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SUNDAY MORNING. JULY 23. 1944. On Oahn and Airplane Edition Outstie Islands i Prioe 10 Cents 22 PAGES taal i I Hitler Begs Pincers (U-iant rm FastGlosin NaV To Add Salpon's (Capture Means Fleet Polish By ROBERT S. MUSEL LONDON, Sunday, July 23 (UP) Marshal Konstantin Re- kossovsky's First White Russian of Chelm Saturday and smashed within 6 miles of Warsaw, while other Soviet troops drove closer to Riga and broke into the streets of Pskov, the last Russian city in German hands and the southern gateway to Estonia.

Chelm was the first sizeable town captured in Polish territory. It was seized as Soviet tanks, cavalry and infantry raced across the flat Polish plaint toward Lublin after cracking tho powerful German fortifications along the Bur River Hitler' to Japan proper but also to the Philippines, and taking Saipan provides us with an opportunity which we shall certainly take advantage of. A radius from a base is a fair range in which a fleet can successfully operate. "We know where we are going to hit next, but the enemy is puzzled as to just where he must set up his interior defense lines above that 120 degree arc extending from Saipan." Impressed with Bases Admiral King said he was very much impressed with the bases that have been established at Ma-juro, Kwajalein and Eniwetok in the Marshalls. "These bases enable us to keep the Fleet in forward areas and to maintain mobile bases," he explained.

"It was 30 years ago that the Navy started developing the fleet train consisting of supply and repair ships, in other words mobile bases. That seed planted 30 years ago has been so developed that we are now harvesting the fruit." In opening his remarks to the correspondents. Admiral King recalled that he was last in the Pacific in September. 1943. "At that time our farthest forward base was at Midway," Jie pointed out significantly.

Germans To Stay In Fight Frontier Reports Say Hundreds of Officers Arrested; Denial Made Of Mutiny in Prussia By JOSEPH W. GRIGG LONDON, Sunday, July 23 (UP) Adolph Hitler begged the German army last night to fight on until victory was achieved "in spite of everything" and began placing the armed forces on the war front, like those at home, under the iron fist of Nazi Party fanatics in what appeared to be a desperate attempt to stamp out rebellion. Reports said that Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt and Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch, as well as scores of lesser military lights, had been put to death by conspirators. Hitler Wins First Round Hitler appeared to have won the first round, but at the cost of declaring war to the death on the powerful Junkers which assisted him to power. (NBC heard a report by clandestine Radio Atlantic that the Lufthansa commercial airline would resume service to neutral capitals Saturday night and that the "anti-Hitler revolt had ended." (The Atlantic station carried some of the most sensational details of the situation inside Germany in the past few days, and the fact it should abruptly announce the turmoil had subsided might be significant.

(A BBC broadcast, on the other hand, quoted reports emanating from the German embassy- at Madrid that formations of the regular army were fighting SS elite guards in southern Germany.) SS General In Command swiftly on the placing of Heinrich Himmier in command of the German domestic army, it was learned at Allied headquarters that Gen. Paul Heus-ser, strict SS general, had been given command of the Seventh German SS Army on the west front. There was as yet no report straight from Berlin of what if any impact the attempt on Hitler's life and subsequent developments made on the army at the eastern front. A number of generals on the Russian front are regarded as in sympathy with revolters, and perhaps significantly, none of them came forward with a loyalty pledge. A Berlin propaganda spokesman denied reports of mutiny in east Prussia and the execution there of several hundred officers.

Typical of the unconfirmed and (Continued on Page 7. Col. 1) Nimlta USelieves Major Force Jap Fleet Was In Action Bv RAY COLL, JR. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, July 22 The major portion of the Jap Fleet was involved in the action with U. S.

forces last month in the Philippines Sea, in the opinion of Adm. C. W. Nimitz, commanding the Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas. This opinion was expressed today at the admiral's regular 383,000 Men Next July Present Strength Of 3,006,000 Not Enough For Pacific War, Even If Europe Battle Ends WASHINGTON, July 22 (UP) Secretary of the Navy James V.

Forrestal announced today that the strength of the United States Navy will be increased 383,000 men above the present authorized strength of 3,006,000 men by next July "to keep pace with the acceleration of operations against Japan." "We have moved faster than expected in the Pacific, but the war against Japan is by no means approaching an end," Forrestal said. "It has been possible to strike at Japan's inner defense and bring the war to the doorstep of the enemy sooner than expected." The increase planned by the Navy alone calls for 194,000 inductions this year in addition to the regular selective service replacements and also 189,000 additional inductees to June 30 next year. Strength Inadequate Forrestal explained it had been apparent for several months that the previously authorized strength would be inadequate to meet the projected needs late this year and in 1945. Full Navy strength, in cluding Marines and Coast Guards, originally had been pegged at 3.650,000 officers and "men, with the Marines accounting for about 450,000 and the Coast Guard about 200,000. Forrestal said the end of Euro pean hostilities would provide "no measureable relief" to the Navy's Pacific manpower problems be cause personnel released from Europe could not be transferred to the Pacific soon enough to meet peak requirements.

He said many Navy men assigned to the European theater were slated for military transport work when the fighting there ends. New Navy men, he said, were needed to man the new amphibious craft and auxiliary vessels going into commission next year. Forrestal's statements came shortly after the report of the Navy manpower survey board revealed there were about 85,000 male officers and enlisted men in naval shore establishments who could be transferred to combat or other duties. 'Readjustment Needed The report, which was sub- (Continued on Page 6, Cpl. 3) Transatlantic Air Record Is Broken NEW YORK.

July 22 (UP) An American Export Airlines plane landed at La Guardia field from Foynes, Ireland, today in 17 hours and 57 minutes, 19 minutes faster than the previous record, it carried 10 passengers and more than two tons of mail. 11 A marine -Armv Forces Gain Vital Height Roads Between Agana And Piti, Guam Are Cut by U. S. Troops; Tempo of Battle Rises By FRANK TREMAIXE PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR TERS, Pearl Harbor, July 22 (UP) United States Marines and Army iorces on tiuam repulsed two Japanese counterattacks Friday and expanded their beachheads. caD- turing strategic heights and roads from Agana to Piti town.

Admiral nesier vv. iNimixz disclosed in a communique today. Tempo of Battle Rising The communique disclosed that the severity of the fighting on Guam was increasing as the Jans launched attacks against both the northern and southern United States sectors, both of which were repulsed with a Jap loss of a minimum of five tanks and about 270 dead. The communique disclosed the Third Marine Division under Maj. Lren.

Allen H. Turnage of Wide- water, Va. the troops who invaded Bougainville landed on the northern beach just above Orote Peninsula. The First Provisional Marine Brigade, which includes the famed Raider battalions of the South Pacific, landed on the south ern beach immediately below; Orote Peninsula. The First Brigade is commanded by Brig.

Gen. Lemuel E. Shepherd, or la Jolla. Calif. The communique said elements of the Army 77th Division under Maj.

Gen. A. D. Bruce of Temple, Texas, landed in support of the Marines following the initial assault landings. Progress Satisfactory The communique said the troops were making satisfactory progress in botn sectors and that "weve captured Mount Alifan in the southern area.

In the north, roads from Agana (Guam's principal town) to Piti town are in our hands. "Cabras island in the north (Continued on Page 6, Col. 5) Captive Nazis See Beginning Of Revolution Many Prisoners Feel Himmler's SS Now Is Completely in By HENRY T. GORRELL. ON THE NOMANDY FRONT, Sunday.

July 23 (UP) German prisoners reaction to the at tempted assasination of Adolf Hit ler ranged from the opinion that revolution already is under way in Germany to the belief that the SS organization has now seized control of the German army. The latter belief was believed to have been influenced by the bullying attitude of SS regiments which at present are occupying important sectors of France, in cluding open threats of shooting any regular who shows signs of "cowardice." The German prisoners were al ready aware, when I talked to them of the attempted assassina tion in view of the open comment thereon by German radio stations. Germans recently taken prisoner did not appear particularly upset by the news of the attempt on der Fuehrer and emphasized they were simple soldiers, uninterested (Continued on Page 7, Col. 1) Now Can Mange King's Visit to Saipan Told by Correspondent By RICHARD W. JOHNSTON SAIPAN, July 18 (Delayed) (UP) Admiral Ernest J.

King, commander in chief of the Navy, standing beside a Liberator bomber on Isely Field less than three miles from Japanese-held Tinian today, lauded the capture of Saipan as giving us "an interior line position from which we can make a choice of objectives" inside the heart of the Japanese empire. Admiral King, tall and spare, held a brief conference with correspondents during his 24-hour visit here in which he toured the entire island with the exception of the peak of Mt. Tapotchau where 21 Japanese snipers were killed only a few hours before his arrival. It's A Fine Island "It's a fine island I'm glad we've got it and proud that we've taken it," Admiral King said. "It means a great deal to our future plans for operations in the Pacific and the Japs don't like our having it." Admiral King, dressed in field green -trousers and a khaki, open-continued on Page 6.

Col. 6) semi-monthly press conference in the presence of Adm. Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief, Unit ed btates Fleet and Chief of Na val Operations, who has been vis iting forward areas in the Pacific and who is also here to confer with Adm. Nimitz and his staff regarding current operations and contemplated future action Adm.

Nimitz added that did not think "we missed the boat" in failing to catch the enemy with our sunace units My original conceDtion nt what nappened has not changed." he saia. "it was the task rf Adm Spruance's 5th Fleet to stav in the vicinity of the Marianas to cover operations at Saipan. When the enemy carrier aircraft attacked our forces June 18, the direction from which they came was disclosed and subsequent information from a search plane gave the com position of the enemy's fleet. Reviews Spruance Move Adm. Spruance felt reasonably safe to go after the enemy while leaving sufficient strength behind to cover.

the Marianas. We know the results. Our carrier aircraft caught up with the enemy iust be rore dusk June 19. but thev were too far away to engage with our surface units. But I repeat that don't think we missed the boat, since, as I pointed out, it was the primary task of the 5th Fleet to cover the Marianas operations." Adm.

Nimitz went on to elabor ate by drawing on naval history. "The Philippines Sea engagement was a 'weather gage operation," the admiral pointed out "You will recall that in earlv na val engagements between the British and French fleets the French always endeavored to keep to leeward so they could withdraw and conserve their strength. "Times changed with the advent of steam but when carrier power entered the picture new tactics were necessary. In the Philippines Sea battle moderate easterly winds were prevailing which made it necessary to head the carriers in- (Continued on Page 6, Col. 7) an Franciscan New Bases Impress Commander-in-Chief By RAY COLL, JR.

PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, July 22 Admiral Ernest J. King. Commander in Chief, United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations, in a surprise press conference today told a large group of correspondents that he felt very strongly that measures taken to overrun the strategic Jap stronghold of Saipan in the briefest possible time were essential to the success of succeeding operations. "It is apparent," Admiral King observed, "that the occupation of Saipan cut off Guam and also placed Tinian (another Jap bastion some three miles south of Saipan) under artillery fire based on Saipan." Visited Saipan Recently Admiral King returned from a tour of bases in the Marshalls and also visited Saipan. "I was impressed with the ruggedness of the terrain of Saipan," he continued, "and appreciate the difficulties our troops encountered there.

"It is very interesting to note where a 1,500 mile radius from Saipan strikes. It reaches not only King Presents USS Buchanan Citation At PH Record in Pacific Area Against Japs Is Told In Presidential Award PEARL HARBOR, July 22 Adm. Ernest J. King, commander-in-chief, United States Fleet and chief of Naval Operations, today presented the Presidential Unit citation to the U.S.S. Buchanan, a Pacific Fleet destroyer, for "outstanding performance in combat against enemy Japanese forces ashore and afloat in the Pacific war area from Aug.

7, 1942 to Feb. 26, 1944. The Buchanan's skipper, Lt. Cmdr. R.

W. Curtis, Detroit, and Arlington, who took over the ship in February from Lt. Cmdr. F. B.

T. Myhre, Chevy Chase, now on duty in Norfolk, accepted the citation for the destroyer which in a little over 20 months' ac tion in the South Pacific official ly sank one Japanese cruiser and a destroyer, probably sank one enemv submarine and damaged another, shot down five Japanese aircraft, took part four assault landings and participated in numerous bombardments of enemy shore installations. The shin shares credit for an other cruiser and destroyer and two enemy merchantmen sunk and another Jap bomber shot She destroyed at least 25 enemv barees and five times crossed fire with Japanese shore batteries, eacn time itnocKing out (Continued on Page 7, Col. 4) COMPANY MM 1,500 Planes From Italy Hit Ploesti Fields Bad Weather Shackles Nearly All Aircraft In Britain, Normandy By WALTER CRONKITE LONDON, July 22 (UP) A great sky train of possibly 1,500 Italian-based warplanes blasted the Ploesti oil fields in southern Rumania today while bad weather shackled the western arm of the Allied air forces in Britain and Normandy. Robot Bases Raided RAF bombers and fighters in relatively light strength struck through low-hanging storm clouds at Nazi robot bomb installations in northern France late today and the German radio said small raiding formations, including nuisance raiders, were over Berlin and northwestern Germany.

But the bulk of British-based air striking power was grounded throughout the day. An estimated 750 United States Flying Fortresses and Liberators planted another blow on the Ploesti oil fields in Rumania for the 11th trans-Alpine assault of the war on the sources of Axis oil production. Long-range Mustang and Lightning fighters, possibly in equal strength. Accompanied the raiders and fought off swarms of German fighters. Desperate Battle Put Up Returning crewmen said the Germans put up a desperate defensive battle over battered Ploesti.

Massed antiaircraft batteries raked the high-flying bombers, (Continued on Page 7, Col. 3) It's difficult when you are so close to a story to tell what impact it is making beyond the immediate radius of shouting and confusion. Somehow, however, I feel that part of this story got through. Looking at the grass-roots support for Wallace, you could see a parallel, curiously enough, with a strong force that ran through the Republican convention too. It was (Continued on Page 6, Col.

1) ilG ay's KGU Eiadio Capital. Army captured the Polish city; vaunted fcast wall defense line. where the Nazis hoped to stem the Soviet avalanche. 30 Miles From Lublin Rokossovsky's forces took Chelm in a six-mile advance from Zhalin. These elements are within 30 miles east of Lublin and 119 miles southeast of Warsaw.

They formed the southern prong of a giant pincer movement developing on the Polish capital. While the center group of Ro kossovsky's army cleared. Brest-Litovsk-Chelm railroad and drove within 10 miles south of Brest- Litovsk by taking Stradech in a five-mile advance, the northern wing of his army captured Siemia- tyoze. Chelm carried the Soviets a lona way toward splitting the German defenders of Warsaw from the Nazis in the south. By driving from Chelm toward Lublin or the Vistula, the Soviet armies can isolate the German force and facilitate an assault on Brest-Litovsk.

Lithuania Point Held Meanwhile Joseph Stalin in a second orderef the day reported that Marshal Bagramian's First Baltic Army had captured Pone-vezh in Lithuania, 62 miles north-northeast of Kaunas md 85 miles south of Riga. Ponevezh is 37 miles from the Riga-Koenigsberg railroad covering the main railway line from the Baltic to East Prussia. Decisive battle plans already are under way, resulting in two powerful Soviet armies breaching the Germans' "east wall" along a 250- (Continued on Page 7. Col 2) British Capture Half Of Troarn, Flatten Salient German Counterattacks Thrown Back; "Weather; Bogs Down' Armies By PHIL AULT LONDON, Sunday, July 23 (UP) The British Second Army, fighting through morasses of mud like those of the last war, won control Saturday of half of Troarn, German stronghold seven miles east of Caen, and ironed out the German salient south of the city by capturing Maltot and Auvaux. A number of German counterattacks were thrown back with the destruction of 14 German tanks, but otherwise the battlefront became a stalemate with the promising British offensive of the last week bogged down in the worst weather of the invasion.

Bumping through a stream of (Continued on Page 7, CoL 3) Programs KGMB 7:00 Old Fashioned Revival How (MBS) 8:00 Music for Sunday (AFRS) 8:30 Voice of Prophecy (MBS) 9 Musical Comedy Memories 9:30 News 9:40 For Y'our Information 9:45 Waterfront Reporter-Vic Eckland 10:00 Show Parade 10:30 Pan-Americana 11 :00 Svmphony Hour 12:00 Face the Music 12:30 Treasury Salute 12:45 CPA Trio 1:00 Interlude 1:05 Sportlieht 1:10 Baseball Game (Tirers vs. Navy 3:00 Fred Allen (AFRS) 3:30 Command Performance. (AFRS 4:00 Salt Lake Choir (CBS) 4:30 Suspense (AFRS) 5:00 Modern Romances 5:15 Son of the Gypsy 5:30 Radio Readers Diges (CBS) 6:00 Inner Sanctum 6:30 The Pause that Refreshes tm tba Air (CBS) 7:00 News 7:15 Bv Candlelight 7:30 Man Behind the Gun (CBS) 8:00 Music Hour 8:30 Take It or Leave It (CBS) 9:00 The Family Hour (CBS) 9:45 Doctors Courageous 10:00 News 10:15 Stardust Serenade 11:00 The Night Watch 11:30 Victorv Varieties 12:00 Sign Off Convention 6SIibw Blinmecl By Sliakenps ffif Mazls9 Japs By MARQUIS CHILD Special to The Advertiser) CHICAGO, July 22 The towering events taking place east and west of this convention city, across the oceans, make the show here look small indeed. The signs, and you hardly dare believe them, point to the crackup of the Axis. What is beginning to happen in Germany is breathtaking and terrifying the Jap Admiral, Called 6Hero Really Suicide Tokyo in Tears Over 'Valorous' Death Of Nagumo in Saipan Raid (Copyright 1944, by New York Timet and Honolulu Advertiser) PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, July 22 As their swan song for the catastrophic defeat suffered on Saipan, the prolific Japanese propaganda machine ground out a dramatic and touching story of how Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo led the last suicide charge against American forces.

Sword drawn and crying "banzai," the Admiral who was one of the ranking naval commanders and in full charge of the enemy's land and sea forces in the Central Pacific valiantly chose to die inflicting damage on the enemy rather then witness final defeat, the story said, describing how he expired at the mouth of American guns, fighting to the last. What really happened was that the Admiral chose another exit, as thousands of lesser Japanese have chosen before him. He committed hara-kiri. Whether it was by means of the traditional gre nade has not been disclosed, but U. S.

naval authorities say unofficially his body was found and there was no doubt that he had committed suicide. Chinese Maintain Hold On Hengyang CHUNGKING, July 22 (UP) The Chinese maintained a grim hold today on Hengyang and some units on the outer defenses made further advances. On the Kwangtung front no positional changes were reported while Chinese attackers reached the outskirts of Yuhsien. The 14th Air Force repeatedly blasted Jap lines at Hengyang and in the Lake Tungting area. Alone on a Raft, One Soon Becomes Gullible "It's alright for pilots adrift alone on a raft to talk to the sea gulls for company," Sol Plu- vius warned yesterday.

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Call In person, write, or phone our office or one of our agents. General Agents Has Colorful Short-Snorter end of a monstrous thing that defiled and dirtied the whole earth and hurt, maimed and destroyed humans everywhere. In Japan, on the -other side of the world, the first split has appeared. The Republicans complained a month ago that the war news was blanketing their rally. Some stalwarts hinted darkly that President Roosevelt planned it that way.

They blamed him for the weather, too. But what if they had had this kind of competition? Revolt in Germany; Tojo out. I guess the President must have planned this, too, so the people wouldn't notice the family quarrel brewed in the course of picking a vice-presidential candidate. Joe Green of Bay City Proud Owner of Card are likely to be, the signatures on Short-Snorter bills are usually pretty undecipherable. Among the bills pasted together to make up Joe's Short-Snorter card are some from Austa-lia, Indo-China, New Zealand, and a sample of the Japanese invasion currency in Dutch New Guinea.

I first ran into Joe when he piloted the car which took us clipper passengers from the terminal into San Francisco. This morning, among all the strangers waiting with me at the (Continued on Page 7, CoL 3) Bills Bearing Many Impressive Signatures THE SMS Filipino Program 7:10 Baptist Church. 8:45 Adventist Hour 9:15 Hymn from Home. AFRS 9:30 Personal Album, AFRS 9:45 Sunday Symphony Hour 10:45 Board of Health 11:00 Army Hour, NBC 12:00 Uptoa Close, NBC 12:30 Catholic Hour, NBC 1:00 Hawaiian Music 1:30 Summer Show, BLUE 2:30 Hawaiian Band Concert 3:30 News 3:35 Music America Loves Bes, BLUE 4:05 Sunday Serenade 4:30 Great Music. AFRS 4:45 Christian Science 5:00 Nautical Hawaiians 5:30 Grarie Fields, NBC 6:00 All Time Hit Parade.

NBC 6:30 Million Dollar Band, NBC 7:00 The Shadow 7:30 News 7:45 Red Skelton NBC 8:15 Can You Top This, NBC 8:45 Treasurv Salute 9:00 Music When You Want Xt 9:30 Symphony, NBC 10:30 News Musical Mestare 1 10:50 Ending our 7950th Day INSURANCE HAD OTOCf tSTASUSMBD jNames of Prominent Folk Undecipherable By ELAINE FOGG (Special to The Advertiser) MILLS FIELD, SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, July 13 If ever a contest is held to determine the world's champion Short-Snorter, Joseph P. Green of San Francisco should certainly be high in the running. When Joe reaches for his Short-Snorter "card" to bag a new signature, the currency bills of various sizes, hues and countries start unwinding like a tape measure until the bug-eyed onlooker wonders if there's really an end to them at all. Joe's done a lot of trans oceanic flying but says most of the autographs he prizes most highly were procured during flights from Australia to San Francisco, from Guadalcanal to Honolulu and from Honolulu to San Francisco. Picked at random, some of the signatures on Joe's card are those of Adm.

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