Weather, war notes, and local life from Decatur area
The region sees cloudy skies with showers in the south and north, cooler temperatures tonight, and a breezy coast. Tennessee River reads 20.90 feet. high 61, low 50. Cotton prices: strict middling 20.95, middling 20.75, strict low 19.25, low 16.25. Films shown at local theaters include Oh My Darling Clementine, The Man From Own Under, and The Ghost of Frankenstein. News covers a cable from Pvt Walter Vassar, births, illnesses, wounding in action, naval and engineer notes, and community events.
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Tennessee
Clementine
The
Princess
Man From
Roxy
Capitol
American Ground Forces Hit Japs in Burma
American jungle hardened troops, veterans of Guad alc and the Southwest Pacific, enter action in Burma the first U S ground unit on Asia soil. They pushed deep left of Chinese forces in the Hukawng valley, encircling about 2 000 Japanese after taking Walawbum and Maingkwan, with Merrill and Stilwell commanding.
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Preston Grover
New Delhi
Guadalcanal
Southwest Pacific
Burma
Hukawng
Walawbum
Maingkwan
Asia
India
Frank Merrill
O. C. Wingate
Merrill
Joseph W. Stilwell
Nazis Suffer Great Losses At Beachhead
Anze Anzio beachhead report from March 6 cites 24 000 German casualties across three abortive attempts to annihilate the Allied beachhead below Rome. Many crack divisions are tied to Italy, with plans to shift to the channel coast thwarted by the landing. Bad weather delays operations. Cassino fortifications are reinforced. Allied artillery exacted heavy toll. 3 500 captured, rest largely killed. An American officer recounted German bodies stacked near a common grave.
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Edward Kennedy
Anzio
Italy
Rome
English Channel
Eisenhower
Hermann Goering
Panzer Grenadiers
90Th
Channel
Goering
Yugoslavia
France
Germany
Balkans
Marshal Tito
Riviera
Cassino
New Drive by Reds Opens in Dnieper Area
Moscow dispatches report the first Ukrainian army under Marshal Zhukov cutting the Odessa Lwow line and pressing toward Volochisk east of Tarnopol. With the line neutralized the Germans must reroute southern rail traffic through Romania.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Gregory K. Zhukov
Odessa-Lwow
Russia
Volochisk
Tarnopol
Romania
Zhukov
Nikolai Vatutin
Lower
Dnieper River
Berlin Air Battle Report Deepens Allied Bombing
London dispatch reports U S heavy bombers hit Berlin in a second daylight attack, supported by fighter escorts and RAF planes. German radio calls it one of the war's greatest air battles, with attempts to defend central Berlin and industrial targets around Northwest and Central Germany.
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Gladwin Hill
London
U. S
Berlin
Netherlands
Eighth Air Force
RAF
France
Churchill
Europe
Pas de Calais
Brunswick
Germany
Zuider Zee
Heavel Lakes
Air Victory-2 Scored Over Nips In Pacific Raid
Allied air forces claim 30 to 50 Japanese aircraft down in a raid on Hainan Island off China and nine more destroyed at a Northern Thailand airfield. In the Southwest Pacific Los Negros prepares for a pivotal battle as the Central Pacific begins a campaign against outer defense bases. Japanese attacks around Momote airdrome are repulsed but troop movements from Manus signal larger fights ahead as reinforcements push toward Los Negros.
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Richard C. Bergholz
Associated Press
Japan
Hainan Island
China
Thailand
Joseph W. Stilwell
Southwest Pacific
Los Negros Island
Admiralty Group
Central Pacific
Caroline Islands
Momote
Los Negros
Douglas MacArthur
Manus Island
Admiralties
Los Reghae
First Cavalry Division
MacArthur
Extortion attempt thwarted in Nashville case
FBI agents arrested 23 year old Carl Stricklin in a city park after he attempted to extort Col. Herbert Fox president of Southern Aviation Corp. and threaten his daughter Peggy. Note demanded 10000 in cash. box contained a dummy package. Peggy said Stricklin was a coworker at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft plant. He confessed and was jailed pending charges.
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Nashville
Tenn
Herbert Fox
Southern Aviation Corporation
FBI
D. S. Hostetter
Carl Thomas Stricklin
Stricklin
Fox
Riverside
Peggy
Hostetter
Consolidated Vult
Jacksonville Storm Injures Four Damages Mills and School
A storm struck Jacksonville Alabama at 10:15 a.m. injuring four people and damaging a school building and the Profile cotton mill plant along with many homes. Telephone lines from Birmingham were down.
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Birmingham
Ala
Jacksonville
Here
Profile
I Am An American Day Declared By Roosevelt
President Roosevelt designated Sunday May 21 as I Am An American Day to honor citizens who have reached majority or been naturalized in the past year.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Airfield briefing routine for A-20 bomber squadron in Italy
In Italy on March 6, A-20 bomber crews begin with breakfast at 7:30 then receive morning mission briefs from group staff. Squadron commanders and operations officers drive in jeeps to a briefing, crews assemble around the operations tent, don parachutes and flak vests, then gather on frag-bomb boxes for the briefing as the three families fuse into one unit in flight.
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Italy
Briefing officer praised for thorough field briefings
A briefing officer in a squadron is hailed as the best in the group. Veterans praise his intensely thorough, honest talks that give crews a detailed picture of their tasks. He also includes a current war news summary, noting the German threat and Italian front conditions.
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England
Africa
Single Head Plan Eyed by Military Leaders
Washington March 6 American military leaders explore unifying the armed services under one supreme staff chief. Debate split between immediate action to consolidate the Army Navy and air forces and delaying until after the war ends. Proponents argue unity exists in combat zones and at top staff levels making a smoother transition now.
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Associated Press
Washington
Department of War
Roosevelt purge contrasted with olive branch to dissidents
The article notes a shift from the 1938 political purge led by President Roosevelt against Senator Tydings and other Democrats to a current approach where anti administration Democrats seeking reelection receive unconditional support. National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan offers financial and other aid to dissidents without strings attached.
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Roosevelt
Tydings
D-Md
White House
Robert E. Hannegan
Truman Committee Warns of Imminent Unemployment Crisis
The Truman committee warned of an unemployment crisis looming unless government obstacles to civilian production are removed and greater use of surplus commodities is permitted.
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Truman Committee
War Board upholds union maintenance clause at papers
The War Labor Board ruled a maintenance of membership clause in a newspaper workers contract does not violate freedom of the press. The Office of Price Administration set new retail ceilings for used cameras effective April 6. The House military committee closed its probe into Army plans to distribute a racial equality pamphlet after the War Department dropped use in orientation courses.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Office of Price Administration
House Military Committee
Army
War Department
Red Cross Campaign Opens Despite Weather
The Red Cross drive began with a kickoff at the Lyons hotel led by county chair M R Rankin and city chair Dr Eugene Chenault. By midafternoon Decatur reported 6643.45 dollars toward a city goal of 16000 and county quota 26000 while local plants over 50 workers including Goodyear Decatur Mill Alabama Hosiery McGough Bakery Quality Model Laundry and Decatur Iron and Steel main plant had already surpassed their targets.
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Red Cross
Decatur
Lyons
M. R. Rankin
Eugene Chenault
Allan Hall
London
England
Goodyear Decatur Mill
Alabama
McGough Bakery
Quality Model
Decatur Iron and Steel Company
Lepke Buchalter Chooses Death Over Informer
Louis Lepke Buchalter, once Brooklyn gang boss, refused to inform on others and faced the electric chair at Sing Sing. His lawyer, J Bertram Wegman, said Buchalter chose the “door to eternity” over turning informer. Mayor LaGuardia and Burton Turkus noted the case as a signal to the underworld.
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New York
Louis (Lepke) Buchalter
Brooklyn
Sing Sing
J. Bertram Wegman
Murder Inc
Wegman
F. H. LaGuardia
Burton B. Turkus
Lepke
LaGuardia
Turkus
Underworld
Japan Appeasement Warning Sparks London Editorial
The Daily Mail editorial by Simon Harcourt-Smith warns against appeasement with Tokyo. It claims a London financial district faction and members of Parliament have begun work for a compromise peace with Japan, signaling concern over policy direction.
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London
Japan
Daily Mail
Simon Harcourt-Smith
Tokyo
Commons
Reds Sweep Close To Big Rail Artery
Moscow reports a major Western Ukraine drive seizing ground near the Odessa Lwow railway. Soviet communiqués claim 12 Nazi divisions routed and more than 500 communities liberated in two days, with Zhukov commanding the first Ukrainian army.
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London
Red Army
Odessa-Lwow
Dnieper
Ukraine
Moscow
Volochisk
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Gregory K. Zhukov
Nikolai K. ‘Oo
Research fund asked in Washington proposal
March 6 report: House appropriations committee considers a proposal to provide 35000 dollars for research to develop commercial uses of scrub oak and other inferior Southern hardwoods.
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Research Fund
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
South
Dozen Army flyers feared lost in Atlantic crash
Savannah report says twelve men from Chatham Field were believed lost after a heavy bomber crash in the Atlantic southeast of Jacksonville. The bomber carried ten officers and men with others aboard during a training flight. The formation left the base at 8 40 am and distress radio reports came at 10 am. A Daytona Beach report described a large aircraft exploding off St Augustine with one body found ashore. Names of those aboard include Lt Harold J Knobloch and Lt Harley H Holman among a list of airmen from several states.
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Savannah
Army Air Forces
Chatham Field
Atlantic Ocean
Jacksonville
Daytona Beach
Fla
St. Augustine
Harold J. Knobloch
East Orange
N. J
Harley H. Holman
Leakaville
N. C
Donald W. Maupai
Sterling Place
Brooklyn
N. Y
John T. Williams
Darrow Ave
Evanston
Ill
Jeremiah T. Sheehan
Olcott Ave
Buffalo
Clarence L. McCormick
Rock Island
William R. Cowart
S. E. Fourteenth Terrace
Miami, Fla
Leonard F. Maxwell
Cypress St
Orange
Texas
Wm. J. Biesinger Jr
Monroe St
Wilmington
Del
Roman H. Jieper
Dubois
Ind
Roy F. Barteau
Costello St. Florrisant, Co
Wilfred R. Wrench
Nora Springs
Negro Arrest After Shooting in Morgan County
Hilliard Yarbrough, a Black man, was jailed in Morgan county on a charge of assault with intent to murder after being arrested around one A M Sunday in connection with the shooting of Berry Harrison, another Black man. Chief J B Whitmire says the melee occurred on Vine Street 300 block. Harrison was wounded in the left arm and leg while Yarbrough was uninjured. Investigating officers were Patrolmen Kilgore and Parker.
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Hilliard Yarbrough
Morgan County
Berry Harrison
J. B. Whitmire
Vine Street
Harrison
Yarbrough
Kilgore and
Parker
One third of Italian Navy given to Russia in war deal
The piece notes international reaction to Anglo American plans to hand a portion of the Italian navy to Russia. It questions motive, cites Badoglio’s displeasure, and weighs potential strategic impact in the Mediterranean and Black Sea, while stressing broader costs of war and its enduring toll.
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Italy
Russia
Hitler
Badoglio
Mediterranean
Black Sea
Crimea
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