Holdrege Daily Citizen from Holdrege, Nebraska • 1

VOLUME SIXTY PRICE NUMBER' 172 HOLDREGE PHKLPS COUNTY NEBRASKA far SATURDAY JULY 22 1944 vtry-yy Gorman Prisoners Are Being Processed Arrived Last Highf PhalpsConnly-Dnil State Var Bon: Higher Than Ever Phelps county in a report 'Late News Flashes the Fifth War Loan drive issued by the Federal Reserve bank increased fits lead over all! Other counties in group II in the ate With a percentage of li5 per LONDON A self-styled Germsn raf dio station has broadcast a statement by German Major General Hans! Von Wartenberg that pleaders of tM German movement are alive and in biding He said the heads of the Reich anti-Nazi group have a wide following among all strata of the German people and are finding means to continue the struggle cent of its individual sales luota Himmler Directs Purge Of Officers In Attempted Assassination Of Hitler But Neutral Reports Say I That Rebellion Aglnst Reich Spreading Rapidly this county was maintaining a 25 per cent lead over all otherjlcoun ties Standings in Group II Farmers Are Plowing Fields As Soon As They Complete Their Combining To Keep The Weed Growth Down Alfalfa Farmers Hit The Jackpot 1 This has been he wettest July In the life of many a Phelps county next spring as a green manure Hitler To Give Details Assassination Attempt STOCKHOLM OUD-A Berlin dispatch reports that Hitler will soon address the Reichstag to give full details of the attempt on his life and the Consequences Six: hundred- ninety nine German prisoners of war newly arrived In the United States arrived at the Atlanta Prisoner of War Camp for processing last night according to Lt CoL Leonard Smith commander of the camp All of them gaunt lobking and apparently in' poor physical condition the prisoners appeared to be everything from mere young-pters to grandads They' arrived in two trainloads at the amp last night between 7:30 and 8 and were moved immediately into the compound'''''' It will take them about three days to be cleaned up and' processed and information concerning them registered at the camp Although officials at thp camp would give no information' if was surmised that the prisoners were taken in Normandy and brought immediately to thu try for confinement here Quota Phelps $392000 Wayne 431200 Clay 358400 Hitchcock 319200 Webster 313600 Merrick 313600 Seward 487200 Sales $60845 1 155 I- 130 46384 1 405439' 554719! 129 127 123 in 114 LONDpN (UR) The revolt of is reported under way for the army officers against Hitler has the German Shaken the Nazi dictatorship to its name for the old-line aristocratic roots officer caste The insurrection which 'time In east Prussia- homeland of within a breadth of killing the arpiy units are be-the appears to have set liyd to have rebelled In whole-off the bloodiest purge in German numbers and to have been history -(shot -down mercilessly Nazi authorities claim absolute domination over the Reich and their control- of radio stations and Bislance Growing Ever '-y Point Ont Quiches Evening Mail Service Is Secnred At Postoffice To Berlin Germans Lose 14 Tanks In Caen Sector SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE 0JR) Allied armies knocked out 14 German tanks yesterday in repulsing two" futile counters attacks south of Caen and along the Periers-to-Saint Lo highway i However1 heavy rain has stalled the British push across the Caen plains A spokesman at supreme headquarters reveals that General Paul Hausser an old-line Prussian officer ia commanding the Seventh Germany army facing the Americans in Normandy crop This practice is recommended for the irrigator who has bare or thin spots in his field where the top soil has been removed Com still looks good A few fanners are still cultivating The com is tall and they are breaking over a few stalks but since the stands are plenty thick this matter much The "yellow which were so evident last year shown up generally this year but according to agricultural experts theycan be ex-i pected in some of the older fields soon Walter Fitts reports a good comparison oh one Tri -County1 farm between old land and swfet clover The com Is the same kind and planted on consecutive days The com on the old land is yellow and about a foot shorter than the com on the sweet clover land i Jerome Fuller Elm Creek Jerome Fuller left the teaching profession last winter to start farming in the 1 Platte Valley 2 The shortest distance te Berlin from the advanced Allied battle lines today: 402 miles $10 miles 423 Miles There seems to be a gener tl misunderstanding' regarding the time mail placed in the east born 4 midi box At the depot starts edit At the present time ail mail de iositec in the east bound mail box picked up by train 22 and 12 tije next morning Instead of by 40 Zephyr as many think Acting postmaster 1 Cletuk-Nel-son advises that the only to get your mail out on -the evening east bound trains is to dbjmsit it in the post office before eigl This mail is pouched gircn to Report British Mass For New Offensive NEW YORK (UR) Radio Berlin says that the BriU! ish in Normandy are massing for still another offensive The enemy report says more than 10 divisions are con- Centrated eAst of the Orne river with additional meh being moved into the area young farmer Maybe not so much in the amount of rainfall but in the number of days when it was just too wet to get into the fields Combines Jare having a time making progress because it is noon or later before the 'grain is dry enough to thresh Wheat general-ly is testing light because of the moisture content The slowing up of the harvest is bringing more problems inj the harvest as the weeds are making rapid growth In another week they will hide the grain Some fanners are wind- rowing their jbarley and oats This would be more universal if more pick-up attachments could be lo- cated With all the rapid weed growth the practice some of the farmers are following of plowing their stubble immediately after combining seems to be the thing" It's the moisturei in the ground this fall that will help make the crop next year whether jit be wheat spring grain or cotn- If thefweeds are allowed to grow a few weeks they will sap the ground of its present supply I -I Putting up alfalfa has been the job on many Platte' Valley farms The hay is'jjust in medium condition as much of it is going into the stack with One or more rains on it' The hay price is expected remain' up' this season but with a bigger supply all oyer the county local stockmen wilrnSot need so much I i j' Farmers jwho planted alfalfa1 or 1 sweet clover last 'spring hit the miles west -of 'the Platte Valley either 40 or the Zephyr which ever AM MAAmLmA i Dmaha arrives first and reaches Strike Ploestl Oil Center From Bases In Italy ROME About -750 Flying Fortresses and Liberators struck from Italy today at the big Romanian oil center of Ploesti Escorted by Mustangs and Lightnings the 15th air heavy bombers hit the oil center for thi 11th time in the war They dropped their bombs by instrument through a heavy smoke screen that covered the target An official announcement says the' Americans encountered intense anti-air craft fire and Sa number of enemy -fighters Service station He is operating 220 acres the time of the inter-! view he was raking his second I PirtCSIf ArOUIMl LWOW crop of alfalfa of which he bids so I By Red Army Is Forcing acres He has 130 acres of coni I New German Retreats part of which is pump irrigated I and 15 acres of barley His barley I LONDON (UR) The Germans ad-is a problem Although the flriii new lns by the Russians who and Chicago the next morning For best east bound mail: service mail it the postoffice! before eight oh week days ind six on Sunday and holidays the postmaster advised Famous Undersea Yank Raiders Fail To Report And Presumed Missing are swarming across Poland Fair Injured Bertrand Condition Delbert Dewey son of Mifs Vera Dewey of Bertrand roceved a fractured skull in a fall Recently looked good earlier the weeds are growing in it so harvest is going to be a problem But with all hid alfalfa and corn he figures he waste much time on the barley At the present time he is milking 3 cows and has 3 steers 3 hogs and A Berlin Military spokesman says the Russians have made-a deep penetration northwest of the Fortress city of Lwow Attacking in the direction of Jaroslaw 62 miles to the northwest ij -This is-- in "the Lublin sector-where earlier today the (Germans In the and according to doctors! Allied Bombers Pound Reich Factories LONDON '(UR) A' German broadcast reports that a bomber formation has headed in over the Reich from Helgoland Bay off northwest Germahy -v -c Meantime Eighth air force headquarters iii London announces that the British-based prime tar-gets-this week were the aource of GeTmany1 secret rocket weapon Last attack on the German experimental station at Peenemunde in the Bal- -tic area is described officially as successful American bombers also made nine other attacks on jet' plane engine (factories and a spokesman says eight of the nine attacks could be considered successful news agencies seems to bear out the contention -But the situation is enveloped in a dense cloud of rumor propaganda and fantasy Neutral reports speak of the execution of Marshals Vein Rundstedt and Von BraUchitsch They say 55 hundred officers Including 34 generals have been arrested and many hundreds killed I But the say the Swiss has not stopped the wave of rebellion from spreading to sailors aboard warships at the Baltic bases of Kiel and Stettin The purported mutiny brings back memories of the famous Kiel uprising in 1918 which ignited the flames of dis content throughout Germany and led to the surrender two weeks later: London newspapers print a dispatch from a Swedish Journal quoting a Berlin report that Hitler soop will address the Reichstag and give a full report of the attempt on his life and its consequences Travelers yrho have arrived in Sweden from Berlin describe the capitalas anarooed with S-S troops milling everywhere in air raid ruins 'downtown corners and public buildings They are all equipped with tommy guns or machine gunsj All reports from European neutrals agree that Heinrich Himmler Is directing a purge of anti-Nazi elements with ruthless fury Several army regiments are believed to have been shot to the last man Widespread clashes are reported between Gestapo and Storm troop forces and regular Wehrmacht detachments The Nazis 'are expected to Use the assassination attempt as an excuse to annihilate not tally the rebels but everybody else in Germany they dislike or suspect Dpctor Robert Ley redfaced bull necked labor front leader lashed out repeatedly at in an hysterical speech over the Berlin Addressing arms workers he said: AWej must rub out an idiotic nobility that has nothing better to do than plot Against our A United Frees dispatch from Bade Switzerland quotes' frontier reports that many of the 34 generals arrested by Himmler have been shotj A sweeping manhunt 1 100 Chickens' He' Intends to' hx- are crease his hogs this fall and winter Kindly reported 1 rtUl time ruT ttettod with hi PACIFIC UR) The navy announce that two American submarines are overdue and must be presumed lost in action in the Pacific They were the Trout and the Tullibee the 26th and 27th of our undersea raiders lost since the be- ginning of war They bring the total of American combatant losses in the war to 171 The Trout was the submarine that slipped past Japanese defenses around Manila Bay to return Philippines gold from Corregidor during the early stages 'of the Pacific war It carried a normal complement of 65 men The skipper of the Trout Lieutenant Commander Albert Clark of Orinda Califor- nlsslvir listed as missingr had reported fighting Lublin is change in occupation and says thgt 65 miles from the Vistula River electricity is needed to make: the the last natural barrier in the way Paterson hospital today his rendition was'fair'' The boy was with a gijoup in Holdrege at the time the eccident occured He apparently had a fainting spell- and fell striding his head on the sidewalk Harold Ike Is In to plant bothof these crops in fact many old alfalfa growers prefer to plant alfalfa in the fall It gives them a better chance against the weeds The time to plant alfalfa is between August 1 and September 15 Walter Fittts says that Air Coras In India there is slill time to seed sweet Flying Bombs Hit London South England LONDON (UR) Nazi flying bombs hit London and 1 southern counties in increasing nlimbers to- day clover which can be plowed under Harold Ike a member of corps is stationed in Indii The son of Mr a id Mrs John Ike- ')f Mc- S' A Little Bit! nia-L-is (Continued on Page 3) change perfect' Charles Harder Holdrege Charles Harder farms the quarter section on the ten mile' gravel one mile east of Burlington street highway in Center Township He has 84 acres of irrigated ground This year he has 70 acres of com 37 acres of barley that was once and still is partially wheat and 5 acres of feed At the time of the interview he wri irrigating and thd feed' He is pleased with his outlook on com but expecting much from the barley and wheat The Harders have 15 head of cattle 6 of which are milk cows4 six now milking one sow: with On Most Anything of the Russian east of the German border The Vistula runs! through Warsaw The Nazis say the Russians are applying strong pressure in extending their1 great pincers around Lwow from the north and the south And Berlin speaks of daring operations by the Red armies in the assault In all the Germans say the battle on the southern sector front i4 reaching nbv'ipeftk violence In' the battle 'for brest-litovsk- another fortress city to the north and almost directly east of Warsaw the Russians are tightening their pressure against the Nazi defenders Brest-Litovsk has been outflanked northwest while ej columns are pa rt of the saammAmmimmimwimw Fifth Eighth Armies Advance All Along Front ROME The Fifth and Eighth armies in ltaly are driving northward all along the front The latest series of gaiitaris highlighted by an American thrust to -Win four nailesOiisA'ithe west coast anchor of the German Gothic line'defens Cook he I ved in Holdrege with his aunt and uri de Mr and Mrs: Bill 0711 inan 'if He 'has leen in the air corp for two yean and as sent to India las fall recent letter to Mr and i Vatican Denies Pope Congratulatory Message VATICAN CITY The semi-official Vatican news servicej denies today that Pope Pius has sent a message of congratulation to Adolf Hitler on his: escape from assassination The same news service yesterday had reported that the Pope was pre-' sumed to have sent the message under Vatican protocol pigs and 200 pullets They have I to the south oth been selling off the old hens and mnviTig iw closer from the In a Mrs Tillman he told of somfe of the action there at present it said are beginning to give it to them now and I assure you beginning of the end If' you could see sitting on this eld you would know what I me nt and know what already do now have only a fey left I now-familiar' squeeze Mrs Harder has a good garden I the Brest-Litvosk sec- tor the Russians are less than 85 miles from Warsaw The need for a new airport large enough and! -with' great enough facilities to be used for feeder line service after the war Is an accepted fact by nearly all Holdrege i property owners Holdrege without an airport would face a future like Stock ville Without a railroad and residents here are all unwilling to face that future for their community Uncle Sam it is almost certain 'will finance! a part of the construction of such an airport for many communities on established air lines but officials of the CAA have made it plain that the govern-' ment will not finance the purchase of the land for the ports Hold- rege is- already bn bAA established air lines and is one of the points ex stop for a proposed -feeder line that has an application pending before the State Railway Commission CAA officials have urged towns tb purchase the land for airports now and to have their plans ready for construction Holdrege has already selected a site under-the guidance of the CAA and plans for the port-havebeen best Holdrege is the formers shopping center Holdrege is the former's shopping center 1 and expects to put up a good deal of 'the family food supply The farm la owned by Mr Lantr of Kearney Scene leveling was done on this farm last winter! There is still more to be dime They plan to put part of the leveled land into alfalfa to bring upjthe fertility Guam Invaders Steadily Reinforced PEARL HARBOR American relnforcemeifts are landing steadily on Guam island The Americans are fighting their way inland from the and south'' on the westj coast Farley Supports Fourth Torm CHICAGO Jim Farley former 'democratic' national chairman who quit the post in-opposition tcrA President Roosevelt's third term now supports fourth term Fairley says against it in principle but a6j cepts the decisions of the Democratic national convention I AS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ADEJ CGEPTAIIGE SPEECH iswiiiiwiiniisi: pa mil imiml iiisiiwiiiwiiiiiiwiiiiiisiiiiiiisiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiMii Hello i Linda Lou Carlson and I just stopped by to say that even though still pretty young I think most people are very strange They go about dreaming I lots of things like having money I Dale Cramer Refused lien Murder Trial By StaleSupreme Court 'Vr Jt new I or being the prettiest girl at the duice and having lots of lovely i Roosevelt Wcilcomes Now Running Mate thing surrounding them but they CHICAGO (UR)-President Roosevelt today wel- comed hia' new running mate for the 1944 national campaigns- In a message to Senator Truman Me Roosevelt said: send yon my heartiest congratulations I shall see you soon'- -K'-: never do anything about it except make themselves miserable think- ing about--what they could have been i Even though not the type to drawn but the ground -has not yet been purchased because the funds LINCOLN NEBR UJ9 A trial was denied Dale- Cramer" Harlan county farmer convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life by the State Supreme Court in a decision handed down tpday by' Justice Carter Cramer was charged yrith aur-dering his two-monthSold daughter by placing strychnihe in her milk At the preliminary hearing I Cramer pleaded guilty but said he had not made any He repudiated the confession trial in District Court be a Hawaiian pricess because 1 have blue eyes land blond hair I am just the same The reason I know this is not because of any of those things I mentioned but because my daddy is there and every daddy thinks she is a princess with all the gifts of fairy land thrown in to make her more lovely But tell him I tokfgou that because I want him to go on thinking that about md Hig name is Royle Carlson and- he hiais' bqep overseas since June1' ia42 I bavent seen him because I was bom March 1' 1943 Imt according to myrmom-my he is wonderfuL Right now I am with her and my grand-Pfents-I to Urbana Illinois but' I have a grandfather Ernie Carlson and a great-grandfather -R Harvard arid they both live! in Holdrege Someday coming to see them tind meet all'oi you tea for the purchase have not been and are not available To 1 keep awake to its opportunity Holdrege should 'consult further with the CAA determine the cost of construction of the port planned by them for this community secure an option on the land and take steps for after war aviatibn by holding a bond election to vote the cost of the'-ground for the pdrt and half the funds that will' be needed for construction Such a project would' be a -worthwhile post-war enterprise that will 'not only furnish employment but will put Holdrege on the air map immediately after the war Other towns have already taken the steps and Holdrege is lagging be- -hind It is beginning Innfc though air travel is going to be established extensively immediate- ly after planes are completely freed for civilian purchase Rayburn Faces Tough Battle In Primaries DALLAS Texas House Speaker Sam Ray? burn faces 'bile of the toughest battles in hislongpolit-: ical career in Texas primary election1'- Hu main --opponent iii his bid for-the 17th term in Congress is State Senator Morris of -Greenville Unrest In Hungary After Plot Against: Hitler LOiNDON The 1 plot against Adolf Hitler ia believed to have provoked deep unrest throughout Hun- gary Diplomatic sources in the Balkan nation report anti-German demonstrations broke out in Budapest yesterday It is understood one Hungarian regiment which was rushed to the spot joined the demonstrators" German -troops reportedly had to be called to quell the: riot Red Pressure increases In Poland MOSCOW (UJ3 -Soviet pressure is being' tightened-1 against the Polish fortress city of Brest Litovsk a bari rier to nie Soviet drive toward Warsaw The Russians: advancing to within 84 miles of: the Polish' capital have begun a pincers around Brest Litovsk after outblank- ing it from the northwest had been forced from him The court held it had been properly ad-1 mitted in evidence According to the Supreme court ruling the evidence establishes beyond a doubt that the defendant put the poison in the milk! that the opportunity to the crime was present' and all circumstances Integrate themselves In a confei sion made by the -defendant Sitting In a train ai wret feowt base President Roosevelt broadeasts liis speech ss Presidential' nomineeof the DemoriCtie party the assemMed delegates in the Chfeago rtadlum Qn the right are CeL and Btrs James Roosevelt (International soiinilptinto) Complete line of office supplies of all kinds at the Dally CM -v 'V- i' i.