British Forces Extend Push Toward Beirut and Palmyra
Dispatches report Allied forces advancing along the Lebanon coast north of Tyre and pressing toward Beirut with heavy action around the Litani river. French resistance remains patchy but stiff, while Vichy troops reportedly transfer to the Allies as loudspeaker appeals sway troops toward De Gaulle's Free French. British detachments move into eastern Syria from Iraq aiming at Palmyra air base near the Mosul Tripoli pipeline.
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Damascus
London
Middle East
Beirut
Lebanon
Charles de Gaulle
Tyre
Merdjayoun
Palestine
Litani River
Syria
Iraq
Palmyra
Mosul-Tripoli
Government to Enforce Mediation Board Policy on Seized Plants
Washington June 11 Administrations leaders said the government could keep seized defense plants open to enforce Mediation Board decisions. CIO strikers at North American Aviation Inglewood plant agreed to return to work under conditions including no discrimination and immediate wage and union shop talks. Byrnes said the board would begin negotiations and compel compliance or replace workers. Roosevelt noted retroactive raises possible May 1 and that owners would regain plants once conditions allowed. Senate moved to grant the president explicit power to seize plants under defense production needs amid strikes.
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Washington
National Mediation Board
Byrnes
D-Sc
Senate Majority
CIO
North American Aviation Company
Inglewood
Calif
Mediation Board
Roosevelt
North American
Senate
Connally
D-Tex
Army Happenings in Tennessee Skirmish and Plans
AP reports Bell Buckle Tennessee June 11 that 102nd engineers built a dirt shelf and platform to aid Major General Haskell’s Bath at Duck River while a private vows to gain similar rank. Yardbird the cat disrupts Company B sleep. Berlin says Germany recognizes Japan's Indies interest as Tokyo signals patience amid Dutch oil tensions. RAF bombs Prinz Eugen base at Brest and U-boat hubs at St Nazaire Mandal and Stavanger. Luftwaffe largely inactive over Britain.
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Associated Press
Bell Buckle
Tenn
Tennessee
Second Army
102Nd Engineers
William N. Haskell
Duck River
Fred Munker
Haverstraw
N. Y
Yardbird
Merry Cain
Daniel C. O’leary
Japan
Dutch East Indies
Berlin
Germany
Indies
Great Britain
United States
Tokyo
Yieid
RAF
Prinz
Eugen
Brest
France
Prinz. Eugen
Bismarck
Atlantic
Hood
St. Nazaire
Mandal
Stavanger
Norway
London
Pembroke
Wales
Lufttwaffe
Britain
Dan Beard dies at 91 father of Boy Scouting in America
Daniel Carter Beard died at his Suffern New York estate The Brooklands aged 91 He would have turned 91 on June 21 He helped found the Boy Scouts of America in 1910 and served as national scout commissioner He was a noted naturalist author and illustrator known for Mark Twain works and served on the national court of honor and executive board His daughter Barbara Price was at his side and his son Daniel Beard Jr flew in from Omaha Nebraska.
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Daniel Carter Beard
Suffern
New York
N. Y
Boy Scouts of America
Dan
The
Brooklands
Barbara Price
Daniel Bartlett
Beard
Omaha
Neb
National Park Service
Ernest Thompson-Seton
Robert Baden-Powell
Scouts
England
Mark Twain
Scouts’ National Court of Honor
National Executive Board
Dan Beard
Brotherhood of Man
God
Rotarians Observe 20th Anniversary Of Local Club
The Thomasville Rotary Club marked its twentieth anniversary with a large gathering including members from nearby clubs and a group from Albany. Notables present included J. B. Jemison as the first president and Lawson Neel who spoke on Rotarys breakdowns and the clubs service to the community.
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Thomasville
W. M. Parker
J. E. Robison
F. S. Smith
Frank Brown
Hansell Watt
J. M. Edwards
Robert Flowers
Randolph Jones
Fondren Mitchell
Dave Plowden
Paul Searcy
B. H. Wright
J. F. Evans
B. F. Herring
Fritz Roberts
Eugene Smith
Coun Watt
E. A. Dawes
R. G. Fleetwood
J. B. Jemison
Wilbur Milton
Alex White
Lawson Neel
Rotary
Germans declare Axis warplanes mined the Suez Canal
Berlin reports German and Italian planes mined the Suez Canal in a four month 1941 review. The Gulf of Suez is cited as a shipping danger zone. The item ends with unrelated mentions of odds and a mess of wartime anecdotes.
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Suez Canal
Berlin
High Command
Germany
Gulf of Suez
Insurance Men Firefighters Prevent Blaze at Glenwood Home
Grady Cooksey of Waycross and E Q Stacey Jr of Thomasville, both Metropolitan Life representatives, in Glenwood prevented a fire when they found an electric iron left on. They entered after smelling smoke, turned off the iron, extinguished the fire, and left a note for Mrs. Johnston.
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Grady— Cooksey
Waycross
E. Q. Stacey, Jr
Thomasville
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Arthur Johnston
Glenwood
Messrs Cooksey and
Stacey
Mrs. Johnston
Renewal Time for Drivers Licenses Arrives in Thomasville
The State Patrol office on South Broad Street announces the license validation machine will operate Friday June 13. Major Price leads the visit, offering on the spot renewals from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. for current licenses valid through June 30 with no delay. expired licenses require examination before renewal.
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State Patrol
South Broad Street
Thomasville
Graduation Exercises Held Yesterday At Douglas High School
The colored Douglas High School graduates received diplomas in a ceremony at the Dewey City auditorium. Principal Smith was ill, so Supt. Huckabee presented awards and diplomas with remarks by Prof. James O Slade Morris Brown College. Class officers were named and colors white and blue noted.
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Douglas High School
Dewey City
Smith
N. M. Huckabee
S. Mark Long
God
America
Jaymes O’neal
Ave Maria
Franz Schubert
Julia Harrison
Frances Martin
Reginald DeKoven
James O. Slade
Morris Brown College
Atlanta
Spirit Flower
Campbell Tipton
Churchill Promises Final Battle to Defeat Hitler
Churchill dominates British sentiment, uniting millions in a finish fight against Hitler. A negotiated peace seems unlikely while he remains, as his leadership has convinced many that only total resistance can prevent catastrophe.
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Churchill
Hitler
Thomasville High School seniors receive diplomas
The 1941 Thomasville High School graduating class received diplomas at the municipal building before many friends and family. Nine more boys than girls, the ceremony featured an invocation, an address by Dr. H J Pearce, music by the school band, numerous medals, and diplomas presented by E R Jerger, Board of Education president.
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Thomasville High School
Board of Education
Supt. Mahier
J. C. G. Brooks
W. Fred Scott, Jr
H. J. Pearce
Brehan College
Gainesville
Tne
Ussiu
American Legion
J. C. Pringle
W. D. Hargrave
W. Fred Scott
Jane Harrell
D. A.R
Harrell
Kiwanis
J. M. Clark
E. R. Jergei
Local residents and visitors gather in Moultrie notices
Mr Edward Porter arrives from North Georgia College Dah lonega to spend weeks before entering the Army Air Corps. Miss Martha O Quinn leaves for Savannah to visit her sister Miss Nell O Quinn for a month. Miss Carolyn Stringer returns from G S C W Milledgeville with AB English. Mrs A R Rogers and daughter of Panama City Fla among visitors. Capt W A Knapp and family from Camp Shelby Miss visit his mother on Moultrie road. S Dempsey resting after operation at Arab Old Memorial Hospital. Mrs Morris Rosenberg visiting Jacksonville. Henry Fox leaves for New York and Boston on business. Sweet Lopes 3 for 10c Fancy Okra Ib 10c Corn 6 for 10c Peas 3 Lbs 10c City Fruit Co. Julia Davenport heads to Kentucky with Pansy Ireland and Hele Matthews. plan to visit Berry Schools Rome Ga enroute.
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W. A. Knapp
Camp Shelby, Miss
J. F. Knapp
Moultrie Road
Julia Davenport
Pansy Ireland
Hele Matthews
Motor
Kentucky
Ireland
Berry
Rome
Bull Attacks Boy as Fredonia Horse Is Killed
Jim Jones, a 20 year old farm hand at W. L. Thigpen’s Fredonia farm, was gored by an enraged bull after the animal fatally injured a horse he was riding. Jones was hospitalized with leg injuries and expected to recover. the horse died shortly after the attack.
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Jim Jones
W. L. Thigpen
Fredonia
Man Sentenced to Year in Jail for Stealing a Nickel
In Los Angeles on June 11 Ernest S. Fuller aged 63 was sentenced to one year in jail for stealing a nickel from a newsboy. Officers testified Fuller lifted the coin from papers with a cane taped at the end. he claimed the coin stuck to the cane by accident while he read a headline. The lengthy list of names follows, including post graduates and graduates, with Martha Jane Mack delivering the valedictory and earning the top average of 94.3 for the class.
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Los Angeles
Ernest S. Fuller
Fuller
Leslie D €Yle
William Franklin
Dollar
Nathan Clarke Douglas
Wayne Rockwell Drew
Oliver Reid DuPre, Jr
George Franklin Fordham
James Thomas-Gainey
James Gribben
Frazier Mitchell Hancock
Robert Lowery Heisler
Charles Oliver Hinson, Jr
George Owen House
Samuel Osco Hughes
James Jenkins
Wallace Brantley Johnson
J. O. Jones
Frederick Keadle
William Jackson Kimbrough
Hubert A. Lennon
Gordon Harris Lewis
Eugene Bell Linton
L. D. McDaniel,Jr
Charles Edgar Mims, III
John Edward Oliver
Walter Calvin Pittman, Jr
Henry Thomas Poole, Jr
Rodman Bryan Porter
John Bertram Rhyne
Jack Eugene Rigsby
William Fred Scott, Jr
Eugene Jack Vann
Francis Hansell Watt
John Watt, Jr
Edmond L. Way
Roy Wayne Wheeler, Jr
Jack M. Zeigler
Edna
Broomstick Skirt Becomes Co Ed Needlecraft Trend
Athens June 11 co eds at the University of Georgia embrace a broomstick skirt sewing method. Margaret Blair teaches self pleating by winding fabric around a broomstick or cane then washing and wrapping it to form gameable pleats. The all cotton skirt evokes 1890s styles and draws on Mexican Indian ideas.
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Athens
University O Georgia
Margaret
Blair
Roosevelt Explains Expanded War Aid and Ship Effort
Roosevelt outlines a multi sided wartime relief plan detailing cargo ships and oil tankers to Britain, ship construction, leases, repairs, and naval support. He stresses aid is aimed at immediate security and future survival as millions of pounds of food are sent and Allied pilots train in the United States.
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Roosevelt
Long Ran
Britain
Allied Sh
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Edward Porter
North Georgia College
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U. S. Army Air Corps
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Savannah
Nell O’quinn
Carolyn Stringer
Milledgeville
A. R. Rogers
Panama City, Fla
Dempsey
Yesterar
Morris Rosenberg
Jacksonville
Mr. Henry
Fox
Boston
City Fruit. Co
Bull
Nickle
Newsboy
Teethina
Columbus
Ch Sonvile
Tourist & Convention Bureau
Hemming Park
Jacksonville, Fla
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