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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1944
Page
1
MOSCOW Aug 1 UP The government newspaper Iovestia reports Germans set fire to Warsaw prep to abandon the city. The article notes the city is shrouded by smoke as fighting rages in the suburbs. Transocean reports Reds hold a bridgehead on the West Bank.
Allied forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur landed at Sansapor in Dutch New Guinea to secure a beachhead and inland river crossing and began airport construction. The assault neutralized about 15,000 Japanese at Sorong, bypassed another 15,000 at Manokwari, and moved MacArthur 200 miles closer to the Philippines.
MacArthur announced a new operation that seized Middleburg and Amsterdam in New Guinea. He said dawn landings at Cape Sansapor pushed west past the Wewe river, with light opposition and expected aerial reactions from Halmahera. The moves neutralize Manokwari and widen Allied air bases from Vogelkop to Milne Bay, tightening security for Australia.
Col William J Fox USMCR commanding officer at El Toro California will speak at the naval indoctrination school graduation exercises on August 11 He is also the Marine corps liaison officer to the commandant of the 11th naval district The school at the University of Arizona opened in 1942 and will close November 10 with more than 9000 graduates It trained newly commissioned officers in seamanship navigation ordnance and orientation before the closure due to changes in naval reserve and regular fleet officer requirements.
British and German forces fought near Florence as Allied troops pressed yard by yard against up to 75,000 Nazi defenders. An Allied communiqué said slow but methodical progress followed heavy fighting along the Florence front.
Berlin said Soviet forces stormed the Vistula and pushed toward Warsaw while Moscow tacitly backed reports of a Vistula crossing. Rokossovsky's troops mass along the east bank and threaten a 3 mile arc from the city as Praga area attacks intensify. Deblin on the Vistula confluence area was cited as a potential bridgehead.
Washington reports say internal German factions tied to the bomb plot against Hitler appear to have reacted with apathy. Nazis moved swiftly to tighten control, Berlin’s government district cordoned off, with no widespread rioting or demonstrations reported after the attempt.
Boston August 1 An elderly veteran steps aside to permit his son Pvt William C Bowes to join the Silver Star recipients. Bowes earned the medal at Bougainville for crawling under heavy fire to rescue a wounded comrade, dragging him 35 yards to safety while three others failed. His father Timothy A Bowes also won the St Mihiel award in World War I.
Senate leaders urged the military committee to act without delay on demobilization reconversion and surplus property disposal as war ends expectations rise of Germany's quick defeat. Majority Leader Barkley warned against another recess until urgent legislation is completed.
A baby girl was born to Oona O Neill Chaplin wife of comedian Charlie Chaplin at St John s hospital. Dr Sheldon Payne announced the birth. Chaplin and O Neill were married in Carpentaria California in June 1943. This is Chaplin s fourth child. His first child with Mildred Harris died in infancy. Two sons with Lita Grey are Charles Jr 18 and Sydney 17.
Allied forces push 40 miles in seven days to Avranches, threatening Brest peninsula. Bradley’s armor could cut off supplies as German defenses thin along an arc. The route from interior France to Brittany tunnels through Laval Vitre and Rennes, with Vitre 40 miles south of Avranches and Rennes about 50 miles away.
Marshal Baron Mannerheim, Finland’s war commander, was appointed president after Risto Ryti resigned. Parliament named him to succeed Ryti, with Premier Edwin J. Linkomies supporting the resolution. Helsinki reported the move as Finland seeks to end its war with Russia.
American patrols covered the southern half of Guam while Marines and Army troops advanced inland toward the northern plateau as Japanese defenders retreated. On Tinian, Marines compressed the enemy into a small pocket near Lalo Point and held nine tenths of the island, though difficult terrain slowed mop up.
London August 1 The German DNB news agency said Nazi troops had withdrawn from parts of Pisa and that the entire city has been evacuated according to reports.
Associated Press analyst DeWitt Mackenzie notes that the Cotentin breakthrough expands the front beyond the peninsula freeing space for massive Allied deployment toward Paris and Berlin. He highlights Americans breaking the southwest flank near Granville Avranches, with Canadian and British forces driving from the opposite end.
London report details a new German rocket propelled fighter that Allied pilots say can reach tremendous speeds. Seven encounters noted, none engaged in combat, but the craft’s speed signals potential strategic impact if mass produced. Berlin had hinted at such planes for months amid jet and rocket warfare discussion.
Manuel Quezon exiled Philippine leader dies at 65 from tuberculosis at a summer home in Saranac Lake New York. A longtime independence advocate who fled Luzon in 1942 he supported the Allies and urged remember the Philippines. Burial plans hint at Washington services with family at his side. He was born August 18 1878 and earlier fought with Emilio Aguinaldo before US independence struggles.
The French underground claims Marshal Erwin Rommel and Gen Otto von Stuelpnagel died in France. Rommel was reportedly fatally wounded in Normandy, while Stuelpnagel is said to have killed himself after a failed plot against Hitler.
Allied armor pushed east from the lower Norman coast toward Paris with gains at Berecy and Brecey as rapid advances threaten to disrupt the German line. Bradley’s first army reportedly destroyed seven divisions, totaling 7,812 prisoners in the past day and 69,186 since the Normandy breakout.
President Roosevelt nominates Lt. Gen. Joseph Warren Stilwell to be a full general in the Army of the United States. Stilwell commands U S Army forces in the Burma China theater and serves under Chiang Kai Shek with duties under Mountbatten in Southeast Asia.
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