Official War End Delay Would Be Boon To Farmers
Washington dispatch reports that delaying an official end to World War II could financially help farmers. If war ends before January, farm price supports extend through 1947. if delayed into 1946, supports run through January 1, 1949. Economics researchers estimate annual costs could exceed $1 billion to sustain price supports under the two-year postwar period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OVD
A. Martin Washington
Congress
Agriculture Department
Farm Market Road Plans To Be Talked By Revenue Board
The county Board of Revenue will hold a special session to discuss post war farm to market road plans with state officials. Judge Saxon P. Toyner says the meeting may include the Hodgesville project and four other farm to market programs. Road paving limits and funding arrangements from gasoline tax, matched by state and federal governments, will be reviewed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Board of Revenue
Saxon P. Toyner
Poyner
Poxner
Hedgesville
Dothan
Alabama Municipal League to Meet in Montgomery Thursday
Members of the Alabama League of Municipalities are urged to attend a Thursday meeting in Montgomery to discuss post war urban street paving programs with E N Rodgers acting director of the State Highway Department. Dothan would be represented, with a State federal fund of 40000 plus 13000 local city appropriation. About 30 municipalities with populations of 5000 or more are affected. Ayres and Coy may attend after consulting with Ed E Reid executive director.
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Alabama League of Municipalities
Montgomery
E. N. Rodgers
State Highway Department
Dothan
John D. Ayres
Ed E. Reid
League
Reid
Actng
Ayres
Commis Simmer
Clyde L. Coy
Cutback Ordered In Generals Ranks
Washington AP reports a wartime reduction in General officers as 100 more are being reduced in rank. Within three months only a few of the 198 recalled generals will remain in active service, retained briefly to train replacements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army Today
Army Brass Hats Rapped By Solons In Congress
Senator Eden Johnson lashed the Army brass hats for preferring peacetime conscription and slow demobilization. He urged immediate repeal of the draft law and faster service releases. Other senators pressed Army officials on discharge criteria while a recruiting bill to boost reenlistment and benefits neared committee action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
JaCk Bell
Washington
Congress
Eden C Johnson
D-Cole
Johnson
Senate
Coloradoan
Hill
Alabama
War Department
Maybanks SC
Army
Elbert D. Thomas
Dutah
G. IL
Spann Brennan Named On Napier Use Study Group
James F. Spann and Jim Brennan were appointed by the City Commission to a five member committee to confer with military authorities and pursue Napier Field as a permanent base. The Board of Revenue named Dr I C Bates and Walter Oakley, with one more appointment from the Chamber of Commerce. The panel may travel to Washington to press for the field’s status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James F. Spann
Jim Brennan
City Commission
Napier Field
County Board of Revenue
I. C. Bates
Walter Oakley
Chamber of Commerce
W. Perry Calhoun
Board of Revenue
Washington
Naval fliers locate 1556 Allied POWs in Japan camps
U S Naval Fliers found 1,556 Allied prisoners of war in four remote Hokkaido camps during a 10 day search. Radio contact was made, forty needed hospitalization, supplies and medicines were dropped. Camps were Bibai Ashibetsu Akabira in a soft coal mining district where prisoners were likely forced to hard labor. Rescue teams estimated a three day reach.
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Ominato
Japan
U. S. Naval
Hokkaido
Was &T Bibai
Ashibetsu
Akabira
All Cheese Goes Off Ration List Tomorrow
The OPA and Agriculture Department announce the removal of all cheese from rationing effective 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. Military stocks of cheddar may meet foreign claimant needs, enabling a small increase in meat and butter purchases with red stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
OPA
Agriculture Department
Cheater
Rowles
New City Enacts Taxicab Control Ordinance
The City Commission passed an ordinance effective Oct. 1 requiring taxicab drivers to obtain permits and badges from the City Clerk with annual renewals. Drivers under 15, habitual drunks or drug addicts, feeble minded, or with suspended driving privileges are barred. Permits must be carried at all times and shown to officials on demand. the Clerk may cancel improper permits. Violations draw fines from five to one hundred dollars per offense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dothan
City Commission
State Highway Patrol
Two Marion County Officials Arrested
In Hamilton Alabama two Marion County officials and one former official were arrested on indictments by a grand jury probing irregularities in public funds. Judge Roy Sanderson faces embezzlement charges while County Commissioner Verol Burleson and former Commissioner Dave Holloway are charged with misuse of public funds. A fourth indicted man was not arrested. Sanderson resigned effective November 15 after impeachment proceedings directed by Governor Chauncey Sparks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
Ala
Marion County
Grand
Shentt H. M. Couch
Roy Sanderson
Vero Burleson
Dave Holloway
Sanderson
Couch
Chauncey Sparks
Big Five Talks Open On Italian Peace and Potsdam Legacy
London AP reports Secretary Byrnes said Italy tops the Big Five foreign ministers meeting agenda with Italy’s colonies under trusteeship and UN supervision. Germany’s fate not on the agenda as per Potsdam, and the group aims to unite positions on peace and Pacific issues amid Molotov Bevin and Seidault among others.
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London
James F. Byrnes
Italy
Russia
Aninia
France
Colina
Byrnes
Bsrnez
United States
United Nations
Germany
Potsdam
U. S
Barnes
Britain
Ernest Bevin
Georges Seidault
Soviet Union
Vyacheslav BY. Molotov
China
Yang Sam
Private Enterprise Part In Peacetime Jobs Emphasized
Washington AP reports backers of a full employment bill stress private enterprise must play a major role in peacetime jobs. The draft law would stimulate and assist private firms to provide the largest feasible employment opportunities through expanded production and services. Senate Finance debates include government wage supplements and state costs, with uncertainty over approving Taft’s extended payments proposal and President Truman’s weekly benefits plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Banking
Taft
Ohio
Vucas Ond
Subcommittee
Truman
MacArthur moves to seize inland Japanese bases and Osaka
General MacArthur ordered expansion of U.S. occupation to inland naval bases and Osaka. An advance party of 110 Americans lands at Sendai as Koreans mass protest over Japanese officials remaining under Allied directives. MacArthur pledges protect rights while troops hold southern areas.
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iBy
Associated Press
MacArthur
Yanks Ta
Japan
Osaka Reatmonth
Dome Agency
Sendai
Honshu
Jean R. Hodge
Seoul
Counntry
Doctor Treats Top Nip Warlord Tojo in Botched Suicide
Tokyo reports say Hideki Tojo attempted suicide after Pearl Harbor link and war crimes guilt. American doctors transfused blood plasma, giving a 50-50 chance of recovery, but his condition remained critical as officers awaited transfer to MacArthur's HQ.
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Associated Press Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
Pearl Harbor
America
Tojo
General MacArthur
MacArthur
Associated Press
Marlin Spencer
Russell Brines
Jansnere Bimpire
Haid
James Johnson
Newark
Ohio
Toyo
Tokyo
Alac
Johnson
U.S
Nationwide strike idle totals ease but stoppages linger
The nation saw a drop of over 50,000 idle workers from a high of 140,000 as weekend lull spread, yet 52 labor disputes kept more than 87,000 out of work across 56 industries. A large portion of the stoppages centered on Detroit Orange Tex and Pennsylvania with Ford plants easing idleness and Murray Corporation of America idling 2000 workers in Detroit and Ecorse Michigan.
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Associated Press
Nho
Industves
Westies House
Electiig Corporation
Sakers
Detroit
Orange
Tex
Pennsylvania
Ford Metor Company
Kelvere Haver Wheel Company
Murray Corporation of America
Ecorse ¢Mich
Stratagems Of Santo Tomas Captives To Get Food Told
In the eighth chapter Earl Carroll details how Santo Tomas internees used covert schemes to obtain funds and food as Japanese captors starved inmates. The account centers on Luis and Pomponette Francisco’s ruse to distract guards, enabling a transfer of money while relief efforts faltered.
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Santo Tomas
Karl Carroll
Manila
Earl Carrol
International News Service
San Francisco
Lule de Alcuaz
Luis
Francisco
Pomponette
Tarry
New Orleans
L. J. Francisco
Pompunette
Wey
Lula
IOU
Attaboy Nippie Stay Right In There
In Tokyo crowds welcomed the first American afloat at a Tokyo dock since before the war. A Signal Corps craft the PCE 248 dunked a greeted sailor from the bay as Tokyo officials observed.
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Attaboy
Nippie
Tokyo
al & Tokyo
Real
Signal Corps
Returned Officers Tell Of Japanese Cruelty In War Camps
Atlanta AP report quotes Brig. Gen. William E. Brougher from Decatur recounting starvation, beatings, and slave labor by Japanese captors in Formosa and Manchuria between 1942 and 1944. He says officers endured forced labor and abuse to prove Nippon superiority, with others similarly treated in British and colonial camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
William E. Brougher
Code Ginves
Decatur
Atlanta Journal
Brougher
Formosa
Manchkn
Ger Brougher
Bruges
Sparks Talk Attracts Expected 400 Audience Here
An audience of about 400 is expected tomorrow as Governor Sparks speaks at the Exchange Club in Gey Chauncey Sparks address on the income tax amendment. The speech will be broadcast on WAGF radio from 12:46 to 12:15. Local civic leaders and visitors from the Wiregrass region will attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gey Chauncey Sparks
Wiregians
Exchange Club
Iin
Pete
Beardes
Bexchange Club
Alva
Committee Approves War Time Cessation
The House Interstate Commerce Committee voted unanimously to end War Time at month’s end. If Congress approves, clocks will move back one hour to Standard Time at 2 a.m. Sunday, Sept 30, restoring standard timing nationwide.
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Washington
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Congress
General Wainwright ready to tell Corrigidor tale
Gen Jonathan M. Wainwright plans to reveal the “pitiful story” of Corregidor’s final days and subsequent prison horrors. He hinted at timing for release to the War Department and the nation as he enjoys a long-awaited home leave and public reception.
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Washington
Jonathon M. Wainwright
Waco
Truman
Wallwight
White House
Teoman
Oman
Navy ships sunk or damaged in Okinawa battle 253
The Navy disclosed today that 293 naval craft were sunk or damaged during the Okinawa battle. Thirty ships were put out of action, mostly by Japanese kamikaze planes. The tally included 10 battleships, 14 aircraft carriers, three heavy cruisers, two light cruisers and 87 destroyers, with twelve incidents caused accidentally by our own forces.
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Washingson Taft
Okinawa
Fergent
Atomic Power To Be Tried In Locomotive
New York Central locomotive to be converted to atom power drive. Ralph Tees, chief engineer for the U S Industrial and Development Co of Elmira New York, says a mercury turbine tied to a mercury steel disintegration formula will power the engine. One teaspoon of mercury atoms exploded could run a locomotive for 43 round trips between New York and San Francisco.
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Probewill
Aerom
New York Central Railroad
Ralph Tees
U. S. Industrial and Development Co
Elmira
N. Y
New York
San Francisco
Devereux Alive Directs POW Camp in Hokkaido Island
Five prisoners from the Wake Island district report Lt. Col James P Devereux, quoted as alive and in charge of a prisoner of war camp in the Biba area of Hokkaido Island. The Marine commander's status is confirmed by local sources.
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Devereux
Omimato
Japan
James P Devereux
Wake
Teeland
Biba
Hokkaido Island
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Spann
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Parley
State Department
Self
Yoyo
Tie
Tayo
Nhree
Brines
Spencer
Newamen
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Rider
Toio
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