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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1944
Page
10
Fair to partly cloudy conditions with widely scattered afternoon thundershowers. Mostly in the east today and in the mountains Saturday. Little temperature change expected.
The President spoke after talks with state department officials and others about a future peace system. He advocated a fully representative world organization with a council elected by all nations and an international court of justice. He urged joint effort by peace loving nations to maintain security.
Allied forces at Saipan faced heavy resistance as battleships and cruisers opened fire after carrier planes disabled southern Mariana air defenses. Initial U S reports cited moderate casualties while Tokyo radio claimed 1,800 enemy casualties and 40 landing barges lost.
Police in Winston Salem try to locate relatives of Boyd Kelly a Negro who died last night at the Sheppard Veneer Company. Officers believe his relatives live in the area and ask anyone knowing their whereabouts to contact the police. Kelly formerly resided in this city.
Crossword by Eugene Sheffer presents a dense list of clues across vertical and themed rows. It blends definitions for feline river macaw Turkish decree citrus drink optical instrument and more with many cross references and a final set of related terms.
State by Neighborhood Grocery Stores of Lexington authorized capital stock 75000 with subscribed stock 8090 by F T Drakeford John Parker Joseph E Anderson Clifford D Koontz and Cora R Drakeford all of Lexington. SAY KOREA RAIDED NEW YORK broadcast reports enemy planes raiding Korea and Asiatic mainland opposite Japan. ACTIVITY CONTINUES London officials say enemy activity continued intermittently in southern England with damage and casualties. FIND CHILDS BODY Frances McGrath 10 found near Norwell farm after missing since Saturday. police say she was attacked. OPA sets gasoline rations unchanged for three months on east coast. PAY BOOST Raleigh state board of education seeks to pay over 300000 in surplus public school funds, about 2 per month per teacher.
A World War II dispatch reports about 300000 German troops assaulting the Norman beachhead. Four divisions including the 709th Tiith and 352nd were badly mauled. Germans acknowledge reverses on the American right flank and claim engineers wrecked Caen canal locks, implying fear of Montgomery cracking the left hinge of the line.
The Office of War Information quoted Japanese radio spokesmen who urged the people not to be spiritually low and to view attacks as an active pull toward the enemy. The propaganda stressed greater wartime effort, especially in war plane production.
Report notes a Soviet advance near the Gulf of Finland and a breakthrough in the Kuterselkae region. The Finns defend with three extra ranks of tank blocks around steel shelters, while Red Star claims the Red Army smashed the Mannerheim line and seized a key highway crossing.
Allied forces advance ten miles north of Orvieto while Adriatic front sees rapid Nazi withdrawal. American units move along the Tyrrhenian coast pushing eight miles beyond Orbetello amid intensified artillery fire and demolitions.
The war article notes Allied advances around Cherbourg while warning of possible new landings at Calais Ostende and Le Havre. It cites German claims of imminent invasions and an Allied fleet sighting in the Bay of Biscay as threats looming in southwestern France and the Rhone Valley.
S. H. Tomlinson remains in a very grave condition with little change since yesterday. He fell ill two weeks ago while away on a business trip and relapsed after returning home.
In southern England large numbers of enemy pilotless missiles crossed the coast with anti-aircraft guns and RAF fighters responding. Reported raids aimed to divert Allied buildup at the French bridgehead as Morrison described the craft as missiles intended to crash into targets rather than drop bombs.
Allied aircraft conducted night intruder missions over France with four enemy planes shot down and damage to others. A Mosquito force attacked targets in Western Germany, following yesterday’s daylight assault by 1,300 U S heavy bombers and 3,000 sorties in support of ground operations in Normandy. Medium bombers struck fuel dumps and communications from Valognes to Laval, with many missions flown from French bases.
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