Decatur War Casualties and Navy Discharges Summary
Local weather outlook showed 22 to 30 degrees with colder tonight and fair Tuesday. Probate Judge Kenney visited Cullman. several Decatur residents, sailors, and soldiers received naval or Army discharges after multiple months overseas and invasions. Notables include Hillis, Monte Noojin, James Mitchell, Arthur Sharp Jr., Sylvester McDonald, Frederick, Miller, Flynn, Morris, Turner, Trimble, and Dempsey, along with family travel plans and recovery news.
Lewis Voices Triple Blast In Testimony
Detroit December reports the United Auto Workers CIO proposing a company security plan at Ford to discharge workers guilty of fomenting unauthorized strikes and imposing financial penalties on participants. Secretary Schwellenbach says the government can seize General Motors plants but would not yet act, urging early settlement as the GM walkout cripples 213,000 workers since November 21.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
CIO
Ford Motor Company
Schwellenbach
General Motors Corp
General Motors
Lewis blasts government and GM over auto strike
John L. Lewis accused the government General Motors and the CIO United Automobile Workers of stalling the auto strike. He told the House labor committee a 10 day settlement was possible if the government allowed a price with fair profit and denounced President Truman's proposed fact finding boards as an evil messy scheme to protect millionaires. He charged GM profits are high due to tax laws and said UAW leaders chose a crippling strike at a time when production would yield greater profit.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
General Motors Company
Cio-United Automobile Workers
United Mine Workers
House Labor Committee
Lewis
Truman
General Motors
Congress
UAW
Three Ladies Win War Bond Prizes in Decatur
Three women won top prizes in a Decatur merchants sponsored war bond contest among retail workers during "Retail Week." First prize went to Mrs. W. C. Sanders of J C Penney Co for selling $5,062.50 in E bonds. second to Mrs. Charles F. Lyson of W T Grant Co for $4,987.50. third to Mrs. Charles Boley of W T Grant Co for $2,100. Honorable mentions went to J P Sims, Patterson's, $1,000. Miss Elizabeth Thompson, J C Penney Co, $900. and Miss Judy Griffin, Rose Jewelry Co, $561.25. Vernon McGwier, retail division chairman, planned to award the bonds this afternoon at bond headquarters in the First Federal Savings & Loan office.
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Decatur
W. C. Sanders
J. C. Penney Co
Sanders
Charles F. Lyson
W. T. Grant Co
Charles Boley
J. P. Sims
Patterson's
Elizabeth Thompson
Judy Griffin
Rose Jewelry Co
Vernon McGwier
First Federal Savings & Loan Office
Bodies Sought In Lake Near Wheeler Dam Tragedy
Three Rogersville men Wheeler Newton 26 Horace Gatlin 27 and D Jackson 26 disappeared after an outboard boat sank below Wheeler Dam Saturday afternoon. The boat was found overturned seven miles downstream. Sheriff E J Fulmer and agencies including the Tennessee Valley Authority Coast Guard and enforcement squads aided in the search as bodies were sought in Wheel er Lake.
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Florence
Ala
Wheeler Lake
Rogersville
Wheeler Dam
E. J. Fulmer
Wheeler Newton
Horace Gatlin
D. Jackson
Tennessee Valley Auty
Coast Guard
Marshall Foreseen War As Inevitable
General George C. Marshall testified in a Senate inquiry that pre war intelligence accurately forecast Japan's major attack plans before December 7 1941. He said Pearl Harbor was a slash not an invasion and that the main Japanese offensive targeted the South as estimated.
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J. W. Davis
Washington
George C. Marshall
Japan
Marshall
Genate-House
Pearl Harbor
Thailand
Gulf of Siam
United States
Great Britain
Ferguson
Harold R. Stark
Naval Operations
Roosevelt
Michigan
John G. Winant
London
Nazi Urges Nip to Fight War Aims in 1941
Nuernberg war crimes trial reveals a secret German directive from March 5 1941 urging Japan to strike Singapore to pressure England and keep the United States from entering the war. Keitel warned attacks on American bases only if U S entry could not be prevented. Prosecutors highlight Japan Germany collaboration in expanding aggression.
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Nuernberg
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Wilhelm Keitel
High Command
Singapore
England
United States
Keitel
America
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Gestapo
Germany
Red Cross Morgan chapter reports December aid and cases
A Morgan county American Red Cross report shows 359 cases completed and 25 continued, with 384 handled in November. Disabling or death claims by veterans and families and loan cases grew from October, while 202 cases aided service members and families. Notary services, guidance, and financial aid were among the services offered. The report was prepared by Mrs Frank Kirby and Mrs Robert Hutson.
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Morgan
American — Red Cross
Veterans’ Administration
Frank Kirby
Morgan Chapter
Robert Hutson
Home Service
Westminster church drives clothing for relief program
The Westminster Presbyterian women sponsor a used clothing and bedding drive as part of the interdenominational Women’s Relief Program for liberated peoples overseas. Clean usable contributions may be left in the Sunday school department, announced chairwoman Mrs. T. G. Henry.
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The
Westminster Presbyterian Church
T. G. Henry
Morgan County Bond Drive Nears Goal in Final Campaign
Morgan County reached 81 percent of the $641000 Series E bond mark with $120000 still needed. County War Finance Committee urges a last week push as bonds bought now through month end count toward the quota. Last week Retail Week saw $190000 invested. Decatur employees and merchants contributed via a sales contest overseen by L. T. Waynond.
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Morgan County
County War Finance Committee
Decatur
Bond
First Federal Savings & Loan
Second Avenue
Camp Sibert Placed On Inactive Status
The Army announced Camp Sibert Alabama is on inactive status effective December 31 with an exception for a quartermaster laundry at the camp.
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Camp Sibert
Washington
Sibert
Ala
FSA Head Named Washington Appointment
Dillar B. Lasseter of Atlanta was appointed administrator of the Farm Security Administration by Secretary Anderson. He succeeds Frank Hancock, who resigned November 15 after two years as chief of the FSA.
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FSA
Washington
Dillar B. Lasseter
Atlanta
Farm Security Administration
Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson
Frank Hancok
North Carolina
Natives Mass for New Raid Upon Batavia
British defenders brace for more fighting in Batavia as planes bomb three mountain villages in the south. Several thousand Indonesians mass in Batavia suburbs amid rumors of a Dec 14 uprising. A British officer and 14 Indian troops were killed in a convoy attack between Batavia and Bandoeng. In China, central government and Communist forces maneuver in Manchuria while Mongolian and Russian actions continue. An American Marine was wounded near Tientsin amid a confrontation with Chinese civilians. In Japan, MacArthur issues an agrarian reform directive to aid farmers amid fears of rice riots.
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Associated Press
Batavia
Bandoeng
China
Manchuria
Chungking
Mukden
Changchun
Tientsin
Japan
MacArthur
Rice Riots Seen As Likely In Japan
A Tokyo dispatch reports influential farmers warn rice riots loom unless Japan's agrarian policies shift. General MacArthur presses to end the feudal land system, while Akita officials say government policy undermines trust and the Tohoku region may sell only 60 percent of its rice crop to the government. MacArthur also orders arrests of seven war crime suspects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Brines
Tokyo
MacArthur
Japan
Akita
Tohoku
Deputy Biles Improves After Beach Assault
Chief Deputy Knox Biles, beaten by two escaped Limestone county jail prisoners on the Athens beach, is reported somewhat improved but still in serious condition with a fractured skull at Powers Hospital. Prisoners Fred Whitworth and Charley Cline, both held on burglary charges, were recaptured five miles south of Athens. Sheriffs, city police, and highway patrols from Decatur Huntsville and Athens, with two civilian planes, assisted in the search. Warrants will be sworn for assault with intent to murder and escaping jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knox Biles
Limestone — County
Athens
Biles
Garrett
Decatur
Huntsville
Julian McNeese
Whitworth and
Cline
German View of Eisenhower and Patton Revealed by Lahousen
In an exclusive AP interview Maj. Gen. Erwin Lahousen, once chief of sabotage in German intelligence, says German leaders rated Eisenhower as a great military planner and Patton as the outstanding field commander. He notes the Germans underestimated the US early in the war, later seeing little difference among Allied armies, and discusses North Africa and Tunisia actions and motives.
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Erwin Lahousen
Lahousen
International Military Tribunal
Walter Canaris
George Tucker
Associated Press
Muernberg
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Erwin Lahousenoo
George S. Patton, Jr
Patton
Eisenhower
Sone
Aiaeak Winhaeree
North Africa
Tunisia
Poison Gas Used By Japs Says Loucks In isolated instances
Brig. Gen. Charles E. Loucks on General MacArthur’s staff testified that Japan used poison gas against American troops in a few isolated cases, notably at Biak New Guinea on March 5, 1945. He cited coughing fits and deaths, and noted a Narashino gas school but said production stopped in 1943.
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Tokyo
Charles E. Loucks
New Guinea
MacArthur
Signal Corps
Biak
Loucks
China
Narashino
Washington
Chemical Warfare Service For Research and Development
Tarawa
Iwo
Separate air force sought in Congress proposal
In a joint bill introduced by Vinson and May, House leaders debated unification of military branches. The measure argues for an independent air force separate from Army and Navy control, shielding the Navy's air arm while challenging current merger concepts.
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Washington
Vinson
D-Ga
Naval
May
D-Ky
House
Congress
Army
Navy
General Patton injured in autobahn crash near Frankfurt
Gen. George S. Patton Jr is partly paralyzed but his overall condition is described as satisfactory in an Army medical bulletin. He slept five hours after the crash and remains under care in Heidelberg with wife Mrs Patton en route from the United States, accompanied by medical officers and a British neuro-surgeon. Major General Hobart Gay was unharmed in the same accident that involved an Army truck on the autobahn near Mannheim.
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Sgt
E. V. Dempsey
S. B. Cross
Eleventh Avenue West
Frankfurt
Army
Patton
Hugh Carnes
Oxford
Heidelberg
England
United States
Roy Glenwood Spurling
Medical Corps
Kerwen
War Department Operations Division
Hobart Gay
U. S. 15Th Army
Bad Nauheim
Mannheim
Gay
Pfc
Horace Woodring
Patton Paralyzed by Neck Injury After Car Crash
Specialists from England and the United States rushed to Mannheim to treat General George S. Patton who lies partly paralyzed from a fractured cervical vertebra after an automobile accident. The Army bulletin reports complete paralysis below the third cervical vertebra and monitoring of a dislocated fourth vertebra due to the serious injury.
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Mannheim
England
United States
George S. Patton
Army
Patton
Patton Crashes Car in Late Night Incident
General George S Patton was injured when his sedan crashed and slammed into a rear-seat injury. An eye witness said blood covered his face from cuts caused by the crash. Capt Ned Snyder treated him at the scene before his ambulance rushed him to a hospital.
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Charles Tucker
New Hamburg
N. Y
Red Cross
Patton
Ned Snyder
Texas
Engin
Veteran Seeks Employment Services for Interview
A 21 year old Navy veteran, completed four years of service by December 1, 1945, served as mate in the sick bay, cared for the sick and wounded, and is seeking employment through Meredith Woodah at A & Employment Service. An interview will be arranged.
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Meredith Woodah
A & Employment Service
Navy
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Irlimale
Kenney
Cullman
John E. Wilks
Paul
Mr. Wilks
William Alfred Hillis
Pacific
Monte Noojin
South Pacific
Frank James. Mitchell
Cpl
Arthur Sharp, Jr
New York
Arthur C. Sharp, Sr
Sharp
Sylvester McDonald
Hillsboro
Atlantic
Pierce V. Frederick
J. D. Miller
Michael Flynn
Asiatic-Pacific
Milton H. Morris
Falkville 2
Conrad Strickland, Sr
Miami
W. E. Cason
Mr. Strickland
Ross E. Turner
Seaman
Hillsboro 1
Fred Trimble
Oak Street
J. C. Trimble
Naval Service
Elba
France
Paul Davis
Danville
Benton Grooms
T. M. Hamilton
Decatur 3
Ryden Reynolds
Stark
Rene
Pentagon
Senator Capper
Republican
Kansas
Gen
By Wes Gallagher
Elbert J. Burns
Jake Prescott
Jefferson County
Kilby
Montgomery
Mrs. Patton
1Sth
3Rd Army
Normandy
Czechoslovakia
Sicily
15Th
15Th Army
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