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PHONE NUMBERS News Room 170 Subscription, Claw Ads, and Display Ads, 205 The CoshoctonTribune security, too! VOL. XXXV, NO. 297 BMC or Newapaptr and Pictorial COSHOCTON, OHIO, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 19, 1944 full Wire Keport of United PreM THREE CENTS 30,000 NAZIS TRAPPED AT CHERBOURG Films Flee in Disorder; Reds Near Viipuri Mannerheim Line Smashed By Soviet Army MOSCOW Russian i forces leading a drive up the Ka- relian isthmus to knock Finland out of the war swept into the approaches of Viipuri today, and military sources said "decisive developments" were expected at any time. Soviet spearheads aboard jeeps uid American trucks sped toward Viipuri, Finland's third largest city, from newly-won positions Koivisto, west coast anchor of the Mannerheimjihe, and Mak- ilahdenkyla, only 17 mifes below Viipuri. Front dispatches said the Finns were fleeing northward, abandoning line after line, in a frantic effort to save the shattered remains of army.

The Russians were reported pouring thru: defiles b'etween the Karelian lakes and forests, while the Baltic fleet moved northward ilohg the coast shelling the flanks af Me retreating Finns. indicated that panic had broken out in the fihnish ranks when the Soviets smashed the Mannerheim line and began itreaming thru a widening gap in its west coast fortifications for ah imminent assault on Viipuri, the tall of which brot Finland's capitulation in the winter war of 1939-40. The Russians advanced upwards rf So miles in 48 hours in several inks' of the Karelian isthmus. The Finns were abandoning equipment everywhere in their precipitate retreat, front dispatch- gaid. Assaulting the Manner- leim line, the Russians stormed icross '-'ft great anti-tank ditch stretching from the Finnish gulf to Lake Ladoga and charged the first line trenches, which the- Finns ibandoned in disorder.

The break-thru ripped open the ast of the Finns' three defense ines before Viipuri and left the apparently helpless to resist approaching Russian assault. Soivisto was captured by storm yesterday, whereas it resisted for sight days in the 1939-1940 war. Important Figure in Cleveland Gasoline rauds Dies Suddenly CLEVELAND--OPA agents who ire investigating the Cleveland gasoline frauds admitted today the sudden death Saturday of rhomas Holmden former as- listant to the former Office Of De- iense Transportation district man- iger, complicated the inquiry into he case. Holmden was assistant to C. R.

Mien, who was indicted in the gas raud case. He died Saturday norning in Maple Ridge sanitar- um in suburban Euclid. An autopsy was performed on he body Saturday, but the results vere not disclosed. OPA investigators said they had "on information from iolmden to provide missing their case. iubsidy Payments dake Sizeable Total Joe Slaughter, member of the Coshocton county AAA committee, nnounced today that $58,954.88 ias been paid out in subsidies to ounty farmers since Oct.

1, 1943, or production of milk and butter- at. Mr. Slaughter said that all ounty'holders of sales slips for lutterfat and milk dated Febru- hem to the county AAA office for ayment by June 30. Payment for ry, March and April must present lay and June will be made when- ver slips are presented, at the ate of 35 cents per cwt. for milk nd six cents a pound for butter- at.

ire Breaks Out in loxcar at Conesville Firemen from the Walnut st. tation were called to Conesville midnight last night to battle a re that had broken out in a box- ar loaded heavily with lead bars. The car was a unit of a freight raveling from Newark to Coshoc- n. Fire Chief William West beeves that the load broke thru the rooden flooring of the Fricon from dragging on the wheel robably caused the blaze, he said. (Thile the fire was controlled in 45 linutes, it was almost two hours efore the molten metal could be soled for investigation.

Taking Off for Tokyo Land 1 Slight Relief From Heat Promised Sunday's 99 Here Sets New Record Some relief to wilted Coshocton- ians was promised today, with a weather forecast of slightly lower temperatures and scattered thundershowers, after the mercury zoomed to 99 yesterday in the hottest June 18 on record. The blazing heat here placed Coshocton among the most torrid cities "in the state, with 96 degrees recorded in Cleveland, 99.8 in Cincinnati, 99 in Columbus, 95 at Lima and Toledo and 98 at Dayton. The hottest- spot in the state was with reading of Hundreds" of local people sought surcease from the' tropic heat in bathing, and the Lake Park beach had one of its largest crowds in history. The high of 99 was recorded at 5:30 yesterday afternoon on the official gauge at the waterworks. Unable to sleep indoors, many local, people made their beds last night on back lawns and porches.

A sharp thunder storm about 4 this morning that brot 0.26 of an inch of rainfall finally broke the heat wave and enabled many local residents to gain a few hours of rest. At least five drownings were reported over the prostrations were numerous, altho no heat casualties were reported in Coshocton county. Pavements buckled -and streets threw up loose brick at a numebr of places in Ohio. MacArthur Club Supports Brkker COLUMBUS--State Rep. Robert A.

Wilkinson of Van Wert, president of the Ohio MacArthur-for- President club, today announced the organization's support of Gov. John W. Bricker for the Republican presidential nomination. "Acting upon the same patriotic devotion to American principles and institutions which originally caused us to support General Mac- Artrur as a candidate for president, and in consideration of General MacArthurs request that activity on his behalf be stopped, we have quite naturally swung to the support of a candidate who has demonstrated the same high ideals of Americanism--Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio," an announcement said.

Bard Nominated for Navy Undersecretary WASHINGTON a Bard, now assistant secretary of navy, was nominated by President Roosevelt today for promotion to the position of undersecretary. Mr. Rosevelt nominated Bard on the recommendation of Secretary of Navy James V. Forrestal, who was raised from undersecretary to full cabinet rank last month after the death of Secretary Frank Knox. Bard, who will be 60 on July 29, is a native of Cleveland but has made his home in Chicago for many years.

Like Forrestal, he is 1 Princeton graduate and in private life was an investment banker. ROBOTS DESCRIBED LONDON--The air ministry today officially identified the Nazi pilotless bombers as jet-propelled projectiles launched from ramps in northern France, probably with the aid of take-off rockets. Two American soldiers wave g'o "gome- where" in India to one of the B-29 Superfortresses as it takes off to bomb the Japanese mainland. Churchill Believes War in Europe May End This Summer LONDON--Prime Minister Winston Churchill was revealed today to have predicted that Allies may win the war in Europe this summer. The execution of plans adopted by the "big three" at Tehran "is being steadily unrolled and the months of this summer may, by the victories of this Allied campaign, bring full success to the cause, of freedom," he said.

1 Churchill made the prediction-the optimistic, he has tered--in a speech in honpr at the'Mexican embassy last Thursday, but his remarks were: not released for publication until this afternoon. He the forecast slightly in another part of speech, however, saying: "It may be that events in the next few months will show us whether we soon are to be relieved of this curse which has been laid upon Whether it be this year Or next, the British and American peoples will never falter" or withdraw their hand from the task they have undertaken." Four Young People Injured Near Keene Four young people suffered slight injuries at 3 a. m. Sunday when a motorcycle driven by Lindy McConnell, West Lafayette vicinity, ran into a Chevrolet driven by William Hawk at the junction of the Keene road and State Route 76. Miss Sally Emig, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Vernon Thompson, South Sixth who was riding with McConnell, suffered a scraped right arm and leg, while her companion suffered lacerations of both arms and hands. Al Roe, Newcomerstown, who was driving a second motorcycle and carrying Miss Barbara Sharpies, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan H.

Sharpies, 839 Walnut ran off the road when his friend, McConnell, hit the automobile. Roe and Miss Sharpies both suffered minor injuries. SECOND BOY DIES NEWARK, Kerr, 14, of Frazeysburg died in Newark hospital last night of injuries received in an automobile accident Friday north of Frazeysburg. Ben Wolford, 16, driver, and Darrell Minnick, 13, both of Frazeysburg, also were injured when the car in which the three were riding overturned. Minnick oied Saturday night.

American Troops Battle For Airfield on Saipan BY WILLIAM F. TYREE United Prets Correspondent PEARL HARBOR--U. S. troops on Saipan hammered at the approaches to Garapan, administrative; center of the Marianas, today and engaged the Japanese in a bloody battle for Aslito airfield, 1449 miles from Tokyo, after smashing an enemy attempt to land an amphibious force inside the American beachhead. Veteran marines and army troops, driving north and east from their beachhead in southwestern Saipan, were within sight of the flimsy, thatched buildings in Gara- pan'on the west coast, and had reached the edges of IJOO-foot As- lito- airstrip on the south coast.

While the ground forces slowly were fighting their way thru strong defenses, manned by an estimated 30,000 Japanese the enemy made a desperate but futile attempt to land, amphibious troops behind the U.S. lines south of Garapan. Armed landing craft, probably LCI (landing craft infantry) gun- engaged the Japanese am- 25 Persons Hurt In Train Wreck FOWLER, 25 and 30 persons were injured today, some of them seriously, when the last two cars of an eastbound Santa Fe train were struck by the engine of a westbound passenger which had pulled into a siding four miles west of here. A number of those injured were soldiers. In addition to five private ambulances, 10 Red Cross ambulances were recruited from La Junta and Pueblo army air bases.

Doctors from Fowler, La Junta and Pueblo gave emergency treatment. Details of the wreck were vague, but it was understood that the westbound engine began pulling from the siding before the eastbound train had cleared. Hospital Notes David Baird, West Lafayette Route 1, major. John Croft, 1521 Walnut minor. Marguerite Copenhaver, 1003 Walnut minor.

Mary Ellen Haver, Newcomerstown, medical Wanda Patterson, 437 South Fourth major. C. H. Magness, 317 North Eighth medical. Robert Sycks, 1437 Adams and Mrs.

Leona McCoy, 1628 Hay were dismissed. phibious force in an off-shore battle Thursday and sank 13 troop- filled barges, each of them capable of carrying from JO to 100 men. Other than the ground re.sist- ance thru Saipan's sugar cane fields, the amphibious, effort was the first enemy attempt from the sea or air to stem the driving American forces which have secured a beachhead of approximately 10 square miles. Bond Sales Total $430,231 Amount Is 20 Pet. Of County's Quota Bond sales in Coshocton county total $430,231.25 in the Fifth War Loan campaign to date, it was announced today at headquarters.

This is 20 per cent of the county's total, of $2,154,000. The bulk of the sales reported since yesterday were $11,912.50 in the city of Coshocton, and $25,000 to corporations. The city now has bond sales totaling $83,618.75, per cent of its quota, and corporations havc'subscribed $335,000, 26 per cent of their quota. White Eyes still leads all townships in the county with sales of $5,587.50, 29 -per cent of its quota. Other township sales and percentages are: Jefferson, $3,018.75, 10 per cent; Mill Creek, $1,075, eight per cent; Linton, $318.75, and three at one per cent, Jackson, Pike, $112.50, and Tuscarawas, $956.25.

Girl in Hospital After Autos Collide Nellie Weaver, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Weaver, 1525 Walnut was in city hospital to day with a lacerated nose and bruises about the face and eyes suffered in an automobile accident which occurred early this morning at Seventh and Walnut sts. George Hughes, Sixteenth and Orange and Miss Weaver were enroute home from Buckeye Lake and were traveling east on Walnut st. when they collided with a 1936 Chevrolet driven by Shan non W.

Reiss. Reiss was traveling north on Seventh st. and attempt ed to turn left on Walnut when the two cars crashed. The Ford coach driven by Hughes was owned by Ralph Leidy 129 Main st. Hughes suffered mi nor injuries.

Both cars were dam aged. French Troops Rout Nazis on Island of Elba Germans Put up Stiffer Fight in Northern Italy ROME--French colonial troops have fought their way across the narrow waist of Elba to capture the insular capital of Portoferraio and now control most of the 85- square-mile island, a communique announced today, while Allied forces on the Italian mainland battled thru stiff German resistance on the outskirts of Perugia. off from all hope of escape or reinforcement by Allied naval and air forces patrolling the approaches to Elba, the remnants of the German garrison were reported scattering thru the hills under relentless attack by veteran French Commandos, Senegalese, Moroccans and Algerian troops. Portoferraioi, on the northern end of the island, was seized yesterday by a French spearhead that thrust up from the south coast, capturing several hundred Nazis In their path. RAF Spitfires ranged over faie narrow straits of Piombino thruout the day, sinking a barge and a number of small vessels offshore, presumably attempting to evacuate Nazi troops to the mainland.

A special communique announcing the fall of Portoferraio said the Germans still were putting up a stubborn fight on some parts of the island, but aerial reconnaissance indicated the defenders had been split up into isolated bands of snipers and machine gunners dug in for a death fight on the inland hills. Front reports said the Germans put the torch to Portoferraio before they surrendered it to the advancing French. There was no word on the fate of the historic Villa San Martino, overlooking the capital, where Napoleon was confined from May, 1819, to February, 1815. Driving rains slowed the flow of supplies and men to the Allied 5th and 8th army spearheads-on the central Italian front, but a com- munique said both forces were pounding steadily thru the enemy's defense lines before Perugia. The Germans were putting up their stiffest fight since' the evacuation of Rome, 85 airline miles south of Perugia, in to slow the Allied advance long enough for the main Nazi forces to establish a new line in the Pisa- Florence-RAimini sectors, about 70 miles farther north.

Killer of Five Dies Before Firing Squad At Utah State Prison SALT LAKE CITY Hooded and strapped firmly to a tiny wooden chair, 38-year-old Austin Cox, giant mass murderer, died at dawn today before a five-man firing squad against the south wall of the ancient Utah state prison. Five high-powered rifles barked simultaneously from behind their canvas curtain in a cellhouse doorway and Cox was pronounced dead five minutes later. The heavily-bearded, six-foot, four-inch giant killed Ogden District Judge Lewis V. Trucman and four strangers who crossed his path last July while Cox was on an enraged hunt for a former wife who had been given a divorce by Trueman, Before he left his cell in death row. Cox was heard bellowing loudly.

Then he was led into the prison yard, his hands, feet and neck were bound to the chair by leather thongs and the prison doctor located his heart with a stethoscope and pinned a black target over the killer's new white shirt. Germans Hint They're Getting Rockets Ready for U.S.; Continue Bombing England LONDOtf Germany'x pilotless bombers nicknamed everything; from "hell hounds" to "hurt to across southern. England at last night and today, wrecking buildings and taking a growing loll of lives. British anti-aircraft guns and fighter planes were destroying an increasing number of the jet-propelled missiles before they could crash and explode, however, and Allied bombers were keeping their supposed launching runways on the French coast under regular bombardment. Not since the battle of Britain in had ground defense crews in Britain been no active'in daylight.

Some cans had been manned continuously for action since Thursday, when the enemy attack began. The who christened their craft "hell hounds." pi in ted fanciful accounts of "terrible devastation" wrought by the robot plants hi and England and began hinting that larger and more powerful "rocket planes" capable of reaching the United States were being built. A Madrid dispatch said Axis propagandists In Spain were claiming that new super-rockets would be directed skyscrapers and industrial targets in the United States, "causing wholesale destruction of such dimensions that the U. S. air force would receive urgent instructions to cease bombing European targets." Even Falangist newspaper Arrlba refused to believe that the new rockets would have any effect on the outcome of the war, however.

Allied nvurces were inclined to ridicule that Germany WM building "trans-Atlantic rockets," but the air correspondent of the Condon Daily Telegraph said the enemy was believed have "much target tyjw" of roefcet bombs Hard Struggle For Port Looms Americans Hold Seven Miles of Peninsula's West Coast ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, London American forces widened and strengthened their wedge across the Cherbourg peninsula today, tightening a death trap on perhaps 30.000 Germans, as Prime Minister Churchill was revealed to have estimated that 1,000,000 men now are fighting in Normandy. The fiercest battle yet of the French campaign loomed around Cherbourg as the Americans prepared for an assault aimed squarely at the big port after completing the isolation of the northern end of the peninsula' with a drive thru to the west coast that trapped elements of two to three enemy divisions. Churchill made the estimate of the total forces engaged in the battle of Normandy in a speech last, Thursday at the Mexican embassy, but released only today. Hundreds of Allied planes swarmed over the Cherbourg peninsula today and hurled rockets, bombs and shells into trapped enemy units faced with alternatives of death or surrender, smashing all their efforts to re-form for an attempt to break out of the 650-square- mile pocket around Cherbourg. Front reports indicated the emy has decided to fight to the end despite overwhelming odds, and a at Allied 'headquarters warned that the Allied conquest of Cherbourg would not be easy.

Heavy and elaborate fortifications guards the approaches to the port. The German Transocean. agency speculated that the Allies may attempt a new landing on the north coast of the peninsula In an effort to get around the defenses southward. Large Allied shipping mations have been sighted at sea apparently no intention GOP Leaders Head for Chicago Convention Opens Week From Today CHICAGO--Republican national committeemen and party big shots are gathering here today, confident' that this time their attempt to name a presidential ticket capable of licking President Roosevelt will be successful. The convention meets June 26.

Platform makers will convene June 21, probably 'under chairmanship of Sen. Robert A. Taft, O- Their toughest problems will be farm and foreign relations planks. Benefit payments and subsidies challenge party unity, largely because of a strong demand for repudiation of both policies. Foreign relaions problems center around post-war collaboration in maintaining peace, A notable division is between Gov.

Thomas" E. Dewey of New York, who favors use of force, and Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio, who is for international collaboration but against the use of force to maintain pence, Bricker's presidential headquarters is open. Campaign manager Roy D.

Moore, Ohio publisher, predicts the governor will be nominated on the sixth ballot. But Dcwey's name still figures most prominently in pre-convention polls and speculation. Moore said Bricker's name would be put in nomination "rain or shine" and it is known that backers of former Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota intend to propose him.

Formal nominations probably will end there. Former President of Ohio Northern Dies VAN WERT, services were arranged today for Dr. Robert Williams, 60, former president of Ohio Northern university, who died at Van Wert hospital yesterday of pneumonia following a 10-day illness. Dr. Williams had been president of the university for 14 years prior to his retirement last June.

THE WEATHER OHIO--Scattered thundershowers tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy and cooler. Hourly Temperatures 1 a. 78 7 a. 2 a.

76 8 a. 3 a. 78 9 a. 4 a. m.

7 0 10 a. m. of unloading at the already-secured beachheads, Transoctan said. Apparently disorganized by -the hurricane Allied air assault, which spread death and destruction thru their ranks, the Germans have not attempted a' new break-thru since their initial attempt ended In failure yesterday. Nearly 2,000 well-armed enemy troops, from the 77th and -709th.

German infantry divisions plunged headlong into the'American line yesterday, near St. Jacques de Ne- hou, four miles northwest of St. SauveUr-Le VIcomte, and close to knocking a'gap in the line. Americans held and two hours later the. Gentians.

Jbegan falling back' toward Bricquebec, only to run into other vehicles heading southward. American bombers, fighter bombers and fighters came over when confusipn was at its height and left scores of vehicles blazing. Allied planes also poured rockets, bombs, shells and bullets into enemy concentrations south of the American corridor, particularly around La Haye-Du Puits, six miles south of St. Sauveur-Le Vi(Continued On Page Six) WLB Orders Wage Increase, Vacations At Straw Paper Plant A directive from the regional War Labor Board in Cleveland, setting wages at the Coshocton Straw Paper Co. at 75 cents an hour for firemen and 92 cents for operating engineers, was revealed today.

The company is directed to sign an agreement for these wages, and also for annual vacations of one week with pay, according to the order, which was revealed by representatives of the International Union of Operating Engineers local No. 532 (AFL.) Negotiations have been in progress since last January, and Clark Morrow of Newark acted as referee in hearings which were conducted at the public library here. The new wage scale is an increase of two cents per hour for engineers, and no increase for firemen, union representatives said, but both groups are to receive vacations. 5 a. m.

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Merton Boyd, 605 Chestnut Sunday morning at city hospitaL Tighten Requirements For New Car Purchases WASHINGTON. OPA today tightened requirements for new automobile purchase certificates to conserve the dwindling new car stockpile for the most essential users. Effective Friday, OPA said, a person can get a certificate only if he can show that he needs a new car principally for at least one of the purposes of the eligibility list. It cannot be obtained if the eligibile use of the vehicle is only a small part of its total use. Another change revoked the eligibility of persons who seek new cars for driving four or more pupils, students or school employes to and from schools.

Will Enlarge Airport Building CLEVELAND--United Air Lines today asked for bids for the construction of the $60,000 airline- financed addition to the administration building at Cleveland airport. The new addition, air line officials said, will more than double the present traffic facilities. The new facilities will to rented. NEWSPAPER!.