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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1945
Page
1
Local weather outlook reports cold spell with frost in the south and mild winds along the coast. The day saw temperatures around 30 to 35 degrees and several residents visiting or returning from travels. Military service updates include discharged sailors and soldiers with medals and overseas experience, plus a missionary class. Community events note a Christian Laymen's League gathering Friday night and hospital admissions.
Washington December 6 Maj Gen Patrick J Hurley accused Dean Acheson of destroying American policy in Iran during a tense Senate foreign relations committee session Hurley resigned as Ambassador to China and criticized subordinates in Chungking and Washington Bridges pressed for answers about undermining Hurley why other diplomats remain in posts and why public support from Truman and Byrnes was lacking Hurley named Service Atcheson and three others as disloyal to him two cited now in Tokyo with MacArthur 亚洲人成
London today hailed a United States loan of 4.4 billion dollars to Britain, pending approval by Congress and Parliament, as a world trade boon. The 50 year repayment would begin in 1946 with no interest for five years, then about 2 percent, about 88 million dollars in the first interest year. The Daily Sketch called it a magna carta for world trade while the Daily Herald warned of belt tightening if talks failed. The loan allocates 650 million for goods in process at lend lease end and 3 billion for other aid, tied to Bretton Woods cooperation. The announcement followed 12 weeks of negotiations in Washington and is to be ratified in London and Washington.
Telephone service and busses in Decatur are back on schedule as crews repair lines. Circuits to Nashville Chattanooga Atlanta and other cities remain down while some towns report partial restoration. Highways are open and Greyhound buses operate. power and water vary by locality.
Christmas lights are being installed today in Decatur business areas and will light up for the first time Monday. Lyons Electric Co. won the contract from a merchants committee chaired by Harry Higdon Rufus Warren Sidney Patterson and Eldridge Guire. The lights will run parallel to business streets with cross intersections. Most materials are recycled from last year.
Retail Week shows gains with $23000 in E bond sales in Morgan County but the county remains $234000 short of the $641000 quota. Three top sales prizes include a $100 Victory bond for the best seller and $50 and $25 prizes for the next two. Clerk Vernon McGwier leads the Decatur committee with district supervisors named.
A crash ten miles south of Birmingham left J. C. Bishop of Helena dead and R. L. Wood of Fairfield seriously injured, according to the state Highway Patrol.
Dec. 6 4 sale of radio station WMOB announced. Quigley, owner, said his station had been sold to J Lindsey Nunn and son Gilmore N Nunn of Lexington Kentucky.
In Tokyo Gen MacArthur ordered the arrest of Prince Fumimaro Konoye and Marquis Koichi Kido as war crimes suspects. Seven others tied to imperial power were named. Japan faces political unrest as communists threaten indictments including the Emperor, and Shidehara’s cabinet balks at criticizing the lists. In Manchuria nationalist forces advance toward Mukden and Yenan traders say a democratic coalition governs China. An uneasy quiet grips Java amid food shortages for Europeans.
Gen. MacArthur ordered the arrest of Prince Fumimaro Gonoye and Marquis Koichi Kido as war crime suspects. Seven other men linked to prewar and Pacific war activities were also named in the crackdown on wartime leaders.
General Marshall testified to a congressional committee that there was no commitment by Roosevelt to go to war without being attacked and that in early 1941 he moved to remove P-36 fighters for Hawaii defense. Fleet Admiral Halsey rejected the proposed army navy merger as risky and potentially disastrous, warning of dangers from Japan and Germany.
Goering at the Nuremberg trial claimed Hitler hoped to deter British intervention by delaying the invasion of Poland. Allied prosecutors presented pleas from Roosevelt, Chamberlain, Daladier, and Pope Pius as evidence of Hitler’s secret plans and deceptive public statements.
Dr Garrold Nungester resumes practice in Decatur after a five year absence serving with the U S Medical Corps. He entered in 1941 with the 151st Engineers and later with the 168th Iowa Infantry 34th Division as battalion surgeon, overseas from February 1942, a prisoner until VE Day. He earned the Combat Medical Officers Badge and was recommended for the Legion of Merit. He and his wife and two daughters live at 1306 Ninth Ave E in the State National Bank building.
The Associated Press news report traveled from Decatur to Florence via the Alabama Highway Patrol for a second day. Patrolman Paul Jones departed The Decatur Daily Office at eleven with the AP dispatches intended for The Florence Times and The Tri-Cities Daily as snow disrupted wire service communications.
Washington dispatch describes Dr. Philip Morrison detailing how atomic bomb radiation caused blood infections and rapid deaths weeks after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He warned the hazard could threaten any American city, noting immune cells vanish and infection spreads in uncoagulated blood.
Nation faces major labor dispute as over 200,000 GM workers consider talks in Detroit at 2 PM EST marking first negotiations since the walkout began 16 days ago. Chrysler union leadership pledges continued work while Yale & Towne executives remain in plant in Stanford, Conn. and Chicago retailers accept a wage offer from Montgomery Ward.
Commissioner Joe N Poole of agriculture and industries will run for governor of Alabama He said he will announce his candidacy at the proper time and state his positions on material campaign issues Montgomery Dec 6 4
General George C. Marshall testified that in early 1941 he decided to strip most U S pursuit squadrons of P-36 fighters to defend Hawaii. He said no prewar commitment to go to war existed and explained the context of Allied conferences and Roosevelt Churchill talks. He also noted prior warnings to Lt General Short about the looming Pearl Harbor threat and the risk of a surprise air and submarine raid.
A 23 year old veteran, Meredith Woodall, discharged November 26 after 12 years service, seeks tele phone work. He has one year of pre employment training and four months handling company records and payroll. Previously worked 16 months in a physical laboratory testing highway materials and soil.
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