Wainwright Is Welcomed Home After Hero’s Parade
Gen Jonathan M Wainwright greeted by crowds of about 1 5 million as he arrived in New York from Washington. A 17 gun salute and a 200 man Army honor guard opened a jubilant homecoming marked by a motorcade to city hall and a dinner at the Waldorf Astoria with Mayor La Guardia in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Cor
Bataan
Air - Transport Command
Washington
la Guardia
ATC
Pheory
Oral City Hall
aldorf-Astoria
Gen
Ainwright
Triborough Bridge
Queens
Manhattan
East River
Broadway
Wainwright
Financial District
Lower Broadway
Lewis Valentine
Hero's Canyon
the Battery
City Hall
Curb Market Plan Moves Forward In Decatur
T F Adams and W J Duncan of the curb market committee presented the plan to retailers citing the sale of the current site and a new owner’s construction. They reported an agreement with Louisville and Nashville Railroad for use of adjacent property and the need to raise 2000 to 3000 dollars for removal, improvements, parking, and restroom facilities. Community leaders praised the project, discussed funding, and considered a second market on the opposite side of the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. F. Adams
W.J. Duncan
Civic Clubs
Adams
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company
Decatur
Duncan
Vernon McGwier
A. L. Burns
Sam Alexander
Henry Norton
C. M. Kirk
Kirk
Fist Avenue
Alexander
John White
Man admits burglary tied to Biloxi restaurant raid
Mobile man James L McNealy signed a written confession to taking part in a Biloxi Mississippi restaurant burglary on Tuesday but denied involvement in a shooting that wounded two military police during a running battle. Detective Captain Tally Kings said another man is being questioned in the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
James L.mcnealy
Biloxi
Miss
Tally Kings
Pvt
D. C. Strong
Edward Doland
Markets Butter Eggs Chicago Market Summary
Butter steady in Chicago with receipts of 331,655 while eggs receipts total 8,754 and are unsteady yet market unchanged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Nashville Livestock Market Reports Steady Gains Across Classes
Nashville Sept 13 cattle opened moderately active yet mostly steady with few top grades. Medium and good 900 lb heifers 13.50, steers 13.25, cows mostly 5.50-8.50, general beef cows 9.00-12.00, sausage bulls 9.75-11.75, calves steady 14.00-16.50, hogs 14.50 ceiling for 140-400 lb, sheep 12.25-13.25 for good lambs, medium and common lambs 4.00-6.50, slaughter ewes 6.00 down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Federal State Market News Service
New York Cotton Futures Rise on Demand and Hedging
Cotton futures advanced with deferred contracts showing the widest gains. Steady commission house demand and light offerings through hedges and profit taking supported prices. Late afternoon quotes up 30 to 95 cents per bale with Oct at 22.91.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Community Health Fairly Good and Local Visits
Health of this community is fairly good. Mr and Mrs Biddie Johnson and children visited Mr and Mrs Wesley Curtis of Speake Sunday. Sgt Leonard C McCaghren returning from overseas after three years is the son of Mr and Mrs Franklin McCaghren of Moulton. Mr and Mrs John Bass of Fairfield were Sunday guests of their parents, Mr and Mrs Will Hembree. P L Elmer Pvt J T McCaghren and Orman King of Upton's Chapel visited their parents and grandparents, Saturday, Mr and Mrs J W McCaghren. Miss Marie Swindell spent last weekend with grandparents Mr and Mrs Jim Borden of Austinville. Mr and Mrs Gordon McCaghren of Neel visited Mr and Mrs J W McCaghren and Jessie Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddie Johnson
Wesley Curtis
Near Speake
Leonard C. McCaghren
Franklin McCaghren
Moulton
John Bass
Fairfield
Will Hembree
P. L. Elmer
Pvt
J. T.mccaghren
Orman King
Upton’s Chapel
J. W. McCaghren
Marie Swindell
Jim. Borden
Austinville
Wake Island hero denied sending famed radio message
Lt Col James P. Devereux denied he ever sent the famous radio message send us more Japs as his Little Marine garrison was overwhelmed on Wake Island in December 1941. He made the denial during a visit by air evacuation group members who visited his prison camp in Northern Hokkaido on Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
James P. Devereux
Wake Island
Devereux
Hokkaido Island
Restrictions Lifted on Group Travel by Defense Transportation
Washington reports the Office of Defense Transportation will lift all group travel restrictions and agency travel activities effective October 1. The July 21 order barred organized group travel and rail accommodations sales to travel agencies, a rule relaxed August 17 to exclude business travel from applicability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
Bus wreck kills miner as others hurt in Alabama county
A Western Jefferson County bus carrying nine workers headed to mines crashed today near Birmingham. James McKay of Burnsville was killed. Steve Reed of West Jefferson suffered serious injuries. Eight others were injured in the wreck, authorities said.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Jefferson’ County
State Highway Patrol
James McKay
Burnsville
Steve Reed
West Jetfaaae
Local Army discharge and hospital admissions report
Bill Weeks of Scottsboro was dismissed from Baughs infirmary yesterday. Pfc Edward L Singleton of Hartsel2 received a discharge from the Army and has returned home from Northington General Hospital Tuscaloosa. Allen A Brown of Hartselle2 was admitted to Decatur General Hospital yesterday. L W Swindell of Danville2 and Mrs Alice Baker of Union Grove were admitted to Decatur General Hospital this morning. Donald Ray Murphy of 1724 Ninth Avenue East and Mrs Johnnie Self of 318 Eighth Avenue West were admitted yesterday. Rent control inquiries at the courthouse annex were advised to expect correspondence from the rent office when calling. Charles Redding Pitt 18 month old son of Dr and Mrs Kermit Pitt was moved from Decatur General Hospital to Children's Hospital Birmingham by Browns ambulance yesterday afternoon. He has been ill since Monday. Dr and Mrs Pitt are with him in Birmingham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward L. Singleton
Hartselle 2
Army
Northington General Hospital
Tuscaloosa
Donald Ray Murphy
Ninth Avenue East
Decatur General Hospital
Johnnie Self
Eighth Avenue West
Charles Redding Pitt
Kermit Pitt
Children’s Hospital
Birmingham
Brown's Ambulance
Decatur and Austinville residents visit kin in Tuscaloosa
Mrs O K Breeding of Decatur and Mrs Henry Johnston of Austinville return from Tuscaloosa where they visited their sister and aunt who has pté Charlie C Smith served 18 months in Italy and phoned his wife that he would be home on furlough soon and they have one daughter Dinah Pictures of the 1941 Decatur Huntsville football game and the Alabama Duke Sugar Bowl game will be shown at 7 30 tonight at Riverside high school auditorium Boy Scout Troop 11 meets at 7 30 tonight at Central Baptist church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O K. Breeding
Decatur
Henry Johnston
Austinville
Tuscaloosa
Charlie C. Smith
Italy
New York City
Charlie Smith
New York
Dinah
Riverside High School
Central Baptist Church
Bakery truck in ditch near Cullman, no injuries reported
A Betsy Ross bakery truck owned by the McGough bakery left Cullman traveling toward Decatur and wound up in a ditch about one mile north of Cullman around 7 this morning. No further information was available early this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betsy Ross Bakery
The
McGough Bakery
Cullman
Decatur
Veterans Die in Bus Crash as Tree Flips Bus in Massachusetts
Four veterans who served in France and Belgium died when an Army bus crashed into a South Main Street tree, overturned, and burned. Twenty eight others were injured, all New Englanders. The Army identified the dead as members of the 86th depot repair unit. names were not released immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aver
Mass
France
Belgium
Army
86Th
New
Birmingham considers Powderly district annexation plan
A Powderly district delegation of about 7,000 residents asked Birmingham to cooperate in annexation plans. The city commission agreed to attend a mass meeting in Powderly for full discussion of the proposal as Birmingham extends a welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Powderly
City Commission
Gas Blast Kills Five Negro Soldiers in England War Work
In England on Sept 13 a deadly gas explosion at an American labor camp killed five Black soldiers and injured sixteen others. The blast shattered the camp, trapping workers and prompting emergency response teams to secure the scene and aid the wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deal
England
Jiabor Corps
Navy doctor cites Japanese blood-for-transfusion atrocity
Yokohama reports quote a Navy physician and Capt. Stanton Allison alleging that Shinagawa Hospital in Tokyo routinely bled American POWs to death or to weaken them for transfusions for Japanese wounded. He recalls antiseptic abuse, confinement of tubercular patients, forced self-fertilization with dysentery stool, and brutal treatment amid antiaircraft defenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yokohama
Navy
Corregidor
Stanton Allison
New York
Benevolence
Jackyo
Allison
Shinagawa
Labor test case filed in Detroit on veteran job rights
The United Auto Workers CIO intervened in a World War II veteran’s job protection suit under the Selective Service act. George A. Drosten claims two postwar positions at Nash-Kelvinator were unjust. he seeks restoration of his prewar job with veteran preference. The UAW CIO argues “super-seniority” would impair 350,000 returning veterans and ruin established seniority patterns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
United Automobile Workers (Cio
George A. Drosten
Uawcio
Arthur F. Lederle
Drosten
NashsKelvinator Corp
Lansing
Armed Services
Uaw-Cio
Community Notices From Morgan County Rock Springs
Church attendance and visiting relatives noted in Morgan County Rock Springs with Rev. Bert Murphree and various families visiting Decatur, Powell’s Chapel, Hartselle, Sheffield, and Basham. Cotton picking begins as local farmers report activity and Mrs Luke Roberts visits Decatur, plus Grandma Johnson stays with Ella and Milton England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Murphree
Flint
Edgar Melson
Decatur
Louise
Wilmer Melson
Luke Roberts
Madison Moore
Powell's Chapel
Glenn Maples
Glengelle
Katherine
New Certter
W.E. Brown
Carolyn
Judy Gayle
Hartselle
Byrum
Edgar Callahan
Johnson
Ella
Milton England
British union chief praises Soviet style planning
Sir Walter Citrine of the British Trades Union Congress said Britain could benefit from government planning of production and economy in the manner of Soviet Russia. He spoke after a speech by George Meany who criticized Russian unions as tools of control and said the CIO would not join a new world labor body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackpool
England
Walter Citrinen
British
Trade Union Congress
Soviet
Russia
Walter
Congress
George Meany
AFL
Meany
Trades Union Congress
New World Labor Organization
CIO -A
Subcommittee backs uniform Southern Standard building code
Montgomery Alabama September 13 report says a P A subcommittee drafted a recommendation for the building commission to adopt the uniform Southern Standard building code as a pattern for construction under the state’s multi million dollar building program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
The
Building Commission
Group Gathers Support for Decatur Membership Drive
Community Concert Association workers report a one third rise in memberships from yesterday’s efforts compared with mid week figures last year. Address headquarters at Upstate Chevrolet Company to join. campaign ends Saturday at 2:00 PM. Artist committee to select performers including the Bary Ensemble featuring Gertrude Bary Lorna Wren Mary Becker and Virginia Peterson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Community Concert Association
Henry DeVerner
Perry Orr
Decatur Club
Orr
Upstate Chevrolet Company
DeVerner
Association
Bary
Decatur
Gertrude Bary
Lorna Wren
Mary Becker
Virginia Peterson
War era turmoil in Allied war endgame and Japan’s surrender
The text reports on permission fleeing to a Japanese island, cabinet session under Premier Naru hiko-Higashi-Kuni to assess past records for MacArthur, industrialists blaming cowardice for silence on atomic leverage, and a budget shift to food production relief and reconstruction. It notes repatriation delays for over a million Japanese in China and Singapore’s formal surrender, with Mountbatten warning Japan may resist terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bataan
Japan
Naruhiko—Higashi-Kuni
MacArthur
Brines
Hsia I-Su
China
Singap
South
Tojo says he planned suicide long before interview
Hideki Tojo spoke from his Yokohama hospital bed after shooting himself two days earlier. He said he had planned to kill himself for a long time but knew the time had come when American officers stood outside his house. He described his cowardice in choosing suicide over the ritual harakiri and commented that he would face trial after recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duane H Nnessy
Yokohama
Hideki Tojo
Tojo
Saburo Kurusu
Pearl Harbor
Cordell Hull
G. I
Maj
Elbert Elliott
Houston
Tex
Toft
United States Army
Suliters
Aig
Interrat
Tokyo
Charles Gerry
Associated Press
Navy
Iowa
Tokyo Bay
Mary Dodson Dies Here in Auto Truck Crash Victim identified
Miss Mary Dodson 23 daughter of Mr and Mrs R L Dodson of Austinville died at 7 10 this morning at Baughs infirmary from head injuries in an auto truck collision on Bee Line highway near Morgan County sanitorium Tuesday evening. Funeral at 2 PM Friday at Athens cemetery with burial there. Peres Funeral Home in charge. The Monarch Food store employee sustained fatal injuries when the car she rode in hit a truck driven by John Alvin Calvert of Trade Alabama who was uninjured. The truck was only lightly damaged and other occupants of the car were uninjured.
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Mary Dodson
R. L. Dodson
Austinville
Baugh’s Infirmary
Bee Line
Morgan County
Athens
Peres Funeral Home
Miss Dodson
Monarch Food Store
John Alvin . Calvert
Trade
Ala
Lace
E. Terry
Decature
Mildred Smith
Grady Lott
Alton Borden
Terry
Speake area notes and local events reported
Lawrence County notices salute Presley Kelsoe returning from the European Theater of war and James Russell Lowery on Navy furlough. Church revival at Church of God ends. Rev Goodwin speaks at Baptist church. Miss Sara McCaghren visits, students head to Florence State Teachers College. Cotton farming resumes as summer school term at Speake ends September 14. Allen Way visits Hartselle. Speake families host guests, with several local households mentioned across social rounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Kelsoe
Presley Kelsoe
States
James Russell Lowery
Floyd Lowery
Church of God
Goodwin
Courtland
Baptist Church
Sara McCaghren
Birmingham
Bessie McCaghren
Dorothy Kelsoe
Florence
State Teachers College
Christine McLemore
Speake
Allen Way
Hartselle
Albert Speake
Carrie Mae Speake
Clifford Speake
S. L. Hampton
Marie
Local social notes from Morgan County community
Fred Dunn of the N S N visits his parents in town. Jim Gurley traveled to Montgomery on business. Paul Bowling and twin daughters visit the Waugh family in Priceville. Robert Bidwell from Auburn weekends with R C Ryan. Gurley family members visit Decatur. Buck Johnson and daughter Rachel visit Hartselle. Bowling family attends New Center singing. Several locals busy picking cotton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred. Dunn
A. H. Dunn
Jim Gurley
Montgomery
Paul Bowling
Priceville
Harold Waugh
Robert Bidwell
Auburn
R.C. Ryan
J. B. Gurley
Johnny Sue
James Gurley Jr
Jimmy
Decatur
Buck Johnson
Rachel
Hartselle
M. G. Bowling
New Center
War damage of German invasion to Soviet Union stated
A state commission reported total German war damage to the Soviet Union at 697,000,000,000 rubles at 1941 price levels. The Soviet Monitor in London cited 25 rubles per British pound, valuing Russia’s war damage at about $108,640,000,000 based on 16 cents per ruble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Soviet Union
London
Russia
Ships Stay In Japanese Waters On Surveillance Duty
Washington reports eight carriers 14 cruisers and 50 destroyers of the third fleet will remain in Japanese waters for surveillance. Personnel reductions possible as some crews are discharged for homeward moves. Carriers listed include Yorktown Shangri-La Bon Homme Richard Lexington Hancock Independence Cowpens Belleau Wood. Cruisers Topeka Duluth Atlantic Dayton Oklahoma City Pasadena Springfield Wilkes Barre Boston Quincy St Paul Chicago Flint Oakland. Destroyers listed include C K Bronson Cotton Dortch Gatling Healy Cogswell Caperton Ingersoll Knapp Cushing Colahan Halsey Powell R H Huntington Uhliman Benham Yarnall Twining Stockham Wedderburn Barton Watlie Watkins OBrien Lowry Allen M Summer Moale C S Sperry Ault ba J W Weeks Handaw Wallace Land Erben Walker Hale Smaller Stoddard Watts Wrenn Rogers Benner Hawkins Chevalier Higbee Heerman Franks Wakleigh Norman Scott Perkins English.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
Yorktown
Shanghala
Bon Homme Richard
Lexington
Hancock
Independence
Cowpens
Belleau Wood
Topeka
Duluth
Atlanta
Dayton
Oklahoma City
Pasadena
Springfield
Wilkes Barre
Boston
Quincy
St. Paul
Chicago
Flint
Oakland
C. K. Bronson
Cotten
Dortch
Gatling
Healy
Cogswell
Caperton
Ingersoll
Knapp
Cushing
Colahan
Halsey Powell
R. H. Huntington
Uhliman
Benham
Yarnall
Twining
Stockham
Wedderburn
Barton
Watlke
O'Brien
Lowry
Allen M. Summer
Moale
C. S. Sperry
Ault
J. W. Weeks
Handa Wallace
Land
Erben
Walker
Hale
Renewed call for secrecy on Pearl Harbor inquiry report
A renewed plea seeks continued secrecy for parts of the naval inquiry board report on the 1941 Pearl Harbor disaster focusing on breaking Japanese codes. Senate naval committee members push for full disclosure, while an 8 to 10 member congressional panel plans an A to Z Pearl Harbor probe. Four key proposals moved ahead yesterday including leftover war goods, Standard Time, government corporations, and airports with funding plans and partisan differences. The unemployment compensation bill nears final committee touches, meeting Truman’s key requirements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naval Inquiry Board
Senate Naval Committee
Congressional Committee
Pearl Harbor
Senate
House
W. Stuart Symington
Truman
America
Whittington
RFC
HOLC
TVA
Farm Credit Agencies
Byrd-Butler
Senate Banking Committee
House Interstate, Commerce Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Hasmaditch
Shoes To Be Off List Soon In Washington Report
Washington reports shoe rationing may end in October after WPB leather bureau recommendations. Decision pending talks between WPB Chairman Krug and OPA Administrator Bowles. If output reaches 40 million pairs monthly, rationing ends. officials note end is near and coupons may spend freely. Some argue rationing inflates prices and hurts lower price lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Production Board
Leathe
WPB
J. A. Krug
OPA
Chester Bowles
Office of Civilian Requirements
Leather Bureau
U S Diplomats in Urgent London Conference
U S and representatives from Eastern and Southeastern Europe gather in London for urgent consultations with Secretary of State James F. Byrnes on Balkan tensions. Byrnes met King Peter of Yugoslavia at Claridge's, then with Archbishop Damaskinos at the American embassy and with Australian foreign minister Herbert Evatt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Europe
James F. Byrnes
Balkan
Council of Foreign Ministers
Byrnes
Peter
Yugoslavia
Claridges Hotel
Archbishop Damaskinos
Herbert Evatt
Stations On Air In Spite Of Strike
New York reporters say about 500 union radio technicians across 350 stations of the National and American Broadcasting companies stayed away from their posts while networks continued broadcasting with supervisory staff. A T Powley, head of the independent National Association of Broadcasting Engineers and Technicians, said workers would remain away until contract talks resume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
National
American Broadcasting Companies
A. T. Powley
National Association of Broadcasting Engineers and Technicians
Car Crash Kills Montgomery Man Near Crossings
Roy Bell of Montgomery was killed when his car was struck by a passenger train bound for Atlanta near Cook's Station on Ware's Ferry Road east of Montgomery. The collision hurled the vehicle about 1,500 feet from the crossing, according to Highway Patrol Inspector Tom Carlisle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Roy Bell
Highway Patrol
Tom Carlisle
Carlisle
Cook's Station
Ware's Ferry Road
Koreans See Shadow of Black Dragon In United States
Congress eyes Japan's Black Dragon Society amid suspicions of its activities in the United States. House committee on un American activities plans to investigate. Senator Elbert D. Thomas, a former Orient missionary, notes Korean independence progress. President Truman promises immediate expulsion of Japanese officials in Korea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Black Dragon Society
Congress
House Committee On un-American Activities
Elbert D. Thomas
Dutah
Orient
Kuman
Korea
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James L.rankin
NAT. Bank
L. H. Hempelmann
Washington University
St. Louis
Lawrence County
Red Hill
Jessie McCaghren
Deenaes
Diarts
Bill Weeks
Scottsboro
Baugh’'s Infirmary
Allen A. Brown
L. W. Swindell
Danville 2
Alice Baker
Union Grove
Rock Springs
Mrs. I 'Ke Roberts
Britton
Miss Bary
United States
Miss Wren
Phil Spitalny
Miss Becker
Miss Peterson
Manhattan Trio
New York City Symphony Orchestra
Charles
Arthur .Burden
Betty
Mrs. Taylor Black
Morgan County Florette
G. C. Vincent
U. S
Siorgan County
Stewart
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