Weekend Weather, Prices, and Local News Briefs
Partly cloudy and mild weekend outlook with Tennessee River at 23.60 feet. Cotton prices paid Saturday include strict middling 2095, middling 20.80, strict low 18.95, low 16.95. Local attractions list Career Girl at Princess, Thank Your Lucky Stars at Roxy, Hi Neighbor at Capitol. Numerous society items follow including visits, illnesses, travel, and civic notes from Decatur and surrounding areas.
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Tennessee
The
Princess
Roxy
Capitol
Aerial Assault On Truk Is Continued
American bombers wiped out two thirds of Japan's air power at Hollandia New Guinea and carried out five neutralizing raids on Truk in three days. Destroyers closed to within 400 miles of Truk as naval guns battered Kapingamarangi islands. Seventy one Japanese planes were destroyed at Hollandia amid a campaign to neutralize Truk, the Caroline center, described as the hottest target yet hit by Brig Gen Truman H. Landon and his Liberator squadrons.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Palau
Japan
Hollandia
New Guinea
Truk
Kapingamarangi Islands
Douglas MacArthur
Palau Islands
Philippines
Nunakitsu
Neru Islands
Kapingamarang
Greenwich
Caroline
Truman H. Landon
7Th Aaf
Swiss City Bombed by Accidental Bombardment
Allied bombers hit deep into Southwest Germany and, due to bad weather, some bombs fell on Swiss territory near Schaffhausen causing 36 to 50 deaths and heavy damage. Reports cite a Swiss communique noting 30 planes in the incident and differing tolls from Swiss broadcasts.
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London
Germany
Schaffhausen
Switzerland
Thomas F. Hawkins
Associated Press
Lake Constance
U. S. Army
U.S
Eighth Air Force
Eighth
Ninth Air Force
Reds Modify Terms Offered To Finland
Russia signals a willingness to let Finland keep Viipuri and the Hangoe peninsula while pressing a high reparations claim. Paasikivi reported to have secured modifications after Finland rejected earlier terms. Helsinki to hold urgent cabinet and parliamentary meetings to decide on the evolving armistice offer.
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Edwin Shanke
Stockholm
Russia
Finland
Hangoe Peninsula
Viipuri
Juho K. Paasikivi
Paasikivi
Moscow
Hangoe
Helsinki
Karelian
Petsamo
Arctic
Palau Naval Bombardment Described as Major Navy Strike
New Guinea based AP war report by Olen Clements says the Palau assault near the Philippines was described as one of the greatest surface naval bombardments by the Navy. The March 31 dispatch linked the Hollandia raid to a wider strike on Japanese forces west of Truk as Adm. Nimitz led a massive carrier and surface force.
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San Francisco
Palau
Philippines
Navy
New Guinea Air Base
Olen Clements
Associated Press
Clements
Douglas MacArthur
Hollandia
New Guinea
Panal
Truk
MacArthur
Chester W. Nimitz
Night fighters raised over Truk in Pacific air war
Truk sent up night fighters for the first time on Friday night U S time as Allied bombers pounded the base. A Tass report notes a shakeup in Japanese air command with Lt Gen Takeo Yasuda removed after 198 planes were destroyed at Truk and Hollandia. About 2,000 Japanese aircraft have been wiped out this year amid heavy losses in India as Allied forces contest a four day effort to encircle British troops near Imphal. Farther north, fierce fighting continued against a Japanese column trying to reach supply lines.
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Tass
Takeo Yasuda
Truk
Hollandia
New Guinea
India
Imphal
Berlin
Two Dead In Plane Crash At Courtland Field
A military plane from Courtland Army Air Field crashed two miles from Lawrenceburg Tennessee on Saturday afternoon killing Second Lieutenant George J Brudnicki 21 a flying instructor from Rutherford New Jersey and Sergeant Theodore J Towne 25 of New London New Hampshire. A board of RAF officers led by Colonel Walter W Gross will investigate the accident.
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Courtland Army Air Field
Lawrenceburg
Tenn
George J. Brudnicki
Rutherford
N. J
Theodore J. Towne
New London
N. H
Town
Farm Draft Rule Shifted in Washington
Selective Service scrapped production unit tests for farm work and ordered local draft boards to draft more ag workers under existing law. Telegrams urged strict Tydings amendment use to show irreplacable farmers and focus on combat readiness for men under 26. Hershey urged boards to meet calls for able bodied men despite industry or agriculture impact.
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Washington
Selective Service
Russell
Tydings
Roosevelt
War Food Administration
WFA
Congress
Hershey
Senator Tydings
Lewis B. Hershey
Gas collections for March higher in Alabama report
Gasoline tax receipts for March totalled 1 13817867 dollars, up 83211.05 from the prior year. For the six months to March 31, collections fell six percent from 7 835430.87 in 1943, and 23 5 percent from 1942. Half the receipts go to the Highway Department, the other half to county highway funds.
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Montgomery
Ala
State Revenue Department
The
Treasury
State Highway Department
PY Boys At Front Live E In Their Foxholes
Dispatch from April 1 describes Fifth Army beachhead life in Italy. Soldier of the 179th Infantry rests three miles behind the line, amid occasional shelling planes and machine gun fire, with front line Germans a few hundred yards away in dug foxholes and fortified houses. The scene contrasts a calm setting with constant danger as front and rear units endure brief rest periods.
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PY Boys
Fifth Army
Italy
179Th Infantry
Sparks Urges Ballot Requests From Parents of Service Men
Alabama Governor Chauncey Sparks asked parents of service men to urge their sons to request ballots. He pledged to speed up Alabama’s provision of ballots for soldiers overseas and assist in distributing federal ballots. He planned an official statement next week on the servicemen voting measure, aiming to study the bill further before commenting.
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Montgomery
Ala
Chauncey Sparks
Alabama
Air schools praised as vital to postwar aviation policy
Rep Sparkman lauds 63 privately owned flight schools for training WWII pilots and urges a nationwide retraining program. He cites Southern Aviation Training School in Decatur Alabama and leaders Frank W. Hulse and B. M. Cornell. He warns of national obsolescence without ongoing peacetime flying training and calls for public-private partnership to retrain airmen in radio, traffic patterns, and civilian flying.
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Washington
Rep
Sparkman
Ala
America
Southern Aviation Training School
Decatur
Frank W. Hulse
B. M. Cornell
H. H. Arnold
House
Arnold
Bus Strike Continues in Nashville and Chattanooga
Nashville and Chattanoogabus and streetcar operators strike persists after a War Labor Board decision. Negotiations failed as the Atlanta board advised no bargaining until workers return, and the National War Labor Board in Washington ordered appearance to show cause. Union officials had sought 87 cents for experienced operators versus 80 cents approved locally and 91 cents asked. company officials did not attend.
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Nashville
Tenn
Fourth Regional War Labor Board
Atlanta
Southern Coach Lines
Nashvile
Chattanooga
H. G. B King
M. T. van Becke
Atlanta Board
National War Labor Board
Washington
Motor Coach Employes of America
AFL
WLB
S. E. Bryant
Joe Martin
Coach Company
Paul Styles
Union
Jo Conn Guild Jr
Southern Coach Lines Inc
Styles
Rivalry Threatens Suburban Bull Ring Shutdown
In Mexico City on April 1, rival bullfighter unions the picadors and banderilleros warned of a strike that could close a suburban bull ring unless management cancels a contract with a third union of bullfighter assistants.
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Mexico City
Picadors
Banderilleros
Four Confess Farm Killing Near Tifton Georgia
Four suspects, Mary Rowland Overby and Burnie and Gordon Coker and Henry Harding Copeland, confessed to involvement in the murder of Benjamin Mitchell Overby. Sheriff J M Walker and Georgia Bureau of Investigation officials reported they planed the slaying and executed it with a shotgun. All four are held without bond in the Tifton jail awaiting preliminary hearings.
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Tifton
J. M. Walker
Benjamin Mitchell Overby
W. A. Ross
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Walker
Ross
Mary Rowland Overby
Burnie
Gordon Coker
Henry Harding Copeland
Cokers
Overby
Burnie Coker
Bus Permit Granted for Piney Grove to Decatur Route
The state Public Service Commission authorized the Phillips and West bus line to operate passenger and light express service between Piney Grove and Decatur. The ruling enables scheduled transport along the Piney Grove Decatur corridor.
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Montgomery
Ala
State Public Service Commission
Phillips and West
Piney Grove
Decatur
The Decatur Daily suspends new local subscribers
Due to newsprint shortages caused by the war the paper halts new subscriptions in cities served by carriers and for mail outside North Alabama. Subscriptions via mail to armed forces and renewals for North Alabama readers continue. Existing subscribers are urged to cooperate.
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Decatur
North
Alabama
North Alabama
Barrett C. Shelton
Axis Columns Being Mauled As They Flee
Soviet forces push toward Odessa driving Axis columns from the Black Sea coast on a wide front. Red army raids erase units near the Giligul estuary and seize towns from Khotin to Tashino as Germans retreat toward Romania. London dispatch notes threaten disaster for 200000 Axis troops, with 3000 Germans killed or captured in the Kamenets-Podolsk area and renewed strikes toward Kishinev and Iasi.
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Tom Yarbrough
London
Red Army
Odessa
Black Sea
Moscow
Giligul
Inn
Rumania
Khotin
Kamenets-Podolsk
Dniester River
Ukraine
Bessarabia
Russia
Kishnev
Tiraspol
Radelznaya
Berlin
Tartar
Carpathian Mountains
Czecho-Slovakia
Hungary
Koblevo
Ochakov
Tashino
Blumenfeld
Serbka
Romania
Free Germany National Committee
Germany
Martin Langmann
Hitler
U. S. Foreign Intelligence Service
Axis
Daily Bulletin
Soviet
Monitor
Kishinev- Iasi
Poland
Stanislau
Tarnopol
Ganets
Lwow
Burma
Chungking
Mogaung
Myitkyina
Tokyo
Truk
Chester W. Nimitz Tih
Dublin
Moen
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Verdon Lowery
Joe
Danville
Emma Lee McBride
Huntsville
Lorraine Hess
Washington, D. C
B. F. Collier
Rockfield
Mr. Collier
Colliers U
Robert Adams
Eva
Eure
Mary Ellen Smith
Cincinnati
Ohio
Rotary
International Service Committee
Guatemala
Woodrow Chapman
Sixth Avenue West
Hamil
Jimmy Hunter
Hamil Clinic
R. S. Banks
Floyd Barnes
Boyd Puryear
Malcolm Austelle
Vera Austelle
Harry J. Lowther
Ninth Avenue East
Benevolent Hospital
Roman Higdon
Hartselle
Guinnie Puckett
Eighth Avenue West
Brown's
R. C. Fuller
Falkville
W. P. Baugh
Amarillo
Pampa
Texas
Phil Baugh Jr
Birmingham Music Club
Decatur Music Study Club
Alabama Federation of Music Clubs
Birmingham
Porter Roberts
Moulton
Charles H. Freeman
Sherry Gail
William ¢. Buck
Yeoman
U. S. Naval Flight Preparatory School
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
New York
C. L. Buck Sr
Jackson Street
Pvt
Harry M. Pearce
Armored Division
Camp Cooke
Calif
J. M. Pearce
Washington State College
Army
Fort McPherson
Ft. Leonard Wood
Auburn
Curtis Gover
West Palm Beach
Fla
By Ken Reynolds
Tkae
By Austin Bealmear
Bremen
Hannover
Betty Willett
Riverside High School
Willett
S Sgt
Jimmy Willett
Reds
U. S
Pacific
Central
South Pacific
Sparks
AIR
Decatur Daily
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