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AMERICANS

KNIFE

ACROSS

BRITTANY

Armored

Aiming

Columns

For Nanfes

Tanks Lunging Ahead In Brittany, Leaving

Infantry To Mop Up Rennes Remnants

LONDON, Aug. 4¡ª Powerful American tank columns, rolling

south from captured Rennes against feeble German resistance#

pushed to within 60 miles of the important city of Nantes today

m a continuation of their drive which threatened to cut off the

entire Brittany Peninsula.

Leaving behind infantry to mop up German remnants in

Rennes, armored spearheads smashed forward toward Nantes^

great

with ItsDorlent

the peninsula

capture of wliigh would Isolate naval

bases of Brest,

and St. Nazalre.

1,000 Sock Reich;

Only Seven Lost

Spearheads of American forces are streaking southward toward the French city of Nantes

after liberating Rennes, ancient capital of Brittany. Lt. Gen. Omar K. Bradley yesterday reported that the chief barrier to the Americans now were the collections of destroyed enemy

vehicles alonj^ the roads.

Nazis Hurl All In Prussia;

Soulhern Florence Reached

Aerial Battles Raging

As Border Defense

Grows Desperate

LONDON. Aug. 4¡ª A great battle

was reported raging on the East

Prussian frontier today as the battered Germans threw in all available reserves of tanks and infantry

and called upon the Luftwaffe in a

desperate advance

attempt into

to* slow

down soil.

the

Russian

German

A Reuter¡¯s correspondent said

great air battles were bring fought

in the skies above East Prussia as

the Luftwaffe put in a long-delayed appearance and that the

fighting along the border had

reached a new peak of ferocity.

Another threat to East Prussia

developed, however, as Genera!

Ivan Chernyakovsky, striking the

Germans a surprise blow north of

Kaunas in Lithuania, sent a large

mobile column racing toward the

important Shavll-Tilsit highway.

This latest thrust placed the Russians 50 miles of the East Pnny;lan

cities of Tilsit and Insterburg and

only 90 miles from the capital city

of Koenigsberg.

These developments coincided

with a Moscow announcement that

the Russians had established a

bridgehead 20 miles wide and 15

miles deep across the Vistula River, southwest of the Polish city of

Sandomierz. 115 miles south of

Warsaw. This latest drive, the Germans admitted, had outflanked

Warsaw and brought the Russian

armies within 70 miles of Cracow

and only 120 miles from Silesia,

heart

of Germany¡¯s industrial center.

Meanwhile. Marshal Konslantii.

Rokossovsky¡¯s armies cntrcnchca

themselves firmly across the Bialystok railway, northeast of Warsaw,

and pressed against the eastern

outskirts of the Polish capital. Inside the city, Polish patriots were

reported to have Joined the baltTc

against the German defenders, in

the northern, western and soulhern

sections. One report said the Patriots had gained control of Saxon

Gardens, the city¡¯s largest district.

To add to this black picture for

(Continued on page 8)

Hitler Dismisses Four

High Ranking Officers

LONDON.

4¡ª 'The German

News

Agency Aug.

cmnounced

tonight

that one field marshal and four

generals have been expelled from

the German army.

The announcement said the

Army had requested Adolf Hitler to carry out his purge of elements at odds with the German

leader and that a court of honor,

empowered to Inquire into the attitude of German military leaders, had fired the marshal and

queurtet of general officers as its

first official act.

Names of the dismissed officers

were omitted In the agency announcement.

New Finn Regime

Seeking Way Out

LONDON. Aug. 4¡ª Field Marshal

Baron Carol von Mannerheim, in

his first official act when he assumes presidency of Finland, will

repudiate the Ryti Government¡¯s

pact with Germany prohibiting

Finland from making a separate

peace, BBC reported today.

Such an act, observers said, would

clear the way for Immediate Fmnish-Russo ly: a c e negotiations

which, according to late rejx>rts

from Stockholm, have not yet beA Reuter¡¯s

gun.

holm said thedispatch

formationfrom

of Stocka new

Finnish cabinet had not yet been

completed and lilnted at possible

surprises in the choice of a new

premier to succeed pro-German

Edward Linkomles.

Neutral sources admitted surprise tliat the Germans had taken

no counter measures to forestall

Finnish peace talks with Russia,

although it was becoming increasingly clear that the chances of a

successful Natzl coup are diminishing hourly.

Foe Ruthlessly Blows

Bridges Over Arno;

5th Sector Quiet

ADVANCE ALLIED H E A DQUARTERS, Aug. 4 ¡ª Sweeping

through the last German defense

line, 8th Army troops of a South

African division gained the southern part of Florence, historic art

center of Europe, a special communique announced this evening.

Recon patrols rushing forward

to gain contact with the enemy

found five out of the six bridges

over the Amo River within the city

of Florence already destroyed. The

sixth, the Ponte Vecchlo, was found

Intact but houses had been demolished on either side to cause road

blocks to the approaches.

The wanton destruction of the

fine architectiUTd bridges was cited

as another example of. Field Marshal(Continued

Kesselring¡¯s order

to his

on page

8) troops

LONDON, Aug. 4¡ª For the first

time la several weeks a large force

of Allied heavy bombers rained destruction on German military Installalions when 1,000 heavy bombers of the 8th Air Force today

struck marshalling yards at Saarbrucken, Mulhouse and Strasbourg,

an oU storage dump at Merkwiller

and additional military targets in

France.

The number of Gerhian

troops still in Brittany is not

known, but reports

fromthat

a Reuter¡¯s

correspondent

suggest

neither

the numbers nor quality can bo

high. Those which hold the Caen

region cure still resisting stubbornly.

Nevertheless, Allied troops are

pressing on. and their atta^ this

week have gone far to liquidate the

German battle army of France.

Along a wide front

In the

Villedieu-Percy-Tessy

salient

the Allies

are reported to be moving forward

against only reargucurd resistance.

The main

weight

CSermon

tance now

seemsof to

have resisbeen

switched to the VUlers BocageAunay sector. The Germans have

brought

- in considerable

armored

reioToroements

to this area

from

south of Coen, and particularly

Aunay.

heavy fighting Is in progress near

vaunted

Opposit

lly nil,

fe ion

and

practicathe

was from

Luftwaf

so was the anti-aircraft fire over

The

the targets. 'The 8th Air Force reported one of the smallest losses put

In tlie history of large scale attacks¡ªjust seven bombres and six along

as missing.

listedlost

wereAllies

fighters the

0.7

less themThis

means

percent of the total bomber strength

on this attack. The enemy lost 17

aU told.

Other air news came from Washington yesterday where the War

Department announced that over

61.000 tons of bombs were dropped

on targets^ln German occupied Euc Air

by the U.

Force rope

between

Junea 6Strategi

and July

30.

Germans throughout the day

in sporadic counterattacks

the whole British and Canadian front, slowing down the advance of the Second Army. However, the twin American thrust to

Dinan cut off and captured the important port of SL Malo. The

American forces are reported to be

fanned out like fingers on an extended hand, moving down numerous roads so rapidly that front

lines no longer exist- and advanced

lines are where you can find them

tliisenough."

morning 1,000

"ifInyouRemies

move fast

German soldiers led by their officers marched in formation down

Um main road from the city without arms to surrender. Because the

Americans had no troops or transports to spare the Nazis, their white

Hags flying high, obligingly proceeded unescorted to the nearest

Allied POW camp. Many other

groups of Germans¡ª numbering be*

tween 100 and 400 ¡ª also ere re*

ported to have surrendered near

Rennes.

Secretary of War Henry L. Stlmson fold reporters In Washington

yesterday that tlie rapid advance

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 ¡ª CoL In France in the past nine days is

"the most satisfying curcomplishWilliamnomicO'Dwycr,

chief

of the

eco- ment

since the successful Allied

section of the

Allied

Control

Conunission, was nominated for

on the French

beaches.**

temporary rank as brigadier gen- landings

A communique

from

General

eral by President Roosevelt today,

D.

Elsenhower¡¯s

headquarhis promotion going to the Senate Dwight

ters estimates that German casual*

for

approval. CoL O¡¯Dwyer, Brook- lies since D-day have been

13m, N. Y., Is district attorney of

190,000. The GenKing¡¯s

County, on leave of absence approximately

to

the Army.

eraL himself, paid another visit t4

the fighting front yesterday.

During this attack on German Inrtatlon,

dustrywithand the

transiX)

coordins,

nated

landing

operatio

more than 27,000 sorties were flown

by bombing planes. In the week

July 16-23 alone more than 8,000

bombers sorties and 5.000 fighters

were flown against a wide variety

of targets.

ACC Chief Nominated

Temporary Brigadier

Army Ends Philly Transport Tieup

Stars and .Stripes U. S. Bureau

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 4¡ª The

Army

seized Philadelphia¡¯s

entire

transportation

system on authorization of President Roosevelt today to end n three-day walkout

that curtailed production In the

nation's second lor^t war producing center.

Maj. Gen. Pliilip Hayes, Commandant of tlie 3rd Service Command, was designated by the War

Department **to see that trolleys,

buses, subways cmd elevated lines

resume normal operations at their

regular starting time beginning toGeneral Hayes said he was counting on 6,000 Idle employees "to do

tlielr duty to their country by remorrow.*¡¯ porting for work.¡¯¡¯ Aside from

Army officers in the tran^rtatlon company's main office, car

bams and stations, no troops had

euTlved in the city tonight.

In Washington, Secretary of War

The tenseness stemming from

Henry L. Stimson who announced

the Army was taking over, said work stoppage caused hospitaliza"tliose who have created this stop-^

page in Phllcuielphia have a great downpour

also contributed

tm?

tion Qf 13 persons.

Yesterday¡¯sto ram

transport snarl that kept 140.000 o.

¡¯T am sure,¡± he stated, "that as

area¡¯s 800,000 war workc- s

responsibility.¡¯¡¯

loyal Americans they will Immedi- the

from their jobs, the War Macately put their shoulders to the power Commission reported, Retai.

wheel and return to work. Inablli^ trade spokesmen estimated It aL>??

of Pliiladelphia workers to get to caused a business decline of one

their Jobs is cutting off the flow of million dollars daily.

essential war materiel for the Army

^tra trains

the Pennsylvania

and Navy at a time when our Railroad

and onReading

Compan:

troops ne^ the maximum support lines could carry only a fraction o:

to dii\'e hcaker

House

father. during

ChamptheClark,

of the lower house of Congress.

In New York City. Rep. Martin

Kennedy, Tammany Hall candidate

who lost the Democratic nomination to CIO-sponsored Rep. Vito

Marcantonlo, charged some Democratic leaders "worked out a deal

with Marcantonlo.¡±

Kennedy. In Congress since 1930,

said his designation as the organization candidate was made ¡±on the

insistence of President Roosevelt."

He said Mr. Roosevelt had rejected

the plan of Tammany Leader Edward V. Loughlin to give Tammany

designation

to Marcantonlo

''because he thought

such a plan would

help the Republicans in the national elfction and that it would

be ridiculous and bad politics to

offend Americans of Irish extraction and other voters of the Catho^

lie faith by failing to place at least

one of that group on the congressional slate In New York.¡±

In a prompt reply. Rep. Marcantonlo termed Kennedy's charges

"ridiculous and patently false."

*rhe victory of Marcantonlo. vrho

also won the Republican primary,

and victories of three other CIOendorsed candidates was hailed by

Joseph Curran, president of the

New York CIO Council, as a "ringing endorsement and support of

President Roosevelt¡¯s war leaderIn New York State, the stage was

ship.¡±

set for a renewal of the Hamilton

Pish- Augustus W. Bennct election

fight. Pish squeezed through in the

Republican primary by 4,000 votes

over Bennet. narrowest margin of

hLs long public career; but the victory failed to impress Wendell

Wlllkle.

"It looks as if Ham¡¯s long tenure

will come to an end this fall.¡± said

the 1940 GOP presidential candidate

referring to the election day contest between Pish and Bennct.

BALTIMORE.

Md.. come

Aug. out

4¡ª The

Baltimore

Sun has

in

support of Dewey for President, the

Associated Press reported today.

This marks the third time in the

107 year history of the newspaper

that it has backed a Republican

nominee. In the past the newspaper

backed WUUam McKinley and

WendeU Willkle.

Its editorial says in part: "Roosevelt¡¯s decision to run for a fourth

term makes It necessary for the

Sun to oppose him In order to do

what it can to forestall the evils

which such decision brings. An administration which uses its power

and substance of its people to win

a labor vote or vote of any organized pressure group is corrupting

its administration, and its moral

basis Is as bad as an administration which bids for the support of

monopolists

or any other vested interest.

"I'he alternative to Roosevelt Is

Dewey ¡ª practical, level-headed,

with a mind more like a scientist

than a warnor on horseback. There

will be few brilliant improvisations,

few inspired pronunclamentos by

Dewey. Those serfeing a leader with

a capital L had best not vote for

him. Those who feel that 12 years

of government by car are enough

and went a return to stability will

find in him something almost

imlque in sway, vigor, consclenUousness, understanoing and clarity of thought.

"Three terms for President ore

one too

could

be many.

much Roosevelt's

better than record

it is.

ST. LOUIS. Aug. 4¡ª Twenty-Six

Republican governors assembled In

their politically portentous conference today and immediately split

up into teams to draft a 14-point

policy declaration designed^ hoist

Gov. Thomas E. Dewey &to the

White House, the Associated Press

reported.

The idea of the conference, according to Gov. Dewey, is to "shape

the policy of the next four years.¡±

He added, ¡±I am entirely convinced

the people of the United States

have a right to know when the

Republican Administration takes

olfice next January 20 that squabbling between units of the government will come to an end as far as

and Dewey¡¯s much worse, and still

weDewey

can achieve

it.¡± running mate, the

and his

public interest would demand

Gov, John W. Bricker of Ohio, have

already formulated t^ proposed

lan^age for most of the 14 topics: a change.¡±

agriculture, hlghwoys, insurance,

labor, national guard, public expenditures. public lands, public

works, reconversion and postwar

jobs, aockd welfare and public

health, taxation, unemployment

compensation, veterans affairs and

water resources.

WASHINGTON, AUg. 4 ¡ª The

War Department la 99 to 100 percent accurate in reporting news of

soldiers killed, wounded, missing or

taken prisoner, officials of the casualty branch of the department

said today. This is an improvement

of sU percent over the record of

World War I.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 4¡ª TwentyTills figure does not Include folsix petitions of 6^ Missourians oblow-up reports on men classed as

whose fate may be reveeded

jecting to "any form of prohibition missing,

later.

legislation¡± was entered in the Congressional record today at the reMinor employees and trained exquest of Rep. Clarence Cannon (D..

perts alike realize they are deeding

with human emotions and that

Mo.).

"We don¡¯t want any more pro- "every piece or paper, that goes

hibition with all of its attendant through the section mav mean a

evils.¡± said the petition, which was heart^he for somebody, someforwarded from Rhineland. Mo.,

where," said Col. George P. Her1 and signed largely by farmers.

bert. chief of the branch.

The staff works from boxes of

One petition asserted "persistent

efforts of professional prohibition- cards fiown from all over the world

ists to cause Congress to enact pro- or from coded radio information.

!

hibition legislation are manife.stly Each telegram to the relative listed

the soldier is followed within

¡® unfair because so many of our men by

a few days by a letter of sympathy.

!are in uniform and overseas.¡±

In cases of Tvounded men, progress

reports ore sent out every -15 days

and once a month bionics are

mailed

to which

the wounded

family on

they maysoldier¡¯s

write

five-w¡¯ord messages of cheer¡ª the

personal suggestion of General

George C. Marshall. A special stall

is on hand at all times to handle

long-distance calls from distressed

relatives.

Two big problems facing the staff

get a guy with a platform like that

are the soldiers' habit of switching

dogtags

before going into battles,

you

won¡¯t

stop

short

of

making

him President of the United

and

the

civilians¡¯

of without

moving

around within

thehabit

states

That simple, succinct, forthright notifying the casualty office of their

statement touched off a demonstra- changes of address.

States.¡±

tion which shook the club rooms

The office works 24 hours a day

and caused such stalwart soap- and has a staff of 2.220 civilians and

boxers as Jeff Davis, king of the 67 officers.

Casually Figures

Tallied Accurately

Missourians Against

Any Prohibition Law

Hobos Have A Candidate

And Boy, What A Platform |

CHICAGO. Aug. 4 ¡ª With all

eyes and ears focused on the recent Democrats and Republicans

meeting here nobody paid much

attention to the Hobo Convention

and its selection of a Presidential

candidate at the DiU Pickle Club.

But, brother, the 'bos did things!

They. too. elected a candidate on

the first ballot, and they whipped

up a honey of a one-point platform quicker than the most agile

members could hop a freight

train.

The standord bearer of the

knights of the road will be Charles

"Wingy" Wendorf. U. S. A., who

swept to victory on a program

which steered completely clear of

international issues, and almost

everything else of even a slightly

controversial nature. However, no

qulbbler he! "Wingy" came out

four-square with an unequivocal

endorsement of one of the paramount issues of all time, to wit:

A four-hour work-day and a twoday week.

'The way

I seetold

it, boys,¡±

the onearmed

orator

the assembled

delegates in the smoke-filled convention hall of the Dill Pickle Club,

"the course of the world Is too

much work. I¡¯m for a world where

you start at noon, take an hour out

for lunch, and qidt at five. And if

you¡¯ve got any sense, when you

hobos; "Listen*' Sheridan, "Haciand "Cosmic

Kid"

Shaw enda"

to Tollman,

withdraw

their names

from

unity. nomination for the sake of

To clinch the nomination the convention committee retired to a

cloakroom, and consulted a ouija

board to learn the wishes of the

late Dr. Ben Rcitman, former king

of the hobos. Evidently he seconded the motion pronto because

the men returned to the convention

hall beaming as though each member had received two handouts of

apple pie instead of one and announced that "Wingy" was in. However. In the excitement which follow'ed the delegates failed to select a running mate for their candidate. so "Wingy" seems to be the

only Presidential hopeful strictly

on his own.

When last reported, nominee

Wendorf. who probably knows train

schedules better than any of his

rivals for the high office, was busy

mapping his itinerary for a whirlwind schedule.

South Carolina Demos

Endorse FDR Electors

It Happened At Home

AT MEIMPHIS, where the temperature dive bombs upward.

Malcolm Platt and Charles Knowlton, both 17, were fined 100

dollars for tossing snowballs at motorists. They operated from

under the loading platform of an Ice plant, rolling their own

from the "ice dust¡± sifting down from the saws.

In Chicago, the landlady of Frank Estis complained that

her tenant¡¯s 10-ton collection of old

magazines prevented her from getting fire insurance and would the

court please do something about it.

Result ¡ª a sidewalk full of Pathfinders. Libertys. Saturday Evening

Posts, Horror Stories and whatnot,

with the 50-ycar-old veteran of the

last war looking for a new home.

In JonesviUe, Mich., pretty, 21year-old Maiy Ellen Grles simply

wasn¡¯t hungry and died because of

it. Efforts to feed the girl by injection failed because of her fierce

resistance. Physicians wrot^ "maland psycho-neurosis¡±

on

the death nutrition

certificate.

She weighed

only 43 pounds when she died.

And in Chicago, "Big Boy,¡± a |

rooster whom the court ^ntenced

to country life when tio many

neighbors complained of his crowing, is dead of a broken heart at

Libertyvllle. His owner, Mrs. Odeal

weighty reader

Doyle, says he missed the lights,

glamor and music of the city but those who heard '3ig Boy¡± crow at

4 AM say it was a case of romantic frustration. *The nine-pound

Plymouth Rock, who always wore red nail polish on his claws and

went for dally walks with his owner, had ten offers of marriage when

news of the trial hit the papers. Mrs. Doyle, a comely widow, also

received a couple. But "Big Boy¡± stayed single to the end.

*171? world's biggest lawyer has

just graduated from Marquette

University law school in Milwaukee. He is Clifford >L Thompson,

who is eight feet, seven inches

tall and scares the scales at 460

For many years a .showman,

Thompson

says that two years

pounds.

ago he was persuaded by his

five- foot, five- Inch wife to return

to school so "I could earn my living in one spot and 'have a home

my size with furniture and doorThompson's

40. weighed 13

ways in it my size."

pounds at birth and was six-feet,

sis when he was 16. He wears a

size 19 and a half collar, a size

22 shoe

and can

halfwears

dollar tnrough

the pass

ringa lie

on his little finger. His nearest

rival In size b Jack Sari. Texan

giant, who measures eight feet,

six and a half inches. Of course

he played basketball.

Babies In Hollywood

Orson Welles, who produces as well as acts, wants to liave 17 children. but Mrs. Welles, or Rita Hayworth, thinks three or four wlU

be enough. "You know Orson¡ª he always has to exaggerate a little.¡±

said Rita, who's expecting her first In December . . . Lassie, collie dog

star, hb son Laddie, and June Lockhart, daughter of Gene and Kathleen Lockhart, will star in "Son of

Lassie,¡± successor to "Lassie Come

Home.¡± . . . 'The Hit Parade of July

22

lists

Seeing

Star;¡±

Amor;¡±

the

tunes "Swinging

like this: "I¡¯ll Bea

You;¡±

"Long

Ago and Far On

Away

"I¡¯ll Get By;" "Goodnight,

Wherever raine;¡±

You

Are;*' You

"SweetKissed

Lor"And TTien

Me;¡± "Milkman, Keep Tliose Bottles Quiet.¡± ... A new company

to entertain overseas troops has

been formed by the American

Theater Wing War Service. It will

book through the USO Camp

Shows, the initial production being

"The Barretts of Wlmpole Street,¡±

with Katherine Cornell and Brian

Aheme. Others in the company

are Guthrie MoClintip, Brenda

Forbes, Margalo Gilmore and Robert Ross . . . Beatrice Lillie and

Bert Lahr will star in Billy Rose's

"Seven Lively Arts" next B¡¯way

season

. . 'People

Will

We're1,

In Love" led the 25 top song hits of the . year

(July 1.

1943Say

¡ª July

1944), with blanket finishers being "My Heart Tells Me,¡± Shoo Shoo

?

?

Baby,¡± "Besamo Mucho.¡± and ? 'T Love

You.¡±

?

Lassie and

son

Pennies From Washington

A total of 2,578,640.270 domestic coins, valued at 109.464.836.70 dollars. were turned out by U. S. mints in the fiscal year ending June 30,

The record coinage was caused mostly by an increased demand for

pennies. Treasury officiab said. Produced were 50,683,800 half-dollaxs,

111,250,800 quarters, 244,422.000 dimes, 253,630.000 nickels and 1.918,653,670 pennies. No silver dollars have been minted since 1935.

A GI named Bill, stationed at

Ft. McPherson, Ga., sent a postcard to Miss Doric Chandler, addressed to the Lincoln Memorial

with the complaint: "Why In the

devil don¡¯t

you giveA apostcard

return address sometime?

of

the Lincoln Memorial b no help.

Where are you?¡± . . . Ebewhere

in the nation's capital, the Patent

Office reported on planners, one

of whom pictures the postwar

man relaxing in a free-swinging

canopy hammock, clad in a kind

of gloiVied diaper and eating a

chocolate-covert banana. Other

patent ideas include a non-skid

tie, a collapsible drawer, non-skid

overshoes,

gloves

tear

at the and

thumbs

? . . that

The won't

WPB

relaxed rules on the manufacture

of can-openers, and brides

breathed easier ? ? . The Army,

has returned 91 of the 158 pasplanes it ? took

over from

domesticsengerfleets

? ? There

are

COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 4¡ª

Threat of a revolt by South Caro6.140.000 employees on the govlina state Democratic electors

ernment payroll, costing the

Treasury 989.000,000 dollars . ? ?

against

the

party¡¯s

national

ticket

faded today when state Democrats

MPs in charge of an exhibit of

in a special convention endorsed

captured enemy equipment at the

Presidential electors pledged to the

Washington Monument are havRooscvelt-Truman ticket and acing a tough life. Junior dogfaces

c^ted by silence the national party

hare gone so far as to remove

one wing of a JU-88

platform.

venir-hunting zeal. in their souSome delegates had raised the

threat that state electors might

withhold votes from the national

ticket. However, in a meeting only

Peace Over The Horizon Department: *rhe wooden horses whl ................
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