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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1945
Page
1
A fragmented OCR item hints at reflections on shared civic life and community concerns. The readable bits mention common good, individual roles, and a call for public engagement, set in a period newspaper voice.
Alabama lawmakers advanced a proposed constitutional amendment described by sponsor E C Boswell as a move to "insure white supremacy" by requiring voters to understand and explain the Constitution for registration, removing a property ownership clause. The measure, approved 27 to 3 in the Senate after a committee of the whole hearing, now goes to voters in the 1946 general election.
Partly cloudy forecast with scattered thundershowers in extreme south. A new composite Decatur farm market column lists daily prices paid for farm products. Kiwanis club address by Key Foster at Hotel Lyons. Local updates on tax, guard inspection, editor’s health, and residents' movements. Continued on page two.
Horse show entries pour in from eight Southern states for the Lions Club event at Benson Field on July 19. Prize money totals 1365 across 13 classes, with local walking horses and ponies restricted to Morgan, Lawrence, and Limestone counties. Gilbert M. Orr will announce, Milton J. Easter will handle the race, and Harsh Jr. will judge. Box and seat reservations may be made by telephone.
A Tuesday afternoon crash at Sixth Avenue and Prospect Drive ruined more than 15 delivered orders. A 16 year old Decatur boy, Jack Jones, was thrown from a 1941 Dodge pickup while Posey Adams of Birmingham drove the freight truck. both drivers escaped injury. Groceries and a box of fruit jars were scattered. the pickup struck a telephone pole in Mr and Mrs R G McClure yard as witnesses described the sequence of signals and moves. City patrolmen investigated.
Two pages in the Sunday St. Louis Post-Dispatch depict Decatur's industrial commercial and agricultural activity as part of a Tennessee Valley progress series. The feature previews three more articles on TVA progress. Photographs by Art Witman illustrate Missouri Valley developments.
Memorial services are set for Sunday at five o clock at First Presbyterian church for Sgt. Frank Kirby Jr believed killed on Okinawa. He is son of Mr and Mrs Frank Kirby Sr of 616 East Vine Street and has a brother Captain William Kirby serving in the Pacific.
Jim Roberson urges training for two six week old kittens serving as fire hall mascots on Johnston Street. Firemen overrule him citing age and behavior as concerns. The kittens Pete and Polly were donated by John Pennell of Arrow Provisions Co.
Morgan county oversubscribed its 1 326 000 Seventh War Loan quota by 129 percent but faces failure unless E bond buyers respond. Ewell K. Gregg reports county total 3 045 885, 394 000 over double quota, yet E bond sales at 13 012 50 today bring the figure to 669 398 50.
The French government announced the creation of a French command in Germany to be headed by Gen. Jean De Lattre De Tassigny and reporting to Gen. De Gaulle. The unit will represent the provisional French government in all Allied relations in Germany and include a member of the interallied coordination council, a commander of occupation troops, a military administrator and advisors in economic and political affairs.
In Abbeville Alabama Lee Espy 27 and his estranged wife Juanita Mathison Espy 28 were killed after Espy shot her on the porch then killed himself both dying later in hospital and earlier a separate double shooting near Dothan left J E Miller 26 and Victoria Miller 39 fatally wounded. Miller killed his wife and then himself. their son 14 was away at the time.
Memorial services for Benjamin F Vaughan husband of Molly Cochran and son of Mr and Mrs B F Vaughan will be held at 3 30 Sunday afternoon at Pleasant Hill Baptist church He was a United States Marine killed recently in the Okinawa fighting Rev W B Curl will conduct with Rev Walker Bynum Survivors include wife parents three sisters Mrs Walter Mobb es Mrs James Mc Annally and Miss Virginia Vaughan and two brothers Charles Vaughan and Paul Vaughan all of Decatur
Capitol Hill expects the army to reduce the required discharge score from 85 to 80 or 78 after War Department reports. The final decision will not alter the tentative program’s point weighting, giving one point per month of service and extra points for foreign service, battles, and children.
The House Judiciary Committee approved by one vote a Truman request to substitute the Speaker of the House for the Secretary of State as next in line if both president and vice president are absent. The 10 to 9 vote in executive session sends the bill to the House floor.
A. B. Kline of the Iowa Farm Bureau and Ray F. Anderson of Farm Journal left Decatur after a 24 hour stay. They toured the Tennessee Valley Farm Experiment Station at Belle Mina and a seed cleaning plant at the Frank Richardson farm in Mooresville before meeting Decatur Chamber of Commerce farm committee members. The trip continues toward Knoxville.
Solid Fuels Administrator Ickes announced that this year's estimated hard and soft coal requirements will exceed production by about 37 million tons. He urged the American public to adopt the strictest fuel conservation measures.
On Okinawa the bodies of Lt Gen Mitsuru Uehijima and Lt Gen Isamu Cho Isamu are found on a rocky ledge at the island tip after performing seppuku. The two officers, in full dress with medals, are buried with personal epitaphs and a wrote note.
At the San Francisco conference delegates push for the swift ratification of the United Nations charter. President Truman, en route to Washington, urged immediate action as he predicted broad domestic support. Leaders Connally and Vandenberg head to the capital to press Senate action, with Stettinius guiding witnesses before the Foreign Relations Committee.
Coastal areas of New England faced continuing gales and heavy seas with one death reported. The New England Telephone Co. said 10,000 lines down, 7,000 in Cape Cod alone, while offshore coast guard cutters aided stranded fishing boats. Nantucket endured 66 mph winds and 4.59 inches of rain as storm center lay 120 miles east.
Allied forces reportedly push onto Kume Island near Okinawa as radio Tokyo and Tokyo papers discuss possible landings on the China coast in preparation for invading Japan. Analysts warn Okinawa’s role as a base remains limited and casualty tallies rise.
Tokyo radio claims American forces invaded Kume island near Okinawa while Japanese troops withdraw in the Philippines. Fifty B 29s hit the Atsube river refinery and Nagoya area as 17 small Nipponese ships sink. Ushijima and Cho graves found. U S forces gain prisoners and press toward Ryukyu bases. Australians seize Miri oil fields as Balikpapan operations continue.
Allied forces close in on Manila front as less than 20 miles separate American troops and Filipino guerrillas from a juncture above Tuguegarao. About half of Japan's 20 000 fighters retreat to the Sierra Madres while rear guards delay, with Mindanao showing a similar retreat pattern as fast Japanese movements are reported near Tamogan and Meme Manoy.
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