05 Jun 1942
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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1942
Page
1
Tonight slight temperature change with a 92 degree high and 71 low. Movie lineup includes Captains Of The Clouds at the Princess and This Time For Keeps at the Roxy. Local residents travel for illness and graduation events as community groups plan meetings and church services.
President Roosevelt said the government has reports Japan used poisonous gases in China and warned that such inhuman warfare would prompt full retaliation. He stated the United States could respond with gas against Japanese forces anywhere, and that measures would be kept secret.
New Army newspaper Yanks will debut June 13 and follow the pattern of The Stars and Stripes. Private William H. Richardson leads the staff as managing editor and says the paper will be by and for enlisted men, not officers, aiming to print what front line soldiers want to read.
Washington report says Senate conferees on the military pay increase bill proposed a compromise to House committee members. The plan calls for 46 dollars a month for back privates and 52 dollars for first class privates.
Two more United Nations ships were torpedoed in the Atlantic, raising weekly losses to six merchant vessels and one Navy patrol boat. Survivors, including two British teens, recount five and eight days in lifeboats before rescue as U S S Cythera and other ships fall.
George W. Christians 58, engineer and self styled commander of the Crusader White Shirts, was convicted yesterday in federal court on four counts alleging attempts to interfere with enlistment and incite insubordination in the armed forces. He will seek a new trial Monday after a two hour jury deliberation in Chattanooga Tennessee.
Alabama supreme court maintains injunction preventing Marjorie Henley from accepting gifts or contact with J. T. Rockett’s wife and from riding with him. Justice Virgil Bouldin affirms right to live one’s life without disturbing another's sacred relationship. Rockett and Henley are central figures in the Chilton county dispute, dating to 1896.
A massive explosion at the Elwood ordnance loading plant's shipping building killed at least 21 workers and injured many more. No sabotage found. a board of inquiry will review the incident as operations continue at other buildings.
The House, acting on a recommendation from its appropriations committee, refused today to vote funds to sustain the Civilian Conservation Corps on a reduced basis during the war.
Axis reinforcements and tanks surged into the Tobruk sector as Rommel attempts to relieve pressure on a 9 mile British corridor. British and Indian forces repelled Axis tank assaults at Bir El Hacheim for the second time in two days.
Plans have been completed for evangelistic services at the First Christian Church starting Sunday. Rev. Noble R. Edwards, former local pastor now in Birmingham, will arrive Monday to lead the campaign and a cordial invitation is extended to the public.
A soldier identified by Maxwell Field Public Relations as Mose Tate was held by military police in Montgomery on a charge of fatally shooting Houston Free, operator of a roadside inn near here. Tate's address was not available.
The wives and parents of all the men of Company B 51st Engineers were invited to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred S. Hunt Sr. at 809 Canal Street on Sunday June 7 at 6 30 pm to greet Sgt. Charles Sherman Sgt. William Kirby Corporal Cecil Chandler Corporal Tommy Woodard and Sgt. John V Sims who will be here from Kodiak for a brief stay.
Dr Willard H Dow president of Dow Chemical Company reports a synthetic rubber thiokol developed with Thiokol Corp may allow 1,000,000 retreaded tires monthly starting late summer to ease wartime shortages. He credits Kansas City chemist Dr J G Patrick with the 1929 discovery from an antifreeze experiment that yielded a rubberlike gummy substance.
Red Cross officials announce an emergency chest at the Vine Street office for disaster relief. The public is urged to donate used clothing in good condition including children's and ladies dresses, underwear, and baby clothes, with donations brought to the Red Cross office.
Governor Frank Dixon plans to attend the annual trustees meeting at the Alabama training school for girls in Elkville Saturday.
President Roosevelt begun a White House conference to study gasoline and rubber shortages and consider nationwide gas rationing. Attending were top executives including Jones Ickes Nelson Henderson Eastman Patterson and Newhall as he weighs actions and possible legislative consultation.
Gaines R. Stuart was installed as president of the Lions Club last evening by Roy Mayhall of Haleyville a past district governor of Lions International for Alabama. The event at Lyons Hotel featured remarks and a gavel handover and a display of flag corsages with defense stamps for the ladies.
War analyst Dewitt Mackenzie argues that the Dutch Harbor raid and the Midway strike show a widening Axis campaign. He warns of a likely major World War confrontation this year, noting Japan’s use of a battleship suggests aims beyond raids and hints at a looming climactic phase.
The piece describes Rommel’s offensive near General Axis Drive as part of Hitler’s Middle East strategy to seize vital supplies. It warns of a near strike against the Muscovite front, a spring offensive long delayed, signaling a potential bloodiest conflict of history.
American forces clashed with a Japanese naval squadron off Midway In the Pacific amid a large sea battle with battleships carriers and cruisers. Washington said the dawn attack was repulsed and the enemy suffered losses as Allied planes attacked submarines near Australia and patrols guarded vital supply lanes to Australia.
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