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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1944
Page
1
Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with scattered thunder showers in extreme south portions Thursday afternoon. Highs near 92, lows around 73. Local notices include movie listings at the Princess the Roxy and the Capitol, births and military updates from residents, and Kiwanis and church events. Roosevelt to address convention by radio. Byrnes withdraws. Truman support rising for vice presidential race.
President Roosevelt moves to shape the Democratic vice presidential race by listing Harry S. Truman as second choice and William O Douglas as third, while James F Byrnes withdraws to honor the president. Roosevelt signals preference for Truman amid the Chicago convention proceedings as Byrnes exits.
Vice President Wallace arrived in Chicago on July 19 to lead his campaign for re nomination by the Democrats. He noted that War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes had withdrawn from the vice presidential race and said he is here as chairman of the Iowa delegation. He declined to assess his chances, calling himself merely a delegate. He appeared upbeat and confident.
Lt Gen Mark W Clark's fifth army captured Livorno a few hours after Polish troops seized Ancona. German defenses offered little resistance as infantry took the hills overlooking the port, the busiest between Rome and Genoa, while Ancona fell to Polish forces on the Adriatic coast.
The writer observes Normandy as ancient and worn with hedgerows and stone walls, noting old architecture, mossy orchards, and compact farmyards. Cherbourg appears faded next to modern war cities, and dairy country yields a butter surplus while prices stay high at 60 cents a pound for Siete tabaien.
The Navy began rebuilding the Port Chicago ammunition depot as the death toll neared 350 in the wartime explosion that destroyed the town. About 200 to 250 Navy enlisted men and 70 naval officers are counted among the dead, with 36 Maritime Commission seamen and 5 Coast Guardsmen plus civilian workers. Rescue and investigation teams, including FBI, are on scene as wrecked ships and shattered barracks dominate the area.
Ewell K. Gregg, Morgan County war finance chairman, set $3,000 quotas for twenty residents to reduce a $69,000 Series E bond shortfall in the fifth war loan drive. Courthouse meeting urged the public to buy bonds by July 22, with denominations from $25 to $5,000, noting small and large investors have done their part while those who could invest $1,000 to $5,000 have lagged.
Allied air operations massed nearly 2,500 American heavy bombers and fighters from Britain and Italy targeting Munich area rail yards airfields and plants. Strafing Schweinfurt and Hellriegelskreuth, while RAF hit Berlin and other objectives.
Six Russian armies punched through large gaps in Hitler's front from Konev’s 125 mile Ukraine breakthrough to Yeremenko’s advance into Latvia. Moscow reports claim advances toward Lwow, Brest Litovsk, and across the Curzon line into Poland while Rokossovsky nears Brest Litovsk and Bagramian pushes toward Riga amid heavy fighting north of Grodno.
An official Athens report says six German officers were killed during a confrontation at the Bretagne hotel where a high level meeting among German officers was underway. Pistols were drawn and shootings followed as officers argued, with SS guards reportedly killing a chief administrator and Austrian Col Fritse missing after the incident.
U S battleships move in close to Guam to speed reduction of the island a major Japanese base as air and warship attacks continue. Admiral Nimitz reports the bombardment met little enemy fire while destroyers target air defenses. In other theaters MacArthur claims four more Axis vessels sunk or damaged and reports Japanese troop transfers to Halmahera amid hints of a push toward the Philippines. Chinese forces clash near Hengyang as Stilwell advances in northern Burma and Tokyo acknowledges Saipan’s fall.
The Allied drive in Normandy and a major Soviet push on the Eastern front threaten to decide the war within months. In Normandy, Caen sector gains pave the way to Paris while St. Lo falls. air power led the assault with heavy bomber support. On the Baltic and East Prussia fronts, Red Army advances shake German lines as Warsaw and Lwow sectors feel pressure.
Soviet-inspired long front battle reports from July describe British and American units driving five miles southeast of Caen and clearing St Lo sector. Montgomery claims up to 156000 Germans “written off” as tanks and infantry clash across Normandy with heavy air support and rapid advances toward Vimont and Caen.
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