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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1944
Page
1
Eyewitness reports from Normandy describe widespread wreckage on the beach with dozens of destroyed boats and vehicles. Evacuation of the wounded accelerates as supplies pour in despite heavy surf and ongoing combat inland.
Allied forces engage in a sea air duel off north western New Guinea with Liberator bombers damaging a Japanese cruiser by two 500 pound bombs. Ground troops on Biak island push pockets from caves near Mokmer air drome as Americans close on airstrip positions. Widespread raids target Faleu Tenelik Noemfoor and others as Pacific air war continues.
Scattered strikes affecting about 20000 workers continued unsettled. Wright Aeronautical in Lockland Ohio resumed limited engine production as 15000 idle workers face discharge if they fail to return by Friday. War labor board actions paused or delayed several local labor cases amid broader industrial stoppages.
Kay Kyser 38 and Georgia Ann Carroll 24 married in Las Vegas at 1 30 a m in a Justice of the Peace ceremony. Both marked their first marriages. The handfasting occurred as Kyser led his dance band.
A German commentator said powerful Russian armored forces began a wide front push north of Iasi Romania advancing several miles in the center and left flank. Moscow reported 15 German tanks down and 22 planes destroyed with no major front changes.
Mr and Mrs Granville Snider of Princeton received a telegram from the war department yesterday announcing the death in action of their son Woodrow Snider known as Woody Set. He served in the south Pacific area for over two years and was in service more than two years.
Virginia's 19 Republican delegates prepare to reelect Walter S. Hallanan as national committeeman and name Frances Ogden Stubblefield as national committeewoman at a Huntington meeting. The group, chosen May 9, will also elect a chair and a convention resolutions representative before departing to Chicago June 19.
James A. Farley resigned as New York Democratic chairman in a move seen as signaling support for a Roosevelt fourth term. Some say he may oppose renomination while others view him as a party man. Nebraska Governor Griswold withdraws as a favorite son candidate and urges delegates to back Dewey.
Hal Boyle reports the U S First Infantry Division and Britain's Fiftieth Northumbrian Division spearheaded the Allied invasion from the sea in Normandy. The two formations have fought together before in North Africa and Sicily, and are now advancing on the French coastal plain amid German counterattacks. The German broadcast lists allied units in Normandy including U S First and other divisions, with notes on notable past actions from Arras to Tobruk and Dunkirk.
Allied Fifth army drives north of Rome cap tures Civita Castellana and Bracciano as German 14th army dissolves into battered remnants. Kesselring HQ area taken. bridges over the Tiber destroyed. Lt. Gen. Leese's Eighth army seizes Monterotondo protecting approaches to Rome.
Allied air forces surpass 27 000 sorties since the invasion began. American heavy bombers and Liberators strike rail centers from Rennes to Angers while Ninth air force Marauders attack inland targets. Ground fire remains heavy as transports press toward the advancing beachhead amid stiff enemy opposition.
London dispatch reports blustery Channel weather delayed the western invasion by 24 hours but then eased. Allied airpower dropped heavy tonnage on the enemy as troops, many seasick, ashore on the Normandy coast under a chill sky. Conditions improved inland with warmer temperatures, better visibility, and calmer seas though tides and currents remained treacherous for amphibious unloading. Vernon E. Brown notes further postponement would have been impossible and three favorable days existed for the operation. Weather over See Page 2.
Rome June 8 Ivanoe Bonomi a pro fascist premier was asked by Crown Prince Umberto to form a new government to succeed Marshal Badoglio after his government was dissolved. Umberto acting as lieutenant general of the realm held talks with Italian political leaders and the Rome committee of liberation.
Allied forces press the Normandy front with house to house fighting near Caen and Bayeux. Canadian troops report 600 prisoners and towns freed as tanks clash with German forces. Caen remains a focal point amid fierce resistance and testing counter thrusts.
German claims of fierce combat around the Bayeux area were disputed by Allied commands. Montgomery reportedly threw 12 divisions into the battle as reinforcements arrived from England, with multiple airborne divisions landing north of Bayeux and units pushing inland toward the Vire river.
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