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NINE WILMINGTON MORNiNG NEWS. WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. MONDAY. JULY 31. 1944 SURPLUS HOLDINGSlFLIERS HELP PUSH 3 MORE LINKED Sunken Ships Lie in Livorno Harbor END ROBOT BOMBS, BH" J5S'W!" iulliuuu nui nnLiu a.

-TA -Q ADVANCED COMMAND POST, Same Group Previously ls-jpediuoryF ciipH Plpa tfi Allioc in UaltG- I-'s lieutenant who saw Tied IU Milieu lO ndlllhat Normandy hedgerows were lm- Air Raids Against Reich ipJmg me Aiues advance and did I something original about it are go- NEW YORK. Julv upAn n-lin 10 08 rewarded by General peal to the German people and their government "not to engage in the wanton cruelty of robot bombing or other methods of civilian massacre" has been made by 28 clergymen and writers who last March signed a similar protest against the obliteration bombing policy of the British and American governments. "Our appeal in both cases is made from the standpoint of that human ity and religion which is above execution. It is now being used attacks and German demolition workers rest on the bottom of the harbor was Italy's third largest peacetime port. American troops captured Livorno Two G.

Looey Develop Answer For Hedgerows Eisenhower. While details of the contraption they devised must remain secret, the original devices, it was disclosed, were developed from salvaged anti tank obstacles strewn by the Ger mans along the Normandy beach. Eisenhower was reported to have been pleased particularly with the speed with which senior officers picked up the idea and expedited Dy Dotn me British and United statfts armies. A Iar8e order for 'be manufacture tne new iwm haa iKea placed in England to supplement the original devices. the nose of the plane for a last minute check by Major Kingsbury.

Let Go' He Says "This airplane never was in better shape," the major said, adding gruffly, "you guys keep on the ball and work together and I'll get you back every damn one of you." His curse was a fond benediction. "Now, let's go and knock the hell out of that target." The men said little. They had been told this raid had been a top-drawer project for the past year when the B-29 was still a high secret. The thundering race started down the long runway, and it seemed th plane would never lift. Barton shook his head gravely.

Finally the heavily- laden Monsoon parted with the earth. The hatch was pulled open and we looked out. The Monsoon was barely clearing the treetops. One of the crew closed it, saying maybe ll we didn look it would go away. When the ship gained altitude.

Kingsbury called Barton and me forward out of our positions. We were skimming the Chinese hills at minimum altitude when the major discovered he had lost three of his most important flight instruments the altimeter, the rate climb gauge and tne air speed Indicator. For the rest of the flight he and Copilot Brown worked from counterparts of these instruments on the panel. Raked Tree-Top (A delayed dispatch from the Superfortress base in Western China said the Monsoon evidently had raked a tree-top on the takeoff, since one part of the plane projecting from the belly was found caved in when it returned to the base. This mishap failed to interfere with the near-perfect functioning of the Monsoon, which was built at the Boering plant in Wichita, and bears the serial number 3428.) After two hours or so in the air.

smoke started pouring out from the instrument board. The flight engineer snatched the extinguisher and turned it on the burning wires. We were flying in close formation with three other B-29's as we headed over the Gulf of Po. but lost them in the soupy sky. According to the briefing, Kingsbury then would have been justified in turning to a secondary target.

Only planes in the safety of a formation were supposed to go to Anshan. "How do you feel about going In alone?" the major asked. I calculated the sort of answer the major wanted and told him I was in favor of it. Find Second Target We were on the way home from Anshan when Smitty announced on the interphone that half the big bombload still was in the bay. Some mecnamcai tailure had prevented toggling over Anshan.

We could never land safely with them so Navigator Perry and Kingsbury went into a huddle over where to drop them. Over the gulf, the navigator and Barton scanned the water for a sign of a shipping target and found none. The major decided he would go looking for Japanese air fields to bomb. We found one near Chenghsien, which had been specified in the briefing as a target of last resort. We made another bombing run.

Barton salvoed the rP5 of the load at an intersection of to runways, Knocking down a control tower. (Gunner Smith was keenly disappointed over this failure to get all the bombs on the target, the delayed dispatch from the Superfortress base said. He had chalked one of them, "this is for my two sons, Smitty and Jerry." George D. one and a half years old, and Gerald Lee, a month and a half, who are with their mother at Baton Rouge, La. He had marked another, "try this one for size.

That was at 1:56 p. m. there was a burst or two of ineffectual flak and three fighters appeared far below to the rear. The tail gunner whammed away at them. Thev gave up and we returned to our "homeward course.

JAPS CLAIM 119 ALLIED PLANES RUINED IN RAIDS NEW YORK, July 30 (JP) A Japanese imperial headquarters communique claimed today that 119 "enemy aircraft" were destroyed in raids on bases in China July 27 and 28, without the loss of a single Japanese plane. The communique, broadcast in English to North America and recorded by the Federal Communications Commission, said the Japanese fliers hit Liuchow in Kwangsi and Chihkiang (Yuanchow) in Hunan Province on July 27, and Kwei-lin. provisional Kwangsi capital, July 28, getting ablaze 48 large planes and 35 smaller ones and damaging 15 large, 29 smaller and one unidentified craft. There was no confirmation of these claims from any Allied source. WOMAN'S PURSE STOLEN Mary w.

Cannon of Silverside Heights, reported to police that her purse, containing $5, was stolen while she was shopping in a Market Street store Saturday. i I Four Thousand Officers Involved in Anti-Hitler Revolt Said to Have Fled Country By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press Correspondent LONDON, July 30 Col. Gen. Kurt Zeitzler.

former chief of the German general staff; Col. Gen. Frits Fromm, dismissed as commander of the German home army; and Count Ii't'ldorf. notorious Nazi police chief of Potsdam, were all deeply Involved In the plot to kill Adolf Hitler and overthrow Nazism, well informed sources reported tonight. Informants said that there was mounting evidence that the plot was many times greater In scope than had been admitted and that it well might prove that the entire Nazi military structure had been weakened to an extent that no purge could completely patch it.

A United Press Ankara dispatch said that it was estimated there that 4,000 German army officers involved in the plot had escaped into Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Poland disguised as ordinary soldiers and carrying faked travelling orders. It was held that even if the Nazis found all the officers involved, it would only emphasize the weakness revealed by the putsch itself. Count Helldorf, newly named as probably implicated, is a henchman of Reichsmarshal Herman Goering who plotted the Reichstag fire in 1933 and Helldorf probably carried the torch which started the fire. The Nazis have not named Helldorf. Zeitzler or Fromm as involved in the plot.

Zeitzler was relieved of his command ostensibly because of ill health. Heinrich Himmler replaced Fromm as home front army leader. None of the three is likely to be named publicty in Germany as implicated because of the shock to popular morale. Italy- Continued Prom First Page trola into the outskirts of Empoli. Arno River city 15 miles west of Florence.

The enemy, however, still held out firmly at Montelupo, five miles east of Empoli. Here, at the confluence of the Arno and Pesa Rivers, the Germans were making a strong stand and the British still were two mile below the city. All enemy outposts south of the Arno and the Pesa in this sector have been cleared out and patrols are active north of these rivers. The Germans strengthened their last hill line below Florence and lashed out with repeated counterblows in an effort to repair the violence done to their defenses in Friday's thrust, which Allied headquarters described as a "near breakthrough." See-Saw Battle The battle for San Michele, stormed by New, Zealanders, then lost, then recaptured last night, was typical of the fighting. Associated Press correspondent Lynn Heinzerling said the Germans flung tanks and troops into counterattacks all yesterday afternoon.

Each time the New Zealanders put down what they call a "murder barrage," an abrupt concentration of exploding shells that discourages the most resolute troops. Last night the enemy sent in six Tiger tanks which drove the New Zealanders from the vilagc, but the Allied troops went back in under another of those concentrated barrages and this time they stayed. To the southeast, above Arezzo, the British reported a number of gains and the Italian Corps of Lib eration beat off two enemy counterattacks on the Adriatic coast. The Allies were increasing the pressure on Florence by the hour, but their approach was slowed as -much by caution to preserve her -treasures as it was by the enemy resistance. Historic Spans Spared -They have not attacked from the -sir the historic bridges of Florence bJvef which enemy supplies and re--inforcements rumble, and have made "only three attacks on the railroad -yards.

These were carried out last spring by picked medium bombers. Heinzerling said it was uncertain "what would happen when the Ger- mans fall back through Florence. I One report said the enemy would fight for every block. Another said they would withdraw in an orderly parade to impress the Florentines. But even then the Allies are con- cemed lest the Germans blow up the bridges over the Arno, Including the world famous Pontevecchio, dat-' lng back to the Fourteenth Century.

Allied headquarters estimated that since the offensive on Rome opened I the Germans have lost at least 250 tanks, enough for one and a half armored divisions, and enough artillery to equip nine divisions. RuSSia-Continued From First Page tory would split the Nazi armies of the Baltic and trap between 200.000 and 300.000 men in Estonia and -Latvia, London military men said. Escape Routes Perilled Besides taking Gluda, the Russians also captured Platone and Lielvircava. both six miles south of Jelgava, the imperilled six-way rail junction which controls German escape routes out of Estonia and Lat- via to East Prussia. Moscow's bulletin, announcing the capture of 1.144 towns and villages on a 1.

000-mile winding front from the Baitic to the Carpathian Mountain approaches to Czechoslovakia, did not even mention "the Warsaw area, where Soviet troops ot the center are fighting within sight of the Polish capital. Berlin again said Soviet troops had crossed the Vistula River below Warsaw, but said they had been hurled back across that last natural defense line before Germany. It was possible the Russians were holding up their assault on Warsaw until General Ctierniakhovsky's troops plunge farther into German East Prussia and thus protect the northern flank of the armies under Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky and Gen. G.

F. Zakharov. Cherniakhovsky's men launched 0 GERMAN PLOT TOTAL 15 BILLIONS OWI Says Sale Will Not Disrupt Home Economy As Some Will be Sold Abroad WASHINGTON, July 30 (P) Estimating surplus war property valued at $15,000,000,000 will be thrown on the domestic market at the end of the war, the Office of War Information said today "there is little reason to believe that this quantity of surplus material will seriously disrupt the nation's economy." OWIs lengthy report on sur pluses, based on information from! war agencies, was made public as Congress prepared to reconvene after a five-weeks holiday, with legislation dealing with surplus disposition high on the agenda of business to be considered between now and the end of the year. Orderly control of the disposition of surpluses, OWI said, is the responsibility of the Surplus and Property Administration which hopes the "absorption of surpluses will be quick and painless." Some Going Abroad While estimates of the potential surplus run as high as 000,000, the report said, not all of it will be disposed of in the domestic market. Much of it is expected to be disposed of abroad.

For example, OWI said, there probably will be several million tons of food in government stores when the war ends, but with millions of Europeans requiring relief, the Foreign Economic Administration esti mates food serves "actually may prove tnsuffic "at to meet foreign relief needs Most war implements in good con dition will not be put up for sale, OWI added, this being true also of many war plants, ordnance, merchant ships and stockpiles of raw materials. Aircraft is Largest Item The War Production Board, how ever, estimates domestic markets will be sought for industrial facilities valued at $6,000,000,000, for housing costing $1,000,000,000, for stockpiles worth $1,000,000,000, for manufacturing inventories valued at $3,000,000,000, and for $4,000,000,000 worth of army and navy equipment, including items ranging from airplanes to adhesive tape and hairpins. In addition, SWPA believes some 20.000.000 acres cf land eventually will be declared surplus. Surpluses now being disposed of at the rate of $25,000,000 weekly, which SWPA doesn't think is fast enough. Current surpluses are heaviest in the snipping and aircraft industries.

Disposal policies, OWI said, will seek to discourage speculation and to encourage the participation of small business. WAR HOUSING DISPOSAL BEGUN BY GOVERNMENT WASHINGTON, July 30 CU.Ri The National Housing Agency is shaping up plans for disposal of $1,000,000,000 in permanent housing units that will become Government surplus with the war's end, officials said tonight. While the big job will come after the war, the first trickle of publicly financed war housing into private hands already has begun with the sale of the $3,615,000 Defense Homes project at Newport News, Va. This netted a $100,000 profit for the government, counting rent collected by DHC. Big buyers willing to purchase entire projects are gretting first chance at the $71,000,000 of DHC apartments, dormitories, and houses but officials indicated in a few months houses would be offered separately to individuals, unless satisfactory bids on whole projects are forthcoming.

Turkey Continued From First Page his private residence, the former Czechoslovak legation building, to the central German embassy building. Von Papen's moving, it was pointed out, might indicate in event of a diplomatic break that Turkey pianned to recognize the Czechoslovak government. All Turkish newspaper editors had been called to a conference with the government tomorrow, and Ankara buzzed with reports they were to be informed of the government's plans to break relations. Japs Also on Move The reports from Turkey added scores of Japanese recently had arrived in Istanbul from German-occupied Europe and Berlin, and the Japanese, too, were booking rail passage, presumably for Soviet Russia where they might return to their homeland. German and Japanese diplomats conferred Friday at the German embassy, it was said.

Cevat Acikalin. Turkish secretary general of foreign affairs, received Von Papen Saturday, it was announced. It was believed the Turkish am-basador would not return to Berlin, Turkish dispatches said. Von Papen in unconfirmed reports from Turkey was said to have made his last proposition to Acikalin in an effort to prevent a complete break. If Turkey would limit her action to an economic break, the Germans would evacuate the Aegean and Dodecanese Islands and a strip of territory along the Bulgarian and Greek frontiers facing Turkey, these reports said.

Bulgaria in Conferences Meanwhile, Germany's satellite, Bulgaria, appeared even shakier in the Axis lineup. Istanbul quoted a traveler from Sofia as reporting the Turks and Bulgars were engaged in talks aimed at "preventing hostilities or' misunderstandings between the two nations in event of a sudden change of position towards Germany." Bulgaria has been reported negotiating witb the Allies on a way out of the war, demanding Germany withdraw the two Nazi divisions stationed within her borders and preparing to allow Soviet Russia to reopen her consulates. Transocean'a Ankara correspondent said it was "highly significant that the Turkish fleet was about to DENTIN NAZI LINE 1,000 Heavy Bombers Rip Enemy; Italy-Based Craft Blast Hungary, Yugoslavia By NED NORDNESS Xssociaf ei Press Correspondent LONDON, Monday, July 31 A fleet of more than 1,000 heavies helped batter a wedge into the German Normandy line between Viilers Bocage and Caumont yesterday to start the new British offensive, and before the stunned Nazis recovered. 200 medium and ligfnt bombers returned during the evening to smash them anew. While the Germans thus were being punched on the Normandy front, 500 Mediterranean-based heavy bombers pounded the Budapest Mes-serschmitt aircraft works and rail-yards and oil fields in Yugoslavia.

Normandy based Thunderbolts continued their incessant support for the fast-moving American offensive while Thunderbolts and Lightning fighter-bombers from British bases ranged the Nazi rear, blasting the badly mauled German transportation system. The R. A. F. Lancasters and Hall-faxes converged on three strong points in the German line, descending through thick clouds to the unprecedented low level of 1,500 feet to lay their explosives neatly in the bomb zone.

Foul weather necessitated use of instruments even at this level and the American Ninth Air Force Marauder and Havocs which pressed in immediately to lay fragmentary bombs used the same method. The terrific pounding was resumed in the evening by 200 more Marauders and Havocs which laid down their bombs ahead of the advancinz British. Light flak was encountered, but no enemy fighter opposition. One Marauder was missing. From Italy, U.

S. 15th Air Force bombers swarmed over Hungary and Yugoslavia. A Liberator formation smashed at derricks, pumping stations and other installations at the Lipse-Budafapuszta oil field, 30 miles west of Lake Balaton, and heavy black smoke rose from the target area. Fortresses and Liberators struck heavily at the Duna works at Budapest, part of a factory system manu facturing Messerschmitt 110's and 410 s. The adjacent Tokol airdrome also felt the weight of the attack.

Other Fortress units made for the south railyards at Brod on the Belgrade-Zagreb line in northern Yugoslav and scored hits on the tracks. Mediterranean Allied air force headquarters announced that its warp lanes in the past seven-day pe riod destroyed a total of 221 enemy planes in the air, averaging more than 30 daily, in record operations extending all over southern Europe. rne total was exclusive of scores of German planes shot up on the ground. Saturday night R. A.

F. Mosquito bombers penetrated to a traffic relay point in Frankfurt in the second blow at the German city In two nights. Two-ton blockbusters were cascaded on the city by the Mos-quitos. NAVY HEAD HOPES WAVES WILL SERVE OVERSEAS WASHINGTON, July 30 (IP) Hope that the WAVES ultimately may be permitted to serve overseas was expressed tonight by Navy Secretary Forrestal in an address commemorating the second anniversary of the women's naval unit. "You will have many opportunities for varied and interesting serv.

ice, certainly here, and we hope ultimately in shore establishments abroad." he told a mass gathering of WAVES near the Washington Monument. Legislation authorizing the us? of WAVES abroad has been approved by the House naval committee and is pending before the companion Senate committee. "The tempo of the- war is rising to a climax." Forrestal said, adding that "this stepped up push for victory will increase your responsibilities and the demands for your work." Forrestal, Admiral Ernest J. King, Navy commander in chief, and Admiral Chester w. Nimitz, Pacific fleet commander in chief, all praised the WAVES for releasing men to serve at sea and In overseas assignments.

ARMY DENIES CODDLING OF ITALIAN PRISONERS WASHINGTON. July 30 WV-The War Department replied today to assertions that Italian prisoners of war are being coddled with the statement members of the "Italian service units" have a different status from ordinary war prisoners, such as Germans and Italian-Fascists. This, the Army said, "arises from the fact that Italy has been accepted by the United States, Great Bntain and Russia as a co-belligerent in the war against Germany." Members of the service units have volunteered for non-combat Jobs In the war program and that way have made "substantial contributions to the American war effort," the Army declared. There are 184 service unite, located at 60 stations In various parts of the country. CAPTURED PAPERS BARE MASS SLAYING IN ITALY ROME, July 30 VP) Capture of the flies of the Fascist police chief at Arezzo, southeast of Florence, disclosed a mass reprisal execution of Italians occurred in the nearby town of Stia last April 11, Allied headquarters announced today.

Headquarters said the documents proved that 1.500 troops of the Hermann Goering Division, aided by Fascist civilians, made the townsfolk pay a heavy price for the killing of two Germans by Italian partisans. The announcement said 103 bodies, including those of many women and children, were fouud. hold maneuvers with all Turkish vessels in the Aegean and Black Seas'1 assembled In port. nations," the religious leaders de clared in a statement, made public today by John Nevin Sayre, co-sec- retary of the American Fellowship of Reconciliation. We believe it is the truth that humanity is a single family, created by one Gcd.

This fact binds us so racial ideologies can set aside the inter-relationship whereby the whole body suffers if any of its parts are harmed. Would End Slaughter "We plead especially for the adoption by all governments of measures that would lessen the mass slaughter children, women and youth. Let us not dim the hope of future peace by deeds in the closing period of war that will add to the load of hatred -that our generation carries." Signers of the statement, as announced by Sayre, were: Dr. George A. Buttrick.

Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers, Dr. J. Henry Carpenter, Dr. Phillips P.

Elliott, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Dr. John Haynes Holmes. Dr. John Paul Jones.

Dr. John H. Lathrop, Dr. E. Elmore McKee, Dr.

Paul Scherer, Dr. Ralph Sockman, all of tw iuia. Dr. Henry H. Crane, Detroit; Dr.

Albert E. Day. Pasadena, Dr. Georgia Harkness, Garrett Biblical Institute; Dr. Allan A.

Hunter, Los Angeles. Bishops Also Sign Miss Josephine Johnson, author; Dr. E. Stanley Jones, former Methodist missionary to India; Dr. Rufus Jones.

Haverford College; Dr. Ken netn Scott Latourette, Yale Divinity School; Rt. Rev. W. Appleton Law- rence.

Episcopal bishop of Western Massachusetts; Rt. Rev. Walter Mitchell, bishop of Arizona; Dr. Kirby Page, La Habra, Rev. Clarence E.

Pickett, Philadelphia; Dr. Edwin McNeill Poteat, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School; Dr. Richard Roberts, United Church of Canada: Dr. Ernest F. Tittle, Evans-ton, Dr.

Oswald Garrison Vill-ard, former editor of the Nation, and Miss Winifred Wygal, religious resources secretary of the Y. W. C. A. MORE ROBOTS ELUDE DEFENDERS IN BRITAIN LONDON, July 30 JF British anti-aircraft units and fighter pilots scored new successes today over the sporadic salvos of robot bombs hurled at southern England and the London area by the Germans, but some of the bombs broke through and caused damage and casualties.

Much of London's population had left the city for a holiday over the week-end. In spite of the improved defenses, however, reported incidents included robot hits on a children's playground, a Y. M. C. A.

building, a hospital and several houses. From these hits, four were seriously injured, all at the Y. M. C. A.

R. A. F. heavy bombers returned to the Pas-de-Calais coast last night and struck at a supply depot near Watten where the Germans' massive concrete structure was believed connected with their new threat to fling ten-ton rockets at Britain. More plains crossed the strait tonight in the same direction.

Monsoon Continued From First Page added her train of demolition bombs to the seething target. Flak was trailing the Monsoon when the run was ended, but the ground gunners never got our range. The pilot, Maj. William C. Kingsbury, 38, of Redlands, who had been keeping his eye peeled for fighters and ack-ack, threw the switches to take the control of the plane away from the bombardier the instant he waved his signal of "bombs away." "Let's the hell out of here," Kingsbury shouted over the intercommunication phone.

The bombardier. Second Lieut. Donald Barton, 23. Harlan, Iowa, turned with a satisfied smile and word went nearly 100 feet from the nose back through the gun positions to the tail gunner: "Bombs away!" Jap Fighter Chased Away The Monsoon banked sickeningly, peeled off in a surge of downhill power and went hightailing away from the ack-ack, back toward the Gulf of Po, an arm of the Yellow Sea, at a speed which is a military secret. Left Gunner Corporal Clarence R.

Hazleton, 38, who used to stalk deer in his, St. Mary's, Pennsylvania hills home, spotted a Jap fighter climbing toward us and fired a 50-caliber burst. But Oscar was too far away and we soon lost him. Right Gunner Corp; George D. Smith, 21, of Baton Rouge, who once hunted ducks in the bayous around his birthplace of Vacherie, had been looking down out of his heavy glass blister.

Smitty called out the direct hits for the Monsoon's bombs. That was at 11:11 a. m. We had flown the first half of an approximately 3.000-mile round trip for that I moment. It was an all-daylight mis-! sion.

outdone in this war as the longest daylight bombing mission only by the B-29's which had made shakedown raid on Bangkok in Thailand June 6. H.ilf the distance to Anshan was over enemy land and water. The Monsoon had taken off into a red rising sun from a main Super- i fortress base in Western China, as the lead plane of a group operating 'from that field. In the early dim 'light, the crewmen had lined up at i I I I Enemy ships sunk by Allied air at Livorno, Italy. Livorno (Leghorn) July 19.

their attack west of the Niemen River from Kaunas southward through Alytus. after establishing bridgeheads across the river in the last two weeks. Moscow had not mentioned this sector much since the Russians reached and crossed the Niemen July 17. Cherniakhovsky's troops already have killed or captured more than 161.277 Germans since they began their offensive June 23 in White Russia, Moscow said. Now they are attacking on a 68- mile front.

In addition to taking the East Prussian town of Giby, these other villages were among those seized in the sudden smash west ward: Plutyszki, southwest of Kaunas and about mid -way to Mariam-pole; Iglowka. 11 miles east of Mariampole: Simno, 16 miles west of Alytus; Kazany, 12 miles east of the Suwalki. Berlin also made the assertion, not confirmed by Moscow, that Russian troops were fighting in the Au-gustow sector, which is on the southern side of the Suwalki Triangle and only eight miles rfom East Prussia proper. Cherniakhovsky, chosen by Premier-Marshal Joseph Stalin for the crossing into East Prussia, is a barrel-chested chubby man with a reputation for great organizing abilities and quick judgment in battle. Served in Great Battles A tank expert, he distinguished himself in the fighting at Voronezh.

Kursk, and in the Ukraine. His troops were in the vanguard of Gen. Nikolai Vatutin's forces when they entered Kiev Nov. 6. 1943, after the long fighting march back from the wreckaee of Stalingrad.

He was made a full general June 26, three days after his troops went over to the offensive in the Orsha sector. In the are just west of Brest-Litovsk, the First White Russian Army finally liquidated a large force of Germans trapped there three days ago. Moscow said, killing 15.000 and capturing 2,000. Other units of Rokossovsky's northern wing also seized 200 local ities west of the Bug River in the huge triangle formed by Brest-Litovsk on the east, Siematycze on the northwest, and Siedlce on the west. Among the villages liberated was Mordy, 10 miles northeast of Siedlce and 60 miles east of Warsaw.

Siedlce itself has been the scene of bitter street, fighting for several days. The operations in this sector find the Russians wheeling into position for an attack on Warsaw, now that the fall of Brest-Litovsk. 115 miles east of the Polish capital, has freed huge Soviet forces. Mopping l'p Carpathians In the sector to the north between Brest-Litovsk and Bialystok, General Zakharovs Second White Russian Army captured 61 villages, including Bielsk. 38 miles south of Bialystok: Augustowo.

three miles west of Bielsk, and Sredzinskle, 14 mile aouthwest of Bialystok. The Moscow communique did not mention further Russian progress west of the San River in Southern Poland, where Soviet spearheads last were reported within 83 miles of Krakow and 125 miles from German Silesia. But other units of Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Ukraine Army, clearing the Germans steadily out of the Carpathian foothills, captured 103 localities, including Komarno and Krukience. 21 and 38 miles, re- spectively.

southwest of Lwow. and Dolina, 32 miles west of Stanis- lawow. On the southern Estonian front. Gen. Ivan Maslennikov's Third Baltic Army was well inside the Estonian frontier west and southwest of Pskov.

The bulletin announced the capture of 100 localities by those troops, including Lis-sitski, 12 miles west of Pskov, and the rail city of Irboska, 17 miles southwest of Pskov and 144 miles northwest of Riga. DISABLED NAVAL PLANE DROPS IN SURF AT SHORE PHILADELPHIA, July 30 UP) A Navy pilot whose plane developed engine trouble while on training flight from the Wildwood. N. Naval Air Station, dropped the plane into the surf at Sea Isle City, N. today to avoid injuring bathers by a beach landing, the Fourth Naval District public relations office announced.

The pilot and a passenger, neither of whom was hurt, swam and waded 150 feet to shore. Their names were not released. among the battered pillboxes and revetments along Orote Peninsula air field and in the smouldering ruins of Sumav tnlri t.hp stnrv nf fhe bloody battle waged by the Marines I to rerantnrp the snil sn rkvcpiv lated to Marine tradition. Capture of the 3'j-mile long peninsula gave the Americans control of all three sides of Apra Harbor. Gunboats patroled its waters today to pick oft any live Japanese remaining.

Six gunboats steamed into the naroor yesterday. As thev ao- proached the ruins of Fnrt." Santa i Cruz they were gTeeted by a blast of machine-gun fire from hanH Japanese who had due themselves i into the old Spanish fortress. With ering return fire from the gunboats promptly ended the engagement. The flag-raising ceremony was attended by three ranking Marine generals Holland M. Smith.

Roy S. Geiger. and Lemuel C. Shepherd. Jr.

"I take great pleasure in standing here tody on this hallowed ground where our Marines were killed or captured by the enemy," said General Shepherd, whose First Provisional Marine Brigade wiped out the Japanese on the recaptured peninsula. 'You kept the- heat on them." said General Smith, "and they can't take it." And Geiger added. "You licked the Japs on every occasion where yu coula "hd tnem." as tne noise of battle rumbled in the distance the color guard nf battle weary Marines stood stiffly at attention while Old Glory was raised to full mast. Jap Airdromes Smashed ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, New Guinea, Monday, July 31 iJP) Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur's Liberators smashed four Japanese airdromes in the Sorong sector at the northwest tip of Dutch New Guinea in a heavy raid announced today.

The planes attacked Moemi, Sa-gan, Otawire and Utarom airstrips Saturday, almost nullifying Japan's remaining air strength on New Guinea. Meanwhile Mitchell medium bombers bombed and strafed the east coast of Halmahera, across the Hal-mahera Sea from Sorong. Halmahera lies directly between New Guinea and the Philippines, major goal of MacArthur's forces. The Halmahera attack was a fol-lowup to a raid Thursday when Allied planes shot down 15 Japanese planes over Halmahera and destroyed 30 on the ground. MacArthur's communique today also disclosed that 1,385 nese dead have been counted sin.

'y 22 east of Aitape, where an erv. force has been attempting to break through American lines to escape from a trap. The total enemy dead in the Aitape-Wewak sector of British New Guinea since the suicidal Japanese attacks began July 11 now stands at 2,859. Active patrolling still continues along the Driniumor River east of Aitape. Factory Fire Continued From First Page auxiliary policemen were assigned to handle the traffic.

Relays of. hose were used to pour streams on the building, which is used for manufacturing and Japanning patent leather. Firemen said some skins, racks and other equipment were lost. It is believed, according to firemen, that the blaze probably was started by sparks from a locomotive, falling on a newly tarred roof. It was described as "one of the hottest fires" firemen have been called to fight in several years, but they managed to save the building from being a total loss.

John R. Rue III, of Philadelphia th. mnanv thnt buUding had just reopened for operation after a lapse of 16 months. 1 ifi, owned by the Amalgamated Uather companies, Inc. Mf Rue sajd repairs be start.

ed immediately. Thirty-five persons tvo nint 1 'P. S. TOOK 122 PRISONERS' TRENTON, Mo. 0J.R All in a day's routine! Private Harvey Sni qow 01 irenwn recently wroi a letter to his wife here while taking part in the Allied push from Anzio i to Rome.

Snidow added a 'P. S. to his letter and said. "Oh, yes, an- i other boy and I captured 122 prison- i ers one morning. That was a pretty good haul, wasn't it? We had to do a little shooting, but we got them." All Roads to Berlin Shorter Day by Day By The Associated Press The road to Berlin continues to grow shorter.

1. Russian front 335 miles i measured from near Kolbieli. 2. Normandy front 630 miles (measured from Tro-arn). 3.

Italian front 605 miles (measured from Senigalliah Casualties Continued From First Page Private Greenfield, with whom he made his home before entering the service, was informed of her brother's death when a gift package of cigarettes which she had sent to him was returned with "deceased" written across his name. A week later she received the ofllcial notification from the War Department of her brother's death in France on June 16. Marked Birthday Abroad After 13 weeks' basic training at Camp A. P. Hill in Virginia, following his induction in May, 1942, Private Greenfield went to England, where he celebrated his thirtieth birthday anniversary in April.

Be fore entering the Army, he was em- I ployed as a foreman on a housing project in Chester. Five other sisters and two brothers. Mrs. Reba Ewing, Mrs. Anna Green, Mrs.

May Dod- son, Mrs. Bertha Ramsey, Mrs. Amelia Davis. Walter Greenfield, and Richard Greenfield, survive. Private Brinton, who had been overseas since October.

1942, follow- ing his induction into the service the previous May, had been employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad shops. His mother was informed last Thursday that he had been kiled in action in France. 10 days after she had received word from the War Department that he was missing. Brown Killed June 1 Private Brown, son of Mrs. Eva Barr of Concordvile.

died on June 1 in Italy, according to word received by his wife from the War Department. Entering the service last-August, he received his infantry training at Camp Croft, S. and went overseas in March. Also surviving are three brothers, Sergt. Arthur M.

Brown, in France, Corp. Leon Brown, in Louisiana, Pfc. Aubrey Brown, in Nevada, and a sister, Mrs. Ruth Manley, of Newberry, Pa. His father was tire late Mahlon Brown.

The Joyce brothers, both of whom worked with their father, a contractor, before entering the service, were wounded in the Pacific theatre of war. John was injured in a combat jump on Noemfoor Island, near New Guinea, and Leonard, was wounded by gunfire on Saipan Island. 3oth are hospitalized in the Pacific area. In New Guinea a Year A graduate of Salesianum High School, John, who was drafted in August, 1941, received his paratrooper training at Fort Benning, and left for overseas duty in October, 1942. He has been in the New Guinea area since last July.

Leonard, who was graduated from Wilmington High School, enlisted in the Marines in December, 1942. and left for overseas duty last January. Trained in combat lntelli member of an outfit has "morig its duties the task of going ashore on enemy-held ter ritory to gain knowledge of terrain and Installations before attack by their own forces. Pacific Continued From First Page harbor, they recounted occasions when they put In at Apra for a rest. and went ashore at Agana.

the cap- ital, for relaxation. Apra was store American control by the First Provisional Ma fter eight days of con s.ant fighting. Repair crews are clearing up the wreckage of the war-shattered Su- rine barracks. Engineers are repairing the bomb-cratered 4.700-foot Orote Peninsula air field, one of five captured from the Japanese in the southern Marianas 11- Marines Raise Old Glory The American flag was raided over the Marine barracks by unshaven Marines whose battle uniforms were caked with red clay of the United States island. The bodies of Japanese strewn.