Yanks Advance Toward Bologna In Mobile Allied Push
Allied communiques report American troops nearing Bologna with rapid progress along Highway 65 amid bad weather and strong German resistance. Eighth Army has cleared German holdouts on Monte Galjo near the Fiumicino, while British and Indian forces contend with counterattacks along Monte Cere and the Fiumicino front. Brazilian and Negro American troops push along the Serra River area as South African units reach Monte Stanco before night counterattacks force withdrawals.
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Rome
Bologna
Maor
Po Valley
Castellacci
Barbarolo
Imola
Adriatic
Eighth Army
Fiumicino
Monte Gal Jo
Monte Gallo
Rimini
Monte Gattons
Fifth Army
Monte Cere
Palazzuolo- Castel Bolognese
13Th Corps
S. C. Kirkman
92Nd
Serra River
Seravezze
la Spezia
92Nd Division
Monte Stanco
Pistoia-Bologna
World Today front reports wide wartime advances
AP dispatch details Allied gains from Aachen to Metz and Nancy with 1,700 prisoners and limited progress at Fort Driant. Soviet breakthroughs reach Ward Memel and Tisza river area as Balkans see activity. British near Corinth while Athens may retreat. Bologna proximity noted. Pacific actions include Marcus Island bombardment and Koror raids. Asia reports mised air strikes on Chengtu and Kwailin intel.
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Associated Press
Aachen
Third
Metz
Nancy
Fort Driant
Tront
Lithuania
Memel
Balkans
Feech Tisza
Hungary
Budapest
Corinth
Athens
Haly
Bologna
Nimitz
Bat- Seforce
Marcus Island
Koror
Palau
Chengtu
Ditah Etund
Kwailin
Willkie Dies After Heart Attacks in Hospital
Wendell L. Willkie, former Republican presidential candidate, died at Lenox Hill Hospital after three heart attacks. His body lay in state at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. burial planned in Rushville, Indiana. Leaders including President Roosevelt and Governor Dewey praised his courage and public service as news wires noted his undecided stance on supporting Roosevelt in 1944.
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New York
Wendell L. Wilkie
Fifth Avenue
Lenox Hill Hospital
Indiana
Rushville
Ind
Roosevelt
Wendell Willkie
Dewey
Thomas E. Dewey
Republican Party
Willkie
Blue Network
Henry R. Luce
Time and Life
Drew Pearson
Associated Press
New York Harbor
Statue of Liberty
U S Batteforce Bombards Marcus Island in Pacific
A strong U S battleforce shelled Marcus Island all day, silencing much of its coast defense with deliberate gunfire. Admiral Nimtz and Tokyo reports differ on planes, while Halsey’s Third Fleet pummeled Palau and Peleliu as ground troops push forward behind Corsair air support.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
U. S
Japan
Marcus Island
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Tokyo
William
Halsey
Philippines
Palau Islands
Transocean News
Koror
Palau
Giers
Nimitz
Peleliu
Zamboanga
Balik - Papan
Borneo
Chengtu
China
Reds Open New Drive as Muscovites Surge 62 Miles
Soviet offensives cut German lines near Memel and Hun Budapest area. Baltic breakthrough west of Siauliai enveloped 2,000 towns, reaching within 25 miles of Memel. Russians reportedly destroyed hundreds of German tanks and self propelled guns and took many prisoners as they pierced Baltic coast.
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Daniel Delicee
Moscow
Meme
Hungary
Romania
Budapest
Siauliai
Lithuania
Sovet
Memel
East Prussia
Pravda
Baltic
First Baltic Army
Leipaja
Baltic Zone
Bagramian
Siauliai-Memel
Cards Leading In Sixth Game Of World Series
In the sixth game era World Series action, Cardinals Litwhiler and Kurowski reach base with a trip and single while Browns rally early, scoring a run on Leabs’ triple and McQuinn’s RBI single as early framing shows a tight inning by both clubs.
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Browns
Stephens
Leabs
McQuinn
Christman
Hopp
Hayworth
Farm to market road projects approved in county
The county Board of Revenue approved a fourth farm to market paving project and informed an eastern county committee that five miles of road from Pansey toward Grangerburg will be paved once other projects finish. Other approved routes include Hodgesville to Dothan and Columbia to Gordon and Ashford to the Green Front. Churchill and Eden press for Moscow talks with Stalin Molotov as Hariman designated US representative. Churchill eyes third meeting with Stalin and Roosevelt before peace plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Board of Revenue
Pansey
Grangerburg
Hodgesville
Dothan
Columbia
Gordon
Ashford
Green Front
Pawsey-Grangerburg
Moscow
Churchill
Anthony Eden
Joseph Stalin
Vyacheslav Molotov
London
W. Averell Harriman
U. S
Russia
United States
Churchill Stalin
Stalin
Teheran
Alan Brooke
Britain
Hastings ¥Smay
Commons
Roosever
Appropriation Made For Fight On Bangs Disease
The Houston County Board authorized a 1500 appropriation to back Bangs disease control starting after January 1. The program, part of a federal USDA effort, will cover about 350 workdays and 5000 cattle herds with extra veterinarians and county touring for tests.
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Houston County
County Board of Revenge
Alabama
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
Dale County
Board of Revenue
Beatty Whiddon
Chamber of Commerce Agriculture Committee
Albert Logue
Clyde Coe
A. D. Ussery
H. O. Summerford
J. Brady Trawick
Perry Calhoun
L. E. Boswell
Fund Increase Voted For Extension Work
The county Board of Revenue increased the 1944-45 budget for the Alabama Extension Service in Houston County and for the Houston County War Price and Rationing Board. District agent Emmett Sizemore requested a $600 hike to $7,400 to support farm programs and peanut worm work with other services for farmers. A $500 balance from the 1943-44 budget will be returned, and the War Price and Rationing Board asked for $100 more to total $200. Both requests were approved unanimously.
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County Board of Revenue Today
Alabama Extension Service
Houston County
Houston County War Price and Rationing Board
Emmett Sizemore
Six Felons Escape From Walker Jail
Six prisoners escaped from Walker County Jail in Jasper Alabama last night by overpowering a guard. FBI agent R J Abbaticcnio Jr named five dangerous federal fugitives Charles William Wright Carrol Sentell Lawrence E Watson and Clarence L Johnson and John William Garrett plus Felix Perry as the sixth. No details of the method were given. Watson and Johnson face Houston area robberies and Texas court actions, while other cases span Alabama Louisiana and Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Walker County
Jasper
Ala
R. J. Abbaticcnio, Jr
FBI
Charles William Wright
Carrol Sentell
Henry Waller Willard
Huntsville
Meéreen
Lawrence E Watson
Clarence L. Johnson
Alabama
Louisiana
Texas
John Wiliam Garrett
Abbaticrnio
Felix Perry
Watson
Johnso
Houston
Tex
Kuldavern
Saturday Last Day For Sugar Requests
Houston County War Price and Rationing Board alerts that no more canning sugar allotments will be accepted after Saturday. Applicants seeking an extra allotment must show the use of the first allotment on the back of the application.
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Houston County War Price and Ravoning Board
Nazis Flee From Athens As Allies Enter Corinth
Allied forces push through the Peloponnesus as German troops retreat toward the isthmus. British pilots report evacuations from Athens and port facilities while naval patrols guard Greek coast. About 7,000 Greek puppet troops captured along with older equipment as the front lines shift.
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Athens
Corinth
Rome
Peloponnesus
Greece
Frome
Nauplion
Selomka
Government Bureau Reveals Singing Fish Study
Francis J. Kelly-Washington reports a government pamphlet on fish song. Aquatic biologist Mabel L. Carson notes the yellow drum and other drums produce loud vocalizations via bandlike muscles against the air bladder. Males drum loudly, females softer. drums roam Gulf and South Atlantic waters.
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Francis J. Kelly - Washingkon
DEW
Ming Mabel L. Carson
Coordinator of Fisheries
Miss Carson
South Atlantic
Gulf
Pascagoula Bay
Gulf Coast
Mins Carson
Texan
County Reports Thirty-Six Cancer Deaths
Thirty six deaths in Houston County were attributed to cancer last year. The Alabama Division of the Women s Field Army of the American Society for to contract Cancer prepared distribution to district and county commanders health workers and others. (Turn to No 12, Page 2)
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston County
Alabama
Women's Field Army of the American Society
Allied Planes Launch Largest World Raid In History
London AP reports close to 10 000 Allied planes targeted Germany and Holland in the biggest 24 hour aerial assault of the war. RAF Lancasters bombed the Rhine dam at Kombs, flooding the lower Rhine. Ninth Air Force fighters destroyed 132 enemy guns and damaged locomotives and railcars as RAF bombers hit railways and barges in Holland.
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Henry B. Jameson
London
Germany
Holland
France
Ninth Airforce
Western Front
Nijmegen
Tilburg
Kombs
Lower Rhine
Rhine
England
North Sea
Scotland
General Manton S Eddy Leads New Assault
Maj. Gen. Manton S Eddy of Chicago leads the American assault between Nancy and Metz as commander of the U S 12th Army Corps. A frontline fighting man, he directed key Moselle attack phases under heavy artillery fire after distinguished service in North Africa Sicily and the Cherbourg Peninsula. Eddy was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism at Cherbourg. His wife and daughter Marta live in Columbus Ga where his daughter works as a reporter for the Columbus Ledger.
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Nancy
Manton S Eddy
Chicago
Ill
von Rundstedt
Moselle
Metz
Eddy
North Africa
Sicily
Cherbourg
Ger
Marcha
Colummabus
Wil Wam and Mary College
The
Columbus Ledger
Death Grip on Aachen Frays German Defenses
American forces seal off Aachen with Hodges troops driving toward Julich and Cologne. siege fighting rages as First Army concentrates on cutting routes, overruns Bardenburg, nears Wurselen, and blunts German counterattacks. Canadian spearhead lands near Antwerp and bridgehead operations influence the Schelde.*
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James M. Long
London
Aachen
Tewtormie Kings
Courtney H. Hodges
Adolf Hetler
Julich
Cologne
Abach
Siegfried Line
Hodges
Bardenburg
Wurselen
For World Security Well Begun Says FOR BY JOAN M HIGHTOWER
A four power plan by the United States Britain China and Russia proposes a permanent peace organization backed by armed forces and an international court. Roosevelt says the effort has been well begun as diplomats foresee an early high level meeting to finish the plan and set up a world security framework.
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Joan M. Hightower
Washington
United States
Britain
China
Russia
Roosevelt
Thers
Smothers
United Nations
International Court of Justice
General Assembly
The
Security Council
Economic and Social Council
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Oelgium
Reich
Buren
NEA Telephoto
Yanks
Wendell L. Willkie
Marcus Islands
Reds
Potter
Gulleidge
Sanders
Kreevich
Moore
Cardinals
Gutteridge
Musial
Cooper
Kurowski
Tura
Fourth Road Project
Walker
Gen. Manton S. Eddy
Belfort
Berlin
Venlo
Warsaw
Solano
Seventh Army
Switzerland
George S. Patton
Third Army
Antwerp
Gaccehon
Loi Canal
Eam
Schelde
Walcheren
Zuid Beveland
Calmpthout
Kortevern
Aachen-Gladbach
Dusseldorf
First Army
Aachen-Cologne
George & Patton
Geremans
Powarest
Mote
Council
Organization
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