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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1946
Page
1
Weather outlook mentions partial showers and a cooling trend. Several local servicemen received discharges at Nashville centers including Clarence Smith J B Womack and Helen Watts. Others returned from overseas like James T Latham and Robert M Gilbert. Local visits, births, and small court fines are reported along with Rotary program plans and farm agent notes.
The CIO Electrical Workers announced a 200000 worker strike against General Electric Westinghouse and General Motors planned for January 15. President Truman appointed an emergency board to study a Frisco railway dispute delaying a 7000 railway walkout.
All Decatur city schools will restart regular classwork Monday after a holiday break. Superintendent S E Alverson announced, covering six grade schools, the junior high, the senior high, and the Negro high and elementary schools. County schools resumed December 31, a week earlier.
Seaman 2-c William H. Sharp, son of William R. Sharp of Decatur, recounts the five days after the cruiser Indianapolis sank on July 30, 1945. The 16,000-ton ship, flagship of Admiral Sprance, saw heavy action at Iwo Jima and Okinawa before her final voyage between Guam and Leyte.
General Joseph T. McNarney announced a new U. S. Army redeployment system in Europe. Home releases depend on job essentiality and replacements, ending the old program. Men with low points could be home by July 1 if replacements arrive, while high-point troops stay for national needs. A liquidation and manpower board will prune tasks to cut personnel. The planned occupation force will be infantry only, with the constabulary fully armored.
Senators and representatives report a meager response to President Truman's appeal urging public pressure on Congress. Senator Morse criticized the plan while noting Taft’s Cincinnati radio tirade opposing full employment and health measures. Morse warned Ohio remarks show why common people seek GOP protection of living standards.
United States diplomat George C. Marshall aids negotiations as government general Chang Chun and communist leader Chou En Lai meet to set procedures for cessation of hostilities. A separate UNO revival gathers in London with Stettinius, Byrnes and delegates preparing for a January 10 return.
Lt Gen Sir Frederick Morgan faces removal from UNRRA in Germany after refusing to resign over remarks about a secret Jewish organization behind Jewish exodus from Poland and Czechoslovakia. A spokesman said dismissal depends on his pullout. Brig Gen Willian Stawell will act as interim chief.
The Salvation Army starts a building fund drive in Decatur with pledge cards and materials distributed to employers from Tuesday to January 15. Captain Oscar P Fuller announced the effort chaired by F C Smith to raise ten thousand dollars for new centers and to improve existing facilities.
Detroit chief of detectives said 19 year old Pvt Walter Blattert of the Michigan state troops admitted killing Mrs Galadys Marsden, 40, a tavern acquaintance. Marsden's body was found in a school yard near a tavern after Blattert and she left the tavern, with him claiming an argument occurred on the way to her home.
T B Speck, 50, a former Decatur resident and World War I veteran, died Thursday at the veterans hospital in Outwood Kentucky after a long illness. He is survived by a brother J D Speck of Baltimore Maryland and a half brother.
W. C. Bailey of Clarksville Tenn will headline the fifteenth annual membership meeting of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. The event highlights the agricultural committee's work and will be held in the ile Freend school auditorium with reservations requested by Tuesday.
Tokyo reports say the Japanese government drafted ordinances to remove war leaders from power as directed by General MacArthur. Cabinet plans to purge three to five ministers tainted by responsibility, with Tsugita possibly among those targeted.
The Pearl Harbor committee recessed its hearings until January 15 after finishing an examination of Admiral Harold R. Stark. Stark testified that he warned Japanese Ambassador Nomura that war would end the Japanese empire if the United States were forced into conflict.
Pearl Harbor investigators received Capt Minoru Genda’s report detailing several Japanese planes on dawn reconnaissance over Oahu on December 7 1941 The document forwarded by General Douglas MacArthur’s Tokyo headquarters aligns with a Navy summary on the attack’s origin by Admiral.
With a week before campaigning begins, four candidates announce runs for governor in 1946 Alabama. Gessner McCorvey sets March 1 as qualifying deadline. Bean don Persons, Handy Ellis, Joe Poole reveal Montgomery headquarters plans. Elbert Boozer yet to name location. Howard Pill to oversee on Persons’ behalf.
Washington Jan 5 The 1946 cotton crop will come under price ceilings to stabilize textile and clothing costs OPA Administrator Chester Bowles announced. The plan includes CCC stock additions to ease mill operations and curb speculative cotton price rises affecting fabric and yarn ceilings.
J M Lopez confirms the wife of Bolivar county planter Mrs Joe Rogers 37 of Beulah Miss was arrested in Nashville Tenn on a charge of aiding German POW Hermut Von Der Aue to escape She allegedly aided his escape after meeting him on the plantation and driving him to Winchester and Nashville Then the couple turned him over to military authorities pending bond posting
The Navy announced that about 18 750 officers and 17 000 enlisted personnel will become eligible for separation due to progressive reductions in Povey scores through March 2. Officials note the figures cover those attaining the new scores by the effective dates.
Reuters reports from Cairo say Amin Osman Pasha, ex finance minister in the Wafd nationalist government, was seriously wounded when shot tonight in a central location. The dispatch notes the incident occurred in Cairo.
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