Local weather and wartime news canvas
Weather outlook cloudy with showers and storms, river rising at 7 PM, high 79, low 57. Cotton prices quoted for middling and strict grades. Movie listings for Souls At Sea, Flying Tigers, and The West Side Kid. War Department announces staff set. Wounded in action: Fred W. Willard in Southwest Pacific. Measles case in Lacon. Local church events and Legion meeting scheduled. Various hospital admissions and legal docket items included. Continuous local-item brief with multiple notices and community updates.
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Tennessee
War Department
Fred W. Willard
Sabra S. Elland
Eden
Southwest Pacific
Supreme Court upholds OPA price fixes and rent curb
The high court ruled constitutional the price fixing provisions of the emergency price control act and the OPA rent control program. It also allowed miners travel time to count as work for pay. Justices split 6 3 on the price fixing case from Boston dealers Rottenberg and Yakus. The rent case involved Mrs Willingham of Macon Ga with Justice Douglas delivering an 8 1 decision.
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Washington
Supreme Court
OPA
Voal
Stone
Boston
Benjamin Rottenberg
Alert Yakus
Federal District Court
Roberts
Rutledge
Murphy
Douglas
Kate C. Willingham
Macon
Chester Bowles
Mrs. Willingham
District Court
Willingham
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
National Security
Allied Guns Roar Over Cassino In New Bombardment
Allied artillery stepped up a systematic bid to destroy the Continental hotel and Hotel Des Roses in Cassino as ground attacks paused. The Anzio beachhead saw two small raids repelled while air forces targeted ports railways and airfields in Northern Italy with seven German planes down and five Allied still missing.
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Lynn Heinzerling
Naples
Cassino
Hotel Des Roses
Anzio
Italy
Castle Hill
Adriatic
Eighth Army
Fiume
War Today analyzes Nazi air power amid invasion threats
The article notes the absence of German air defense during Allied air assaults near Paris and argues Hitler may be conserving planes for the eastern front and upcoming invasion. It cites factory destruction and Red Army advances from Stalingrad toward Romania and Poland as factors shaping Luftwaffe capacity and strategy.
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Western
Europe
Hitler
Luftwaffe
Fuehrer
Prut
Rumania
Stalingrad
Poland
Moscow
Nips Set for New Attacks as War Fronts Shift
From Imphal to Bougainville, Allied forces press Japanese in multiple theaters. British Gurkha and Kaohin troops near Myitkyina while Chinese and American troops push toward the Ledo route. In Bougainville, about 300 Japanese assault troops are wiped out near hill 129 as Empress Augusta perimeter endures.
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J. B. Krueger
Associated Press
Burma
Marshalls
Indian
Imphal
Bougainville
Solomons
Ukhrul
India
Myitkyina
Burma Road
Mogaung
China
Empress Augusta Bay
Kurile Islands
Hill 129
U. S
Supreme Court Rules Portal Pay For Miners Nationwide
The Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 that underground iron ore miners are entitled to portal to portal pay for time spent traveling from the mine mouth to the mining site. Justice Murphy delivered the decision, applying to Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad, Sloss Sheffield, and Republic Steel mines in Jefferson county Alabama. The ruling rejects the miners claim that all underground time should be paid as part of the work week under the wage hour act.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Murphy
Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company
Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company
Republic Steel Corporation
Jefferson County
Alabama
Federal Circuit Court
New Orleans
Circuit Court
United Mine Workers of America
UMWA
Congress
Roberts
Stone
High Court
Reds Poise to Hit Rumania
London reports Stalin announced the capture of Kamenets Podolsk near Czernowitz on the Dniester. The city, an eight mile rail hub eight miles from the river, was encircled after Proskurov fell as Soviet tank and infantry forces closed the ring. The capture impedes German withdrawals.
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London
Kamenets Podolsk
Dniester
Czer “Adenine
Stalin
Czernowitz
Proskurov
Red Army Pivots Toward Romanian Border in New Offensive
Soviet forces push toward the Prut river border of Romania after a major advance across the Dniester. Moscow reports bombardment on Romanian soil, encirclement of Kamenez Podolsk, and nearing Iasi with Red Army aiming to cut German retreat routes from Odessa. Berlin’s oil lifeline at Ploesti warned as Soviet troops close on Bucharest.
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London
Red Army
Prut
Rumania
Adolf Hitler
Russia
Moscow
Dniester
Red Star
Berlin
Stalin
Byeltsi
Lower
Iasi
Jassy
Black Sea
Odessa
Nikolaev
Hitler
Hungary
Ploesti
Bucharest
County Board Moves 10 Aid Health Plans
Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control, in a unanimous vote, authorized 6500 for a 96 acre site purchase in Flint and approved about 20000 as the county share to build a health center. A tuberculosis sanitorium site is also planned postwar with trustees and Dr. Grosfeld outlining future aims for North Alabama. Construction may start within ninety days pending Federal Works Agency approval.
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Torgan Cou
Nty Board of Revenue & Control
Morgan County
Public Health Service
W. W. Dinsmore
Decatur
R. L. Sherrill
Hartselle
William Grosfeld
North Alabama
Alabama
Board of Revenue & Control
Flint
Henry Good
Frank L. Chenault
Morgan County Board of Health
County Board of Revenue & Control
Court House
Federal Works Agency
Morgan County Health Do
Hearing Begun On Textile Wages In Atlanta
Emil Rieve general president of the Textile Workers Union of America testifies before a tripartite War Labor Board panel in Atlanta as TWUA seeks a 60 cents per hour minimum wage for cotton rayon weaving industry. The demand calls for at least a 10 cent raise and wage brackets above 60 cents for all occupations.
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Atlanta
Emil Rieve
Textile Workers Union of America
CIO
Tripartite Panel
War Labor Board
Rieve
WLB
TWUA
Tragedy in Lynville Kills Mother and Four Children
A mother Mrs Newton Compton about 43 and her four children Martha 16 Billy 14 Margaret 12 and Richard were killed when their frame house collapsed during a high wind and electrical storm at Lynville Giles County Sheriff Gordon Topp said two older daughters Evelyn 21 and Edith 18 were injured. Minor damage reported nearby and Bethel hotel roof blown off in Columbia with damage expected to total several thousand dollars.
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Pulaski
Tenn
Lynville
Here
Giles County
Gordon Topp
Topp
Newton Compton
Martha
Billy
Margaret
Richard
Evelyn
Edith
Columbia, Tenn
Bethel Hotel
J. M. Dedman
Storm damages and outages hit North Alabama areas
A damaging wind and storm Sunday night affected Decatur Huntsville Hartselle and surrounding areas. Power outages disrupted breakfasts while TVA lines failed in Cedar Lake area leaving Hartselle without electricity until late morning. No planes or buildings were harmed at Southern Aviation Training School but a Neon sign at Evelyn's Beauty Shop was damaged. Small tree limbs fell citywide.
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North Alabama
Decatur
Decatur Harbor
George LaBoon
Charlie Rogers
Ainslie W. Wyle
Cedar Lake
Hartselle
Huntsville
Alabama
Evelyn's Beauty Shop
Aerial Smash by Americans Over France and Essen Raid
Allied air forces launched a major bombardment on Nazi airdromes across Southwest and Central France, with over 500 bombers and up to 9,000 fighters, following a RAF strike on Essen. The raid aimed at Krupp works and other targets, while night bombings hit Hanover and Courtrai, and daylight raids struck coastal France and Holland.
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London
France
Essen
Krupp
U. S
Hanen
Courtrai
Belgium
Holland
Germany
Air Ministry
Ernie Sees Crowd Fighting For Food In Italy
Allied correspondent Ernie Pyle describes a Naples area port where Italian children and locals mobbed the dock, vying for tossed cookies and chocolates from wary sailors. The scene blends humor with hardship as young faces press for a share of scarce rations amid wartime disruption.
Detectives Hear Testimony In Lonergan Murder Trial
Two Toronto detectives testified in the Lonergan murder trial as the defense pressed to bar the confession alleging it was coerced. Detective Harris and Ferguson described Lonergan being questioned after his wife Patricia Lonergan was found bludgeoned, and conversations with relatives before his return to New York.
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James H. Porterfield
New York
Toronto
Wayne Lonergan
Patricia
Edward Broderick
Arthur Harris
Gordon Ferguson
Lonergan
Canada
New York City
Broderick
United States
Langage Song
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Rev. C. L. Dobbs
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the Benevolent Hospital
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Wells Street
Earl Glover
Baugh’s Infirmary
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Quickies
Ken Reynolds
Ot Board
Berlinerllustrierte Zeitung
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Japan
Big Guns
By Dewitt MacKenzie
REDS
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