Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
38TH YEAR, NO. 38 —-^0 PAGES
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JULY 23, 1944
The Weather
Pleasant, sunny; Monday  fair,   »-armer.
PRICE TEN CENTS
BRITISH IN HALF OF TROARN
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Open Battle for Poland; Stop Guam Japs Hitler Begs His Soldiers to Fight on
Mass Voting Keynote of Democrats
Truman Points to 'Practical Polities'; Only Trouble Now Is South's Talk of Bolt
Ration Value of Butter Increased
Democratic Headquarters, Chi¬ cago, July 22. (UPl—The Demo¬ cratic party tornght pitche* its campaign to re-elect President Roosevelt on the keynote that mass voting is the secret to success in November.
That was the theme of Chairman Robert E. Hannegan's final instruc¬ tions to the closing meeting of the Democratic national committee. It was the essence of a brief speech to the committee by Sen. Harry S. Truman of Missouri, vice presi¬ dential  nominee.
Hannegan, re-ciected unanimously, piedictcd  ultimate  victory  for  the Roosevelt-Truman     ticket     but warned il would not be easy. "Get the Voles out"
Truman, a product of the once- powerful Kansas City Pendergast machine, reminded the committee that "I am a practical politician and I know what I talk of" when ke warned them:
"This    campaign    is    not
Washington, July 22, (UP)— Price Administrator ^ Chester Bowles tonight boomed the ration value of creamery butter from 12 to 16 red points a pound, effective   at   midnight   tonight.
Bowles said the higher point value waa necessary because civilian consumption was run¬ ning at the rate of 20 per cent over the July allocation of 100,- 000,000  pounds.
Butter has been pegged at 12 points since April ,10. Before that date the ration value of 16 points had   prevailed   since  last  Oct.  3.
Farm butter will continue at eight red points a pound and processed butter will remain at four  red  points  a  pound.
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CIP-PAC and NCPAC Are Solidly Behind Roosevelt, Truman
Chicago. July 22 (UUP>—Sidney Hillman, political spokesman of thc CIO, threw to the Democratic Roosevelt-Truman ticket today the support of tw-o independeat potltlcal committees which have a potential Just I campaign war  chest of $6,000,000.
Xhr;, ';f'   , ¦" ,"i*   ""*,"  ""'-.u  I     Hillman,   chairman   of   the
They   drew   confidence   from   the. p „ ,    ,   ^J^^^^^„    committee,
unqualified endorsement   of rruman!'," ,|,   ..   .   „rc»s  conference
by   Chairman   Sidney   Hillman   of '^""'•*'  "'  "   ''"'"'  conierence
the    National    Citizens
thc
CIO
dis that commitlee in  the
Admit High Command
Led Plot
Mutinies Put Army Under Gestapo Fist; Report Civil War in Four Parts of Reich
IHRSUNS SWING FOR KNOCKOUT BLOW
By JOSEPH W. URIUO
London, Sunday, July 23. (UP)— Stockholm dispatches quoted a Ber¬ lin admi.ssion today that the plot against Adolf Hitler was centered in the high command's Bendler- strasje headquarters in thc capital and that some of the plotters held key positions there.
The admission came after Hitler had begged the German army to fight on until victory is achieved "in spite of everything" nnd had begun placing the armed forces, on the front as well as at home, under thc Iron grip of Nazi party fanatics in what appeared a desperate at¬ tempt to stamp out rebellion.
The Stockholm reports quoted the German foreign office mouthpiece. Dienst Aus Dcutschiand. as admit¬ ting that the center of the plot was in the high command's Bendler- slrasse headquarters.
(OWI quoted Stockholm reports that a "state of emergency"-- tantamount to martial law — had been declared tn Kaatgaberg, capi¬ tal of East Prussia w-here Rus¬ sian war prisoners were said to have revolted after receiving arms from Soviet  planes.)
Reports said that Field Marshals
Gerd    von    Rundstedt    and
Walthcr  von   Brauchitsch,  as  well
d  at  a   press
(formerlv r"=     ""'<>«'»     political
CIO)    Political   Action   Committee^: ;^°'"''  '•"","" iS'.'.V''^  "^il. head,'K«rl
who   had   supported   renomn.ationi   »«<-"."''''''.*%,"''„"   {^„m?r.^ 5c ' ^
of   Vice   President   Henrv   A    Wnl-'l'"'  National Citizens  Political Ao ....
"ace i .  the bUter v" e  nresi^^^^^^ Committer,    an    organization | as .scores  of  le.Mer mil tary lights
cxmtest ^ estahli.shed under CIO leadership to had   been   put   to   death   as   con-
Treasurer   Kdwin   W.    Pauley   of! ^"'""''^ r""^'   '""'"*''   "^^   '*"""¦ »"'*«""•*'.  '"   '*">   "^°"   ""<»   "'"" the Democratic national  committee; "">vemenl.
Under thc Hatch  Act celling on
appeared to have won the first round of a struggle w-ithin Ger¬ many unprecedented since the in¬ ternal collap.se of 1918. But it was officers' group which, although it had elevated him to power, had al a cost of declaring a war to the dcath on ihe powerful Junkers He  told  a press conference  that [always  been  potentially  the great
reported,    however,    that    he    was|
closing the lonvenlinn with a cash ^ expenditures of political committees
balance   on   hand   of   only   IIIB.OOO both the CIO-PAC and the NCPAC
and   a   warning   that   "it's   a   very^ apparently    cauld    spend   $3,000,000
small amount to have on hand for' during  the  campaign.
a  campaign  year." { Voluntary CIO Contributions I
Ahsolve  Hannegan of Scuitllng He  told  a press conference  Ihat | _      ^_._      ,.
'^'¦''"'I'. '.'"  Intcnsilyof the vicC|the  p^c would  continue  its  work  est  menace  to his regime
presidential contest the meeting ,oijrJtin_ voting registrations nnd closed on a note of harmony with'^^.„„ld -see that people come lo Mayor Kdward J. Kelly of Chici'go,yo,p (gj. Roosevelt and Truman." absolving Hannegan of charges n, „,.(ivitv henceforth will be fi- that    he   iKsed    his   high    office   to naneed   by' voluntary   contribution.^
Truman. ',lis"''p'c%on;'l   fMc^nd   and,'-"'  CIO  members.  Hillman said,  rhestaff  of" Field'Marshal  Albert political   mentor. '    The CIO first announced it would
Walla.c.  the  defeated   candidate, -'¦'¦<''*  \-oluntary  contributions of .tl his  congratu- '¦¦<"" ^ CIO  members   in   connection plans    to   establish    a    new
Kesselring in Danger
The Stockholm newspaper Dag- ens Nyheter reported from Berlin that the Gestapo had arrested two generals  and  "several  colonels"  of
Kessclring. German commander-in chief in Italy. Kcsselring's own position is precarious, thc dispatch said, and he has not yet returned to Italy from an urgent conference nt Hitler's  headquarters.
telegraphed   Truman   his   congratu
lations   on   "your   enlarged   oppor- "'""    . „ ,, .    ....
tunilv   to   help   thc   President   and|  Nation"'  Citizens  Political  Action the peoiile ¦ nnd pledged liml -both |Committee.'   It also waa announced; of   us   wili   do   our   maximum   for thai funds of the CIO-PAC       con-  Report Civil W'ar Raging Roosevelt     and     what      Roosevelt!tributions from union treasuries —|    wi,ile some  reports.,  of doubtful stands   for."   Truman   told   a   press would be  frozen  until  «fter Nov   7 ^^^^^p^ji^^^.    g^jj   j,,,^ ^.j^.j,
conference    that    Wallace    still    is •» comply with the Smilh-Coiinally     .^^   ^.^     ^^       ,„ ts   „f  East
his  friend. j Act  prohibition  on  union con ribu-  p^^^ig     Bavaria,    former    Polish
President  Roosevelt    telegraphed tions   in   connection   with   Political | gj,^j^  ^^^   the  Munich   area,   late Truman  that  he  was    "happy    to|campaign.s. I Swiss dispatches said that souihern
have  you  run  witn  me.'    Truman;    Hillman said  the NCPAC execu-1 Germany was quiet Saturday. Traf- replied Ihsi he was happy too. was;tive committee would meet irt New (Continued  on Page  A-ll)
"at your commsnd  and  t w-ant  to [York about Aug. .S to plan its csm- «ee you soon."    Meanwhile, he left paign  and  that  the new organiia-
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for his Independence. Mo., home to remain until Congress reconvenes Aug.   1. I
A dispute between rival Texas factions was solved amicably by seating Mrs. Hlldii H. Weiiiert of Scguin. representing tiie anti- Roosevcit ilelegate.s. as the new- na¬ tional coinmiltccwoman. Dl»ru«« Southern Bolt
The   priiiiipal   remaining   discor¬ dant   note   Involved   the   possibility'all   Turkish    passenger   traffic   on of a holt hv southcrtiers to form a jthe  Black  Sea  will  be  banned  cf- (Continued  on  Page  A-lli fective   tomorrow.
RAYBURN TRAILING; NYE BARELY WINS
Radio,    Dallas,   Tex.,   July   22.   (UP)—At
May Have Found Cure for Malaria Wifh Aid of Volunteer Heroes
' Washington. July 22. — (UP) — Bureau of Prisons offlcials said to¬ day there was strong hope that American sclent ists may have de¬ veloped a cure fnr malaria after four months of an unusual govern¬ ment experiment at the Atlanta. Ga..   federsl   penitentiary.
The experiment, being conducted joinll\' bv the Bureau of Prisons, the U^S. Public Health .Service and the NationHl Research Council b";- gaii in Mnrcii with the infection of n. group of specially picked volun¬ teers. Periodically since then, in group.? of 1.^. olher volunteers have been  suhniitted to the test.
The  prnie-s of infection Invoh-cs
In Today's Issue
Clnoilted B—11
Kdilnrlal   - C—2
>lnvie*     R—10
ftorlal     , _ A—14
Pliort*     B—I
Kadi..         B—10
Outdoor ...»  „ B—S
TWO  Tl HKISH  SHIPS ATTAt'KCU  BV  81 BS
London. July 22. lUPJ) Ankara today reported that two [least seven of Texas' 18 congress Turkish ships had heen attacked ,„pn seeking re-election, including by unidentified submarines in House Speaker Sam Rayburn, were Turkish territorial waters in the'confronted tonight with thc possl- Bospliorus   Strait. Ihility of defeat on tlic basis of re-
As  a   resuil.   the   broadcast   said, turns   from   the   first   Democratic
primary. I    The  11  p.  m.   tabulation  by  the
Texas   election   bureau   gave   Ray-
huir  4.'712  votes to 5.0,W for G.  V.
Morris and 164 for George T. Batch.
Rayburn was  narrowing somewhat
the gap shown by the earlier com-
inilHlion. There   were   no   reports   of   any
disturbances as a scattered number dividing the 15-man groups inlo five', of -Vegroes cast their first primary smaller groups of three men each.i ballots in Texas history, the latter being bitten by the same' Other congressmen, two of them infected in.sect. Thus, those infected I ^-^t"""' "f "'«"-^' yf",'" ,',''• ^^P'" .similarly and simultaneously make, l°'.-_^y^° J^-5''^l''«''i?5,,'„"„'i.\^^*^i;1.5 possible    a    dinicar study   of   the
King, NimitZ^eds 76 Miles
Visit Saijian f/^ !Y*"2«?«^:
9 Armies Driving
Hint Use as Base To Attack Japan, Philippines, China
ifimparative effects of thc disease and the ircnlmcnl. It is understood Ihat each l,^-man crew- mu.st bc treated ordinarily for 60 day.s.
Only physically and mentally per¬ fect volunteers are accepted for the project, according to prison offi¬ cials, ina.»much as there is an cle¬ ment of danger involved. Up to the present time, however, it was said, no fatalities have occurred, al¬ lhough the men have experienced illness of varying degrees.
The     experiment     was     deemed
count, were Reps. Hatton Sumbers of Dallas, who like Rayburn has spenl Ifi term.s in Ihe lower house: Luther Johnson of Corsicana. and Richnrd Klcherg nf Corpus Chrisli. Nve Wins Close Race
Bismarck. N. D.. July 22. (UP)— Gerald P. Nye. on the basis of com¬ plete unofficial reports from county canvns.slng board.s, won nomination to thc United States Sennle in the Xorth Dakota primary election by 962 votes.    Thc vote:
Nye. 38.181; Lynn U. Stamhaugh. former   national   Amcrcina   Legion
By FRANK TREMAINE
U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquarters, Pearl Harbor, July 22 (UP)— Adms. Ernest J. King snd Chester W. Nimitz have visited Saipan, and in a joint press conference tonight tile two Navy chiefs announced that "long-range" operations are being planned from our new ad¬ vanced Pacific ba.se along a huge arc cutting across the heart of Japan.
Secretary of Navv James V. For¬ restal announced simultaneously in Wa.shington that by July of next year tiie Navy will be boosted 383.000 men above its present authorized strength of 3.006,000 men lo keep pace 'with acceleration of operations against Japan." He hinted that the time for big opera¬ tions in that quarter was approach¬ ing.
Nimitz and King said that U. S. forces now- are in pn.sition to strike Japan at any point along a huge arc in thc Wesiern Pacific and are planning w-ideapread future operations against thc enemy, whn already is feeling the seriousness of the  situation.
The two commanders met the press shortly sfter reiurning from their trip.
Plan for Future
'The primary purpose of my trip here is to confer wilii Admiral Nimitz and his staff regarding future operations — some involving a quite  long range,"  King aaid.
He said that the seizure of Sal- pan makes it poi^sibie for United States forces, including the fleet. to o|ierale on a 12-degree arc in a   l,.'i00-milc   radius.
"If you .-..rike a radius 1,500 miles from Saipan. it is interesting
Whole 950-Mile ISazis Vaunted Reach   Pre-War
Front  Advancing aa
'East   Wair   Cracks;
Border   of   Finland;
2 Jap Drives Are Brolten
Carlson's Raiders Leading Invaders; Extend Beachheads
By FRA.Mv TRE.>IA1NE
Pearl   Harbor,   July   22.    (UP)— fr,    I /-If     f J        c     f,     n    > I     r%    !• ^-^   Marines,   paced   by   "Carlson's
lake    Lnelin    to    Split    Poland    i/e/C/ISC Kaiden.,- and Army troops widened
to two and a lialf miles each their two beachheads on Guam Saturday and after hurling back tw-o Japa¬ nese counter-attacks battled toward a junction tiial wouid cut off Orotc
B.V ROBKRT ML?EL
London, .Sunday, July 2,3 (UP)—Marshal Knn.stantin K.,
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the rohhh city ot (helm and .-smashed to within <6 miles ot un Pake a-io).
\Vai°Kaw while other Soviet troops drove closer to Riga and    A     communique     from     Adm
broke into the streets of Pskov, the last Russian city •njhead'lartt^s""** id '
German hands and the southern gat«\vay to Estonia. Ipra'nc''s"'wa'iships''*aiid
._.   . ,. ,  „       TTshor  '"   •'"^0   w-hat   it   covcrs   in   Japan.
2;"""'';^ l'-?hj^  Non PflSsan;'-'hina    and   the   Philippines,"   ad- Burdick.    Ihe    N^D-P"""""  mirai  King said.
"Fifteen   hundred   miies   is   con¬ sidered     a    fair     fleet     operating
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necessary   because   neither   quinii
nor its more recent substitute, ata-, L,eag,ie's candidate. 35.68'
brine, actuallv cure malaria. Armed      in    November,   on   the   basis   of
forces  personnel who  responded  to! these returns, it will he Gov. John ^^
those drugs were found to be veryJMoses.    the    Democratic   nominee, j radius.
susceptlhle  to  a  recurrence of the'against    Nye.    wilh    polilicsl    oh-j    Admiral    Nimiti   indicated   that
disease as soon as they returned to| servers    here    predicting    another ^Saipan  w-ould  he  used as a  heavy
a malarial environment.
communique
Pacific Fleet that tanks, land artillery Simultaneously, other Russian troops reached the border of tiie ;',°"''""*-"'' ""^^"' '"¦« '" ^'•'"''^ ^hc Soviet Union and Finland established afler the 1939-40 winter war, I''!'''"'"""' ^'ou'iter-attacks. .-aptured thc Lithuanian rail center of Paiievezys, guarding the vital '-"I'*'"* High tiround Riga-East Prussia railroad and clo.sed to within 18 miles east ofj Troops ot the Third Marine Di- Slanislawow, near the Czechoslovaklan border. |vision    caplured    important    high
Along a huge 9.')0-mile front from Finland to the Carpathian foothills, nine oiirushing Red armies swept up more than 1,310 towns and seltle- neiils as they pursued the demoralized Ucrmans back tow-ard the Reich. (Conlinued on  Page A-10)
War   Sll III III a i*T
tough  battle for N>'a.
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INVASION—Bnti.^li battle through mud to break into Gennan stronghold of Troarn as heavy weather holds down action on rest of front.
RUSSIA—Red .\riii.v smashes to within 76 miles of Warsaw and carves out more gains elsewhere on 9.")(»-iiiile front.
AIR W.-\R—Italian-based American planes again blast Ploe.sli airfields in soutiiern Honiania; bad weather grounds aircraft on western front.
ITALY—Fifth Army gains steadily in advance on I'lorence and Pisa.
P.\C'1FI('—Marines widen Guam beachheads, smashing Japanese counterattack.'*.
CHIN.\—14th American .¦\ir Force lashes out in support of Chinese ground forces fighting battle of Henyang.
BURMA—Chindits gain southwest of Mogaung; Chinese and Americans inch fon-ard in Myitkyina.
ground and the coast roads con¬ necting Agana and Pill towns. The beachhead in that sector now ex¬ tends two and a half miles from Asaii Point to Adciup Point.
At the same time, Cabras Island, just off Pill, was brought under the control of our guns and about half of the small spit was oc¬ cupied.
Troops of the Firist Provisional Marine Brigade, including contin¬ gents of the famed Pacific Raiders, landed just below the peninsula at Agat Town and have now extended their hold to south of Bangi Point, also about two and a half miles. 7;th Ulvlslon Lands
Army 77tli Division troops landed in support of the Marines on both beaches shortly after the first as¬ sault troops drove ashore.
Nimitz' communique revealed ] that .Mt. Alifnn. about a niiio and one-eighth inland from the south¬ ern beachhead, had been captured.
The Japanese counter-attacked bolh beaciihcads early Friday, the communique said, but under thc tremendous weight of Allied fire w-ere thrown back with the loss of five tanks as well as the 270 dead.
The    First     Provisional     Marine Brigade on Guam includes snme of the   most   colorful   troops    in    the (Continued on Page  A-ll)
TRYING TO RESCUE BESIEGED HENGYANG
By 0EOR4^ie  WANG
Chungking. July 22. (ITPI— Planes of the 14th American Air Force ranged the skies of Hunan Province todav in clashing attack! against Japanese positions and supply lines, and Chine.se forcea outside Hengyang slugged their way forward to new positions In an effort lo relieve tlie trapped and weakening garrison within tha citv.
Forty miles to the south, in tha L«iyang area, the Chinese again drove Uie eneniy back lo llie north to free more of the bitterly con- te.sted   rail  route   to Canton.
The   situation   on  the  Kwsngtun I front,   in   southeast   China,   is   un¬ changed,     today's     Chinese     war bulletin  said.
I Today's communique gave tha ; firsl indication that the be¬ leaguered Chinese garrison with- I in Hengyang may be neaVing tha end of its resistance. The offi¬ cial report said these units wer* I "still holding out," the first tima their position hss heen describa4 ' in those  last-ditch terma.
Most of
Battlefront
Stalemated
Weather Blocks Offensive Threat; Nazis Say Gen. Patton Leading an Army
By PHIL A I'LT
Allied Supreme Headquar¬ ters. London, Sunday, July 23 (UP)—British ^Second Army troops, fighting through morasses of mud like those of the last war. won control Sat¬ urday of half of Troarn, Ger¬ man stronghold seven milea east of Caen, and ironed out the enemy .salient south of th< city by capturing Maltot anti Etavaux.
A number of eneniy counter attacks were thrown back with the destruction of 14 Gennan tanks, but otherwise the battlefront had become a stalemate, with the promising British offensive of last week bogged down in the worst weather of the invasion.
Bumping their way through tha storm clouds, a force of about 200 American Marauder and Havoo bombers and RAF Billy Mitchells bombed three fuel dumps and one railway target south of thc battle zone in the long major air operation
'¦¦ of the day.
! Stop German Attacks
Dctpite the soggy weather, the Crermans     launched     two    limited
I counterattacks Friday, south of St.
I Andre-Sur-Ornc on thc  Caen front
iand on tne St. I>j-Periers highway in the American sector.   Both wera
I thrown    back    w-ith   sharp   enemy losses.
The British entered Troarn for the •third time Saturday and won the western half of thc tewn be¬ fore a torrential downpour Caused a half-hour suspension of fighting. Smashing across the wooded rise just outside Troarn again.sl fierce machine-gun and light arms op¬ position, they won high ground dominating tiie remaining (jcrmsn positions in the eastern half of town.
For nearly 48 hours the weather had damped •• stalemate on the battlefields and there w&a no pros¬ pect of its lifting Saturday. Air operations in support of troopa came to a full slop, as flying con- dition.s were described as the worst since D-Day. Forests Full  of Guns
The first great rush of British armor through the Caen gap hsd ended because the Germans \ver» jonce more in wooded terrain sfttV I being driven across the rolling farms just CAbt of Ocn. The in¬ fantry now faced the job of dig¬ ging them out of one strongpoi.-it after another, a slow and costly process.
Behind every grove the Germana had concealed deadly 88-mlllimeter guns which pinned down the in¬ fanlry until Allied artillery could get a bearing on the enemy bat¬ teries. Rocket-firing Typhoon (Continued on  Page  A-ll)