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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1944
Page
2
American forces in Italy near Folllonica as reports say five new German divisions entered the battle after Rome's liberation. Prisoners from a parachute division said they were ordered to hold at all costs at the Pisa Rimini line north of the seaport.
Stalin announces a broad offensive across White Russia with gains up to 20 miles northwest of Vitebsk and 15 miles southeast of the city. Troops push near Orsha and cross the Svir river, freeing hundreds of places. All three battle zones receive special orders recognizing commanders Bagramian and Cherniakhovsky.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower returned to the American beachhead in Normandy for a four hour visit. He held talks with Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley and spent time with infantrymen gunners and tanks crews. Eisenhower traveled in a three jeep caravan that startled MPs.
Dr. Garber, a Methodist conference historian and president of the Association of Methodist Schools, has led the Duke School of Religion since 1941 as dean. He authored key works on Methodism, including The Methodists Are One People and The Historical Aspects of the Plan of Unification, contributing to the 1939 church union. He also wrote a Kilgo biography and other titles such as The Gadsden Treaty and The Romance of American Methodism.
The account notes that the final plan for the invasion of France relied on German troop levels. It states that British and American forces were assigned reversed roles in Normandy versus Sicily, with Britain holding while the United States advanced. Allied decision to proceed despite rising German defenses is highlighted.
Forty two patients remain hospitalized at Memorial Hospital with infantile paralysis. A new county hospital at the Hickory health camp will handle up to 40 cases and begin operation Sunday if needed. Two infants deaths reported, one in Newton and one in Iredell County. Red Cross and health officials, aided by Yale epidemiologists, work to curb the outbreak. Pepper use in the U S has fallen by 16 million pounds since WWI.
State Department officials say four Latin revolutions last year test hemisphere security. Argentina and Bolivia seen as subversive threats while Ecuador and El Salvador viewed as internal shifts. U S diplomacy shifts as Villaroel purges MNR, elections set for July 1, and relations cautiously resume.
Devastation spread across Wellsburg and nearby towns as a tornado and scattered storms damaged homes and forests. HospitalsOverflowed with injured while soldiers patrolled the Shinnston area and relief stations operated under emergency lighting. Multiple towns reported power outages and extensive property loss, with responders rushing plasma and tetanus vaccines to affected hospitals.
Allied forces intercepted a seven-ship German convoy attempting to slip away near Cherbourg. British and American troops pressed the defense, sinking or damaging five ships, destroying pillboxes, and pressing a tough, costly battle along the Cherbourg perimeter as weather and supplies shifted.
Coast Guard report details Lieut. (jg) Stanley B. Kurta of Brooklyn and Seaman Edmund DiLorenzo of Philadelphia battling a tiger shark to save a doomed machinist's mate after he and another sailor were washed overboard near the Caribbean. The shark tore the man away. Kurta sustained a severe thumb wound while aiding the injured sailor.
American troops on Saipan report success on the east coast as Laulau falls and the line tightens northward. Infantries scale Mt Tapotchau while Japan reportedly prepares a major defense at Garapan. Tokyo boasts of a forthcoming large naval deployment in the Marianas.
The War Department says Greer Garson Humphrey Bogart and Warner Bros will receive the GI Oscars tomorrow for service to American troops in the Southwest Pacific. The award is a statuette of a native jungle guide. A battleship uses five times more fuel than destroyers and eight lubricants are aboard modern ships. Windmills spread from Germany to other nations.
Nazi divisions defend Cherbourg as Allied forces thrust beyond strongpoints outside the city. Concrete pillboxes six feet thick and gun positions are encountered two to three miles from Cherbourg, stocked with ammunition. The battle is a slow annihilation with limited action outside Caen.
Hitler claimed Nazi prisoners were murdered and warned that ten US prisoners of war would be shot for every German killed. The trigger was Eden's Parliament remarks that 530 British RAF officers were shot while attempting escape. Reports also said German combatants in Todt or Reich Labor Service uniforms with swastikas were executed.
The War Department announced that several American aircraft were destroyed in a German air raid on two Russian air fields used for shuttle bombing operations over Europe. Three crewmen were missing after the attack, likely from Italian based and Britain based bomber fields in shuttle flights over Axis targets.
North Carolina sales of 3.5 million dollars to individuals in the last two days raised the Fifth War Loan total to 16.5 million. State War Finance Chairman T. Leinbach said figures through Friday put the state past 23 percent of its 71 million dollar individual purchase quota.
George Edwards a 38 year old man of 815 Leonard Street was released on 300 dollar bond after being charged with assaulting Thelma Horne a 26 year old woman with a knife. Horne was taken to the Boulev ard unit of High Point Memorial Hospital with two cuts. Edwards initially fled but surrendered at police headquarters and claimed the woman called him to her home and started trouble.
A medium bomber from Morris Field in Charlotte lifted off then nosedived down an embankment killing two Army air force personnel. Five crew members were lightly injured. The deceased are Corp. Robert C. Shore of Knoxville Tennessee and Private Gilbert E. Sigman of Lemont Illinois.
Preconvention moves surge as Bricker and Dewey rival delegates. Predictions span first to fourth ballots with 1057 total delegates and 529 needed for nomination. Stassen and Willis seek VP spots while Willkie is notably absent amid a crowded field and shifting party strategy.
Reported actions include Allied naval and air engagements near the Indian front with a sinking of a 28 000 ton carrier and torpedoes from a submarine. British forces push to control the Kohima Imphal highway while plans to reopen routes to China unfold amid Japanese pressures and limited allied support.
The article discusses shaky support across states with Republicans seen as edging Democrats in Rhode Island Connecticut and Maine while carrying Ohio. It notes a general middle west strength and cautious outlook on California and Oregon as doubtful while Washington and other areas show uncertainty.
Radio program lineup lists two hours of changes and corrections followed by a busy schedule. Programs include The Paul Lavalie Cone Trans Atlantic Call, Moylan Sisters, Voices of the Dairy, Church of the Al Be ddlhn, and Victory commentary. Notable entries feature Sammy Kaye Serenade, The World of Song, and NBC Symphony with multiple hour slots and a closing news and variety block.
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