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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1944
Page
2
Partly cloudy and hot Sunday across North Carolina with scattered afternoon thundershowers possible in the mountains. Temperatures rise inland with heat risk in exposed areas.
Allied forces continue a fast-paced push across the Cherbourg region carving through stubborn German pockets. American tanks and air power destroy hundreds of enemy vehicles while penning in last escape routes from the Cherbourg peninsula.
In Gaffney South Carolina two youths aged 15 and 14 were arrested on a charge of attempted sabotage after breaking a main line switch of the Southern Railway on July 26. The damage was stopped before any serious disruption occurred. They were released on bond to their parents. The 15 year old’s motive stemmed from a Navy discharge for falsifying his age.
The article surveys 1944 primaries with Clark urging party loyalty and defending pre war voting stance, plus contests in Missouri for governor and 13 House seats. In New York Rep Fish faces Augustus Bennet amid Dewey criticism. Virginia and Tennessee primaries pick House members and governors amid shifting party lines.
Allied artillery attacks push the New Zealand division forward from St Michele and La Romola while German Tiger tanks pose a challenge in rolling defensive country. The Arno near Pisa remains tense as massed American artillery faces questions over Pisa’s fabled leaning tower. Two U S generals Maj Gen Charles Ryder and Maj Gen Ernest Harmon are reassigned to U S duties from Italy.
Allied Press dispatch from the Crote front describes U S Marines advancing toward the seaward tip of the island peninsula after fighting through pillboxes and sniper posts. Tanks and flamethrowers aided the assault as 2,000 Japanese trapped inside tighten the battle.
The Associated Press reports a growing list of missing air aces from World War II. Notable pilots include Gregory Boyington with 26 kills and Neal E. Kearby with six in a day, both missing. others like Robert Hanson, Duane Beeson, Thomas Lynch, Walter Beckham, Gerald Johnson, and Walker Mahurin are noted as missing or captured after European raids.
Navy briefing shows American submarines destroyed 17 enemy ships on latest patrols boosting July totals to 69 ships sunk or damaged by Allied subs. Reports include escorts tankers cargo transports and warships while overall Japanese losses climb toward 823 with 671 definite sinkings.
OPA establishes two new standards for live poultry pricing replacing the prior three grade system. Uniform turkey prices are set, Guam operation finished, and advancing invasion forces maintain schedule for further action.
Russian forces report advances along a broad front from Grodno to Warsaw with captures near Nowokamienna and Lipnica and a tightening pocket near Brest Litovsk. Soviet blitz through the San and Vistula corridors reaches toward Krakow while German defenses crumble and Polish troops join the Russians near Warsaw.
Civilians face cranberry shortages as more supplies are diverted to servicemen at home and overseas for Thanksgiving and Christmas meals.
The roster names key figures in Central conferences and Ecumenical Methodist Council. It lists Rev. John R. Kenney and others as chairmen and secretaries across regions, with bishops including Ivan Lee Holt and Paul N. Garner, and officers for courses of study and public information.
In Raleigh on July 29 Dr. Carl V. Reynolds announced 32 inmates from the women's prison at Raiford were assigned temporary parole work in the Hickory emergency infantile center. They perform maid, kitchen and ward duties and have begun their duties with commendable service. Paroles expire August 17 with reviews possible. governor orders and state health officials say these are temporary roles. Daily infections in the current epidemic fell to four, bringing total cases since June 1 to 416.
Moscow reports Wilno in Lithuania liberated by Jewish partisans including young women with weapons and grenades. They, along with hundreds of men, fought from Rudnitsk Forest, describing escape from the Ghetto and claims of German casualties.
In Cumberland Davidson Mecklenberg and Surry counties a three day patriotic meet was scheduled in Gastonia August 3 to 5. Dr Reynolds suggested cancellation of the event. The gathering was to be hosted by the rode Ranmanm Fre oar eaten tion board and textile mills. Gastonia was chosen for its textile industry prominence. Speakers were to include Governor Broughton former Governor Clyde Hoey and Governor Nominee Gregg Cherry.
Henry Hirschberg and others press a libel suit over an advertisement backing Maxwell Alderson. Willkie confirms only sending a telegram, while Dewey declines comment. The Ramapo Valley ad, signed by Anderson and 10 others including Milton Caniff and Kurt Weill, sparks dispute as Cutler withdraws his name. Anderson vows to reprint and to sue if challenged.
Danny Strzyzewski, 16, an accomplished organist at St Adalbert church, is a standout student at East High. He maintains a 97 percent average, plays in the school orchestra, and as a sophomore on the tennis team won six of nine matches while serving as a scoutmaster and honor student despite a hip ailment that slows his walking.
Tobacco growers and warehousemen conceded defeat in their week long bid for a two cent price ceiling rise on the 1944 crop. They argued the increase could be absorbed by retailers but OPA declined to endorse it and Georgia markets were ordered to open Monday.
The United States reports the largest wheat crop on record while the four main exporters collectively show lower wheat stocks than the prior year, signaling tighter global supply despite record U.S. production.
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