Local Weather and Community Notes Update
Partly cloudy with warm temperatures. highs near 92 and lows around 72. Florence State Teachers College to open September 18 with a six week term through October 27 to help teachers earn credits toward the B. S. degree. Various local notices include military wartime reports, cemetery cleanup, memorial service for those killed in France, and civic church deacon board meeting progress on redecorating plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence
Kilby
J. A. Keller
First Presbyterian Church
Cornelian Court Hotel
Elton Reeves
Albert Frahn
Tokyo Warns Nation of Grave War Pressures
The report outlines Japan facing unprecedented national difficulties as Koiso urged armament and warned of grand countermeasures. It notes Japanese claims of Hengyang fallen, Guam encircled, Yap destroyed as a base, and ongoing battles in New Guinea and Guadalcanal with Allied efforts pressing Japanese lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Krueger
Associated Press
New Guinea
Marianas
Guam
Japan
Kuniaki Koiso
Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Koiso
Japs Flee As Yanks Seize Village on Guam
On Guam the 77th Army Division overran Yigo causing Japanese defenders to retreat in panic. General Roy S. Geiger noted prepared defenses at Vigo 2,500 yards inland as U.S. forces pushed toward Mt. Santa Rosa and the northern coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Henry
Guam
77Th Army
Yigo
Roy S. Geiger
Third Amphibious Corps
Vigo
Mt. Santa Rosa
Japan
Fighters Must Be Registered To Cast Votes
Montgomery report states that active duty service members seeking absentee ballots for the November election must be registered voters. Secretary Sibyl Pool says ballots may be requested by next of kin or telegram, but voters must register personally with the county registrar before obtaining a ballot. A constitutional amendment could exempt veterans from poll tax payments, but current eligibility requires the $1.50 fee paid before February 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Secretary of State
Sibyl Pool
State War Ballot Commission
Miss Pool
County Board of Registrars
Italian Drive Stalled Near Arno Front
German forces clung to a foothold south of the Arno while counterattacks against Indian troops north of Arezzo left heavy casualties on both sides. In Florence and Pisa the front lines held with rain and poor weather limiting action as Allied and German forces adjusted positions.
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Noland Norgaard
Rome
Florence
Arezzo
Pisa
Harold Alexander
Eighth Army
Arno
Mate Grillo
Highway 71
Fifth Army
San Viniato
Convicted escapee Chester Trammell recaptured in Birmingham
Chester Trammell, 26, Kilby prisoner who fled last Saturday in a state truck, was arrested in Birmingham by state highway patrolmen. The truck was recovered. Trammell, sentenced to 25 years from Cullman County on a 1928 robbery charge, had been a trusty with a good record. privileges will be revoked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Convice
Montgomery
Ala
Chester Trammell
Kilby
Birmingham
S. W. Lufkin
Prison Department
Trammell
Cullman County
Lufkin
OPA reminds motorists of gas ration changes
OPA alerts motorists in 17 East coast states and the District of Columbia that a few gasoline ration coupons expire at midnight. The A eleven series of 8 stamps becomes valid through November 8 with the same value as the old three gallons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
East Coast
District of Columbia
Disco Employees Awarded Gold and Sterling Service Buttons
Eighty five workers at Decatur Iron and Steel Corp receive gold and sterling silver service buttons for five years or more of continuous service at a 4 15 p m ceremony in the main plant. Officials praise loyalty as others look on and thirty five names listed among the honorees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur Iron and Steel Corporation
M. R. Rankin
America
John Troxler
John A. Caddell
Decatur Chamber
Sixty Towns Taken In Soviet Drive in Poland
Soviet forces under Marshal Ivan S. Konev reached within 37 miles of Krakow after pushing from the Vistula bridgehead. The drive captured Boryslaw and Sambor, regaining Galician oil wells and tightening control on routes into Czechoslovakia as East Prussia faced heavy air bombardment and Warsaw remained under siege.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel DE Luce
Moscow
Red Army
Vistula
Krakow
Warsaw
Poland
Ivan S. Konev
Ukraine
Silesia
Boryslaw
Carpathians
Sambor
Czechoslovakia
London
Ploesti
Romania
East Prussia
Associated Press
Latvia
Estonia
Bagramian
Baltic
Madona
Gulbene
Riga
Lubana
National Committee of Free Germany
East Prussian
Maximov
Izvestia
Cherniakhovsky
Lithuania
Bialystok
Old Poland
Biebrzna
Suwalki
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Storm Damage Hits Montgomery Area Telephones
Southern Bell reports long distance service to Mobile and Mississippi Louisiana restored after windstorm. Seventeen line poles blown down and one small house unroofed with several others damaged about five miles south of Montgomery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Southern Bell Telephone Co
Mobile
Mississippi
Louisiana
Eight German Officers Hanged in Berlin Plot Trial
Field Marshal Erwin Von Witzleben and seven other German army officers were hanged in Berlin after a trial in which they confessed to plotting to kill Hitler and surrender Germany to the Allies. The executions raise the total announced executions to sixteen in the July 20 plot case linked to the Hitler headquarters bombing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Erwin von Witzleben
Berlin
Hitler
Germany
von Witzleben
Allied Air Blitz Strikes Caen Sector as 1,000 Bombers Hammer German Lines
American heavy bombers and RAF Lancasters joined in a night assault on Caen area fortifications with about 6,700 tons of bombs. The operation supported Canadian and British ground forces while additional raids targeted railways, airfields, and transportation hubs across France and into Poland and Romania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Caen
France
Romilly Sur Seine
Paris
le Perthe
Rommilly
England
RAF
Army
U. S. Eighth Air Force
Britain
Poland
Romania
Russia
Bydnia
Krakow
Tresbinia
Polesti
Buzau
Zilistrea
May- Sur-Orne
Tilly la Campagne
Caen-Falaise
Eisenhower
Avranches
British
Second Tactical Air Force
U. S. Ninth Air Force
Supreme Headquarters
Germany
Blechhamer
Mediterranean
Morgan County Board of Revenue vs Citizens and Taxpayers
The Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control will appear in a friendly suit heard in Decatur on September 18 before Judge A A Griffith. The case seeks to validate warrants proposed for Morgan County to issue in the refunding of a $400 000 road bond issue dated 1922 and maturing in 1952. Norman Harris represents the county while Hal Long and Ben Britnell represent citizens and taxpayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan County
Morgan County Board of Revenue & Control
Decatur
A. A. Griffith
Norman Harris
Hal Long
Ben Britnell
Bus Crashes in Mobile injures one passenger
A Southeast Greyhound bus with all passengers escaped serious harm when it ran off a highway near Saraland Alabama. W A Slamson 44 Mobile was injured with possible concussion and spinal injury and admitted to city hospital.
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Ditch Mobile
Ala
Southeastern Greyhound
Loosa
Saraland
W. A. Slamson
Mobile
City Hospital
German Officer Claims Himmler Is Assassinated
A newly captured German intelligence officer said Heinrich Himmler was assassinated and Hermann Goering wounded in a raid on the Nazi leadership. British radio cited prisoners supporting the claim though no confirmation exists.
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Roger D. Greene
France
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Herman Goering
Himmler
Erwin) Rommel
Normandy
Goering
Hitler
Morgan County man charged with robbery and rape
Edward Edwards of the Trinity area is jailed on robbery and rape charges after turning himself in. Grover Herbert faces a $1,000 bond on a related robbery count, with a third unnamed suspect alleged in the case. Justice George Norwood said Mrs Seamon reported the assault on the couple near Church and Canal Streets and later the man was taken to the Courtland road near the airport for the rape. The Seamon claim includes theft of money from the couple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Edwards
Trinity
Morgan County
Grover Herbert
Edwards
George Norwood
Herbert
Seamon
Sycamore Street
Norwood
Tennessee
Seamons
Church
Canal Streets
Courtland Road
Peter W. West Laid To Rest In Decatur
Funeral services for Peter William West 70 of Decatur were held Sunday at Brown's chapel with Dr. Jesse M Rogers officiating. The body arrived on L N train 4 from Birmingham. Surviving are his wife and son E L West of Birmingham, sister Irma Clift and brother John West of Evansville Indiana, and niece Mrs J P Nolen of Montgomery. Interment in city cemetery with Brown directing. Pallbearers listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter William West
Birmingham
Brown's Chapel
Jesse M. Rogers
Decatur
L and N
E. L. “Pete” West
Irma Clift
John West
Evansville
Indiana
J. P
State's Case Outlined On Bradford Act in Birmingham Trial
Alabama labor director W Emmett Brooks announced the Bradford act protects voluntary union membership. The case against Ingalls Iron Works Co involves suspending Clifford Jenkins for nonpayment of dues. Trial is set in Birmingham after the War Labor Board order extended a maintenance of membership clause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
W. Emmett Brooks
Alabama
War Labor Board
Bradford
Ingalls Iron. Works Company of
Birmingham
Brooks
Washington
Ingalls
Clem S. Walters Jr
Clifford Jenkins
California Poet Laureate John McGroarty Dies at 81
John Steven McGroarty, 81, famed author and poet laureate who romanticized California history, died last night at St. Vincent's hospital in Los Angeles. He served two terms in Congress and was a longtime Los Angeles Times columnist. His work The Mission Play drew an estimated 2.5 million viewers across 3,200 performances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
John Steven McGroarty
California
Congress
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Los Angeles Times
Man Drowns in Water-Filled Pit at Montgomery Yard
Charlie Hardway, 22, a Negro railway employee, drowned after stepping into a water-filled cinder pit in North Montgomery yards. Assistant Fire Chief T A Henderson reported the accident occurred late yesterday.
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Montgomery
Ala
Charlie Hardway
Montgomery Yards
T. A. Henderson
Hitler's likely retreat path in second front war moves
The German strategy aims for delaying actions and a last defense on Reich borders. Hitler may pull forces to the northeast toward Paris and the English Channel coast, defending coastal lines while retreating and preparing for a final stand behind the Siegfried Line, with possible southern France disruption.
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Hitler
Reich
France
Rhone
Fuehrer
Caen
Spain
Atlantic
Normandy
Brittany
Avranches
Paris
English Channel
Channel
Belgium
Germany
Ag Aes
Canadians On Move Smash German Line In France
Allied forces push on a 130 mile front toward Paris. Canadian troops penetrate four miles into the main line below Caen while American units drive toward Le Mans near 110 miles from Paris. Britons and Canadians cross the Orne, with 600 U.S. heavy bombers shadowing the day’s advances. Front reports indicate widespread German retirement from Brittany fortifications as Allied tanks close on Lorient Brest and St Malo.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
France
Caen
le Mans
Moretain
Alelied
U. S
Orne River
Loire River
Spain
Mediterranean
Bordeaux
Brittany
First
Breton
Omar N. Bradley
Lorient
Seco
Brest
St. Malo’cape
St. Malo
Guinegamp
St. Brieuc
Mortain
Germany
Cee
Figna
Jene
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John Lyle
Paul Yarbrough
Billy Lyle
Newberry College
S. C
East Morgan
Crawford
Thomas A. Ryan
J. D. Knighten
Pvt
Morris Pope
Fort McClellan
G. F. Livingston
Cullman 2
Anzio
T. Knox
Hubert
Lee
Shirley Faye
Leslie Parker
Hartselle
Flintchurch
Buck Blair
Mitchell Gay
J. T. Blair
Lena Gay
Mr. Gay
Vine
Mont 2
Elmer Camp
Sue
Martha Camp
Gladys Fergueson
Simcoe
Louie A. Terry
Pfc
Louis Terry
Eugene Terry
Austinville
War Department
Elmer P. England
C. F. England
Orvel Muntz
Johnnie B. Muntz
Fifth Avenue South
James R. Plemons
Roy E. Plemons
North Avenue
Cora Copeland
Cherry Street
Alex Cortner
Army Air Corps
Major Cortner
Greenwood
Miss
Thomas A. Bowles
Howard Speakman
Bobby and
T. L. Speakman Jr
Bill Speakman
Hugh
Cullman
Chattanooga
Lookout Mt
Jimmy Coutsas
New Hampshire
Roy L. Gilliam
Italy
Resent
Pvt. Gilliam
C. B. Whitmire Jr
Decatur General Hopsital
E. W. Hayes
Tur
Gon
Baugh
S. E. Tranam
Fred Martin
Power
By Ken Reynolds
Hengyang
Chungking
Pearl Harbor
MacArthur
Yap
Palau
Aitape
British New Guinea
Wewak
Philippines
India
Guadalcanal
Disco
Robert Erskin Wells
Robert Hatten Lorance
William Martin Walk
William Robert Grant
James Noey Millwood
William Hubert Ragsdale
Joseph Edward Owen
John Morgan Sears Jr
George Gilchrist Blaxton
Charlie Morris Gusehke
Paul Richard Draper
Elbert D. Lamon
Elmer Fuller
Jesse Miller Copeland
Walton John Munn
Ray Young
Olen Jethero Standridge
John Thomas Downs
William Alexander Cramer
Edward Willie Schrader
Edward Jackson Austin
Ros Chunn
Baron Mitchell Grant
Royce Maurice Bridges
Floyd C. Jackson
Donald Ray Branum
Louis Benjamin Osborne
Earl Lee Foster
Thomas Bias Stanford
Thomas Earl Bowen
Frank Marinus Leon Eugene Deleon Bailey,Jr
Tankersley
Ethel
Peter W. West
By Dewitt MacKenzie
Gladwin Hill
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