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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1944
Page
1
Sunday and Monday outlook calls for fair mild weather with 73 as high and 42 low. Local notices report hospital transfers, clinic dismissals, births, and a large State Guard meeting. Wartime briefs note B-29 bombing of Okayama in Formosa and carrier actions with significant enemy losses while American ships report no damage.
United States B 29s attacked Okayama on Formosa in the then latest raid, following a major Navy strike to hit the Japanese base. Pilots reported clear skies for visual bombing and a record tonnage over the target area. Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay called it the best show yet and said this is only the beginning.
British and American forces advance along the Italian front with the Germans yielding much ground. Canadian troops and tanks reach near Cesena on the Po plain while the Fiumicino coastal line holds firm near Rimini. The Fifth Army drives toward Bologna Rimini highways as fighting blankets the mountains.
M. P. Green wood Adams speaks at Riverside High School Monday night at eight o'clock on Australia New Zealand and the South Pacific as the third speaker in the Rotary Institute of International Understanding.
Jury of eight women and four men found Frances Andrews not guilty of murdering Jay Lovett, a 19 year old farm boy, after a six hour, eighteen minute deliberation. The defense argued death by own actions or another party.
R H Howard Lively, long time Decatur native and longtime Louisville resident, died in Baptist Hospital. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 PM at his sister Mrs Bass's home in Lynnville, with interment in Lynnville. He was employed by the Nashville railroad.
Pvt. Mickey Rooney, a Hollywood star in civilian life, has left Sibert, Alabama on Army orders. The Gadsden Times reports he was reported for overseas duty. Rooney and Betty Jane met in Biennghama after a year and a half.
Russian and Yugoslav Partisan forces breached Belgrade's defenses amid reports Berlin and Moscow acknowledge Soviet advances. Hungarian tank battles near Szolnok and Debrecen threaten remaining Axis forces as armistice talks surface.
British and Greek troops liberated Athens and the port of Piraeus by sea and air, ending over three years of Nazi occupation. Maj. Gen. R. M. Scobie assumed land force command as partisans and Greek patriots pledge cooperation. Corfu was surrendered with minimal resistance and German retreat northward continued.
Mrs. Earl Peete of 1224 Sixth Avenue East received word Saturday that her brother Joseph F. Peete of Detroit has been killed in action in France. No details were given.
Willard Wiener documents how the U S built a mass air force, tracing cadets to seasoned aviators as wartime needs surged. The author details expansion, training outputs, and the creation of a lasting aviation backbone with emphasis on early pilots and veterans.
Representative Mary Norton denounces Clare Boothe Luce for calling the President a liar and says Luce should apologize or there is no truth in the woman. Norton issued the statement through the Democratic National Committee's women's division after Luce accused Roosevelt of lying the nation into war.
German broadcasts warned of Allied air raids as 2,200 British heavy bombers and 1,100 fighters attacked rail and canal hubs along the Siegfried Line. Duisburg received a record 5,600 tons, Cologne and Saarbrucken saw heavy blows, while 14 bombers and 8 fighters were reported missing.
In a radio address from Paris on October 14, General De Gaulle told the French public they must depend on their own efforts rather than the benevolence of others. He warned Allies act as separate states pursuing their own policies despite united military aims, lamenting France’s relegation in war conduct and peace planning.
Cold air from North America stopped a tropical hurricane nearly motionless in the Caribbean west of Jamaica. The Weather Bureau warned of winds near 75 miles per hour and a Northeasterly drift as the system stalled.
The Associated Press reports President Roosevelt plans a Midwest swing with tentative stops in Philadelphia Cleveland and Chicago along with foreign policy talks in New York City next Saturday night. Gov Dewey announced a St Louis speech and an international affairs talk on the Herald Tribune forum, while Roosevelt refused a forum appearance the same night.
Oklahoma City Oct 14 Leon C Phillips known as Big Red to his 1939 43 administration was acquitted on the first ballot of a district court jury in a clemency conspiracy case He faced a charge that he received 500 of 8000 paid for a parole for a husband tied to a parole matter and an abortion related fee The jury found him not guilty on the sixth day of his second trial Despite a troubled text the core fact is Phillips was acquitted of the clemency conspiracy charge by the district court jury.
Allied air forces struck Germany in a major night raid as vast daylight blasts hit Duisburg Cologne and other cities. U S troops pressed toward Aachen amid heavy fighting with German relief columns smashed and a widening corridor secured for advancing armor and infantry.
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