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Latest City Edition Fair. Rather warm. (Aeather Conditions. Tides, on Page Delaware's Morning Paper First with the Latest Neics United Press Associated Press International News Service PRICE THREE CENTS VOL 1 26 NO. 26 WILMINGTON.

DELAWARE, MONDAY. JULY 31, 1944 EIGHTEEN PAGES YAK HP NAZI WEST FLANK FROM COAST Reds Invade Suwalki Area of East Prussia Yanks Advance Through TANKS SCORE BIGGEST GAIN SINCE D-DAY KAUNAS FALL NEAR; LATVIA TRAP CLOSING FOE SAYS PISS'S1 LEANING TIER BEING SHELLED V'' (MA Brehal, Gavray And of Mariqny in search of snipers as new offensive which opened last Tuesday. (AP radiophoto via U. S. Army FOUR FROM STATE KILLED OVERSEAS; R.

E. Adams, John S. Greenfield, W. S. Brin-ton Die in France R.

L. Brown Victim in Italy; John and Leonard Joyce Wounded in Pacific Area Two months after volunteering for overseas duty, Pfc. Ralph E. Adams, 19-year-old son of Mrs. Lillian B.

Adams, 95 South Chapel Street, Newark, was killed In Nor mandy on June 26 in an anti-tank attack with the infantry. Arriving in England early in April, Private Adams was killed in France just three weeks after entering the country with invading forces. Two Wilmington soldiers are reported killed in action in France, and a third Italy. They arev -Pfc. John S.

Greenfield, son of Mrs. Ella May Greenfield, 320 West Thirty-fifth Street, a machine-gunner who was killed in France on June 16. Pfc. Walter S. Brinton, son cf Mrs.

Viola Roe, 12 Buena Vista Street, an infantryman, previously reported missing, who died in France on the opening day of the invasion. Had Been Listed Missing Private Raymond L. Brown, husband of Mrs. Carrie Hammond Brown, 1210 West Fourth Street, previously reported missing, who died in combat on June 1 in Italy. Two brothers from Wilmington, Pfc.

John A. Joyce, a paratrooper in the Biak-Noemfoor action, and Private Leonard F. Joyce, a Marine on Saipan. were both wounded in action. They are the sons of Mr.

and Mrs. John A. Joyce, 114 North Broom Street. Volunteered for Action Private Adams, who entered the service last September, received his infantry training at Camp Van Doom, where he volunteered for overseas duty. Born in Eddy-stone, he received his education there and in Newark schools, where he lived when he entered the service.

He celebrated his nineteenth birthday anniversary on May 19 in England, five weeks before he died in France. Besides his mother, a sister, Elizabeth, of Newark, survives. Mrs. Elmer Faber of 203 Woodrow Avenue, McDaniel Heights, sister of See CASUALTIES Page 9 ROTHERS INJURED Germans Throw Five Battered Divisions In Bitter Battle to Retain Florence, Art Center British are Tightening Ring Of Steel About City in See saw Fight; Effort Made To Spare Famed Buildings By The Associated Press NEW YORK. July 30 The Ger man radio said tonight Allied bat teries had started shelling the Lean ing Tower of Pisa on the contention the Germans were using it as an observation post.

German military quarters, said the BerUn broadcast, denied using the tower as an observation post and claimed there was r.o military installation in its vicinity, adding that if the famed building is destroyed "the Allies alone are responsible." There was no Allied confirmation that the tower was being shelled. An earlier dispatch from Rome said activity on the Fifth Army front before Pisa and along the Arno in both directions was limited to artillery duels and patrol skirmishes during the day. ROME, July 30 yPl The Germans threw five battered divisions today into the battle of Florence, great Tuscan art center whose storied towers were sight of the Eighth Army fighting up through the mountains. Once again, as so often in the drive up the Italian peninsula, the Allies were faced with the possible necessity of firing on a storehouse of art and culture, for the enemy was setting up a heavy gun battery in the southern outskirts of the city-made famous by Dante, Michelangelo, Petrach. Boccaccio, Savanarola and the Medicis.

Tinning their ring about the I city of 350,000, the British were seven miles away at San Michele on the southwest, and 10 miles away on the south at the battlefield of Mount highest point in the area and from which Florence is plainly Visible. Tne British brought up their left wing at the same time, sending pa- See ITALY Page 9 THREATENED RAINFALL FAILS TO MATERIALIZE Sweltering Residents Had Hopes Storm Would Break Heat Wave Sweltering Delawareans anxiously watched threatening skies yesterday for a rainfall that never ma terialized in the futile hope that a storm might break the long drought, and also the heat wave that has kept the mercury in the nineties for the past seven days. A few drops of rain fell in this city shortly before noon. Last night clouds formed over the city and a storm could be seer, in the distance but no rain fell. The reflection from the clouds caused the city to be bathed in a pecuUar yellow light.

The mercury here, which reached a peak of 93 degrees at 4:30 p. rested at 75 degrees at midnight. Residents of Kent and Sussex Counties reported similar condi tions in lower Delaware Clouds! hovered over the area during the early evening with brief flashes of liffhtniner in rh rlietQnra lint ht- I untU a late hour no rain had fallen. I Percy Captured As Americans Thrust Toward Avranches British, Canad ians Launch Big Push In Center, Advancing One Mile Per Hour. By JAMES M.

LONG Associated Press Correspondent SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, Allied Expeditionary Force, Monday, July 31 American armored troops, ripping the German western flank loose from the Normandy coast, were smashing deeply southward today toward Avranches, key to Brittany's side door, after probably th greatest single day's gains since the invasion of France June 6. While British and Canadian troops on the center of the Normandy front launched and hotly pressed new offensive that gained as much as a mile an hour, the Americans slammed through Brehal, Gavmy and Percy for advances up to seven miles and thrust rapidly onward possibly to double the distance made on th flaming Sabbath. Exact extent of the swift American surge could not be disclosed, but tha armored spearheads, followed by doughboys, appeared to be breaking' clear out of the confines of tha Normandy Peninsula and totally outflanking the German defenses along the whole American-British-Canadian front. 10,000 Prisoners Taken The tanks sped past many pockets of German resistance which tha infantrymen who followed were cleaning out methodically. The bag of prisoners reached 2,000 yesterday, raising the total to more than 10.000 since the American offensive began Tuesday.

The figure was expected to gain tremendously when the remaining Germans were dug out of two traps north of Brehal. French villagers tossed flowers to the advancing Americans, and some joined enthusiastically in the rooting out of bypassed Nazis. An Allied communique said the Germans encircled in the Lengronne and St. Denis le Gast areas lost 30 tanks in vain efforts to break out of entrapment, and that a strong German counter-attack in the Tessy sur Vire sector, near the American east flank, also faued. These tank losses boosted to more than 400 the German tanks destroyed or knocked out since Tuesday.

Avranches, a big highway town at the very base of the Normandy Peninsula, is 17 miles below the captured towns listed in the communique, but frontline dispatches made it evident that these had been considerably outstripped and that the American advance was See INVASION-Paje 4 6.000 feet and smoke to 26,000 and visible as far as 160 miles. The smoke, black, gray and sickly yellow, already was pluming over Anshan's factory biuldings and rail way trackage when the Monsoon i took her turn. Black blossoms of acK-acK Dioomea arouna us during the three-quarters -of -a-minute pass. At least two fighters struggled for altitude under us as the Monsoon, See MONSOON Pare Index of the News Marigny they drive Germans from the French GERMANS FLEEING AS TURKS PREPARE TO END RELATIONS News of Break is Seen On Wednesday When Assembly Convenes Von Papen Makes Last Attempt to Save Situation, Offering New Concessions Bv The Associated Press LONDON, July 30 A flight of German diplomats from Turkey was reported in Ankara dispatches received tonight and the official German news agency, D. N.

said the Turkish National Assembly would be informed on Wednesday of the government's decision to break diplo matic and economic relations with the Reich wViiV vranf iVio lin usual length of saying it had ob- tained its information from "Soviet Russian sources" in Sofia. Bulgaria. aaaed iurkey wouia men De asKea to grant the Allies facilities for air and naval bases and that Turkey's active participation in the war as a belligerent would come as a matter of course. The broadcast indicated the Turkish National Assembly might be asked to approve an Allied demand for bases on Turkish sou. Istanbul dispatches dated Friday said the city on the Bosporous had been struck with a wave of jitters and the people were saying "bombs will soon start falling." Germans Flee Turkey Other Istanbul dispatches dated Saturday said all German diplomatic officials in Istanbul who could find reservations had booked rail passage for Sunday or Monday, presumably for Berlin or other destinations in German-occupied Europe.

Another Ankara dispatch from the Turkish capital today said German Ambassador Franz Von Papen began moving his furniture from See TVRKEY- Page ATLANTIC CITY PUZZLED BY MYSTERY PROJECTILE Army and Bomb Experts Vainly Seek tn Remove Object ATLANTIC CITY. N. July 30 VP) Bomb or meteorite? That is the question perplexing residents of Venice Park, an island residential section of Atlantic City, separated from the main stem by Penrose Canal. A week ago yesterday at noon, a shriU crescendo of sound brought inhabitants of the park rushing from their homes in fear that they were being bombed. Those within sight of the canal sar a large, unidentifiable object splash into the waters of the canal near the shore and bury itself in the muddy bottom.

City employes sought to excavate for the object, but soon found the job too mtfch for them, and military authorities requested the aid of a bomb squad from Governors Island, N. Y. The squad has been working in shifts since its arrival, under floodlights at night, but the object is heavy enough to keep sinking deep- er and deeper into the Jersey mud. Secret Weapon Speeds Advance On Tinian Island By CLINTON GREEN Representing The Combined American Press ABOARD EXPEDITIONARY FLAGSHIP OFF TINIAN, Marianas Islands, July 30 (Via Navy radio) One of the most fearful instruments of death from America's arsenal of secret weapons is aiding immeasurably in the whirlwind conquest of Tinian Island which saw American Marines storm into Tinian town before darkness tonight. Effectiveness of the secret weapon has been definitely proven.

It is truly fearful and it Is extremely doubtful whether any human being within 100 feet of its action would be able to live. It Is easy to foresee the devastation and death which would result from its use on such targets as the crowded cities of the Japanese homeland. First use of the weapon came several days ago, but because of security reasons it is impossible to even hint at its construction or its manner of use. OROTE AIR FIELD, Stars and Stripes Fly Over Many Points On Recaptured Island Tinian Town is Taken By Marines on Other Isle Of Southern Marianas Group By CHARLES H. McMURTRT Associated Press Correspondent U.

S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, July 30 American warplanes put Guam's Orote Peninsula air field into operation today and American warships anchored in Apra Harbor, onetime U. S. Pacific stronghold on the route to the Orient. With the Stars and Stripes flying from many places on the island, Guam took on a semblance of its former American occupancy.

"Our ships are now using Apra Harbor on the west coast of Guam, site of the former American naval Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced in a communique. "Several of aircraft have landed and taken off from the Orote Peninsula air field." Tinian Town Taken On Tinian Island, another of the southern "Marianas group. Marines captured Tinian town and swept ahead to bottle the Japanese defenders In the island's southern end. The end of the fight for Tinian is in sight.

However, the big battle is yet to come. Enemy resistance there increased steadily as the Americans com pressed an estimated 4,000 or 5.000 Japanese troops Into an ever-smaller Restoration of Guam's Apra Harbor to American control meant a sort of homecoming for hundreds of naval officers and enlisted men From warships anchored in the See PACIFIC Page JAPS EXPECT ATTACK ON PHILIPPINES SOON Germans Qaote Tokyo as Saying Blow Will Change Aspect LONDON, July 30 OP) The Ger man news agency, DNB, quoting a Tokyo spokesman, said in a broad AMERICANS USING HARBOR AT GUAM Soviet Jewish Tank Expert Crashes 7 Miles in Sector Taken by Nazis in 1939 Other Units Delaying Warsaw Push Until Flank is Protected; Berlin Admits Blow By TOM TARBROVGH Associated Press Correspondent LONDON, Monday. July 31 Gen. Tvan Chemiakhovsky, 37-year-old Jewish tank expert, yesterday sent his Third White Russian Army troops crashing seven miles into the Suwalki Triangle of German East Prussia, in a sudden powerful of fensive which hurled the enemy out of 300 towns and villages on a 68 mile front. A Moscow bulletin announced the tapture of Giby, seven miles inside the Suwalki Triangle which Germany took from conquered Poland 1939 and annexed to East ftus sia.

The Russians under Chemiakhovsky, one of the youngest and ablest Soviet military were within 24 miles of German East Prussia proper, and Berlin also an jounced a "major" Soviet assault in the Augustow sector, 21 miles southwest of Giby and only eight miles from pre-war German East Prussia. Smashing through the German lines in gains up to 15 miles, Cher-niakhovsky's northern wing of troops battered their way through Shlyanova, only five miles east of Kaunas, and Bobikly, less than five Wiles southeast of the former Lithuanian capital. Kaunas Fall Imminent The fall of Kaunas was regarded as imminent since other Soviet forces are attacking within six miles northeast of the strategic city. The crossing into East Prussia was announced only casually in the daily Soviet communique. Giby is 17 miles southeast of Suwalki and 24 miles east of the pre-war East Prussian border.

North of this thunderous off eh live, another huge Russian push was under way in Latvia, and Soviet troops plunging to within 25 miles of the Gulf of Riga were beUeved to have an excellent chance of closing a gigantic trap almost equalling that achieved at Stalingrad early in 1943, when 330,000 Germans were killed or captured. Already half-way across Latvia in their broad sweep northward from Lithuania, the First Baltic Army under Gen. Ivan Bagramian captured 300 Latvian towns and villages. Including Gluda, eight miles southwest of Jelgava and 25 miles from the Gulf of Riga. Closure of the intervening terri- Rl'SSIA Page NAZI MUTINY REPORTED BY POLISH UNDERGROUND Broadcaster Quote Agent as Saying Whole Trminloads are Deserting NEW YORK.

July 30 (JP1 A Blue Network broadcast from Cairo today quoted an agent of the Polish Underground as reporting a mutiny tmong German soldiers on the Rus-lian Front. The Blue Network correspondent laid the agent left Poland five days where he saw whole trainloads rrvs. including manvl officers, rolling back from the front without weapons. The agent was quoted a saying, the Germans told me the war is ver and they were going home. They were not traveling under military orders; they just picked up nd left the front." LAST DAY to get the 5 REBATE on City Property Taxes Oice Open 9 a.

nt. to 5 p. m. Yanks hurry through the streets town within the area cleared during Signal Corps.) DOUBTS DEMOCRATS FACE CONVENTION DELAY Failure to Advertise Call In Kent County Held Voting Law Violation Party Leaders Say Sussex, NeW CaStle Delegates COUld Legally Nominate Ticket Failure of Kent County Demo- newspapers of that county the call for the convention to be held ui Dover, Aug. 8, two weeks in advance, will not necessarily mean the postponement of the convention, John C.

Hazzard, state chairman, said )st night. "I don't see why the convention should be postponed," he stated. A state law provides that notice of primary elections must be published in at least two issues of at least two weekly newspapers in counties where no daily paper is published. Might I'nseat Delegates In order to comply with this provision in time for the primary to elect convention delegates on Aug. 5.

the Democrats would have had to advertise in the weekly papers issued last week. Since the notices did not appear, there is time left now to insert them in only one issue. One effect of this oversight, party leaders said, is that a charge could be made that the Kent County delegates to be elected Saturday would not be qualified to vote at the convention. The credentials committee, it was explained, could unseat the entire delegation. Whether the Kent County delegates are seated or are deprived cf their vote because of the failure to publish the convention call, it was stressed that the legality of the I invention cannot be ouestioned and th(1 validity of the ticket to be nomi- there cannot be attacked he- See DEMOCRATS Pate 3 Highways During ered the fire shortly before 1 a.

and the Elsmere. Newport. Cranston Heights, Mill Creek, Minquadaie, Holloway Terrace and Five Points fire companies were called. By the mc time they arrived, one end of the building was roaring with flames. Highways leading to Elsmere were soon clogged with automobiles when reddened skies disclosed the fire.

Some firemen declared that the traffic: retarded their aDDaratus in re- fsponding and also interfered with their getting into action quickly. County police, state troopers and See FACTORY FIRE Page 8 0 i NORWAY TO PAY FINAL INSTALLMENT ON LOAN Balance on $25,000,000 Twenty-year Note Due Today WASHINGTON, July 30 (P) The Norwegian government tomorrow will pay the last installment on a $25,000,000 twenty-year loan contracted in the Ltnited States in 1924. The Royal Norwegian Information Service said Ambassador Wilhelm Morgenstierne will make the payment to the National City Bank of New York. Norway arranged two six per cent loans in 1923 and 1924. both due in 20 years.

The first, for $20,000,000. was paid off a year ago. Total amount repaid on the two loans since the Nazi invasion of Norway in AprU of 1940. the information service said, is about $16,000,000, in addition to interest payments. STATE SURPASSES $100,000 Excess Sales Re ported, But 'E' Bonds Are; $1,900,000 Under Goal Delaware has made its $54,000,000 Fifth War Loan goal, with a little more than $100,000 to spare.

Latest figures, as of Saturday night, show that while the goal has been reached, the state is still behind in its bond quota, which was $8,000,000. Sales stand at about $6,100,000. Officials of the Delaware War Pi-nance Committee last night pointed out that there are still a few hours for those who have unfulfilled Fifth War Loan bond pledges to make them good and have them credited to the drive. To Credit Today's Sales Noon today is the deadline for crediting any bond sales to the Fifth War Loan. Banks and other issu ing agencies will add up their totals at that time, and a special messenger will be sent to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, so that this morning's sales may be reported officially before the reserve bank closes this afternoon This morning's it is believed, wall push the state's total well beyond the $100,000 excess credited to it Individual Sales at Peak Sales to individuals have reached $16,400,000.

the higtiest reached in any war bond drive in this state. During the Third War Loan Drive the total was $15,800,000. while in the Fourth Drive, it was $14,400,000. While $8,000,000 of the. $19,000,000 quota represented bonds, the other SI 1,000.000 was for the other securities sold to individuals.

Sales have H0.300.000 out of the New Castle County 'Over Sales to corporations have climbed to well over the quota of the month. New Castle County has reached its quota in the drive. Kent County has $26,000 to go before it tops the goal of $1,510,000, and Sussex County is $123,000 short of its $2,600,000. W. K.

Paton, Kent County chairman, and Mayor Edward C. Evans of Milford. Sussex County chairman have assured officials that their counties will top their goals today. WAR LOAN QUOTA i I Superfort 'Monsoon9 Hits 2 Targets on Long Mission By CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH Associated Press Correspondent ABOARD THE SUPERFORTRESS MONSOON OVER JAPANESE-OCCUPIED CHINA, July 29 (Delayed) We 12 aboard the Monsoon have just witnessed a masterpiece, of destruction and II of us had a hand in it.

We saw a great part" of Japan's facilities for manufacture of iron and steel and related products crumble in a holocaust of smoke in the first daylight precision test of the B-29 Superfortress. Superfortresses by the dozen JJ HAMPER FIREMEN FIGHTING ELSMERE BLAZE 2,061 Persons Crowd Early Morning as Flames Cause Loss Of $15,000 at Leather Factory passed the test with distinction at Anshan on the Mukden railway. 53 miles south-southwest of Mukden itself. It was a new kind of Mukden incident the Japanese will long remember. For 45 endless seconds, this par- ticular B-29 was held on the bomb- ing run by a pair of sure hands that once guided the plow along an Iowa furrow.

Below it looked like hell had sprung its hinges. What the Monsoon did was done over and over again by other Superfortresses which attacked after us. There was nothing tht Japanese could do to prevent it. We saw fighters try to reach our high altitude and only turn away under our fire. Anti-aircraft fire was mostly low and ineffectual.

For five minutes before the Monsoon started her solo run, B-29's singly and in formation had been bombing the sprawling factory dis trict. Two ruddy orange nres already burned there, one marking a bullseye hit. Bombed for Hour Anshan was under bombing for about an hour. The ist pilots over the target reported flames reaching cast today the Japanese expect an i seven rural companies, ine renec-attack aeon against the Philippine 1 tion, visible, several miles, attracted Islands. at least 2,000 persons to the fire, and A spectacular early-morning Are swept the one-story buiiding of the Rue Patent Leather Companv, on New Road in Elsmere, yesterday, I causing damage estimated at S15.000 before it was checked by firemen of their cars were blamed for delays in battling the flames.

After three hours, the firemen apparently had extinguished the flames, but at II a m. they were recalled when some burned timbers I and stored lumber were found smoul- i dering. Peter Sogio, a watchman, discov- 1 1 Paces Amusements 14 Births 2 Classified 16-17 Comics 15 Deaths 4 Editorials 8 Ernie Pyle 6 Marquis Cbilds 6 Obituaries 4 Radio Society Newi Sports 12-13-14 State New 10-11 Westbrook Pegler With the Service Men 15 Woman's Page 8 "The Philippines now have become the principal aim of American operations in the Pacific and Admiral (Chester Nimita will do his utmost to embark there," the agency said, and added "the battle 1 for possession of the PhiUppmes would entirely change the asoect of the war in that zone of the.

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