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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1945
Page
1
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Weather outlook calls for partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Visits and arrivals include Mrs Eugenia Little and Miss June Irene Little returning from a 10 day stay in Chattanooga Tennessee. Community events list a church sing at the Church of God on Sherman Street and a junior hostesses meeting at the Service Men's Center on Bank Street.
U S members seek a way out of the veto stalemate at the UN conference while insisting there be no veto on discussion in the world security council. If deadlock continues a floor fight may unfold as some nations back reservations.
In Montgomery Alabama a clemency hearing for Wor ley James a death sentence inmate will be before Gov Chauncey Sparks on June 15 the day before the execution. James faces charges including carnal knowledge of a 10 year old boy and the slaying of Lynne Drew though only the carnal knowledge verdict may be pressed if upheld. A second clemency hearing on June 15 is set for Ed Lucky alias Oliver Patton who was sentenced to death for murder in Hale County.
Brig. Gen. James Curtis announced that camps Maxey and Howze in Texas are advanced training centers for infantrymen under 19 who have finished 15 weeks of basic training. New law requires at least 26 weeks of training before overseas deployment.
Lt Harold W Goad 27 and his wife Helen 23 returned to Portsmouth Ohio after the War Department declared him dead then found alive. Goad survived 18 months in a Japanese camp near Rangoon and plans a short rest before a vacation with his wife. He hopes to remain in the Army or become a civilian pilot.
Rayburn Jones and Charles Floyd were bound over to the grand jury on grand larceny charges after a preliminary hearing before Judge James Crow. The suspects were arrested May 3 for stealing a car valued at 250 dollars from Grady Robbins. Russell Lynne and W H Long led the proceedings for defense and state respectively. A separate preliminary hearing for Jim Hormel, Charles Floyd, Charles McGhee and Rayburn Jones, linked to C C Rogers’ May 8 theft, is set for Wednesday at 10.
In Rome on June 4, the high court of justice condemned Pietro Koch, a wartime figure who fled with German forces after Rome’s liberation, to death for crimes in the Via Tasso torture chambers. He is to be shot in the back as a traitor. Koch and his mistress were arrested in Florence two weeks prior after disguise. The trial lasted three hours.
The Okinawa battle exposes a harder path to defeat Japan than Germany. President Truman says the job will take more than Germany and involves more than ground fighting. The Japanese navy is still capable, with seven to ten battleships, about a dozen carriers, and numerous cruisers, concentrated at home to threaten the U. S. Pacific fleet.
Two sisters Irene Jones aged 15 and her 11 year old sister were ordered held for juvenile court after abducting a three month old baby who died from a broken neck. They admitted taking the child from his home while his mother shopped and placing him in a stolen carriage before hiding him in a vacant lot.
Frosts from Wisconsin to the upper Great Lakes damaged tender vegetables and forced residents to search for winter clothing. Chicago fell to 34.7 at 5:10 am, with Cranberry Bogs recording 20 degrees. snow flurries were seen in upper Michigan and Mt Monadnock reported snow yesterday. Forecasters warned of colder pockets at night, then a gradual warm up across the rest of the Midwest.
Alabama senators Bankhead and Hill and Rep. Sparkman urged President Truman to appoint Roger B. McWhorter to the Federal Power Commission to replace resignation John W. Scott. McWhorter, a former TVA engineer, has led the commission’s chief engineering office for 14 years.
Allied control council for Germany may be meeting in the Berlin area to settle postwar occupation issues while the French Syrian crisis worsens. Churchill expected to address Commons as De Gaulle denies lend-lease misuse. Hodges narrowly avoided capture in December Ardennes fighting. invasion defense plans in Britain outlined.
Pvt Grover Aston Cobb was a prisoner of war in Germany since May 1943 and has been liberated. His wife Lola J Cobb of Eva received the War Department notice. Cobb was first reported missing in March 1943 and said he is well and thriving on American chow. Mrs Cobb teaches in Eva schools.
General Courtney Hodges faced a near capture as German columns advanced to Liege in December 1944. Hodges redirected staff and reserves, then moved his command east toward Chaudfontaine as Ridgeway's 82nd Airborne entered the breach.
U S forces report at the Davao penal colony in Mindanao uncovering about 150 skeletons and mummified bodies amid overgrown grounds. Evidence suggests deaths resulted from deliberate neglect as Japanese withdrew, with ~800 Allied prisoners once listed missing in the Philippines explored for possible reclassification as dead or POW.
Washington June 4 The House postwar military committee hears arguments on a proposed compulsory peacetime training for 18 year olds with two weeks of hearings planned. Undersecretary of State Joseph C. Grew says training strengthens international policy while Dr Franklin Clark Fry says delay the issue until a year after the war. The lineup includes War and Navy departments and the American Legion against educational and religious groups. Anderson proposes rigid three month quotas for food and Army overseas shipments to civilians.
Col Albert L Warner head of the war intelligence division on the Army Hour program says Japan has felt only the left jab of America's B-29 power and a knockout awaits in 1 000 plane and larger attacks. The rapid growth from a handful of bombers a year ago to more than 500 now highlights the expanding air campaign.
W. S. Lamon head of the local Alcohol Tax Unit and Deputies Biles Sandlin and Moore of Limestone County sheriff's office report the seizure of five operating stills in the Beaver Dam area. The raid recovered two 300 gallon box type stills, two 200 gallon stills, and one 100 gallon still, plus 600 gallons of beer mash 20 gallons of whiskey and twenty five gallons of molasses.
Two mysterious blasts rocked the U S military government police headquarters in Bremen today killing at least 15 Americans and Germans and wounding about 80 others.
Tokyo and Washington warned of looming 1,000 plane Superfort raids as Japanese pilots in superior planes strike back. Ground offensives push toward Okinawa while Chinese forces push back retreating Japanese. New tactics and air balloons threaten U S targets and Yokohama prepares as Halsey’s fleet strikes Kamikaze targets.
The piece discusses redeployment of U S forces from Europe to the Pacific and its vast costs. It notes Air and ground troops shifting about 13 000 miles to Japan and highlights writers' views on retraining and reequipping millions of soldiers for the Pacific campaign. The editor calls this a massive financial and human effort.
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