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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1944
Page
2
The text outlines republication rights for AP dispatches and local news, reservation of rights, and notice that changes for ads must be submitted by 6 p m the day before publication. It also lists subscription prices and a contact phone line for editorial and business matters.
A satirical stocking of social quirks and political judgments spans wartime era talk on pacific woes, inflation of promises, education shifts, chaperones, and croaker leaders. It notes fashion, wealth display, and public decorum with sharp, era precise commentary on society.
Agencies believe the super fortress bomber offers the final answer to Japan and potential aggression. Marietta built bombers are praised as long range tools surpassing the German designed planes, while warning of devastating impact on Japan and broader war aims.
The piece argues Americans would object to women snipers and defends roles for women as noncombat workers aiding frontline troops. It cites four agencies admitting women as soldiers to free men for fighting and praises nursing and medical staff, noting bravery but cautioning against women fighting.
Fragmentary wartime note discusses retreat days and German positions. References possible hesitation, heavy casualties, and self-inflicted deaths affecting demands or action. No clear dates, names, or locations are identifiable from the readable text.
A wartime column contends that Germans understand their cause is lost, reject revenge, and face a harsh settlement. It accuses the nation of tolerating violent leaders and argues Allies now know the German people’s moral complicity, calling for accountability and peace terms.
Washington notes OPA actions against over 200 furniture makers jobbers and some retailers in four months. Officials describe a scheme using dummy jobbers to inflate prices postwar and explain price flows from manufacturer to jobber to retailer, ending with higher consumer costs.
Local notes from Donalsonville Georgia show furloughs and family visits as Joe Mitchell of Fort Leonard Wood returns home for 19 days with siblings. A list of social visits includes Shriners convention attendees and travelers visiting relatives in Washington and Detroit. The item ends noting over 40 rumor clinics for wartime rumor tracking across the United States and Canada.
A long OCR list enumerates numerous individuals with initials and titles such as w for wrote and Ind for Indiana, LA for Louisiana, and other state abbreviations. The fragment appears to catalog personnel or members across multiple regions with varied court or club designations and partial locations.
A compromise version of the bill to extend price controls goes to the senate today and then to the House for ratification. The White House would receive the measure for extension through June 30 1945, after admin objections are resolved. The Senate liquor shortage committee backs releasing alcohol for a month of whiskey making while pushing tighter control on distribution to curb black marketeers. A WPB order would permit 40 to 50 million pints of 86 90 proof blended whiskey in August, about a quarter of a normal year's supply. Southern lawmakers fail to block FEPC funding while assurances for continued funds are received.
Atlanta June 21 The southeastern jurisdiction of the Methodist church prepares to address a steady drop in Sunday School attendance. Bishop Arthur J. Moore notes the trend appears across denominations and will present this and other social, economic, racial, and war issues to the 34 delegates and officials at the quadrennial conference opening tomorrow.
The push for a single army navy and air force command faces resistance from 96 congressional members fearing loss of seniority on Military Affairs and Naval Affairs committees. President Roosevelt’s Navy ties may fuel opposition, though lessons from Pearl Harbor spur bipartisan support for interservice cooperation and unified command.
Washington June 21 AP A House Merchant Marine sub committee report says no definite solution exists for plate fractures on welded ships. The panel notes ongoing efforts but fractures still occur and losses are a small portion of ship output though several lives are unaccounted for.
Southeast Asia Command says Allied forces advancing from Tiangzuo in northern Burma captured the village of Nip, six miles south, with severe Japanese casualties as Mountbatten headquarters reports. Tiangzuo fell earlier, about 40 miles north of the besieged Japanese positions.
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