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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1944
Page
1
The state weather outlook notes partial cloudiness with scattered showers in the East and South Tuesday. The Navy and War Departments report wounded among Marines and Army personnel, with names and home addresses listed. Local hospital moves, civilian injuries, arrests, births, and school events are documented, plus community visitors and furloughs.
A Eisenhower spokesman addressed 12,000,000 foreign workers in Germany urging action against the Gestapo. The message instructs organized workers to disappear from towns, seek work on the land, and follow tightly controlled plans to resist, while warning of dangers and noting food needs after Hitler's defeat.
Mrs Cara Rogers Stevens of New York dies at 85 after serving as national president general of the Daughters of the Revolution and former national president of the Elmira College Alumnae Association.
About 3000 people gathered at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Decatur as the U S Army formally accepted and commissioned two supply vessels, marking the first inland river shipyard to perform such a ceremony. ASpeaker system failed earlier, but the commissioning proceeded with Lt Commander John Schumaker and Lt (jg) G P Kretzschmar leading officers and crew.
Berlin reports that Hitler’s high command anticipates renewed Allied advances on multiple fronts. The U S Third Army aims for the Rhine while Russians push in the East, with heavy German losses in the Balkans and dwindling strength in Italy. The essay describes a broad, coordinated pressure rather than a single pincers move.
Pitts was shot in the right side near Bank and Vine Streets by Albert Zills at the G and W Cafe. He underwent surgery and multiple blood transfusions at Baugh infirmary, where doctors called his condition critical but improving. Zills was arrested and held at Morgan county jail as Pitts remained in treatment.
More than 1 200 American heavy bombers with fighter escort attacked Frankfurt Coblenz and Ludwigshafen as part of a major air raid. British heavies dropped thousands of tons on Munster Bochum while US Thunderbolts aided Patton’s drive near Nancy.
Allied forces report Fifth Army units breaking the German Gothic line and closing to within about 12 miles of the Bologna Rimini highway. Canadian corps reach Rimini area while eighth army battles near the Rubicon and San Giustina. Weather turns cloudy with rain threatening battle zones.
German bombs struck the London area and southern counties in two bursts after dark and again in the morning. Eleven people were injured when a bomb exploded at a Roman Catholic boys' school grounds. The government urged volunteers to repair about 900,000 damaged homes before winter.
Mrs Whitney dies in New York on September 25. The Secretary of State in the McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt administrations, she was married to financier Payne Whitney who left an estate valued at 250 million dollars at his death in May.
Swedish Minister Wostrom told reporters after meeting Secretary Hull that Sweden would resist if German troops in Finland and Norway crossed into Swedish territory. He cited a changed Baltic situation and said Sweden had not been asked to sever relations with Germany but favors the Allied cause.
Soviet troops push toward Riga as Baltic offensive tightens. Red columns advance from north and east, Moscow reports say nearly complete capture of Estonia and Govorov’s forces move along the Gulf of Riga toward Baltic port cities. Russian and Romanian units push from Lupkow Pass into Czechoslovakia and southeastern Hungary, signaling a broad pincers move against Germany and Hungary.
Tokyo radio said American seaborne planes destroyed 357 Japanese planes and 40 ships in a two day raid around Manila. Nimitz noted 11 planes and 15 airmen lost. carrier planes then hit Cebu Legaspi and other central Philippines towns.
Eight hundred miners at the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Wylam coal mine halted a 10 day walkout. Company reports near normal day shift crews and an estimated loss of about 30,000 tons of coal produced during the stoppage.
The Post-Intelligencer reports the Ledo road as a crucial China lifeline linking via Burma into Yunnan China. Built by Army engineers led by Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Pick the route served Stilwell’s forces and allowed L-4 planes to evacuate wounded.
Allied forces break into Germany across the Rhine near Kleve and Arnhem as British paratroopers and American troops seize Beek and push toward the Reichswald. Canadians and British advance toward Antwerp Turnhout canal as Polish reinforcements join the push.
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