Weather and war notices from Decatur area
Cloudy tonight and Wednesday with little temperature change. Local report: high 83, low 61. War Department reports missing in action Cpl. Henry I. Fields and Pvt. Oliver D. McLemore Jr. in Europe. Various local updates on illness, injuries, hospital stays, births, and community events in Decatur and nearby towns.
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War Department
Cpl
Henry I. Fields
Imogene Stridger
Lacey
Oliver D. McLemore, Jr
Oliver D. McLemore
Athens 2
Warsaw Falls as Polish Insurgents Lose 63 Day Battle
Polish Patriots surrender Warsaw after a 63 day battle. Lt Gen Tadeusz Komorowski confirms the fall. Moscow dispatches quote thousands crossing the Vistula to Russian lines. Reports note Warsaw's destruction and evacuation of civilians amid disputed leadership.
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Alex H. Singleton
London
Warsaw
Moscow
Vistula
Stalingrad
Berlin
Tadeusz
Bor
Praga
Tadeusz Komorowski
Poland
Com So Insc
Whiewtso
Borje Warsaw
Associated Press
Daniel de Luce
National Liberation Committee
Monter
Komorowski
Red Cross
Polish Committee
Moscow Group
Troup embezzlement case delayed over grand jury eligibility
Proceedings in State of Alabama versus Herman Troup moved slowly as a jury was yet to be selected. Attorneys Lynne Hutson stated witnesses would not be needed until Wednesday at the earliest. State officials included Assistant Attorney General John Harris and B W Simmons with W H Long as circuit solicitor.
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Procee
State of Ala
Herman Troup
Gress
Mr. Troup
Mr. Wilks
S. A. Lynne
Melvin Hutson
Yanks Occupy Monghidoro and Advance Near Bologna
American Fifth Army captured Monghidoro a key road junction 18 miles south of Bologna as mud hampered progress in the Apennines. Cedrecchia and other nearby positions fell while Negro troops of the 92nd Infantry pressed toward Pisa Modena. The British Eighth Army stalled at the Adriatic with German resistance near Imola and Rimini.
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Noland Norgaard
Monghidoro
Bologna
Fifth Army
Apennines
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Fiumicino
Monte Battaglia
Monte Cappella
Bologna-Rimini
Imola
Carseggio
Florence-Bologna
Cedrechia
Monte Nona
Serchio
Pian Della
Fornoli
92Nd
Pisa-Modena
Pistoia
New Zealand
Sir Harold Headquarters
Itse Hadris
Tuin A Asi
Rimini
Yanks Seize Nazi Arsenal at Florence France
American troops seized a German arsenal in Florence Lorraine, a 10 acre plant built starting 1928 with 88 millimeter to 12 inch long range guns. The facility, completed 1942 and peaking in 1943, housed blueprints and machinery used by the German war effort until the recent capture.
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Florence
France
Lorraine
United States
Cary Grant and Barbara Hutton Grant Reconcile
Hollywood reports Cary Grant and Barbara Hutton Grant have announced reconciliation after six weeks of separation. The couple, once married, had issued no further statements about their status.
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HO Hum Department
Hollywood
Cary Grant
Barbara Hutton Grant
Invasion Report by Tokyo Radio Raises China Threat
Tokyo radio broadcast reported a seaborne Japanese landing 25 miles northeast of Foochow as U S forces press in the Palau islands. Allied commanders noted heavy combat near Kweilin and Manila puppet administrations amid ongoing bombardments and planned Philippines invasion.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
China
Tokyo Radio Today
Foochow
Tokyo
America
Pacific
U. S. Pacific
Peleliu
Angaur
Palau
Chester W. Nimitz
Kweilin
An Thei
Manue Aerom
U. S
Philippines
Manila Radio
Jose Laurel
Islands
Carlos P. Romulo
Voice of Freedom
Orregidor
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Manila
MacArthur
Babelthuap
Nimitz
A H Tomlinson passes at home near Falkville
A H Tomlinson, 77, died at 6 30 p m Monday at his home near Falkville. Funeral arrangements are pending with Drinkard of Falkville awaiting arrival of relatives.
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A. H. Tomlinson
Falkville
Drinkard
Navy Pratt and Whitney plant ends 24 hour walkout
Nearly all midnight shift workers at the Pratt and Whitney aircraft engine plant returned to duty last night, ending a 24 hour work stoppage.
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Sas
Navy
Pratt and Whitney Aircraft
Allied cautious advance in Aachen sector signals tough Siegfried Line
The War Today notes the American First Army's heavy attack in the Aachen area hints at a broader push toward the Siegfried Line while Eisenhower urges patience and cautions against counting on a quick breakthrough. Logistics and winter weather threaten supply lines as German defenses mass near Cologne.
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Cologne
Hitler
Eisenhower
France
New City Administration Abolishes Offices and Sets Meetings
The new city government, meeting Monday night, abolishes the city recorder and city engineer offices, changes council meeting times, and plans a 30 day personnel survey before hiring. Rutledge S. Thomas elected president of the council and Russell Speake as president pro tem. Committees named, Peach and Cad chosen city attorneys, and police court times set.
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Rutledge S. Thomas
Russell Speake
R. S. Thomas
H. R. Speake
A. C. Dillehay
H. H. Hunter
Knox McRae
Peach and Cad
Loym Srant
City Recorder
H. R. Summer
Allied landings and fighting on Crete and Kythera
Allied forces reported to have landed on Crete with German garrison appearing hopeless. News recounts Kythera operations, prior garrison withdrawal, and continuing air strikes as Allied ships ferry commandos from Italy. Crete blockade announced by Allied naval forces. Kythera residents welcomed British forces after a September attack.
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London
Crete
Morocco
Associated Press
Kithera
Greece
Hitler
Rome
Stephen Barber
Mediterranean
Kythera
Italy
Athens
Peloponnesus
Morgan County approves paving bid for Woodland Mills to Morgan City
The Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control accepted L. D. Edge’s bid of about $22,000 to pave a nine and a half mile road from Woodland Mills to Morgan City. Material cost estimated at $12,000. Board members McCutch eon Rowe Meadows voted yes. Fred voted no. Construction to begin this week with a sixty day timeline.
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Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control
L. D. Edge
Woodland Mills
Morgan City
Edge
John McCutcheon
Jeff Rowe
Wallace Meadows
Fred
Sim Howell
Rocket gun accident injures three Birmingham youths
Three Birmingham boys aged 12 to 16 were hospitalized after attempting to make and test a rocket gun using black powder as propellant. Malcolm Anderson suffered a shattered right hand, with Terry Kendricks and Jimmy Hoadley lightly burned and bruised.
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Birmingham
Malcolm Anderson
Seriou
Terry Kendricks
Jimmy Hoadley
Bombers Hit Heavy Blow On German Targets
More than 1 000 American heavy bombers with over 700 escorting fighters attacked war industries and airfields in Nurnberg Gaggenau and Giebelstadt. Targets included Nurnberg tank works Daimler Benz truck plant at Gaggenau and a Luftwaffe base at Giebelstadt. Mosquito raids disrupted 51 freight trains nine barges and five motor transports while sinking a Nazi trawler off the Dutch coast.
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London
Nurnberg Gaggenau
Giebelstadt
Nurnberg
Daimler-Benz
Gaggenau
Arlsruhe
Nurdberg
Reich
Mosquiton
Germany
Holland
Mosquitos
Brunswick
Smeshing
Ruhr
Gladbach
Allied forces push deeper into Siegfried Line and Metz region
U S First Army troops breach the Westwall near Aachen and advance four miles north while seizing Ubach and threatening Aachen. Rimberg castle and Palenberg in Holland fall as armored units carve a wedge into German defenses. Third Army seizes Maizieres Les Metz on the Moselle. Germans counter at Hurtgen but are repelled as battle lines shift across the Ruhr frontier.
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London
U. S. First Army
Siegfried Line
Aachen
Ubach
Westwall
Hitler
Don Whitehead
Rhine
Geilenkirchen
Germany
Rimberg
Palenberg
Holland
First
Berlin
Wurm
Stalingrad
Beggendorf
Whitehead
U. S
Supreme Headquarters
Hurtgen
Echternach
Reich
Trier
Third
Metz
Maizieres Les Metz
Moselle
Groenstraat
Courtney H. Hodges
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