Decatur News Roundup Highlights Local War Updates and Weather
Partly cloudy and cooler tonight with a high of 75 and low of 51 and 1.38 inches rain. Cotton prices posted 20.95 for Strict Midling and 18.95 for Strict Low. local service notes include Gerald Neher advancing to Coxswain and stationed in the North Naval District at Pittsburgh. Local church notices cover Jesse Rogers speaking on What People Said About Jesus and prayer open hours at the First Christian church. War updates report Pvt Lelia S. Carr wounded in action in the Janean area and Pvt Harold B. Jenkins wounded in the Southwest Pacific. Evening worship times changed to 8 p.m. at First Presbyterian. city police chief out with mumps. OPA reduces May June meat allotments by 50 percent. Local taxes listed for Morgan County and Decatur. hospital movements note Mrs P G Spencer and infant homebound.
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Koga
Tokyo
Soemu Toyoda
Hirohito
Gilbert and Marshall Islands
Central Pacific
Solomons
New Guinea
Bismarck Archipelago
South Pacific
Kula Gulf
Japan
Toyoda
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
Hollandia
Wewak
British New Guinea
Wakde Island
Dutch New Guinea
Rabaul
New Britain
Dutch Timor
Woleai
Carolines
Truk
Ponape
Marshals
China
South China Sea
Mandalay
Burma
Loyang
Linju
Huntsville Woman Slain by Intruder in Home
Mrs. Louis Fleming a 50 year old Huntsville matron was stabbed to death early today by a young white intruder who also wounded Vivian Fleming and Mrs. Vance Thornton. Bloodhounds were brought from Chattanooga to track the suspect after the break in on the Whitesburg pike residence. Mrs. Fleming is survived by her daughter Vivian and a son Lieutenant Richard Fleming who has served overseas in the Army Air Forces.
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Huntsville
Ala
Louis Fleming
Chattanooga
Humes
Laughlin
Vivian Fleming
Vance Thornton
London Diary from the Front Line to American Eye
Pyle writes from London about a dawn departure from Italy with Sgt Harry Cowe Pvt Donn Jordan and Italian helper Reif. Nurse-dietitian Lieut Maxine Budeman from Kalamazoo known as Goldielocks, aids the narrator with meals and morale, as they bid farewell at the airport before a page continuation.
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London
Dhar
Donn
Jordan
Reif
Rafe
Rassle
Maxine Budeman
Army Hospital
Kalamazoo
Mich
Goldielocks
Yugoslav Partisans siege cities as Tito fights on
The broadcast says Partisans surround Mrkonjigrad and besiege Split while Zagreb is reported encircled. Uzice is taken and the Partisans push counter attacks in Slavonia near Vocin. Banks are urged to halt Yugoslav deposits as King Peter’s exile government loses gold reserves.
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London
Mrkonjigrad
Josip Broz
Tito
Uzice
Sarajevo
Sofia
Slavonia
Vocin
Utashi
Split
Dalmatia
Adriatic
Zagreb
Yugoslavia
Peter
National Bank of Brazil
Yugoslav National Committee of Liberation
Washington
Rio de Janeiro
Ankara
Yugoslav National Bank
Information Office
Draja Mihailovic
Mihailovic
Maj
Ce Ee Velevit
Negro Woman Held to Grand Jury in Murder Case
Mary McDaniel, a Black woman, charged with first degree murder, was held without bond awaiting grand jury action after a preliminary hearing before Judge B D Meadors. She allegedly bribed two Black youths Omas Baker and James Henry Elliot in the slaying of her husband Erskine McDaniel. Arrested March 2 by city police.
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Mary McDaniel
B. D. Meadors
Omas Baker
James Henry Elliot
Erskine McDaniel
City Pace
House orders seizure probe into Montgomery Ward properties
The House authorized a seven member committee to investigate the government seizure of Montgomery Ward and Company's Chicago properties. The inquiry runs independently of a Senate investigation already in progress.
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Washington
House
Montgomery Ward and Company
Chicago
Sevenman
Senate
Nazi Attacks Thrown Back On Eastern Front
London May 5 German probing actions southeast of Stanislawow and south of Tiraspol were repelled for a second day as the eastern front showed no major changes. Soviet communique cites 800 German killed and 12 tanks destroyed, plus 60 more dead or wounded in the Tiraspol area. Russian air forces bombed Sevastopol, starting several fires and silencing enemy batteries. A German report says Russians attacked along the Siret line in Romania but were repelled.
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London
Stanislawow
Tiraspol
Moscow
Old Poland
Odessa
Dnestr
Crimean
Sevastopol
Siret
Romania
Woman Found Dead in Trunk in Los Angeles Shipment
Police report a woman’s body was found today in a trunk shipped from Chicago to the Railway Express Company office in Los Angeles. The trunk, sent April 30 by a man using the name John Lopez, was opened by a repair clerk who discovered a torso wrapped in clothing and encased in salt. Detectives probe the shipment origin and destination as homicide investigators work the scene.
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Los Angeles
Chicago
Railway Express Company
Sep
Leroy Sanderson
Police Homicide Squad
John Lopez
Eugene Bilodeau
Express Company
Founder Honored As Howard College Marks 103rd Anniversary
Howard College in Birmingham celebrated its 103rd anniversary with a pageant honoring descendants of Gen. E. D. King, co founder of the Baptist institution. The program depicted the school’s founding and key events, directed by Antoinette Sparks, head of the speech and dramatic department. Descendants honored included J. F. King, J. H. King, E. D. Ing, E. D. King, T. C. King and King Wheeler, all of Annis.
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Birmingham
Howard College
E. D. King
The
Baptist Institution
Antoinette Sparks
Gen. King
J. F. King
J. H. King
E. D. Ing
T. C. King
King Wheeler
Annis
New Tax Bill Before House
Washington May 5 The taxpayers hope for swift passage of a Ways and Means panel draft tax bill that would simplify statutes for 50 million people. It relieves 30 million from filing normal returns and reshapes rates and exemptions while keeping overall burdens near current levels. Beginning 1945 withholding would cover actual tax for those earning up to 5000 yearly.
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Francis M. LE
Washington
Senate
House
Ways and Means
American Bombers Smash French Coast In Early Invasion Push
American Liberator bombers struck the Pas de Calais coast before dawn as part of the ninth day of pre invasion aerial offensives. Dozens of heavy bombers with Mustang escorts hit rail yards at Valenciennes and Somain, while fighters harried German airfields and shipping in Crete and the Aegean. No German fighters engaged and few losses were reported.
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London
France
Europe
Hitler
Atlantic Wall
Holland
Pas-De- Calais
Italy
Budapest
English Channel
Britain
Eighth Air Force
Ninth U. S Air Force
Valenciennes
Somain
Middle East
Crete
Aegean Islands
Monemvasia
Maleme
U. S
Bus Plunges Into Canal West of Miami
A bus and a truck crashed on the Tampa Trail about 25 miles west of Miami in fog. A fisherman named George Powers was killed while Calvin Corn was critically injured. Bus driver David Lewis and three passengers were treated at Jackson Memorial Hospital and released. no others needed hospital care.
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Miami
Fla
Canal Bank
Tamiami Trail
Ben Porch
George Powers
Calvin Corn
David Lewis
Everett Eyre
Tampa
G. Whitney
Coast Guard
Port Everglades
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Postwar prudence in shared Allied aims and peace
A columnist warns against overzealous postwar judgments as the Big Three Britain America and Russia shape plans for territorial claims self determination and a just lasting peace. He urges cautious restraint and cooperation within the Allied partnership to avoid fanatical approaches while pursuing an altruistic end.
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Europe
North
Africa
America
Britain
Russia
Sam
Brown Leads Creel In Alabama Democratic Primary Returns
In Birmingham on May 5 unofficial tabulations show Justice Joel B. Brown leading E. M. Creel for State Supreme Court seat No. 2. Creel held an early lead. Jefferson County favored Creel 24,767 to 6,389 for Brown. Other races show Albert Rains winning the Fifth District seat and Lister Hill expanding his Senate margin.
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Birmingham
Ala
Joel B. Brown
State Supreme Court
E. M. Creel
Brown
Creel
Jefferson
Joe Starnes
Albert Rains
Gadsden
J. Hubert Farmer
Andrews
Sam Fabbs
Tom C. King
J.W. Wright
Hobbs
Carter Manasco
J. H. Deason
Reuben L. Newton
J. E. Folsom
Labor draft faces Senate opposition in work or fight plan
A Bailey Brewster labor draft proposal to compel 4 F registrants into war jobs meets Senate military committee resistance. Kilgore warns such a plan risks disrupting production, while House leaders back the plan as a solution to labor turnover. Committee chair Reynolds avoids commitment, pledging a vote within 30 days.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
House
Kilgore
W.va
Senate
Athens flier earns DSC for extraordinary heroism
Lt. Henry Putek and Sgt. Lifford E. French of Athens flew the mission to Nancy France on Feb 6 aboard Touch-The-Button Nell. Despite a cockpit explosion and burns French remained at the controls, aiding the pilot to safety as the fortress returned to England through heavy anti aircraft fire. French, a 1939 Athens High graduate and football captain, earned the second highest U.S. decoration at a retreat in England.
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Lifford
Henry Putek
Chicago
Putek
French
England
Frenh
United States
Sgt. French
Berlin
John H. French
Athens
Army Air Forces
Miami Beach
Fla
RAF Airplane Mechanics’ School
Goldsboro
N.C
Ft. Myers
Leukemia Victim Theresa Truax Dies in New Jersey
Theresa Truax, 19 month old leukemia victim, died late yesterday in Rahway New Jersey. Her mother and soldier father were at her bedside. Death was due to inflammation of the heart, not the leukemia, according to Dr. Edward Blakley. Father Staff Sgt Elmer Truax arrived home on furlough from the South Pacific to be with his child.
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Rahway
N. J
Theresa Truax
South Pacific
Roosevelt
Edward Blakley
Elmer Truax
Wheeler names panel to study foreign news setup
Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana condemns rate discrimination by wire services and newspapers that channel foreign news to the United States. He has appointed a special Senate group to study the international communications arrangement.
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Washington
Burton K. Wheeler
D. Mont
Senate
Admiral Koga reported dead in action
Allied dispatches say Admiral Mineichi Koga, Japan’s naval chief, died directing operations from an airplane at the front. The fate remains uncertain whether he died in battle or by self-inflicted means as Japan’s naval leadership faced mounting losses.
Tokyo Deaths Reported for Japanese Leaders in War
Tokyo radio announced Admiral Mineichi Koga was killed at his post in March while directing operations from the front. The same broadcast said Maj. Gen. Kumao Qohashi and Maj. Gen. Yoshitada Shimokawa died in April on active duty and were posthumously promoted. Koga, 59, was viewed as tenacious though not brilliant, differing from Yamamoto who died in 1943.
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New York
Tokyo Radio
Mineichi Koga
Activuty
Isoroto Yamamoto
VU. S&s
Imperial Headquarters
Koga
Tokyo
Yamamoto
Kumao Qohashi
Yoshitada Shimokawa
Oohashi
China
Shimokawa
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OPA
Charles G. Hardwick
State of Alabama
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Hartselle
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Decatur General Hospital
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Brown's
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Superintenor Education
Lacey Springs
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District Opa
Morgan County War Price and Rationing Board
Little Jimmy Gillespie
Seventh Avenue East
Twelfth Avenue East
A. J. Atkins
Third Avenue South
Balligh's Infirmary
J. C. Stinson
Eva
Baugh's Infirmary
Met
By Ken Reynolds
Madison
Pyle
Ernie
London Town
Rief
By A. I. Goldberg
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