Weather, cotton prices, and local notices in Decatur
Cloudy with scattered showers and possible thunderstorms this afternoon tonight and Friday. High 86 low 72. Cotton prices posted today include strict middling 22.40 middling 22.25 and low values. Local film showings feature The Heavenly Body at the Princess Standing Room Only at the Roxy Mission To Moscow at the Capitol. Notable local items include Robert L. Minor 17 son of Mr and Mrs W M Minor of Decatur completing electrician mate school at Great Lakes.
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Heavenly Body
The
Princess
Roxy
Moscow
Capitol
Electrician’s Mate School At
Great Lakes
Robert L. Minor
W. M. Minor
Canal Street
Decatur
Trapped Nip forces launch drive in New Guinea
Allied dispatches describe a renewed Japanese offensive aimed at breaking the trap near Aitape and pushing toward Dutch New Guinea. MacArthur reported ongoing skirmishes as Allied and Japanese units clash in the Saipan theater's broader war context.
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New Guinea
Casualties Hit Saipan Front in Pacific fighting
The U S Pacific Fleet reports heavy casualties as attacks focus on Guam southwest of Saipan, the operational base carved from Japan’s inner defenses at a cost of 15 053. Enemy air forces on Guam and Rota appear knocked out after repeated blows.
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Saipan
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Guam
Japan
Rota
Trucker Killed as Collision In Forest Strikes Danville Men
Oliver Childers died and four others were seriously injured when two Grayson Lumber trucks collided on Brush Creek road about 20 miles south of Moulton. Victims from Danville include Leonard Brannon William Vaughan Price L Hogan and T H Evans.
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Oliver Childers
William Vaughan
Addison .1
Leonard Brannon
Price L. Hogan
T. H. Evans
Danville 1
National Forest
Moulton
Irvin-Dyer Infirmary
Bran
Marvin Kitchens
Dent
Russians Closing In Upon East Prussia
Moscow reports Russian troops advance to within 30 miles of the Suwalki triangle in East Prussia after a 19 mile daily thrust. Soviet columns near Kaunas and Grodno push toward Lithuania and the Baltic coast as the front tightens.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
East Prussia
Old Poland
Lithuania
Poland
Suwalki
Kaunas
Baltic
Estonia
Latvia
Sweden
Grodno
Germany
Grodna
Bialystok
Warsaw
Brest Litovsk
Bug
Pripyat
Ivan Bagramian
Yeremenko
Crimea
Velikie Luki-Riga
Reuters Moscow
Pell-Mell
Berlin
City Seeks Commission Backing for Decatur Radio Patrol
The City of Decatur seeks FCC and WPB approval to install two way radio telephone for police use. The project costs about 4000 dollars with an antenna on the water department tank at Delo no Park. A 24 hour central station will coordinate three radio equipped patrol cars and citizen reports. Huntsville and Florence frequencies allow intercity crime reporting along the Valley.
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Decatur
Federal Communications Commission
War Production Board
Police Department
FCC
WPB
Water Department
Deleno Park
Railroad Street City Hall
Huntsville
Florence
State Highway Patrol
Alabama
Ace Is Missing Washington July 13 report on Goodson
Major James A. Goodson a 23 year old commander of a P 51 Mustang squadron credited with destroying 30 German planes is missing in action in the European theater. The War Department reports he failed to return from a mission over Germany in June.
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Washington, J
James A. Goodson
War Department
Goodson
Toronto
Canada
Germany
War Today notes German setbacks and Red advances
The article reports German forces retreating under heavy losses as the Red offensive grows stronger. It discusses possible Nazi realignments to move forces from the East to Normandy, while warning Hitler's leadership lacks sufficient manpower for large-scale manipulation of fronts. The Red armies push roughly ten miles daily, challenging the German line.
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Berlin
Normandy
Naval Losses Admit U S and British Ships in France Landing
The U S Navy and British Admiralty reported six destroyers lost in French landing operations. American losses included Corry Glennon Meredith and the transport Santa Clara renamed Susan B Anthony, plus Tide Rich Partidge. British losses listed Boadicea Swift Swenner Mourne Blackwood Lawford Lord Austin Minster. Total 15 vessels.
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London
France
U. S. Navy Department
British Admiralty
Santa Clara
Susan B. Anthony
Tide
Rich
Partridge
Corry
Glennon
Meredith
Roosevelt
Admiralty
Boadicea
Swift
Swenner
Mourne
Blackwood
Lawford
Lord
Austin
Minster
Britain Bomb Free During the Night
London experiences its first all-clear night in a month with no robot planes after dark. The lull follows Churchill's report of 2,700 one-ton bomb carriers launched earlier, and daylight raids continue but are less severe. Londoners remain in shelters amid ongoing attacks.
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London
Britain
Hitler
Churchill
Parley Planned on International Communications Revival
Washington date July 13 The United States and Great Britain plan a conference this fall on international communications and news exchange. It is seen as an opening move toward securing world wide press freedom after the war.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
Yanks breach Nazi defense in Italian campaign
Allied forces of the Fifth Army pierced German positions in the upper Era valley about 17 miles inland from the west coast and captured Lajatico Inglias. French troops advanced toward San Donato near Florence, as Rome reported. Additional French and American actions pushed toward key inland road junctions with prisoners taken and enemy hills abandoned.
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Noland Norgaard
Rome
Fifth Army
Upper
Era Valley
Italy
Livorno
Lajatico Inglias
Wieckee
San Donato
Florence
Poggibonsi
Eighth Army
Preper Tiber
Citta di Castello
Tiber
Cross Chosen For Command At Decatur Base Unit
Captain Charles D. Cross of Shreveport Louisiana will succeed Major W O Riley as commanding officer of the 2156th AAF Base Unit at Southern Airways Decatur He attended LSU and earned pilot wings at Spence Field and held posts at Maxwell Randolph Bryan and central instructors schools He has been stationed at Decatur since June 21 1942 and previously served as assistant AAF supervisor.
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Charles D. Cross
Shreveport
Louisiana
W. O. Riley
Southern Airways
Decatur
Captain Cross
Louisiana State University
Army Air Forces
Spence Field
Moultrie
Central
Maxwell Field
Ala
Randolph Field
Texas
Bryan
AAF
War in Normandy From Hedgerows to City Streets
Reporter Ernie Pyle describes the Normandy advance from hedgerow fighting to street battles as infantry companies clear pockets within towns. He notes the coming installments will detail the sequence of such urban combat across several days.
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Ernie Pyle
Normandy
Ernie Goes To Battle With Infantry Unit
Time and Life correspondent Charles Wertenbaker and photographer Bob Capa describe approaching a front line post in a church courtyard. They observe M P squads frisking prisoners, Russians among them, and frightened wives fearing executions. The scene highlights the brutal reality of German conscription and prisoner treatment.
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Charles Wertenbaker
Bob Capa
Time
Life Magazines
C. P
Munich Again Is Target for U S Bombers
Allied air blasts hit Munich for the third day as 1,000 Flying Fortresses and Liberators joined raids on northern Italy and western Germany. Porto Maghera and Trieste rail yards were struck along with Brescia Verona Mestre and Mantua railyards.
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Gladwin Hill
London
Munich
Italy
Saarbrucken
Germany
England
Porto Maghera
Triesoil Stere
Milan-Venice
Pinzano
Tagliamento River
Trieste
Rome
Brescia
Verona
Mestre
Mantua
France
Europe
Berlin
Kotka
Helsinki
Saarbracken
Paris
Ruhr
Wallace Eyes Douglas as Wallace Remains Democratic VP Hope
Wallace supporters name Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas as rival for second spot on the 1944 ticket. Rumors say Roosevelt may consider other eligibles like Winant Minton Lucas Kerr or Byrnes if Wallace is shelved. Douglas backing may come from Ickes Kennedy Corcoran, with strongest support expected in the West and Northwest.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
Henry A. Wallace
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Senate
Barkley
Sam Rayburn
Truman
James F. Byrnes
Roosevelt
Wallace
Chicago
John G. Winant
England
Sherman Minton
Indiana
Lucas
Douglas
Back
Ickes
Joseph P. Kennedy
Thomas Corcoran
Brain
Oppose Wallace Delegates Split at Talladega Convention
Two Alabama delegates to the Democratic National Convention announce opposition to Henry Wallace’s renomination. Judge D Hardy Riddle says he wants a candidate who can win Southern and Western farmer support. Graham Wright vows to oppose any Wallace renomination and backs Speaker Sam Rayburn as a qualified leader. Governor Chauncy Sparks is slated to chair the 26 member delegation.
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Wallace Talladega
Ala
Talladega
Henry Wallace
D. Hardy Riddle
South
West
Graham Wright
Fourth
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Chauncy Sparks
Southernice
Gail Patrick Bridegroom Confined At Naval Base
Screen actress Gail Patrick’s husband to be Lieut. Arnold Dean White was confined to bachelors’ quarters for 10 days after leaving Jacksonville without leave. He and Patrick wed Tuesday at Jacksonville naval air station chapel. Patrick plans to join him in Miami soon.
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Gail Patrick
Arnold Dean White
Naval Air Station
Jacksonville
Fla
Miss Patrick
Birmingham
Ala
Lieut. White
Circleville
Miami
Navy
H. F. Webster
Naval Air Transport Base
White
Webster
All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal Chapel
Jacksonville Naval Air Station
Herriot Death Reports Contradicted by German Radio
Berlin and Vichy broadcasts reported the death of Edouard Herriot, former French premier, but a German source said the report was erroneous and that Herriot is in good health. Herriot, 72, long a prominent French politician and three time premier, had been held by Germans after France fell and was tied to Allied contacts rumors.
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New York
Vichy Radio
U.S
Edouard Herriot
London
DNB
Berlin
Associated Press
Herriot
Vichy
France
North
Africa
Lyon
Germany
United States
Chamber of NL
Power Drive Gains Ground In Wide Area
Allied forces advancing along a 4 mile front captured seven towns in France. Lt General Omar Bradley’s troops seized La Boulaye and La Barre De Semilly near St Lo while pushing along the Cherbourg peninsula threatening Lessay. British Second Army retook Maltot near Caen in the broader front.
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Wes Gallagher
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
St. Bo
Cherbourg
Paris
Omar N. Bradley
la Boulaye
Lessay
St. Lo
Maltot
Caen
Odon
Nazi flying bombs strike American beachhead in France
June 19 dispatch notes German robot bombs targeting troops on the American beachhead in France. Aircraft ordnance officers confirm identification of at least one device and fragments of another. A pilotless Nazi craft was seen traveling over 300 miles per hour toward German lines by Lt. Col. Geoffrey Sargent of Avon New York.
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France
London
Geoffrey Sargent
Avon
N.Y
Allied Breakout at St Lo Pushes Through Hedgerows
Heavy artillery opened the assault on German fox holes and hedgerows while American tanks and infantry moved through La Bou laye and advanced across the St Le Bayeux road. The drive formed a semi circle around St Lo, repelled a counter attack, and retook Le Desert in the Vire valley as refugees report a German stand in an undamaged building.
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St. Lo
la Boulaye
St. Le-Bayeux
Vire
Within Mile of St Lo Yanks Press German Front
Advanced American units probed within a mile and a half of St Lo as infantry renewed their assault on the eastern anchor of a 48 mile German salient. Allied forces faced fierce German rearguard counterattacks while bad weather limited air support for a third day.
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Hal Boyle
ST. LO
St.Lo
Nazi
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