Tokyo Thinks Oil Port Aim In Balikpapan Raid
Balikpapan defenses fail to stop heavy Allied bombing as more than 125 planes strike the oil port in Southwestern Borneo. Tokyo claims minesweepers cleared approaches while MacArthur reports ongoing air and sea operations with substantial tonnage dropped on oil facilities and airfields. Australian forces advance in Northwest Borneo near Brunei as U S Army sustains operations in Northern Luzon and Mindanao.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davis
Manila
Balikan
Borneo
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo Radio
Balikpapan
MacArthur
Manggar
Delin
Tabanio
Band- Jermasin
Makassar Strait
Tarakan Island
Tokyo
Brunei
Beaufort
Philippines
U. S. Army
Luzon
Mindano Island
U. S. Eighth Army
Decatur General Hospital taps Betty Ruth Pinson as chief
Miss Betty Ruth Pinson became manager of Decatur General hospital Friday succeeding M G Hubbard who left Saturday for Greenville South Carolina where he will be assistant superintendent at Greenville General hospital The board announced the selection through T J Cottingham chairman of the board Pinson is a native Tennessean with nursing training at Protestant Hospital Nashville and joined Decatur General in April 1944 as superintendent of staff
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Ruth Pinson
Decatur General Hospital
M.G. Hubbard
Greenville
S. C
Greenville General Hospital
Miss Pinson
T. J. Cottingham
L. L. Lively
P. H. Orr
Protestant Hospital
Nashville
Community service and civic groups list officers
The article lists chairs and members for multiple service committees including MUSIC, VOCATIONAL SERVICE, INTERNATIONAL SERVICE, COMMUNITY SERVICE, BOYS WORK, CRIPPLED CHILDREN, RURAL-URBAN, YOUTH SERVICE and CIVIC WELFARE with names such as Robert Horton Alvin Richards James H Johnson Kermit Pitt Tom Fitzpatrick and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Fitzpatrick
Norman Harris
Maynard Layman
Sidney Patter
Lutheran Summer Assembly Nearing in Columbia
Church workers from three southern states will attend the annual Lutheran Summer Assembly at Columbia College on July 17. Dr Wynne C Bolick of Colwyn Synods in South Carolina and Alabama will preside, with the Rev H D Kleckley and the Rev. (text unclear) leading sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
S. C
Columbia College
Wynne C. Bolick
Colwin
South Carolina
Alabama
H. D. Kleckley
Decatur Farm Prices Report with Livestock and Grain
Prices listed for cattle by grade, hog tops, sows, cheese milk subsidy, milling wheat oats barley corn premiums, cotton middling, chickens, eggs and butter. Grain markets note bulk delivery premiums and that corn was taken Tuesday and Wednesday.
Market closes steady as cotton futures drift after parity pause
New York, June 30 cot ton futures held near steady levels in a quiet session awaiting price control legislation. Prices closed unchanged to 10 cents a bale lower with July contracts liquidating toward week end. Parity stood at 21.45 cents for four months, while middling spot held at 23.23 cents.
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New York
Grain market gains extend through near day’s end
Chicago futures rallied with rye up as much as 3.5 cents and most grains posting gains. Wheat closed 3 to 13/8 higher at July 1.67 7/8, corn up to 1/8, oats 7/8 to 1 3/8 higher, rye July 1.54 1/2 to 1-4, barley 3/4 to 1 1/2 higher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
New Orleans Cotton Prices Reported Decline on Spot Markets
The June 30 market report shows middling 15 16 inch cotton at 22.52 cents per pound, down from 22.72, with middling 7 8 inch at 21.2 cents. The average price over the past 30 market days fell by 0.20 cents per pound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Wheat Prices on Chicago Cash Grain Market
Wheat quotations from Chicago cash grain market show No 2 red old at 1.79, No 2 hard 1.71 to 1.73, and No 2 yellow hard 1.71 to 1.73. Prices are nominal.
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Chicago
OPA Announces Two Food Price Checks in July
Morgan county War Price and Rationing Board officials announced two food price checks on groceries and commodities sold at retail stores during July. A warning was issued to grocers that checks will begin after the first of July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan County War Price and Rationing Board
Mrs Stevens to Plead Innocent in Manslaughter Case
Mrs Imogene Stevens, 24, returned home to plead innocent to manslaughter for the fatal shooting of Albert Novacs, 19, in New Canaan Connecticut. She was jailed in Fairfield County awaiting superior court action likely in September as David Goldstein her attorney waives examination and does not seek bail reduction. The coroner described the killing as occurring in an aura of sex discrimination beer and window smashing.
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New Canaan
Conn
Imogene Stevens
Albert Novacs
Fairfield County
Young Novacs
Theodore Teiber
Kovacs
Edmond L.morrison
David Goldstein
Goldstein
Sunday School Conference Set at First Baptist Hartselle
More than seventy five Morgan county teachers will attend a one day associational conference on Adult Sunday School work at First Baptist Church of Hartselle Monday July 2 under E A Herron with William P Phillips and Charlie Ed Howell assisting The program runs from 2 30 p m to 9 30 p m with sessions on adult teaching methods and church outreach led by Herron Phillips and Rev Paul Roberts.
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Morgan County
First Baptist Church of
Hartselle
E. A. Herron
State Sunday School Department
Herron
William P. Phillips
The
Baptist Sunday School Board
Charlie Ed Howell
E.A. Herron
Song
William P. Philips
Paul Roberts
Plane propeller kills young girl at Maxwell Field
Miss Catherine M. Sanfilippo of Long Branch New Jersey was killed at Maxwell Field when struck by a propeller on a twin engine bomber warming up in front of a hangar. Col P E L Choate announced the incident while Miss Sanfilippo visited her brother Captain Carl C Serffilippo who was on duty at Eastern Flying Training Command headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Catherine M. Sanfilippo
McArthur Avenue
Long Branch
N. J
Maxwell Field
P. E. L. Choate
Sanfilippo
Carl C. Serffilippo
Eastern Flying Training Command Headquarters
Submarine Kete Presumed Lost After Patrol
Washington reports the submarine U. S. S. Kete is overdue from patrol and presumed lost. The Navy announced the loss of 80 to 85 men including its commander, Lieutenant Edward Ackerman, amid wartime operations.
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Washington
U. S. S. Kete
Navy
Kete
R’ Edward Ackerman
Marjorie
Cinta
Sugar Shortage Strains Birmingham Grocers
Birmingham faces a critical sugar shortage as grocers refuse canning sugar certificates. OPA reports swamped by complaints from canning certificate holders. Merchants defend free enterprise stance and say supply is zero for weeks, with a few stores holding under 1,000 pounds total.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
OPA
Local residents and visitors in Decatur network updates
Mrs M C Patton of Atlanta visits Miss Merle Nelson and Mrs Smith in Decatur. Miss Hazel Pence and Merle Hambrick head to Washington DC as guests of Miss Laurette Pence. Families of Chenaults and Joneses return home for illness. Various locals host, travel, or move with notes on hospital stays and church events. Navy enlistment news and school notices accompany the weekly social roundup.
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M. C. Patton
Atlanta
Georgia
Decatur
Merle Nelson
Smith
Hazel Pence
Merle Hambrick
Washington,d.c
Laurette Pence
Vinson outlines postwar economic recovery plan after VJ Day
Washington June Vinson director of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion says the United States must prepare for rapid Japan fall and a postwar economy with higher wages lower taxes and public works. He warns of unemployment as munitions output drops and presents a nine point charter urging modernized taxes and use of three hundred billion in liquid assets as a self starter for years to come.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
United States
Japan
Fred M. Vinson
Vinson
Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion
OWMR
Congress
Germany
Europe
Mears Case Under Study in Ongoing Slaying Probe
Local authorities pursue leads in the Ada Mears slaying case three weeks after her body was found June 8 in a cow pasture near her Moulton Heights home. Sheriff Willoughby Chief Whitmire FBI agents and lab technicians from Washington coordinate the nationwide effort as investigators question many people without a definite suspect.
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Ada Mears
Moulton Heights
W. T. Willoughby
Humphrey and
Edgeman
J. B. Whitmire
H Long
Alabama
FBI
Washington, D. C
Whitmire
Recapture of Chungchinfu Near Kwangsi Frontier
Reports state Chungchinfu between Kwangsi and Indo-China was recaptured from the Japanese on June 24. The town’s fall removes a potential springboard for a Nipponese invasion of Southwestern Kwangsi. General Wedemeyer surveyed Chinese and American installations in North China. United States and Allied forces claim several Japanese aircraft and vessels were destroyed or damaged in operations around Kyushu and the Yellow Sea.
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Chungchinfu
Kwangsi
Indo-China
Kwangs
Albert C. Wedemeyer
U. S
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Cena
Chester
Nimitz
Kyushu
Yellow Sea
Okinawa
FEPC Funding Battle Ends With Reduced Senate Support
Senate votes 250000 for one year FEPC funding after Southern objections block larger aid. House clash over the compromise halts the 752 million war budget bill, leaving FEPC without funds at midnight despite a four day dispute. Senator Ferguson warns the cut is a death blow to the agency.
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Washington
House
Fair Employment Practices Committee
OPA
Production Board
FEPC
Senate
Roosevelt
Capitol
Cannon
D.-Mo
Appropriations Committee
Ferguson
D.-Mich
Agency
Elected for Second Term at Decatur Legion Auxiliary
Miss Ruby Jones was reelected president of the Decatur American Legion Auxiliary at the Legion Hall Friday night. New officers include Myrtle Cobb, D L Allen, Macimms, Bertha Timberlake, Stella Daniels, Dolores Cobb, Louise Hine, Eben Walker and two World War II representatives Stella Daniels and May Simms. The spring conference report was given by Timberlake and Huntsville hosting Hart selle Auxiliary will visit July 28 for installation of new officers.
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Ruby Jones
Decatur American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Miss Jones
Myrtle Cobb
D. L. Allen
Econd
Mac Imms
Bertha Timberlake
Stella Daniels
Dolores Cobb
Louise Hine
Eben Walker
May Simms
North Alabama
Huntsville
Hartselle
Secretary Schwellenbach sets plan to reorganize labor dept
Secretary Lewis B. Schwellenbach says he will centralize all labor related agencies by September 1. He brings six trusted aides to serve as eyes and ears in planning the reorganization. Possible legislation may delay the program as he weighs bringing agencies under the department.
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Washington
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Labor Department
Schwellenbach
Spokane
National Labor Relations Board
War Labor Board
U. S. Employment Service
War Production Board
War Manpower Commission
John Steelman
Carl Moran
Rockland
House
Maritime Commission
Carson
Senator Couzens
Michigan
Bituminous Commission
National League of Cooperatives
Edward Connelly
U. S
Wash. A
la Framboise
Comaux
Seattle
Bornieville Dam
Wellenbach
Ee Afl
Clead Brotgss
Scala
Chattanooga Electric Power Board Deposits Funds to Retire Bonds
The Electric Power Board of Chattanooga announced deposit of 419775 with a local bank to retire 280000 of revenue bonds due July 1 and pay six months interest 139775 from the same fund. This brings total bonds retired to 1310000. General superintendent S R Finley said the bonds financed the electric distribution system. EPBC has 160000 in general obligation bonds and 11390000 in revenue bonds with an average rate of 2 percent.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Electric Power Board of Chattanooga
S. R. Finley
EPBC
Extension powers over OPA orders on meat slaughter
The agriculture secretary would be authorized to permit unlimited slaughter of meat if local slaughters operate under sanitary conditions. Interstate movement and Army purchases would be allowed, easing fed price controls. The compromise bill removed a Senate amendment for a cost plus system and a House proposal to broaden redress avenues for aggrieved parties.
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OPA
Agriculture Secretary
Army
Fed
Sen
Wherry
Rep
Dirksen
Court of Appeals
Editor Thomas H. Smith Dies at 93 After 50 Years
Fort Payne Alabama June 30 Thomas H Uncle Tom Smith 93 founder of the Fort Payne Journal and co founder of the Coosa River News Center died here yesterday Funeral services set for 4 p m tomorrow at Fisk Methodist Church burial in Glenwood cemetery Smith once worked for The Montgomery Advertiser in the 1890s and established the Journal in 1878 remaining its editor for decades
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Fort Payne
Ala
Thomas H
Tom
Hearings on Charter Ratification Schedule in Senate
Hearings on the Charter ratification moved to Monday with Connally leading the relations committee. The panel expects a quick process, with no recess and hearings possibly lasting over a week, as the group proceeds with the Charter review and Truman’s address to the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Connally
D-Tex
Byrnes and Truman Wire Yalta Plans Amid Cabinet Shifts
The report recounts Byrnes meeting with Truman and visits to the White House as Roosevelt nears death, signaling a cabinet shakeup with new secretaries and a push to reorganize departments. It notes Roosevelt’s era, plans for the United Nations Charter talks, and potential peace preliminaries near Berlin with Churchill and Marshal.
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Byrnes
Truman
Roosevelt
Mr. Velt
Bern Baruch
South Carolina
Charleston
Rockefeller
Jo Rockefeller
Burn
Visle
Wton
United Nations Charter Senate
Churchill
Marshal
Berlin
Governor acts on consolidation and bonding bills
The governor recommended several administrative measures and resisted others. Legislative moves to consolidate the state's law enforcement agency and a bonding business bill were deemed unnecessary as the governor argued he already has power to act. Other administration backed bills on titles and local financing were suggested by the governor but died in committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State
Asmuch
Father and Mother Mourning Sailor Lost At Sea
Miami June 30 A navy announcement says Lt J B McMahan 22 of Gadsden is believed to have crashed at sea while on a war observation flight since last Saturday. He was a torpedo instructor at the Miami Naval station with 16 months service aboard the USS toga. His parents Mr and Mrs Hej L McMahan visited him when the Navy issued the report.
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Miami
Fla
J. B. McMahan
Gadsden
McMahan
Miami Naval Station
Hej L. McMahan
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Biloxi
Jervis Jones
Alexandria
W. M. Chenault
William Steele
Anniston, Ala
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Leon Reeves, Jr
Eighth Avenue West
Veterans Hospital
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David Byars
API
Auburn
Kappa Sigma
James C. Taylor
Charleston, South Carolina
W.M. Chenault
R. E. Wordlaw
Louisville, Ky
Decature
Russellville
Pvt. Talmadge Meadows, Jr
Paris Island
Clyde Kent
Baugh’'s Infirmary
Fifth Avenue South
Mutual Service
Ambulance Friay
Johnny Hodges
Cincinnati
Ohio
E. H. Adams
Gum Street
Woman's Missionary Society of the Central Baptist Church
Pleas Manley
Gerald S. Feild
DHS
Red Raider
Hastings
Nebraska
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Shreveport
Louisiana
E. M. Chapman
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Dorothy Doss
R B. Masterson
Sgt
Arnold Doss
Fort Leonard Wood, Mo
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Florence
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D. W. Richey
Decatur 1
O. O. Sims
R. M. Camprett
City Post Office
J. C. White
Alex Collier
Priceville
T. M. Wiley
Kathryn Ann Wiley
Camp Dunreamin
J. D. Lamon
Decatur Generalital
Don Whitmire
Annapolis
Mary
V-J Day
Mears
James F. Byrnes
Spartanburg
Chamber of Commerce
Walter G. Jackson
Chamber
Jackson
Bankhead and Hills
Yalta
Wi Truman
Harry
Ae Truman
Washitax
A Gee
Werma
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