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4 7 PRICE CENTS War Herb Dead Betsy Ross 1944 IS Secondi u'nit had chased the Japs out of a UeutPul Rossi of Bayonne blockhouse and Tucker accounted I 1' 41C1 1 ngiium piace first in the war and then in the German and Lithuanian troops IMn 4 1 nJ Tlf'l vith the first details of to Byrnes for determination bitter end struc srle the vv Women Children Leaving The Byline of Dependability OUR MILE GAIN IN ITALIAN WAR Lucas formerly of the Musko gee Phoenix and Tulsa Tribune a Marine corps public delations officer) RENCH LEADER CONCLUDES HIS CAPITAL TALKS De? Gaulle Believe 'Principal large crowds over the week end At White City track spotters were mounted atop a 108 foot floodlight vow er ana alerts were sounded over a loudspeaker system London's legitimate theaters however felt effects of the robot assaults 13 of them dosing Sat urday night The government opened the first 1 jSerinan year prisoners was being set up at the north edge of townoday and County Agent Russell said about 200 men wouldie employed in it to aid in perhaps the biggest broomcorn harvest in 15 years Pierson recently appealed for i vorkers saying 2500 were needed the harvest in this 'area broom orn capital of the nation will last 'rom 60 to 90 days The weather iasbeen idal (Army Radiophoto from Nib Interested family: and friends gather the little rench girl in photo above watching her make an American flag Un able to buy one to greet her heroes the Yanks she got busy with needle and thread A 1 SAIPAN Marianas I (Delayed) Sgt'jrank Tucker the Hugo" Okla parts salesman who became a hero in the battle of Roi Namur jn Marshalls was killed last night" Only a few (i hours earlier Tucker had "grinned: and said that there a Jap i alive who could get him before we left the ship Tucker came down and talked a jl great deal aboutthe folks ati home He showed the picture of his 10 year old son who weighs 1 1 135 pounds and is all I sand said the kid was dead set I on becoming a Marine" Buy War Bonds command declared but it admitted I tu rv nf i wer (V I'rrsrr a i un tu nil IPX rnirTn 1 ISM 11T Will Harvest Corn A mobile wcric camp of nese living in the United States SCCL VCttS Lines rom Vire River were west mile front Into Nazi Scoring New Advances WPB colleagues have predicted he would override mili tary objections to permitting re sumption of limited civilian pror duction War CHINESE LAUNCH NEW OENSIVE TO WEAKEN NIPS I CHUNGKING! Jiilv 10 Chinese troops have launched a large in Southern Spangler now counsel to the Re i i DuhllPAn I he discussed organization with the party's presidential nom gave him the situation as I I I Harrison Spangler former I i nan mxii oi tne Konnhi (: cymmmee alter conferringtoday with Gov Thomas Dewey i uetmrea mat the Republican part lie 11 stood by grinning proudly when Tucker was handed a couple of clippings from home telling about the award of the Navy Cross to' him know do said and stuck ij them in his pack They were still there when he died Tucker was killed after the ene my had broken through his lines He was Jeading a squad to wipe them out He enlisted in the Marines right after Pearl Harbor He was former ly an automobile parts salesman for Babcock Brothers of Hugo During the fighting owvNamur island last' ebruary Tucker and 11 other men from a machine gun rnes Offers to elp Settle The Under OP A Ceilings WASHINGTON July (AT 1 Usee passenger' automobiles come' under price control today and all makes and models of used automo covered by veiling prices Sajesby individuals as well as deal ers are affected The Office of Price administra tion said that the used car busi ness with annual sales volume of nearly $2000000000 was until to day the largest industry that hadIOJbeen subject to ceiling prices Buy War Bonds ormer Archbishopi Of risco Is Dead ROME July The Most evv 'Bdward Hanna retired Catholic archbishon of San rnni Arcnnisnon Hann hoJ VCC1I IU uneral services will held tnursday iLONG AND HARD IGHTIS AHEAD General Eisenhower Warns Against Optimism That 'Quick Victory' Is Near By MERRILL MUELLER a for six as the Japs fled towards the trench' 'An estimated 59 of the Japs A reached the trench in time to turn aroundr i fire and pin down in a shell hole all but two of the 'snien pursuing them Tucker man aged to reach the cover of the Cocoanut tree one corporal was close behind hirt' Through the night sporadically the two of them fought it out with Jthe entrenced Jap riflemen In the morning only one Jap was sti)l alive: and he put his 'toe in the trigger and killed himself as the mopping up party ap proached men in the unit credited Tucker with at least 32 of the enemy ox waiystok and Brest Lit warnpH srainB I eivnin6 vp ivrcuni intJ worl nd predicted long and bit ter fighting before the final viclory Jiurope Enumerating the long list of Allied Sliced in Rliaaia Afri ca Italy "and ranc mnee hr I first came to Euronp nf th fall of Tobruk two years ago Gen i eral Eisenhower' said the trend i toward over optimism watt under standable But he emphasized it was the duty of neonle in resrinn I sible position to state the facts i Over optimism take into consideration one main point that more united than I we are now in a position to mt the I in Germans where it hurts and the Spangler now counsel to the Re lGerman8 fiht back harder publican national commitee said i it clear that while the possibility I of a crack in German morale was not excluded he believed Ges i tapo control was so complete over Germany that internal collapse i was a false hope We must be prepared now in all our opera tions home front and fighting front for bitter fighting around i the German perimeter There will be fighting of the most strenuous character with heavy losses The general said the taking of Caen was most gratifying and we i air vu uit uLiennivu an aiung me front I The continuation of the Ameri I can push on the western flank is all part of the great plan but there i is nothing spectacular in it at the moment It is slow painful slug King General Eisenhower was greatly I pleased with the Russian victory at Wilno He said that 25 German driving On rom Caen Montgomery Units Widen Gains Three German Strongpoints Grabbed by han province the south where weTe bloody fighting still continued the suburbs of Hengyang If a lowerei lnt the mine a A communiquedeclared several Turfa hundred Japanese 1 a ere killed south Jechorf of Liling 75 miles northeast of dXninVf Jnd the Hengyang where sthe Chinese sought topenetrate the contact flank and strike his overland sup I A tbrp inrh rtrin A ply lines 18 einK used at' UO deet from the snot where th A Japanese column trying to I nine inch shaft wasP8unk Th! push northward from Canton has: bore is expected to bZ been pressed farther back tjie high Itoday CXpeCted to be completed commana oeeiared but it admitted I The men itaKvavu uy a iniAcr if dJl WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN RANCE July 10 1ZP1 Hard driving American troops broke out of the bottleneck on the western side of the Cher bourg peninsula today with the backing of one of the greatest continuous artillery barrages of thia wr The drumming roll of artillery crashed and thundered all mght and day and German prisoners taken from their muddy foxholes were shaken and num bed by the tons of explosives hurled in the path of the ad idiiKee iniantry The greatest advances made on the eastern and CKil fit 4 1 running from the Aire riv the sea convoys' and oeme German reinforcements atrugi Kung westward across the Seine near the coast just east of Le Havre on ferries and pontoon bridges were bombed and straf ed over a 30 mile stretch be tween QuilJebeuf and Duclair I ue uerman sradio said A Iliad wK laiuciB were (Continued oh Page Tw'O) Buy wr Rescuers Continue Tol nt "C'I'K Iterated an agreement is laSK at (JniO Oline neded among the United States BELLAIRE Ohio July Object' of Better Under standing Achieved: WASHINGTON July 10 T) Gen Charles De Gaulle reporting his conversations with President) Roosevelt attained the 1 cipal of creating a better understanding announced today ho would move his capital from Al 1 Kivin io uoerateu trench terri tory as soon as possible' had very broadband frank conversations with President De Gaulle told a press conference adding that he was taking away with him best possible impression from my stay in the capital of the United The rench leader said he ex plained to the President: well as 1 could how rance gradually 1 emerging from her temporary mis fortune intends to participate with our allies at her rightful nlam life of the world at De Gaulle said President' Roose velt spoke to him of American re sponsibilities for the war and for the peace a breadth of view I a knowledge of the problems' and an idealism which particularly im pressed The general discussed his meet ing with Mr Roosevelt and other American officials just before taking a plane for New York He spoke in rench after an initial Good morning ladies and gen SOVIET TRDfe SLASH THROUGH ENEMY'S LINES jibe broadcast' The Paris radio also heard by US monitors' caizi ojcaa uicieiii former rench deputy and mayor of Putteacz this morning' War Bonds I Weather igii jing platoon leader Second unit had chased the Jans 50000 Youngsters Moved rom Area Hit by Robots By JAMES KING LONDON July 10 CP) evacuation ef women and children from London and various cities in Southern England continued in orderly fashion today as the Ger man flying bomb offensive went into its 26th day More than 50000 children alone already have been moved out of the immediate danger zone A touching scene took place nt the central station in Leicester as Several hundred cheerful chil all pulled in just as a nospiiai train arrived with a load of wounded from Normandy A deaJib: echo answered calls down jVMSi itjr avtusB uayau sea miq uji A vcjil lu me tUIUiel Where 6fi rnai iroutes southward from the Empire Province making consider 'miners are entombed at iw' rkv land even Japanese home islands designated Powhatan mine but drillers cHntr K11 a I4 'rroUMy is jU h' wl Sg of the Japanese garrison estimat I was probably diver Crews using a drill nin ed at more than 20000 when the 810nar further reniii diameter broke through vestei dv invasion began July 14 had been 1 orcement the Japanese Hu to th whe riestrovod ban province to the south where the men were I "The finale yesterday iwar anugly: spectacle of senseless he continued troops weakened to a point of exhaustion by two days of futile counter attack were tii pushed steadily backward airmen flying over trapped foe saw signs of be wilderment and terror among the jtroops and civilians there At one 4 (Continued on Page Two) Vu AL I ruo PaNMied Every Evenins (ETeent Satr4i Mtoai KewKaeorJ PaHtohtag Washington July James Byrnes director of war mobilization has offered himself as arbiter to bring a quick settle ment in the controversy between "Donald Nelson and the armed services over proposed ci vilian production s'An OWM official making this known today' quoted Byrnes aS I saying that the matter is sub mitted tp him he will promptly de cide the Byrnes has expressed the view aide that Nelson and the Army and Navy officials were not actually far apart in their ob jectives and that the parties could arrive at an agreement Satisfactory to both sides on the disputed or deps" "4 upposiblhe 'ficiaLsaid objections from any of the affected Ai naan 1 course come HW JUL Ulj JV was menaced (NBC reporter representing the lac Eh I i I iiriwotiAji I GENERAL I mad ea arnJ IHEADQUARTERS July I Yanks Drive On After Captur vanf tnaJdrOfuCSs ln a swlt a1" Thc supreme commander of the Al I quvu luwara rno TYA ama woiIwam i ing Volterra 'Gothic Line' Menaced By NOLAND NORGAARD ROME Julv 10 (JP) Overcom i ing dogged enemy resistance i Tl i oho 4TII I II I I Jin day captured the German strong hold of Volterra have knifed for OPUlgiei lUIOrmS I en a significant wedge in the Press in Albany i liprmfin HPf0ncOc tha Szx i called Allied head July 10 quarters announced today The action of the doughboys in driving the Nazis from Vol terra was described officially as a setback to the enemy's inten tion of imposing the maximum delay in the ifth drive the Arno river in which are situated the cities of lor ence and Pisa Progress however remained i inee adding: slow along the entire Italian front as the Germans continued tn furht desperately from every vantage Seneral way' puillL On the wets coast an Allied spokesman said American troops made an advance of unspecified distance toward Livorno (Leg horn) despite heavy enemy fire of all kindt and widespread de molition The troops in that sec tor were last reported only 10 miles from the port Another American force moved Up to attack Pomaja 8 miles in land and 14 miles southeast of Livorno This village is astride the I this year as in other times he input tdiiL norm sou th Highway utdjaiico zi miles east of Livorno was threatened by another thrust Supported by 20 tanks the Germans launched a strong counterattack against the rench in the vicinity of Kazna 8'2 miles east of Volterra and heavy fighting raged in that vi cinity No important gains were report ed by Eighth army troops threat eningS the vital communications center of Arezzo where the Ger mans have been digging in for a prolonged battle showered the children with choco lates and cookies It was a noisy night as the German? took advantage of overcast skies over Dover straits toj sneak their robot planes I through the defense wall An official announcement acknowl edged damage and casualtiesin both London and the Southern counties Before darkness set in however fighter Dilot wer 4rowTatzi with shootincr down a consridprshla Tinm vv Awt unuergrouna ovnn uci ui LiiE nuzv nnmna ntA i rc caniwm serving hot war i leSDl le inB TIlftn Bizwww 4 1 A et k1 I Hark rw 7: I The youngster oldi the Greyhound tteck nd encored each other and the tronnui jthar it (jrew try By WES GALLAGHER SUPREME HEADQUARTERS Allied Expeditionary (AP) Gen Sir Bernard Montgom eiy British Second army starting to swing shut the door on Germans still standing across the Orne river in the southern suburbs of captured Caen seized today a chain of Normandy towns and strongpoints guarding the en imperiled flank me en Striking in typical hard hitting Montgomery stjle the British plunged eastward from their Odon bridgehead be hind the embattled Germans in the suburbs ot auborg sutXSCa CaPtUred Odon arn rfierv the and three miles southwest of the city Maltot four miles southwest and Hill 112 a Dauner uuuLnwesi all fell in huivk succession in plunges which took the British within a mile of the Orne river bludgeon more than three miles broad Was matched by a British bridgehead across the Orne to the norlh and east of Caen which also threat ened the last ditch Germans with a squeeze offensive The British fought forward two miles in this latest attack with the objective of freeing the docks of Caen from the threat of general fire so that a stream of Allied freight might soon begin Cl Two "Conquest 'Openf Hope of Air Smashes If Toward A M'" PACIIC HEADQUAR TERS Pearl Harbor Vast' new possibilities of sea and air smashes toward "Japan and tne Ki Philippines surged into view to fl day with the conquestof Saipan I and Noemfoor islands in the west 1 erri Pacific 1 I Onrushing American forces Ii wrested Saipan Saturday from a terrified' Japanese garrison trap I ped on the northern tip I It fell 24 hours after Allied I forces under Gen Douglas Mac I Arthur completely took over I Noemfoor I northwest end I Associate! Press War (Jorrespon I dnpt Rpmlwrf Jamay rArtreaftnf'ino I the combinecl Allied press came should in normal rinrougn ji uic savage uiLver enu struggle me strapped Japanese offered on Sai pan Japanese resistance I ended just before dusk yesterday he wrote I liana were surrendering by: the hundreds 25 days of battle American I forces had battered the first great i hole in inner defense ar mor and carried the war more thant nnn Lvuu jiuies w'cbLwaru Saipan American planes ican fly across sea and air i see it in the various states in a Spangler declined to make any prediction on the outcome of the election asserting not a prog 1 He described as I "somewhat an inde 1 pendent poll released today which reported Dewey as a four DAY cant oJa a I voei rresiaent Roosevelt in New York State A reporter asked: New York goes Republican would this mean a Republican I Spangler replied is an old saw although it is not as true 1 other totes have i in James Kemper Chicago bus inessman who accompanied Spang ler interrupted tn S3V that tt Maur York Republican victory Would be divisions northcast of Wilno are a very comfortable I badly compromised by its capture Spangler said when questioned supreme commander dis as to Republican strength in the eussed sympathetically the trials middle west that they started back London and southern England are several years ago and they Koing through under flying bomb i attacks He said no military man Kemper classing the middle I is taking lightly these experiences west as better than all said Tk's new weapon and its employ the convention delegates were ment is difficult to analyze Spec well with the I on it is out of order ticiet I (Continued on Page Two) BOMBERS AID IN NORMANDY PUSH Large Allied Planes ighter atces Open Road to German ront By GLADWIN HILL LONDON July 10 (AP) Large forces "of Allied bombers and fighters streamed across theEnglish channel in improving weather today in support of the British and American troon I vancing on the Normandy battle 1 in English I he read a statement ex lllie Pane rarlin coM a Dressino his oab'cfnt: it planes bombed Northeast Paris telks with the President Secretary this morning) of State Hull and other officials During the night RA Mosquito! Then he answered questions freely and Boston bombers ranged deep I His statement and remarks made' into rance and attacked J8 trains ieyeral points: and railroads' leading to the Ger 1 De Gaulle said that ranc I Jias JlO flmhincina ritoriesmithefTirEtao pe or Jn AmerinjrjfaqtxytnejiwJiq yestfiX UUL ior reasons of inter national security and in inv est of rench aeenritv pnutoiw I 41 pidf 1 measures may he necessary I with respect to territories where I the fhg of the rench army mar I well have tn flv" xlA Lilcll sinfl ei ne referred tn rnit wLupattun ill over North the Rhineland and said it might cover many years 2 or ihe proper civil adminis tration of rench territories now ibeintr liberator! I Britain and thn ranzVi ww uuuudl VUIJI a i i it im'wuue swa tne atnios i phere of and under i standing achieved by the President apd hinself may lead to an agree ment 3 The general expects to go in to rance "as soon as possible to install the services of the govem inent but the creation of a newcapital is a very complicated mat ter ana neens much De Gaulle declared there are and practical dif Continued on Page Two) Buy Wor Bonds Enjoys Getting Letters rom Home ORT BENNING Ga July General morale fays his wife no different from that of a GI He keeps his ear couea ior mail call The wife of the supreme Allied commander in the European theater came ort Benning today with her son Second Lieut John Eisen hower who has been assignd to a special basic rniirKA nt Ana infantry school Commenting on the AXtey corps Mrs Eisenhower said omen in the Army rre doing a man sized j'ob throughout the "odd I frequently hear their piaises sung by General Eisen i he never had visions' a few years ago that women would serve in the she added "it certainly is heartening to see that they have takne their important and rightful place in the armed The wartime life of an Army wnfe said the invasion chief's wife "js very disconcerting It is no different for the wife of a general than it is for the wife of a pri Wor Bondi Kansas Electrician Is Shot and Killed COEYVILLE Kasi Jnlv Police reported that Homer Bwv War Baada 1W Crrnfh f9 BASEBALL NINE Co Operative refinery was shot Managers of the Gabby street Hind killed in bed at 5:30 a baseball team in Picher will be that Mrs Creath ound injured by guests of the Picher Junior Cham jthe same gun had told police she ber of Commerce when that group iwas responsible for the shootings meets Tuesdav nio bt 7' in xr rra4i 4 I io iiratcu Ju jit will be a Dutch lanheon Moral hosyitaL SAIPAN A LLS rsl)ffrs TO AMERICANS ul 'Y if vvvjv 4 VBIUlfiU OKLAHOMA Partly cloudy psco died today kwuMHuvu nann LOTiigntr anti 1 tiannj had be Tuesday few: scattered thunder health for some time miuwera nonn portion tonight MISSOURI Partly cloudy and continued warm tonight and Tues day scattered showers and thun derstorms mostly light in west and north portions tonight and Tues day morning KANSAS Scattered showers and thunderstorms tonieht 1 3 Auesoay continued warm rr 7 4 A swt KKltt MVt CtN 7 BRITISH CAPTURE SEVERAL TOWNS I Pouring to match the reinforce ents from Cherbourg All the I inVtHl beforeoon aftor the 1 lnjtial jump at 5 a i RmIn uhc Cntr American smash into the German lines from the Vire river bridgehead Htet an aIsO 1 a mile front (h of mort a mile in hard fighting through bidden bvog and drizzle Lieut Gen Dinar dr m'r by a steadv drumfire from artillery captured bamteny SIX IniIre out) nf Ca entan and about the same distanc from the road junction of Periers periers is about 5'2 miles south west of Lessay a coastal road junction bordering a deep' inlet tram the sea where Germans might attempt to defend a bottle neck against tmxrh a iVMjiig swimy southeastward from captured Le Haye Du i ront line dispatches said the latter drive was breaking I through German strong defences and opening an exit out of the 1 i Cherbourg peninsula through the few channeled passages between swamps and lowlands The Ger mans were said to be falling back to new defenses 1 Lessay is about 4 miles below Ia Haye Some of the American gains Were as deep as two miles Headquarters said however that there was no sign of Ger man disorganization that the Germarfs were withdrawing in or derly fashion and not seeking to disengage their forces Only a few hundred nriCnnota had been captured in Caen al though the numbers were growing Already pocketed were the rem nants of a division ami hair German troops caught at Herou ville northeast pf Caen The "capture of Caen and hun dreds of prisoners disclosed that an attack by 450 Lancasters and IS Ifaxes on ridav el of eight deep shelters equippedjsupport of the offensive against with comfortable bunks to aceom jCaen had been one of the most sue modate 8 0C0 persona esch The'cessful applications of heavy night 100 feet 'UndercTound bombers to a tactical farn At 1 "flri Ui? st 1 drinks and sandwiches hot and" smash was aimed at breaking out of th is invasion beachhead into the pen country of Ance 1WT it TN Bem Saturday) nd Sfld I 7 A 4 viaviizOKLAz MONDAYz JULY? 10 1944 Of fc of Publication wiw ii mwnaa js Reds Reported Within' 60 Miles of East Prussia Wilno ight Rages July British press reports placed Russian van guards within 60 miles of East Prussia tonight while the Red anrny clamped tighter a death hold on Wilno (Vilna) where the Ger man garrison had been forced be hind barricades into the center of the virtually encircled city Russian columns racing west ward at startling speed stormed past the Wilno flanks to the near est approach to East Prussia Northward the Soviets ripped through the German Wilno Dau gavpils line penetrating into more than 20 miles into pre war Lithuania The Soviet plunge across the Lithuanian planes 'toward Memel on the Baltic could cut off more than 60000 square miles an area lar ger than Georgia garrisoned hv i a force estimated in London 8t I 40 German divisions Red troonq had mt a rn gap in German lines strung down from the Baltic sea and narrowed the land corridor between the breach and the sea to less than i 120 miles The Moscow radio assertd that mutinied in Wilno and Kaunas The latter city capital of icpuimc was menaced: by Russians charging less than 50 i uinH away I Red arm'i HEADQUARTERS July OPL a Hie supreme commaiiaerot tno Al frees tQdayi ovsk on the river Boh cities 'r 1 mrnrA cltcs ilimiam prevalent throughout the! flPiuacueg to warsaw (Continued on Page Two) Wor Bondt Buy War Bonds Brother of Belgian ascist Is Killed NEW YORK July io Ed ouard Degrelle brother of the Bel gian ascist leader Leon Degrelle has been assassinatd the Berlin radio Siid today The Nazis blamed murderers of the British se cret 'U government monitors heard Bi News Record Will tt juuiucors said terrorist as flv nave An Election Georges Barthelemy Party Tomorrow The Miami News Record plans to hold another election patty I Tuesday night Results in the primary election iphouldi start coming in at aooufr 7 (p The Coleman Hutts drug amplifying system will be used and returns will be an I jounced on all state and county races as quickly as they are available County residents ate invited to I listen the results lb they are 'announced from the north aide of B(k A isits iicnrjinppr nuuaingx 4 11 jBhH iO'Si dmfe twJ The Byline of Dependability.

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