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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1945
Page
2
Washington reports total casualties for Army and Navy at 1 012 049, up 3 162 in the past week. Army 895 834 casualties include 185 670 killed, 556 844 wounded, 46 747 missing, 106 573 prisoners. Navy casualties total 116 215, up 3 347, with 44 503 killed, 56 767 wounded, 10 705 missing, 4 240 prisoners.
President Truman outlined possible pay changes for Congress and urged a clear salary hike to 15000 dollars, while a 2500 dollar expense allowance for each member faced mixed reception. He also endorsed a study on wage policies and stood by the Little Steel formula pending investigation.
A letter outlines support for increasing Congress members annual tax free office expense to 2500 with a condition requiring study of regulatory orders. It notes Senate rejection, cites Office of Price Administration edict on meat, warns of penalties and opposes a rich man’s club image while highlighting underpayment.
Graduating exercises for Thomasville High School are set for tonight at the municipal building starting at 8 30. The 1945 class includes 82 students with 29 boys and is addressed by Chaplain Keathley. Prior events featured the Class Night program with full participation from first grade to high school students.
President Truman nominates Col. Paul W. Thompson for brigadier general and to head the education program for troops in Europe. He will oversee university centers at Shrivehan England and Fontainebleau France, a central technical school at Tilworth England, and eight week courses with elementary and high school tracks for about 1.25 million men.
J O Stewart, famed federal Prohi officer, runs 3000 acres in Colquitt County with 44 sharecroppers and seven wage hands. His holdings include 350 acres peanuts, 400 acres cotton, 700 acres corn, oats from 150 acres yielding about 40 bushels per acre, and 50 acres tobacco. He employs 56 men, 5 tractors, and plans to expand cattle to 400 cows. He attributes success to loyal tenants and strong farm program results.
A 14 year old Sarasota youth admitted knifing his boyhood chum to death after a playful quarrel during a swim. Judge G W Whitehurst will discuss case with both families before sentencing on a second degree murder charge. Carrol Turbeville of Nokomis pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing Frederick Smith and described carrying him halfway home before he died in a Sarasota hospital.
Washington reports the Battle of the Atlantic cost the Nazis 700 submarines while inflicting heavy Allied losses. From December 7, 1941, to May 30, 1945, 17 merchant ships were sunk and 15 damaged from 17,707 convoyed by the US Atlantic fleet, with seven American naval vessels sunk and six damaged.
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt returned to the White House to help honor the memory of a close friend of her late husband. President Truman posthumously awarded the distinguished service medal for Maj. Gen. Edwin M Watson to Watsons widow at a rose garden ceremony attended by White House staff and Roosevelt veterans. Watson served as Roosevelts military aide and later as top White House secretary before dying at sea returning from the Yalta conference.
Mrs Jessie Harris of Knox ville Tenn hosts guests at the Harris home. Dr and Mrs B E Moore of New Haven Conn visit C D Moore family. C M Phillips of Bainbridge seen in the city briefly. Thomas E Lendon, 82, transferred from Williamsburg Va to San Francisco Calif. Mrs M L Crawford leaves for Forsyth to spend summer with her mother.
Alabama Supreme Court declares a husband who feloniously kills his wife cannot inherit her property. The ruling upholds Jefferson County Circuit decision in Conner Weaver, now serving 50 years for his wife's death, and frames the rule as a legal bar rather than punishment.
Sen Johnson says the $5 automobile use tax may be repealed after July 1 1948. A Treasury Department letter endorses abolition after Japan is defeated, calling the tax an undesirable federal revenue source.
Sgt Curtis E Bozeman of Coolidge Georgia and Mrs Wo A Bozeman are named as his parents. Bozeman 20 flies with the 100th bombardment group in the Eighth Air Force based in England receiving the Air Medal for exceptionally meritorious achievement during final phase air battles over Germany. He attended Coolidge High School before entering the Army Air Forces.
Staff Sergeant David A. Paulk of Fitzgerald Georgia, a Bataan death march survivor and former prisoner of war, wed Marie Purvis of Ocilla at Lawson General Hospital. The ceremony drew attention from other patients and slave laborers, with Corp. H C Pope serving as best man. Paulk recently received his discharge and the couple began a honeymoon after the ceremony.
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