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Cloudy tonight with showers possible Tuesday across the East and south coastal areas. Mrs. Myrtle Riley is seriously ill at St. Thomas in Nashville, family residing in Union until recently. War and Navy Department reports include Clyde W. Ticer wounded in Europe and James O. Thomas reported dead. Aviation cadet Edward Thompson and Jack Coke attend training and schools. Fifth Army in Italy honors include Harold Reeves Jr. Local clubs meet with plans and speaker arrangements. Court docket items cover drunkenness, fines, and traffic violations. Nurses and patients transfer between Birmingham and Decatur facilities. Continued news on page two.
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Myrtle Riley
St. Thomas Hospital
Nashville
Riley
Union
NIPS REGISTER NEW ADVANCE AGAINST CHINA
Veteran Marines report progress against ridge entrenched Japanese on Peleliu as the 81st Wildcat division overruns part of Angaur. U S planes operate from Morotai while engineers convert captured airfields to spearhead the Pacific advance. Meanwhile China reports saboteurs in Kweilin and criticizes command inefficiency as American airfields fall silent.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Peleliu
Army
81St
Angaur
Palau Islands
U. S
Morotai
China
Kweiln
Japs Almost Have China Divided Now
The Japanese close a 110 mile gap to split China, with Yungming and Waitsap taken as others advance from Canton and Kwantung areas. Chinese forces recapture Lungling base on the Burma road while Japanese move toward Mung-shih, threatening a Manila to sea corridor if the split succeeds.
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Chungking
China
Betwen Yungming
Kweilin
Waitsap
Canton
High Command
Burma
Lungling
Mungshih
Yungming
Kwantung-Kwangsi
Manchuria
South China Sea
Tokyo
Singapore
Liuchow
Gwahest Paliseeds
Contac
Service Vote Requests To Go Out For Election
Secretary of State Libyl Pool will forward thousands of absentee ballot requests from service personnel to probate judges for the November 7 general election. With 37 days to dispatch and return ballots from distant fronts, most service members are expected to vote. On September 20 requests will be sent. about 12,000 have already been received locally on war ballot forms.
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Montgomery
Ala
Secretary of State
Agnes Baggett
Federal War Ballot Commission
Negro in burglary trial shot at courthouse in Alabama
A Black defendant in Lowndes county faces first degree burglary charges when a gunman fired two shots at him inside the courthouse in Hayneville Alabama. The shooter fled but was recaptured. no major disorder followed. Proceedings on the docket were continued.
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Hayneville
Ala
Lowndes County
Joe
Bell
Clemmons Gresham
Gresham
DeBardelaben
Clem
Postal insurance rate to be cut under new plan
Washington reports the Roosevelt administration signed a bill reducing postal insurance fees to encourage use of the service. The new schedule lowers costs across ranges from 1 cent to 70 cents, applying to deposits from $5 to $200 and up, aiming to trim a yearly deficit of about 200,000 dollars.
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Washington
Ose
Rooseveldent T
Pershing Improves Washington Milestone
General John J. Pershing shows improvement during a reported update from Washington. The 64 year old Army leader was treated and remained at a medical center where doctors noted progress in his condition with ongoing monitoring.
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Washington
John J
Mic
Panam Center
American Lt McGill Leads Surrender of 20000 Germans in France
A 24 year old American officer nicknamed Lawrence of Arabia engineered the surrender of 20000 German troops in southern France without loss. Maj Gen Erich Elsner ordered the action after Lt Samuel McGill and 18 men patrolled 1200 square miles below the Loire, guiding columns to the riverbank and feeding the Germans with hay grain and 400 horses to spare their lives.
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France
Loire
Erich Elsner
Samuel McGill
Ashtabula
Loire River
Yorks
Pepui
U. S
Nazi Attacks Smothered in Latvian Area
Moscow dispatches report a three day Russian drive near Jelgava 14 miles from Riga as German counterattacks with tanks and self propelled guns fail. Soviet bulletins say the Red army aims to crush German forces in Latvia and Estonia and prep for a major eastern front offensive.
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Moscow
Jelgava
Riga
Berlin
Latvia
Estonia
Red Army
Free Germany Committee
Warsaw
Estelay Brat Praxee 3
Targu-Mures
Transylvania
Gurghui
Hungary
Satu-Mare
Cluj
Csap
Associated Press
Joseph Morton
Bari
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Negotin
Danube
Radio France
Algiers
Istanbul
Salonika
Aegean Sea
FCC
Germany
Stalin
Communist Party
Pravda
Slow Voting Seen In City Election Day
Voters faced slow turnout today as polls opened for mayor and city council contests. Four mayoral candidates and eight council hopefuls competed while A C Dillehay and H R Speake stood unopposed. Eleven hundred to eighteen hundred ballots were expected from a city of about three thousand, with Thirteen reporting boxes in use and rapid counting anticipated after six o clock. The Decatur Daily would publish returns as boxes came in and keep telephone updates ready for the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur Daily
A. C. Dillehay
H. R. Speake
Allied Drive Slows Down in Northern Italy Front
Allied fifth and eighth armies press forts in Northern Italy with heavy German lines. Canadian and Greek troops push toward Rimini airfield while battles rage at San Martino on Monte LAbate. Brazilian expeditionary force praised as it enters action with the fifth army.
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Noland Norgaard
Rome
Italy
Adriatic
Rimini
San Martino
Monte L’abate
Eighth Army
Marano
Fifth Army
Brazi
Destructive Fire Destroys Haleyville Shops
A morning blaze in Haleyville Ala destroyed two buildings housing five businesses including T. H. Little and L. L. Johnson stores and Fells barber shop in a concrete block block, plus Shelton's cafe and Adams' barber shop in a galvanized metal building. Russellville firemen aided local crews. origin undetermined.
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Haleyville
Ala
T. H. Little
L. L. Johnson
Shelton
Adams
Russellville
Gov Arnall declines to reappoint Dr Ridley to State Board of Health
Gov Ellis Arnall said he would not reappoint Dr C L Ridley of Macon to the State Board of Health unless Ridley was recommended by the state board and the state public health department. Ridley's term expired Sept 15 and the nomination to a Macon physician alternately endorsed by the sixth district medical association was declined.
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Atlanta
Ellis Arnall
C. L. Ridley
Macon
State Board of Health
Ridley
State Board
State Department of Public Health
Allied Airborne Armored Supply Invasion Report
Allied airborne forces in Holland received heavy bomber and transport support as 250 Liberators and numerous C-47s and gliders fed the operation. German fighters Intercepted near Maastricht, 27 of 60 Messerschmitts and Focke-Wulfs downed. two Mustang losses.
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London
Holland
Messerschmitts
Lewis H. Brereton
War Today: Allies press on in Europe with total defeat urge
The piece argues for total German defeat, predicting Germany must be whipped on all fronts. It calls for decisive action to end the war, noting Allied advances and the risk of costly future losses. It highlights bombing as insufficient and stresses resolve to finish the war promptly.
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J. M. Roberts JR
DeWitt Mac
Western Front
Rman
Germany
Iaa
M Sou
Europe
Holland
Reich
Beret
Initial Round Won in Smash at Nazi Flank
War dispatches from London describe heavy Allied counter-attacks and sustained air and artillery support as American and Allied forces push toward Aachen and Eindhoven. Reported airborne landings in Holland and ongoing advance from multiple fronts signal a major push into Germany with Patton and Seventh Army operations expanding through Lorraine and toward Belfort.
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London
Associated Press
William Smith White
Germany
France
Belgium
Aachen
Paris
Tilburg
Nijmegen
Einhoven
Holland
George S. Patton
Moselle
Vosges
Nancy
Metz
Seventh
Mediterranean
Lure
Belfort
Upper Rhine
Pont-De Roide
Montebelard
Seventh Army
Rhine
Switzerland
Ander M. Patch
Modane
Mt. Denis
Italy
Hlansle-Bourg
Dwight D. Eisenshower
Lewis H.brereton
Evens
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wendell Sherrill
Bertha
Lara Mae Johnson
Florence
Bertha P. Sherrill
Grant Street
War Department
Tech
Clyde W. Ticer
Vert Ticer
Waterloo
Navy Department
James O. Thomas
U. S. Marine Corps
Owen J
Sixth Avenue North
Edward 4. Thompson
Souther Field
Americus
RAF
Stewart Field
Newburgh
New York
E. E. Thompson
Sixth Avenue East
Decatur
Jack, M. Coke
Beach Street
Amphibious Firemen Naval Training School
University of Illinois, Urbana
Pfc
Harold L. Reeves Jr
3Rd Marine Intantry Division
Lola White
Baugh’s Infirmary
Ee Guild of the First Methodisurch
Birmingham
National Association of Cost Acccountants
Thomas Jeffson
R. I. Ingalls
Ingalls Iron Works Company
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
W. J. Duncan
Finley Island
Robert T. Harris
Jeffersonville
Ind
Ving
Clyde Murphee
Tenth Avenue East
Brown's
Business and Professional Women's Club
Bank Street
Julian Harris
Lila Pritchett
U. S. Navy
L. C. Dalrymple
Hamil Clinic
Austinville
Brown's Ambulance
Harold Cox
Decatur General Hospital
Eighth Street
Ken Reynolds
Brussels
Antwerp
Uwece
En Charleroi
Chatillon
Langres
Hechtel
Rheine
Tstraspourd
Freiburg
Minden
Osnabruck
K Villingen
Second Army
Rhine River
A. Farnsworth
Farnsworth
Spencer Moosa
Pershing
Astounding
Latvian
By Eddy Gilmore
Cge
Allied
Cologne
James M. Long
Supreme Headquarters
Miles C
Ward
Schelde-Meuse Canal
BBC
Eindhoven
Siegfried
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