Snell Visits OPA Offices In War Price Effort
Kingfish information officer Snell visits the OPA district office to discuss immediate distribution of new food price charts. The plan assigns Junior Red Cross Girls Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts to grocery stores to present charts to shoppers and aid families on fixed incomes.
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King Snell
Birmamar. Snell
OPA
Kingfishnformation
District Information Division
Snell
New York
Chicago Tribune
Orly
Redross
Mr. Snell
Carey P. Buffington
Geo. T Woodruff
Bertha K. Timberlake
Gussie Buttrey
Vernon McGwier
Lee 8 Corley
Allied raid reports push toward Tokyo with Saipan landings
U S forces land on Saipan as B 29s strike Japan from the Marianas. Tokyo radio acknowledges raids on Moji Shimonoseki Ko kura and Yawata while German and Domei broadcasts relay uncertain details. Nimitz says fighting heavy but progressing.
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Porter
Yawata
Tokyo
Moji
Kokura
Kyushu
Japan Iron Manufacturing Company
Saipan Island
Marianas
Bonin Island
Japan
Imperial Headquarters
Domei
Jones
Kichi Jima
Bonin Group
Iwo Jima
War Department
Shimonoseki
Tokyo Imperial
Domet
Federal Communications Commission
Korea
Chosen
East Asia
Keijo
Seoul
Kokura Army Hospi
Cotton futures soften after early seasonal highs in New York
Cotton prices slipped in moderate trading with late gains evaporating as profit taking rose. July at 21.46 and December at 20.46 reflecting cautious pace amid pending price control legislation.
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New York
Chicago Market Reports Stable Butter and Egg Prices
Butter steady at 4 dollars per pound with receipts 844,141 and market unchanged. Eggs firm with U.S. specials 36 1 2 to 38, U.S. extras 34 1 2 to 36, standards 32 1 2 to 34, current receipts 31 to 32. Market unchanged.
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Chicago
U.S
U. S
Nashville Livestock Market Report Slow Trade Above Steady
Nashville Tenn June 16 Federal- State Market News Service Cattle report notes slow trade on a few odd lots with prices holding above steady versus recent activity.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashville Tenn
Federal- State Market News Service
Yanks Advance On Saipan Island
American troops landed with the invasion fleet and pushed inland on Saipan in the Marianas. Beachheads were secured behind a 72 square mile island as U S forces moved toward Garapan and Charan Kanoa while fending off Japanese counterattacks with battleship and carrier air support. The operation aims to establish a base for B 29 raids on Japan.
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Saipan
Associated Press
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Tokyo
Marianas
Japan
Yawata Raid Marks Start Of Japanese Industrial Destruction
American B-29s struck Yawata in Kyushu, targeting Japan's steel works and rail facilities. The raid aimed at crippling 20 percent of Japanese steel output, with two planes lost to non combat causes. Brig. Gen. Wolfe called it the start of organized destruction of Japan's industrial empire.
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Starnes
Ala
DNB
Tokyo Imperial
Japan
Tokyo
Ministry of Information
Sian
Shenji
Kokuta City
Japanese Empire
Clyde A. Farnsworth
U. S
China
Yawata
Pittsburgh
Imperial Iron and Steel Works
Kyushu
Kenneth B. Wolfe
Imperial Works
20Th Bomber Command
War Department
Washington
Hideki To
Wolfe
Sppehers
Kiwanis Hear Missionary Louise Robinson
Miss Louise Robinson former Decatur resident and China missionary spoke to the Kiwanis Club at the Hotel Lyons about conditions in China before 1937 and the war's impact. She described Chinese life blending ancient and modern customs and answered questions on the war effort. New members John Adams and Jimmy Frederickson joined. guests included Lt. Charles Scales Rex Rankin and others.
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Louise Robinson
Decatur
China
Kiwanis Club
Hotel
Lyons
L. L. Lively
Miss Robinson
Rev
W. W. Glass
Allied air power surges in Normandy and France
The report notes 1,300 U.S. heavy bombers and 3,000 Allied sorties in support of Normandy ground operations. Medium bombers struck fuel dumps and bridges from Valognes to Laval, while Rennes forest was targeted for ammunition depots. German pilotless aircraft were revealed in the Commons. RAF rocket fighters and fighters hit nine Northern France railroad hubs from Chartres to Granville.
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U. S
Supreme Headquarters
Normandy
France
Valognes
Cherbourg
Laval
Britain
House of Commons
Herbert Stanley Morrison
Home Secretary
Home Security
RAF
Rennes Forest
Chartres
Paris
Granville
Thomas M Burns laid to resting in Tuscumbia
Funeral services were held Tuesday in Tuscumbia for Thomas McMahon Burns 59 lifelong resident and 36 year Southern locomotive engineer. Survived by wife Mary Lou and two daughters, two brothers and a sister. Burial followed at Oakwood Cemetery with Rev. J S Blackburn officiating.
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Tuscumbia
Thomas McMahon’ Burns
The
Southern
One Baptist Church of
Tuscuma
Mary Lou. Burns
Mary Maud Burns
Kathryn Jo Burns
Sheffield
N. M
Co. W. Burns
Laura Sanderson
J. S. Blackburn
First Methodist Church
Oakwood Cemetery
Spry
Local Briefs Include Casualties, Births, and Dockets
Mrs. Howard Keenum of Mou ton returned from Camp Wolters Texas with her brother Pvt John F Milley Seaman First Class Sherman on furlough from Navy service a Jeffersonville Indiana guest Mrs J E Riddle Jr of Jeffersonville Indiana visits the Riddle family Two cases on city docket fines for public drunkenness and traffic violations Fire calls reported at Market Street and 501 Bank Street both caused no loss Max Goff undergoes tonsilectomy and Erskine Thompson announces birth of daughter at Baughs Infirmary Paul Johnson resting after operation Cecil Sims to attend grandmother George Sims funeral OPA announces shoe transfers and pricing limits for June 15 to July 15 Verdon Lowery to visit Guntersville Claude Perry clarified as not Negro after identification error.
Funeral Saturday for Mrs Sims
Funeral services for Mrs. George T. Sims, 71, who died Thursday at Decatur General hospital after a week of illness, will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at Sheats chapel. The cortege will leave the residence at 9 15 a.m. Survivors include two daughters Zettie Sheats of Decatur and Clyde Cartee of Dayton Tenn. two sons Edward Sims of Trinity and Thomas Sims of Mobile. a brother John Harvey Fuller of Trinity. twelve grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers and granddaughters as flower girls. Interment in Biggs Cemetery.
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George T. Sims
Decatur General Hospital
Sheatschapel
R. L. Stalling
Boaz
G. C. Corley
Thirteenth Avenue West
Zettie Sheats
Decatur
Clyde Cartee
Dayton
Tenn
Edward Sims
Trinity
Thomas Sims
Mobile
John Harvey Fuller
Trinity 1
Biggs
Southern States Seek Equal Freight Rates Before ICC
J Van Dyke Norman speaking for the Southern governors conference urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to order lower freight rates for the South. He argued that higher rail costs south of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi stifle development and keep the region underdeveloped, despite evidence of lower transport costs there.
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Washington
Ohio River
Mississippi
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
J. van Dyke Norman
Louisville
Southern Governors Conference
Dixie
Norman
South
Invasion at Pyle Beach Aboard the Transport Area
The crew describes the Pyle invasion coast as highly organized with ships under strict minute by minute orders. Despite delays and pockets of calm, the convoy reached the beachhead and waited amid shells, danger, and a strange contrast as they played gin rummy and listened to Bing Crosby while Life magazine and the BBC reported on the battle unfolding ashore.
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Chuck Conick
Bing Crosby
Life
BBC
Allies Push Through Caen Area Amid Stiff German Counterattacks
Allied columns pressed east of Caen as British and Canadians held trenches near Troarn and Caumont. Montgomery’s forces broke inland while German counter actions gathered strength around Montebourg and Carentan, with air operations hampered but supply lines intact.
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Tilly Sur Seulles
Caen
Troarn
Caumont
Bernard L. Montgomery
Supreme Command
Supreme Headquarters
Montgomery
le Havre
Cherbourg
Elle
Vire
Carentan
St. Jean de Daye
St. Lo-Carentan
Montebourg
Quineville
Montebourg-Valognes
Wane
No Propaganda Raid Declared by Bomber Crew Over Japan
Report from June 15 describes a bold solo mission by a U S super-Fortress heading toward Yawata Japan to strike steel works. Crew, led by Lt Col Warren Wilkinson, details navigation, fuel concerns, and a dramatic attack as searchlights and anti aircraft fire illuminate the night.
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Thoburn
Yawata
Japan
Pittsburgh
Doolittle
Tokyo
Leonard
Jake) Harman
Boise
Idaho
Billy Mitchell
Warren Wilkinson
Lincolnton
N. C
Dean Delafield
Omaha
Neb
Los Angeles
Kansas City
Wilkinson
Southwest Pacific
Delafield
China
Imperial Iron and Steel Works
William C. Goldstein
Earth
Indianapolis
Glenn Berkihiser
Alburquerque
N. M
Goldstein
Delmar Stevans
Swanton
Ohio
Moris Kramer
Kramer
Warren Culver
Mason, Ill
Charles Kwiatkowski
Philadelphia
Thomas Hales
Upper Darby
America
India
Edward Fuller
Magnum, Okla
Delano Park Hosts Busy Day With Record Crowd
Delano Park enjoyed its busiest day since opening with 1 840 visitors taking part in recreation and events. The East Decatur Salvation Army and Memorial Drive church groups held activities, a 19 child birthday party featured crepe paper hats, and Decatur High School band planned a 5 pm concert with a varied program.
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Delano Park Recreation Center
Leon J. Thomas
East Decatur
Salvation Army Center
Memorial Drive
Delano Park
Carolyn Finney
Pilotless plane used by Germans against London
Known New York dispatch reports Allied air forces bombed German installations for nearly a year. The pilotless aircraft, a new weapon, targeted London last night and today. British information services note months of aerial onslaughts against so called mystery installations in Pas De Calais prior to D Day.
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NEW _ YORK
Ermans
London
Sdi
Pas de Calais
France
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Kiska
Aleutians
Congress
Marietta
Wichita
Kans
Seattle
Renton
Stimson
Chester W. Nimitz
Tinian
Tokyo Radio
NBC
Comei
Woleai
Nimitz
Richmond Kelly Turner
Marshalls
Truk
Central
Douglas MacArthur
Merianas
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Palau
Carolines
Naval Base
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Guam
M.r.rankin
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Stratemeyer
China Plains
Makasai
Bangkok
Comunique
Imperial Steel and Iron Works
Krupp
Honshu
Shimonoseki-Moji
Sasebo
Nagasaki
Hears Missionary
Thomas M. Burns
Germany
Ruth Williams Riggle
Donald E. Riggle
Riggle
H. M. Riggle
Port Washington
Southern Airways
Columbus
Miss
H. G
Red
William
12Th Ave
Pecator's
Howard Keenum of
Mouton
Camp Wolters
Texas
Pvt
John F. Milley
Sherman
Charlie Sherman
Navy
J. E. Riddle Jr
Jeffersonville, Indiana
J. E. Riddle Sr
Market Street
Ingalls Shipyards
Max Goff
Hartselle
Baugh’s Infirmary
Mrs. Erskine Thompson
Decatur 2
Baugh's Infirmary
Paul Johnson
Larry Joe Yarbrough
Bank Siet
Cecil.c. Sims
George Sims
Verdon Lowery
Guntersville
Claude Perry
Perry
Mrs. Sims
Pyle
Dean Tanner
Athens
Tex
Carl_ Brown
Winfield, Town
Yellow, Sea
Decatur High School
Carl Schwachow
Loyd’s
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