Weather and community notes from Decatur area
Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers expected in the region this afternoon tonight and Thursday. Highs near 76 lows around 59. Local hospital reports Mrs. Julian Crow improving and Mrs. W. P. Russell recovering. Evangelistic services at Community House led by Miss Bell. Kiwanis meet Thursday at Woodall's on the Moulton highway. War updates list several service members reported missing or killed in action with related family details. Sugar sharing urged. War Bond funds allocated. local sermons and musical entries noted.
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Market Street
Miss Bell
Ad Missionary
Foes Fire On Draft Plans
Opponents of a compulsory peacetime draft attack the proposal in Congress as educators fear universal military training would regiment youth. Brumbaugh cites risks to collective security while veterans groups endorse the plan. Congress also debates a permanent FEPC and farm price guarantees to support food production.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
A. J. Brumbaugh
American Council On Education
House
Brumbaugh
Rep. Anderson
D-N. M
Senate Finance Committee Opens Closed Hearings on Trade Bill
The Senate Finance Committee began closed door hearings on House approved legislation extending the reciprocal trade program with added tariff cutting power. Opponents of compulsory peace time military training started testimony before the House postwar military policy committee.
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Washington News
Senate Finance Committee
House
School Board and Council In Talks
The Decatur City Council joined the Board of Education for dinner at Hotel Lyons and discussed present and postwar school plans. Attending were all board and council members plus City Attorney John H. Peach City Clerk Joe Pettey and City Auditor Dan Burleson.
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Decatur City Council
Decatur Board of Education
Hotel
Lyons
John H. Peach
Joe Pettey
Dan Burleson
President Truman Orders Seizure of Humble Oil Plants
President Truman directed Secretary Ickes to seize and operate Humble Oil and Refining Company plants at Ingleside Texas due to a labor disturbance. The facilities were deemed vital to the war effort and threatened with interruption by the labor dispute.
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Washington
Truman
Ickes
Humble Oil and Refining Company
Ingleside
Tex
D Day Anniversary Observed In Quiet Allied Remembrance
In Paris on June 6, the first anniversary of the Normandy landings was marked by simple observances. Veterans and troops gathered near Omaha Beach as the dead were honored at St Laurant cemetery and the first pillbox captured by the Allies was dedicated as a monument. Skeleton staffs operated across European theaters as Allied supplies and morale remained focused on the coming months.
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Utah Beach
Q. D. Smith
Maysville
Normandy
France
Peter J. Carroll
Associated Press
Austin Bealmear
Paris
Hitler
Eisenhower
Europe
Pacific
Japan
United Kingdom
Omaha Beach
Ahaenais
St. Laurent
Man Held in Slaying of Two Wildlife Patrolmen
Oliver Thrift, 64, a Savannah area farmer, is charged with murder in the weekend slayings of Patrolman Andrew Bryant Crews and Joe Daniel Martin at the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge near Waycross Georgia. The arrest followed his confession citing anger at government animal protection. A U.S. commissioner in Waycross will hear the case later this week.
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Savannah
Federal Bureau of Investigation
D. K. Brown
Oliver Thrift
National Wildlife
Thrift
Brown
Waycross
U. S
Food allowance cuts for hotels and restaurants announced
Washington reports forthcoming OPA reductions for July and August. Meats and fats will drop about 20 percent, fruits and vegetables 12 to 15 percent, and sugar 20 to 25 percent. Differences in institutional user classifications explain the variance.
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Washington
OPA
Russians Say Hitler Found In Berlin Ruins
A Moscow source said a burned body found in Berlin’s underground fortress near the Reichschancellery is identified with fair certainty as Adolf Hitler. Four bodies were found. one matched Hitler’s description and teeth. Goebbels and family were also found dead by poisoning in the same shelter.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Reichschancellery
Hitler
Red Army
Fuehrer
Moscow
Hiter
Doctor Morel
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Grand-Adm
Karl Doenitz
Goebbels
Big 3 fail to finish job at Berlin meeting
The Allied delegates at Berlin ended their first control council meeting abruptly and did not settle the council’s organization or governance for Germany. A next meeting was urged. London concerns grew over Austria as British officials warned a control commission there may be delayed. Moscow maps hinted Soviet gains in German occupation zones, with Hamburg possibly staying western. Montgomery flew to London for consultations on Germany’s future.
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Tom Ochiltree
Associated Press
London
Allied Control Council
Berlin
United States
Britain
Soviet Russia
France
Germany
Austria
Richard K. Law
British
Foreign Office
Commons
Vienna
John Anderson
Truman
Churchill
Marshal Stalin
Moscow Radio
Moscow
Hamburg
Elbe
London Star
Marshal Montgomery
London Is Out As Site For Parley
The British Commons heard that London is unlikely to host the next Big Three meeting as Chancellor Sir John Anderson declined to confirm London as a site. Reports from Berlin of the Allied control council meeting ending abruptly heightened anxiety about the parley venue. Concerns also grew over the Austrian crisis as General Eisenhower and Field Marshal continued to face developments.
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London
Commons
Allied Control Council
Berlin
John Anderson
Austria
Eisenhower
Field Mar
Farge Two
Three Killed in Courtland Army Plane Crash
A four engine bomber crashed three miles south of Courtland Army air field killing three servicemen. Identified were 1st Lt. John George Zehren Appleton Wisconsin Lt. Earl Owen Sizer McKees Rocks Pennsylvania and Pfc. John Thomas Byrd Weston West Virginia.
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Courtland Army Air Field
Courtland Field
Walter W. Gross
John George Zehren
N. Clark St
Appleton
Wis
Earl Owen Sizer
Chartiers Ave
McKees Rocks
Penna
John Thomas Byrd
Weston
W. Va
Allied war plan on Germany limits to control machinery
AP analyst notes the Allied statement focuses on control structures rather than nation building. Boundaries for occupation and a disputed sense of Silesia leave questions about future German unification, and Polish resettlement signals wider council overseen decisions beyond individual zones.
FEPC Measure Sidetracked by House Rules Committee
The FEPC bill to make permanent the Fair Employment Practices Committee was temporarily sidetracked by the House Rules Committee amid Southern opposition. Speaker Sabath planned a later showdown to seek a floor vote, but a quorum may be hard to obtain as six to six split details remain and key opponents exited during the session.
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Truman
Congress
Sabath
House Rules Committee
FEPC
Rep. Cox
Washington
Fair Employment Practices Committee
Labor Committee
House
Sabbath
Rep
Smith
U S Seeks to Avert a Big Five Split Over Veto
Reports from Moscow and San Francisco say urgent talks are under way to prevent a permanent Big Five split over veto rights in a world security council. Stalin weighs Soviet insistence on veto discussions. Harry Hopkins and Secretary Stettinius lead negotiations as Truman seeks a consensus this weekend.
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Moscow
Stalin
World Security Council
Truman
Harry Hopkins
Stettinius
United States
Andrei Gromyko
Russia
France
China
Britain
Hubbard Leaves Decatur General for Greenville Position
G Hubbard resigns as superintendent of Decatur General effective July 1 to become assistant superintendent at Greenville General Hospital in Greenville South Carolina. The 350 bed Greenville facility plans expansion to 600 beds. T J Cottingham notes the move is a real promotion and the board has not yet named a successor. Hubbard came to Decatur from Birmingham where he worked with TCI hospital.
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T. J. Cot ¥ Ffignain
Decatur General Hospital
G. Hubbard
L. L. Lively
Phil H. Orr
Hubbard
Greenville General Hospital
Greenville
S.C
Greenville Hospital
Cottingham
Birmingham approves purchase of firefighting equipment
The Birmingham city commission on June 6 contracted to buy more than $35,000 of fire fighting equipment. The deal includes an aerial ladder wagon for 20 335 dollars a 750 gallon capacity pumper at 8 183 dollars and a 500 gallon pumper at 7 227 dollars. The ladder carrier will replace a unit in service over 25 years.
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Birmingham
City Commission of
Fire Department
Margin Of One Is The Difference As Bill Is Turned Down
The Alabama senate defeated by 13 to 12 a proposal to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 with Senator Will O Walton arguing for the people to decide and youth participation in government. Opponent Senator Vincent Kilborn claimed communists back the measure and warned it would threaten democracy. Also defeated was a bill for free textbooks for children of war veterans and a tax bill issue pending beer tax revenue distribution.
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Montgomery
Ala
Senate
Alabama
Will_O. Walton
Chambers
Walton
Georgia
Mobile
Vincent Kilborn
Kilborn
Communist Party
Americas
Mobilian
Reuben Newton
Walker
House Rules Committee
W. C. Beebe
Baldwin
Howard Pill
Congress
E. L. Dodson
Tuscaloosa
House
Dodson
Alabama Senate
Hunt Frazier
Dallas
R. J. Lowe
Madison
Walter Givhan
L. J. Lawson
Hale
W. W. Garrett
Monroe
Educational Survey Commission
Education Committee
Gue
Harry M. Ayers
Anniston Bey
End believed near at hand upon Okinawa
Allied news reported possible end of Okinawa campaign with Nimitz blackout hinting at a final collapse of Japanese resistance. U S forces advanced toward Philippines battles as Tokyo claims fierce fighting and new fortifications. American air and ground operations continued, with updates on Okinawa, Kobe raids, and Mindanao advances.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Japan
Okinawa
Nippon
Philippines
China
Liuchow
U. S
Domei
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Silence
Kobe
Tokyo
Yomiuri Hachi
Tokyo Radio
Korea
Luzon
Mindanao
Cagayan Valley
Bayombong
24Th
Nimitz
Mons
Naha
Bottlers Worry Washington Over Sugar Shortage
A member of the soft drink industry advisory committee said many soft drink firms may be forced to close because of a sugar shortage.
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Washington
Soft Drink Industry Advisory Committee
War Bonds Appeal Marks First Anniversary of D Day
A community notice echoes Secretary Morgenthau urging continued support through war bonds. It stresses morale as vital as weapons and notes the war loan as the strongest call to citizens, linking home front effort to forthcoming battles.
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Europe
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau Jr
Orgenthau
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Paul Robinson
The
War Department
Pfc
Rayburn M. Walden
Mary Christian Walden
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Navy Department
Gust Chris Albert Hartwig
Julius Hartwig Cullman
Prince Claybrook
16Th Armored Division
Czechoslovaki
Kathleen Claybrook
East Twelfth Avenue
Decatur
Theodore James
L1-C
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Byron I. Birdwell
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Harry Nickens
W. J. Berryhill
Lion Oil Refining Company
Morgan County
Sidney Chenault
Erskine Chenault
University of Alabama
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E. N. Hart
Virginia Samuel
J. L. Britain
Southwest Pacific
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M. L. Britain
Avenue West
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Cal
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Lkely
OIL Company
Joseph W. Grigg, JR
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American Press
James F. King
By Dewitt MacKenzie
J. M. Roberts JR
AP Foreign Affairs
Cueey
Silesia
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Frankfurt
John M. Hightower
Diplomatic News
New Place
Mr. Hubbard
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