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Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Dec 18, 1945

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Dee Glimpses About Your Doctor

Brief handwritten note references Dr Lmale Dee and medical glimpses about care. Names and context are sparse. no clear event or outcome is described beyond a casual remark.

Dr Lmale

Weather and community notes from Decatur and Tri-Cities

Cloudy with rain this afternoon tonight and Wednesday. snow mixed rain in the north, colder with lows 26 to 32. Funeral attendance for H R Ross. Joe N Poole to speak at Decatur Civitan. Veterans home for holidays, enlistments, discharges and family visits listed from Athens to Decatur, with Silver Star award for Lt George A Sarles Jr. and other military service highlights. Regular church services and Christmas program planned, plus local social updates and brief travel notices.

Solons Cool to Navy Plan

Congress heard that Pearl Harbor might have been worse if the fleet had been caught elsewhere. Vice Admiral Wilkinson testified on naval intelligence. The Senate Palestine resolution gained House Foreign Affairs Committee support. A wage bill stalled for Christmas recess. House debated aid to China using surplus ships and officers. UNO participation measures advance, with debates over site and sanctions powers. UNRRA funding faces limits. Connally and Vandenberg warn no more money.

Washington Congress Pearl Harbor Theodore S. Wilkinson Naval Intelligence Congressional Investigating Committee House Foreign Affairs Committee House Palestine Senate Labor Committee Secretary of the Navy Forrestal United States China Carl Vinson D.-Ga House Naval Committee Rep Sheppard D.calif Appropriations U. S United Nations Organization UNO Security Council UNO Senate Great Britain Foreign Affairs Committee Connally D.tex Foreign Relations Committee Truman White House United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration U. S. Treasury UNRRA Lee Vandenberg R. -Mich Fematiican

Co founder of Sellers hospital dies in Birmingham

Dr. William B. Sellers, a Birmingham physician and co founder of the An niston based Sellers hospital, died yesterday. He and his brother Dr. Edwin Sellers built the institution and ran it from 1906 to 1918.

Birmingham

Residents Awake To Find Blanket Of Snow In City

A two inch snowfall blanketed Decatur and much of North Alabama this morning, with slick roads but no reported accidents. Telephone and electric services remained unaffected, and by noon most snow had melted or shifted to sleet in Hart Selle area. Huntsville Athens Cullman reports indicated about two inches on the ground. buses ran on schedule despite slower traffic.

Decatur North Alabama Highway Patrol Southern Bell Telephone Company City Electric Department Hartselle Huntsville Athens Averat Greyhound

Frigid Hand Kept On Eastern Areas By The AP

Winter weather kept its frigid, snowy grip across the East as at least 27 deaths were tied to a severe cold wave. Temperatures plunged to 20 below zero in parts of Minnesota and North Dakota, with subzero readings across Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Nebraska. Snow blanketed sections of several states, notably western New York near Lake Erie.

Associated Press Rockies Great Lakes Georgia Plains Minnesota North Dakota South Buffalo Buffalo

GI Re-Enlists to Spend Furlough in England

Cpl. James C. Oden, son of Mr and Mrs Joseph C. Oden of Danville, re enlisted after discharge Dec 2 1945, to remain overseas with his English wife Mrs Mary Sewts Oden. He will receive a 90 day furlough to be spent in England while taking pre induction tests at Fort McClellan.

Thomas E. McCrary Athens Camp Haan Calif New Guinea Hak Australia Manila 89Th Civil Service William Edward Tiller Fourth Avenue South Morgan County England Cpl James C. Oden Joseph C. Oden Danville 1 Air Corps Enema Mary Sewts Oden Davenport Latchford Warrington Oden Fort McClellan

Stalin returns as Big Three prepare for world issues talks

Stalin resumes leadership at the Kremlin as the Big Three Foreign Ministers Byrnes Bevin Molotov finalize their preliminaries and plan a third session on world peace and prosperity. They express cautious optimism about future discussions on atomic energy control and major power understanding. The ministers met for two hours and 15 minutes in an atmosphere described as serious and businesslike.

Stalin Council of People's Commissars Kremlin U. S W. Averell Harriman Black Sea Sochi Inoscow Byrnes Bevin Molotov

Decatur City Council Adopts 1946 Tax Schedule Additions

Decatur 1946 tax schedule adds 18 kinds of business licenses and raises some, with hosiery mills and dry cleaners reduced. Exempts Ingalls Shipbuilding machinery for ten years, and imposes new rules on itinerant coal dealers, plus a $150,000 water tank and a ban on fortune tellers. Produce license up to $100, transit tax remains, and two percent gross receipts tax on buses and taxis. itinerant coal licenses set at $300 with per-truck increases. scales and receipts required.

Decatur Decatur Transit Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation Photostat Gadsden Decatur Produce Charles Eyster Ingalls Company Ingalls Russell Speake Phil Vaughn Ben Britnell Brittnell Vaughn

Secret Hitler Orders Reveal Plans To Invade Turkey

War orders recovered from Col Gen Gustav Jodl show Hitler planned to invade the Middle East and wage war on Turkey if needed, with a 1940 aim to occupy France. The leather briefcase held over 50 original orders later discussed in war crimes trials and released by the AP. War Order No 9 cites Great Britain as the main enemy and victory depends on beating England.

Louis P. Lochner Muernberg Adolf Hitler Fuehrer Middle East Turkey France Gustav Jodl Hitler Jodl Associated Press Great Britain England

Ford UAW raises rejected as GM strike widens

The Ford Motor Company offered a 12.5 percent wage increase or 15 cents an hour to CIO UAW which was rejected. GM had previously rejected a 13.5 cent or 10 percent raise as part of its wage dispute. In Flint, Michigan, GM’s AC Sparkplug plant faced pickets and 175,000 workers remained idle amid the standoff. GM listed a dozen demands for any new contract and planned Washington appearances for fact finding. Oil workers board in Washington weighed profits and prices in wage studies amid a 30 percent demand and government seizure last October.

Associated Press Ford Motor Company CIO United Auto Workers Richard T. Leonard Ford Uaw-Cio General Motors John S. Bugas Ford Labor Relations Flint, Mich Cio-Uaw Washington Truman Kaiser-Frazier Corp Oil Board Schwellenbach John C. Collet

Matsuoka Blamed For Blocking Peace Efforts in 1941

Tokyo reports that Japan blocked U S peace plans for eight days in spring 1941 as Foreign Minister Matsuoka sought Germany's stance. Konoye's memoirs reveal Matsuoka used a neutrality pact with the United States to stall, leading to a delayed acceptance of talks and eventual peril before Pearl Harbor.

Marlin Spemper Tokyo Japan Pacific Yosuke Matsuoka Germany Prince Konoye Matsuoka Cordell Hull U. S Konoye Matsuo Chungking China United States Britain Associated Press

Nazi Plot Outlined by U S Prosecutors at Nuremberg

American prosecutors detailed a Nazi plan to exterminate Jews and erase Christian churches across Europe. They cited directives from leaders like Rosenberg and Bormann, and described block leaders receiving orders verbally, aiding pogroms, confiscations, and art looting while Goering, Keitel, and Frank were named among key figures.

Noland Norgaard Nuernberg Hitler Germany Europe International Military Tribunal Leadership Corps Ernest Kaltenbrunner Robert G. Storey U. S Munich Brown House Geoffrey Lawrence Storey Twoa Col. Storey Alfred Rosenberg Martin Bormann Bormann Rosenberg Robert Ley Labor Front Goering

Pearl Harbor Intercept Reveals Possible Early Escape Window

A Senate inquiry heard that the Japanese intercepted an American broadcast on December 6 1941 disclosing Pearl Harbor battle ships cruisers and destroyers. Vice Admiral Wilkinson testified that an early warning could have allowed ships to sail out within 90 minutes. He estimated six battleships six cruisers and about a dozen destroyers at Pearl Harbor.

Washington Senate-House Inqury Pearl Harbor Douglas MacArthur Tokyo Theodore S. Wilkinson Naval Intelligence West Lahaina Roads Hawaiian MacArthur Cmdr Tomo Tachibana Telligence Col F. P. Munson MacArth Ewes Eterne Tachibana United States Wilkinson Adm Harold P. Stark Naval Operations Lucas D Stark Lucas

Veteran seeks civil service job after army service

Meredith Woodall, 23, single, completed three years in the Army on Nov 28, 1945, and who served in surgical and medical duties, seeks employment through US Employment Service. He assisted in surgery, administered injections, and provided emergency care. Previously a funeral attendant. plans to attend Morgan in Oct 1946 but cannot secure permanent work.

Meredith Woodall Us& Employment Service Army Morgan Saves Bending Avery

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Bessie Truman Grady Lowe Wilson Lindsey Tri-Cities H. R. Ross Joe N. Poole Martha Witt Rogers Bob Jones College Mrs. W. O. Rogers Harold Bedingfield E. F. Bedingfield Decature ETO McCulloch Scruggs Lynn Gertrude Scruggs Thomas E. Todd Walter H. Todd Walter Sonny) Todd, Jr Norma Todd Jane Culver Todd Ft. Monmouth New Jersey Charles Truett Mitchell Naval Department Memphis Tenn Guam Saipan Wakayama Nagoya Mitchell U.S. S. Luzon Adm. Nimitz C. W. Mitchell Ith Ave. West Geo. A. Sarles, Jr George Cleveland Ohio Sarles Syracuse N. Y Patch Seventh Army Infantry Mary R. Thompson Decatur 3 Portland Oregon Camp Blanding Fila Leonard Bowman Pilot Point Texas Clarence Irick U. S. Army First Presbyterian Church J.G. Flack Sr Sheffield Ken Reynolds Solons NAVY By Eddy Gilmore Moscow Soviet Russia Ingalls Yard Joseph B. Keenan Italy Iseroku Yamamoto By Jack Bell
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