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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1944
Page
8
Partly cloudy and hot today in North Carolina with afternoon thundershowers mainly in the west. Tonight and Tuesday turn partly cloudy to warm with scattered afternoon thunder showers.
Russian and Polish fronts report major breakthroughs as Rokossovsky and Zakharov push toward Warsaw and northern Latvia. Soviets claim control of dozens of settlements, with forces near Lomza Ostrow Ostroleka and a widening rail corridor toward the Prussian frontier. Up to 70,000 Germans said killed or captured in a month as Red armies press from Latvia to the Baltic shore.
French crossing the frontier reported Allied bombers scored direct hits Saturday on the German submarine base at Bor ax where several submarines were said to be readying for flight. The raid caught the Nazis napping according to French sources.
In Moscow on August 14 the Soviet government rejected claims that the Polish government in exile had sought contact with the Russian military command over Warsaw’s patriot forces. The Tass statement accused the exile government of being the source of reports and said it was responsible for events in Warsaw.
Allied air forces roared over Ludwigshafen Mann heim and Stutt gart targeting chemical plants electrical works and air bases. Fortresses Liberators Mosquitos Marauders and Mustangs pounded rail lines bridges and troops from southwestern France to Bavaria with heavy bomb loads and flares.
At Scotts Bluff Nebraska a German prisoner of war was beaten by fellow inmates for wanting to write to his US father. The seventh Army report said the prisoner, from a Cherbourg capture group, was beaten after others claimed his father was not a good Nazi. He was taken to the camp hospital.
Washington August 14 Production Chief Donald Nelson urged foundries and forge shops to boost output to meet the imperative needs of fighting fronts. War Production Board Chairman said we could raise production of heavy trucks and artillery if we had the necessary hastings. Nelsons letter was distributed with Management news to all factories with labor management committees speeding arms production.
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal was photographed on an inspection tour of the Fifth Army front in Italy. Dispatches note his presence among high Allied leaders, including Prime Minister Churchill, Lt. Gen. Breighton Somervell, and Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson, during recent days.
Nine sleeping cars of a Southland fast passenger train from Chicago to Miami left the tracks near Americus Georgia early today. Officials said no one was reported injured and the cause was under investigation by railroad authorities.
Washington August 14 The proposal for a peacetime international air force with swift lethal power under a council of nations will be discussed at upcoming United Nations security talks. Sir Alexander Cadogan said the topic is among major subjects for the talks and noted Britain and the United States agree on the main outlines of world peace organization plans while Russia and China are kept informed.
Washington officials announced no new intercity bus routes or extensions will be approved while a tire shortage persists. Col. J Monroe Johnson of the Office of Defense Transportation cited laid up buses and uncertainty over tire supply as the reason for withholding new service.
Washington reports the army’s medical corps has reduced disease deaths to a record low. The War Department notes the current death rate from disease is lower than in World War I and lower than in any of the last ten peacetime years. Only about ten thousand of approximately fifty thousand total deaths come from disease.
The Solid Fuels Administration said production in seven Appalachian districts across West Virginia Virginia Eastern Kentucky and parts of Tennessee lagged by more than a week. Output from April 1 to July 29 totaled 60.659 million tons versus an estimated 64.103 million tons.
The Office of Price Administration authorized major towel and terry cloth producers to price on an adjustable basis while awaiting possible revisions to price ceilings tied to parity with cotton growers. Firms under maximum regulation 18 would maintain posted prices but reserve rights to retroactive changes if CPA approves. Nearby, a Bronx fire showed a faulty heating system trapped residents in a cold building as fire crews investigated the automatic heat setup.
Allied forces press to seal the Falaise pocket as American, British, and Canadian units advance from the Le Mans area toward Falaise. German escape routes along the Seine are cut, with air raids destroying rail and road targets. American prisoner totals exceed 13,000 as Eisenhower warns of a decisive opportunity for victory.
Nine new infantile paralysis cases were reported to the state board of health over the weekend, raising the current epidemic total to 527 since June 1. Anson and Davie counties each added one case, with Forsyth Guilford Haywood Robeson and Sampson also among counties reporting cases.
Secretary of State Thad Eure reported a record 1,782 absentee ballot applications for service members for the November 7 election, added to 1,610 received the day before, bringing Tar Heel in service totals to 20,338.
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