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James Malloy Participates in Jaunt With Rotors for Task Force Oil Tanker in Canal Zone Lieut. James M. Malloy, U. S. N.

of 1900 Baynard Boulevard, took part in a recent flight aboard a Naval Transport Service plane that flew two of the heaviest single items ever carried by air between the United States and the Panama Canal Zone. The items carried were main turbine engine rotors, each weighing more than 10,000 pounds. 7 1 y- ox it J-' i -s Gains Made Along Entire Line to West Of Kev City Believe 'Orderly French Allied Leaders Nazis Making Withdrawal' on Enemy Bulge Near tan Has ISeen Lrased Caren By Associated Press SUPREME HEADQUARTERS i ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 14. American in- I fantrymen, slowed in their the ground and held resolutely to their positions two miles outside that 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 the Germans' western anchor at Lessay, and Supreme Headquarters said I the Germans apparently were i i making an orderly withdrawal. Between Lessay and St. Lo the 1 Americans had virtually completed, lifter several days hard fighting, i i the ironing out of a German sanent which had bulged toward Carentan in the middle of the beachhead. Late supreme headquarters an- nouncements mentioned no changes In the battlelines at Caen, at the eastern end of the front, ana oen. Sir Bernard L.

Montgomery's British and Canadians apparently were at a standstill there, as the Ameri AP Wirephoto. American soldiers (left, foreground) ntand amid wreckage of planes "and buildings of what was the Japanese seaplane base at Tanapag on Saipan in the Marianas. Yank forces have taken the enemy strong-Hold about 1JS0O miles from the Japanese mainland. 800 French Villagers Slain 'In Error9 by Wrathful Nazis Men Shot in Groups of 20, Women, Children Are Asphyxiated in Church Before Town Is Burned; Then Germans Reveal Mistake BERN, July 14 (INS). The fat of Lidice, the tiny Czech village which was totally wiped off the map by wrathful Nazis, was reported today to have been visited upon a small French village where 800 men, women, and children were ruthlessly massacred.

An account of the reported atrocity was published by the newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung which said that on June 10 the village of Oradour-sur-Glane was razed after almost5 Added 0 a Arc Assigned TOllfl DriVP r'ar Finance Committee Hopes to Wipe Out State Deficit of $6,000,000 Gathering forces for the final spurt to victory in the Fifth War Loan drive, the Delaware War Finance Committee has reassigned quotas to each county and town in the state to "mop up" the deficit of $6,000,000 still needed. To reach the quota of $54,000,000 by the end of July, New Castle County has been assigned $4,800,000 more bonds, while Kent County must a AAA if-uw anQ BU5P ouniy more, Town chairmen were givcn quotas for tneir snares in the victory spurt. Individual sales are to be stressed in this phase of the drive as they are the ones that have fallen far shon of gQals far To assure Delaware of gettng credit for the month's bond sales, they must be cleared through the Federal Reserve Bank, which has agreed to process anything received im to noon on Julv 31. i Wilmington Trust Company hasf promised to clear all payroll bonds i to the Federal Reserve on or before i July 29. Preferably it should be done earlier to prevent a last-minute rush.

Boy Scouts are continuing their canvassing of the state for pledges. Reports from 13 of 60 troops in the (See BOND DRIVE Pa Re 2) Super ort LlVlliail Parachutes to Safety OKLAHOMA CITY. July 14 7F). Joseph E. Claymore, 38, a civilian flight engineer at the Oklahoma City air service command, to safety after he was accidentally thrown from a B-29 super-Fortress into the sub-stratosphere, Army authorities reported.

The plane was one a routine high altitude flight yesterday near Enid, Okla. Cause of the accident and the height from which Claymore fell were not disclosed. Claymore told public relations officers that as he was thrown from a side blister of the plane he recalled instructions for parachuting at high altitudes and delayed pull ing the ripcord until he was sure-he had reached a level with sufficient air fori breathing. He said that while he fell through space the pressure reminded him of being drawn into a huge air tunnel. New Retreat By Germans Under Way West of Luck Enemy Reveals Soviets Have Twice Broken Into Old Polish Bastion Of Grodno; Wilno Captured With Toll of 13,000 Nazis By Associated Press LONDON, July 14.

The German command announced today the abandonment of Pinsk in the western Prfpyat marshes and the Berlin radio asserted that the Russians had twice broken into the old Polish bastion of Grodno, 20 miles from the Suwaiki triangle of East Prussia. West of Luck, the German communique announced a new retreat over the rolling southern plains of old Poland, a historic invasion route through Warsaw toward German Silesia. Pinsk is 200 miles directly east or. Warsaw and 100 miles east of Brest Litovsk. By these accounts, action was boiling on 600 miles of the Russian front, from near the Baltic Sea to Luck, which lies 210 miles southeast of Warsaw and 110 miles south southwest of PinRk.

Status of Attacks Moscow said various of the five attacking army groups had plunged within 28 miles of Kaunas in Lithuania, within 60 miles of the Brest Litovsk fortress on the Bug River, and within 21 miles of the East Prussia-Riga railroad over which two German armies in the Baltic states must be supplied or else evacuated in large part. Wilno, a city of 207,750 and capital of the Soviet Lithuanian Republic, was far behind Russian lines. The by-passed and surrounded city finally was captured yesterday and in its wreckage, the Russians said there were 8,000 dead Germans. Another 5,000 plodded wearily eastward to prison cages. The German communique asserted that the Wilno garrison after five days' siege "broke through the Soviet ring of encirclement according to orders and fought its way to German stations west of 'Wilno." Moscow Awaits Developments Save for the capture of Kowel, be- tween Pinsk and Luck, the Russians have said nothing of offensive (See RUSSIAN WAR Page 4) De Gaulle Gets Ovation On Return to Algiers ALGIERS, July 14 hailed Gen.

Charles de Gaulle as a returning hero today at a parade and ceremonies celebrating Bastille Day. Tightly packed on downtown balconies and overflowing the post-office plaza, crowds cheered and applauded the French National Committee leader who was making his first official appearance since his return from overseas. French and Allied troops marched past the reviewing stand where De Gaulle stood on the pavement in front of the rest of the committee, taking the salutes. United States, British and South African troops headed the hour-long review. IVavy Yard Workers Warned War Not Over PHILADELPHIA.

July 14 (JP. Warning that the "war is anything but over," Rear Admiral M. Draemel, U. S. commandant of the Third Naval District, said "Right now the going in getting harder, not easier." The naval commandant, in an address to Navy Yard workers, yesterday said the yard has more work now than it can handle and that several thousand additional worken could be employed if available.

Iii Today's Paper' Tag 4 9 WAR NEWS Amusements cans were at St. Lo. July 30. The deadline for county Fighting south and southeast of committeemen to clear their re-Carentan the Americans captured norts through issuing agencies is ails to State Soldier Killed, Two Are Wounded Fourth Listed as Missing; Pfc. F.

Kwiatkowski Of Minquadale Gives Life In Battle in France June 14 Four Delaware casualties were reported today including an infantryman killed in France. They are: Killed: Pfc. Frank Kwiatkowski, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Kwiatkowski, Hazeldel Avenue, Minquadale.

Wounded: Pfc. Ray L. Anderson, a Marine, son of Mrs. Edith Riley of Georgetown, at Saipan. Private Floyd Johnson, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Floyd Johnson of Georgetown. Missing: Staff Sergt. Joseph L. Marshall, 20, husband of Mrs.

Ella Virginia Marshall of Lewes, formerly of Milford. The War Department has informed Mr. and Mrs. Kwiatkowski that their son was killed in action in France on June 14. He had been stationed in England before the invasion.

Never Had Furlough Private Kwiatkowski was employed by the Bear Safety Service before entering the Army in February. 1943, and went overseas last August. He trained at Camp Welters, and never had a furlough during his service. His engagement to Miss Irene Hnida, 401 South Claymont Street, was announced i December, 1 1942. Early this year he met for the first time in more than a year his brother, Pri-v a Walter i a wski, Army Air Forces, who is stationed in England.

They spent a weekend together in London. Private Ander- son was wound-t 4 ed on Saipan on before the conquest of the island- was an Pfc. Frank Kwiatkowski nounced by Admiral Chester Nimit.z. He was a member of the Communications Corps of the Fourth Marine Division. In a letter received by his mother the Marine said that he is at a Pacific base hospital, being treated for his wounds.

However in the letter he made no mention as to how or where his wounds were sustained. Private Anderson saw consider- (See CASUALTIES Page 2) Rain Aids Crops As Heat Abates But Showers Give Only Partial Relief To Farm erg Showers of yesterday which broke a 90-degree heat wave of nine days were followed by a drizzle of rain this morning and coolei; weather. Light rains and showers are ore-cast today, affording further relief to parched crops and gardens which are still in need of additional rain. The mercury dipped from 83 degrees yesterday at 1:30 a. m.

to 72 degrees at noon. The maximum on Wednesday was 95. Unless rains continue crops will be seriously damaged by the drought. The string bean crop has been seriously cut by the dry weather and other crops such as lima beans, corn, cantaloupe, and fruit have been damaged. AMG Plans to Relieve Rome's Unemployment ROME, July 14 UP).

Charles Poletti, AMG commissioner for Rome, announced today a 25, 000,000 lire (about $250,000) Italian public works program would be started in the Rome region immediately to alleviate unemployment. Projects will include removal of debris from bombed areas, public parks work and other jobs not requiring construction materials, Poletti said the program would "give bread to many people and contribute to give a normal appearance to the city." Some Italians already are working on projects undertaken because of military necessity. The Allies are supplying the materials in such at Tanapag Jap- American Figbters Pace Italian Thrust U. S. Units Pierce Nazi Lines to Take Pastina, 13 Miles From Livorno ROME, July 14 (fP).

American troops knifed through fiercely defended German lines yesterday, captured the village of Pastina, if miles east southeast of Livorno (Leghorn), and drove on two miles through San Luce almost due east of Livorno. The thrust, paced by the 442nd regiment combat team composed of American soldiers of Japanese origin, followed a secondary highway midway between the Italian west coast and the Era Valley, and threatened to outflank enemy strongholds on both those major routes to Livorno. Equally significant gains in hard fighting were scored by French troops on the American right wing. The embattled Frenchmen advanced two to 2 miles northward from San Dona to and captured San (See ITALY rage 4) Society Names ary Photo by Broo'ss Studio. Alice D.

Caskie 1 1 I 1 j' Lieutenant Malloy, son of Mrs. John F. Malloy and the late Mr. Malloy, has been in the Navy two years and is now stationed at Pa-tuxent River, Md. He was navigator of the naval transport plane.

Practiced Law Here Lieutenant Malloy was a member of the Delaware Bar Association and practiced law here for several years. At the time he entered the Navy he was associated with the United States Attorney-General's Office in Chicago. He is a graduate of Lehigh University and Harvard Law School. A new rotor was flown from New York to the Canal Zone to replace a damaged rotor in a War Shipping Administration tanker carrying fuel to Task Force 58. The damaged rotor was immediately loaded into the Douglas lour-engme Skymaster cargo transport plane and rushed back to an American shipyard where, after repairs, it will be placed in a new tanker which will slide off the ways in a short time.

This latest example of the job the Navy Air Transport Service is doing in keeping vital supplies going to the fleet on time began on June 16, when the War Shipping Administration was informed that the generator rotor on one of its tankers delivering fuel to the Task Force (See LIEUT. MALLOY fage 2) U. S. Ace Unable to Find i TJ i 1ousl wr A U. S.

EIGHTH AIR FORCE FIGHTER BASE IN ENGLAND, Julv 14 P). Col. Francis Gabreski of Oil City, is beginning to despair of fattening his score of 28 Nazi planes shot out of the air. "I've flown five missions since I got t.he 28th," America's leading ace said today. "I haven't seen a thing or fired a shot.

"I'm going to fly on through next week and then stooge around England for a while before I go home for 30 days leave Aug. 1." In addition to the 28 planes shot down, Gabreski has destroyed two on the ground. Capt. Don S. Gentile of Piqua.

Ohio, also has a total of 30. of which 23 were destroyed in combat. Saipan Wounded Given Plasma on Firing Line WITH U. S. ARMY FORCES ON SAIPAN ISLAND (Delayed) (tP).

Blood plasma was administered to wounded Yanks on Saipan firing lines instead of waiting until the men were brought out to aid stations, sometimes a slow job. Capt, P. J. Bonanno of North Bergen, N. and Joseph E.

Sokal of Greenpoint, N. Army surgeons, instructed their litter bearers on plasma injections at the front. Captain Sokal said 'we like to think the system has saved many lives. It is an improvisation of course, but it works, and that's all we're concerned with out Capt. Charles F.

Richards, Jr. I fi Id J' 1 all of the populace had been shot or burned to death. The destruction of the village in the Arrondissement of Rochechouart by Hitler's Elite Guard "SS" troops was said to have been carried out "in error." since the Nazis intended to punish villagers of another town who were accused of hiding Maquis, or French resistance forces. Report Authenticated The massacre and destruction of the town was authenticated by reliable eyewitness reports, the Swiss newspaper said. "The punitive expedition was really directed against Oradour-sur-Vayres, a bigger place some 17 miles away," a German official was quoted as saying.

During the afternoon of the fatal day, it was men were gathered together in barns while women and children were herded into a church. The "SS" troops were said to have shot the men in groups of 20. At about 5 p. according to the account of one person who escaped, the Nazis installed an apparatus in the crowded church which developed a suffocating smoke. Then, it was alleged, the Nazis spread inflammable material about, locked the doors and burned the church.

Priests of the church died at the altar. Later the entire village was burned. Only 10 persons out of the town's (See TOWN BURNED Page 4) Travelers Afd Jap Who Led Pearl Harbor Attack Killed Admiral Negumo Among 16,000 Nipponese Slain On Saipan; Guam Raided U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, July 14 Death amidst humiliating defeat at Saipan- 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 over Guam.

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz disclosed last night in a communique that Vice Admiral 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 into the tenth day.

Guam Hit Twice Tokyo said an American battleship twice bombarded Guam Thursday and a large formation of planes a tucked the Presumably these were units of mighty Task Force 58 which the Navy in Washington said is ready for "continued and uninterrupted' attacks." Nimitz' communique last night. gave these attacks, by the same powerful fleet units which paced the invasion of Saipan, increased significance when he said: "The seizure of Saipan constitutes a major breach in the Japanese line of inner defenses, and it is our intention to capitalize upon this breach with all means available." In other actions capitalizing on this breach. Marines have overrun (See PACIFIC WAR Page 4) a Palestine Band Slays Officer', Bombs Building JERUSALEM, July 14 (JP). A Palestine constable was killed and another wounded seriously in a gun fight with about 10 heavily armed men who placed bombs in a four-story building in the-heart of Jerusalem last night. About a dozen violent explosions shook the city.

Several British constables billeted in the building were wounded slightly. The explosions and fire substantially damaged the building and also damaged others in the vicinity. Armed with tommyguns and other weapons, the men who placed the bombs escaped after an exchange of shots with police and sentries. Swiss Indicate Crisis Growing in Germany LONDON, July 14 W). Belief that a "major crisis" may be developing in Germany was expressed by a Swiss military commentator today in a broadcast over the Swiss "Confidence is dwindling and nervousness is growing in the German camp," the commentator said.

"Hitler's headquarters moving steadily west, Rundstedt's dismissal, a new paroxysm reached in the persecution of the Jews these are typical elements of a major crisis." (Field Marshal Gen. Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt recently was replaced as commander of German forces in the west by Field Marsh' Guenther von Kluge. Berlin said Von Rundstedt was in "ill health'i Auxais, Les Champs de ixwque. Es-Aubris and La Vincenterie. These advances left the American line running almost straight from a point northeast of Lessay to the Pont Hebert area northwest of St.

Lo. This line was from 2 1-2 to four miles north of the Lessay-St. Lo In the Lessay region, infantry and tanks advanced irom one to mree 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. Lessay itself was under artillery (See INVASION Page 4) Gen oral McNair Sent Overseas General Lear Assigned To Command Of Ground Forces WASHINGTON, July 14 JP.

The War Department announced today that Lieut. Gen. Ben Lear has been assigned to command of the Army ground forces, relieving Lieut. Gen. Lesley J.

McNair who has been given an important overseas assignment." McNair has commanded the grpund forces since March, 1942. While on an inspection trip in North Africa in April, 1943, he was wounded by shell fragments. Lear assumed temporary command of ground forces at that time. Lear, former commander of the Second Army, was assigned a year ago to the Army group, a pool of general officers which is drawn upon for unspecified assignments. Lear was born in Hamilton, Canada, on May 12.

1879. He came up from the ranks after enlisting in the First Colorado Infantry Volunteers on May 1, 1898. NEXT MONDAY Is TIN CAN DAY Monihly City Collection Put cans in containers separate irom rubbish and have them on the curb early Monday morning. Miss Alice Caskie Secret Dover Army Physician Works For Navy During D-D ay Miss Alice D. Caskie, 2120 Market Street, one of the leading specialists in social service work in Wilmington, has been appointed executive secretary of the Travelers Aid Society, and will assume her duties Aug.

14, it was announced today by Mrs. Henry T. Bush, president. Miss Caskie will succeed Miss Margaret M. Ryan, who has been acting executive secretary four years and who resigned recently to return to her former home in Cincinnati where she will take up other duties.

For four years Miss Caskie was a worker in the Temporary Emergency Relief Commission, part of that time acting as director. Her appointment to the Travelers Aid Society comes at a time when the organization is preparing a substantial expansion of its activities, including branch work in Kent and Sussex Counties, and additional services for personnel in the armed forces passing throught the state, as well as large numbers of war workers and their families. A graduate of the Pennsylvania School of Social Work, she has had varied experience in Wilmington in social work, including seven years with the Family Society and three years as superintendent of the Children's Home of Delaware. Miss Caskie has been case work supervisor of the Family Service of (See TRAVELERS AID rage 2) A Dover physician, Charles F. Richards, now with the rank of an Army captain, had the experience of working for the Navy on D-Day and at the same time having a front seat during the invasion.

"I practically had a seat on the stage for the big show," he writes from his base in England. In fact, the LST to which he was assigned, was on the French coast about four hours before H-Hour. "Needless to he was plenty scared at times, especially since we were one of the first ships that arrived." Captain Richards is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F.

Richards, of Dover. He was graduated from the Jefferson Medical School in 1942 and interned at the Delaware Hospital. He was sent overseas early this year. Trained For Invasion After intensive preparation and training for the invasion. Captain Richards was chosen as a member of an Army medical team assigned by the Navy to each LST for the invasion.

Their job was emergency and life saving surgery in the initial phase before evacuation hospitals could be set up on the Normandy beachhead. Each LST was equipped with a (See CAPT. RICHARDS Page 2) Answers to Questions Classified Comics Culbertson on Contract Death Notices Editorials Financial Obituary Radio Sports Society Women's Interest 16-17 14 8 15 6 IS IS 13 12 5.