Decatur Local Notes Briefly Highlight Meetings and Losses
Partly cloudy and warmer Sunday and Monday forecast for the state with a high of 55 and low of 40. Decatur Rotary plans a Constitution Convention program at Cornelian hotel on Monday, joined by John A. Caddell speaking for the United National Clothing Drive on April 17. Sam C. Alexander, merchant, will visit St. Louis and return Friday. Decatur Chamber of Commerce directors meet at 6 30 Monday at Cornelian hotel. Lt. Leonard Hyman, husband of Decatur couple Mr. and Mrs. Ofshine Hyman, was killed in action in Germany March 24. Mrs. Margaret Verner’s husband Howard promoted to sergeant in Germany. National Sunday School Week runs April 9 15. Pocketbook found by City Clerk Pettey. Regular services at St. John’s Episcopal Church. Pfc. Quinton E. Chitwood killed in action. War Department reports several locals wounded or missing in the Pacific. Local tax office sessions set for April 12 13. Visiting couples from Louisville and Rome Georgia spend weekend with local residents.
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Rotary
Ecatur Rotary Club
Cornelian Hotel
John A. Caddell
United National Clothing Drive
Decatur
Harry Olshine
Nashville
Tenn
Leonard Hyman
Hyman
Germany
Civia Ofshine Hyman
Ofshine
Bebe
German Treasure Chest Is Captured By Patton's Army
Gen George S Patton's infantrymen seized a vast Reich treasure from a salt mine at Moeckers 140 miles southwest of Berlin. The haul includes 100 tons of gold bullion and multiple currencies plus art works from Germany's galleries, with three Reichsbank officials captured. Patton's forces repelled a Nazi counterattack nearby as they closed in on the mine.
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Edward D. Ballwith
U. S. Third Army
Adolf Hitler
Reich
George S Patton
Moeckers
Berlin
Germany
Patton
Raphael
van Dyke
Durer
Goethe
90Th Infantry Division
Reichsbank
Fritz Vieck
Bank
P. O. Rabe
Dr. Vieck
Wieck
Golden Salt
Nazi Agents Active as Allies Track Postwar Efforts
State Department broadcast reveals Himmler and Goering agents abroad selling stolen art and valuable property. Officials cite two aims: fund postwar Nazi activity or finance the leaders' possible escape. Reports note agents operate in neutral or recently neutral countries and liquidate assets for Himmler and Goering.
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Washington
Heinrich Himmler
Hermann Goering
Himmler
Goering
Germany
Europe
State Department
Hitler
Julius C. Holmes
Holmes
Flood danger rises as rivers surge toward Mississippi join
Joseph C. Goodwin reports rising flood danger as Red and Ouachita rivers drive floodwaters toward the Mississippi. At Shreveport the Red River crest nears 38.35 feet, while Monroe and Jonesville expect record levels. Army engineers push to open Morganza floodway to divert 600,000 cfs. nearby towns protest potential damage and risk to life.
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Joseph C. Goodwin
New Orleans
Shreeveport
Red River
Ouachita
Stephen Lichtbla
Mississippi
Iowa
Gulf of Mexico
St. Louis
Memphis
Tennessee
Morganza
Big River
Atchafalaya
Gulf
Pyle Landing and Okinawa Beach Assault Recalled
A Navy radio account from Okinawa describes the crowded LCVP shoreward approach on Love Day morning. Marines from the transport ship endured cold spray, tense nerves, and a perilous transfer to amphibious tractors, amid intermittent bombardment and smoke from the inland airport.
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Okinawa
Navy
Soviet forces drive deep toward Vienna as encirclement tightens
Red army tank columns swept around Vienna in a 14 mile arc and broke through toward the Danube while Soviet gunners pressed from the south. Moscow reported 3,000 German deaths as Tolbukhin’s forces closed major escape routes and crossed the Morava and Danube rivers. Berlin warned Berlin could be next, with Red army forces advancing from several fronts toward the Austrian capital.
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Richard Kasischke
London
Vienna
Danube
Berlin
Morava
Capital
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Bavaria
Moscow
Poland
Cieszyn
Teschen
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Italy
Zagreb
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Third
Pressbaum
Klosternburg
Tolbukhin
Liesing
DNB
Rodio Y. Malinovsky
Malinovsky
Red Banner
Danube-Morava
Red Star
Oder River
Transocean
Carpathian Mountains
Stettin
Stokholm
STB
Warsaw
Budapest
Jap Fleet Smashed By Yanks In East China Sea
Allied reports say US carrier airmen shattered Japan's remaining fleet in the East China Sea with B 29 strikes from Iwo Jima against Tokyo Nagoya aircraft plants. Yamato and three destroyers were sunk as the 15th army in Burma was described as no longer an effective fighting force.
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Ray Cronin
Associated Press
Japan
East China Sea
Nippon
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Tokyo
Iwo Jima
Nagoya
Beron Kantaro Suzuki
Glenn Babb
Tojo
Koiso
Peiping-Hankow
Chinhsien
Canton-Hankow
Southeast Allied Command
Batge
Burma
Mandalay-Meikila
Cars Collide At Intersection On Busy City Street
At 10 50 Saturday morning a city police car driven by patrolman William Hunter and a car driven by A B Dodd collided at Church and Ferry Streets. Patrolman John Brodrick suffered minor facial injuries. The police said both vehicles were traveling in the same direction on Church Street when Dodd turned onto Ferry Street in front of the patrol car.
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Wiliam Hunter
A. B. Dodd
Sherman Street
Church
Ferry Streets
John Brodrick
Hunter
Brodrick
Church Street
Dodd
Ferry Street
Great Air And Sea Battle Fought Near Yamato Sinking
U S carrier aircraft reportedly shattered the last major Japanese fleet including the Yamato in the East China Sea. Navy communiques say six Japanese warships and 391 planes were destroyed. three U S destroyers sunk and seven carrier planes lost. Nimitz notes one heavy unit sustained minor damage but remains operational.
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Guam
U. S
East China Sea
Chester W. Nimitz
Nootn
Washington
Navy
U.S
U. S. Pacific
Nimitz
Great aerial battle as 1 300 bombers hit Nazi lines
American airmen reported at least 87 German planes shot down in a three month high aerial battle as 1,300 heavy bombers backed by 850 fighters attacked targets around Bremen Kiel and Hamburg. RAF also raided Ijmuiden while Liberators and Fortresses struck rail yards depots and coastal targets.
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London
Europe
Marshal Montgomery
North Sea
RAF
Eighth Air Force
Ijmuiden
North Holland
Hig
Bremen
Kiel
Hamburg
Jerry
Charles L McGraw
Warrensburg
Germany
Western Front
Dresden
Chemnitz
Magdeburg
France
Hannover
Ruhr Pocke
Miners Hope for Wage Pact as Talks Continue
Washington April reports say coal producers and miners foresee a possible wage agreement without government action. Ezra Van Horn and John L. Lewis voiced optimism that the industry can settle disputes, with a Monday deadline to decide in principle on all controversial points.
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Washington
Ezra van Horn
Conference of Operators
United Mine Workers
van Horn
K. C. Adams
UMW Journal
John L. Lewis
Lewis
War Labor Board
WLB
Solid Fuels Administration
Pennsylvania
Ickes
Allied Armies Pummel Germany From North to South
Allied forces push toward Berlin in a multi-front advance. U S Ninth Army outflanks Hannover 140 miles from Berlin while First Army crosses the Weser. Third Army destroys Reich bullion at Merkers and drives near Muelhausen. Canadian and British units tighten grip on Holland and Bremen.
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Edward Kennedy
Paris
U. S
Ninth Army
Hannover
Seine River
Berlin
U. S. First Army
Weser
Second Army
Bremen
Tottering. Reich
Geremany
Fort Knox
Thuringia
Third
Muelmausen
George S. Patton
Merkers
Gotha
Reischbank
Rhine
U.S. First Army
North Sea
Siegfried Line
Black Forest
Decision
Holland
Zuider Zee
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
U. S. Ninth Army
Ruhr
Soest
Hamm
M Reich
German POW Plea Calls for Immediate Surrender Broadcast to Reich
A broadcast of a plea from 1,391 German POWs in Camp Devens Mass urges German soldiers and workers to lay down arms. Signers from Africa to Normandy say they are husbands brothers and sons and warn of Hitler's false promises. They note the Red Army’s offensive and Western Allied advances as reasons for peace.
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Washington
United States
Reich
War Apartment
Camp Devens
Mass
War Department
Hitler
America
Africa
Sicily
Italy
Normandy
Red Army
Germany
Rundstedt
Britain
West Wall
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Sam C. Alexander
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Qirss Lurline Briscoe
Somerville
Diay
American Legion
Margaret Verner
Howard James Verner
Buford Gordon Smith
Joseph M. Pettey
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Merle Smith
Hamil Clinic
Evelyn Robinson
Thomas McDonald
Lawrence Cove
Morgan County
J. A. Meadows
Hhe War Department
Pfc
Quinton E. Chitwood
Cullman 5
Harry Ned Bender
Cullman
Pacific
Horace C. Browning
Athens
Matthew A. Russell
Acie L. Smith
Henry H. Mabry
Mrs. Lee Compton
Mrs. Gobert Benoit
Mrs. Compton
Helen Roan
M. N. ‘Marsh
Decature
Tne P. M
T._E. Steer
Anna Laura
Louisville
Kentucky
A. C. Rhinehart
Rome
Gelgia
Ed Rhinehart
West Moulton Street
Ken Reynolds
Daily Want
Pyle
MacArthur
Pacific Islands
Nippon Home Islands
Mitscher
Kyushi Island
By Elmont Waite
NAA
Third Army
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