Community and Mine Weather and Local Army News
Fair this afternoon tonight and Saturday with slightly colder near the coast late tonight. Winds on the coast will be westerly. Max 44, min 34. Pfe. Rueal Norton, Courtland, discharged after 37 months service with three battle stars and medals. New furnace at Moulton Heights Baptist church. Nebrig discharged after six months as C-47 pilot. Price discharged after 51 months service. Craig discharged after 34 months with four battle stars. Sunday is 100 Percent Attendance Day at Central Methodist. Davenport to preach Earth’s Greatest Lover. evening Christ In Christmas. Grafton King discharged after 96 months service with multiple medals and ribbons. Rev. Turner to discuss Search For A Reason. Radford continues Emperor Worship in Japan. Women of Sixteenth Avenue Baptist hold week of prayer. John Nelson returns from Andalusia after speaking at a Chamber of Commerce meeting. Underwood recovering from influenza. Mrs Nethery and Pace family moves noted. Property owners urged to assess property by Dec 31 deadline. Annie Pearl Slayton admitted to hospital. Rudolph Garypie visits Decatur Red Cross office. (Continued on Page Two)
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Central Methodist Church
G.M. Davenport
Bad Weather Delays Nazi Invasion Plans in 1939
German records from a war crimes trial reveal Hitler delayed the Low Countries and France invasion for six months due to bad weather. Prosecution showed naval orders masking operations with British flags, and Hitler’s Oct. 9 1939 directive aimed for action as soon as possible. Invasions of Norway, Denmark and the Low Countries were impacted by weather and air force concerns.
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Daniel DE Luce Nuernberg
Hitler
Low Countries
France
Holland
Belgium
Luxembourg
Norway
Denmark
Poland
Stark opposed December 7 memo in Pearl Harbor hearings
Washington December 7 General George Marshall testified that Admiral Harold Stark opposed warning Pacific commanders on December 7 1941. Stark later agreed to amend Army warnings for naval officers after Marshall insisted. The memo to Dewey urged withholding code break news from the 1944 campaign. The hearing paused over the exchange and Marshall prepared to depart for a China envoy post.
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Washington
George ©. Marshall
Pearl Harbor
Thomas E. Dewey
U. S
George C.marshall
Harold R. Stark
Pacific
Stark
Naval Operations
United States
Marshall
Senate-House
Army
White House
Admi
Rep
Keefe
R.wis
Pearl Ae
Barkley
D.-Ky
New York
Dewey
George
D.-Ga
Truman
China
Regional TB hospital in Morgan County eyed for 1946
North Alabama leaders voiced prospects for a $600,000 regional tuberculosis sanatorium in Morgan County near the current facility. Dr. Burton Austin and Dr. John Gallalee outlined funding from local, state, and federal sources as legislators and physicians discussed site approval, planning, and a potential regional general hospital.
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North Alabama
Morgan County
Burton Austin
John N. Gallalee
W. O. Dobbins
Alabama State Planning Board
Morgan County Medical Society
CerneHan Hotel
Dobbins
Erskine Chenault
Medical Society
Alabama
Gallalee
Austin
Dr. Austin
Payne Dies of Heart Attack on Snow Patrol Duty
Highway Patrolman Earl B. Payne aged 46 died of a heart attack at his home at 206 East Church Street after a short illness. Funeral services will be Saturday at First Baptist Church with patrolmen serving as pallbearers. He had six years with the patrol, helped motorists during snow, and sent Associated Press wire copy to Florence. Surviving are his wife Venia, a daughter, a son in Decatur and a son in Harola, plus sisters and brothers in several states. Burial in Center, Alabama with Masons in charge.
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Highway
Earl B. Payne
East Church Street
Jesse Rogers
First Baptist Church
Highway Patrol
Brown Funeral Company
Brown's
Mr. Payne
Center
Ala
Masons
Weanesaay
Associated Press
Jap War Trials Set For Early January
Tokyo dispatch reports first war crimes trials in Japan slated for January led by Hideki Tojo and the Pearl Harbor cabinet. Prosecutor Keenan says defendants will be presumed innocent but calls for harsh punishment, with death penalty likely. Trials to focus on groups by active time periods starting July 1937, with an international court likely and over 250 suspects.
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Marlin Spencer
Tokyo
Joseph B. Keenan
Japan
Hideki Tojo
Pearl Harbor
Hirohito
Zaibatsu
MacArthur
Keenan
Tiger Given Death Edict by Yamashita Conviction
Lt Gen Tomoyuki Yamashita was convicted by a five general military commission for atrocities and high crimes by Japanese troops in the Philippines. The panel sentenced him to death by hanging after finding the crimes were methodically supervised and he failed to control his forces.
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Dean Schedler
Manila
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Philippines
Russell B. Reynolds
United States
Col
Harry Clarke
Reynolds
Yamashita
Sugarless Yule Seen for Alabama
Alabama lawmakers were told residents face a sugarless Christmas unless new sugar ration stamps are validated. Milton Durrett and Schley O Rear urged congressmen to contact OPA to validate the next sugar coupon immediately as evidence of a sugar black market grows.
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Birmingham
Alabama
Congress
Milton Durrett
Alabama Food Council
Schley O
Alabama Merchants Association
OPA
Wreckage Found of US Plane Killing 14 in Argentina
Argentine police report the burned remains of an American C-47 transport aircraft missing since Monday were found 20 miles south of Colonia Pellegrini. All 14 aboard are dead, including U S Army geographic mission members from Asuncion to Montevideo, the crew, and the embassy attache. The War Department did not release names.
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Buenos Aires
Corrientes
Colonia Pellegrini Wi
U. S. Army
Asuncion
Paraguay
Montevideo
Uruguay
U. S
United States
War Department
Washington
Big or Small Buy E Bonds in Morgan County
Retailers urge all residents in Morgan County to invest in series E bonds before Saturday night. With $77,000 purchased this week toward a $125,000 goal, Decatur and county retailers lag by $48,000 as the campaign nears its final day. Prizes up to $100 bond await top sellers in Decatur, while countywide effort emphasizes a county quota of $641,000 with $407,000 already raised.
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Morgan County
Decatur
Railroads seek higher coal rates. PSC halts hearing needed
Alabama Public Service Commission delayed approval of proposed coal rate hikes filed by major railroads. Protests from 15 to 20 coal shippers prompted suspension for 60 days and a formal hearing to determine exact impacts. Examples cited show potential shifts from Birmingham to Mobile with domestic coal up to 1.90 per ton and bunker coal rising to 1.90 per ton. The decision accounts for OPA price ceilings and absorption calculations.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
State Public Service Commission
James Perdue
Perdue
Commission
Birmingham
Mobile
FIGHT OVER BIG LOAN LOOMS IN CONGRESS
Washington headlines a sweeping wartime loan debate as Congress weighs a 4.4 billion dollar credit to Great Britain. The accord includes a 3.75 billion loan at 2 percent over 50 years starting 1951 and a 650 million lend lease settlement. Talks seek freer world trade and ending wartime dollar pools. Major figures Marshall Byrnes Geiger Meyer Vinson Halifax and Truman administration faces full two chamber debate after holidays.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Congress
America
Pearl Harbor
Army
Senate-House
State Byrnes
Patrick J. Hurley
China
Tenke Bar Committee
Truman
Roy S. Geiger
Marines
Senate
Defense Department
Eugene Meyer
Washington Post
House
Great Britain
State Department
Capitol Hill
U. S
Treasury Vinson
Halifax
United States
Britain
Byrnes defends diplomats as Hurley fails to prove claims
Secretary of State Byrnes told the Senate foreign relations committee Hurley had supplied no specific evidence to prove any State Department employee sabotaged his China policy. Byrnes defended career diplomats George Atcheson and John Service and noted Hurley did not obtain a China policy statement from President Truman or Byrnes.
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Washington
Byrnes
Patrick J. Hurley
State Department
Hurley
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
China
Chungking
Truman
China Post
Yrnes
Gaitt
George Atcheson
John Service
Atcheson
Service
Telephone lines restored to eight cities after snow disruption
Dwight Mixson of Southern Bell reports circuits restored to Courtland Town Creek Mooresville Hartselle Athens Nashville Pulaski and Columbia with most city lines open. Limitations remain as Tri Cities Huntsville Memphis Chattanooga and Atlanta still lack service after Tuesday’s snowstorm disrupted North Alabama communications.
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Dwight Mixson
Southern Bell’ Telephone Company
Courtland
Town Creek
Mooresville
Hartselle
Athens
Nashville
Pulaski
Columbia
Tri-Cities
Huntsville
Memphis
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Alabama
Only One Jap Saw The Nation's Doom
Tokyo December 7 on the Pearl Harbor anniversary the article says only Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto foresaw Japan’s fate amid a web of patriotism ignorance and fatalism. Many leaders ignored warnings while the Manchurian grab and a propaganda drive spurred war despite Hull’s 1941 message. Nagano and Kurusu discuss the delay and missed chance to recall the fleet.
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Russell Brines
Tokyo
Pearl Harbor
Isoroku Yamamoto
Yamamoto
Washington
China
Japan
Cordell Hull
Marquis Kido
Supreme War Council
America
Hull
Osami Nagano
Nagano
Saburo Kurusu
Strikes Fade Across South After Postwar Wave
A Southern states survey shows only 15,680 idle in labor disputes, less than 4 percent of the national total. Mississippi, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Virginia report no work stoppages while the Georgia region sees broader activity in manufacturing and transportation sectors. Major disruptions include General Motors with 215,000 idle, a 30,000 pine lumber workers strike in the Pacific Northwest, and 11,000 machinists idle in the San Francisco area, accounting for about three quarters of the national total.
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Associated Press
Mason-Dixon Line
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Kentucky
Virginia
MidWest
General Motors
Pacific Northwest
San Francisco
Louisiana
Alabama
Tennessee
Job Wanted Veteran Seeks Post After Army Service
Age 25, discharged October 18 after three years in the Army. Attended Snead Jr. College in general business. Types 30 wpm. Worked nine months as inspector of heavy equipment for a general contractor. Served as clerk typist and kept transfer records. Single, lives in Court Te Decatur. Meredith Woodall at U & Employment Service to arrange interview.
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Meredith Woodall
Army
Snead Jr. College
General Contractor
Court
Decatur
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Rueal Norton
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Donald A. Nebrig
Robert F. Nebrig
12Th Aaf
Mediterranean
San Antonio
Charles P. Price
Dorothy Green Price
Fourth Avenue West
Pfc
F. C. Craig
Moulton 4
Montms
Grafton King
Grant Street
D. H. Turner
Westside Presbyterian Church
L. C. Radford
Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
John Nelson
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Andalusia
A of Commerce
R. D Underwood
East Lafayette Street
Church of Christ
Sidney Nethery
Belle Mina
Baugh’s Infirmary
Hamil Clinic
T Wilson
Brown
Annie Pearl Slayton
Decatur General Hospital
Rudolph Garypie
American Red Cross
Bormann
Hanna Reitsch
Berlin
Martin Bormann
Walter C.) Short
Short
Tru
Ken Reynolds
Flint
Charles McCauley
Gallallee
McCauley
Federal Works Agency
Payne
al Court
Koichi Kido
Kido
Hirohito Ao Evenji
Nippon
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Fumimar
Fight Brews
Dixie
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