Weather and war reports mix in Decatur bulletin
Partly cloudy this afternoon and Thursday with scattered showers near coasts. Max 90, min 72. War Department lists Pfc Bartley A White of Waterloo as waned in action in the Central Pacific. Staff Sgt Price Clanton wounded in action in Europe. Rev Vance A Gordon to preach at Willoughby Presbyterian tonight. Several local residents noted for travel, furloughs, or visits. RAF air medal awarded to Sec Lieut Jack T Romine in England. Court actions include breaches of peace and public drunkenness. Local price panel to meet at courthouse annex. meat violations to be discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Pfc
Bartley A. White
Mary White
Waterloo
Central Pacific
OPA
Decatur Marine Hero James O Thomas Killed In Action
Telegrams inform Mr and Mrs Owen J Thomas of Decatur that their son Marine Private First Class James O Thomas has been killed in action after previously being listed wounded He is buried at sea and survived by his parents and several relatives A Riverside High School graduate he joined the Marines in December 1942 after work in The Daily circulation room and with Tennessee Valley Press in The Daily building
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owen J. Thomas
James O. Thomas
Decatur
Thomas
Riverside High School
The
Marines
A. A. Vandergrift
USMC
Marine Corps
All-Out Push Underway to Take Warsaw
The Red army presses toward Warsaw with heavy resistance in Praga across the Vistula. Rokossovsky builds assault plans and strengthens lines as German counterattacks fail, with 32 German tanks and 800 troops reported destroyed. Soviet activity also advances toward Luck in East Prussia as the war front tightens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel DE Luce
Moscow
Red Army
Warsaw
Praga
Vistula
East Prussia
Poland
Bialystok-Lyck
Masurian Lakes
Grajewo
Ivan Maslennikov
Estonia
Baltic
Carpathians
Reae Tve
Bankhead urges hold on cotton to reach parity
Senator Bankhead G Ala says producers should withhold cotton from the market until parity is achieved. He says telegrams to officials and a Byrnes cooperation will push prices up as part of the Bankhead Brown amendment. The plan includes using parity loan levels if other actions fail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bankhead
D-Ala
Farm Bureau
James F. Byrnes
Justice Byrnes
OPA
War Today boosts hopes as Allied forces push in Europe
The article reports Allied invasions of Southern France and Soviet advances on the Russian front. It notes German radio gloom, the Magquis underground activity in France, and heavy damage to the 7th Army in Normandy. It cites Eisenhower on German forces taking a beating and cautions that Hitler can still mobilize over 300 divisions.
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Moscow
France
Magquis
Hitler
Normandy
East Prussia
Warsaw
Vistula
Reich
Eisenhower
Rhine
Siegfried Line
Oder River
Invasion Forces Press Inland as Southern France Falls
Allied troops advance inland from secure beachheads in Southern France with drops and glider reinforcements. Nice and Cannes reportedly captured as Marseille faces danger. air forces target rail links while French partisans threaten.
Patch Leads Allied Seventh Army In Southern France
The Allied force striking Southern France is the Seventh Army under Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Patch, replacing Lt. Gen. Patton as commander. Patch, 54, is a Guadalcanal veteran who previously fought in the Pacific and led the mopping up of Japanese forces on Guadalcanal. Maj. Gen. De Lattre De Tassigny leads French forces in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patch
Rome
France
Seventh Army
Alexander M. Patch
Guadalcanal
George S. Patton, Jr
Ose. S. Seventh Army
Pacific
de Lattre de Tassigny
Allied air victory over Southern France and Italy paratroop lift
The MAAF reported the largest reinforcement drop of the day with not less than 1,000 parachute troops airborne and a glider train extending over 50 miles. Air operations maintained pressure overnight with an attack on Valence airfield and continuous bombardment of German communications to the battle area. Three enemy aircraft were destroyed in the past 24 hours and 20 Allied planes were continued on page two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Kennedy
Rome
France
Richard T. Wright
Arlington
Nice
Cannes
Maritime Alps
la Suisse
Geneva
Marseille
Cap Negre
Frejus
Toulon
St. Tropez Gulf
Mediterranean
Italy
MAAF
Valence
Rhone
Page Two
von Kluge
Normandy
Seine-Loire
Paris
Seventh Army
Falaise-Argentan
Falaise
Vassy
Tinchebray
Merce Hl Ranges
Orne
George Patton, Jr
Sergeant Sims Killed on Saipan
Mr and Mrs A B Sims of 917 Beech Street have learned their son Staff Sgt Homer Z Sims was killed in action July 25 on Saipan Island The War Department sent a death notice He served with infantry on Saipan and had been in the Army almost three years He is survived by his parents four brothers and four sisters including Elmer Sims Johnny R Sims J D Sims Jeff Sims and others in Decatur Decatur Indiana and Albertville Alabama
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Sims
Beech Street
Homer Z. Sims
Saipan Island
War Department
Saipan
Infantry
Sims
Elmer Sims
The
Seabees
Johnny R. Sims
Italy
U.S. Army
J. D. Sims
Jeff Sims
Decatur
Leonard Shankel
Dick Berryhill
Indiana
Cliff Frazier
Albertville
Marvaline Simse
Kilby prison escape ends with seven convicts on the run
Seven inmates escaped Kilby prison in Montgomery early today after overpowering a guard and seizing the night warden. Within hours five were captured by guards and patrols, leaving two long at large, including T. A. Hamrick serving life for robbery and James J. O’Rourke serving 15 years. A high powered rifle and other weapons were taken.
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Montgomery
Ala
Kilby
Arthur Heustess
T. A. Hamrick
Jefferson County
James J. O'Rourke
Calhoun County
Heulstess
Hamrick
Heustess
O'Rourke
H. J. Stone
Stone
Walter Smith
Galloway
Monttgomery
J. P. Tidwell
Faye Ivey
Sparkman to Visit Decatur Thursday
Congressman John Sparkman will spend the day at the Bank Street post office in Decatur and will address a joint meeting of Civitan, Rotary, Lions and Kiwanis clubs at Somerville Road school. He plans to discuss The Congressional Program in the Prosecution of Postwar problems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Sparkman
Decatur
Bank Street
Somerville Road School
Congressman Sparkman
Postoffice
Civitan
Rotary
Lions and Kiwanis
Somerville School
Mistrial Sought Over Book Bias in Sedition Trial
Counsel for George Sylvester Vireck among 26 sedition conspiracy defendants moved for a mistrial arguing a new book titled Black Mail prejudiced the public and possibly affected jurors.
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Washington
George Sylvester Viereck
Black Mail
First Cotton Bale Ginned in Limestone County
The first bale of the 1944 cotton season was ginned in Limestone County. Mac McCormack produced a 608 pound bale Tuesday at Johnson Bros. gin on Athens Road.
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Limestone County
Mac McCormack
Johnson Bros
Athens 3
Home bases of Japs hit as U S air raids sweep Pacific
American Liberators from Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennaults 14th air force made the first wartime visit to the Pescadores to attack the Mako naval base and Takao harbor in Formosa. Earlier raids sank three Formosan freighters and targeted Halmahera and other Pacific islands with aerial assaults.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Krueger
Associated Press
Japan
Pescadores Islands
Formosa
Claire L. Chennault
U. S. 14Th Air Force
China
Pescadores
Mako
Takao Harbor
Philippines
Tokyo
Takao
Formosa Strait
Gen. MacArthur
Adm
Nimitz
Halmahera
Ternate
Paramushiro
Shumushu
Araito
Kuriles
Iwo Jima
Pagan
Rota Islands
Marianas
New Guinea
MacArthur
American air armada strikes deep into Germany
The U S eighth air force with about 2000 planes bombed Leipzig and Magdeburg regions hitting Delitzsch Schkeuditz Rositz Magdeburg Dessau Kothen Zeitz Halle Halberstadt and more while Mosquito raids hit Berlin. Visual bombing reported in good weather with results described as good to excellent. German broadcasts claim heavy losses for Allied bombers over southern France.
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U. S. Eighth Air Force
Delitzsch
Germany
Schkeuditz
Halle
Magdeburg
Dessau
Kothen
Zeitz
Bohlen
Rositz
Halberstadt
U. S
France
Wounded Men Rescue Run Through Bombed Village Front
A battalion medic Captain Lucien Strawn from Morgantown West Virginia leads a jeep squad to haul wounded behind the lines. They clear a shell crater blocked road with a bulldozer while German fire looms nearby. Two shock cases arrive as beds shake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucien Strawn
Morgantown
W. Va
Strawn
Allied push nears Paris amid Falaise escape gap
Allied forces report a major armored offensive from the Falaise area driving toward the Seine and Paris. German counts place 50,000 trapped in the pocket as American Lt Gen Patton’s third army advances from Le Mans toward Argentan and Dreux.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Seventh Army
Falaise
Berlin
Paris
Third Army
Breux
Chartres
Seine
Atlantic
Supreme Headquarters
Allied
Guenther von Kluge
Normandy
High Command
Alencon
Chartres-Dreux
George S. Patton
Third
Alenton
le Mans
Argentan
Dreux
France
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Price Clanton
Nancy L. Clanton
Vance A. Gordon
Willoughby Presbyterian Church
Westside
J. H. Robinson
Falkville
J. H
Buck) Robinson
Fairhope
Robinson
Mrs. Robinson
Cecil Carter
Camp Peary
T. P. Carter
Danville
Pfe. Burtis Johnson
Lavenic Johnson
Hartselle
Geraldine Farrer
Ruth Farrer
Rehoboth Beach
Del
England
Jack T. Romine
Flo 2
Ethel Nelson
Otage County
Eee
Red Johnson
Nashville, Tenn
Alma Whitfield
Morgan County
Jontent
Geraldine Briscoe
Eddie Lou McAlister
Washington, D. C
S. O. Maner
Atlanta
Georgia
Sgt
Douglas. Maner
Claudie Shumake
Jackson Street
Decatur General Hospital
James H. Beard
Hartselle 2
Agnes Ann Holland
Birmingham
Hamil
Lions Club
B. Whitmire, Jr
Eleventh Ave West
J. W. Murphy
Somerville 2
Baugh's Infirmary
Cloyd E. Gray
W. L. Blythe
Tampa
Fla
Mr. Gray
W. R. Ames Co
San Francisco
Chicago
By Ken Reynolds
Allies
Southern
Signal Corps
Hold Cotton
By Dewitt MacKenzie
Sparkman
o_oefields
Leipzig
Madgeburg
Alps
Tyrol
Bavaria
Pyle Wevier
Wounter
New
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