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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1944
Page
1
The local area reports a 93 degree high and 64 degree low for the day with a 4 percent reading. Cotton prices posted are strict middling 21.15, middling 21.00, strict low 19.15, low 17.15. Local cinema listings include Buffalo Bill, Desperadoes, and Journey For Margaret.
Soviet forces pushed west along a 250 mile front in White Russia encircling Vitebsk and forcing German retreats. Moscow reports 16 000 German killed with hundreds of guns seized as fronts open toward Orsha Mogilev and Bobruisk and a potential push toward Berlin with Allied support.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey led the Republican race as the 1944 convention opened in Chicago. Delegates gathered while Bricker supporters debated the roll call, with Griswold set to nominate Dewey and Warren discussed as a possible vice presidential pick amid War Time winds.
Florida's 15 uninstructed delegates chose 10 votes for Governor Thomas E. Dewey and 5 for Governor Bricker for the Republican presidential nomination. Florida national committeeman C. H. McNulty said the five delegates at large would likely join Dewey later.
The writer discusses German sniping in Normandy describing widespread sniper positions in hedgerows and wreckage. He contrasts the ethics of sniping with fair warfare and notes the ease of concealment in the landscape during the Normandy campaign.
A World War II frontline account describes German snipers harassing advancing troops. The writer notes pervasive sniper threat, constant bivouac clearances, and the shift from individual concern to unit wide vigilance as snipers slow and threaten American forces.
Vice President Wallace visits Chungking as a Sino Russian border idea gains favor in China. Chiang Kai-Shek supports a peaceful perimeter but risks clashes with Northern Chinese communists as outer Mongolia resists reintegration and Russia seeks secure borders near Valdivostok. Continued on Page Five.
Air operations kept Allied pressure on German targets in France and beyond. Mosquitos attacked troop concentrations and logistics near the French front, while bombers hit Budapest and fuel depots in Pas-De-Calais and other airfields. Allied losses stood at 43 planes with 59 German aircraft downed as big formations struck France and the German homeland.
American troops of the Fifth Army captured the port of Piombino on the Tyrrhenian coast with little opposition, gaining a forward supply base as Allied forces press toward Siena and Leghorn. French and American units advance on multiple sectors, while German forces pull back and use Tiger tanks in defense.
Saipan and Hengyang bear the Pacific war weight as Allies push on Marianas while Japan conducts a large land drive toward Garapan. Mt Tapotchau seized, Hengyang under pressure, with Changsha and Hengyang in danger as Nimitz and Spruance report heavy air and naval losses in the Saipan campaign.
Pearl Harbor report notes Japan expended 747 planes and six carriers in the Marianas defense. U.S. forces push onto Saipan Island with 20,000 defenders backed into the mountains as Adm. Nimitz releases a revised tally showing several enemy ships sunk or damaged.
Residents debated the paranormal tale of Ghosty the ghost who allegedly makes cars ascend a miniature hill near a road to Caddo. Skeptics doubted the illusion while others eyed a gold mine or oil well beneath the site, as a crowd gathered Sunday afternoon to search for answers.
Morgan County sales for the fifth war loan lag behind the $1,379,000 county quota with $1,099,889 in bonds issued. Series E bonds, with a $551,000 target, have reached only $201,878.50, averaging about $30,000 per day needed to hit the goal. Saturday E bond sales were $10,968.75 as organizers push Eisenhower era fundraising.
Wallace H. Meadows completed a year as president of the Decatur Rotary Club at Cornelius Court Hotel. James L. Rankin will succeed him as president elect for 1944 45 with John Bean R E Blanke and Frank Philpot as guests. Reports on committee activities for the closing year were received.
Allied forces press to Cherbourg docks with American troops pushing to the waterfront and over 20 000 prisoners taken since D Day. British and American units advance on the eastern flank near Tilly Sur Seulles while heavy bombers strike oil refineries and rail facilities in the Vienna area.
Don Whiteheld Cherbourg dispatch reports American troops gaining control of Cherbourg amid rubble and heavy shelling. German holdouts in pillboxes resist as Amiot plant lies in ruins while tanks batter enemy positions near the English Channel.
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