Local News Briefs Highlight Community Life
A Decatur area bulletin reports weather with 80 Fahrenheit high and 59 low, church activities including choir practice and sermons, and multiple local military notices. Names include Mrs Clendora Manor Bowden and Sgt George E Bowden, with updates on wounded soldiers Pfc Clarence B Dunn and Pfc Raphael B Parker.
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War Department
Clarence B. Dunn
Alice A. Dunn
Pfc
Raphael B. Parker
Sally H. Parker
Falkville
Mediterranean
Quickies by Ken Reynolds
A compact item by Ken Reynolds pokes fun at publicity, noting a vanity for appearing in The Daily Want Ad and playfully mocking the rush for recognition in small notices.
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Ken Reynolds
Daily Want
Allies Break Siegfried Line Front Races Toward German Border
Allied forces push toward the German frontier across a 300 mile front after crossing the Albert canal in Belgium and advancing to within 25 miles of Germany at multiple points. Patton's third army advances toward Metz as air and ground actions disrupt Siegfried line defenses.
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James. M. Long
London
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Siegfried Line
Albert Canal
Seventh
Alexander Patch
Mediterranean
Besancon
Elfort Gap
Switzerand
le Havre
Second A
The
Albert
Eisenhower
Bier
Limsburg
Liege
Ardennes
Metz
Belfort
Rhine
Normandy
Moselle
George S. Patton
West Wall
Supreme Headquarters
Nancy
Patton
Toul
Beering
Leuven
Bourg-Leopold
Antwerp
Courtney H. Hodges
First
Huy
Meuse
Namur
Aachen
Charlemagne
Belgium
Associated Press
Edward D. Ball
U. S
Ball
Pont-A-Moussoir
Ney
Aede
Ee &S
Conuneee
Bulgarians Clash With Nazis in Balkans and Yugoslav Uprising
Reports from Cairo and Sofia describe fighting between Bulgars and Germans on the Serbian border, a mass Yugoslav uprising against occupying forces, and Tito’s Partisans gaining ground. Bulgarian moves signal disassociation from the Axis while Moscow signals limited armistice progress.
Rail Routes Over Balkans Wrecked
Allied Mediterranean air headquarters announced rail links from Greece through Serbia to Hungary are destroyed and the entire Yugoslav system is devastated making organized resistance to the Russian Adriatic thrust unlikely. Closing lines blocks retreat into Germany as heavy rockets and air attacks disrupt bridges and routes.
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Rome
Greece
Serbia
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Adriatic
Romania
Balkans
Germany
Belgrade
Ljubljana
Sarajevo
Uzice
Bihac
Sunja
Karlov
Zagreb
Fiume
Marshal Tito
Mustanks
Salonika
Om Pegs Tee
Decatur City Council Deliberates on Sidewalks Lights and Tax Claims
Citizens pressed for sidewalk paving on 12th Avenue East and street lights at 9th Avenue East and Prespect Drive while the council studied data on costs. The city approved an ordinance to let Morgan County tax officials collect city ad valorem taxes for 1944. An extra street department truck was approved for faster garbage collection as about 200 properties with delinquent taxes were addressed.
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Decatur
O Hall
Morgan County
Riverview Drive
Cypress Street
9Th Avenue
Uth
Prespect Drive
9Th Ave
Controls Relaxed on Lumber Sales
The War Production Board announced relaxed lumber controls allowing homeowners farmers and others to buy needed lumber for maintenance through December 31 without priority ratings. Distributors may sell certain grades up to one third of Sept 1 1944 inventories if no conflict with certified orders arises. Some grades such as Nos 2 3 and 4 common Idaho white pine ponderosa pine and sugar pine remain restricted. The move aims to ease stockpiled lumber for nonwar uses.
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Atlanta
Warseduetion Board
Thursy
D. F. Sheppard
WPB
Idaho
No Peace Feelers Yet From Germans
Washington dispatch reports no signs of any peace feelers from Germany as of September 8. The Allied side receives no new overture or indication of negotiation progress amid ongoing war efforts.
Walkouts Close Birmingham Area Plants in Labor Dispute
About 1,300 union workers froze Pal Standard car plant in Birmingham and cut output at Tennessee Coal Iron Fairfield works. Pullman and USA-CIO talks continued as 300 Fairfield blast furnace workers joined the walkout. TCI shifted operations, closing two blast furnaces and one blooming mill while moving staff to other mills.
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Birmingham
Pal Standard Car Manufacturing Company
Bessemer
Tennessee Coal
Iron & Railroad Company
Fairfield Steel Works
W. S. Pierce
U. S
Cio-United Steelworkers of America
Pullman
W. C. Sleeman
Pierce
TCI
Fairfield
Superforts Bomb Plants in Manchuria
Allied air forces launched a major strike on Anshan and Showa steel works in Manchuria. Simultaneous heavy bombing hit Palau and Yap as Axis reports claimed hundreds of carrier aircraft and three hundred planes attacked. MacArthur said bombers roamed the Moluccas while Japanese prisoners confirmed heavy losses in New Guinea.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Manchuria
Nippon
Berlin
Palau
Yap
Philippines
U. S
Halmahera
Tokyo
Anshan
Japan
20Th Bomber Command
Showa
Southwest Pacific
Davao
Pacific
Celebes
Zamboanga
Mindanao
Douglas MacArthur
Moluccas
Sixth
New Guinea
Aleutians
Adm
Ralph Wood
Southwest Pacific Air Command
17Th Naval District
China
Lingling
Allied Coordination Surges Across Fronts in War Update
The Allied high command displays unity as they commit forces across Western, Russian, Balkans, Italy fronts and strategic air battles. Patton’s Third Army advances on the Moselle after brief supply delays, facing strong German resistance.
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Balkans
Italy
West Wall
Stimson
Red Army Push In Balkans Expands To Danube Front
Red forces drive from the Balkans toward Yugoslav junctions with Tito and Allied units as they press toward Sibiu in Transylvania. In Poland they advance near Warsaw while Bella Bulgaria reports Baltic ships sunk. 3,000 Germans captured at Turnu Severin with Rimnicul Valcea and Sibiu area taken.
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Mosgeow
Red
Balkans
Tedhneel
Hitler
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Sibiu
Transylvania
Bulgaria
Aegean Sea
Demotika
Greece
Black Sea
Albania
Poland
Red Army
Warsaw
East Prussia
Tass
Constanta
Burgas
Varna
Germany
Danubian
Ruschwik
Turnu-Severin
Bucharest
Rimnicul-Valcea
Mrs English Claimed by Death in Birmingham
Frances Louise English aged 50 of 1214 S 81st St Birmingham died in a Birmingham infirmary on Thursday. Survived by husband Roy B English and son Roy B English Jr with other family. Funeral from Brown Service Norwood Chapel Friday at 5 PM with Rev Kinase officiating. interment Elmwood Cemetery. Active pallbearers listed. honorary members of the local church served as directors.
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Frances Louise English
S. 81St St
Birmingham
Roy B. English
Roy B. English Jr
Fannie M. Pepper
William Lane
Mobile
Ala
J. C. Orr
Ofer
Brown
Norwood Chapel
Riday
Ladle
Elmwood Cemetery
Ar.ers
J. H. Morrow
C. B.rell
T. E. Thrift
Frank Bankson
J. L. Powell
Earl Adam
Geordh Grove
Sean Church
Allied Drive Stalled Near Rimini on Adriatic Front
Allied forces push to the Marano river banks four miles inland from Rimini while German counterattacks halt the advance. American troops reach within two miles of Pistoia as the Gothic line remains in enemy hands. heavy fighting along ridges near San Savino and Castelnuova.
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Reich
Berlin
Hitler
France
Patton
Moselle
Ebels
Noland Norgaard
Rome
Eighth Army
Adri
Marano
Rimini
Pistoia
U. S. 92Nd Infantry Division
Lucca
Pisa
Salerno
Fifth Army
San Savino
Castelnuova
Pian di Castello
Oliver Leese
Italy
Great Plains
S.ince
Adriatic
Albert Kesselring
Partial autopsy report on Esther Drew murder
Montgomery Sept. Solicitor Temple Seibels said a state criminologist gave a partial oral autopsy report on Esther Drew, stabbed to death June 16. The test showed she died at the scene or nearby, with blood concentrated around the chest wound. Atty. Gen. McQueen said no autopsy report has been received.
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Montgomery
Ala
Temple Seibels
Esther Drew
Seibels
William 3. McQueen
State Toxicologist
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Sultmale
Buresa
Christian Church
Elmer Freer
Donald M. Newlin
Frances Newlin
13Th Ave S
Kingman Army Air Field
Newin
Athens
Riverside High School
Jesse M. Rogers
the First Baptist Church
Pfc. Westmoreland
Bethel Westmoreland
Addison
Alvin Bell
New Church of God
Hartselle
Mahlon Thomason
Central Baptist
Oener
Otto Winton
Austinville
P. W. Sparkman
Jennie Moore
Murphey Haislip
Gurley
W. W. Glass
Baby
Rev. Glass
First Presbyterian Church
Leonard M. Hogan
Camp Shelby
W. M L
Mr. Hogan
Cecil Hogan
Jeffersonville
Ind
Ruth Pitt Blevins
Sixth Avenue West
James H. Belvins
C. L. South
Burle Hargrove
Ira Suggs
Washington, D. C
Lionel Carley
Thomas Jacobs
Bak Field
Calif
Mrs
Sallie Smith
J Paul D. Jacobs
Crescent Amusement Co
Medivilly
Tony Sudekum
Elmeralch and
Leerry
C. J. Hayden
L & N Railroad Co
Cherbourt
Bay of
Biscay
Lions
KC Fisen
Sardinia
Liege-Namur
Ardennes Forest
Luxembourg
Louette-St. Pierre
Bierre
Givet
Sedan
Cairo
Free Yugoslav Radio
Balkan
Rhodes
Dodecanese Islands
Crete
Cyclades
Yugo Slavia
Sofia
A_Sofia
Federal Communications Commission
Philipov
Yantchulev
Moscow
Britain
United States
Russia
Speck
Lawson General Hospital
Roy O'Dell
Washington
By Dewitt MacKenzie
By Eddy Gilmore
Allied
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