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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1944
Page
1
American Flying Fortresses, 1000 strong, attacked central Germany with equal fighter escort. Berlin radio noted aerial battles as Nazi planes clashed with the raid. American air forces also hit German oil targets including Merseburg and Ploesti with more than 3000 planes.
The weather curtailed air operations for two weeks except one day, as Allied daylight raids targeted military objectives in central Germany and Franconia Saxony. German reports claimed Bucharest rest bombed and 175 enemy fighters over the Normandy area with 25 downed and 21 Allied planes lost.
Tokyo broadcasts deny claims that American pilots who crashed on Japanese soil have been executed or would be executed. The denial, relayed to the United States via neutral Switzerland, counters a Singapore report about a "single journey ticket" for Superfortress airmen and notes Japan’s prior acknowledgment of some B 29 fliers in the Doolittle raid.
London July 28. Public speculation says Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. may head American tank forces that cracked German lines in Normandy. No official word on his whereabouts. Germans report him in France. He is regarded as an outstanding armored forces leader.
About 1,770 German POWs were captured today by American forces in France, bringing the total taken in recent days to about 3,000. The Canisy area battle marks a continued breakthrough as Allied troops push through German lines.
Pearl Harbor report says a US task force sank 10 Japanese ships and levelled defenses in the Western Carolines, clearing Nip planes in a day. Simultaneous bombing hit Truk and surrounding bases while ground forces pushed on Guam and Tinian as U S losses rose modestly.
Dewey Cromer 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Cromer of Archdale, was found drowned in the Salvation Army pool about 9 am after a group outing the previous day. Witnesses say 12 boys swam unsupervised. coroner attributes drowning with no foul play. Funeral set for Antioch Methodist church Forsyth county with Rev. G. E. White presiding.
Eleven new infantile paralysis cases were reported to the state health department, bringing the total since June 1 to 412. One case each from Harnett and Watauga counties had been misdiagnosed. new cases were listed in Alleghany Ashe Buncombe Caldwell Catawba Cleveland Forsyth Gaston and Wilkes counties.
Gurney Lee York 27 of High Point was captured in Graham while attempting to board a bus after a stolen car crash near Hopedale Alamance county. York with David Stephenson 25 and Walter Otto Jones 28, all convicts, escaped from a Chatham county prison gang. Jones remained at large in the Hopedale area as officers searched the Alamance region.
In Charlotte on July 28 the Mecklenburg County Health Officer announced a second poliomyelitis case in the Army student training reserve cadet corps at Davidson College. After the first case on July 26 the 225 cadets were quarantined and confined to campus.
A July 28 Associated Press report describes flying bombs causing destruction in Southern England and London. Buildings were wrecked, a store top collapsed, a bus toppled near an intersection, and an automobile was hurled into a shop. Fire spread as firemen and rescuers worked to reach buried shop girls and customers.
Field dispatches report American tanks and armored units 20 miles wide sweeping through a Normandy gap to within two miles of Coutances. Omar Bradley’s spearheads advance over 11 miles since Wednesday, fracturing the 84th German Army corps into scattered pockets of resistance.
Allied forces, including American armored columns, captured Tessy Sur Vire and neared Coutances as the Coutances pocket shrank with 50 000 to 70 000 enemy trapped against the sea. Reports describe chaotic retreat, with three German armored divisions on the American front and prisoners from six divisions at a forward post.
The piece cites Nazi claims of enormous secret weapons that could overwhelm Britain. It notes Goebbels and Hitler press propaganda while military experts question feasibility, warning of morale effects but urging caution toward sensational claims and unlikely victory through hidden weapons.
American columns march across the Cherbourg peninsula chasing German forces. First Army reports multiple prisoner groups from six Nazi divisions as units push toward Coutances and Texsy Sur Soulles. Front patrols describe heavy combat on Coutances Marigny road and continuous danger in hedgerow country.
The Eighth Army pushed toward Florence as New Zealand troops seized San Casciano seven miles from the city. Indian units gained near Monte Spertoli, while Polish forces reached areas near the Misa river amid heavy shelling. German smoke screens and artillery fire aided positions along the Arno as American batteries targeted troop concentrations and supply dumps.
Nash County resident Thomas J. Pearsall was named by Governor Broughton to the Advisory Budget Commission to fill the vacancy created by A. S. Brower’s retirement from the State Board of Education.
The post office announces a new air mail shuttle between High Point and Greensboro High Point Airport starting August 1. Two round trips daily include a 12 10 p m departure, 12 35 p m arrival, and a 3 p m return for southern mail, with Chicago destined mail arriving about 16 hours later.
An Ankara dispatch says Bulgaria negotiates with the Allies to exit the war while Turkish developments unfold. A traveler from Sofia reports Russia renewed demands for four Soviet consulates and a threat to break diplomatic ties if unmet. The Vichy radio claims Turkish shipping in the Mediterranean may be halted.
London reports Brest Litovsk and Kaunas abandoned to advancing Russian forces as 30 miles from Warsaw, 340 miles from Berlin, and 128 miles from Silesia in a sweeping Baltic offensive. Lwow and Daugavpils fall amid rapid gains through Lithuania, Poland, and Carpathian foothills toward east Prussia and Czecho-Slovakia, with rail hubs disrupted and oil regions threatened.
U S and Mediterranean Allied air forces report destroying well over 200 German planes in four days of raids on Hungary. Allied losses totaled 73 aircraft. Mustangs and Lightnings claimed numerous German victories while heavy bombers struck the Manfred Weiss works at Budapest and the Ploesti oil complex faced RAF action.
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