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Treasury Aware. Made to Indiana ning Gazette, its newtpaper boys, and scribers for their triotle support of the War Savings Program. VOLUME 292. An Indiana County Newspaper That Serves livery Member of the Family Indiana COVERING THE WORLD FROM COMMERCIAL CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SIXTEEN PAGES INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1944. TWO SECTIONS ADVANCE ON 40-MILE FRONT Bialystok Falls Before Russians Red Armies Force Jap Base HOW POLES WOULD SLICE UP LATVIAT GERMANY Nazi Hurl Huge SWEDEN Crossing Broad Vistula River Detonations of Artillery Can Be Heard In Warsaw LONDON, July Moscow radio said tonight that Russian troops had broken into the great fortress city of Brest Litovsk, a short time after the Germans announced the evacuation of the bastion of Bialystok, 110 miles northeast of Warsaw.

Brest Litovsk is 110 miles east of Warsaw and 80 miles southeast of Bialystok. Both cities were crucial defense points along a line which the Germans had strengthened over several years. Both had been bypassed and besieged for about two weeks. The fall of both, following the announced Red army crossing of the Vistula river 57 to 65 miles southcast of Warsaw, would indicate a virtual collapse of the German central front. Warsaw, a guardian city to German soil, was under concentric threat from the south, northeast and east.

The Berlin radio said defense lines in the Brest Litovsk area were taken back "under massed pressure of th enemy" and Moscow reported street fighting in the city of 50,000. The Germans said great tank battle was developing on the level plains around the Vistula river bridgeheads the same flat terrain that stretches without break 140 miles to German Silesia. The area is 355 airmiles from. Berlin, closest Allied approach that capital. Heavy, continuing fighting was reported around Bialystok.

MOSCOW, July -Russian infantry was reported storming across the Vistula river southeast of Warsaw today in thousands of amphibious trucks covered by massed artillery fire, negotiating the last great natural barrier before German Silesia and gravely threatening the whole German central front on the 'level plains. Warsaw already could hear the first sounds of approaching battle, the Moscow newspaper Izvestia said, quoting advices from the underground. A BBC broadcast heard by NBC said today that Russian troops in one sector are 38 miles from Warsaw. 'The crossing of the 800-foot wide Vistula was in the Deblin-Pulawi region 57 to 66 miles southeast of the greatest Polish city (which had a peacctime population of 1,265,700.) The surge across the stream posed an outflanking threat to the city. The area of the penetration is 355 airline miles from Berlin ou a toric invasion route.

It is 140 miles from the border of German Silesia. Russian Cossacks, tanks, Infantry cannon reached the east bank and, river yesterday 0n1 a 30-mile front, driving before them the tatSee RUSSIANS Continued on page two Missing In Action Pic. Leroy W. Erickson, son of Mrs. Edith Erickson of burgh has been reported missing in, action in France since June Ptc.

Erickson the grandson of Mrs. J. O. Carlson of Clymer, with whom had made his home. The last letter from him dated May 25.

He graduated from Clymer High School with the class of 1941 and then was employed by the C. B. C. shops in Clymer. He enlisted in the U.

S. Army in August of 1942 and trained at Camp Wheeler, and Ft. Dis. N. J.

In January of this year. he was sent to' England and from there to France. One brother. James is in the Merchant Marine. TEDDY: Attention! All you motorists -Don't forget that you must have your automobile inspected before the end of the month, Only three more days.

THREE CENTS Demolished More Ground Is Gained On Guam, Tinian -V- By J. B. KRUEGER (Associated Press War Editor) Allied ca warships and plancs, suddenly reappearing in the Indian ocean, have demolished the harbor works at Sabang, key Japanese fortress guarding the rich stolen islands of the Dutch East Indies and Singapore, southeast Asia headquarters disclosed today. Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten, confirming yesterday's Tokyo broadcast, said a 35-minute attack Tuesday by battleships, cruisers, destroyers and carrier aircraft silenced shore batteries, sunk a freighter, wrecked two jetties, wrecked workshops and wharves and left the target area aflame.

The Japanese had claimed little damage. Three thousand miles eastward on Guam and Tinian, American warriors-including a grim 5,000 healed of wounds suffered on Saipan-relentlessly closed in on Japanese garrisons bereft of all outside aid. The marines and doughboy's held the northern quarter of Tinian and its Ushi airfield, rated one of the best in the Pacific. On Guam to the south they also bid for another airdrome from which the U. S.

can mount its coming offensives, against the Japanese Philippines and China's coast. This airfield was 011 Orote peninsula, on which a trapped force of Japanese battled for its life, The Americans advanced 3,000 yards out onto the peninsula to flic outskirts of Sumay town. The Guam invaders. with 2,800 dead Japanese accounted for, widened beachhead of 12 miles of Guam's west coast, including the shoreline forming prized Apra harbor. On Tinian three days of slaughter left 1,958 Japanese dead including a band of 400 who suicidally See JAP BASE Continued on page two Exiled Poles To Confer With Stalin By ALEX SINGLETON LONDON, July cabinet of the Polish government in exile approved today a plan to send Premier Stanislaw Mikolajezyk to Moscow to confer with Premier Stalin, and it was reported the British were trying to arrange the as part of their effort to effect a compromise beween the rival Polish factions.

The cabinet's decision was regarded as a sign that neither the London Poles nor the British government had abandoned hope of settling the differences between the government of the peasant-born premier and the Polish Committee of Liberation with which the Soviet government signed an agreement for administration of Polish territory occupied by the Red army. Some degree of unity is being deThe veloped Moscow in the radio Polish broadcast armed a forces. let- ter from Lt. Gen. Sigmund Berling and Maj.

Gen, Alexander Zawadski, commanders of Polish troops in the Soviet to Gen. Jucjan Zeligowski in London calling for a Poland "great strong, happy and not dependent anyone." Zeligowski's reply praised! for their part in the restoration of an "independent" Poland. Dies In Car On Way Home ANNA LUCE LAWSON, infant daughter of Norman L. and Anna (McAdams) Lawson of Palmertown, died suddenly in an automobile from a visit to a doctor's office in Indiana, to their home. The child had been ill four days.

She was born February 3, 1944 in Burrell township. Surviving beside her parents are the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Martha Dayton, Canton, Ohio; Erma, Norman, Jr. Mildred. Raymond, Richard, Emerson, Darrel and Boyd all at home: the maternal grandparents: Mr.

and Mrs. Samuel MAdams of Blacklick and paternal grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Lawson of Blairsville. Friends are being received in the family where services will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Reverend A.

E. Tomb, pastor of the Blacklick Methodist Church, will officiate. Interment in I the Blairsville Cemetery. Baltic Sea LITHUANIA BORNHOLM RUGEN a EAST. I ERA Grodne A I PRUSSIA I STETTINI Bialystok Berlin Torun Wista CURZON BRANDENBURG Poznan R.

Bug R. LINE Warsaw' Pinsk Lodz DRESDEN Breslau Kowel SAXONY Luck SILESIA PRAGUE: KRAKOW R. Wista BOHEMIA Tarnopol MORAVIA To Russia Miles SLOVAKIA CARPATHO To Poland 50 100 HUNGARY ROMANA Map above shows German clainted in menfesto at settlement by the Soviet supported National Council of Poland. It demands Tor Poland all of East Prussia and westward expansion to the Oder river line, taking In most of Pomerania, large areas of' Silesia and Bradenburg, and giving the hitherto landlocked Poles wide outlet on the Baltic Sea. Curzon line is eastern boundary set by Ailfes after World War elimiuated when Poles drove Russians back beyond heavy black border line, which reinained Polish frontier until German invasion in this war.

Sensational New Weapon Goebbels LONDON, July ganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels in a pep talk to the battered German nation declared tonight that German reserves from the home army would be moved to the fighting fronts and that other would be taken to strengthen the Nazi position which would begin to results "next month." Urging the nation to rally around Adolf Hitler and "fight and work" to overcome "the present difficult times when almost the entire world is storming against us," Goebbels declared that the Germans would soon use against the Allies a new secret weapon for which the V-1 rocket bombs now being used against London is "nothing but a mere preamble." Declaring that the V-1 was "already sufficient to upset the enemy's entire defensive system," Goebbels said that "the same thine will happen again. when we shall presently use other novel weapons." "When 1 recently saw the modern German weapons," the Nuzi mittister went on. "my heart not only beat higher, but for a moment it. stopped beating." Already Gained, He Says Goebbels said "we have already anore than made up for the advan-, itage the enemy had managed to! secure over us in one or the other sector of war techniques." and that "I have always felt sure of our final victory." "Total war," Guebbels said. "will: now become a reality.

promise the German people that shall leave nothing undone within the next few weeks in order 10 make the home front more efficient 'in every respect." Declaring that the new weapons See WEAPON Continued on page 1:10 Rochester Mills Farmer Injured Clark Bartlebaugh. of Rochester Mills, is a patient in the Adrian Hospital. Punxsutawney. with A broken left wrist, an injured left hip as the result of a full Tuesduy. Mr.

Bartlebaugh fell front a has rack on his farm. G. W. Graff Co. will be closed morning until 10:30 on acFriday, funeral services for Charles 'L.

Bromberick. 292 Gearhart's Message to you on Page Nine. 292x Forces Against British To Protect Paris Main Road Armored Columns Spearhead Advances; Now Beyond Canisy BULLETIN: SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July (AP) French patriots have defeated German tank attacks in ambushes and are continuing successful warfare against the foe, the Supreme Command said today in a communique from an advanced command post. Patriot forces annihilated a German convoy of 116 trucks in the Saone-Et-Loire department, the bulletin declared. The German attacks aimed at liquidating Maquis areas have taken the form of raids by armored columns, it added, but since July 15 the French forces of the interior have repelled such attempts.

In Normandy and other areas enemy lines of communication have been disorganized by blows against railway systems. In the Pryenees, resistance forces attacked. a column of armored cars and artillery so successfully the Germans were "forced to bring up reinforcements in order to avoid complete defeat," the communique delared. Locks on. important Canals; in the dreast, -have been destroyed, interfering With sport of fuel, and "barges carrying 100,000 of oil and fuel have been blown up and petrol depots and convyos have been destroyed in the Nievre" department SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 27.

-(AP)-American Doughboys and tank teams. penetrating German defenses south of St. Lo have gained three miles in the last six hours, while advanced patrols reached the road center of Periers. Fanning out eastward from St. Gilles and Canisy, they began closing a trap on Germans in a bend of the Vire river below St.

Lo, capturing Le Mesnil Herman, six miles south of St. Lo and nine miles from their jump off point. This deepening crash through the middle--pickSee NORMANDY (Continued on page twol Sarah Rinn Miner Dies At Beneath Family Home Of Clay SARAH ELIZABETH RINN, 80, the wife of D. F. Rinn, died yesterday evening at 6:30 o'clock in the family home at 965 Philadelphia Indiana.

Death was due to old She was born August 11, 1863, the daughter of the late John and Catherine (Snyder) Freas. She married Daniel F. Rinn on Sep. 21, 1886. She was a member of the Zion Lutheran Church of Indiana.

Surviving are her husband Daniel F. Rinn and one son J. Cloid Rinn, at home. Two other children, Minnie C. Rinn Rowland and Samuel W.

Rinn are deceased. Two grandchildren and one great-grandchild also survive. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:00 p. m. from the family home.

Burial will be in Cemetery. Friends will be received at the fumily home after 7:30 p. 01. this evening. Flying Bomb Attacks Resumed LONDON, July a 12-hour full German flying bombs came hurtling over London and southern England again today, causing new damage and casualties although the opening barrage was not on a heavy scale.

Several persons were killed and injured when a bomb landed in a residential district, wrecking a row of houses. In another area a group of houses previously damaged were completely destroyed. Mexican Troops Ask For Action a MEXICO CITY. July An expeditionary force of Mexican soldiers. wearing big sombreros as guns will be the and armed with machetes, as well European battlefront soon it President Manuel Avila Camacho will give his permission.

The unit would be composed ul veterans w'ho fought under the Revolutionist Pancho Villa, and their sons and friends. A group of 432 veterans voted at their national convention last night to seck the president's permission. All Ladies Aid, Catholic Daughters and Knights of Columbus aud men of St. Bernard's Parish are re. quested to be at the home of the late Charles L.

Bromberick Thursday evening. July 27th, at 8:00 to say the Rosary. 292x. Dies Fall Battle For Florence Flares In Fury -V- ROME, July battle for Florence, the big Italian city in German hands south of the Gothic line, fared to a new fury today with the Eighth army smashing flerce German counterattacks eight miles from the heart of the historic town. At the same time indications grew tha the ancient city of Pisa would become a major battle ground.

The Germans were observed erecting barricades the main streets north of the Arno river and setting up machinegun posts. It was officially reported the enemy was using the famous leaning tower as well as church steeples for observation posts. The roar of heavy artillery resounded along the Fifth army front on the lower Arno from San to the sea. American long-: range guns destroyed a big enemy railway cannon, several tanks and self-propelled guns, and a number of enemy dumps during day-long shelling. The Germans continued to fight bitterly in the horseshoe bend east of Pisa--their only stronghold on the south side of the Arno Fifth army front.

The last pocket of Nazi resistance along the railway embankment near San Romano was wiped out and the Americans also cleaned up a tew groups of Germans who had been fighting from house to house in the same area. Most impressive gains in the steel ring closing in on Florence were the southwest of the city where Eighth army units surged forward as much as three miles in the area of Castelnovo and Vallechio. These forces were more distant, however, than the New Zealanders the German 4th Parachute division along highway No. 2 in the area of San Casciano, only eight miles from the goal. In the upper Tiber valley the British crossed the Cerfone river and engaged the enemy in the immediate area of Sansepolero.

Activity in the Adriatic sector was limited to patrols. John Peles, 49, a coal miner of Glen Campbell, was crushed to death beneath a fall of clay day while working in a strip mine. Peles and his brother Pete had been working an abandoned strip mine near Glen Campbell and were preparing to quit the project, when the accident happened before noon yesterday. The two brothers were ready to move a conveying machine when a bank of clay caved in, compicici: covering the victim, but missing his brother. His brother Immediately went for help and the body was recovered shortly afterward.

Death had been instantaneous, the victim having received a fractured skull and internal injuries when thrown against the conveying machine by the impact of the falling clay. Surviving are the victim's wife Alice (Kulic) Peles and one daughter Mrs. Anastasia Jefferson of Glen Campbell; four brothers: Mike of Spangler, Harry, and Pete of Glen Campbell; three sisters: Mrs. Mary Nahalchik and Mrs. Ella Press of New York, Mrs.

Anna Housen of Scranton and one grandchild. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon from the Greek Orthodox Catholic Church in Arcadia. Friends are being received at the family home. Hurt In Fall From Bicycle of Mr. Edward and Faith, Mrs.

Claude Faith -old son of Creekside, was admitted to Indiana Hospital last night for treatmeut of a concussion of the brain and possible fracture of the skull he suf-' tered when he fell from his bicycle while playing near the parental home. The child's condition late today was listed as fairly good. Report Schacht Shot By Gestapo LONDON, July -The Algiers radio quoted a Stockholm dispatch today as saying that Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. Reich minister without portfolio, had been shot by the Gestapo.

G. W. Graft Co. will be closed Friday morning until 10:30 on account of tuneral services for Charles L. Bromberick.

392 Occupied Capitals Hit Aerial Blows LONDON, July 27-(AP) -American Liberators attacked Belgian military targets in the Brussels and Ghent areas today and Berlin sald other U.S. bomber formations from Italy made a "terror attack" on the Hungarian capital of Budapest amid' great air battles. Lowered clouds and squalls limited tactical acrial operations in Normandy. During the night, tish heavies bombed the rail center of Givors-Baden, 12 miles south of Lyon in southeast France. Mosquitos kept Hamburg awake, bombed other German targets for the fourth night running and harassed troop movements in Normandy.

Up to 250 Liberators, with an equal escort of fighters, struck in Belgium in the same general area where Thunderbolts late yesterday hurled high explosives and incendiaries on dozens of rail Brussels and Ghent both are rail bottlenecks leading from Germany to Normandy. A single bomber and one fighter were lost to flak today: 010 fighters ruse to challenge. Berlin said both German and Hungarian planes challenged the U. S. 15th Air Force raiders over Budapest, intercepting long before the armada reached the target Six heavy bombers were lost in the thrust that carried the RAF: fleet across France to a point about 80 miles southwest of Luke 'and immediately north of arenava: which had been under attack by the Italian based Allied bombers frequently last month.

American Thunderbolts dropped high explosives incendiaries on dozens of targets In sweeps over France and Belgium last evening, destroying or damaging 15 locomotives and considerable rolling stock. Yesterday's combat score was 16: German planes downed for a loss of See AEBIAL Continued on page two Killed In Action 2t. S. NAVY --V- Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Cuddy of Florette, formerly of side, R. D. 1, received a gram front the Navy Dept. May 14th, 1944, stating their Francis Dean Cuddy, aged 23 years, Watertender First Class, had been killed in action, some where in the South Pacific, May 11th. 1944.

He attended grade school in Washington Township, Indiana County and graduated from the Clairton High School, Clairton, in the class of 1940. Prior to his enlistment in the Navy Sept. 1942, he was employed at Care: negie-Illinois Steel Mill, Clair. tOrt. He took his boot training at New Port, R.

seven weeks after his enlistment he was sent to the Atlantic and served eight mouths in the Atlantic, Then he was stationed at New York, Two months before being trans ferred to the South Pacido in 1943. Besides his parents leaves his Mrs. (Dagger) Cuddly, Florette une brother. Wayne Cuddly the U. S.

Army, somewhere England..