Weather and wartime notes from Riverside area
Fair and warm Sunday, Monday partly cloudy interior with coast showers. Several service members and local residents are mentioned: J. J. Humphrey ill at home, Cpl. Floyd H. Gray completed training at Barksdale, Lt. William E. Knight selected for officers course at Fort Sill, L. R. Bentley serving in Great Britain, Homer Meadows visiting after overseas service, and Wayland F. Riche son missing in action. Community notices include absentee ballots totals, chamber of commerce meeting, and local births and deaths.
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William E. Knight
Old Artillery
Fort Sill
Okla
Knight
William E
Tht
Lacon
Ama Polytechnic Institute
Camp Mackall
North Carolina
Red army drives toward Belgrade and beyond from Sofia
Soviet forces pushed through Sofia driving toward Yugoslavia as other fronts report progress around Warsaw and the Vistula. Russian units strike toward Belgrade while Malinovsky and Tolbukhin groups push through Romania and contact Yugoslav Partisans near Negotin.
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W. W. Hercher
London
Sofia
Yugoslavia
Warsaw
Vistula
Praga
Berlin
Red
Riga
Baltic Sea
Moscow
Red Army
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Third Ukraine
Skoplje-Nis-Belgrade
Greece
Marshal Tito
Salonika
Bulgaria
Albania
Rodion V. Malinovsky
Second Ukraine
Negotin
Danube River
Germany
Balkan
Pershing Shows Some Recovery at Walter Reed Hospital
General John J. Pershing 84, veteran commander of the armies, registered some improvement today at Walter Reed Army Hospital where he has been ill for several days. Officials reported a partial return of strength after a period of weakness.
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Washington
John J. Pershing
Waltd Army Hospital
Ration point values rise as many foods freed from control
The Office of Price Administration set higher point values for canned fruits vegetables and juices and removes many items from rationing effective Sunday. Blue tokens will be used in tens until October 1 thereafter worthless. Spaghetti dinners move to red points, cheese portions priced at one point per small carton.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Chester Bowles
War Food Administration
Off rationing to end for non leather shoes in Birmingham
The Birmingham OPA office announced that all non leather shoes with rubber soles will be removed from rationing on September 25. The move is expected to boost sales of fabric upper shoes with rubber soles. Also, filling stations may accept off high way R gasoline coupons starting September 22, after a prior ban intended to curb transfers.
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Birmingham
Ala
OPA
Aluminum bats gain fame in Spokane then worry others
Professor E. B. Parker of Washington State College says aluminum baseball bats like the Joe DiMaggio model are popular and drawing many approvals from players. He notes concern from southern regions still relying on hickory and mentions the design was developed to explore light metals from the Pacific Northwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Wash
E. B. Parker
Washington State College School of Engineering
Joe DiMaggio
Riments
Pacific Northwest
Parker
Chamber of Commerce Today
Miners to Seek Higher Wages If Policy Liberalizes
United Mine Workers spokesmen said they will ask coal operators or the War Labor Board for a new contract within 24 hours if the government raises its wage policy. The scale committee drafts demands ahead of the March 31 contract expiry, with a possible $1 to $2 daily increase and full underground travel time rate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph A. Loftus
Cincinnati
United Mine Workers of America
War Labor Board
UMW
Hurricane toll rises as coast endures deadly storm
The Associated Press reports at least 39 deaths from a hurricane along the Atlantic coast with damages estimated at 30 to 53 million dollars. New York records 17 fatalities, New Jersey 5, plus casualties in New England and Virginia. Hundreds evacuated as facilities transfer wounded to Halloran Hospital in New York.
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Associated Press
Atlantic
Canadian
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Beach Haven
N. J
New Jersey
New England
New York
Virginia
North Carolina
Army
Thomas M. England
Marines seize Peleliu airstrip in pivotal Palau island clash
U S Marines of the first division captured the Peleliu airport on Palau as heavy fighting raged across the Western Carolines. The communique reports enemy tanks destroyed and continued counterattacks, with carrier planes supporting ground forces and raids against Babelthuap.
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Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Peleliu
Palau
Carolinnes
Byoitiescan Priddy
U.S
Philippines
Babelithuap
Palau Islands
Palaus
Carolines
Truk
Ponape
Paramushiro
Kuriles
Pitoe Field
MacArthur
Morotai Island
Halmahera
Pitoe
Pacific
Peleliu Island
Marc A. Mitchel
Philippine Sea
Tokyo
Davao
Manila
Kweilin
China
Official Ballot for Decatur City Election September 18 1944
Voters elect a mayor and five city council members in Decatur Alabama with polling places listed. The ballot names J D Cloud T R Harrison and others for mayor and council in six wards, voting hours from 8 am to 6 pm, terms begin October 1 for four years.
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Decatur
Alabama
Call to arms urged in German uprising broadcast
The Free German Committee in Moscow aired a call to German workers to rise against Hitler. The message urged an immediate national uprising with the slogan every man Hitler take up your arms.
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London
Free German Committee
Moscow
Hitler
Decisions On War Points Reached In Quebec Conference
Awards were announced Saturday night detailing Alabama’s insurance business results. About 300 agents share in premiums totaling 212000 with units paying 50605 each. Agencies listed include Cullman county firms, Lawrence county agents, Limestone county offices, and Decatur personnel among others.
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Quebec
Associated Press
Montgomery
Cullman County
Cullman
Russell Smith
Asa B.fuller
M. L. Robertson
Virgil B. Fowler
Hanceville
Crawford Gray
Lawrence County
Moulton
R. B. Henderson
L. W. Gentry
Limestone County
Athens
R. C. Martin
Bertha Morris
Harry Tafta
Seer
Decatur
Lamar Penny
Dix Agency
John Patterson
J.R. Daniell
Harry A. Wyatt
M. R. Rankin
B. F. Chenault
Hartselle
W. H. Stewart
F. J. Aldridge
Finns and Nazis clash as evacuation rises
Finnish troops wage undeclared war against former German allies as thousands flee north toward Sweden. Suursaari beachhead battles unfold amid reports of prisoner captures and sunk ships while Moscow peace talks resume with Enckell replacing Hackzell after a hemorrhage.
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Associated Press
London
Sweden
Finland
Gulf of Finland
Russia
Suursaari
Hogland
OWI
Hitler
BBC
Helsinki
Stockholm
Torneo
Ats Tack
Pearl Harbor
Moscow
C. J. A. Enckell
Hantti Hackzell
Bombers Fan Out In Raids On German Lines
Allied fighters and fighter bombers extend hundreds of miles behind the Siegfried line striking locomotives tank cars trucks and barges bound for German defenses. 150 medium bombers hit the Walcheren isthmus and dike in Antwerp harbor to disrupt the garrison.
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Ernest Agnew
London
Siegfried Line
U. S
Ninth Air Force
Walcheren
Antwerp
Berlin
Germany
Kiel
Roosevelt and Churchill Reach War End Plans in Quebec
In Quebec Roosevelt and Churchill announce decisions on winding down Europe and defeating Japan. They describe coordinated Pacific strategy, three allied commands, and full mobilization once Europe is clear, with emphasis on rapid unity and logistics.
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W. L. Beale, JR
Quebec
Roosevelt
Churchill
Europe
Pacific
Japan
Ravpeeatll
Germany
United Nations
Mr. Roosevelt
Mrs. Churchill
Scarlet fever cases rise in Alabama weekly count
Montgomery Ala Sept 16 The state Health Department reported the largest weekly total of scarlet fever since March with 21 cases. Cullman county led with seven, Jefferson four, Mobile and Morgan two each, and Chambers two.
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Montgomery
Ala
State Health Department
Cullman County
Jefferson
Mobile
Morgan
Chambe Am - Se Cae
Great Breach Smashed In Siegfried Line
Allied forces in a rapid drive through the Siegfried line breached German defenses near Aachen and Thionville advancing toward Cologne and Berlin. U S troops reported heavy fighting, with 341 375 American prisoners taken since D day as German fortifications yielded under pressure.
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Rhine
Aachen
Berlin
Paris
Brest
Saar
George S. Patto
Thionvilles
Ccvicon
Maginot Line
Siegfried
Thionville
Moselle
Wallendorf
Brandscheid
First
Maastricht
Seventh
Belfort Gap
Albert Canal
First Army
Holland
Supreme Headquarters
Siegfried Line
Shaef
Hitler
Cologne
Thes
Charlemagne
Rudolf Gerd von
Erwin
R von Undstedt
Walter Bei “White
Finnish demands for reparations click into postwar terms
A Swedish dispatch reports that Finnish officials insist on reparations as part of postwar settlements. They say Soviet conditions threaten the 1940 frontier and point to a need to restore the line while talking figures around 200 million dollars.
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Stockholm
Ling
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J. J. Humphrey
D. G. Roberts
Liberty Community
Floyd H. Gray
Town Creek
Militg Police Training Center
Barksale Field
Maxwell Field
Martha Jane Adcock
M. P. Wilson
On “Adcock
Langley Field, A
J.R. Adcock
G. W. Thomp
St. Louis
L. R. Bentley
Dora Bentley
Trinity 1
Air Service Command
Great Britain
Air Forces
Florence
Cpl. Bentley
Trinity High School
H. D
Dick Lewter
Grt
Wayne
Ind
Riverside High School
Naval Aviation
Homer Meadows
Red Raider
Wallace Meadows
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Duncan
Finley Island
Bettie G—Crow
Austinville
Wilburt R. Holland
Hungary
Hubert G. Holland
Canton
Leitchman Crow
Bob Benoit
Far Hiue
Oregon
Aubrey Craif
Hamil Clinic
Henry Cobble
Carey T. Cock
Isaac Dockrell
12Th Avenue West
Atur
Lubbockeld, Texas
Austinville High School
War Department
Wayland F. Richeson
Lola M. Richeson
Russellville
J. W. Johnson
J. H. Johnson
Pensacola
M. A. Winkles
Falkville
Gon
Marion E. Winkles
Essage
Ince
Edwin Pearson
Army Airorces
Pecos
Texas
Frank Chereon
Rotary
Cornelian Court Hotel
Arete Tee
Maynard Layman Holmes Turner
Secreae i
Athens Club
Quickies
Ken Reynolds
Bug
Pelcowizna
Vistula River
Zoliborz
Old City
Scobialka
Nowy-Dwor
Narew
Transylvania
Hodac
Targu-Mures
Romania
Vatra-Dornei
Czechoslovakia
Carpathian Mountains
Burgau Pass
Budapest
Oradea
Ilipova
Ineu
Beius
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Oreas
Niev
Pershing
Marines
Palau Isle
Avor
J. D. Cloud
T. R. Harrison Butler
P. A. Hine
H. R. Summer
W. F. Boswell
Knox McRae
Dillehay
Rutledge S. Thomas
H. R. Speake
Morgan County Courtouse
Carnegie Library
East Church Street
Railroad Street City Hall
Chandler’s
3Rd Street
Decatur Electric Shop
Moulton Street
Johnston Street
Lyon’s Electric
Shropshire’s
4Th Avenue
Napp’s
McCormack's
East
Grant Street
Fairview
Chappell’s
East Grant Street
Railroad Street
United States
MacKenzie King
Canada
Louis Mountbatten
South Asia
Deculius MacArthur
Southern
Chester W. Nimitz
Howard Cowan
Allied Expeditionary Force
U. S. First Army
UL S
S& Basin
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