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S. Planes Blast Nazis 16 Nazis Kept From Work; Fierv Battle Of Armored Units Rases '4. 5 1 Generals' Failure Laid To Lack of Propaganda MOSCOW, July 26 (JP). Red Star said today that German generals wanted to get rid of Hitler "to escape death with him in final defeat," and that the recent insurrection failed because they did not propagandize their troops, "but expected to succeed by striking at the top Nazis in the style of a palace revolution." JKwwiwwMa.sA Trail in Senate Senator E. D.

Smith Dean of Upper Chamber Is i I 1 -1 i 1 K. 9i X- South Carolina Voting; Arkansas Democrats Give Fulbright Big Lead Over Incumbent By Associated Prest The end of a Senate trail that he set out on nearly 36 years beckoned today for the vociferous and colorful "Cotton Ed" Smith, New Deal-hating 'Last Ditch' Mobilization Fuehrer Expected to Call For All Manpower In Occupied Europe to Help In Defense of Naziism LONDON, July 26 (JP). Adolf Hit ler, having in effect placed the Reich and occupied territories under an arch Nazi "big four" was believed today to be preparing a gen eral mobilization of all manpower in that part of Europe under German control for a last ditch defense of Naziism. A German news agency dispatch reaching Madrid quoted a German foreign off ire spokesman as saying that Germany herself was going to create new and important military reserves and that other countries "allied" with Germany would not be far behind in this program despite the cost. Propaganda Chief Paul Goebbels, newly named by Hitler as Reichs commissar for total mobilization for war, will address the German nation by radio today, Berlin has announced.

He may disclose some of the plans which the Nazi chief tains have drafted for Germany's last fanatical struggle, and appeal for loyalty to Hitler. Executorto Goering In his new post Goebbels has be come executor to Reichsmarshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering, who was appointed by Hitler last night as chairman of the ministerial council for defense of the Reich. Thus Goering becomes a dictator over all private and public life in Germany. He was charged with a total overhaul of state administra tion and public services "with the purpose of freeing the maximum manpower for the German army and the arms industry and of adapting the entire puolic life in every possible respect to the demands of total war." "To do this," said the decree as broadcast by the Berlin radio, "the tasks of lesser war importance will be stopped or reduced and the procedure simplified." Members of 'Big Four Forming the "big four" of Naziism to direct Germany's death battle are Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, and Heinrich Himmler, the Gestapo chief appointed last week to be an all-powerful commander-in-chief of the army at home. Reports reaching Barcelona said Hitler was preparing an order mobilizing "all Europeans in occupied countries" into the war effort without age or sex limitations.

The big unanswered question re- (Se HITLER fage 4) Commons Hold Secret Discussions on Rohots LONDON, July 26 (JP). The House of Commons went into an impromptu secret session today to discuss flying bombs. Capt. Alec S. Cunningham-Reid.

who had a tilt at the government last week with persistent questions about the robots, brought on today's secret session by raising "the urgent necessity of adequately dealing with looting from premises damaged by flying bombs." When Prime Minister Churchill spoke on the robots July 6 he rejected all proposals for a secret discussion, but there have been insistent demands by members ever since for more information. Two patients were killed but 250 escaped injury when a robot hit a hospital in southern England today. Mexico Buses Idle One Day in Tire Protest MEXICO CITY, July 26 (JP). The National Bus Owners' Cooperative Association has announced a suspension of service by all members Aug. 5 to protest the shortage of tires.

In a memorial to President Avila Camacho the association said it never had received its monthly quota of tires, and that as a result 2,800 buses, or half of those owned by the members, are out of service. In Mariffn Germans ThroM in Huge 52-Ton Attempt Enemy Mark VPs In to Stem Tide; Wages Suicidal Fight to Hold Caen Front By Associated Press SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 26. U. tanks in their first major operation in France smashed a breach four miles deep in the first German defense line west of St. Lo today and hammered into a flaming battle w-ith enemy armor in the streets of Marigny.

The heavy thrust endangered, thousands of badly-battered German forces along the enemy's southern defenses. It penetrated the outer crust of Nazi defenses in a couple of hours, carrying four miles south of the St. Lo-Periers Road, and smashed against the first heavy enemy defenses near Marigny. This is a road junction just north of the highway angling southwest from St. Lo to Coutances near the west coast.

Giant 52-ton Mark VI Tiger tanks have been thrown in by the Germans in attempts to stem the drive, dispatches from the fron said. Some of these tanks, mounting 83-millimeter guns, were detected hiding under camouflage nets east of Marigny. Break Miles Wide The initial breakthrough was made along a front of 2li miles. It was spearheaded by churning light and medium tanks on which doughboys rode into battle to pick off with rifles any enemy bazooka men who tried to knock out the tanks at close range. Moving in after waves of bombers had subjected the Nazi defenders to the third straight morning of heavy battering, the American infantry and tanks smashed forward before the dazed Germans had time to rally their thinned forces.

Farther east, other infantrymen moving forward on a five-mile wide front advanced a mile and a half, and captured La Chapelle-en-Juger, also below the highway from St. Lo to Periers. rianes Pace Attack U. S. Marauder medium bombers, pacing the new American push, laid additional "carpet" bomb barrages (See INVASION Page 4) Somervell Orders 54 Hour Week AH Military, Civilian Under Him to Work Longer Day WASHINGTON.

July 26 (JP). A 54-hour work week, an increase cf one hour a day. was ordered today by Brehon Somervell, chief of the Army Services Forces, for all military and civilian personnel in headquarters under his command. General Somervell's office said the added working hours were necessitated by "an accumulation of unfinished, work." Heads of administrative and technical services and service commands also were instructed to establish the longer working day wherever there were backlogs of work. The order directed that no leaves of absence be granted except under exceptional circumstances, until further notice, in the branches affected.

It instructed that any surplus in personnel resulting from the increased hours be diverted to other activities or installations where back logs of work exist. Franklin J. Polster Robert W. Penuel Former Cinar Store Manager Killed 0 verseas Pvt. Franklin J.

Polster French Invasion Victim; Other State Casualties Private Franklin J. Polster, 25, former manager of the United Cigar Store at Tenth and Market Streets, has been killed in action in France. Word that he was killed in France on June 9 has been received from the War Department by his wife, the former Mae Hastings, and his mother, Mrs. Carrie Polster, who live at 520 West Eighth Street. The soldier is also survived by a 14-months-old son, Frank, who he saw when here on furlough last Christmas before going overseas in January.

Another Wilmingtonian, who would have been 27 years old today, is reported killed in action on July 13 in England. The former Wilmingtonian who was a bombardier based in England with the Eighth Air Force, had recently been awarded the Air Medal. He had taken part in the bombing of the French invasion coast I Other Delaware casualties, all listed as wounde-d are: Boyd Hamp, seaman first class, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Hamp of Holly Oak, at Saipan.

Corp. Edward Masielay, 21. husband of Mrs. Louise Masielay, 1303 North Heald Street, and son of Mr. and Mrs.

William Masielay of 409 East Second Street, in Italy. Corp. Robert William Penuel, 33, (See CASUALTIES Page 4) Small Business Hit Hard, Senator Declares KALISPELL, July 26 JP). Senator Kenneth S. Wherry declares that "small business in this country has gone to pot" and that more than a half -million establishments have shut their doors since American entry into the war.

Wherry, a member of the Senate Small Business Committee which held a hearing here, said yesterday that thousands of small business-j men quit, "not because they went broke, but because of the tangle of red tape and their failure to re ceive proper allocations of materials to operate." "The Department of Commerce reported that on Dec. 1, 1943, there were 554,000 fewer businesses in the United States than on Dec. 1, 1941," he said. Record Tonnage Listed For Inland Waterways CHICAGO, July 26 (INS). The largest water-borne tonnage in history is moving over the nation's rivers and other inland waterways, with every available barge, towboat, tugboat and cago ship in use, Ernst Holzborn, head of the ODT's waterways transport department, said today.

Holzborn said this year's tonnage would outstrip 1943 figures, which showed a total of 589,000,000 tons. Figures for 1943 have not been Renominations Senator Hattie Caraway Far Back in Second Place In in yesterday's Democratic primary D. Johnston, who tried unsuccess to unseat the veteran in 1938. DuPont Denies U. S.

Anti-Trust Suit Charges Firm Says It IS'ever Had Control Business Over Chemical in the Nation Emphasizing that it had never controlled or possessed the power to control the chemical business in the statMf the DuPont Com. f1 ll answer to a civil sult brought by the anti-trust di- vWon of the Department of Justice denied violation of the anti-trust laws in its relations with Imperial Chemical Industries of England and other companies abroad. The company also stressed that the relationships of the DuPont Company with the Imperial Chemical and other companies benefited the American people by promoting scientific advance in chemical pro- time re- The DuPont answer to the suit was filed in the U. S. District Court for Southern District of New York and asked that the'suit be dismissed.

By its answer, the DuPont Company took sharp issue with the charges made by federal anti-trust officials that DuPont's relationships with foreign companies were part of a "cartel" arrangement to restrain trade in chemical products. Agreements and transactions of DuPont with companies abroad over the last half century, which had been detailed in the bill of complaint, were dealt with individually in the 79-page answer but the lead- (See DUPONT SUIT Pa ge 4) Chinese Troops Storm Into Leiyang Streets CHUNGKING, July 26 (P). Chi nese troops have broken into the railway city of Leiyang, taken by the enemy in a drive several weeks ago which by-passed encircled Hen-gyang, and street fighting is In progress, the Chinese high command said tonight. Bitter fighting raged within Hen-gyang itself, 34 miles to the north, and the high command said the positions were unchanged since yesterday, with the defenders repelling incessant enemy attacks. The Japanese evidently hold a portion of the city, but the Chinese said for the most part it still was in their hands.

Siill $3,500,000 Short To 90 oyer iht top In the 5th War Bond campaign Delawai must raise that amount this wsek. Buy Thai Bond Today! The Box Score: Total cruota Raised to date 50.500,000 bond goal 8,000,000 Raised to date. 6,000,000 AsRussiansK Enter Lwow Yanks Tram Up With Red Land Forces Against Great Rail Citv; Cossacks Battle Germans on East Rank of llir Wisla River By Associated Press MOSCOW, July 26. Hard-riding Cossacks reached the east bank of the Wisla (Vistula) River today while other Russians, supported for the first time by U. S.

planes in direct, tactical operations, surrounded the mauled German garrison at Lwow and etormed into that great rail city. The Wisla was reached in the Pulawy area, 66 miles southeast of threatened Warsaw. There the Cossacks engaged the battered Germans within 353 miles of Berlin and 142 of German Silesia. Lightnings and Mustangs of the U. S.

15th AL Force flew from U. S. bases in Russia, destroying 38 German planes in the Lwow area without loss. They strafed an airdrome 100 miles northwest of the surrounded city, shot up German transport and gun positions. Often they skimmed the trees to machinegun the fleeing Nazis.

German broadcasts said the Russians had reached the Wisla; were threatening to engulf- surrounded Stanislawow and Kolomja in the Carpathian approaches to Czechoslovak territory annexed by Hungary; and that Nazi lines near the Baltic had been pulled back around Narva. Germans said, moreover, that heavy Russian attacks were being made on the flanked Lithuanian fortress of Kaunas, guarding the approaches to East Prussia.) Beyond the Wisla, a rolling plain ideal for tanks and horsemen such ps the heavily armed Cossacks, invites swift advance. Other Russians driving frontally on Warsaw along the main trunk railway from Kiev were reported between 40 and 50 miles from the Polish capital. Hungary and Czecho-Slovakia were in the path of yet another Russian army group which virtually surrounded Stanislawow and reached (See RUSSIAN WAR Pape 4) State Growers Delayr Broilers Chicken Held 3 to 4 Weeks Extra Because Of Many Delaware growers of broiler rhickens are holding them three or four weeks after they reach market weight because they are unable to market all they have, according to a U. S.

Department of Agriculture report. Though June sales were at a rather high level, they were not as great as the number of broilers 12 weeks old on hand June 1 should have indicated, the report said. Seven per cent of the broilers on hand July 1 were over 14 weeks old, compared with only 1.7 per cent a month before. The number on hand dropped In June, however, from to 15,900,000. Usable capacity In broiler houses in the state was 60 per cent filled on July 1.

The report showed the per-pound price of broilers has dropped from 23.5 cents per pound on June 1 to 27.1 cents on July 1. Feed prices remained practically unchanged during June, but stood more than 50 cents higher than in the summer of 1943. MORE DAYS to get the 5 REBATE on City Property Taxes City effic epea 9 a. m. 5 p.

m. today. Coses at noon on Saturday i WMC Flayed Plant Manager Declares U. S. Agency Withdrew Certification; Believes Union Protest Is Reason Sixteen Nazi prisoners of war most of them veterans of Rommel's ill-fated Afrika Korps did not return today to the foundries of the Eastern Malleable Iron Company in Wilmington because the War Manpower Commission here had withdrawn its certification of the need for the prisoners.

This was the charge made today by William H. Cantwell, manager of the plant, which is one of the largest manufacturers of special castings in the nation. Explaining that he presumed the prisoners were withdrawn because of objections raised by the Local 754, United Automobile Workers (C. I. Mr.

Cantwell stressed that the need for these prisoners in civilian production work at the plant is "just as acute as it was at the time the War Manpower Commission signed the certification on July 14, 1944." In the meantime, a meeting is scheduled to be held this afternoon bv Elmer H. Smith, area director for tne VVMO' ana Co1' John J- Harns commandant of the prisoners-oi-war camp at Fort DuPont, in an attempt to "iron out" the difficulties. Started Work Monday prisoners each paid 80 cents a day in addition to their base pay of 10 cents a day (all in canteen coupons) started to work Monday at Eastern Malleable. Eight more reported yesterday. But this morning, none was brought to the plant, and Mr.

Cantwell said he had no official word of the wthdrawal of the prisoners by the Army until he called Colonel Harris at Fort DuPont this morning and "was advised that the War Manpower Commission had with- Kv a telephone conversation, i its certiflcaton of the need of the prisoners." It is expected a statement will be made by Mr. Smith following his conference wiih Colonel Harris. On Civilian Troject Officials of the Eastern Malleable and WMC are agreed on the point that the prisoners were not engaged (See NAZI PRISONERS Page 1) First Action for Bow, Third for Ship's Stern WASHINGTON, July 26 P). The bow of the destroyer Murphy saw the invasion of Normandy, but it K.i rl was the third battle for her stern, i The Navy reported this today and explained: The Murphy, a veteran of invasions of North Africa and Sicily, split in two in a collision last October. The bow sank, the stern was saved.

She was fitted with a new bow in time to screen troops moving into Europe. Nazis in Poland Hear Von Busch Took Life NEW YORK, July 26 (IP). The British radio said today that "reports spreading among German forces in Poland say that Field Marshal Ernst von Busch, until recently commander of the central front, has committed suicide." The broadcast was reported by United States government monitors. 11 Tnle Lake Japanese Continue Hunger Strike TULE LAKE, July 26 (JP). Fourteen Japanese confined to a stockade in the Tule Lake camp today began the eighth day of a hunger strike which they threaten to continue until they are admitted to the main area of the camp.

The strikers were placed in the stockade after being classified as trouble-makers. it will be heavier, too, in the weeks to come. "The used car ceiling price regulation, which requires the filing of a certificate of transfer with the boards, is going to keep a lot of people checking used car ceiling prices and other pertinent facts. "The new car sharing plan which requires most 'B' and 'C drivers to show they belong to a car pool before they can get full gasoline rations will mean plenty of extra work for the boards. "Our war price and rationing boards are of kind and description.

The America -which marches in a wartime parade before these boards is Just as various: Farmer descendants of Yankee traders, steel workers, telephone linemen, doctors, department store heads women with small children in tow." Expressing belief that a German collapse was near, an article by K. Hofman in the Soviet Army news paper 6aid: "Obviously the plotters aimed to form a new imperial government. This was proved by Hitler's order to protect the government quarters in Berlin, although the leading government members were not there." Palau Attacked By U. S. Planes, Jap Radio Says Island 500 Miles East Of Philippines Target Of Task Force, Foe Claims By Associated Press The Tokyo radio said today that a S.

task force, consisting chiefly of aircraft carriers, had penetrated to the vicinity of Palau Island, about 500 mDes east of Mindanao in the Philippines, and that about 30 carrier-based planes had attacked that island. "Our ground units opened up an anti-aircraft barrage and shot down two of the enemy planes," said the broadcast, which wras recorded by the Associated Press. Tokyo also reported that American planes had raided Yap Island in the Carolines east of Palau. As usual the Japanese claimed that damage sustained in both raids wa slight. There was no immediate Ameri can confirmation of the assault on Palau.

The German news agency DNB, in a broadcast heard in London, quoted the Tokyo radio as saying "two more landing attempts were carried out by the enemy today on Guam." The first U. S. attack of the war on Palau was made by "strong Pacific fleet forces" last March 29. It lasted three days, in conjunction with blows at Yap, Ulithi, and Woleai, and cost the Japanese 28 ships sunk, 18 damaged and 164 to 214 planes shot down, the heaviest (See PALAU Pare 4) Mexico to Expunge English Corruptives MEXICO CITY, July 26 (JP). The Mexican language academy has appointed a committee to seek to exterminate "Pochismos" English words or words of U.

S. origin used in speaking Spanish. The committee will compile a list of "pure" words to substitute for current Pochismos and send the list to teachers, radio announcers, newspaper editors and actors. The word Pochismos comes from Pocho, a Mexican living in the United States. Pochismos include buue, meaning bookie; marqueta, meaning market; farma, for farm; bordo, for boarding house; guachear, meaning "to watch," and troca, for truck.

Tropical Storm Moving Toward Florida Coast MIAMI, July 26 (INS). A tropical storm was reported today to be threatening the southern coasts of the Dominican Republic and Haiti and to be moving slowly in the direction of the Florida coast. The Miami weather bureau issued an advisory originating on the San Juan, Puerto Rico, radio asserting that the storm was first noted south of Puerto Rico, but has moved west northwest until it no longer threatens that area. Winds of gale-like proportions accompanied the storm over an area approximately 100 miles in diameter, with higher winds near the storm center. class of 1918, is the son of the late Rear Admiral B.

C. Decker. He was born ir Wilmington July 20, 1899, and was appointed to Annapolis from Delaware. During the World War he served on several battleships and was engaged in convoy duty. He is the holder of a number of medals, reflecting his continued outstanding service in the Navy.

After World War I he was assigned to the cruiser, Birmingham, and in 1921 went with the Pacific Fleet. For three years he was attached to the Department of Engineering and Aeronautics at the Naval Academy and later returned for sea duty. His father died in 1933. senator from South Carolina. Smith was far back in second place and the man he trailed was Gov.

Olin fully, with President Roosevelt's help, And in Arkansas' Democratic primary, the Senate's only woman member, quiet Hattie Caraway, lagged far behind in a renomination try she had apparently thought was so safe she could afford to campaign only leisurely. The leader there was Rep. J. W. Fulbright, 39, who is serving his first term in Congress.

Fulbright, Ozark Mountain native who grew up to become a Rhodes scholar and university president, gained his first i real fame as the author of the "T.acHrtir rc1ii inn In fha i House, who sought an international organization empowered to keep world order. Fulbright, while polling heavily as returns mounted may not attain the majority of the total vote of all five candidates he needs to win the Sen- ate nomination outright. Latest re- tween two high candidates will be necessary. If Johnston's lead stands up, there will be no need of a South Carolina run-off. When more than half the precincts had reported, this supporter of President Roosevelt had a majority of all cast.

nPwH South Carolina, 1,421 precincts out 78,174: Attorney-General John M. Daniel, 12.156; Dr. Carl B. Epps, 5,867, and A. S.

Merrimon, 2.475. Arkansas, 1.763 precincts out of 55.725: Gov. Homer Adkins, Col. T. H.

Barton, El Dorado oil man, 36.727; Caraway. 20.238, and J. Rosser Venable 697. Smith, whose once bristling mustache now lies close cropped, has been in the Senac since March 4, 1909 and is just a month short of 80 years of age. He is dean of the Senate and chairman of its agriculture committee.

His politcal career was built on aid to farmers (especially cotton), outspoken advocacy of "white supremacy," opposition to tariffs and flat denunciation of New Deal practices he views as hurting states rights. Fire Damages Liherty Ship and Pier; 14 Hurt NEW YORK, July 26 (JP). An empty. Liberty ship and a Hudson River pier where the vessel was being repaired were damaged today by a fire In which at least 14 persons were slightly injured. Firemen battled two hours before bringing the flames under control.

They expressed belief the blaze may have been caused by sparks from welding torches, dropped on the pier. Firemen placed aerial ladders against the bow to permit the major part of the crew to descend to the pier. Several sailors donned life jackets and leaped overboard. They were rescued by Coast Guard OPA Reported Planning 400 Boards for Tires WASHINGTON, July 26 a sharp reduction in heavy truck and bus tire allocations next month, the Office of Price Administration was said today to be planning to concentrate their rationing in about 400 specially designated boards.throughout the country. At present the program is handled by all of the agency's 5,500 local boards.

The new program is intended to center available tires in cities and other areas of greatest need and to provide closer screening of applications. Under the old policy, officials said, only a few tires would be available to each board. 7,000 Applications Received For Next Winter's Fuel Oil Wilmington-BornNavalOfficer Is Aivarded Legion of Merit In Today's Paper Tape WAR NEWS 4-5-1 Amusements 13 Answers to Questions 6 Classified 18-19 Comics 18 Culbertson on Contract i2 Death Notices 17 Editorials 6 Financial Obituary IT Radio II Sports IS Society S-9 Travel and Resorts 1ft Women's Interests The 11 war price and rationing boards in Delaware during the past month considered more than 7,000 applications for next winter's fuel oil, Charles W. Hardesty, head of the state OPA, revealed today. Commenting on the amount of work done by the boards volunteers and paid clerks Mr.

Hardesty in a radio talk over WDEL, also said that 322,000 gallons of gasoline had been issued last month; 953 applica. tions for extra shoe coupons were received and 16,156 applications for additional sugar for home canning. In the Delaware district, he said, there are about 750 volunteers and 100 paid clerks working on local boards. Mr. Hardesty also said that the work load on any war price and rationing board is heavy enough "and A Wilmington-born captain of the U.

S. Navy, Benton Weaver Decker, has been awarded the Legion of Merit for outstanding achievement in the preparation and execution of amphibiouf, operations during the decisive Solomon Islands campaign. The citation, signed by Admiral William F. Halsey, states that Decker contributed outstanding service as chief of staff, landing craft flotillas, Third Amphibious Force, from February, 1943 to May, 1944. Captain Decker had previously received a letter from Admiral Halsey for his services in the New Georgia landings.

Captain Decker, a graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, on'i Let Delaware Down Buy Today olid an Extra war.