U S Black Market Crackdown Looms
Washington debate heats up over U N Charter troop use. Senator Vandenberg argues Congress should not control troop orders by the Security Council. Senator Millikin presses whether US consent is required in each case to authorize action.
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Washington
Vandenberg
United Nations
Congress
Security Council
Millikin
Foreign Relations Committee
Mislkin
United States
Nny
Security
Labor Strikes Grow in Detroit and Across States
AP reports Detroit and Alabama saw rising idle workers with about 43 000 sidelined. In Birmingham six thousand National Cast Iron Pipe Co. workers halted 155 mm shells production over personnel changes. Detroit Creamery and Ebling Creamery stoppages hit milk delivery to 30 percent of homes. Akron Firestone workers, 16 500 CIO United Rubber Workers, faced National War Labor Board action. New York City newspaper delivery strikers risk retroactive pay and contract benefits if not ended.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Alabama
New York
Alataraz
Motor City
National Cast Iron Pipe Co
Birmingham
Ala
International Association of Machinists
International Moulders and Foundry Workers
AFL
Staike
Detroit Creamery Co
Ards Ebling Creamery Co
Dearborn
Pontiac
CIO
United Rubber Workers
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Akron
National War Labor Board
Washington
New York City
WLB
WLB Warned Officials of the Newspapersand Mail Deliverers' Union
Llose
Typhus Control Program Launched in Houston County
Houston County launches a county wide typhus control program with sanitation officers beginning Beat One. A sanitary survey will record rats, bait, owner, tenants, and building counts before follow up to trap or poison rats. Fleas are collected from captured rats for lab tests while poisoned food and DD T used where needed to support the survey.
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Houston County
W. T. Burket
Egan
Burkett
Grew accuses Japan of using peace feelers to sow disunity
Acting Secretary of State Grew charged that Japan is sending peace feelers to divide the United States and its allies. He said their aim is to force an unequal surrender while denying any imminent capitulation, citing several examples of such alleged moves and vowing continued firm policy.
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Washington
API
Grew
United States
Agriculture Chief Joins With OPA In 3 Front Drive
Washington AP report notes new Agriculture Secretary Choten P. Anderson aligning with the Office of Price Administration to curb food blockages. A House committee vows to investigate black market operations threatening the nation’s diet as Anderson holds talks with Bowles and OPA leaders.
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Washington
Choten P. Anderson
OPA
House Food Investigating Committee
Iiet
Anderson
Meat Shortage Relief Pleaders Head To Washington
A committee seeking relief from meat shortages in farm areas will depart for Washington Sunday to meet with officials and the State's congressional delegation. They aim to secure a floor under cattle prices and lower subsidy requirements, with emphasis on more white salt meat and lard for Southern farm laborers. Members include Rep. Hunt H. Frasier, Emmett Hildreth, A. B. Hope, and Rep. Walter C. Givhan.
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Montgomery
Washington
Tom C. Reid
Southern Farm
Rep
Hunt H. Frasier
Selma
Legislative Investigating Committee
Chauncey Sparks
Emmett Hildreth
Eutaw
State Chamber of Commerce
A. B. Hope
Notasulga
Alabama Bankers Association
Walter C. Givhan
Dallas County
State Farm Bureau Federation
Negro Dies After Crash Involving Truck And Taxi
Louie Pearce, a Black man who appeared uninjured after a Saturday crash at East Woodland Drive and Boulevard Street, died early Sunday at his Malvern home. The accident involved a Geneva truck driven by M. H. Andrews, whose wife was seriously injured, and a taxi driven by Bud Givens. Detective Wes Herring noted initial reports he was unhurt.
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East Woodland Drive
Boulevard Street
Malvern
Louie Pearce
Wes Herring
M. H. Andrews
Geneva
Bud Givens
Herring Wold
Newo
Chinese Overrun Kiangsi Mining Center Community
Chinese forces announced capture of Tayu in Wolfram 45 miler southwest of the former U S air base at Kanhsien. Spearheads pushed beyond Tayu toward a point about 32 miles from Kanhsien, severing Japanese communications to Kukeng and threatening Kanhsien. Fighting continued six miles east of Kanhsien as Japanese sought to hold the area while Chinese forces moved to Liuchow and toward Kweilin, with gains along Liuchow Ewerlin and Liuchow Hengyang routes.”
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Canton
Liu‘chow
UJ. S.ath ‘Air Force Base
Kweilin
Liuchow-Ewerlin
Liuchow-Henga‘yang
Tractor Damaged by Fire at Lumber Yard
Firemen reported a tractor at Williams-Voris Lumber Co on Fortner Street was slightly damaged yesterday afternoon. The cause of the blaze was not determined. The tractor was in operation pulling lumber carts.
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Williams-Voris Lumber Co
Fortner Street
Giant B-29 Force Rips Five More Japanese Cities
The 21st Bomber Command dispatched a large fleet from the Marianas to strike five Japanese industrial centers in clear weather. Tokyo radio reported 230 additional planes joining the assault, with B 29s and fighters from Iwo Jima and Okinawa targeting Osaka Kobe and western Kyushu. The Nippon Sangyo Keizai warned the air offensive marks aggression and that the absence of ground action does not lessen its significance.
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Guamap
21St Bomber Command
Marianas
iRadio Tokyo
Iwo Jima
Osaka-Kobe
Okinawa
Kyushu
Tokyo
Nippon Sangyo Keizai
Balikpapan Bay Upper Reaches Taken By Allies
Allied forces seize upper Balikpapan Bay as Dutch West Indian Volunteers clear river craft and occupy Karanoo and Telaktebang peninsulas after overwater crossings. Australian troops fight hand to hand against encircled Japanese in the Pandansari refinery district of Balikpapan Town.
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Manila
Balikpapan Bay
Southeast Borneo
Balikpapan
Douglas MacArthur
Soember
Wainbesar
Karanoo
Telaktebang
Cape Baroe
Bay
Pandansari
Mistaken Identity By MPs Caused Crash Report Error
State Highway Patrol reports two Camp Rucker lieutenants were misidentified at the scene of a collision near Piichard. Patrolmen Earl Smith and Earl Henley say MPs first arrived, reporting Lieut Lawrence J. Muller dead and Lieut Webster injured, then reversed later with Muller injured and Webster killed. Muller is hospitalized at Camp Rucker.
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State Highway Patrol
Camp Rucker
Piichard
Earl Smith
Earl Henley
Smith
Lawrence J. Muller
W. C. Webster, Jr
Smith Said, It Was Learned That Lieut
Webster
Lieut
Muller
Study Ordered Of Bond Fees Declaring City Fees
City Commission instructed City Attorney W C Farmer to determine if the State legislature passed a law setting percentage fees for professional bondsmen. If such a law exists it will be adopted as an ordinance. if not, the Commission may enact fixed fee amounts for bondsmen.
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City Commission
W. C. Farmer
Hard-Pressed Drive Might Push Japs From South Asia
Japanese forces withdraw across southern Asia in a large-scale retreat. A war survey predicts a hard Allied push in fall and winter could reclaim the area, with Japan concentrating forces near Shanghai and Hankow while evacuating Southern China. About 60,000 Japanese remain in Burma, moving toward Thailand as heavy casualties appear in pockets along the Irrawaddy and Sittang rivers.
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APO Jabaton
Grover
Asia
Hengyang Corrdor
China
Indo-China
Burma
Thailand
Bormeo
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Southeam Asia Commando
Sumatra
Malaya
Singapore
Shanghai- Hankow Line
Cat
Hong Kong
Hongkong
Shanghai
Java
Borneo
Singsiport
Malaya Peninsula
Indo- China
Irrawaddy
Sittung
Army Officer Twice Wounded Is Drafted Back As Private
ATLANTA AP Wounded twice in 14 months, former First Lt. William K. Dobson of Avants was drafted again as a private. He previously served with the U S Forest Service after discharge and had married. Dobson holds the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster and the Bronze Star. He was wounded on D Day plus 1 in Normandy and again in September 1944 at Aachen. Draft board and Army officials declined to comment.
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Atlanta
Fort Benning
Normandy
Aachen
Dobson
French Vote on Government Setup October Fourteen
Paris reports France will vote October 14 on a bicameral government and a return to the 1875 constitution or a new charter. Gen De Gaulle's council set the six month provisional period and outlined how the National Assembly and Senate would be chosen and powers exercised.
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Paris
France
de Gaulle
Council of Ministers
Chamber of Depuies
Senate
Lis
National Assembly
Rotarians Hear R. C. Dobson Discuss Foundation
Dothan Rotary Club welcomed R. C. Dobson state representative of the National Foundation for Infant Paralysis who spoke about the foundation and its history. Guests included Sergeant J. B. Duncan of Camp Rucker and Mr. Borne of Chattanooga Tenn.
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R. C. Dobson
National Foundation For Infants Paralysis
Dothan
Five Nazi POWs Hanged at U S Disciplinary Barracks Oklahoma
Five German prisoners of war from Afrika Korps were executed by hanging at Fort Leavenworth in a landmark U S military case. Convicted January 25, 1944, in Camp Gruber Oklahoma for the murder of Johannes Kunze, the group included Walter Beyer Berthold Seidel Hans Demme Hans Schomer and Willi Scholz. The executions, conducted in a trapdoor gallows, marked the first and only time flat foreign war prisoners faced death in the United States.
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Robert Otey
FT. Leavenworth, Ka
U. S
United States
Camp Gruber
Okla
Johannes Kunze
Tonkawa
Rommel
Afrika Korps
Walter Beyer
U. S. Army
Berthold Seidel
Hans Demme
Hans Schomer
Willi Scholz
Beyer
Wos
Willian
Eley
Commerce Building Picketed By Union
National Maritime Union pickets from CIO demonstrated before the Commerce Department building housing Rear Admiral Emory S Land War Shipping Administrator to protest a proposed seamen bonus cut. Union officials say Land has been asked to intervene but has not acted, as arbitration boards set the wage changes during war materials transport.
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Washington
Aps
National Maritime Union
CIO
Commerce Department
Emory S$. Land
Land
Maritime War Emergency Board
Overstore
One Way To Beat Meat Shortage
Police investigate weekend theft of 28 fried chickens from a home on 21 West Main. The resident Hodge reports being away when the chicken house was broken into, with police unsure who pilfered the poultry.
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Hodge
W. Main
Lone Inductee Is OFF For Induction
Houston County's three Selective Service Boards had only one man to add to Uncle Sam's Army to day. The lone registrant was William Robert Pybus of Hoard Three, who was sent to Fort McClellan for induction. There'll be nne more registrants, however, to serve hig.
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Houston County
Uncle Sam
William Robert Pybus
Hoard Three
Fort McClellan
Gas Tax Exemption Bill Dies In Alabama Legislature
Governor Sparks vetoes as 1943 session ends with pocket vetoes. A bill by Rep Ali Lee would have let Alabama taxpayers credit state gasoline tax against federal income exemptions, but Revenue Commissioner Dowling warned of audit costs and potential losses. Other measures vetoed include absentee voting limits and land takings.
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Montgomery Alo
IAP
Sparks Jet
Rap
Ali Lee
Dobsn
H. G. Dowling
State Revenue Commissioner
Dowling
Alsa
Lee
House
Senate
Jim Smith
Calbert
J. N. Sullivan
Matile
Tidewater
J. K. Edward
Jefferson
Frank Head
Shelby
F. E. St John
Cullmac
Recreation Center Agreement Okayed
The City of Dothan approved a ten agreement with the Federal Works Agency Bureau of Community Facilities to continue operating the Dothan Recreation Center for service men. The plan covers three months ending September with FWA and city cost sharing. Previous estimates set total expenses at 44 774 dollars, with 26 000 from FWA and 17 614 from the city.
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FWA
Dothan
Third Fleet Strikes Tokyo Airfields in Major 1000-Plane Raid
Guam AP report says Admiral Halsey led the Third Fleet in a dawn assault on Tokyo with about 1000 aircraft, backed by Vice Admiral McCain and carrier forces. The surprise attack hit eight Japanese cities after prestrike raids, with Nimitz announcing a fleet composition of four carriers, four battleships, four cruisers, and 14 destroyers.
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SY Leif Erickson
GUAM
William
Bulls Halsey
Western Pacific
Third Fleet
Tokyo
Adm
S. McCain
Heela
Chester W. Nimitz
Nimitz
Allies Nab Amicable Berlin Feeding Plan Amid Coalition
Officials announced that the Allied leaders Henry Zhukov Clay Weeks agreed to fund Berlin relief from contributions across Germanys occupation zones. The move aims to feed nearly three million civilians and ease coal shortages as the joint Berlin government begins functioning before the Big Three arrive.
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Berlin
Germany
World War II Fronts See Major Axis Setbacks
The Pacific war saw Japan lose air superiority as 1,000 carrier planes, 550 B-29s, and bombers attacked. Dutch forces invade Balikpapan Bay in Borneo, Chinese troops seize Tayu in Kiangsi, and British forces take nine villages in Burma’s Irrawaddy Valley near Rangoon.
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Associated Press
Japan
Cea
Okinawa
Borneo
Balikpapan Bay
China
Tayu
Wolfram Tamin
Kiangsi
Canton
Burma
Irrawaeddy Valley
Rangoon
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Edward Stettimus
Arthur Vandenberg Ilefti
Tom Connally
Stettimus
NEA
Kiangsi Mining Center
South Asia
Oklahoma
Commerce
Clarence V. Heriucel
New Orleans
Salina
Utah
Germana
Lght
NEA Telephoto
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