Weather Outlook and Local News From Decatur
Partly cloudy with scattered afternoon thunder near the coast. Maximum 91, minimum 73. Local notes include farming trips, hospital transfers, births, stints abroad, and a whiskey seizure. Prisoner of war Emmett Couch reported captured in France. Community updates cover Red Cross work, ambulance moves, and travel between Decatur and Birmingham. Page two continues with further items and notices.
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Emmett Couch
Grant Street
War Department
Pvt
U. S. Army
France
Pvt. Couch
Rena Couch
Finland leaves war as Germany agrees to withdraw
Premier Hantti Hackzell announced Finland will exit the war and Germany will pull out. Russia has been asked to grant an armistice and Moscow conditions were delivered with British and Soviet approval. Finland’s parliament met in secret to back evacuations and a diplomatic break with Berlin. The remaining German divisions guard Petsamo nickel mines as Finland seeks peace.
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Richard Kasischke
London
Finland
Hantti Hackzell
Russia
Helsinki
Stockholm
Germany
Moscow
Britain
United States
Hackzell
Berlin
Rendulic
Eduard Diet
Petsamo
Frahn to Receive Meritorious Civilian Award at Huntsville Arsenal
Lawrence Bernard Frahn a machinist at the Huntsville arsenal will receive the War Department Meritorious Civilian Award. Col Geoffrey Marshall will present it in Frahns workshop with no public ceremony. He has led all three shops and contributed about ten devices improving economy manpower time and labor.
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Lawrence Bernard Frahn
Decatur
Huntsville Arsenal
War Department
Geoffrey Marshall
Frahn
Arsenal
Japs Report Great Raids by Naval Air Strikes
Pacific fleet headquarters remained silent on Japanese radio claims of widespread sea and air raids in the inner defense ring. A lone Navy search plane spotted an enemy convoy off Iwo Jima, sank one ship damaged another and scattered three sampans.
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Clen Clements
Associated Press
Pacific Fleet Headquarters
Pagan Island
Iwo Jima
Volcano Islands
Planes Destroy Davao Fortress in Heavy Philippines Raid
General Douglas MacArthur announced a heavy Friday raid on Davao Mindanao by 40 Liberators and one downed aircraft. The attack dropped 110 tons of explosives, destroying 26 enemy fighters and 11 bombers on the ground while damaging air defenses and installations.
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General Headquarters
Southwest Pacific
Davao
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
Radio
Mindanao
MacArthur
Vao
Mariana island attacked by air rockets and bombs
Pagan island in the Marianas was bombed by mounted rocket guns and bombs on Wednesday and Thursday. Attacks targeted gun emplacements and defense installations. Tokyo warned nervously about Philippine defense sites including Davao as enemy activity to watch.
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Pagan Island
Marianas
Tokyo
Philippines
Davao
Paris homeward drift from tents to Paris with war weary
Ernie Pyle reports from France as he travels with the army back toward normal life. He recalls sleeping in a tent again after months in Paris, notes calm over the field, and observes Paris amid war scars and high prices with shopping for gifts and perfume remaining cheap.
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Ernie Pyle
France
Paris
Hank Gorrell
United Press
Courtland Army Field Converts to B-24 Transition Base
Col Walter W. Gross announces Courtland Army Air Field becomes a four engine transition base to train officers and enlisted men in Liberator operations. Majors Otten and McCoy receive key posts while BT-13 instructors stay for B-24 training with focus on long cross country flights for missions in European and Pacific theaters.
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Courtland
Tennessee Valley
Courtland Army Air Field
Walter W. Gross
Itland Field
A. B. Otten
Charles E. Parsons
Maj
M. N. W. McCoy
Army Air Forces
Pacific
Fifth Army Takes Pisa in Arno Crossing Across Gothic Line
American Fifth Army opened a new offensive crossing the Arno and seizing Pisa while a British Eighth Army push exploited a 20 mile gap in the Gothic line. German defenses along the East and West collapsed as units withdrew toward Brenner Pass and the Serchio river.
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George Tucker
Rome
Fifth Army
Arno
Pisa
Eighth Army
Albert Kesselring
Brenner Pass
Adriatic
Kesselring
Iven
Serchio
Decatur Schools Open Wartime Session With Major Upgrades
Decatur schools begin an 8:30 a m wartime session as 3 000 to 4 000 students register in the first week. Ten new teachers are hired to offset turnover as repairs and improvements finish. New staff include C S Hagerman as supervisor of instruction Floyd Briscoe heads health and physical training with junior high boys training. Band director Schwachow will lead a girls chorus.
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Decatur
E. Alverson
City Stident
Education
Lafayette Street
Riverside High School
C. S. Hagerman
Gordon- Bibb
Floyd Briscoe
Schwachow
Rankin and Crow Lead Alabama War Chest Drive
James L. Rankin and Judge James H. Crow Jr. will chair the Alabama War Chest United Charities campaign to raise funds for character-building and humane programs locally and nationwide. Rankin, a Decatur insurer and Rotary president, returns as co-chair with Crow, Morgan County Court presiding official and longtime lawyer in Decatur and Hartselle, taking county leadership after two previous appeals led by Judge Julian Harris and Attorney John A. Caddell.
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James L. Rankin
James H. Crow, Jr
Alabama War Chest
United Charities
Rankin
Decatur Insurance Mary
Decatur Rotary Club
Crow
Morgan County
Decatur
Hartselle
Julian Harris
John A. Caddell
Soviets Hurl Nazis Across Danube Front
Soviet forces pushed German troops across a 65 mile Danube front southeast of Bucharest and reached Bulgaria's frontier on a 150 mile line inland from the Black Sea to Giurgiu. Moscow reported German Romanian losses of 418000 killed or captured between Aug 20 and 31, with 97100 of those being German.
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W. W. Hercher
London
Red Army
Danube River
Bucharest
Black Sea
Giurgiu
Moscow
Balkan
Stalingrad
Danube
Feodor I
Tolbukhin
Ukraine
Brobruja
Bulgaria
Germany
Sofia
Marshal Tito
Iron Gate
Hungary
Budapest
Transylvania
Carpathian Mountains
Malinovsky
Warsaw
Bor
Southern Airways Extends Training Contract with Army Air Forces
Southern Airways signs a one year contract with the Army air forces for the 1944 1945 fiscal year starting June 30. Of 63 primary training schools, 21 canceled and 20 notified of cancellation. after October 16 there will be 22. Seven of these fall under the Eastern flying training command, including Southern Airways. Decatur field training remains near peak strength.
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Southern Airways
Army Air Forces
Leeming
Eastern Flying Training Command
Southeastern States
Decatur Field
Ex Senator George W Norris Dies at Home in McCook Neb
Former U S Senator George W Norris age 83 dies at his McCook Nebraska home after a cerebral hemorrhage suffered August 29. A liberal stalwart and author of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Norris had been unconscious since the stroke and was surrounded by his wife and three authors when he passed.
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McCook
Nebr
George W. Norris
Congress
Norris
The
Tennessee Valley Authority
Hitler to deliver speech amid Patton border drive
London dispatch reports Adolf Hitler may announce the crossing of the German frontier by Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s tanks and rally the nation to battle on their soil. British sources say he could invoke blood toil tears and sweat and urge fighting in the hills if time permits.
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Richard Kasischke
London
Adolf Hitler
Lisbon
George S. Patton
Hitler
Churchill
Anm
Patton
Secret German Weapon Uses Explosive Aircraft Over England
London dispatch reports Germany used two explosive-packed aircraft against England in a first known blow with a new freak weapon guided by a backseat pilot. Officials say little on destructive power, noting one craft perhaps fell in an open field causing a heavy blast while other details remain undisclosed.
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Lewis Hawkins
London
England
Air and Home
Goukent
Bodly
France
Allies drive into Belgium near Brussels in rapid advance
Allied forces rolled into Belgium capturing Tournai five miles inside the country and moved toward the Brussels region as U S armor pressed toward the German frontier. General Hodges first army units cheered by Belgians as they advanced, with Germans fleeing and resistance fading along the frontier.
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Austin Bealmear
Allied Expeditionary Force
Belgium
Tournai
Brussels
U. S
France
Flanders
Reich
Saar
Lorraine
Courtney H. Hodges
First Army
New German Flying Bombs Hit Paris Seaward Area
German flying bombs landed in the Seine basin area causing damage and casualties. This marks the first serious use of the bombs against troops after their prior use against London since mid June.
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Paris
Seine Basin
London
Radio claims American advances across Reich border amid retreat and chaos
Radio Atlantic reports American tanks crossed into Germany at two points and civilians fled along jammed highways as Allied forces push toward the Siegfried line. Dispatches say Patton’s army nears the Moselle with 1,200 prisoners. Germans claim footholds near Thionville Longwy and Luxembourg while British troops approach Belgium to blunt robot bomb raids.
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Radio Atlantic
Reich
France
Gium
Luxembourg
Belgium
Holland
Channel
Pas-De-Calais
Pernes
Dunkeraue
Patton
George S. Patton
Third Army
Verdun
Moselle
Thionville
Lorraine
Greater
Germ
Longwy
Duchy of Luxembourg
Metz
Maginot Line
Siegfried
Sedan
Prussia
Second Army
London
Second
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