Local notes and weather and Red Cross drive update
Partly cloudy this afternoon and fair tonight plus Wednesday. North portion cooler tonight with 28 to 32. Tennessee River 20.60 feet. Cotton prices: strict middling 21.00, middling 20.80, strict low 19.30, low 16.30. Movies: O My Darling Clementine at Princess, Princess O Rourke at Roxy, Ghost of Frankenstein at Capitol. Decatur Chamber membership 575 with pledges 8622.50. budget 10 000 for year. Pvt Perry C Goforth Jr arrives at Scott Field for radio ops training. Mrs Gladys Owens and Miss Dorothy Marion visit Montgomery. Dr Foster K Gamble to lead Methodist church service. Red Cross drive reports show progress countywide. Morgan County over 17000 first day. Decatur city 12963.16 toward 16900 quota. Rural communities Priceville, Trinity, Lacon report over top. Hartselle at 2100 of 3750. Continued on page two.
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Tennessee
Morgan
Red Cross
Decatur
M. R. Rankin
Goodyear Decatur Mills
McGough Bakeries
Julian Harris
Priceville
Harris McClellan
Joe Lipscomb
Trinity
Elizabeth McBride
Earl Glenn
Wesley Patterson
E. L. Drinkard
Hartselle
Huel Murphy
Murphy
Falkville
Nina Wood
Red Cross Drive
Belk-Hudson
Second Avenue
Albany Broom & Mop Co
Decatur Daily
Decatur Ice Cream & Creamery Co
Decatur Lumber Company
Decatur Coca- Cola Bottling Co
Decatur Mattress Co
City Municipal Electric System
City Water Department
McClendon Harness Mfg., Co
Gobble Lumber Co
Tennessee Valley Press
Admiral Says Pacific Fight Is Favorable Progress Report
Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported two new-offensive successes against Japan in the southwest Pacific. Allied commander in chief Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said the war picture is very favorable as American forces advance on Los Negros in the Admiralty Islands and along the New Guinea coast toward Madang.
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Richard C. Bergholz
Associated Press
Southwest Pacific
Los Negros Island
Admiralty Group
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Chester W .Jimitz
Pacific
F Mature Atoll
Marshall Islands
Nimitz
Washington
First Cavalry
Los Negros
Huge German Army Nearly Isolated Now
Moscow dispatches report the Red Army driving toward the Romanian border as German forces under Gen Fritz Von Mannstein are severed from Germany and Poland. Snow has melted into mud, hindering movement, while Soviet lines advance along the Odessa Warsaw railway and toward Tarnopol and Lwow as Zhukov presses a daily 15 to 20 mile offensive.
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Eddie Gilmore
Moscow
Red Army
Rumania
Fritz von Mannstein
Ukraine
Germany
Poland
Odessa-Warsaw
Moldavian Republic
Romania
Bessarabia
Bucovina
Russia
Red Star
Lwow
Bucharest
Tarnopol
Proskurov
Zhmerinka
Slobodzeya
Tiraspol
Loss High In Aerial Fight
London March 7. The Oslo radio, trusted by German circles, called yesterday's U S daylight raid on Berlin a catastrophe. Berlin broadcasts cited that the Americans proved they could strike Germanys best defended target and named the day bloody Monday.
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London
United States
Berlin
Oslo
American air fleets batter Berlin in massive daylight raid
U S Army reports 176 German planes shot down while 68 four engined bombers were lost in a major daytime battle over Germany. RAF night bombing strikes Trappes France and Mosquito raids hit northwest Germany as Marauders fly daylight missions over northern France. Berlin acknowledges hundreds of bombers reached the capital amid 93 German planes downed by heavy American escorts.
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Richard R. Kasischke
London
Berlin
U. S. Army
RAF
Trappes
France
Paris
Germany
U.S
Schweinfurt
Regensburg
Reich
Ernie Pays Tribute to Bomb Loaders in Italy
In Italy on March 7 a reporter highlights armorers in the 47th Group who prepare bombs and maintain guns. The piece follows a team of armorers led by Sergt Steve Major as they bomb up aircraft with 250 pound demolition bombs, emphasizing their pride and danger.
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Ernie
Italy
Steve Major
Monessen
Vincent Cline
Paragould
Ark
John Peoples
Alameda
Cal
Robert Gerrie
Chicago
James la Barr
Dallas
la Barr
Bonus bills spark clash among veterans groups in Congress
In Washington on March 7, rival bills seek large compensation for wartime service members. The liberal measure backed by Veterans of Foreign Wars Army Navy Union Disabled American Veterans Military Order of the Purple Heart and Regular Veterans Association would pay up to 3500 at home and 4500 abroad. A smaller American Legion led bill is before the Senate. The merits of the two proposals are expected to be hotly debated by their sponsors.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
House
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Army and Navy Union
Disabled Amecinenu Veei Adr
Military Order of the Purple Heart
Regular Veterans Association
American Legion
Special election looms in Colorado's first district race
Politicians monitor a vacant Colorado first district seat as a GOP lean shifts in 1942. Candidates Maj. Carl E. Wuertels and Dean M. Gillespie vie amid Democrat and Republican interest, hoping to signal regional political trends.
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Colorado
Lawrence Lewis
Maj
Carl E. Wuertels
Dean M. Gillespie
Rocky Mountain State
Congress to push new OPA continuation bill
Congress faces another fight over a measure to continue the Office of Price Administration as now constituted. Republicans demand a reshuffle while the administration urges little change. The OPA price control act would expire June 30.
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Congress
Office of Price Administration
Former New Jersey police chief admits adultery in Miami
Mario Ricciardi a former New Jersey police chief pleaded guilty to living in open adultery with 18 year old Joan Feigenspan in Miami. He received a one year term at hard labor while a second count alleging enticing the girl to leave home was dropped.
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Miami
Fla
Mario Ricciardi
New Jersey
Joan Feigenspan
State
Ricciardi
Bernardsville
N. J
Robert R. Taylor
Criminal Court
Ben C Willard
Taylor
Miss Feigenspan
Red Cross Reacts to Tennessee Flood Hurting Murfreesboro Families
Southeast area Red Cross headquarters reported sending workers to a Murfreesboro Tennessee community where a flash flood last night left fifty families homeless. Leslie Boyd, general field representative, led the staff, and the Murfreesboro Red Cross canteen corps fed the affected residents.
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Tennessee
Atlanta
Red Cross
Murpfreesboro
Tenn
Leslie Boyd
Murfreesboro
Air forces claim 842 Japanese planes lost in Pacific battle
South Pacific air forces report destroying 842 Japanese planes since the Rabaul air war began on December 17. Vice Adm. Aubrey W. Fitch, commander of Allied air forces in the South Pacific, notes American losses at 174 in the same period.
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Rehaul
Rabaul
New Britain
Japan
South Pacific
Aubrey W. Fitch
Allied planes bomb Solomons and wider Pacific strikes
Allied forces pounded Choiseul and Bougainville in the Solomons while reporting heavy air strikes across the central Pacific. Tokyo acknowledged Solomon island setbacks as Japanese transports hampered by night concealment and daylight shadows. Burma mopping up proceeds after Walawbum Maingkwan gains as Japanese counterattacks are repelled.
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Choiseul Island
Solomons
Bougainville Island
Tokyo Radio
Solomon Islands
Central Pacific
Marshall Islands
U. S
Frank Merrill
Asiatic
Hukawng Valley
Burma
Walawbum
Maingkwan
Southeast Asia
American and Chinese Forces in Burma Break Japanese Hold
American troops joined Chinese forces in Northern Burma after a 175 mile jungle march, inflicting 25 to 1 Japanese casualties. Under Brig. Gen. Frank Merrill they captured Walawbum, controlling a key road from the Hukawng valley, as Stilwell praised Merrill. The force sits 15 miles from Jambu Bum, the bottleneck where the two valleys meet, likely facing stiff defense.
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Burma
Frank Merrill
Walawbum
Hukawng
Asia
Merrill
Joseph Stilwell
Jambu Bum
Mogaung Valley
Five Die As Alabama Storm Hits Towns
A wind and electric storm in Alabama left at least five dead and over twenty injured with more than $250000 in damage. Victims include James T. Groover 65 of Boaz Jimmy Mitchell 12 of Pine Grove James F. Wood 55 of Laverne R S Kennedy 59 of Mobile and Earl J. Dodge 51 of Mobile. The Pine Grove school suffered major destruction with about 50 children inside. Mrs B H Miller a teacher was briefly injured and aided victims after the wreckage. Red Cross reported extensive property loss and cared for homeless families.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
James T. Groover
Boaz
Jimmy Mitchell
Pine Grove
James F. Wood
Laverne R
Mobile
St. Elmo
Young Mitchell
Mitchell
B. H. Miller
Sand Mountain Infirmary
Gladys Frans
Atlanta
Red Cross
Gadsden
Albertville
Holy Name of Jesus Hospital
Pine Grove School
Bernice Brothers
Betty Jean Canady
Ruby Lillian Kelly
Dolly Mae Cotton
Roby Jo Headrick
Frances Mae Kelly
Hazel Headrick
Clara Dorsett
Dorsett
H. L. Rogers
Gladys Evans
Allied Forces Halt Nazi Attacks in Cassino and Beachhead
Sharp clashes report Allied patrols and German forces in Cassino as Americans repel two small Nazi assaults near Cisterna on the Rome front and hammer the beachhead with heavy artillery. Rain and mud slow both sides while the Rapido rises. Canadian artillery destroys a motor convoy near Ortona as Spitfires attack targets along Yugoslav shores. Local fighting continues in Cassino with insurgent gains limited and a cautious Allied hold on about one third of the town. In Alabama, hospital officials detail dozens of injured from Pine Grove school incidents and related damages, with several families displaced and Red Cross aid ongoing.
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Naples
Cassino
Cisterna
Rome
Rapido
Carroceto
Eighth Army
Orsogna
Ortona
Adriatic
Kotor Bay
Yugoslav
Dubrovnik
Allied Offensives Pound Germany From All Sides
The article notes Soviet and Western Allied forces pressing the war in Europe with major aerial and ground operations. It highlights Zhukov cutting the Lwow Odessa railroad at Volochisk, severing Hitler's route to Odessa and the Dnieper bend, forcing potential German withdrawals to Bessarabia and via Romania, while Moscow advances from Kiev toward western Poland.
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Marshal Zhukov
Lwow-Odessa
Volochisk
Tarnopol
Zhukov
Hitler
Odessa
Dnieper Bend
von Mannstein
Romania
Balkan
Red Staff
Kiev
Poland
Russian Troops Cross Odessa-Lwow-Warsaw Rail Line
Moscow dispatches report Zhukov’s first Ukrainian army driving across the Odessa Lwow Warsaw trunk line toward Romania after severing Westward rail links. Soviet columns reach near Tarnopol and 60 miles from Romania, with massive enemy losses and captures cited, as Berlin notes a large force mass and possible decisive battle in the sector.
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London
Gregory K. Zhukov
Odessa-Lwow
Warsaw
Russia
Moscow
Odessa-Lwow-Warsaw
Volochisk
Narkevichi
Rumania
Rumanian
Tarnopol
Zararzh
Lwow
Tarnopvol
Cernauti
Moscow Bulletin
Red Army
Zhukov
Berlin
Argentina Bans AP News Report From New York
Buenos Aires banned yesterday the reception of Associated Press news sent by wireless from New York and cancelled permission for a leased wire between Buenos Aires and Montevideo. The action followed similar milder measures against La Prensa Unida, affiliate of United Press.
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Buenos Aires
Associated Press
New York
Montevideo
Director of Posts and Telegraph
la Prensa Unida
United Press
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Memorial Drive
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Lethal Smith
Prospect Drive
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Ray Buck
Huntsville Hospital
Wright
Redstone Arsenal
Limestone County
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War Fund
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the Benevolent Hospital
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Caddell Drug Company
Velma Pitman
Hamil
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Marvin Wells
Portsmouth
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Sim F. Otte
T. J. Campbell
Howard J. Verner
Camp Shelby
Miss
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Betty Buchalter
I Ivant
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Louis “Lepke
Buchalter
By Ken Reynolds
Opa
Thoburn Wiant
Carl T. Stricklin
Nashville
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Herbert Fox
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Col. Fox
Peggy
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