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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1944
Page
1
Allied forces reported repulsing a Japanese counterattack on Saipan with the destruction of 18 landing barges. U S Marines and infantry pushed inland, seizing Hinashisu and the area around Ashito airfield as the Ninth Division tightened the ring toward Garapan.
The Lobo Club sponsors a Fifth War Loan bond drive in Amarillo with bonds officers and four selling stations. Negro soldiers in jeeps canvass neighborhoods while a later barbecue and a bond rally at Hooks Park offer prizes and free jeep rides for top buyers.
Partly cloudy and not very warm today across Amarillo and vicinity. Texas sees partly cloudy skies with possible rains in Del Rio and Eagle area and cooler Panhandle. outlook notes clear today in New Mexico with warmer northeast portions.
Moscow announced Govorov’s forces pierced the Mannerheim line and advanced within 17 miles of Viipuri as Koivisto fell, with the front extending 72 miles from Koivisto to Rautu. Finnish premier Linkomies urged resistance as evacuees fled and Soviet marshalling elevated Govorov to marshal.
A BBC broadcast reported by the Blue network said Germany claimed an Allied amphibious commando raid on the Adriatic coast near Perugia in central Italy. The British Eighth Army is described as fighting on the outskirts about 70 miles inland on an east west line.
Secretary Morgenthau stated that the treasury does not oppose reductions in public utility rates due to concerns about federal revenues. He rejected the claim that lower rates would harm government finances.
First wheat loads of 1944 were received at the Happy elevator as E W Miller and M R Miller, brothers seven miles east of Happy, delivered grains testing 62 and 63 pounds. Each man estimated yields near 22 to 24 bushels per acre. Cutting in the area is expected to begin in full swing by week’s end.
Allied forces led by French colonial troops storm Elba to seal the sea flank for a main land advance into Italy. British and American units supported, with naval gunfire, minesweepers and commandos helping clear key coastal positions. reports say prisoners taken and ships moving wounded to Bastia.
Supreme Headquarters reports 1300 plus heavy bombers attacking oil refineries and storage in Hamburg area and three enemy airstrips in Northwest Germany while 250 bombers hit Pas-de-Calais. German fighters did not engage. heavy flak over targets. RAF strikes on Northern France as rocket bomb threat continues.
American forces led by the Ninth Division pierced a seven mile wide corridor on the Cherbourg peninsula and cut off 25 000 to 30 000 German troops around the port. They then trapped the 77th Division in a bloody massacre as Allied air power pounded retreating units and barrelling artillery supported a swift advance toward St Lo and Barneville sur Mer.
Congress plans to conclude the WASP bill amid a crowded docket that includes 11 appropriation bills and war contract terminations. The WASP issue divides House members over expanding the women's airforce service pilots and reliance on more male pilots. Data on postwar government spending and national income is being prepared by Senate finance and House ways and means committees.
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