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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1944
Page
1
Fair tonight and Wednesday and little change in temperature. Local report shows a high 67 and low 50. Multiple wartime updates include injuries, enlistments, transfers, and awards for local residents and their families with names such as Loraine Jones Bettye Dan Fudge and Sgt James Fudge.
In Moscow Churchill met Stalin for three hours in the Kremlin and planned a second talk with the Russian premier after a three hour evening session. The discussions focused on postwar Europe and the occupation of Germany with US Ambassador Harriman kept informed.
Allied forces occupied Corinth without opposition as Greek security battalions surrendered 250 members. The city sits at the Peloponnesus isthmus. Meanwhile in Albania the Adriatic front attacked Sarande with Allied forces penetrating the western outskirts and capturing batteries and central defenses. A parachute company landed to seize a second battery.
American amphibious troops establish a firm beachhead on Garakayo north of Peleliu, the tenth Palau island seized in under a month. Nimitz reports light opposition as 81st division advances inland with airfield and fleet anchorage to back MacArthur’s Philippines invasion. Lib erators and fighters strike Zamboanga in preparation for further landings. weather and typhoons may delay operations.
Washington reports outline a push for a US backed world organization with force, while Roosevelt and Hull seek to avoid full congressional micromanagement. Dulles plan details show no automatic troop commitments, and discussions aim to fix voting rules for a security council. Fulbright praises the conference as a step toward a lasting international peace system.
Soviet artillery pressed on Memel and Tilsit as two Russian armies closed in on East Prussia. Vanguards reached the Baltic near Memel cutting escape routes for about 150,000 Germans in Latvia and Lithuania. Malinovsky’s southern wing crossed the Tisza and threatened Belgrade while advancing toward Subotica. Berlin claimed nearly 1,000,000 Soviet troops were in action across Lithuania and Transylvania, with Me mel pincer movements securing Kuliai and Vezaicia near the border. Continued on Page Two.
Rain mud and stiff German resistance halt most Allied advances over the Po in Italy. The Fifth Army keeps the Bologna Rimini highway under artillery fire while the Eighth Army holds positions at the Adriatic end. Weather and waterlogged ground limit activity as airfields in Greece are bombed and Italian and Adriatic targets are hit.
Morgan County receives a 44000 grant from the Federal Works Agency for a two story health center to house the Department of Public Health and the Tennessee Valley Laboratory. Morgan County plans a 22000 cash match, bids to be sought in about sixty days, and demolition of the old jail for the new site.
Nicola Intralona, governor of the Bank of Italy, testified that the Italian gold reserve was consigned to Berlin this year by agreement between Mussolini's regime and Nazi Germany. He said the transfer followed approval by his predecessor Vincenzo Azzolini, now on trial for collaboration.
Allied air forces conduct sunrise sorties against Bochum and surrounding Ruhr targets, with British heavy bombers saturating Bochum after a Ruhr strike on Bochum and Mosquitos hammering Wilhelmshafen. In South Germany, Fortresses Liberators and fighters raid Schweinfurt Cobleng Mainz areas. losses include five bombers and fighters missing.
World heavyweight champion Joe Louis arrived in New York today completing a seven month European tour. He fought 96 exhibition bouts during his war zone assignment and now resumes his boxing duties at home.
The column argues that permanent peace hinges on the three major powers America Britain and Russia using their military weight to compel adherence. Churchill praises Cecil for drafting the League covenant and laments the League's failures without courage and loyalty among associated nations amid Japan's aggression.
U S First Army surrounds Aachen and demands German surrender within 24 hours or face ruthless bombardment. Doughboys seal the Siegfried Line city with a wide front inside the Reich and push toward the Rhine as Patton stabilizes a Nazi pocket near Nancy. Canadian forces drive to clear 15,000 Germans from the Schelde area while bridgehead actions continue along the Leopold canal.
American forces outside Aachen press the city to surrender within 24 hours under heavy shelling from 105 millimeter guns. Adeadline of 10:50 m tomorrow looms as three men return with a white sheet flag and no reply from Aachen.
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