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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1944
Page
1
Local weather reported a high of 87 and low of 68 with 0.16 inches of rain. Cotton prices ranged from strict middling 21.10 to low 14.10. Local events included films at Princess Roxy Capitol, pension group meeting, flag day observances, church activities, hospital notices, and civic club programs.
Southern senators met to plan a floor fight over funding for the Fair Employment Practices Committee as part of the war agencies bill. They warned against haphazard legislation and urged the Senate to scrutinize the FEPC's expenses, despite House approval of the $500000 allocation.
The fifth war loan drive trails the fourth campaign after two days with E bond sales at 80 755 75 and other bonds at 66 309 totaling 147 064 75 compared with the earlier drive. Barbour county nears its quota after farm canvass and a Monday Eufaula rally added 350 000 in bond sales including 125 000 in E bonds. Frank P Samford spoke at Clayton barbecue and Dothan opened with a cannvass breakfast as agents prepared for further efforts.
Ernie Pyle reports arriving at the Normandy beachhead the morning after D-Day. He describes beaches taken, inland fighting, sniping, artillery fire, and a vast litter of wreckage including submerged tanks, overturned boats, burned trucks, and the bodies of soldiers laid out along the sands.
A first hand account describes the brutal assault on a beachhead during a wartime opening of a second front. The writer notes fierce German defenses dug in for months and the heavy costs borne by weary troops who secured the beach and began moving reinforcements offshore.
Allied forces close in on Orbetello after capturing key junction No 1 and 74 and advancing from Bolsena and the Tiber valley. Fifth Army and Eighth Army push northward toward Gradioli and Narni while Germans evacuate and use shelling and demolition to delay the advance.
Moscow dispatches report Russian tanks and infantry attacking toward Viipuri and pushing near Mustamiaki on the Viipuri railroad. Pravda notes forest terrain hampers tank movement while Red Star cites Russian groups thwarting Finnish ambushes as they press toward communications hubs.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill blocked full Commons discussion of British American relations with the French Committee of National Liberation. He argued negotiations among the French committee, the United States, and Britain must conclude first, and that it would do more harm than good to press the debate now.
Press wires report an official announcement that Rust Engineering Co. of Pittsburgh received a Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. contract to construct a tire fabric manufacturing plant. The steel frame brick structure costs about 500000 dollars and is under way, to be completed by September 1 and in operation by November 1.
Carrier planes and battleships swarmed over Guam Saipan and Tinian as Nimitz reported 13 Japanese ships sunk 16 damaged and 141 planes destroyed in three days of strikes. Tokyo acknowledged the targets and China's Changsha battle loomed in the day's developments.
The House defeated the Bankhead Brown cotton textile amendment 87 to 191 as part of the price control extension bill. President Roosevelt would veto any extension containing the measure, seen as inflationary by McCormack who argued against its passage. Southern Democrats largely backed the amendment to adjust ceilings to parity for raw cotton and protect mills profits. House rejected a rival Crawford amendment 103 to 19. OPA head Bowles warned the plan could raise textile costs by about 250 million dollars.
The Allied line on the Cherbourg peninsula extends from sixty to about one hundred miles as Montgomery directs a deepening push toward key objectives. Rommel seeks to rush reserves, while Von Rundstedt weighs waiting versus striking, hampered by destroyed bridges and poor flying weather.
German forces have thrown four armored divisions into the Caen-Troarn area amid fierce fighting along a 100 mile Normandy front. British ships Rodney and Ramillies supported efforts to hold Troarn as Montebourg changed hands, with both sides reporting gains and losses in the past 24 hours.
The message lists Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery’s first team positions in the Normandy invasion. It names units including U.S. Fourth Infantry Division at Montebourg and Ste. Mere Eglise, 82nd and 101st Airborne at others, 29th Infantry, first and second Infantry, 50th British Division, and Canadian and British airborne sectors near Caen, Bayeux, and Orne river.
American forces supported by 1 500 Liberators and Fortresses battered targets in France and Germany. In Cherbourg peninsula the largest U S force yet, around Carentan, advanced and forced German withdrawals. Berlin radio claimed German defensive pullback while Caen burned amid multi unit assaults as Caumont area also faced Allied armor advances.
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