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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1945
Page
5
The OPA orders apparel makers to cut back prices and wages, aiming to curb rising costs. Officials say wage increases may be allowed without triggering price hikes, though some mills could be certified to offset higher wages.
President Truman moves carefully into Roosevelt's wartime role on the allied high command. He may soon review Japan defeat plans discussed at Yalta, with potential personal talks with Nimitz and MacArthur. Washington observers note two main schools of thought for defeating Japan, including direct assault or coastal blockade.
Navy policy allocates housing preference to owner occupants under the National Housing Agency program. Dothan will receive priority for 25 houses, while 35 more houses are allotted in Botham with designated owner and rental allocations and five for Negro applicants. State director Wilber E. Nolen states owner occupants get first consideration if no applicants exist. otherwise individual investor applications are evaluated. Approval covers construction of up to 60 houses at a cost not exceeding 700 per building with forms available at the Chamber of Commerce.
Officials at Houston County's Le ave Service Board Three listed eleven registrants for induction including Thomas Telferton Lashley Jr James sey Raymond Frank King Elen Yates Woody William Cochran Jack Hatcher Roger Chapman Sam Hall Hom denior Aman James Mixon and Jantie Chester Dol de from Winter Garden Florida. one registrant is identified as transgender. The group departed for Ft McClellan for action.
AP reports Allied forces tighten around Bavarian redoubt near Chemnitz and Hamburg outskirts as Third Army advances. Russian front notes German tank battles, Berlin pursuit, and Russians nearing Oder Neisse. Italian front cites Portomaggiore and Pianura near Ferrare, while Pacific reporting shows Cotabato captured in Mindanao and Okinawa offensive expanding toward Iwo Jima alongside British positions.
The United States launches a major attack across southern Okinawa near Naha with about 45,000 troops from three divisions, supported by heavy naval and artillery fire. Initial gains include Machinato village as forces press a four mile front, amid rugged Napponese defenses in interlocking trenches, caves, and pillboxes. The operation, described as a large bombardment in support of amphibious troops, faces a slow but determined Japanese defense as air and sea power aim to break the line. The Naha area holds Ryukyu airfields and is central to Okinawa’s defense as U.S. forces push inland.
The Associated Press dispatch notes Eastern Front 18 miles from Muenchebers. Western Front 45 miles from Tangermuende and Italian Front at 422 miles.
Allied reports show Eighth Army advancing three miles to seize Portomaggiore and nearby Portoverrara while widening toward Ferrara and the Po. Fifth Army pushes along Highway 65 toward Pianora south of Bologna and along Highway 16 toward Ferrara. West coast sector sees Fifth Army within eight miles of Laspezia port.
Dothan and Houston County schools will press to meet quotas in the Seventh War Loan drive. Robert Ramsey, executive county chairman of the War Finance Committee, said figures on the first day’s drive will be released next week. Each school has a quota and students aim to reach it before June 30, with early dismissal to promote E bond sales. The drive opens May 14 and runs through June 30, with April 9 to July 7 purchases credited to the county.
Headland Baptists and Methodists will join civic groups and others at Headland Methodist church at 8 oclock Sunday night to discuss a living memorial honoring Headland service men. The idea, proposed by the Headland Post of the American Legion and local residents, is to pay permanent tribute to area servicemen. The Rev T P Chalker will host the gathering with Jim Cullen and Grover Ray named speakers.
Allied and German claims swirl as Soviet forces reportedly breach Berlin outer defenses while U S troops clear remnants of Nazi resistance in Nuernberg and American divisions push toward the last strongholds near Nuremberg Czechoslovakia is within striking distance of Asch as Third Army units move toward Pilsen Prague amid near collapse of German fronts Goebbels warns of disaster on Hitler’s birthday anniversary and the stadium in Nuremberg is captured by advancing Allied troops
Flora Lewis reports from Washington that smaller nations push for boundary guarantees in any peacekeeping body. President Truman and Senator Connally discussed Russia at the White House as preparations for the San Francisco UN meeting proceed. Diplomats push for frontier guarantees and broader decisions on sanctions, challenging Dumbarton Oaks limits. Canada proposes a two third assembly requirement for sanctions.
Military honors were given to Ernie Pyle, famed war correspondent, as U S troops on Ye Island stood at attention. He was killed by Japanese machine gun fire on Wednesday, and services were held with solemn tribute to the Doughboy journalist.
American Doughboys seized the 44th and 45th islands of the Philippines invasion, Balabac and Carabao, advancing near Borneo and Manila Bay. MacArthur reported Japanese counterattacks in the Baguio area repulsed. Mindanao forces moved 22 miles toward Davao as aerial units destroyed ships and other vessels. Formosa heavily bombed. The Balabac landing enabled a potential amphibious move against oil-rich Borneo.
Dr John Winter of Sylacauga and Lewis M. Smith of Ensley each received 44 votes in the Rotary Governor race for District 64. The mail ballot election was conducted statewide amid a testing process and balloting is underway for the 4% individual filing figures.
Hal Boyle offers a tribute to Ernie Pyle, noting he isn’t dead but transferred to another outfit. The piece recalls their early meeting in Oran, in a drafty hotel, with Pyle a modest figure then, grateful for a handkerchief, and later memories of North Africa and Tunisia.
Washington AP reports backers of a draft extender face a Senate fight over amendments to bar 18 year olds from actual combat until six months training. The House passed the extension to May 15 1946 or war end. Navy Secretary Forrestal calls restrictions disastrous and Gen. Marshall warns the nation must be prepared to be response to military needs.
Governor Sparks announced the appointment of Navy Lieutenant Perdue of Moulton as associate member of the Alabama Public Service Commission. Perdue, a University of Alabama Law School graduate, is 39 and has served overseas and in Washington. He will replace Gordon Persons, elected president of the PSC, with a four year term beginning in 1949.
A Wednesday midnight fire at the Titney Jungle on West Main Street caused an estimated $17,000 in stock and equipment damage. Owner M W Kelley said about $12,000 of stock and $4,000 to $5,000 in gear were ruined as firefighters battled the blaze for about three hours.
A report from Magdeburg Germany notes the Allied admin task overrun territories will demand a much larger occupation force than planned. Civil law collapse and widespread misery complicate control as slave laborers and predatory bands hinder security with typhus and food shortages looming.
Mandy Mae Daniels a 16 year old Negro girl from Houston County was paroled by the State Pardon and Parole Board after serving part of a seven year term in the state penitentiary for first degree manslaughter in the death of her infant child. Convicted March 28, 1944, she was sentenced to the penitentiary and later sought probation through defense counsel before the petition was withdrawn.
Russians push toward Berlin as forces reach Hangelsberg seven miles east of the capital and advance on the Oder and Neisse fronts. German reports say battles rage at the gates of Berlin with reinforced American units on the Elbe and Soviet bridgeheads established west of the Oder. The warring fronts describe a decisive struggle in flames and searchlights as German forces throw counterattacks south of Frankfurt and near Wriezen and Strausberg while Konev’s First Ukrainian Army nears Cottbus and Berlin’s outskirts.
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