Local Weather And Community News Summary
The report notes a high of S1 and a low of 71 as the weather bureau updates temperatures. Local residents share travels and births including a son named Thomas Boyce born to Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Thornton in Corinth. Army notes cover Staff Sgt. Douglas Maner arriving in the U.S. for hospital transfer near Decatur and Moon Mullins receiving a medal for the Army featherweight championship in England.Community notices report church services, baptisms, and social visits across Decatur and nearby towns along with hospital transfers and ambulance movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas Maner
France
United States
Decatur
Maner
Russians Forge Two Bridgeheads Near Warsaw and East Prussia
As the Warsaw siege intensifies, Russian forces push from Dudvizhe toward East Prussia, swarming to near Schirwindt Eydtkuhnen and Wehrkirchen. Cherniakhovsky’s Third White Russian army drives 28 miles to Tilsit and 44 to Isterburg, while Rokossovsky pressures Nazi defenses along the Vistula.
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London
Vistula
Warsaw
East Prussia
Daniel DE Luce
Moscow
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Dudvizhe
Schirwindt
Eydtkuhnen
Wehrkirchen
Foi Cherniakhovsky
Tilsit
Isterburg
Konigsberg
Insterburg
Virbalis
Wizainy
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Siedice
Estonia
Latvia
Lake Peipus
Daugavpils
Sturmoviks
Praga
Riga
Pskow
Aluksne
Marienburg
Gulf of Finland
First Annual Tennessee Valley Dairy Livestock Show Set
All exhibitor space is arranged for the First Annual Tennessee Valley Dairy Livestock and Small Grain Show to be held at the Farmers gin and Riverside high school Friday. Governor Sparks and state officials will speak as judge ing begins at 9 o'clock with Band and ceremonial events throughout the day. The event draws exhibitors from northern Alabama and features 4-H and FFA contests, dairy and beef cattle judging, and grain and colt shows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee Valley
Farmers Gin
Riverside High School
Maynard Layman
Chas. M. Scales
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Chauncey Sparks
Joe Poole
P. O. Davis
Senate
House Agricultural Committee
Alabama
Courtland Army Air Forces
Casto Jarvis
John W. Penneil
Canal
Market
Frank Martin
Sam Lile
Benson Field
Riverside High
Layman
W. W. Glass
First Presbyterian Church
Courtland Army Band
Henry Fleming
Alabama Flour Mills
John A. Caddell
Goodyear Decatur Mills
Decatur
Tennessee Valley Livestock, Dairy and
Montgomery
Capital
Allied Air Offensives Hit German Targets Across Europe
United States heavy bombers from Italy attacked Friedrichshafen near the Swiss border while further raids hit oil refineries aircraft factories and rail infrastructure across France and Germany. In July US strategic air forces flew 58 979 sorties dropping over 73 000 tons of bombs with 1 373 or more planes in combat and over 1 500 participating in earlier offensives. Losses reached 550 heavy bombers and 180 fighters, about 1 5 percent of bomber sorties and under 0 7 percent of fighter sorties.
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Austin Bealmear
London
Unite States
Italy
Friedrichshafen
England
Bavaria
United States
Supreme Force
Britain
Russia
St. Lo
Caen
France
Touchhard
St. Moritz
Belgium
Bay of Biscay
PYLE describes odd war tales from Normandy and near misses
A Wireless dispatch from Normandy relays odd incidents with Allied armor. An anti tank gun barrel nicked by a tree, a bazooka rocket punching into a muzzle, a damaged barrel sent for salvage, and unusual shell trajectories that left armor scarred yet still in action.
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Normandy
Ordnance Boys
England
Germany Watches Turkey as Relations Break
A German foreign office spokesman said Berlin would observe Turkey’s severance of diplomatic and economic ties with the Reich with a watchful attitude. Germany called the move a flagrant violation of the Turkish German friendship pact and did not signal any aerial retaliation. Turkish ambassador Ali Muzaffer Genker prepared to depart for Japan, with Ankara’s breach seen straining ties with Tokyo.
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Associated Press
Germany
Turkey
The
Reich
Berlin
Ali Muzaffer Genker
Tokyo
Eas
Japan
United States
Ankara
Allied landing craft seen in Tyrrhenian Sea forecast
The Vichy radio claimed a large Allied landing fleet cruised the Tyrrhenian Sea and suggested a new landing in Northern Italy or Southern France is imminent. The Associated Press noted no corroboration from other sources. Axis broadcasts in recent days have repeated similar reports.
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London
Vichy
Associated Press
Tyrrhenian Sea
Italy
France
Noose Tightens on Nip On Guam in Pacific Drive
Allied forces tighten grip on Guam as airfield seizure expands westward, US and Marine units claim seven enemy killed per American death while advancing through caves on Tinian and Saipan. Nimitz reports about 33,000 Japanese killed across Guam, Tinian, and Saipan with 3,589 American dead and 17,548 wounded.
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Guam
Marianas
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Tinian
Saipan
Marianas Island
Philippines
China Coast
Japan
MacArthur
New Guinea
Aitape
Biak
Noemfoor
East Indies
Carolines
Solomons
Northwest New Guinea
Sansapor
China
Hengyang
Chungking
Hankow-Canton
U.S
Tokyo
U. S
India
Tiddim
Burma
Myitkyina
One Dies As Car Hits Ice Cream Truck in Thompson Station
Mrs. William Rackley died instantly when the car collided with a Sealtest Ice Cream truck at Thompson Station Tennessee and burned. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Frazier were seriously hurt along with two other passengers Mrs. Grady Biles and Mrs. Aubrey George.
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William Rackley
L. L. Frazier
Sealtest Ice Cream Company
Thompson Station
Tenn
Frazier
Grady Biles
Pulaski
Aubrey George
Columbia Daily Herald
Roy Brownlow
Kings Daughters Hospital
Nashville
W. J. Berthurm & Son
Franklin
Columbia
Rackley
Monroeville
Ala
Out
Hawaii
U.S. Navy
Herbert Held on Robbery Charges
Grover Herbert was jailed Wednesday evening after deputies Humphrey and Phillips arrested him on robbery charges. Willie Seamon had warrants sworn for Herbert claiming he and an accomplice entered Seamon's home, struck him with a razor and stole $11.20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grover Herbert
Morgan County
Humphrey and
Phillips
Herbert
Willie Seamon
Navy Flight Chief to Represent Army Navy E Program at Goodyear
Captain Harold B. Grow of Pensacola Naval Air Station will replace Captain L. T. Hundt as Navy representative at the Army Navy E ceremony held tomorrow at 4 pm at Goodyear Decatur Mills. Grow, a pioneer in U S and South American aviation, helped set a 21 hour 12 minute endurance record in 1919. General Harry F. Hazlett, Birmingham based commander of Army ground forces replacement and school command, will present the Army Navy E flag.
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Harold B. Grow
Naval Air Station
Pensacola
Fla
L. T. Hundt
Navy
Goodyear Decatur Mills
Captain Grow
United States
South America
U. S. Naval Academy
Grow
Pensacola Naval Air Station
Hazlett
Army
Harry F. Hazlett
Army Ground Forces
Birmingham
Walter F. Hazlett
Goodyear
Wolverhampton
England
Deersville
Philadelphia War Tie Up Sparks Racial Strife and Threat of Seizure
Thousands walk or hitchhike to work as a three day transportation strike disrupts war production in Philadelphia. FEPC follows upgrading eight Black employees triggering the walkout. Police report new window smashings by youths while CIO officials warn a Washington deal may end the crisis. Hospitalizations climb to at least 13 as clashes ease with rain.
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Philadelphia
FEPC
Philadelphia Transportation Company
PTC
Transport Workers Union
CIO
Washington
War Manpower Commission
North Philadelphia
Civic League
Nazis Reported Leaving Finland Evacuation Seen After Finnish Change
Reports from Finland indicate Germany may be withdrawing all troops as Baron Mann erheim replaces Ryti as president. Sources say only a single infantry division plus a Panzer brigade stayed to bolster the southern front, with units already withdrawn toward Estonia.
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Stockholm
Finland
Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim
Risto Ryti
Ryti
Russia
Estonia
Ukraine Atrocities Charged In German Hospital Deaths
The Ukraine atrocities committee charged that 150000 patients died in a German hospital at Slavuta over two Nazi occupation years. It alleged German doctors spread infectious diseases by forcing new patients into a room with 1800 already dying of typhoid and tuberculosis.
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Moscow
Ukraine
Slavuta
Kiev
Allied Offensive Races Through France As German Hold Slips
Allied forces press the invasion front in Normandy with Brest Brest port in focus as Cherbourg fallback. British Prime Minister credits Soviet army for major German losses while Canadians and British drive in the Vire sector and Americans push into Brittany. German troops in Normandy numbered about 28 divisions on the British sector and 15 on the American front as the fight nears a pivotal climax in the western theatre.
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Fryt
France
Normandy
Armandy
Hitler
Churchill
Brest
Cherbourg
Paris
Vire
Brittany
East Prussia
Rennes Taken in Swift Star by Americans
Allied reports announce American forces thrust south of Rennes and encirclement in Brittany. Bradley’s armored columns advance 45 miles from Avranches, with Canadian and British units pushing toward Caen and Dinan as the front widens along a 120 mile arc in Western France.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Rennes
Normandy
Mortain
Avranches
Omar N. Bradley
Brittany
St. Nazaire
Breton
Dinan
Bradley
Caen
France
Bernard L. Montgomery
Associated Press
St. Malo
Bay of St. Michel
St Malo
Brest
Loire River
Pontorson
del de Bretagne
Tilly-Le- Campagne
Miles C. Dempsey
Roncey-Gavray
Vire
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Local Weather Bureau
C. J. Cornellison
Hot Springs
E. W. Thornton
Corinth
Thomas Boyce
V. A. Nance
Gadsden
Carl McDonald
Nance
Wava Joyce McDonald
Annie Bradford
Ublic
G. C. Corley
Memorial Drive Methodist
Lebanon Behurch
Lawrence County
Melvin Rhero
Julian Harris
Luther Holt
Fifth Avenue South
Henry Edward
Baugh’s
Lewis Creel
Memphis,Tenn
John Flin
Austinville
James E. Smith
6Th Avenue West
S. P. Smith
Florence
Sixth Avenue Church of God
Moon Mullins
Moon
Emer
J. D. Bradford
Third Avenue East
Victor Hamilton
Wilburn F. Hayes
New York
W. E. Hayes
J. E. Matthews
Baugh’s Infirmary
Baugh
Horace D. Balch Jr
Decatur General Hospital
Tanner
Brown's
W. P. Palmer
Courtland Army Air Base
Atlanta
Georgia
Ugh’s Infirmary
Royce Bridges
Sixth Avenue West
Lola Hightower
Lee Ozbolt
Eva 1
Baugh's Infirmary
E. E. Martin
Hartseller
By Ken Reynolds
Pyle
J. B. Krueger
Goodyear Mill
White House
By Dewitt MacKenzie
Swift Star
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