Labor law move backs Truman plan in Congress
House leaders said legislation to implement President Truman's labor recommendations would be introduced soon with hearings to follow. The measure aims to authorize fact finding and would seek to curb strikes by 30 days during pivotal disputes. May indicated support and suggested adding arbitration with penalties for noncompliant unions or industries.
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Rayburn
D-Tex
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Ramspeck
Georgia
Norton
D-N. J
House Labor Committee
House Military Committee
May
D-Ky
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Congress
General Motors
CIO
United Auto
CIO Steel
United States Steel Corporation
Detroit
Mr. Truman
Keitel Defends Russian Invasion As Preventive War
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel told reporters at Nuremberg that Germany’s 1941 invasion of Russia was a preventive defensive war. He admitted hundreds of thousands of Russian prisoners died from exhaustion, blamed transport and supply problems, and said he would retire to a country estate and write if freed. The exchange opened with questions from the Associated Press and was conducted under legal counsel Otto Nelte.
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Associated Press
Wilhelm Keitel
Nuernberg
Otto Nelte
Keitel
Daniel DE Luce
Noland Norgaard Nuernberg
Hitler
Russia
International Military Tribunal
Brunswick Province
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Navy Captain McVay pleads not guilty in Indianapolis sinking case
Captain Charles B McVay III pleads not guilty at his public court martial over the loss of the cruiser Indianapolis on July 30 1945. He admits consenting to statements acknowledging his role as commanding officer while the seven man panel considers charges of negligence and inefficiency in the disaster that killed 880 crew members. The court opens with defense postponement granted to prepare. Prosecution cites submarine warnings within 200 miles of the ship's route from Guam toward Leyte as testimony begins.
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Washington
Charles B. McVay
Indianapolis
John P. Cady
Guam
Leyte
McVay
Wilder D. Baker
Negrges
Decatur Briefs and Weather Outlook Update
Weather outlook reports cloudy skies with rain and snow and cold, 28 to 32 degrees inland and 55 max 41 min for the day. Local notes include furloughs at Northington General Hospital, a woman with influenza, and visiting relatives in Decatur from Oklahoma, Kansas, and Birmingham. A traffic accident in Birmingham leaves one injured. other items cover military discharge for Staff Sgt Charles Sears and local docket cases.
City fireman ill with flu as 20 percent of pupils absent
Readable items show Joe Brazelton a city fireman ill with influenza while 20 percent of city school enrollments are missing due to flu per Superintendent S. E. Alverson. Five teachers also absent. Army discharges follow for service members with medals and overseas months listed for several personnel. QUICKIES by Ken Reynolds.
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S. E. Alverson
Diet Shaken by Charges and War Crimes List
The Japanese Diet is depicted as listless after General MacArthur announced 26 parliamentarians as war crime suspects. Heavy tax talks yielded only half hearted debate while investors face $7 000 000 000 in losses to be reimbursed, potentially seized for reparations. Reports from Manchuria indicate nationalist forces ready to march into Mukden as Chinese troops move toward the region. Indonesian prime minister Sjahrir seeks control of extremist groups in Eastern Java as local clashes persist with British and Indonesian forces. Yamashita asks the U S Supreme Court to halt his war crimes trial and argue his case in Washington.
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Kyodo
Keizo Shibuzawa
Manchuria
China
Korea
Formosa
Sakhalin
Pacific
Chinhsien
Mukden
Russia
Sutan Sjahrir
Manila
Tomoyuku Yamashita
U. S. Supreme Court
Washington
Growth Of Co-ops Revealed Here By AP Report
Growth of farm cooperatives is outlined with a five billion dollar annual business. Harold Hedges cites about 10,000 coops in the United States and 4,250,000 members. Two thirds belong to marketing coops with four billion in annual business. one third are purchasing coops moving one billion. Reports also note broiler, citrus, and seed operations led by coops. custom combining speeds harvest. Tennessee Sees cooperative fertilizer distribution and plant earnings totaling $285,229.
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Associated Press
Harold Hedges
Farm Credit Administration
Hedges
United States
D.sanders
Central Bank
City
New Orleans Bank For Cooperatives
S. M. Thomson
Baltimore
Delmar Peninsula
Virginia
C. E. Bowles
Houston, Tex
Texas
Harry Stephens
Wichita Bank
Peter Garrett
Tennessee Se
First Snow Falls in Decatur Today
The season's first snow fell in Decatur today after a heavy rain last night. Snow began shortly before eleven this morning but ground was too wet for sticking at first. The Weather Man said more flurries could be expected and temperatures would stay cold.
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Decatur
Memphis Snow Disrupts City Traffic In 1.8 Inch Fall
Memphis recorded a 1.8 inch snow coating that snarled utilities and transport. A 29 mph wind whipped the storm, causing 49 major accidents and leaving thousands stranded as Memphis Light, Gas and Water crews repaired sleet coated lines. Police urged cautious travel as temperatures fell after initial melt.
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Memphis
Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division
Weather Bureau
State Bar Session Set for Birmingham Meeting
North Alabama lawyers plan to attend the 68th annual Alabama State Bar Association meeting in Birmingham at Hotel Tutwiler on December 7 and 8. The Friday program opens at ten with Prof. M. Lee Harrison delivering the principal address. Hon. Tappan Gregory and Hon. Thomas C. Clark address sessions. Saturday features Hon. Roderick Beddow and Hon. Bolitha J. Laws. Attendees from Decatur include Judge Julian Harris and several colleagues.
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Alabama State Bar Association
Birmingham
Hotel Tutwiler
M. Lee Harrison
University of Alabama Law School
Tappan Gregory
Chicago
House of Delegates
American Bar Association
Thomas C. Clark
United States
Roderick Beddow
The
Alabama Association
Bolitha J. Laws
District Court of the United States
District of Columbia
Decatur
Julian Harris
Seybourn Lynne
James Crow
D Jr
Charles H. Eyster
Philip Shanks
John A. Caddell
S. A. Lynne
Russell Lynne
John H. Peach
Britnells Called by Fitch Illness
Mr and Mrs Ben L Britnell of 501 Sherman Street left for Pontatoc Mississippi this afternoon after Mrs Britnell father Mr Fitch suffered a stroke this morning. No further information has reached Decatur.
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Ben L.britnell
Sherman Street
Pontatoc
Miss
Veterans Office Opens at Courthouse with Hampton
John B. Hampton, recently discharged from the Army, opened a veterans office on the courthouse first floor. The new office assists veterans with claims and information for all wars, operating weekdays 8 to 5 and Saturdays 8:30 to 12. Hampton, a former infantry private first class, served with the 106th Division, was wounded, captured in The Bulge, and held by Germans for six months before returning home in 1945.
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John. B. Hampton
Hampton
Ft. McPherson
United States
Universal Credit Company
106Th
Bulge
France
City to Back Farm Center With 6,000 Loan Plan
City Attorney to draft an ordinance under which Decatur will sponsor an improved farm center by underwriting a 6,000 twenty year loan from the Alabama State Marketing Board in Montgomery. The loan is to be underwritten by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, with council action expected tonight. Plans call for remodeling the present curb market into a full farm center and moving the market to L and N railroad property. The council also approved relocating a traffic light at Lee Street Ferry Street and Second Avenue, adding a street light near the Greyhound station, and adjusting dry cleaning license rates. W. W. Johnson was hired as a sanitary policeman and license inspector at 35 a week, and $100 was approved for repair on the old bank building.
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John Caddell
Decatur
Alabama State Marketing Board
Montgomery
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
T. F. Adams
Maynard Layman
Agricultural Committee
Chamber of Commerce
First Avenue
Grant Street
L. & N. Railroad
Adams
Lee Street
Ferry Street
Second Avenue
J. B. Whitmire
Greyhound
Russell
Decatur Dry Cleaners
W. W. Johnson
Bank Street
British prosecutors open second phase of Nuremberg trial
Sir Hartley Shawcross opened the British case against Hermann Goering Rudolf Hess Joachim von Ribbentrop and other Nazi leaders in Nuremberg calling them murderers and robbers personally responsible for breaking the world's peace The U S has presented one count and Russia and France will prosecute the remaining two counts war crimes and crimes against humanity The British address argues the defendants violated international law through aggression and preparation for aggression and traces their acts from broken treaties to frontier violations and the devastation that followed
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Faanberg
Nadi
Germany
Shawcross
Hitler
United States
Russia
France
Hospital Plans to be Discussed at Medical Dinner
The state planning commission technical director Dr John N Gallalee and state health officer Dr B F Austin will join Montgomery officials to discuss building a general hospital and a tuberculosis sanatorium at a 7 PM Thursday dinner at the Cornelian Hotel. Attending also will be architect Charles McCauley of Birmingham and about 40 attendees from the medical society and its auxiliary with civic and women’s club representatives invited. the medical society will elect officers for the coming year, chaired by Dr J W Hughes with Dr A M Roan and Dr Tom M Guyton on the planning committee.
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State Planning Commission
Montgomery
Cornelian Hotel
John N. Gallalee
W. O. Dobbins
B. F. Austin
Charles McCauley
Birmingham
Medical Society
Medical Society Auxiliary
Decatur
J. W. Hughes
A. M. Roan
Tom M. Guyton
Aviation Given New Recognition By Navy
Secretary Forrestal announced a plan to elevate naval aviators to three of the six top jobs in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. Aviators will also command fleets with Admiral Towers likely to head the Pacific fleet and Admiral Mitscher tipped for the Eighth Fleet. Ramsey to become vice chief of naval operations, with an aviator at the top of the aviation chain.
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Navy
Forrestal
Naval Operaons
John H. Towers
Fifth Fleet
Adm
Raymond A. Spruance
Marc A. Mitscher
Atlantic
Chief of Naval Operations
Naval Operations
Forestal
Ernest J. King
Chester Nimitz
King
Hed
Frederick C. Horne
D. Co. Ramsey
Pacific Fleet
Secret U S Britain code method shared before Pearl Harbor
Washington reports congressional investigators learned the United States shared a secret method for cracking the Japanese code with Britain about a year before Pearl Harbor. Maj. Gen. Sherman Miles testified that he could not confirm if Britain provided any decoded Japanese information in return. The inquiry also reviewed a November 26 1941 Roosevelt message to Francis Sayre assessing possible Japanese aggression and indicating invasion of Thailand seemed most probable. Miles described warnings and debates over prioritizing the Philippines Hawaii Panama and the West Coast.
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United States
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Sherman Miles
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Senate House
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Miles
U. S
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Philippines
Francis._Sayre
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Mich
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Britain
George C. Marshall
Senate-House
Marshall
Hull
Hawaii
Panama
West Coast
General Marshall
Harold R. Stark
Naval Operations
Leonard T. Gerow
War Plans Division
Gerow
Veteran seeks local clerical job after Army service
Age 36 married with one child, veteran discharged Oct 17 1945 after 12 years in the Army. Former clerk general, with T V A nine years before enlistment, held payroll and administration roles. Graduate of Alabama, lives in Hartselle, prefers nearby work over Knoxville. Daily runs Job Wanted ads to aid veterans.
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A & Employmen
Service
Innterview
Army
Ala
Hartselle
Knoxville
Io Daily
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