Legislature Calls On Interim Groups To Make Reports
Alabama lawmakers met in a second day of a pre session assembly as a committee of the whole and took up a report from the interim Committee on Agriculture and Industries. Debate followed the finance committee's tentative budget for about 1 million dollars, with Sen. Will D. Walton opposing revoting an income tax without strict earmarking for welfare and education. Sen. V. L. St. John supported Walton, arguing voters will reject a tax scheme subject to legislative control, while criticism arose over proposed constitutional commissions and spending powers. Rep. Earl Tucker raised liquor law questions. Rep. Sidney Smyer defended the income tax plan, insisting most revenue go to schools and welfare while keeping legislative oversight flexible.
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Montgomery
Alabama Legislatre
Prefermion
Agriculture and Industries
Soe
Will D. Walton
Lafayette
Walton
Sen.v. L
sAminigiera
C. Walker
Chilton
Ren. R. H. Pennett
Barbour
Earl Tucker
Clarke County
Charles C. Norman
Bullock
Appropriations Finance
Sidney Smyer
Jefferson
Finance Committee
Smyer
World War Fronts Report Major Allied Gains and German Losses
Allied offensives push into Saarland and Rhineland with heavy German casualties claimed. Red Army massing siege guns near Stettin and advancing along Oder to Neisse with Berlin seeing new southern offensives. British and Italian fronts report local progress near Ravenna. In the Pacific, US carrier planes strike Japan, landings at Dolo and Panay capital, Luzon guerrillas seize San Fernando as Americans advance.
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Red Army
Out of Stettin
Oder
Benk
Neisse
Berlin
Russia
Germany
U. S
Nippon
Dolo
Panay
Luzon
San Nernando
Americana
Alabama lawmaker urges higher wages for Negro workers
A Montgomery legislative spokesman argues Alabama must raise the lowest wages to boost prosperity. He says poverty among Negro workers drags down all and urges a state wage and hour law to cover more workers, noting northern wages four times Alabama’s for the same goods. He frames the issue as a path to growth and leadership.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Alaera
Purchase Of GI Property Charged In Pike County
R J Abbaticchio Jr FBI special agent said two Pike County men Mobley and Taylor faced federal charges for illegally buying government issued clothing cigars cigarettes and four boxes of shotgun shells from Camp Rucker and Napier Field They allegedly purchased eight C4 gasoline ration coupons for 640 Mobley and Taylor admitted knowledge the shells came from Napier Field and that the clothing was government property They were released on bond after a Montgomery hearing awaiting grand jury action
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R. J. Abbatiehio, Jr
Birmingsham
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Pike County
Corp Rucker
Napier Field
U. S
Walter Sloane
Montgomery
Fink A. Mobley
Charles Taylor
Brundidge
Mobley
Taylor
Camp Rucker
FBI
Abbaticchio
Taylor iNegay
United States
Sloane
Federal
Grand Jury
Vet Administration Opens Branch Here
A branch office of the Veterans Administration has been opened in Merrit Building Dothan in the Weton of Montgomery. It will be in charge of Y Thorton and will assist returning veterans with applications for government benefits and compensation.
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The
Veterans Administration
Merrit
Dothan
Weton
Montgomery
It ‘Y Thorton
Ayres Sweeps Field To Win City Hall Post
John D. Ayres won the city commissioner race with 1,317 votes in a three year term. His nearest rival Dr. L C Bates had 529 votes and Dan M Jerkin 38. Total turnout was 2,004 with 150 absentee ballots. Ayres declared gratitude and urged unity for future city government.
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John D. Ayres
LC. Bates
Dan M. Jerkins
Ayres
Miles A. Miller
Miller
Bates
Jerking
City
Jerkins
Malone Motor Company
Jman
Dethan
Bowles Urges Price Ceilings on Movies and Beauty Shops
Price Administrator Chester Bowles urged ceilings on movie tickets and barber and beauty shop services, citing their place in the average family budget and the need to curb inequities in price controls. He told the Senate Banking Committee that exemptions do not demoralize overall price control and noted resentment from small service providers over uneven controls as justification for action. The committee weighs extending the Price Control Act beyond its June 90, 1846 expiration.
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Washington (Ap
Chester Bowles
Senate Banking Committee
Bowles
Two Youths Nabbed On Postal Charges
Two Houston County youths Wendell Earl Shivers and Robert Aman were arrested by federal officers on four counts of violating postal regulations for removing Mary from lock boxes at the Ashford post office. Aman, age youth, was released to juvenile authorities while Shivers was sent to a Washington reform school for two years after pleading guilty before U S Commissioner J W Daughtry and appearing before U S Judge Charles B Keanamer at Montgomery.
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Houston County
Mary
Ashford
U. S
J. W. Daughtry
Wendell Earl Shivers
Robert Aman
Daughtry
Aman
Shivers
Charles B. Keanamer
Montgomery
U. S. Reformatory School
Washington
Post Office
Walter Sloane
Daughtry Ald
George N. Bayzer
Mitscher's Carrier Force Crushes Japanese Fleet in Nip Sea
U S carrier planes crippled at least 17 Japanese warships including a 45000 ton battleship and eight carriers in the Nipponese inland sea. Monday and Sunday actions destroyed 475 enemy planes and damaged over 100 more while no U S ships were sunk. Admiral Mitscher's task force penetrated a previously safe area, with all ships moving under their own power.
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Morrie Landsberg
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Guam
Nippon
Flintland Sea
Adm
Marc A Mitscher
Japan
Mitscher
German Defensive Strength On Oder Probed By Reds
Berlin peril grows as Zhukov probes riverside fronts along the Oder city approaches. Vasilevsky commands the Brauneberg capture with 4000 prisoners. Allied forces press toward Stettin and Breslau, expanding the frontline and threatening Berlin.
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Oder
Berlin
Ivan S. Kanev
Breslau
Grogau
Upper Oder
Ukraine
Nel Ase
East Prussia
Alesander M. Vasilevsky
Red Army
Koengsberg
Vasilevsky
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Stalin
Braunaberg
Brauneberg
Hellieende
Zhukov
Aldamm
Siettin
LaGuardia Defies Curfew Ruling As Army Orders Stay
New York mayor F H LaGuardia says he is busy running the city and will not comment on national reaction to his midnight curfew defiance. The War Department directs Army personnel to observe the midnight deadline as part of a broader response.
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New York
F. H. LaGuardia
Roosevelt
LaGuardia
James F. Byrnes
War Department
la Turn
Forced Labor Transfer Named WMC Experiment
Elaine Straulin, 23, testified that her husband kept her barefoot at home as control and ration-book constraint under cruelty grounds in a separate maintenance suit. Superior Judge Rebath awarded temporary support of 65 dollars monthly for her one year old son Thomas Jr.
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Chicago
Elaine Steawlin
Joseph Rebath
New Bedford Plan Seen as Booster for National Service
Washington AP The War Manpower Commission faces scrutiny as a New Bedford Massachusetts plan for forced labor transfer sparks debate over national service laws. The national labor management committee accuses officials of using New Bedford as a guinea pig to push compulsion while McNutt stays silent. Senator Johnson voices cautious skepticism about the plan’s push for mandatory service.
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Marvin L. Atibowsmitis
Washington
War Manpower Commission
New Bedford
Mass
WMC
National Labor - Management Committee
Commission
Industry
Paul V. McNutt
Massachusetts
McNuli
Washingston
Asa
War Department
Congress
Johnson D-Coles
Senate Military Committee
Senate probes food shortage in inquiry across states
Chairman Thomas says state agriculture commissioners will join a Senate committee inquiry into current food shortages to determine if an overall shortfall exists and how Congress can help. President Roosevelt hinted a statement on the food situation. The Oklahoma paper cites widespread cattle but notes meat and butter do not reach diners.
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Washington
Thomas
D-Okla
Maton
Senate
Agriculture and
Congress
Roosevelt
Black Mar
Aerial Offensives Tied With China Operations
Far East Air Force and China based Fourth Air Force are coordinating Liberator bomber missions to block Japanese shipping off the China coast. Lt. Gen. George C Kenney and Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault push combined air operations from the Philippines to Mindanao and Palawan, with actions near Shanghai and Hong Kong signaling intensified pressure on Japanese forces.
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Richard Bergholz
Far East
Leyte
Pacific
China
George C Kenney
Far East Air Force
Claire Chennault
Bth Air Force
Big
Donald Hutchinson
Hutchinson
Air Bison
Palawan
Zamboanga
Mindanao
Philippines
Permai
Thailand
Kenney
Shanghai
Hongkong
Seon Kia
China Saamland
Far East Air
Fear Of Surpluses Pointed Way To '45 Food Shortage
Fear of farm surpluses shaped wartime policy as the War Food Administration delayed meat production revival and kept price supports low amid expectations of reduced Allied food needs in 1945. A Navy communique said the submarine Barbel was overdue from Patral with officers and crew presumed lost.
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Barber
Ovid A. Martin
Associated Press
Washington
Europe
War Food Administration
WAF
Germany
WFA
Barbel
Patral
LA. Comdr
Conde Leroy Raguet
Doughboys Fight Way Into Iloilo Capital Of Panay
American troops push into Iloilo, capital of Panay, with heavy fires burning the city. Gen MacArthur says 40th Division reached outskirts after capturing Iloilo airfield and Carpenter's Bridge, while another column moved 25 miles north from Tigbauan. Guerrilla forces tidily overran coast areas as Panay joined liberated Philippine targets.
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James Hutcheeon
Manila
Coilo
Panay
Philippine
Douglas MacArthur
Rapp Brush
40Th Division
Tloilo
Carpenter
Moilo
Tigbauan
Plsin
Nollo
Sall
Luzon
San Fernando
Lingayen Gulf
Gulf Coast
Aringay
Cature Bauang
Luzos
Fifth Air Force
Cagayan Valley
Higa
Wast
MacArthur
Noughboys
Sierra Madre
Eant
British troops cap Mandalay plus mop up phase begins
British forces push from Mandalay and trap about 30,000 Japanese in central Burma at Melktila and surrounding routes. Manila reports say Fort Dufferin fell. many Japanese defenders escaped at night while civilians suffered during bombardments. A courier carried a Union Jack to Allied HQ signaling enemy retreat.
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John Grover Calcutta
Mandalay
Melktila
Malktila
Burma
Thailand
London Radio
CBS
Mandalayy
U S Fighter Wings Land From Iwo Jima
James Lindsley reports from Two Islands Motoyama Air Field where US fighter squadrons in P-51 mustangs and Black Widow night fighters arrived after a difficult flight from Iwo Jima near Japan. First landing by General Ernest Moore and other pilots marked a rare postwar hop as planes were readied for further missions in the Pacific.
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James Lindsley
Jima
James 8
Beckwith, Jr
Biumtnaton
Sghter
Jule C
Mitchell
Eufaula
Ala
Rarold J. Barcur
Monroe
Great Area West Of Rhine Seized In Major Allied Push
Allied forces drive deep into the Rhine frontier capturing key German pockets as Seventh and Third Armies close on Ludwigshaven Mannheim and Mainz. Patton’s Third Army advances, with 6,000 prisoners reported and a broader tally nearing 75,000, while Saarland towns and industrial sites fall under American control amid heavy German withdrawals.
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Associated Press
Saarland
Worms
Remagen
Rhine
Mainz
James M. Long
Paris
Starland
Painate
Ritter
U. S
Ludwigshaven + Menaheim
George & ? Ton, Jr
Alexander M. Patch
Seventh Army
Susrland
Palatinate
Saar Valley
Swleet Milla
Coc Depow
Germ
Sibruschen
Aeralautern
Zweibruecken
Tollas
Ritler
Ares
Ruhr
Court HL Hodges
Beuel
Ebenhower
Priera
Paracel
Remuagen
Duesseldorf
Dulaburg
St. George & Patton
Panute
Hesse
Pat Jhupper Dow
Patton
Ludwigshafen
Wagnhaten
Menahem
Eaeatther
Jlery
Ranke
Frankfurt
Berlin
Germany
Teal
Pavanion
Vexsra
Hotnana
Berg
Upper Rhine
Lauters
Ludwinchofen
Middle Rhine
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Coblenz
U. S. Third Army
ACME
Pool
Signal Corps Radw
Ravenna
Stettin
Daniel Deluce
Moscow
Baltic
Neusse
Artiilery
Altdamm
Gregory K. Zhukov
Altack
Iloilo
U.S
Iwo
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