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TEMPERATURE Tv-iried at Town Talk Offic m. m. noon p. 86 STAGES OF EED RIVER For the twenty-four hours ending thi-4 rnorning 7 o'clock. Red river fell even-tenths of a foot and read on tht government gauge 10.6 feet above zero, Shreveport 9.0, 0.6 fall.

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ALEXANDRIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1944 SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS PER COPY 1I mm CITY JUDGE GUS VOLTZ EXONERATED o) mlUJ cm I KILLIiiG OF LEE HOUO ON STREET WSM Ml rr rrr-zirnrr-zirvn Southerners Take Hill jef Defense' Verdict Returned in Downtown Shooting 'Tnseph Lee Novo, 40, Led by Minnesota 'Looey' to HILL ABOVE CHERBOURG, June 26. (Delayed) (tf) Until Friday afternoon, 300 Germans behind 26 guns held this place frantically. It is in American hands today and will be French tomorrow due to the everlasting courage of Second Lieut. John C. Rebarchek, 24, Graceton.

Minn. The enemy's five 105-millimeter guns, five 88s and 16 other automatic weapons awed him not a whit. Rebarchek led 125 men up the wooded slope, through fragrant meadow grass in storming this strongpoint against withering frontal and flanking fire. Three times he leaped on top of a tank rallying his men and keeping the assault moving forward. When victory came, only 60 of his com mand were still in combat; 25 were dead and 40 were wounded.

But 228 Germans came out waving white flags t.nd behind them were 70 dead. 1 i BRITISH PIERCE NAZI ODON LINE IN FRANCE SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 28. (P) British tank columns burst two miles through the Germans' Odon river line and engaged the enemy in the greatest armored battle of the liberation campaign four miles southwest of Caen today. The clash blazing now in open country may decide fyP MH r5Hi rlLi 1MEET THE DEWEYS The Thomas E. Dewey family photographed at Pawling, N.

Y. Gov. and Mrs. Dewey and their two sons, Thomas are shown above. WHITE RUSSIA CAPITAL MINSK MENACED BY REDS FROM 3 SIDES Acceptance Speech Ready, Dewey Primed for Chicago GUAM, ROTA HIT BY U.

S. AIRCRAFT, JAPS ADMIT Unconfirmed Report Tells of Third Raid in Four Days Associated Press American planes have again raided Japanese-held Guam and Rota islands south of invaded Saipan, Tokyo radio said today. The unconfirmed report said 60 to 100 American aircraft struck at Guam and that 60 hit Rota to the north Tuesday. These were the third raids reported on these islands in four days, suggesting that the America navy was clearing the way for further expansion of its holdings in the Marianas group, 1,500 miles from Japan. On Saipan U.

S. Marines and infantrymen at last report were meeting stiffer opposition from Japanese garrisons dug in along a mountainous, cave-lined front roughly halving the island. But the last report covered the situa tion as of two days ago, and Adm. Chester Nimitz' headquarters has been silent since Monday afternoon. ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, New Guinea, June 28.

(JP) The newly-oragnized far eastern air force, lending long-mow TURN TO PAGE FIVE) American Forces old Initiative on Saipan Island Soon to Storm Strong-points 27 Years in Building ABOARD A JOINT EXPEDITIONARY FLAGSHIP AT SAIPAN ISLAND, June 28. (June 27 U. S. Time) Overcoming natural obstacles almost as formidable as the Japanese, Americans on Saipan crunched down the rocky northern slopes of Mount Tapotchau today with their goal in full view after 13 days of invasion of the Marinas islands. Ahead of them lay Japanese strongpoints, 27 years in the building, and an entrenched enemy still committed to defense but already abandoned by his fleet and his emperor.

Behind the Americans was more than half the island, miles from Tokyo. The invaders held the full initiative. The Japanese, pounded day and night by massed artillery and naval batteries, had been unable to launch any sizable counterattack in three days. Overhead, American planes, now able to use conquered Aslito airfield on southern Saipan without interference from Japanese stragglers, held undisputed control of the air. It was a situation in which the marines and infantry along the firing line thought they glimpsed the eventual end of the hardest land battle in the Central Pacific, although none doubted the most difficult fighting still lay ahead.

i.vonrlria attorney, was Ltand killed by City Judge i VlW mi a rlnwntnwn fn A. vim morning. Two hours later, a coroner jury e.wn- LEE NOVO erated Voltz terming the act "self defense" and "justifiable homicide." Judge Voltz, 56, now serving his second term on the city bench, shot the attorney following a discussion about money, witnesses testified. Novo was reported to Save advanced toward Judge Voltz on Murray street between Fourth and Fifth streets and demanded of the municipal jurist: "Where's that money you owe ie?" The judge reportedly askec "What money, Lee?" A discussion followed climaxed by Judge Voltz drawing a .38 calibre pistol from his pocket and shooting the attorney. Following the sidewalk episode, Judge Voltz handed his weapon to Chief George Gray, who was with him at the time, and walked unaccompanied to Sheriff Grady Kelley's office in the court house, two blocks away, where he surrendered himself.

Four Persons witli Judge Judge Voltz and four other persons who had attended his court 'his morning the chief of police, two lawyers, and a Town Talk reporterwere en route to Rush's Coffee Shop, on Murray street J'hen the fatal shooting occurred. Testifying before a coroner's jury shortly before noon today, (NOW TURN TO TAGE TWELVE) Washington MERRY-GO-ROUND BY DREW PEARSON ftff'it Col Robert S. Allen, on Active Servlca with tha Armyl Dewey Forces Tour Money Into California, Seen as Vital to Victory'; Think Warren in Second Place Could Carry State, but Governor Is Wary; Democrats SayBrickeriles Distributed Har-Pw Article Against Dewey; Winston's Moscow Trip Boosts Him as Vice Presidential Possibility. CHICAGO Here is how the Dewey boys are playing cards to win. Long before fy came l0 Chicago they had wiped into California's wierent congressional districts as finst only in all the rest 'Mhe s.

A. Also, long before thev came to Ln'go, they had put California's nuw Ti ns TO PACE SIX) RV JACK STINNETT CHICAGO. M) Delegates 1o Dull nuadrennial Republican convention are discover- om jr tho first time IIolly- sciousIS cominS politically con- Chlh3e0kleiS lights that turned the wgo stadium into a steam bath novt1y to half a dozen on tu 0f here to keeP an c'e nation fortunes of nomi-jshy Earl Warren. electod delegates ctthp 1Ioll-vwoor) area are two WVT.m:' city's io notch -ho'i, is Cecil B- DeMille, iiice' th his wa-v- w'ould p-toot shnw hei'e with a 200 Middle fC swimniiK Pool in tiie That ai tlic convention floor. could RPt him the iOO-ri 1 nomination in this climate.

Tli IS jm 'he Ulan. David O. Selz-With the Wind" line mi 1 Auaa Hollywood Watch GOP Lieut. Col. Carlton MacNeely of Columbus, commander of the Second Battalion who closely followed Company into the strong-point with Capt.

George Mobry, Sumter, S. said the position was one of the most stoutly defended spots he had seen since D-Day. Rebarchek's colonel said he was recommending the lieutenant for a Congressional Medal of Honor, adding: "I believe that in all 20 days of the invasion, there has been a no more heroic attack. The men were magnificent. As the wounded came back they wanted to know only one thing how are we doing?" Company Second Battalion, Fourth Division is composed of brave men, mostly from the south but with a generous sprinkling of soldiers from New York, New Epg-land and the middle west.

Fifth Army Men Slugging Way Toward Livorno American Armored Forces Occupy Chiusdino, Travale ROME, June 28 (JP) San Vin- cenzo, only 32 miles below the big port of Livorno on the Italian west coast, was wrested from the Germans after a bitter house-to-house battle that lasted several hours last night, and today the Fifth army was reported slugging its way steadily forward. San Vincenzo had been con verted into a fortress by the Nazis, who had evacuated all civilians, then erected barricades and wire entanglements in front of the de fenses. Farther inland an American ar mored force continued to roll back stubborn enemv resistance and occupied the villages of Chiusdino and Travale! Chiusdino is only 17 miles southwest of Siena, key highway and communca lions center 31 miles below Florence. Supported by Italian partisans, an American infantry force bypassed, then surrounded and captured the town of Sasseta, four miles northeast of San Vincenzo, (NOW TURN TO PAGE FOURTEEN) Relations Taut as U. S.

Recalls Argentine Envoy WASHINGTON, June 28 The United States attitude towards Argentina drew more taut today with the recall of American Ambassador Norman Armour. Armour is expected to leave Buenos Aires today or tomorrow. The ambassador has been ordered home for consultations. His departure from Buenos Aires will serve to register sharply this country's concern over Argentina's failure to join the rest of the hemisphere in the drive against the Axis. The State Department has had a series of conferences with other American governments on Argentina recently, and it is likely that the American slap at the regime of General Edelmiro Farrell will be followed by a multilateral expression of policy.

Only Chile, Paraguay and Bolivia have had diplomatic relations with the Farrell regime since it overthrew the government of President Pedro Ramirez February 25. Davis O. Ks $95,500 Appropriation Bill BATON ROUGE, June 28. (P) Governor James H. Davis has signed a bill providing an emergency appropriation of for several state institutions.

The appropriation makes available funds for the operation in the present fiscal period ending June 30 of Uie East Louisiana State Hospital, Jackson; State Colony and Training School, Pineville; Charity Hospital, Monroe; State Industrial School for Girls, Pineville: Washington and St. Tammany Hospital, Bogalusa. and the Louisiana Training Institution, Monroe. BRICKER NAMED AS MATE First Ballot Victory for 42-Year-Old N. Y.

Governor CHICAGO STADIUM, June 28. (JP) A 1944 Republican ticket headed by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for president, with Gov. John W.

Bricker of Ohio as his ALBANY, N. June 28. (JP) Governor Thomas E. Dewey said today he was notified at 2:25 p. m.

(EWT) of hi3 nomination as the Republican presidenial candidate and that he would fly to Chicago and address the convention at 9 p. Central War Time tonight. CHICAGO STADIUM, June 28. Governor Thomas E. Dewey was nominated the Republican presidential candidate today by a convention vote of 1,056 to 1 a lone Wisconsin vote going to General Douglas A.

MacArthur. running-mate, was nominated in a whirlwind session today by a national convention that gave Dewey all its votes save one and made it unanimous for Bricker. A lone delegate from Wisconsin, Grant Ritter, 55-year-old farmer of Beloit, cast his vote for Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur, explaining "he's still my candidate.

We didn't get an opportunity to present him." The 42-year-old mustach-ed gang-buster swamped all opposition as state after state roared out their votes amid the traditional accompaniments of bands, kleig lights and bake-oven heat. Another governor tall, handsome John W. Bricker of Ohio was slated for the vice-presidential nomination after forsaking his own drive for the No. 1 spot. It was Dewey all the way, and the roll-call was just a formality after the riotous, band-led snake dance which followed nomination of the Michigan-born attorney by Gov.

Dwight Griswold of Nebraska. "Dewey the people's choice" read the big placards carried by his supporters around the Jam-packed convention floor. "What'll we do, what'll we do, on a dew dew, Dewey day?" ques- (NOW TURN TO PAGE TEN) Col. Chambliss1 Son Dies in Action First Lieut. Turner M.

Cham-bliss, son of Mrs. T. M. Chambliss, who resides at Hotel Bentley, and Col. Chambliss, formerly with the 84th Infantry Division at Camp Claiborne, was killed in action in France on June 6, the War Department informed his mother yesterday.

The 22-year-old infantry officer was assigned to the 101st Airborne division which formerly trained at Camp Claiborne, graduated from West Point in January, 1943. He was reported killed in action on Invasion Day. Lieut. Chambliss is survived by his parents and one sister, Miss Betty Chambliss, who resides here with her mother. Thoir permanent address is Clifton Forge, Va.

An exhibit of flying equipment, including the Wright Flying Fortress engine, gun turrets, bombs and fliers' clothing, will be displayed from noon until 8:30 p. m. This program is. orw of a series presented by military installations and sponsored by the Cosmopolitan Club to further the sale of bonds during the Fifth War Loan Drive. All war bonds sold at the Cosmopolitan Club tent on City Hall square tonight will be credited to Alexandria Air Field.

At the two previous Air Field nights, a total of $27,500 worth of bonds were sold. RUNNING the fate of a large part off the German 15th and 17th armies. The enemy had grouped four armored divisions around Caen, his eastern Normandy stronghold 120 miles from Paris. Carving down southwest of Caen in an outflanking drive, Gen. Sir Bernard L.

Montgomery's steel fist tore a breach six miles wide in Nazi defenses, cut the peninsular base road from Caen, poured over the Odon river, and battered two miles deeper to a point northeast of Esquay. BRITISH TROOPS CAPTURED TOURVILLE SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 28. (JP) Strongly supported by tanks, attacking British troops have widened the breach torn in the German defenses around Caen from four to more than six miles, crossed the Odon river south and west of the city and captured bitterly-defended Tourville, the supreme command announced today. As the offensive rolled forward southeast of Tilly-Sur-Seulles, it was made known officially that the first two weeks of the invasion had cos' the Allies 40,549 casualties. It was estimated yesterday that Axis losses since D-Day were at least 70,000 men.

American casualties were 24,162, more than half the total suffered by the Allies and did not include those incurred in the assault of Cherborug. Clearing weather gave the Allies (NOW TURN TO PAGE FIVE) Partly Cloudy, Forecast Here Alexandria: Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday; scattered thundershowers Thursday afternoon; lowest temperature 72. Louisiana: Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight, and Thursday; thundershowers Thursday and in southeast portion this afternoon. LOCAL WEATHER Recorded by the Army Air Force weather station. Army Air Field, for the 24 hours ending at 7:30 a.

Central War Time: Maximum temperature ..99.0 Minimum temperature ..71.1 Precipitation 0.00 on the steps of their farm home E. and John Martin Dewey, drafting his acceptance speech was the first open sign by the governor he would accept the nomination if offered. Dewey steadfastly has maintained he was not a candidate for the nomination, despite overwhelming expressions of party sentiment in his favor throughout the country. Dewey worked yesterday and last night with his advisors on the address. Aiding him were Paul E.

Lock wood, secretary to the governor; James C. Hagehty, executive assistait; Elliott V. Bell, state (NOW TURN TO PAGE FIVE) Dr. Cottingham Talks at Rotary Club Banquet New Officers of Club Installed at Gathering America is in grave danger of losing the liberties for which she is fighting, asserted Claybrook Cottingham, president of Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, Ruston, in an address last night at the Rotary Club installation banquet in Hotel Bentley. ''We in America have had our liberties for so long that we have begun to take them for granted," the former Alexandrian, who was formerly president of Louisiana College, said.

It is true that 'eternal vigilance is the price of "Our liberty-loving ancestors won our liberty for us at great cost, and those liberties are not lost over night, we allow them to slip little by little through our fingers Many Pp0ples have sold their lib- erties for a mess of pottage, or ex- (NOW TURN TO PAGE FIVE) Forces Supported by One of War's Greatest Air Attacks MOSCOW, June 2. (P) Supported by one of the greatest air attacks ever hurled against the Germans, on the Russian front, the Red Army closed in from three directions today on Minsk, the capital of White Russia. Dispatches from the front said that probably never before had Storm oviks (dive-bombers) been thrown with such strength and effectiveness against Nazi armored forces. Hour after hour they were reported searching out German tanks, plastering them in mass with their flying artillery and blasting the way for four armies converging in a great semicircle on the gateway city to Warsaw and Germany. The northernmost of the three spearheads aimed at Minsk was composed of Gen.

Ivan Bagra-mian's first Baltic army and 36-year-old Gen. Ivan Cherniakhov-sky's third White Russian army In the van of this group were the Stormoviks, fast Yak fighter planes and medium bombers of Lt. Gen. N. P.

Papivin, Bagramian's 37-year-old air commander, and Col. Gen. Timofey Kruikin, Cherniakhovsky's youthful aviation chief. Two of the most astute students of aviation in the Red air force, these young officers were reported throwing clouds of divebombers and medium bombers against the German ground troops and fortifications, blasting bridges and strafing communication lines over a wide area. Cherniakhovsky, who is himself the youngest army general in Russia, turned westward toward Minsk after capturing and drove steadily forward.

Two big obstacles were in hi.s path the Berezina river and the city of Borisov. Field dispatches said that Cherniakhovsky's advance units wer? less than fifty miles from Minsk (NOW TURN TO PAGE TWELVE) targets in the vicinity of Paris and Laon also were attacked by Fortresses and Liberators. Rocket Launching: Area Hit In daylight this morning another formation of RAF Halifaxcs (NOW TURN TO PAGE NINE) ALBANY, N. June 28 (P) His acceptance speech in his pocket, Gov. Thomas E.

Dewey prepared to leave today for the Republican national convention in Chicago as soon as he has been chosen the party's standard bearer in the 1944 presidential election. A 23-passenger plane was at the Albany airport ready to take Dewey, four members of his official family, and a corps of newspapermen to the convention city once formality of selecting the New York governor has been completed. Word yesterday that Dewey was Sgt. Grimble, 29, Missing in Action! Sgt. Donald W.

Grimble, 29, son of Mr. and Mrs. Foster Grimble, formerly of Evergreen, and now of New Orleans, was reported missing in action June 14 over France. Sgtt Grimble, who worked several months in Alexandria before entering service, was an aerial gunner on a Flying Fortress. His wife, Mrs.

Katie Mae Grimble, lives in DeRidder, La. He entered service March, 1943, and for a while was stationed at the Alexandria Army Air Field. Vital Hengyang Is Surrounded by Jap Forces Severe Fighting for Possession of City in Progress CHUNGKING, June 23 (P) The high command indicated to- rugni inai Japanese lorces nave surrounded Hengyang, vital railway junction in Hunan Province. Loss of this city would be the greatest blow to China since the fall of Canton and Hankow in October, 1938. "Severe fighting for the possession of Hengyang is now in progress on all sides of the city," said a communique, adding that "the city, however, is still in our i hands." With the fall of Hengyang the I way would be open for a Japanese advance on Kuwong, provisional capital of Kwantung.

or on Ke-wilin, provisional capital of Kwan- gsi, from which most foreign agen- ties have already withdrawn or are now withdrawing. American and other missionaries (NOW TURN TO PAGE FIVEl AMUSEMENTS DON Salute In the Marines. JOY -1 Dood It. HAUBER-Bos of Boomtown. HAUBER ANNEX Labile Come Home.

Celebrities Convention Army A ir Field Band to Play at Cosmo Show Flattening of All German Airdromes in France Is Goal of Allied Airmen LONDON, June 28. (P) A great Allied aerial offensive aimed at flattening every German operational airdrome in France was resumed today with a triple attack by, at least 750 American heavy bombers after the RAF" had hurled 1,000 planes against two key rail centers in France and rocket installations along the channel coast during the night. The Couvren, Athies and Juvincourt airfields all in the vicinity of Laon were however, is a fellow who holds no official title with the California delegation. He's Leo Carrillo, the genial badman of films, whose only theft here was the spotlight every time Gov. Warren took the platform.

Every time the governor appeared, Carrillo led the cheering. Carrillo's family runs back to the days of the Conquistadores in California. His greatgrandfather was one of the state's first provisional governors. Leo campaigned with Warren for the governorship, and friends say had much to do with coaching the governor to his present standing as one of the best public speakers in the party. Also on hand is Gracie Allen, to give her muddled impressions of the convention on the radio, and Louella Parsons, dean of the Hollywood columnists.

You would almost think Hollywood is getting ready to make another and more up-to-date "Mr. Smith (or somebody) Goes to Washington." Alexandria Army Air Field's band will show its versatility tonight at City Hall square, where the Air Field stages its third war bond program fo the Cosmopolitan Club. During the first part of the program, which starts at 6:30 p. the Land will play military marches. Then it will form a dance band for the second half of the program, featuring songs from musical productions.

Known officially as the 716th AAF Band, it is under the direction of Warrant Officer Harold Barlow of Boston. blasted in clear weather this morning by Flying Fortresses and Liberators escorted by Thunderbolts, Mustangs and Lightnings. Railway yards at Saarbrucken and other unspecified military Morp important politically, I.