Local News Summary From Decatur and Surrounds
Weather is fair with a 61 degree high and 38 low. Cotton prices posted. futures ranged from strict midling 20.95 to low 16.95. Local cinema features Above Suspicion, Harvest Melody, and Footlight Serenade. clergy updates include sermons Sunday and a Missionary talk on soils. Sgt Baskew Bennett wounded in the Mediterranean. Cadet Harold L Speake arrives for pilot training at Perrin Field. Ambulance and hospital notes detail patient moves and surgeries at Hamil clinic. City docket lists petty larceny, vagrancy, drunkenness, driving offenses, and assault fines. Prohibition case and jail holds noted. School program by Star Dusters and local business visits recorded. OPA renewal drive underway for gasoline ration books. Summers’ boxing news from Columbia, S C. Paralyzed father of Mrs Hulse in Birmingham. family there.
Soviet Smash in Bessarabia Unchecked
Soviet forces push toward the Prut river and deepen their drive in Bessarabia and Bucovina. Konev’s second Ukrainian army accelerates toward Prut as Czernowitz looms as a key rail hub near the Carpathians. Zhukov drives into Lwow area, widening the Red army salient and threatening Proskurov and Kovel.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Prut River
Bessarabia
Carpathian Mountains
Prut
Rumania
Dniester
Ivan S. Konev
Tarnopol
Proskurov
Kovel
Curzon Line
Old Poland
Red Army
Vitebsk
White Russia
Crimea
Konev
Czernowitz
Carpathians
Mogilev Podolski
Bucovina
Zhukov
Lwow
Ukraine
Red
von Mannstein
Black Sea
Kurilovtsky-Murovanny
Berlin
Vinnitsa
Second Ukraine
Nadashita
Alexandrovka
Nikolaev
Joan Berry in cross examination over Chaplin affair
Los Angeles March 24 Joan Berry testifies again in the Mann Act case against Charles Chaplin. She admits a $1000 bonus from the Chaplin studio in 1941 while under contract at $75 weekly, details of travel with her mother, and meetings with Chaplin via hotel staff and acquaintances as the trial proceeds.
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U. S
Charles H. Carr
Los Angeles
Joan Berry
Charles S. Chaplin
Chaplin
Miss Berry
New York
California
James Lindsley
Charles Chaplin
Jerry Giesler
Joan
Giesler
Allied Air Forces Strike Western Germany and France
American heavy bombers hit military targets in Western Germany for the third straight day while RAF crews bombed Lyon and Laon. Allied air forces over Germany and occupied territory totaled 5,000 to 6,000 planes in 36 hours with 61 enemy aircraft downed, as fortresses and liberators led the assault despite losses.
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London
Germany
United States
France
Lyon
Laon
Paris
Rhineland
Dortmund
Handorf
Hamm
Muenster
Brunswick
Werl
Achmer
One thrust in India checked by Allied forces
Allied forces report one Japanese thrust into India from Burma attacked and driven from three positions overlooking a key supply road near Imphal while Imphal's nearby siege remains. In the Pacific, British submarines claim losses including a cruiser and a 7,000-ton carrier, with further damage to several ships.
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Richard C. Bergholz
Associated Press
India
Burma
Imphal
Japan
Thaungdut
Tiddim
Assam
China
Southwest Pacific
New Guinea
Wewak
Aitape
Central Pacific
Marshall Island
Ponape
Kusaie
Caroline Island
Truk
Eya Marshall Islands
Debate over TVA revolving fund triggers Senate clash
The Senate, 46 to 17, overrode Vice President Wallace and upheld McKellar’s bid to strip TVA of its revolving fund. McKellar pressed a showdown on TVA control, aiming to bar political activity by TVA staff and tighten congressional oversight amid stormy debate.
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Washington
Senate
Wallace
Tennessee Valley Authority
Senator McKellar
Dtenn
McKellar
Independent Offices
Clark
D.-Mo
Tydings
D.-Md
Allied beach head supply ships in Italy face dangers
With the Allied beach head forces in Italy, supply ships face submarine threats and aerial shelling after dark. Ships back from the dock, wait off shore, then load before continuing, often delivering cargo a day early. A gasoline dump was burned, proving small by home standards but significant in combat zones.
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Italy
Night Hazards and Naval Night Vision on an LST Convoy
Former lawyer describes preparing an LST convoy at dock and the enclosed bridge. He notes the open-air deck, armor plating, and a captain teaching his crew using night binoculars that sharply cut darkness. Fore and see gunfire flashes far ahead as the sea skims toward Page Eleven.
Younger Men to Get Call for Military Service
Washington dispatch reports the vast majority of men aged 18 to 25 are headed for military service with farm workers and those with ailments mostly exempt. Only a few under 26 likely to be deferred longer. GOP seeks a keynoter for the convention, House leaders urge public war aims, Tarver questions coercion in draft deferments, Butler proposes revising OPA controls to essential items.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Martin
Massachusetts
GOP
Hull
America
Rep
Tarver
D-Ga
Agriculture Administration Agency
Butler
R-Neb
Bougainville Nips Heavily Attacked by Japanese Forces
Bougainville endured day and night bombardment as artillery, planes, and destroyers pressed assaults around Empress Augusta Bay. The day perimeter held amid heavy patrols. at least 56 Japanese were killed. Solomons air forces struck Vunakanau and Lakunai runways with 84 tons, while Liberators and dive bombers pounded 72 new pits. An afternoon sweep felled unknown numbers as Sakunai received 100 hits from Mitchells. One Air Cobra fighter was lost.
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Guadalcanal
Solomon Islands
Bougainville
Adm
William F. Halsey
Empress Augusta Bay
Vunakanau
Lakunai
13Th Air Force
Navy
Marine
Mitchell
Sakunai
Japanese Column Is Under Attack
New Delhi report says Allied forces attacked a Japanese column moving from the South toward Imphal on the key Tiddim Imphal road and drove the enemy from three positions. Japanese forces reportedly reached within 30 miles of Imphal after crossing from Burma, with another column 30 miles east of Imphal near Thaungdut.
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New Delhi
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Imphal
India
Manipur
Tiddim
Burma
Chindwin
Thaungdut
Tamu
Pale
FIGHT RAGES AT CASSINO IN ITALY BATTLE UPDATE
Allied headquarters report heavy fighting continues at Cassino with New Zealand troops battering German strongpoints in the town ruins aided by tanks and artillery. Bombers strike Florence Padua and other rail targets in coordinated efforts against supply lines as the war persists.
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Noland Norgaard
Naples
Italy
Florence
Padua
Cassino
Campo di Marte
Venice
Pontassieve
Falconara Marittimi
Ancona
New Zealand
Hotel Des Roses
Nazi reinforcements rush to Romanian and Bulgarian coasts
London dispatch reports German troops moved to all Black Sea coast cities in Romania and Bulgaria. Turkish observers fear a full occupation as Berlin shifts 25 divisions toward Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. Turks study threats to Thrace and the Balkan route to the Dardanelles.
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London
Black Sea
Romania
Hitler
Turkey
Europe
Istanbul
Danube
Ankara
Germany
Hungary
Rumania
Bulgaria
Danubian
Balkans
Turkish Thrace
Dardanelles
Japan's Tojo courts political gain with India invasion claim
The article notes General Tojo's effort to spin the Burma border operation as Indian National Army involvement to liberate India. Allied HQ downplays military threat but emphasizes India's critical role for Allied operations. Auchinleck cautions against ignoring invasions that could threaten rail, river routes, or airfields in Assam. The piece also suggests a political motive to divert Allied forces while pressuring South Asia.
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Japan
Tojo
India
Burma
Chungking
Chindwin River
Manipur
Imphal
China
Auchinleck
Assam
Akyab
CHECK MADE OF STABBING IN ALABAMA LINKED CASE
Springfield police sought Alabama help to verify a claim by Avis A. Voss of Hillsboro that he stabbed a man in Claybeat Springs Alabama on January 11. Voss, a 22 year old vagrant arrested here, said he saw the man strike his nephew and stabbed the other man in the back. He said he hid in cane brakes 28 miles from home before heading north. The Moulton sheriff was asked to confirm if such an incident occurred.
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Springfield
Mass
Alabama
Claybeate Springs
Ala
William S. Lonergen
Avis A. Voss
Hillsboro
Voss
Lonergan
Moulton
Sheriff Corum recalls nothing of Voss case
Lawrence county Sheriff Ben Corum said he remembered nothing about the Voss case. He noted he received calls from Springfield and Birmingham but cannot recall any details of the investigation.
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Ben Corum
Lawrence County
Voss
Springfield
Birmingham
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