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4 MlICUHY-0 MOMGLE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND N. E. A. SERVICES THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR Official City and County Paper MANHATTAN, KANSAS, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1944 12 Pages NUMBER 134 Back For Well Earned Rest Miscellaneous JAPS BEGIN NEW GUINEA ATTACK SOVIETS PLUNGE 19 MILES i AS YANKS SURROUND ST. 10 Bulletin PRUSSIA IS 12 MILES AWAY -cm i 1 -ii ir T- 1 1 1' i from an LST at an, English port, returning from the Normandy and rest camp In England.

(signal Corps Radioteiephoto to NEA) US CAPTURES SEVEN TOWNS LA BOULAY FALLS TO BRADLEY AS AMERICANS GAIN ON ENTIRE FRONT CAEN BATTLE RAGES Strategic Anchor City Is Visible To Allied Troops Fighting Less Than Two Miles Away SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 13 (Ry The Germans in St. Lo, ancient fortress town in the middle of the base of the Cherbourg1 peninsula, were being gradually strangled today by the arms of a powerful American tank and infantry offensive which already had passed by the town to the east. Supreme headquarters announced the capture of seven towns by the Americans in gains along a 48-mile front. On their left flank Lt. Gen.

Omar N. Bradley's, warriors cap tured La Boulye2Vi miles east pWe I'BayeuVTowr tad- reached the Outskirts of La Barre de miles southeast of St. Lo, St Lo was plainly visible to the Americans, fighting only a mile and a half way. Northwest of the town, the Americans widened their orldge-head across the Vlrs river by pushing forward a half mile west Yank Forces 1H III fy! rV XV my I Could the stopping of the courthouse clock be sabotage? Who's gonna rush in to work at five after five? City firemen have made and hung a handsome wooden "honor roll" to which the names of the department's men of war are attached. The roll includes D.

C. Wesche, Fred H. Lewis and Leslie Wlckham. Massachusetts born M. P.

Danny Green was horrified when Kansans asked if he liked "roasttn' ears" and called up some gruesome mental pictures before he found out it was what he called "corn on the Vernon Noble, Manhattanite, is the father of TSgt. James V. Noble listed in yesterday's issue as having been awarded the PFC. Since the story was sent from the English airbase where Sgt. Noble is stationed the Information was not included in the story.

Capt. Arthur W. HJort. son of City Clerk and Mrs. HJort, who is medical supply officer in England, received commendation from the office of the chief surgeon in the European area for "untiring efforts" of his officers and men during the push to make ready for the invasion when heavy demands were made on the group.

Wedding rings from way back are on display in the window of a local Jew-ilry store. They're from Saxony, ancient Greece, Germany, France, Rome, etc. Sheriff Frank 8chermerhorn is keeping busy writing receipts for cash with which relatives are making good the bad checks passed out here about a month ago by Manhattan's "Robin Hood," a visitor who gave freely to new friends but didn't have it in the bank. "Doc" F. S.

Ratts is furnishing prewar golf balls to each contestant teeing off in the Co-Op tournament. V.C. REV. GUERRANT TO BE UNION SPEAKER Student Pastor To Talk On "Sight And Insight" At Sunday Night Sendee ent pastor of the First Presbyter lan church, will speak on "Sight and Insight" at the union church services to be held in the city park pavilion Sunday at 8 p. members of the Ministerial Association have announced.

During the service the Rev. Ouerrant is to be assisted by the following college students: Virginia Slothower, Leon a Helvey, Louise Bergman, Chester Stewart, George Buckholtz, and Lorraine Clark. TEEN TOWN SHUTS DOWN Teen Town activities have closed down for the summer, members of the sponsoring Lions club committee reported today, and will be reopened with the coming of school days. According to com mittee members, the meeting hall is too warm for sessions during the summer months and for that reason attendance has been poor, Several new features will be started at the opening this fall, one of which will be an attempt to se cure the services of different or chestras to play during the fall and winter. Other changes will be announced when Teen Town re opens.

WAR PRODUCTION LAGS WASHINGTON, July 13. WV- The production of army equip ment and weapons was 000 behind schedule In the second quarter of this year. Acting Sec retary of War Patterson reported today. The acting secretary told i news conference he had seen pub lished statements that current production schedules were being met, and added "that statement Is not true. FORMER METHODIST STUDENT PASTOR DIES Word has been received here of the death of the Rev.

Myron S. Collins, former Methodist student pastor here, at his home in Wheel- insr. West Virginia, an July iz. Mrs. Collins is the former Helen Huse, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Alden F. Huse. Leslie Collins, of the Hunter Island community, Is a brother of the former resident At the time of his death Mr. Collins was district superintendent of the 'Wheeling Methodist district.

MARRIAGE LICENSES Albert A. Olson, Sallna, and Ida M. Johnson, Sauna. NOTICE Tha office of the City Clerk win be open during the noon hour and until ten o'clock P. M.

each day from July 12 to July 21, inclusive, for the purpose of registering qualified voters. The registration books will close at 16 P. M. July 21, 1944, and remain closed until August 2nd, Hit. A.

HJort, City Clerk. Large head lettuee, 2 heads ISc; extra large cantaloupes 25c New potatoes, 10 lbs. 4Ie; lee cold Watermelon, 4e large Lem ons. t9e seedless Orapea, 25s Parks Market, 3rd and a si 4 ENEMY GARRISON LAUNCHES DRIVE TO ESCAPE STARVATION AND DEATH Foe Makes Sudden Strike Yanks Entrenched Near Altape Monday At ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. New Ouinea, July 13 OP) Ending two months of smoldering quiet, Japan's trapped, bypassed 18th army has suddenly and viciously attacked Americans entrenched near Altape, British New Guinea.

Headquarters announced today that the JUpanese, faced with starvation or eventual erasure between advancing Australian and American troops, had massed a heavy force, apparently in the hope of blasting an escape route for 45,000 men westward through Altape into Dutch New Guinea. "Opening skirmishes with out outguard end reconnaissance groups now are taking place," the communique reported. The Japanese, after massing for several days, attacked Monday night along the Driniumor river 21 miles east of American-occupied Altape. Veterans Hold The Americans, veterans of the New Ouinea campaigns at Buna and Saldor, dug In and held. The Japanese renewed their assaults Tuesday.

Results of that action have not been disclosed. Allied planes raked the 130 miles of enemy-held coast east to the Australian-held Sepik river. When the Americans landed at Altape April 22, the strength of the bypassed Japanese 18th army, commanded by General Hatazo Adachi, was estimated at 60.000. Air bombardment and privation possibly has reduced the force by 25 percent. U.

S. KNOCKS OUT GUAM AIRFORCE Mop Dp On Saipan Swells Total Of Enemy (Dead To Nearly 212,000 lyji 4 U. S. PACIFIC! FLEET HEADQUARTERS. Pearl Harbor, July 13 Sustained American air and naval blowb focused attention today on Guam, southwest of Saipan which now Is a U.

S. operational base, carved out of Japan's inner defenses at a record cost of 15,053 casualties. Already the i enemy alrforce at Guam and on intervening Rota appears to have been knocked out by the same type of pounding loosed on Saipan prior to Its invasion June 14. Guam has been bombed daily for nearly a week and Intermittently shelled by warships. On Saipan, concealing caves and ravines were probed for additions which are expected to swell both the total of nearly 12,000 Japan-dead counted so far and 10,000 captives.

A marine regiment killed more than 700 Nips Monday in one mop-ping-up action. Figures for both sides established new records for fierce fighting among the Pacific's islands: 1. The 15,053 American casualties, including 2,359 killed, wounded and 1,213 missing. 11,948 Japs KlUed 2. The Japanese dead 11,948 already buried byv Yank troops, with many more to be accounted for.

One heavily strafed ravine alone Is believed to hold Jjodies, 3. The Japanese captives more than 1,000 soldier prisoners of war; more than 9,000 Interned civilians. ALLIES PLAN CONFERENCE TO GAIN PRESS FREEDOM WASHINGTON. July 13 (Ph-The United States and Great Britain are planning a conference here this fall on international communications and news It is regarded as an opening move toward this government's objective of gaining world-wide press freedom after the war. The conference will be one of a series between the American and British governments on subjects ranging from oil to aviation.

The meetings are being held first with the British because officials here feel there is more chance of concrete accomplishment based on similar British-American interests and ways of doing business. CAPT. BERRT WOUNDED Capt. Lynn N. Berry was wounded In action on June 20 on Biak Island in the South Pacific, according to reports received here.

Captain Berry, son of Mrs. J. W. Berry, 630 Fremont, was sent overseas in February of this year. FRUIT FOR CANNING 14 lb.

lug Apricots 26 lb. crate Plums, 14 lb. lug Cherries $3.95. Parks Mkt 3rd and Humboldt, 34-1 LONDON, Jply 13 (JP) Wilno has been captured by the Red army. Marshal Stalin announced tonight SUlln'S announcement In an order of the day addressed to Gen.

Ivan Cbernlakhov-sky, commander of the Third White Russian front said the German garrison was liquidated today and directed that It be celebrated by a Z4-solvo salute from 324 Moscow cannon. AMERICANS INCH UP ITALIAN BOOT Yanks Break Through In Era VaUey to Flank Natl Bastion of Leghorn ROME, July 13 -American a oops of the Fifth army, breaking through German defenses in the upper Era valley some 17 miles inland from Italy's west coast in a flanking move against Llvorno, have captured the town of Lajati-co in the bitterest fighting Italy has seen in recent weeks, Allied headquarters announced. The doughboys quickly mopped up all enemy soldiers remaining in the town yesterday, taking ISO to 200 prisoners, -and surged on northward. By noon they had closed to a point only 13 miles from the Arno river valley, key to the outer strongpoints of the German "Gothic line" defenses supposedly the last strong nat ural barrier left to the enemy short of the Po river line in northern Italy. Capture San Donato Simultaneously French troops on the right of the Americans carved a path through German defense points and captured San DonatOt aatrtda a-secondary.

high. way in a mountainous area 25 miles southwest of Florence. The only major changes on the Eighth army front came in the upper Tiber valley. There Allied troops gained as much as four miles, halving the distance to the road junction of Cltt a Di Castel lo. East of the Tiber the enemy withdrew from two strong hlllpo sitions.

Storm St. Lo ill I IIJL I '1 l-ri k- AM 1 the Caen sector. (NEA Telephoto) U.S.-CASUALTIES-NEAR THOSE OF FIRST WAR Total of 235,411 Announced To day By Patterson Does Not Include Saipan WASHINGTON, July 13 VPh- Announced American battle cas ualties in the present war are approaching the total casualties in curred in the first World War. Unreported results In the last three weeks of heavy fighting in France possibly have brought the total past the 1917-1918 mark. A total of 187,028 army caspal-ties announced today by acting War Secretary Patterson brought to 235,411 the overall total of officially announced casualties on the ground, in the air and at sea.

The first world wars overall total was 278,828. Today's announcement, however, contained "very few" casualties from the Normandy front and none of the heavy navy losses on Saipan. Inclusion of 24,162 previously reported caspalUes in France, up to June 20, and the announced 15,053 casualties on Saipan being this war's total to 274,626. Large head lettuee, 2 heads 15e; extra large cantaloupes 25c New potatoes, 10 lbs. 43c: lee cold Watermelon, 4e large Lemons, 29e seedless Grapes, 25e Parks Market, 3rd and Humboldt 3-l if" SU 7 yum TROOPS ADVANCE ON 8TJWAL-KI TRIANGLE IN GENERAL WFSTFFV anvANra THRFATFN RIAIYSTflY iiiiin i tail uinhivivn Russians Drive Toward Battle As Other Armies Strike Toward -Brest Lltovsk and Warsaw MOSCOW, July 13 Russian troops advanced to a point within 30 onlles of the Suwalki triangle of East Prussia today after plunjj' ing 19 miles forward in day and night (The Suwalki triangle a wedge of old Poland be tween East Prussia and Lithuania, which was ah nexed to East Prussia by the 1939 Ribbentrop Molofov agreement in tne iourui partition of Poland.

(Suwalki Itself Is but 11 mllejf from East Prussia. It lies 60 miles. southwest of Kaunas and: 90 miles from the Prussian BalUe coast. A Russian drive to the, 't oaiuc migut trap two unmwt armies, in the Russian-annexe states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. -i (An NBC broadcast from Sweden said the Russians were with' In 12 miles of East Prussia after driving 30 miles beyond Grodno, also an old Polish city.

8uch proximity would mean that bat Mhnn roulri tw heard in dcr. many lteeix. Other Russian columns struck within 38 miles of Kaunas, old. uawilbtU Ua JUa wll WUliOr III KTtu- mile advance. Detachments were within 29 miles of Grodno after racing 27 miles in 25 hours.

Yet Bialystok, strategic rail center leading into Warsaw and' East Prussia, Brest Lltovsk on the riv er Aug was wiuiuii oi uiirco frAe rm Vi a nrkrf Yi arvi 711 ra uiose in uiq rripyBb uuuw Warsaw Itself was within 150 miles or Russian guns to the northeast. Pressure On Daugavpils Daugavpils, gateway to the i. I A1 A. Baltic sea and Riga, was feeling Increasing pressure of two huge approaching Russian armies. Already its garrison was like the one surrounded in Wilno in Lithuania, bracing for the coming blow.

The newest disaster to be- fall the Germans was Gen. Andrei Teremenke's of fen- srre against the Latvian re- 1.1-1. 1 14- fl-1 1 PIIUIW, WUKU auw days gobbled up more than 1,000 villtages in a break- thraoch which front die- patches said was now IN miles wide and 25 miles deep north of Gen. Ivan Bagrami- an First Baltic army.J-' Yeremenko, fresh from his victories in the Crimea, moved to within 18 miles of the border of the Latvian Soviet republic on the main Velusie Luki-Riga, railway. (A Reuters Moscow dispatch said Red army tanks had plur" to within 35 miles of the L.

Prussian border in fighting southwest of the new front.) 7,000 Killed A Moscow communique said more than 7,000 Germans were killed and about W00 taken prisoner in a single day's fighting on the new sector. Front dispatches pictured thw latest offensive as well under way and said the Germans were fall ing back pell-mell. To the south the right wing oj Gen. Bagramian's army, which had crossed the river Drissa, was 14 miles from the Latvian border. The left arm of Bagramian's for ces, moving up through the UX country to the south of Daugv-nlls (Dvinsk).

aot within 17 mUck of the city in the region of the village of Yrmshani. 1 FRUIT FOR CANNING 1 14 lb. lag Apricots crate Plums, f3J5: 14 lb. Cherries 13.95. Parks Mkt tzl Humboldt.

I Burson insures. B. VJX Long lines of men stream front, on their way to training MORE WASTE PAPER NEEDED SAYS WPB Chairman Nelson Wires New Quotas For Manhattan Area To Mercury Today Although waste paper receipts have Increased by nearly 100,000 tons a month during the last half year, still greater efforts are needed on the part of newspapers and readers in the salvaging campaign, Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the war production board, Washington, D. reported in a telegram to the Mercury-Chronicle this, morning.

Nelson also extended his appreciation to newspapers and other organizations for cooperation In the drive calling its success "fresh evidence of the power of a free and patriotic press." Set Monthly Quota For the first time. Nelson reported, monthly quotas "are being set for the area as a stimulation to the collection. Figures released by the department of commerce, he said, show that in Manhattan approximately 5.7 pounds of household waste paper per person are available each month In addition to 5.2 pounds per person on surrounding farms. "Despite excellent cooperation of the public and the 17,000 salvage committees collections have averaged about 79,000 tons short of monthly goals," he said. Is Vital Material "A new study has revealed that only 63 per cent of our families are saving waste paper regularly and only 67 are convinced of the need of the salvage.

This is astonishing since waste paper is the national number one critical war material so essential that the army is now preparing to salvage what little they can in the North African and South Pacific com bat zones. "Rlnht now many mills with important war contracts have ex hausted their supply of this vital raw material and some have been forced to shut down temporarily The situation is critical." ALLIES LOST 15 SHIPS IN NORMANDY LANDING Six American and British De stroyers Were Destroyed, Also A Yank Transport LONDON, July 13. Six American and British destroyers were lost in landing operations in France, the U. S. Navy depart ment and the British Admiralty announced tonight.

The former Grace liner Santa Clara, renamed the transport Susan B. Anthony, also was lost by American naval forces ajong with the minesweeper Tide, tne destroyer escort Rich and the fleettug-Partridge. 111 The American destroyers were the Corry and Glertion, built in the 1940-41 program, and the Meredith. President Roosevelt an nounced soon after the landings that two destroyers had been lost, He did not name them. Total naval losses announced were 15 vessels, seven American and eight British.

Several thou sand ships were involved In the landings. G.O.P. APPOINTS KEMPER NEW YORK, July 13. WV-Her. bert Brownell.

Republican na tional chairman, announced today the appointment of James S. Kemper, 57-year-old Chicago in surance executive, as chairman of the Republican national finance committee. Refresh with Chappell's Ices. Very plentiful. fruit 34-8 Today's Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE New York at Philadelphia, postponed, rain.

Game tomorrow night at 9 p.m. (EWT). fii i ill ii- BOMBERS STAB REICH TRANSPORTATION, OIL Munich Is Target For Third Straight Day; Northern Italy Also Pounded LONDON. July 13 MV-Munich was hit a hard blow for the third successive day by 1.000 Flying Fortresses and Liberators today while the 15th air force in Italy again stabbed at Nazi oil and rail facilities in northern Italy. Saarbrucken in western Germany also was hit by the heavies from England.

Up to 500 Fortresses and Liberators smashed at Porto Marghera and Triest oil storage tanks, four rallyards on the Milan-Venice line, and the Pinsano rail bridge over the Tagllatnento river 80 miles -northwest of Trieste. Rome dispatches announced. The railyards hit were at Brescia, Verona, Mestre and Mantua. Cripple Nasi Transport Munich is a transportation ceaJ ter lor railways and toads between Germany, Italy and France and the attack fitted into the rapidly snowballing campaign threatening to cripple German transport over all western Europe, the same as it now is disrupted in the northwest corner. The Munich area now has received about 9,000 tons of American bombs in three days, making it probably the most intensively bombed region on earth.

Hit RaU Centers A large fleet of 1,300 RAF heavy bombers without loss before dawn struck two of the most important rail centers in central France. Other British bombers from Italy battered the Brescia railyards in northern Italy by night. The Finns said Russian air forces Joined the general melee by bombing their port of Kotka east of Helsinki. GERMANS FIRE MORE ROBOTS. AT ENGLAND LONDON, July 13 The Ger mans fired a fresh batch of wing ed bombs against England today as the bombardment of London stirred a flurry of parliamentary questions in Commons and some members renewed demands for a secret sessipn on the problem.

Deputy Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee curtly rejected a sugges tion that the government had been caught unprepared and As to a secret session, Attlee said, "at present the prime minister does not see that he can usefully add anything to what he has said." JAP -ADMIRAL-KILLED LONDON, July 13. WVice Admiral Kiichi Hasegawa of the Japanese navy has been killed In action, the Berlin radio said today in a dispatch from the Japanese naval station of Yokosuka. Berlin said Admiral Hasegawa had been attached to the technical staff of the fleet air arm headqquarters since 1942. Chappell Dealers have a rather steady supply of pint Ice cream this months 34-3 The Weather KANSAS Partly cloudy, some what warmer west today; highest temperatures 85 to 90 west, 85 east partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Friday; scattered showers beginning in extreme west late this afternoon or tonight spreading over west portion tonight; scat tered thundershowers in extreme west late Friday afternoon.

The maximum- temperature for the 24-hour period ending at 7 a. m. today was 83 degrees. The minimum temperature was 59. A year ago the maximum was 92 and the minimum was 61.

24 hours to 7 a. m. .00 July to date 1.20 July, 1943. same period 2.36 Year's normal to Aug. Jt ,19.10 1944 to date.

.25.35 PFC. DALE FRASER KILLED IN ACTION Parents Notified of Death Soldier, June 26, In New Guinea of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Fraser, 213 North Fifth, were notified Wednesday that their son, Pfc. Dale Fraser, was killed in action on June 26 in New Guinea.

Private Fraser, who was a former resident of Norway and was at one time employed at Fort Riley, had been in the army for more than three years. He had served for nine months in the Pacific area. He is the grandson of Mrs. N. E.

Myers, -213 North Fifth. A brother, 8Sgt. Donald Fraser. is serving with the army air corps at Corsicana, Tex. LAMBERTSON TO SPEAK JULY 15 Congressman To Devote Two Days To Campaign In Riley County This Week Congressman W.

P. Lambertson Will devote to Riley, county two days of bis pre-prlmary campaign for reelection as Representative from this district, speaking in the Randolph city lark Friday evening of this week, and Saturday evening at nine o'clock on the courthouse lawn in Manhattan. He states: "It would please me very much to meet as many as possible of my friends at either place, as I shall not back In the county again before the pri mary. People are terribly busy and they are tired at night, but possibly some will find It conven lent to come. We know, too, how your minds are riveted to the boys and girls in the Service and how you are giving long hours be cause they have gone." Congressman Lambertson 'a two secretaries will be at the Wareham hotel over the weekend to answer any questions concerning Con gressional matters, and he desires that all feel free to call on them.

The Congressman has been of great service to the peonle of this county in protecting our interests, his supporters feel, and it is be lieved that, this and the fight he has put up in Washington against unsound New. Deal policies will insure him a good majority in this county. MEN OF MANHATTAN WILL RULE 1965 Men of Manhattan will have the ruling voice in town 21 years from now if births reported for June are any Indication, for 22 boy babies were listed for the month as compared to 15 girls. The total of 37 babies for the month, according to figures In the city clerk's office, drops below the May figures by a wide margin with 4ft births reported during that period. During the month of June 14 deaths were reported at the city offices.

NYLON BRASSIERES Laffoon Bras "tailored to fit" with lovely lines. Tearose or white satin, also a broadcloth. Louise CleweO, stylist, will be at the Wareham HoteL Fri 4 Mtllfl r.v 1 I a.U-L American forces In heavy fighting have stormed to within less than two miles of St. Lo, and drove closer to Lessay and Periers, while IT the British Increase their gains in of Pont Hebert and a mile south. They-were- approaching Mesnll Durand, three miles northwest of St.

Lo. They also retook the village of le Desert, which had been no-man's-land, and turned back sharp German counter-attacks. Push On Lessay A similar squeeze was being mounted against Lessay, 21 miles northwe of St. Lo. where the Americans were pushing forward on two sides of their objective.

Southwest of La Have du Puits and northwest of Lessay, they cleaned out coastal area, ad vancing a mile to Bretteville-sur- Ay, which was now in American hands, and occupying Beeterle. To the northeast of Lessay the doughboys pushed through Vesly to a point Only two miles from the town. Farther to the northeast a four-square-mile salient was wiped out as the Ameri- cans pushed forward south of swamplands from captured Gorges add St Germain, 4H miles north and three miles northeast, respectively, of the road Junction of Periers. Eastward across the Perlers- Carentan road, Bradley's, teams further pinched another salient between St. Lo and Periers by capturing St.

Andre d'Bohon and Gourney. Meanwhile, the situation a- round Caen at the eastern end of the Normandy battlefront re- AMERICAN LEAGUE First game: Boston v. .200 000 0002 6 0 New York .000 301 OOx 4 Barrett, Ryba and Partee; Bon-ham and Hemsley. Second game: Boston 041 New York ......,,..000 a srif Sweerfn Continued on rave Eight) day, July 14th. 34-1 1943, same period.