Truman Says U S Wants Only Peace At Potsdam
President Truman spoke at a Berlin ceremony stressing the United States seeks only peace and prosperity for the world. Admiral Land arrived with U S shipping officials to participate in Big Three discussions on postwar shipping and Europe’s boundaries.
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Truman
U.S
Daniel Delice
Potsdam
Presider Tromap
Berlin
United States
Britain
Premer Stabe
Pome Minster Church Land
Roosevel- Churchill Quebec
Washington
Churchill
Five Industries Humming As Labor Disputes Ended
Labor disputes across five industries ended today allowing more than 15,000 workers to return to their jobs while about 50,000 remain idle nationwide due to ongoing walkouts. Notable reopenings occurred at Pennestrana Shipyards Beaumont Texas and Tepsir in Oakland California with 21 government ships resuming activity. Finishing stoppages at Joseph 8. Finch & Co. Dis hery Schenley Pennsylvania involved 2,209 workers. In South Bend Indiana CIO United Automobile Workers ordered a return to work Monday at Torrington Company, ending a bearings production strike since June 11. The Stokes Rubber Company in Trenton New Jersey saw about 700 strikers resume. New trouble emerged in Cleveland with Republic Steel open hearth pits closing three furnaces and possibly 4,000 workers idle, and in St Louis 1,500 packing house workers halted at Krey, Laclede, and Sieloff plants over wage talks. The balance of cities reported no major changes.
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Associated Press
Pennestrana
Beaumont
Tex
Oakland
Calif
AFL
National War Labor Board
Joseph
Finch & Co
Schenley
South Bend
Ind
CIO
United Automobile
Torrington Company
Stokes Rubber Company
Trenton
N. J
Cleveland
St. Louis
Republic Steel Corp
CIO United Steelworkers
Krey Packing Company
Laclede Packing Company
Sieloff Packing Company
Napier Field restoration clause deleted in joint contract
City and county officers agreed to remove the restoration clause from the Napier Field contract with the government. Commission President John D. Ayres said restoring the field to its original condition is impossible, and removing the clause may save the government thousands yearly by avoiding annual surveying costs. The field site, bought jointly, is leased to the government for one dollar annually.
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Napier Field
Commission
John D. Ayres
House To House Insect Control Program Mapped
City and county officials approved a joint house to house insect eradication plan linked to the typhus control effort. Health authorities say the program can be implemented with no extra county cost and immediate steps will begin to inaugurate the effort.
Senate Moves to Fund World Bank for Global Trade
The Senate approved a Bretton Woods package to boost the World Bank and Stabilization Fund lending authority to 8.725 billion dollars. It authorizes 3.175 billion from the U S toward bank reconstruction and development loans and 2.75 billion to back an 8.8 billion fund supporting world currencies. The measure, passed 61 to 16, heads to the House for minor amendments before ratification of the United Nations Charter.
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Washington
Bretton Woods
Senate
International Bank and Stabilization Fund
N. H
House
United States
Premier Soong Predicts End of War by 1946 to 1948
Premier FPV Soong declared in Chungking that the war with Japan would end this year or early in 1948. He also announced immediate government reorganization to build postwar reconstruction and outlined plans from the United States to bolster China’s industry and economic development after his Moscow talks with Premier Stalin.
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Chungking
FP. V. Soong
Moscow
Japan
Soong
People's Political Council
United States
San Francisco
China
Stalin
Rationing Gas Cook Stoves Ends July 31
Washington AP reports rationing of gas cooking and gas heating stoves will end July 31. Oil cooking, air heating, combination oil gas stoves and oil conversion burners for stoves remain under rationing as stove production is set to rise this quarter, making rationing unnecessary.
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Washington
War Production Board
Office of Price Administration
Napier Captain Victim Of Mistake By House Group
A House subcommittee dropped Captain Henry Clovis Collins Napier Field Alabama from its list of Army officers linked to Communist concerns after discovering a case of mistaken identity. Committee counsel H Ralph Burton testified there was no evidence Collins had a questionable background and his name was confused with another panel member.
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Washington
Iap
House
Henry Clovis Collins
Napier Field
Ala
Thomason
D-Tex
Collins
Wst
Army
H. Ralph Burton
Burton
National Conference For Civil Rights
Army Releasing Soldiers At Rate Of 4 000 Daily
Acting Secretary Patterson said the Army discharges about 4 000 men per day under the point system with nearly 200 000 already released. The service plans to release up to 2 000 000 by June 1 1946 while taking in 800 000 new recruits, aiming to keep total strength sufficient to defeat Japan.
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Washington
Patterson
Japan
Court Opinion Hits Distillers In Price Hearing
In Peoria West Virginia a federal court jury found that the Ameri can Distilling Company of Peka Michigan and not five banks effected whiskey sales, with the OPA seeking 730 dollars in damages. The bank loaned funds for bulk whiskey and acted as custodians, a ruling the court upheld. The case now faces further OPA hearings over whether ceiling price violations occurred including shipments partly to Alabama.
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Peoria
API
American Distilling Company
Peka
OPA
Alabama
First National Bank of Chicago
Associated
Tax Diversion Opponents Contend Need for Education Cushion
In Montgomery AP report-opponents of Gov Chauncey Sparks income tax plan challenged the administration again on the need for a 4 million dollar school cushion cited by the legislature Norton School Superintendent E B Norton backed Poole’s claim that the cushion was real but Norton argued it was to cover teacher retirement, scholarships, and potential revenue shortfalls. Agriculture Commissioner Joe Poole urged skepticism about the cushion.
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Montgomery
Chauncey Sparks
Joe Poole
Ketter
E. B. Norton
Norton
Poole
Reform. Ala
Agriculture Commissioner
Torn
Ns. 13
Governors See Benefit From Rate Cut Rule
Southern governors report early gains from the ICC freight rate equalization order as industrial growth shows signs of shifting southward. Governors Sparks of Alabama and Kerr of Oklahoma say indications point to expansion in the South and West, while other chiefs executives note improved regional industrial vitality and a potential decentering of northern plants. The group plans to monitor the order’s timing and oppose any delay to its effective date.
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Mobile
API
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chauncey Sparks
Alabara
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma
ICC
Sparks
Kerr
Sas
Gulf Storm Shows Little Movement
The Gulf storm hovered below southwest Louisiana with little change in motion over the past six hours, the U S Weather Bureau reported. Advisory at 8:30 a m Central Time warned the storm could reach the coast by late tonight from Port Arthur Texas to Lake Charles Louisiana with possible wind increases to 15 miles per hour in threatened areas.
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Orleans
Lousiana
United States Weather Bureau
Wather
Port Arthur
Texas
Lake Charles
la Precauliong
Ten Thousand Japs Believed Hidden on Okinawa
AP dispatch says about 10,000 Japanese troops crouched in northern Okinawa’s mountains with 90,000 garrison troops on the island at invasion time. U S forces report destroying enemy ships and planes as the Ryukyus campaign continues. The tally later revises defenders to roughly 140,000 including drafted Okinawans.
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Okinawa
John R. Modge
Mth Army Corps
Radio Tokyo
Okinawan
Japan
U. S
Ryukyus
Hodge
Negro Executed For 1944 Slaying Of White Farmer
MONTGOMERY AP A Black man convicted of killing a white farmer was electrocuted at Kilby prison at 2 08 a m. Five minutes earlier another Black inmate condemned for a crime against a member of his own race was spared by Gov. Chauncey Sparks after a clemency hearing. The executed man, Ed Luckey Patton Hale County, killed James F. Findlay during an argument in 1944. The governor said the punishment was excessive and commuted a different case to life imprisonment.
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Montgomery
Gav
Chatincey Sparks
Murmblink & Prayer
Ed Luckey
Patton
Hale County
Kilby
James F. Findlay
Worley James
James Jake
Lyon C. Drew
Maxwell Field
Wrimnall
Sohetae Temple Seide
Rail Raid Seals Off Kagoshima Transport By Bombers
Okinawa based forces strike with over 1000 bomber, fighter, and incendiary aircraft in a heavy raid across five Japanese centers. Amagasaki refinery hit, weather hampered targeting but results called good. Two B-20s lost, five crew saved. Japanese agency confirms some damage. MacArthur announces more than 200 retreats on page two.
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Dopking
Guam
Shanghai
Kagoshima
Fukui
Futachi
Choi
Okazaki
Nippon Oil
Amagasaki
Domet Agency
Cen
Dougine MacsArthur
Ickes Plans Coal Shipments to Europe Amid Shortage Risk
Secretary Ickes said about 60,000 tons of U S coal will be sent to Europe for civilian use between now and January 1. He warned Americans may face a sharper domestic coal shortage next winter and possible reductions in home consumption as Europe receives fuel.
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Washington
Ickles
Europe
Lckler
Iehken
Lone Registrant Off For Induction
A Jone registrant Jarrel Frank lin Hepizler from Koustan County Selective Service Board Two has reported to Fr McClellan for induction, according to the board official today.
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Jone
Jarrel Franklin Hepizler
Koustan County
Voters weigh pros and cons of Alabama income tax diversion
The Eagle presents opposing views on a constitutional amendment to divert state income tax proceeds from property tax relief to general fund use. Walter L. Randolph of the Alabama Farm Bureau argues against the amendment, while Hayse Tucker and Gov. Sparks’ finance team push for adoption. The Oct. 2, 1945 election marks the third statewide vote on the issue, with historical context from 1932 and 1988 amendments.
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Alabama Farm Bureau Federation
Chauncey Sparks
Alabama
Eagle
Walter L. Randolph
Hayse Tucker
Sparks
H. G. Dowling
Oil Field Prize In Borneo Recovered By Allies
Australian forces overran Sambodje oil fields in Eastern Borneo near Batikpapan and found two Japanese troops at the greet. The Sambodja pool once produced 70,000 barrels yearly and is one of three major fields feeding the refinery area. Japanese resistance collapsed as the field and nearby oil centers were recaptured, with Miri and Seria noted as others in Western Borneo.
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Manila
Oops
Borneo
Sambodje
Douglas MacArnnny
Sambodja
Batikpapan
Carib Ax
Tield’a
Miri
Seria Tenters
Tim
Chinese Hold 50 Mile Sector of Invasion Coast
Chungking reports a 50 mile stretch of the South China coast under Chinese control open to a sea invasion of the continent. Chinese forces push east along the Kwangtung coast from Tinpak to Yeungkong, severing Japanese links to Canton and Hainan Island and approaching a road junction 125 miles from Canton. Chiang Kai Shek says invasion could be unnecessary with Chinese ground troops and American air power.
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Chungking
South China
Chingae
Kwangtung
Tinpak
Canton
Hainan Island
Yeungkong
Luzon
Chiang Kai-Shek
Yenk Magazine
Walters Awarded Paving Contract
The county Board of Revenue in special session awarded a penny contract to Joe Frank Walters of Troy for paving Houston County rural market road five miles from Hodgesville toward Dothan. The board authorized Judge Saxon Poyner to finalize arrangements for about 28,218 dollars funded jointly by the county and state, with completion within 30 days after work begins.
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County Board of Revenue
Joe Frank Walters
Troy
Houston County
Hodgesville North
Dothan
Saxon P. Poyner
World War II Updates From Asia and Pacific Fronts
The report notes Japan assembling a vast naval power over Japan and dropping thousands of tons of bombs on four cities and an oil refinery. China reports Kinangwan airfield strikes and a major battle near the Kan River. Borneo fronts see advances, while Burma incursions threaten trapped Japanese forces as Allied lines press.
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Associated Press
Japan
China
Kinangwan
Shanghai
High Command
Guina
Waman
Kan River
Kanhsien
Borneo
Avasses
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World Bank
Ticonderoga
Formosa
U. 5. Navy
Kagoshima City
Ickes
MR. Tucker
MR. Randolph
Oil Field Prize
Walters
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