Negroes Challenge White Primary Rules in Georgia
A federal suit filed in Atlanta challenges Georgia's white primary, contending the state Democratic executive committee restricts voting to whites. The suit cites 1944 rules and argues general election laws allow all citizens to vote. Georgia votes on a new constitution August 7.
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Atlanta
Court of the United States
Tegrees
Texas
South
United States District Court
Georgia
Harold Sheats
Fulton County
Supreme Court
South Carolina
Arkansas
Florida
Alabama
Stalin and Churchill on the Franciscan platform dream
In a column by Dewitt Mackenzie, the idea is floated that Stalin and Churchill might join Truman at a future UN Conference meeting in San Francisco. The piece notes such a gathering would boost global confidence and ease Mr. Truman’s schedule, though it remains speculative.
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Joseph Stalin
UNCIO
Winston Churchill
Harry Truman
Patform
Francisco
Mr. Truman
Legislation Creates Department of Aeonautics and School Reforms
The house passed an aviation bill establishing a Department of Aeonautics with a director earning 5000 dollars yearly, under the supervision of the existing aviation commission. Rep Paul Hooton steered bills affecting Mt Meigs school for delinquent Negro youth, renaming it the Alabama Industrial School For Negro Children and extending state health and welfare supervision.
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Aviation Commission
Paul Hooton
Randolph
Mt. Meigs
Alabama Industrial School
Note From Carrier Asks For His Money
A Decatur insurance agent returns home to find a penciled note in his mailbox demanding 85 cents. The note, signed DECATUR DAILY, taunts the agent for collecting delinquent policy notes while the carrier is away and urges payment the next day.
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Decatur
Decatur Daily
Markets Notebook: Cotton Futures Narrow on Legislation Watch
New York traders awaited price control law developments as cotton futures fluctuated. July to December months saw buying by mills, with late-day gains around 5 cents a bale and quotes near 23 to 30 dollars. Chicago butter and eggs posted firm prices with U S extras at 36.75 to 38.20.
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NEW_YORK
Commission House
Chicago
U. S
Markets at a Glance Railroad Stocks Rise and Wheat Mixed
Markets at a Glance reports gains in rails and specialties with steady bonds and light cash corn offerings. Wheat shows mixed hedging and short covering while rye remains strong on outside demand and short covering.
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New York
Navy letter recalls three years of combat
Wendell E. Thrasher of the U S Navy writes to his mother Gracie Thrasher from Danville about a brutal three year ago raid and today’s relative improvement. He recalls ship damage on June 4 1945 and a June 9 sinking, noting 66 enemy planes shot down and Coral Sea attacks. The letter ends with a nervous farewell.
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Wendell E. Thrasher
United States Navy
Gracie Thrasher
Danville 3
U. S. S. Hammon
Eold
York
Coral Sea
Wendell FE
Thrasher
Memorial Sing at Macedonia Planned
Great preparations for the annual memorial sing at Macedonia with the fourth Sunday in June. The Ingalls Shipbuilders quartet will present a sacred piece Saturday evening, and Sunday features the Brown quartet and other leading local singers. Tennis Sparkman predicts the greatest memorial sing yet.
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Macedonia
Ingalls Shipbuilders Quartette
Brown Quartette
Tennis Sparkman
NLRB Finances Plunge On Strike Vote Push
The NURB disclosed it has gone broke with two weeks remaining before a new appropriation. It blames rising strike votes and the Smith Connally war labor disputes act requiring a strike vote within 30 days of notice, which has drained the NLRB treasury.
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Washington
NURB
Smith-Connally
Muck Fire Burns Along Hialeah Route 26 A
Fresh east winds drove an aging Everglades muck fire across 50 foot Hialeah highway route 26 A and two miles on both sides. Road patrolmen closed the road north of Hialeah as convicts, road department workers, and volunteers fought the blaze. traffic diverted to West Dixie highway.
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Miami
Fila
Everglades
Hialeah
West Dixie Highway
Alabama Generals Return Home From First Army Duty
Two Alabama officers Maj. Gen. William B. Kean and Brig. Gen. Truman C. Thorson of Birmingham return home for rest. Kean is chief of staff to Gen. Courtney Hodges in the First Army. The Daily Times Chicago announces suspension of its classified section due to paper shortages and rising readership.
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Birmingham
Alabama
William B. Kean
Truman C. Thorson
U.S. First Army
Kean
West Point
Courtney H. Hodges
First Army
Chicago
Daily Times
the Times
Soldiers Return from Iceland After Three Years
More than 300 troops who spent three years in Iceland arrived home on June 14. They describe relief at leaving the cold Arctic climate and facing returning heat in the South, noting the long, tiring journey and anticipation of reunions with families.
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New York
Iceland
Giles Gave Nazis Shock Giles Gave Nazis Shock
Lt. Gen. Barney M. Giles, 52, new Army Air Forces Pacific commander, recalls Goering’s astonishment at US fighters and how he helped craft the surprise tactic. He aims to speed Pacific missions, rest plans, and home leaves for crews, while noting ongoing strategic bombing of industrial targets in Japanese cities.
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Robbins Coons
Guam
Hermann Goering
Reichsmarshal
Barney M. Biles
Army Air Forces
Pacific Ocean Areas
20Th Air Force
Millard F Harmon
Goering
Germany
America
Britain
Giles
H. H. Arnold
Mineola
Japan
Signal Corps
Aviition
Pacific
States
Langley Field
U. S
LONE Continued From Page One On Security Council Control
The article explains how major powers gain a leading role in the United Nations Security Council to settle disputes, by peaceful means or force, with the caveat that a party to a dispute cannot participate in decisions on that dispute.
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Security Council
The
World Organization
Pension group to convene Saturday meeting at courthouse
The Old Age Pension Group will meet Saturday at ten o'clock in the courthouse. Rev. J. M. Engle has just returned from Montgomery where he pushed pending pension legislation. Hearings are set for Tuesday afternoon on two bills he will discuss at the Saturday gathering. All interested in old age pension were urged to attend.
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J. M. Engle
Montgomery
City Schools Need Funds For Modernization and Expansion
Decatur civic leaders heard Marvin Rankin and S. E. Alverson detail a 1.5 million school building program plus work on 12 city schools to modernize and equip Decatur classrooms. Alverson described a new junior senior high school opposite Somerville Road School near Delano Park and urged attendance at a June 19 courthouse discussion.
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Decatur Civitan Club
Marvin Rankin
S. E. Alverson
Alverson
Somerville Road
Delano Park
Decatur
Morgan County
Sore P. H. Sandlin, Jr
H. Sands Sr
Donald Riggle
Gunter
Civinettes
House of Marvin - Dougherty
Escape Plan Begins Today From Shangri La Valley Crash
Tiny WAC Corporal Margaret Hastings and two male companions start a five day trek from a mountain pass toward the outside world after surviving a May 13 crash in Dutch New Guinea. Hastings, 5 feet tall and 98 pounds, is described as plucky and likely to recovery with burns and minor injuries. Lt. John B. McCollum and Sat Kenneth W. Decker were less seriously hurt and Capt. Cecil Walters leads rescuers who will move the party toward the valley floor after delaying the march to allow Hastings to regain strength. Walters also sent paratroopers to prepare a glider landing strip at the valley floor. Filipinos accompany Walters in the operation.
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Holandia
Dutch New Guinea
WAC
Margaret Hastings
Shangri-La
Corporal Hastings
John B. McCollum
Trenton
Kenneth W. Decker
Kelso
Wash
Cecil Walters
Lost Valley
Miss Hastings
Walters
Nurses Aide Course Begins Here in Morgan County
Morgan county women ages 18 to 50 are invited to start the American Red Cross nurses aide course at Decatur General Hospital this Monday at eight o'clock. The announcement followed a nurses aide executive committee meeting chaired by Mrs. Raymond Norris with Miss Catherine Cameron, nursing field representative, in attendance. The committee includes Mrs. Norris, Mrs. Barrett C. Shelton, Mrs. Bentin Sr, Mrs. Fred Hunt Sr, Mrs. Walter Clapton Sr, Mrs. Robert Banks, and Mrs. Dick Kennedy.
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Morgan County
American Red Cross Nurses Aide
Decatur General Hospital
Nurses Aide Executive Committee
Raymond Norris
Catherine Cameron
Suyinsotere Needaeeriors
Norris
Barrett C. Shelton
Bentin
Fred Hunt
Walter Clapton
Robert Banks
Dick Kennedy
Elks Observe Flag Day Banquet Tonight in Decatur
Rev W W Glass will be the general speaker at the Decatur Elks banquet at 8:00 tonight in the Elk clubrooms on Moulton Street. The flag day observance will be attended by Elks wives and guests with more than 120 people expected. A Decatur Boy Scout troop will present a flag to Rev Glass, who will speak on Flag Day. War action pictures of Europe and the Pacific theatres will be shown.
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W. W. Glass
Decaturiks
Elk
Motorist Injured in Highway Accident Near Cisco Shipyards
Eddie Bash was hurt when the truck he drove lost control near the Cisco shipyards at 8:45 this morning. He suffered a broken right leg head cuts and body bruises. He was treated at Decatur General Hospital and later moved to Florence hospital. City Patrolman Kilgore investigated the crash.
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Eddie Bash
Florence
Browns
Zeppelin Giants Fueled by Friedrichshafen Engineering
Friedrichshafen served as the home town of the giant power driven metal framed airships designed by Count von Zeppelin for long distance aerial navigation.
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Friedrichshafen
Count von Zeppelin
Bankhead attacks Wherry plan over farm price safeguards
Senator Bankhead insists the Wherry cost plus measure to extend OPA costs protection for farmers is unwise and would strip parity protection for wheat, cotton, and other crops. He claims removal would trigger higher prices for processed and raw commodities and harm consumers.
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Washington
Wala
Senate
Bankhead
Truman
Congress
Ex POW Nungester Returns Home After Prison Camp
Captain Garrold H. Nungester a Decatur physician freed May 12 after twenty seven months in a German camp arrived home for a 60 day leave with wife Mrs. Robbie Kate Nungester at 1306 Ninth Avenue East. He was captured February 12 1943 while serving with the 108th infantry medical division and weighed about 25 pounds less in captivity.
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Garrold H. Nungester
Robbie Kate Nungester
Ninth Ave
Nue East
Decatur
Vienna
Austria
States
Nungester
108Th Infantry
Local Social Roundup and Notable Moves
Mrs Harold Waugh returns home after visiting Sheffield with aunts Mrs T W Howell and Mrs C C Scurlock. Miss Louise Fowler now Louise Bowling attends Florence Normal for the summer. Lt Lawson Lynn, promoted to 2nd Lt, is stationed with the U S Army in Italy. Farmers report harvest and cotton chopping activity amid seasonal weather. The daily U S weather map began publication in 1871.
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Harold Waugh
Sheffield
T. W. Howell
C. C. Scurlock
Marvin Bowling
Louise Fowler
Florence Normal
Gene Wilborn
J. Earl Peck
Mark Grubbs
Gilbert Johnson
Union
G. C. Vincent
Mabel Gatlin
David Wayne
Lynn
Armed Services
Italy
M. G. Peck
Pines
Earl Peck
Local notices and personal updates from Morgan County
Community items include WCTU meeting at Central Methodist church Friday at 3 PM, J L Sanderson unit sailor returning on furlough, Morgan County tax sale set for June 18 at 11 AM near the courthouse, OPA inspection deadline notices, a $5 double parking fine, birth announcements from Somerville and Decatur General Hospital, several hospital and ambulance transfers, a used car price note from the War Price and Rationing Board, and various local residents’ travel and job movements.
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Morgan County
Ferry Street
Government Sets Fixed Sugar Quotas For Agencies
A postwar military policy committee received a report proposing a continuous training period of a months. The government would fix sugar quotas for all agencies and other users to ensure fair distribution of available supplies.
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House
Trapped in Fire Claims Birmingham Man
June 4 report says Will Warner a 49 year old Black man died in a fire that partially destroyed his home and left him trapped inside.
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Birmingham
Will Warner
Bradley leaves White House duties as army reshuffle begins
Omar Bradley returns to the United States and is named Veterans Administrator. The Ninth Army Group briefly assumes command of both the First and Twelfth Army Groups as American forces redeploy. The aim is swift Pacific transfer while maintaining German zone control. The 97th and 86th Infantry Divisions depart Europe from Le Havre for possible Pacific duty.
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Corary Comand
12Th
Omar N. Bradley
United States
Bradley
Prsident Truman
Europe
Pacific
Germany
U U. S
Stimson Names Third and Seventh Armies as Occupation Forces
Secretary of War Stimson announced that the Third and Seventh Armies will serve as America’s occupation forces in Germany, replacing the hoped for Fifteenth Army. General Patton will return to Europe. Lt. Gen. Haislip now leads the Seventh. Only headquarters were named initially, with divisions to be screened and redeployed under demobilization plans.
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Washington
Stimson
Germany
George S. Patton, Jr
Europe
Secrepia
Seventh Army
Alexander Patch
United States
Wage H. Haislip
Tokyo Division fortifies ridge as Pacific battles intensify
Tokyo Division strengthens hold atop Kunishi ridge with reinforced tanks under smoke. Sixth Division Marines win the Naha pocket after a nine day battle that killed about 3,500 Japanese. Aussies push 14 miles in Borneo seizing rubber plantations while facing mines and mortars. U.S. forces capture two airfields near Asia with Flying Fortresses and Liberators arriving in the Philippines. In Mindanao the 19th Infantry breaks a stalemate on the Davao River scattering Japanese naval personnel. Burma sees minor actions and Indo China declares peace and order restored after Japanese broadcasts.
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Naha
Sixth Division
Tokyo
Okinawa
Philippines
Europe
Borneo
Protectorate
U. S. 19Th Infantry Regiment
Davao
Mindanao
Burma
Indo-China
De Gaulle Seeks Talks With Truman Over Middle East Conference
Reports say De Gaulle plans to meet President Truman after America declined France s invitation to a five power conference on Middle East problems. France proposed a five power forum counter to Britain s Syria and Lebanon talk. In Ireland five elect a new president to succeed 85 year old Dr Douglas Hyde who declines another term. Prime Minister De Valera backs his deputy Sean T O Kelly to show confidence in the government keeping Eire neutral in the war.
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Truman
United States
France
Middle East
Syria
Lebanon
Five
Douglas Hyde
Hyde
Eamon de Valera
Sean T. O'Kelly
Eire
Sanders Rites Set for Friday at Mount Tabor Church
Funeral services for J. D. Sanders 84 will be held Friday at Mount Tabor church. Rev Ed win Branscomb will conduct with interment in the adjoining cemetery. Surviving are his wife two daughters five sons and Sgt Thomas J Sanders serving in Paris France with the U S Army. Pallbearers named include W R Mixon H L Payne Danny Bibb L Bibb and J L Ro.
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J. D. Sanders
Hartselle
Edwin Branscomb
Peck
Cemery
E. Bradford
Chase
Earl Outlaw
J. H. Sanders
Talucah
F. P. Sanders
Harvest
B. P. Sanders
Chattahooga
Tenn
Fred H. Sanders
Oak Ridge
Sgt
Thomas J. Sanders
Paris
France
U. S. Army
W. R. Mixon
H. L. Payne
Danny Bibb
P. Z. Re. L. Bibb
J. L. Ro
Quiet Labor Front Across South After Wave of Walkouts Ends
Labor unrest subsides as Tennessee Coal Iron and Northern affiliates reach agreements to end strikes at three plants. In New Orleans Higgins Industries closes, Dallas Tri-State Transit drivers and mechanics resume work after AFL talks. Mobile Pulley and Machine Works ends two day walkout, war board intervenes.
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Associated Press
Southern Labor Front
Tennessee Coal, Iron & On In Company
Tri-State Transit Company
Mobile Pulley and Machine Works
Higgins Industries Inc
New Orleans
Birmingham
TCI
South
Dallas
Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Empolies
AFL
Clifford Potter
Eighth Regional War Labor Board
Louisiana
Texas
Alabama
Tennessee
Arkansas
Kentucky
Missouri
Mobile
Ala
War Labor Board
Atlanta
International Moulders and Foundry Workers Union of North America
WLB
M. T. van Hecke
Mitchell 18 arrives at Miami Beach reassignment post
PFC Fred D. Mitchell 42 of Decatur arrives at Army air forces redistribution station No. 2 in Miami Beach for reassignment processing after a 15 month tour in Iceland. He is housed in an ocean front hotel during medical exams and interviews as officials determine his new assignment. His wife Ethel and parents live in Decatur and Vinemont respectively.
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Fred D. Mitchell
Ferry Street
Decatur
Army Air Forces Redistribution Station
No. 2
Miami Beach
Continental
United States
AAF
Iceland
Ethel
John S. Mitchell
Vinemont
Women Medical Officers Serve as Army Majors Captains
Seventy four women medical officers now serve in the U S Army holding the ranks of majors captains and lieutenants as part of the service expansion.
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U. S.S. Army
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