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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1945
Page
1
Weather outlook partly cloudy with scattered coastal thundershowers and a 90 degree high. Local notes cover veterans, family visits from New Orleans and Atlanta, sailors returning to duty, training at Great Lakes, Air Force and Navy service, Purple Heart awards, hospital stays, births, operations, travel to Chicago, tax stamps, fines, and travel plans in Decatur Cullman Falkville and surrounding areas.
San Francisco June 26 50 countries gathered for signing the United Nations charter and for President Truman's foreign policy address. Delegates including V K Wellington Koo and 153 officials moved to the Veterans Memorial Building. Signings expected to take eight hours with Argentina out of alphabetical first place. The charter creates General Assembly Security Council Social Economic Trusteeship and Military Committees and faces Senate ratification in the United States.
Northwest operations claim a point three miles from Liuchow and Taipu cheng eight miles north while Japanese hold an airfield south of the city. Chinese units push along the Liu River west of Liuchow and engage retreating forces near Wenchow and Linhai in Chekiang. Farther south combats continue as Japan targets the Hankow Hongkong corridor.
E Bond sales climbed two percent today totaling 15 487 50 as Morgan County begins a final push to keep Alabama’s record of counties exceeding wartime quotas. Morgan County’s E bond total reaches 656 386 or 80 percent of the 821 000 quota with 164 614 left to reach the goal. Total E bond sales in the Seventh war loan stand at 2 531 392 50, an oversubscription of 90 percent of the 1 326 quota. Sales today were 500 000.
Green W. Etheredge brought the first cotton bloom of 1945 to the Daily Office in Decatur. The bloom appeared Monday from a 35 acre field on the J. L. Shumake plantation three miles west of tar on the Joe Wheeler highway. The field, planted March 27, is knee high and cultivated by tenant farmer Johnny McAlly. Last year’s first bloom arrived June 17 on the Wilder plantation by Harden Hughes.
Lt Gen Walter Ganshof Van Der Meersch said he is not seeking to form a new government at King Leopold's request and expects a final decision on the king's abdication within 48 hours. He stated Leopold had summoned about 30 leading political figures.
In a Bridgeport inquest, Imogene Stevens 24, wife of Major G B Stevens, fired three shots at Albert Kovacs 19 and James Kovacs 26 at a neighbor's home in New Canaan after ordering them to leave. Albert, a submariner, died. Stevens is held on manslaughter charges with bail set at 50000.
Alabama House votes 30 to 61 against immediate consideration of a Senate-approved farm gasoline tax exemption. Proponents vow further efforts as lawmakers split on beer tax and building commission measures, with routine business continuing.
James Marlow explains that the proposed United Nations Security Council would include the Big Five with veto power and six elected nations. It could act against smaller states with economic sanctions and, if needed, international force, but the Big Five reserve decisive veto power limiting moves against them.
Four power talks in London aimed to quickly endorse the US plan for a military tribunal to try Germanys major war criminals. Communique notes urgency to complete work. witness testimony limited to Nazi world conquest proof. Polish government in exile denounces the Warsaw regime as illegal and seeks a government on free Polish soil.
In Detroit a large scale strike threat eased temporarily as tensions eased. In Chicago the government pledged to break a truckers strike after seizing 1,700 lines. CIO officials in Columbus forecast an early end to a 15,000 glass workers strike across six states. Six Pittsburgh Plate Glass and four Libbey Owens Ford plants affected. Overall absenteeism nears 80,000 workers as disputes persist.
Australian forces, aided by heavy artillery, seized Mount Taraki and nearby ridges in the Wewak campaign after a day long engagement described as the grimmest battle. The capture opens routes toward open country behind the Prince Alexander range.
The French telegraph service reported fighting in the last few days between Spanish police and armed opposition bands within 62 miles of London.
Mrs. Eileen Berry Davis of 1713 Ninth Avenue South was informed her husband Second Lt. Earl A. Davis is dead. He disappeared June 20 1944 after a B 24 bombing mission to Politz Germany and was presumed shot down in the Baltic Sea. Officially dated June 21 1945 the death ends twelve months absence. He leaves an eight month old son Carl Berry Davis and his parents Mr and Mrs Frank C. Davis of Ogden Utah.
Elmer S. Loyd elected Commander of American Legion Post 15 at Legion Hall. New officers include Meredith Woodall first vice commander William Bryan McAfee second vice commander Ralph Riggsbee adjutant R B Freeman sergeant at arms and William L Grimes finance officer. Installation set for July 9 with retiring president Sam Wheat in charge.
Police seek a thief who robbed Catherine Byrom 58 daughter of five overseas veterans as she lay dying after an automobile accident in Chigazo. Her purse identifying papers were stolen and a diamond wrist watch given by her five sons vanished. The car driver said rain reduced visibility and he left the scene to report the crash.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower departed Washington for a short rest after a week of homecoming events. The War Department did not confirm his destination but indicated the trip was to White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, site of the Army’s Ashford General Hospital.
A medium force of American B 29s from the 21st Bomber Command attacked industrial targets on Honshu. The run began after midnight June 27 Japanese time, striking Yokkaich near Nagoya as part of renewed Allied air action after a prior raid by 450 to 500 Superfortresses targeting weapons factories.
Japanese broadcasts picked up by All India Radio claim an invasion armada nears the Ryukyu gap with possible targets between Okinawa and Kyushu. U S air forces strike Amami Oshima and northern Luzon as Superforts drop 6 000 000 pounds on ten Nippon war plants.
Premier Kantaro Suzuki warned Japan faces an invasion crisis unmatched since the Mongol invasions 600 years ago. In a cabinet message issued on the Okinawa battle anniversary he urged grim national defense as American power gathers to the south.
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