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Newspaper
Monroe Morning World
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1945
Page
1
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Ohio building service unions vote to strike affecting over 2 000 Manhattan employees and threatening 1 900 buildings. In Detroit, United Autoworkers Council files petition for nationwide GM strike with 35 000 workers at risk, seeking a 20 percent wage increase and a balloting date set for October.
The House Ways and Means committee voted to refer the Elliott Roosevelt bad debt case for further investigation. Democrats backed releasing over 500 pages of evidence, showing Hartford’s tax deduction linked to a 956000 loss on a 200000 loan, while Republicans pressed for a full minority report and challenged the timing of the disclosure.
HATTIESBURG Miss Sept 2 Camp Shelby enlisted men with 80 or more service points will be discharged by Sept 30 Col Loren Brooks post executive officer said A letter to the editor from high point sergeants at the 803rd replacement battalion prompted the statement with 1569 men at Camp Shelby meeting the criterion and about 500 more eligible on other grounds all to be discharged by month end due to war service demobilization and discharge pressures at the post
Selman Field may become a permanent post as plans shift navigation training from San Marcos Texas and Selman Mines Louisiana to Ellington Field Texas. Major General Breene announced transfer of students to Ellington for continued training while personnel at other stations remain. The Salmen Field navigation school will close October 12 with about six hundred officers to join, date and facility type for a permanent air corps site at Selman Field remains undecided.
Thirty one Meridian residents petitioned for recall of Mayor Frank L Jacobs alleging secret committees, closed deliberations, abuse of office, inaccessible hours, discourteous conduct, and neglect of duties. They seek a special election to remove him for the public good and welfare.
Lt. Samuel C. Epes, found guilty of murdering his schoolteacher wife, receives a life term from Judge A L Gaston after an all male jury spares him the electric chair. The defense plans a new trial motion.
Tokyo reports Prince Konoye saying the emperor is key to keeping Japan united as mass unemployment and starvation loom this winter. He denied abdication, calling it disastrous, while noting domestic power struggles and the occupation's strain on national life.
The Third Fleet ships led by the 45,000 ton battleship Iowa arrived in Buckner Bay on Saturday evening, en route to Pearl Harbor to pick up Admiral Halsey. They plan a 12 hour stay and navy day events across U S ports on Oct 27, carrying service personnel eligible for discharge.
The 1945-46 Community Chest and War Fund campaign opens October 1 and runs to October 27. W. J. Riley announces campaign leaders for Ouachita parish and West Monroe with chairs for gifts, house-to-house solicitation, chain stores, publicity, and distribution. This last appeal of the U S War Fund seeks to meet last year’s quota of seventy five per cent.
Edwin J. Janeen warns New Orleans there is enough gasoline for three days of normal demand despite the oil workers strike. In Toledo car owners face rationing as stations limit sales. emergency cards issued for essential needs. Detroit mass stations also restricting to five gallons.
San Francisco reports that American policy contemplates granting women in Japan the vote, potentially lifting half the Japanese race toward greater rights. The piece contrasts Japanese women's lack of personal rights with a future where voting could empower them and change social dynamics.
Police in Jackson Mississippi say they arrested T. B. Brown a former Georgian and now local worker after a young woman identified him for cutting locks from five different women. He faces five counts of simple assault and is out on $100 bond. Brown reportedly claimed he did not know why he acted.
London reports the Big Five foreign ministers clash over Balkans and Europe's waterways. Russia signs a trade pact to control half of Hungary's economy, clouds Hungarian peace talks, and extends Austria's Soviet zone. Differences with the United States over waterways delay any permanent control plan.
Washington reports that the upcoming army navy recruitment drive could decide compulsory peace time training. If 1.5 million enlist, universal training likely rejected. short of that, lawmakers may cut post war forces or adopt a peacetime draft. Navy expects 500 609 thousand sailors. army figures unavailable.
Mrs. Eva Estelle Kincaid 53 of Fort Necessity died in a local sanitarium after an automobile accident days earlier. Funeral services at 3:30 p.m. near Fort Necessity at Ernest Mason's home with Rev. Frank Collins officiating. Interment in Bute Cemetery. Survived by daughter Mrs. Jack Weldon and granddaughter Jacquelyn Weldon, five sisters and two brothers. Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers named.
The United States orders wholesale arrests of Japan's war leadership to curb militarism and ultra nationalism. General MacArthur's occupation forces are instructed to avoid interference with armed Japanese resistance except to protect themselves and support occupation aims. The policy outlines U S supremacy in directing occupation and signals forthcoming arrests based on a new Allied war crimes list.
Carlton Clyde Bledsoe, 30, of Monroe, LA, fatally injured on the Winnsboro road near La Fourche Bayou. He was struck as he stepped from his car after a minor accident with a parked truck whose drivers were repairing a tire. State Troopers report the first vehicle fled the scene.
Sgt. Arnold D. Dupree, engineer gunner on a B-24, was arrested on bigamy charges in Laurel. He allegedly married Georgia Farve in January 1945 while not divorced from Thelma McMichael, who Dupree wed in February 1943. He previously earned the European theater ribbon, three battle stars and the Air Medal. He is free on $1,009 bond.
Baton Rouge Gov. Jim Davis said he expected a thorough probe by the state institutions department of conditions at the State Colony and Training School. He pledged action by Director R L Pettit if poor conditions are found following Rapides parish grand jury criticism.
Senate Foreign Relations chair Connally says the Vandenberg bill would create a joint 12 member House Senate panel with exclusive power over nuclear policy. The move aims to give Congress a say while debates continue on sharing bomb secrets with Britain Canada or Russia. President Truman has not decided, with Cabinet ministers split on disclosing the bomb’s secrets.
The U S Department of Commerce offers 300 million dollars in surplus automobile parts. The notice promotes reading the Classified Section in the Morning World and News Star for details and hundreds of other listings.
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