Weather and war notes from Decatur and region
Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with little temperature change. Local records show a high of 176 and a low of 54. War reports detail U S Navy and Army units at Okinawa and Iwo Jima with ships bombarding shore positions and fuel supplies reaching vital fronts. Also warnings about unbranded hot plates and church midweek prayer service announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Rudolph Baker
USNR
Eva Baker
18Th Ave. East
Decatur
Ala
U.S . Angella
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Okinawa line breaks as U S troops push inland
Allied forces launch pre-dawn attack through Yonabaru Town on Okinawa as the Seventh Division returns to the front. Japanese resistance stiffens on hill positions overlooking Yonabaru bay and Nakagusuku bay, threatening rail links and major anchorage.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Japan
Okinawa
U. S
China
North China
Manchuria
Soviet Union
Moscow
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Yonabaru
Yonabaru Bay
Nakagusuku Bay
Archibald V. Arnold
Tenth
Chinen Peninsula
Chinen
Bond Sales Slow In Morgan County Report
Bond totals reached 651 617.75 on a 1 326 000 quota by noon with 379 692 75 raised of 821 000. Plans moved ahead for Benson Field May 30 Army show Here's Your Infantry to promote bonds May 21 to May 30.
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Morgan County
Eond
Gregg
Benson Field
Pacific
Bonded Warehouse Builds Concrete Loading Platforms
State Bonded Warehouse and Storage Co of Decatur has let a 5437.50 contract to Decatur Plastering and Concrete Co for concrete loading platforms and retaining walls. Work to take 30 to 60 days. Carol C Smith engineer. R D Compton, Leslie Compton and H L Brown part ownership.
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State Bonded Warehouse & Storage Co
Second Street
W. Decatur
Decatur Plastering & Concrete Co
Carol C. Smith
R. D. Compton
Leslie Compton
H. L. Brown
Rains Urges UN to Halt German Scientific Research
Rep. Albert Rains of Alabama urged the United Nations to curtail and strangle all scientific research and development among the German people to preserve future world peace. The statement was made in Montgomery Alabama on May 23.
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Montgomery, Ala
United Nations
Albert Rains
Ala
Aged German Priest Is Given High Office
Dr. Hans Fuchs, 70, named Oberpresident of the Rhein province military district in occupied Germany with 11 million people under his charge. He urged a new Christian spirit among youth and collaboration of Catholic and Protestant churches to root out Nazi influence under Allied supervision. He noted German language newspapers aid news delivery but less in changing attitudes. Educational leaders discussed a united effort to rid Nazi thinking, led by the churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel DE Luce Tonneistein
Germany
Reich
Rheinprovinz
Hans Fuchs
Fuchs
Leonard T. Gerow
U. S. 16Th Army
Associated Press
Allied Psychological Warfare Department
Rhineland
Christian Church
German Flensburg leaders taken as POW by Allies
Allied HQ reports arrest of key Flensburg government figures and high command members. About 300 officers and others were taken into custody, signaling dispersion of the German high command. Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz reportedly among those captured as prisoners of war.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
Flensburg
High Command
Karl Doenitz
Hitler
Fuehrer
Army and Navy canceling troop movements to redeploy
Paris reports that by month end 87 500 troops will return to the United States with 225 500 more to follow in June. The totals include sick and wounded liberated prisoners and those redeployed to the Pacific. June redeployments include 180 000 in redeployed units and 35 000 potential discharges with 180 000 transfers by plane. The Navy plans over 5 000 personnel in June.
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Paris
Army
America
Pacific
Pacia
United States
Navy
Cotton Fire Damages Bales at State Bonded Warehouse
A fire at the State Bonded Warehouse on West Gordon Drive damaged eighty bales of cotton and scorched about 75 to 80 bales. Discovered near noon on the platform outside warehouse 1, the blaze caused under ten percent loss of the bales’ value. Stations one and two extinguished it in under twenty minutes. The loss is insured.
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West Gordon Drive
John Davis
Pfc Rayburn Walden Reported Missing In Action
Word was received that Pfc. Rayburn Walden husband of Mrs. Aileen Walden of this city has been missing in action in Germany since May 4 He had been overseas since Christmas 1944 and served with the Third Army somewhere in Germany.
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Pfc
Rayburn Walden
Aileen Walden
Germany
Pfc. Walden
Dan Walden
Montgomery
Third Army
Alabama and Auburn urged to resume football relations
In Montgomery Alabama the house education committee pigeonholed a bill to compel Alabama and Auburn to resume football games. The education committee adopted the resolution by voice vote, offered by Rep. Tram Sessions of Jefferson. It moves to the senate for concurrence.
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Montgomery
Ala
House of Representatives
Alabama
Auburn
Tram Sessions
Jefferson
Senate
Truman to Speak at Final San Francisco UN Meet
President Truman will travel to San Francisco to address the final preliminary session of the United Nations world organization conference. Secretary Stettinius said the date is not set but the president is expected to go early in June and the conference is anticipated to conclude early next month with full State Department coordination. An Army officer predicted by fall most draft calls will be filled by 18 year olds as selective service announces indefinite deferment for men 30 and over in useful work.
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Washington
Truman
San Francisco
United Nations World Organization
Statave Stottinius
Stettinius
State Department
Selective Service
England
John Bull
Russia
British Delegation Resigns as Churchill Government Falls
Five members of Britain’s delegation to the world security conference offered their resignations after Prime Minister Churchill’s departure, leaving Lord Halifax as the sole unresigned representative. Lord Cranborne is expected to join a new government, allowing continued British presence at the conference until London accepts the resignations.
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San Francisco
Churchill
Lord Halifax
United Kingdom
Anthony Eden
Washington
Lord Cranborne
London
Selective Service chief refines July draft estimates
Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey says 18 year olds will form about 45 percent of the July call for 90 000 men an estimate he calls too conservative for later months with higher 18 year old intake. He predicts July 18 year olds at 40 500 rising to 78 000 after July as Navy tops up and takes fewer 17 year olds. The Army and Navy report Japanese balloons pose no military threat though unexploded bombs may be found. Relie f goods to Northwestern Europe to aid civilian needs. Truman orders coordination to meet liberated Europe s minimum civilian requirements.
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Selective Service
Lewis Hershey
Army
Navy
United States
Europe
Truman
House leaders order overseas inspection tours called off
House leaders crack down on congressmen planning trips to Europe. Members scheduled to depart this week report Speaker Rayburn D Texas asked them to cancel the tour while important business remains before the House. House Majority Leader Rene Ramseck Georgia criticized the tour plans.
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Europe
Rayburn
D-Tex
House
Ramspeck 1
Sayng
FEPC Bill Reported Out by Senate Panel with Split Vote
The Senate Education and Labor Committee approved the FEPC bill 12 to 5, amid opposition from South senators. Senators Murray Walsh Thomas Chavez Tunnell Guffey Tiken Ball Smith Morse Donnell LaFollette supported it, Pepper Ellender Johnston Fulbright Taft opposed. Hill not recorded. An Ellender amendment to render the act inoperative without state consent was rejected 10 to 4. Pepper signaled a separate bill on women’s job discrimination and equal pay.
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Washington
Senate Education and Labor Committee
South
Murray
D-Mont
Walsh
Dmass
Thomas
D-Utah
Chavez
D-N. M
Tunnell
D-Del
Guffey
D-Pa
Tiken
R-Vt
Ball
R-Minn
Smith
Morse
R- Ore
Donnell
R-Mon
LaFollette
Ala
Ellender
Pepper
Summer to Attend Hearing One Canal
Mayor H R Summer of Decatur will join Valley representatives for a Monday hearing at the Admiral Semmes Hotel in Mobile on the proposed Tennessee Tombigbee canal. He goes as a city and Chamber of Commerce representative to the Army engineers hearing. Other Valley cities including Florence Sheffield Tuscumbia Huntsville Gunt ersville Chattanooga Knoxville will send delegates to the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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H. R. Summer
Decatur
Admiral Semmes Hotel
Mobile
Summer
Chamber of Commerce
Army Engineers
Florence
Sheffield
Tuscumbia
Huntsville
Guntersville
Chattanooga
Knoxville
Tennessee Valley Authority
Truman Sends Cake To Sailor Son In Canal Zone
Mrs. Janie Pugh wrote to President Truman asking for a birthday cake for her son Grady who was serving in the Canal Zone. She said she could not afford the cake and believed the President would help. The President agreed to send the cake.
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Truman
Atlanta
Canal Zone
Janie Pugh
President Truman
Grady
Hotel Fire Kills One in Uniontown Alabama
A hotel fire at 1 30 a m in Uniontown Alabamafatally burned E L Scarborough 74 a retired telegraph operator who lived there Two others J J Davies Birmingham traveling salesman and Miss Mabel Tucker were injured lightly All other guests escaped The blaze caused 52500 in damages with hotel valued 30000 church 20000 and mule barn 2500 Mrs J W Pilkington owned the property
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Uniontown
Ala
Fin
E. L. Scarborough
Robert Woodson
J. J. Davies
Birmingham
Mabel Tucker
J. W. Pilkington
J. S. Dawkins Seriously Hurt In Railroad Car Crash
J. S. Dawkins suffered a broken leg a fractured shoulder and possible chest injuries when a Western Union work car struck an obstacle near Trinity crossing. He was thrown onto the railroad track and taken to Decatur General Hospital in serious condition. Several other men in the party escaped injury and witnesses said Dawkins tried to jump after impact.
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J. S. Dawkins
Western Union
Trinity Crossing
Dawkins
Decatur General Hospital
Brown’s
Hodges to be welcomed in Atlanta with big ceremony
May 23 to 4 tomorrow marks the official welcome of Georgia General Courtney Hodges in Atlanta. Five generals will accompany Hodges as Mayor William B. Hartsville announces the general chairmanship of the ceremonies for Perry, Georgia, yesterday.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Courtney H. Hodges
Perry
William B. Hartsville
Election reflects leftward shift in Britain says columnist
The piece analyzes how a wartime general election may reveal Britain's political drift toward leftist ideas as communism and social democracy influence voters. It contrasts Winston Churchill's Conservative Party with the socialist movement and notes the presence of communists and wartime constraints shaping the race.
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Europe
Channe
Britain
Winston Churchill
Bor
Commonwealth of
Churchill resigns as Britain heads to first general election in ten years
Prime Minister Churchill resigns and King George VI accepts the move forming a caretaker government. Labour ministers vow not to participate until after the July election, with a new cabinet to be named in coming days. The country braces for Britain’s first general election since 1935 amid wartime coalition dissolution.
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Alex Singleton
London
Churchill
George VI
Britain
Labor Party
Chirehill
10 Downing Street
Ministry of Information
Labor
Commons
British Press Association
John Anderson
James Grigg
Andrew Duncan
Lord Leathers
Germany
George
Treasury
Great Britain
Neville Chameberlain
Buckingham Palace
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Moulton 4
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Joe S. Houser
Somerville
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Baugh's Infirmary
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Cora Turner
Birmsham
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Town Creek
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Pvt
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P. M. Cartee
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Earl M. Peete
Sixth Avenue East
Philippines
Manila
Burma
Southeast Asia
Soviet Russia
Francis Elmore_t
U.S
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George A. Busch
Hattiesburg
Miss
Elmore
Tenn
Busch
Ken Reynolds
RAINS
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NBC
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FEPC
Hearing One Canal
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