Truman Plans Three Public Talks During Michigan Visit
Vice presidential candidate Harry S Truman arrived in Michigan to deliver three speeches amid doubts about his oratorical prowess. He emphasized a gradual shift from war to civilian production and supported public works, unemployment insurance, and sustaining workers purchasing power. Democratic leaders hosted a reception before he spoke at labor rallies in Pontiac and Detroit, including Cadillac Square, outlining his wartime to peacetime economic plan.
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Vicential
Harry S. Pul
Michigan
War Prouction Center
Missouri
Roosevelt
Tru
Michi
Pontiac
Detroit
Cadillac Square
Peace Plan Praised By Bipartisan Congressional Group
A bipartisan peace plan by Reps Hays and Judd earns praise from House Foreign Affairs Committee members. Critics note practicality, while Fulbright stresses legislative action consistency with Hull Dulles talks. Jarman questions feasibility but supports recording good faith.
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Clair Johnson
Washington
Ming
Tol Hill
Cordell Hall
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Hays
D.-Ark
Judd
R.-Minn
Fulbright
Hull Dulles
Thomas E. Y
Hull
Jarman
D.-Ala
Morgan County Rock Creek Community News Sparsely Noted
East Morgan county holds a singing at Pine Burr church on September 10. States visitors include Illiam Tanner and families from Andrews. Shoal Creek quartet attended church. Dewey Crow re-elected pastor at the church. Nearby residents attended Ryan's Friday night concert and West 3 in Cullman county.
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Morgan County
Pine Burr
Illiam Tanner
U. S
Tanner
W. O. Burgess
Defirness Buford
Duiese
Vanida
Andrews
Cleo Blackwood
J. F. Tanner
Shoal Creek
Road to Berlin distances shown for fronts
The report lists distances on the Russian front 322 miles from Warsaw suburbs, Northern France 385 miles from Mamur, Southern France 565 miles from near Bourg En Bresse, and the Italian front 588 miles from south of Cattolica.
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Associated Press
Warsaw
France
Mamur
Bourg-En-Bresse
Cattolica
General Henry Assigned as Assistant Chief of Staff
Washington reports Maj. Gen. Stephen G. Henry, who organized the armor school at Fort Knox Kentucky, is named assistant chief of staff Gt personnel in the War Department announcement. He succeeds Maj. Gen. Miller G. White who received an undisclosed overseas assignment. Henry born November 23 1894 at Derry Louisiana joined the Army in 1916 and was commissioned in 1920 after World War I service in France.
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Washington
Stephen G. Henry
Armored Force
Fort Knox
War Department
Miller G. White
Henry
Derry
Louisiana National Guard
France
Lieutenant O'Hanlon Promoted to Captain at Courtland Field
Promotion of 1st Lt. Chester C. O'Hanlon assistant physical training director at Courtland Army airfield to captain announced by Col. Walter W. Gross. O'Hanlon previously directed physical training in Denver public schools and is a Greeley State College graduate, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester S. O'Hanlon of Kenosha Wisconsin. Captain and Mrs. O'Hanlon reside in Florence.
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Chester C. O'Hanlon
Courtland Army Airfield
Walter W. Gross
O'Hanlon
Denver
Colo
Greeley State College
Chester S. O'Hanlon
Kenosha
Wisc
Florence
Italian patriots stage uprising in Liguria cities
The Geneva newspaper La Suisse reported that Italian patriots seized several districts in Genoa and began street fighting in Savona and La Spezia. The dispatch was relayed by OWI.
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New York
Geneva
la Suisse
Liguria
Genoa
Savona
la Spezia
OWI
Wartime Stamp Details Extend Across Regions
The notice outlines rationing by stamps for foods and goods. Red stamps cover meats and processed foods with various A to Z ranges. sugar stamps 30 to 33 and 40 for home canning through Feb. 28, 1945. Shoes use airplane stamps 1 and 2. gasoline coupons vary by region with 11A and 12A values and five gallon limits. fuel oil period four and five via Sept. 30. new period one coupons issued.
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Associated Press
Hill introduces bill on plasma reserve release
Senator Hill of Alabama proposes legislation empowering the surgeon general to release blood plasma reserves to federal state or local health authorities or to public or nonprofit hospitals when no longer needed for war purposes.
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Hill
Bill Washington
Sen
Ala
Sugar supplies to be smaller next year predicts USDA
The Agriculture Department forecast tighter sugar supplies for the coming year and offered little hope that rationing ends before victory in the war with Japan.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Japan
Naval planes aid invasion forces in Southern France operations
Hellcat dive bombers from U S baby aircraft carriers Tulagi and Kasaan Bay destroyed over 1 000 Nazi motor vehicles and tanks in broad missions. Lt Commander William F Bringle led a rocket squadron that damaged or destroyed 23 locomotives and 195 railroad cars from Tulagi with Rear Admiral Calvin T Durgin commanding the carrier group.
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Rome
U. S
Tulagi
Kasaan Bay
France
William F. Bringle
Peabody St
Memphis
Tenn
Bringle
Calvin T. Durgin
Palmyra
N. J
Connor Protests Segregation Order in Birmingham Letter
Birmingham public safety commissioner Eugene Connor accused President Roosevelt of causing violence in Alabama by the War Department anti segregation order. He warned of terror and bloodshed if the policy is not rescinded and urged action to prevent calamity in the state.
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Birmingham
Ala
War Department
Eugene Connor
Public Safety
Roosevelt
Judith and Matthew Marry in Autumn Hotel Wedding
Judith agrees to marry Matthew after Ella suggests a wedding at a hotel with a modest ceremony. Gifts arrive from friends and family as they set up a new home near the office. Ella becomes ill and dies, Eva contemplates the future as Judith and Matthew face life with his mother and their plans. Ella leaves a substantial bequest to Judith and Mary, and Matthew receives twenty five thousand dollars.
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Ella
Judith
Lynn
Eva Lambert
Matthew
Mary
Eva
Sam
Hilda
Bill
Barbara
Dan
Mr. Treadway
Hot Springs
New York
Juedith
Mary Norman
Ells
Crea
Rajdein Cones
Labor Day Vows as War Production Rises and Labor Hits 50th
The nation marks the 50th Labor Day with workers continuing on the job to back wartime gains. Roosevelt lauds production zeal while Green and Murray warn of postwar challenges. In West Virginia and Pennsylvania about 9,000 miners and 19 mines idle due to strike votes seeking supervisors union recognition.
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Associated Press
Roosevelt
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Jacksonville Shipbuilders
Philip Murray
CIO
West Virginia
Pennsyyvania
Supervisors’ Union of the United Mine Worker’s District 50
Militiarist Exposes Nazi Crimes in Signed Soviet Statement
Maj. Gilmar Mozer, former German commandant at Lublin, Poland, admits in a signed statement published in Soviet newspapers that hundreds of thousands of prisoners, including women and children, suffered under Nazi rule.
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Moscow
Gilmar Mozer
Lublin
Poland
Soviet Prisoner Reports Atrocities at Majdanek Camp
A Soviet war prisoner from Lublin accuses Majdanek concentration camp of brutal operations directed by the German government. He says he was barred from investigation by a German army order and cites a visit by Heinrich Himmler as part of the camp’s leadership. He calls on soldiers to aid in exposing the crimes.
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Majdanek
Mozer
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Lublin
Mobile Bus Strike Ends After Citywide Walkout
Mobile Alabama ends a 1 day bus strike by 240 drivers of the Mobile city lines AFL union after a wage enhancement dispute tied to a War Labor Board petition. Transit resumed by 5 am with 100 buses in service, amid war effort concerns and a 20 percent drop in shipyard output.
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Mobile
Ala
Amalgamated Association of Street Electric and Motor Coach Employes of America
AFL
War Labor Board
WLB
Frank W. Boykin
D.-Ala
Transit
Johnston St
2Nd Ave
Decatur Transit
Decatur
Fatigue Cure From Bath and Rest
A simple fatigue remedy is a hot bath followed by lying in bed with feet elevated and head down for about 20 minutes to restore energy.
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Rock Creek
Berlin
Allied van Lines, Inc
Transfer Storage Co. 6
Arso Co
Italy
Nathan F. Twining
15Th Air Force
Romania
Signal Corps
Lieut. O'Handlon
Connor
Raith
Dist
King
John Harvey
Betty Grable
Harvey
Betty
Princess Theatre
Martha Raye
Joe E. Brown
Eugene Pallette
Skating Vanities
Charlie Spivak
Iar Ead Ey
Joe Tao
Universal
Concrete Pipe CO
Pt. O. Box
Saturn
Goodyear
Goodyear Mill
West Vine
3Rd Sts
Lee and
Bank Sts
Ferry
Walnut St
Grant St
8Th Ave
Ferry St
Bank St
Jackson St
Somerville Road
9Th St
West Moulton St
9Th Ave
Prospect
4Th Ave
6Th Ave
5Th St
7Th St
Moulton St
2Nd St
5Th Ave
1St Ave
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