Local notables attend church events and military updates
Weather outlook predicts showers and thundershowers with highs near 87 in the state. Visitors include Marshall Haynes of Louisville and Nashville with Birmingham HQ, attending the E award to Goodyear. Community services cover ordination of deacons and sermons at First Presbyterian Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall Haynes
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
Birmingham
Goodyear
Haynes
Louisville and Nashville
Total Mobilization Decreed By Japan War Cabinet
Japanese civilians will be armed to defend the homeland as Tokyo announces a total war decree. The cabinet orders arming the entire people while Allied advances push toward the Japanese mainland. The new supreme war council seeks faster civil military coordination amid renewed fighting in Burma and China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Tokyo
Robert C. Richardson
Pacific Ocean
Supreme War Council
Southeast Asia
Merrill
Myitkyinia
Burma
U. S
Myitkyina
Irrawaddy River
Southeast Asia Command
Waingmaw
China
Joseph W. Stilwell
Ledo
Hunan
Hoiheng
Luichow
Hainan Island
Dutch New Guinea
Guam
Navy
Marianas Islands
Japan
Pacific
Mrs. Louis A. Neill Dies After Illness at Home
Mrs. Louis A. Neill a longtime Decatur resident and former Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs president died at her Jackson Street home Saturday night after a long illness. She was active in religious, club and civic work and served on the Lelia Cantwell Seaton Funeral arrangements will be handled by Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis A. Neill
Decatur
Jackson Street
47 Killed in Train Wreck at Stockton Georgia
A Atlantic Coast Line passenger train derailed after hitting a broken rail near Stockton. At least 47 African American laborers killed and 32 injured. four more bodies believed trapped. Nine cars left the track including a hospital car carrying wounded soldiers. Another ACL train derailment near Lane, South Carolina injured 17. Survivors describe brutal scenes and severe injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockton
Atlantic Coast Line
Finney General Hospital
Thomasville
H. L. Tomlinson
Miami
Washington
Lane
S. C
Turner Rockwell
Valdosta
J. B. Carpenter
Brundige
Ala
James Wilkerson
Bond figures set for Morgan county fifth war loan
War Finance Committee totals show investments of 1,993,737.50 dollars for Morgan county. County quota stands at 1,379,000 dollars with Series E at 607,853.50 on a 551,000 quota. Other bonds amount to 1,385,884 dollars for the period June 1 through duly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan County
War Finance Committee
Grain Elevator License for Guntersville Aims at Riverfront Port
TVA has granted Norris Grain Company a license to build a grain elevator on Guntersville Alabama frontage with 600 by 120 feet of land and access for bulk movement from barges to rail and truck. Construction awaits War Production Board approval. GRAIN shipments rose to 140000 tons per year by 1944 with historical tonnages shown from 1939 to mid-1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TVA
Norris Grain Company
Chicago
Guntersville
Alabama
War Production Board
Tennessee Waterway
Chattanooga
Rites Held Sunday for Peter W. West
Funeral services for Peter William West 70 who died Friday at Jefferson County Hospital Birmingham will be Sunday at 2 30 p m at Brown's chapel Rev Jesse M Rogers officiating. The body arrived in Decatur Saturday evening on L and N train No 4. He is survived by his wife and one son E L Pete West of Birmingham a sister Mrs Irma Clift and one brother John West both of Evansville Indiana and a niece Mrs J P Nolem of Montgomery. Interment in the city cemetery Brown directing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter William West
Jefferson County Hospital
Birmingham
Brown's Chapel
Jesse M. Rogers
Decatur
E. L. “Pete” West
Irma Clift
John West
Evansville
Indiana
J. P. Nolem
Montgomery
City
Brown Directing
Eastern Front Push Intensifies as Reds Advance Near Krakow
Russian troops capture Stryj in Carpathians while Pravda reports fires in East Prussian towns. Soviet forces press toward Krakow, break across the Vistula, and threaten German Silesia as battles rage around Warsaw and East Prussia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Yarbrough
London
Stryj
Carpathian
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Pravda
Germany
East Prussia
Berlin
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Transocean
Warsaw
Vistula
Krakow
Nida
Silesia
Sadauen-Schaken
Inster
Angerapp
Pavel Rotmistrov
Cherniakhovsky
Lithuania
Red Star
Romania
Rotmistrov
Moscow
Eydtkuhnem
Virbalis
Tilsit
Konigsberg
Bor
East Bank
Praga
Brothers Reunited in Normandy In Separate War Tales
Two U S Army brothers from East Milton Massachusetts John 22 and Edward 19 O Donnell finally reunited in Normandy after two years apart. John an artilleryman overseas Africa Sicily while Edward recently arrived. Their overdue meeting triggered a joyful homeward chatter and a day off from duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernie Pyle
Normandy
Corp
John
Pvt
Edward O'Donnell
East Milton
Mass
Africa
Sicily
Edward
Allies Cross Arno as Florence Front Advances
Eighth army troops occupy Florence suburbs and push to cross the Arno. Germans withdraw civilians and deploy paratroopers while British, New Zealand, Indian and South African forces press the river line. Korcula and Orebic landings reported with RAF cover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Bria
Rome
Eighth Army
Florence
Arno
Harold Alexander
Florentine
Montelupo
Rigiano
Pontassieve
Signa
Bagno- Aripoli
Adriatic
Misa River
Rimini
Fifth Army
Pisa
Italy
France
Korcula
Orebic
Yugoslavia
Veterans hospital drive aims to aid area veterans
Charles L Harris commander of American Legion post No 35 Ensley announces a petition to start a campaign for a veterans hospital in Birmingham area. The effort seeks community support and official action to locate a facility serving veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Charles L. Harris
American Legion
Ensley
Philadelphia Strikers Back to Work Under Army Ultimatum
Leaders of a five day strike in Philadelphia ordered followers to return to work as the Army prepared to operate transit vehicles. U.S. Marshal arrests and warrants for others involved followed the Smith Connally act. Troops in full gear moved in, with Maj. Gen. Hayes warning firings for noncompliance and a national work or fight order affecting all deferments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
WCAU
James K. McMenamin
General Emergency Committee
McMenamin
Philadelphia Transportation Company
Monay
U. S
William C. Dixey
James A. Byrne
Dixey
David Landis
James McMenamin
Frank P. Carney
Frank Thompson
Side Landis
National Selective Service
Washington
Philip Hayes
Roosevelt
Hayes
Department of Justice
Smith-Connally
Biddle
Trai
Allied Armor Breaks to Brest and Pushes on Paris
Allied expeditionary forces drive 75 miles in Brittany reaching Brest as armor enters the port while another column advances 27 miles toward Paris from Normandy. British raids hit Brest’s U boat pens as German defenses crumble along the Loire and Mayenne rivers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin Bealmear
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Brittany
Brest
Loire
Paris
Nantes
St. Nazaire
Pontivy
Lorient
Morlaix
Europe
Normandy
France
Mayenne
Rennes
Fougeres
Breton
St. Gildas Des Bois
Loire River
Chateaubriant
Columans
Derval
Chatteaubriant
Gheather von Kluge
Third Army
Orne
Villers-Bocage
Odon-Orne
Caen
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W. W. Glass
First Presbyterian Church
Westside Presbyterian Church
T. S._Sloan
Pfc
David Sloan
States
Virginia C. Reed
Della Reed
Decatur 1
Greenville, S.C., Army Air Base
George Harbin
Mattie Gray
Fayetteville, Tenn
Elzina Price
Ben Rowe
Alvin Kay
Georgia Dunn
Berta Kay
Luckey
Lacey Springs
Geraldine Briscoe
Washington, D. C
Eddy Lou McAlister
Paul Oden
Eva
Harry Battles
Ada
Ohio
Ethyline Teace
J. N. Freeman
East
Cain Street
Fred Sparkman
Oak Ridge
Mildred McDonald
Hartselle 2
Baugh’s Infirmary
John C. Sims
Trinity
Decatur General Hospital
M. C. Hough
Somerville 2
Robert T. Masterson
Prospect Drive
Charles R. Clark
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Charles Clark
Camp Peary
Messrs
Claudie Shumake
John Davis
R. W. Orr
George White
Hyterian
David Hulse
William Beaumont General Hospital
el Paso
Texas
Atlanta
By Ken Reynolds
Daily Amt Ag
New Guinea
U. S. Sixth Army
Aitape
Biak
Geelvink Bay
Karim
Truk
Palau
Caroline Islands
Roncey
Peter J. Carroll
Morgan
Peter W. West
Stewart le
Orange
N. J
Idren
ARMY
Frances Andrews
Salinas
Calif
Jay Lovett
Anthony
Brazil
U.S
Pennsylvania Railroad
30Th Street
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