The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 6, 1944, Page 1

. THE LigRAgy CONGRESS SERIAL RECy — = — 3 VOL. XLIL, NO. 9696. TED PRESS PRICE TEN CENIS = S ME MBER Ass()u/\ Reds Unleash New Thrust Toward Pinsk SOVIETS 140 ' DeGaulle Landsin Normandy ‘(HUR(HIll | MILES FROM GERMANLINE New Drive Launched with| Terrific Atillery Bar- | rage-Air Support | BULLETIN — LONDON, July | 6. — Marshal Stalin announced the capture of Kowel, which is south of the Pripet Marshes anu 70 miles southeast of Brest- Litovsk. Kowel is a communica- tions center, 40 miles northwest of Luck, which the Russians captured near the end of their | winter offensive in southern Po- land. It is on a railway swinging north and westward 170 miles through Chelm and Lublin to Warsaw. The Germans announced the evacuation of the city yesterday. | MOSCOW, July 6.—The Red Army unleashed a great new thrust in the (Continued on Page Five) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON Col. Robert S. Allen now on aetive service with the Army.) (Lt (Editor’s Note—Returning from the Chicago convention, Drew Pearson, from his farm in Maryland, wrote the following letter to his sister, Mirs. Gordon Lang, of Swarthmore, Pa.) Md st come Dear | back | the its | GAITEERSBURG, Sister: 1 have ] from Chicago, where I saw Grand Old Party go through quadrent.ial birthpangs of nomin- ating a Presidential candidate. And, more important from your, viewpoint, 1 saw your husband for| the first time in the uniform of | a private in Uncle Sam’s Army. | The convention, from a news. paperman’s viewpoint, was dull. | The ticket scalpers lost mnnoy.‘ Even Republican leaders complain-| ed about the duliness, bemoaned the fact that they couldn’t get a| crowd out on the first day to heax'i Governor Warren's keynote speech. | However, from a political view-| point, this dullness may have been a good thing. What makes for a good newspaper story doesn’t neces-| carily make for success on election | day. But what some people resented,| especially the Bricker boys, was too | much steam-roller tactics and too! much of the greased Dewey ma-| chine. It looked & little like the| early steam-roller days of the New Deal. Out here in Maryland, where it’s!| clean and green and where the/ farmers are cntting their hay and cultivating their corn without| worrying - much about keynote | speakers or keynole politics, I look back at Chicago ard the whole po- litical . broil seems But when you think about it carefully, it isn't. Chicago was part of the machinery of political op- position. And political opposition is what makes this country strong —able to weather wars and de- pressions and internal turmoil. The Roosevelt have profited from more political opposition in the early days. They're going to get a good dose of it this fall. And as long as it rather tawdry| and out cof place. | Admunistration would Like a modern ve “The Return from General de Gaulle has returned to France, landing on a Normandy beach in the Allied invaders. He immediately began a 1d was greeted enthusiastically by the French populace everywhere. He is pictured as the townsfolk of the picturesque port of Bayeux in Normandy hailed his return to “La Belle France” (International Soundphoto from Signal Corps Radiotelephoto) ‘Yank’s Perfect Aim | Kills Nazi Officers WithRifle Grenade wake of the first rush of tour of the liberated sector | | By HAL BOY WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES HOPE SUES DIXIE him toos ploded grenade lodged in a tree, put it back cn the rifle to use again and went looking for other target.” Lt. Hill vouches for L}w freak incident. He snid he didn’t get the doughboy’s name, but he himself retrieved the cycle and sidecar. e e LONGWAY GOES WRONG WAY IN SHOOTING CASE h A HOPE DARE, above, New York showgirl who pledged undying love for Attorney Richard (Dixie) Davis when he was disbarred and jailed during the trial of Dutch Schultz, racketeer, has filed suit for divorce in Hollywood charging cruelty. SENATOR GEORGE RENOMINATED IN Use of Firearms at " GEORGIAPRIMARY ~ Pefersburg Two Cand@s Marked PETERSBURG, Alaska, July 6.— Harry Arthur doesn’t hit below the belt and bring | the war into politics, it will be a healthy thing. And T hope that whoever is elect- ed President will have plenty of fair, honest political opposition. will keep him on Lis toes. G I GOES TO GOP What I really started to write you about, however, was Gordon. He was able to leave camp only one day, Sunday, therefore never got a chance to sce the convention (Continued on Page Four) It fOl’ DEfeat by clo Wifl er for allegedly possessing dynamite | and caps aboard; was given 250 days J Over Opponents imprisonment by United States Com- missioner Harold F. Dawes yesterday | | ATLANTA, Ga., July 6.—Senator for careless use of firearms. 4 fvaiter B ange Ohairman of) - 2P July ¢ TOUEWEY ghioent. an {the Senate Finance Committee and Indian home and pointed a 30-30 rifle at a bed occupied b; - {one time target of President Roose- y pECHY two na velt’s “purge campaign,” was nom- tives and fired one shot, which hit inated in Tuesday't primary along no one. After running out into the street, with rine of the state’s ten Con- gressmen. Longway was knocked down by | ¥ Richard Brennan and shortly after- | Representatives Hugh Peterson wards was taken in custody by the and E. E. Cox ,both of whom said city police. Longway pleaded guilty they were marked for defeat by the CIO. won over their opponents.’ and waived the right of being rep- resented by an attorney, The doughboy feund the unex-| Found Guilty of Careless! Longway, itinerant, | who was recently taken off a steam- | DISCUSSES ~ BOMBBLITZ Many Casualties Caused in London-Counter Meas- | ures Bemg Taken | | LoNDON, July 6.—German robot| ! bombs are being concentrated on | | London, and have killed 2,752 per- | sons and sent 8,000 to hospitals in ‘fhl’ past three weeks, Prime Min- ister Winston Churchill disclosed. London is evacuating its children as | in 1940, and the world’s largest city has put to use its deep shelters, | held in abeyance for emergencies. | An unstated number of American | soldiers have been killed. Schools, | hospitals and churches are among the buildings hit by the robots, which | 200 pounds of explosives. The assault is continuing today.* Churchill told Commons that 2,- 754 robots were discharged into Eng- land in three weeks, at a rate of 100, to 150 a da but many of them | failed to reach the island or were | destroyed Hurls Defiance | to what the Allies are going | to do about it, Churchill promised | “everything within human power | and we have not failed yet. Lon- | don will never be conquered and | will never fail in her renown of | trivmphing over every ordeal which will long shine among men. Here we began the war and here we will it ended.” Heavies Give Answer see As Churchill spoke United State | heavies struck anew at some of the robots’' takeoff sites, subjected Falready to a bombardment of about | 50,000 explosives and the Royal Air Air Force hit the Pas de Calai | area again last night IN NORMANDY, July 6.—An Am- erican infantrymar. killed three In addition to the 8,000 ])1)~|)H.I|- German officers wi¢h a rifle gren- ized, the Prime Minister said that ads. ilob falled to Banlona k. /| ManY. Others wenk Sugiiggalir Yo . ’ . ceiving first aid treatment. There C. Hill, Woodborn, Oregon relates. oo A H % were more than 10,000 casualties in | Hill said the Germans were ygngon Churchill called it a“very speeding on a country road on & remargaple fact that a very large motoreycle with a sidecar when & proportion” of the bombs discharged foushiny ficed o6 S [ from the French coast up to last | “He was so excited he forgot to midnight “either failed to cross the pull the pin in the grenade, which'channel or were shot down or de- is propelled by a blank cartridge.’ stroyed by various methods.” |But his am wa: perfect. The These methods, he said, included |grenade smashed the head of the “a great employment of batteries, motoreycle driver, siruck the officer | ———— - - alongside him between the eyes, (Continued on- Page Five) | Killing both. | “Then the motorcycle ran into {a ditch, pitched the third officer BABY Hosp“Al headfirst into a stone wall, killing IS CRASHED BY FLYING BOME 'Nurses Carry Infants Out an- | Germans' ""Secrei Weapon” in Flight rman planes as caught in a network of tracer bullets, searchlights and flak while (AP Wirephoto) One of the pilotless € flying over southern England. Nazi Minefields at Tank Flailed fields of Normandy are British “Scorpion” l.mlxk, which flail the ground with mighty chains Germans. (International Soundphoto BIGSAIPAR BATTLE IN Raking the as the tanks advance across acres inlaid with mines by the evacuating from ,\xg.m Corps Radiophoto) Planks Need Planners; ‘ Repercussions Coming After Present War End LAST STAGE BATTLING AT WESTANCHOR, GERMAN LINE {Columns of American Firs! Army Move On - Air- drome Under Atfack BULLETI N-—SUP".ME | HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EX- PEDITIONARY FORCES, July 6.—~Three more towns have fall- en to Bradley’s foot-slogging American infanjrymen flanking La Haye du Puits. Glatigny, Scorman and La Butte have been taken by the Yanks. A 2,- 000-yard advance has been made on Culot, capture of which is expected within a few hours. | SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, July 6.—Two hard Tight- ing columns of the American First Army today plunged southward be- yond besieged La Haye du Puits, | both east and west, outflanking this | western anchor of the enemy's Nor- | mandy line. Other troops battled within the town itsef after capfuring the rali- | way station. Americans, forcing their way south on Cherbourg Peninsula, have reached Las de Jardins, three miles southwest of La Haye du Puits while on the east front another spear- head has penetrated the forest du Mont Castre and are battling the German Seventeeth Panzer Gren- adiers for possession of the vital high | ground in the wooden region. The doughboys advanced vir- tually foot by foot against furious tank and infantry units the battle rages furiously. | On Caen Front Near Caen the British and Can- | adian forces are holding firm against strong German counterat- tacks in the Carpiquet area. | Nazi troops are more densely packed in defense positions in the | Caen area than in any other bat- tleground in this of the last war. German troops there reached con- centations on just less than a three- mile front. This situation leaves little room for maneuvering as the Allied troops are also cldsely packed and this leaves little freedom for movement. Hand-to-Hand Fighting | The Germans are reported throw- {ing tanks and infantry lavishly into {the battle and hand-to-hand fight- | ing is going on in the airfield south of newly captured Carpiquet. In the mile-long airfield in No Man' Land, one observer reported two huge hangars have been de- stroyed apd German tanks can be seen moving among the remains of the hangars. Shells whistle on both sides of the airdrome and dead Ger- mans can be seen lying around the "",ee or FOUI' in -I'he” it - | tracks of the Bayeux-Carpiquet rail- s second in 1 series of four ar- 1 th st ¢ tite eas. s | adjoining. s airdrome was Arms at One Time , oecomd in v of four are O e et o “uaioar: BONNS, Volcano Islands iossey, 275t et | oy of the United States, giving his of industrial pmdw'Ium like Louis S 1 Normandy. i By LEWIS HANKINS observations of a nation at war.) | ville, East St. Louis, southern Ohio, "U(k by Ame”(an ! —————— | LONDON, July 6. — Dozens of and along the Great Lakes in Ohio, Task FO[(GS | |babies were carried to safety by Ilinois afd Michigan, the problem | nurses, some holding three or four By JACK STINNETT simply is how production can be BOMBERS |“ |infants in their arms at a time, WASHINGTON, July 6—No one maintained to avold sectional col-| UNITED STATES PACIFI {when a flying bomb struck a hos- can travel around this country japses of industry and attendant FLEET HEFADQUARTERS AT pnal in southern England. without being imipres v the fact unemployment and depression PEARL HARBOR, July 6--United} 1 Germany's blind attacks were/that the Presicder late and Gov. Farl Warren of California States Marines and infantry pres - |stepped up on the eve of Prime political party thal I on the linelgets no bigger headlines than when'ed their quick cleanup of strategic| Minister Churchill's appearance in a specific program for orderly he scores the government for alleg- Saipan Island which is within| 3 {the House of Commons to make a “postwar” reconvers.on, 16 iation | ed failure to prescribe specifics for bombing range of Japan Power- |statement on the robots. of war contracts, demobilization|holding indusirial gains on the fully aided by an American carrier| | All babies were saved, but onc and the handling of uncmployment west coust. Wat Mobilization Di- task force, whicn smashed enemy| nurse was killed in the blast from is going to gather a lot of votes. rector James I Byrnes does yeo- bases in the islands to the north| - . /the bomb, which damaged both! Don't get me wrong. Only in @ man service for the Democratic and south, the e squeezed the G d | Famous pilots, who participated as some call them, exist at all, but he demands that Congress enact north end of the isiand where the| h H ' d R ‘l in the Battle of Britain, ar«-] now there are few in the United | specific legislation on contract ter- Japs are making a final gesture Ilnl Fren( A" Iel S' al taking the lead part in the fight States which alrcady haven't felt minations before the members of their emperor 7 | c R H d lagainsi the flying bombs. It was the faint stirrings of those reper- Congress take their political holl The Americans are battle be en'ers a'de disclosed that they are led by Air cussions which will come when this day grimed but plenty eager for victory| & |Marshal Sir Roderic Hill, who is country turns from a war to peace i this fovasion of fhe croesraads| VONDON. July. 8~—Arpun 1000 \commanding the entire defense cconomy. The man in the street, in the to Japan, the Fhilippi :m”‘”“”"d Biales - basvy - Ionikin £ scheme against the robots. | In this respent, the United States| urrow and in the production line|China,” The showdown clash is ‘.'l"‘lk‘“'”'('::"12‘:‘“;‘.;’,‘::"::“; “;’“ o Fighter pilots reported a very ! unique among those nations may not be looking so much far- being fouzht in an area defended “n)”; bomb installations MB;:‘ ,;: iSHCCCbhf\ll day in destruction of the which haven’t been under the dom- (her than tomorrow, when winning with piliboxes, blockhouses, shelters, | calais while light medium bombers {buzz bombs. ination of the Axi The United the war is the end and alm of and caves manned by enemy rifle- wilted railroad lines on the Secretary Anthony Eden was sub- States will return and even already | everything, but their employers and men and machine gunners | Weading-Cherbourg front. jected to a hazing today in the is returning to postwar problems those who live on the fruits ol Two-Day Strike | The Royal Air Force, in great House of Commons after he de- Diecemeal. Some war industry, their labor, from factory tycoon to| The lightning two-day strike on|strength, bombed robot platforms on clmed he is convinced that the even at this crucial point in the plow salesman, aren’t quite so Japan’s Volearo and Bonin Is-‘lhonmnncl front and the rail center Franco Government of Spain has military progress of global war, is singleminded. They are worried, lands by an American carrier task | of Dijon, 160 miles southeast of given no assistance to the Nazis being cut back. Thousands force sank or beached three de-|Paris. in the developmen* of the robot hombs, f young men of and that worry is expressing itself ed .. | (Continued on Page Four) L are being disch rom the armed forces every w (Continued on Pase Two) (Continued on Page Two) AlG 12 194 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE - “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” OF on 4