Weather and local notices from Decatur area
Fair with a cool night and Saturday outlook. temps 62 high 50 low. Capt. Richard Watkins visiting from Oklahoma. Rev. Howard I Kerr to fill pulpit at Westminster. Morgan County women respond to War Price and Rationing plea. Memorial for Edward Woolard Parker at St Johns. Youth Sunday events at St Johns and St Peters Mission. SON Hodg es Minor reported landed in France. Various military updates and local hospital notices.
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Decatur
Tom Newell
Felton Dobbs
Johnny Sims
Tennis Teague
Lon Pettey
J. D. Cloud
G* A
Robert Harper
E. I. Brown
W. V. Wade
R. D. Sitta- Wright
Joe Flynn
Edward Woolard Parker
St. John’s Church
Eugene Marston Chapman
Edward
Mighty Blow Deals Japs in China Waters
The Associated Press reports U S carrier planes roared within 100 miles of the Chinese coast destroying 221 Japanese planes and damaging 35 ships while bombing Formosa from end to end. Nimitz said no American ships were damaged and 22 American planes were shot down over Formosa.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
U. S
China Coast
Formosa
Ted Etaine Paci
Tokyo
Pacific
Philippines
Ryukyu Islands
Marcus
Nimitz
Japan
China
Marc A. Mitscher
Taichu
Tamsui
Balikpapan
Douglas MacArthur
Borneo
Luzon
Mani
Arimasuku
Palau
Foochow
O Te Formosa
Manchuria
Hongkong
Kweiping
Flying bombs strike England amid casualties and damage
Flying bombs launched over the North Sea targeted Southern England including London. Official reports note damage and casualties from several blasts. One drone burst in the air, another hit a tavern with damage but no casualties, another crashed in open ground causing widespread destruction and injuries. Three British fighters pursued one robot after it passed.
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London
Oct
North Sea
England
Liberation in Greece Near as Allied Commander Reports
General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson said a force under his command is about to land in Greece and that the kingdom’s liberation is at hand. Unofficial reports claim the Greek flag flies over Athens and the Athens radio is in Allied hands as proclamations promise aid and the return of administrative services.
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Rome
Henry. Maitland Wilson
Mediterranean
Greece
Acropolis
Athens
Wilson
Peloponnesus
Patras
Corinth
George II
Ronald M. Scobie
Italian Hills Fight Rages Near Bologna In World War II
In Italy heavy fighting erupts along the Florence Bologna road after allied air assaults. Fifth Army reports 300 prisoners taken as American forces push near Livergnano and Castel San Pietro while seeking a corridor into the Po Valley.
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Lynn Heinzerling
Rome
Florence-Bologna
Bologna
Fifth Army
Livergnano
Castel San Pietro
Bologna-Rimini
Delle Formiche
Po Valley
Mobile man admits cafe killing in Birmingham holdup
Mobile resident Robert Pilley confessed to the slaying of George Goatley, manager of a suburban cafe, during a July 11 holdup in Birmingham. He said he shot Goatley after warnings while another man waited outside. he learned of Goatley’s death the next day.
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Mobile
Ala
Dudley E. McFayden
George Goatley
Birmingham
McFayden
Robert §. Pilley
Pilley
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mc Fayden
Goatley
Allies Strike Across Europe With Heavy Bombing Attacks
American bombers from Italy hit the Vienna area after British Mosquitos bombed Hamburg and western Germany. US bombers from France attacked Aachen and Ruhr targets, destroying locomotives and rail cars. Long-range Mosquitos hit Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, while Canadian wings scored at Prague and near Zagreb on a 2000 mile round trip.
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London
Italy
Vienna
Hamburg
Germany
U. S
France
Aachen
U. S. Ninth Air Force
Ruhr
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Prague
Zagreb
Spanish Republican revolt whispers reach Franco’s Spain
Moscow backed calls for revolt against Generalissimo Franco as exiled Spanish Republicans in France organize under the supreme junta of the Spanish National Union. French radio reports 40,000 exiles in Southern France and raids into Spanish territory as tensions rise amid the broader war.
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Franco
Moscow
Russia
Germany
France
Toulouse
Spanish National Union
Hitler
Mussolini
Alton
Swith Haly
Ealé
Russian tanks storm East Prussia in Baltic push
Russian columns and infantry advance across Memelland cracking the East Prussian line toward Tilsit as Budapest fears collapse and Hungary nears surrender. Soviet forces press from Slavai and Sartininkai, with Riga and Memel fronts under heavy action and Insterburg within striking distance.
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Daniel Deluce
Moscow
Junkers
East Eesaree
Tilsit
Dowd
Hungary
Red
Memelland
Hitler
Lithuania
Germany
Reich
Budapest
Bent
Rodion Y. Maliares
Hungarins
Renan
Carpathian
Ruthenia
Transylvania
Kecskemet
Austria
Yugoslavia
Slovakia
Berlin
Vienna
East Prussia
Baltic
Riga
Memel
Artininkai
Sartininkai
Niemen
Slavikai
Szeszuppe
Szestuppe
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Insterburg
Red Army
Konigsberg
Balkans
Gilbert Sees Friday the 13th as Lucky Day
Montgomery dispatch recalls Chief Van Buren Gilbert of the state highway patrol recounting a Friday the thirteenth incident from years ago when he chased a gunman who had sent a deputy sheriff to prison. He describes a brush chase, a fall, and a rifle shot that nearly hit him.
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Montgomery
Ala
van Buren Gilbert
State Highway Patrol
Gilbert
Limestone County
Labor Split Widens Between AFL and CIO in War Era
The AFL and CIO, both rebuffed by the War Labor Board on wage policy, edge toward intra-labor strife before year end. CIO President Philip Murray champions reform and Roosevelt support, risking factional backlash as retroactive pay disputes loom while AFL officials blame government handling and resist extra- governmental influence.
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Joseph A. Loftus
Associated Press
Washington
AFL
CIO
War Labor Board
Roosevelt
WLB
Philip Murray
Murray
New Deal
Mother Tries Snatch Hoax At Chicago Lot
A 20 year old mother hid her 1 year old in a vacant lot and spread a kidnapping alarm to regain her husband’s affection. Juanita was found frostbitten after eight hours. doctors said likely no lasting injury. The mother Valerie McMinnis was held for psychiatric examination.
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Chicago
William Ryan
Valerie McMinis
Juanita
Poli
Ryan
Dr Ramon Castillo Dies in Buenos Aires Coup Aftermath
Dr Ramon S. Castillo, 72, died last night after a military coup deposed him following his 1942 ascent to the Argentine presidency. His tenure featured a policy of prudent neutrality in World War II amid political backlash and international pressures.
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Castillo
Buenos Aires
Ramon S. Castillo
Argentina
Bi’ Suse & Bae
Americans Reach Aachen Core as German Resistance Creaks
American infantry fought into Aachen proper after clearing the Northeastern Schlachtef factory district. Heavy German reinforcements arrived as missiles and shellfire pounded the old city, while Allied air power battered approaches and the end of Aachen seemed near despite stubborn SS troops in rubble filled streets.
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Aachen
Don Whitehead
Associated Press
U. S. First Army
Berlin
London
Charlemagne
Schlachtef
Baredenberg
Old City
Arnhem
Holland
Stureeien
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Leighton Baptist Church
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E. M. Chapman
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Gurley Johnson
Pfc
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Joe Dwain Curry
USNR
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G. Curry
Hartselle 3
Laurice Lamon Curry
Prospec Drive
Mary Gordon Curry
Joe Curry
Joe D. Curry
Mary Fieldon Curry
W. F. Lamon
Famlly
Austinville
G.C. Corley
Memorial of Methodist ‘Church
Morgan County
Willard W. Matthews
Hamilton Field
Medical Corps
Guadalcanal
Paul Osborne
Tur General Hospital
Brown's Ambulance
Eileen Davis
Tur Gen
Ith Avenue
Nana
Sarah Lichenstein
Lichenstein
Ofd
Ella McDaniel
Danville
Decatur Generalital
Ken Reynolds
Suer
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la Grange
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Enosburg Falls
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