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BUY MOM THJUIKFMf THE EMPORIA GAZETTE VOL. LIV NUMBER 290 EMPORIA, KANSAS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1944 SIX PAGES Ail MARTIN A widow with a little flock seems t' be afraid take another chance, but a widoTwjr with a house full o' kids Is usually back in harness before th' hearse cools "Farming looks a car -window. REDS CAPTURE MINSK Good Evening The Yanks in France have opened a 4th of July, celebration to tie giant bomb on Rommel's I tall. Opens Way To Warsaw THE WAR TODAY Hitler Note Fighting For Hopeless Cause By Dewltt Macfcensie Associated Press When you step back with close Today's News in Brief 3:45 o'clock today Mlnimuni last night Maximum Sunday year aso year ago 65 degrees 91 degrees 65 dearies 89 degrees Russian Armies Storm City After Cutting Off Nazi Retreat Routes July 3 (AP) Minsk has taken b'y storm, Moscow announced tonight. An order of the day by Marshal Stalin said the troops of the Third While Russian front in cooperation with forces of the First White Russian army captured the city of 240,000 by flanking maneuver and assault.

Minsk, one- of the important Russian cities held by I the Germans, fell almost to the day three years after the Germans had claimed its capture on July 1. 1941 in the initial stages of their invasion of the Soviet union. Opeas Way to Warsaw The collapse of German resistance in the bastion opens the gates to a Red army drive toward Warsaw, capital of pre-war Poland, 300 miles to the west, Wilno in Lithu- ania, 100 miles to the northwest and Riga in Latvia, 220 miles to the northwest. Stalin's order described Minsk as the last major German strong point in Russia and "a most 1m portant strategic center of German defenses in the western direction. A big salute of 24 salvoes from 324 guns was ordered toi flash In Moscow's skies tonight tp set a triumphant seal to the victory.

The Soviet entry the city was preceded by Russian drives across the two main rail routes the'southwest" and northwest out of The Russians covered miles in their last dash into the city, last night's Soviet communique 1 having reported them that distance away. The rush on the northwest posed a threat to Wilno, former Polish city just 15 miles from the old Lithuanian border. This drive captured Wiiejka, 65 miles due east of 9 Wilno, and 46 miles northwest of Minsk- Pressure on Baltic Wall analysis of every move in our global war and view it I've been doing for the past can't fail to inspire profound confidence that Allied affairs prosper exceedingly. One may legitimately go further and, in answer to the common query of whether the European conflict is nearing its end, say that Herr Hitler is indeed on his last mile, and his knees are knocking. However, we must follow this with the caution that the greatest tragedy which could come out this war would be for the Allied home fronts to slacken in their efforts at this crucial moment on the theory that the battle is won.

Must Be Knocked Out It won't be won until the fuehrer out, cold, and the amount of power which we must ex- Contlnued on page tcree) Force to partly cloudy: except Chungking, July 3 acatttred Sh0 and which by-passed the ld Borth nd west ntrtl circled rail junction of Hengyang have thrust a spearhead belcrw city in their 46 miles drive to capture the entire Canton-Hankow railway route, the Chinese high command indicated tonight. This was accomplished by a udden thrust at Leiyang, 34 miles outh of Hengyang, where a flank ng movement cut the railway, and a subsequent smash more than ten miles below the city. not much change In temperature; highest Tuesday In lower SO's except in middle SO's In vest and north central; featured thundershcwerc Wednesday. Washington, July 3 son was born early today to Madame Hjalmar Procope, wife of the former Finnish minister, to the United States. The minister was handed ins passport by the state department month with the announcement that the action been taken De- cause of actions "inimical" to the interests of the United States.

Shenandoah. July 3 7,500 of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company's 8.600 employes failed. to harvest seriously. report for work today. tirport Designation Approved Privately Owned Planes Now May Fly from New Municipal Field The Emporia Municipal Airport, iive miles south of Emporia, has been designated for use by CAA inspectors and the Emporia privately I owned planes now may fly from the field.

The airport approval was se- Bretton Woods, N. July 3 cured Saturday when Warren Rogr Chairmanships of two vital seg- ers, airport manager, and Ted New- ments of the United Nations mone- conference went to the United States conference steer- iCoiitinued on page two) Promise Cooier Fourth Topeka. July 3 1 and slightly cooler weather gave sans a pleasant prospect today for the Fourth of July holiday. Weatherman S. D.

Flora predicted temperatures ranging from 85 to 96 for today and 85 to 90 tomorrow. He welcomed the showery outlook because "nearly all parte of the state need rain." Yesterday the mercury stayed well above 90, reaching 97 at Phillipsburg and 96 at Topeka. It dropped last night to 65 to 70 and Dodge City reported the lowest, 65. A few light weekend showers were I reported. Scott City had .25 of an inch, Wichita .20, Columbus .18, Sublette .04, Winfieild .01.

with traces at Hutchnson and Coffey- I ville. Flora said none of the rain would be heavy enough to delay the wheat Sgt. Paul L. Burnt Missing in Action Staff Sgt. Paul L.

Burrls has been missing in action over Germany since June 20, according to a telegram received Saturday from the war department by his wife, 216 West Copley. Sergeant Burrls was an aerial gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar E. 703 Prairie.

Sergeant Burris had been stationed in England for about two months. In his last letter to his wife, written June 16, he said he had made seven missions. Entering service on August 19 of last year, Sergeant Burris had been stationed at Amarillo, Texas; Harlingen, Texas; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Casper, before going overseas. YANKS LAUNCH DRIVE Killed in France to The Neosho Rapids. July Tom G.

Buchtel was killed in action June 12 in France, according to telegram from the War department, received by his mother, Mrs. A. L. Buchtel, Saturday. Pvt.

Buchtel entered the armed sen-ices December 27, 1942, and was sent to Camp Barkeley. Texas vhere he took his preliminar! training. In September, 1943, he was "sent to Camp Granite, Calif, near Los Angeles, and in January A local overflow raised the Solo- I mon river afc Beloit, but the stream (By the Associated Press) The Berlin radio, possibly fish- further flooding was expected ing for information about Lt. Gen. downstream.

The river reached a George S. Patton, said today that German military circles expect "PattonX American army group" to open an offensive in the near future. was falling this morning and no I stage of 19.4 feet last night 1.4 over i bankfull. front of the Baltic republics-and Poland began to feel the pressure of the advancing Red army today as German forces retled backward In White Russia in a. retreat which Russian field dispatches described as a -wholesale rout.

In every sector, the Russians said, German commanders appeared unable to break the onrush- 1 Ing ride of Soviet tanks, cavalry and Irfantry advancing relentlessly under an air cover that grows daily in strength. There were continued signs of indecision on the part of Nazi leaders fc KS well as lack of contact between enemy divisions deployed along the front, front dispatches declared. By no stretch of the imagination, one Soviet correspondent said, can the collapse of German resistance be called a retreat" or even a withdrawal. Just as fascinatnig as the Red army's whirlwind offensive was the apparent collapse of the German armies in White Russia. Foe Is Falling Apart "We see the Geiman army fall- ing apart everywhere," reported Pravda correspondent Vadim Ko- zhevnikov.

"In Borisov there were three concentration camps for German deserters. During the first days of our offensive the number of prisoners in these camp-; was doubled." Another Pravda dispatch ed "huge quantities of German equipment. strewn around the for- erts and swamps of White Russia. In places the stench of German dead Is so strong it is difficult to 1 With units deserting and feeling A in numerous the Germans reported to be hurrying special storm troop units into battle to guard important communications. "Thousands of new German prisoners are beinc taken," reported Kozhevnikov.

"The forests swarm with them. Towards evening the Germans crawl out of the woods and send delegations to give themselves up. I saw a German medical officer pestering a giri directing traffic on a road to leave her post and take him prisoner. 1 This correspondent said "we saw how peasants from one village marched 160 Germans from a forest. We even saw a general commander who had put on the clothes of private.

"Often surrounded the Germans we find German officers and men which the flew comer, city clerk, flew to Wichita and formally presented the designation application to CAA officials. The City soon will close the North airport, 9 miles north of town, and the privately owned planes there will be transferred to the new Municipal airport. Officially CAA designation of the airport is a stepping stone for bigger operations and high classification for usage; according to the plans of the Emporia aviation Lloyd Jones, conr tractor, now is operating a huge concrete mixing machine at the airport pouring concrete for the- new service apron. Running levels for a proposed runway 'base 'designed for usage by cross-country and transport planes also is under way. The CAA of the Municipal airport based on approval of a detailed set of field rules and maps showing limitations of various flying activities to be permitted within a 25-mile radius of the new airport, as well as maps of the traffic pattern at the airport.

Ten maps and five copies of field rules were presented by Airport Manager Rogers. One 5-map set outlined the limits of sight-seeing Acrobatic flying Is prohibited over Emporia and is limited to an area over the countryside near the airport. The. general practice area for student flying also is limited under CAA Another set of five maps designated the present traffic pattern at the new airport. This concerns how and where the planes may take off, the runway location end the plane taxi routes from the buildings to the runways.

The CAA designation also requires two guards at the airport in addition to Manager Rogers, whose duties Include enforcement of the rules for which the airport is designated. The guards are G. B. Hankenson, night man. and Lewis Fankhouser, day attendant.

Emporia now has seven privately owned planes. Other purchases are in prospect and several Emporians are taking lessons to qualify for private plane licenses. At the North airport repairing of planes used by Contractor E. B. White, who operated the army cadet flying program, is under way.

Bad Weather Hampers Allied Air Activity By Austin Be a 1m ear London, July 3 American bombers struck at Budapest in for the second straight day today, Gereman broadcasts: reported, as bad weather held Allied, air activity in support of troops in France to a minimum. radio said more than 500 bombers attacked the Budapest area where heavy bombers yester- terday bombed freight, yeards, aircraft-plants and and that 35 American planes were down ed in fierce fights. Bad flying weather which limited Allied air units to 700 sorties over the weekend for the' third straight day and threatened to reduce support of Lt. Gen. Omar N.

Bradley's attacking -Americans and Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's Salient still further. The only activity 'overnight consisted of minor patrols over Nor- rnandy. All British-based planes except heavy bombers and their escort were grounded yesterday, but the Allies were able to fly from their Normandy bases and some 400 sorties were made fay figtters and fighter- bombers attacking Orne river bridges and transport behind enemy lines.

Saipan Climax Is Near U. S.Forces Attack on Wide Front Initial Attack Gains IVi Miles In Opening Hours; Mud a Handicap Supreme Allied Expeditionary Force, July 3 First army struck south along a 40-mile front on Cherbourg peninsula today, forward up to 2 miles in the opening hours of a suvagc attack. Supreme doughboy offensive opened at dawn army units were of this year, he was -ordered to Fort Dix, N. J. From there he was sent to England.

Private Buchtel was born November 14, 1911. Neosho Rapids. Prior to his entrance Into the army where he served In the Infantry, Private Buchtel was custodian fit I this morning, along the front 1 process of reorganization ably "good jump-off spots" for in eventual attack toward the south. West of Caumont Bradley lashed out with similar local attacks with the same object in mind. This sector is roughly 17 air miles southwest of the British river bridgehead.

Activity dwindled In the Caen sector, where Field Marshal Gen. Erwin Rommel apixmred to be regrouping his seven panzer and four infantry divisions which had taken a terrific mauling Sn three days of furious but futile attacks against the British. Indications were that I Rommel was readying an all-out counterattack against the British. are ready," said one officer. Continual rain handicapped the Allies.

Clouds so dense Unit the nirtnen called them "ten-tenths" cloaked the entire bridgehead In Normandy. The weather was getting to be known as the wovst for June and July in the past 40 years. Allied air forces were able to fly only about 400 sorties over the battle area yesterday, but they managed to shoot down 22 enemy aircraft aftatnst a loss of three-nf their own, communique No. 55 disclosed. Prisoners 40,000 headquarters said the in the Cherbourg area American L.

ocucpled Brltl5h tropolts of the high school for five years and across Cherbourg penin- at the grade and high school bulid- sula from St. Lo D'Ourvllle cast to ing for six and one-half years be- the Carentan area, and then south fore that. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ruth Buchtel, Lebo; his mother, two brothers and four sisters, K. E.

uchtel, Clovis, N. Mrs. Gc- eva Briggs, Quenemo; Miss Elsie Buchtel, Kansas City, Mrs. rancls Lambert, Miss Ruby Buchel and Jos Buchtel, of Neosho Rapids. Island Struggle Mounts to New Fury; Fall of Garapan Closer By Richard Johnston In for the "of- Collect 11 Tons Of Waste Paper The city-wide paper drive conducted Saturday by members of the Emporia Travelers club, assisted by Jump Town teen-agers, netted 22 tons of waste paper, which were delivered to a waste paper dealer, according to Jason Austin, drive chairman.

Persons who were missed by the collectors are asked to mail a postal card bearing their name and address to Mr. Jason Austin, at the Whitley hotel, or to Lewis Schultz. Chamber of secretary. AH Travelers members who are willing to help clean up the drive are asked to meet next Sunday Underground Is Worrying Nazis 'Civil War" Breaks In France; Danes Challenge the Foe London, July 3 troops were reported today to be pressing a large scale drive In Southwestern France in an eifort to smash underground resistance, de scribed by one French collabora tionist source as "a real civil war directed from abroad." At the same time advices from Stockholm indicated the Germans were making desperate efforts to placate striking Danish patriots wh had barricaded themselves in th streets of Copenhagen and threat ened to fight to the death in protest against repressive measures. A new and disturbing situation, meanwhile, was rising to plague the Germans at home to dispatches from some 50.000 foreign prisoners have escaped since the Allied invasion of France and are causing deep concern by their activities.

Reports from the Spanish-French frontier, relayed here by way of Madrid, said the Germans had thrown tanks and bombers as well the Combined Allied Press, distributed- by- tfie Associated Ahoarci Joint Expedition ary Force Flagship Off Spain July 3 (via -navy radio) Leathernecks of llie Secom Marine division the con querors of Tarawa tiglil ened their vise around the blazing coastal point which was the city of Garapah today hue Fourth Marine division roops advanced on the right lank to within five miles of ic northern tip of the island. Battered by day-long pin-pointed aval gunfire artillery as well by mortars from the heights bove the city and Tanapag harbor, Garapan has become a mass of lame which illuminated the sea hroughtout the night. The razing of the west coast town an awesome spectacle rom the bridge of this ship where I observed it last night. Through a jlass I could see many fires, but the naked eye they merged In one Immense orange glow into which floating tracer shells from warships vanished. Saipan Surrounded Incredibly tireless troops of the Second Marine division which captured the razored ridges of Topat- Emporia in Midst Of 3-Day Holiday The 3-day Fourth of July vaca- ion for many Emporians was half way over at noon today and activities in downtown Emporia will be jack to normal Wednesday.

Emporia banks, which stayed cpen today but will be closed Tuesday, the official legal holiday, did a brisk business this morning, somewhat comparable' to Saturday. Most retail stores were closed. The postofHce closed this afternoon and until Wednesday morning, service will compare to that given on Sundays. The effects of the 3-day holl- Emporia Sunday Fewer Sunday noon" diners were served for many weeks, operators said. Some of the cafes are closed until Wednesday.

A traditional Fourth of July event will be the annual American Legion dance starting at 9 o'clock tonight at the Broadview. Music will be provided by the Pied Pipers. W. E. Beltz is the dance chairman.

Emporia patriotic Independence day services will be held at 10'clock Tuesday morning at the Riverside school on South Lawrence street. The program sponsored by the St. to St. Lo, road junction near the center of the Normandy front. In fine advance of 2Vj miles, the Americans captured St.

Jores, eight miles southwest of St. Sauveur Lc Vicomte. Attack After Barrage The sudden American attack bursting forward after thunderous artillery barrage followed quickly mop-up of Cherbourg and gave the Germans no rest. The speed with which Lt. Gen.

Omar" N. Bradley turned his First army about to move south surprised many military men. The attack took the form af a giant squeeze frooi all sides to cap- fenslve action" the mopping up of the last German resistance on Cap La Hague over the we.ik- cnd. Between 2,000 and 3.000 more prisoners were taken In the process An Associated Press dispatch from Cherbourg said the American Allies March on To Northern Italy Siena Fails to French; S. Troops Capture Cecina in Bitter Engagement By N'oUtnd N'orguard Rome.

July 3 troops and American artillery and tank the medieval me- Sienna 31 miles below Florence today after more than a week of heavy fighting through tough German defenses. The occupation touched off a wild demonstration by the population of 50,000 which cheered and applauded and paraded Its famoUis silk flags for the first time In four yoars in a belated impromptu celebration of the ancient Zpallo Dcllo Comrade." The city, whoiti art treasures are rivalled only by th.ce Florence, was virtually untouched by war damage except for a few small bombs dropped in the several nights and demolitions of public utilities carried out by the Germans. Dispatches three bombs landed within 30 yards of the city's beautiful black and white marble cathedral, tearing up paving blocks In the Piazza Del Duomo. Klghth Army Moves oh Fall of the city coincided with advance by the Eighth army which would since D-day than 55.000. Gen.

Sir Bernard indicate the had reached total more L. MOiUgom- ture sula all of down the Cherbourg penin- toward Granvllle, 30 miles southwest St. Lo. On the powerfully-built British sector, some 25 miles east of St. Lo.

Tommies widened their river bridgehead by occupying Fontaine Etoupefour, three of prisoners had reached 40.00C. ter and gains up the Adriatic coast "'tor nud gains the Adriatic coast which brought the fall of Oslmo only nine miles from Ancona. A few hours earlier Americans on the Italian west coast crushed German resistance at Cecina, after vicious fighting. heavy street lighu occurred which caused us. 03 woll as the enemy, considerable casualties, and we lost a number of armored vehicles in the engagement." oii Allied sttokcsman German prisoners reported they were ordered to hold Cecina nt all costs, and were indications the Germans intended to make the Cecina river some sort of defense line.

cry's superiority In artillery In the crew fighting smashed every attempt of the Germans to infiltrate into the river bridgehead. The Nazis made 25 attacks In 72 hours, the latest shortly before dawn yesterday. A barrage from British heavy guns broke it up before it even reached Infantry positions. southwest of Caen. The doughboys were fighting through rain and mud-bogged French battlefields.

AiUck on West End Lack Manpower To Unload Wheat Chicago. July 3 is Insufficient labor to unload cars of miles! wheat as fast ns they arrive at southwestern terminals und the congestion is contributing to the already acute shortage of box cars, J. 'J. Mahoney, superintendent of transportattonn for the Santa Fe Catherine's Mexican Catholic morning at 8:25 o'clock at the; Broadview hotel for a canvassing of the business section and any other parts of town which have been missed. as infantry into their drive ajzainst Dewey to Confer With Governors Albany.

N. July 3 Gov. Thomas Dewey Indicated today pur troops have may travel within Germans themselves have Other correspondents who low over the front reported the Red army was moving fast that "the roads appear endless cohimns of trucks soldiers' flowing ever westward. CAPTURE OLD SOLDIER Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, July 3 78-year-old German private In the iTodt engineers has been taken prisoner in France, SKAEF announced today. He said he did not want to be a soldier any more.

the next month to a conference with other Republican governors on presidential campaign plans. Avoiding comment on national issues, the GOP nominee told a news conference today he doubted that he would make any speeches scon. He said, however, that he had discussed the possibility of a meeting with the other 25 Republican fCvsmors, Including Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio, the vice-presidential nominee.

French patriots in the Dordogne region of Southwestein France. After two days fighting, the Nazis were said to have recaptured Bergerac and advanced to St. Cyprien. where they freed 130 collaborationists who have been held as prisoners in that town. The retreating Maquis were reported to have transferred their activities SO miles south of Bergerac, taking over the rail Junction at Armande and chau fought their way down toward the plateaus to Invest the heights behind Garapan against the fiercest Jap resistance.

On the plain below, other elements of the same division, which held the line in Garanan's suburbs for several days, rolled forward over the rubble of concrete build- Ings and the crazy tumbled wreckage of still-burning iilmsy. mud- walled, naper-windowed houses. The 27th army division and Fourth Marine division are advancing abreast, Tiortheast of Garapan, over rolling plateaus where American tanks and ether mechanized weapons knocked out Japanese tanks in wholesale numbers. Destroy 80 Jap Tanks At least 80 enemy tanks have been destroyed and the latest count shows the Japanses dead now more than 6.000. From tli mountain top I saw army units pushing forward toward a point where tanks dueled with with Japanese emplacements.

After a few minutes of rapid firing the enemy stronepoint was knocked out and the Infantry line advanced through groves of breadfruit trees. The troops are constantly entering caves and finding Japanese bodies a.s well a.r vast stores of equipment and Caoturc of the mountain village of Charan Tabule yielded new material. Tnvestare of Garanan wilj confine the Japanese to the tapering church will be a memorial to the 50 Emporians of Mexican descent who are in America's armed forces. The speakers will be Mayor Ora G. Rin- dom, C.

H. Lambert, commander of the American Legion and Hubert C. Willis, Santa Fe division superintendent. At 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon the second performance a rodeo will be given at the Hazelwood Stables, IVz miles west of Emporia. A full day of activities of the Emporia Country Club will open with a breakfast at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning.

Following a golfing program in the morning and late In the afternoon a supper at the clubhouse will conclude the events. The Fox Theaters will run continuous shows from 1:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. A special holiday show at 11:30 o'clock tonight Is scheduled at the Strand. The Emporia Swim pool and the city parks will attract many visitors Tuesday. Tuesday's issue of Tiic Gazette will be delivered, early Tuesday morning.

The assault jumped off near the west coast of the peninsula, from the line flung across it just two weeks ago that sealed off the upper half of the land neck. A front dispatch the drive pushed from the area below Barne- cille-Sur-Mer on the coast cost to St. Sftveur Le Vicomte. The douch- boy line dips below and between these towns to St. Lo D'Ourville.

The assault opened niter local advances which Supreme Headquarters said had won favorable "jump-off" positions south of St. Lo D'Ourvllle. The doughboys also had pressed toward La Haye De Pults. six miles southeast of St. Lo D'Ourvllle.

The American railway, reported today. Mahoney snld government agencies were attempting to obtain soldier help at the crowded terminals and that permission already had been granted for an incrcrisc in wage rates for elevator and mill workers unloading the grain. Infantrymen were supported by heavy artillery Including some of the powerful guns yet. used in the French campaign, but rain and cloudy skies hampered Allied aerial aid. Even as this assault- thrust forward on the Allied right flank, other Americans maintained pressure against the road town of Somervell Deplores Production Lag Columbus.

July 3 Gen. Brehon Somervell declared today war production was continuing to lag and asked that fishing trips be put off until victory Is won. Production has fallen off steadily since November, he nddcd. The rubber situation Is very bad. verg i nR on the chief of the army's service and nnd Messersi supplies forces asserted In a press conference.

Production, in Itself. "Wasn't high enough." st. Lo toward the center Normandy front, the Nails In Aid The enemy was reported throwing more reinforcements Into the fight- Ing, with elements of 10 fr.cuig the Fifth army. The Allied command announced the capture of an order dated June 21 and signed by General i.emcn- scn. as commr.nder of the German Hth nrmy.

An official spokesman said "It appears that Col. Gen. Von Mackertscn has been removed from the commnrul of the Hth army, which Ls not unreasonable. In view of the heavy defeat inflicted ou him In which hb army was practically dcstroye Fifty-seven enemy aircraft were shot out of the skies by Allied aircraft as medium and heavy bombers and fighters carried out heavy raids throughout the Balkans and the Po valley. The operations were accomplished at a cost of 15 heavy bombers and eight other aircraft.

While heavy concentrations of Fortresses and Liberators were con- ynrds. oil refineries factorlej near us sector? of Plane Production Off Wellington. July 3 Produc- of the British held firm southwest erf Caen on the eastern flank. There were Indications that Field Marshal Rommel was regrouping his forces numbering 11 being beaten back to 25 thrusts against tion of military aircraft dropped to 049 warplanes In June, the lowest the British wedge across the river. The new offensive came record since lost September, E.

Wilson, executive vice-chairman of the war production board, reported today. The June tally. 853 planes short of May output, was explained by Wilson nt a press as bc- nnd Yugoslavia and Austria, medium bombers and fighters drenched targets In Northern Italy with hlr explosives and strafing (The Berlin radio said Florer.ce was "again bombed" by Allied planes, nnd that Bucharest waa bombed last night). Bond Drive Hears Million Dollar Mark cutting the important Bordeaux railroad line. Cahors- Stimson in Italy Rome, July 3 UP) Secretary of War Stimson has arrived in Italy.

Stimson, who flew from the united States via Africa, will troops, hospital 1 and front line installations, and hold conferences with important persons," he said. He was accompanied by Maj northern tail of the island ncrrow front less than five en a miles In depth. But the enemy is expected to make the hottest possible fight for cave and ridge strontr exactly as he did at Nafutan nolnt and on thr spined of Mt. Taootchau an effort fo turn Sainan into a Japanese version of Bataan. In the conquest of the hills com- Kansas Harvest In Full Swing Reports Indicate Job Will Be Done Despite Shortage Of Farm Labor Barbers are catting wheat and coal men are shoveling harvest In on In Kansas.

Biggest headache In gathering the bumper crop Is the labor problem, but reports from the wheat belt contain the optimistic note that the job will be done, with school boys and girls, town women and men augmenting regular harvest hands. Indications are that the crop will top that of last year by wide margin. The June 1 estimate of the U.S.D.A.. was 17i.MO.000 btishcls. compared with production of 144,201.000 bushels and the ten- year average of 125,965,000.

The Santa Fe railway saw even a larger crop, upplng its previous predictions last Saturday to 185,000.000 bushels. Predicts Crop "A real miracle crop is more than a possibility," said C. W. Lane, special Santa Fe representative, who explained that June 1 estimates were based on a prospective yield of 16 ing due to a shorter work month and the "failure to meet schedules on the part of three companies pro- after ducing smaller types ot planes." Omar N. Bradley, com-j caused by difficulties with certain Ss manding the American First army I parts.

In Normandy, hallid the Cherbourg victory as Indication to the enemy as to what he can expect from now on to the end." Wipe Oat German salients thrusting into American Unes near St. Lo D'Our- But Individual Buyers Still Are Behind the Quota in Lyon County GERMANS MANNED FORTRESS Valencia, fipaln, June 3 German crewmen In a Flying Fortress maWnE a forced landing 1 Tola! i Namtwr LTOO Weekend War bond sales, totaling S2G.7E6. brought Lyon county Valencia a'rport Thursday. Interned noticeably ne with a toul the million mark. $310,762.

However, represented by high ground which was described plane by supreme headquarters as prob- territory. Pulitzer Advisory Board Creates Award Recognizing Late W. A. White New York, July 3. MV- The fldvta- j-scnd affccUonatr ory board of the PuliUer years our colleague and frscnd.

-tatt I journalistic honored wit us the late William Allen White in jergal the Fourth. Two large purchases which were crr-'liird Elinendaro township put that township ever the top and pJaced It in the lead la the tovnship race, with sales $60.53525. With Agnes City which reached Its soil last two Lyon courity bombers ara For I I-CT over the targrt on the Empcria bank chart. Several otter honored William AUen White, met with us recognition of his services with the board. Carl W.

Ackerman, dean Columbia University's Graduate! School of Journalism, disclosed today. At the board's direction an Illuminated parchment scroll memorializing the Emporia. Gazette editor as "a wise judge of merit In newspapers and books" mandlng Garapan and Tanapasr harbor, many Japanese' -were rut off from escape. The Fourth Marine and 27th anny division units Gen. Alexander D.

Surles, the arc to close the gaps en- army's director of public relations; Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk, sur- Bob Anderson, dependable insur- geon genera! and Harvey H. Bund, anee; 601 Phone 306.

special assistant to Stimsoo. tlrctv. The faV of Garnan will make bushels per acre but that harvest returns were ranging from 20 to 30 bushels, some high its 40 and 50. are drawing near their tc recommend Pulitzer prizes. "He was a wf-e judse merit ad 1oa In newspapers and books.

He July 8. and a champion writers tnd causes, i ChaIrrnan W. X. Calhoun He helped thrir to in the success the building of Am erica's aspirations he expected a for liberty and peace. i "And with tooled the and rr.ade them world." thop-d would been especially designed at Co- 1 addition to Doctor Butler and We lumbia and sent to his widow.

3 Ackrrrman signers were: The harvest started a wtelc to ten Ackerman said It was the first of its kind in the history Pulitzer prizes. Scroll to Mrs. White The scroll bears a gold metallic reproduction of the Pulitzer Prize i Service Medal and the signatures go before we can Their of Nicholas Murray Butler, presi- the way to northeastern Kansas- in genera! over the bers of the advisory board. available Tanapag harbor to Allied half of the state except the extreme snipping. I (Continued oa Text of the scroll: Kir.f Tht Yori; ArOv.r M.

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