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Delaware's Morning Paper Frit with the Latest New United Press Associated Press International News Service Latest City Edition Fair. Continued warm. (Weather conditions, Tide, Etc, on? Page 7.) ptrunq VOL 126 NO. 27 WILMINGTON. DELAWARE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1944 TWENTY PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS 1ASM BEYOND TROOPS AVRAKCHK Warsaw, Close Baltic Trap Besiege FOE'S FLANK ROLLED BACK BY ADVANCE NAZIS REPORT KAUNAS9 FALL TO TANK UNITS MGHT PIES BUTTLE TUKS MIDING REICH Yank Tanks Push Through Coutances 1, fi'-mrr i in i i "LiGr'rf JZ-'.

Jr VT American tanks, carrying brush combat camouflage, push through a battle damaged street in Coutances on thevr drive to the sea beyond the Normandy town in France. (AP wirephoto from Signal Corps radio.) Americans in New Guinea DEWEY ATTACKS PROGRAM DELAY FOR RECONVERSION SENATE MILITARY UNIT GETS ORDERS Members are Wired To Return to Capital To Speed Peace Program Congress Leaders Stress Need To Cushion Nation Against Reich's Collapse By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, July 31 Mem bers of the Senate military committee were ordered' today to return to Washington "at once" to work out without delay legislation bracing the home front against any economic impacts of sudden German collapse. Senate Majority Leader Barkley (D-Ky) intervened in an effort to get reconversion bills into shape for Congress, which convenes tomorrow with little else of major importance tO dO. He joined with Chairman Reynolds (D-NC) hi telegraphing the absent military committee members: "It is imperative that members of the Senate military affairs committee return to Washington at once in order that proper consideration may be given to vital and indispensable legislation dealing with reconversion, demobilization -and surplus property disposal, bills concerning which are now pending in the military affairs committee." Group Meets Thursday They set a committee meeting for Thursday morning and asserted the post-war legislation, "the most important problem now facing Congress must be, dealt with without delay." Barkley told a news conference he hoped the military committee will not take long" since the Senate might have to take three-day recesses until it completes its work. He said he thought post-war tax See CONGRESS Page 8 REMINGTON DENIES ANTI-TRUST VIOLATION Answer to U.

S. Suit Cites Attempt To Develop World Markets NEW YORK, July 31 (V-The Remington Arms Company filed de nials today in federal court to government charges that it conspired with E. I. duPont de Nemours and Imperial Chemicals Industries, of England to violate federal antitrust laws in the sale of sporting ammunition. In a civil suit filed Jan.

the government charged the three companies with conspiring to restrain trade "in chemical products, arms, Including war materials, and am-1 munition." DuPont controls Imperial Industries. In filing denials. Remington said It "has at all times attempted aggressively to develop and maintain its exports to British Empire countries and the important markets of the world." The government action, at the time of its institution, was summarized by Attorney General Biddle as charging that the firms "have been and now are parties to contracts and agreements in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act." ON POST-WAR LL New Nazi Air Craft So Fast Mustangs Not Able to Get Sights On Them at 400 M. P. H.

Allies Send 3,400 Bombers And Fighters Against Targets in Germany, France And Romania During Day By NED NORDNESS Press Correspondent LONDON. Tuesday, Aug. 1 Germany has bronght out another new weapon against the Allies a rocket-propelled fighter plane capable of terrific speed, it was disclosed officially last night. The V. S.

Air Force announced that heavy Allied bombers and their escorts had encountered five of the new rocket planes Friday on their way over Germany and one on the return trip. Little was disclosed about the speed or design of the rocket plane, which has been designated ME-163, and no announcement was made as to its effectiveness. Some idea of the speed, however, is contained in a description by Col. Alvin P. Tacon, Mobile.

Ala, leader of a Mustang formation, who said he was unable to get his sights on two of the ME-163 he tried to catch. A Mustang can do better than 400 miles an hour. Colonel Tacon was leading a Mustang formation when he spied five of the ME-163's. Elude V. S.

Fighters "Two made a dive turn to the left in good close formation," he said, "and started a pass at the bombers from dead astern. We started a head-on overhead pass at them, getting between them and the rear of the bombers. "When they still were about 3.000 yards from the bombers they saw us and made a slight turn to the left. They did not attack. "Although I had seen them start! their dive and watched them throughout their attack I had no! time to get my sight anywhere near them.

Both planes, still in close formation, passed about 1,000 feet under us. "I started to follow. As soon as they had passed under us one of them continued in a i5-degree dive 1 See AIR WAR Page IS TUNNELL TO AID PROBE OF N. J. POLITICAL FUNDS Named to Subcommittee to Check Two Republican Organizations WASHINGTON, July 31 (Py-A subcommittee of Senators Tunnell (D-Del) and Ferguson (R-Mlch) was named today by the Senate campaign expenditures Investigating committee to look into the fund-collecting activities of the State Republican League, of Union City, N.

and the Republican Citizens' Committee of Jersey City. Ferguson said public hearings would be held at Newark but that no date would be set until after Congress reconvenes tomorrow. Senators Tunnell and Ferguson, together with Senator Francis Green (D-RI), chairman of the committee, said they had "received a progress report from the field investigators in New Jersey with the recommendation that public hearings will be held In. an effort to clarify the conflicting statements of the individuals concerned in the operation of the two committees." Foe Slaughters Italian Civilians In Mined Church By SID FEDER Associated Press Correspondent WITH THE FIFTH ARMY IN SAN MINIATO, Italy. July 31 Doughboys who captured this town just south of the Aroo River eight days ago found 40 dead and 200 wounded civilians who, they were told, were victims of booby trapping and point blank shelling byhe Nazis inside a church.

The victims included men, women and children. Ed Zink, Doughboy field correspondent from Columbus. was among the first to enter the town and interviewed doctors and a lawyer through an interpreter. This was their story: As the Americans were pressing forward toward the town the Germans herded the Italians into the church under the pretext that it would be protected See SLAUGHTER Page 18 TWICE-DECORATED DELAWARE FLIER KILLED OVER REICH Alan C. Porter Victim; Nathan Balick, Herman Cohen Also Die Five Other Soldiers From State Wounded; One Missing and Another Prisoner Previously reported missing In action over Germany, Lieut.

Alan C. Porter, 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Carl Porter of nwood, is now listed as killed in action on May 8, according to word received by his parents from German vernm ent through the International Red Cross.

Pilot of a Thunderbolt fighter plane based in England, Lieutenant Porter, who dis- LleBt- AUn Sorter tinguished himself in numerous air sorties carried out by his fighter outfit, failed to return from a mission over Germany nearly three months ago. Two other Delaware soldiers, both members of the Fourth Infantry Division, which took part in one of the heaviest assaults on the French coast on D-Day, have been reported killed in action during the second month of the Invasion of Normandy. Sergt. Herman Cohen. 25, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Samuel Cohen, 312 West Eighth Street, yho See CASUALTIES Page 14 tion to veterans on benefit available to them. The centers being considered will offer services similar to those being given by the American Red Cross Veterans Clearing Bureau in Wilmington. It was indicated that the information centers are likely to be located in the offices of the U. S.

Employment Service. That agency now has offices in Wilmington, Dover and Georgetown, and is considering set Cherniakhovsky Men Race Ahead 12 Mites From Germans1 Main East Prussia Border Northern Army Now Within SO Miles Of Riga; New Advances In Southern Poland i By W. W. HERCBER Associated Press Correspondent LONDON, Tuesday, Aug. 1 Red armies In another series of sensational victories yesterday began the Battle of Warsaw to Poland from a broad siege are eight to 13 miles east of the city, swept to within 12 miles of German East Prussia proper, and probably trapped scores of thousands ef Axi troops In the north by seizing the key rail Junction of Jelgava to Latvia.

Berlin said Praga. east bank suburb of Warsaw was under Soviet attack, and the Nazi high command also announced the loss of Kaunas, pre-war Lithuanian capital, to the storming Russians whose tank-tipped spearheads were nearing the border of. East Prussia, cradle of German militarism, after smashing into It annexed Suwalkl Triangle area Sunday. Warsaw, half-way house on the road to Berlin, is the first United Nations capital to hear the sound of a liberating Allied army, and a late dispatch from Eddy Gilmore, Associated Press Moscow correspondent, said thousands of beaten Germans were choking the Vistula River fcrtdge In their flight into Warsaw. Moscow announced the capture of more than 500 cities, towns and villages east of Warsaw, including Wolomin, eight miles northeast of the Warsaw suburb of Praga.

Ot-' wock, 13 miles southeast of Warsaw! outskirts, also was captured, as well as Radzymyn, 11 miles northeast of Praga. 16 Generals Cited The powerful First White Russian Army was directed by Marshal Kon-stantin K. Rokossovsky, son of a Warsaw cobbler and a Stalingrad hero. Participating under him were 16 generals, cited yesterday by Premier-Marshal Joseph Stalin for the seizure of three Axis strongholds: Minsk-Mazowiecki, 21 miles east of Warsaw; Siedlce, 29 miles farther east, and Lukow, 20 miles south of Siedlce. Stalin Issued three orders of the day.

One of these disclosed that the Third White Russian Army under Gen. Ivan Cherniakhovsky, the young Jewish tank expert assigned See RUSSIA Page 4 LOST SUBWAY TRAIN MAKES MANHATTAN TOUR RHs Wrong Switch in Brooklyn And Things Begin to Happen NEW YORK, July 31 (IMS) Everything can happen In Brooklyn they My and it usually does. Take, for example, the lost subway train today. A five-car train which plies between Brooklyn and Manhattan loaded with workers and a handful of soldiers and sailors took a wrong switch. Soon, the passengers noticed they were passing unfamiliar stations.

Some yelled. "Hey. let us out!" as the train roared along into Manhattan at Bowling Green Station. Soma passengers got out, but the train continued its antics. Instead of continuing as a local, it turned express and roared around curves, whistled Its warnings, sped past stations and finally reached another switch where it was shunted to another track and returned to its original route.

MEN OVER 26 NOW FACE DRAFT, OFFICIAL ASSERTS Indiana Director Says Ban en Their IndaeUona Has Been Lifted INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, July 31 (IKS) Col. Robinson Hitchcock, Indiana ZTnZi wer whohave been held to I-A but not Inducted be- eauae of the age ban now will be ium mui unsiu lit- morrow, h. saW. The category in- eluded a lew tnousana men who have been unable to be placed ta deferred classifications because their occupations went not listed as con- trtBK to wi war effort, national Tiw director added men between the ages of and 37 who have quit war work during the last fey weeks ao naav oe caiiea as a result oi tnr American Tank And Infantry Units Burst Out of Normandy In Sensational Thrust Yanks Now Free To Push Across Brest Peninsula or Turn East Toward Paris By JAMES M.

LONG Associated Press Correspondent SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, Allied Expeditionary Force. Tuesday, Aug. 1 U. S. tanks and infantry burst out of Normandy yesterday with a mighty drive that swept over the prize city of Avranches and beyond, engulfing remnants of a battered German army still unable to rally for a stand against the American tide 'roiling down the coast of France.

Gaining well over 18 miles in one aay, with a speed that gave the Germans a sample of the American brand of lightning war, the Doughboys stormed across the formidable See River at AvTanches and turned the western flank of the- enemy's line, The Americans now tfc-e free to strike across Brittany's Brest Peninsula or east toward Paris, 160 miles away. Highway Death-Traps Paced by swarms of fighters and dive bombers which turned the highways Into death-traps for the disorganized enemy, the American columns roared on today with no sign of slowing, although the Germans to the northeast fought back fiercely below St. Lo and Caumont. The armored spurt of 16 to 18 miles merely to Avranches, carried the Americans more than 40 miles south of their- jump-off point of Lessay and by-passed unknown numbers of enemy troops, some of whom were overhauled at Avranches. The Allied midnight communique said islands of resistance were being mopped up in a triangle formed by the newly-captured Atlantic port of Granville, Brehal, six miles to the northeast, and Avranches, 16 miles southeast of GranvUle.

Captives Total 10,50 One large pocket of the enemy was cleaned out in the area of St. Denis-le Gast, nine miles southeast of Coutances, and the American bag of prisoners since the offensive began Tuesday was weU beyond 10,500. With supreme headquarters confirming that Avranches waa firmly in American hands, it was disclosed that neither Percy nor Tessy-sur-Vire were now held by the Americans See INVASION Page 14 10,000 PLANES BUILT IN U.S. SENT TO RUSSIA About Half Flown Via Edmonton, Alaska and Siberia EDMONTON, Alta July 31 (Canadian Press)--Approximately 10,000 lend-lease United States-built planes have been sent to Russia from the United States since the start of Soviet aid policy in October, 1941, it was learned from U. S.

military sources here tonight. About half of this number have been flown via, Edmonton, the Northwest staging route of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Alaska and Siberia. It was learned also that 2,000 planes have gone to Russia over this route in the first four month of 1944. The planes, flown from Great Falls, to Fairbanks. Alaska, by U.

S. ferry pilots, are taken over at Fairbanks by Russian pilots and flown over the 540-mile route to Nome on the west coast of central Alaska. From None they make the 50-mile over-water hop to Siberia. The remaining part of their Journey is shrouded in secrecy. Index of the News Page 14 4 18-19 18 4 17 4 1 8 12-13-14 Amusements Births Classified Comics Deaths Editorials Ernie Pyle Financial Marquis Child Obituaries Radio Society Newa Snorts Westbrook Pegler With the Service Men.

-i is i Now Only 600 Miles From Philippines Entire Soufh Half Of Guam is Captured By ROBERT ECXSON Associated Press Correspondent ADVANCED. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, New Guinea. Tuesday, Aug. 1 Gen. MacArthur's amphibian juggernaut rolled onto the beaches of New Guinea's Vogelkop Peninsula 60 miles northeast of Sorong early Sunday, headquarters announced today.

The landing in the bleak morning hours caught the enemy so completely by surprise that the beachhead and two islands off the coast were secured by midmorning. In Uheir 200-mile hop up the Dutch New Guinea coast to the little Dutch village of Sansapor, the Americans oypassea Manorwan, isolating a Japanese garrison of 15,000 there. This was the seventeenth major landing since June, 1942, and put the Americans a little over 600 statute miles from the Philippines. "This is the last operation of the New Guinea campaign," a headquarters spokesman said. "We control the entire north coast.

It isn't necessary to go ahead and take Sorong. We have no need of it. "The enemy is now unable to operate beyond his Philippine-Halma-hera line. Sansapor and the mile-long offshore islands of Amsterdam and Middelburg, also occupied, are 60 miles north and east of Sorong, onetime major Japanese base which has been largely neutralized by recent bombings. The new landing point is almost 150 miles west of ManokwarL Although neither naval nor air bombardment preceded the landing, the usual Seventh Fleet escort accompanied the invading force.

American and Australian cruisers and destroyers covered the operation to the north while the assault troops raced ashore and went hunt-See PACIFIC Page 14 DOG'S ARMY TRAINING SIGNS DEATH WARRANT Shepherd, Returning to Civilian Life. Unable to Forget Ferocious Tactics NEWARK, N. July 31 (JO Toby, a six and a half-year-old German shepherd, is dead because he couldn't forget his training as an Army sentry dog even after his honorable discharge. New, Mr. and Mrs.

James Sabia are wondering how to 'tell their son, Lieut. Angelo J. Sabia in England with a tank destroyer unit, that the dog Angelo raised from a pup had to be destroyed when reverted to the ferocious tactics learned during a year's service at Port Robinson, Neb. At first Toby seemed happy to be DEMOCRATS READY TO PUT OFF STATE PARLEY TO AUG. 15 Meeting Tonight Will Act on Delay, to Bar Invalid Convention Party Primary May be Postponed a Week; Status Of Keynoter Truman in Doubt The Democratic Party's state con vention, scheduled to be held next Tuesday, Aug.

8, and the primary election set for next Saturday to name delegates to that convention, in all probability will be postponed for one week, according to party 'eaders last night. This Is being considered to remove any doubt as to the validity of the convention and the ticket to be named there, which might have been questioned due to the oversight of party leaders in Kent County in failing to publish the call for the primary election in com pliance with state election laws. Members of the Democratic State Committee have been notified to report at the Superior Court room in the Kent County Courthouse in Dover at 7 o'clock tonight for a special meeting, when the question See DEMOCRATS Page 2 NAZI GENERAL KILLED LONDON, July 31 (Jf) A German news report from Berlin tonight said Wllhelm Falley, a divisional commander, was killed on the first day of the Allied invasion of Normandy. (the three branches of the selective service headquarters set up by Colo- eman. I These ars the finance and pro- curement branch, the manpower branch, and the medical branch.

In addition to serving executive of fleer, and as state procurement of. Qcer colonel Van Sciver is listed on the chart as public relations and pj oEicer custodian of the bSldW and commander of the de- Uchment men at the headquarters Lieut. Robert C. Farley ls been See VAN SCIVER Page 4 G. 0.

P. Candidate Holds Rapid-Fire Series Of Talks in Pittsburgh Tells Groups Nation Cannot Stand Another 'Roosevelt Depression After War By The Associated Press PITTSBURGH, July 31 On the first sortie of the 1944 campaign. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey came today to the throbbing center of Amer ica's steel industry and plummeted into what he termed "the too-long delayed preparation for reconversion." The Republican Presidential candidate took over a top floor of a downtown hotel and swung swiftly through a series of conferences with Pennsylvania politicos, Walter Hal-lahan.

Republican national committeeman of West Virginia, and representatives of labor, business, agriculture and veterans. He echoed the Republican nlat- form pledge to give organized labor a cabinet job, told businessmen foreign trade must flow both ways, and was reported to have lent a sympathetic ear to problems of farmers and veterans. "We are making gratifying progress in the fighting of the war," oewey told a news conference. "But governmentally we are making no progress lor what will follow." Calls Jobs Important It may not be long, he asserted, before "the most vital thing that laces every American is his oppor tunity to work." wmie uewey Dustiea irom one parley to another, Gov. Edward Martin of Pennsylvania predicted to another news conference that his Sec DEWEY Page ETIRED FARMER FO UNO DEAD FROM GUN WOUND Daniel B.

LeCates of Near Seaford Despondent Over 111 Health Special to The Morning News SEAFORD, July 31 Daniel B. Le Cates, 67, a retired farmer, was found dead from a gunshot wound by his wue in the cellar of their home be tween Seaford and Laurel this morning. The gun was beside the body. The shooting occurred while Mrs. LeCates was in the yard doing the I.

Consway issued a certificate ttSf death by suicide. Surviving are wife and four children. COL. VAN SCIVER NAMED DRAFT SYSTEM EXECUTIVE VETERANS' AID PROGRAM BEING MAPPED IN TA TE Newly-Created Service Committee Will Set Up Information Centers to Refer Men To Job or Assisting Agency New Position Created in Selective Service Reorganization Announced by Col. A.

Foreman, Director for Delaware Harry Tan Sciver. 3104 North Harrison Street, has 5 nam.T JTZ Tvlwr ReWHv Service system in a reorganization announced ysk- Foreman W' -nimes neaaquaiwa were function nand OTganutational chart Trf ha been posted In local board of- Colonel Van Sciver was formerly i i.i-u i mi: ur i nr i i taona isu posMtae, hrafiing en oi A program of aid to returning veterans, including the setting up of information centers throughout the state, is being planned by the Delaware Veterans' Service Committee. The program includes creation of a number of local veterans' service committees. These groups will aid the state committee In setting up single information service centers where needed; mobilize the efforts of volunteer groups to furnish information to veterans, and aid the Retraining and Reemployment Acf2 ministration in providing infonna- back home with the Sabias at 59 family laundry. She said her hus-Hunterdon Street, but soon began band had been in ill health for the jumping at anyone, not in uniform, past four year and had become In-finally turning against hi guardian.

creasingly despondent over his eon- Annr officers, aware that Tobyjdition. mieht be unable to readjust, had of- Following an inquiry. Coroner W. fered to destroy him, but tje lieu- tenant's parents wanted to give the dog a chance to be a civilian agam. ting up offices in Milford and Sea-J See VETERANS' AID Page I lifting ef tba "over 36" ban.

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