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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1945
Page
1
Cold afternoon with interior lows 20s and near freezing coast. state outlook shows 30 high 22 low with partly cloudy skies. Community announcements list numerous military discharges, reenlistment, and battle stars from Army Navy and Marines, plus local visits and hospital transfers. price control board to close for Christmas with Dec 29 open.
The war crimes trial in Nuernberg hears that over 4,000,000 prisoners were forced into slave labor in Germany by 1945. Prosecutors accuse Alfred Rosenberg Fritz Sauckel and others of crimes against humanity as documents show plans to boost German war production via coerced labor across Russians Poles and other nationalities.
Cooper Wells & Company of Decatur hosiery mill will present every employee a $25 Victory bond and two pairs of nylon hosiery as a Christmas gift. The mill will close from December 22 through December 27 for the holiday period, announced general manager Frank G Yaney today.
All 40 defendants in the Dachau atrocity trial were convicted by a U S military court for participation in cruelties at the notorious camp. The eight officer panel led by Brig Gen John M Lentz announced that sentences would be handed down tomorrow morning after a 90 minute deliberation following a 24 day trial. defendants included the camp commander Martin Weiss five camp doctors and three SS functionaries. Estimates say at least 5 000 Jews were killed in Landsberg within Dachau and about 32 000 tortured or emaciated men with 350 women present when U S troops captured the camp on April 30. The maximum penalty faced was death. The audience of 300 Germans showed little reaction.
Standard Oil Company allocates 6000 of a 400000 Victory bond investment to Morgan county. R W Orr, Decatur agent, received the subscription details today from L S Williams, district manager.
Certified Washington December 1 indicates Opelika city and Lee county eligible to purchase hospital equipment for the prisoner of war camp at Opelika Alabama. The determination enables the local authorities to proceed with acquiring necessary medical gear for the facility.
Washington Dec 12 The government owned Hurricane Creek alumina plant and the Jones aluminum reduction plant in Arkansas may come under Reynolds ownership. Reynolds president said RFC board approved lease offers subject to Surplus Property Administrator Symington and Justice Dept approval. Lease runs five years with a $6 million rent set and up to $12 million in total payments, with an option to buy. Reynolds plans annual production of 72.9 million pounds of aluminum ingot at Jones mills.
A Rotary Club campaign in Hartselle promotes funds for the Crippled Children's Clinic in Birmingham. Victory Bonds in the clinic’s name are being donated as John Sherrill Day is marked Thursday December 13 with a 6:30 PM banquet, honoring Dr. Sherrill followed by a 8:00 PM moving picture program at Morgan County High School.
The state’s cases against Chris Tucker, Lillie Tucker and Arthur Tucker, each charged with two counts of assault and peace proceedings, were continued by Judge James H. Eao Jr. Essie Tucker was charged with malicious damage to property but the charge was dismissed. Charges against Riggie Jones and Essie Tucker Jones were also dismissed. On the jury civil docket for Thursday are W. C. Pettit vs Everett Chunn, Josie Randolph vs Audrey S. Johnson, Robin Thomas vs Grady Segars, Mary Cottingham vs W Mulligan, and Brown Transfer Co. Research Institute of America vs Carter Dobbs.
The Senate approved a measure granting $700 million for hospital and health center construction. Alabama would receive annual federal funds for the projects but must provide an annual matching fund of $100 million. The measure passed yesterday.
General George C. Marshall testified he believed as early as August 1941 that a Pacific war was inevitable and the United States was unprepared. He cited growing tension and a Navy officer's warning of a likely Pearl Harbor strike the same year.
Congressional investigators learned the Navy stopped tapping Japanese consulate telephones in Honolulu five days before the war began, citing an officer’s anger at FBI actions.
Marshall said pressure from all sides for more men and equipment was intense while he focused on building up the Philippines defenses as a deterrent to a Japanese move to the South. A secret report to the committee detailed three points: Maj. Gen. Myron C. Cramer found no notice that Japan broadcast a winds message warning consuls of a break in relations. Navy witnesses before Rear Adm. H Kent Hewitt denied receipt of any authentic winds message. Lt. Gen. Walter C Short said he might have ordered a full Hawaii alert if he had received Marshall’s December 7 message earlier. Short headed Pearl Harbor in 1941. opinion sought before Marshall returned to the.
A 1940 Pontiac driven by J R Martin aged 18 of Hillsboro 3 was demolished about 11:00 Tuesday night after colliding with a truck driven by Jessie Barton of Memphis Tennessee. The Pontiac belonged to May Norton of Hillsboro 3. Estimated damage about 700 on the car and 50 on the truck. No injuries to drivers. Soldier Rowlin Parson of Camden Michigan received a cut lip but was not seriously hurt. Both drivers blamed the other car's lights. accident occurred northbound Pontiac and southbound truck. Alabama Highway Patrol investigated.
Midshipman First Class Donald B. Whitmire, 23, of Decatur Alabama, is designated the next midshipman captain by Rear Admiral S H Ingersoll. The Alabama football All-America star in 1944 will assume the post Friday for the winter term, succeeding Midshipman J P Flanagan Jr. of Wilkes-Barre Pa. Whitmire, a Pulaski Tennessee native, came to the academy in 1943 after four years of varsity play at Alabama and was ineligible for the 1945 Navy team.
Whitmire son of Police Chief J B Whitmire of Decatur rises to highest rank among midshipmen at the naval officers school. A six-striper he has earned the top honor for a midshipman. Expected to graduate in June and receive his commission as ensign.
In Tokyo a parade of 59 war crimes suspects surrendered to Sugamo prison on General MacArthur's orders. Leading the procession was Prince Morimasa Nashimoto and Nashimoto drove in from his ruined Tokyo mansion. Mass arrests targeted top Japanese militarists tied to Bataan march crimes and other atrocities.
President Truman asked that residential property be placed under price control and directed reinstatement of the priority system on building materials with special preference to veterans. He announced a plan to set ceilings under the war powers act and appointed Wilson W. Wyatt as special housing expediter, pending legislation and explaining the actions at a news conference.
Washington December 12 The Navy disclosed it used a deadly self guided missile named The Bat against Japanese ships and land targets in late Pacific fighting. Launched from a mother aircraft it steered with radar and matched target turns. Rear Admiral Hussey said it was the first fully automatic guided missile used in combat and thus far its developments have made it obsolete.
Secretary of State Byrnes flew to Moscow to brief Molotov on Anglo American Canadian plans to hand atomic energy talks to the United Nations in January. He seeks Russian buy in for a United Nations commission to work out atomic controls and will test reactions before formal talks with Molotov Bevin and himself. |
Windsor Ont Dec 12 Ford Motor Company of Canada announced it rejected a CIO UAW proposal to negotiate and arbitrate all differences in the union security strike that shut down the large plant since Sept 12.
President Truman appointed a fact finding board to resolve the General Motors dispute and said he would name another board soon to head off a steel industry strike threatened by the CIO United Steelworkers. The 22 day GM walkout left about 213,000 workers idle and cut car production. the steel strike could affect over 40 percent of the nation's workers. The GM board is led by Judge Walter P. Stacy with Lloyd K. Garrison and Milton Eisenhower on the panel.
President Truman named a fact finding board to inquire into the General Motors strike. The CIO United Auto Workers pledged cooperation, with R J Thomas and Walter P Reuther saying they will present all facts and figures on the union's view of a 30 percent wage increase and the corporation's ability to pay.
President Truman clashes with CIO United Auto Workers and CIO United Steelworkers over faulted strike methods. Labor secretary Schwellersbach backs fact finding as crucial to national interests. Union leader Philip Murray calls wage talks negotiable while government intervention is floated as a halt to the dispute.
Age 21 and single seeks employment placement through Veterans Affairs. Completed five years in the Army as an ammunition supply technician by Nov 12, 1945, overseas supervising requisitions of ammunition bombs fuzes and related supplies. Interview arrangements via telephone 167.
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