Bombing of Nuernberg Targets Rail and Nazi Rally Point
London AP reports a heavy RAF night raid on Nuernberg, a key railway and industrial hub and Nazi rallying point in southern Germany. Sixteen bombers lost, three enemy fighters shot down, part of a broader offensive targeting industries producing finished goods. Channel crossings and further raids on Mannheim and Ludwigshaven followed as German air raids occurred in retaliation.
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London
Noernberg
Germany
Air Ministry
FAR
Rohr
Rejchamarshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Nuersberg
Britain
Berlin
Ruhr
Ber- Ho
Munich
Italy
Nuernberg
Chanmel Et Desk
Mannheim
Ludwigshaven
Rhineland
Vinson urges keeping navy intact to guarantee peace
Rep Carl Vinson veteran Georgia Democrat and chair of the House Naval Affairs Committee urged that the U S naval forces remain intact after World War II to preserve peace He warned against postwar commitments that could invite new conflicts noting that wars and rumors of wars would continue and stressing readiness as a deterrent
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Rep. Vinson
SY Romney Wheeler
Vinson
A Bigarly
World Today World War Fronts and Moves Across Theaters
Domestic front reports Prime Minister Church in Canada and Mackenzie King meeting before sixth war conference with Roosevelt. In the Pacific US forces trap Japanese near Bairoko harbor and advance on Salamaua. In Sicily Allied troops press inland toward Randazzo as Seventh Army and British push from Mt Eine. In Russia Soviet drives head toward Kharkov and Bryansk. RAF raids target Nuremberg.
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Church
Canada
Mackenna King
Waller
Roosevelt
London
Europe
South Pacific
United States Army
New Georgia
Solomons
Baireko Harbor
Romberg
Papo
U. S
Seventh Army
Mt. Eine
Randamso
Rubia
Kharkovyana Brysnsk
Khariser
Reds tighten three sided pincer on Kharkov drives
Soviet forces push toward Kharkov and Bryansk in a three sided thrust while inflicting heavy losses on retreating German troops. A second column penetrates grain regions near Sumy and Kiev, with Bumy as a key rail point northwest of Kharkov on the route to Bryansk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KY Henry Cassidy
Moscow
Red Army
Kharkov
Bryanak
Sumy
Kiev
Bumy
Bryensk
Bryansk
Orel
Governor Sparks Directs State School Survey
Gov Chauncey Sparks directs the New Educational Survey Commission to study Alabama state education. The panel will contact federal and private groups, appraise primary schools and higher education, and prepare recommendations for the 1945 legislature. Members include Dr Hubert Searcy, Bishop C C J Carpenter, and others. two members were out of state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teachers College
Alabama
Thormes F. Kilby
Anniston
W. M. Rogers
Birmingham
Douglas Stockham
Prowler Flees When Officers Are Called
Dothan residents reported a prowler seen near Norman Blaum on War Main. Police arrived to find the intruder fled and later in the Blaum backyard. neighbors across the street also saw the prowler. Call logged at 12 m this morning. neighborhood search found no trace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dothan
Norman Blaum
Blaum
Common Pleas Court Convicts Three in Dothan Calendar
A Dothan court calendar listed 18 cases before Judge Lawrence Oakley with most continued and three convictions handed down. One person was convicted of vagrancy and two for public drunkenness as authorities vow to combat crime.
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Court of Common Pleas
Lawrence Oakley
Thias
Fm Dothan
Houston County
Wase & Tr
Churchill and Mackenzie King Meet in Quebec Fortress
British Prime Minister Churchill and Canadian Premier Mackenzie King conferred in Quebec City amid war talks. Officials said discussions focused on Allied strategy and plans for Churchill's broader talks with Roosevelt, signaling intensified efforts against the Axis and potential new offensives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas Cornell
Quebec
Britain
Canada
Ton Churchill
W. le MacKenzie Hing
Churchill
Roosevelt
Atlantic
North America
MacKenzie King
Lirom Churchill
Mr. Churchill
Naluraly
Axis
United Nations
Grey Stone
MacTarn
No. 12
Army and Marine Forces Encircle Japs At Bairoko
Allied headquarters report forces of the United States encircled Japanese troops at Bairoko on New Georgia Island. Referenced as a "Bataan in reverse," the Army and Marine units completed the encirclement after fighting in the area.
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Bairoko
New Georgia
Bataan
Southwest Pacific
New Georgia Island
Une
Jastre
Tara
Pillaged Troina Welcomes Victorious Allied Troops
Delayed AP account describes Troina residents, exhausted from five days of siege, greeting American troops led by Lieut Everett Booth as streets were lined with civilians and wrecked houses. Germans retreated, leaving ruin as locals show cautious relief and sorrow.
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Don Whitehead
U. & Seventh Army
Troina
Velleya
Lieut
Everett Booth
141Th Street
Chicago
Traine
Troopa
Booth
Trojus
Tura
Missing Napier Field training plane leaves search for occupant
A Napier Field training plane with one occupant vanished after taking off at 10 p.m. Monday during a routine eight hour navigation flight to Opanke and Montgomery. Public officials request local residents to report any unusual aircraft activity between 10 p.m. Monday and 3 a.m. Tuesday to the Fast Operational Officer at Napier Field.
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Napier Field
Opanke
Montgomery
Nabplec Wield
Allied air command reports 999 Axis planes seized in Sicily
AP dispatches show Allied Air Command listing 999 Axis aircraft recovered from Sicilian airfields, including 252 Messerschmitt 109s. Separate figures say US Navy air forces destroyed 198 Japanese planes in the first 10 days of the Central Solomon Islands offensive, up from 147. Berlin shifts its entire school system to undisclosed Brandenburg Warthegan sites ahead of a capital move.
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Allied
North Africa
Allied Air Command
Washington
Solomon Islands
United States Airforces
Eall
Anite
Stockholm
Berlin
Brandenburg
East Prussia
Warthegan
Hamburg
Churchill FDR talks seen as prelude to new anti Axis blows
London dispatch notes expectations that Churchill Roosevelt conferences will push for rapid end to Italy campaign and shift focus to pressing Germany. Analysts cite presumed Allied offensives from Britain and strengthened US Canada forces, new air bases, and larger Allied command ready for European mainland tasks.
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Germany
Joseph Stalin
Aear
Britain
Viaitora
Great Britain
Mediterranean
Discharged Soldiers To Aid Labor Shortage At Home
Washington AP reports 4,500 soldiers will be furloughed tomorrow to enter crucial metal and mineral mines amid a manpower shortage. About 100 mines with 76,000 workers need 8,000 more, with a priority system guiding enlistment into No 1 and No 2 classifications for ores like molybdenum copper talc mica and fluor sparking to aid aluminum and steel production.
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James Marlow
George Zifilke Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Eyatem
America
WPE
War Menpower Commission
WMC
Coppera
WPBE
Detroit Race Riot Not Premeditated by Committe Report
A state appointed committee led by Prosecutor Dowling and including Attorney General Ruphton Police Commissioner Witherspoon and State Police Commissioner Olander found Detroit’s June riots were not premeditated. They blamed racial tension inflamed by a false rumor spread by Lap Tipton and noted violence followed gatherings near Belle Isle. The report cites 34 deaths and about 800 injuries, with responsibility shared by both white and Negro rioters.
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Detroit
Harry F. Kelly
William FE Dowling
Herbert J Ruphton
John FE Witherspoon
Oscar Olander
Lap Tipton
Negri
Whiten
Lhild
Berle Tate
Tipton
Dowling
Belle Isle
Detroit River
Belle
Cotton Crop Outlook in South Alabama
In south Alabama cotton picking is underway at a rapid pace as fields open. Meteorologist E Dy Emigh of the U.S. Weather Bureau provides a weekly weather crop summary noting no extreme heat this week. The report highlights mild temperatures and favorable conditions for ongoing harvest.
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Montgomery
South
Alabama
E Dy Emigh
U. 43
Food Chief Considers Buying Food to Stabilize Prices
Washington AP reports officials near Food Administrator Marvin Jones warn the War Food Administration may need to buy and resell portions of the food supply to curb inflation and high farm prices. Government price supports may rise for several crops, with losses covered by the Army Navy and Lend-Lease.
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Ovid
A. Martin Washington
Marvin Jones
War Food Administration
Congress
Tina
Chaewa
Salch
Posters Distributed On Work Or Fight In Montgomery
AP reports the State Labor Supply Commission distributed about 1000 work or fight posters to alde rifts and county agents for posting in urban and rural areas. The placards urge enforcement of the vagrancy law and feature a Gov. Chauncey Barkas proclamation asserting idleness won’t be tolerated during men’s service.
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Montgomery
State Labor Supply Commission
Frank R. Broadway
Chauncey Bparka
British Advance Seven Miles To Capture Guardia
British Eighth Army pushes seven miles along Sicily's east coast toward Guardia, 18 miles south of Taormina, as forces near the Italian mainland eye Namely Taormina. Allied naval bombards target Castellammare and Cape Vaticano while German resistance stiffens. Allied air and ground units clash with Axis troops near Randazzo and Randazzo’s rail links, with strong emphasis on preserving footholds north of Mount Etna.
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Daniel Deluce
North Africa
Eighth Army
Sicily
Brita War Amps
Bay of Naples
Rome
Guardia
Taormina
Messina
Mt Etnathue
Cape Valticane
San Giovanni
Tyrrhenian Sea
Massine
Etralt
Nouthern
Italy
Berlin
Cape Vaticano
Sntme
Naples
Isle of
Capri
Mt Vesvius
Adresala
Bilet- Ilan
Sir Barenard I. Montgomery
Mt Vemuvius
Seventh Army
George 8 Patton, Jr
Tte
Rosmarino River
Ban Agata
Randarto
Mt. Hitna
Randazao
Yorrowing
Tupi
Bizerte
Ora
Randame
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Gov. Sparks
FE. Roper
AFL
Alabama ‘State Federation of Labor
Mra
Common Pleas Court
NEA Telephoto
Royal Palace
Palermo
Mussolini
Geoffey Keyes
Bernard L. Montgomery
8Th Army
George @. Patton
James F. King
Lend
All
Germmany
South Ala
Castellammare
Randazzo
Aicity
Scillan Verdun
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