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v A '.circus is a place tor mirth,
" hotfor. sadness. It carries people
far inW the world of make-be-
lieve, away' from the soberness
-and monotony, of routine living.
The circus gives . excitement and
thrills; but -always, always the
trapeze actors succeed in their
-leaps: across; space or land safely
in the nets below. The : circus
brings shaggy-bearded lions and
fierce tigers and ponderous ele
j phants and long-necked giraffes to
excite the wonder of thoroughly
. domesticated humans, but the ani-
mala are in cages or obedient to
the voice and the whip of the
master. ; ', - '
, It is fun to go to the circus.
world of fun. There j is the great
: parade; preceded by the blare of
' trumpets and accompanied by the
ample brass of the circus band;
" ladies in tights and spangles, - men
. In coats of gaudy colors, matched
" white., horses, . clowns with gro-
m tesque faces and baggy polka-dot
' costumes. The circus comes I but
- cnce a year but its memories re
main vivid till the next 'season.
1- The circus, with fun and frolic.
'with peanuts and popcorn : and
-. cokes at painfully doubled prices.
- Naught of gloom at the circus;
f rather the most elemental of
' :- pleasures : of sight and - sound,
color and action and excitement.
- Tragedy at a circus? That is its
, rarest event. There is: risk, there
is danger, The human cannon ball
shot from the cannon might miss
'the net across the arena. The
tiger might claw the venturesome
girl who enters ' ' . ; , .
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Germans Slay
Most Residents
0f2Vfflages
By the. AsMdated Preu
: Cold-blooded massacres of
vir-
tually the entire populations of the
Greek village of Distomo and the :
French village of Oradau-Sur-i
Glanes were repoiied in accounts
- reaching New York Saturday. -j
u , The' Greek puppet government
! announced the Distomo, slaughter,
'in which-1000 persons died, saying
.it "oceurred on June: loir the sec
' : ond ; anniversary of the massacre
, and - destruction " ' of ; Lidice in
. ' Czechoslovakia.' J '" ;v ,r
The story of the French village,
' In the Limoges district of central
France, came from the British
Broadcasting corporation, which
aid 1100 t&t of a population of
1 1200 were slain. ; ..',.'
,. The Greek puppet communique,
a copy of which rwas received Fri
day in Izmir (Smyrna) Turkey,
said the populace was sbot and the
town burned in reprisal for - the
deaths of 20 German soldiers In
a fight with guerillas the previous
day. - :: :-, - - i :-.'; . ' , '
At Lidice, which; the Germans
' themselves announced ?" was de
stroyed in reprisal for the assas
lnation of Reinhard Haydrich,
"protector' JfJf Bohemia - Moravia,
the men were killed and the wo
men' and children carried, away. '
But at Distomo, according to in
formation received among Greeks
in Izmir, men, women and wailing
babies were slaughtered . imper-
aonaUy. , . '.;-; " '; '
J This account said that after the
guerilla battle on June 9, German
SS (elite guard) troops on the af
ternoon of J une 10 surrounded
. i Distomo, herded all Inhabitants
into the public square, and there
chopped them down with machine
guns. - v - .
Train Death
Toll Hits 33
JELLICO, TeniL, July 8-(F)-The
death toll from the plunge of a
troop - train Into a Clear river
gorge Thursday night mounted at
least to 33 tonight as workmen
laboriously cleared the wreckage.
The army announced , that the
bodies of 25 soldiers had been
found and police Chief Hubert
Perkins said that six other bod
ies were recovered during the af
ternoon. The fireman and the en
gineer of the train also perished.
As two giant cranes " swung
their cables into the rocky gorge
and tugged at the last demolished
car, - workers said j they believed
at least two more bodies would
be found. ; ' . . , j-
Oregon Far Beyond
General Bond Quota
PORTLAND, July 8-(fl-The
Fifth War Loan campaign; closed
at midnight tonight with Oregon
far beyond the general quota, but
only clearing the half way mark
en sales of E bonds. . j
Total sales in the state,; which
probably will be boosted later , as
lost minute purchases are com
puted, reached $143,309,092 The
goal was $123,000,000. r
The discours-'n? E bond total
,t 21?TC12 out of a quota' of
t"3,CC0,C'T was not final. All sales
-,': ;.:! July 31 sre, under a
-A'.-z n-wi,:? srrsr.cment, credited
KCIETT FOURTH TZAR
Russians
ture
Way, to Warsaw
Open With Fall
Of Baranowicze.
LONDON, Sunday, July -yf)
The red "army Saturday captured
Baranowicze, important fortress
on the invasion route to Warsaw,
fought into the streets of Wilno,
a n d cut the Wilno-Dauga'ypils
railway, one of the German sup
ply backbones for defense of east
Prussia';! and the - Baltic states,
Moscow announced tonight
Russian infantry, tanks and ar
tillery . broke into Wilno and . in
bitter fighting were inflicting
"tremendous losses' on the reeling
nazis, the soviet midnight com
munique, supplement said. In ear
ly stager, of the battle for the city
red army troops destroyed five
nazi tanks, eight gua batteries and
40 machineguns.
Nasi Infantry Routed '
' In another sector as German de
fense lines before the historic key
city cracked, the supplement said,
a nazi infantry regiment was rout
ed as it was being hurled into
battle. -v. -i"1- -
The slaughter of 28,000 Ger
mans trapped east of Minsk and
th capture of 15,102 in four days
also, was announced in the daily
communique. The Russians since
June 23 have killed or captured
approximately . 275,000 - Germans
on the basis of Moscow announce
ments.' w.. '- u
;Berllnsaid that Marshal, Gree-f
ory .K. Zhukov's long-rested .First
Ukraine army had gone over to
the offensive in the southern part
of old Poland between Kowel and
Lwow, thus extending the fast
moving Russian front to a dis
tance of 500 miles between the
Daugavpils (Dvinsk) area of Lat
via to the Carpathian mountain
approaches east of Lwow.
Not Confirmed Yet
While Moscow had not con
firmed, this new offensive, Ber
lin usually announces the unfold
ing of Russian drives ahead of
Moscow. Zhukov's troops are on
the southern flank of Marshal K.
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US Smashes
Quota
WASHIN GTON, July 8-(dP)
America smashed over the top in
me id Diuion aoiiar iiltn war
loan todayK said Secretary 'of the
Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, an
nouncing that subscriptions ' have
reached $16,650,000,000 and will
soar much higher when all re
turns are in.
Although today is the last day
of the drive in which an army of
volunteer workers has done what
Morgenthau called a magnificent
job,", the reporting period for sub
scriptions will continue until the
end of July as announced be
fore the campaign was launched.
The secretary said corporations
have subscribed : $12,400,000,000,
far beyond their ten billion dollar
goal, and individual r purchasers
have subscribed $4,250,000,000. ;
This figure is only ,71 per cent
of the individuals quota of six
billion, but Morgenthau indicated
that this will be surpassed. ' .
Cap
Fortress
Hitler Reported Taking
In France After Urgent
LONDON, July 8 Adolf
Hitler has been in urgent consul
tation with bis top military Nad
ers since early this week; and a
Moscow report said that Hitler
had taken over direction of opera
tions in the west after the removal
of veteran Field Marshal " Gen.
Karl Rudolf Gerd von RundsteJL
' From the German frontier came
information considered trust
worthy ' that likened the serious
discussions among Hitler - and his
military , leaders to tb Kaiser's
famous grand council in August,
1918, when German leaders de
cided the war againit the allies
could not be won, but might pro
duce an acceptable peaoe through
prolonged, bitter fighting..
Moscow Xlakes Report
Moscow radio '. quoted - Yakov
Viktorov, correspondent of the
newspaper Pravda, as saying that
Hitler himself had taken over in
the west," naming Field Marshal
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Jap Inability
Of Defense
Amazes :Yahk$, ;
. W A S H I N GTON, July .
Japanese inability to put . up ef
fective defense over some of their
most vital homeland areas was
emphasized i today by airmen
studying the latest attack of the
United States fleet of , Superfort
resses on;;tbe enemy in 1 Asia. ;
The; mission of China-based
B-29s which hit five targets, three
of them on. the home. Island -"of
Kyushu in a Friday. night raid,
returned without loss of aircraft
after encountering only "very
weak fighter opposition and meag
er anti-aircraft fire,' a communi
que by the 20th" air force head
quarters said today. . "
A 'spawning bed for the, Japa
nese navy and the supply system
6 fthe enemy's land armies in
China were hit in the latest ope
ration. The communique reported
that- Sasebo, - Japan's third largest
naval base, "received the ; heaviest
bomb load" of the mission, which
also rained destruction on Yawata
and Omura,! all three targets be
ing located on Kyushu island, at
the southern end of the Japanese
chain. Almost as vital as Sasebo
to the fleet-building and repair
efforts of the enemy are the steel
producing factories at Yawata and
Omura. t- "
The mission also pounded two
targets , in! occupied China, Lao
yao, a coal and shipping port on
the North China coast, and Han
kow on the Yangtze river, 450
miles inland, - which - has been
bombed often by Ma. Gen. Claire
Chenn ault's v 14th air i force.
Through both of these ports f un
net; supplies ! and reinforcements
for; the enehpr'i columns now at
tempting . to split free China and
seize American air fields.
Clue Appears
In Hartford
Circus Blaze
HARTFORD, Conn, July 8 -JP)
A Hartford city detective said to
night that with the appearance of
the first flames in the circus con
flagration which took more than
150 lives, he heard an unidenti
fied man accuse another of throw
ing a lighted cigaret - ! .
As a result! of that information,
given," said Detective Daniel Mc-
Auliffe, under oath during a fire
marshal's inquiry into Thursday's
Ringling Brothers and Barnum
and Bailey circus fire, State Po
lice Commissioner. Ed ward J.
Hickey. made a public appeal for
the accuser to present himself for
questioning. Z
Detective McAuliffe, among the
latest group of witnesses to tes
tify at the inquiry being conduct
ed by Hickey at. state fire mar
shal, related;! ' : "
He was among the spectators
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US Will Import
Steel to England
i WASHINGTON, July 8 rVPh
Disclosure that this country soon
will import 10,000 tons of .steel a
month froni England's lean sup
ply was coupled tonight with of
ficial warning that United States
output must be boosted at once
"if the allied forces in Europe are
to be adequately supported."
Gen. Guenther. von Kluge as the
front man i for the eclipsed von
RundstedL .
This is In itself an admission
of failure," Viktorov added.
' Another Moscow , ; broadcast
quoted a Tass dispatch as saying
that " von Rundstedt had; been
placed under house arrest. -
Information filtering out ; of
Germany said the major point of
controversy among German com
manders in the east, west and
south concerned their varying
manpower requirements. f L , -May
Kevbe runs ', '.
A complete revision of defense
plans may be made before the
end of the month, this information
said.. : .:,TS "' T " '.
One important point brought up
was whether it would be wiser to
withdraw German troops from
Norway and the Balkans, thereby
strengthening ? the core of resist
ance around Germany itseIftr-3
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Railroad Cars Pile Up in Gorge
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Several cars rof a troop train lie twisted In gorge near Jelllce, Teuu
after they jleft the rails ief the Louisville and Nashville railroad, in
an 'awident which took the lives' of at least 30 persons, all bat two
f .them soldiers, and Injured
d Plane Fleets
j ' 1 1
Awesome Show
Qiv0
LONDON,
uly 8-iT)-f Every
of the allie;
. i
was nuneq at me
i : , A j 1
todav in an iawesome display of
heaty twinfbljowg at the robot
and: hittingf savagely
wno crawiea
Normandy "1;
over the nibbje
. ;.'
The great 'blows at
the robot
bombs coincided with. the! longest
respite in southern England from
the feene weapons since those at
tacks began, but after rjightfall
they came winging over again. But
there was noj doubt the raids had
been effectivf. - -EAT
oat Durtnf Nlghtj
RAF heavy 'bonibers . in some
strehgth streamed southward over
the channel we before dujsk pos
sibly to deliyejr. another- pasting
on he rocket-bomb installations.
ThejGerman radio during the night
said; no raiders were over the reich
itself lending to; the belief that the
bonibers wer makmg counter-attacks
against Hitler's long range
weapons and giving; furtherj strong
support to the Normandy ground
troops. - i -: v h ' '.
The great daylight blows against
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Wallacje jSla
tes
speech
SEATTLE. I JbIt 8 -UPi- Vice
President Wallace, will address his
first message; to ihe j American
people since bis return froni China
in a nation-wide broadcast here
tomorrow, r ;f ". iC j' -" :
The address, from the studio of
station KOMQ, will! be carried at
3 pin. " Pacific war (time over the
network of the National Broad
casting System. He Is scheduled to
talk! about 20 minutes. l ;
, The exact hdur jot 'arrival of
the Vice president, who fie from
Chhia to Great jFals, Monti via
Alaska and AlberU, Canada, .on
his kay back Was tot certain to-
Inight. r j ; - j.
(mmdhd
CdnferencG
1'
avoiding the risk of having those
idle occupation troops cut off from
the Wneland, - j . j
Even taking Into! consideration
the fact that some of the reports
coming out ojt Germany rnay v be
nazil "plants"! aimed atT creating
overj-confidenee fe allied countries
this fappeared to jbej a trustworthy
review of developreentsrv j A -I
- 1. While no final decision ap
parently has been made, the Ger
man! probably Ivili throw j more
reserves into the Nbrmandyj front
in France in j an j effort t inflict
the heaviest possible losses -on
the killed troops there. ! "
-first Error Man j. ' C- j -f '
2. !Von Rundstedt 'stepped put of
the 'picture ; as the "first I error
manl in the-inyasion for. Refus
ing ito commit larger ; forces in
Normandy. H had j been reported
holding off for fear; of new allied
; (Continued m fai-?)
Today
... .
Sunday Morning, July 9. 1944
many others. (AP Wlrephoto.)
type of aircraft at the command
" 1 . '' 1 ? I . 1.
nan war macnine in me west
supremacy in the skies, striking
bomb ramps and storage places.
in! ilpporU iofGeia. Montgomery's troops
- strewn tppTxaches: to Caen ind
O
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en
HitNipSujjdy
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Chin;
inestin
CHUNGKING, July
American airmen continued their
pulverizing attacks on the highly
vulnerable Japanese lines of sup
ply throughput Hunan province,
as the Chinese in a savage coun
terattack recaptured and occupied
the town fof Liling, Japanese
stronghold along the -front north
of ' the Canton-Hankow railway
junction of Hengyang, the Chinese
high command said tonight i
Rumors in this capital said the
Japanese, ml the face of Chinese
counterattacks in all sectors of
the Hunan fighting, were prepar
ing to withdraw from their posi
lions at Hengyang, where the Chi
nese high command yesterday an
nounced the breaking of a bitter,
12-day siege.; - K
Heavy Yank 1 Raids
This report - was bolstered by
the reports of the heavy American
raids . all! along the Siang river,
striking at troop craft, supply
boats and other targets, but con
firmation was lacking from Heng
yang itself.' f :
Some said, the Japanese may
have been regrouping for a fresh
assault. on the vital rail junction,
However, military observers here
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Mahoney,Will Head
Oregon Democrats
PORTLAND, Ore, July t-iP-Oregon's
delegation to the remo
cra tie national convention in Chi
cago J uly 18 today elected state
Sen. Thomas R. Mahoney chair
man at an . organization meeting
in Portland. The majority of the
delegates will leave for Chicago
next Saturday. rJ Mahoney i has
called a meeting for the conven
tion city on Tuesday, July 18.
Even the Underworld
Saves Waste Paper
. BEAVERCREEK, July 8T(-
The nation-wide campaign to save
salvage paper and cardboard has
reached : the underworld's, ears
Five cases of beer disappeared
from a Beavercreek confectionery,
but the cardboard containers re
mained intact The thief had carer
fully lifted out all 120 bottles.
Sgt; TerxijE. Blolver;
Missing in Action ,
ALBANY, July 8-yfl-Staff Sgt
Vera E. Molver, son of Mrs. Mar
guerite Sprenser, 1S34 East Sev
enth street, is missir in action in
the European theatre, according
to .Washington, DC," cli patches.
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Japanese
On Saipan
JL
Yankees Break
Up Drive After,
2000 Yard Gain ;
By CHARLES H. McMurtry
' US PACIFIC ' FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, July
a-iPj-An attack by thousands of
desperate Japanese, supported by
planes and artillery, pushed the
American lines on Saipan island
back as much as 2000 yards before
it was broken up, A dm. ; Chester
W. Nimatz reported today.
The enemy left an estimated
1500 dead oh the battlefield. !
It . was the fiercest : counterat
tack of the central and i western
Pacific war. - ' -
Several thousand Japanese be
gan the attack before dawn Thurs
day on the western flank. They
drove to the outskirts of Tanapag
down i before they were i halted,
shortly ; before noon, and the
Americans forced them into slow
retreat ,. .-; f;" ,-;
fighting Severe
TTie fighting was. very severe
and numerous casualties were in
curred,'; Nimitz said, but he made
no estimate of American dead and
wounded. ' '
Simultaneously, small groups of
Japanese planes attacked US
positions and shipping, whOe ene
my; short' batteries on nearby
iiruan - ; isiana poured lire- on
American-held Isely field. . De
stroyers; and American , artillery
silenced; the guns on Tinian.
Nimitz said no ships were dam
aged by the Japanese planes. He
made no report - on damage to
American positions on the south'
era end of the island.
Elfht Hank Advances
The American right" flank con
tinued it methodical advance
throughout the counterattack. It
was about mile trom Marpi air
field on the northern tip of the
island. : ' ' . " '
About 10,500 Japanese, or half
the estimated original - garrison,
have been killed. The rest' are
penned on the northern tip.
The counterattack came ; a day-
be fore Br 29s smashed at the home
land of Nippon climating a heart
breaking; week for Tokyo. '
The; toll of Japanese aircraft
during , the July 2-3 American
strikes at three islands in the
Bonin and Volcano groups stood
today at 103 definitely destroyed
and 136 others damaged or protn
ably destroyed. - , -.
Military Chiefs Bap 4
Civilian Production
WASHINGTON, July 8
The joint chiefs; of staff asserted
tonight, that Donald M. Nelson's
program to permit limited manu
facture of civilian goods might so
hamper war production as to ne-t
cessitate i "revision in strategic
plans which could i prolong the
OHs Voted Second - ! . ' -
Five Year Term
WASHINGTON, . July Z-Wf-h
special senate subcommittee Voted
t to 2. today in favor M a second
five year term for Leland Olds,
chairman' of the federal power
commission.". - . ,
Attack
De Gaulle, FDR Finish
Friendly Conversations
S WASHINGTON, July 8-)
Gen. Charles De Gaulle and Presi
dent ? Roosevelt ( concluded their
talks' on ' French-American . rela
tlons today in a conference under
stood to have been marked by
cordiality and friendly under
standing... ' - , - '-Jj : -Kt
Thi British have been kept in
formed of the conversations as
they progressed, it was reported
in diplomatic quarters. The ulti
mate result of the meetings, there
fore,' may be ft three-way iccord
'among the United States,-Britain
and the French committee of na
tional liberation on specific prob
lems, involved ? in civil rule for
liberated areas of France, ;
-Despite the fact that these prob
lems of finance, maintenance of
order, administration of. Justice,
and de like have been anticipat
ed for months, this is the first
time that a general, workable plan
has seemed close at hand.'
sVV
Into Outskirts
j
iver
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EX
PEDITIONARY FOR, Sunday, July 9-(Apr
A violent battle unequalled since D-day raged for
Caen last night with the British fighting into the
northeast outskirts of the big j river port barring
the road to Paris. Parts of the enemy garrison were
fleeing ;the doomed city before an earth-shaking
bombardment of artillery and naval guns. ! .
(The German Transocean news agency, was
heard broadcasting a report from headquarters of
the nej Normandy commander, Field Marshal
Guenther Von Kluge, saying the high command '
Allies B
German Stand
BelowLivorao
ROME, July 8-(JP)-Two moun-f
tain towns guarding Livorno
(Leghorn) have fallen to viciously
charging US troops who pressed
today to within 10- miles of that
great port on which the allies hope
to base a massive assault against
the - enemy's - formidable ' Gothic
line above !Florence and Pisai f 1
After a! three-day battled m
which they fired 21,447 artillery
shells In 24 hours and beat off at
least threej stout counter-attacks,
the doughboys seized Rosigano, 13
miles below Livorno (Leghorn)
and Castellina, ' six miles east of
Rosigano, yesterday and plunged
north toward mountain ranges
capped by 8000-foot peaks. ". - 1
Casualties were high ; on both
sides, for the stakes were high.
The allies j must have . the port
quickly, to attack the Gothic line
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Yank Losses ;
fTery IigHt"
On Nioemf oor
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Sun
day, July 4(p)-Allied troops suf
fered "very light" losses in their
f i v e-day' capture of h strategic
Noemfoor island, off North Dutch
New Guinea, and have buried
410 Japanese bodies, headquar
ters announced "today. , -. . '
While final mopping up . oper
ations were underway on the tiny
islet, allied planes struck a series
of Japanese - airdromes around
Manokwari, 50 miles west on! the
Dutch New Guinea mainland.
(These attacks duplicated pre
vioui raids, f but they formed ; the
most concentrated bombing pat
tern! for some time around Man
okwari, a possible goal for Gen.
Douglas ' MacArthur'a advancing
forces.) J:-:i-:-V'-'-' - . .1 ' i
On Noemfoor through Thursday
24 Japanese; prisoners were taken
' l (Continued on pag 2)
I
The British and Freneh last
week finished drafting . a , master
formula. Thfe talks of Mr. Roose
velt; and Gen. De Gaulle are un
derstood to have cleared the way
for American action ; on It, pos
sibly with some modification.
.While harmony thus prevailed
in one section of diplomatic Wash
ington. Ambassador Constantine
Fotitch of Yugoslavia tossed a
verbal firecracker Into another
section. At . a noon . press confer
encer Fotitch announced that r he
would not Irecognize the new
Yugoslav guerrilla leader,- Mar
ihal Joosip Broz (Tito). ;
Newsmen I questioned the am
bassador in an effort tb find out
whether multi racial Yugoslavia
was splitting apart over the Tito
rivalry, with: the Serbian 'Yugo
slav Gen. Draja Mihailovic Fot
itch, a Serb, declared that the new
government does not represent the
Serbs and that they are entitled
to consider that ft is against them.
."VTealher ' ' -
Maximum tempera tar
Saturday 3; minimum 51;
Jil precipitation; river -S ft. J
.Fair Sunday and Monday'"
except for widely scattered
thunder storms east of Cas- ;,
cades. Little change in tem '
perature.
Prica Sc
No. 5
probably would "shorten its
fronfT by moving back its lines
at Caen.' - 'i:::sr -' ' - -h:?
As the British loosed their big
gest Offensive, aimed at the heart
of France, before dawn j afeng a
seven-mile front, US troops fought
out of the forests and bogs at the
base I of Cherbourg peninsula and
launched three blows southward,
which jeopardized all German po- .
sitions on the western end of the -
Port
front,, , ' I :
Anchor Swept Up "..,, -A
The enemy central front an-. .
chor of St. Jean de Daye had been I
swept up in the whirlwind of at
tack, and the night supreme head
quarters communique ' indicated
the same fate - was near , for th .
coastal ( strongpomt of ' La . Hay
du Puits, where patrols fought In
the streets and doughboys sei2ed
all commanding heights.' f- : I ' t.'
.' Stunned by the terrific bom
bardment from thousands of funs
and wave upon wave of bombers,'
out-generaled by an attack from
the northeast when he looked for
a blow from the northwest. Field
Marshal Edwin Rommel! seemed
unable to react with his usual vio- -
lence at Caen. : , k" '
After the British had swept up
nine towns guarding the northern
approaches to the city, Rommel
began drawing on his stock of 1500
tanks massed in that sector.
29 Nazi Tanks Hit . !
Probably" 20 of them were '
knocked' out, front line dispatches .
said as Rommel hurled them into"'
the tornado of fire with which
Gen. Sir Bernard I Montgomery '
was ripping a path through pill-
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Jap Planes
On Salween
CHUNGKING, July 8-()-Jap-anese
fighter planes have mado
their first appearance oyer, the,
Salween river front in an attack
on Chinese troops between Lung-
ling, secondary Japanese Yunnan
province base, and Nangshim,' a
Chinese communique announced '
tonight , i ,
' Four fighter planes supported
an enemy attack in the sector and
the Chinese suffered some losses
as fighting' continued into the
night, the communique said.
Chinese . troops continued their
drive against Tengchung, the main
Japanese base, which' was; raided
again on Thursday by American
B-25 bombers. Villages and pill
boxes were f taken southeast of
the ancient city, placing the Chi
nese only a half mile: from the
wall. About 10 miles south . of
Tengchung, ; Chinese forces cap
tured . a town on . the Lunsling
road. - , ,
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Drills Bore Toward .
66 Trapped Miners j J
bEllairiC 04 July -W3)-Picked
: workmen from Belmont
county mines, driving themselves
relentlessly in hope of having 60
miners entombed In the burning
Powhatan mine, tonight watched
two drills bore toward the men
and prayed their calculations were
correct,, - . j . V .
Oregon Officer Leads
Yank Into Rosignamo
WITH r AMERICAN FORCES . '
DRIVING TOWARD LIVORNO,
July 8-iP)-MaJ. Harry McSweca
of South Carolina and Capt. Don- '.
ovan . Grif fin of Klamath .IV."!?,
Ore.; led the first Filth rr: v m
troops Into battered r.c!ano yc -
terday after a ILrv e-day. fl-ht. .