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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JULY 30, 1944
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CRASH PAST COUTANCES REDS SHELLING WARSAW
DeweyOpens|6 Million
2.350-Mile
Trip Today
A 'Working Trip' With No Speeches; Governors to Hear States' Rights Plan
You Can't Take It With You
By KIRTLAND I. KING
Pawling, X. Y.. .luly 29 'UPI— Gov. Thomas E. Dewey leaves New Yorl< City toniorrow night on a 2.350-mile trip during which he will confer with labor. bu9ine.i.<i and agricultursl leader.s in Pennsyi- vnnla. Illinois and Missouri — state.t which his advisers sny he mu.it; carry In November if he Is to winl the  presidency.
He also'will confer with Repub-1 lieen governors from 25 other statoi at .St. Louis to map canipaign .^tra-! tegv and policy. j
The governor enipha.sized that the, lour 1% to be '.i worlting trip" and; that there will be no speeche.-i enroute. I
On the trip, the Republican noin-l Inee will be accompanied by Mr.^. Dewev. I.lent. G'li. Hugli A. Drum. ionimnnding officer of the New York Slate CiKird: Paul C Lock- wood, hi.i secretary; hin press .lec- retarv. and three poliie officers and clerical workcm. Charle.s A. Hallec'K| chairniRii of the national Republi-, can conBressional lommittee, will join  the  party at rittshurgh, j
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The .schedule   call.n   for   Dewey'., parly  to  reach Pittsburgh   at  8:5.S: a.  111.  Monday.    They  will   he  met at the station by Ciovernor and Mrs. Edward Martin.
Dewey will meet with labor lead¬ ers, busine.ss representative^ and agricultural experts nnd with serv- • icemen's and war veterans' organ¬ izations. He has allotted a half hour to each group. In Ihe after¬ nonn. Ihe (Jovcriio.- will talk with Pennsylvania congressmen and various political groups.
Dewey will arrive' in Springfield. 111., al I  ;45 Tuesday morning. Gov¬ ernor   Dwight   Green.   Mayor   .John, Knapp   and    National   Committee¬ man Werner H. .Schroeder will meet     Oil Cily. Pa..  July 29.  (UP)—An the Governor. ientire community waa left siunnei
Dewev will place a wreath at tonight by thc news that the n-i- Ahrahn'ni Lincoln's tomb, and then lion's leading fighter pilot, and its will hold conferences similar to home town boy, Ll. Coi. Francis those at  Pittsburgh. S. Uabreski, is missing in action.
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Americans Ovei'seas Million Itussians Smash Five
Gaping Holes In Nazi Line
Over 4,000,000 Are Army Troops With Million More Going in '44; 63,000,000 Ship-Tons of Supplies
Wa-HhIngton, July 29. <UP)—Nearly 6.000,000 U, S. fighting men are now contributing In the defeat of the enemy in overseas battle theaters. War and Navy Department stati5tics disclosed tonight.
The Army revealed that  moro than 4.000.000 of its  7.700,000 officers and men—a force twice the AEF's strength in World War I    are now- overseas.    .Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson has said the total will pass 5,000,000 by the end of this year. Swelling the over-all figure was the Navy's recent announcement that
1.566.000 'Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard personnel, oul ot a total of 3.250.000, were afloat or on foreign duty as of June 1. In addi¬ tion, ns at thc same date, aiinllirr 900.000 Navy men were in transit nr training for sea or pverscas duty. Huge Transport Job
Report Rommel Was Wounded
By HENRY T. OORRKLL,
U. S. First Army Headquarters. Norfnandy, July 2». lUPi A cap¬ tured German captain said today that Kicld Marshal Irwin Rom¬ mel, field commander of the Ger¬ man armies in Normandy, was wounded and unconscious six hours after Allied planes atrafed his motor car behind thc British- German  fronts recently.
Thc captain said Rommel jump¬ ed from his car Into a ditch when the planes swooped down on him near Lisicny on the road to Rouen.
Since Rommel was reported by other prisoners to have attended a battle conference at Perc.v on the American front the day he- i fore the opening of this week's American offensive, it is pre¬ sumed   that  he had recovered.
Unconfirmnhle rumors circu¬ lated that a French woman had told Allied oflicers Rommel died of his injuries. Responsible au¬ thorities at this headquarters said they had been unable to find anyone who had talked wilh the "French woman" and that the rumor, at beat, was fourth hand.
Converging on Polish Capital.
Giant Planking Move Clears 60 Miles of Vistula's Bank; Berlin Says Reds Are Crossing; Near East Prussia, Baltic Trap
By ROBERT MLSEL
London, Sunday, July 30 (IP)—Russian troops, swinging
Pound on to Sea; Crack German Troops Fail to Stop Yanks; Smash Three Divisions; Planes Strafe Retreat
By EDWARD W. BEATTIE
Allied .Supreme Headquar- into position for a giant outflanliing movement to tlie south'ters, London, .Sunday, July 30 Maj. Gen. c. P. Gross. Army";Of Warsaw, yestei'day cleai'ed a 60-mile stretch of thel(L'P)—Triumphant .¦\inerican chief of transportation, disciase'd Vistula River's east bank and. as Soviet aitillerv began to HouKlibovs poured through merw'l.W''blU'°nUe7o?e?seal>''ell the Polish capital's outskirts, Berlin reported that [five Raping holes in the Ger- in the 31 months from Pearl Har-[Red army tanks and infantry were attempting to ford the man  battle  lines  in western
Thcxo' abandoned foxholes and discarded cgecta where Ameri¬ can troops briefly relaxed in France   show   that   Yanks   didn't
hesitate when given signal to plunge into battle. Here mess kits, helmets, playing cards and personal   belongings   litter   field.
Oil City Stunned by Loss of Ace Gabreski
SWEEP ACROSS
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jticf-vlricken but hopeful that he ..ill turn up alive as a prisoner if war. His sister. Lottie, thc fiimily spokesman, said: "I ' can't talk about it." His last letter arrived July 17. In it he said he WHS   "taking   it   ea.>^y"   and   hoped
:()  leave  for home  Aug.   1. 	
Squadron Ha* 201)  Planen »!>' I^ANK TREMAINE
He lommanded a lighter squad-' U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquarters, ron wiiich shot down more than'Pearl Harbor, July 29. (UP)—The L'OO enemy planes, one of the high- highly    strategic    Orote    Peninsula
U.S. Fleet Units Now Patrolling Guam's Apra Harbor
bor through June 30, more than 63.000.000 ship-tons of supplies were being shipped for their use through   127   foreign   ports.
His report showed that the volume of Army transport in¬ creased during the pa.st year more than 100 per cent over any pre- viou.s   year.
The tran.sportation corps has the job of keeping supplies moving rapidlv and smoollily fnr such op- eration.s as are now being carried out in Norniand.v. Before, during nnd for a considorablp time after D-Day. tr:>n.sport battalions worked in English ports or on the Nor¬ mandy beaches for periods of 30 to 50  houra without   relief.
1,334,000 Separations
Although the Army hHS reached its goal of 7.700.000 officers and men. It must acquire and train re¬ placements continually to maintain it.self at that strength. From the start of the war through May 31. the W'ar Department revealed, sep¬ arations from thc Army occasioned bv deaths, discharges and other causes  totalled 1.234.000.
This total included 68.000 deaths, batlle and non-battle; 941,000 hon¬ orable discharges, 66.000 men listed as war prisoners or missing, and "other separations" adding up to 159,000.
great river barrier. j Normandy today, lunging aix
As other .Soviet tioops raced to within 22 miles of Ea«t '"''es  beyond  captured   Cou-
Prus.sia, the Nazi DNB agency said that Russian troops tances to the sea and wiping
attempted   to  cross the  Vistula  in  ferries at  Deblin and'o"^ the last .survivors of three
Pulawy, .'>6 and 68 miles south southeattt of the capital \e8 terda}. London observers believed that some Russian forces already may have established bridgeheads on the west bank.
Moscow repoi-ta said that Mar.slial Konslantin K. Rokos- sovskj's First White Uussian Ai'm.\, reeling the (lermans back over tlie historic battlegrounds southeast of liie city,
of the seven Nazi divisions caught in tiie path of their armored columns.
Tlie entire Na-^i loft flank buckled and broke under the massive weight hurled against
was fighting within sighht of Warsaw's .spires and that the]|t.Rending a torrent of Yankee battle for tlie first United Nation's capital to hear the guns of liberation liad begun.
Moscow's war bulletins yesterday failed to report any advances from Kolbiel, 20 miles southeast of the capital, but from past official Soviet practice the failure to mention directly the Warsaw sector probably meant that the final, crucial battle for the capital had been joined. Mass Before I.«8t Barrier
Russian forces, however, cleared a great 60-mlle stretch of the east bank of the Vistula River hetween Deblin. .VI milea south southeast of Warsaw, and' the mouth of the .San River above Sandomierz, and began to mass their forces for a crossing of the last natural defense barrier before the Reich.
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FORD THINKS WOMEN SHOULD RUN WORLD
Detroit. July 29. (UP)—The Ford Motor Company news bureau an¬ nounced tonight that Heni-y Ford thinks that women can do a better job than men in runnig the world. ".Maybe women should be running it."   the    motor    industrialist   waspocific
The   Republican   standard   bearer .  ¦*    "",V^*   ,?°"'        „  j       , will arrive in St. Louis at 8 oclock townsfolk   who   recalled   when Wednesdav   morning   and    will   be "'ork^J '"'!'»'»"'*>•» Sroccry store, met   at   llie   traiM   bv   a   delegation L'ol.   C.abreski   rose   to   nationwide headed hv governor"and Mrs. For- ac.laini   when    he   .sliot    down   his
rost    r    nnniioll   of   Missouri -8lh   encniey   plane   last   July   .">   to .       ,      _ ., _    . .. 	
rrsi   < .   1 oniicM j.iio5ouri. !become one up on his clo.«cst com-''''l scores iii the European theater..on  Guam was  captured   Fridav  by quoted as saying on the eve of his
To DUcu« rrogram pctitors   for   the   title'   "Amerlc.l'^  "^^   ^^"^   "'   Pearl   Harbor   during the First Provisional .Marine Brlg-jSlst  birthday  anniversary.    "I  be-
Tha governors' meeting, at which No   I  Air Acr.' lllie Dec. 7,  1941.  sneak  attack, bul ade and  U.  .S.  light   fleet  units are lieve they eould do a better job."
Dewey's   l.Vpoint  program   to settle rianiied to Marry |coul(l    not    be   induced    to   discuss now patrolling the  important Apra|     The   release,   in   the   form   of  an
"the    arra    nf    respoMsibillty"    bo-      But   in  the midst nf plans  for  a  J^""^     .i'l'-^'ir,    ""  that day except Harbor,   Adm.   Chester   W.   Nimitz interview,   quoted   Ford   as   saying: tween   Ihe   stairs   and   Ihe   fcderardi.-irict-widc   cclcbralion    lo   markr"J"'-^' J"?"'    \ "'?" "? "'^ "',''¦' announced   today. !"Thcre   is   nothing   to   fenr   in   the
government    will    be   discussed,   is his    scheduled    homecoming    from(,.,.|["^^'V^i,^|^'^'^gJJ;'^,, _* ^_ '"*   \\'^     Nimitz  disclosed  that  the  penin-, future, there is plenty of work for closed   to   the   press.    The   progress fCngland   earlv   next   moiilh,   came
of  the  day   is  expected  to   be   di.'"- notificHlion    todav    lo    his    fainily iS'""  ,.^M,'',,yA"?'^',"'"'r''„,'^'^''"* """¦ " bitter battle to exterminate planes will be improved and farm
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45 Japanese Planes Destroyed at Halmahera
First Raid on
Island 250 Miles South
Of tlie Philippines
The Race to Berlin
By IXITED PRKSS
Distances of Allied fnrces from Berlin, on the main war fronts, Saturday   evening:
Russia, 314 mile*.
France. KS miles.
Italy, «<M> miles.
that his
?'¦''.''"«"','*''''''^?"^''<^^. .C^r,''"-    !'ie siila   fell   to   the   Marine   brigade everybodv.    automobiles    and    air- bllver   Stfir,    Distinguished    Flying    - -      ¦ ••'•.-
closed    at    press    conferences lowing   each   session.
Dewey   will   remain   In   St.  Louis lhe same day that he destroyed his v^i^^;^ "^p^^j-j"^--'f"".^'""^^^^^ urote   Airport,   me    town   or      a,    ,o    postwar    relations    with
"""^"^Humay and the former U. a. Marine Q||,er   nations
fol-
Friday   to   meet various groups. On   the   return
from the War Department that  hf i^h'e°*Air'Medi\''w^riWnMr^f^?i!'""i''"/''"P"''"* defenders liolding out on|ing   is    due has  been missing since  July 20 -   Irf.sfers   and   the   PoH^h ^rns^^nJ"'^ ^""^ "' '"'"' "'""^ '*'* 4.700- pansion.'
...    I. lusters   ano   the   I olish   Cro.ss   of foot   Orote   Airport,   the    town      ' a   reminder   of   his '-- - -      -
trip
with   leaders   of third Ijrrman plane on the ground iThe   other  28   were   shot   down   in Dewev   wiir aerial combat.
and    spcndi    Col. Gabreski also had something ; BR|J|SH   NEAR   START  OF weekend  at his farm.    He will|Planned when he returned home -- "'
relurn to thc state capital  Sundav marriage   to   the   girl   he   met    in night,   two   days   before   the   NewHawaii     three     years     ago.     Miss' York   Republican   state   committee Cnthcriiic   Cochran   of   Prairie   du meets lo nominate a candidate for Ch icn.  Wis United States senator. • '    The Sn-ycar-old flier's family was
•ass    through    Albany
wilh  the  Polish   squadron.
;JAP INDIA INVASION
Poles Seek Recognition By Fighting with Reds
B) JC)H.\ R. PARRIS I points."
i.„.i»»    i,,i.,  oo     (itD\    c.-i.i„-'    He    said    that    Polish London.  July 2P. ^Uf)-,^^^'^'']? Slanisiaw
recngnition  from  Russia similar  to
Mi(<olajczyk arrived    in    Lnndon
that   given   the  French  Maquis  byj:;";"    "'^m^Z,
the   United  Slates,  additional  rtivi-S'"'.^?'^'.^!"^."''!-^'j„ui„n   „f   Pni
ainns   of   the   Polish   undergroundifX'V„'"''"."„'^r^"«"'''''"   "'   ^'"¦
army  estimattd at several hundred l'",'"/*^^^.   "'"]''";,
thousand     men,     v.ill     be     thrown |*"'«'l' x^'i'?, 1'°   "
against    the    Germans    in    Poland ^''J''"   ^'«q""'-
Three  Polish   divisions and units
nf a fourth already are fighting In
These   divisions.
numbering from 6.000 to 10.000 men
and   only   lightly   armed,   he   said.
Poland
alongside    Soviet    troops,    a    higli
Polish   officer   said   today.
TV.-     !...„ ....     T>..ii.v,      ~..,..,.i    Pol?ind.   he   said. Ihe     two-star     Polish     general.,„ , J.. ,	
whose   name    cannot   be   revealed.
said    that    the    forces    will    tight
under Ihe Russian high command's
"tempest" plan for organized Inrpe-
scalr    open    warfare    against    "thc
enem.v s   most   vulnerable   strntcgic
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hnve effetlively helped the Rus¬ sians, often acting under Ruasinn hizh  command   orders.
From Moscow, meanwhile, the newspaper Red Star's international observer. Profes.'.or ¦\'erusalimsky said that "cert.iin newspapers point out thnt the Polish emigre govern¬ ment lone ago entered n blind alley. There is one way out of this blind alley -to join the Polish Com- mtlee for National Liberation. All who   dnn't    understand    this    and, enemy
Idon't  do this will  be tossed aside |
I in the  course or •venta.''
By W AI.TKR LOGAN
Southeast Asia Headquarters. K.indy. Ceylon. July 29. (UPl - Troops of the British 14lh Armv tod.iy had pushed to within seveii miles of thc Burma border in .¦.nutha-'t M.uiipiir and less than nine miles from the' town of Tamu - the jumpinB-off point for the vaunted .lapanese invasion of India last Manh.
Cracking enemy resistance after
six d.tys of Incessant fighting,  the
Premier'Allied   forces   had   driven   forward
who    has'Icn miles during the past 24 hours
en    route    to along the Palel-tamu road.
discuss with'     On the Tiddim road, to the south
nd   west.   .lapanese   divisions   fled
lo    that    Gen.I deeper inlo llie Kiiki Hill.", avoiding
gave   recently contact    with    Allied    forces    now
I nearing   Cliuracliaiidpur.   40   miles
south of Imphal. headquarters said.
Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's American units slugged their way deeper into Myitkyina. in North Burma, from the nortliwc.«t and ad- vamcd down the Irrawaddy River from suburban Mankrin as the Chinese made "substantial gains" in the 'vcslein and southeastern parls of the city.
British and Indisn aircraft pounded enemv transport and other objectives in the Kabaw and Chind¬ win vallc.vs.
American planes struck at the .lapanese In Myitkyina and long range USAAF fighters shot up river shipping and railway facilities in central Burma, the communiqm  reported.—""T"";	
... ¦      .  J  ^'    ..».."..»,   Ford's   opinion   was
station   are   located. ^expressed  as:   "All  we  want  to  do
The       battle-hardened       brigade, ig   to   get   klong   with   the   rest   of which imliides many of the famous ithe   world   -      plenty   of   trade   on ' dromes on the northwestern penln
By \l1LLIA:tl DICKINSON
Allied    Headquarters.    Southwest Sunday.   July   30.    (UP)   - Allied bombers and fi^ihlcrs slruclt in force against three Japanese air- ; dromes  on   thc  nortii ern most  part of Halmahera Island Thursday, de-, stroying  at   least   4.^ enemy   planes j in the first large-scale nlt.ick of the war  on   the  enemy-held  Island  S.^O! miles  south  of  Ihe  Philippines,   H' was announced today, [By JA.^II'J*  McOLINCi'
More Ihan .%n big Liberator bomb-      Coutances,   Normandy ers    and    a    "siz.nbie"    number    of lUP)  — American Mitchells    and    speedy    Lightning | tanks    met    on fighters   caught    the   enemy
infantrv men and tanks racinsr southward toward the port of Granville onl.v eight miles be.vond the farthest point of the advance last nijfht.
Crack German units rushed in from the east stiffened the enemy lines momentarily at some points, particularly west of the Vire River below St. Lo, but nowhere were tha battered Nazis able to halt tha American juggernaut.
The German pocket north of Coutances was eliminated by an American force that, driving for¬ ward 16 miles in six hoyrs, swept down from Te.ssy to join up with two other armored apearheada that had fused at Coutances and pushed on to the sea at Mont martin lur .Mer.
Uniled Pre.ss War Correspondent Robert C. Miller reported the de¬ struction of the enemy pocket in a delayed dispatch from the Cou¬ tances front. There was no im¬ mediate indication of the fate of several thousand Germana known to have been trapped above Cou¬ tances by the first two American columns that reached the city. A high military spokesman r«- (Contlnued on  Page  A-ll)
Yanks Encircled Coutances but Trap Yielded only Dead Germans
(Continued on  Page  A-lOl
equal  terms is the answer."
War   SuiiiiiiarT
FR.Wt'K—Americans in biggrest aniiorcd victor.v of PVcnch campaign drive six miles he.vund Coutances to .seaco.sl, trapping tiiou.sands of reliTaling Ger¬ man.s; advance continuing against stiffening re¬ sistance; Cierinan counter-attack smashed south of .St. Lo; prisoner bag reaches 7,000.
RL'S.*sI.\—Ilcd Arm.v guns shell outskirts of Warsaw, Moscow reports battle for Polisli capital begun; other Soviet forces within 30 miles of East Prussia, capture more than 1,320 towns in general advance 1,000-niile front.
FAR EAST—B-29 Superfortresses blast Japanese steel works in Manchuria and Chenghsien railwa.v .vards.
AIR WAR—Almost 2,000 American planes raid Merse- burg and Bremen oil plants; other Alliod planes attack targets in northern Franco; P.AF loses 62 planes in heav.v night raids on Hamburg, Stuttgart and Frankfort.
ITALY—Sth Arm.v witliin five miles of Florence, ham¬ mer at last hill line below cit.v; Americans stalled before Pisa; Polisli troops cross Misa river on Adriatic front.
rHINA.BLR.MA-lNDIA—Chinese relief column breaks into encircled Hen.vang; British drive the Japanese to 'within seven miles of Burma-Tndia border south- —-    vasv Ol iriiphal*    — —[— '
'and  automobiles.    There were tw*
July    29   small   French   cars   burned   on   tha
infantry    and road, too, with their dead German
the    outskirts    of drivers still at the wheels.
com-;Coutances  today,  but  what should^     There also were several Sherman
pletely by surprise in attacking the have      been      a      dramatic     and   tanks,   knocked  out   as   they   cama
l.rf>lob"ata.    Galela    and    Miti    air- triumphant occasion fizzled out be-1 into the road at a point where the
cause the noose the.v had lightened i Germans  had   placed   an   anti-tank around  thn  enemy  was  empty. gun on the second floor of a house.
The    corridor    which    Germany!German dead lay on both aides ef paratroops    held    open     In    fierce jthe  road.
fighting    yesterday     served    their!     In the area where the Infantrj- la comrades as  an  escape   route  in  a  still   cleaning   out   what   few   G*N
aula of the large, sprawling island. Caught Japa In Open
Thirty enemy planes were de¬ stroyed on the ground and "many others"   damaged   while   l.^   plane
were shot down In air combat headlong dash to the souUi. There mans remain. I stopped st a farm againat a loss of two American i were evidenie.i on the roads snd ini which the eneniy used briefly. Tha fighters. Gen. Douglas MacArthur icoutances itself of how fast and I main building was piled with cloth* announced. Ifurioiis    the    fighting,    escape   and   ing and equipment for paratrooperi.
The   Liberators   openrd   thn   first ip„r„,iit had been. i The Germans did not bother to pick
major attack against the Japanese Oead Men at Wlieela {up anything when they left,
stronghold      lying     between      the     fhe   road   intn   Coutances   from     Today   our   tanks,    half   tracka, Phiiipniiica and East Indies with a the   east   is   littered   with   burned bulldozers      and      infantry      wer« (Continued  on  Page A-lOi German   tanks    self-propelled   gunfi (Continued  on  Page  A-10)