Local wartime notices and weather outlook for Decatur
The weather outlook predicts fair and warmer conditions this afternoon and tonight with temperatures near freezing in north and central portions. Local reports show a maximum of 32 and a minimum of 22. Discharges and awards are listed for Army Navy and overseas service, including Bronze Star and ribbons. Military and civilian updates cover hospitalizations illnesses and local movements, with notes on resignations and visitors and continued updates onContinued on Page Two.
Trial of Nazi chiefs resumes at Nuremberg
The International Military Tribunal heard that Ernst Kaltenbrunner visited Mauthausen and witnessed gassings. Alois Hoellriegel testified Kaltenbrunner joined camp commandant Ziereis at the gas chamber, confirming the ghastly executions and the known gassing sounds.
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Alois Hoellriegel
S. S
Mauthausen
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Ziereis
Kaltenbrunner
SA Moreen
Dieppe
Europe
Africa
Heinrich Himmler
Hitler
Two Die in Blaney Wreck On Silver Meteor
A Seaboard Air Line Silver Meteor derailed two miles north of Blaney South Carolina killing a mother and her four month old daughter and injuring several others. Alonzo H Wilson of Williamson West Virginia identified the victims as his wife Helen 22 and their baby. The crash halted service and left railway cars torn from the rails with wheels torn loose.
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Columbia
Seaboard Elk
City Manager Post Withdrawn After Earlier Interest
Commissioner James W. announced he withdraws consideration for the city manager post citing previous interest. Morgan had been a candidate for the job offering an annual salary of about 000, though he remained an applicant.
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Gham
James W
Emperor Hirohito Denies Divine Status In New Year Rescript
In a surprise New Year rescript Emperor Hirohito rejects the divine myth, signaling a bold move amid anticipated international pressure and domestic political tensions. General MacArthur welcomes the move as aiding democratization while warning of radical tendencies challenging the throne. The document asserts the Emperor’s ties to the people are not based on divinity, a claim officials previously promoted.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
MacArthur
Review on Hatch Act Restudy Ordered by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ordered a re argument on a Hatch Act section that bars executive branch employees from active political campaigning. The CIO United Federal Workers of America challenged the section as violating freedom of speech press and assembly after a three judge district court refused to enjoin enforcement. The district court had upheld the constitutionality of the provision.
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Washington
Supreme Court
la Patt
CIO
United Federal Workers of America
China moves into Jehol amid civil war tensions
Chungking reports the central government will take Jehol as a matter of course as Nationalist troops flood the Inner Mongolian province. A Communist spokesman vows resistance and the two sides await a response to truce proposals. Air transport and Russian withdrawal plans loom as Manchurian administration restoration looms.
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Chungking
Jehol
Communist Party
China
Jehel
P. H. Chang
Inner
Mongolian
Japan
Chang
Central Executive Committee
Yenan
Changchung
Manchuria
Rate fix sets fines for first offender in Birmingham riot
City Recorder Ralph Parker set a fixed rate of 5 dollars plus 5 dollars for each prior conviction, up to a maximum of 25 dollars, for New Year’s riot defendants. Thirty-two defendants attended the sitting as more cases appeared on the afternoon docket.
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Birmingham
Ralph &. Parker
Parker
US Moves to Avert Strike in Two Firms
Washington January 2 The government schedules action to avert a potential strike by 200000 electrical workers and faces a steel wage dispute with a new three man fact finding panel to probe a $2 daily raise. Union talks with GE Westinghouse stalled while GM negotiations continue with the union.
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Harold W. Ward
Washington
Edgar Warren
Westinghouse
General Electric
United Electrical Workers
Warren
New York
General Motors
Clas
Trumas
Nathan P. Feinsinger
War Labor Board
Roger J. McDonough
Utah Supreme Court
Feinsinger
James M. Douglas
Missouri Supremert
Truman
OPA
Packers Threaten To Walk Out Too
Chicago dispatch reports a nationwide strike of about 200000 CIO United Packinghouse Workers of America planned for January 16. Union president Lewis J. Clark said the walkout would hit major packers Swift Armour Wilson and Company and many smaller plants, affecting 147 plants nationwide.
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Chicago
Cio-United Packinghouse Workers of America
Lewis J. Clark
Swift,Armour, Wilson and Company
Clark
Train collision injures ten on Southwind near Oakland Ky
The Southwind passenger train developed engine trouble near Oakland and backed into a stationary freight train causing injuries to ten, six in the observation car. Among the hospitalized were George Steier 21 and Minnie Goldstein 74 of Louisville and others from Cincinnati Franklin Ind Birmingham Ala Tuscaloosa.
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Bowling Green
Pennsylvania Railroad
Oakland
Akland
George Steier
Minnie Goldstein
Louisville
Miles Murphy
Cincinnati
Grata Sooseman
Franklin
Ind
Mary Wilson
Birmingham
Ala
Dorothy Washburn
Tuscaloosa
Stark says attack by Japs surprise
Admiral Harold R. Stark testified before a House committee that in December 1941 the Navy did not expect a broad scale Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He said he was not surprised by submarines off San Francisco but did not anticipate an air strike on Hawaii at that time. He recalled a November 27 1941 warning urging Pacific commanders to be on guard against attack in any direction.
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Washington
Jan
Admhirst
Harold R. Stark
Theavy
Pearl Harbor
Naval Operations
Secate-House
San Francisco
Hawaii
Stark
William D. Mitchell
Mitchell
Japan
Pacific
Richardson named Washington counsel for Pearl Harbor inquiry
The Pearl Harbor investigating committee named Seth W. Richardson as its new counsel in Washington. He will replace William D. Mitchell who resigned along with his staff as the inquiry’s scope expanded and Congress extended its end date to February 15. Richardson previously served as an assistant Attorney General in the Hoover administration.
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Washington
Seth W. Richardson
Richardson
William D. Mitchell
Congress
Richarson
Hoover Administration
Stark warned of Pearl Harbor attack years before bombs
A senate-house investigation reviewed Adm. Stark’s foreseen risk of a surprise air attack on Pearl Harbor. The questioning focused on whether Stark warned Pacific fleet commander Adm. Husband E. Kimmel in 1941. An Ingersoll memorandum from Dec 31 1940 noted Stark’s concern over anti aircraft defenses amid the threat of a Japanese carrier air strike.
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Senate-House
Adm
Stark
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Secretary of the Navy
Forrestal
Kimmel
R. E. Ingersoll
Chief of Naval Operations
Star
Japan
Donation to Salvation Army Building Fund in Decatur
A Mooresville resident L B Leftwich sends ten dollar check to support the Salvation Army building fund in Decatur. Capt Oscar P Fuller says advance gifts campaign will wrap up this week as the advisory board lays plans to start the fund drive in the business district in January.
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Salvation Army
Decatur
Mooresville
L. B. Leftwich
Decatur Daily
Oscar P. Fuller
The
Jan
Hitler Prophesied Spirit Would Live After Death
The 1942 letter by Joachim von Ribbentrop to Churchill and Eden portrays Hitler as defiant in his final hours. He allegedly predicted his spirit would arise from the grave to prove he had been right. The document frames Hitler as opposed to a prolonged war with Britain, proposing a future peace if both nations chose friendship.
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Daniel DE Luce Nuernberg
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Hamburg
von Ribbentrop
Hitler
Great Britain
Britain
United States
America
Supreme Court Vacates Convictions in Lindbergh Act Case
The Supreme Court set aside the convictions of three members of a fundamentalist cult charged with transporting a 14 year old girl from Utah to Mexico to wed a man. Justice Murphy authored the opinion, noting the Lindbergh act targets interstate kidnapping rather than immorality crossing state lines. Justice Jackson did not participate.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Salt Lake City
Utah
Mexico
William Chatwin
Charles F. Zitting
Edna Christensen
The
Murphy
Jackson
Three Feared Dead In Malvern Tank Blast
In Malvern Arkansas on January 2 a blast tore through a waterworks storage tank during a repair. Three Dixie Bridge and Tank Co employees were reported dead two others critically burned and one missing. Names given: W L Walker Albert Lee Gibson Marshall Patterson. Others injured included E C Crockett and N E De Vaughn.
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Malvern
Ark
Malvern Waterworks System
Dixie Bridge and Tank Company
Memphis
Salty Water Department
W. L. Walker
Albert Lee Gibson
Lepanto
Marshall Patterson
Blytheville
E. C. Crockett
Steele, Mo
N.E. de Vaughn
Crockett
Teinater Department
Reds Deny Finding the Body of Hitler
Berlin reports that a Soviet authority denied a French claim that Hitler’s body was found in a garden near the Reich Chancellery. France-Soir cited locals, but no official source confirmed the discovery, and American intelligence noted they would verify via existing X-ray records if true.
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Berlin
Hitler
Reichschancellery
France-Soir
Paris
Truman considers in person state of the Union address
President Truman worked on the radio address and weighed delivering the annual state of the Union message in person to Congress. A decision on a televised in person speech at Capitol Hill was not yet made, with reconvening set for January 14.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
R. Truman
White House
Potomac
Williamsburg
Charles G. Ross
State of the Union
Capitol Hill
Ross
Tax Penalty Rules For Homestead Assessment
Tax assessor announces deadlines for homestead status with a January 21 assessment date. A 50 cent penalty is added to current property assessments after December 31. The tax collector states a 50 cent collector fee and six percent interest apply to taxes paid through February. Deadline for tax payment was December.
Decatur Retail Stores Resume Half Holiday on Thursday
Vernondier, chairman of the retail merchants division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, announced that Decatur stores will resume the half holiday closing on Thursday afternoon. Stores in Decatur customarily close each Thursday at noon for a half holiday throughout December.
Somber New Year Toll Passes Five Hundred Deaths
The Associated Press reports a grim New Year period with at least 530 violent deaths from 6 PM Friday to midnight Tuesday. Traffic fatalities numbered 248, with 282 other violent deaths from crashes, shootings, fires, drownings, and more. six states reported no violent deaths.
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National Safety Council
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Rhode , Island
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South Dakota
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Wyoming
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Illinois
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Tennessee
Utah
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
District of Columbia
Two Die in Birmingham Area Traffic Crashes
Miss Ozell Roberts aged 19 was killed this morning in an automobile crash on the Florida short route. Three others were injured, none seriously, in the same collision. William Henry Wells, injured Sunday after being struck downtown, died in a Birmingham hospital last night.
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Birmingham
Ozell Roberts
William’ Henry Wells
Woman Found Dead in North Birmingham Tourist Cabin
Coroner Joe Hildebrand ordered an inquest into the death of Rosetta Walker, 25, found in a North Birmingham tourist cabin. Pvt. Joyce Johnson, stationed at the Birmingham Army Air Base, was treated for carbon monoxide poisoning and identified by the coroner as the man found in the same cabin. He was transferred to the Army air base hospital.
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Birmingham
Joe Hildebrand
Hildebrand
Rosetta Walker
Birmingham Army Air Base
Joyce Johnson
Army Air Base Hospital
Koreans Demand Liberty Against Trusteeship
Reports from Shanghai describe the Korean Association sending letters to Russian American and British consuls general denouncing Allied trusteeship of Korea as unjust. They demand a democratic government and immediate independence for Korea. A mass protest in Shanghai rallies 8,000 Koreans with banners as they face an influx of refugees from Manchuria.
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Shanghai
Korea
China
Manchuria
Ballot Deadline Set for Decatur Chamber Elections
The Decatur Chamber of Commerce reminds members that the ballot deadline for the annual board election is January 8. Chamber secretary John Nelson stated ballots must be returned promptly.
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Decatur Chamber of Commerce
John Nelson
Chamber
Ber
Nemoer
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