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crossed Svpr River all the way between Lake Ladoga and Onezhskoe, giving up to 19 miles in three days; Reds in dramatic breakthrough at Vitebsk. AIAmerican heavy bombers lashed the Axis in a Rtwoway attack from Britain and Italy; Nazi lines in Franc. pounded; Romania's Ploesti oilfields hit second time in 24 hours. (Page 2.) ITALYAllied advances continue in Italy despite stronger Nazi resistance. Sleepless searchers hunted for more bodies last night in the twisted ruins left by several freak tornadoes which ripped a path of destruction from Pittsburgh into West Virginia and Maryland, killing 145 persons and injuring at least 1,019.

The casualty toll was expected to mount hourly in the wake of the "twisters" which left thousands homeless, wiped out whole families swamped hospitals and caused an esti- mated "millions of dollars" in property losses. Forty dead were counted in Western Pennsylvania, but the heaviest death toll was reported in West Virginia, where 102 lost their lives. Allegheny County reported 16 deaths, all of them in the McKeesport district. Three dead and 35 injured were reported in Western Maryland's Garrett County. Additional scores were reported missing and many of the dead were unidentified.

Smashed communications and blocked roads prevented outlying communities from reporting casualty figures for hours after the disaster. British Sink 2 Red Armies AP Wirephoto. Mrs. Riley Rates is poking through the ruins. Assisting her in her search is her brother-in-law, Carl Rates.

Hers was one of many houses flattened by the tornado which struck Friday night. ,4 .,..,...,..,,4,... oPlyi'" jt, SEEK VALUABLES In the hope she might salvage a few belongings from the complete wreckage of her home In Chartiers 11111, Whole Towns in Ruins Hundreds of homes and buildings were razed and in some cases whole communitiesmost of them Western Pennsylvania mining towns and villageswere left in ruins. Wreckage littered streets and highways. Weatherman W.

S. Brotzman insisted not one but several tornadoes were to blame for the devastation. Brotzman pointed out it would have been impossible for one storm to have traveled the route originally traced for the tornado. Some houses were lifted high in the air, sheared completely from their foundations. In some cases, foundations were ripped from under the houses, dropping families and furniture into the basement.

Barns, silos and stables were smashed into kindling wood by the terrific winds which ripped and tore a path 160 miles long to Randolph County, West Virginia, and devastated areas as far as Indiana, 70 miles away. Hospital bed capacities and staffs were unable to cope with the scores of injured. Emergency hospitals were set up in churches and, in the case of Waynesburg, in a State Armory where surgeons and nurses worked with flashlights. Red Cross disaster units were dispatched to the stricken areas from Pittsburgh, neighboring West Virginia cities and Washington, D. C.

The units were equipped with food, blankets, medical supplies and much-needed blood plasma. Dr Id a 1- pe o. In id at IS id tis St ie 1 e-a-e-)x, Lie rn -1 ee ee a ed on NO he u. he to he ng lef eld vey 30- 7he ice to ier an An is to nt ice me are nits mvs to nta -'I 1 )all its me la. von 667 ilts myt yen tter mt, ley, 483 478 IS Ile, ix ext itle 'ph rth nty Pnt tee, to on In -up rhe 71 0 -tip he 71 a I r' Ringing Vitebsk LONDON, Sunday, June mighty Red armies are closing pincers from the north and south on Vitebsk in White Russia and the German-fortified city already is threatened with encirclement.

Moscow said early today. More than 7,500 Germans were killed In this area as Soviet Infantry fought its way forward with the massed support of artillery and aircraft, the Russians asserted. In closing in around the Nazi fortress, Hitler's closest remaining outpost to Moscow, Red troops made two new break-throughs in Nazi defenses and lengthened the whole central fighting front to approximately 150 miles. 900 TOWNS LIBERATED More than 900 places were liberated in lighting on all fronts yesterday, including more than 200 which had been held by the Finns in the lake region to the el north. The early-morning supplement to the Russian communique said the Germans were rushing rein- forcements into the battle for Vitebsk by forced march from the south.

1 The last remaining railway into 111 the town from the Germans' rear '1!" was cut Friday on the first day '0 of the offensive on the main East- 4 ern Front. Fighting grew in ferocity, but I the supplement said Red troops were hitting relentlessly at disorganized Nazi formations and were moving ahead on both sides of Vitebsk. On the northwestern flank of the town, more than 2.000 Ger Vitebsk. On the northwestern flank of town, more than 2.000 Ger- I li, 1 P' Escape Ships SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Sunday, June 25(AP.) American shock troops closing In for the kill last night drove to within 1,000 yards of Cherbourg's southern city limits, and were so close that observers could see the Germans destroying installations inside the city, which also was torn by the explosion et ammunition dumps. A dispatch direct from the field by Don Whitehead, Associated Press correspondent, said Cherbourg was almost blotted from view by a black smoke pall as the Americans steadily expanded their deep wedge in cracked German lines despite fierce resistance.

NAZIS DEMORALIZED The new American penetration occurred early last night, said Whitehead's dispatch, flied at 8 p. m. (2 p. m. Eastern War Time).

There also were some signs of enemy demoralization, he had said In an earlier report. Headquarters Communique No. 38, issued at 11:30 p. told of steady progress on a semicirc ar front around the city and said: Each link in the chain of defenses is being systematically destroyed." The bulletin said the Americans were less than two miles from the heart of the city, but this version was outdated by late reports direct from the field. A French civilian who reached American lines said Cherbourg's remaining civilians had hidden wine and champagne with which to celebrate the Americans' expected entry soon into the city.

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1 44" 4 144,: 7. ...1 Worst Gales in History Here Civilian defense workers, Army medical units and military police worked side by side with police, firemen and relief agencies. Hundreds of soldiers, even Air Corps units from the County Airport, patrolled stricken areas. nun-Telegraph Photo storm. Only a few of the 26 homes in the plan escaped ra LEVELED BY 1TW ke ISTER'-' agheouosefs six In damage.

Uprooted trees and fallen wires were only damage (continued on Page Two, Col. Four.) the Avondale Plan, Boston, which were knocked apart by suffered in Pittsburgh as the storm headed south. The hardest hit Pennsylvania 1 Delegation 'DEWEY-WARREN EISENHOWER TALKS TO PITTSBURGH GI OfftoChlq? BOOM UNDER WAY Nazis Threaten Reprisals LONDON, June Adolf Hitler's headquarters announced tonight that German prisoners had been reported "murdered" in Normandy and declared that "10 American soldiers will be shot for every German" if the reports proved true. The German announcement said th't, reports had been received that members of the German Army taken prisoner in the Cherbourg area were shot despite the fact they were in uniform with proper insignia and that, if they proved true, "10 American soldiers will be shot for every German." CHICAGO, June legions stormed Chicago tonight for their first wartime convention since 1864 amid increasing talk of a "hands across the nation" ticket headed by Gov. Thomas E.

Dewey, of New York, and Gov. Earl Warren, of palitornia, I After nearly a week's prelimi- lination for the man who still says naries, the rank and file of dole- he's "not a candidate." gates and campaigners poured in. A break toward Gov. John H. Bricker of Ohio would reverse the They taxed hotels and transpor- 1 1 o-called "Draft Dewey" tide, per' ation.

They perspired and argued I haps engineer a complete turn, By EDWARD V. R0137.1ITS Representing the Combined rifted Stales Press Distributed by the Associated Press ALLIED ADVANCE COMMAND POST, June 24. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower returned here today after his second tour of the American beachhead positions in France.

He spent four hours in Normandy conferring with U. Gen. States leaders and most of the Omar N. Bradley and talking to remainder of his time with in-many GI's in the field. fantrymen, gunners and tank-Standing on the edge of a men.

trench in which Pvt. Robert 01- He whizzed through Normandy soi, of Pittsburgh, was digging, Eiseneower asked him what he in a three-jeep caravan that startled the MP's. did before he entered the Army. "I was a plumber for five It was his first visit to the years American sector since June 12 ONLY 20 YEARS OLD! and he came away with his face wreathed in satisfaction at wha When the general asked him he saw. how old he was, and Olson re- Pennsylvania's Republican delegation left last night for the Chi-1 cago convention special train and will meet tonight at the Morrison Hotel, Chicago, to discuss the Presidential and Vice Pres1-1 Ocntial nominations.

For the comments of Allegheny County delegates see Page 8, Section 1, Our Planes in Soviet' Bombed by Nazis WASHINGTON, June 24. (AR)A number of American planes were destroyed in a recent German air raid on two Russian airdromes used by the American Air Force in shuttle bombing operations over Europe, the War Department announced tonight. Girl Killed in Auto SOMERSET, June 24. Thillits. 16, was killed last night when a car in which she and seven others from Stoystown, were riding, skidded and overturned in a ditch, near Friedens.

ic poenel sitnol rnt tr i 1. district ssoicut re he mining Red Cross Aid towns of Cheaters and Clarksville, Greene County. Virtually every Rushed Here house in Cheaters was leveled and eight a were reported there The Red Cross has assumed the Records of the Pittsburgh office task of providing shelter for 1 linft ed States Weather Bureau: homeless in tornado-swept areas indicated Friday night's tornadoes in the Pittsburgh district, setting were the worst wind storms ever up headquarters In the McKees- experienced in the district. In port Chamber of Commerce of- terms of casualties. it was one of flees for emergency cases in that Pittsburgh's worst disasters.

city, Fifty-eight dead were counted Residents of other districts at Shinnston. W. Va, the hardett needing help should contact the hit of the West Virginia on-Red Cross offices in the Corn- munities. The small mining town also reported 400 intared. State munity Fund Building, police and units of the state For permanently replacing de- guard patrolled its streets.

stroyed buildings and homes, the West Virginia hospitals reported owners must file applications treating 200 other patients. through regular channels. where SURGERY BY FLASHLIGHT special consideration will be given to emergency cases, a War Pro- Even amputations were per- duction Board official said. formed only by the 'tell' of flesh- lights in Waynesburg's hastily- Zandonai Dies, improvised hospital at the State Armory. State policemen rushed doctors and nurses to Waynesburg Italian Composer from little-damaged Greensburg.

ROME, June 24o-- In Greene County Memorial Hospital, Waynesburg, as in most Italian press reported today the ol her hospitals in the str 'ken death of Riccardo Zandonal, 61, areas, only patients seriously in-Italian conductor and composer, lured were allowed to remain in at a hospital at Pesaro. Adriatic lir institutions after receiving port behind the German treatment- After preliminary first aid, they the operas "Francesca Da Zandonais compositions included were rustled to emergency hos- and "Romeo and Juliette." pitals, such as the one in the 150 Excursionists State Armory. The transfers from NicKeesport Hospital to Home-Safe After Gale stead Hospital were made un coal trucks, padded with mattresses. Storm damage at McKeesport DETROIT, June i was estimated at upwards of One hundred and fifty excursion- million dollars by Fire Chief Paul Ists who were stranded all last a McAtee. He estimated 500 night on Put-In-Bay Island in properties had been damaged or Lakie Erie by a 45-mile gale were returned to Detroit today on the destroyed.

Damage in both Fayette County steamer Put-In-Bay. They were als i'llitev Mir, Col. One.) housed on the island at the ship- pirg company's expense. TnrnArin I AnCtles pirg company's rxpense. Tornado Looting in hotel roams, lobbies and bars, they overwhelmed restaurants.

Most of all, they got seriously, excitedly ready to nominate a candidate for President but amid speculation that climatic developments might come even before the convention starts. VITAL CAUCUSES AWAITED This speculation grew and spread as plans were laid for caucuses of the big delegations of California (Monday) with 50 votes. Pennsylvania (Sunday night) with 70, and Illinois (tonight) with 59. Decisions by these states to throw first or second ballot support to Dewey would, his headquarters believed, clinch the nom In Today's Sun-Telegraph SECTION I News Ito14 Weather 3 Fulton Lewis, Jr. 8 Politics 8 and 8 Letter to Service Men 12 Finance 13 He spcnt much of his time with units recently arrived in Prance, shooting questions to see if the men could handle themselves in case of attack.

RIGHT ANSWERS GIVEN Ile asked Pvt. Louis Bernard, of Rochester. N. "What would you do If a Ger(Continued on Page Two, Col. Five.) plied 20, Eisenhower grinned and asked if he was sure he had been plumbing for five years.

Olson insisted he had. The supreme commander was accompanied only by his aide, U. Col. Ernest R. Lee, and this correspondent as representative of the combined press.

Eisenhower crowded as much as possible into his four-hour SECTION II 1 2 and 3 2 visit. He spent an hour talking with Bradley and other United There was continuing spgculation also that if Bricker does not receive the presidential nomination he might consider the second spot. WARREN BELIEVED WILLING Representative Joseph W. Martin, of Massachusetts, permanent convention chairman, arrived and emit I nor on Pone SII, Coi. Two.) GOP 1st They Beat Democrats To Chicago, Anyway By ARTHUR "BUGS" BAER CHICAGO, June 24.The Republicans got to Chicago ahead of the Democrats.

They will be okay if they can only do that to Washington. They established their beachhead on the Bye Great Lakes and the Dewey boys are claiming four of them. Chicago is full of instructed delegates standing on their heads ln bootblack chairs to have their badges polished. cleclee to run on the independent ticket wing the popular sohan, "Taxation without evasion is tyranny." If you don't hear from me in the next four years don't send out searching parties. I may have decided to accept the vice presiciency of both parties.

There is not enough work in Orin job to keep a man busy. 76 Planes 1 to 5 6 and 7 7 8 8 Yanks Rip Bonins, Bag Warning 1 to 3 1 to 3 2 4 4 4 News Sports Harry Keck SECTION III Pictorial Review Theaters Music Real Estate Stamp Collection SECTION IV society Women's Clubs Wishing Well Radio Ration Time Table True Detective Tales Crossword Puzzle E. V. Dulling Elsie Robinson Horoscope SECTION Comics SECTION VI Extra Comics ErCTION VII American Weekly Am Pt Iran Werkly 5 5 Four enemy planes were destroyed on the ground and two probably destroyed. A wharf and fuel dumps on Pagan were destroyed and buildings and runways were damaged.

While the bold, widespread carrier task forces struck terror to Iwo Jima, closest island bastion to the Jan homeland. AMerieRn ground forces smashed relentlessly ahead on invaded Saipan Island, where a garrison of 20,000 enemy troops has been cut off from reinforcements by the defeat of the Jap navy. New gains were reported along the northern rontintwd on raw Tniw. Col. 'nitre, through the cordon of fighters protecting the American task force but all were shot down Py combat air patrols.

The United States loss was four fighter planes. None of the surface ships was damaged. SHIPS, SAMPANS BLASTED Four small cargo ships and one sampan were sunk and two small cargo ships and 12 sampans damaged in the devastating blow at Pagan Island, delivered June 22. A flight of one twin-engined bomber and five Zero fighters Intercepted the attacking Yank fliers some distance from the carrier force and all were shot down, By RICHARD V. HALLER International News erviee PEARL HARBOR, June Making sweeping raids on Iwo Jima in the Bonin Islands.

600 miles from Tokyo, and on Pagan Island in the Marianas, 1,500 miles from the Jap capital, American carrier based planes destroyed 76 or more enemy planes and sank five small ships, In the raid on Iwo Jima, carried out June 23, 60 or more planes were shot out of the sky when they attempted to intercept the Ameriran raiders, Adm. Chester Nimitz announced od a Y. Twelve other Jap planes broke Kane I II Sightseers Avoid Storm Areas Sightseers were asked last night to stay away from McKeesport and other tornado-stricken areas by County Commissioner John J. Kane. Every available county policeman.

Kane said. would be assigned to patrol duty to prevent sightseers from interfering with rehabilitation work. The Automobile Club of Pittsburgh asked motorists to stay off Dravosburg Bridge. warning they would not be allowed to cross it. would not be allowed 1 5 5 Ex-Rome Chief Seized June 2 4.

uspects Held Pietro Caruso, former chief of A McKeesport youth and 11. police of Rome under Mussolini Greenock man suspected of loot- Mrs Anna Ahler, Greenocit and regarded by many Italians'ionrg the tornado-damaged house as their war criminal No. ha Road, Greenock, were taken into been captured by Italian yesterdaY, county delft-it was revealed tonight. I tires reported. 1 to 12 1 to 8 1 to 32 1 to 32 i' 1 7, 1 11 I.