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A Paper For The Home 38TH YEAR, NO. 35 — 4^ PAGES . SUNDAY INDEPENDENT The Weather Very, vary nice. (See below.) r>'iTEi> rKEsa Wirt Ntws Berttra WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY JULY 2, 1944 PRICE TEN CENT! BAHLE OF PARIS OPENING REDS ENCIRCLING MINSK! Denmark Is Near Revolt German Artillery, Planes Turned on Copenhagen People; Wild Street Riots Gotta Be Versatile By J.4CK FLEISCHER Stockholm, Sunday. July 3 (UP> -' Wild it-reet riots that bordered on revolution were reported in Cepan- hagen early today and Daniah praaa dlspalchex said reinforced Oarman troops had killed Tli Icast a score of persons and wounded \ip to 700 ,more In an all-day hattle againat *15,000 rebellious patiioTs.'^ Information tricklinx into Stock¬ holm indicated that anti-Xasi dli- orders and protest strikes were spreading . like a ' flania througli Hitler's one-time model protacto- rate, deaplte rutbleia ceuatar meaaurea. OttmMuu Oik* Ire German machine guna Rii4 atUI- lary ware reported to hsw Rre on the rebela i: •nd ona account laM Mat •trafed the street •nd wounding many, All roada leading to were reported to liaWi MRa Moelicd by thi Germans laat night' as troo)i trains rushed reinforcements into the capital and Oestapo squads prowled through the atraeta round¬ ing up hostages to -'be executed if the uprising continued. Reports reaching Malmoe from Copenhagan said the Gestapo ar¬ rested 100 trade union leaders lind three of the city's five burKOnias- ters, threatening to shoot theril un¬ less the general strike which pro¬ voked the uprising was called off immediately. An estimated 300.000 to 400,000 Danish workers were believed in¬ volved In the strike, which 6 Columns Of Japs Drive At Hengyang Defeat Will Be Chinese Disaster; Manchuria-Singapore Rail Line a Prize Back in the United States in camp there was nothing about Sheep in the training manuals. but in France a Yank has got lo be a jack-of-all-li-ades. Here. Gls are shown steering a herd I of the woolly creatures away i from the bivouac area at the I front. Soldiers, Marines Slowly Kill off Japs on Saipan RESCUE 18DM MINE FIRE TRAP AI HARLAN, KY. called in prntest againsi the Ger man-imposed curfew and the arm¬ ing of the Danish Nazi Schalburg Corps. Oenionatrate Ixiyalty At the height of the street battle yesterday, crowds of patriots as¬ sembled outside King Christian's resident* at Sorgenfri Castle to demonstrate their loyalty to the King. Harlan, Ky., July 1. (UP)-Rescue crews this afternoon brought 18 minera, shaken but alive, to thCi surface from a shaft of the Bridg- *'"»iway Darby Coal Co., !i miles east of H:ii'lan where they had been trapped for nearly 17 hours by lira of undetermined origin. Mine officials said rescue squads reached the men at S:1S p. m. >ftrr driving a new entrance to the shaft from nn oM air vent through more than 300 feet of dirt and coal, by¬ passing the flre which previously had hampered rescue efforts 2nd and 4th Marines, Army 27th Division ; Reported In Action Waahington, Sunday. July t. (t P—The Navy revealed tonight that American lroop« fighting the bloody battle tor Saipan rom- prised Ihe veteran .Marine Second and Fourth ditlsions and Ihe Army 37lh Infantry Division. The hard-fighting expedition¬ ary force, Identified for the firat time in a rnrt Parific Fleet head¬ quarters prcHs release, haa taken uppro\inialely half the .lapaneiw- hrid ialand at a roal of more than ».«Hm lit pa—the highest loll yet paid by Ameriran forces In the Pacific. The Second Marines relieved Ihr First .^larine Diviaion at tiuadalraiial and fought the roallv hattle of Tarawa. The Fourth Di«i*lnn Marines have seen action HEAR HITLER WILL MAKE FLORENCE AN ope™ Americans 17 Miles Below LIvorno; Nazi Losses Heavy Unconfirmed reports said three I men either had been trapped by Danish Naiis were lynched by an!» '"H or suffocated by the fumef infuriated mob in Copenhagen and:"'"* amoke from fhe lire, that a fourth was stripped almost] Approximately SOO anxious friends naked and chased through tha city.and relatives of the trapped men Mine offlcials had feared that the '" *•"* •'»•¦"'>¦"•• The '-lh or New York Diviaion nf Anny foot aoldlera was mobil- streets until he found refuge In a hospital. The striking Danish workers ware said to have notified the Nazi authorities that they would return to work if all hostages were re¬ leased, the curfew lifted, aud all members of the Schalburg Corpa in¬ terned or deported. The Germans were reported rush¬ ing mobile artillery, tanks, rannon (Continued on Page A-12) were on hand when the first of the grimy, grinning miners was brought to the surface. Meanwhile. George F. Ward. sec-( retary of Ihe Harlan Coal Opera lied in l»40 when Ihe New York National <>uard waa mustered into federal service and aubae- qiiently was sent to the Paelflo Thealrr. By \VU.IJA^I F. TYREE Pearl Harbor. July 1. fUPI— tors Association, said the origin of |Tired and dirtv Marino* and Army the flre still was undetermined al-uroops, carrying on the bloodv busi'- though pirliminary iuyestigationlnegg „( wiping out the stubborn defenders of Saipan ... ,, 'Inland, made new small gains operated by the j-j-iuirsd.iv and eliminated several indicated a heavv fall of coal had,, shorted an electric trolley wire :''»l>ane»e The mine is operated by (Continued on Page A-12) MacArfhur Shows Monfh's Toll: 247 Japanese Planes, 31 Ships B) I>O.N t'ASUELI. Allied Headquarters, Pacific, Sunday, July Bombers of the Far Eastern Air Force hit Japanese bases in Dutch New Guinea and the Caroline Is- Iwere shot down in air combat, 41 Southwest w-ere wiped out on the ground and control 2. (UP)— three were downed by anli-airci aft I island flre. In addition. 22 other planes probably were destroyed. Shipping losses reported during pockets of re.<<i.«lanoe while carrirr- baaed planes hoinbed Rol,» again. Adm. Cheater W. .Vimitz announced today. Ameiican planes po.-isibl.v flying from Iscly Field on Saipan, and naval surface units meanwhile con¬ tinued to pound Japanese gun posi¬ tions on nearby 'Tini.tn I.iland as Uie bitter battle continued for of the major Mariana.s By RKYN'OLDS PACKARD Rome, July 1. (UP)—American Fifth Army trops have advanced within 17 miles southeast of the great port of LIvorno (Leghorn) after outflanking the coastal strong¬ hold of Cccina, while F'rench forces to the east have driven through the moiii.tains to points six mile:s south of the ancient Siena road juction, it was announced today, i One American force driving up' east of Ceclna reached a point 17] miles from LIvorno. and another; pushed five miles northwest froml Bihbona to break into the southern: outskirts of Cccina. | The French elements of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth Arm.v, mov¬ ing? northward toward Sienna, 4T miles east of Cecina, and Florence. 33 miles beyond Siena, reached the area of La Villa. ai.x miles south of Siena, and Grotti, a mile west of La Villa. Hitler to Hpare City (The United Press listening post In Ixindon heard the Oslo radio say that Adolf Hitler had declared Florence an "open city" in order toi "safeguard and preser\e its his-' toric treasures.") J In the center of the Allied lin^ stretching 170 miles across Italy j from the Tyrrhenian to the Adria¬ tic. British for.es cleared the entire I w est shore of Ijike Trasimeno. On the Adriatic sector other units "of Lt. On. Sir Oliver lyese's Sth Army crossed the Chiciiti River at a number of points and reached (Continued on Page A-»i By nCORUU WANU Chungking. July 1. (UP)—Jap- Hiicse forces, driving lo close the Chinese-held gap in the vital Can¬ ton-Hankow railway through cen¬ tral China, have launched a strong six-column pini ers offensive from the Canton region northward in an attcnipL to join a Jap spearhead at Hengyang, 170 miles to the nortli, it was announced today. The offensive launched Wednes¬ day b.v three columns advancing from Canton. Tsengahing to th'.- cast and Samshui, 23 miles north¬ west, was reinforced Thursday hy three other columns, a Chlneap communique said. ^ Four of the Japanese columns already have crossed the North jlliver, north of Samshui and are 1 advancing against Allied positions I at Tsingyu, 37 miles northwest of Canton. Full Length Railway Full possession of the Peiping- Canton railway would give the Japanese a virtual land supply route from Manchuria all the way south to the giant bastion of Singa¬ pore, through China, French Indo- China, Thailand and the Malay states. Less than 12,1 miles of this rail¬ way now remain in Allied hands. Tlie fall of beseiged Heng>-ang would be the greatest disaster to befall China since the fall of Hankow five years ago. Meanwhile, it was announced that other Jap forces in Chekiang Province on the seacoa.st to the eaat had launched a drive west¬ ward from Kinhwa in a drive on the Cheklang-Kiangsi railway. In fierce fighting, however, Qiinese troops hurled back the Japanese in this .sector, and the Japanese 70th Division lost 4.000 men killed. Fierce Barrage Now Thundering Over Normandy Like El Alameln as Montgomery Prepares fo Beaf Rommel Again; Gigantic Allied Power in Line; Yanks Mopping up Peninsula ISoviet Trap jMay Dwarf Stalingrad Three Powerful Armies Merging Along Berezina; Set Furious Pace i B.v ROBKRT MLSEL Norman orchards, filling the sky with flame. WORK L.\NDL\GS REPORTED Allied .Supreme Headquarters. London lui, 1(LP .\llied forces streamed to the Caen front tonight for a show-' ,„e,.jfp(i along tlie Berezina down battle on the road to Paris with tktyen German panzerl River 43 mile.s east of .Minsk divisions believed under Field Marishal Erwin Rommel'.si .ve.slerda.\ wliile lied .\vn\y, personal command. a« .\merican troop.s wiped out the la»t| =*Peailiead.>, outflanking the enemy resistance on Cherbourg Peninsula. i^'^> ^".^'^'^ ";"^'> .fj"' «""Vli " I drove to witliin 2-> and 33 It wa.s again Rommel VH. Gen. .Sir Bernard I.. Montgomery I miles of tho two remaining and as the desert antagoni^tts squared a\\ay their forces, aliaihoud e.scape route.s from tremendous artillery barrage by both sides, reminiscent ofi tiiat capital of While Russia. the night before El Alamein, was thundering across the' <'^'"'* "" ''"'^'^ ^'^'^ Minsk rapidl.v wa.s being en¬ gulfed in the mouth of a gi¬ gantic sack w ho.se clo.sing may /» /-. 1-.XTO 1 J i 1 J 1 .1 ,• o .^ J I trap the Nazis'cential armies I (A German DNB broadcast heard b.x the I. .S. Pcderal „„ ^,,e ^j,gtp,„ ^,.0,,^ j„ ^„ g„. I Communications Commission said that new Allied landings Icirclement dwai-fing that at I were being effected behind a thick smokescreen east of the | Stalingrad. [Orne estuary above Caen. tJerman reconnaissance piloti^ Driving ahead at incredible sighted an Allied fleet of abouC 300 vessels in front of the .speed, Red .^rmy tank, in* estuar.x', including battleships and heav.\ and light cruisers, j fantr.\, cavalry and armored the agency said. foices, aided l),\ guerrillas, (A German Transocean new* agency broadca.M .said that f^^^J^i .",|L,':'*'l"i!?."..„'j ull*™* Allied battleships were shelling the town and harbor of Le Havre.) Gennan counter-attacks intending to ease the British strangle-hdd continued for the fifth day, but on a diminished scale, and empire troops recaptured ground which had been temporarily lost along the shoulders of their salient across the Odon River below Caen. (Continued on Page A-I2) Mop up in Burma; 4.ith Day at Myitkyina By FRANK HEWXJITT Southeast Asia Command, Kandy. Ceylon, July 1. (UP)—Victorious Allied jungle troops have acceler¬ ated mopping up operations in (Continued on Page A-12) FINLAND SADDENED BY BREAK WITH U.S. War Smiiiiiary NEW ROBOT BOMBS KILL MORE ENGLISH land." Thursday and Friday to June were five destroyers, 14 mer compiete a month of extensive air activity which took a toll of 247 enemy planes and at least SI Jap¬ anese tcarships and merchantmen. A recapitulation of June com¬ muniques revealed that 8S barges also were sunk in the widespread attacks against Japanese shipping. Wipe Out Defenders Nimitz' Pacific Fleet head¬ quarters ronimuniqiie said that the Marines and soldiers, fighting in sultry tiopioal heat, made small gains in the central sector and consolidated their positions. Several pockets of resistance by¬ passed in previous advances were wiped out. The enemy has dug into caves In the rugged Mt. Ta- potchau area in a death stand Stockholm. July 1. (UP)-Finland ; is sad and worried by the break in; diidoinalic relations with the United States, the Finnish news¬ paper fioumen Sosial Demokraatti said today. It added that there had been no "cooling of Finland's atti¬ tude toward the United Slates." The Finnish people received the news with a feeling of deepest dis- j appointment and pain, the Melsing- iiig Sanoiiiat. said in an editorial. | "The people inwardly hope that de-,1 spite the formal Isolation, a bon/ of friendship and mutual confi¬ dence may be preserved and that formal relations soon uill be re- establi.'hed." before them, captured Borisov lo miles nortliwe.st of Minsk, and closed to within four miles of Polot.sk, five-point rail junction at tlic northern end of the blazing 400-iiiile front. In Old Poland At the .same time. Red Anii.v troop.s advanced 22 miles inside tlie old Polish bor¬ der by the capture of Herm- _. , ^ , ,., , . ., „„.,.„ J , anwicze, 41 miles west of The global war this morning was in the net. The huge Red armies „ , , , , , ,, ¦.„... « a series of brilliant successes and ground relentlessly ahead. The flat ' OlOt.sK, and l),\ the seiZUie or bright prospects for the United terrain seems suited to their great that town rollc<l lo within 25 N-ations-on every front but one. powers. The Germsns. cha.sed frnm „,j|es of Latvia, and within 56 In China a drive on Hengyang one line, must go hark long dis- ,„;|„„ „f n,„ r o.vian roil found fi Japanese columns converg-i tances before thev can make an- l''"^s "l tne iiai\ian rail ing on the city snd victory here I other stand. ijunction of DaUgavpils would give China its worst setback: j (|)vin.sk) in years In addition, the Nipponese Statements by Japanese them- \. ' , , neared a rail conquest which would selves tell why Americans have More than 530 towns and settle- give them a line all the way from such a flght to take Saipan. Upon ments were swept up in the Rus- Manchuria to Singapore. jthat island hinges control of the »i«n advance In White Russia and Western Paciflc and Asia. It can more than 10,900 Germans wer« T„ irr»n,.. lh. nr-iiial occurrences «"«• bombers to Japan. American killed and fl.IOO captured ye.sterday. wJr"e Uu" epii:e''bv"?he°BriUsK"o"f,'°-", ."" '«"'«'"<' }^,<^ •j"'"'""'' r^'fsV''""''"' ^'" ''"'' " ^'"'' all German drives in the Caen area "'''"' ">'"¦ "'«" »' defensive posi-,sov aTone. and the mopping up by the Amer- •'°"»- ', On the Finni.sh front, between lr«n« of t)ip t-herhoiiri Peninsula ' Lakes Onega and I^adoga. Marshal Hoiinir there a snec acul^^^^^^ Tliough the fighting has grown i^onid A. Covorov's l^-ningrad cent^camnsi/n However even!"'°" '"'«'¦"" '" "«'•"¦ '*"¦ A"'"'Army captured 30 town." and settle, m^^e lm;orrarwa,"h:VhVpinrup ^^^^r^^^ •""<•¦ ""-""'^ ^'- "'-'»• "'"^1 ^ "•¦"'" -"" of fhe Battle for Pans with Monl- j, ^.^^ repor gomer-- ---* " ' -"-— •»¦•" - rtr^ed equipm%7t"w;riining up;-" "'''"'"' " '" •""" "''¦ ^^"'" -";» '-'" '^' P"'"* and the artillery barrage has Airpower was doing the job of „ ""', V„°L,?u....„. <'P«ned. making it difflcult for the German.v «""• K"*-'"-"'"""* ^ , ^ . ^ ^ I to mass strength in France and In' Whil» the combmed 3rd. Snd and Russia seemed readv to encircle the Pacific il was battering every I.<t \\hite Russian Armies, eom- Minsk and gain perhaps the great- Jap hase in reach. Both .MacArthurimanded by (;en Ivan n. Chernial^ est victory of the war. since many and Chennault reported heavy losse'.hovsky. massed on the west anfl thousands of German troops will be inflicted upon the enemy. I ( Continued on Page A-2) [i mountainous country, straightened their batfleline from ,,.,.,. .„H Romm.l nMre sirain" -.. ,.-iLrd the Germans would, Petrozavodsk west 80 miles ta n^,e,„r ?,en endnu'r Amed •"'"'T V"""'-' "'"' ''' "'^ "•"""'"es pogranichnv Kindush. one and one. :°"r."'J'' „.I3",?'.!-" lin.^i.^n ''y <»e^'""'K 't »" Ol'*" "^y- 'quarter miles from th- tack Friday, blasting the Kamiri uid Namber airdromes Gen. Doug¬ las MacArthur's communique re¬ ported, while eonsoral. Ngulu and BoroUisIands In the Carolinas were attsiked Thursday. The recapitulation showed that of the 247 planes destroyed, 203 chantnien. 95 barges and 12 small 1 raft sunk. One destroyer and two merchantmen probablv were de¬ stroyed and one cruiser, one de- .stro.ver, 10 merchantmen. 71 barges and 10 small croft were damaged. In Friday's attack on Noemfoor. . ., „. , . J , the Liberatora concenlraled on while 25 warships and cargo vessels personnel and stores areas whiie „„.,„., ,h, ,Hv»nclnT Americans jnd 71 more barres were probably, i,,e MitchelU and fiRhter-bombers •"«"'"'' '^hls.? he t«n,fXi each l^iiT-*" o;;;,,''"'""'"'- iaiucked the airfields. Fires and who must blast the Japs "'""'•"h r^w. . J »... u 11 . .'explosions were caused In the raid. Liberators and Mitchells escorte.i «;„*„,!,,„¦. „„„m,,.,i„„. ..1.1 *.. I i,vi.,nin». .-J iki. »k... 1.,; .-"acArtliurs communique ssid. .V Lightnings and Airconras hif' Noemfoor Island oft northwestern | •^•"-'•»P Attacks Dutch Xew Guinea In a heavy at-1 TTie intensive attacks on Xoem- I foor have knocked out its three 'dromcj but bombers have been hitting the island base almost dally for the past two weel<s. Other Liberators continuing the non-.stop offensive against Japan'.'i Caroline Island ba.scs struck at Japanese shipping Thursda.v, sink¬ ing one small cai-go ve.«.scl and de¬ stroying nr damaging four barges off the Sonsoral Island.^g 150 miles southwest of Palau. Other bombers hit enem.v ha>ies in the Dutch Easl Indies bombing the riiiU airdrome on Timor and InsUllations on Geram. f>ne coast¬ al ves.'cl in the WaloebeU island (roup was stra'eiL In Today'a Iaaue Olasikinrd Editorial >lavlr» Horial Sports Radio . ,. A-^ C—S • A—It A—14 B—1 ..„..A—1« (Continued on Page A-12) Weather Matt Goes Romantical Washington. July 1. (UP)— Weather forecast for all Eastern Stales: A pleasant weekend, cool In earl.v morning, warm sunny afternoon and a moonlight night. Cheerily abandoning the for- maliiv with which It normally presages weekend weather In the Eastern Slates, the Weather Bureau came up tonight with the above brief, but promising, fore¬ cast. The usual weekend predictions are broken down Into regions with: specific forecasu for each. By GEORUF. CHA.NDI.ER Southern England, Sunday. July 2. (UP) Tlie roar of exploding bombs and the crash of falling buildings ushered ' In the 17lh straight day of the German robot offensive on ,Southern England this' morning, adding to the toll of lives and property already lo.s* in the Nazis' campaign of \cngeance. RAF and American heavy bomb¬ ers struck hack at the encm.v's launching bases In the Pas "de Calais area of northern France yes-, lerday afternoon and evening, with undisclosed results. ^The new robot is believed to have square-cut wing tips with an 18- j foot span and a maximum speed of I about 3,W miles per hour as com-1 pared with the "Old Faithful" type which hns straight, tapered wings with a 16-foot span nnd maximum speed of 400 miles an hour. The main difference, however, is psychological. The new type is be¬ lieved to glide a considerable dis¬ tance after its engine slops, de¬ priving its victims of the l.Vsecond warning interval between the time of the rut-out and the explosion in the original bomb. • The Berlin rad.o. heard by United Pre.'JS in New York, said the robot bombs are fired from under¬ ground installations which are practically bomb proof.) j MuAaUati MtwH TO stm teui ¦—• ¦ -. .~~~^/t4// ROADS to /O JO 40 SOMiln THEBATTLEFORPARiSi ENGLISH CHANNEL m^ ^p^^£iiii,tn, f" ..v-v 7^ ¦v'*'r r.-*!'?-tv- THi NRST BIO VICTOHY-A POUT; iNGIMESS SneOING MPAIUS ^'•^v St Vslery 'AmiMlf Fettmp^ ttretstt K^ HavrtT eut ^M^ U) :^?^i^P^K% , -^ ^^ v.. v*^ -/. Ar CAiN,WITH fAWS THfSMKg W.f
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A Paper For The Home
38TH YEAR, NO. 35 — 4^ PAGES .
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The Weather
Very, vary nice. (See below.)
r>'iTEi> rKEsa
Wirt Ntws Berttra
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY JULY 2, 1944
PRICE TEN CENT!
BAHLE OF PARIS OPENING
REDS ENCIRCLING MINSK!
Denmark Is Near Revolt
German Artillery, Planes Turned on Copenhagen People; Wild Street Riots
Gotta Be Versatile
By J.4CK FLEISCHER
Stockholm, Sunday. July 3 (UP> -' Wild it-reet riots that bordered on revolution were reported in Cepan- hagen early today and Daniah praaa dlspalchex said reinforced Oarman troops had killed Tli Icast a score of persons and wounded \ip to 700 ,more In an all-day hattle againat *15,000 rebellious patiioTs.'^
Information tricklinx into Stock¬ holm indicated that anti-Xasi dli- orders and protest strikes were spreading . like a ' flania througli Hitler's one-time model protacto- rate, deaplte rutbleia ceuatar meaaurea. OttmMuu Oik* Ire
German machine guna Rii4 atUI- lary ware reported to hsw Rre on the rebela i: •nd ona account laM Mat •trafed the street •nd wounding many,
All roada leading to were reported to liaWi MRa Moelicd by thi Germans laat night' as troo)i trains rushed reinforcements into the capital and Oestapo squads prowled through the atraeta round¬ ing up hostages to -'be executed if the uprising continued.
Reports reaching Malmoe from Copenhagan said the Gestapo ar¬ rested 100 trade union leaders lind three of the city's five burKOnias- ters, threatening to shoot theril un¬ less the general strike which pro¬ voked the uprising was called off immediately.
An estimated 300.000 to 400,000 Danish workers were believed in¬ volved In the strike, which
6 Columns Of Japs Drive At Hengyang
Defeat Will Be Chinese Disaster; Manchuria-Singapore Rail Line a Prize
Back in the United States in camp there was nothing about Sheep in the training manuals.
but in France a Yank has got lo be a jack-of-all-li-ades. Here. Gls are shown steering a herd
I of the woolly creatures away i from the bivouac area at the I front.
Soldiers, Marines Slowly Kill off Japs on Saipan
RESCUE 18DM MINE FIRE TRAP AI HARLAN, KY.
called in prntest againsi the Ger man-imposed curfew and the arm¬ ing of the Danish Nazi Schalburg Corps. Oenionatrate Ixiyalty
At the height of the street battle yesterday, crowds of patriots as¬ sembled outside King Christian's resident* at Sorgenfri Castle to demonstrate their loyalty to the King.
Harlan, Ky., July 1. (UP)-Rescue
crews this afternoon brought 18
minera, shaken but alive, to thCi
surface from a shaft of the Bridg-
*'"»iway Darby Coal Co., !i miles east
of H:ii'lan where they had been trapped for nearly 17 hours by lira of undetermined origin.
Mine officials said rescue squads reached the men at S:1S p. m. >ftrr driving a new entrance to the shaft from nn oM air vent through more than 300 feet of dirt and coal, by¬ passing the flre which previously had hampered rescue efforts
2nd and 4th Marines, Army 27th Division ; Reported In Action
Waahington, Sunday. July t. (t P—The Navy revealed tonight that American lroop« fighting the bloody battle tor Saipan rom- prised Ihe veteran .Marine Second and Fourth ditlsions and Ihe Army 37lh Infantry Division.
The hard-fighting expedition¬ ary force, Identified for the firat time in a rnrt Parific Fleet head¬ quarters prcHs release, haa taken uppro\inialely half the .lapaneiw- hrid ialand at a roal of more than ».«Hm lit pa—the highest loll yet paid by Ameriran forces In the Pacific.
The Second Marines relieved Ihr First .^larine Diviaion at tiuadalraiial and fought the roallv hattle of Tarawa. The Fourth Di«i*lnn Marines have seen action
HEAR HITLER WILL MAKE FLORENCE AN ope™
Americans 17 Miles Below LIvorno; Nazi Losses Heavy
Unconfirmed reports said three I men either had been trapped by Danish Naiis were lynched by an!» '"H or suffocated by the fumef infuriated mob in Copenhagen and:"'"* amoke from fhe lire, that a fourth was stripped almost] Approximately SOO anxious friends naked and chased through tha city.and relatives of the trapped men
Mine offlcials had feared that the '" *•"* •'»•¦"'>¦"••
The '-lh or New York Diviaion nf Anny foot aoldlera was mobil-
streets until he found refuge In a hospital.
The striking Danish workers ware said to have notified the Nazi authorities that they would return to work if all hostages were re¬ leased, the curfew lifted, aud all members of the Schalburg Corpa in¬ terned or deported.
The Germans were reported rush¬ ing mobile artillery, tanks, rannon (Continued on Page A-12)
were on hand when the first of the grimy, grinning miners was brought to the surface.
Meanwhile. George F. Ward. sec-( retary of Ihe Harlan Coal Opera
lied in l»40 when Ihe New York National <>uard waa mustered into federal service and aubae- qiiently was sent to the Paelflo Thealrr.
By \VU.IJA^I F. TYREE
Pearl Harbor. July 1. fUPI— tors Association, said the origin of |Tired and dirtv Marino* and Army the flre still was undetermined al-uroops, carrying on the bloodv busi'- though pirliminary iuyestigationlnegg „( wiping out the stubborn
defenders of Saipan
... ,, 'Inland, made new small gains
operated by the j-j-iuirsd.iv and eliminated several
indicated a heavv fall of coal had,, shorted an electric trolley wire :''»l>ane»e
The mine is operated by
(Continued on Page A-12)
MacArfhur Shows Monfh's Toll: 247 Japanese Planes, 31 Ships
B) I>O.N t'ASUELI.
Allied Headquarters, Pacific, Sunday, July Bombers of the Far Eastern Air Force hit Japanese bases in Dutch New Guinea and the Caroline Is-
Iwere shot down in air combat, 41 Southwest w-ere wiped out on the ground and control 2. (UP)— three were downed by anli-airci aft I island flre. In addition. 22 other planes probably were destroyed.
Shipping losses reported during
pockets of re.< |
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Month | 07 |
Day | 02 |
Year | 1944 |
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