Weather and community notes from Decatur area
Partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Saturday with scattered thundershowers Saturday. Decatur bureau reports 96 degree high and 74 low in past 24 hours. War Department lists Navy wounded. Local names include Arlin Bailey Fort Payne and Sgt Charles Gibson Cullman. Various military inductions, visits, and hospital status items throughout Decatur and nearby towns.
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Decatur Weather Bureau
War Department
Navy
Arlin V. Bailey
Fort Payne
Peace Charter Endorsed by Vandenberg and Truman Echoes
President Truman praised the Philippines base as essential to defeat Japan and restore peace. Senator Vandenberg urged ratification of the United Nations Charter as a collective chance for peace, arguing it curbs great powers and prevents chaos without the Charter.
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Kansas City
Truman
Philippines
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Luzon
Jack Bell
Washington
Vandenberg
R-Mich
San Francisco
Michigan
Taft
Ohio
Republican Steering Committee
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
World Security Council
Pacific
Russia
Britain
United States
Tax Revision Plan Backed by House Committee
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a tax revision plan intended to improve business cash flow by five billion dollars during reconversion. It raises the excess profits tax exemption from ten thousand to twenty five thousand dollars and leaves other corporate taxes unchanged. Efforts to cut individual tax burdens were defeated. The plan speeds up rebates and payments to hasten reconversion.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Missing in action Lt Otto Carter with 13th Army Air Force
Sst. Lieutenant Otto L. Carter Jr is reported missing in action since June 6 in the Philippines area. He served with the 13th Army Air Force and is a son of Mr and Mrs Otto L Carter Sr formerly of Decator now living in Park Huntsville.
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Otto L. Carter, Jr
Carter
13Th Army Air Force
Philippines
Otto L. Carter
Decator
Park
Huntsville
Army Major Wife Held Responsible for Sailor’s Death
Coroner Theodore E. Steiber ruled Mrs. Imogene Stevens, 24, criminally responsible for the shooting death of Albert Kovacs, 19, a submarine sailor, in a neighbor’s home in New Canaan. Evidence shows she was intoxicated and emotionally strained, with police noting an illicit affair involving the Milton household.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Theodore E. Steiber
Imogene Stevens
Albert Kovacs
New Canaan
Stevens
Mr. Milton
Milton
Darién
Miltons
James D. Kovacs
Albert
Fleet strike at oil areas in Makassar Straits and Borneo
MacArthur reports American Seventh Fleet ships back in Makassar Straits East of Borneo after a ten day Japanese bombardment probe. Allied air forces hit Balikpapan and Jesselton areas while Australian forces advance toward Beaufort and Miri oilfields. In the Philippines Mindanao and Luzon actions continue with raids, ground advances, and supply dumps seized.
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Spencer Davis
Manila
Makassar
Borneo
Douglas MacArthur
R Ted
Balikpapan
MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Makassar Straits
East Indies
U. S. Seventh Fleet
British North Borneo
Labuan
Brunei Bay
Beaufort
Jesselton
North Borneo
Melbourne
Miri
Tarakan
American Broadcasting Company
U. S
Fifth
13Th Air Forces
Royal Australian Air Forces
Pontianak
Philippines
Luzon
Kiangan
Ilocos
Mindanao
U. S. 24Th Division
Davao River
Pive Report for Army Induction Sees Local Men Mustered
Five boys from Decatur reported to Fort McClellan for Army induction as announced by Draft Board No. One. The list includes Milford Bernard Compton, William Neil Eaton, Grady Albert Miller, and William Hubert Roy Lyn Anderson.
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Decatur
Fort McClellan
Army
Milford Bernard Compton
William Neil Eaton
Grady Albert Miller
William Hubert Roy Lyn Anderson
RFC to Manage Cornell Field Storage of Planes
Joe B. M. Cornell, manager of Southern Airways operations, signs contract with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to act as its representative here. RFC takes over the field this Saturday midnight formerly used by Southern Airways. Initially a storage center, the site may become a sales hub in weeks. Planes stored total 830, including 361 PF-17 and 469 BT-13A models.
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B. M. Cornell
Southern Airways
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Government Corporation
RFC
Fist Fight Highlights House Session in Alabama
In Montgomery a House session featured a brief brawl between Rep. Earl Tucker of Clarke County and Hartwell Hatton, city editor of the Montgomery Advertiser. Hatton sustained a cut above the eye. the dispute occurred amid debate on a gasoline tax rebate bill and related measures.
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Montgomery
Clarke County
Tucker
House
Senate
Alabama
Douglas Brown
Dale
Elmore
Hunter Golson
Rules Committee
Golson
Alabama House
Earl McGowin
Butler
State Board of
Morgan County War Bond Drive Nears Quota Milestone
Morgan County trails with 83 percent of the $821 000 Seventh War Loan quota, having sold $688 473 50 and still needing $133 000 in E bonds. Local War Finance Committee officials note that all bonds bought before July 7 count toward the county total, with weekly sales rising to $47 575 and daily pace expected to beat the $65 000 target.
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Morgan County
War Finance Committee
Cottonseed price extension for 1945 crop announced
War Food Administration extends 1944 price support to the 1945 cottonseed crop in the Southeast with a $56 per ton f.o.b. shipping point price under an open offer by the Commodity Credit Corporation. Mills may buy five ton lots Aug 1 1945 to Jul 31 1946 with prices tied to f.o.b. shipping point and grain standards.
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Auburn
Ala
War Food Administration
F.o.b
Alabama
Commodity Credit Corporation
U. S
Mass Blood Tests Find Higher Syphilis Rate Among Negroes
Birmingham reports results from Jefferson county testing under state law. Among about 300,000 residents aged 14 to 50, 88 percent were tested and overall 11.76 percent showed positive syphilis reactions. White residents had 2 percent positive, while Negro residents showed 30 percent.
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Birmingham
Jefferson County
Alabama
Health Department
Mother collapses in crowd on long train ride
A 23 year old mother with a 10 month old baby collapsed in the Union station lobby after riding 400 miles in a crowded train. Mrs Okemah Van Ness Ada Okla says she was traveling to visit her sailor husband Bonner Van Ness at Treasure Island San Francisco. Doctors diagnose nervous exhaustion.
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Kansas City
Union Station
Okemah van Ness
Ada
Okla
Bonner van Ness
Treasure Island
San Francisco
Governors to attend conference on Mackinac Island
An advance list shows 13 of 44 governors arriving in Detroit for the governors conference on Mackinac Island. Detroit makes last minute preparations as visitors arrive before an 8 p.m. EWT departure tonight for the event opening Sunday.
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Detroit
States
Mackinac Island
Fires Rage in Home Islands Guam Sasebo and More
B-29 raids struck Japan's industrial centers including Sasebo Kanoya Okayama and Shimonoseki amid widespread fires as 500 bombers dropped 3000 tons of fire bombs. Eight ships sunk or damaged. additional targets included Moji and Nobeoka with pilots reporting heavy fires and cloud obscured results. Lieutenant Leon M Burgess noted seeing fires over Nobroka.
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21St Bomber Command
Fleet Headquarters
Japan
Korea
Nobeoka
Kyushu
Okayama
Honshu
Osaka
Sasebo
Moji
Shimonoseki Strait
Saipan
Nobroka
Leon M. Burgess
Alabama City
Ala
Negro Electrocuted in Georgia Prison Execution
Jack Roy Green a 36 year old African American man was electrocuted at the Georgia state prison in Reidville for attacking a 65 year old Sumter County woman on January 31. Warden A C Aderhold said Green admitted the crime before he was strapped into the chair at 10 34 this morning.
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Reidsville
Jack Roy Green
Americus
Georgia State
Sumter County
A.C. Aderhold
White Heat Loosed on Six Japanese Cities
The report describes Japan shifting home industries to Manchuria and fortifying Aleutian defenses with alpine troops on Agattu and paratroopers in the north while claiming the U S Ninth Fleet awaits a northern opportunity. A light U S unit attacked a Japanese convoy in the Sea of Okhotsk.
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San Francisco
Japan
Manchuria
Tokyo Radio
United States
Asia
Federal Communications Commission
Tokyo
Agattu Island
Aleutians
Attu
Frank Jack Fletcher
U. S. Ninth Fleet
Sea of Okhotsk
Fire bombs hit four Japanese cities as B 29s strike Sasebo and others
Nearly 500 Superforts dropped about 3000 tons of incendiaries on Sasebo Moji and other Kyushu targets and two additional cities, with reports of roaring fires. Allied air forces also hit Nobeoka Kanoya Shimonoseki Okayama and more in coordinated blows while ground gains press on in China with Liuchow recaptured and Okinawa coast advances.
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U. S
Borneo
China
Liuchow
Okinwa
Sasebo
Nippon
21St Bomber Command
Moji
Kyushu
Honshu
Nobeoka
Okayama
Kanoya
Japan
Shimonoseki
Fleet Air Wing One
Korea
Ryukyu Islands
Indo-China
Alaskan
Tokyo
North Pacific
Kiska
Agatta
Balikpapan
Douglas MacArthur
VU. S. 7Th Fleet
Makassar Strait
Tokid Balik Atokyo
Sapapan
MacArthur
Tarakan
Bullets Exchange Fire With 24th Division in Danao
In Danao Philippines on June 20 Pvt Thomas Kneeland of Tillamook Oregon fired at a Japanese soldier as the enemy returned fire. Kneeland felt a shock and witnessed sparks from his Browning automatic rifle which jammed when a shot struck the muzzle shield. He prepared to fire again despite the jam.
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Danao
Philippines
Thomas M. Kneeland
Tillamook
Ore
Kneeland
Herkos
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Soee
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Harry F. Porter
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Great Lakes Naval Training Center
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Mt. Zion
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Fred S. Robinson, Jr
Fort Ord
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Jamiie Stinson
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