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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1944
Page
2
Soviet papers broadcast invasion news with Eisenhower images and maps while celebrations ran through Moscow. Maj. Gen. Galaktionov praised allied unity as Russians toasted the Americans and British, vodka scarce as prices rose across shops.
The article recounts Jimmy Doolittle sharing war tales with humor and grit. He relays a Flying Fortress crew joke about a general overhearing insults and a tail gunner quipping at a loaded question. Doolittle says morale is fragile yet resilient when a sense of the ridiculous survives. More tomorrow.
Reports from Ankara indicate Allied landings in Greece near the Pelo ponnesus south of the Isthmus of Corinth with U N radio in Algiers mentioning Patras on the northwest coast.
Japanese troops push into the outskirts of Changsha while fighting persists in Biak Island and the Salween front. American and Allied air forces strike at Dutch New Guinea bases, Truk, and Caroline Island targets as operations continue across the Pacific.
Retailers in Decatur join four civic clubs the Chamber of Commerce and other groups to plan a big July Fourth celebration to support the Fifth War Bond Drive. Merchants will close only on Tuesday July 4 with a joint committee coordinating via Vernon McGwier Sam C Alexander W W Dinsmore Harry H Higdon George Connor.
In New York on June 7, selective buying of lower priced automotive and civilian manufacturing shares nudged the market higher, with airlines seen as beneficiaries of peace. Rails faced renewed selling and transport bonds were pressured, while deal activity stayed slow pending France fighting updates and Washington price control news. Cotton advanced to seasonal highs early then retreated with late bids 25 to 55 cents lower.
Markets mix with resistance in specialties and rails. bonds irregular. Cotton declines as New Orleans reports profit taking. Chicago wheat falls sharply on crop prospects. rye drops as commission houses sell amid wheat weakness. Hogs extremely slow with top at 13.75 and 23,000 holdover. Cattle steers and yearlings weaken, practical top 17.35 to 17.50.
Livestock market data from Nashville with cattle calves hogs and sheep. Cattle steady to slow with varied grades and prices across weight ranges. Hogs slower with limited movement and price spreads. Spring lambs active and steady with bulk of good and choice ewes and wethers recorded.
Morgan County pushes bond sale as part of a campaign effort urging cooperation. The effort mirrors strategies used in previous campaigns, aiming to boost support and secure funding.
General Arnold told the House Appropriations Committee that Army Air Forces dropped 174 719 tons on Germany and 43 085 tons on Japan in the first four months of 1944. They flew 218 877 sorties against Germany and 83 292 against Tojo, destroying 5 783 German and 1 397 Japanese planes. Losses are lower than expected, with about fifty percent of listed missing later becoming POWs. Casualties and training details follow, including tank advances and WAC discharges.
The Morgan County Board of Equalization meets in the Tax Assessor's office to hear protests on property valuations. Louis Tunstill is held on $300 bond for public drunkenness. Annie Zee Barker is released after assault charges are dismissed. Two people are fined for public drunkenness and a red light violation. Hospital and birth notices for Decatur residents are also listed.
Funeral services for A C Summerford 67 will be held Thursday at 4 P M at Falkville Methodist Church with Rev Henry Hurst and Rev Guy Petty officiating. Interment in Falkville City Cemetery. Survived by wife three sons five daughters a brother and fifteen grandchildren. Pallbearers listed from community.
City police investigate a Sunday break in at the Teal residence 914 Twelfth Avenue East. A black leather purse containing $109 in bills a pocketsized change purse about $16 in cash ration books and tokens was taken from the kitchen table after a hole was cut in the back screen door. Names linked to the ration books include Benjamin F Teal Sr Benjamin F Teal Jr Millard N Teel Genée Raphael Teal and Gertrude N Teal. Call 148 R or police with any information.
Senator Bankhead proposed a revised formula for textile ceilings tied to War Food Administration or War Production Board designations as necessary for the war effort. He also suggested cutting ceilings on luxury cotton goods to offset increases in low priced clothing, aiming to calm the price control extension battle.
Cpl. James D. Slayton of Laurel Mississippi received the Congressional Medal of Honor for actions near Oliveto Italy on September 23 1943. Soviet delegates pinned the order of patriots second class and the British government had already awarded him. Slayton is wounded veteran and father of four who later expressed humility about the honors. His mother lives in Gulfport Mississippi.
Allied air forces report overwhelming strength with few German counterstrikes as massive bombing drives over Normandy and behind lines continue. More than 4,800 sorties by the Ninth Air Force and 4,300 by the Eighth Air Force. 53 enemy planes destroyed. 13 British heavy bombers, one American heavy bomber, 17 Allied fighters lost. Lancasters and Halifaxes carry heavy loads on night raids into France and Germany, including Ludwigshafen, with all planes returning safely.
Allied naval forces from the United States and Britain led a massive first round in the invasion across the English Channel. Admiral Ramsay hailed 100 percent success, noting minimal losses and strong support for the landings. President Roosevelt reported U S losses of two destroyers and one LST as ships prepared for further operations.
War commentary notes that Allied landings on the Cherbourg peninsula show satisfactory progress but warns the Normandy thrust may not be the main assault. It suggests Hitler will launch counterstrokes later and discusses alternative landing possibilities in the Rhone valley and southern France.
A first person account by Howard Cowan from a Ninth U.S. Air Force troop carrier base describes an airborne operation behind enemy lines in France. Details include Lt. John Neale and the crew’s tense flight through heavy anti aircraft fire, gliders, and the peril of 20 millimeter shells as they approached Cherbourg and crossed into enemy territory.
Mrs. J. Y. Hamil, chairwoman of the Surgical Dressings Division of the Morgan County American Red Cross, announced the division will open Friday to begin work on the June quota. She urged more women to join as invasion needs may raise the demand for surgical dressings, while a Tuesday address by Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower called on American women to boost Red Cross efforts.
A Senate House conference committee compromised on a six month extension until next December for court martial proceedings against Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Major General Walter Short over the Pearl Harbor catastrophe. The extension expires tonight.
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