Weather and War News From Decatur Area During War Years
Cloudy periods with showers today through Wednesday. High 87 and low 71. War Department reports several local men killed in action in Europe including Pvt James F Blair and Pvt Worley A Brown. Other service members noted as missing or surrounded in action. Local civic notes include court of honor for Boy Scouts and church and community notices.
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The
War Department
James F. Blair
Hn T. Blair
Vinemont 2
Worley A. Brown
Peggy E. Brown
Artselle 3
Alton Davis
William T. Davis
Taileytown
Toy
Armistice Signed by Finland Today
The Moscow radio announced Finland signed armistice with Russia and Britain. The terms would be disclosed later, with Finland to face a possible 30 year lease of Porkkala naval base. Finnish troops reportedly moved north against Germans as fighting resumed in some areas.
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London
Moscow Radio
Finland
Russia
Bki
Soviet Information Office
Britain
United Nations
Stockholm
Porkkala
Finnish Gulf
Helsinki
Dagens Nyheter
Morgan County Board approves 400000 refinancing warrants
Judge A A Griffith approves Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control plan to issue 400000 warrants to refinance a 1922 road bond. Bond issue payable 1952 at five percent. warrants carry two percent interest guaranteeing county two percent refinancing rate. Witnesses include Sim L Howell Pauline Rogers Cullom Walker and others.
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A. A. Griffith
Morgan County Board of Revenue & Control
Court House
Norman W. Harris
Board of Revenue & Control
Morgan County
Ben L. Britnell
W. H. Long
Decatur Iron
County Board of Revenue & Control
Raymond McAbee Shot In Hart County Play Trip
Six year old Raymond McAbee was wounded by a bullet to the stomach while playing at Rube Johnson's home near Hart. Authorities report a boy obtained a pistol from his father and fired. no witnesses. Police to name the other children involved.
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Raymond McAbee
Rube Johnson
Hart
Hartselle
Idren
Reconversion Bill Moves To Passage
A joint congressional committee approved a postwar reconversion bill by stripping unemployment compensation and back home travel pay for discharged workers. The measure creates an Office of War Mobilization to coordinate federal agency action in peacetime transition and preserves a revolving loan fund for state unemployment systems. The House and Senate leaders aimed to pass and send the bill to the other chamber before the weekend recess.
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Washington
Senate
George
House
Ways and Means
Doughton
N.C
Boards Hear OPA Officers in North Alabama District Meeting
A combined North Alabama OPA panel session heard leaders urge renewed effort to sustain wartime price and rationing controls into postwar periods. Andrew W. Smith announced a farm advisory committee to assist farmers with price and rationing issues while John Dobbs stressed tire conservation to support production and transport.
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District Information
Andrew W. Smith
George R. RoBards
James E. McCain
North Alabama
OPA
Smith
Allied planes sweep Europe with heavy raids on Bremerhaven Berlin
Allied air forces pounded Bremerhaven with 420000 fire bombs and attacked Berlin for the 179th time as Mosquitos and Lancasters hit targets from Bremen to the German capital. RAF night fighters protected bombers. four British planes were lost.
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London
Bremerhaven
Berlin
FCC
Budapest
Medeergneen
Wena
Bremen
Air Ministry
Norway
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Sixth victim sought in Navy plane crash near Jacksonville
Authorities at the Jacksonville naval air technical training center sought traces of a sixth man aboard a patrol plane that crashed during a routine training flight Friday night. The accident killed five Navy fliers and its exact location and circumstances remained unclear.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Jacksonville Naval Air Technical Training Center
GI Luxury Club To Open In Paris In October
A luxury club for Allied enlisted troops directed by General Eisenhower will open October 1 at the Grand Hotel Paris. The facility aims to provide a first of its kind social space with sleeping arrangements, barber and shoe-shining services, soft drinks, ice cream and bands in operation halls for visiting service members.
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Neuville Nordness
Paris
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Joe
Grand Hotel
Elsen Theater
Soviets Grind Down Nazis in Baltic Campaign
Moscow reports a five day battle in Latvia with the Red Army closing on German lines. Soviet losses cite 449 tanks and 365 planes knocked out in four days as they push to sever the Prussia to Estonia lifeline.
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Daniel DE Luce
Moscow
Red Army
Latvia
Stalin
Jelgava
Baltic
Prussia
Serea
Estonia
Mtaker
Decatur Mayoral Runoff Likely After Light Primary
In a light ballot Decatur voters chose Mayor Tom Harrison by 23 over H R Summer in a four person mayor race and elected A C Dillehay H R Speake Knox McRae Harlan Hunter and Rutledge Thomas to the council. The city council will canvass votes and set a September runoff date likely September 29 between Harrison and Summer.
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Decatur
Tom Harrison
H. R. “Sandy” Summer
A. C. Dillehay
H. R. Speake
Knox,McRae
Harlan Hunter
Rutledge Thomas
Harrison
Summer
J. D. Cloud
Butler Hine
H. R. Summer
A. C
Jack) Dillehay
H. R
Russell) Speake
Knox McRae
W. F. Boswell Sr
H. H. Hunter
Carl T. Jones
Rutledge S. Thomas
H. D. Greeves
Richardson Re-elected Athens Mayor in Four-Box Vote
Ras H. Richardson Jr. was returned without opposition as mayor of Athens with 311 votes. Ward 1 alderman H. Long ran unopposed and won 307 votes, Ward 2 alderman Henderson Legg unopposed with 304. Ward 3 went to W. A. Strange 166 over Fred Black 153. Ward 4 saw E. E. Nelson 181 over Grady Spence 140, and At Large incumbent T. E. Gills 121. Athens voters cast ballots in four boxes.
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Ras H. Richardson, Jr
Athens
H. Long
Henderson Legg
W. A. Strange
Fred Black
E. E. Nelson
Grady Spence
T. E. Gills
Tom Smith
Cullman Keeps Two Incumbents In City Election
Cullman voters re elected Mayor Dunlap and Alderman Tucker. In a representative vote the mayoral race favored Dunlap while aldermanic results placed J. R. Tucker 682, Paul Meadows 537 for Place 1 and L. B. Blair Hays 763, W. R. Griffin 468 for Place 2. Charles W. Alley received 618 in Place 3.
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Cullman
Dunlap
Tucker
Joe C. Sapp
J. R. Tucker
Paul Meadows
L. B
Blair) Hays
W. R
Bill) Griffin
Charles W. Alley
Moulton Elects New Mayor and Aldermen in One Box
Voters in Moulton chose a new mayor Monday with J. L. Weatherwax defeating Lowe Harris 143 to 65. All residents cast ballots in one precinct. The board of aldermen was unopposed with five council seats decided: Cropper 136 Proctor 139 Edward Stewart 139.
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Moulton
J. L. Weatherwax
Lowe Harris
Board of Aldermen
J.aeondemy
Cropper
Proctor
Edward Stewart
Marines Gain New Ground in Pacific Palau Battles
Marines drive toward climactic Palau clashes as Peleliu reports heavy Japanese losses and Asias, Ngarmoked, and Angaur secured. Army 91st division advances on Angaur while Morotai airfield shells Davao as Nimitz warns Japan faces tough, compact defenses.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Palau
Tokyo Radio
U. S
Philippines
Peleliu
Asias
Ngarmoked
Little Angaur
Japan
Saipan
Tokyo
Davao
Morotai Island
Morotai
Douglas MacArthur
United States
Artemus Gates
ODT to Close Nine District Offices Under New Plan
Atlanta Sept 19 Nine district offices of the Office of Defense Transportation will close under a new administrative program. Some ODT duties will be assumed by the Office of Price Administration, according to Regional Director John Caley.
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Atlanta
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Office of Price Administration
John Caley
Purple Heart Award To Marine From Area
Private First Class Willie W. Foshee of Decatur receives the Purple Heart for wounds at Tarawa. A Guadalcanal and Tarawa veteran and Priceville high school graduate, Foshee served in a Marine machine gun squad and was injured by a Jap pillbox. He previously fought at Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomons.
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Guadalcanal
Tarawa
Willie W. Foshee
Decatur
Naval Hospital
San Diego
Calif
Foshee
Charles C. Foshee
Decatur 2
M. D. Willcutts
Priceville High School
Solomons
Marine Corps
Fifth Army Breaks Gothic Line Heights Northeast of Florence
American fifth army troops captured Monte Partone Monte Altuzzo and Monte Celli as British Indian forces aided with flanking movements in a major assault on the Gothic line. The frontal push faced heavy artillery with thousands of shells and entrenched German positions. British forces also pierced toward San Marino near the Adriatic coast, establishing a bridgehead at Fantano and advancing toward San Marino city.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Monte Partone
Monte Altuzzo
Monte Celli
Florence
Eighth Army
Republic of
San Marino
Adriatic
Fantano
Marano
Ag Biedye A
Witn Its
Bologna
First Army
U. S. First Army
Siegfried Line
Rhineland
Finland's Strange War Path Through Two Conflicts
World War II era commentary notes Finland's sequence of alignments. It recalls fighting Russia to defend Lenin, then backing Nazi Germany against Russia, with England and the United States in varying roles, and future tensions as Finland confronts Hitler.
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Finland
Reds
Lenin
United Nations
Russia
England
United States
Hitler
Allied Airborne and Ground Forces Break Into Holland and Rhine Barrier
Allied sky troops crossed the Rhine into Holland near Nijmegen Arnhem and Eindhoven while British ground units advanced from Belgium. American armies push toward the Rhine in Germany as Dutch towns including Eindhoven Geldrop Rotterdam Amsterdam and The Hague face German countermeasures and blocking efforts.
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Cy James M. Long
London
Sky
Rhine
Holland
Germany
Lower Rhine
Nijmegen
Arnhem
The
Reich
Eindhoven
Supreme Headquarters
Indhoven
Rotterdam
the Hague
Amsterdam
Neder Ryn
Kleve
Second Army
Ringe
Belgium
Kolland
Berlin
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Onzell Caudle
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Aileytown 1
Ione McCall
Ay Eater Co
Ed Cross
W. R. Riley
Boy Scouts of
Morgan District
Scouts of
W. W. Glass
A. A. Jo
Birmingham
Presbyterian Synod of Alabama
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Huntsville
Annie Sparkman
Moulton Heights
Echols Harmony Boys
Riverside High School
American Legion Luxury
Joe Squash Head
E. R. Clements
J.d.humphrey & Sons, Druggs
Loydrug Company
Mr. Clements
Trinity
C. E. Mazec
Oulton Street
Decatur General Hospital
E. Pearce
ATU
Essie Reeves
Hartselle 2
Derwent
Baugh's Infirmary
C. C. Rolfe
A. W. Fuller
Baugh
Lola White
Charles G. Crowe
Charles S. Crowe Ofirmingham
Lake Field
Phoe
Arizqua
Sam
Gail Crow
Hamil Clinic
A. C. Craig
F. L. Garrison
Gon
Hamil
Ninth Avenue South
Brown's
Urlemale
Ken Reynolds
Lad
GI Luxury Club
City Council
W. T. Stewart
R. L. Sherrill
Louie H. Houston
J. E. Stone, Jr
Ben A Bean
J. O. Burleson
H. E. Ix
Ben F. Bean
H. E. Nix
G. P. Frost
S. M. Nelson
Chester W. Nimitz
Navy
Nimitz
MacArthur
Felon
Republic
NAZI
France
Utrecht
Gelderland
Amalienborg
Copenhagen
Danish Press Service
Nasi
Hague
Cologne
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