Approval foe Uroed U.S. Senate
Four leaders from labor and politics urge Senate approval of the 50 nation Charter for world peace. William Green Foster Dulles Norman Thames and Philip Murray back the charter in hearings, saying it offers possible collective security and prevents a return to war. Page 2.
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Washington
Senate
William Green
Can Federation of Labor
Foster Dulles
Thomas EF Evan
Norman Thames
Presi
Philip Murray
CIO
Senate Foreign Relations Comitee
Francisco
Green
Ules
Association of the United Lions
Mas
Federal probe targets illicit sale of military service ribbons
Federal charges against 12 defendants in Dothan Ozark and Enterprise allege illegal sale of military service ribbons including the Good Conduct Medal and Purple Heart. Accused walk arraignment before U S Commissioner Daughtry in Othan with bonds set at 300 dollars for defendants and 200 for seven women employed in stores tied to the scheme.
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Federal Bureau of Instigation
Dothan, Ozark and Enterprise
Abbaticchio, Jr
Birmingham
Moseumenfeld
Ruby Clyde Howell
Winsor
Ruth Adams
Ve Spielberger
Melve Appel
Dothan
Sam Aberle
Jothy Edwards
Nemma Griggs
da Wiiams
Ozark
Luther Gene Baker
Ruthadford
Enterprise Abbatiechio
FBI Ent
U. S. Corissoner
J. W. Daughtry
Othan
Maritime Service Recruiter to Visit Mobile and Dothan
A U S Maritime Service recruiting office announces a July 16 visit by Yeoman 1st Class Henry Sims in Mobile Alabama and at the United States Employment Service Office in Dothan Alabama. Eligible applicants aged up to 50 who are physically fit may interview from 8:00 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Those with prior honorable discharges will receive favorable consideration. Eligible men in certain classifications may be transferred to the Maritime Service Training Station for 60 to 100 days of preparation before shipboard duties. Applicants under 21 need parental consent and must present birth certificates and references.
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Aritime
Yeoman
Henry Sims
U.S
Aritime Service
Mobile
Als
United States Employmentervice
Dothan
Uly
Friday the 13th Folklore and Calendar Oddities
A fragment discusses Friday the 13th superstition and calendar quirks, noting years with multiple or missing Friday occurrences. It mentions 1545 and other years with Friday patterns, including references to May, April, June, and September.
Ration Board Urges Customers Decline Tie In Sales
Complaint to the Houston County War Price and Rationing Board cites tie in sales such as forcing buyers to purchase flour with shortening or white meat. A D Roquemore, chairman, says tie in sales violate OPA rules. Poultry sold by the head violates price ceilings, with $25 penalties in some counties. Consumers urged to report violations to the Dothan price clerk.
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Focal Price
Houston County War Price and Rationing Board
A. D Roquemore
Oace
OPA
Roquemore
South Alabama
Dothan
OPA Plans Partial Easing of Price Controls Blueprint
Washington AP The OPA proposes a first step toward easing price ceilings. Stabilization Director Davis studies a plan to remove controls on abundant commodities and suspend ceilings on others as supply and administrative factors allow. Aluminum and its alloys, jewelry, and beverages like rum brandy and cordials are cited as examples under review.
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Washington
OPA
William H. Davis
Davis
Davis’ Office
Congress Approves War Agencies Bill After Wrangling
Congress dispatched a 789,364,850 war agencies appropriation to the White House after weeks of controversy over OWI FEPC funds. Senate trimmed OWI to 35 million and FEPC to 250 million, with House vetoes easing as the bill neared final approval and a two month recess loomed.
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Washington
Congress
White House
OWI
FEPC
Senate
Office of War Information
House
War Labor Board
War Loan Board
Representative Taber
New York
Republican Appropriations Committee
Tager
War Agencies
Fair Employment Practice Committee
CWI
Be Patient Its The War Holding Up Phone Calls
Telephone customers face long waits as war demand jams long distance lines. Dothan is a hotspot where calls surge because military personnel and locals both rely on telephone service. G R McKelvey notes Standard Telegraph Co. had 33,886 outgoing calls last June from this area.
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Dothan
Marily
G. R. McKelvey
Standard Telephone and Telegraph Co
Kenney New Air Tactics Chief Promises 24 Hour Bombing of Japan
Gen George C Kenney assumed the Army Air Forces top tactical command against Japan and pledged 24 hour bombing from Okinawa with forces ready to strike at all altitudes. MacArthur, reshaping Seventh Air Force under Kenney, plans deployments for the Japan air saturation while Nimitz notes Seventh Air Force reverts to Army control. Aboard the Augusta Truman follows Potsdam talks and Pacific operations as Third Fleet raids continue against Japan.
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SY Spencer Davis
Manila
George C Kenney
Army Air Forces
Japan
Far
Okinawa
Douglas MacArthur
Kenney
Australia
New Guinea
Army Seventh Air Force
Central Pacific
MacArthur
Pacific
Chester W. Nimitz
Seventh Air Force
Guam
Fifth
13Th
Southwest Pacific
Augusta
Truman
Newport
Churchill
Premer Stalin
Sulskreis
Berlin
John A. Tyree
Potsdam
Quebec
Tehran
Yalta
Athens Man Held In Kinsman's Death
Athens man Earl Grisham 48 is jailed on a murder charge in the fatal stabbing of his 34 year old brother in law Burt Nelson at the Grisham family home. The weapon was a butcher knife after a supper time argument. Nelson came from Texas and worked at an arsenal in Huntsville. Grisham is a WWI veteran, married with two children. his father is a prominent Athens merchant.
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Athens
Ala
Earl Grisham
Athena
H. G. Garrett
Grisham
A. J. Grisham
Garrett
Burt Nelson
Texas
Huntaville
Limestone County
Nelson
Katherine Graham
Sofia
War Criminal Karl Frank Surrendered to Prague Prison
Karl Hermann Frank, named by Czechoslovakia as their chief Nazi war criminal, surrendered to American authorities and was brought to Pankrac prison in Prague amid heavy crowds. The case centers on his alleged role in the Lidice massacre and his imprisonment is anticipated by local authorities and the public.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Karl Hermann Frank
Bohemia-Moravie
Lidice
Pankrac
Savannah Mayor Gamble Dies of Heart Attack in Chattanooga
AP reports Savannah Georgia Mayor Thomas Gamble died of a heart attack while vacationing at the Alexian Brothers rest resort on Signal Mountain. Gamble, in office 11 years, previously served 18 years as secretary in the mayor's office. He recently visited Mayor E. D Basa and appeared well.
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Chattanooga
Thomas Gamble
Savannah
Hower
Alexian Brothers
Signal Monstem
E. D Basa
Gamble
Negro Pleads Not Guilty In Slaying Of Eufaula Girl
Peter Faul Hall a 23 year old from Eufaula pleads not guilty to charges of raping and drowning a white girl, after a special grand jury indictment in Barbour County Circuit Court. He was arraigned before Judge J S Vale Dams and remanded to Kilby prison for safekeeping.
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Negro
Eufaula
Eufaula Alo
Peter Faul Hall
J. S . Vale Dams
Tria
Barbour County
Ethel Luck
Eufaula Cotton Mill
Crewe Johnson
Cecil Penaldson
Bureau of Investigation
State Department of Public Safety
Hall
Kilby Prinen
Allied Soldiers Flout Berlin Non-Fraternization Policy
Allied troops in Berlin increasingly ignore the Western policy against fraternization with Germans. American and British soldiers mingle with locals in cafes and dance, while MPs discourage dancing in busy areas like Kurfürstendamm. Russians, meanwhile, freely socialize with German women, prompting caution to keep relations discreet.
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Daniel Deluce
Berlin
G . Joe
Tommy Atkins
Germany
Red Army
Pescefimo
Ihanovich
G. T Joe
Stalin
Ivan
Brush
French Purge Trials Reach Thousands With Deaths
Paris AP reports more than 20,000 French have stood trial in nine months of purge of collaborators. Courts have issued 84 death verdicts, 60 life sentences, 4,638 hard labor, 1,963 five-year terms, 9,876 shorter terms. 3,318 acquitted. Critics say slow progress blurs line between collaboration and daily life under German rule. Absentia death penalties were handed to Laval Bonnard and Neat. retrials awaited. George Claude, neon inventor, among those serving life terms.
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Paris
Resistance Groupe
Pont Ferdonnet
Haw Haw
Tlenri Dentz
Syria
Vichy
Pierre Laval
Tte
Abel Bonnard
Marcel Neat
George Claude
Nicobar Islands Bombed By British Fleet Units
Calcutta dispatch reports British warships bombarding the strategic Nicobars as carrier planes attacked airfields along Northwest Sumatra in a Southeast Asia Command operation. The Fifth Cruiser Squadron led ships including Nigeria Ameer Emperor Roebaurk and Emperor, with speculation of a possible landing.
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Nicobear Islands
Calcutta
Nicobar Islands
Sumatra
South East Asia Command
Malacca
Ghali
Singapore
Frest Unite
Nicobars
Romatea
Kea Peoinassa
Malaya
Ringapers
Almand
Anis
Adm
W. R. Patterson
Fifth Cruiser Squadron
Nigeria
Emperor
Deabtraver Roebaurk
Ainth Mincawerping Flotills
Japanzee Broadcoats
Borneo Port City Of Jesselton Is Aussie Drive Goal
Australian Ninth Division troops advanced inland on Borneo near Jesselton as tanks and flamethrowers pushed two miles forward with Anaxies and Dutch troops moving through bogs north of Balikpapan. Nipponese activity in Burma decreased while Tokyo forecasts invasion fears and a wartime cabinet shakeup surfaced in Japan.
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Borneo
Jesselton
Associated Press
Deaselton
Balikpapan
Burma
Bingapore
Batavia Radi
Singapore
Japan
U. S
Okinawa
Tokyo Radio
Tokyo
Dincusa
Japs End Own Lives On Mindanao Amid Retreat
Signals from the 24th Division describe widespread civilian despair on Mindanao as Japanese forces evacuate Davao and retreat toward Mt Apo. Reports mention thousands of civilians and at least 40 Japanese women and children found dead in the Tamlyn sector.
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Pacific PI
Mindanao Island
Mt. Apo
Davao Gulf
Mindanao
Davao City
Tamlyn
Fate of Nazi General Staff Up to Eisenhower and Monty
General Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery near decision on the disposition of German General Staff officers held as prisoners by the Western Allies. SHAEF dissolves tonight though the order to handle hundreds of high ranking officers remains unsettled. Some officers are described as criminals likely to be executed. others are to be considered for exile or other forms of punishment.
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Eisenhower
Monty
George Tucker Frankfurt
Montgomery
Brush
Brontgomery
SHAEF
Bombers Strike Wide Arc Off Japan In Open Air Blows
Air power sweeps across a 7- mile arc south and east of Tokyo as 160 BRMs bombers fighters and search planes hit Japan. An Okinawa general says Japan will not engage the US in air combat. He notes factories and railroads damaged and ships sunk while Nippon’s invasion beaches loom.
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Guam
Japan
Tokyo
U.S
Okinawa
David F. Hutchison
Far Fast Air Force
Associated Press
Richard Cushing
Nippon
Typhoon in June harms U.S. Third Fleet ships
Admiral Nimitz disclosed a June typhoon battered the Third Fleet, ripping the bow from the Pittsburgh and damaging about 20 vessels. Despite heavy damage, no fatalities or serious injuries were reported. Several ships, including Massachusetts, Indiana, and Essex-class carriers, returned to action after repairs.
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Leif Erickson
Guam
Inshed
Adm
William FL
Bully Harpey
Pittsburgh
Chester W. Nimyz
Teday
Trast
Massachusetts
Indiana
San Jacinto
John Stodgers
Nimitz
Lacoon
Guem
Hornet
Benington
Alabama
Belleau Wood
Joan Rodgers
Bougainville
Third Fleet
Pacific
Okinawa
Philippines
World War II Daily Briefing Patchwork Updates
The World Today notes that Allied forces bombed four Japanese industrial cities with over 500 super bombs and 3,000 bombs, while Nipponese fire and bombardment continued. In Borneo Australian and Dutch troops advance up to two miles north of Balikpapan, with Aussies reaching within 30 miles of Sesselion. In China Chinese forces recapture Tangkiang and push toward the former US airbase at Kanhsien as Japanese units move south of Amoy toward Changpu. In Burma Japanese rear positions are reported along the Sittang River bend between Nyaungkalet and Myitkyina defenses.
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Associated Press
Jatian
Borneo
Dutc
Balikpapar
Dutch Barney
Aussies
O' Sesselion
China
Tangkiang
Kanhsien
Amoy
Changpu
HARMA
Sittang
Nyaungkashel
Myitkye
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U.S. Senate
Ecruiter
Ration Board
William F. Halsey
Rghit
John S McCain
Lef
Cumander
Halsey
Witlin
U.S. Navy
Antwerp
Savannah Myor
Nip
U.S. Third Fleet
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