end of the southeast runway. Ten aviation cadet squadrons will march to Napier Field Drum and Bugle Corps music with Major Frank Dreher and Captain Gerald Grant reviewing. A lifesaving equipment exhibit includes parachutes life rafts radios ration kits and first aid gear alongside a P 40 and an AT aircraft on display. Visitors may view from their cars parked along the runway with military police at the Main Gate directing access.
AP report says a guest unaccounted for in the Anniston Alabama Hotel fire as searches through the ruins continued. The 17 year old wife of Pvt Nick Hemmert from Fort McClellan is believed missing. home listed as Elberta Alabama. Lt Robert Miller says his wife and a companion are safe. A boiler list of 23 missing on registration cards was incomplete due to flames. William R Hornbuckie of Mt Holly North Carolina died trying to escape. Mrs Darwin Chine of Chillicothe Ohio hospitalized with a fractured hip after leaping from the fourth floor. Fire Chief E E White estimates damages around 200,000.
The library announced Saturday a list of new acquisitions including Leave Her to Heaven by Béla Armes Williams Donner at Bell Root by Alfred Leland Craod The D A Cooks Guide by East Sariey Garnes Moving Farge by Fitzgerald A Walk to Mars
A cluttered line presents mixed book titles and author names including Cethirg, Crimson Mountain, and Bag Doc's Girl with stray place names and unclear attribution. No coherent news event or clear publication details emerge from the garbled text.
A garbled OCR fragment contains names and phrases such as W. faemmer, Carviye Miller, Hervey Atlee, Olympue ilite of Quine, Justice Olver Wedel, and Siildrnd Walser with scattered items like four Tums, suggesting a damaged page note with multiple proper nouns but incomplete context.
Fragmentary OCR note mentions a reset of the ECW in overtime and a game event. No readable names, places, or dates present.
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