Weather, cinema, and local society notes in Decatur
Partly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms this afternoon in western and southern parts, fair tonight. Cotton prices posted: strict mid dling 20.95, middling 20.80, strict low 18.95, low 16.95. Movie listings include Lady In The Dark at the Princess, Old Acquaintance at the Roxy, So Proudly We Hail at the Capitol. Local residents record arrivals, travel, and community updates from Army and Navy assignments to infirmary recoveries and church events.
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The
Princess
Roxy
Capitol
Allied Air Armadas Sweep Across Germany and Poland
A massive Allied air offensive involved about 1,000 heavy bombers and 1,200 fighters striking Poland and central to eastern Germany including Poznan Kreisling Leipzig Tutow Cottbus and Sorau. Simultaneous raids hit France and the Danube basin from Italy with extensive targets along railroads bridges and airfields.
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Gladwin Hill
London
Germany
Poland
Vienna
Wiener Neustadt
Britain
Italy
U. S
Poznan
Kreisling
Leipzig
Tutow
Cottbus
Sorau
Danube
Angers
Ludwigshafen
Two Die In Cullman Plane Crash Near Hangar
Leonard G. Collier a 31 year old flight instructor at Foster Field Tuscaloosa and T Harold Vandiver 33 manager of Cullman airport were killed when a two seater plane they rode crashed in front of the hangar at Cullman airport. Cause unknown. Funeral plans for Collier set for Wednesday at First Baptist Cullman with graveside rites by Shriners. Vandiver’s service scheduled for Wednesday at Second church with interment in city cemetery.
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Leonard G. Collier
Foster Field
Tuscaloosa
T. Harold Vandiver
Cullman
Cullman Airport
Collier
First Baptist Church of
John C. Marion
Bob Sapp
Moss
Bernice Collier
W. W. Collier
Lonnie Collier
James Goodson
Byron Bush
Shriners
Vandiver
First Methodist Church of
O. K. Lamb
Adelia Vandiver
Woodrow Vandiver
Decatur
Morgan County War Bond Quota Set at 1 379 000
The Fifth War Loan quota for Morgan County is 1 379 000 with 551 000 to be raised through E Bonds. Ewell K. Gregg, county War Finance Committee chair, urged residents to meet the challenge and honor local soldiers amid calls to support the home front effort.
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Morgan County
Ewell K. Gregg
County War Finance Committee
Alabama
Remembering Roderick MacDonald WW II war correspondent
London reports May 29 recall of war correspondent Roderick MacDonald killed at Cassino. A Scot who worked for the Sydney Morning Herald, he served in Tunisia and Sicily, contracted malaria, and later regained strength in Algiers before his death.
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London
Italy
Roderick MacDonald
America
Tunisia
Sicily
Mac
Cassino
Australia
The
Sydney Morning Herald
China
Near East
Africa
Tunis
Hospital
Nervousness of Nazis Seen as Rising on Invasion Front
German broadcasts report heightened alert along Von Rundstedt’s invasion front as Dover temperatures soar. Nazi outlets claim Ike missed a favorable invasion date and that Britain may prefer an invasion today. DNB notes the original date has passed with many speculative dates remaining. A Lausanne notes rail disruptions and Nazis bolstering transportation chiefs amid growing D-day concerns.
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James M. Long
London
Marshal von Rundstedt
Strait of
Dover
Eisenhower
Germany
Hitler
Transocean Agency
Foreign Office
DNB
Gazette de Lausanne
von Rundstedt
Dover Strait Sees Unofficial 100 Degree Heat Peak
Invasion weather report from Dover England notes temperatures over the 20 mile Dover to France strait reached an unofficial 100 degrees just before noon. Whit Monday heat records were surpassed as a light evening shower cleared and the morning brought a clear sky with surface haze limiting visibility to about two miles.
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Dover
England
Strait of Dover
France
Strait
Allied high command delays invasion due to equipment flaws
Nazi broadcasts claim Allied forces delayed Western assault despite tides and weather favorability. Berlin suspects Eisenhower awaits fresh American troops. German radio notes Hitler meets with Japan's ambassador about German Japanese collaboration amid invasion speculation.
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High Command
Berlin
Eisenhower
America
Brussels
Axis
Hitler
Hiroshi Oshima
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Japan
Reds Repulse Nazi Attacks on Eastern Front
Soviet bulletin from Tiraspol says German reconnaissance was thrown back with heavy losses on the Lower Dnestr front. Southeast of Vitebsk Nazis were driven from a height after a failed attempt to regain ground. The report adds 14 enemy planes shot down and a Baltic fleet patrol ship sinking a Nazi.
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Britain
Germany
Reich
Angers
Air Ministry
Danube
Ger
London
Dnestr
Loceli
Moscow
Tiraspol
Vitebsk
Gulf of Finland
Four pronged Chinese fight to halt Japanese offensives
Chinese armies clash on four fronts as Japan presses toward Changsha and Hankow Canton rail lines. Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault’s 14th U.S. Air Force targets supply routes while Stilwell’s forces push toward Myitkyina to link Ledo and Burma roads for China. American troops advance on Biak Island toward Mokmer airfield amid rising combat.
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J. B. Krueger
Associated Press
China
Schoutens
Chungking
Hankow-Canton
Changsha
Pacific
Japan
Claire Chennault
U. S. Airforce
Yoyang
Puchi
Linyang
Hankow-Peiping
Henan
Loyang
Yunnan
Burma
Burmese
Myitkyina
Tatangtz
Trio Killed in Accident Near Heflin Alabama
Three people died and seven were injured in a two car crash five miles east of Heflin Alabama on a highway. Dead were Lois Meyers 19 of Anniston and Mrs Kirk Padgett 46 of Heflin. Injured include Kirk Padgett and his sons Ralph 15 Douglas 8, E J Roberts 20, Mary Sue Johnson 19, Melgrin H Spell of Anniston and Carl Hollingsworth of Jacksonville. Highway patrolmen investigate.
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Anniston
Ala
Heflin
Lois Meyers
Kirk Padgett
Vera Elizabeth Davis
Eene
Garner Hospital
Ralph
Douglas
E. J. Roberts
Mary Sue Johnson
Melgrin H. Spell
Carl Hollingsworth
Jacksonville
Mrs Gordon Dies At Her Home In Fayette County
Virginia A. Gordon 63 longtime Fayette county resident dies after long illness at her home 120 Fourth Avenue South Prayer service 9 30 Wednesday with Rev Ted Brannum Funeral cortege leaves after service for Spring Hill cemetery Fayette county for 2 PM services Interment follows She is survived by husband one daughter Earline Meherg one son Cpl R C Gordon overseas with U S Army three sisters two brothers J M Lucas and P A Lucas
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Virginia A. Gordon
Fayette County
Fourth Avenue South
Ted Brannum
Spring Hill Cemetery
Brown
Earline Meherg
Cpl
R. C Gordon
U.S. Army
Bun -Gartman
Arkansas
Jesse Pitts
Sulligent
Steve Dudley
Oklahoma
J. M and
P. A. Lucas
Fay‘ette County
Turley Rites Set Tuesday
Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at four for Thomas Franklin Turley a Decatur resident who died Saturday night at 11 59 at home 812 Line Street Interment will be in city cemetery Brown directs Dr F K Gamble officiating He was son of the late Mr and Mrs John Buchanan Turley of Knoxville Tenn coming to Decatur after graduating from East Tennessee University to work as bookkeeper for his late uncle John Fletcher Scott He later joined L N Railroad Co retiring at seventy four He was survived by three children Mrs Mary Turley Royer Buford Buckley Turley of Decatur and John Harper Turley of Pine Bluff Ark a son in law Wilburn Morris Royer and daughter in law Mrs John Harper Turley five granddaughters two grandsons three sisters and nieces and nephews of Morristown Tenn and Decatur a sister in law Mrs M H Todd and nieces and nephews of Decatur plus a large extended family
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Thomas Franklin Turley
Decatur
Line Street
F. K. Gamble
City Cemetery
Brown
Turley
John Buchanan Turley
Knoxville
Wilburn Morris Royer
John Harper Turley
Morristown
Tenn
M. H. Todd
Pine Bluff
Ark
High Court to Meet Again in War Powers Term End
The U S Supreme Court released seven of fourteen pending cases and said it would reconvene next Monday before summer adjournment. The court aimed to end an eight month term amid divisions on war time powers and a mail fraud conviction of Samuel Feldman New York City.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Justice Frankfurter
Black
Douglas
Rutledge Aner
Murphy
Saneueh Feldman
New York City
Labor crisis eases today as GM and Chrysler end strikes
Detroit and Saginaw bus ies see restoration of operations after a no smoking dispute toppled in Detroit. Some 4 400 workers involved as new strikes disrupt Federal Mogul and bakery drivers. Chrysler Highland Park plant reopens with 4500 workers returning.
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Detroit
Michi@af
Chrysler
Saginaw
General Motors
Parke, Davis & Co
Federal Mogul Company
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Uaw-Cio
Highland Park
International Executive Board
Chevrolet
Chrysler Local 490
International Union
R. J. Thomas
Thomas
Valmontone Key Prize in Rome Frontline Push
Allied forces press toward Rome as German troops hold Valmontone on Via Casilina. The town blocks the main escape route for retreating units, making its capture crucial to the defense of Rome. Counterattacks unfold at dawn while surrounding advances close on the outskirts.
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Valmontone
Casilina
Rome
Anzio
Adolf Hitler
Via Casilina
Fifth Army
Kesselring
Frosinone
Ipment
Campoleone- Valmontone
Velletri
Appian Way
Lanuvia
Pontine Plain
Associated Press
Edward Kennedy
Eighth Army
Liri
Sacco
Fifth Army presses toward Rome amid heavy German resistance
Allied forces push from the beachhead toward Rome, driving into Antipo and Valmontone sectors as German counterattacks intensify. Fifth Army reports seizing near Ceprano and advancing within miles of the capital, with more than 15,000 prisoners taken and continued heavy fighting along the Liri and Casilina corridors.
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Napples
Fifth Army
Aprilia
Fifth
Compoleone
Rome
Valmontone
Via—Casilina
Sermoneta
Bassiano
Norma
Ville Santo Stefano
Lirt
Monte Siserno
Ceprano
Liri
Eighth Army
Sacco
Oliver Leese
Seprano
Pofi
Lanuvia
Velletri
Hermann Goering
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Leonard Moody
Camp Perry
Navy
War Shipping Administration
Fort Amsterday
Netherlands
Decatur Yard
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation
E. T. Town
Harvard
Army Chaplain’s Corps
W. T. Jordan
Joe N. Petty
Silver Springs
A.E. Greenhill
Petty
S. Petty
J.H. Baker
East Moulton Street
Baugh's Infirmary
Robert Powell
Ninth Avenue South
Baugh’s Infirmary
J. M. Copeland
Second Avenue West
Marshal A. Alvis
Lawson Field
Ft. Benning
Pvt
Alvis
Air Forces
John R. Alvis
Fourth Avenue
J. A. Buttrey
Appeals Board of the War Manpower Commission
John A. Caddell
Birmingham
Lee Damsky
St. Louis
Donald Whitmire
Annapolis
United States Naval Academy
W. W. Glass
Montreal
N. C
Presbyterian Church
D. W. Speake
Points
Florida
Wee
Carl Brown
Ruby Williams
Glenda Faye
C. L. Driver
Decatur General Hospital
Brown's
Carl C. Eddens
Sixth Avenue South
Becky Berry
Fifth Avenue South
Laurette Pence
Memphis
Hazel Pence
Ralph Pence
Hartselle
Miss Pence
Navy Department
Olivia Fowler
Dorothy Brown
Mrn
Ed Fowler
Cotaco
Ellis A. Brown
Danville
By Ken Reynolds
Stalin
Josef Stalin
Order of Suvorov
Morgan
Bond
Algiers
Mediterranean
MacDonald
MIPS
Trio
Arafura Sea
Darwin
Merauk
KDE
Pacific Ocean
New Guinea
Port Mores
MacArthur
Arrow
Biak Island
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
High Court
By Dewitt MacKenzie
By Sid Feder
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