Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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38TH YEAR, NO. 35 — 4^ PAGES .
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
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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
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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
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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
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