Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 6, 1994 TAG: 9407070021
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Greg Edwards
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Britain's Second Army knocked out 25 German tanks and hurled back a dozen enemy counterattacks southwest of Caen, while American troops cleaning up the northwestern tip of France's Cherbourg peninsula captured 2,000 Germans, boosting Axis dead and prisoners on the American front to nearly 50,000 men.
The War Department, saying that its monthly goals of war goods deliveries were not being met, urged the War Production Board not to permit relaxation in production controls and to exert even more effort to increase manufacture of weapons.
The U.S. government clamped tighter controls over job seekers and prospective employers to help keep war essential industries adequately staffed and to check excessive turnover. The new guidelines were voluntary.
Long-silent Adolf Hitler, speaking at the funeral of Gen. Edward Dieti, Nazi commander in Finland, expressed his belief that ``national fanaticism'' would lead to victory. Dieti was killed in a plane crash.
A baby's cry saved 25 Japanese civilians from American grenades during the battle for Nafutan Ridge on Saipan. An infantry platoon closed in on a dugout that was suspected to house last-ditch Japanese defenders. Just as a lieutenant from Chicago pulled the pin on a grenade, he heard the baby cry.
Francisco ``Pancho'' Segura, representing the University of Miami, entered the collegiate tennis hall of fame by trouncing Notre Dame's Charlie Samson in straight sets for his second straight NCAA tennis title.
Twenty-nine Virginians had been reported wounded in fighting in the Mediterranean theater of war, and 10 Virginians were reported killed in action in the South Pacific.
Norman Davis, 65, chairman of the American Red Cross and adviser to President Roosevelt on postwar foreign policy, died of a stroke while vacationing in Hot Springs, Va.
A fight between German troops and Italian partisans in the hilltop village of Guardistallo led to an execution of 61 civilians, including women, by the Nazis.
The guns stopped roaring for 30 minutes near the French town of Balleroy when eight German nurses captured at Cherbourg were returned to their own lines. The Americans were glad to be rid of the women, who had proved to be a minor nuisance since they were captured.
Russian troops captured the White Russian capital of Minsk, blasting the Germans out of the last major city on Soviet soil.
Pushing westward closer to the Philippines, American troops landed on Noemfoor, off north New Guinea and captured the island's Kamiri airdrome. Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced the action in his Independence Day communique.
Gen. Mark Clark's 5th Army smashed through minefields and artillery fire by reinforced German units to advance with 14 air miles of the port of Leghorn and within 18.5 miles of the Pisa-Florence highway.
American troops smashed through La Haye to its southern outskirts in fierce street fighting, capturing is rail station and bypassing pockets of German resistance as the battle for the Cherbourg peninsula continued.
Fire blazed through the matinee performance of the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn., claiming 152 lives, most of them children, and hospitalizing another 250 people. At least 10,000 people were jammed into the big tent when the fire broke out.
U.S. Superfortresses bombed the Japanese homeland again, hitting the steel center of Yawata and the naval base at Sasebo.
by CNB