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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1944
Page
3
Chauncey Sparks announces a November 7 1944 general election across Alabama to vote on a constitutional amendment clarifying poll tax exemptions for veterans. The proclamation directs weekly notices in each county for four weeks and includes details on qualifying military service and exemptions. Secretary Sibyl Pool authenticates the proclamation with the Great Seal on August 1 1944.
Governor Chauncey Sparks proclaims a November 7 1944 general election in Alabama. The amendment would allow legislators to set officer salaries and fees for county officers in Houston and related courts, validate 1943 acts, and direct salary funding through the state treasury. Proclamation requires four weekly newspaper notices.
Chauncey Sparks, Secretary of State, proclaims an election on the proposed constitutional amendment to Section 138 Article 5, to be held at the General Election after the legislature order. The notice directs publishing across Alabama counties before November 7, 1944.
Chauncey announces an election to be held on Tuesday after the first Monday in November 1944 in Alabama counties. The amendment must be published for four weeks and filed with tax authorities as required by law.
The Office of Price Administration announced two changes in pulpwood pricing effective Oct. 23. A new ceiling of 10.10 dollars per cord F O B for select rough black gum plywood shipped to Hartsville South Carolina for semi chemical pulp. A truck delivery premium to a consumer mill in Tuscaloosa Alabama rises from 1.25 to 2.00 dollars per cord.
Congress plans to tackle compulsory peacetime military training after the election with Senate and House committees to begin early hearings. Chairman Reynolds said the Senate panel will meet the week of November 14 to start consideration without waiting for the new Congress. General Marshall supports a reasonable peacetime universal training period to bolster the reserve and supplement a professional army.
British coastal observers reported the heaviest air attack of the war as German flying bombs raided Southern England. Some bombs were shot down by ground gunners and patrol planes, while others breached defenses causing damage and casualties, the air ministry said.
A petition to President Roosevelt to halt Jim Crow practices against Black service members was endorsed by 220 Western Pennsylvania Negro ministers in Pittsburgh on October 17. Edgar G. Brown of the National Negro Council said the ministers aim to gather signatures of 1,000,000 Black citizens with armed forces relatives to pressure action. The petition accuses returning Black veterans of facing rest and redistribution center discrimination and seeks executive order to end it.
AP notes distances to Berlin on three fronts with figures for the Western front from west of Duren 302 miles Russian front from Warsaw 310 miles and Italian front from an incomplete point 560 miles remaining.
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