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Daily News 9f TWENTY-SEVENTH 131 RHINELANDER, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1944 Few Issues But Many Candidates In State Primary By the Associated Press A campaign in which there were few issues but an abundance of candidates came to a close today as Wisconsin voters prepared to go to the polls tomorrow in a primary election slated five weeks earlier than usual. The primary date was advanced to permit absentee voting by soldiers. Election officials, however, said comparatively few soldier ballots had been returned. A light vote was forecast by political observers, some estimates running as low as 350,000 compared with 650,000 in 1940, the presidential year. The major contests are in the Republican columfi with Thomas Colcman, state chairman, claiming two-thirds of the total vote.

Both 81-year-old Governor Walter S. Goodland and United States Senator Alexander Wiley face strong opposition. Goodland, whose age was made an issue, has four Sen. Milton T. Murray, D.

J. Kenney of West Bend, Roland E. Kannonberg of Wausau and Col. Christian J. Otjen of Milwaukee.

Wiley, who has been under al- tack for what his opponents term an "isolationist record," is opposed by Leathern D. Smith, Sturgeon Bay shipbuilder;" Capt. Joseph R. McCarthy of the Marine Corps, former Appleton circuit judge, and Perry J. Stearns, Milwaukee attorney.

Smith and Stearns have come out strongly for international cooperation. McCarthy is prevented from campaigning personally by military regulations. Two members of the House of Representatives making bids for the United States Senate, are unopposed for their respective nominations. They are Democrat Howard McMurray and Progressive Harry Sauthoff. The only Democratic contest for f.t ale office is for governor, between Daniel W.

Hoan, former Socialist mayor of Milwaukee, and John N. Zimmerman, a Milwaukee purchasing agent. Eighth Army Seizes Inland City By NOLAND NORGAARD ROME, Aug. 14 Army troops have captured Frontone, 27 miles inland from the Adriatic coast in the Appennines, in the only major advance along the Italian front, headquarters announced today. Sniping died down within Florence, enabling military government officials to supply the stricken city with food, water and other necessities without major difficulty, the Allied command said.

Empoli, the Arno river city west of Florence, fell to the Eighth Army without a fight yesterday. Although enemy movements were observed on the north side of the Arno near Bisa in the Fifth Army sector, there was only scant fighting on the whole Gen. Alexander's headquarters said a pamphlet issued by Nazi Marshal Kesselring threatened stringent retaliation against Italian civilians for attacks which jeopardized Nazi supply and communicaion lines behind the front. The pamphlet said shooting would be the penalty for aiding patriot "bandits," failing to report, activities of patriots, or giving them information about German military installations. Attacks on German soldiers or acts of sabotage in Italian villages would be punished by burning the village, shooting male inhabitants over 18 and interning all women in labor camps, the pamphlet added.

Assemblyman Dies Of Heart Ailment COCHRANE, Aug. 14 Assemblyman David I. Hammergren, 69, representative of Buffalo and Pepin counties in the lower house of the state legislature, died yesterday morning, a few days after suffering a heart attack. Last April, Hammergren was elected a delegate-at-large to the Republican national convention as a candidate pledged to Dewey. He served several terms in the state assembly, had been a member of th Buffalo county board since 1932 and its chairman from 1936 to 1939.

He was a member of the Minnesota legislature from 1905 to 1907. For the past 30 years, Hammer- gron was in the publishing business. A native of St. Paul, he worked for St. Paul and Chicago printing firms before moving to Cochran.

At one time he owned two farms. Funeral services will be held Wednesday. 6 PAGES TODAY DeGaulle Calls for Revolt Throughout France SUPREME TERS, Allied Expeditionary Force, Aug. 14 (ff) Gen. De Gaulle's French Committee of National Liberation issued a call tonight for a national uprising in France.

"The duty of every Frenchman has been outlined in the appeal of De Gaulle for the people of France," a statement said. "There is not one Frenchman who does not feel and who does not know that it is his simple and sacred duty to take part immediately in the supreme war effort of the country. "In the field, in the factory, in the workshop, in the office, in the he be under arrest, deported or a prisoner of Frenchman can harm the enemy or prepare that which harms him." PRICE FIVE CENTS Invasion of Japan Not Allies Whittle Escape Gap in Western France to 12 Miles; Eisenhower Makes Special Appeal to Forces 'We Can Make (churchm, siov lAir Armadas Blast Enemy From All Sides This Week Momentous'-'lke' U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Aug.

14 The fourth bombing of the Philippines in five days and new air blows north and south of Japan were portents today of a war moving west so fast that Adm. Chester W. Nimitz may have to advance his headquarters to catch up with it. Underscoring this tempo of offensive, Nimitz told a press conference the war may be won without invading Japan although occupation "would be necessary to insure a winning mentioned the possibility of American warships bombarding Nippon. The commander-in-chicf of the Pacific fleet and Pacific ocean areas, in looking for new headquarters, even has his eye on the recently invaded Marianas, 3,000 miles away, more than 600 miles past Japanese- held Trnk and within 1,500 miles of Tokyo.

It now can be disclosed that Nimitz, after momentous conferences here with President Roosevelt and Gen. Douglas MacArthur, went to Guam and Saipan, consulted fighting leaders there and just has returned, determined "to put the heat on as hard and fast as we can." Strike from North, South. "I am not prepared to say now whether I will advance my headquarters to the Marianas," he said, "but I can say that I constantly am on the lookout for an opportunity to move closer to the fighting." That fighting was carried again to the Philippines Saturday, MacArthur announced today, by New Guinea-based Liberators which sank a freighter in Davao Allies Planning New Landings? LONDON, Aug. 14 German radio, asserting that large Allied convoys were streaming through the strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean, speculated tonight that landings in the south of Europe were imminent. 20 Convicted, Two Freed in Michigan Graft Trial Weather Forecast for Wisconsin: Partly cloudy and cooler tonight and south portion Tuesday.

Rbiiiclander Weather: Sunday's highest temperature was 91 degrees; the minimum was 69 degrees, and last night's lowest temperature was 62 degrees. At 8 o'clock this morning the reading was 65 degrees, at 10 o'clock, 76, and at noon, 86. The prevailing wind is from the southeast. Weather One Year Ago: Maximum, 54; minimum, 65; no precipitation. ff miles of Tokyo Friday by Marianas-based Liberators which bombed the airfield and a cargo ship at Chichi Jima in the Bonins, south of Japan.

Striking within less than 500 miles of northern Japan, Aleutians- based Liberators sank a patrol vessel and damaged another near Para- mushiro in the Kuriles Thursday. The aerial arm swung like a giant scythe along more than 3,500 miles of Japan's inner defense wall of islands, adding a ship, a freighter and a coastal vessel to the shipping disaster befalling the enemy in the Halmahera- Talaud defense zone for the Philippines. U. S. Forces 'Ready to Nimitz plotted war strategy in the Marianas with Vice Adm.

Richmond Kelley Turner who is establishing a huge invasion base at Saipan. He talked with Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitscher, whose powerful Task Force 58 recently drove the Japanese fleet behind the Philippines, and conferred with Maj. Gen.

Roy S. Geiger of the Marine Corps. He said that American forces in all branches of service in the Marianas "are ready to go" and I can assure the folks back home these young men never will let them down." Nimitz said he did not believe any "single form of attack will defeat Japan." "It will have to be a combination of every blockade, air bombardment, possible surface ship bombardment," he said, adding pointedly: Already surface ships have bombarded the northern Kuriles." Although foreseeing the possibility of forcing Japan, without invasion, to "throw in the sponge," Nimitz told newsmen "we should keep in mind the possible necessity of invasion and be prepared for it." During the entire Central Pacific campaign Gilberts, Marshalls, said 52,323 Japanese killed in action have been counted and 3,022 taken prisoner at a cost in American dead of 5,903. Number of Strikers Out Drops to 16,500 By the Associated Press The strike outlook improved considerably today as the number of idle workers throughout the United States and Canada dropped from a week-end high of 61,000 to about 16,500. Over-the-road truck shipments began rolling in eight midwestern states as some 25,000 drivers for 103 government-seized companies returned to their jobs.

In Montreal, streetcars and buses resumed service with -the Montreal Tramways Company under temporary government control. Other major settlements were at Detroit, where 7,000 returned to their shifts at General Motors Chevrolet gear axle division and at Muncie. where 3,000 Borg Warner workers were on the job again. The largest remaining dispute kept 4,000 workers idle at the Philadelphia and Reading Company mines at Shenandoah, Pa. LANSING, Aug.

14 With 17 past and present members of Michigan's legislature and three officials of finance companies con- victed of a graft conspiracy and under sentence to serve terms of three to five years in prison, the grand jury which caused their arrest announced today it was shifting back into high gear immediately. A circuit court jury of nine women and three men convicted the 20 Saturday, and acquitted two other finance company officials, Special Trial Judge John Simpson of Jackson pronouncing sentence immediately. All save one of those convicted was released on bond. Each of them declared his case to the supreme court. Those convicted are: Abraham Cooper, president of the Union Investment Company of Detroit, whom the prosecution contended was the originator of the conspiracy; John E.

Hancock, Detroit branch manager and assistant vice-president of the Associates Discount Corporation of South Bend, described as treasurer of a slush fund for bribing legislators, and George Omacht of South Bend, general counsel of the Associates Investment Corporation, as payers of bribes. Senators Jerry T. Logic, Bay City Republican, and Charles C. Diggs and Leo J. Wilkowski, Detroit Democrats.

Representatives William G. Buckley, Edward J. Walsh, Adam W. Sumeracki, Martin A. Kronk, Joseph J.

Kowalski, Earl C. Gallagher and Francis J. Nowak, Detroit, and Walter N. Stockfish, Hamtramck Democrats. Former Senators Ernest G.

Nagel and William M. Bradley, of Detroit; D. Stephen Benzie of Norway, and Henry F. Shea, of Laurium and Lansing, Democrats. Former Representatives Joseph L.

Kaminski and Stanley J. Dombrowski of Detroit, Demorcats. The jury acquitted Mark S. Young, Detroit representative of the National Discount Corporation, and Samuel N. Hopkins, vice-president of Cooper's Company.

The judge and Special Prosecutor Kim Sigler indicated the next case to receive formal court-of-record action would be one in which four officials of Michigan distillery companies are accused of bribing former Lieutenant Governor Frank Murphy (not related to Frank Murphy of the supreme court of the United States and a former Michigan governor), who has pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentence. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS Allied Expeditionary Force Advanced Qpmmand Post in Normandy, Aug. 13 (Delayed) armies have created a "definite opportunity for a major Allied Gen. Dwighl D. Eisenhower declared today in an order of the day.

In a special appeal to "Allied soldiers, sailors and airmen," the supreme commander said: "We can make this week a momentous one in the history of the brilliant and fruitful week for us, a fateful one for the ambitions of the Nazi, tyrants." Eisenhower called for a special effort by all Allied fighters, "because the victory we can now achieve is infinitely greater than any it has so far been possible to accomplish in the west, and because this opportunity may be grasped only through the utmost in zeal, determination and speedy action 'Fleeting The text of Eisenhower's order of the day: "Allied soldiers, sailors and airmen: "Through your combined skill, valor and fortitude you have created in France a fleeting but definite opportunity for a major Allied victory, one whose realization will mean notable progress toward the final downfall of our enemy. "In the past I have, in a moment of unusual significance, made special appeals to Allied forces it has been my honor to command. Without exception the response has been unstinted and the result beyond my expectations. "Because the victory we can no achieveT is; infinitely greater' any it has so far been possible to accomplish in the west and because this opportunity may be grasped only through the utmost in zeal and determination and speedy action I make my present appeal to you more urgent than ever before. 'Fateful Week for "I request every airman to make it his direct responsibility that the enemy is blasted unceasingly by day and by night and his safety denied either in fight or in flight.

"I request every sailor to moke sure that no part of the hostile forces can escape or be reinforced by sea, and that our comrades on land want nothing that guns and ships and ship companies can bring to them. "I request every soldier to go forward to his assigned abjective with the determination that the enemy can survive only through surrender; let no foot of ground once gained be relinquished, nor single German escape through a line once established. "With all of us resolutely performing our special tasks," we can make this week a momentous one in the history of this brilliant and fruitful week for us, a fateful one of the ambitions of Nazi tyrants. (Signed) "DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER." Entertainers' Plane Forced Down SYDNEY, Australia, Aug.

14 Comedian Bob Hope and his troupe of soldier-entertainers escaped injury today in the crash-landing of a Catalina flying boat near Lauriston, New South Wales, Australia. Churchill, Sla Leaders Meet LONDON, Aug. 14 Prime Minister Churchill, Yugoslav Partisan leader Marshal Tito and Premier Ivan Subasic of the exile Yugoslav government met in Italy Saturday and Sunday, it was announced here today, for talks which may do much toward shaping the post-war fate of Yugoslavia. The conferences culminated a scr- ies of maneuvers from which Tito apparently has emerged as a dominant figure in Yugoslav affairs. It was generally believed here the talks would pave the way for more active- military support of Tito's Partisans, who have been credited with keeping as many as 17 German divisions busy.

Series of Fires Ravage New York, New Jersey Areas Loss of Destroyer Escort Reported WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 300-foot destroyer escort Fiske has been sunk by a torpedo launched from a German U-boat in the Atlantic. A Navy announcement did not indicate how many of the approximately 150 men aboard lost their lives. Lieut. John A.

Comly, the commander, was listed as a survivor. The loss of the Fiske raises to 175 the number of American warships lost since the war started. FORT LEE, N. Aug. 14 Most of Palisades amusement park WHS a smoldering ruin today after a firo in which 150 or more persons were injured or affected by smoke and a Sunday afternoon crowd estimated at 25,000 was sent stampeding.

Several spectacular rescues were effected as flames swept the popular resort atop the Palisades opposite 125th street, New York. Scores of those injured or overcome were treated at three hospitals, and others were cared for by rescue and first aid squads and volunteers. Irving Rosenthal, the proprietor, estimated damage to the park at $1,500,000 and said it would be closed the remainder of the season. Meanwhile, three men were listed a's 'missing in the pier and ship explosions and fire which broke out Friday night in Hoboken on the Hudson riverfront south of here and continued to smolder today. The three men, volunteer fire fighters, were last seen Friday night and had not returned to their homes.

The toll of those injured or overcome by smoke in the multi-million dollar Hoboken fire rose to almost 700 yesterday as 126 additional persons, including firemen, longshoremen, Coast Guardsmen and Red Cross canteen workers were treated. Two other major week-end fires in the New York City-New Jersey area destroyed a block of buildings along the boardwalk at Wildwood, N. with a loss estimated at $250,000 and injured ten persons early Saturday, and destroyed part of Luna park at Coney island, New York, Saturday afternoon, with loss estimated between $250,000 and $500,000. Witnesses said the Palisades amusement park fire started in the Virginia Reel, a circular ride which was loaded with children. A short circuit under the ride was blamed.

Hire Marshal Thomas E. Brophy says a 15-minute delay by park em- ployes in sounding an alarm allowed destrictive spread of the flames which swept Coney island's Luna Park Playland on Saturday. He said he would question employes today. The fire spread to the wooden framework of a scenic railway from which it swept onward to destroy half the park's rides and concessions. The fire marshal said the flames started from an overloaded electric circuit.

By AUSTIN BEALMEAR LONDON. Aug. 14 (ff) Great armadas of American and British planes numbering well over 3,500 today bombed war industries in southern Germany, enemy installations throughout France and shipping in the great port of Brest, while harrying the Germans in their perilous retreat in Normandy. They struck from British and Italian bases. Up to 1.500 U.

S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators from England attacked German war industries at Mannheim and Ludwigshafen and German airfields, rail yards and in both Germany and France. Another great fleet of up to 750 American heavy bombers from Italy at military objectives in the south of France for the third consecutive day. They also battered the northwest Italian coast again. The heavies flew without escort.

Mustangs and Lightnings flew separately and spent the day strafing targets in the same areas which the bombers hit. Targets were not immediately identified. Pace Canadian Thurst. Hundreds of British medium and heavy bombers hammered Nazi lines in the Falaise sector to puce the new Canadian offensive. A large flight of heavy Lancaster bombers earlier had bombed German shipping at the besieged port of Brest in German province.

Brittany. Another day of excellent weather the tactical air forces lashing anew at von Kluge's scattered divisions, and the Berlin radio declared Allied bomber and fighter formations had swept over southern Germany to Bavaria and then returned to the northwestward. attack Allied airmen flew more than 5,500 sorties in all-day blows at everything moving between the battlefront and the Seine river. Today the U. S.

Eighth Air Force reported that its fighter bombers had destroyed or damaged more Reds Mass for All-Out Thrust Into East Prussia BULLETIN LONDON, Aug. 14 Capture of the fortress town of Oso- wiec, Polish communications center 15 mites south of Masur- ian lake region of East Prussia, was announced tonight by Marshal Stalin in an order of the day. By DANIEL DE LUCE MOSCOW, Aug. 14 The Zero hour for an all-out Soviet assault on East Prussia appeared to be approaching rapidly today as Russian armies massed in a great threatening arc before the borders of that than 6,000 railroad cars in operations over France in the last two days, along with 594 locomotives, 931 motor vehicles and more than 100 barges. Among the railroad cars were 154 carrying ammunition, and 433 tank cars.

Ninth Air Force Lost 57 Planes. In addition U. S. Ninth Air Force fighter bombers knocked out 30 tanks, 144 railroad cars, two locomotives, 309 motorcycles, 30 horse- drawn vehicles, 40 gun positions and three ammunition dumps and cut rail lines at 11 places. In the week ending yesterday, the Ninth Air Force reported, its fighter bombers chalked up a score of 170 Russian units to the south were 15 to 17 miles from the East Prussia frontier, while to the east other Soviet forces were seven to 10 miles away and to the north from 30 to 35 miles.

Great tank battles continued west of the Vistula in the Kielce region about 100 miles south" of Warsaw and within 35 miles of Krakow, the last great Polish bastion guarding industrial centers of German Silesia 75 miles from advanced Russian elements. The Germans were counter-attacking vainly. Virtually no news came from the siege of Warsaw itself. Since Friday the Russians between Warsaw and East Prussia have bitten deep into German lines, capturing 530 settlements and forcing three rivers, the Narew, the upper Bug and the Biebrza, crossed Sunday. Progress here WBS one of the major strategic victories of the summer.campaign.

Marshal Konstantin Rokossovky's forces were pressing north and northwestward on a 65-mile front from the Bug northwest of Warsaw. The important communications center of Lomza, Ostrow and Ostroleka lay within his grasp, and there are virtually no other large towns be- Both Prongs of Pincers Leap Ahead To Close Trap Launching Honors War Mother Sponsors Sub MANITOWOC, Aug. 14 The submarine, Loggerhead, was launched yesterday at the yards of the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company with Mrs. Barbara Fox of Washington, D. widow of a fighter pilot shot down over Italy, as sponsor of the craft.

U. S. Senator Raymond E. Willis of Indiana, member of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, speaking at the launching iH-ogram, complimented employes of the shipyards for their long period of labor "uninterrupted by strikes or stoppages." Mrs. Fox, a native of Plymouth, is the senator's private secretary.

Coincident with the launching program, Comdr. P. H. Ross, head of the Manitowoc submarine maintenance activity, presented the Gold Star award in lieu of a second Navy Cross to Lieut. Comdr.

Ralph Metcalf of Greenfield, 111. The citation, conferred by Admiral Chester Nimitz, states that Metcalf, a submarine commander, displayed extraordinary heroism in brilliantly executed torpedo attacks in which he sank four enemy ships and damaged three others. Principals at launching of submarine chaser PC-1566 at Leathern D. Smith shipyards. Sturgeon Bay, which honored Mrs.

Anastasia Zaborowski, outstanding v. ar mother of Stevens Point, who has five sons in the armed are, left to right: Josef Staniewicz, Polish vice consul from Chica Master Sgt. Edward Zaborowski, son of sponsor; Mrs. sponsor, and Leathern D. Smith, head of the shipyard.

tanks destroyed plus 90 probably fo th Ea st Prussian frontier, destroyed or damaged, 1,798 motor I Russians announced Ger An- vehicles destroyed and 440 damaged, dl el Yeremenko Second Baltic 825 railroadcars destroyed, 40 probably destroyed, and 650 damaged. In the week the Ninth Air Force pilots destroyed 25 German planes in the air while losing 57 planes. Thunderbolt pilots harassing the German retreat in Normandy said American tanks were flushing German Panther tanks out from cover, so fighter bombers could dispose of them on the roads. "The Germans must be frantic," said Major Leo C. Moon, Demiah, Idaho, a P-47 leader, "if they move, we spot them from the air and in no time they are literally being swarmed.

If they stop, our tanks catch them and finish them off." Pilots reported the Germans reversed their tank turrets and were firing behind them, as American tanks chased a quarter of a mile behind. now almost half way across Latvia, had killed or captured nearly 70,000 Germans in a month, boosting to 609,526 the Nazi casualties inflicted in the summer offensive. Accidents Fatal To Six in State By the Associated Press Hit and run drivers were blamed for two fatalities and four other persons were killed in separate accidents in Wisconsin over the week-end. The dead were: E. F.

Heubner, 47, town of Gay, Marathon county. Richard Rowe, 39, Fond du Lac. Carolyn Berg, 18, Milwaukee. Mrs. Frank Lauderbach, 77, Portage.

Lois Heubner, 11, Milwaukee. Patrick Kronforst, 3te, Two Rivers. Miss Berg was killed when she was struck from behind by an automobile while she and her sis- ler, Dorothy, 23, were on the! beyond 115,000. Drought Damages Midwest Crops By the Associated Press Hot, dry weather held sway over much of the midwest east of the Mississippi river today, searing further an alrondy badly damaged corn crop, causing further deterioration to soybeans, and leaving many (Victory gardens total losses. Conditions were worst and damage was heaviest in southern and central Illinois and Indiana, and in Ohio and Kentucky.

Rainfall also was needed badly in northern Illinois and Indiana, where crops were I deteriorating rapidly. West of the Mississippi river, conditions generally were favorable, although too much rainfall hurl some areas, an adverse condition. I Jf Ai wind and hail caused some crop home. The body was recovered. damage in Kansas and in Montana, 1 BULLETIN ALENCON, France.

Atiff 14 (11:35 p. I7P) The Allies tonight narrowed to 12 miles the escape gap for the hulk of German Armies in western France. By GLADWIN HILL SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Aug. 14 tanks and infantry advanced 7 to 12 miles and Canadian armored infantry leaped forward in a new offensive today, striking for the destruction of the cream of Germany's forces in northwestern Europe, caught in a closing ring with an escape hole less than 16 miles wide. "It will be a military miracle if the Germans should get out anywhere near whole," an Allied staff officer declared, "this is the end of a German army." British.

Canadian and American troops were swiftly collapsing a huge Nazi pocket, spurred by Gen. Eisenhower's declaration that they had a fleeting opportunity to score their greatest victory in the west, a victory which might bring the fall of Paris like a ripe plum. American armored spearheads, which had swept dramatically behind the Germans from Le Mans, forming the southern jaw of an Allied nutcracker, had completely closed around Argentan. Canadian tanks and infantry, carried forward in tough armored track vehicles called "Priests," jumped off in a major attack which gained two miles and crossed the Laison river toward Falaise, the 1 northern jaw of the clamp. Lid of Planes.

The effect was to cut to less than 16 miles the gap through which Field Marshall Gen. Guenther Kluge was making frantic efforts to extricate approximately 100,000 fourth of the entire force with which the Allies have come in contact since D-day. In a smoking cauldron, covered like a lid by thousands of Allied bombers pouncing on every Ger. man in sight, the enemy fought a bitter, tangled battle to escape termination. American troops, closing in on the 30-mile deep pocket, found mans mowed down by the hundreds.

The American advance was so fast the infantry found the enemy's smoking machine-guns with belts still loaded. So confused was the enemy that remnants of six divisions were found on one narrow three-mile front. Americans Drive 12 Miles. Greatest American advance was along the middle of the contracting claw east of Mortain where the infantry bore down on the vicinity of Domfron.t in a smash of up to 12 miles by noon today. Domfront is 13 miles east of Mortain.

Barenton, on the Mortain-Domfront road, was captured in this drive. The Canadians, who had been five miles north of Falaise and to two miles north of the Laison river, got across that major barrier. Capture of Falaise, three miles south of the river, would close another German escape point. The British on the Canadians' right flank also scored gains of three miles and more, capturing Martainville and pushing on to near Bonnoeil, seven miles northwest of Falaise, and taking Prous- sey; two miles north of Conde-sur- Noireau, 15 miles west of Falaise. Saturday's Bag Is 2,828.

Seven mile spurts were made by the Americans on the west side of the pocket along the Vire-Tinchebray line. It was announced that American troops on Saturday had taken 2,828 more German prisoners, bringing their four-day total to more than 13.000. German prisoners taken in France since the beginning of the campaign had now mounted to pedestrian walk of a bridge. Officers said the car did not stop. Mrs.

Lauderbach was struck by a car as she crossed a street in Portage. Witnesses said the vehicle did not stop and the sheriffs of Port- The trap was sprung, it was disclosed after five days of secrecy shrouded operations west of Paris, when powerful American armored infantry spearheads sweeping in a 250-mile arc through Le age and Columbia counties were converged upon the German flank looking for a car which had only i one headlight. The Heubner girl was struck by lightning as she was swimming in Nemahbin lake, about 10 miles southeast of Oconomowoc. Two companions were knocked down by I the bolt but were not injured i seriously. The Kronforst boy drowned in the East Twin river after apparently wandermg away from his with damage in Kansas in July estimated at $2,263,900.

Iowa reported light damage only in the southeast, and the Mississippi north of Clinton. Wisconsin potatoes and pastures were deteriorating rapidly, and corn on high ground was suffering but rainfall still can rescue the crop. Huebner was injured fatally when his pickup truck left a road in the town of Gay after blowing a tire. A companion, Ben Stockmeier. also 47 and of the town of Gay, was injured critically.

He taken to a hospital at Marshlield. Rowe died of injuries sustained when a gasoline truck tank which I he was welding exploded. Three i other persons were hurt. and rear in a sudden twist to the north. This swing took the Americans through Alencon, Sees and Argentan.

only 18 miles south of the Canadian First Army 'above Falaise. Roads Under Fire- Roads that remained open were under Allied shellfire. and it appeared that only new German armies could stem the Normandy tide. However, von Kluge already had drawn on 40 of the 60 or 65 divisions ho was believed to have had uj France at the start of the invasion. British staff officers yesteiday the Allies already hud contacted 40 divisions.

Of these 15 already beeu counted as destroyed or bydly cut up in the beuchhead battles. St. Lo Break-through, tilt- See "France," Page.