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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1944
Page
14
The theater will admit any person buying a bond at the lobby booth without extra charge. Owner Charles A. Midelburg said this marks the third week of the fifth war bond drive. Today features the MGM 20th anniversary film White Cliffs of Dover starring Irene Dunne.
Soviet forces with Rokossovsky and Bagramian in a week long push across White Russia close in on Minsk. Borisov and Mogilev remain contested as Red Army conducts northern flank movements toward Polotsk and the critical Minsk railway hub.
Three U S joint chiefs warn that public complacency imperils victory. They stress continued full support for production and war jobs, noting desertions on both front lines and home front would delay triumph. The message urges steady work until complete victory is achieved.
The 48 ounce can combinations gain five points, up from four, while all canned fruits keep high values and frozen fruits and vegetables remain ration-free. Civilians face 15 to 20 percent less supply in the new pack year beginning Saturday, as rationing chief Curtis Rogers notes increased military requisitions. Asparagus and tomatoes shift values. peas left the list earlier.
GOP nominee Dewey appeared ten minutes late to his first news conference since securing the nomination. In a packed Stevens hotel ballroom he praised the platform as representing his views while noting compromises and unbossed convention origins. He discussed Bricker, potential Willkie talks, and opposed an international police force, favoring a world court but defending sovereign U S war power. He supported the SEC but avoided cabinet talks and said a third term is destructive.
The nominee praised the platform’s foreign trade and anti subsidy planks and said federal aid would be needed to boost reemployment during the postwar transition back to civilian production, signaling support for state insurance regulation.
Connally and Chandler harshly criticize the administration's failure to solve jobs and opportunity. National Farmers Union leader Patton blasted the Republican farm plank as wreckage without substitutes, urging national programs. Senator Hill said Republicans admitted foreign policy stances were unclear and Dewey would clarify them.
Allied air forces poured explosives on inner and outer European bastions on the heaviest day of operations since last Sunday. German fighters were moved from bases over 100 miles behind the lines while Marauders and fighter-bombers swept Normandy. Thunderbolts hit Nazi supply lines from the Bay of Biscay to Paris, and four coastal batteries on the Cherbourg peninsula were silenced.
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