Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for AUG. , SEPT., OCT. 1944 1944 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: C Teal Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net July 9, 2007, 12:55 pm The Cleburne News 1944 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama for AUGUST 1944 & SEPTEMBER 1944 & OCTOBER 1944 NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, AUGUST 3, 1944 HEFLIN MAN FACES ASSAULT CHARGES Henry Brown, a Heflin sawmill operator, will face an assault with attempt to murder charge, in the Circuit Court in November for the alleged attempted murder of Dewey Waites, a Heflin resident who works at Bynum, late Saturday afternoon on the main street of Heflin. Brown, who was reported as drinking at the time, reportedly fired a pistol at Waites after letting him out of the car near Wood Drug Store. The shot missed its mark and crashed through a display window of the drug store. According to Cleburne county Sheriff Norton, Brown attempted to kill Waites earlier on the outskirts of town. The two men had quarreled near the residence of T.R. Story. Waites said that Brown fired two badly aimed shots at him and then forced him to ride into town with him. After firing the shot which broke the drug store window, Brown went home to get a rifle and shotgun and returned to town to look for Waites, when he was arrested, it was reported. He has been released on bail to await trial in the Fall. -------- NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, AUGUST 10, 1944 CARD OF THANKS We take this method to thank the many friends and neighbors for the kindness and sympathy shown in the death of our beloved husband, father and brother, and do appreciate the beautiful flowers. And many thanks to those who furnished cars. May God's richest blessings rest on each and everyone, is our prayer. Mrs. J.A. Phillips and family; brothers and sisters. --------- SERIOUSLY ILL Friends of Mrs. Sarah McWhorter will be sorry to learn she is seriously ill in an Anniston hospital. Mrs. McWhorter is suffering from diabetes of the bone. ----- NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, AUGUST 17, 1944 CARD OF THANKS We wish with grateful hearts to express our thanks and appreciation for the many, many contributions and kindness shown us in the loss of our home and its contents by fire. We shall always remember each of you. Mr. and Mrs. Alton E. White and family ------- DEATH NOTICES LAMBERT Mrs. Martha Lambert, 54, died at her residence in Heflin, Route 1, Thursday morning at 11 o'clock. Funeral services were held Saturday morning at 11 o'clock at the Micaville Baptist church, the Rev. T.D. Stovall officiating. Mrs. Lambert is survived by her husband James Lambert; three daughters, Mrs. Alma Rollins of Heflin, Route 3; Mrs. Vera Cavender Weaver and Mrs. Ruby Lovelace of Blue Mountain; three brothers, Jim Perkins and Wince Perkins both of Texas; and Tye Perkins of Heflin, Route 1; two sisters, Mrs. Hattie Beason of Texas and Mrs. Susie Harris of Oklahoma, and seven grandchildren. ------- JACKS Mrs. Amy Jacks, 48, died at her residence in Heflin, Route 1, at 5:45 Thursday morning. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Harmony church in Choccolocco, the Rev. Geo. Cobb officiating. Mrs. Jacks is survived by her husband, Will Jacks; three sons, Pvt. John Jacks of Fort McClellan; Pvt. Leon Jacks of New York and Billy Jaks of Heflin; four daughters, Mrs. Hattie M. Eulaton; Ruby McCormick; Mrs. Mildred Bonner; and Mrs. Frances Beason, all of Heflin; three sisters, Mrs. Minnie Turner of DeArmanville; Mrs. Hattie Nelson of Choccolocco; and Mrs. Kitty Nelson of Oxford; two brothers, M.C. Mitchell of Piedmont, and Henry Mitchell of Heflin; and five grandchildren. --------- NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, AUGUST 24, 1944 PVT. J.C. BLANTON KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE Pvt. J.C. Blanton, who was reported missing in action in the Normandy invasion, was killed in action in June in France, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Blanton of Heflin, were notified by the War Department. Pvt. Blanton entered the service in June 1941 and took his basic training at Camp Walters, Texas. He was also in training at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas and Camp McCoy, Wis. before going overseas in October 1943. Another son of Mr. and Mrs. Blanton is in the service stationed with the Navy in California. ------- WOUNDED IN ACTION Pvt. John C. Lumpkin was reported as wounded in action. His mother is Mrs. Frone M. Lumpkin of Heflin. ------- COL. ADAMS WOUNDED Lt. Col. Clinton L. Adams, commanding a battalion of the Ninth Division, was wounded in action in Normandy on Aug. 3, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Adams. Col. Adams' wife and children are residing in Montgomery with her parents. ------- NUNNELLY AND FORDHAM MEET IN FRANCE Cecil Nunnelly and Earl Fordham had the happy pleasure of a meeting somewhere in France. Both lived in Heflin and are sons of David Nunnelly and Sam Fordham. ------- NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, AUGUST 31, 1944 AWARDED OAK LEAF CLUSTER 15th AAF in ITALY T. Sgt. Grover O. Dunn, 22, son of R.L. Dunn of Fruithurst, Ala., has been awarded the second Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal, it was announced by the 15th Army Air Force Headquarters. In the words of the citation, Sgt. Dunn was awarded the Cluster for meritorious achievement in aerial flight while participating in sustained operational activities against the enemy. An Engineer, Sgt. Dunn has participated in aerial assaults on such key targets as Ploesti oil refineries and the Cucharest railroad yards in Romania. He was graduated from Heflin High school and has been in the Army since August 4, 1942. Sgt. Dunn received his training at Goldsboro, N.C. and has been overseas for five months. -------- PFC. HOLLAND RETURNING Pfc. William F. Holland, CAC, is returning from 18 months overseas in the Aleutians theatre of operations and will arrive on approximately Aug. 30 at Camp Bowie, Texas, prior to reaching his home at Fruithurst, Ala. where he will visit his mother, Mrs. Ester Holland. ------- KILLED IN ACTION St. Sgt. Davis H. Vaughan, son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Vaughan, of Route 2, Heflin, was killed in action, somewhere in France. ------- RECEIVED BADGE Memphis, Tenn. Pfc. William Ragsdale, son of Mrs. Maudie E. Ragsdale of Heflin, Ala. has received the Combat Infantryman Badge at Kennedy General Hospital in Memphis, where he is a convalescing patient. Brig. Gen. Royal Reynolds, commanding officer of the hospital, presented the award. An Infantry Rifleman, Pvt. Ragsdale was pushing up to the front at Anzio when he was hit by enemy shell fragments. ------- NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, SEPTEMBER 7, 1944 FUNERAL RITES HELD FOR A.A. LOWERY Funeral services for A.A. Lowery, 61, who died Monday the 28th at his residence in Bowdon, Ga. were held Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock at Ranburne, the Rev. Caldwell officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery. Mr. Lowery is survived by his wife; seven sons, George, Royce, Claude, Carl, Charlie, Henry and Curtis, all of Bowdon; and three daughters, Mrs. Lilia Duncan of Anniston; Viola Townsley of Roanoke and Catherine Caldwell of Bowdon. ------- CLEBURNE COUNTY BOY WITH INVASION FORCES 15th AAF in Italy Sgt. Ralph E. Henry, 26 year old aerial gunner of Heflin, Ala. was a member of the Invasion Beachhead bombing mission in France, August 15, 1944. He is a member of the B-17 Flying Fortress unit of the 15th Air Force. Sgt. Henry joined the Army on Jan. 31, 1943 and received his gunner's wings on Jan. 14, 1944 at Las Vegas, Nevada. He has participated in 12 combat missions. He is a graduate of Heflin High school. He has been awarded the European-African-Middle East Theatre ribbon. His wife, Mrs. Gladys O. Henry, lived in Chilersburg, Ala. ------- CLEBURNE COUNTY BOY RECEIVED RIBBON In Combat With the XI Corps Service Command, Somewhere in the Southwest Pacific, Staff Sgt. Harold Warmack, Route 1, Muscadine, Ala., now on duty with the Ordnance Maintenance section, has been awarded the Good Conduct Ribbon for exemplary behavior, efficiency and fidelity in the performance of his duties. Sgt. Warmack is also entitled to war the American Defense Ribbon and the Asiatic Pacific Theatre Campaign ribbon with a battle star for his participation in the North Solomons Campaign. The son of Jesse A. Warmack, Sgt. Warmack joined the Army in January 1941 and went overseas in May 1942. He was stationed for several months in New Zealand and the Fiji Islands and was under Japanese artillery shelling on Bougainville during March. ------- HEFLIN SOLDIER GETS BRONZE STAR With the 4th Infantry Division in France, Corporal Dolphous C. Hall, son of Mrs. Ves. Hall, Route 2, Heflin, Alabama has been awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service during the fighting in France. His citation stated in part, " Cpl. Hall was driving one of the regimental wire team vehicles from which members of the team were laying wire to the foward battalion command posts. At one point, units of the enemy strongpoint brought withering machine gun fire on the axis of the communication. Cpl. Hall, seeing that the linemen would be unable to follow him across this point, sped his vehicle through a hail of machine gun fire, with utter disregard to his safety, permitting the wire to unwind from the reel on his vehicle. As a result of this act, wire communication was promptly established within the regiment at a crucial point of the campaign. His devotion to duty reflected great credit upon himself and the military service." ----------- KILLED IN ACTION SOMEWHERE IN ITALY Second Lieutenant Norris Watson, who was 1st pilot on a B-24 Bomber in Italy was reported as killed in action of August 18th, while serving in Italy, by the War Department. Lieut. Watson is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson C. Watson of Muscadine; also by three brothers and one sister. ------- LOCAL News Posey Tolleson and Hugh (Buck) Crumpton, who are in the Marines, recently visited their families and friends. ----- John Robert Kitchens, who in in the Army and stationed at Fort McClellen, has been visiting relatives here in Heflin. ----- Sgt. and Mrs. Roy (Chick) Prestridge and daughter Sara Jane have been visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Prestridge. ----- Harvey Lee Brimer who is stationed on board a ship with the Navy in the Pacific, is on leave for a few days here with his father, Lee Brimer. ----- Bennett Vaughan, who is in the Army, arrived Monday morning for a furlough with his parents here. ----- Mr. and Mrs. Grady Boyd attended the funeral of Mr. Williamson at Austell, Ga. on Monday of last week. ----- NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, SEPTEMBER 21, 1944 FARM FOR SALE - - - - Five miles southeast of Heflin, between ane Creek and Tallapoosa River. 190 acres; 55 acres good bottom land; 90 acres timber land. Two houses, barn and pasture. See George Vaughan, Heflin, Ala. Rt. 2 ------ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, SEPTEMBER 28, 1944 FIRST FURLOUGH HOME Pfc. James A. Vaughan, age 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Vaughan of Heflin, Rt. 2, arrived home Sunday after four years spent in Hawaii, Australia and the Southwest Pacific in the service of our country. ------- NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, OCTOBER 5, 1944 MEMORIAL SERVICE There will be a memorial service at Happy Hill church the second Sunday in October for Davis Vaughan, who was killed in action and for other boys from the community. Everyone has a special invitation. Services will start at 10 o'clock. ------- PROMOTED TO 1st LT. Eight Air Force Bombing Station, England - - - - - The promotion of Leroy S. Taylor, 23 year old navigator at the Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress station, from the rank of Second Lieutenant to First Lieutenant, has been announced by Col. Charles B. Deuger, base commanding officer. Lt. Taylor is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Swepson L. Taylor of Fruithurst, Ala. Before joining the Armed Forces, he was employed by the Lewis Lumber company in Fruithurst, Ala. ------- MISSING IN ACTION T. Sgt. Grover Dunn, son of Robert L. Dunn of Fruithurst, Ala. was reported as missing in action, by the War Department in Alabama's casualty list on Sunday. ------- PRESTRIDGE RETURNS TO CAMP CARSON, COLO. Tec. 4 Roy G. Prestridge, Co. H., 201 Inf., husband of Mrs. Roy Prestridge of Lineville, Ala. has just returned to Camp Carson after participating in an experiment conducted by the Quartermaster Corps. Medical Department and Ground Forces to determine how soldiers fare on an exclusive diet of emergency rations. Six companies from the 201st infantry regiment, commanded by Col. James H. O'Reilly, have been in the Pike National Forest for eight weeks undergoing the test. One of the companies, a "control unit" lived on field rations. The others ate assorted emergency rations for various periods to see how they compared physically with those of the control unit. The war department needed some idea of how men would get along on field rations for an extended period in view of conditions arising in war where men may spend some weeks forward or isolated beyond the lines of normal supply. All of the men were in excellent physical condition when they started the experiment and finished the test in even better health. Tech. 4 Prestridge has a brother, Pfc. Clyde Prestridge stationed at Camp Pickett, Va. --------- LAMINACK PROMOTED Fifth Air Force, Southwest Pacific - - - - Charles D. Laminack, son of Mrs. Mary E. Laminack of Bessemer, Ala. has recently been promoted to the grade of Corporal in Maj. Gen. Ennis C. Whitehead's Fifth Air Force. A veteran of 20 months of overseas service, Corporal Laminack has been decorated with the Air Medal and has been recommended for an Oak Leaf Cluster. A member of the Troop Carriers under command of Brigadier General Warren R. Carter of San Antonio, Texas, Corporal Laminack has served in the capacity of assistant crew chief through every major campaign in New Guinea, New Britain, the Admiralities and more recently the islands northwest of New Guinea. At Noemfoor Island, the large Troop Carrier planes dropped paratroopers in Kamiri airstrips in support of amphibious landing by ground forces. The planes then returned to base where they reloaded with supplies and equipment which were flown back to Noemfoor Island. The perfect coordination betwen air, ground and sea units and rapid transfer of supplies by air, made this operation a complete success. Before entering the service, Corporal Laminak was employed by the Pullman Standard Car and Manufacturing company. --------- PROMOTED TO CPL. With the Fifth Army, Italy - - - - Private First Class C.B. Woodward, son of Mrs. Minnie Leseur Woodward, who lives on Route 2, Heflin, Ala., has been promoted to Corporal. He is an assistant squad leader with the 88th Infantry DIvision of the Fifth Army in Italy. --------- IN MEMORY OF MRS. MARION MUNROE Friends and acquaintances of Mrs. Marion Munroe of Muscadine, Ala., will remember the Christian character and personality when they have forgotten her physical form. Nothing is quite so true in the hour of death, as "truth crushed to earth shall rise again." The meaning of a life is not to be found in its pain or pleasure, or in its sickness, but rather in the quality of life expressed in daily relations of ordinary experience. The question is now how one travels life's road, but the destiny toward which one's life moves. The quality of Mrs. Munroe's life was expressed by a persistent and consistent faith in God. We shall look for her in a better world. CARD OF THANKS The family of Mrs. Marion Munroe wish to express their deepest gratitude to the friends and acquaintances, for the many expressions of kindness and sympathy extended to her in her recent illness and death. Your kindness will always be remembered. J. M. Munroe and family --------- SGT. DUNN IS HELD PRISONER BY GERMANS T. Sgt. Grover O. Dunn who was reported missing on July 7, is held as a prisoner of war in Germany, according to a report received by the father, R.L. Dunn, of Fruithurst. Sgt. Dunn was an Engineer and Gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber and had made 44 missions over enemy territory. Sgt. Dunn, a former student of the Heflin High school, entered the service Aug. 4, 1942 and went overseas in Dec. 1943. He has received the Air Medal and was awarded the five Oak Leaf Cluster for his work in operational flights. --------- NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, OCTOBER 12, 1944 KILLED IN ACTION Judge and Mrs. W.B. Merrill received a message Sunday that their grandson, Eugene Jones of Richmond, Va. was killed in action in Holland on Sept. 19th. He was a paratrooper and went into France ahead of the troops on D-Day. Most of his company were killed but he escaped with cuts and bruises. He was sent back to England to rest, but the robot bombs were at their worse and he said it was almost as bad as France. The friends of his mother, Gladys Merrill, extend sympathy. --------- LOCAL News Capt. C.W. Savage, who is with the Army Postal sevice and stationed at Montreal, Canada, was in town last week seeing friends. ------ Willard Boman has returned to the Naval Hospital in San Diego, Calif. where he is recuperating from a recent accident. ------ Mrs. Hamp Pilcher (Nan Blanton) is visting relatives in Louisiana and Texas. ----- The many friends of Lee Haywood family regret to learn of the death of Mr. Haywood, which occurred Sunday, following a short illness at an Anniston hospital. Mr. Haywood was employed at the Anniston Ordnance Depot and was at work at the time he took sick. ------- Lt. Kenneth Byrd is here on furlough visiting his wife, the former Margaret Wright, and their young daughter. Lt. Byrd has just returned from overseas duty. ------- NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, OCTOBER 19, 1944 NIXON FAMILY REUNION IS HELD NEAR HEFLIN The home of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Hollis of Heflin, Rt. 3, was the scene of a reunion of the Nixon family on Sunday, Oct. 8. Among those present were: Mrs. Lila Robertson of Delta Mr. and Mrs. Idus Nixon and daughter Lois of Ashland Mr. and Mrs. Jim Duffey of Lineville Mrs. Bell Mixon of Beebe, Ark. Mr. and Mrs. May Nixon and daughter Mrs. Elizabeth Kerr of Anniston Mr. and Mrs. Herman Williamson and children Mr. and Mrs. Pelham Hollis and children Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Freeman Cpl. Marvin Lewis and wife of Fort McClellen Friends present were Henry Bagget and sister Cleora and Miss Innis Williamson of Anniston, and Miss Dovie Hollis --------- LOCAL News The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Stephens regret to learn that they have been notified that their son Charles was killed in action in Holland on Sept. 24. Charles had been overseas quite some time with the paratroopers. In one of the June issues of the Saturday Evening Post, a story and pictures of invasion advances was featured, and Charles' picture appeared in one of the pictures, and he was standing beside a fellow trooper who was holding a captured Nazi flag. ------ The death of Mrs. Sam Maner was a severe shock to her many friends and relatives. Mrs. Maner was only ill a few hours. ------ Forrest Turner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Turner, was taken to an Anniston hospital on Saturday to be treated for injuries he received when he was thrown from a horse that he was riding. ------ Arlin Vaughan, son of Mr. and Mrs. G.R. Vaughan, has been home on furlough. Arlin has just returned after several years of duty overseas. He stated that while in the South Pacific, he saw and talked with Guy Turner, an old acquaintance from Cleburne county. ------ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, OCTOBER 26, 1944 LOCAL News Mrs. Ben VanHorn (Mary Kitchens) is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Kitchens. ----- Shelby Crews is home on leave with the Navy after spending some time overseas. ------ J. Whit Vaughan of Waynesboro, Tenn. has been visiting relatives here. ----- FOR SALE - - - - W.E. Chandler farm estate, 363 acres; 75 acres open land; 200 in timber; 3 houses, 2 barns, 40 acres river botton and 35 up-land. 1 mile so. of Muscadine. Has peach, apples and other fruit orchards. Will sell all for $10. per acre including houses and barns. R.M. Chandler, Muscadine, Ala. ------- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/newspape1461gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 21.0 Kb