Pearl Harbor debate lingers over Japanese attack doubts
A Senate House inquiry transcript recalls views on Pearl Harbor, with Hull and Pacartier testifying about whether to receive Japanese envoys after the December 7, 1941 attack. The exchange centers on a wartime report and the possibility of making concessions if the attack did not occur.
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Abbey Board
Pefere
Senate House
Pacartier
White House
Hull
Jal
Wheeler Warns Against War Backing Reds and Allies
U S Senator from Montana told the Senate that the nation was backing both Russia and England in a mad rush toward another world war. He criticized the United Nations and urged against appeasing Russia, saying the war was fought to free people from slavery and to uphold high principles.
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Washington
D.mont
Senate
Ruria
England
Seator
United Nations
United States
Russia
Europe
Russa
Metice
Wheeler
Iemspeck To Lead ATA Presidency In 1960
MILKINGTON AP Graying Earl Bob Ramapeck may become executive vice president of the Air Transport Association on January 1 next year as the veteran Democrat and House majority whip ramps up for the post. Directors of the association criticized 23 Hemertic and international airlines in a meeting yesterday during the election, with Ramapeck seen as a strong candidate. City Fire Chief Floyd Harris and contractors report delays in obtaining permits for ongoing and planned repair work due to permit issues observed at several sites under construction.
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Milkington
Graying
Earl Bob Ramapeck
Janary 1
Air Transport Associaerica
Association of
Hemertic and International Airlines
Cael Democrat
Floyd Harris
Iumd
Gto
German World Conquest Plan Outlined By U S Prosecutor
U S prosecutor Sidney S Alderman described seven phases of Nazi aggression from 1933 to 1941 at the Tokyo trial of 20 Nazi leaders. He said early plans were modest but grew into a real threat with Hitler s vision and noted potential points where war could have been halted. The trial proceeds with charges of murder and civilian abuses as the court views footage of Nazi camps.
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Noland Norgaard Muernberg
Europe
International Military Tribunal
U. S
Sidney S. Alderman
Hitler
Aldserman
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Scandinava
Low Countries
Russia
Japan
Italy
United States
Nationalist Drive Near Mukden With U S Air Support
Chinese Nationalists push toward Mukden as about 700 American planes reportedly fly into China for their use. War Department orders the airlift. 10th Air Force transports and fighters to bolster Nationalist forces. Reports say Russians may allow garrisoning Manchuria and officials return to Changchun amid the advance.
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Associated Press
Chungking
China
Mukden
Vila
Mayichuria
Richard Cushing
Shanghai
India
Burma
Pais
Kunming
Cushing
War Department
10Th Air Force
fAihy
Air Force
Aircraf
Peiping
Kowpanstze
Draft Boards Send 50 Men For Induction
Houston County draft boards number one and two sent 50 men to Ft McClellan for pre Induction examinations and two men for actual induction. Names from board one include Emory Tillman Moody Jr Harry Victor Crine John Ato Robins Jr Thomas Henry Franklin Roney Melton Mark Whitehead James Edward Williams Charles Ray Kee and Pav Petty. From board one three men volunteered for service and were sent to Ft McClellan for induction. A long list of inductees from draft board two followed with many names including Edwell Watson Hidlman F C Reese John Isaac Address Joe Rudolph Draughon Toward Clark Leonard James Kirkland John Robert Butler Z W Lamb Earnest Madison Holland and others.
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Houston Counry
Selective Service
Ft. McClellan
Emory Tillman Moody, Jr
Harry Victor Crine
John Ato Robins
Thomas Henry Franklin Roney
Melton Mark Whitehead
James Edward Williams
Charles Ray Kee
Pav Petty
Marvin Lanien
Ard James Homer Shivah
Emo
Nuber One
Edwell Watson Hidlman
F. C. Reese
John Isaac Ardress
Joe Rudolph Draughon
Toward Clark
Leonard James Kirkland
John Robert Butler
Z W Lamb
Earnest Madison Holland
Joseph Franklin Bush
Ira Creter Kelly, Jr
Kenchen Larrar Strickland
Samuel Thurimen Brannon
James Oran
Charles Green
Mathis -Orchie
Loyd Seabarn, Jr
Johnne Ent Wright
Gene Gilbert
Jack Gibart
Walter Doyle Crawford
Frank Howard Adcock
Dance Eepy Baxley
Donzell MzrArdie
Winford Weldon Bragg
Joe Idridge Holten
Escape trio flee Georgia Alabama truck bandits
Alabama and Florida highway patrols hunt three black convicts who overpowered two guards and seized a Georgia prison camp truck five miles north of Gordon. The suspects, Robert Williams thirty Ulysses Reese forty and Robert Foster nineteen, disarmed Guards Wright and Brunson and headed toward Dothan before abandoning the truck near the Rambo Mill Dothan Florida highway intersection. Bloodhounds were brought to the scene but no trace found as searches continue by Alabama Florida and Georgia authorities.
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Alabama
Flanda
Georgia
Gordon
T. J Hutto
State Highway Patrol
Dothan
Florida
Hutto
Sid Howell
Blakely
R. H. Brunson
Rambo Mill- Dothan
Ala
Hurley Quits As China Envoy Ends Mission Raps U S Policy
In Jerusalem reports say nine Jews were killed and at least seven wounded in a disturbance in the Jewish area of Palestine. The Jewish National Council calls a half hour work stoppage as mourning while British troops withdraw north of Tel Aviv after a cordon around six Jewish villages. The unrest followed a Greek ship seizure carrying illegals and involved retaliation fears from the Yishuv. The Jewish Labor Organization urges U S and British leaders to act to avert catastrophe and protests that the crackdown violates Jewish refuge policies.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Jewish National Council
Tancinn Considad Paraduelty Oo
Tel Aviv
Jewish Labor Organization
U. S. Congress of Industrial Organization
American Federation of Labor
Hurley resigns as ambassador claims U S aids Communism Far East
Maj Gen Patrick J Hurley, former Ambassador to China, resigns and denounces U S policy as aiding imperialism and Communism in the Far East. He accuses diplomats and the State Department of blocking pro democracy aims while insisting he favored democracy and free enterprise. He cites U S war policies and Atlantic Charter principles as misused to undermine democracy abroad. He says American police in China lacked broad support and notes the need to harmonize Chinese military and diplomatic relations.
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Gradam Hovey Washington
Patrick J. Hurley
China
United State
Far East
Hurley
U. S
United States
Chungking
Truman
Bat
Roosevelt
Chang Kaiahek
Arcomphanoid
Hurley Sard
Stair
County Near Overall Bond Quota in Victory Loan Drive
County residents, including Bethan and Houston, approach the $1,455,000 bond quota though E bond sales lag. Ramsey reports current totals at $3,030,407.52 across all series, with only $128,822.50 in E bonds. Drive closes December 8, requiring $244,168.50 more in F bonds and intensified local efforts, Farmers Week to culminate with a Gordon barbecue and rallies. Nylon hosiery contributions boost incentives. Dothan Silk Hosiery Mill provided twelve pair to spur sales, eight remain for approval.
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Bethan
Houston County
Sot
Robert Ramsey
Ramsey
Gordon
Exchange Club
Lions Club
Dothan
Evacuation Plea for Java Aged and Sick
Java officials and Red Cross workers in Batavia petitioned the Netherlands East Indies government to evacuate 200,100 women, children, the aged and sick from Java until normal times return. Aron Gutwirth warned people are vanishing and living in terror and appealed to America for ships and hospitality. The Indonesian National Committee in Batavia urged global moral support for Indonesia as it seeks independence.
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Batavia
Java
Soerabaja
Ambarawa
Bandoeng
Red Cross
Aron Gutwirth
Loesl
Netherlands East Indies Red Cross
Gutwirth
America
Sid
Indonesian National Committee
Indonesia
Flection Reform On Nip Diet Agenda
Emperor Hirohito unveiled reform as the top issue for Japan's Diet with both houses present. Imperial princes and household officials stood beside Premier Kiyura Shidehara's cabinet as the Emperor spoke in formal tones during the reading at the throne.
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Tokya
Hirohin
Olpehan
Arta House
Imperial Household
Kiyura Shidehara
Teen-Age Romeo In Jail After Taking Dad's Coin
In Columbus Georgia detectives questioned 16 year old Malcolm McLeod son of former Rep. Clarence J McLeod after he was seized with 19000 in his wallet and two university cards while fleeing toward Miami with 21 year old Wayne University student Betty Ann Mackey and 19 year old Kathleen Corricade. The trio said their trip was a bid to find work and they described their plans to move and marry as they stopped at Chicago and other cities.
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Columbus
Chattahoochee
Romeo
University
Jesse Wilson
Nan
Clarence J. McLeod
Michigan
Betty Ann Mackey
Wayne University
Kathleen Corricade
McLeod
George Lawson
Young Mcleod
Miarot
Petty
Wayne
Munher
Kathleen
Aerom
Malcolm
Miami
Columeans Ledger
Reelaurantg
Majcalin
Chicago
Betty Ann
Wedger
Federal Intervention Looms In CIO Auto Workers Strike
DETROIT APL Government intervention looms after breakdowns in GM UAW CIO talks. GM accuses picketing and insists wage talks will not jeopardize prices or profits. Vice President Anderson says the company will not negotiate under unlawful actions and signals readiness to adjust wages only if profits and prices allow.
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CIO Auto Workers
Detroit
APL
General Motors
CIO United Autmobile Workers
Ita
Ptef
Rand GM
HW. Anderson
Uaw-Cio
Anderson
City Plans 10000 Bond Purchase For City Fund
The city will buy bonds totaling ten thousand dollars and place them in a sinking fund for repayment in 1958. A City Light and Water Department truck was destroyed by fire at a garage on the Dothan General Highway near the home of city employee J. W. Shirah. Commissioner Vaughn noted the loss and ordered the truck to be towed to the city garage after a tire insurance adjuster examined the scene.
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S Belart
Cormniamsiauer
Andutar Trower
Ol Vaughn
City Yell
Melure
Vaughn
City Light and Water Department
Dothan-Genera
Dothan
J. W. Shirah
Shirah
Truek
Fifteen Dead In Lake Chelan School Bus Tragedy
CHELAN WASH Fifteen youths and the bus driver died when an inbound school bus plunged from a road into Lake Chelan. Six people survived, five children and a woman passenger, after escaping through windows as the bus sank. Rescue teams from Grand Coulee dam and Seattle searched the wreckage, with divers locating the body of 16 year old Henry Davis and work continuing into the morning.
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Chelan
Wash
Mra
Ted Brown
Jack Randle
Margaret
Pegnys Wice
Bob Watton
Dennie Mack
Ethel Keck
Macy Stock
Mrx Brown Bolfo
Grand Coulee Dam
Seattle
Colin
J. & O Pannell
Henry Davis
O Donnels
Lake Chelan
Tamman
Fort Penn
GOP Hurls Charge Park Barrel Politics
AP dispatch reports Republicans accuse Democrats of park barrel politics over river and harbor funds in a deficiency bill. Rep John Taber of New York faults the measure and says Democrats seek to retire the river and harbor appropriation while a close committee vote trimmed 178 million dollars. House plans a general session to review separate items, with opposition to adding funds and possible strikes on allocations.
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Helle Ta
John Taber
New York
House
Taber
Sparks Merge State Liquor Control With Safety Bureau
MONTGOMERY AL A P Chauncey Sparks merges liquor enforcement from ABC with Highway Patrol under a new State Department of Public Safety. The executive order creates a Safety Division headed by NW Kimbrough, with Gilbert as Public Safety Director and a 36 day transition noted. Dec 1 marks the consolidation date.
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Montgomery
Ala
Gay
Chauncey Sparke
Fek
Highway Patrol
State Department
Dublie
Politic Safety Department
van Bo Gilbert
Calvert
Liquor Enforcement Divisan
NW. Kimbrough
Anniston Priest Suspended and Resigned from Parish
In Anniston Alabama Reverend Arthur W. Terminiello resigned from Sacred Heart Church after refusing to obey church orders to stop distributing literature. He was suspended and removed from priestly duties within the Diocese of Mobile, losing his standing and faculties as a priest.
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Hobile
Ala
Bish. T
Toolen
Diocese of
Mobile
Arthur W. Terminiello
Sacred Hen Church
Anniston
Arthur W. Termainiet
Sacred Heart Church
Dicsesa
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Pearl Harbor
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James Maresco
Boston
New Zealand
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