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' BOMBER ATTACKS
Adm. King and Nimitz Con
fer on Operations In West
Pacific.
Pacific Fleet Headquarters,
Pearl Harbor, July 22 4U.R)
United States forces which are
now in a position to strike Japan
and the Japanese empire any
where along a huge arc in the
f western Pacific are planning
widespread future operations
against the enemy who is al
ready feeling the most serious
ness of the situation, Adm. Er
nest J. King and Adm. Chester
W. Nimitz said today in a joint
press conference.
The two admirals one re
sponsible for the navy's opera
tions throughout the world and
the other in supreme command
of joint operations in the Pa
cific met the press shortly af
ter returning from a trip which
took them to America's most ad
vanced base at Saiparr.
"The primary purpose of my
trip here is to confer with Nim
itz and his staff," Admiral King
said, "in connection with cur
rent and future operations
some involving quite long
range."
Range Increased
He pointed out that the seiz
ure of Saipan makes it possible
for U. S. forces including the
Pacific fleet to operate on a
" 120-degree arc over a 1500-mile
' radius.
Admiral Nimitz Indicated that
Saipan would be used as a heavy
bomber base, thus making pos
sible more frequent and heavier
strikes against the Japanese
homeland.
Admiral King, commenting on
the Saipan campaign and its re
lation to the future, said:
"I feel strongly that measures
taken to overrun Saipan in the
briefest time practicable were
essentir.l for the nature of the
operations to follow."
Admiral King said he was im
pressed with the mobile base es
tablishments at Majuro, Eniwe
tok and Kwajalein in the Mar
snails which are partly respons
ible for the enormous success of
U. S. fleet trains supply ships
and auxiliaries in keeping the
fleet operating for long periods
in the most forward areas with
out returning to bases.
In response to questions of
the possibilities of Saipan for
land-based aircraft, Nimitz called
attention to the fact that the
U. S. has used each new base to
extend heavy bomber operations
' farther west.
His statement Indicated that
heavy bombers could be expect
ed to strike from Saipan and
Guam against other Japanese
bases, including the southern
homeland and the Philippines.
Progress Pleases
Nimitz said American forces
had suffered fewer casualties in
the landings on Guam than at
Saipan and said progress was
satisfactory thus far but that he
was unable to predict the sever
ity of fighting still to be met.
'There are indications the
Japanese defending force is not
as large as at Saipan but it is
, probable we have not encoun
tered the full force yet."
Commenting on the Japanese
cabinet shnkcup when asked if
he thought Premier Hidcki Tojo
was really "out" or if the change
was merely a smoke-screen, Nim
itz said:
"If the situation has been re
ported correctly, I think Tojo
has actually stepped out.
"And I don't think he would
have stepped out if the situation
was satisfactory. I think they
are concerned in Tokyo."
Asked if he thought the Japa
nese navy would Take another
attempt to hit our fleet during
the Guam operations, he said it
was reasonable to expect the
Japanese to use every opportu
nity to damage the U. S. fleet
while it is tied down protecting
the landings.
Sales to date In the Fifth
War Loan Drire
"E" Sales $567,175.50
County Quota .. $600,000
Senator Truman and Family
A-i 1 A . v . ?VWA ...
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Senator Harry Truman, Missouri senator, who Is Wallace's chief contender
for Democratic convention nomination as vice presidential candidate,
chats with his wife (right) and daughter. Margaret, as battle for hotly
contested position threatens to split party wide open.
I
E
E
LITHUANIA KEYS
London, July 22 (U.R) Mar
shal Konstantin K. Rokossov
sky's 1st White Russian army,
covering almost half the dis-
tanc from the Dnepr river to
Berlin In the first month of the
Red army's summer offensive,
today captured the Polish city
of Chelm, Nazi bastion guarding
the fortress of Lublin.
Soviet troops also broke Into
the streets of Pskov, the south
ern gateway to Estonia and the
last German-held city in Russia,
and on the Finnish battlcfronts
reached the border of Finland
established in 1940 after the
winter war, Moscow's opera
tional communique announced
tonight.
Chelm was seized as Soviet
tanks, cavalry and infantry
raced across flat Polish plains
toward Lublin, one of the pri
mary Nazi strongholds on the
road to Warsaw.
Simultaneously, Gen. Ivan C.
Bagamian's 1st Baltic army cap
tured the rail junction of Pano
vezys in Lithuania, 86 miles
south of Riga, which Marshal
Josef Stalin described in an
order of the day as "an import
ant German defense base cover
ing the main ways from the Bal
tic to East Prussia."
Panevezys was taken in a 33
mile advance west along the
Daugavpils-Memel railroad from
last reported Soviet positions at
Skapiskis. Panevezys is 43
miles east southeast of Siauliai,
junction of the Riga-Konigsberg
and Daugavpils Mcmel rail
roads. The Riga-Konigsberg
railroad is the main railroad es
cape route for an estimated 30
odd German divisions in the
Baltic states.
firstTadyTays
visit to coast
Los Angeles, July 22 flJ.R)
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, looking
fresh and rested after a visit to
San Diego, arrived today but re
fused to talk to reporters who
met her at Union station.
"I have nothing to say," she
said and went directly to a hotel
She did not disclose how long
she plans to remain or where
she will go from here.
Mrs. Roosevelt was accom
panied only by her secretary,
Malvina Thompson. However,
she was met at the station by se
cret service agents.
The first lady paid surprise
visit to the San Diego naval hos
pital yesterday bringing a spe
cial message from the president
to wounded veterans.
MEXICO FILM STRIKE
Mexico City, July '22 (U.R) A
strike by the electricians and
technicians' section of the Mex
ican Cinema Workers' union to
night virtually halted production
in the republic's film industry.
4 MILES OF
GOTHIC LINE KEY
Rome, July 22 (U.R) Amer
ican doughboys drove up the
Tyrrhenian coast today to with
in four miles of Pisa, western
anchor of the Nazi Gothic line,
while other units advanced 4V4
miles along the road to Florence
to within 14 miles of that mid
Italian rail center.
Battling toward Pisa the
Americans encountered large
numbers of circular concrete
pillboxes, placed at strategic
road junctions and behind sharp
curves and from which "stand-or-dle"
Nazi units fired auto
matic weapons from horizontal
slits.
The ancient Tuscan city,
birthplace of famed Italian as
tronomer and experimental phil
osopher Galileo, stands only six
miles from the mouth of the Ar
no river on the Tyrrhenian coast.
It would be a prize for the Al
lies, not only as an important
river port, but as a springboard
against the bristling Nazi Gothic
line eastward across the penin
sula to Rimini on the Adriatic.
Reconnaissance along the Ar-
no river, which combat patrols
forced yesterday, revealed large
concentrations of German artil
lery on high ground to the
north.
Other patrols probed both
sides of the Antifosseto and Ar
no canals and Highway 1 be
tween the wrecked port of Livor
no (Leghorn) and Pisa.
RATION VALUE OF
BUTTER BOOSTED
Washington, July 22 U.R)
Price Administrator Chester
Bowles tonight boosted the ra
tion value of creamery butter
from 12 to 16 red points a pound,
effective at midnight tonight.
Bowles said the higher point
value was necessary because
civilian consumption was run
ning at the rate of 20 per cent
over the July allocation of 100,
000,000 pounds.
Butter has been pegged at 12
points since April 30. Before that
date the ration value of 16 points
had prevailed since last Oct. 3,
Farm butter will continue at
eight red points a pound and
processed butter will remain at
four red points a pound.
BULLETINS
Philadelphia, July 22 U.R
Frank McCormick's home run
with two on base In the seventh
and Steve Mesncr's single in the
ninth with two out and Ray
Mueller on second base gave the
Cincinnati Reds a 4-3 triumph
over Philadelphia in the first of
a four-game series here tonight.
San Francisco - 8 IS 1
Seattle 1 10 4
Gibson, Joyce (4i and Sprinz;
Turpin, Tincup (8; and Spindel.
DEMOCRATS PLAN
PLEA JR VOTES
Heavy Registration Urged;
C. I. 0. Backs Truman
"Bess" Kelly Talks.
Chicago, July 22 (U.R) Sid
ney Hillman, political spokes
man of the CIO, threw to the
Democratic Roosevelt - Thuman
ticket today the support of two
independent political commit
tees which have a potential cam
paign war chest of $6,000,000.
Democratic Headquarters, Chi
cago, July 22 (U.R) The demo
cratic party tonight pitched its
campaign to re-elect President
Roosevelt on keynote that mass
voting is the secret to success in
November.
That was the theme of Chair
man Robert E. Hannegan's final
instructions to the closing meet
ing of the Democratic National
committee. It was the essence of
a brief speech to the committee
by Sen. Harry S. Truman of
Missouri, new vice presidential
nominee.
Hannegan, re-elected unani
mously, predicted ultimate vic
tory for the Roosevelt-Truman
ticket but warned that It would
not be easy.
"People are not registered,"
he said. "The republican party
is not interested in doing any
thing about it. The more votes
cast the better It is for us. We
must wage a vigorous lampaign
of registration. The only way to
do it is a door-to-door campaign.
Truman, a product of the once-
powerful Kansas City Pender
gast machine, reminded the com
mittee that, "I am a practical
politician and I know what I
talk of when he warned tnem:
"This campaign is not Just
words. Let s get the votes out.
They drew confidence from
the unqualified endorsement of
Truman by Chairman Sidney
Hillman of the CIO political ac
tion committee, who had sup
ported renomination of Vice
President Henry A- Wallace in
the bitter vice presidential con
test. Treasurer Edwin W. Pauley of
the Democratic National com
mittee reported, however, that
he was closing the convention
with a cash balance on hand of
only $116,000 and a warning that
"it's a very small amount to have
on hand for a campaign year.
Despite the intensity of the
vice presidential contest, the
meeting closed on a note of
harmony with Mayor Edward J.
Kelly of Chicago absolving Han
negan of charges that he used his
hieh office to scuttle Wallace in
favor of Truman, his personal
friend and political mentor.
RAYBUlAILS
IN TEXAS COUNT
Dallas. Texas. July 22 flJ.R)
Rep. Sam Rayburn, speaker of
the house of representatives,
trailed a vigorous, hard-hitting
state senator tonight on the ba
sis of scattered returns from six
of the seven counties In his north
Texas district In the first Demo
cratic primary.
The 10 o'clock tabulation by
the Texas election bureau gave
Rayburn 4043 votes to 4611 for
G. V Morris, a third candidnte.
George T. Balch trailed with 156.
At least seven of the state's
16 congressmen who sought re
election were confronted with
the possibility of defeat or of
being forced into a run-off elec
tion. Only a smattering of the
anticipated 900.000 ballots cast
had been counted, however.
The state cast a comparative
ly light vote despite the powder
keg possibilities presented by
supreme court permission of Ne
groes to mark ballots.
SEM. DOWNEYlriRM
Sacramento, July 22 'U.R)
Sen. Sheridan Downey, Califor
nia, said today he does not be
lieve testimony at Central Val
Icy project hearings will alter
his opposition to applying a lfiU
acre limit to lands which will be
served from project irrigation
facilities.
OF JAPS ON GUAM
Marines Capture Roads and
Heights Enemy Tanks
Blasted.
Pacific Fleet Headquarters,
Pearl Harbor, July 22 (U.R)
Tank-led American marines and
army forces on Guam, support
ed by air, naval and artillery
bombardments, smashed two
Japanese counter-attacks Friday
morning and expanded their
beachheads on the western coast
with the capture of strategic
heights and roads from Agana
to Piti Town, it was announced
today.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz re
vealed in a communique that
approximately 270 Japanese
were killed and at least five
tanks knocked out when the
two enemy attacks were re
pulsed. As the severity of fighting on
Guam increased around the two
beachheads, seven miles apart
on both sides of the Orote penin
sula, the marines and army
troops cut across the coastal
road between Agana Town and
Piti, the largest town on Guam.
Both beachheads now cover
areas of approximately two and
a half miles. In the southern sec
tor, troops pushing a mile and
an eighth inland captured Mount
Alifan, a low-lying peak.
The northern and southern
forced now are In a position to
drive toward each other for a
juncture to cut off the Orote
Peninsula and Its 4700-foot air
strip. The peninsula already is
threatened by American control
of Cabras island opposite the
peninsula.
STEADYlAf OF
BRITISH CITIES
London, Sunday, July 23
(U.R) London and southern Eng
land early today rocked under
a continuation of the Nazis' fly
ing bomb offensive following
Saturday's steady rain of the
deadly missiles against the Brit
ish civilian front.
Germany's Internal strife
failed to lessen the intensity of
the terror attack as the Germans
today Increased the tempo of
the "roblitz," as yesterday saw
more of the flying bombs land
among the embattled civilians
in this area than on the first day
of the attacks five weeks ago.
Anti-aircraft batteries, some
of them newly established,
scored many successes as they
blazed away in a spectacular
concentration of fire while
fighter added to the toil of ro
bots shot down.
Reports from some sectors
along the civilian front Indicat
ed that yesterday's death toll
was not as heavy as might have
been expected, although houses
and shops suffered extensive
damage.
RUSSIA COMES ACROSS
Urclton Woods, N. H July 22
(U.R) Russia tonight raised Its
quota to the International bank
for reconstruction and develop
ment by $300,000,000 and dele
gates to the United Nations
monetary and financial confer
ence immediately voted to raise
the capital of the bank by that
amount to a total of $9,100,000,
000. War Bulletins
By United Press
The Stockholm newspaper
Dagens Nyheter reported from
Berlin that the geitapo had
arretted two generals and
"several colonels" of the staff
of Field Marshal Albert Kes
telring, German commander-in-chief
In Italy, Ketselring's
own position Is precarious, the
dispatch said, and he has not
yet returned to Italy from an
urgent conference at Hitler's
headquarters.
IS
HOI FRONT SAGS
Military Operations of Next
Weeks Held True Guage
of Situation.
Washington., July 22 U.R
Military observers maintained a
cool reserve tonight toward
growing signs of internal com-.
bustion in Germany and point-i
ed to the Nazis' military opera-
tions of the next few weeks as
the true gauge or wnat is nap
pening to Adolf Hitler's empire.
Until Germany battlelines be
gin to weaken, Washington offi
cials warned, the purported de
terioration of the Nazi home
front will mean little to the con
duct of the war in Europe.
Steady reports of domestic
strife were pieced together with
cautious optimism by observers
who, recollecting the sudden
German collapse of World War
I, sought a clearer picture of
what really goes on in Berlin.
Mingled with the hope that
such developments as the re
ported German naval uprisings
at Kiel and Stettin would evolve
Into a case of history repeating
itself was the reminder that Ger
many still had shown no signs
of pulling punches on the battle
field. But optimism tinted the steady
piling up of reports portraying
the German people as a seeth
ing populace weary of war,
fearful of the Gestapo and on
the brink of throwing aside Nazi
rule.
The reported execution of
Field Mnrshal Gerd von Rund
stedt added new encouragement,
causing speculation that the one
time western commander was
eliminated by Hitler for deliber
ately weakening Normandy de
fense to accelerate the fall of
Nazilsm.
In analyzing the report that
von Rundstedt has been killed,
observers recalled that, while
initial invasion casualties of the
Allies were significant, they fell
below orlglnnl estimates. The
Germans under von Rundstedt,
if they had wanted to, could
have inflicted greater losses on
the Allies, they said.
SKY Tires
PLOESTI FIELDS;
London, July 22 (U.R) A
great sky train of possibly 1.500
Italian-based American war
planes blasted the Plocstl oil
field in southern Romania today.
RAF bombers and fighters in
relatively light strength struck
through low-hanging storm
clouds at Nazi robot bomb in
stallations In northern France
late today and the German radio
said small raiding formations
were over northwestern Ger
many, but the bulk of the British-based
striking power was
carthbound throughout the day.
The German radio said later
that Allied "nuisance raiders"
were stabbing at Berlin for the
second straight night.
An estimated 750 American
Flying Fortresses and Liberators
sparked the shattering blow at
Ploesti, the 11th assault of the
war on that number one source
of Axis oil production.
Long range Mustang and
Lightning fighters, possibly In
equal strength, accompanied the
giant raiders and fought off
swarms of German fighters that
slashed at their formations all
across southern Romania.
Returning crewmen said the
Germans put up a desperate de
fensive battle over the battered
oil center.
FDR PRAISES
Bretton Woods, N. II , July 22
(U.R) President Roosevelt to
night congratulated dclegotes to
the United Nations Monetary
and Financial conference on
their work and said they had
prepared "two further founda
tion stones for the structure of
lasting peace and security,"
$20,000 NEEDED
Tuesday night, July 25th,
Is the deadline for "E" war
bond purchases to be credited
against Sth war loan quotas.
Although Jackson County has
substantially exceeded its
bond purchases for the drive,
with a total of $2,079,440 In
all types of bonds, there still
remains a balance of $20,000
in "E" bonds if the quota for
these smaller bonds is met in
this area,
Eugene Thorndike, chair
man for the 5th war loan
campaign here, Issued an
urgent plea Saturday for
local citizens to buy extra
"E" bonds so that Jackson
County will not fail In meet
ing its "E" bond quota. Pur
chases may be made at the
local postoffice, banks, build
ing and loan offices and other
authorized bond snles depots.
CANADIANS WIPE
GERMAN SALIENT,
CAPTURE MALTOT
British Fighting In Deep
Mud Gain Heights-Battle,
Says.
Allied Supremo Headquarters,
London, Sundny, July 23 (U.R)
Canadian troops virtually elim
inated the German salient south
of Caen Saturday by capturing
the village of Etnvoux, on the
east bank of the Orne four miles
below Caen, and recapturing
Maltot.
AlllaS CnnrniT, a T-T.nr1n1int-tfrN
London, July 22 (U.R) British
troops, fighting through
morasses of mud like those in
the last war, have won com-
mnnrlinff hnlffhta InnlHft Trnam.
German stronghold seven miles
east of Caen, and 14 enemy lanxs
have been knocked out in scat
trrpd actions across the wind
and rain-swept front, It was dis-
nineAH tnrinv
The Germans launched two
limited counter-attacks Friday
despite the soggy weather, one
south of St. Andrew-Sur-Orne
on tim Tnnn front and the other
on the St. Lo-Pericrs highway
. T1.ll.
In the American sector, umn
were thrown back with severe
enemy losses.
Thi, 11:30 n. m. Allied com
muniquo said a "number" of
enemy counter-attacks had been
thrown back.
The British entered Troarn
fnr th third time Saturday and
won the western half of the town
before a torrential downpour
caused a half-hour suspension of
fi.,Mlnff SmnshlnB across the
wooded rise just outside Troarn
against fierce machine-gun ana
light arms opposition, they won
high ground dominating the re
maining German positions In the
eastern half of town.
Otherwise, the battle had
hnifoxH down, but German
broadcasts sold that Allied guns
in fhn fflpn nrpa were drum
ming out a preparatory barrage
for "a large-scale auacK in me
near future.
BY
London, July 22 (U.R) One
of the largest German convoys
ever attacked by the coastal
command totaling 40 mer
chantmen and escort vessels
was reduced to a mass of flam
ing wreckage off Helgoland last
night by British Bcaufighter
planes firing rockets, torpedoes
and cannon, the air ministry an
nounced today.
Four freighters were tor
pedoed, two of them left sink
ing; five escort vessels burned
to the water line, and every re
maining ship In the convoy was
extensively damaged by cannon
and rocket fire, the ministry
said, basing Its statement on
battle photogrnphs.
The entlro Bcaufighter strike
force returned safely, and went
out again today to sink two
heavily armed German trailers
off the Frisian Islands, Holland,
with the loss of one plane.
NAZI IRON FIST
TO HALTJEVOLT
Hitler Begs Troops to Fight
On Powerful Generals
Shot; Many Rumors.
London, Sunday, July 23 U.R)
Stockholm dispatches quoted a
Berlin admission today that the
plot against Adolf Hitler was
centered In the high command's
Bcndlerstrasse headquarters in
the capital and that some of the
plotters held key positions there.
(OWI quoted Stockholm re
ports that a "state of emergency"
tantamount to martial law
had been declared In Konigs
berg, capital of East Prussia,
where Russian war prisoners
were said to have revolted after
receiving arms from Soviet
planes.)
London, Sunday, July 23 (U.R)
Adolf Hitler begged of the Ger
man army Saturday to fight on
until victory is achievejd "in
spite of everything" and began
placing the armed forces on the
war fronts, like those at home,
under the Iron fist of Nazi party
fanatics in what appeared a des
perate attempt to stamp out re
bellion. Reports said that Field Mar
shal Kail Gerd von Rundstedt
and Walther von Brauchltsch, as
well as scores of lesser military
lights had been put to death as
conspirators In the revolt and
Hitler appeared to have won the
first round of a struggle within
Germany unprecedented since
the Internal collapse of 1918.
But It was at a cost of declaring
a war to the death on the pow
erful Junkers officers group
which, although It had elevated
him to power, had always been
potentially the greatest menace
to his regime.
While some reports, of doubt
ful authenticity, said that open
civil war was raging In parts of
Fast Prussia, Bavaria, former
Polish Silesia and the Munich
area, late Swiss dispatches said
that southern Germnny was
oulct Saturday. Traffic Into
Switzerland was functioning nor
mally and ordinary movement of
German vessels on Lake Con
stance was resumed.
(NBC heard a report by the
clandestine radio Atlantic that
the Lufthansa commercial air
line would resume service to
neutral capitals Saturday night
and that the "antl Hitler revolt
had ended." The Atlantic station
has carried some of the most
sensational details of the situa
tion Inside the country In the
last few days and the fact that
It should abruptly announce that
the turmoil had subsided might
be regarded as significant.
(A BBC broadcast, on the oth
er hand, quoted reports eman
ating from the German embassy
In Madrid that formations of the
regular army were fighting S3
Elite Guards In southern Ger.
many.)
Following swiftiv on the plac
ing of Gestapo Chief Helnrlch
Himmler In command of the Ger
man domestic army. It was
learned at Allied headquarters
thnt Gen. Paul Hausscr. a strict
SS general of the early Nazi
prowling days, had been placed
In command of the Seventh Ger
man army on the western front.
The Seventh army Is one of
the two German army groups
under Field Marshal Erwln Rom
mel, himself a devout party ad
dict, opposing the Allied Inva
slon armies. The placing of
Hausscr at Its head appeared
to be the beginning of a drastic,
program to bring the army un
der the party's fist.
Hinting at the type of reor
ganization the Wehrmach Is now
undergoing, the Nazi party or
g a n Voclklscher Beobachter,
quoted by Berlin, said that
Himmler's appointment "guar
antees that the task of mastering
future revolts will be mastered."
Extending this policy to occu
pied territory, German police
have been ordered to stand by
In Norway for "any emergency"
and special restrictions have
been placed on regular German
army troops, according to a dis
patch by the Norwegian Tele
graph Agency.
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