Weather and community notices from Decatur area
Fair tonight and Friday with partly cloudy skies and warm conditions. The local weather bureau records a high near 89 and a low around 64. Evangelistic services continue at Westminster Presbyterian led by Rev. Ernest N. Hart. Military and local news include commendations for Private Robert Wiggins Jr and injuries of Frank A. Berry aboard a U.S. Navy ship.
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Ernest N. Hart
Owensboro
Kentucky
Westminster , Presbyterian Church
Kamikaze Tactics Extended Across Navy In War Update
Japanese threat to extend death by own action tactics to all naval branches amid Allied push on Okinawa. American Marines seize Shuri castle rubble as battles around Okinawa continue, while Chiang Kai-shek reshuffles leadership and Chinese forces advance at Liuchow and Ishan.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Japan
Imperial Navy
Nippon
Shuri Castle
Okinawa
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Liuchow
Indo-China
Philippines
New Guinea
Burma
U. S
Shuri Town
Seventh Army
Sixth Marines
Naha
Secretary of the Navy
Forestal
Tokyo
Kusuo Oya
Formosa
Ishan
U.S
Yungning
Nanning
Southeast Asia
Inlaw
T. V Soong
San Francisco
Asiatic
Lua
Yanwale
Hunted Father Slain At Home After Girl Shot To Death
In Kansas City on May 31 Ray E. Davis 42 sought for the death of his 21 year old daughter Lula Mae was found shot to death at his home after a gunfight with Lt. Charles Welch and Detective Char les Graham. The daughter had been killed Tuesday after greeting soldier friend Pvt Harold Sharp 23 who had been overseas two years.
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Lula Mae Davis
Top
Kansas City
David Harold Sharp
Pacific War Area
Ray E. Davis
Sharp
Lula Mae
Charles Welch
Homicide Bureau
Charles Graham
Davis
Graham
Welch
Pvt
Davis Harold Sharp
Carpenters Called to Build Decatur Scrap Paper Depot
D L St John of Carpenters Local 1274 urged carpenters to assemble Saturday at eight at Grant Street and First Avenue to erect a scrap paper depot for Decatur. Materials arrive Friday and the Land Company provides the land use while the union supplies labor. The public is asked to contribute 300 dollars for materials at The Decatur Daily.
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D. L. St.John
Carpenters Local 1274
Grant Street
First Avenue
Decatur
Land Company
Decatur Daily
St. John
Lovelady Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel Aboard Army Service
Dr Sim B Lovelady, after fifteen months in an Army general hospital in England, is promoted to lieutenant colonel and serves as executive officer at the 182nd general hospital. He and Mrs Lovelady with two children reside at Grant Street while he is on foreign duty. He was named a Fellow of the Royal College of Medicine and among thirty American medical officers in the U K chosen to attend lectures in Belfast Ireland. He is the son of Dr W H Lovelady of Hariselle.
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Sim B. Lovelady
England
Army General Hospital
182Nd General Hospital
Lovelady
H. D. Greer
Grant Street
Royal College of Medicine
United
Alabama veterans aid bill moves forward in senate finance
Montgomery May 31 The senate finance committee favored an administration bill to create a separate Alabama veterans department with an appropriation set at 350000 while a companion measure passed the house at 373000. The package would also assign county service commissioners to handle ex service claims and create a legislative reference bureau with reduced funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Senate Finance Committee
Richard B. Kelly
Talladega
House
Veterans Department
Senate
Legislative Reference Bureau
George Stone
Mobile
Aviation Committee
Alabama. SA Service Commission
E. L. Roberts
Etowah
T. T. Bagley
Calhoun
W. C. Beebe
Baldwin
Alabama Farm Bureau Federation
Ways and Means Group
Vincent Kilborn
World League Backdrop Tests Allied Diplomacy in Syria
In San Francisco the Levant crisis, Iran’s troop withdrawal demands, and the Poland dispute strain the peace plan as Arabs press Secretary Stettinius over Syria and Lebanon. U S officials urge unity to craft a timely league charter, with ongoing talks on enforcement ahead of a fully armed security council.
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John M. Hightower
Associated Press
San Francisco
Syria
United Nations
Iran
Poland
Levant
Stettinius
Charter Echoes in War News Across Middle East
A wartime column links Syria and Iran to the Atlantic Charter as Syrians push for sovereignty and Iran calls for withdrawal of British Russian and American troops. The piece recalls past Allied roles in Persia and warns against postwar power rivalries and foreign domination in the region.
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Syria
Middle-East
Far East
East
Middle East
Iran
Per
Sia
Persian Board
Teheran
Persia
Russia
Persian Gulf
Britain
Morgan County E Bond Sales Lagging in War Drive
Morgan County nears a 1 326 000 quota but E bond sales total only 437 781 25 of 821 000 with 53 percent. Chairman Ewell K Gregg cites need to raise 383 000 of 423 800 remaining as three weeks pass. Despite Army show attendance and national figures, regional progress varies with Mississippi leading at 60 percent and Alabama 52 percent.
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Morgan County
Ewell K. Gregg
War Finance Committee
Gregg
Army
Benson Field
First Army
Alabama
Courtney H. Hodges
Tokyo
Washington
Mississippi
Ontana
Montana
Iowa
New Mexico
Louisiana
Georgia
American Air Units Withdrawn From Southeast Asia
Calcutta India May 31 All American aerial units have been withdrawn from the Eastern air command in Southeast Asia and Maj. Gen George E Stratemeyer has relinquished command of the organization formed December 15 1943.
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Calcutta
India
Eastern Air Command
Southeast Asia
George E. Stratemeyer
Home Canning Sugar Quotas Hit by Ruling
The Office of Price Administration halted new home canning ration certificates in regions with excess grants. Chicago region suspends issuance as supplies are reassessed. The move accompanies prior cuts in table and home canning rations to curb sugar stock strain.
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Washington
OPA
Chicago
R. E. Walters
Anderson Wins Quick Senate Nod for Agriculture Post
Rep Clinton P Anderson of New Mexico won prompt committee approval for his nomination as Secretary of Agriculture. Action on Claude Wickard as Rural Electrification Administrator was deferred. Tom C Clark faced judiciary committee for Attorney General post.
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Associated Press
Washington
Clinton
P. "Anderson
Dn.m
Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard
RFA
Senate Agriculture Committee
Anderson
Ilon Wickard
Thomas D
Okla
Wickard
Truman Cabinet
Tom C. Clark
Texas
Senate Judiciary Committee
Agriculture Department
Stockton Killed in Flying Crash Near Seymour Johnson Field
F O Edgar Eugene Stockton aged 20 died when his single engine fighter plane crashed about 5 30 yesterday afternoon six miles east of Fremont North Carolina near Seymour Johnson Field where he was stationed He was a 1941 Decatur High School graduate and had entered the armed forces March 4 1943 Surviving are sisters Mary and Stockton and a brother Leeton of Decatur Funeral arrangements to be announced by Brown.
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F-O
Edgar Eugene Stockton
Fremont
Seymour Johnson Field
North Carolina
F-Q Stockton
J. M. Stockton
Seventh Avenue West
Decatur High School
Armed Forces
Air Corps
Maine
Maxwell Field
Spence Field
Moultrie
Georgia
Decatur
Brown
Mary
Stockton
Lenother
Leeton
Churchill urges De Gaulle to withdraw French troops from Syria
London voiced a demand to pull French forces back to barracks in Syria to prevent further bloodshed as fighting between French and Syrian troops continued in Damascus. Eden announced emergency sessions in Britain and stated a cease fire was sought to avert a clash with British forces already in the Levant.
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Alex H. Singleton
London
Churchill
Gen. de Gaulle
Syria
Britain
Middle East
de Gaulle
Paris
Washington
State Department
United States
France
Lebanon
Damasc
Levant
Freece
Anthony Eden
Eden
Damascus
Commons
U. S
Adnan Bey Atassi
U.S
Jefferson Caffery
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Robert Wiggins, Jr
Robert Wiggins
Muroc Army
U.S. Naval Hospital
The
Marianas
Frank A. Berry
Wadsworth St
R. A. Berry
3Rd Ave
James M. Howell
Seaman
J C
USN
Evan Howell
Cullinan
J. Wheeler Smith
Mt. Hope
Tuscaloosa
Frances Smith
University of Alabama
Ben Darnell
Hamil
Fourth Avenue West
Brown's
Elmos Johnston
Lou Jean
Athens
O. B. Smith
Barbara Aday
Decatur General Hospital
Hartselé
G. G. Shirley
Fifth Avenue East
Nelson Bullard
Decatur General’ Hospital
Austinville
Mutual Service
Andrew Lyle
Thelma Gillespie
Corpus Christi
Betty Hyde
Sybie Garner
Moulton
Baugh
Lester Clyde Williams, Jr
Lester Williams
Baugh Infirmary
Madison 3
Golden Memories
Decatur Senior High School
Margaret Ann Brooks
Ken Reynolds
OLD Glory
Generalissimo
Soong
U. S. Navy
Evelyn Bacheler
Pocatello
Idaho
Bacheler
Pacific
Army Nurse Corps
U. S. S. Comfort
By Dewitt MacKenzie
Asia
House Military Committee
Adjutant General’s Office
Frange
Pet
Ted R. Gamble
War Finance Division
Europe
Sen
Joe
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