Thomas County Watermelons Shipped to Canadians in Toronto
Commissioner Tom Linder travels to Toronto for the opening of a three million dollar market event. He brings a carload of Thomas County watermelons donated by local businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, along with peaches and peanut butter, to showcase Georgia agriculture.
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Thomas County
Toronto
Linder
Canada
Tom Linder
Georgia
Chamber of Commerce
Thomasville
W. F. Scott
Hart & Son of
Quitman, Ga
Z. L. Mott
J. L. Pilcher
Farmers Products Ico
Timeskinterprise
H. W. Singletary
Scott Knight
John W. Hatcher
Joe Bass
W. B. Watkins, Jr
Enterstate Enterprises, Inc
Thomazile Fertilizer ® Co
R. C. Pope
Dan Redd
Paul Tharpin
Commercial Bank
Bank of Thomas County
W. J. Powell
Rufus G Bullock
R. C. Balfour
Grene Alday
J. T. Stewart
Georgia Packing Co
Thomasville Ice & Mfg. Co
E. A. Dawes
Paul Searcy
Chinese report details Okinawa fighter cover and Formosa defense
The article outlines air bases and coastal ports including Liangshan Sanmen and Taichow to block Japanese air use of Formosa. Wenchow lies on key coast routes near Hangchow and Foochow, about 150 miles from the Shanghai IndoChina rail line cut at Kunking. It describes a 350 mile Chinese coastal strip opposite Okinawa enabling material delivery and potential avoidance of a full invasion in the Far East.
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Okinawa
Formosa
Liangshan
Sanmen
Taichow
Wenchow
Hangchow
Foochow
Shanghai
Indo-China
Kunking
Nanning
Russia
Japan
Europe
Georgia Power Slashes Municipal Rates in City Lights Plan
Georgia Power Company announces annual savings of 179,700 by cutting municipal street lighting and water pumping rates. The uniform street lighting schedule affects 287 communities, with 128,000 saved, and 182 towns using electricity for water pumping save 51,000. Rates take effect July 1 with option to renew contracts.
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Atlanta
Georgia Power Company
Newate
REA
Inflation and deflation debates mirror wartime controls
Observations critique OPA and wage price controls amid inflation fear. Readers cite shortages, rationing, rising costs, and bureaucratic overreach from Washington to local markets. Public letters from across states complain of line waits, price ceilings, and policy contradictions.
Supreme Court Rebukes AP Monopoly and Press Control
The court warns that AP by law could face full judicial guardianship as by laws restrain trade and threaten press freedom. Dissenters warn of regimentation of news while calling for focus on free speech and anti monopoly safeguards amid war era controls.
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Robert McLean
Associated Press
New York
Justice Black
District Court
Justice Roberts
Roberts
Robert
Stone
Justice Murphy
Murphy
Black
Douglas
Frankfurter
Jackson
Death claims Dr. Harry Ainsworth with tomorrow rites
Dr. Harry Ainsworth, lifelong Thomasville physician, died this morning after months of illness. Funeral services are set for tomorrow at 5 pm at his North Broad Street home, with interment at Laurel Hill. Surviving are his wife Marion Hayes Ainsworth, a son Captain Harry Ainsworth, a daughter Mrs. Richard Crosby Glass, and a brother Haywood Benjamin Ainsworth.
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Harry Ainsworth
North Broad Street
M. P. Webb
Laurel Hill
P. G. Miller
H. P. Searcy
Claude Mitchell
Robert Russell
J. C. Pringle
Frank Hudson
W. A. Watt
Dr. Ainsworth
Thomasville
Haywood Benjamin
PermeHa Everett Ainsworth
Emory University
University of Maryland
University Hospital
Marion Wiley Hayes
Samuel Laird Hayes
Ainsworth
U. S. Army Air Forces
Richard Crosby Glass
Miami
Fla
Haywood Benjamin Ainsworth
Blakely
Robert Walton
Barbard Ainsworth
Corporal Haywood Ainsworth
U. S. Army
Army Service Forces Training Center at Camp Sibert Planned
Washington June 19 AP An Army Service Forces training center will be established at Camp Sibert Gadsden Alabama on July 11 The former chemical warfare training center will be devoted mainly to medical training under the redeployment program Camp Sibert was placed in standby status by the War Department Alabama lawmakers were told activities will rise steadily with a peak likely in August or September but no definite unit size was indicated.
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Washington
Army Service Forces Training Center
Camp Sibert
Gadsden
Ala
Senator Hill
D-Ala
Rep. Rains
Camp Siebert
War Department
Death of Eugene F. Dyer at Archbold Memorial Hospital
Eugene Forrest Dyer died this morning at Archbold Memorial Hospital after injuries from a fall last Wednesday. Born March 25, 1875, he had lived here many years and worked as a clerk at the New Russell Hotel. Funeral arrangements are pending. Whiddon’s Funeral Home handles the service.
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Eugene Forrest Dyer
Archbold Memorial Hospital
Dyer
New Russell Hotel
Whiddon
Trainman Killed in Wreck on South Georgia Railway
In Quitman Georgia a South Georgia Railway freight train overturned on a curve killing brakeman Oscar Mullinax who jumped clear and was buried under the engine. Engineer C W Crews suffered a broken hip and other injuries while fireman Kid Granger was scalded. Two injured men were taken to Quitman Hospital as the northbound train aimed to load twenty watermelon cars despite rain softening the roadbed.
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Quitman
South Georgia Railway
Oscar Mullinax
C. W. Crews
Kid Granger
Okinawa Campaign Ends As Buckner Is Killed In Battle
U S tenth army pushes toward final victory on Okinawa following the mortally wounding of Lt Gen Simon Buckner Jr. The battle collapses the Japanese defense to a six square mile retreat as Maj Gen Roy Geiger takes command of the tenth army. Buckner is buried near Hagushi Beach with Allied forces advancing since dawn.
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Robbin Coons
Guam
U. S. Tenth Army
Okinawa
Simon Bolivar Buckner
Buckner
Tarawa
Saipan
Chester W. Nimitz
Yaeju
Nimitz
George C. Marshall
Third Marine Amphibious Corps
Tenth Army
Pacific
Solomons
Guadalcanal
Marine Eighth Regimental Combat Team
Sixth ‘Marine Division
Veteran Marine Unit Returns as Okinawa Campaign Mentioned
Ernest Wraves 31 C has returned to the states after service in the Atlantic. The 22nd regiment combat team led by Col Clarence Wallace and Maj Gen Leroy Hunt pushed through Okinawa as the first Marine unit overseas this war. The group earned presidential unit citations at Guadalcanal and Tarawa. Mrs L C Hudson of Jacksonville Florida visits her daughters in Thomasville and will stay through the summer.
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Ernest Wraves
States
Atlantic
Clarence Wallace
Arlington
Manitou Springs
Colo
Leroy P .Hunt
Berkeley
Calif
Guadalcanal
Tarawa
Saipan
Tinian
Hunt
Okinawa
L. C. Hudson
Jacksonville, Fla
P. L. Massey
H. C. Kelley
Sallie’ Davis
Thomasville
USS Emmons Lost in Action Off Okinawa
The USS Emmons escorting President Roosevelt to the Tehran conference was sunk after a Kamikaze attack off Okinawa. Hit by five planes, the destroyer suffered 139 casualties including 59 dead 78 wounded and two missing. The ship was sunk by sister vessels about 12 hours after the April 6 attack.
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Washington
Emmons
Roosevelt
Okinawa
Hmniots
King Leopold Declares No Abdication After Resignation
King Leopold of Belgium says he has resumed his full constitutional prerogatives and there is no plan to abdicate. The statement was issued through an official spokesman as Belgian strikes spread to coal mines in the Liege district following the premier's government resignation.
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Salzburg
Austria
Leopold
Belgium
Achille van Acher
Brussels
Liege
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Chicago
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SO. Ga.ry
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Red Cross
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CIA
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Gordon, Ala
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