Weather and war news from Decatur and beyond
Cloudy and showery conditions forecast with variable winds across the coast. Alabama War Chest United Charities drives prep for October 17 open, while Barrett Shelton attends a state board session in Montgomery. War Department reports promotions and missing in action cases including Pfc Wilks W Turney. Wounded in action include Pfc Frederick H Basenberg Jr and Sgt Floyd M Dawson. Local health and church events plus rotating notices fill page with community updates.
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Alabama War Chest-United Charities Campaign
Decatur
War Department
Pfc
Frederick H. Basenberg Jr
Mary W. Basenberg
Hanceville 1
War outlook shows Japan able to sustain war and extend fighting
OWI briefing warns the war against Japan will last at least 18 more months after Germany falls. It cites China geography and manpower, Japanese gains in China, and large Japanese army and reserve pools. Report notes Peleliu fighting, Nimitz and MacArthur advances, and heavy Allied losses vs Japan.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Japan
Germany
Office of War Information
OWI
China
Nippon
Southeast China
Kweilin
Burma
Fort White
Tiddh
India
Peleliu Island
Palau
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Ocean
Bonin Islands
Tokyo
Berlin
Anshan
Douglas MacArthur
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Philippines
Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
Peleliu
Holland
Europe
Sal Sheener
Paratrooper Kennamer Dies in France Linked to Gorrell Shooting
War Department confirms Phil Kennamer, 28, paroled after a 25 year manslaughter sentence, killed in France. Kennamer was a central figure in the 1934 Thanksgiving Week slaying of socialite John F. Gorrell in Tulsa, a case that spanned trials and clemency pleas.
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Tulsa
Okla
France
Phil Kennamer
John F. Gorrell
War Department
Franklin E. Kennamer
Gorrell
Beecomes
Oaw
Kennamer
M Kernnamer
Oklahoma
Sheriff's of
Allied Aerial Blitz Focuses on German Rail and Industry
American heavy bombers and British aircraft attacked Kassel Ludwigshafen Cologne Mainz and Karlsruhe with 6000 tons of explosives as raids hit rail yards and war plants behind the Western Front. Beaufighters and Lancasters targeted Corfu Ostiglia and other strategic sites while Patton’s U S Third Army supported ongoing offensives in France.
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London
Kassel
Ludwigshafen
Cologne
Mainz
Germany
U. S
Western
Karlsruhe
Frankfurt
Rhine
Metz
Luxembourg
Air Ministry
Associated Press
Borovnica
Yugoslavia
Trieste
Vienna- Trieste
Corfu
Ostigli
Bologna
France
George S. Patton
U. S. Third Army
Canners Permitted for Next Canning Season
War Production Board approves continued canning operations and aminum pressure canning toward next year. Officials say manufacture will proceed the next nine months as the country prepares for the upcoming season.
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Washington
War Production Board
Canning Sea- Say
Manpower Cutback Plans Foresee 40 Percent Reduction
McNutt says munitions program to be cut 40 percent and government controls not needed. 68 000 new workers needed for explosive plants and 50 000 for production and ship repairs. six plants to test employing nationals from Costa Rica and the Barbadoes to fill shortages.
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New York
Paul V. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
McNutt
American Management Association
Lawrence Appley
Vick Chemical Co
Germany
Army
WMC
Costa Rica
Barbadoes
Playoff Game Set to Decide Pennant Tie
If the St Louis and Detroit finish tied for the American League pennant the title will be decided in a playoff game in Detroit on Monday October 2. The site was chosen by a coin flip in the league president Will Harridge’s office.
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Paul Montgomery
Central Baptist Church
Dr. Montgomery
Red Ted Stannen
Allies Strike Along Dalmatian Coast in Balkan Push
Allied sea and air forces landed in Albania and on Dalmatian coast islands to block German retreat routes. Land operations reportedly destroyed a garrison at Himata while destroying rail bridges over the Danube and disrupting supply lines as Partisans and Allied commands pressure German withdrawals.
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Associated Press
Rome
Albania
Yugoslavia
Balkans
Reich
Adriatic
Europe
Dalmatian
Himata
Berlin
DNB
Aegean Sea
Melos
Aegean
Mediteranean
Danube
Budapest
Belgrade
Mrs. Lou Barrett Dies at 86 in Danville Home
Mrs. Lou M. Barrett, 86, died at her Danville home. She is survived by two daughters Mrs. Mac Clemons of Danville and Mrs. Clarence Terry of Indianapolis, and two sons Willie Barrett and Dave Barrett of Indianapolis. Funeral arrangements will be announced pending arrival of relatives by Peck.
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Lou M. Barrett
Danville
Mac Clemons
Clarence Terry
Indianapolis
Indiana
Willie Barrett
Dave Barrett
War Outlook Confident Despite Tough Allied Front
The government asserts ongoing fighting into 1946 as Allied spirits dip after Cassino. Emphasis shifts from Europe’s closing war to Japan and broader battles, noting pride in air campaigns and the need to stay realistic about postwar goals and timing.
Nazi retreat toward Riga turns into stampede amid Red drive
Russian forces push from three directions toward Riga as Red air attacks wreck German retreat routes. Estonian coast cleared, hundreds of roads and rail cars destroyed, and Latvia nears Baltic port. Hungary faces renewed pressure as troops threaten frontier.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Riga
Red Army
Latvia
Baltic
East Prussia
Red Air Force
Estonia
Hungary
Aero
Istanbul
Turkey
Turka
Nazi Defiance echoes in anniversary war pledge
Berlin broadcast quotes Joachin von Ribbentrop declaring the war a life and death struggle and that defeat would invite ruin for Germany Italy and Japan. He warns Allies will suffer heavy losses and vows courage to the last breath amid Axis unity with Mussolini and Shigemitsu marking the Berlin Rome Axis anniversary.
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London
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Reich
Westhraeater
Germany
Italy
Japan
DNB
Berlin
Benito Mussolini
Mamoru Shigemitsu
von Ribbentrop
Germans Drive Back Fifth Army on Monte La Fine South of Bologna
Allied reports say a strong German counterattack expelled American troops from part of Monte La Fine as the Fifth Army faced renewed pressure from General Field Marshal Kesselring. The Eighth Army widened bridgeheads near Rimini while fighting along the Rubicon. American Marauders also hit Po valley bridges, including a 1,250-foot rail bridge at Ostiglia.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Monte la Fine
Bologna
Eighth Army
Rubicon
Po Valley
Bellaria
Rimini
Ravenna
Albert Kesselring
Apennines
Aeong
Firenzuela
Monte ii
Fork
Highway 67
7Th Army
Rubicon River
Ostigli
Hershey Advocates Peacetime Military Training
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, urged peacetime military training for the nation’s youth saying modern warfare changes demand preparedness to avoid disaster. He spoke in New York on September 27.
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New York
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Plea Entered In Trombonist Dorsey Case
Los Angeles September 27 trombonist Tommy Dorsey pleads innocent. Police report details not released, defense asks for full disclosure of charges and potential trial date.
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Los Angeles
Tommy Dorsey
Allied forces press winter campaign amid Metz bridge seizure
Across the Moselle near Metz Allied troops seized a key Wate moated Fort Friant as German resistance stiffened. In Holland the Arnhem airborne survivors completed their retreat across the Rhine after a nine day battle, the loss of the famed division noted as a turning point in the invasion.
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Metz
Third Army
Arnhem Retreat Ends British Airborne Hold
British first airborne division withdrawn to the south bank of the Rhine after a nine day battle at Arnhem. Many wounded left behind as prisoners. surviving paratroops earned a hero’s record in stubborn defense. Supplies ran low as Montgomery’s drive toward Arnhem lagged, preventing relief. Continued in Tage Two.
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Siegfried Line
First Airborne
Sir Bernard Montgomery
Eindhoven
Nijme
Arnhem
Massed Allied Drive Reaches Maas Front in Holland Push
British and Belgian divisions massed troops and armor east of the Maas river along a 40 mile front as Allied forces push deeper toward Nijmegen Arnhem and toward Germany. The Arnhem crossing and airborne actions remain officially unconfirmed but hinted as ongoing.
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Kleve
Germany
Dutch Arnhem
Siegfried Line
Deurne
Breute
Aachen
James M. Long
London
Holland
Maas River
Nijmegen
Arnhem
Ni Rhine
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