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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1944
Page
1
Weather outlook foresees a partly cloudy period with scattered thundershowers and a 91 degree high. Local service notes include paratrooper wings for Lieut. William Knight and wounded in action reports for Grigsby and Wiley. Community events cover sermons, prayer meetings, baptist church activities, and births amid hospital and draft notices.
Polish infantry and tank units push a six mile front along the Adriatic coast and seize Scapezzano Monterado and Corinaldo. They reach the Cesano river south bank near Ancona, taking about 300 prisoners amid heavy German counterattacks and rainbound warfare.
American bombs wound Canadian forces near Caen in France as Maj. Gen. R F L Keller of the Canadian third division is hurt by fragmentation bombs that fell short of their mark. Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair was killed in Normandy recently under similar circumstances.
Linton Morgan, 58, a textile worker, was found dead from a shotgun wound hours after a posse formed to chase him for allegedly killing Mrs. Mack Thomas 22 and her mother-in-law Mrs. Etta Thomas 40 and wounding two children Gail 18 months and Bobby. Morgan was near the mountain home where neighbors last saw him with a shotgun. a murder warrant had been issued. He was found under an apple tree near his boyhood home with a shotgun beside him. Brown notes Morgan was a frequent visitor at the Thomas home.
Plans filed by the William Waldorf Astor estate call for a 13 story office building at 51st Street and Fifth Avenue opposite St Patrick's Cathedral. The 54 room Vanderbilt mansion built in 1891 by William H Vanderbilt was the last of seven Fifth Avenue homes and was once the home of Brig Gen Cornelius Vanderbilt. It was sold in 1940 for 2.5 million dollars.
The narrator watches four motorized bombers strike German positions in Normandy as two Mustang fighters escort each wave. Flare signals trail from the planes, drawing a vivid arc across the sky like a crayon on canvas. The scene emphasizes disciplined timing and a striking visual display during the air attack.
Describes a massive air raid with hundreds of bombers guiding markers across the sky. The narrator notes the fall of at least three planes and reports German anti aircraft fire silenced, counting well over 400 aircraft with estimates suggesting 1800 more. The account ends with disbelief at German resilience.
New York ALP delegates nominate Franklin D. Roosevelt for president and Harry S. Truman for vice president by acclamation. They also re nominate Senator Robert F. Wagner and select Judge Marvin Dye for the New York Court of Appeals. The party echoes Democratic picks and urges UN adoption of Italy with extended lend lease. Ickes calls Dewey a reluctant dragon and backs Roosevelt's leadership.
Attorney General Francis Biddle says no government plan exists to investigate or sue Southern railroads over allegedly discriminatory freight rates. He notes no immediate action like the Western railroads case and emphasizes rates must be competitive under the law despite railroad attempts to set their own prices. He cites Grand Coulee power development as boosting Pacific Northwest position.
The Official Guide To The Army Air Force has been banned from sale at post exchanges for a pen portrait of President Roosevelt captioned commander in chief. Maj. Gen. Alexander Surles confirms the ban. About 525,000 copies bear the President's image and cannot be sold at posts.
William Mor, 84, died in Tryon hospital after maintaining a flame sparked by ancestors 150 years ago. Mor, the last direct descendant of Robert Morris of Philadelphia, was left in the care of his nephew Hampton Owens.
Russian armies pressed a broad offensive toward East Prussia as Rokossovsky and Cherniakhovsky groups converged from Warsaw and along the Vistula. Inside Suwalki, near Kielce, and across the Niemen line, Red forces advanced toward Prussia while aiming to outflank Warsaw and threaten German Silesia and Krakow.
Bonds of 750 each were set by Justice Norwood in the case of Edward Edwards who surrendered at the jail. He faces robbery and rape charges and remains in Morgan County jail. attorney Russell Lynne represented the county official.
War Food Administration proposal to finance school lunch projects directly to local units drew express disapproval from superintendents of education in Georgia Florida Alabama Tennessee Mississippi Kentucky Virginia and the Carolinas gathered at a plan conference in Atlanta.
Allied bombs strike the Philippines as B 29s hit Nagasaki and Palembang while Guam is retaken and MacArthur Nimitz meet. The 18th Army in retreat, Japanese losses mount. Guam’s reconquest costs tallies released.
Washington Aug 11 Proponents of the Murray Kilgore reconversion bill consider lowering proposed maximum postwar unemployment payments from 35 to 25 a week to overcome opposition in the senate A spokesman said the concession would be coupled with a push to President Roosevelt for support Senator Overton urged a compromise while Senator George s states rights demobilization bill was said to be insufficient The Murray Kilgore plan would pay 75 percent of base pay during postwar unemployment with caps of 15 20 or 25 dollars depending on family status Current rates are 20 25 30 and 35 dollars for single one dependent two dependents and three or more dependents respectively
Equipment for police radio installation in Decatur has arrived and the project is approved by the War Production Board. FCC approval is still pending and two way radio patrol installation awaits final consent. Mayor T R Harrison said work will proceed with costs estimated between 3000 and 4000 dollars.
U S forces report three B 29s from the 20th Bomber Command missing after August 10 night raids on Palembang and Nagasaki. Bombing judged good at Palembang with no fighter opposition. Nagasaki encountered weak enemy air resistance and one Japanese plane destroyed.
The column links a Russian East Prussia push to a broader rally near the Vistula, noting a possible flanking move west of the river. It recalls 1914 tactics around Masurian lakes and the Tannenberg defeat while warning of renewed German counter attacks and the mystifying nature of the current strategic situation.
Gen Bernard Montgomery declared Allied forces advancing in Northwest Europe are behind the German retreat in many places. He said all is well, armies moving eastward, hundreds of towns liberated, and victory lies ahead as long as we do not relax.
Allied reports say American troops pushing north from Le Mans threaten German forces south of the Seine. British and Canadian-Polish troops strike near Caen while Brittany advances erase Loire targets Nantes and Angers. Paris-area rumors place Alencon and Charteurs in Allied hands amid heavy fighting.
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