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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1944
Page
1
The German radio reports Soviet troops near the Hungarian border and advances toward Transylvania and the Danube while Russian forces push toward Bucharest. Romanian and Hungarian actions are described as counterattacks and strategic moves amid heavy air activity around Ploesti and Galati.
W F Boswell A C Dillehay and Harlan Hunter will run for re election on the city council. Knox McRae had already qualified for Place No 1. Sidney T Stewart failed to reach required signatures to qualify for mayor leaving Harrison Cloud and Hine as mayor candidates.
Ernie Pyle's column will not appear in The Daily for the next several days. United Features, the syndicate handling his copy, said he is unavailable after wireless word from Pyle stating he is out of action for a few days. No date given.
Paris celebrates freedom as Eisenhower and allied leaders tour the city amid fire from roof top snipers, with 110 killed and 719 injured. French resistance leaders assume posts in the new government as food convoys resume deliveries to sustain the population.
Four baby boys born to Mrs. Charles E. Lee in Hall county Memorial Hospital weigh about three pounds each. The Army family, with father Pvt. Lee stationed at Camp Blanding, expects the infants to survive with oxygen support and careful feeding. The birth marks a rare event as doctors note the babies appear healthy and identical.
London reports Bulgaria is due to receive surrender terms in Cairo within days and Romania armistice terms in Moscow soon. Greek and Yugoslav interests seek protection in the Bulgars terms despite their plea to retain German‑approved gains. Pravda urges all nations to break with Nazis as events move rapidly.
Secretary of State Hull said Bulgarian officials have contacted Allied governments about an armistice and American participation is unclear. He noted Romania, which has joined the Allied side, is kept informed mainly through Russian officials as armistice progress is pursued. Hull added the United States might be represented diplomatically and militarily if a Romanian armistice is signed in Moscow.
Pravda warns Bulgaria amid armistice terms, reportedly demanding unconditional surrender and ceding territories. Moscow sources say Bulgaria may turn over war facilities to the Allies and allow Allied passage, while major powers question Bulgaria’s neutral stance and Germany strengthens Hungary’s borders.
Allied forces press toward Germany from the west and east as rapid offensives unfold. American troops north of Paris reach the Marne while a Russian push drives into Romania and a Vistula offensive targets Warsaw. The Nazi lines crumble along the Seine and Channel coast, threatening a major withdrawal under heavy air power.
Allied bombers from the East target Japanese war production centers from Manchuria to Sumatra while Western raids push along invasion routes to Japan and the Philippines. British carrier planes strike Indaroeng and Padang in Sumatra. one Allied plane is lost. In the Pacific, Mariana based planes knock down five Japanese interceptors at Iwo Jima and hit Palau and Halmahera.
Decatur Rotary Club heard two speakers Luther Fuller farm products agent for Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co and State Senator Bruce Henderson of Miller's Ferry Alabama. Fuller outlined five years of farm progress in Valley counties including packing plant and cheese plant payrolls and a booming seed market while Henderson praised Decatur’s growing farm income and North Alabama development.
Allied air forces from the West and Italy struck German troops and supply lines across Northern France the Low Countries and into Germany and Austria and Hungary. Bombers and fighters destroyed trains locomotives oil depots and rail junctions while targets in Italy Austria Hungary and Czechoslovakia faced attacks on oil plants and rail yards.
Allied forces push through Meaux and southwest of Paris as U S Third Army tanks cross the Marne in a sweeping move toward German retreat routes. Reports say 50,000 front-line Germans knocked out in Southern France with major divisions eliminated and bridges and roads targeted by Allied air power.
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