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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1944
Page
1
An Allied report describes German pilotless aircraft over southern England causing damage and deaths. The weapons, radio controlled and fast, produced bright lights and a detonating glow as RAF defenses and civilian alert systems responded.
Allied forces under Lt Gen Omar Bradley push toward Cherbourg and reach within 2 miles east of St Sauveur, securing a rail junction and threatening routes to the port. Britons fight near Caumont while weather hampers operations along the invasion front.
U S air units led by Lieut Stillwell conducted three days of operations in Hunan province. Mitchell bombers with P 51 escorts attacked Liuyang Changsha and Penglipu Linyuang area, killing hundreds of Japanese troops and damaging installations. P 40s supported raids on Changsha Wanang Chuchow region, with several dozen enemy casualties reported.
Cameron Morrison of Charlotte reports to the secretary of state that he spent 11050 in his unsuccessful race for the U S Senate seat vacated by Reynolds. Clyde K Hoey previously reported 7025 in his bid.
Allied forces drive from the Adriatic to the Tyrrhenian Sea advancing up to 25 miles in a day. They take Acquapendente Narni and Terni while the Eighth Army furthers toward To di and Florence Rimini corridor. Fifth Army inclines above Lake Bolsena and seizes Acquapendente. Eighth captures Terni and Narni as signs of limited enemy resistance emerge along the Pisa Florence Rimini arc.
Supreme Headquarters reports Allied air forces hit Boulogne with 12 000 pound bombs on E boat and mine sweeper pens as part of the Normandy invasion support. RAF four engine Lancasters with escorts attacked Boulogne at 10 30 p m yesterday and continued bombing railway centers at Valenciennes and Lens through the night.
J Van Dyke Norman representing the southern governors conference urged the ICC to curb discriminatory freight rates that keep the South underdeveloped. He argued transport costs are lower in the South but rates remain high, forcing manufacturers to seek costly exceptions. The aim is equal treatment to spur national economic benefit.
American B 29s based in Western China staged a record bombing of Yawata in northern Kyushu, aiming to shred Japan s steel production. Gen Kenneth B Wolfe hailed the raid as the start of organized industrial destruction while two B 29s failed to return.
In a broadcast, Marshal Tito says Major Djuric, a Chetnik commander under General Mihailovic, joined Tito's partisans with many officers and over 1,000 men. He also reports the formation of four new partisan divisions in the Morava valley Serbia.
In Columbia South Carolina a 14 year old Negro boy named George Junius Stinney Jr was executed in the electric chair for the confessed murders of two white girls in Alcola while they gathered wild flowers. He did not speak before his death and was the youngest person to die by electric chair in the state. Governor Johnston refused clemency despite appeals from several organizations.
Washington reports mixed reactions in Congress to the President's postwar peace plan. Republicans press for clear roles for small nations in a proposed international security council and challenge whether veto power rests with the Big Four or if smaller nations receive representation.
Red Army tanks and artillery broke through Finland's new Mannerheim line near Viipuri after a sizeable gap formed during the assault. The line featured four wall lines of cone shaped stone and anti tank blocks as well as a 20 yard wide mine field with German mines. The Finns had trenches dugouts and shelters protected by steel and concrete platforms for anti tank rifles machine guns and mortars.
London reports say German mercenaries in southern France join audacious guerrillas in Nazi uniforms. Deserions by Turkomans Cossacks Tartars Croats Armenians and Georgians surge as dozens defy German officers. French underground reportedly seized Tarbes and freed 300 German prisoners while sabotaging factories and rail yards.
American forces storming Saipan in the Marianas push inland 1,500 miles southeast of Tokyo. U S troops capture beachheads on a 72 square mile island and push toward Garapan and Charan Kanoa while repelling Japanese counterattacks. News of nearby island raids is reported by Tokyo.
The war dispatch notes that America has begun regular air raids from land bases against Japan, using immense new bombers. It cites targets near Tokyo and industrial areas such as Moji and Shimoneshi, and explains why the Japanese fear U S airfields in China as part of Allied strategy. The report hints at continuing operations from the Mariana Islands.
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