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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1945
Page
6
Report notes a fire during a Chicago tourney causing delays and safety checks. Officials evaluated facilities and resumed events once conditions were deemed safe. No injuries reported. teams regroup for remaining schedule.
The Gay Nineties revue at Finney General Hospital drew the largest patient audience to date. Miss Aileen Adams directed assisted by staff. Cpl Roy Anderson led ceremonies. Mary Brown Barbara Swift wrote the script. the Barber Shop Quartet performed. Several patients received Combat Infamy Badges and other decorations in a ceremony in Colonel Browne's office.
Lt Col E L Kehoe executive officer at Finney General Hospital in Browne’s absence awarded ribbons and commended staff after tending to nineteen patients at Tenney Hospital.
The regular Friday evening Jewish services will be held at 8 p m in the Post Chapel of Finney General Hospital. All Jewish personnel are invited to attend. The Thom asville Jewish community will host a social hour after services.
Commissioner of Agriculture Tom Linder says Canada is a good prospective market for Georgia farm products. He favors leveling trade barriers with Canada to expand trade, while opposing reciprocal trade legislation in Washington. Two Georgia developments aid trade: revise freight rates by the Interstate Commerce Commission and Georgia port development.
Albany June 29 AP John H Crouch editor of the Albany Journal names H T McIntosh of the Albany Herald as his choice for Georgia's next Governor. Crouch calls for a governor who shows ability sincerity and national recognition rather than political climbing.
San Francisco June 29 AP Japan prioritizes moving home industries to Manchuria and warns of strong American air power. Tokyo radio broadcasts claim Alpine troops on Agattu Island near Attu and widespread paratrooper deployments in the northern Aleutians. The U S Ninth Fleet is said to await a northern strike as a light U S fleet unit attacked a Japanese convoy in the Sea of Okhotsk.
An insect survey of cotton crops in Richmond and surrounding counties is conducted by U S Department of Agriculture officials. The Richmond County Reformatory Farm and the James Ford farm show a 20 percent infestation. 4 H club boys Richard Sconyers Hugh Fulcher and Earl Rhodes assist by inspecting local farms.
Mc Spaden and Sgt Walter Burkemo won the pro amateur title with 67 70 137 and 74 73 147 for 284. Nelson and Chick Evans captured the pro senior title with 295. Ky Laffoon and Babe Freese won the pro lady crown with 305. Laffoon 70 69 139 closely trailed McSpaden.
The passage endorses H T McIntosh editor of the Albany Herald for Georgia's next governor. It praises his dignity, fearlessness, honesty, and tireless work for the state's progressive advancement and the welfare of Georgians.
Seattle dispatch reports an $18 million army port hidden in an Alaskan fjord will be wrecked for salvage this summer by 700 German prisoners of war. Col. Conrad P. Hardy notes these will be the first POWs sent outside the continental United States as the project, approved in 1942, provides a transshipment point for barges feeding Kodiak and Aleutian installations.
The House Military Committee reported to Congress that Communists aimed to penetrate the armed forces. The interim document, prepared by H. Ralph Burton, cites liberal abroad support and warns of continued revolutionary plots within the United States military.
The palatial Henry C. Heinz residence in Atlanta, scene of a 1643 banker murder, is the latest target in a weeks long wave of juvenile vandalism. Mrs. Heinz found only a model airplane missing, with extensive damage noted but nothing else taken.
The Interstate Commerce Commission blamed the Atlantic Coast Line wreck near Florida on an insecure track condition. Forty three people were injured in the passenger train derailment as investigators cited the track's condition.
Washington June 29 The War Department announced 4 000 soldiers will be furloughed for 30 days to work on U S railroads to prevent a breakdown of transportation during redeployment to the Pacific. They will serve as brakemen firemen car repairmen and machinists in response to a railway labor shortage.
The piece argues Soviet leverage grows as Soong meets Moscow and hints at possible Russian aid to China. It notes Chinese Communists and Moscow factions pushing for influence, with Red forces near Chiang Kai-Shek and speculation on Soviet military support crossing into China.
More than 60,000 of 93,000 idle workers prepared to resume work after settlements, while 40,000 remained idle due to new walkouts and strikes threatened by three railroads and 18 Western Electric plants. Detroit saw the CIO United Auto Workers resume most of its 45,000 idle workers after a jurisdictional dispute was settled. Also, 15,000 workers among 10 glass plants in 10 cities ended a week-long strike, per a War Labor Board request, including 8,000 at Libbey Owens Ford and 7,000 at Pittsburgh Plate Glass plants.
The Mississippi senator and Chavez press for a 446000 appropriation to FEPC within a 770 million omnibus bill funding war agencies. Cloture debates loom as majority leader Barkley seeks a deal before midnight. Bilbo Taft and Wherry clash over quorum while O Mahoney arrives at 12 12 a m EWT. no vote yet.
A Southern Newspaper Publishers Association delegation surveyed several potential mill sites near Valdosta on June 29. The visits included land near the Okefenokee swamp owned by Superior Pine Products and timber holdings of Harley Langdale Jr. Local leaders John Knight and Langdale backed discussions with bank and rail officials attending.
Athens June 29 AP a serious postwar decline in peanut production is in prospect unless steps are taken now Miss Modane Marchbanks Atlanta executive secretary of the National Peanut Council said at a Georgia agricultural extension service meeting She predicted three effects wartime peanut consumption will fall civilian use will fall as other food supplies rise and civilian consumption must rise to absorb wartime market losses
The SNPA aims to locate a newsprint mill in the area and has secured cooperation from lending interests. Valdostans note longleaf pine common in the section could suit newsprint manufacture. The SNPA has long pursued a southern mill site.
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