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AiJuY Ai II II Ml 'J on FORTY-EIGHTH YEAR SIX PAGES BELVIDERE, ILLINOIS SATURDAY, JULY 22. 1914 NOON EDITION PRICE: THREE CENTS ID Tn Tu li I 7R) jj 6 ME 1 A JIB To Bali eize Bi Air uam Center Mutiny SITE OF TANK BATTLE Mava Hinted I BAY OF THE tettin Bases Himmler Directs German Storm Troopers In New Blood Purge Of Leaders T.nMnnM Jnlw Smoo HUnatoo coM (ntov I AtNA tOt TANK yMY M0NT6WtT Tr rnvrklfr in Hrmnnv Fine cruvmri in naval nnito at fha To tic bases of Kiel and Stettin despite the execution of Marshal Gerd von Kundstedt, Marshal Walther von Brau- chitsch and hundreds of other uiood purge. The report that naval units had revolted came from Basel on the Swiss-German frontier and recalled the World War 1 mutiny at Kiel on Oct. 29, 191 8 the spark that set off a revolution and led to Germany's capitulation a fortnight later. No details of the, purported revolt were available, Basel said.

Swiss disnatches nlso rennrtpH Linihoa hntwnnn wtm. lar army detachments and Nazi storm troopers and Gestapo units as Ileinrich Uimmler's raiding squads arrested susnects bv the thousands in a. rnthWa Location of the tank battle on Normandy that was nearly brought to a halt by heavy rains, is shown above. Striking from Caen toward Paris, 112 miles to the east, armored forces under Gen. Sir Bernard L.

Montgomery had reached Troarn, seven miles eastward and Allies reported that half of the city was in Allied hands. Churned up mud of the Normandy plain beyond Caen bogged down the Allied and German tanks and put a temporary halt to action, except for desultory patrol clashes and exchange of artillervfire. out all semblance of opposition to Adolf Hitler. me land is flatand without -fortresses-and clearing skies are ex- peciea 10 sena me Dattie into us final phases. arm Landed Under Losses "Moderate" Say U.

S. Chiefs; Defense Blasted To Bits PEARL HARBOR, July 22 -U. marines and army from the north and south, drove toward a junction on the west coast of Guam today in an apparent effort to cut, off Orote peninsula and its airfield. (Tokyo radio, in a broadcast recorded by FCC monitors, acknowledged the landings on Guam, but claimed that the Americans were "in great confusion due to the tremendous losses inflicted by our forces." Tokyo said that the American forces suffered 4,300 casualties in the landings.) (A German DNB news agency dispaich reported from Tokyo that fierce fighting was raging on Guam.) Ships Shell Shore While warships offshore hurled tons of explosives into Japanese positions inland, the assault troops which landed seven miles apart early Thursday were fanning out from secured beachheads between Adelup and Asan points north of Orote peninsula and Agat and Bangi point below the peninsula. (Tokyo estimated that one division, approximately" 15,000 men, and 150 tanls were landed at Asan and a half division at Agat.) Adm.

Chester VV. Nimitz reported that the troops were meeting increasing resistance in some sectors as they drove inland through the hills in the southern portion of Guam, a former U. S. naval sta- tioir which" fell' to the Japanese four days after Pearl harbor. Losses "Moderate" Preliminary estimates indicated that the American casualties were "moderate," Nimitz said in his report of the operations on Guam, the ffrst American territory to be liberated in the western Pacific war.

The Pacific fleet commander, who again breached Japan's inner defenses with the invasion of Guam, said the assault troops landed against light resistance and quickly secured "good beachheads." A front dispatch said the landings, directed by Rear Adm. Richard W. Conolly, were probably the smoothest amphibious operations of the war and accomplished, lit record time. The preparatory barrages had been so effective that the-troops, under Marine Maj. Gen.

Roy Geig-er swarmed ashore with negligible resistance and by nightfall had dug in on perimeters on both sides of Orote peninsula, with the northern anchor approximately two miles from Agana, administrative seat of Guam. Reserves Landed Nimitz disclosed that reinforce-, ments were steadily'landing on the island to bolster the campaign for the liberation of the former American possession and its 20,000 Chamorro natives. In commenting on the lack of a bloody shoreline fight, Conolly said tersely: "We simply blasted the Japs to hell out of there and up into the trees." Following the landings, Col. W. A.

Wachter, corps staff officer, told correspondents at the front: "Most of us think the operation proceeded more smoothly than anything before it, due in large measure to the excellence and wisdom of the preparation." Wonder. Horse Of 1943 Is Retired NEW YORK. July 22 Count Fleet, the wonder horse of 1943 and the only colt in turf history to carry off the quintuple crown, arbeerrtetTfedecmse'lbrXlcff injury and will be sent to owner John D. Hertz Kentucky farm Trainer Don Cameron announced Reserve Units Lover By Navy General- Koiso Is Jap Premier. Names Cabinet BY UNITED PRESS Tokyo announced today that Gen.

Kuniaki. Koiso, former governor general of Korea, has been appointed premier of a new Japanese cabinet of conservative elder army, navy and business leaders to succeed the discredited extremist government of Gen. Ilide-ki Tojo The German Transocean agency said Tojo had been placed on the retired list of the army, completing the downfall of the second of three Axis dictators. The choice of experienced leaders to take over the helm of the government seen as an attempt to rally the Japanese people and armed forces to new excr- 1 GENERAL KOISO ions in the face of the growing American threat to their homeland, highlighted hy the invasion of Guam and the. conquest, of.

JSaU pan, 1,500 miies south of Tokyo. New Navy Chief Marshal Gen. Sugiyama, former army chief of staff, was named war minister and Mamoru Shi- gemitsu was returned to the for eign ministry, the post he held in the Tojo Former Pre- ADMIRAL YONAI mier Adm. Mitsumasa Yonai, commissioned by Emperor Hirohito with Koiso to form the new cabinet, took the navy ministry, a portfolio he held from 1937 to 1939. I Japanese commentary on the cabinet said it was under Jhe "joint leadership" of Koiso and Yonai, referring to Yonai as navy minister and "temporarily deputy prime minister." Shigcmitsu also was given the portfolio of greater" East Asia minister.

5-Day Crisis Announcement of the new government ended a five-day domestic crisis touched off- by the en bloc resignation of To jo's cabinet last Tuesday with an admission that it could not win the war, an admission that came almost simul- hnnpnnsly yvith nn ment of the loss of Saipan. Inauguration of the new cabinet-will complete the downfall 1 Si 'if'm' riir-onrrrannnifiiniiiiiiiLiiJiM. Mud Stalls Allied Drive In Normandy Germans Report British Moving Up Troops For New Tush SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. July 22 Gen.

Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's offensive down the highway from Caen to Paris bogged down completely in mud and heavy rains today and supreme headquarters announced in its shortest communique of the invasion that "there is nothing to report." The German Transocean News agency reported that the British had massed more than 10 divisions east of the Orne, were moving up still more troops, and a "new major assault seems imminent." The enemy report, lacking any immediate support in responsible quarters, said artillery fire already was increasing of Caen, but "the expected new attack has not yet started." March Stalled British and Canadian forces waited in foxholes, trenches and ditches half with water on an arc extending nearly five miles beyond Caen for clearing skies to resume their march toward Paris, 112 miles the east. Ground fog and low lying clouds further immqbilized ODera-tions and front reports told only of occasional artillery artd mortar fire and routine limited patrols. Virtually all planes were Desultory clashes were report ed at Troarn, seven miles east of Caen, with British vanguards in the outskirts and about 1,000 yards north of the town. South of Caen, the British were established firmly in St.

Andrc-Sur-Orne, four miles down the Orne river, but headquarters retracted a previous announcement that they had taken St. Martin De Fontenayrrafcw" hundred" yards farther south. Hold Half Of City (A.London broadcast said that "half of Troarn" still was in German hands, but the "fighting is going well for On the western half of the front, the American First army inched to within 4,000 yards north of Periers, made slight gains at several points south of the Pcriers-St. Lo highway and won positions 1,500 yards west of the Vire river four miles northwest of St. Lo.

A headquarters spokesman acknowledged he also was in error in reporting the capture of Raids, four miles north of Periers on the highway from Carentan, and Berigny, on the St. Lo-Bay-eux highway. Both still were in German hands, he said. News In Brief 22 -AKoUVlEo Hying fortresses and Liberators struck from Italy today at the big "Rumanian oil center of Plo-esti, and headquarters announced that prime targets of the Eighth air force this week were suspected sources of Germany's secret rocket weapon. LONDON, July 22 The News Chronicle 'said today that reliable information Teaching the Allies reported than -an attempt to overthrow the regent government of Adm.

Nicholas Horthy in Hungary had been repulsed. CHICAGO, July 22 Walter Otto Froehling and Otto Richard Wergin today were sentenced to five years in prison for being accessories to treason, and their wives and Mrs. Hans Max Haupt were reelased from treason charg es without sentence. LONDON, July 22 The Ger- TfrTans sTioFHaiOncreasuTg number of robot bombs into southern England and the London area in day-. light today from bases on.

the Pas De Calais and Belgian coasts. Reds Battle For Poland On Two Fronts German East Wall Line Of Defense Broken On Bug: River MOSCOW, July 22 A deci sive battle for Poland began today as two jxnverful Soviet arm ies breached the German's "east wall" alone a 250-mile stretch of the Bug river to strike menacingly within 8-1 miles of Warsaw, Marshal Konstantin Rokossov- sky's cavalry, tanks, and infantry of the First White Russian army spearheaded the drive with wide sweeps around the fortress city of Brest Litovsk. The northern thrust of Rokos- sovsky's troops Carried to Alexan- drowka on the northern banks of the Bug, 35 miles northeast of the Sicdlce rail junction, one of the major enemy strong points before the Polish capital. Units of the Third army also captured Strawki, 15 miles south east of Alexandrowka and a sim ilar distance northwest of Brest Litovsk, which was being shelled by Soviet artilleryset up nine miles north of the city. Storm Through South On the southern thrust of the two-pronged drive, Russian infantrymen stormed into Miedna, 15 miles south of Brest Litovsk, leaving only a 30-miIc gap open behind the city, and only one railroad escape route westward to Warsaw.

Farther south, another unit of Rokossovsky's army seized Wiel-kobukowa, 40 miles duo east of Lublin and 65 miles from the Wis-la (Vistula) river, the last natural barrier east of the German bor- der. 1 7 While Rokossovsky's forces were driving at a pace that brought up to gains of 15 miles in one day, Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Ukrainian army extended the long eastern front another 50 miles 'southward in a new thrust on Stanislawow, the gateway to the Carpathian mountains into Czech oslovakia. Nearing Border The Ukrainian troops drove to within 60 miles of the Czech bor der to captured Zubzhets, 25 miles east of Stanislawow, and Sokolov, 10 miles south of Buczacz. Northward, Konev's forces were waging a heavy battle against three German infantry divisions and reserve tank units for the nine-point rail junction of Lwow.

While the main troops were as saulting the approaches to Lwow, other units continued their drives around both sides of the city. On the northern end of the 800 mile front. Col. Gen. Ivan I.

Mas-lennikov's Third Baltic army captured Ostrov, last Nazi strong- point before the eastern border and occupied Volkovo, nine miles south of Pskov, on the southern entrance to Estonia. Illinois A rmy Man Killed In Crash DF.NVFR. Julv 22 Second Lieut. Richard G. Rogers, Riverside, 111., was killed yester day when his Warhawk pursuit plane crashed at the Buckley gun ncry range while' on a training flight.

Rogers, who was stationed at Peterson field, Colorado Springs, is survived by his widow, Mrs Anne J. Rogers, who had been with him at Colorado and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Rogers, Brookfield, 111.

Two Planes Collide, 8 Dead, 10 Hurt TAMPA. July 22 Eight flyers were killed, 10 were injured and two were reported missing yesterday after two Flyr ing Fortresses collided flight near Brocksville, on a corn- ughtfrmy-n'f announced today, The dead included Flight Offi cer J. Elisha, Gary, and Corp. -John G. Pollock, Ston-ington, 111., was missing.

SEINE; ROME. July 22 American troops have pushed up the west coast of Italy to within four'miles of Tisa, western anchor of the Germans' Gothic line, and other Fifth army forces are fighting 15 miles due south of Florence. Al lied headquarters reported today. The Fifth and Eighth armies were reported driving steadily northward all across the Italian capturing more than hal a dozen largo towns which the Ger mans had converted into strong points on the approaches to the Gothic line. 1 TheAmcricans bending back the west wing of the German defenses already had sent patrols across the Arno river which flows west ward through the Pisa area in a flanking swing around the city of the leaning tower was threatened by a frontal push from the south.

United States patrols probed the northern and southern banks of the lower Arno, as well as the Antifosseto and Arno canals and highway 1 between Livorno and Pisa. In the coastal sector the Ameri cans encountered a thick network of circular concrete pillboxes and strategic road junctions manned by German rear guards firtng automatic weapons from slits in their fortifications. At the opposite end of the1 line, Polish troops drovVell. beyond the Esino river- inWtrcngthto within four miles of the fishing port of Senigallia at the mouth of the Misa river 16 miles beyond Ancona. German Convoy Blasted By R.

A. F. LONDON, July 22 The Royal air force announced today that its Beaufighters sank or damaged every vessel of a 40-ship German convoy off Helgoland in an attack shortly after dusk last night. The convoy, one of the largest ever flushed and attacked by the R. A.

F. coastal was described as "shattered," without loss to the Beauf ichter planes flown by British and dominion pilots. REPORT HEAVY TOLL LONDON, July 22 Yugoslav Partisan forces killed and wound ed many officers and men and rnpturrd prisoners and inirtftt booty in heavy fighting against Bulgarian, Chetnik and Nedic troops in Serbia, a communique from Marshal Tito's headquarters IK Fill ILES 1 At omcers in a growing Nazi A London Daily Mail dis- patch from Stockholm esti mated that 5.500 German officers of various ranks, including many from trusted SS divisions, had been arrested, and travellers arriv-fafc in Malmo from Berlin heard that "many huudreds" of officers had been executed in the great-' est purge in German his--tory. v-h-- Lern said frontier reports said; von Rundstedt, removed earlier this month as supreme German commander in the west and von former commander in chief of the German army, were among those put to death. Despite the run of sensational reports of uprising reaching London, Hitler appeared to be maintaining firm control of German radio stations, news agencies, newspapers and other key points whose occupation would be "necessary for any successful revolt.

Responsible sources in London suggested that many stories were Deing spread purposely from non-German sources in order to increase the confusion presently existing in Germany and to undermine morale on German home and fighting fronts. A self-styled "free German" radio station in Moscow broadcast a statement from German Maj. Gen. Hans von Wartenberg asserting that leaders of the "liberation movement" still were alive and in hiding. Reports Unconfirmed Other unconfirmed reports reaching London from European sources said that- army units in EastPrussia had rebelled and been shot, that heavy fighting was going on in 'Bavaria and even that Adolf Hitler had been arrested or put under protective custody.

There appeared no doubt, however, that Ileinrich Himmler, empowered by Hitler to restore order at all cost, was- pressing ahead with his purge of anti-Nazi elements with a fury unparalleled even in the 1934 massacre. The Germans themselves admitted that Hitler was determined this time to wipe out not only those involved in the incipient revolt and attempt on his life, but also all elements regarded as potential sources of opposition. 31 Leaders Held A United Press dispatch Basel told of frontier reports that 34 generals were among those arrested by Uimmler's raiding squads and asserted that many already had been executed. All regular army troops in Munich were reported to have boon Kicked iip intheic. barracks.

and disarmed, the dispatch said. (Max Hill, NBC correspondent at Ankara, Turkey, relayed a sensational report that Adolf Hit- (Continued on Page 2). Xie Purge Victims fJ 4r Two former high German military leaders, Marshall Gerd von Rundstedt, at top, and Marshall Walther von Brauchitsch, below, are reported among latest victims of Ileinrich Himmler, Nazi SS and Gestapo chief, in the blood purge reported sweeping Germany after a German-confessed attempt td- kill Adolf Hitler. Mich officials in military circles are objects of the Nazi regime to suppress threat of a revolution in Germany as first step in a bid for Deace with the Allies. Sources outside Germany claim that hun dreds of officers have been executed.

HOLDS NO GRUDGE WATERLOO, July 22 Sheriff II. T. Wragner.Ls not the man to hold a. grudge. Twelve years ago A.

J. Williams started nerving mm tp in for at tempted murder, after shooting Wagner in an effort to escape arrest. Today Williams' is working as a tailor. The job and parole were arranged by Wagner. 'vtMe-- 'V', Truman Named Running Mate To Roosevelt CHICAGO, July 22 President Roosevelt was off today on his fourth term campaign with running mate No.

3 after a bruising final session of the Democratic natiunal convention which rejected Vice-President Henry A. Wallace and nominated Sen. Harry S. Truman of Missouri for his job. Mr.

Roosevelt's first running mate was John Nance Garner of Texas who was elected vicc-prcst dent in 1932" and 1936 7 and then broke with the President. The Democratic nominees plan a late campaign, conforming to Mr. Roosevelt's standard and ef fective Neither is ex pected to begin major speeches until late September or October. Candidate Hand-Picked Truman appears to have been the hand-picked choice of the President whose wishes were car-ried out here by a strategy board consisting of half a dozen men. Top honors for beating down the effort of left wingers and others to keep Wallace on the ticket goes to the national committee chairman, Robert! E.

Ilannegan, 40 years old, from St. Louis who was chosen by Mr. Roosevelt to administer party affairs. Truman, nominated yesterday for vice-president about 24 hours after Mr. Roosevelt was named for a fourth term, is a second term member of the senate who is.

chairman of the committee in- vestigating'munitions z- production and contracts. He is reckoned to have conserved for the taxpayer a great many millions of dollars which might have been spent for no purpose. Bitter Fight Wallace was ahead on the first ballot, 429 'i to 3191. The remainder of the votes were scat tered among, other candidates, most of whom had been nominated to provide various state dele gations with safe places to cast their ji'otes pending some indication who might be the winner. The Wallace drive began collapsing on the second ballot when little Delaware switched to give its (EMght votes to Truman.

When Maryland was reached on the roll call, the delegation abandoned favorite son Gov; Herbert O-'Conor to give Truman 18 more votes. Oklahoma's Gov. Robert S. Kerr withdrew from the race and the state's 22 votes went to Truman. Virginia switched her 24 from Sen.

John H. Bankhead of Alabama to the Missourian. By that-ime the otampede wafw4 and states were clamoring for a chance to change their votes: Butv.even with the changes ef- iContinued on Page 2 sai(J, today. (Continued an Page 2).