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The United States Navy reports a three day raid near the Guam region destroying 141 Nippon planes and sinking 13 ships while damaging 16 others. American losses totaled 15 planes and 15 airmen.
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1944
Page
1
Hutchinson Club War Bond Sales Hit $300000
Hutchinson County clubs launched the Fifth War Loan Campaign by selling $300000 in E Bonds by nightfall, led by the Lions Club and Rotary with $40000 each. County chairman Bob Grimes praised the effort saying funds will exceed the $415000 quota and the drive will continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hutchinson County
Lions Club
Rotary
Bob Grimes
Booth
Hitler
Tojo
Mr. Grimes
Potter County War Bond Drive Sees Early Large Purchases
Potters County reports strong start to the Fifth War Loan campaign with major buys including $50,900 in E series bonds and a $50,000 firm allocation from The Texas Company. Amarillo MSA notes 23 issuing agencies and school groups driving sales with Chinese groups totaling $27,000 and a Borger early success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potter County
W. W. Ince
Texas Company
Southland Life Insurance Company
International Harvester Company
Llano Cemetery Association
Wayne O'Keefe
Amarillo
Hutchinson County
Borger
Heavy Bombers Strike at 500-Plane Nazi Fleet
American heavy bombers struck strategic airfields behind the Normandy front in two major blows. They hit Evreux-Fauville Dreux and Illieres-L Eveque then targeted fields north of Paris and rail bridges south of the beachhead. Allied air power backed by Italy based heavy bombers extended targets to Munich Innsbruck and Porto Marghiera near Venice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junk
Nimtz
Pacific Fleet
Admiral Nimitz
Truk Atoll
Caroline Islands
Ene
Central Pacific
Nauru
Ocean
Ponape
Marshalls
Changsha
China
Hunnan Province
Hankow-Canton
Chowkiakow
London
Normandy Battlefront
Munich
Austria
U. S
Evreux-Fauville
Dreux
Ilieres-L'Eveque
Channel
Paris
France
Tours
Fox Holes
RAF
Germany
Reich
Ayn
Gelsenkirchen
Belgium
Italy
Innsbruck
Porto Marghiera
Venice
Rennes
Pas de Calais
le Touquet
Thunderbolt
Texas Wheat Nearing Record With 61 Million Bushels Forecast
The U S Department of Agriculture predicts Texas wheat production this year at about 61.1 million bushels, second to the 1931 record of 67.98 million, with oats at 45.4 million and barley and pears also showing strong prospects. Hay and pastures improve across most of the state, though Pecos El Paso and parts of the South Plains show weaker conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Texas
Pecos-El Paso
South Plains
Northwest Plateau
Fourth Division Heads Back to Germany After Normandy
The Fourth United States Infantry Division, described by its commander as the hottest fighting outfit of World War I, departs from a British base for Germany to wind up unfinished business after beating 16 Kaiser divisions at various times and now preparing for a postwar assignment in Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
United States
Germany
Normandy
Allied Thrusts Facing Germans On All Fronts
General Eisenhower reports to President Roosevelt that Allied forces will strike Germany along the perimeter of its stronghold on all fronts. Stalin’s message to Harriman cites the French landings as a grandiose operation. The plan envisions combined air ground and naval action from multiple theaters to overwhelm Nazi defenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Roosevelt
Germany
Eisenhower
Stalin
Russia
Harriman
Moscow
Napoleon
Mediterranean
Stalin Praises Allied Invasion as Masterful
In Moscow on June 13 Premier Stalin lauded the Allied invasion of France as broad in conception and grandiose in scale. He called Hitler hysteric and noted Napoleon failed to cross the Channel. He credited British and American troops with fulfilling the grand plan, predicting history will mark the effort highly. The statement was released to foreign correspondents and broadcast nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Joseph Stalin
France
Stalin
Hitler
Napoleon
Channel
Britain
Nazis Block Road Junction near Bolsena
Allied Fifth Army reports remnants of the German Sixth Army dug in at Bolsena, northeast of Lake Bolsena, resisting since Sunday. The town lies 60 miles from Rome and eight miles from Orvieto, with Nazi anti tank and machine gun fire threatening the only highway approach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Bolsena
Fifth Army
Orvieta
Nazi Europe In Ferment
London reports Europe under Nazi occupation was unsettled as the Vichy cabinet in France was reshuffled to maintain control and Belgian King Leopold was moved to German captivity. French sources say patriots are destroying key German communications and increasingly attacking German forces in occupied France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Europe
Vichy
France
Leopold
Germany
Belgium
Battle Lines Shift Over Normandy Peninsula Front
Allied and German forces clash across the Cherbourg peninsula as U S troops push toward Cherbourg and Montebourg. More than 10 000 Axis prisoners are reported taken with advances near Carentan and Bayeux. Eisenhower praises initial campaign gains as Holy Week continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cherbourg
St. Lo
Balleroy
Carentan
Caen
Troarn
Normandy
Bayeux
Forest de Cerisy
Tilly-Sur-Seulles
U. S. Ninth Air Force
France
England
Eisenhower
Roosevelt
Gulf of Gascony
Vichy
Bay of Biscay
Normandy Battlefront
Biarritz
Montebourg
Valognes
U. S
Brooken Woodlands
Weather summary for Amarillo region and West Texas
Mild Wednesday and Thursday with partly cloudy skies across Amarillo and vicinity. West Texas sees similar conditions with fresh winds and slight temperature changes. New Mexico to fair midweek. Temperatures range from mid 80s to mid 90s with near normal overall and a slow fall later in the period. Precipitation heavy in east portions and moderate in the west as showers and thunderstorms develop later. Extended outlook through June 17 notes near normal temps in Texas West of Gulf Plains, with rain events expected. New Blackstone Coffee Shop opening soon serving the best.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Udkess
Ventere
Texas
Gulf Plains
el Paso
Big Bend
Cracks Appear In Nazi Armor
Allied reports note weaknesses in the German war machine after the first week of invasion. Rommel and Rundstedt reportedly clashed over reserves while Hitler held a behind the lines HQ. German divisions lag in counterattacks, rely on older tanks, and suffer reconnaissance and repair problems as casualties and morale are questioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Hitler
Erwin Rommel
Karl von Rundstedt
Rommel
von Rundstedt
Lemans
Tunisia
Seine
Paris
Cherbourg
Western Front
First Wheat In Plainview Harvest
The first load of 1944 wheat was delivered at Plainview as Mrs. Clara Harmel from 12 miles south delivered grain testing 59 pounds. Hale County expects 10–11 bushels per acre with 112,400 acres in wheat and harvest to peak next week amid tire shortages affecting wagon movement to elevators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plainview
Clara Harmel
Harmel
Hale County
OPA
Hale
Hale County Rationing Board
Tornado Strikes Friendship Area After Family Attends Movie
A cyclone demolished three farm houses near Memphis in the Friendship community five miles south. Coun ty Commissioner Roy Patton’s four room home and two Neeley ranch houses were destroyed along with barns and outbuildings. The Pattons were at a movie. the twister left a 100 yard grass scar, uprooted vegetation, and twisted mesquite trees. It traveled five miles on the ground, with a nearby 20 mile distant sighting at Estelline, followed by rain and hail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Friendship Community
Roy Patton
Ogden
D. A. Neeley
Neeley
Patton
Palo Duro college annuals ready for pickup
The Amarillo College annual Palo Duro will be distributed today at the college from 9 to 12 in the morning and from 6 to 8 in the evening. Subscribers are urged to call for their year books at those hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Polk Street
Joe Jenkins
F. H. McGregor
Flag Week
Amarillo College
Col Harvin Named Commander at Pampa Army Air Field
Col Charles B Harvin takes command at Pampa Army Air Field succeeding Col Daniel S Campbell who left last Saturday for new duties. Harvin arrives to resume command of the Top O Texas unit of the Army Air Force Central Flying Training Command after 13 years as a veteran pilot with service in the Philippines and other stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles B. Harvin
Pampa Army Air Field
Daniel S. Campbell
Colonel Harvin
O' Texas
Army Air Force Central Flying Training Command
Army Air Forces
Philippines
Continental
United
Harvin
Pampa — Air Field
Also Mentioned on This Page
Associated Press
Japan
Pacific Islands
Tokyo
Nippon
Navy
Marianas Islands
Guam
Saipan
Sawan
Honan
Tungkwan
Burma
Myitkyina
Mokmer
Biak Island
Schouten Group
Douglas McArthur
Biak
Borokoe
N Hutchinson
Biscay
War Bond
Russell Stationery Co
Uty
Allied Expeditionary Forces
Berlin
Cherbourge
New Blackstone
Worley
War Department
Col. Campbell
Pampa
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