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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1944
Page
2
The forecast calls for north region weather to be fair with partly cloudy skies and a gradual warming trend today and tonight. Friday brings more heat with continued partly cloudy conditions.
The narrative compares Allied and Japanese losses after a Sunday air raid and Monday actions. It notes Adm Nimitz saying no combat ships were lost Sunday, cites higher Japanese plane losses, and argues Japan cannot win in the Pacific unless catastrophically reinforced, as the war moves toward the Philippines.
The record notes three carrier losses and heavy damage to 14 ships in 1942. It cites Midway as the greatest American blow and Guadalcanal as the second major defeat, with Adm Spruance leading the carrier force. Fifteen to twenty enemy aircraft were shot down in the cited actions.
General Stimson cited Allied British and Canadian troops repelling German counterattacks and expanding holdings. He noted enemy reserves were limited and reinforcements arrived piecemeal while the Allies built up strength, despite Channel weather hampering supply runs at times.
Hollywood notes report on Ann Miller converting servants quarters into a rumpus room and trailer use on her property. Bing Crosby is heard snoring in his dressing room delaying a call on Here Come the WAVES. Emily Kimbrough suffers a serious mumps attack while Vera Vague rents cattle for Republic. Marilyn Maxwell and John Conte engagement chatter and Osa Massen promotes Red Cross work. Wallie Beery writes a note to a garment worker as part of Airship Squadron Four prep.
Basil Rathbone reports his son Rodion, previously in the Orient, is now with the Royal Canadian Air Force in England. Father receives first word in five months as updates come from wartime postings.
Communique No 33 notes two to three mile gains along the Vaudreuil front as Allied forces press Cherbourg. Cap de La Hague reports German respite seeking temporary refuge while Cherbourg remains the focal point of operations and patrol activity continues elsewhere.
Phil lip Dorn exits Strangers in Our Midst after a ladder fall while painting his house. Bob Crosby signals a Marine nod as he records A Fellow on a Furlough at Columbia. Jack Carson and Byer Belnick plan a rabbit ranch venture. Sergt George Reeves returns with Winged Victory after So Proudly We Hail. Bill Fields declines Alaskan Stampede offer pending potential film. Jimmy McHugh backs Mary Meade era. Hats to Georgia Gibbs as she cuts a weekly MGM picture ready program. Anna Lee stays in Palm Springs drafting a book. Perry Como buys a car with two dollar bills from a recent Mexican arrival.
German radio claimed a large scale bomber attack on Poltava in the Ukraine after earlier saying American shuttle bombers rested after their Berlin raid. Governor Ellis Arnall predicted Roosevelt would address the nation after the Republican convention on a possible fourth term.
On June 22 President Roosevelt will receive a first hand report from Gen. George C. Marshall Adm. Ernest King and Gen. H. H. Arnold after their recent inspection of the invasion coast of France. The meeting will review the beaches and operations of the Allied assault.
General Eisenhower warned German forces that they must not rely on defending only Cherbourg. In a radio message to fishermen from Denmark Norway Sweden Belgium and France he ordered them to remain in port until 6 p.m. June 9. This marked the second seven day extension of the original Allied command warning.
CBS correspondent Larry Lesner reports Allied forces ready for the final blow on Cherbourg from Normandy. A lieutenant colonel at the front says German defenses resist, and the US attack could be as severe as the first Normandy invasion.
The moves push beyond St Croix Hague to the west and Le Theil to the east, aiming to sever German forts at Cap De La Hague and Point Barfleur on the opposite coast.
A historical account by Henry C. Nicholas on Col Fisher’s view of incendiaries as decisive weapons. It traces incendiary use from ancient fires to modern air power, noting their outsized impact in Britain Blitz and Hamburg destruction, and detailing devices like magnesium and white phosphorus bombs and their tactics.
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