Weather calm with frost and cold nights across state
The outlook reports fair Thursday with slightly warmer conditions in the north. Frost is expected tonight from 24 to 28 degrees in the north and 28 to 32 degrees in central areas, while the Tennessee River reads 20.60 feet with a high of 57 and low of 27 today. Local cotton prices posted today include strict middling 21.00 and middling 20.80. Movie listings feature Salute To The Marines at the Princess, Princess O'Rourke at the Roxy, and They Came To Blow Up America at the Capitol. Several local military notes include Pfc John D. Haynes, formerly of Decatur, now stationed in Hawaii. Sgt Bill Owens returning home. Captain Skeggs Crawford departing for Biggs Field, El Paso. and Sgt Freeman L Holland writing from Italy. Church and community notices detail meetings at First Methodist parsonage, Kiwanis lunch, and upcoming sermons at Cave Springs and Gum Springs churches. Updates on hospital visits and births are listed for multiple residents, with library planning assistance by Fannie Schmitt.
Allies Hit Cassino Front In Second Night Of Heavy Fighting
Allied report says shelling and gun duels continued around Cassino on the main Fifth Army front with German movements spotted behind lines near Rome. New Zealand siege guns shelled a rail station south of Cassino while Allied air forces attacked Toulon Rome and Florence rail facilities. five Nazi planes were shot down in heavy air battles.
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Naples
Cassino
Fifth Army
Rome
New Zealand
Cisterna
Carroceto
Toulon
France
Florence
Eighth Army
Tollo
Orsogna
Santo Stefano
Riviera
Limestone County Nears Red Cross Goal in Drive
Limestone County is within 3000 dollars of a 15600 dollar Red Cross goal as of today, per executive chairman Price Hendrick. Georgia, Pettusville, Gilbertsboro, and Tanner reported varied contributions with Tanner first over the top. the drive extends to Saturday at two o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Limestone County
Price Hendricks
Georgia
Pettusville
Gilbertsboro
Tanner
American bomber crew jumps into icy North Sea
Pilot Lt. Elmer B. Crockett from Hamp ton Va describes two minutes from the English coast before a last engine failed as his U S bomber returning from Berlin raid ditched in the North Sea. Five crewmen died, five survived after a British launch rescued Crockett and another airman.
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U. S
England
North Sea
Berlin
Elmer B. Crockett
Lee St
Hampton
Crockett
Four Cadets Die in Plane Crash Near Albany
Four Turner Field aviation cadets were killed when two combat training planes collided six miles southeast of Albany Georgia. The victims were Patrick A. Arnold of Fairhope Alabama Herman C. Braunsdorf Jr of Waterbury Connecticut Richard F. Walsh of Dayton Ohio and Ike Withers of Charlotte North Carolina.
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Albany. Ga
Turner Field Aviation
Here
Patrick A. Arnold
John H. Arnold
Magnolia Ave
Fairhope
Ala
Herman C. Braunsdorf Jr
H. C. Braunsdorf
Columbia Boulevard
Waterbury
Conn
Richard F. Walsh
Kenneth H. Walsh
Superior Ave
Dayton
Ohio
Ike Withers
Isaac Withers
Westwood Ave
Charlotte
N. C
War Today Shows Merrill Led Troops in Burma Jungle Battle
A column notes American units under Brigadier General Frank Merrill fighting with Chinese allies in Burma as Allied ofensives build. It adds commentary on famine relief in India, especially Bengal, where deaths declined yet persisted from famine diseases. Military food control in Calcutta and relocations of refugees are described, with caution about public health issues amid war.
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Frank Merrill
Burma
Snia
India
Uncle Sam
Southeast Asia
Bengal
Bay of Bengal
Calcutta
Truck Rolls Down Hill Smashes Into Tire Shop
A Southern Cotton Oil truck rolled free from its brake today near Holly Street at 8 30 a m. It struck a Birmingham Howard Hoff Co truck on Bee Line Highway and rammed Ryan's Tire Shop before stopping. Police Weatherly and McCall investigated. damages were estimated.
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Holly Street
Birmingham
Bee Line
Ryan
Howard Hoff Company
Ryan's
Weatherly
McCall
White House seeks accord to extend OPA agency
The White House hopes closer party harmony will help Congress extend the Office of Price Administration. Bowles will meet informally with Senate banking committee members Friday to discuss extension plans. No bill yet to extend beyond 30 June, but opposition signals demand for changes including ending food subsidies.
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Associated Press
Washington
White House
Congress
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Capitol
Bowles
Senate Banking Committee
Dewey signals possible 1948 bid on war ballot critique
Democratic and Republican members weigh Dewey’s stance after he criticizes the federal war ballot as a “blank piece of paper.” He questions the ballot’s lack of provisions for voting on state officials while hinting at a presidential bid.
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Dewey
New York
Postwar unemployment estimate from ILO shocks world
The International Labor Organization warns that after the war 130 million people displaced by conflict will need new jobs. The projection underscores the scale of employment challenges facing nations as reconstruction begins.
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International Labor Organization
ILO
Republicans vow deep cuts to FWA deficiency bill
Rep. Taber of New York, ranking minority member of the appropriations committee, announced plans to trim about 75 million dollars from the 500 million plus deficiency bill for the Federal Works Agency. He argued the remaining funds would still be too large and grudgingly noted they would cover only essentials such as essential services, even criticizing allocations like beauty parlors for wartime workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FWA
Federal Works Agency
Rep. Taber
New York
Appropriations Committee
Contempt case dropped for Roosevelt aide Daniels
A Senate agriculture subcommittee dropped contempt proceedings against Jonathan Daniels executive assistant to President Roosevelt after his testimony about attempts to urge Harry Slattery to resign as Rural Electrification Administrator. Daniels had previously refused to testify citing confidential relations with the President, which prompted the earlier contempt citation recommendation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonathan Daniels
Roosevelt
Senate Agriculture
Gillette
Iowa
Daniels
Harry E. Slattery
Yanks Make New Advance in Pacific Campaigns
Allied reports say Sixth Army forces have seized Los Negros Island and pressed toward Rabaul and Gasmata on New Britain. Marines landed at Willis Island Wilmeuz peninsula and pushed toward Talasea while Arawe offensives advance 24 miles. Memote airfield is ready for use as heavy bombers pound Rabaul and Bougainville, with air and ground support across the Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sixth Army
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Bismarck
Los Negros Island
Admiralty Group
New Britain
Rabaul
Gasmata
Walter Krueger
Willaumez Peninsula
Talasea
Arawe
Admiralty Islands
MacArthur
Bougainville
Solomons
U. S
Burma
Hukawng Valley
Japan
Maungkwan Fell
Joseph W. Stilwell
Central Pacific
Ponape
Kusaie
Caroline Islands
Nauru
Marshall Islands
Trap Closed On Large Jap Unit In Burma
Organized resistance by several hundred Japanese in northern Burma crumbled as Chinese 22nd division moved south from Maungkwan toward Walawbum and Shingban. American forces closed in, pocketing two Japanese companies near Walawbum while reporting heavy enemy casualties and mass escapes before the tightening vise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burma
Maungkwan
Walawbum
Maingkwan
Hukawng
Shingban
Pfc
Centinusd
Red Army advances amid Ukrainian mud and rail talk
Moscow dispatch reports heavy mud from an unseasonable thaw slows Ukrainian battle lines as Zhukov’s forces push toward Lwow and toward the Odessa Warsaw railroad. German reinforcements mass to defend supply lines while front reports note sledges behind tanks to traverse flooded fields.
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Moscow
Gregory K. Zhukov
Red Star
Red Army
Odessa- Warsaw
Lwow
Andrei Belaiev
Belaiev
Ukraine
Odessa-Warsaw
Fritz von Mannstein
Black Sea
Moldavia
Zhukov
Rumania
Red Cross Nearing Goal In War Drive Efforts
The Red Cross war drive neared its quota with Morgan county at $22,000 of a $26,000 goal. Decatur exceeded its $16,000 target with $16,018.99 raised. Other towns approached $6,000 of a $10,000 county goal as several industries and communities reported progress and final tallies were expected by Friday.
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American Red Cross
Decatur
Alabama Flour Mills
Southern Bell Telephone’ Co
Whiteway Pure Milk Co
Southern Sheet Metal Works
Patterson Gin Co
Owl Drug Co
Hartselle
Falkville
Lanes
Lawrence Cove
Gum Pond
Massey
Farmers Hope For Break As Mercury Skids
North Alabama farmers hoped for a break as mercury fell tonight and frost was forecast for the northern area. Weather officials predicted rising temperatures Thursday afternoon, with some observers noting high winds may have limited damage to early crops and fruit trees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Alabama
Weather Bureau
Alabama
Polish offer to settle Polish Soviet border rejected
London reports say Russia rejected the latest Polish compromise on the Curzon line while Polish exile premier Mikolajczyk says his government was not informed. The plan proposed Polish control west of Curzon with Vilna and Lwow on Poland's side, boundary finalization after the war.
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London
Russia
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Mikolajczyk
Stalin
Churchill
Kremlin
Curzon Line
Poland
Permier
Vilna
Lwow
Florence Marines Save Buddy at Engebi Island Invasion
Private First Class Grover F. Lewis of Toomsboro Georgia leapt from a landing boat in the second wave at Engebi Island when a Japanese fighter bit the pin from a hand grenade. Private First Class Harold M. Lewis of Florence Alabama shot the pin as the enemy weapon was still biting. The two Leatherneck Lewises, though not related, forged a strong bond through the perilous moment in the Marshall Islands operation.
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Eniwetok Atoll
Marshall Islands
Grover FE. Lewis
Toomsboro
Georgia
Engebi Island
Harold M. Lewis
Florence
Ala
Leatherneck Lewises
Girl killed near Fort Payne after school bus stop
Mary Jane Cook, who had just left a school bus near her parents home three miles outside Fort Payne Alabama, was struck and killed by a truck yesterday local sheriff said the tragedy occurred as she alighted from the bus.
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Fort Payne
Ala
Mary Jane Cook
Leonard Cook
Army armorer Steve Major tall and mighty
By ERNIE PYLE IN ITALY March 8 Sergt. Steve Major is 6 feet tall and weighs 222 pounds stripped. He is an armorer in the 47th Bombardment Group, 23, from Monessen Pennsylvania. He is good-looking and good-natured and has a quick temper for a fight. He has served nearly six years in the Army, quit high school, enlisted at 17, and once did a shift in Panama. He reenlisted after six days out to be sent to California, and he likes to see the world.
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Ernie Pyle
Italy
Wireless
Steve Major
Steve
47Th Bombardment Group
Monessen
Panama
California
Sergeant Prefers Education After War and Sales Career
This soldier speaks with practical humor about wartime service and future plans. He estimates 3000 coconuts in the bank and aims to become a salesman after the war. He reflects on trials in Tunisia, then contrasts camp life with present comfort, noting the job is easy with training and feels like a regular civilian occupation away from home.
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Steve
Tunisia
Strong air raids hit Berlin by heavy U S bombers
American daylight raid over Berlin, the eighth major assault in ten days, involved B-17 and B-24 formations escorted by RAF fighters. The operation dropped more than 350000 incendiaries and 10000 high explosives on industrial targets in the Berlin district amid a round the clock bombing campaign.
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London
U. S
Berlin
United States Air Force
Eighth Air Force
RAF
Lemans
Paris
Germany
Hannover
France
Holland
Hero Phoned for Lunch in Fifth Army Action
Lt. L. F. Edwards of Reigate England crawled with a telephone to a hillcrest to direct fire on a German stronghold shelling the beachhead in Italy. He ordered lunch via the line after seven direct hits, then sheltered from a sniper until he reached safety. He ate dinner later in his dugout.
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Fifth Army
Italy
L. F. Edwards
Reigate
Surry
Edwards
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The
Princess
Princess O'Rourke
America
John D. Haynes
Hawaiian Islands
Board of Missions and Church Extension of
First Methodist Church
Bill Owens
States
W. C. Owens
Decature
First Methodist
Skeggs Crawford
el Paso
Texas
Biggs Field
Captain Crawford
Freeman L
Buddy? Holland
Tom
Hillsboro 1
Dad
Mom
Sgt. Holland
T. S. Holland
Tom Holland
Kiwanis Club
Hotel Lyons
J. M. Pickens
Flint and
Cave Springs
Gum Springs Baptist Church
Dee Pullen
Hamil Clinic
Curtis Gover
Brown's
L. J. Grissom
Rogersville
G. T. Trout
Memphis
Alex Terry
Bailad Street
Lester McAllister
Benevolent Hospital
Ingalls
Albert Nave
Josephine Wilson
William Arthur Penn
Danville
the Benevolent Hospital
Charity O'Neal
Little Betty Jean Woodard
Eva
Baugh’s Infirmary
J. F. Morgan
Hamil
Brown’s
Market Street
J. E. Matthews
Christine Midgette
Norfolk
Virginia
William E. Midgette
Leroy Edwards
Sixth Avenue East
Fannie Schmitt
Ken Reynolds
Daniel McShane
Bloomington
Ill
Pvt
Buford C. Springer Wright
Anderson
Army
Lawson General Hospital
Atlanta
NAZIS
By Dewitt MacKenzie
Woos
Solons
Richard C. Bergholz
Thoburn Wiant
RED
By Eddie Gilmore
RED Cross
By Judson O'Quinn
Florence Marine
Nazi City
Hero
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