Truman signs postwar finance plans at Potsdam
President Truman signed free trade and postwar aid bills ratifying Bretton Woods measures. The move increases a $9.3 billion world bank and an $8.8 billion stabilization fund, with exports and UN food efforts funded to stabilize global trade and aid reconstruction.
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Grand Jury Adjourns After Handing Down 62 Indictments
In a lengthy session the Houston County grand jury adjourned after returning 62 indictments including 51 felonies and 1 misdemeanor. Led by foreman R K Council the body will serve through year end as ordered by Circuit Judge D C Halstead. Reports praised county buildings and officers with one exception. The bonds and sureties committee found the collector of the aiden Gasoline Tax not under bond and urged steps by the Board of Revenue. Ninteen in custody in last week’s indictments.
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Berlin Sees Potsdam Accord as Hope for German Unity
Berliners welcomed the Potsdam communique reporting the Big Three plan to keep Germany as a single entity with a national government in view. Residents expressed relief that Berlin’s four occupying zones need not presage partition and that decentralization would favor democracy.
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Senate clashed over war force estimates and mobilization
Senator Johnson challenged Secretary Stimson to refute a claim that no more than 3,000,000 American soldiers can be deployed in the Pacific by year’s end. He urged scaling the Army to a practical level based on logistics, warning of a transportation crisis and mass demobilization amid peak unemployment. Taft criticized the War Department’s plan as unworkable, noting large remaining forces and the long supply lines to the Pacific. Johnson pressed MacArthur to use all available men within logistical limits.
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Napier Officers Take Custody Of Three Soldiers In Liquor Case
Military authorities at Napier field in Houston County obtained custody of three soldiers held on prohibition charges after sheriff's deputies found 16 quarts of out of state whiskey and an automobile at a nightspot north of downtown. The incident exposed friction between the sheriff and military officials over handling of soldier prisoners in civil offenses.
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Freddie Moore
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Counts Court
Governor Seeks Impeachment of Marion County Judge
Governor Chauncey Sparks asked Attorney General Robert Harwood to file impeachment proceedings against Marion County Probate Judge Roy Sanderson. The move follows a Grand Jury report listing neglect of duty and temperance issues, including improper handling of a county election name, a low private sale price for the Poor Farm, and undervalued sale of the jailer's residence. The case will be filed with the Alabama Supreme Court, with a trial hoped for the first week of October.
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Governor Sparks backs income tax amendment for broad benefit
The governor argues the proposed October 2 amendment advances education welfare and health by creating irrevocable sinking funds to retire income tax bonds and old carpet bag debt. It preserves the homestead exemption for small homeowners while directing funds to education and social services. He contends the measure helps all people and reduces state taxes only for the many rather than a few.
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Potsdam Pact Deepens East West Tensions
Washington dispatch outlines intensified Anglo American Soviet relations after Potsdam. Big Three decisions draw a north south division of Europe from Stettin to Trieste, with Greece in Britain’s sphere and Turkey unsettled. Potential clashes loom as Soviet influence and Communist groups align with Moscow.
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Roosevelt Bumped but Keeps Cool After Blaze Reminder
Col James Roosevelt was bumped from a westbound airliner yesterday yet smiled when a civilian with a high priority joke said the dog Blase came through. The dog belongs to Eliott Roosevelt, Brig. Gen. Roosevelts brother. Three servicemen lost seats as the dog was shipped from Washington to California.
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Speculation on Big Five Council picks in London
In Washington and London circles, names for the US deputy on the Big Five council of foreign ministers are advanced. John G. Winant James Clem Dunn and Benjamin V. Cohen appear as leading candidates, with Vincant possibly replaced by Joseph E. Davies as Ambassador to Britain as he returns from Potsdam.
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Building Of 25 Additional Houses Authorized Here
National Housing Agency approved a supplemental program for Dothan to add 25 houses amid a housing shortage. Of the 25 units ten for sale to white occupants at up to 6500 dollars each and five for rent at 55 dollars monthly. Ten houses for Negro occupants may be sold or rented with prices capped at 3500 dollars or rents not exceeding 40 dollars per month.
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Air Force Marks 12 More Nip Cities For Destruction
Manila reports seizure of a Japanese hospital ship under the Red Cross insignia used to smuggle war supplies through the Allied blockade. The Seventh Fleet intercepted the vessel, finding machine guns 275 millimeter shells and other ammunition in cases labeled medical supplies. The crew included 13 officers and 63 men.
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Laval Claims He Saved French Leaders From Nazis
Paris AP says Laval testified at Petain's trial that he and Petain saved two former French premiers Leon Blum and Paul Reynaud from Nazi killing squads. He claimed he prevented Mandel’s murder, denied German plans, and said France avoided a German occupation by resisting in Africa. He also noted U.S. diplomats sought an explanation for his purge speech.
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Rommel Suicide Reported by Son in Germany
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel killed himself to avoid a People’s Court trial over the July 20 1944 bomb plot against Hitler, his son told U S Army officers on Saturday. An SS release claimed Rommel chose death by his own hand after learning of a planned public accusation.
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M Arthur Extends Pacific Command To Ryukyu Isles
General MacArthur extends his Pacific command to the Ryukyu Islands, creating a unified area including Okinawa and the planned invasion front toward Japan. Stilwell leads the Tenth Army and Kenney’s Far East Air Forces as part of the expanded control, with changes effective Tuesday midnight.
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Five-State Area Bus Strike Vote Tabulated
Union officials announced late yesterday that a five state area vote on a bus strike over the War Labor Board order to reinstate Greyhound workers has been tabulated. About 26 000 drivers, cleaners and maintenance workers across Alabama Georgia Maryland and Florida were affected as the regional WLB in Pallay called the action a violation of labor’s no strike pledge and said federal offices would take no further action until work resumes.
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Collective Trial Of War Guilty To Start Sept. 1
London AP reports the Four-Tower Crimes Conference reached agreement on a document indicting aggressive war as an international crime. The mass trial of Nazi leaders and senior officials will open September 4 at Nuernberg before an international military tribunal with Britain France Russia and the United States serving as prosecutors.
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Tomato juices gain point free status on ration list
Washington AP reports canned tomato juice mixed vegetable juice grapefruit juice and blends of grapefruit and orange juice will become point free today Orange juice is already point free The adjustment was made by the Secretary of Agriculture and Price Administrator Chester Bowles in a joint announcement noting revised redemptions and labeling rules not in August’s point table
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Farm Bureau vows vigorous fight over income tax diversion
Alabama Farm Bureau president Walter La Fandalon warned Saturday that the proposed constitutional amendment would divert income tax revenue from education welfare and property tax relief to fund state needs. He cited concerns that funds would be earmarked for unrelated programs and questioned the measure's impact on education and local finance. The federation plans to oppose the amendment and push for retention of current funding formulas.
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Japs Told They Must Surrender Or Be Destroyed
Allied air force warns 12 Japanese cities and 3.4 million people to surrender evacuate or face devastation. B 29s drop pamphlets across Kyushu Honshu and Hokkaido targets including Yawata Akita Iwaki Fukushima and Otaru as new phase of psychological warfare begins.
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Taft calls for draft halt and wartime controls end
Senator Taft proposes an immediate halt to drafting and early relaxation of wartime business controls. He outlines a postwar program covering employment welfare public works agriculture and labor in reply to Truman and Roosevelt policies. He criticizes the War Department for maintaining a large army and urges ending conscription for essential industrial workers aged 26 to 30.
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Spain Rejects Potsdam Stand
London Sunday AP reports Generalissimo Franco's government announcing Spain rejects the Potsdam decision to exclude Spain from United Nations membership as arbitrary and unjust. Madrid radio blamed the decision on a defamatory abroad campaign and said Bouin does not seek admittance to international conferences.
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Tropical Storm Breaks Up Over Dominican Mountains
A tropical disturbance sweeping from the Lesser Antilles was breaking up over the Dominican Republic mountains Saturday. The Miami Weather Bureau announced at 2 pm that no further advisories would be issued. The system moved into the Ocoa Bay area near Ciudad Trujillo and was dissipating as mountains inland disrupted it. Squally weather would continue over the Dominican Republic, Haiti and nearby waters before gradually diminishing.
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