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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. SATURDAY MORNING. JULY 22. 1944 GUAM THE SOUTHERNMOST AND LARGEST Point Ritidian ISLAND IN THE MARIANAS IS 30 MILES LONG AND AN AVERAGE OF 7 MILES WIDE Mrs. Bolton to Visit Our Troops in England WASHINGTON, July 21 (A.

The first woman Member of Congress to visit a war theater will be Representative Frances P. Bolton, who announced today she would leave soon to see Japs Again Repulsed In Fleeing; Aitape Trap ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, July 22 (Saturday) (A. Seasoned Americans still firmly held their British New Guinea jungle 1 nes after sharply repulsing a Japanese i night probing attack, head- Point Urono si- Point Pati (A- Americas richtiner men and women at their stations in Eng quarters announced today. LA 4V st land. Phila.

Corporal The assault was made night and Thursday morning in the foothills of the Torricelli Moun fhdad.lphio 1007 Morkat Nr. 10th Comdm 100 Broadsvay, Ctnm PiM Uppr Darby S. 9ttl St. FORMER. 5 NAVAL STATION AMD'CUINA CUPPER SEAPLANE BASE.

gSS-Poinr Is Saipan Hero Janum av Marine Corporal Leonard Wagner, Tl VAN A member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Mrs. Bolton said the trip would be made on "my own initiative both as a Member of Congress and as an individual." She said she would pay her own expenses. SEIZING OPPORTUNITY "Just when I leave and from where, I cannot say," she added. "1 am taking advantage of an opportunity offered me." Mrs. Bolton continued.

"Those in authority feel I can make a very real contribution at this time." She said she would go with a rf CABRAS ISLAND AO AN A LJtoSR ACiANA Point of 3258 N. Dover came out of the Saipan action a hero to his outfit and Fodian 1 1. HUNG AN 'rjr-a commanding officer. Corporal Wagner and two buddies MEN WEJLB were all that was left of their mortar squad when the Japs attacked CI 1UAV. with hand grenades.

"The Japs got on some high ground tains. This is the southern end of the American line along the Driniu-mor River, 21 miles east of Aitape. 105 MORE JAPS KILLED The attack followed a series of probing efforts to outflank the main lines in this rugged country. One hundred and five more Japanese were reported killed bringing the known Nipponese dead to 1474 since their effort to escape the Allied trap began July 10. Australian cruisers and destroyers and American P-T boats bombarded Japanese concentrations in the Harech River area, eight miles east of the Drlniumor.

OIL SHIP IS SUNK Meanwhile, Mitchell bombers Thursday sank a 1000-ton oil ship, three coastal vessels and four barges near Timor Islnnd and Soronc, nt the western tip of Dutch New Guinea. A Japanese reconnaissance plane was shot down over Darwin, Australia, Thursday, the first reported OROTt PENINSULA sense of profound responsibility. I commanding our position and began throwing grenades at us," said Cor too aoo boo aooJ shall bring beak a deeper under Koiso Is Named Jap Premier Continued From First Page additional portfolio of greater east Asia minister. Other cabinet members as listed by Domei: Home affairs, Shigeo Odnchl; finance minister, Sotaro Ishiwata; Justice, Hiromasa Matzuzaka; education, Harushige Iinomiya; Welfare, Hisatada Hirose; munitions, Ginjiro Fujiwara; agriculture and commerce, Toshio Shimada: tians-portation and communications, Yonezo Maeda; ministers of affairs. Chujl Machida.

tideo Kodama and Taketora Ogata. rrouT ri.f i)GKi A Tokio broadcast yesterday said the Imperial Rule Assistance Association (Japanese Fascist rty) had pledged its support "to the new cabinet which will be formed under General Kuniaki Koiso or Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai." A dispatch from Chungking quoted a Chinese Army spokes nan as saying Premier General Hidekl Tojo's Government had been forced to resign because the public had lost confidence in him and "the r-'avy might have refused to take his poral Wagner In a dispatch from the South Pacific. HUKO CMICUI V4AUA fan fS-r- BON IN ISLANDS KITA IWO IWO I MINAMI IWO I HIDDEN AMONG ROCKS "They were hidden among the VV Mount VOLCANO ISLAN05 POBT TALOPOFO rocks and we couldn't get at them. Only three of us were left and we'd expended all our grenades. It did no standing of the grim experience called war." PUBLIC HEALTH WORKER Active in public health work for many years.

Mrs. Bolton said she would visit hospitals and inspect nursing and rehabilitation facilities in England. Mrs. Bolton, mother of two sons in the service, recently completed her third term in the House and was unopposed for renomination in the Ohio Republican primary of May 9 good to nre at them. It would only have revealed our positions.

so we slipped out and borrowed grenades I 1 Iff 1-4 MARIANAS So. enemy flight over this area in weeks. URACAS MAUG ASUNCION AORIHAVI PAGAN ALAMAOAN CUCUAN SAB.ICAN -FAR1ALLON SAIPAN ANIOUAN CT iJCS --3va "5 IK1ADU 1AM from another company. "We had ourselves a show when we got started. We killed three of them and then carried out our wounded to safety," the Corporal said.

The dispatch said that Corporal Wagner and his two mates rescued eight of their wounded fellow 10 Phila. Casualties CLOSED ALL DAY SATURDAYS during JULY and AUGUST cocos ISLANO ROTA At Shore Hospital 1 rS DU1L LPPIKIE.S MP ItV INOUIRf STAFF VI Military Rule Title Dropped in Hawaii HONOLULU. July 21 (A. Lieutenant General Robert C. Richardson last night relinquished the title of Military Governor of Hawaii and said his office would be continued under the name of Office of Internal Security.

The change docs not end Hawaii's martial luw status, now under attack In U. S. courts. ATLANTIC CITY, July 21. Ten Philadelphians are among the some 200 wounded casualties brought here to the England General Hospital this wrek by plane nnd hospital train, the Army unnounred today.

Those from Philadelphia are Pri WHERE AMERICAN FORCES HAVE LANDED ON GUAM ISLAND U. S. Marines and infantry (open arrows) have established two beachheads on Guam Island, first American territory seized by the Japs in this war. One unit has landed near A gat, south of the Orote peninsula; the other is hinged on the town of Asan. Agat is reported shattered.

The immediate objective is Port Apra. Gen. Walker Dead, Son Tells Mother PITTSFIELD, July 21 (A. I .) A letter from their soldier son to his mother last night disclosed the death of Brigadier General Nelson M. Walker in Normandy.

vate First Class Francis E. Traynor, of 1400 Church Normandy in Leaders of Guam Invasion vasion; Staff Sergeant James Robins, of 947 N. 48th Sergeant Ed Open Wed. Noon to 9 P. GlacKson Tvloyer 1610-12 Chestnut Street Relief Nearing gar A.

Hicks, of 262 E. Montana In the first word Mrs. Doris Wyke Walker had received of the General's death. First Lieutenant Perrin Germans Claim Allied Destroyer LONDON, July 21 (A. The German news agency D.

N. B. said In a Berlin broadcast today -Jiat German bombers sank one Allied destroyer and damaged ano.her west of the French port of Brest yesterday. Declaring that the damaged destroyer was left listing, the bread-cast said "it may be assumed to have sunk a few hours later." The claim was unconfirmed by any Allied source. Technician Fifth Grade James Kirby, of 3030 Colona and Pri Walker wrote that his father, at tached to the Army's general staff vates Felix J.

Chappell. of 2141 N. 21st Waverly E. Johns, of 4236 Conolly a Tongh' Admiral; Geiger Rose From Ranks Besieged Chinese corps, was killed in action. U.S.

Troops Drive Inland on Guam By CHARLES H. McML'RTRV Continued From First Page and supplies were put ashore In great quantities. CHUNGKING, July 21 A. Market Victor P. Marino, of 932 oilman and Anthony A.

Mar-inari. of 1336 Jackson all from the Pacific war zones, and Staff Sergeant Ned E. Kennan of 7200 Mc-Callum and Sergeant Charles K. PEARL HARBOR, July 21 (A. Japanese forces attacking Hengyang tain George C.

Dyer, his chief-of-staff, who was standing beside him. EAR ADMIRAL RICHARD L. were estimated today to have risen CONOLLY, commanding the Admiral Conolly, who lives in England to four divisions, perhaps 60,000 men, Brennan, of 116 Reed nuth bases. but the defenders held with the help Washington, was given the honorary Order of Commander of the Admiral Nimitz reported in a communique the progress of fighting begun yesterday morning for the of Chinese-American warplanes, and i i. one Chinese relief column was re-irhlla.

IMan ill ath award by the British for his Sicily operations. first reconquest of an American amphibious operations against Guam, is one of the hardest-hitting, farthest-ranging admirals of this war. To date he Is virtually an unsung hero, despite his Navy Cross, Legion of Merit with Gold Star and Dis-1 1 i hed naval base lost 31 months and nine AJOR GENERAL ROY S. M' days ago. Thanks to a terrific record smashing naval and aerial bombard GEIGER, U.

S. Marine Corps, 7 who as commander of the Third ment of beaches and defense installations. Marines and soldiers -were meeting little opposition in effecting Laro Allies in Italy ToAccept Partisans ROME, July 21 (U. The Allied Control Commission announced today that plans have been drawn up for honoring and aiding patriots, but all partisan troops rtio pass into American lines are bting disarmed in order to "preserve gaoa order and discipline in the libers ted territories." A substantial number of partisans henceforth will be included in local government committees formed a fter the arrival of Allied forces, the commission said, and those patriots vho wished to return to civilian life vill be helped to find jobs. tneir landings.

RESISTANCE GROWS However, Admiral Nimitz reported Service Medal. A miral Conolly has participated in the attacks on the Gilberts, a a lis, Wake, Marcus, Tokio (in General Doolittle's task force On 51 Missions Staff Sergeant Roy J. Buchanan, who has been credited with 51 bombing missions in a little more than four months of overseas service, has been awarded the Air Medal and is expecting to be sent home for a leave, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Buchanan, of 3116 N.

Chadwick st. Sergeant Buchanan, who has his 21st birthday today, is credited with 294 hours of combat flying.l As a turret gunner he flew on missions over Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Rumania and Jugoslavia from a base in Italy. A graduate of the Dobbins Vocational School, Sergeant Buchanan worked at the Navy Yard before he entered the Army Air Force in January, 1943. STATE OF OPPORTUNITY American troops advancing inland were "meeting stiffened resistance in some sectors." -tin ported' only a mile and a quarter from the strategic Hunan Province rail city. A high Army officer said there was severe fighting both west and south of Hengyang, where Chinese units were trying to break through siege lines and end the enemy assault, now in its 25th day.

The force attacking from the south was reported closest to a junction with the garrison. SUPPLY LINES BOMBED The enemy's long supply lines were bombed and shot up from the air. Fighter bombers roared down cn enemy positions south of Hengyang, blew up 11 supply dumps and damaged 70 others. Ranging almost unchallenged along the Siang River, a channel of reinforcement for the enemy assailing Hengyang, other fighter bombers sank 75 small supply boats, hit 30 others, and damaged two double-decked steamboats carrying troops. Fifteen other supply boats were hit in additional sweeps.

UMBER A phibious Corps, is commanding all peditionary forces in the Guam invasion, is the man who landed the Marines a dalcanal and Bougainville. a 1 Geiger, a ola, one of the Marine Corps leading aviators, took over command raid), Sicily; Salerno, Roi, Namur and now Guam. This was to be expected. The excellence and precision of the bombardment was believed to have neutralized many If not a majority of the defenses. But it Is impossible to knock out inland guns and mortars, many of which are well concealed and have to be hunted out singly and silenced.

Admiral Nimitz. said preliminary estimates indicate "our casualties are moderate." This is in contrast to landings made against the fierc As co m- French Saboteurs Blow Up LONDON, July 21 (A. In the biggest stroke of sabotage si ice D-Day French patriots at blew up munition dumps supplying mander of de stroyers under Admiral William Halsey GKNEKAL GEIGER ADMIRAL CONOI.I.Y all German air force bases in east- in the initial carrier attack on the Gilbert and Marshall Islands Feb. est resistance five weeks earlier at France between June 19 nd feaipan, where American forces were 1, 1942, Admiral Conolly lrd a de stroyer bombardment of Japanese shore positions. FARM CtOPS I 22.

authoritative French inform: int In London said last nlKht. Approximately 10.000 tons of munitions in more than 7000 rail cars were reported destroyed. of the Third Amphibious Corps from Lieutenant General A. A. Vandegrift last year, and established an envluble record for efficiency in commanding the invasion of Bougainville last November.

The general, who still flies at 59, began in the Marines as an enlisted man. Fourteen months later. In he had a second lieutenancy. Before and after World War I he FEBRUARY, 1943, he was JN Huge Jap Booly Seized in India made commander of all am Phila. Soldier Helps Capture 16 A Philadelphia soldier and three cither Yunka In two tanks recently attacked a German-held castle In Italy, took the castle and captured 16 of the enemy and wounded many others, according to a dispatch from Fifth Army headquarters.

The Qimker City soldier, who was the fir.st nutn Inside the bn.it Ion, Is Private First Class James P. Sei-bert. of 1227 Day st. In describing the action, the quartet of Yanks said they entered the castle letting loose with a burst of tommy gun fire and hand grenades. Then the 16 Germans came running out with their hands up.

Turks Call Shins phibious bases and landing craft in northwest Africa waters. At Bl-zerte, under almost constant aerial attack, he began mounting his part of the Sicilian invasion, involving Back io Harbor unable to deliver such a concentrated, continuing bombnrdment. HEAVY BATTERING Some conception of the beach bombardment of Guam can be gleaned from Admiral Nimitz's report that 627 tons of bombs and 147 rockets were expended by carrier aircraft alone on the day preceding the landings. Guam will afford anchorage and base facilities not possible on Sai-pan. It will be a potential springboard for further thrusts westward into the Philippines, 1500 miles away, or to the China coast.

It will strengthen Saipan, site of air bases from which Superfortress raids can be made on Japan. served in China, Cuba, the Philippines. Stocky, cocky, sharp-eyed, he will fly a plane anywhere, but he is -also one of the Marines' best-trained leaders, a graduate of the Navy War College and of the Army's Command and General Staff School. hundreds of amphibious craft. In September Admiral Conolly led his amphibious force into Salerno's waters for one of the bloodiest amphibious conflicts of the war.

He narrowly escaped Injury when a shell hit the bridge, wounding Cap LONDON. July 21 (A. increased today that Turkey scon may swing from her tenderly-balanced neutral position to a possiole declaration of war against the One such indication was a broi d-cast by the German-control ed Vichy radio that all Turkish ships had been ordered into Turk sh harbors without delay, and that all navigation in Turkish waters of the Black Sea had been suspended. Guam, site of an American naval station in pre-war days, is a rugged island similar to Saipan, whose ridges, caves and woods took the heaviest toll of American life In any ground action in the Pacific to date. rl a strict of advertise- '-vls a series of The island is 32 miles long and four to ten miles wide.

It fell Dec. 10, 4 TKij iJ one of advertisements featuring the six States served by the Seaboard Railway. KANDY, Ceylon. July 21 (A. Giving no rest to beaten Japanese straggling through the monsoon rains out of eastern India, Allied raiders have struck at the enlemy's staging camp at Meiring and captured great quantities of equipment.

Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten's headquarters announced today. The camp at Meiring, 26 miles south of Ukhrul, was an important link in the withdrawal system by which the Japanese have been retrieving ns much as ixutslbln from their disastrous foray into Manipur State the past winter. CASUALTIES INFLICTEp In addition to seizing material sorely needed by the enemy, the Allied raiders inflicted sharp casualties on the camp's defenders. Heavy, almost continuous rain continued to restrict, activity in all sectors. Between the deep mud and enemy demolitions.

Allied troops pursuing the Japanese along the Tiddim road south of Imphal were able to make but small progress yesterday. Two more enemy tanks were seized beyond Moirang, nine miles south of Bishenpur, along with numerous guns, ammunition and other equipment. 1941. when an overwhelming force LIVESTOCK 3 U.S.SeneralsGet Oak Leaf Cluster SUPR KM HEADQUARTERS ALLIED' EXPBX)ITIONARY FORCE. July 21 (A.

During a tour of the Normandy battlefront General Dwight D. Eisenhower per-5onally awarded oak leaf clusters to Distinguished Service Medals already held by Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley. Major General Leonard T. Gerow.

commander of the American Fifth Corps, and Major General Joseph Lawton Collins, commander of the American Seventh Corps. of Japanese overran its tiny Nazis Admit Loss Of Another Ace LONDON. July 21 (A. The German radio said tonight that Ca p-tain Heinz Weber, German air see credited with 136 kills and holcer of the Knight's Insignia, was missing. He was the fifth Luftwaffe ace a d-mitted lost by the Germans wit! in the past two weeks.

Wilhelmina Gives MacArthur Cross By United Press Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands has, awarded the Knight's Grand Cross with swords in the Or MANUPNG der of Orange-Nassau to General Nazi Oil Supplies Cut 40 Pet. in June LONDON. July 21 (A. Dingle Foot, parliamentary secretary for the Ministry of Econon.ic Warfare, estimated today that Allied bombings had reduced total German oil supplies from all sources 25 percent in May and 40 percent in June. MAN-POWU Douglas MacArthur, The Netherlands news agency announced yesterday.

The order, one of the highest of royal Netherlands awards, was given to General MacArthur in tribute to "his great leadership and the magnificent work achieved" by him in the first steps towards the liberation of The Netherlands East 2 Navy Fliers Die In Delaware Crash Two fliers attached to the TJ. S. Naval Air Station at Wildwood, N. were killed shortly before noon yesterday when a training plane in which they were flying got out of control and crashed to earth a few miles west of Lewes, Del. The plane, according to the public relations office of the 4th Naval District, was last seen flying over Big Stone Beach.

The fliers' names were withheld -pending notification of their families. 4,. -r" I A I -yw-vy A I Sv VZ i South Carolina is undergoing an industrial transformation. Preserving with pride the rich heritage of the past, a progressive people are likewise devoting their energies toward acquiring what is best in the new. Long noted for its preeminence in textiles, recent years have added numerous other enterprises to the State because of its superior manufacturing advantages.

Notable among the new industries established in South Carolina is the manufacture of pulp and paper one plant being the world's largest. Products of farm and forest are finding ever-increasing uses in the industrial life of the State. South Carolina Is aware of the wider opportunities for agricultural diversification and industrial expansion. Alert state agencies and other organizations are making long-range plans for the future development of the State's material resources. The Seaboard Railway has had a constructive part in South Carolina's progress and in the expansion of the State's industrial structure.

The Seaboard through its Industrial and Agricultural Development Departments, as well as through other agencies of the Railway, will continue to plan and work with South Carolina in the years ahead. Silver Star Won By Heroic Gunner A U. S. BOMBER BASE IN BRITAIN. July 21 (A.

Sergeant Cameron Perry. 20, of Santa Barbara, was awarded the Silver Star today for staying in 4 TEXTILES Montgomery's Kin Wounded in France LONDON, July 21 (A. Major Richards Carver, stepson of General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, was wounded in Normandy and flown home to England after a operation, it was disclosed today. 1 Nazis Called From Spain By United Press The French radio in Algiers said in a broadcast yesterday that the German consul general at Barcelona had ordered all German subjects to report immediately "with the view of their return to Germany to contribute to the national defense." WHA IS NATURAL BROWN fUC? the floorless turret beneath a Flying Fortress four hours In 30-be-low-zero cold and warding off repeated attacks of 150 German fighters.

His heroism was shown in an attack on an aircraft repair factory at Zwickau, near Leipzig. Sergeant Perry lost his oxygen mask when the turret was hit, but fitted himself with another. He fastened himself with a safety belt and kept his gun rattling. He already wears the Air Medal with two leaf clusters. 4 POWER Chennault Says Jap Defeat Will Follow Fall of Nazis Seaboard Railway, Norfolk 10, Virginia.

NATURAL BROWN RICE All Finland Goes Dry STOCKHOLM, July 21 (U. The Finnish Government today decreed nation-wide prohibition to start tomorrow. The Government closed all state liquor stores when the Russian Army began its offensive on June 10, but permitted restaurants to serve liquor. Is the Whole Tier not white rice, tains all the hrallhful (ioodnrss of It rnn-hr lire 53 lust as whole ((rain whrat contain all the By CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE IN CHINA, July 20 (Delayed) (A.

Major Geneial Claire L. Chennault said today that If Germany is beaten this year, tie defeat of Japan will come within six months thereafter. The commander of the Fourteen ii Air Force declared in an intervirw that the Japanese drive to seal off joi inner defense zone in China by conquest of all the Hankow-Canton li le actually would shorten the war because of its suicidal aspects. "Far many years," he said, "it hu RAILWAY been my opinion that Japanese tactics are outstanding and their strategy very poor. "I have always felt it would be to the advantage of the Allied effort against Japan if we could draw them into a campaign involving large numbers of troops in the interior of China, then wear them out." Even if the Japanese capture strategic Henyang and join with forces pressing north from Canton, General Chennault said, they would be subjected to terrible punishment from Fourteenth Air Force bombers and Chinese troops.

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