Weather and Society Notes From Local Area
Weather outlook shows fair tonight with partly cloudy skies and scattered thunder showers in the south. Local cotton prices posted at strict mid 21.15 middling 21.00 and low 17.15 as buyers noted market activity. Theaters show Heaven Can Wait at the Princess The Return Of The Vampire at the Roxy Wyoming Hurricane at the Capitol. Various church and civic notices describe vacation Bible school activities hospital and war loan visits and community updates from Decatur and nearby towns.
Advange Scored Today By Yank Units In Normandy
Allied report details Omar Bradley led push toward Cherbourg with gains to within 2 4 miles of St Sauveur and 11 miles of the peninsula coast. American spearhead 17 miles from Cherbourg. heavy fighting near Montebourg Caumont Caen Tilly Sur Seulles amid bad weather and naval support from Texas Nevada and Augusta. Eisenhower said about 300000 German troops faced the Normandy beachhead as reserves rushed to hold St Sauveur and Le Haye Du Puits. no major front changes reported.
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Wes. Gallagher
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Omar N. Bradley
Cherbourg
St. Sauveur
Allied Headquarters
Carentan
Reignesville
Bradley
Monteborg
Caumont
Caen
Tilly-Sur- Seulles
D-day
U. S
Texas
Nevada
Augusta
la Haye du Puits
Ste Mere Eglise
Orne River
Quineville
Flame Spitting Pilotless Planes Hit Britain From Germany
London reports airborne weapons described as flame spitting pilotless planes striking Southern England and Greater London. The craft reportedly fly in straight lines with bright lights and flame exhausts, radio controlled from distant piloted aircraft, causing deaths and damage as alerts sound across the region.
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Lewis Hawkins
London
England
France
Greater London
High Command
Oe Merle
Home Seen
RAF
Home
Herbert S. Morrison
Commons
Morrison
Parliament
Wash
Bristol Channel
Taret
Allied aerial drive sweeps Boulogne and targets across France
Allied air offensive against continental targets intensified with RAF heavy bombers striking Boulogne and rail centers at Valenciennes Lens and a fuel dump at Chatellerault. Night operations by intruders and a Mosquito force hit targets in Berlin as German pilotless bombers are reported against Britain.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied .Expeditionary Force
RAF
Boulogne
Britain
Normandy
Carinthia
Styria
Lé Havre
Valenciennes
Lens
Chatellerault
France
Berlin
War Today: new land base bombers alter Pacific war scope
The report highlights a shift to land based air power with massive bombers striking Japan from newly established bases. It notes raids on Moji and Shimoneski, the Saipan invasion, and calls the Allied onslaught a global power surge alongside Normandy.
Bond effort shows gains in Morgan county drive
Morgan county reports slow but rising progress in the Fifth War Loan drive. With a quota of 1,379,000 the county has sold 120,605.75 in E-bonds and 147,280 in other bonds through Thursday. Small investors are urged to buy 551,000 in E-bonds, with the rest in other denominations.
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Morgan County
Seed division led by Frank Martin at Valley show
The seed division of the Tennessee Valley Livestock and Dairy Show will be headed by Frank Martin of Danville. Planned by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce Farm Committee, the event on August 4 aims to promote farm progress in the Valley. Martin will soon announce seed show classes including small grains and legumes.
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Tennessee Valley
Frank Martin
Danville
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Martin
Russians Break Through Finland’s New Mannerheim Line
Red Star reports Soviet forces smashed the Finnish fortifications along the Gulf of Finland and crossed key highways toward Viipuri. Major trench works and bunkers behind tank blocks reveal elaborate Finnish defenses as Govorov’s breakthrough pushes 25 miles in five days, granting control of two thirds of the Karelian isthmus.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Red Army
Finland
Mannerheim
Viipuri
Red Star
Konstantin Shvankov
Shvan
Gulf of Finland
Konstantin Simonov
Finnish Gulf
Leonid A. Govorov
Kare-lian
FEPC defense told House labor panel in Washington
Chairman Malcolm Ross of the Fair Employment Practices Committee testified that FEPC policies do not bypass Southern segregation laws. He cited a Texas governor letter stating FEPC seeks only to remove employment discrimination to boost war effort efficiency. Rep. Fisher pressed data on Negro disqualification for better jobs. Ross called housing and medical care factors in health statistics and urged placing Negro workers in suitable jobs in war industries.
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Washington
Malcolm Ross
Fair Employment Practices Committee
House Labor Committee
FEPC
Coke Stevenson
Texas
Rep. Fisher
Tex
Ross
Fisher
Southern Airways Tops Bond Quota at Training School
Civilian and military personnel at Southern Airways near the primary training school surpassed a self-imposed war bond quota by almost $3,000. The group had a $13,000 E-bond target and had reached $15,980, with manager B M Cornell predicting the quota would be exceeded three or four times the amount by campaign end.
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Southern Airways
B M. Cornell
Allied Fifth Army Drives Toward Rome Across Italy Front
Allied forces hammer ahead from the Adriatic toward the Tyrrhenian with advances up to 25 miles in 24 hours. Acquapendente Narni Terni To di Massa Martana Orvieto and Grosseto are listed among captured or approached targets as the eighth and fifth armies push toward Rome amid sparse German resistance along a Pisa to Rimini line.
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Rome
Adriatic
Tyrrhenian Sea
Acquapendente
Narni
Terni
Eighth Army
Todi
Pisa-Rimini Line
Pisa
Florence
Rimini
Lake Bolsena
Norto
Orvieto
Tyrrhenian
Orbetello
Scansano
Grosseto
Proceno
Massa Martana
Ficulle
Bloody Fight at Carentan Sees Town Ravaged by Battle
June 14 Carentan France reports a shell blasted town changing hands four times as Americans drive Nazis from the edge of the city. Heavy shelling from two armies threatens further ruin while troops, vehicles, and civilians move toward the front amid ongoing combat and a sniper in civilian disguise.
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Carentan
France
Claude Henley
Selma
Afa
E. C. Mize
Winston Salem
Young Negro boy dies in South Carolina electric chair
In Columbia on June 15 a 14-year-old African American youth, George Junius Stinney Jr., was executed in the state electric chair for the confessed killing of two white girls, fatally beaten with a railroad spike while picking wild flowers. Governor Johnston refused commutation despite appeals from white and Black groups. he did not testify before execution.
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Columbia
S. C
Alcola
George Junius Stinney Jr
Olin D. Johnston
Life Aboard a D Day Invasion Ship Near Normandy
The writer describes arriving in the crowded Normandy beachhead on D-Day as part of the second wave. He recalls feared U boats and aircraft, long sea travel, and a vast armada of ships from battleships to Liberty vessels. Minesweepers cleared channels while convoys moved in every direction.
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Normandy
England
France
English
New York Harbor
Blazing Allied Bombardment Targets Japanese War Industry
Allied striking power hit Japanese targets in the past two days. Yawata steel works were described as glowing wreckage while Saipan fell deeper under U S assault. Tokyo reported strikes on Bonin islands and Korea air attacks. Stilwell reported 1200 Japanese killed near Changsha. British American forces pressed bases in Burma and Northeast India. MacArthur’s forces advanced toward Baik island and bombed Truk and Yap.
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Associated Press
Imperial Steel Works
Yawata
Germany
Admiral Nimitz
Saipan Island
Marianas
Tokyo
Bonin Islands
Japan
Korea
Joseph W. Stilwell
14Th
Hunan
China
Changsha
Burma
Myitkyina
Mogaung
Kamaung
India
MacArthur
Baik Island
New Guinea
South Pacific
Truk
Yap
Two B 29 Bombers Lost In Yawata Raid
Allied officers report two B 29 bombers were lost in accidents during the June 15 raid on Yawata. One crew member is safe. The operation involved a sizable task force from China, targeting Japan's industrial centers. The strike produced large fires and extensive wreckage as the war enters a new aerial phase.
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Japan
Kenneth D. Wolfe
Riverside
Calif
U. S. Army Air Forces
Bomber Command
War Department
Associated Press
Washington
America
20Th Air Force
Yawata
Kyushu
Clyde A. Farnsworth
China
Pittsburgh
20Th Bomber Command
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