Local News Briefs Hit By War and Weather
Cotton prices here show strict middling at 21.40 and middling at 21.25 with low at 17.40. Promotions noted for Bob McLaughlin in the air corps. Church and club events include Methodist Evangelistic meeting at Guy Jones home and First Christian church choir cancellation. Various local visits, travel to Camp Sibert, and furloughs are reported along with a traffic collision and hospital transfers.
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Air Corps
Bob McLaughlin
Air War Over Germany Sinks 75 German Planes
U S air forces engage in a major assault across central Germany with more than 1,000 bombers and escorts targeting Leipzig area and oil refineries. Fifty to seventy five enemy fighters are reported shot down in the fiercest air battle since D Day. American pilots push into Mackau and Lutzendorf as German defenses mount aggressive counterattacks.
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London
U. S
Leipzig
Germany
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Breslau
Gladwin Hill
Eighth Airforce
Reich
Thunderbolt
Fred Christenson
Watertown
Mass
Leipsiz
Mackau
Lutzendorf
Death Toll in Hartford Circus Fire Rises to 152
The Hartford fire at Ringling Brothers killed 152, with 250 injured, as officials charged five circus officials with manslaughter. Investigators probing causes noted gasoline-paraffin coating on the canvas and rapid spread from a roof fire. Authorities prepared for unidentified victims and massive funeral needs.
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Hartford
Ringling Brothers
Barnum
Conn
Ringling Brothers Circus
State Armory
James F. Kennedy
Sarasota
Fla
Mortensen
William G. Ennis
Equipment Arrives Boosting Decatur Transit Service
W. J. Williams, Decatur Transit general manager, announced two new Ford 27 passenger buses have arrived. The February 1942 order will improve routes and service amid wartime transportation shortages. Williams acknowledged equipment and manpower limits, but pledged ongoing effort to provide top service for the city by bus and taxi.
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W. J. Williams
Decatur Transit
Mr. Williams
Hitler Robot Hazard Devices Stir Global Demand for Peace
The war report argues Nazi robot weapons threaten civilians and could ensure Germany faces punishment this time. British resolve stiffens as Churchill warns such devices test public safety and Allied unity. The piece contrasts civilian casualties with military aims and notes reporting hints at future pages.
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Hitler
Germany
John Bull
Train wreck kills 15 soldiers near Jellico Tennessee
A troop train plunged into a 50 foot gorge on the Clear River near Jellico Tennessee killing at least 17 people and likely rising. Rescue operations continued as authorities feared more deaths with as many as 40 likely. Pvt Leonard Battag of Evanston Illinois was trapped in a wrecked car for hours as medics and guards coordinated extrication efforts.
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Jellico
Tenn
Clear River
Here
E. P. Muncy
Knoxville
General Hospital
Louisville and Nashville
Leonard Battag
Evanston
Frank Battag
State Guard
Germans halt Livorno drive in Rome Ossn Italy clash
Allied reports describe fierce house to house fighting in Rosignano as American infantry push toward Livorno within ten airline miles. German defenses along the Gothic line slow the Fifth Army thrust and the Eighth Army gains shorten to yards amid heavy counterattacks and tank support.
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Noland Norgaard
Rome
Gothic Line
Italy
Fifth Army
Livorno
Leghorn
Pisa
Florence
Eighth Army
Rosignano
Dawn Attack by Americans Gains Ground in Normandy Front
Allied forces under Lt General Omar Bradley launched a dawn offensive across the Vire river pushing toward Airel and La Haye Du Puits. American columns closed on La Haye and Le Surellerie while heavy bombardment aided rapid advances and threatened German escape routes near St Lo.
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Wes Gallagher
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Omar N. Bradley
Normandy
Vire
Airel
Foye Ltd
la Haye du Puits
la Haye
Aiver
St Lo
St. Jean de Daye
le ‘Surellerie
la Surellerie
Lessay
BBC
NBC
New York
Caen
Second Army
City Council Adds Ed Carter to Police Force
Routine session at city hall heard a resident appeal for a street light at Twelfth Avenue East and Gordon Drive. The council granted the light and voted to employ Ed Carter as a city police officer.
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B. F. Tea
Twelfth Avenue East
Gordon Drive
Ed Carter
Billfold Taken From Patron In P O Lobby Here
Mrs Laura Beatty of Moulton 2 reported a plain billfold with 5300 in cash stolen from the Albany postoffice on Moulton Street. She left the billfold on a table while mailing a package and returned to find it missing. The money was in 180 in twenty dollar bills 100 in ten dollar bills 15 in five dollar bills and 5 in one dollar bills.
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Tyler Lowery
Decatur
Sixteenth Avenue
Wadsworth Street
Lowery
Tough's
Brown's
Laura Beatty
Moulton 2
Psn
Albany
Moulton Street
Red army drives toward Wilno as front nears Baltic borders
350 mile Soviet push deep into Hitler’s Eastern line reaches 20 miles from Lithuania. Cherniakhovsky and Baghramian armies seize villages west of lakes Svir and Naroch, nearing Vilnius and threatening Baltic German positions. Martial law reports in Wilno. front nears the capital.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Red Army
Hitler
Bug River
Warsaw
Minsk
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Ivan’ Bagramian
Svir
Naroch
Lithuania
Mikhailishki
Warsaw- Leningrad
Daugavpils
Dvinsk
Wilno
Vilna
Berlin
Yustas Paletskis
Supreme Soviet of Lithuania
Paletskis
Kaunas
Mariampole
Vilnius
Viliya
Mik- Lki
Balkan
Soviet Baltic Republics
Four Wives await officers reported missing in war tragedy
New York reports four officers missing over Germany after their bomber Bottle Baby went down. Capt. Jack Munson of Denver and First Lieutenants Kay Goodrich of Igo California Earl Davis of Decatur Alabama and Abraham Schonfeld of New York City are named. The aircraft bore the same name as their coincident birth dates.
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New York
Germany
Jack Munson
Denver
Colo
Kay Goodrich
Igo
Calif
Earl Davis
Ninth Ave
Decatur
Ala
Abraham Schonfeld
New York City
Bond Show Tonight To Aid Fifth Drive
Morgan county aims to raise 190000 for the fifth war loan with a Bond Show at Benson Field at 8 15 pm featuring sixty Camp Sibert men and a chemical warfare unit arriving from Decatur. Series E sales and county totals are reported with ongoing appeals to reach the quota before the deadline.
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Morgan County
Benson Field
Camp Sibert
Decatur
Camp Libert
Hattseile
Falkville
Morgan
War Finance Committee
Allied Bombs Hit Sasebo and Yawata In Kyushu Raid
U S forces led by B 29 Superfortresses bombed Sasebo naval base and industrial Yawata Friday night in the second attack on the Japanese mainland. Gen H H Arnold announced the raid stating both cities lie on Kyushu with Sasebo west of Yawata. Continued on Page Two.
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Washngton
U. S
20Th Airforce
Sasebo
Yawata
Kyushu
Arnold
20Th Air Force
Joint Chiefs of Staff
20Th Bomber Command
Japan
James H. Doolittle
Horfiet
Tokyo
Chinese Turn And Send Japs Reeling By J. B. Krueger
Chinese forces shattered the Japanese offensive near Hengyang lifting a siege and forcing a 25 mile retreat toward the northeast The victory disrupts Jap plans to hold the Canton to Peiping railroad and signals a turning point in the long Chinese resistance with Tokyo facing renewed pressure on Saipan and a possible assault on India The report notes Japanese troops at Hengyang Leiyang and Canton driven back and the invasion stalled as Chungking claims success on several fronts
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J. B. Krueger
Associated Press
China
Hengyang
Hankow-Canton
Tokyo
Bataan
India
Japan
Canton
Peiping
Chungking
Leiyang
President Roosevelt frets over war in China outlook
Roosevelt expressed concern that China's war is not going well yet noted Japanese supply lines are stretched and under threat by Allied forces. He argued China could worsen for Japan if mainland holds, but said the situation is less dire than a year ago now that the U S is within bombing range of Japan.
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Washington
Roosevelt
China
Japan
FDR
Chinese Ministry of Information
Agenpenty- Gkealean Areae
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Charles A. Orr
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Guy Raymond Smith
Key West, Fla
J. M. Smith
Katherine Harton
Decatur General Ospital
Myrtle Orne
Danters
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W. O. Bice
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Pacific
H. H. Jones
J. Haley
George W. Smith
Leonard Aylesworth
Edward Versteig
David Blanchfield
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