War crimes list names Japan's top militarists and politicians
Arthur names a diverse line of suspects and influential figures tied to wartime Japan. The roster includes Shunroku Hata, Kiichiro Hiranuma, Koji Hirota, Naoki Hoshino, Toshizo Nishio, Saburo Ando, and other former ministers and Zaibatsu leaders. The compilation notes former Kempeitai, Imperial Rule Assistance Association ties, and roles in enacting harsh measures.
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Pee Weston
Peter
Bacon
Xogue
Privy Council
Emer
Promian Zaibatsu
Iiorists
Wan
Japan
Kempeitai
Police
Assaance Association
Mye Party
Shunroku Hata
Jerey
Hideki Teo
Wbis
Hata
I Wg
Hiroshima
Hares Kiichiro Hiranuma
Pemier
Civy Council
Germany
Tay
Koji Hirota
Unce
Naoki Hoshino
Cabint
Toshizo Nishio
China
Tojo
Saburo Ando
Home Ministry
Houston War Board Succeeded By USDA Agriculture Council
The Houston County War Board is replaced by the USDA Agriculture Council to guide peacetime farm agency coordination in the county. D. F. Snell is elected chairman. C. M. Ling is county secretary. The council will assist war board duties with Selective Service matters and work with draft boards in an advisory role. Agencies include AAA, Farm Security, Rural Electrification, National Loan, and others.
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Houston County
Houston County War Board
United States Department of Agriculture Council
Clinton P. Anderson
Sec
Mary of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
USDA
War Board
Farm Security
County
172 New Voters Register In County Beat Totals
A total of 172 new voters from Baca County across 14 beats registered at the county court home since October 1. Most registrations came from Beat 3 with 76 voters, affecting the City area. Registration books open on the first and third Mondays of each month.
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Baca County
Moath
Navy Plane Prize Promised To Top Bond Seller School
Navy fighter plane to be awarded to the Dothan Houston County school selling the most Victory Bonds per student in the Victory Loan drive. Robert Ramsey reports bonds sold since Oct 29 will be counted by total bonds divided by pupil count. A Tuesday 8 PM movie auction at Martin Theater, led by Albert Logue and Mark Cannon, features scarce items including a Dothan High football. If the quota isn’t met by Saturday, drive extends to December 31. Bond sales Saturday totalled 15343.75, with 2943.75 in E bonds. overall sales reach 1745119.01.
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Dothan
Houston County
Robert Ramsey
Exchange Club
Martin Theater
Albert Logue
Mark Cannon
Dothan High Tigers
Sidney Lanier
Paddegs Ramsey
U S Shipping Policies Evoke Maritime Protest
The National Maritime Union CIO plans a Mobile protest march through downtown against government shipping policies delays. City granted parade privileges but refused a mass meeting in public square. Pickets stationed at State and City docks Alabama Dry Docks Shipbuilding Corp and War Shipping Administration offices.
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Mobile
Ala
National Maritime Union
City weighs fate of Dothan Recreation Center disposal
City commissioners said a Federal Works Agency representative would visit Dothan to discuss selling the North Foster street recreation center once used for servicemen. The FWA letter notes a 39 362.59 cost, 3 percent return, and priority to local purchase, with sale possible to other subdivisions or sealed bids if not agreed. Yesterday closed the serviceman facility.
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Federal Works Agency of
Atlanta
Dothan
North Foster Street
J. BR. Brennan
FWA
City of
Tan Bros
Dothan Recreation Center
Serviceman
Turner Home Wrecked by Fire Near Ashford
A six to seven room frame house owned by W W Turner and family three miles south of Ashford burned early Sunday, with Turner, wife and a child asleep inside. Fire started in a side room. Turner was burned while trying to save belongings. All furnishings and clothes destroyed. several War Bonds also lost. Loss estimated at 1500 dollars excluding bonds. neighbors helped prevent spread to the barn.
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W.W. W. Turner
Ashford
Turner
Man Charged With Grand Larceny in Ashford Ring Theft
Chief Deputy J. T. Casey said James Albert Lewis of Phenix City Alabama is jailed in Houston County charged with grand larceny for stealing a ring from an Ashford resident. Lewis was arrested at Elba Alabama by Coffee County authorities and is the second suspect in the theft.
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Feld
J. T Casey
James Albert Lewis
Phenix City
Ala
Houston County
Ashford
Casey
Lewis
Elba
Coffer County
Trippi Named 1948 Georgia Captain After 32–0 Victory
CAPT TRIPPI NOW ATLANTA AP The victorious Georgia Bulldogs chose Charlie Trippi as captain of the 1948 football team after defeating Georgia Tech 32 to 0 here Saturday Alternate captain named was Charles Rabbit Smith halfback Trippi is from Pittsburgh Pa and Smith from Palatka Fla
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Trippi
Atlanta
Georgia
Miles Hits Short Reply As Inadequate War Warning
Maj Gen Sherman Miles testified that Lt Gen Walter Short’s November 28 Hawaii reply to Washington’s war warning was totally inadequate. Miles, former head of Army intelligence, said Marshall’s November 27 warning was sufficient to spur alert measures for Pearl Harbor.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Sherman A. Miles
Walter C. Short
Hawaii
Miles
Senate House
Pearl Barbor
George C. Marshall
Rep. Clark
D-Nc
Marshall
Shott
Short
Biarshall
Clark
Army
Pearl Harbor
Stimson
War Plans Division
Leonard T. Gerow
Tong
Navy
Cooper D-Tenm
Clark Miles
Senate
House
Christmas Holidays Start December Nineteenth City and County
Education officials announced Christmas holidays for both City and County schools beginning December 19 and running through December 31. A Christmas cantata titled The Holy Advent will be sung by about fifty voices on December 16 at Lafayette Street Methodist Church under pastor Rev. H. H. Hildreth.
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Lafayette Street Methodist Church
Wafayette Street Methodist Church
H. Hildreth
Records show Hitler wasn’t bluffing in 1938
United States prosecutors at the Nuremberg trial revealed private German war plans dated 1938. They showed Munich Pact details and a ready invasion timetable for Czechoslovakia with anticipated western combat by France and extensive air force preparations. 官方 documents cited ordering execution by Oct 1 1938 and plans to bomb Paris without warning.
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Wes Gallagher Mernberg
API
Hitler
England
France
High Command
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Yamashita Asks Supreme Court For Case Halt
Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita filed with the Supreme Court seeking a writ of habeas corpus to force Gen Douglas MacArthur to bring him to Washington for a hearing and a writ of prohibition to stop his war crimes trial in Manila. He argues the military commission lacked authority without martial law or occupied-territory administration. The court will act later.
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Washington
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Supreme Court
Manila
High Tribuna
Yamashita
Philippines
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
High Court
German resentment mounts against occupation forces
Frankfurt reports US intelligence survey finds growing German resentment toward American occupation methods. Clergy and laymen cite policy failures, injustice, and de Naziization friction. Protests by Evangelical Church officials question Allied control, with fears of renewed Hitlerism and vigilante sentiments spreading among Germans.
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Frankfurt
U. S
Amerean
Germany
Council of the Evangelinal Church
Hiver- Dat
Polen
Negligence Charged To Indianapolis Skipper At Hearing
Navy charges Capt Charles B McVay III with negligence and culpable inefficiency in the loss of the 10 000 ton cruiser Indianapolis. Opening of a general court martial in Washington follows the ship's sinking near the Philippines July 30 with 280 dead or missing and 34 wounded. McVay faced allegations he steered a zigzag course through suspected submarine areas and failed to issue timely orders after the ship was known to be sinking. The Indianapolis had delivered bomb material from San Francisco to Guam and was on a Leyte bound unescorted voyage when disaster struck.
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Washington
API
Navy
Charles B. McVay III
Forresal
MrVay
San Francisco
Guam
Leyte
Philippines
Three Floridians Killed In Wreck Near Foley Alabama
Three persons died and another injured seriously when their car failed to negotiate a curve on U S Highway 89 half a mile west of Foley. Killed were Darell Clark Richardson 24 of Pensacola Florida Hugh Tidwell 17 of Pensacola and Mise Norma Micsan 17 a Foley high school student. Injured was Carl C Stephenson 22 of Pensacola. Bodies were taken to Pensacola today.
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Mobile
Ala
Foley
Darell Clark Richardson
Penasenda
Hugh Tidwell
W. DeSota
Pensacola
Mise Norma Micsan
Foley High
Carl C. Stephenson
DeSota St
Outlawing use of atomic bomb could be disastrous says expert
Dr. Vanneway Bush, head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, warns the Senate committee that premature bans on atomic energy could backfire. He urges careful, gradual regulation, recognition of five guiding principles for domestic control, and stresses the dangers of fissionable material production and radioactive byproducts if mishandled.
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Washington
Vanneway Bush
Hush
Bush
Lfe
Knife Victim Resting After Alabama Florida Knife Fight
Ted Scott of Dothan suffered knife wounds in the abdomen during a Saturday night altercation at the Alabama Florida state line. Sheriff B G Farmer said hospital officials reported Scott was resting and had a good chance of recovery. The fracas occurred on the Florida side of the state line and Florida officers would be informed of the investigation results.
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Ted Scott
Dothan
Houston County
B. G. Farmer
Scott
Florida Riole
Farmer
Florida
Settices
Truman sets up boards to find facts on GM strike
President Truman formed fact finding boards to handle the General Motors strike and proposed a nationwide labor dispute machinery. He urged 225,000 CIO United Auto Workers to return to work and asked about 740,000 more potential strikers to stay on the job while Congress considers a formal system to name fact finders and prevent work stoppages in major industries. He also ordered similar boards for United Steel Workers and urged cooperation from both sides.
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Washington
Truman
General Motore Atrike
Sien
Congress
Cio-United Automob
General Motors Corporaton
Geneva Motors - Cio - United Automobile Workers
United States Steel Corporation
United Steel Workers
Aimilar
Mr. Truman
U S Court Sets Fifteen Cases For Trial Today
Fifteen cases were scheduled for trial in the fall term opening session of the Federal court at the Dothan Post Office building. Judge C B Kennamer presided as charges filed include internal revenue violations by William H Hicks Geneva County Wiley Ingram Wilson Brokes Dale County Guy Lee Sputlock Dale County Andrew L Avant James S Lee Eddie Lee Barnes J B Williams James News Driver Robert G Sconyers Jr James 5 Lee Eugene Brown Mills Robert Brown Henry County Fred D Tatum Leroy Clark Geneva County Johnnie Weems Henry County Aaron Gamble Henry County Jeff Reynolds Henry County plus conspiracy charges against John Prenton Kiley Marshal Baker Daniel Jackson Mayo Willia McSwain Waymon Grady Newton and Jompe Ora Garrett.
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Dothan
C. B. Kennamer
William H. Hicks
Geneva County
Wiley Ingram
Houston County
Wilson Brokes
Dale County
Guy Lee Sputlock
Andrew L. Avant
John A. Avant
Eddie Lee Barnes
Waymon Grady Newton
Jom Pe Ora Garrett
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International War Crimes Tribunal
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