Weather and local notices mix of war era events
Partly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms Sunday and Monday. Cotton prices paid Saturday ranged from strict middling 20.95 to low 16.95. Rotary to hear from the vocational service committee Monday at Cornelian Court hotel. Frank Stone to present Charles Syer of Southern Airways. New member M. G. Hubbard to be welcomed at the meeting. Lt. Baynard W. Malone, guest of his uncle, introduced as the fourth Baynard Malone. Rev. Otto Winton to speak on The New Birth Sunday in Paducah. Various community notes on births, military service, visits, and local incidents through the weekend. Continued on Page Two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary
Vocational Service Committee
Cornelian Court Hotel
Frank Stone
Charles Syer
Southern Airways
Ary
M. G. Hubbard
Decatur General Hospital
Baynard W. Malone
Baynard L. Malone
Otto Winton
Austinville
Associated Press
Middle West
Pacific Northwest
AFL
CIO
Portland
Ore
War Labor Board
Northwestern Council of Lumber and Sawmill Workers
Wildcat
Oregon
Washington
WLB
Washington, D. C
Pennsylvania Greyhound Bus Lines
Greyhound
Baltimore
Scranton
Gettysburg
AFL Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach
Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
Highland Park
R. J. Thomas
United Automobile Workers (Cio
The
International
Great Aerial Raids Roar Through Night
Allied air offensive across Europe grinds on with over 6 000 tons of bombs dropped on rail hubs airfields and factories in Germany France and Italy. U S and British bombers suffer losses but claim major targets hit and continued night operations into the Balkans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin Bealmear
London
Hitler
Berlin
Folkestone
Strait of Dover
France
England
Italy
European
U.S
Eighth Air Force
U. S
Britain
Reich
Mediterranean
Balkans
Budapest
Germany
Rhineland
Nimes
Avignon
Marseille
Mannheim
Ludwigshafen
Saarbrucken
Karlsruhe
Munich
Metz
Strasbourg
Allied Expeditionary Air Force
Westwall
Paris
Salon
Montpellier-Frejorgues
Contracts To Hosiery Firm Secure Navy Orders
Cooper Wells & Company won two U S Navy contracts for war goods. The plant will start manufacturing as materials arrive, producing 250000 mattress covers and 100000 cook’s aprons within 150 days. About fifty new women workers are needed. fourteen more machines have been shipped to the Decatur plant after a strong Army record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Navy
Cooper, Wells & Company
Cooper, Wells Decatur
Nazis Line Up for Defense by West Front
London dispatch reports Field Marshal Rundstedt has taken final defensive positions as Allied invasion looms this summer. Nazis fear a breakthrough through Scandinavia while Soviet pressure on the east grows and German terror rises in Norway and Denmark. Eisenhower warns underground Europe to stay off roads as Allied invasion forces prepare to strike the continent from the west. War Secretary Grigg praises Britain's army as the best yet and vows victory with enduring endurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James
London
Karl von Rundstedt
Army of the
Russia
Europe
Scandinavia
Norway
Denmark
Stockholm
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Headquarters
Dunkerque
James Grigg
Bournemouth
Transocean
Ship Arrives Clean on Trial Run at Fort Amsterdam
The Fort Amsterdam built at Ingalls Shipbuilding yard arrived Saturday with brooms flying signaling a clean sweep in its trial run. The vessel, in the process of turnover to the Netherlands government, is to depart soon for duty in the United Nations war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Amsterdam
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation
Netherlands
United Nations
Biak Island invasion tightens grip in New Guinea drive
Allied forces wrested a beachhead on Biak Island as part of a 200 mile advance toward three Japanese airfields. MacArthur declared the New Guinea campaign nearing its end while U S and Australian ships fought shore defenses and inland combat began toward the air bases. In China, Japanese offensives in Hupeh and Honan provinces signaled a broader push amid supply-line strikes and counterattacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Biak Island
Schouten
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Netherlands East Indies
Biak
MacArthur
Maffin
U. S. Sixth Army
China
Chungking
Hupeh
Tsungyang
Hanson
Honan
Burma
A B 26 Base Life in England
Ernie Pyle writes from a B-26 base in England about daily routines for crews. Pilots walk long distances to flying lines and meals, breakfast ends at 8:00, soldiers serve at long tables with white cloths, neckties, and dress blouses. Officers mix at a pre supper bar as alcohol vanishes quickly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernie Pyle
England
Mess Life At The Station Offers Good Food For Aces
The article describes two messes for combat crews with uniform meals and self served dishes. Enlisted men dine informally, eat well including eggs pork chops and cake, and carry out their own plates. In huts and clubrooms, paintings and colored maps decorate spaces, showing a wartime, morale boosting environment.
Firemen battle petrol blaze at Poole Oil bulk station
A Saturday fire at Poole Oil Company bulk station between Bank Street and L and N rails caused thousands in damage. Firemen battled for over an hour and a half, using four hose lines to spray water as gasoline poured from a ruptured outlet, flames subdued when water sank through the gas to extinguish the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poole Oil Company
Bank Street
Louisville and Nashville
Poole
Johnston Street
Railroad Street
Ship Captain Karl Larsen Shot Dead In Pacific Port
Navy reports Karl J. Larsen master of the S. S. Thomas J. Walsh was fatally shot April 19 after firing on armed guard crew aboard his ship in a South Pacific port under naval jurisdiction. The vessel has returned to a West coast port as investigations continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
Karl J. Larsen
S. S
Thomas J. Walsh
South Pacific
Larsen
New York City
S. S. Thomas
Decatur Senior High Class Night Honors 98 Graduates
Ninety eight members of Decatur Senior High School assembled for Class Night as part of commencement activities. The program featured salutatory by Martha Ann Gregg, historian Carolyn Peurifoy, class prophetess Nell Cloud, and a class will read by Charlie Burt. Valedictory by Vivian Timberlake, with music by Earl Jones and Charles Murphy, concluded the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur Senior High School
Gavotte Stephanie
Alphons Czidulka
C. Schwachow
David Allen Gibson
Thomas Edward
Ned) Anderson
Lillian Houser
Bonnie Park
Gil Crane
Martha Ann Gregg
Carolyn Peurifoy
Nell Cloud
Missing Wife Sought by Moulton Family
Robert Haynes of Moulton 4 pleads for Vera Haynes to return home after she left their North of Moulton residence Wednesday with a small suitcase and sixty cents. He fears she may be immecator and describes her as a 4 year old woman of five feet five inches with dark blond hair. They married in 1925 in Cullman county and have five children aged 18 to five.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Haynes
Moulton 4
Haynes
Vera Haynes
Moulton
Cullman County
Lawrence County
American Forces Drive Toward Rome In Artena Push
Allied troops breached Artena near Rome 2 1 2 miles from the Casilina highway and shelled German positions as US fifth army units closed on Velletri and Sezze. Frontline fighting and reinforcements marked a widening drive toward the capital with the Casilina line at risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Kennedy
Naples
Artena
Casilina Highway
Rome
Velletri
Casilina
Highway Six
Associated Press
Daniel de Luce
de Luce
Tenth Army
Via
Fifth Army
Pontine
Sezze
Lepini
Liri
Via Casilina
Fifth
Eighth Army
Albert Kesselring
Protection For Downed Airmen Halted By Nazis
Stockholm reports Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels says Allied airmen who bail out over Germany would not receive Nazi civilian protection. Berlin dispatches say the comments imply airmen may be at the mercy of civilians who capture them under an eye for an eye rule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert N. Sturdevant
Stockholm
Paul Joseph Goebels
Volkischer
Beo Bachter
Germany
Aftonbladet
Berlin
Goebbels
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Sandamine i
Winston Powell
Paducah, Ky
A. W. Hill
Pvt
Loyd Melvin Moore
James P. Moore
Eva
Keesler Field
M. T. Burk
Albertville
James Whitten
Marion Military Institute
Ms&t
War Department
Joe P. Wynn
Emma L. Wynn
Scottsboro
Robert West
East Eighth Street
Decatur
South
West Pacific
Floyd E. Cooper
Mobile
Louie Ellison
Ruth Stockton
Rosalie McWhorter
Mary Lee Corum
C. Glenn
Judy Lee Kelley
Decatur Clinic
Agnes Sanders
Sue
Warrior
Barto McCary
L. W. Hathaway
Linda Lee
Drake Infirmary
Auburn
Joseph King
Army
Bouainville
King
Ernest King
Ninth Avenue
Fiji Islands
New Georgia
J.J. Holliday
Bertie Reed
Morgan County
DeWitt Crawford
Ryan
Delbert Wilhite
Robert Reed
Fred Robinson
Prospect
Tenn
Robinson
I. B. Howard
By Ken Reynolds
Ade
Parke, Davis and Co
Muskegon
Mich
Campbell, Wyant and Cannon Foundry
Saginaw
General Motors
Chevrolet
Springfield
Panther Creek Coal Company
AFL Progressive
Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing Company
Providence
R. 1
Deere Harvester
East Moline
Carl Parker
Uaw-Cio
United States Conciliation Service
Ship
Fyle
Stith
Vivian
Timberlake
Jeff
Martha
Ann Gregg
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