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to I EMPORIA EMPORIA, KANSAS, FRIDAY EVENING, Japs May Renew Effort to Break Through Trap First Effort of 45,000 Encircled Enemy Troops Ended In Bloody Defeat Advanced Allied Headquarters, New hungry, Guines, determined July 14 (P)- Crafty. vanguards of 45,000 trapped Japanese troops 1p British New Guinea were Smashed with heavy losses in a preliminary attempt to bread Allied encirclement, but a well-planned Nipponese appeared imminent today. announced the bloody checking of a Japanese assault in force Wednesday at dawn against Allied outposts 21 miles east of Altape, The conflict, on a jungle-choked battleground, produced some of the most savage fighting of the entire New Guinea campaign. passed 18th army--drove The survivirs of the bywestward at the Allied lines which had cut them off since the April 22 leapfrog capture of Aitape, Ran Into Heavy Fire They hit strong outposts, heavily supported by artillery. The full range of Allied ground fire flashed at them while at craft sowed 53 tons of explosives among Nipponese concentrations.

A headquarters spokesman said the attackers were checked severe fighting, and fragmentary battlefront reports made no mentior of a breakthrough. Casualties undoubtedly were heavy among the defenders, Including veteran Americans in frontline positions, as well as among the Japanese. Once a Force of 60,000 The Japanese attackers are survivors of an originally estimated 60.000 men isolated on 150-mile coastal stretch between Altape and Australian positions 70 miles east of Wewak. Their current drive to escape jungle rigors evidently 1s designed to reach the northwest coast or to join other surrounded Japanese pockets in the 150-mile stretch between Aitape and Hollandia. JAPS' PEARL HARBOR ADMIRAL DIES AT SAIPAN U.

S. Pacific Fleet Headquarters. Pearl Harbor, July 14 (AP)-Death amidst humiliating defeat at Salpan of the Japanese admiral who led the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor added weight today to Nippon's western Pacific reverses even as Tokyo radio betrayed increasing concern, aver Guam. Adin. Chester W.

Nimitz last night in communique that Vice Adm. Chuichi Nagumo. who directed the blow which opened the Pacific war. perished along with 16,000 other Japanese on Saipan. Nimitz in an earlier communique announced the ninth straight day of task force attacks on the former U.

S. outpost of Guam and last night the Tokyo radio reported battleship and carrier, plane blows extending these tenth day. Guam Hit Again Tokyo said an American battleship twice bombarded Guam Thursday and a large formation of planes (Continued ca page (wot U. S. Bombers Roar In on German Oil and Railroads London, July 14 (P)-Up to 500 escorted American heavy bombers attacked Budapest yards and four oil retineries in Hungary today in continued, determined effort to destroy German fuel supplies and communications.

Foul weather hampered operations in support of the battle in Normandy, although some flights cut through clouds and squalls and bombed railroad yards at Beauvals and Montdider, far east of the battle fields. Three of the Hungarian were on the outskirts of Budapest and these were the meat for Plying Fortresses based on the more sunny fields of Italy. They were the Fanto, Shell, Koolaz and Hungary petroleum company properties with a total annual capacity of 358.000 tans. Liberators Soughi out the Petfurdo Oil works miles south of the Hungarian capital and a also bombed Ferencunros rallway sards in the city. A considerable number of agressive Nazi fighters were encounand their Lightning escort.

bombers Mustered by the four-engined tang fighters met interceptors over Budapest and bagged unspectfield number. Thomas in Race for County Commissioner James Thomas, Rt. 3, Emporia, trustee of Pike township, is a candidate for the Reput ican nomination for county commissioner from the in Lyon Third district. He is running a field of four candidates for nomination. Others are Gary Wilson, of Emporia: W.

A. Mounzes, or Reading, and William Lang. of Emporia. Candidate Thomas is a native of Lyon county and he has been farmer most of his life. For Scars he was salesman for a hay press company.

Mr. Thomas has had a Jong tenure as a township officer. He is finishing his 10th year as assessor and trustee of Pike township and previously he for WAS "four trustee rears, of Emporia township and has a wide acquaintance over the Third district. He is conducting 8 limited campaign because of tire and gas ratoning and the shortness of time before the August 1 primary. Mr.

from Thomas has been assured support his many friends. Just receired Colorado pie cherries. Brooks Grocery, phones 36 or II1. a a a a a a a of ASE MARTIN Tell Binkley talks some o' (n' store so he kin tack th' creased "cost o' livin" on th' teller. Nobuddy ever got in takin' things as they come.

openin- THE other trouble EIGHT German Fire Slows Up Attack on St. Lo Used BIG JOB TO HINCKLEY To Check Yank Drive on City But Americans Are Reported on Move West of the Bastion; British Also Held By Wes Gallagher Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, July 14 -American infantrymen, slowed in their attack on St. burrowed into the ground and held resolutely to their positions two miles outside the highway center of the Normandy peninsula today in the face of an increasing German artillery fire sweeping the approaches. To the west, however, the American army was on the move from St. Lo to the sea, with infantry and tanks only one and one-sixth miles from Germans' western anchor at Lessay, and supreme ters said the Germans apparently were making an "orderly Between Lessay and Lo the Americans had virtually completed, after several days hard fighting, the ironing out of a German salient which had bulged toward Carentan in the middle of the beachhead.

2 No Progress at Caen Late supreme headquarters announcen.ents mentioned no changes in the battlelines at at the eastern end of the front, and Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's British and Canadians apparently were at 0 a standstill there, as the Americans were at St. Lo. Fighting south and southeast of Cerentan.

the Americans captured Auxais. Les Champs De Losque, EsAubris and La Vincenterie. These advances left line running almost straight. from point, northeast of Lessay to the Pont Herbert area northwest of St. Lo.

This line. was from to four miles north of the Lessay-St. Lo road. Da In the Lessay region, infantry and tanks advanced from one to three miles along the coast, and, cleaned out the area up to Havre De St. Germain, the deep inlet which stretches Inland almost to Lessay and forms a bottleneck between the sea marshlands.

fire, Lessey with itself vas under artillery the town. Americans but 2,000 yards from British Report Loss On the eastern sector of the Normandy battleground there was' little activity, but it WAS rerealed the British had. lost St. Honorine, a mile north of Colombelles, in recent counter-attacks. American Gen.

Omar N. forces pushed three miles down the west coast of bourg peninsula to St. GermainSur-Ay, three miles northwest of the Lessay. highway A few miles inland along from La Haze Du Putts tu Lessay, advanced proached the village of Beauvais, ap- a mile and a half from Lessay. Below Carentan and St.

Jean De Days. the American line bulged sharply southward, engulfing the villages of Tribehou, Vournay and Le Rommet D'Arthenay. Bushing through the wooded section known as the Bois De Hommet, the AmerIcans D'Posque. were approaching Les Champs! intour. of Lo the now are nine under roads American leading control.

The drive against this most important highway of all Central Normandy junctions advanced on the east beyond captured La Barre De Semilly, two miles east and slightly south. At last report the Americans were only a mile and ball from the town on the north. Despite the widespread American pressure along the whole front there was no indication that a breakthrough had been achieved anywhere. Progress was being made in costly short pushes against strong German rearguards who fought desperately for each foot of ground while the bulk of the forces withdrew. German Defense Easier By paradox of terrain more the Germans withdraw In the task of defense becomes, because Cherbourg peninsula the caster the each mile they go back they shorten ti.e front--which now extends about 100 miles.

While the Caen sector remains the same the Germans can continue their southward withdrawal as far 2. Granville-25, miles from their present, that point positions--and their when front they tine would be shorter br 30 miles than it is now. This sould allow a greater concentration of troops and make the Allied task of offense more dif-1 ficult. Only an advance it the Caen sector--Dormant for the third consecutive das as Gen. Sir Bernard L.

Montgomery regrouped his Forcescould prevent Marshal Erwin Rommel's defense position from becoming easier. A successful attack ties being flown by small formations man there front would with again only spread about the 500 Ger- sor- of aircraft. Some of the individuattacks, however, were among the heaviest of the Normandy campaign. Newman's summer style shoe clearance at 25 per cent off-bala floor shoe department, GAZETTE PAGES Good Evening Pity the poor. vacationers this summer.

They're missing Emporia's two-blanket nights. 2:45 o'ciock today 37 Minimum last night 51 degrees Naximum Thursday 13 derrees Minimum year ago 65 degrees Maximum year 48 degrees Today's Forecast Kansas--Partly cloudy tonight, Naturday and Sunday: scattered thundershowers tonight in weal and north central portions and alonE northern border Saturday night; somewhat warmer night in southeast and extreme east porton; little change in temperature Saturdsy and Sunday; highest temperature Saturday ore: state $0-95. Kansas Is Warmer Topeka, July 14 (P) Kansas warmed up slightly today after spell of summer resort temperatures and Meteorologist S. D. Flora called it "very fine harvest weather." He foresaw no very hot weather.

Temperatures were expected to range from 90 to 95 today and tomorrow, and from 60 to 70 tonight. Yesterday Topeka's maximum reading was 87, four degrees below high at Denver, and last night the mercury dipped to 63 In the capital, within three degrees of A record. Highest reported in the state yesterday was 90 at Goodland and Phillipsburg. few more scattered showers were forecast for Northwestern Kansas tonight. Thursday and last night Goodland had .62 of an inch, St.

Francis .08 and Phillipsburg a trace. Two Major Labor Disputes Before National WLB Tin Can and Glass Jar Employes Demand Wage Increases; Can Workers Strike Harry president of AFL American Flint Giass Workers termed "unsatisfactory" a reply by William H. Davis, WLB board chairman, to union reauests for wage increases. He said glass workers would be guided by decisions of their convention now in session in Marietta. A Report Next Week Davis had advised Cook.

the latter said. that a panel report In the glass workers wage case would be made. next week, but the undos chief advised the filing of no-1 tice for a strike vote. No date for the strike vote call has been designated, Cook said. Demands for wage increases averaging about 15 per cent for glass workers have been before the WLB for nine he said.

In Grand Rapids, Mich. the Michican CIO council convention roted allegiance to the national CIO's Union leaders said Roosevelt, Jr. not more than 100 of the 1.600 delegates favored rescinding the pledge York he had written that and asserted that the attitude of was not serious but that the council, largest state body In broncho-pneumonia and other the CIO, would be regarded as had developed. barometer of union sentiment brother, Major Kermit throughout the country. died in active service In Los Angeles, the 10th district armed forces In Aiaska WLB directed the AFL Culinary 1943).

Workers council to advise it what familur whose cheerful grin steps weeks had been taken to end a two sight during this war strike of 500 men which had an advanced observation resulted in the closing of dining North Africa, Sicily, Italy rooms and bars of the ambassador 03 pace hotel. The dispute is over union maintenance of membership deBarr-Kuhtmann's. repair and supplies mand, the hotel having agreed to Phone 344. I wage demands. 1.

(By The Associated Press! The War Labor Board today was the center of attention involving two major labor disputes over wages. One decision by the WLB caused a work stoppage of more than 6,000 war workers in 10 Chicago and Jollet, can manufacturing plants, while a board official's report placed a threat of a strike vote over the nation's glass plants employing some 35,000 AFL union members. The employees In the can manufacturing plants, engaged 100 per cent in war work. left their jobs yesterday in protest against the sixth regional War Labor Board's decision granting. them only portion of their wage demands.

Crop Pack Endangered The work stoppage was described by Gordon H. Kellogg. vice president of the American Can company, as endangering the highly able pea and cherry packs this who season. quit About. work left 5,000 of 'seven the of 6,300 the company's Chicago area plants.

Other employes, members of the C10 United halted work in three of the Continental Can company plants in Chicago. Edgar L. Warrn, regional chairman of the WLB, said He had urged CIO officials to demand the employes return to work immediately to stop interruption in war production. Harry Harper, union subdistrict director, said the national union had not authorized the work stoppage, and said he would recommend that the employes return to work pending action by the paticnal WLB on an appeal from the Regional WLB decision completely. disallowing or granting wage increases less than agreed by the company and recommended by a WI.B hearine officer.

Protest Ruling Union officials did not term the employes' action strike, but protest against the WLB ruling. Harper, however, said he belleved the work stoppage violated labor's DO -strike pledge. Warren said the board granted a minimum wage of cents an hour for men employes and 66 or cents for women in eight piants, establishing a uniform level for the entire Industry in the Chicago area except in two plants where minimum Is 80 cents for men and 70 for In women employes. Marietta, Ohio, Harry Cook. JULY 14, 1944 of outdoor concerts by the Exporia Municipal band under the direction of Reuben Hammer presented tonight at 8 o'clock in Humboldt park.

The program will include: Grand of the Hall Overture Bellini Selection- Sons" -Romberg of America' Holy Humorous March- Jolly Coppersmith Blues" Hamm -Bennett "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" Ed wards Encore the Banks of the Vocal by Joy Hahn Air Corps" Bless America" Band Concert Tonight of the summer series FORMER EMPORIAN TAKES 5-YEAR NEWSPAPER LEASE Chester, July 14 (2)-Alfred G. Hill, publisher of the Chester Times, announced today 8 fiveyear extension of the lease errangement under which he took over direction of the Times from Chester R. Long In August, 1942. The new agreement extends the lease from January 1, 1948 to January 1, 1953. Hill, co-owner of the Fremont (Neb.) Gulde-Tribune, Is a former publisher in Arkansas City, Fort Collins, and Jamestown, N.

Y. Alfred G. Hill is a son of the late Joseph K. HUI, former prestdent school, of the Kansas State Normal Emporia, His mother lives with a daughter In Denver, Colo. Engineers Explain Flood Control Plan Sites Proposed For.

Reservoirs at Strawn, Marion And Council Grove extent of inundated areas of three The advantages, consequences and proposed federal flocd control reservoirs on the Neosho and Cottonwood rivers in the Emporia area were presented Thursday at a food control meeting here. Members of the flood control party who talked to Emporia bustness men, farmers and Chamber of Commerce members at the Broadview were Col. F. J. Wilson and Maj.

R. office, P. Seary, U. S. Army Engineers Tulsa, Carl Gerhart, engineering division, Tulsa, and George Knapp, chief engineer, Kansas division of water resources, Topeka.

Colonel Wilson presented the general picture control cf the government's flood program and the op- after erations of the. reservoir system, which Mr. Knapp displayed maps of the projected reservior sites in. Kansas. He then turned to maps and data on three sur-1 veyed sites for dams and reservolrs in the Emporin area.

Largest Project at Strawn The reservoir sites are of great importance to this territory. the flood control men explained. are tentatively located on the There sho. near Strawn; a mile north of Council Grove on the Neosho. and near Marion, on the Cottonwood.

of the three proposed projects on which much surveying has been done, the largest reservoir In flood time would be impounded by a big dam near Strawn. Such a dam, In peak floods, would inundate 36.000 acres of land upstream from Strawn mcstly in Lyon county, the engineers said. The inundations would extend to the junction of the Cottonwood and Neocho southeast of Emporia. In normal times. after the flood water were released to provide storage for another flood, the proposed Strawn dam would provide a permanent water basin covering only 8.000 to 10,000 acres.

According to Colonel (Continued Wilson, this permanent pool og page (wol THE SWAR TODAY Hiller's Threat Must Be Spur To Allies By Dewitt Mackenzie Associated Press War Snelsst Hitlerdom in its hour of desperation has cast aside its last pretense of civilized conduct and has served the world with the awful notice that in order to defend Germany it will turn Europe "into a maelstrom of destruction where is heard--the cry for blood." The meaning of this barbaric declaration, which was broadcast yesterday by the German military radio. Is terribly clear. The frustrated fuchrer abnormal-minded whelp of Prussian militarism wants his. enemies to believe that he is prepared to put civilian Europe to the sword and torch in an effort to force the Allies to make terms with the Retch. We have full proof from his past deeds that his evil heart won't stop at murder and devastation.

I believe he is fully capable of undertaking to pull Europe down to destruction with him with au the horrors of a -bath. Blood Donors Lagging Registration of Emporia blood donors for the American Red Cross still is lagging, and 300 more donors are needed to fill the 600 appointments allotted to Emporia, registration official; disclosed today. The Red Cross Mobile unit will be at the Civic auditorium from July 24 through July 28. Appointments may be made Ir person or by calling 1174 or 3057. Reminder postal cards will be sent to each registrant on the day preceding his appointment.

Newman's summer style shoe cicarance at 25 per cent off -Main floor shoe department, "We're glad we insured with Fred Scott Agency." CU 2. VOLUME LIV NUMBER 300 MARCH ON Washington, July 14 -President Roosevelt has selected ed Robert Henry Hinckley, former assistant secretary of commerce, 1S director of contract settlement position in which he will be responsible for terminating billions of dollars worth of munitions contracts when the war Today's News in Brief Hartford, July 14 (AP) Legal representatives of the Ringling brothers, Barnum and Balley circus and a committee or the Hartford Bar association will meet again today to try to work out A way in which to get the big show rolling again. Washington, July 14 -Madame Chiang Kai-Shek has arrived in Rio De Janeiro for a zest, the Chinese embassy here said today, She is accompanied by Madame H. H. Kung, wife of the Chinese minister of finance, who is DOW heading the Chinese delegation to United Nations monetary conference at Bretton Woods, N.

H. Chinese embassy said that the wife of the generalissimo was not expected to come to this country and that the main purpose of Ther trip to Brazil was rest. thur Capper. celebrated his 79th birthday' with his traditional picnic for thousands of boys and girls at Ripley park. It was the 37th annual.

all day festival for the youngsters. Topeka, July 14 (P) -Gov. Andrew 'Schoeppel indicated today he planned to attend meeting of the Missouri river states committee at Omaha August 5 to discuss basin development plans with officials of The meeting was called by Gov. M. Q.

Sharpe of South Dakota, the committee chairman. Topeka, July 14 (P) -Senator Ar- Heart Attack Fatal To General Roosevelt Son of Farmer President Dies While Resting In Captured Truck London, July 14 (P) Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. 56, adventurous son of the former President. died Wednesdayy nignt of a heart attack as he rested in captured German truck on the Normandy battlefield.

His death came at 11:45 p. m. his office-bedroom in the convertIn ed truck at the conclusion of an arduous day of carrying encour- Roosevelt Burial In France Tonight With American Troops in Normandy. July 14 (P)-Brig. Gen.

Theodore. Roosevelt. to his troops--will be buried tonight with full military honors in the land he twice fought to free from the Germans. Roosevelt, one of the most colorful and best loved generals In the army, died from a heart attack late Wednesday night after exhausting tour of the front which ne made against his doctor's advice. His son, Quentin, a captain in the first infantry division which his father once served as deputy commander.

will be present. The fourth division band will give musical salute, agement and guidance to the troops of the fourth infantry division, of which he was assistant commanding general. He will be buried today In France in the soil of the country where his brother Quentin was killed in. the First World War. One Brother Survires (Gen.

Roosevelt's only surviving brother, Lieut. Col. Archibald Roosevelt, was wounded in the. left leg by shrapnel in the fighting on Biak island June 20. His wife said Thendore at New the wound complications (Another Roosevelt, with the June 4, Roosevelt.

was a In many post in (Continued Typewriter at Wilno Falls; Nazis Give Up Pinsk of Pinsk. In Baltic Area Advance Toward Riga Is Steady On 100-Mile London, July 14 -Marshal Stalin today announced the capture of Pinsk. vian seaport capital, and to Tallinn In Estonin, front dispatches said. Gen. Ivan Cherniakhovsky's cavalry and tanks were 50 miles from Eydtkuhnen, border city in East Prussia.

Farther south In the Grodno region the Russians were 20 miles from the Suwalk! triangle of East Prussia. Cherniakhovsky's left flank moved up with him 28 miles of Grodno, while to his south Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's units moved rapidly through the Brest Litovsk province and reached places 60 miles front the city on the western Bug river, one of the few natural barriers before Warsaw. Claws Around Pinsk The Red army was ciosing two huge arm around Pinsk. The city appeared doomed and its inhabitants could already henr Soviet lery.

On the middle Baltic front the Baltic army groups of Generals Andrei I. Yeremenko and Ivan ramian made steady progress toward Daugavpils and Riga. nected ramian's left flank has almost conwith Cherninkhovsky's fighters between Daugavpils and Wiino. This appeared to be the chjective for a united push through the center of the Baltics toward Memel and the Baitic sea, (Finns were warned in a domestic broadcast that their country might soon be outflanked by a complete collapse of German resistance on the Baltic front, where the situation was described as "most critical." U. S.

Monitors heard the report.) Ahead an Wide Front At the top of the Baltic front. Yeremenko has broadened his front Lo over 100 miles. On the right flank he was approaching the Latvian border between Opochka, and Pskov in an advance west of Novorzhev. Red army lanks, cavalry and infantry surged closer to East Prusdespite a general stiffening of sia German resistance and hurried elforts by the Nazis to stem the Russian offensive by throwing large numbers of reserves into several sectors. Field dispatches sald that in no By Eddy Gilmore Moscow, July 14 (AP) The Russian army pushed on today from captured Wilno, where the Germans lost 000 dead and prisoners, azul edged to within 28 miles of Kaunas.

(Germans have evacuated Pinsk in the western Pripyat marshes, 100 miles from Brest Litovsk. German radio said. The town is on the railroad from Luninice: to Warsaw and has been outflanked several days.) Other Red army units were 21 miles from the strategic rallway through Kaunas to Riga, the area were the Nazis holding up the Russian advance, though in many places the Red army forces were farther from their bases than the Germans. Perfect flying weather gave new impetus to the Soviet air offensive. and Russian ground operations progressed under tremendous cover by every type of fighting plane.

GERMANS ANNOUNCE FALL OF PINSK London, July 14 (M)-The German command announced today the abandonment of Pinsk in the western Pripyat marshes and the Berlin radio Asserted that the Russians had twice broken into the old Polish bastion of Grodno, 20 miles from the Suwalki Triangie of East Prussia. West of Luck, the German communique announced a new retreat over the rolling southern plains of Old Poland, 8 historic Invasion route through toward Ger-101 man Silesta. Pinsk is 200 miles directly cast of Warsaw and 100 miles cast of Brest Litovsk. Actire on 600-Mile Front these accounts, action R13 boiling 600 miles of the Rus-ala, front, from near the Baltic sea to Luck, which lies 210 mlics southeast vi Warsaw and 110 miles southwest of Pinsk. Moscow sald various of the five attacknig army groups had plunged i within 28 of Kaunas In Lithuania, within 60 miles of the Brest Litovsk fortress on the Buz river, and within 21 miles of the East Prussia- railroad over (which two German armies in the Baltic states must be suppiled or else svacuated in large part.

Wilno. a city of 207.750 and capital of the Soviet Lithuanian republic, TAs lA: behind Russian lines. The -passed and rounded city finally was captured yesterday and In its wreckage. the sald there were 8,000 dead 100 Turku STATUTE MALES Late Lodoga Gull of Finland Baltic Sea Lobe Navgorod, Peipus Lobe Yeremenko's I New Offensive ANIA Daugaypils Poloisk 1 Kaunas Trak Wilno AST Smolensk PRUSSIA Novy Dvor Bialystok, Zelwa Bobruisk Brest Litovsk. Pinsk Gomel Kowel WHERE RUSSIANS OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE- Box with arrows tocates the new Red army offensive which has captured Dukhnovo, Idritsa and Klyastitsy in a drive toward Latvia.

West of encircled Wino the Russians captured Trakal and to the south took Novy Dror and Zelma: Broken line Is approximate battle front. Sciss Hear Crisis Developing In Reich London. July 14 (7) Belief that "major crisis" may veloping In Germany WAS expressed by A Swiss military commentator today in A broadcast over the Swiss radio. "Confidence is dwindling and nervousness 1s growing In the German camp," the commentator said. "Hitter's headquarters moving steadily west.

Rundstedt's dismissal, 1 new paroxysm renched in the persecution of the Jewsthese are typical clements of major crisis." (Field Marshal Gen. Karl Rudoll Gerd von Rundstedt recently was replaced AS commander of German forces in the west by Field Marshal Guenther Von Kluge. Berlin sald Von Rundstedt was in 'ill Germans. Another 5,000 plodded wearlly eastward to prison cages. The German communique asserted that the Wino garrison after five days alege "broke through Soviet ring of encirclement nccording to orders and fought to German stations west of wilno." Russians Silent Save for the capture of Kowel.

I betwen Pinsk and Luck, the RusI sians have said nothing of offensive nctions below the Pripyat marshes. Customarily, Moscow sives holds its tongue while new oftendevelop. The Germans said this officially: "To the west of Luck, German divisions systematically detached themselves front silent and repulsed nli enciny attacks against their new positions. In the ambit of German detaching movements in the district of the Pripyat marshes, which are being carried out undisturbed by the enemy. the town of Pinsk 32,000) was Grodno the trunk rallway from Wilto to Warsaw and is 160 Imiles northeast of the Polish tal.

war It boundary lies 42 fo miles East from the prePrussia, but only 20 ALS the frontier WAS fixed in the fourth partition of Poland by Russia and Germany carly in the war. Sees Great Future In Russian Trade LATVIA Staraya Former U. S. Senator J. L.

Bristow Dies Kansan Elected in 1909 Served Single Term; a Virginian Since Retirement Fairfax, July 14 (7)-Joseph Little Bristow, 83 former United States Senator from Kansas, died early today at lids home here after a three-week sickness. He Is survived by two sons, Frank Baker Bristow of Salina, and Joseph Quayle Bristow. Falls Church, eight grandchildren and three great-grundchildren. Funeral services will be held Sunday. at the Bristow home.

Cesian Hail. Burial will be in Salina, Kanl In a single term in the United States senate Joseph Little Bristow left a lasting Imprint upon the fedjeral government. He wAs A Joint author of the seventeenth amendment providing for election of Unitled States senators popular vote land niso Introduced 8 resolution granting votes to women, although this latter provision was destined to hang fire nearly a decade. He also was leader in establishIng the zone system tor parcel post charges and the "long and short haul" clause in railroad law. Previously ns an axsistant postmaster general under President Kinley and Theodore Roosevelt he was Instrumental in exposing trregularities in the Cuban and American postal systems which resulted in the imprisonment sevferal high officials.

When not holding office, he pubILshed newspapers In Kansas. ironically enough he was defeated for reelection in the first Republatures, although In Kansas the adoption of the seventeenth amendment. His successful opponent WAS Charles Curtis who later became vice president. Elected by Legislature Prior LO the adoption of the amend In 1913, United States menators were elected by the state legislatures, aithough in aKasas the voters expressed their perferences 0n page (96) Washington, July 14 (PA tremendous postwer boom In trade with Russia is foreseen by Eric Johnston. president of the United States Chamber of Commerce.

He began work today on plans to translate into dollars-and-cents orders the information he obtained on lengthy tour of the Soviet Union. Based on conversations he had with Marshal Stalin and other top Soviet officials and also on personal observatios made during Johnson thousands travel, said: 1. Russia is this coun-1 try for an Imagination supply chinery, of rallway mining and Industrial macquipment, ships, trucks and road building tools and machines. She needs these things to rebuild wreckplants and to expand productive capacity. 2.

In order to bur from the United States. 1: is "absolutely Sential" that Russia have long term credits (10 to 30 sears). Also. United States must buy from Russtaking raw materials such as manzanese. nickel and other steel alloys.

timber like: that will enable the Russians to pay oft their loans. 3. Russia's aim In rebutiding is to achieve a hich standard of livjing. The government and propit: would like to reach the standard of this country of this country. Therefore, Johnson does not believe Russia will be 8 serious competitor for international trade "in the forsecable future." Norman's summer style st.oc clearance at 25 per cent off--Main floor shoe department.

per rent off. on all summer 25 Ishors At. Newman's main foo: shoe department. A Bastile Day Stab Rome. July 14 (49-Prench troops, spearheading a Bastille day advance In Italy, captured Possibonst today and moved to within 21 miles of Florence In a stab through German resistance before the Arno diver, an cutpost ire of the enemy's Gothic defenses.

Pogzibonal 1t 17 miles up the Elsa river valley from the Empol crossing of Arno river. Salutes French On Bastile Day Washington, July 14 Roosevelt held out hope today the "heroic people of France" of their complete liberatton "from the invader and from the puppets of Vichy" during the year ahead. Saluting the French on "Bastia CAy." the President said in a statement: "together, we shall win, and France shall be The President then added: "With full I look forward that the French people on July 14. 1945, will etiebrate their great national fete soil. liberated alike from the and the puppets of Just received Colorado pie cherHes.

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