Local Weather And Community Notes Aid Thirteen Items
Weather outlook lists showers and cooler temps across regions. Local reports state the Tennessee River rose to 17.79 feet with a 77 degree high and 50 degree low. Cotton prices paid Saturday ranged strict middling 21.00 middling 20.80 strict low 19.00 low 17.00. Entertainment includes Frisco Kid at the Princess The Cross of Lorraine at the 7 Mugtown at the Capitol. Military updates note Pvt Earl C. James killed in action in the Mediterranean and Pfc William W Jolley wounded. Community notices cover hospital transfers Rotary program Iceland talk and local travel of officers and residents. Continued on Page Two.
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Tennessee
Bombers pressure Germany in large Allied raid
British and American air forces launch a heavy night operation against targets in Germany, including Frankfurt and Augsburg. American bombers and fighters, part of a two force thrust totaling nearly 2,000 aircraft, faced strong Luftwaffe opposition with 39 enemy planes downed as bombers targeted industrial sites at Augsburg Friedrichshafen and more.
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London
Germany
Frankfurt
Augsburg
Friedrichshafen
U. S
Bomber Command
Reich
Esterday
U. S. Eighth
Ninth Air Forces
Army
Swiss
Turks Report Aerial Attack On Hungary
Ankara reports nearly 250 Allied planes attacked Hungarian cities in what is described as Hungarys first Anglo American air assault. The Budapest alert lasted about ninety minutes with Kaposvar identified among hit locales and rail hubs nearby. Reconnaissance planes reportedly overflew Pecs Szolnok and Gyor.
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Ankara
Hungary
Budapest
Anatolian Agency
Kaposvar
Croatia
Pee
Szolnor
Gyor
McKellar and Crump Still Friends Amid TVA Debate
Senator McKellar defends continuing friendship with Tennessee leader E H Crump despite policy rift over Tennessee Valley Authority. He plans TVA amendments in the Senate next week challenging Lilienthal and proposing funding and construction limits, while Crump opposes the measures. Senator Stewart's stance remains unsettled.
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Washington
McKellar
D-Tenn
Tennessee
E. H. Crump
Tennessee Valley Authority
Crump
TVA
David FE. Lilienthal
Senate
Independent Offices
Senate Appropriations Committee
State of Tennessee
Memphis
Treasury
Hill and Bankhead
Alabama
Stewart
Simpson Addresses Morgan County Audience in Senate bid
State Senator James A. Simpson of Birmingham visited Morgan County for his first campaign stop since declaring in the Democratic primary against U S Senator Lister Hill. About 200 people gathered at the courthouse as he defended TVA interests and his twenty years in Alabama politics.
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James A. Simpson
Birmingham
Morgan County
U. S
Lister Hill
James H. Johnson
Brock & Spight Company
Municipal Utilities Board
Simpson
Johnson
TVA
Alabama
Senator Hill
CIO
Congress
Allied Shock Troops Press Cassino Fight On
Allied forces press the Cassino battle as fifth army engineers clear rubble for tank advances amid fierce house to house fighting. New Zealanders and Gurkhas hold key heights while German armor and dive bombers contest the ruined town and nearby Anzio air operations target northern Italy airfields.
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Joseph Morton
Naples
Fifth Army
Cassino
Anzio
Rome
Italy
Udine
Villorba
Maniago
Livariano
Gorizia
Himalayas
Monastery Hill
Associated Press
Lynn Heinzerling
Mustang
Monte Cassino
Nepal
New
Rapido River
Allied Bombs Reach Near Tokyo In Deep Pacific Raids
Allied air power strikes across the Pacific report 960 miles from Tokyo, with land based bombers penetrating Nipponese soil and airfield construction in Burma behind enemy lines. Aleutian forces hit Matsuwa while Nimitz notes extensive raids from Kuriles to Marshalls and Carolines.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Tokyo
Burma
Matsuwa Island
Kurile Chain
Japan
James Doolittle
Nippon
Pacific
Chester W. Nimitz
Kurile Islands
Central Pacific Marshalls
Carolines
Paramuio
Kurile Naval Base
Shumushu
Kuriles
Matsuwa
Paramushiro
Marshalls
Kusaio
Oroluk
Truk
Central Pacific
Frankel Brothers Lead Cooper-Wells and Holeproof in New Roles
Gus Frankel, president of Cooper-Wells & Company since 1931, becomes president of Holeproof Hosiery Co. Louis Frankel, vice-president of Cooper-Wells, rises to president of that company. The two firms, long histories in American industry, completed the Holeproof acquisition three months ago. Frank Yaney, general manager at the Decatur plant, returned from the St Joseph meeting.
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Gus Frankel
Cooper- Wells & Company
Holeproof Hosiery Co
St. Joseph
Mich
Louis Frankel
Cooper- Wells
Frankel Brothers
Cooper-Wells & Company
Holeproof
Cooper-Wells
Frank Yaney
Decatur
St Joseph
Russians Crush German Sixth Army In Ukraine Breakthrough
London reports say Red Army shattered the German sixth army in an 11 day battle northeast of Nikolaev on the Dniester line. Russian forces killed 36,800, captured 13,859, and took 131 tanks, 74 self propelled guns, 678 field guns along with thousands of rifles and trucks as they push toward Romania.
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London
Red Army
Ukraine
Yampol
Dniester
Rumania
Sixth Army
Nikolaev
Stalingrad
Dubno
Poland
Black Sea
Stalin
Promoshnaya
Novo Ukrainka
Zhmerinka
Odessa- Lwow
Bug Rivers
Igulets
Bug
General Honig
Friedrich von Paulus
Rodion V. Malinovsky
Manpower Split Agreed For Young War Workers
Agreement reached between WPB War Manpower Commission and the armed services defers about 40 000 men under 26 in key war industry jobs from the draft. Roosevelt will decide to extend or limit Army take from industry as production officials claim 40 000 to 50 000 of the 250 000 in 18 25 deferment brackets are better in factories. An early statement on manpower is expected next week.
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William T. Peacock
Washington
Armed Services
War Production Board
WPB
War Manpower Commission
Army and Navy
Roosevelt
Army
Armed Services-Production Agencies
Bradley Dewey
White House
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Hershey
Mr. Roosevelt
Shell cases are ordered by Decatur Iron & Steel
C A Ballentine vice president of Decatur Iron and Steel announced the firm has won a U S Army ordnance department contract to manufacture shell cases. Production expected by late April or early May with up to 300 women and a smaller number of men employed on two nine hour shifts at the main plant.
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C. A. Ballentine
Decatur Iron & Steel Company
U. S. Army Ordnance Department
Fabulous Lieut Von Ripper A War Chronicle In Italy
Ernie Pyle writes from Italy about Lieut Rudolf Charles Von Ripper a fearless and flamboyant war figure known to many correspondents and troops. Born in Austria to a general father and baroness mother he left home at 15 to work varied jobs before joining the French Foreign Legion and seeing action wounded in battle.
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Ernie Pyle
Italy
Rudolf Charles von Ripper
Algeria
von Ripper
Austria
French Foreign Legion
Soldier Artist Von Ripper A Legendary European figure
An artist and veteran, Von Ripper’s life spanned London Paris Shanghai 1928 Berlin and Vienna. He aided friends hiding from Nazis, faced concentration camp arrest in 1933, and survived multiple war wounds including 16 leg slugs in Spain 1936 as a Loyalist air gunner.
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Europe
London
Paris
Shanghai
Berlin
Dollfuss
Austria
Balearic Islands
Spain
Salon
von Ripper
Om Page Kwe
Morgan county Red Cross drive nears $32000 with $34000 goal
Marvin Rankin, Morgan county Red Cross war fund chairman, said the drive neared $32000 with a $34000 target by March 31. He urged beat chairmen to continue soliciting until every resident has a chance to give, noting Negro division totals of $258.93 county and $494.31 city.
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Marvin Rankin
Red Cross War Fund
Rankin
Morgan County
Red Cross
Decatur
Somerville
Priceville
Danville
Oak Ridge
Rocky Ford
Hartselle
Valhermose
Lacey's Springs
Union Hill
Center Grove
Ryan's X Roads
Florette
Pee
Cas
Lawrence Cove
Gum Pond
Massey Scuas
Falkville
Hitler denies peace report in Berlin interview
Stockholm Tidningen quoted Adolf Hitler denying any contact with King Gustav of Sweden over mediation for peace. He called the report false and said it is a purely Swedish matter. He commented on Russian terms for Finland, saying they would leave Finland unable to defend itself.
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Stockholm
Tidmingen
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Germany
Gustav
Sweden
Hitler
London
Otto Abetz
Paris
Finland
Derby Travel Warning Cites Restrictions and Limited Tickets
In Louisville on March 18, F S Crawford of the ODT cautions outsiders not to travel for the 1944 Kentucky Derby citing travel limits few tickets and hotels calling the city cooperatively inhospitable.
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Louisville
F. S. Crawford
ODT
Officer Dies in Poole Air Mishap
Crowds watched as a British transport plane circling Poole Harbor dropped a 25 year old lieutenant who dangled in a parachute. The man died after being retrieved from the water. his name was not released.
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London
Poole
Goodyear to Add Building at Decatur Mills
Goodyear Decatur Mills will add a 3 story cement warehouse and a personnel office. A. K. Adams Construction Co. will build them, starting in about ten days. Warehouse 50 by 200 feet, back of the rayon mill, with elevator service. Personnel office 27 by 40 feet, front of plant, four rooms for the personnel division headed by W. S. Cap Hunter. Construction about ten weeks.
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Goodyear Decatur Mills
A. K. Adams Construction Co
Atlanta
C. W. Young
W. S
Cap” Hunter
Tito claims unit routs on Lim river front in Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito announced that two divisions routed a large enemy force along the Lim river in central Yugoslavia and penetrated into Serbian territory. The battle near Prijepolje pitted German troops against Chetniks of Gen. Mihailovic and forces of Milan Nedic and Demetrice Liotich. In the Slovenian northwest, Tito said forces attacked a town as an enemy general spoke, disrupting the meeting with mortar fire.
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London
Tito
Josip Broz
Lim River
Yugoslavia
Prijepolje
Slovenia
War report: U S fighter downed eight Focke Wulf-190s
Robert H. Hubbell of Decatur Alabama, a Fortress pilot, said eight Focke Wulf 190s attacked his group on the way home. He reported three fighters burst into flame as gunners opened fire in the first pass.
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Robert H. Hubbell
Decatur
Ala
Heavy Allied daylight raid strikes Augsburg and nearby targets
Allied bombers hit Augsburg Landsberg Lechfeld Oberpfaffenhoffen and Friedrichshafen in a major daylight raid. Reports vary on enemy resistance as crews note heavy flak and fierce fighting while at least 13 aircraft from the 500 mile penetration failed to return but 13 landed safely in Switzerland.
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Augsburg
Friedrichshafen
Lechfeld
Landsberg
Oberpfaffenhoffen
Berlin
Europe
Switzerland
U. S
RAF
Munich
Italy
Messerschmitt
Lake Constance
Liberator
Andrew S. Low
Allenton
R. I
James E. Muldoon
Green St
Fairhaven
Mass
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