Decatur Area News Briefs Touch War, Health, and Social Events
Weather outlook notes a fair night then Friday with partly cloudy skies and slightly higher afternoon temperatures. Local staff plans an upcoming Sunday banquet. Cheri Chandler to be contacted. Wounded soldiers Pvt Willie W Braswell and Pfc Forney Naylor are noted with furloughs and overseas service. Major Joseph Milton House receives promotion to lieutenant colonel. Memorials and baptist activities announced. many hospital dismissals and births listed. Memorial service for Sgt Harry Pearce to be held Sunday. Poppy Day plans by American Legion Auxiliary. Cpl Billy K Rhodes returns from furlough to Kingman Arizona air field. Memorial services for Pfc Lynne Hagood scheduled in Lawrence County.
Truman seeks permanent authority to reorganize executive branch
President Truman urged Congress to grant permanent peacetime authority to reorganize the executive branch to be more businesslike and efficient. He cited replacing the 1941 war powers act with permanent legislation of equal scope and outlined other White House and Capitol Hill actions on social security, foreign policy, and treasury staffing.
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Associated Press
Washington
Truman
Congress
Executive Branch
Truman reshuffles cabinet name changes in 4 posts
President Truman announced a four way cabinet reshuffle naming new Agriculture and Labor secretaries and a new Attorney General. Frances Perkins departs as the first woman cabinet member after 12 years. Anderson named Agriculture secretary replacing Wickard while Schwellenbach takes his post.
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Truman
Agriculture
Roosevelt
Washington
Labor
Robert E. Hannegan
Frank C. Walker
Texas
Tom C. Clark
Dallas
Francis Biddle
Frances Perkins
Lewis B. Schwell
Draft rule sparks hold for 19 over-30 draftees in Decatur
Decatur reports seventeen to nineteen men over 30 were unloaded from a bus en route to Fort McClellan and told no action would be taken until their cases are reconsidered by the local draft board. The group is part of a 52 man contingent scheduled to depart, with several named individuals among those who reported.
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Decatur
Fort McClellan
Lonnie Tolbert McLemore
Joseph Elbert Roan
Lloyd Lee Layton
Oscar Rudolph Glass
Willard Steele
Grady Albert Miller
William Hubert Sapp
Roy Lynn Anderson
Tommy Charles Hartselle
John Wesley Hughes
Charles Wilson Looney
Russell Theophilus Pepper
J. C. Brown
Floyd
Raymond Posey
Robert Arthur Hudson
Frederick Marion Sittason Jr
Lonnie
Edward Johnson
Theodore Morris
Elmer Aldeen Sims
Charles Edward Hyatt
James Quincey Standridge
Alabama Senate Delays Action On Rough Fish Bill
The Alabama senate postponed consideration of a bill allowing commercial fishing for rough fish on the Tennessee River. Sen Bruce Henderson asked for delay to study scope and potential expansion to other streams. Sponsors include Tennessee River area legislators.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Senate
Tennessee
Bruce Henderson
Tennessee River
Casualties Near Million Mark Reported by Army and Navy
The Army reports 886,525 casualties and the Navy 109,564 through May 14, totaling 996,089 with an increase of 9,875 from the prior week. The figures reflect wartime losses since the conflict began, as released by the two services.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Gasoline Pipelines Support Allied Armies in Europe
Twenty pipelines under the English Channel provide most of the gasoline for the Allied occupation forces in Europe, freeing tankers for duty in the Pacific, officials disclosed today.
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London
English Channel
Europe
Pacific
Winners Named in Decatur Junior High Bond Drive
Principal W H Riley announced homeroom winners in the seventh war loan drive at Decatur junior high school. Miss Caroline Wade led Miss McCall's class in total bond sales, with a list of other winning homerooms including Wenzell Poff Waddy Ratliff and many more.
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Decatur Junior High School
W. H. Riley
Caroline Wade
Georgia Solons Called to Meet for Special Session
Gov. Ellis Arnall has called the Georgia legislature into a special session next Tuesday at 11 AM Central War Time. The session will consider a constitutional amendment to allow governors to serve more than one consecutive four year term. The move follows a petition from more than three-fifths of both houses.
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Atlanta
Ellis Arnalliedas
Georgia
General Assembly
House
Senate
Alabama Senate approves road aid and tax token repeal plan
The Alabama Senate sent to the Governor a house approved bill for 5 million dollars in postwar road funding for counties with no matching in year one. The same day Senator Elvin McCary introduced a bill to abolish tax tokens, proposing a 15 cent tax elimination and a penny-based graduated levy. The House advanced Commerce Department bills to align state insurance laws with a Supreme Court ruling, creating a bureau of rates and tax equalization for companies, while temperance debates stalled on statewide prohibition and liquor advertising in dry counties.
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Montgomery
Senate
House
Alabama
John White
Perry
Highway Department
Ala
Elvin McCary
Anniston
McCary
Commerce Department
U. S. Supreme Court
Bureau of Rates
Mobile
George E. Stone
Jackson
A. D. Kirby
W. C. Beebe
Senate Temperance Committee
J. H. Deason
Walker
Vernon L. St. John
Lawrence
Temperance Committee
Silas D. Cater
J. Monroe Black
Lowndes
O. D. Carlton Marengo
Vincent Kilborn
James A. Simpson
Birmingham
Shell Toomer
Lee
Bruce Henderson
Wilcox
Elvin
Calhoun
John Sherer
Dallas
Com
Regeneration in Germany Focuses on Christian Revival
An aging anti Nazi German official Dr Hans Fuchs will administer Rhineland under American oversight with Lt Gen Leonard Gerow. Fuchs urges a united Christian effort to rid Nazi ideas from youths, stressing Catholic Protestant church collaboration as key.
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Germany
Rhineland
Hans Fuchs
Hitler
Leonard T. Gerow
U. S. 15Th Army
Fuchs
Kaiser Wilhelm
Dr. Fuchs
William Temple
Canterbury
London
Homeless Agent and Dog Seek Shelter After War Work
Josie Randolph and her guide dog Jill face eviction as a sister in the military family asks for help. They need a room to rent near Southeastern Metals in Decatur or at The Decatur Daily office, with Miss Randolph continuing work on canteens for soldiers.
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Jill
Josie Randolph
Southeastern Metals
Miss Randolph
Oklahoma
Decatur
Decatur Daily
U. S. Still to Seek Peace at United Nations Conference
The United States presses firm talks to build a global body for postwar order while Truman efforts with Stalin and Churchill shape a path to peace. Hopkins and Davies travel to Moscow and London as committees advance on Dumbarton Oaks goals. Debate centers on a security council veto and more democratic Polish governance under the Yalta framework.
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White House
Harry S. Hopkins
Moscow
Joseph E. Davies
London
Truman
San Francisco
John M. Hightower
Associated Press
United States
Europe
United Nations Organization
Harry Hopkins
Stalin
Kremlin
Russia
Churchill
Germany
Poland
Hopkins
Britain
World Organization
China
Security Council
Council
All-Nation Assembly
Yalta
Boundaries Defined by Allied Command After German Surrender
Allied authorities divided Germany into occupation zones and stripped the Flensburg regime of any political life. Eisenhower ordered screening of prisoners with non war criminals to return to farms. Notable Nazi figures Himmler Ribentrop Streicher captured. Hitler death reports vary. Churchill moves to form a caretaker government ahead of Britain’s July 5 election.
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Germany
Karl Doenitz
Flensburg
Eisenhower
Reich
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Doenitz
Julius Streicher
der Steurmer
U.S. 101St Airborne Division
Hitler
Churchill
Britain
Himmler Dies by Poison After Capture by Allies
London reports Heinrich Himmler, 44, the Gestapo chief, killed himself with poison last night after being captured by Allied forces. He was arrested three days earlier in an incognito search and held in a Luxembourg house. The death was announced at British Second Army headquarters.
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London
Heinrich Himmler
Exchange Telegraph Agency
Reuters
Exche Telegraph Agency
Terence Duncan
Second Army
Gestapo
Luxemburg
Himmler
Churchill's cabinet reshuffle eyed by week end
The Daily Mail predicts several junior ministers will be promoted to cabinet ranks in the interim administration. Yugoslavs insist the Italian Yugoslav Council of Liberation should keep operating in Trieste and Venezia Giulia, potentially hindering a quick territorial settlement.
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Churchill
London Daily Mail
Council of Liberation
Trieste
Venezia Giulia
Italy
War Criminals Still Are Hunted
Paris May 24 The hunt for top Nazi war criminals centers on Heinrich Himmler and Joachim von Ribbentrop as their whereabouts remain mysteries amid reports of Hitler's fate Doenitz says he last saw Himmler May 6 and Jodl says he and Himmler left Berlin in late April Verifications of escape by boat or plane are unconfirmed and Goebbels’ May 1 message is the only clear datum remaining.
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Paris
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Adolf Hitler
Karl Doenitz
Flensburg
Doenitz
Himmler
Mecklenberg
Gustav Jodl
Berlin
Mecklenburg
Jod
von Ribbentrop
Germany
Hitler
Goebbels
Tokyo Firestorm Rages as Air War Intensifies Across Pacific
Strong winds push the Tokyo firebomb raid into new heights as 180 carrier aircraft swarm Kyushu and 550 B 29s drop 4500 tons of fire on Tokyo. Fires burn in the imperial palace grounds as Nippon braces for extended war, while US forces push on Okinawa and in the Philippines.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Tokyo
Japan
Kyushu
Nippon
Radio Tokyo
Okinawa
U. S
Philippines
Philippine
China
Europe
Pacific
Shinagawa
Precision
Imperial Palace
Kawasaki Palace
Keystone
Shuri
96Th
Made in the U S A War Bond Drives Nation Aid
General Isenhower urges the people to support the 7th War Loan with Series E bonds. He credits American workers and families for supplying guns planes bullets and essential war equipment through patriotism and money.
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Isenhower
U.S.A
Hien
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