Montgomery Breaks Through Siegfried Line Front
Allied forces push deep into Germany as First Army penetrates the Siegfried Line and advances toward the Roer river dams. Canadian and British units breakout from Reichswald, taking hundreds of prisoners and nearing Kleve. Parachute troops reportedly landed as the offensive broadens across the western front.
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Schwammenauel
Roer
Ruhr
Cologne
Pruem
Reich
Strasbourg
Upper Rhine
Switzerland
Eisenhower
Berin
Henry Crerar
First Army
Rhine
Reichswald
Galeensteen
Zyiflich
Germany
Kleve
Canadian First Army
North Sea
Reuters
Reichswald Forest
Tethee
Siegfried
World War Fronts Report New Allied Offensives
Western Front reports Canadian First Army advancing in the north while U S First and Third Armies hammer Siegfried defenses. Russian Front sees Red Army moving toward Stettin and Oder crossings. Italian Front notes German counterattacks. Pacific Front mentions Panjin crossing and Corregidor air activity.
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The
Associated Press
U.S
Red Army
Stettin
Pomersala
Redsbridge
Oder
Little Girl Sacrifices Candy for Her Daddy in Manila Camp
In Santo Tomas internment camp Manila a little girl saved a bar of candy for her father who suffered beri beri. After months of scarcity under Japanese rule, Allied relief brought rations and a donor shared the sweet. William J. Dunn of CBS relayed the broadcast account from Manila.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Santo Tomas
Manila
William J. Dunn
Columbia Broadcasting System
McCorvey backs Negro voting in Alabama primaries
Alabama Democratic chairman Gessner T. McCorvey said Negroes who are properly registered and have paid poll taxes should vote in the primaries. He urged retaining primary laws but extending voter eligibility under judicially guided reforms, opposing a return to conventions and suggesting registrars gain judicial authority and voters receive appeals and jury trials. He warned state statutes cannot bar qualified Black voters after the Texas decision.
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Montgomery
Gessner T. McCorvey
Alabama Democratic Executive Committee
Democratic Party
McCorvey
United States Supreme Court
Texas
Alabama
Mrs. Smith Warns of New Nursing Hoarding Threat
The Alabama health division warns of hoarding critically scarce nursing care that could endanger many sick people and the war effort. Mrs Walter Bragesmith calls on Alabama residents to request nurses only when truly needed to ensure those in desperate need receive care. The appeal stresses waste of nursing resources and the impact on patients whose lives depend on timely help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Division of Public Health Education
State Department of Health At
Montgomery
Walter Bragesmith
Alabama State Nurses’ Association
Alabama
Sharply Worded Court Decision To Be Contested
In Atlanta AP reports a Georgia Supreme Court opinion uphold ing a death sentence for David Watkins amid claims of biased Negro jury lists in Bibb County. The decision, seen as curtailing state judicial authority, heads to the U S Supreme Court for review.
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Atlanta
Georgia Supreme Cont
U.S. Supreme Court
Georgia
Negra
David Watkins
Macon
W. C. Turpin, Jr
Georgia Supreme Court
Supreme Court of Georgia
Supreme Court of the United Staes
Warren Grice
U. S. Supreme Court
Grice
Watkins
Bibb
Georgia Tribunal
Bibb County
Charles H. Garrett
Garrett
Kobe Bombed Again by Yank Planes in Sixth Raid
Tokyo radio reports indicate a sixth daily B 29 raid on Japan with a single Superfortress in today’s attack at 2 a m and a daylight B 29 recon over the Tokyo Yokohama area for over an hour. Japanese broadcasts claim attacks on Japanese occupied North Borneo Thursday by about 50 planes, following a Wednesday raid by 40 B 25s and P 33s, amid notes of further strikes on Ya and Truk, and on Iwo Jima and Haha Jima in the Bonin group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Pree
Kobe
Japan
Tokyo Radio
Tokyo- Yokohama
Japaonese
North Borneo
Truk Islands
Jima
Haha Jima
Reichland Rail And Oil Centers Hit By Yankees
Allied air forces mounted a major daylong assault on German rail and oil facilities. About 1,200 American heavy bombers and 5,000 fighters attacked synthetical plants near Lutzkendorf and Magdeburg, with RAF strikes on Politz oil works near Stettin and sorties exceeding 1,560 by U S fighters and bombers along the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lutzkendorf
Lemag
Weimar
Germany
Magdeburg
Politz
Stettin
Berlin
RAF
U.S
Reichswald Forest
Coffee County Man Arrested In Oregon
Clifford Ward of Elba Alabama was arrested in Vanport City Oregon on a federal charge of fleeing Alabama to avoid prosecution for second degree burglary in Enterprise. Ward reportedly possessed stolen money and was attempting to rob a safe after burglarizing Talmadge Heath’s store. Extradition proceedings and prior Alabama charges are noted by FBI official R J Abbaticchio Jr. local authorities say Ward escaped from Elba jail while serving a trusty term.
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Oregon
Coffee County
Clifford Ward
Elba
Alabama
Enterprise
R. J. Abbaticchia, Jr
Birmingham
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ward
Abdbatirchie
Vanport City
FBI
Abbaticchio
Doak Outlines OPA Rent Registration Rules
Doak cites landlords in Coffee Dale and Houston counties under OPA rent regulations. He urges all owners with one or two paying guests to register rentals, noting current nonregistration surveys in eight cities. He stresses rent as a major cost of living and calls for 1 percent registration of rental units nationwide.
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Coffee
Dale
Houston
OPA
Zolly Doak
Dothan-Ozark
T Yefer
Doak
Republicans Draw Line On Dewey Proposal In Congress
Governor Dewey urged immediate American participation in shaping postwar European decisions and backing a United Nations council. He framed GOP clashes with the administration as differences in method, not goals, while some senators questioned the domestic and international emphasis.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
New York
Europe
Congress
Roosevelt
Churchill
England
Stalin
Russia
Wilts R.ind
Tebery
Austin
H-Vic
Senate Forest Relations Committee
United Nations
Posthumous Award Given St Canant at informal ceremony
In a formal home ceremony last Saturday Mrs. Mary F Canant of Tasneville received the Adri Medal with two Quvk Leaf Clusters on behalf of her husband First Gt Amuel RB Canant who was killed in action while serving with the Eighth Air Forces in Europe. The medal was presented by Col. Charles J Daly commanding Napier Field with Capt Milton Wo Etters assisting. The citation praised exceptional merit during separate bomber combat missions over enemy-occupied Continental Europe stating his courage coolness and skill aided in the successful completion of missions and reflected great credit on himself and the United States Armed Forces.
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Ter
Adri
Mary F. Canant
Tasneville
Amuel RB. Canant
Owas
Uty
Eighth Air Forces
Furope
Charles J Daly
Napier Field
Milton Wo Etters
Etters
Mra
United States
Manila Front Advances as Yanks Enter Intramuros
U S infantry pushed across the Pasig into southern Manila and moved toward the government center, clearing out Japanese defenders and destroying tanks. MacArthur reports heavy enemy losses in Central Luzon and captures of Munoz Rizal and Lupan as the Luzon campaign widens.
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Manta
API
U. S
Pasig
Munda
Manila
Malacanan Palace
Douglas MacArthur
Joseph M. Swing
11Th Airborne
Nichols Field
Mirdrobe
MacArthur
Second Armored Division
Luzon
Munoz
Rizal
Lupan
Luezon
Philippines
Josees
Roosevelt Shown Draft Plan for Central Intelligence Service
Chicago AP dispatch reports President Roosevelt received a draft order and a proposal to create a central intelligence service to coordinate postwar intelligence and supersede existing federal police units. Brig. Gen Donovan of OSS delivered the memo, which envisions broad powers and direct presidential reporting, with only 15 copies made.
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Chicago
Trisbune Today
Roosevelt
Central ’ Intelligence Service
Washington
Walter Trohan
William J. Donovan
Office of Strategic Services
the Tribune
General Intelligence Service
Federal
Naval Intelligence
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Secret Service
Internal Revenue Agents
Federal Communications Commission
Admiral Tready
General Marshall
Army
Admiral King
Naval Operations
Stettinius
Navy
Forrestal
Stimson
Cox Now Prisoner In Jap Homeland
Staff Sergeant Hughy K. Cox of Slocomb was taken prisoner in the Philippines in 1942. He is now in a Japanese POW camp after transfer from a Philippine camp. A card to his father describes Nippon Tarnwell and asks no worry. Cox enlisted March 11 1947 in the Army Air Corps and was in the Philippines when the war began. He last communicated December 15 1941.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hughy K. Cox
Slocomb
Philippine Islands
Japan
Philippines
C. A. P. Cox
Slocormab
Nippon Tarnwell
Smather
Max
Fukuyoka
Honshu
Cox
Army Air Corps
Cay
16 4-H Members To Compete For Awards
Sixteen 4-H Club members in Huston County will compete for awards at the Tri-State Fat Stock Show on April 3 and 4. Mr Creel, the county agent, said the group will enter twenty calves in the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huston County
Creel
Tara
Telephone Refunds Coming to Alabama Subscribers in 1945
About 6000 customers of the Standard Telephone and Telegraph Company and Andalusia Telephone Company will receive refunds under a 1944 earnings order of the Alabama Public Service Commission. The refunds, estimated at 45,000 dollars, average about five dollars per subscriber and will be mailed in March from the Troy office, with checks sent to customers in ten or more Wiregrass towns including Dothan, Ozark, Enterprise, Andalusia, Headland, Geneva, Abbeville, Brundidge, and surrounding areas.
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Standard Telephone and Telepraph Company
Andalusia Telephone Company
Alabama Public Service Commission
Ing
GT. McKelvey
Dalhan
Watd
Carmrmissionere
Gordon Persons
W. Clint Harton
Montgomery
Atra
Tdothan
Ozark
Enterprise
Etju
Andalusia
Headland
Geneva
Abbene
Rrundidge
Mariford
Siotamb
Columbia
Samaon
Troy
13 Mile Advance Scored By Reds In Less Than Day
Russians close on Stetlin and Breslau as Zhukov directs heavy artillery at Oder fortifications. Konev’s offensive from Marsch bridgehead pushes toward Breslau with Parchwitz among the early falls as German reports claim Ukrainian forces press near Liegnitz southeast of Parchwitz.
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Reds
James F. King
London
Stetlin
Berlina
Breslau
Silesian
Gregory Zhukov
Oder
Berlin
Ivan Xkonev
Marsch
Parchwitz
Liegnitz
Redrawing Berlin Front as Soviet Push Near Stettin
Allied dispatches describe Soviet forces probing toward Stettin from Oder positions with bridgeheads reported, while German defenses claim partial containment. North and east fronts show advancing Russians within tens of miles of Breslau and the Baltic as Berlin’s defenses brace for a major pivot in Pomerania.
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Cavite
Corregidor Island
Bsiash
Manila Bay
Tokyo
NEA Telephoto
Siegfried Line
Unadian
Amerinhe
Panig River
Doughbers
Mpet
Bainan
Yank Superfort
Reichland
Yankees
Jernme Erle Cox
West Pon
Bliss
Memphis
Tepn
Republican Party
St. Canant
FDR
Intelligence Service
Terbane
4-H
Zellirs
Linnich - Julich - Doeren Arta
Wallan Front
Beno River
Kurtseh
Moscow
Konev
Saxony
Reetz
Bernsisin
Sammenthin
Baltic
Zhukov
Kuestrin
Wriezen
Zaekerick
Zellin
Pomerania
Danzig
Sammenthine
Pyritz
Sturgard
Huarding
Stetin
Stettin-Stargard Dar 2
Hernateln
Stargard
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