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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1946
Page
1
Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Tuesday with thunder showers in central portions. Max 91 min 70. Residents and visitors in Decatur and nearby towns report Navy discharges, hospital admissions, and visits from relatives. The community board registers voters today and meets again in August at the county court house.
Howard Hughes remained in critical condition at Good Samaritan hospital after a week since his crash. The bulletin noted a temperature around 101.5 and pulse 120 to 140 with painful breathing, but he had three hours of sleep. Dr. Verne Mason expressed optimism about his chances for recovery.
Walter P. Reuther declares a nationwide buyers strike by 800000 CIO UAW members to protest inflation. He urges formation of central consumers committees with union leadership and local civic groups at mass meetings including Cicero suburbs. The action aims to mobilize protests and launch a broader anti inflation campaign.
Washington officials say a Russian loan will wait until 1949 at least, with Washington open to about 1 billion dollars only through the export import bank. Britain’s 3.75 billion credit won Senate approval and awaits President Truman’s signature.
President Truman told a youth food conference that the United States may need to help prevent starvation in war torn areas for another year to three years. He said those countries may take a year or two or three to return to production before they can support themselves.
Washington July 15 The political battle over OPA revival heats up as Barkley signals adjournment by July 27 and Truman hints a veto could block a Senate bill. Congress debates price ceilings exemptions while Republicans back the Senate plan and House votes loom with three paths to act.
U S Marines report 15 July 7 captured by an armed Chinese band about 22 miles north of Chinwangtao on the Gulf of Chihli. An air search began at dawn Sunday but weather halted it. The Marines had gone to buy ice in Hsin anchuang village. eight men missed.
Federal Judge orders Appling county registrars to reinstate 600 Negro voters amid a Georgia primary flood of challenges. FBI probes civil rights violations linked to the election as white voters fear suppression and political leaders warn against Negro participation.
Sheriff J S Cawood reports three men killed in a gun battle between middle fork area families along the Harlan Leslie county line near Hayden Kentucky. Lloyd Lee 64 Arthur Muncy 64 and Angus Muncy 24 were shot multiple times as older and younger family members clashed after a poker game dispute.
Ottawa July 15. The royal commission on espionage charged that there exists in Canada a fifth column organized and directed by Russian agents in Canada and in Russia. It asserts there are several spy rings.
Four white men escaped from the city jail Sunday night or early Monday morning by breaking the padlock on their cell door. One was recaptured by 11:00 a.m. Chief J B Whitmire reported. Bray Jr and Barrett charged with disorderly conduct. Morgan and Mayes charged with being drunk.
Washington July 15 A rising June employment figure and Census data bolster CPA and War Mobilization experts in warning of a manpower shortage by fall. They cite possible cuts in construction and building materials plus expansion in retail and services and slower factory hiring as the likely pattern. The Labor Market report forecasts peacetime activity and an increasingly tight job market, with some analysts predicting severe shortages in certain industries and locales.
The British Labour government says the U S loan of 3 750 000 000 will first expand diet variety and allow purchases of foodstuffs. The plan runs 50 years from 1951 at 2 percent interest and aims to improve raw materials and limited imports while maintaining production efforts and export balance. Public reaction ranges from cautious optimism to anxiety about empire impact.
President Truman signed the 3.75 billion dollar British loan agreement calling it a major step to revive and expand international trade. He said the loan serves immediate and long term US interests by restoring world trade and enabling Britain to cooperate in forming mutually beneficial economic relations among nations.
Informants say the loan would prioritize machinery tools and newsprint to raise newspaper page counts. It could also finance new gasoline imports easing rationing by Christmas, though Dalton warns improvement in living standards will not be rapid. Autumn expected to show only modest gains as Britain taps dollar reserves gradually.
Hogs at Union Stockyards Bates reached 18.75 per hundred pounds with some bids higher, passing the 18.50 high set July 1 and near 1919 levels. Cattle and sheep quotes also firm as receipts dropped to about 10 000 head in pens and 4 000 direct to packers versus 19 000 and 6 500 last week.
Senator Lister Hill is slated to address about 700 FSA buyers at the Belle Mina substation in uth Limestone on July 25. The gathering aims to educate on Alabama experiment station methods and precede a series of meetings covering 5,000 former tenants purchasing farms under the Bankhead Jones act.
Yugoslav military court convicts General Draja Mihailovic and 10 of 23 co defendants of collaborating with the Germans and sentences them to die by firing squad. Other defendants receive prison terms up to 18 months. several sentenced in absentia. The trial began June 10 and Mihailovic claimed innocence.
Freeman testified he asked Rep. May for business help six or eight times while noting he did not know if May visited his office. Mead pressed for under oath candor as the War Profiteering inquiry weighs May's wartime contracts with an Illinois munitions combine totaling over 78 million dollars. Senator Mitchell plans to move to summon May as a witness.
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