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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1944
Page
1
Generally fair tonight and Saturday with slightly colder temps. Local bureau reports max 44 and min 25. Army and civilian service notes include soldiers overseas and training, arrests, legal hearings, price updates, births, hospital notices, and a guest speaker at Decatur senior high school.
Allied air forces launched a two day raid with 11,000 planes in seven missions on the Rhine Ruhr region and Leipzig area. The blitz left 76 bombers and 32 fighters lost and 3,000 tons dropped on Duisburg.
A Transcontinental and Western Air passenger plane with 23 aboard crashed in heavy fog near Burbank in the San Fernando Valley on the way from San Francisco. Police said at least seven were killed and Army personnel took over the scene.
The Decatur Daily informs readers of December mail subscriptions with renewals only for December. No new subscribers accepted. check expiration date printed with the address. Expired subscriptions will be classified as inactive. New subscribers in the armed forces will be accepted from area service members.
Associated Press reports a large Japanese convoy bound for Leyte was wiped out by American dive bombers. In seven separate strikes 47 ships and 26,000 soldiers were destroyed or scattered, with a freighter and a destroyer left burning. Allied forces pressed Japanese positions as storms hindered counterattacks.
The Associated Press reports a Comei news agency broadcast from Tokyo claimed Japanese forces landed on Morotai island with no casualties. The FCC later said the claim was unconfirmed and editors were told to kill the story after it was circulated.
Imperial dispatches report Japanese forces on Leyte restraining air field use at Morotai and note no Domei claim of amphibious counter invasion. B 29 raids on Tokyo expand to round the clock tests over three hours. Peleliu mopping up yields 1300 Japanese killed and 142 captured. US losses 92 dead five missing 622 wounded. Japan to relieve Gen Kawabe amid retreats in Burma.
Universal Concrete Pipe Company of Decatur announces plans to expand beyond pipe manufacture with concrete block and brick. The first machine is expected by December 15 and a second by January 1.
The Southern Bell employee group, via the Southern Federation of Telephone Workers, voted to affiliate with the National Federation of Telephone Workers. They seek higher wages tied to war conditions, seniority protections, vacation and benefits, layoffs and promotions with seniority, postwar adjustments, and wartime changes to wage schedules. W. A. Smallwood of Atlanta elected federation president.
The Soviet information bulletin signals a vigorous assault by the United Nations to crush Hitler Germany with minimal delay. It suggests an early Soviet offensive on the Polish front near Berlin while Anglo American Allied forces press a full scale attack in the West.
Allied Fifth Army advances along the Florence Faenza road facing light resistance as German forces pull back from the mountains toward the Po valley. In the Eighth Army sector, no change, while Alberto area fights intensify near Faenza and Monte Fregna. Fontanelice on the Imola highway was evacuated. other Fifth Army units push limited gains west of the Bologna highway amid heavy fire.
Slow advance was noted today in the Sixth War Loan with Series E Bond sales near a $741 quota. Other bond investments totaled $712,870. The Morgan county Victory quota stands at $2,250,000. Bonds are purchasable at banks First Federal Savings & Loan Association Princess Theatre and Stur Iron & Steel Co main plant.
War dispatch notes Ike delays major offensive until ammunition piles. Stimson urges overwhelming artillery to reduce Allied casualties as Siegfried Line defenses, a vast labyrinth of fortifications, loom along the Cologne plain.
Moscow reports Russian forces push 50 more towns west of the Danube in Hungary and move within 78 miles of Budapest. They seize Eger and Szikszo, cut the Miskolc to Kassa railway, and push along a 30 mile front toward a decisive strike against Budapest and Austria.
Report from 21st Army Group HQ on December 1 estimates about 6 million German troops, with 1.25 million fit men ages 19 to 46. Under Von Model, Student, Balck, and Rundstedt, Hitler commands roughly 300 divisions, with 70 on the Western front and losses outpacing new formations.
R. B. Red Freeman was elected captain of the Decatur Company Alabama State Guards last night. The election occurred under Captain Zen and Sgt. Alexander of ten company amid ongoing enlistments inviting forty to fifty men for the Decatur company.
A billion dollar flood control authorization clears the Senate on a voice vote and moves to conference. Debate centers on tying postwar flood control to Social Security payroll tax freezes and war powers. senators differ on linking the bills while the Ways and Means Committee passes the tax at one percent for both employers and workers. The War Department notes Japan’s fighting limits, while U S casualties rise as the war continues.
American forces drive across the Roer and Saar rivers as Ninth Army massed along the Roer and Inde. Patton's Third Army pushes toward the Saar while Seventh Army breaches defenses near Haguenau and Strasbourg. Heavy fighting continues along the Rhine sector as the Allied advance narrows to Berlin.
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