Community News Highlights and Local Military Notes
Weather outlook shows partly cloudy skies this afternoon tonight and Thursday with scattered thundershowers in the south. highs near 93 and lows around 76. Local notices cover furloughs military updates tax panel meetings court fines Kiwanis meeting and church events. A correction fixes Pfc James H Blevins death date to July 4 on Saipan after earlier report of July 3.
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Pfc
James H. Blevins
Blevins
Saipan Island
Red army tightens noose around Baltic Nazis in bold advance
Soviet columns push from West South and East cutting deeper toward Silesia and East Prussia. Front reports say encirclements widen, 16 new German divisions enter front in past three weeks, and advance threatens Warsaw and approaches the Czechoslovakian border as German defenses melt.
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Daniel de Luce
Moscow
Red Army
Poland
Silesia
Vistula
NBC
New York
Atvian
Ivan Co. Bagramian
Warsaw
Rman
Germany
Italy
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Norway
East Prussia
Gulf of Riga
Lake
Peipus
Baltic
Tula
Sandomierz
Kielce
Krakow
Widowed Twice in War Seattle Woman Loses Two Husbands
Ensign Howard B. Dilatush Jr was killed in March 1943 in a transport plane crash in Washington DC. Seven months later she wed Lt Malcolm Lauty, a high school friend. He died at sea in a crash shortly after their daughter's birth.
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Seattle
Rachel Pool
Howard B. Dilatush, Jr
Washington, D. C
Malcolm Lauty
FDR Declines Letter Opener From Nip Bone
The White House reported Roosevelt refused a letter opener carved from a Japanese soldier’s bone. He ordered its return to the sender and burial suggestion, noting he did not want such an object in his possession. Vatican service in Rome had circulated the story, prompting Tokyo’s Catholic archbishop to seek humanity in war.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Vatican
Rome
Tokyo
Flying boat toll is high in Cuban crash
Seven teen passengers are dead or missing after a Pan American flying boat broke apart and sank near Nipe bay Cuba during an attempted takeoff. Nine passengers and the five crew survived. Survivors said those missing were likely trapped in the clipper. six bodies were recovered. The flight ran from San Juan to Miami with a stop at Antilla.
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Havana
Nipe Bay
Cuba
Antilla
Miami
William D. Allwood
San Juan
Big Clipper
Pioneer Trans-Pacific
China
Jose R. Torres
Seiberling Tire Company
Evangelina Lazaro
Cassie Henry
Dell Ave
Richmond
Three area aviation cadets enter Maxwell Field program
Three youths from Decatur and vicinity report to Maxwell Field for nine weeks of intensive aviation cadet training in the U S Army Air Forces. James E Brazelton 26 Arthur A Jones 18 and Othar T Poole 22 are named as aviation cadets from the area.
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Decatur
Maxwell Field
AAF
Ars
U. S. Army Air Forces
James E. Brazelton
W. D. Brazelton
Arthur A. Jones
Arthur Jones
E. Walnut
Mont Cadet
Othar T. Poole
Wiley C. Poole
Vine
Normandy Air Onslaught Through French Farmyard Barrage
Frontline memories describe the Normandy breakout as dive bombers roared in from all directions with colored cloth and smoke guiding airmen. He recalls enormous waves of Heavies arriving in flights of 12, in families of about 70, creating a relentless, doomlike sound and a scene of war’s musical, chaotic precision.
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Normandy
Hengyang falls as Japan breaks Pacific string of defeats
Japans capture of Hengyang gives Nippon a path to widen a gap along the Hankow Peiping line and sever coastal China. In Guam, U S forces pin down remnants after heavy bombardment. MacArthur and Nimitz air crews strike Halmanera Yap Nauru Paramushiro Wake.
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Japan
Pacific
Burma
India
Hengyang
China
Chungking
Nippon
Hankow-Peiping
Guam
U. S
Adm
Chester Nimitz
Marianas
New Guinea
MacArthur
Halmanera
Philippines
Aitape
Nimitz
Yap
Carolines
Nauru
Paramushiro
Kuriles
Wake
Water taste now cleared in Decatur after purification upgrade
An objectionable taste and odor in Decatur water, due to algae growth and decay, has been eliminated by new activated carbon purification equipment at the city water plant. George Godwin, water superintendent, notes the issue affected Huntsville and the Tri Cities and may recur each summer.
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City of Decatur Water Company
George Godwin
City Water Service
Huntsville
Tri-Cities
Ingalls Case Postponed In Birmingham Court
Misdemeanors court Judge Grover Bower postponed the Ingalls Iron Works case due to the absence of the complaining witness. The hearing aimed to address a Bradford Act employment dispute involving suspension over union dues and related subpoenas.
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Birmingham
Grover Bower Toda
Alabama
Bradford
David Satterwhite
Clifford Jenkins
Ingalls Iron Works Company
Jenkins
Ingalls Srintendent
Clem S. Walter Jr
W. Emmett Brooks
Bombers Attacks Across Stuttgart and Berlin Reported
More than 1,000 U S heavy bombers and fighters attacked Stuttgart and Berlin, with raids also stretching into Hungary from Italian bases. RAF Lancasters and Halifaxes struck fuel dumps in Northern France, while Mosquitos targeted transport routes and oil tanks, including Cologne. Weather dampened today's operations though prospects improved.
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London
U. S
Stuttgart
Detroit
Germany
Berlin
Hungary
Reich
France
Channel
Aire-Sur- la Lys
Pas-De-Calais
Foret- de Lucheux
Foret de Chantilly
Paris
Budapest
Lake Balaton
Fountainbieu
Cologne
Jury Probes Car Strike in Philadelphia Case
A federal grand jury convened to investigate Philadelphia's six day transit strike. Officials may pursue conspiracy under war powers, while training for white and Negro bus operators resumes alongside war agency oversight.
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Philadelphia
Biddle
Billings
Mont
U. S
Edward A. K
Philadelphia Transportation Company
CIO Transport Workers Union
War Agency
Army
Roosevelt
Ae Ptc
Philip Hayes
War Department
Wynn Funeral for Jesse J Wynn in Hartselle
Funeral services for Jesse J Wynn, who died Tuesday at his home near Hartselle, will be held Thursday at 11 AM at Johnson's Chapel with Rev M H Hudson officiating. Survived by widow, four children Gertrude Mavis Lewis and Lottie Mae, sister Mrs Nelson Norris, brothers Richard T M and Noah, of Hartselle, and S W Wynn of Birmingham. Interment in the adjacent cemetery, Mutual Service directing.
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Jesse J. Wynn
Hartselle
Johnson's Chapel
M. H. Hudson
Gertrude
Mavis
Lewis
Lottie Mae
Nelson Norris
Richard
T. M
Noah
S. W. Wynn
Birmingham
Allied drive recaptures Monte Grillo as Florence stays quiet
British and Indian forces recaptured Monte Grillo and repelled five Nazi counterattacks north and northwest of Arezzo. Florence area reports varied with patrol activity. water shortages and looting claims split between Union Jack and Maple Leaf accounts while fighting continues near the Arno bridgehead.
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Noland Norgaard
Rome
Monte Grillo
Arezzo
Florence
Great Art Center
Associated Press
Lynn Heinzerling
Eighth Army
Arno
Union Jack
TVA Adds Transformers at Decatur Central Substation
Tennessee Valley Authority installs three 1500 KVA transformers in parallel with existing 2000 KVA units at Decatur central sub station on First Avenue. Project spans about ten days at a cost around 25000 dollars to handle rising demand across industrial commercial and residential sectors.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Decatur
Central
First Avenue
Wilson Dam
Guntersville
Goodyear
Polish Unity Still Absent in Moscow Talks
Soviet reports say Premier Mikolajczyk and Polish exile leaders failed to reconcile the 1921 Polish constitution with the Soviet backed Polish National Liberation Committee. Officials indicated negotiations might resume later and Stalin urged Poles to decide Poland's questions themselves.
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Moscow
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Theolish
Poland
Polpress
London
Soviet Union
War Today: Nazi leadership under growing threat amid total war
The piece argues Hitler's regime faces increasing danger as leaders are targeted and morale sinks. It notes executions at Berchtesgaden and a looming test in forthcoming German retreats. Allied air power is described as the greatest menace to Nazi forces.
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Gestapo
Himmler
Reichmarshal Goering
Hitler
Germany
Alps
Berchtesgaden
Reich
Allied forces push toward Paris as Le Mans falls
Allied troops drive from Le Mans toward Paris with U S armor beyond the city and 87 miles from Paris. Canadians surge near Falaise while other American units advance toward Angers and Nantes broadening the line along the Loire as resistance eases.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Omar N. Bradley
le Mans
Paris
U.S
Caen
Falaise
Mans
Berlin
M U
Loire River
Nantes
Les Bans
U. S
France
Loire
Officials doubt Himmler assassination claim as German officer reports only hearsay
London officials dismissed the claim of Heinrich Himmler's assassination as unsubstantiated. A captured German army intelligence officer said the story was hearsay with little concrete detail. The dispatch noted possible internal Nazi turmoil alongside injuries to Hermann Goering.
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London
Heinrich Himmler
France
Nordmandy
Gestapo
Himmler
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Allied push tightens on Breton peninsula and Mortain front
American and Canadian forces tighten drive toward German positions in Brittany as Lt Gen Spang is captured at Brest. Allied pressure concentrates on Mortain and Caen areas with gains near Challeroy and Saint Malo while striking at transport hubs and ring defenses along the Loire corridor.
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Breton
Boys
Brest
Spang
266Th
Paris
le Mans
Mortain
Caen
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