Decatur Area News Roundup Ships and Weather
Weather outlook for the state notes cloudiness showers and cooler in the northwest this afternoon. The Tennessee River fell to 18.30 feet with a high of 67 and a low of 43. Cotton prices listed include strict middle at 21.00 and middling at 20.80. Red Cross progress nears 20,000 in Decatur with 19,878.50 total today. Naval furloughs and service updates feature Albert M. Chambers and Pfc. Howard Verner. Epworth training conference drew 75 youth from local churches. Community notes include church conferences, hospital stays, and local business notices. (Continued on Page Two)
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Tennessee
Red Cross
Decatur
Budget Drive For Civic Unit Tops The Pledge Goal
The Decatur Chamber of Commerce logged a record budget drive with 10186.50 pledged for the year at a board meeting led by President Robert T Harris. Directors urged continued action to protect TVA in the McKellar amendments fight and to secure rights of way for local improvements along the riverfront. Mayors and civic leaders planned committees to open war housing projects to the general public and to seek release of federal housing restrictions for non war workers, while pressing to join the new natural gas territory through Tennessee Natural Gas.
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Decatur Chamber of Commerce
George H. Godwin
Hotel
Lyons
Robert T. Harris
TVA
Senator McKellar
Tennessee
Barrett C. Shelton
United States
Alabama
Kentucky
Mississippi
McKellar
Alabama Flour Mills
City Water Works
Universal Concrete Pipe Company
T. R. Harrison
Harris
Decatur
M. E. Edwards
Civic Committee
Four Soldiers Missing After River Boat Capsize
Four soldiers from the 176th infantry regiment are missing after an assault boat capsized in the Chattahoochee River during a rehearsal for an infantry school demonstration at Fort Benning Georgia. Rescue teams saved others as officers and enlisted men credited for aid include First Lt. John J. Kerley Sgt. William C. Valenty and Tech. Sgt. Arthur J. Lester among others.
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Fort Benning
176Th Infantry Regiment
Chattahoochee River
Earl J. Murphy
37Th St
Gary
Ind
Miltin I. Brumbaugh
Woodlawn Ave
Martinsburgh
Roy K. Coppenger
Tenth St
Knoxville
Tenn
William T. Radscavage
Railroad Ave
Old Forge
Edwin Cox
176Th Infantry
John J. Kerley
Philadelphia
William C. Valenty
Pittsburgh
Howard N. Webster
Crewe
John H. Magill
Richmond
William C. Craig
Altoona
Alvin N. Wilker
Norfolk
Tech
Arthur J. Lester
Churchill Seeks Isolation of Eire as Next Allied Step
Prime Minister Churchill told the House that Britain and the United States plan to isolate Southern Ireland from the outer world as the first step toward a broader quarantine. He noted travel restrictions to Eire and hinted at a border closure with Northern Ireland, citing concerns over German and Japanese offices in Dublin. Allied consults with the United States supported urging Eire to close consulates, with Dublin officials noting potential border measures but no immediate sanctions.
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Alex H. Singleton
London
Churchill
Commons Today
Britain
United States
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Eire
de Valera
Great Britain
Dublin
Commons
Washington
Irish Sea
Associated Press
Belfast
Ulster
Coal Chute Burglary At Dillehay Drug Store
A thief broke into Dillehay's drug store last night by entering through a coal chute and stole about $35 in cash and ten cartons of cigarettes. The intrusion occurred between midnight and 3 a.m. Police will reward information leading to an arrest. contact the drug store or city police.
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Dillehay
MPS Attack Driven Back in Bougainville and Burma
Allied forces repulsed a four day Bougainville assault at Empress Augusta Bay as Japanese troops regroup for another push. British forces breached defenses on the upper Chindwin River in Northern Burma, aim to open a land supply route to China amid new Allied offensives.
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Richard C. Bergholz
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Empress Augusta Bay
Burma
Southeast Asia
Upper
Chindwin
China
Burma Road lifeline saga via Ledo road linking China to supply routes
The piece analyzes Allied efforts in Northern Burma where Lt Gen Stilwell directs operations to connect the Ledo road with the Burma highway. Chinese troops advance through Hukwang valley as Japanese forces contest the corridor, marking a bold new strategy to resupply China and push back invaders.
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Burma
China
Joe” Stilwell
Ledo
Joe
Stilwell
Hukwang
Gas ration totals out in Midwest and West
The Office of Price Administration cuts the basic A gas line ration from three to two gallons weekly for the Midwest and Far West effective March 22, with the B supplementary ceiling on the Pacific coast dropping from 460 to 400 miles monthly. No change for East coast and DC. OPA cites war demand and aims to save about 18,000 to 20,000 barrels a day. Bowles notes crackdown on black market leakage amid tightening supplies.
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Washington
Midwest
Far West
Office of Price Administration
Pacific Coast
East Coast
District of Columbia
OPA
Chester Bowles
West
United States
Bowles
Navy Growth Speculates 11.7 Ships Daily In 1944
Secretary of the Navy Knox said nearly a dozen new ships a day will enter U S service in 1944 as a vast manpower surge is planned. Navy personnel chief Randall Jacobs projected 3,006,000 officers and men by year end with total naval services at about 3,700,000.
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Washington
United States
Knox
Randall Jacobs
Bureau of Navy Personnel
Jacobs
Coast Guard
Navy
Army
Bureau of Naval Personnel
Weather and combat update on Italian front in March
Ground remains very soft in Italy slowing large operations for another week. Allied fifth and eighth armies report patrol clashes near Minturno and Cassino while raids probe Cisterna Littoria beachhead. Prisoners seized, enemy attacks repelled, air forces fly 1000 sorties, rail targets hit, and ships bombed along the Dalmatian coast.
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Naples
Italy
Minturno
Cassino
Fifth Army
Cisterna
Littoria
Rome
Moletta
Eighth Army
Sarzana
Viareggio
Spoleto
Perugia
Fabriano
RAF
Baltimoresao
Tivoli
Omis Harbor
Split
Dalmatian
Yugoslavia
Marina di Pisa
Campoleone
Malafede
Italian Communists Say They Will Oppose Badoglio
In Naples March 14 1944 Italian Communist leaders said they would continue to oppose King Vittorio Emanuele and Badoglio. Paolo Tedeschi warned that if Russia backs Badoglio, they will strengthen efforts for a democratic government. Britain and the United States are viewed as maintaining support for the Badoglio regime until Rome falls.
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Richard G. Massock
Naples
Russia
Pietro Badoglio
Churchill
Vittorio Emanuele
Badoglio
Paolo Tedeschi
Britain
London
Military Control Commission
Allied Advisory Commission
United States
Tedeschi
Stalin
Germany
Italy
Washington
Rome
Toge
States Rights Vote Bill Approved in Senate
The states rights service vote bill passed the Senate 47 to 31 after a heated debate. It permits use of a curtailed federal ballot with states permission and now heads to the House where it is expected to be quickly accepted.
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Washington
States’ Rights Service
Senate
House
Worley
Tex
Elections Committee
Alabamians oppose plan to restrict TVA operations
A Decatur mayor-led group urged Senate members to vote against McKellar amendments restricting the Tennessee Valley Authority. Bankhead and Hill defended TVA, noting present success and warning of reactionaries in the new Senate.
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Washington
T. R. Harrison
Decatur
Senate
Tennessee Valley Authority
McKellar
D-Tenn
Alabama
Hill
Bankhead
TVA
Federal Treasury
Congress
Appropriations Committee
Greatest Danger To TVA Now Seen
Washington dispatch reports Rep. Kefauver warns that McKellar's amendments to the independent offices appropriations bill would force TVA to deposit power revenues in the federal Treasury and seek annual funds, labeling it the greatest danger TVA has faced yet while praising the agency's past performance.
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Washington
TVA
Rep
Kefauver
D.tenn
Senator McKellar
D.-Tenn
McKellar
Independent Offices
Federal Treasury
Congress
Peo
Gunners Face Combat Strain in Italy Mission Tales
U S war dispatch from Italy describes A-20 gunners' inner conflicts as missions pile up. Sergeant John D. Baker of 839 Park Ave Indianapolis leads with a hundred mission goal, while others grow wary or grounded. Flight surgeons gauge nerves, and pilots reveal quirks and fears amid the Plexiglas globe danger and zero air.
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Ernie Pyle
Italy
Sergt
John D. Baker
Park Ave
Indianapolis
Baker
Russian Bridgeheads Formed South of Uman
London march 14 Russian troops crossed the middle Bug river in Western Ukraine and formed several bridgeheads southwest of Uman according to German radio tonight.
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London
Middle Bug River
Ukraine
Uman
Germans retreat fears loom as Kherson falls to Soviets
In a rushed Black Sea port withdrawal warning, Soviet dispatches claim Kherson's capture by Gen. Malinovsky's Ukraine army and report Odessa threatened by a seaborne German retreat. Moscow says 350000 German troops killed and 49000 captured in winter offensives. German base evacuations and rail cuts imperil supply lines toward Romania.
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James M Long
London
Romania
Black Sea
Odessa
Istanbul
Russia
Sofia
Stalin
Kherson
High Command
Moscow
Rodion K. Malinovsky
Dniester River
Odessa-Lnow
Fedor Tolbukin
Nikolaev
Cape Tured Kherson
Malinovsky
Red Army
RAF Pounds Rail Center Le Mans Hit In Moonlit Raid
Gladwin Hilde reports a heavy, moonlight bombing raid on Le Mans in Western France, second attack in six nights on the rail hub. Halifaxes scored a precision blow, two bombers were lost, and Mosquitos struck Frankfurt and other German targets as part of a coordinated day and night campaign. A British intruder plane was also lost.
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Gladwin Hilde
London
le Mens
France
England
Air Ministry
le Mans
Germany
Continent
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Pfc
Howard Verner
Glenda Darleen
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Edwin Branscomb
F. K. Gamble
Clio Levin
Mt. Zion
Massey
Salem Church
Courtland
Howard James Verner
Camp Shelby
Miss
Harvey Fuller
Pvt
Sarah Drinkard
the Waves
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Falkville
Helen Johnston
Baugh’'s Infirmary
Totsie Hart Gardner
Dillman Hospital
Annie Barlow
Paul Barlow
Seattle
Pacific
Thomas R
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The
War Production Board
Chamber of Commerce
Marcella Collier
Meredith Woodall
D. B. Moon of
Decature
Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control
Curtis Eugene Morrison
the Benevolent Hospital
War Department
Lieut
Frances Osborn
By Ken Reynolds
DailyWant
Dillehay Store
South Pacific
Vern Haugland
Bougainville
Haugland
Los Negroes Island
Admiralty Group
Manus Island
Admiralties
Wewak
New Guinea
Rabaul
New Britain
Wake Island
U. S
mid-Pacific
Nauru Island
Gilbert Group
Marshalls
Japan
Irrawaddy
By Dewitt MacKenzie
Adsbadoglio
Monarch
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Bender
LEK
Blagk Sta
RAF Pounds Rail
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