Weather and local notices from Morgan County
Mostly cloudy with showers and warmer Sunday then cooler Monday. Tennessee River at 19.60 feet, high 70 and low 47. Cotton prices paid Saturday ranged strict middling 21.00 middling 20.80 strict low 19.00 low 17.00. Attractions include Swing Shift Maisie at Princess Tartu at Roxy Submarine Base at Capitol. Community service talk Monday at Cornelian Court hotel by Dr Grosfeld. Ba J Will Wyker and S H Wilds ordained elder at First Presbyterian Church. Ambulance relocations and hospital notices from Benevolent hospital. Local police and fire calls, vagrancy cases, and naval leave reports. Continued on Page Two.
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Tennessee
Maisie
The
Princess
Tartu
Roxy
Submarine Base
Capitol
Community Service Committee
Decatur Rotary
Cornelian Court Hotel
Dr. Grosfeld
Morgan County
Tuburcular Sanatorium
War Is Declared On McKellar TVA Proposal
Alabama citizens in 13 TVA counties launch a statewide telegram campaign to Senators urging defeat of Senator McKellar amendments to the appropriations bill. The telegrams, signed by local officials and prominent citizens, claim TVA benefits residents and seek preservation of TVA operations and Muscles Shoals safeguards.
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Kenneth McKellar
Tennessee
Tennessee Valley Authority
United States
Alabama
America
TVA
McKellar
John Sparkman
Eighth
Wired the Daily
Senator Hill
Senate
Muscle Shoals
United States Senate
Bankhead
Hill
T. R. Harrison
Decatur
Morgan County
R. H. Richardson
Athens
Limestone County
Isaac Johnson
Lawrence County
John Benson
Scottsboro
Jackson County
A. W., McAllister
Huntsville
Madison County
E. H. Couch
Guntersville
Marshall County
J. A. Keller
Florence State Teachers College
Lauderdale County
Andrew Johnson
Ft. Payne
Dekalb County
J. L. Andrews
Sheffield
Colbert County
A. A. Griffith
Cullman
Cullman County
Edgar Underwood
Russellville
Franklin County
Repatriation list on Gripsholm ships March 15 arrival
Washington reports 524 American evacuees from France and Germany bound for Jersey City aboard the Swedish ship Gripsholm, with 35 sick POWs and one seaman. Also aboard 149 American officials including S. Pinckney Tuck and Douglas C. MacArthur II. 375 other Americans. A group of 103 Latin Americans travels with the Gripsholm. Named North American evacuees include Brooks, Elsie Leon of Decatur and others in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.
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Washington
State Department
France
Germany
Jersey City
N. J
Gripsholm
Lisbon
Department
S. Pinckney Tuck
Vichy
Douglas CC. MacArthur
Red Cross
Brooks
Elsie Leon
Decatur
Ala
Crook
Linton
Jacksonville
Flat Day
Carroll Augusta
Mobile
Falls
Keller
Atlanta, Ga
Lawrence
Ruth
Lowndesboro
Noble
Lindsley N
Chattnooga
Tenn
Japs Pulling Soldiers Out From Rabaul
Japan appears to be shifting troops from bombed Rabaul to central New Britain as American advances press the area. Four troop barges were sunk near Talasea with about 200 Japanese killed, while PT boats and bombers hit targets at Talasea, Gasmata, Madang, Hollandia, and Rabaul. Tanks, Chinese-led, advance in Hukawng valley Burma as Stilwell predicts major progress. United States munitions stockpiles in India and air operations around Hong Kong and Truk add to Allied pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Japan
Rabaul
New Britain
Talasea
Douglas MacArthur
Sixth Army
Arawe
Tokyo Radio
Madang
New Guinea
Los Negros Island
Admiralty Group
Hollandia
Hukawng
Burma
Maingkwan
Wallanbum
Joseph W. Stilwell
United States
China
India
Hong Kong
Ponape
Kusaie
Caroline Island
Truk
Aerial Might Unleashed By Yank Air Unit
A British and American air operation closed a week of heavy raids with a night cross channel flight under a bomber moon after U S heavy bombers struck Münster Germany and Pas de Calais France. The exact targets of the RAF planes were not stated and it was unclear whether night bombers or Mosquitos carried the mission. The aircraft were heard over a Southeast English coastal district moving toward the continent after nightfall and later returned across the channel.
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London
RAF
Channel
U.S
Muenster
Germany
Pas-De-Calais
France
Jimmy Bivins to be inducted soon in Army duty
Jimmy Bivins the nation s No 1 active heavyweight has been ordered to report for Army duty March 21 his draft board chairman said today Bivins passed a physical exam months ago and was deferred because of his war job
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Cleveland
Jimmy Bivins
Bivins
Wrecked In Desert Fliers In Long Trek
The article recalls aerial gunners Sergt Robert Fleming from Cambridge Mass and Sergt Steve Usheljipr on from Salem Ohio flying with Lieut George Gibson nicknamed Hoot or Hooch in Italy. Gibson earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for crash landing a damaged plane to save his crew and another fighter pilot. Petchal of Steubenville Ohio is noted for severe prior experiences during a bomber mission over Central Africa.
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Italy
Robert Fleming
Cambridge
Mass
Steve Ushelji
You-haley
Salem, O
George Gibson
Gibson
Hooch
Hootch
DSC
Sergt
Alban Petchal
Steubenville
Petchal
America
Africa
Morgan Goes Above Quota in War Drive
Morgan County exceeded its Red Cross war and campaign quota of 26 000 by the close of the six day drive. M R Rankin, general chairman, announced a total of 27 225 80 as Decatur already reached 18 485 09 toward its 15 700 goal and expects additional gifts from industry and workers as canvassing concludes.
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Morgan
Red Cross
M. R. Rankin
Decatur
Morgan County Red Cross War Fund Surpasses Quotas
General Chairman M R Rankin praises Morgan county for over-subscribing its Red Cross war fund quota. Some districts still report incomplete totals and will continue solicitation until targets are met. Citizens urged to donate, large or small, with every dollar returning a hundredfold.
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Morgan County
Red Cross War Fund
Red Cross
M. R. Rankin
County drive makes progress toward set quotas
Five points in the county have not yet filed reports though the drive continues. Austinville raised 150.83 though no quota was assigned. Hartselle aimed to reach a 3750 target and planned to push forward to meet the goal.
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Austinville
Hartselle
Robert Worth Lide Killed in Action in Pacific
Word was received that Robert Worth Lide of West Palm Beach Florida and member of the Army Air Corps was killed in action in the Pacific area. He was the son of the late C. K. Lide Jr. and Mrs Lide and his father was a Decatur native.
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Robert Worth Lide
West Palm Beach
Fla
Army Air Corps
Pacific Area
C. K. Lide Jr
Lide
Decatur
Ground Troops Given Breather Near Bismarck Sea
Allied ground troops hold new positions around the Bismarck sea rim while light naval craft and planes strike Japan. PT boats sunk four troop barges near Talasea airdrome. Talasea fell after a three day battle. Bougainville repulsed Japanese attack. over 100 enemy killed. Aircraft targeted Rabaul Kavieng Lorengau Madang and coastlines with 101 tons dropped on Rabaul.
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Southwest Pacific
Bismarck Sea
Douglas MacArthur
Talasea
New Britain
U. S
Rabaul
Admiralty Islands
Madang
Gasmata
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville
Kavieng
Lorengau
Manus Island
Admiralties
New Guinea
New Ireland
NEW BRIDGEHEAD OVER DNIEPER FORCED BY SOVIET TROOPS
WAC sergeant outranks her cadet spouse when the sergeant is the lieutenant’s wife. 2nd Lt. Clarence W. Sichley, a cadet trainee at Courtland, notes the rule. Sichley, son of Clarence E. and Mrs. Sichley of Concordia Kansas, married Lt Sibley’s wife at Camp Hale Colorado Springs. He trained at Fort Benning and served at Losey Field Puerto Rico for 13 months as aerial gunner and armorer.
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Clarence W. Sichley
Courtland
Sibley
WAC
Army Air Field
Colorado Springs
Colo
Camp Hale
Colorado
Ft Benning
Sichley
Losey Field
Puerto Rico
Caribbean
Clarence E. Sichley
Sixth St
Concordia
Kans
Edgar
Body Found in Car Trunk in Chicago
The battered body of James De Angelo, 42, missing since February 24, was found head first in his car trunk on La Salle Street. De Angelo, once questioned in the 1935 Illinois State Senator Prignano case, appeared beaten with a fractured skull. His friend Anofrio Vitale, 42, of Calumet City, also reported missing, and Vitale’s wife gave birth today in Hammond, Ind. A tipster led police to the scene.
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Chicago
la Salle Street
James de Angelo
Kyran Phelan
Illinois
Albert J. Prignano
de Angelo
Anofrio Vitale
Calumet City
Ill
Vitale
Hammond
Ind
Richard Murphy
Murphy
John O'Malley
Trio of Army Fliers Killed in Plane Crash Near Decatur
Three Army aviators died when their aircraft, a U C 78 B, crashed about two miles south of Decatur while en route from Greenville Mississippi to Birmingham. The fliers likely based in Waco Texas. Next of kin notified. names pending release. Cause not yet established amid poor visibility.
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Decatur
Courtland
Greenville
Miss
Birmingham
Waco
Texas
Highway Hub Taken As Brislav Falls To Russians
Red army troops crossed the Dnieper and seized Berislav a key highway hub 37 miles from Kherson as Soviet forces push along a wide front in Ukraine. Tar multiple towns report fighting as Moscow states three Ukrainian fronts drive toward Nikolaev and Kherson with heavy German losses and rapid Russian advances.
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Brislav Falls
Tom Yarbrough
London
Red Army
Dnieper
Black Sea
Berislav
Kherson
Moscow
Ukraine
Tarnopol
Monitor
Apostolovo
Fourth Ukrainian Front
Nikolaev
Nikolaev-Dolinskaya
Rumania
Fritz von Mannstein
Soviet Union
Ivan S. Konev
Unam
High Command
DNB
Ramirez Explains Forced Out By Army Pressure
Montevideo dateline reports General Pedro Pablo Ramirez explains for the first time why he stepped down as Argentina president. He says high ranking army officers forced him to delegate powers to General Edelmiro Farrell after a rumor of war with the Axis and U S pressure. Ramirez disputed official accounts of fatigue and notes two mass meetings failed to convince officers. Farrell became acting president after Ramirez’s resignation.
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Roman Jimenez
Montevideo
Uruguay
Pedro Pablo Ramirez
Argentina
Edelmiro J. Farrell
Ramirez
Buenos Aires
United States
Farrell
Germany
Japan
Allied Air Attack Sweeps Florence Padua and Toulon
Allied heavy air raids strike Florence for the first time in the war and hit the Toulon navy base and Padua railroad yards. Flying Fortresses and Thunderbolts engage in a 35 minute battle near Padua, 22 miles from Venice, described as the fiercest air combat in this theater since Regensburg.
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Padua
Special Air Force
Edward Kennedy
Naples
Italy
Florence
Toulon
France
Italian
Venice
Regensburg
Capital moved to Breslau reports claim
Trustworthy informants say Adolf Hitler moved the German capital from Berlin to Breslau with government functions already operating at the Silesian HQ. Breslau lies 175 miles southeast of Berlin and about 50 miles from the old Polish border as Allied bombardment continues.
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Naples
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Breslau
Germany
Silesian
Florence Bombing Strictly Milk Run
Advance dispatch from Italy reports three American Marauder formations hitting Florence railroad yards with claimed 90 percent destruction. A B 26 flown by Lt Jack Larkin of Fairfield Montana released 1 000 pound bombs on the southern corner of the target as Lt David J Little of St Paul Minnesota kept bay doors open to permit verification. Continuous coverage continues.
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Kenneth L. Dixon
Mediterranean
Italy
Florence
Europe
Jack Larkin
Fairfield
Mont
David J. Little
St. Paul
Minn
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Will Wyker
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Louise Dugger
Benevolent Hospital
Decatur 2
J. C. Flowers
Charles R. Clark
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Joe Lipscomb
Dewey Eugene Terry
Third Avenue South
Roy B. Lamon
H. R
Great Lakes
W. F., Lamon
Morgan County Board of Equalization
G. Minor Russell
John Thomas Burch
Phil Orr
Rutledge Thomas
DeWitt Crawford
Bryan’s Cross Roads
Pvt
Frank Heflin
Mrs
Leonard Heflin
Danville
Bittie White
Priceville
Marjorie White
This City
Trueman Ryan
Eva
Talmadge Wright
Lorene Sandlin
Nashville
Johnny Zanvit
Ernest Dillard Ray
Howard F. Lamon
Los Angeles
California
Louise Lamon
W. F. Lamon
Seldon Terry
Ninth Avenue South
the Benevolent Hospital
By Ken Reynolds
John Bankhead
General Fund of Treasury
Virginia McGraw
New York
Miss McGraw
Corinne McGraw
M. C. Byrum
Bee Line Highway
Robert Eunson
William A. Bynne
Yonkers
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Ramirez Explains
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