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WEATHER Thundershowcrs And Warm SUNDAY ISSUE 1RALD PORT HURON, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 1943 SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY PRICE FIVE CENTS PORT HURON" TIMES FOUNDED AUGUST 1. 1300 gjgtS. mm mm jaj LmJ uvj uvl Hoffmanns Are At War IflGfiT GIVE in' ill KILLED IN HAMBURG AERIAL RAIDS Sam Sarpolus At Battle Creek For Hospitalization Battle Creek. July 31 AP Nineteen Michigan veterans of the North African campaign arrived at the Percy Jones general hospital Saturday night, p3rt of a contingent of 67 surgical and medical cases from Halloran general hospital, MY 01 TWO VICTORY OVER GERMAN ARMY IS PREDICTED Russian Paper Claims Defeat Of Nazi Forces Draws Nearer By LYNN IIEINZERLING London (Sunday) Aug. 1 AP Russian big guns smashed almost 100 German tanks Saturday as Soviet forces fought to a standstill another major Axis blow in the Donets basin of Southern Rus Snover Flyer In Raid Over Abbeville Eighth U.

S. Airforce Headquarters in England, July 31 AP Crews of United States medium bombers which ranged over Western France in the bright sunlight attacks on four Nazi airfields Saturday reported so little opposition that they were able to make their bomb runs virtually unchallenged by the German airforce. Formations attacking Triqueville reported encountering only seven or eight Focke-Wulf J90s and escorting Spitfires sent these scurrying. Only five enemy fighters were seen by the Americans who pockmarked the Abbeville airdrome with explosives and the flyers said these did not venture to attack. Lieut.

H. H. Gleason, Decatur, bombardier of the "Swamp Chicken," said "there must have been more than 100 hits in the immediate target area in the Poix attack. 'Runways just seemed to buckle up and explode in the air." Harold Baker of West Springfield, tailgunner of a plane piloted by Lieut. Louis J.

Sebille of Snover, declared "the target was smokier than Pittsburgh at its worst." 0 FRANCIS H. HOFFMANN English War Cabinet, Government Leaders Are Ready For Immediate Action By RUSSELL LAND STROM i stafr r.t.-ri London. July 31 The urgent warning to Italians that a deadly new rain of bombs was the price of refusing surrender was vicwt-d in London Saturday night as possibly the decisive punch in persuading Italy to give in perhaps in a day or two. All war cabinet members and government leaders stood ready for immediate action any time over the wei'k-tnd in event of major political or military developments. A digest of news reports from Rome itself, from neutral nations and from Germany whose radio announcements conceded the gravity of affairs for the Axis indicated strongly that Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio could not teeter much longer.

Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt wore reported to have discussed the Italian situation in a trans-Atlantic telephone conversation. The situation drew one official statement Saturday night. "No communication whatever has been received by any United Nations representative regarding a proposal for neutralization of the Italian peninsula, as reported in a dispatch from Bern earlier, Saturday," the statement said. "It is further stated that, in any case, the suggested proposal is completely unrelated to the reality of the situation." The consensus in London was that Badoglio lias been hoping t' obtain a negotiated peace, but that inside pressure is making it extremely difficult for him to delay the war-or-peaco decision further. Decrees intended to maintain public order in Italy have increased in severity in the last 24 hours, and this was interpreted as a certain sign that the people are clamoring to get out of the war.

Rome apparently is relatively quiet, but in the industrial north strikes and demonstrations continue. See TEAC FaRe Two. Staten island. The group included Staff Sergt, Sam T. Sarpolus, of RFD 2, St.

Clair. Lieut. Edwin S. Marsh, hospital public relations officer, said Sarpolus was a veteran of 50 bombing missions in the African fighting and holds the coveted Air Medal with nine oak leaf clusters. He was a tail gunner on a Flying Fortress.

ALLIES STAGE In Series Of Air Attacks In Central Solomons By C. YATES McDANIEL i.Wocia'-M Press Staff Writer) Allied Headquarters in the South-west Pacific (Sunday) Aug. 1 United States Army and Navy warplanes delivered a series of smashing attacks against Japanese positions in the Central Solomons Saturday. concentrating their bombs around the Munda and Vila airdromes. Torpedo and divebombers dropped 52 tons of bombs on Bibilo hills, a mile northeast of Munda airdrome on New Georgia island, escorting fighters drove off 30 Japanese zeros which attempted to interfere with the operation.

Two of the American fighters were shot down but one pilot was saved. Across Kula gulf heavy. Flying Fortresses, Mitchells, Dauntless and Avenger bombers with a strong fighter escort. pounded enemy camps and positions around the Vila airdrome on Kolombangara island. Sixty tons of bombs were dropped on the target area.

Strong anti- aircraft fire was encountered in this area, the communique from See PACIFIC, Page Two Murder Warrants Sought For Detroit Race Riot Killers Detroit, July 31 AP Homicide inspector John O. Whitman said Saturday night police will seek murder warrants Monday against four youths said by officers to have cruised about Detroit streets with a rifle during the June 21 riots seeking to shoot negroes. Detective Sergt. Charles Buck-holdt said 16-year-old Aldo Trani, one of the four, admitted firing the shot that killed Moses Kiska, Breathing Space Over, Italian Leaders Told By RELMAN MORIN Aiwocis ted irc! Stalf Wi tter) Allied Headquarters In North Africa, July 31 The grim warning that a crushing new air offensive against the Italian mainland is coming immediately was sounded by radio Saturday night to the people of Italy. The Allied command in North Africa declared that the blood every Italian struck will be on the heads of the men in Rome.

Advising Italians to stay away from railways, factories, depots. German barracks and all military targets, the Allied broadcast accused the new Badoglio government of giving Germans time to strengthen their hand in Italy and said the new regime in Italy's hour of decision had temporized instead of acting for honor, peace and freedom. There was no confirmation of a report that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of Allied forces ill North Africa, was negotiating with a representative of the Italian government.

In view of the warning that bombings would be resumed it was considered highly unlikely. (The first Italian broadcast after the Allied warning of bombs to come wras a broadcast by Rome radio which said that the Italian people had no choice but to continue the war. iThe broadcast, which was reported by the OWI in the United States, came three hours after the Allied message and may have been too soon to constitute a reply. entire Italian people, in the name of its honor and its interests, has no choice but continuation of the war with all its forces," the broadcast said. The Allies, it added, were making "not an offer of peace but an offer of "Italians, you know that on July 25 we let up on the aerial bombardment of Italy," the proclamation read.

"We hoped thereby to give Italy a breathing space wherein to unite for peace and freedom." But the Germans, too, had used the time, it said. When Germans in Italy heard of Mussolini's fall they said to themselves that they were "caught like rats in a trap," the broadcast continued, but now they had regained their insolent attitude toward Italians. It concluded: "And for that full and sole responsibility rests with the new government in Rome. Had that government acted speedily Germany by now would be in full retreat. "But instead the new government temporized.

It missed the opportunity. It permitted the Germans to recover. "Italians, we cannot tolerate this and we issue you this solemn warning: The breathing space is ended. Be prepared." Just six days before Premier Pietro Badoglio had taken over the reins from Benito Mussolini. Just 12 days ago 500 American bombers and 200 fighters participated in the bombing of Rome.

The stern reminder was broadcast to Italians at 7 p.m. and was followed by a similar barrage from London and Washington. The first broadcast to Italy said that in the six days fcincc the removal of Benito Mussolini as premier the Italian people had done much but not enough. The Germans are still on Italian soil, it pointed out, adding: "On your decision may depend the fate of your country'." After Mussolini was ousted, the broadcast said, "we slackened our air attacks in Italy. If Badoglio's government had acted quickly the See ITALIANS, Page Thrrr.

Second German City 'Ceases To Exist witnesses io Devastation Report By EDWIN SHAXKi; tJkll Maff S-ockholm, Sweden, July 31 AP jjore than 1.500 frightened Ger- women and children from bomb-shattered Hamburg crowded border Saturday night waiting for sanctuary as Germany's second city and main port virtually jjjj -ceased to exist" after a week nf intensive Allied air raids leveled entire blocks and killed perhaps 10.000 persons. Eyewitnesses. including about 5300 Danish workers who fled in panic from Hamburg, told of devastation perhaps unequalled in tie war. Their reports were relayed to Stockholm. The workmen, who arrived in a crowded freight train, included one Dane dressed in pajamas who was in a state of nervous collapse.

The men were all admitted to Denmark despite their lack of identification papers which they said had" been burned because they spoke Danish. Negotiations were underway to admit the German women and children waiting at the border upon the promise of Germans living in Schleswig to find quarters for them in their homes. Swedish crewmen of the Hildur, which was hit while in Hamburg harbor, were quoted by the news ritizenrv were streaming out ot lis ruins to eastern Germany, they said. Other eyewitness reports received here told this story: Altoona and other parts of the Hamburg harbor area were flattened and in the harbor itself there as such disorder that no control of any kind existed. Even German authorities, esti- EiUng 10,000 dead, explained me casualties by saying the people -didn't expect such furious raids." The alarm system failed last Sunday.

One sailor went to a shelter but when he emerged the entire house above it had been blown away. The telephone system was crippled, the main railway station gut ted, and three submarines nearing completion were blown to pieces at i the Blohm and Voss wharf. A bomb hit halted traffic over the Lomboards railway bridge spanning the Alster. The Elbe canal tunnel for motor traffic including supply-trucks run plant, the Blohm and Voss works. and the city proper was flooded by a direct bomb hit.

Swedish correspondents in Denmark quoted Danish workers who fled the battered port as spying Hamburg had "ceased to exist block after block of the city is wiped out." One worker said the bus which iOok him out of Hamburg wound -an said, however, he thought no greater action" (meaning an Al--ed invasion would follow. Richmond Gunner Staff Sergt. veme Shovan. 21." i' "of the Germans. a prisoner of ne was previously listed as miss-ir'g in action in the European area Mce June 25.

Sergeant Shovan. a radio on a Flying Fortress, enlisted i -he Army Air Forces in August, received his silver wings at Vegas, New, and went overseas Hay. He was graduated from St. Clair "si school in 1940. and worked in i-fSery in Sf- before enlist-w-His brothers are Corp.

Harold stationed in Iceland, s' caJr'CS Shov5m- at Fort Washington, July 31 AP The -y transportation corps, first year cf operations. Ifrti Saturday it had moved troops overseas to more Wl PfMIriti dim niu'i juaies Weather- HijutW Tcmnit um I 3 rnner Aftontidning as saying the city was "an infer no" where per- haps only 50 houses remained un- damaged. Thousands of its dazed ning between the Deutsche Werft through heaps of bodies and debris. Aftonbladet said 200 Danes were killed during the raids. Other Danish workers left their Hamburg many with hardlv any sessions except the clothes they! wor- Berlin dispatches to Sweden con- to emphasize the extensive loss of life.

A German spokes- Prirnnnv Cl 7V7r -rZ loimei Vl JIUIO -Ir. and Mrs. Henry Shovan. were notified Saturday! OV rtT-- juicun u.h11 58 year-old negro slain as he waited sia, wnne in tne urei sector xtea troops rolled on slowly to take several populated places, killing 1,400 Germans in the advance. The German push southwest of Voroshilovgrad, powered with tanks, planes and shock troops reeled back under concentrated Soviet shelling, said the Moscow midnight communique.

reported by the Soviet Monitor. In one sector 45 German tanks were knocked out. In another, the bulletin said, German infantry divisions, covered by large numbers of tanks, attacked the Russian lines. Soviet troops separated the enemy infantry from the tanks by machine-gun and rifle fire, forcing the troops to turn back. Then Red artillery and tanks picked off the Axis armor.

By the end of the day 50 wrecked German tanks studded the battlefield. German aircraft, used in great numbers in this drive, were targets for Russian anti-aircraft fire and fighter planes which brought down 28 of them. An earlier special bulletin said that on Friday, the first day of the German attack in the south, 95 tanks were wrecked in the area out of 103 disabled or destroyed on the entire Russian front. Fifty-eight enemy aircraft also were shot down on all fronts. The German Donets basin move was an attempt to divert Russian strength from gravely menaced See RUSSIAN, Page Two ES YOUNGER MEN Taft Would Set Line At 30 For Army Service By JACK BELL A Press Staff Writer! Washington, July 31 Predicting early action by congress to overhaul the Selective Service system.

Senator Taft, Republican, Ohio, wrote Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey, Saturday urging the separation of men over 30 years of age and those younger into different draft classifications. Taft told an interviewer he felt confident that demands for a halt in the drafting of fathers, linked with indications of an easing off in Selective Service quotas, would bring the whole question of a reassessment of the present induction before congress shortly after it reconvenes in September from a summer recess. In his letter to Hershey, Taft said he believed that if a division were made at the 30 year age level, it probably would not be necessary to draft those over 30 in the future. "I feel very strongly," the Ohioan told Hershey, "that men of 30 and younger should be drafted before the older men." Taft listed six reasons for the proposed change in the present system, under which draft calls go out to men up to 38.

with married men being taken after the quotas of See YOUNGER, Tage Three Why Not Go To Church Today? Rev. Arthur C. Diefenbach. of Yale, will preach in the First Presbyterian church this morning on "Creative Prayer." Rev. Ernest Kuhnle.

president and director of the Keewahdin Bible Conference, will preach in Westminster Presbyterian church this morning. Rev. Harold W. Richardson, in the First Baptist church this morning, will preach on the subject, Stand by the Dr. William C.

S. Pellowe. at the First Methodist, "When Life Caves In What Rev. David T. Jordan, Gospel Tabernacle, "The Song of Rev.

H. A. Hudgins, Washington Avenue Methodist, "Loyalty and Rev. Horace J. Barnaby, South Park Baptist.

"A Good Man's Rev. W. L. Cruthers, Calvary Baptist, "Remember Lot's Rev, C. E.

Vasbinder, Court Street Baptist. "Launch Put Rev. Otto H. Pfotenhauer. Trinity Lutheran.

"Submitting to the Lord's Will." Rev. E. E. Winters. Tenth Avenue Church of God.

will preach this evening on the subject, 'Billions of Biographies." In the Latter Day Saints church this evening, Elder Frank A. Fry. pastor, will speak on the subject. "Am I My Brother's TAKING for a street car. Buckholdt express ed belief Trani also killed Charles negro slain at Dubois and Superior streets about an hour after Kiska was shot.

'T shot at some guy along there and we saw him fall," Buckholdt quoted Trani as saying. "That was two in our count. Kiska was the first. I shot at another man later but I guess I missed. We didn't NELSON n.

IIOFFMANN RICHARD J. IIOFFMANN HELEN L. HOFFMANN Retired Lighthouse Keeper Expires In Harbor Beach Home Harbor Beach. July 31 Andrew W. Henderson, 71, Spanish-American war veteran and retired lighthouse keeper, who served with the honor guard for the body of President William McKinley after his assassination in 1901 at the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo, died in his home here Saturday after an illness of four months.

Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Monday in his home. Rev. Ernest Carles, Methodist church pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Rock Falls cemetery.

Mr. Henderson is survived by a son, Roy Henderson, a daughter, Mrs. Bertha Melick, two grandchildren, Wilson Henderson and Barbara Melick, and a brother, Donald Henderson, all of Harbor Beach. His wife, the former Miss Rose Clements, whom he married in 1892, died in 1933. Born in Burlington, April 2, 1872, Mr.

Henderson came here in 1879. He entered the United States government service when he was 20 years old and was employed continuously by the United States 43 years until he retired in 1935. Mr. Henderson enlisted in 1892 on a revenue cutter. He saw service aboard the cutter during the Spanish-American war.

He was the last veteran of the war in Harbor Beach and vicinity. After the assassination of President McKinley, Mr. Henderson was assigned to duty with the honor guard that accompanied the remains to Washington and to Canton, where President McKinley was buried. Thirteen years later. Mr.

Henderson transferred to the lighthouse service and was assistant keeper at Spectacle reef, Cheboygan, Thunder Bay. Bay City and Harbor Beach until he retired July 3, 1935. He served here 13 years. Where To Find It- First Section Between You and Me 4 Editorials Farm News It's News To Me Local News Radio Programs i Smilax Sports 7 Second Edition Classified 7 Comics 6 Society Theaters Thurrfb News 1. No Blackout Pay Washington.

July 31 AP The War Labor board acting for the first time on the issue, Saturday refused a union request that its members be paid during blackouts. Three Brothers And Sister Are In Services All of the children of Policewoman Helen R. Hoffmann and Nelson J. Hoffmann are serving their country. The three sons are in the Army, and the daughter is in the WAVES.

Staff Sergt. Richard J. Hoffmann, 27, arrived home last week for a 30-day furlough after more than 2J2 years of service in the southwest Pacific with the Army Air Forces. Corp. Nelson H.

Hoffmann, 26, who enlisted June 26, 1941, is on duty with the AAF somewhere in India. He has been there l'i years. Sergt. Francis H. Hoffmann, 20, is in the Signal corps and is now on maneuvers near Nashville, Tenn.

He enlisted in January, 1942. Apprentice Seaman Helen L. Hoffmann, 21. is receiving basic training at Hunter's college, New York. She joined the WAVES June 10, 1943.

and will go to Washington. D. after completing training. Richard, who enlisted Nov. 2, 1940, was at Hickam field in Hawaii when the Japanese made their infamous attack Dec.

7, 1941. He stayed on at Hickam field for a year after that, then was sent to the Solomon islands. As engineer a Liberator bomber, he took part in raids on Japanese positions on Guadalcanal, the Marshall and Gilbert islands, and other points. About four months ago. he was appointed bomber crew chief.

He wears four stars that indicate he was in four major battles Hickam field. Midway, the Solomon islands and Rabaul. His squadron received two citations from President Roosevelt "for outstanding performance of duty in action." His greatest thrill was landing on Henderson field on Guadalcanal after American forces took over the field at the end of September, 1942. He will report at Hamilton field, Aug. 23.

Detroit Streetcar Workers Pay lipped Detroit, July 31 AP The Detroit Street Railway arbitration board Saturday granted 5.200 motormen. conductors and bus drivers of the DSR a yearly pay increase totaling $1,000,000. The annual payroll for this group now will total an estimated a year. The award provides for a general pay increase of five cents' an hour for all the transportation equipment operators, an increase in overtime pay from 30 to 35 cents an hour, and an increase in bonus payments for intervening time in spread runs, with the bonus beginning at the end of 10 hours instead of the previous 11-hour basis. The general pay raise increases the bus drivers from $1.10 to $1.15 an hour and the conductors and motormen from $1 to $1.05 an hour.

scuffled with them and was struck in the head with a gun. They tied Mrs. Rowe to her bed and taped her mouth with adhesive. During the wait they calmly ransacked the refrigerator. Two hours before the bank was due to open, they took Rowe there to be ready when the time lock released.

Three other bank officials, A. M. Laws, vice president, W. E. Laws, cashier, and Roy F.

Smith, assistant cashier arrived for work and were herded to their desks under guard. The robbers permitted the ice man to enter the building, make his delivery and go on his way unmolested. When the time lock opened shortly after 8 o'clock, the pair took all of the currency and locked the bankers and two customers, Dr. W. D.

Owney, and J. O. Pike, in the vault. They were released a few minutes later by a clerk. The state highway patrol sent 25 crews into the northern Oklahoma area for the ensuing manhunt.

AUTO STAMP DRIOPENS Delinquent Motorists To Get A Federal Summons True to his word. Uncle Sam will launch a Michigan-wide drive Monday to tag automobiles which have no motor vehicle stamp, Giles Kavanagh, his collector of internal revenue in Detroit, said Saturday. Local police and sheriff's officers will join forces with 300 of the be-whiskered gentleman's revenue agents in the roundup of delinquent car owners. Two hundred of said agents will operate in the Detroit area, Kavanagh said. He added that penalties ranging up to $25 may be assessed against motorists who neglected to buy the S5 stamp which became effective July 1, and that offenders will be warned not to buy stamps until they explain their neglect to the internal revenue office.

The 800 motorists who besieged Use stamp salesmen in Port Huron postoffice Friday and Saturday in a last-minute burst of co-operation, may be only a small percentage of car owners who are still without the $5 stickers. It was estimated July 15 after a cross-section checkup of 36 downtown parked automobiles, that roughly 40 per cent of the county's motor vehicles are without Use tags. If applied to the city, the 40 per cent represents 6,400 cars, less the 800 last-minute purchasers. A long line of prospective stamp buyers were caught short Saturday when the stamp window dropped for the week-end. They will have to explain why they drove during July without displaying the $5 sticker.

Starting Monday, the postoffice will sell the pro-rated Use stamps to motorists who did not drive last month or to buyers of new cars. The stamp, purchased in August, will cost $4.56. Navy Makes New Assaults On Kiska Washington, July 31 AP A new one-two punch by sea and air has been delivered against Japanese positions on Kiska island in the Aleutians, the Navy reported Saturday, to end a two-day respite from attack which weather gave the enemy. An American Flying Fortress bombed Japanese installations Thursday and a warship force followed up with a bombardment Friday in actions announced in the first communique on pre-invasion fighting around Kiska since Wednesday. The last previous bombing of Kiska had occured July.

27, Thus the enemy was without attack for two days at least so far as Navy reports go. Speculation here that bad weather prevented air operations apparently was borne out by the fact that today's war bulletin said that results of the single Fortress bombing were not observed because of clouds. The bombing was the 61st raid on Kiska during July. Limited Service For Army Halted Chicago, July 31 AP Maj. Gen.

Henry S. Aurand, commanding officer of the Sixth Service command, announced Saturday that the limited service classification for army personnel will be abandoned Sunday under recent orders from Washington. Only a few soldiers of that classification are expected to receive discharges. however, General Aurand added. He said each man in limited service will be given additional mental and physical examinations to enable officers to determine whether he is fit for combat duty.

In some cases the commanding officer of a camp will determine whether men shall be retained for clerical work or be discharged, Aurand said. see him fall. We watched, though." The other youths held are Armando Mastantuono, 20, owner of the rifle used: Anthony Sara-jots, pos-1 ceno, 16, and Robert Cattone, 17. All but Cattone, Buckholdt said, admitted participating in the auto- mobile hunt for negro victims. Cat-Jinued tone denied accompanying the others.

Increased Civilian Supplies In August Washington. July 31 AP With some area rpnnrt ir.tr shnrtacpc nf 1 butter, the War Food administra- Report Mussolini And His Tribe In Rome Prison took steps Saturday to increase civilian supplies during August. It lowered from 40 to 30 per cent the amount of butter which pro- uuicis iuusi bci asiue ior mmiaiy and other war requirements. I he remainder may be released for civilian distribution under the rationing program. Hold President And They Rob His Bank 2,500 lio, and new heavy terror raids on Germany." The good factors for Germany were the Nazi stand in Sicily and the east, he said, and concluded: "There are obviously rumors circulating in Germany.

After 1918 when Germany was weak and rotten these rumors might have had a deadly effect but today the Ger- jman nation is too healthy to pay (much attention to or be really af-ifected by rumors." Mussolini's Nephew Killed Chiasso, Switzerland. July 31 AP Former Premier Benito Mussolini is imprisoned near Rome at Fort Braschi where his fascist tribunals for many years had put to death those opposing him. frontier reports said Saturday night. Marshal Ugo Cavallcro, former chief of stalf. and General Calviati, former Fascist militia chieftain, also are reported held there.

Vito Mussolini, nephew of the fallen premier and director of the now defunct Fascist tiewspaper Popolo D'ltalia, was killed in a recent battle between a group Fascists and regular Italian troops II Covo. these accounts said. The Badoglio government was said to have secluded the Mussolini i family: his wife. Donna Rachele; Vittorio and the latter'1! wife jand children; daughter. Edda.

and Iher husband. Count Galeazzo Cia.no, their son: the widow of Mus-isolini's son, Bruno, snd her daugh-1 tex; and other relative. The inlcl frow) The Berlin radio furiously attacked the Allies Saturday night, for warning neutrals against giving sanctuary to Axis leaders, terming the move a "gross violation" of in ternational law. The joint announcement by Brit ain, tne united states ana nussia was called "characteristic of the height of arrogance, impudence and contempt of the law that the Allied governments have reached." said one broadcast recorded by the United States foreign broadcast intelligence service "It is one of the most primitive human rights to grant refuge to the persecuted," the German radio said. "The political right of the refugee plays a special part in international law." 'Brave Fellows London, July 31 AP Hans Fritschc, German political com- imentator, admitted Saturday night jthat "rumors" were circulating in Germany, out acciaren ine uer-man nation is too healthy" to be readily affected by them.

At the start of his usual broadcast, recorded by The Associated Press. Fritsche said: "The last week has brought a series of new developments which weighed heavily on us and our nation, while they were well received iby our enemies. They were the I replacement of Mussolini by Badog Broken Arrow, July 31 AP Two bandits who held a bank president and his wife prisoners throughout the night and calmly admitted the iceman to make a delivery while waiting on a time lock, robbed the Arkansas Valley state bank of $12,000 Saturday and locked six men in the vault. Six hours later a pair of suspects were arrested near Ponca City, after one of the most extensive Oklahoma manhunts since frontier days. Bank robbery charges were filed against the men U.S.

District Attorney Whit Mauy at Tulsa. Highway patrolmen who arrested the men said they recovered nearly S4.000 and took two guns from the prisoners, identified in the warrants as Paul Bibee, 31, and Chester Don Peeler, 33. Officers said both were ex-convicts. The bandits appeared at the home of K. M.

Rowe, bank president Friday midnight and forced their way in at gunpoint. Rowe.