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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1944
Page
1
Scattered thundershowers in extreme south portion in afternoon. The local bureau reported the maximum temperature at 94 and minimum at 73. News items include cotton prices paid Saturday and war reports from Minsk and White Russia with Allied fronts advancing.
In Copenhagen 15 000 Danish patriots fight German troops as 3 000 troops bolster the garrison. Demonstrators raise United States British Russian and Danish flags above improvised fortresses amid street battles. Food, water, and transport disrupted as casualties mount.
Alabama official E Caudill says Ghosty is not a hill and presents a two by three foot profile showing a 2.5 percent grade near Caddo. Locals gathered for debate as 500 visitors visited Ghosty, with some water pouring and bush digging activities framed as entertainment.
Decatur Lions Club Presents Tennessee Valley Horse Show on Friday July 28 at Benson Field. $1,060 in cash prizes for northern Alabama and southern Tennessee horses. Proceeds support vision aid for underprivileged children. Judges announced with Homer Murray Milton J. Easter and others. Entry forms via H. Sherrow. deadline July 20.
Allied dispatch reports German troops fear a newly captured pistol bazooka described as a fist held weapon loaded from the muzzle and fired by striking it. Maj. John A. Keck notes its powerful rocket grenade works only at close range and Germans dislike close combat.
Herman Free, a Daily employee, suffered minor bruises after a Nehi Bottling truck driven by Grady Hank struck the motorcycle Free rode at the Wells and Walnut Street corner. Free was taken to Chenault clinic by Brown's ambulance and released.
Morgan county trails the fifth war loan goal with $276,000 remaining as the drive ends next Saturday night July 8. Alabama totals show E bonds at $21,103,000 toward $33,000,000 and overall sales at $82,300,000 toward $102,000,000. Morgan County buyers have invested $274,462.25 in Series E bonds, plus $1,318,019.50 in other bonds, against a county quota of $1,379,000. Two Alabama counties have completed the drive.
Alabama war finance officials report total E bond sales of 21,103,000 toward a 33,000,000 quota and other bonds totaling 82,300,000 toward a 102,000,000 drive. Greene county reached its E bond quota second, while Winston county exceeded its total quota but not the E sales goal.
The second county reports meeting both bond and total quota while Winston County had already topped the goal. None of the district counties have surpassed the goal line yet. Morgan Limestone Marshall Madison and Jackson won the state trophy for fourth war loan performance. Ewell K. Gregg of Morgan County, chair of the war finance committee, says Camp is helping attract support.
Allied forces push German lines along a 165 mile Italian front from Livorno to Ancona. Fifth Army advances near Cecina and from Siena toward Florence while French, British, South African and Indian units maneuver around Lake Trasimeno. American troops cross Cecina river and seize several villages as defenders retreat to lines near the Adriatic.
Adolf Hitler praised General Dietl as a true friend and symbol of fanatic German resolve at the funeral in London. He recalled Dietl’s Narvik miracle against superior forces and warned that national fanaticism would bring victory despite difficulties in the fifth year of the war.
Allied war editors report Japan launches a new thrust from Canton to seize 2000 miles of rail lines from Aigun to Canton, aiming to cut shipping and bolster a battered fleet. Air losses mount as Formosa raids target Takao while Saipan sees modest gains for Nimitz.
Wireless dispatch recalls American anti aircraft crews joining the Normandy landings on D Day and soon after. Infantry, engineers and press censors also came ashore as guns opened fire to blunt German air strength. The event helped secure the initial beach advance amid heavy combat.
Artillery gunners helped win the beach battle and took infantrylike casualties. One unit lost half its men and guns as the story follows ack-ack crews who faced German 88s and held their post amid deep cover.
Allied forces report heavy fighting near Caen with the Second Army destroying 25 German tanks and repelling 12 counterattacks southwest of Caen. American troops in Cherbourg’s northwestern fringe take 5,000 more Germans as Axis casualties rise to about 64,000 on the American front. Rommel reportedly arrives at the Caen front amid preparations for critical tank battles along the invasion corridor toward Paris.
A wireless dispatch cited by the German news agency Transocean and reported by the FCC claimed Allied battleships in Seine Bay opened fire on Le Havre. No immediate reports on effects were available, following a German broadcast saying landings were underway behind a smoke screen east of the Orne estuary.
British troops destroyed 25 more Nazi tanks in the Cherbourg and Odon areas bringing total to 167 since D-Day while 347 were destroyed or disabled. Allied forces reportedly collapsed German resistance on Cap de la Hague with 5,000 Germans captured in 48 hours, including Lt. Col. Mueller and Lt. Col. Kiehl.
American troops on Cap de la Hague press the advance and take about 5,000 German prisoners in the last hours of the NW France campaign. Reports describe a late surrender as Nazi units yield before bayonets in the Chteau area.
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