Local service members discharged after lengthy WWII duty
A roundup of soldiers sailors and airmen with Decatur and area ties receiving discharge or completing service. Names include First Lt Rose A Speer Mrs L J Speer 330 Sherman St Miss Earle J Lee Bradford Junior College student William R Fite Jr SK1C and Lt Col Earl C Glasscock among others. Also notes on weather outlook and local obituaries or illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose A. Speer
L. J. Speer
Sherman Street
Army Nurse Corps
Drew Field
McBill Field
Fla
Earle J. Lee
Maxie S. Lee
Grant Street
Bradford Junior College
Bradford
Massachusetts
Big Three foreign ministers meet offer hopeful news
Moscow reports optimism as the Big Three foreign ministers conference nears its end with discussions on world atomic energy control and a possible United Nations commission. Byrnes Bevin and Molotov show public cordiality at the Bolshoi while aiming to return to Washington and London for UN work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
London
Washington
James F. Byrnes
Bevin
Russia
Bolshoi Theater
U. S
Byrnes
Truman
Attlee
MacKenzie King
United Nations Commission
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
Kremlin
Stalin
Ice Pick Believed Used In Stabbing
A six man coroner's jury ruled that Jim Manning was killed by an unidentified weapon at the hands of his wife Catherine Manning on Short Alabama Street between 7 and 7:15 Sunday night. The coroner said the wound near the heart and other injuries were caused by a sharp instrument, presumably an ice pick. Witnesses described a commotion at the Shady Lane cafe where Manning fell. The weapon and Manning’s wife had not yet been located.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Manning
Catherine Manning
Manning
Alabama
Bev Howell
Howell
Knox McRae
Joe Pettey
H. F. Sherrod
Ed Hogan
Clyde Marshall
T. F. Sparkman
Pauline Adams
Shady Lane
Lewis Taylor
Taylor
Adams
Fraser backs UN HQ at Hyde Park as Roosevelt memorial
New Zealand Prime Minister Peter Fraser praised the proposal to locate United Nations headquarters at Hyde Park New York calling it a fitting memorial to Franklin D Roosevelt. He urged action to repeal veto power of big nations and said all League of Nations mandates and postwar territories should be run under UN trusteeship. He also commended General Douglas MacArthur for administering Japan and warned against new creative participation in occupation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Peter Fraser
New Zealand
United Nations
Hyde Park
N. Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fraser
London
United Nations General Assembly
White House
United Kingdom
United Nations Organization
Big Nations
World Organization
League of Nations
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
President Truman to Speak on Christmas Eve
President Truman plans a 5 PM national address from the White House South Lawn to light the community Christmas tree and follow with a brief broadcast carried by all networks. He will fly to Missouri tomorrow for Yuletide with family and return Friday, avoiding multiple dinners per aide joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Harold Oliver Washington
Truman
Missouri
White House
Secret Service
Washington
Independence
Charles 3
Ross
Legion Guard VFW Meeting Thursday at Legion Hall
The American Legion Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Alabama State Guard join forces for a meeting Thursday night at eight at Legion hall. Lt. Col. Sey bourn H. Lynne will speak. Elmer Loyd, post commander, urges all members of the three groups to attend the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Alabama State Guard
Legion Hall
Seybourn H. Lynne
Elmer Loyd
Legion Post
Baby X-Mas Found In Hospital Vestibule
Philadelphia December 24 a premature baby girl weighing three pounds seven and a half ounces was found in a cardboard box in a hospital lobby. She was placed in an incubator after being discovered by night supervisor Elizabeth Favinger. A anonymous call led to the carton, labeled Baby X-Mas. Detectives seek the mother’s identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
X-Mas
Kenneth Michaile
Northern Liberties Hospital
Elizabeth Favinger
Three Found Dead in Car Near State Line
In Jackson County Florida near the Alabama line three Dothan residents were found dead yesterday in a parked automobile. Identified by Chief Roy Wright as Irene Elizabeth Lewis 26 Horace M Covington 21 and Billy Myers 22. Death attributed to asphyxiation with no signs of violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marianna
Fla
Dothan
Ala
Jackson County
Roy Wright
Irene Elizabeth Lewis
Horace M. Covington
Billy Myers
Wright
Hendrix Joins McNutt Staff in Manila Defense Counsel
Lt. Col. Walter C. Hendrix Jr. of Atlanta has been added to the staff of Paul V. McNutt, the high commissioner to the Philippines, as defense counsel for Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita. Hendrix, former head of the military police command legal action in the Philippines, attended Emory University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Walter C. Hendrix Jr
East Paces Ferry Road
Atlanta
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Paul V. McNutt
Philippines
Hendrix
Military Police Command
Emory University
Santa Totes Thin Pack To Most People
London correspondent Ed Creagh recalls a peace time Christmas amid scarcity. Soldiers aid war orphans and entertain 20,000 Vienna children while U S troops share food with Belgrade Cairo and Singapore children. Frankfurt Brussels Paris and Nürnberg scenes show hardship and small mercies as UNRRA and donations extend holiday cheer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Third Reich
Vienna
Belgrade
Cairo
Singapore
Chungking
New Guinea
Frankfurt
Germany
Brussels
Copenhagen
Paris
Nuernberg
UNRRA
Poland
United States
Many GIs Unable To Reach Home For Christmas
Thousands of American troops reached home for Christmas as peacetime travel resumed but 3,200,000 soldiers sailors and Marines spent their first such holiday at sea or abroad. Storms delayed arrivals and many GIs faced late Christmas as they faced postwar travel bottlenecks.
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Associated Press
General Patton Laid To Rest With Third Army Privates
General George S. Patton Jr is buried beside a Third Army private in Luxembourg near the capital among 6 000 American dead from last year s Ardennes fighting The burial followed his Dec 9 motor accident that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down His funeral cortege moved through rain and fog to a forested burial site as Mrs Patton and war leaders attended
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luxembourg
George S. Patton, Jr
Third Army
Ardennes Bulge
Duchy of
Germany
Patton
Bulge
Luxembourg City
Heidelberg
Morgan county drives to finish Victory bond appeal
Seven hundred Morgan county citizens must each buy a $100 war bond to close the Victory loan drive, now $48,000 short of the $641,000 Series E goal. The appeal ends Saturday December 29, with Hartsville and other areas already meeting quotas. L T Wagnon leads the final county effort. A Decatur resident wrote of personal sacrifice but support for the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan County
Hartselle
L. T. Wagnon
County War Finance Office
Decatur
Knights Templar Meet Christmas Observance Scheduled
All DeMolay Commander and visiting Knights are urgently requested to attend the Christmas observance on Tuesday at ten o'clock in the commandary's asylum on Johnston Street.
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Commandary
Johnston Street
Daily Christmas Eve Edition Published Early
The Daily goes to press early for its Christmas Eve edition and will not publish Tuesday Christmas Day so staff may spend the holiday with their families.
Serious Undertones Mark This Year's Merry Christmas
James Marlow writes from Washington on December 24 1945 about postwar peace. He notes American triumph and pride with soldiers returning home and a transitioning economy while warning that U S commitments abroad persist and earn the State Department concern over events in Iran Java and Indo China plus unrest in China and Europe as Germany rebuilds and Europeans struggle for relief and independence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Marlow
Washington
United States
Data readied on GM strike
Detroit December 24 The CIO United Auto Workers used a Christmas holiday truce to prepare new data for a renewal of its 30 percent wage increase demands on auto makers. About 200000 GM employees have been idle since November 21 as a major postwar walkout. talks are set for December 25 with Kaiser-Frazer and January 8 with Ford. Windosr Ontario justice to arbitrate Ford Canada shutdown over security demands. Chrysler workers lack a union contract while UAW CIO withholds strike action during GM dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
General Motors Corp
America
Uaw-Cio
Washington
Kaiser-Frazer Corp
Ford Motor Co
Uawcio
Detroit River
Windsor
Ont
C. I. Hand
Supreme Court
Ford Motor Co. of Canada
Chrysler Corp
Hess Turns to Religion as Christmas Nears in Nazi Trials
Rudolph Hess, among the Nazi war crimes defendants, shows renewed interest in religion while awaiting trial. Chaplains report Hess has hesitated to attend services amid criticism and life-at-stake proceedings. Prisoners dine in GI mess kits as Christmas services are prepared in the grim Nuernberg jail.
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Nuernberg
Rudolph Hess
Gray Stone
Hess
Tomore
Oe R. O'Connor
Oxford
N. Y
Many Service Still Wait to Get Way Home
Christmas travel cheered nationwide as thousands reached home despite the worst travel jam in history. Rail and air lines struggled with overcrowding while government and railroad officials scrambled to move stranded servicemen, with militiamen in Chicago and buses, trains, and cars pressed into service nationwide.
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Associated Press
New York Central
United Air Lines
Chicago
Dwight H. Green
Illinois
Washington, D. C
Richmond
Portland
Ore
Union
Air Lines
Cscaré
Chica
West Coast
Indianapolis
Chattanooga
Tenn
Memphis
Transportation in State is Jammed by Holidays in Alabama
Birmingham reporters describe roads and transit stretched to capacity as thousands travel during the holiday period. The story notes heavy congestion in Birmingham and statewide, with continued updates expected on Page Two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Plane Without Crew Crashes Near Chillicothe
A pilotless Army transport plane crashed in an open field twelve miles west of Chillicothe after a four hour autonomous flight covering about nine hundred miles. Heavy icing caused loss of control. the crew abandoned the craft over Dwight Nebraska and officials at Lincoln pondered its location as Sheriff Sam Mark led a search.
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Chillicothe
Army Transport
Here
Dwight
Nebr
Air Force
Lincoln
Army Air Field
Sam Mark
Ve County
Man
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William R. Fite Jr
SK 1 C
Pacific
Thomas C. Caudle
ARM 2-C
Eva
Navy
Pfc
J. L. Murphy
Decatur 2
Army
Earl C. Glasscock
Glasscock
Jim
Paul W. Roberson
Jackson Street
Earl C. Worley Jr
Camp Wheeler
12Th Avenue West
Ft. Benning
George W. Hampton
Addison
G. Russell D. Johnson
Somerville 1
Tech
William K. Sharp
Sixth Avenue South
Woodrow Wilson Ratliff
W. M. Riethmaier
Vine Street
James E. Roberts
Fourth Avenue South
Orville W. Carr
Edward N. Terry
Hillsboro
Ken Reynolds
UNO
Legion, Guard
VFW
Jams Staff
Santa Totes
Europe
ED Creagh
General Patton
3Rd Army
Knights Templar
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Iran
Indo-China
Middle Europe
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