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Back In Pacific
Sicilian campaign, thereby crack-
day that saw speculation on the the western flank of Ml. Etna.
Total of Prisoners
Taken in Sicily
Reaches 125,000
Public Invited
To Activation
Of ArmyUnit
At T. Monday
a/
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made
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panic” over the possibility of
massed air raids on the German
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Italian soldiers and sailors.
Many of the tiny volcanic
land's population of 1,1000 i
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remove
northeast between
and Vyazma.
The Information from the parti-
MUCH AXIS
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had ta-
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potential war material*, even the
tin roofs of house*.
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Heavy Naal Lnaes
A Red Army war communique,
which Indicated there wa* to be no
GERMAN EDUCES
of Adrano,
14 miles southeast of Troina on the
First Bale New
Cotton in Denton:
One at Hebron
GERMAN BROADCASTS TELLING
OF BERLIN CONFERENCES LEAD
TO SPECULATION ABOUT CRISIS
ROUND
ABOUT
TOWN
n Grand Jury in
Session Saturday
Marine corps. Van
sumed command of
amphibious corp* i
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ta»u z-omW»nn/1ar i _ . . _ * ~
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1 in a *wlft drive through Belgorod,
were threatening the rear of the
I German llnea, front line dispatch**
said
Descending the valley by way of
Service, which heretofore has been
on East Oak Street, will be closed
next Monday. Tuesday and Wed-
,, nesday. as they're moving to much
larger quarters, at 219 West Oak
Street. Phillips said, "Our business
has grown to such an extent that
more space is required.”
Service Command . I
To Drop Civilian. -V--
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----- I Germans demolished nine bridges
The Phillips Radio and Electric) and a 12-mile stretch of road as
they fell back before the British
The first division of Gen. Ter-
ry Allen yesterday smashed the
formidable defenses of Troina. on
By DeWITT MACKENZIE
The Red Army's double-barreled- Blmult*
■iumoh in th* capture of the stra- D HseW
Evacuating Civi
In Smolensk Region
Allies Gain in
Sicily, on Other
Fronts; Nazis
Getting Jittery
OOOOteMrt
COJ
Feeds
AN ADVANCE SOUTH PACIFIC
BASE. Aug. 7—<JPr—The man who
led the Marine* aahore at Guadal-
canal one year ago today and di-
rected the vicious Jungle fight* that
followed until Japanese reaiatance
wu broken is back in the South
Pacific ready for more action.
Lt. Gen. Alexander Archer Van-
degrift—A magic name to fight-
ing men in thia area greeted cor-
respondent* on the anniversary of
our first land offensive tn the Pa-
cific with a quiet confidence tai vic-
tory against Japan.
Back from the states, where he
was decorated with the congres-
sional medal of honor and pro-
moted from Major General to the
rank of Lieutenant General in the
1ft baa aa-
firet Marina
____ _ __ Wil direct
all Marta* opcratlone In this s—ea. ords. Jfo dst1 iage resulted.
the coast
The inhabitants of Troina ex-
The first bale of the 1943 cotton
crop reached Denton Friday af-
ternoon. It was ginned at Lewis-
ville and then brought here
The cotton was grown by D. W.
Newton, living a mile west of Lew-
isville The 1.375 pounds of seed
cotton turned cut 490 pounds of
lint. Th* Denton Chamber of
Commerce presented Newton a 636
premium for bringing the first tel*.
It had not been sold Saturday
morning.
Last year's first bale was
brought here by 8 - B. Hobbs of
Roanoke Aug. 23. *Z_ 2...1; ~ ‘
1941 was brought hare Aug. ._
L. E. Marion, living a mile and a
half northeast of Banger
Hebron, in the southeastern part
of th* county, reeetved its first
bale Saturday morning. The cotton
was grown by Robert Jernigaa
his farm near Hebron, ft wks
ed by B Ji McFall Th* well
the bale was not known hero.
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DENTON RECORD-CH RON ICL
, NO. 307 . DENTON, TEXAS, 8 ATlKDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 7,1943 p .. AModatc* Press Leased Wire
Americans Capture Troina and
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Joe Stone. Chicago, of the mer-
chandising department of the L. C.
Burr Stores, is in Denton for a
visit with L. A. Dungan, manager
of the Denton Burr Store. He said,
"I’m Just on one of my inspection
trips, and I'll be here with Dun-
gan for a few days Denton is
certainly a fine little city and I
feel sure that most of the citizens
here realize Just how good a place
it is "
LONDON, Aug 7—(XP>—The Ger-
man International Information
Bureau, a propaganda agency, said
in a broadcast today that it was
| "understood in Berlin that a num-
ber of important discussions of a
I military and political nature have
I taken place in the Fuehrer's head-
! quarters the last few days."
This indication from German
sources of a rising crisis came as
our 16-guage shotaui
some pheasants batk
"Why, this drouth is nothing so
very unusual.” said J B. Farris. w
, native of Denton County. »nd he's
been here quite some years "I re-
call way back yonder when I was
doing actual farming, it rained on
May 3 and I worked and gathered
a cotton crop without any rain It
didn't rain till up in December.
RAF Beauflghters in an offensive
swe
The powerful sledge-hammer ^1
drives by the Americans and Brit-
ish again cracked the dwindling
bridgehead still held by the enemy
and with the Allied Air Force
pounding enemy roads and beaches
by day and night, the Germans
were in precarious position.
Large concentrations of Ameri-
can artillery of all sixes, crashing
a moving barrage over the ene-
my's Troina stronghold for three
days in succession, finally knocked
out the German defenders.
With many detachments of the
depleted German 29th motorized di-
vision staying at their machine-
gun and mortar nests to the last,
the enemy suffered an exceeding-
ly high ratio of dead and wounded
under the American's round-the-
clock drive.
The Sicilian front on July 20 was
175 miles wide. Today its narrow
width of 45 miles enabled the em-
ployment of tremendous firepower
and air power by the Allies
American Naval and military
force* took about 100 Italian sol-
diers and sailors prisoner at Ustlca.
and found 210 Italian civil -pria-
onero on the Island. Ustlca has been
by the FMclst* as a penal set-
tlement.
AD Germans fled URica July it,
(Be* AMERICANS, Fag* Thr**)
Ttie District Court grand Jury,
which convened Friday morning,
remained in session Saturday, but
was expected to complete work ear-
ly Saturday afternoon.
A number of cases were being
presented to the grand Jury, ac-
cording to Earl Coleman, county
attorney.
The members of Company "A.”
Texas Defense Guard, made a fine
, showing against the Army Spe-
cialists In a 22-target rifle match
held Friday night. Mac Lamar was
the referee and when the totals
were turned In for the two differ-
ent matches, it showed that the
Specialists from the Army scored
862 points against the Company's
839 and tn the other match the
Specialists made 454 points while
the Company shooters were scoring
446 points.
Ed Savage, vice-president of the
Denton County National Bank, and
Roundabout have a 'date.' but it is
not known when it will be. as the
time Is some time after the war
Is oVer, and th* place is up in the
Dakotas The purpose is to see if
■ ' ins can bring
: to Denton.
8. A. Thompson, east of Denton,
breaks out as a dry weather proph-
et. saying. "The first quarter of
th* moon gives every indication of
more dry times.” • Jum Forrester
appeared again Saturday morning,
wearing white sandals, saying,
f ”W*11, I started to wear my rub-
I man's, but I believe it’s safe to
take on the sandale again ”
Paul Dunkle says that it was
only 101 for a high at the Experi-
ment Farm Friday afternon. but,
boy, o, boy. it sure seemed hotter
than that nere - in town. If Paul
and his thermometer dont catch
up with the actual heat, he is
likely to have a lot of town people
wanting to visit out there for the
remainder of the summer.
Heavy Fire Loss
In Machine Shop
A heavy fire loss, which was esti- 1 during n"“months operations
mated to run to several thousand tn China.
BALKANS—Ankara hears Ger-
many setting control of th* Hunga-
ry under pretext of sending troope
through kingdom en route to
Greece.
On the German home front, Nasi
police were reported arreetlng
thousands of bomb-daaed refugees
from the western Reich to prevent
a “mass stampede” from Berlin—
heralded a* next on the Allied
bombing schedule. One report said
the Germans were ready to pro-
_____wro*rold to
ng stories of fantastic
and horroro to ttek
mated to run to several thousand
dollar*, was sustained by the Han-
cock Machine Works. Bast Hickory
and Blount Streets, about 4 p tn.
Friday.
The blase, which heavily damag-
ed the bullcmg and equipment in
the shop, as well a* a pick-up truck
belonging to the E. W. Provence
Dairy, started when a welding
torch contacted gasoline fumes and
exploded while a motor part on the
pick-up truck was being welded.
Insurance was carried to cover
the building, but not the equip- i claim Berlin an open dty to
ment, which aleo waa heavily dam- | it Iron the fate at 1~ ‘
rofugeee were
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By ROGER GREENE,
AsMelated Frees War Editor
Field dispatches reported today
that hgrd-fighting American troops
had captured Troina after
_ j . start of the conquest of OuagiK—-i
at Chuguyey, 24 mile* southeast of canal the flrot American offensive
SK PAGRB
111
I id ns
Second Front”
May 29, was killed in action on that i
date in the European Theatre, t
pilot on a bomber in the U. 8. Army I
' Air Forces, stationed in England. I
McMath was reported killed
through the
Cross by the German gc-vemment.
By MMRY C. CABMDY
MOSCOW, Aug. 7—(AP)—Information rgcBivej from
Russian guerrilha behind the German lines today said the
Nazis were carrying out a general civilian evacoatioa of the
Smolensk region.
Smolensk. 220 miles west of Mos-
cow and probably the moat import-
ant German base in all Russia,
would be endangered by complete
deflation of the Orel Salient to the
0,1 explcalvta It^ia' on Sajata’ isabel Southeast as the Russians already
Island, Northeast of New Georgia, hold positions leas than M miles to
cHSax7 «^atches froi the Ger- nankln» the llne of “dv,nce an<* the northeast between Yartsevo
----------r------- i man frontier told of a grave in-
that Hitler might be ^drivl ternei crisis in Germany, the be-
ginning of a "mass stampede” from
bomb-frightened Berlin, and ru-
mors were current in London that
Adolf Hitler might be driven out
aged, ■. F. Hancock, owner, said.
The equipment is of a nature which
wlQ be difficult to replace at pree-
ent, he said. Denton firemen ex-
tlnguiehed the Maae
* A groat fire at Wf Barnard
Street at I D. a. Friday was the
only other Maae <m firemen's rec-
ns“
s | Issued by Pop. Ph
Salient had cost them 1'JO.OOO dead. I MaWoto
and the destruction of 4.605 tanka, i
11,000 trucks, 2.492 planes and 1 922
In addition, the Rus*lans
said, they took 12,419 prisoners and
captured 621 tanks. 975 gun* and
2521 machinegun* and 325 supply
and munitions depots.
The momentum of the advance
which brought the Red Army into
Belgorod on Thursday has carried
them well beyond the city in the
around the strongly-defended
new offensive operations eentering
Kharkov area, the communique
said. The Russians said they al-
ready had captured 1550 villages
along a 44-mile front Including the
railroad town of Zclochev and sev-
en district centers.
, trees closer together and prune the
branches In the spring, just after
the moulting season.
However, my chief concern and
Interest is the bovlnes or cows. It
s has been our practice to produce
useless male cows, and this must be
discouraged Such as are produced
should be butchered and made into
sausage, to relieve the pork and i
mutton shortage
We have also followed the waste- |
ful practice of feeding our young '
female cows a year or more before I
breaking them to give milk I think
these young fillies should begin at ■<»■ v...c
hatching time The whole dairy prevent Junction of the
business needs reorganization. We
must teach our dairymen to spe-
cialize The cows in one region
should Rive nothing but milk, those
, in another nothing but cream,
those tn a third nothing but but-
ter. and those in a fourth nothing
but cheese We have, however, been
very wasteful. No doubt you have
read or the breakage of mnk bot-
tles This can be corrected by using
larger containers with rubber cush- J
ions around the top. We should not *d on all sectors, threatening the
blame the cow, for It must be very communications town
difficult to sit on those small bot-
tles.
instance to the line of the Dnieper
River.
We have on the eastern front
the most favorable situation which
has existed since the Russo-Ger
man war began Obviously it’s cry-
ing out for Allied development to |
the limit of our resources, while
the Boche is in grave difficulties
The Russian success, coupled with
the rapid progress of the Allied op-
erations in 8icl)y. is calculated, one
; would say. to cause the Allied com-
mand to check immediately and
seriously whether now is the mo-
ment for the great adventure of
landing an army in France. That
might not fit in with current plans,
but it seems likely that the Allied
program is flexible enough (due to
the smoothness with which things
have been going in the Mediterran- (
ean theater > so that a quick change
could be made.
I was preparing another pta-
operauoa similar to the one
Allied forces advanced
other sectors to sweep up a
total of 125,000 Axis prison- ......
ers, headquarters announced . photographs of ‘such top 'Nazis
today. Reichmarshal Hermann C ‘
------------- „„u u.c , "The G«nnan line is now dis-
onion I think we should plant the ' Jointed" by seizure of Troina guard-
. ! ing the escape hatch west of Mt
Etna, it was announced U. 8. units
attack devastating this last Sicil-
ian escape port British warships
again pounded the east central
road of withdrawal near Taormina.
The fall of Troina threatened to
■ German
15th armored division and Herman
Goering division in their retreat
toward Messina
• Field reports Tuesday had said
Troina was taken, but the Ameri-
can* had been able only to win ,
toeholds near the town in the face
of the stern German opposition >
45-Mile Front
The Striltan front now is only [
45 miles Wide-
Some two hundred men and
women gathered at the City Hall
Friday night proved very conclu*-
ively that they realize the im-
portance of the Frozen Food plant*
, in Denton and Justin, a* it was
unanimously decided that they
should be kept in operation. The
Smith Bros., who have owned and
operated the plants, wanted to sell
the two, one in Denton and one in
Justin, and fearing that some one
might buy them and move them
from the county, the Co-operative
Frozen Fixxls was formed Friday
night, electing temporary officers
to close the deal for the plant* at
915,000 To show how much inter-
est was manifested at the meeting
Friday night, those present sub-
scribed for 913.000 of stock, so Den-
ton County is assured of the con-
tinued operation of the Frozen
Food Plants.
LONDON, At«. 7-<O- During
the 46 month* of the war up to
June to. a total of 9.049.683 gross
tons of German and Italian ship-
ping were captured, aunk or .dam-
aged by surface Ships, submarines
aircraft or mince of the Allied Nav-
ies. Urn Admiralty announced to-
d^rhe totals do not taciado iaasaa
inflicted by tha Russian Navy and
air fores.
The announcement saM elm that
total German and Italian merchant
Report* Solomons Raid
LONDON. Aug 7—0F>-The Ber-
lin radio, quoting a Tokyo dispatch,
said today that 127 United States
bombers raided Santa Isabel Island
I in the Solomon* group in daylight
yesterday. The broadcast, recorded
by the Associated Press, said that
the damage was slight and that
sight atttask plane* had been shot
down.
Denton citizens were extended a i
The Brtish Eighth Army advanc- , special invitation to uletid the
formal activation ceremonies for
n uh ovuurcaw m. ..w.... .... ^e North Texas Sta.e unit of the ,
main road^klrtlng” Mt "Etna "The Ar,nv Specialized Training Program ens the security of Hitler's entire
»• “ i" .h. —mile line in Ru=i= ---------------------- -
might rapidly develop into a situa- I ly’s capital, and captured about 100
, tlon which would produce the “sec- ***** **'"" *"**
J ond front" for which the Musco-
Major Roy Marrs, commanding vites are agAln begging. ’----- r r - -
officer of the Liaison Pilot Train- I The |o«s of these two heavily ! said to be destitute, without water
thit'central "sector' 20 ‘ml‘lw" hdand ‘P8 I>tacnment at Chilton Hall, fortified railway centers 1* a major and HI of ^alB;‘“9aPtuF^.
will make the principal address, and 1 defeat for the Nazis as it now tans said the German* had fled
brief talks will be made by Presi-
dent W J McConnell, Dean B B
Harris and Lee Preston, mayor
Denton
May Come From
Russia's Advance
i —
Carl Snilth. east of Denton,
brings the following article, which
he says is somewhat overdrawn, but i first
thinks some will get a 'kick' out of I stormed
it; so here It is:
This, declares a rural editor, was
the way a recent visitor Introduced
himself
I am Mr Brown, the new agri-
cultural superivsor for this area,
specializing in educational work.
I have some new Ideas which I
would like to give to the farmers
Take, for example, our most de-
licious berries, the potato and the
Mr and Mrs D. A McMath,
Route 1. Krum, received a message
Saturday stating that their soo.
First Lieut. Jack L McMath, pre-
• , : . £ TV,.’-.7.x T'tofeawW
Yes. they made their hearts as an
•damant stone, lest they should
hear the law and the words which
the Lord of host* hath sent in his
spirit by the former prophets:
therefore came a great wrath from
the Lord of hosts—Zechariah 7-12
Forbear to judge, for we are
sinners all.—Shakespeare
14
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.
Girl frtend: "Did any of your
: ' ManRi admire your engagement
Bride-to-be: "Admire Hi Two M
them rorognlaed ft" «
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from the north coast
The Germans, apparently using
Troina as a shield to cover with-
drawal of their forces from the
south and central sectors around
Mt Etna staged one of their bit-
terest defenses there Alien's troops
had to storm up sheer, ro-ky hill
and mountain sides against sav- j
age fire from all types of Nazi j
weapons.
Its fall opened the way for an
attack on the flank of the Ger- |
man troops believed to be pulling
out to establish a new defense line
to the northeast of MJ Etna
Allied airplanes paced by heavy
bombers struck Messina yesterday
with the heaviest, most concentrat-
ed assault yet atemptlng during the
Sicilian campaign.
Messina Heavily Bombed
Approximately 350 tons of bombs
were poured on the small strip of
territory around Messina The huge
concentration of enemy anti-air-
craft guns about the port—describ-
ed as rivalling the defenses of the |
Ruhr area of Germany— offered
"considerably less fire" yesterday. I
returning airmen said, and no ene-
my planes were sighted.
Other Allied planes ranged over
the narrowing Messina bridgehead,
pounding road communications and r _
supply centers around Mt Etna | four-englned Liberators and Hall-
and atraflng evacuation beaches on j faxes left huge fires raging on rall-
the coast. J way sidings and In the vicinity of i
The inhabitants of Troina ex- | the ferry terminus at San Giovanni
pressed great indignation against on thfc Italian toe in an attack last
the Germans. | night, a Middle East Air communi-
No Italian troops were reported que announced
fighting anywhere on the Sicilian j RAP Beauflghters in an offensive
front. i sweeps off the West Coast of Greece
hits with cannon and ma-
chine-guns killing the gun crew of
a trawler at. Preveza.
No Allied planes were lost In the
operations, the eommunique said
headquarters th* last few days.”
Internal Trouble
This was Berlin'* first open hint
of an Internal crisis in Germany
Travelers reaching Switzerland
said residents of Berlin were in a
state of near-panic, despite assur-
ances bv Nasi Propaganda Minister
Goebbels that the capital's anti-
aircraft defenses had been
strengthened.
Tries to Cahn People
Goebbels was said to be trying to
calm badly shaken German morale
- aeaertlng that Hitter's command
I preparing maastve aerial eoun-
blows against Britain, along
with promises that Nasi military
experts would utilise a dread naw
secret weapon.
Goebbels himself admitted a par-
tial evacuation of Bodin, it was re-
ported. but said the list was re-
stricted to non-essential residents.
Fran Istanbul cam* word that
Nazi authorities would deeiaro Bey-
open, undefended etto and
the miitatriee and otter
eerrioM to Dreeden. Ldpalg. MMB*
_______teh and FlMMR»L' V'
^, ”*g*q*^-* ™Ln^^J2rJri£;
number at important discussions woche reported that serious strikes
____J had further jSd Haft motale. <ta
----s.
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: is-
were (
1 'a'
army Infantry, and artillery Gea.
Alfred Jodi.
Possible Coup Seen
Thia curiously circumstantial ac-
count of the imminence of major
decision* Involving Hitler and prey
sumably the whole course of th*
war was
By DANIEL DE LUCE
ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
division troops liav-* I reports filtered to London telling of
and captured the I fears in Berlin approaching a “state
vital mountain fortress town of
„ rr A, , It,... ,i inaasea air raids on me uerman
of Troina in Central Sl.-lly and capital, serious strikes and German
Allied forces advanced on j peace demonstrations.
The broadcast, also made by
DNB. official news agency, said
German newspapers had published
' ‘ i as
Reichmarshal Hermann Goering,
Foreign Minister Joachim von Rib-
bentrop, Gestapo Chief Heinrich
Himmler Propaganda Chief Paul
Joseph Goebbels and Martine Bor-
, mann. chief of the Nazi Party
inflicted heavy casualties on Ger- Chancpnpn. at the scene of the dis-
man elite troops defending the
town in some of the most sav-
age fighting of the entire cam-
paign.
American Naval forces occupied
the Island of Ustlca. 40 miles north
of Palermo, and Allied bombers
City Would be Endangered by Complete
Deflation of Orel Salient; Russians
Making Hank Attack At Kharkov
Advance in Other Sections in Sicily
- t. ' By C. TATES McDANIEL
---- ------------------ - " " T''~. —. J' . ’ ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
DALLAS, Aug 7—UT>—Tb*
th Service Oonunand win
from its amptoyment several then*
and civilian employe* performing
least eeeential work in contomtty
with a directive from the command-
ing general. Army Services Fneoea.
to conserve manpower
In addition military personnel to
being reduced to a *Leeeer tart at-
fective degree.” Command head-
quarter* announced yesterday.
Report Ploesti
Raider* in Turkey
The flnt bate ta 1..jonr rotoit" 'iw. T an. iTte
ten Aug. n £ondj’n Jgtato< teMteg in n
several American Store who took
part In the raid on the Fintel ofl
field* In Rumania taro arrived at
Ankara. Turkey, where they are to
bo interned.
The flier* are part of the crow*
at th* eight Liberators foroed down
in Turkey, sixty arnntees o< th*
crews are being interned ta An-
kara, the broadcast said.
defeat for the Nazis as it now
stands, and potentially It's a catas- , Ustlca July 11.
trophe Whether it actually wUl de- ' Allied warplanes smashed again
velop into a catastrophe depends ] at Naples. Italy's chief port, and
1 on what reserve strength the Rus- left huge fires raging at the ferry ,
j stans have with which to follow terminus of San Giovanni on the
' up their successes. * toe of the Italian boot, while Brit-
| Latest reports show the Reds Ish warships turned their big guns
smashing forward with great strik- on the Sicilian east coast twon of
' Ing power to capitalize the capture Taormina, halfway between Catan-
of the two key positions Should
the Nazis lose much more ground
in these vital sectors, their high
Pacific
>day
Dougle
Both Kharkov and Bryansk. 275
mile* to the northwest, were threat-
iibvc oircBuy rutrulcu at jumcb w .
the northwest of Kharkov, the Rus-
sians reported.
(Hie German radio said ta
By
triumph in th* capture of the stra-
tegic cities of Orel and Belgorod—
a stupendous feat which threaten-
Monday morning at 9 o'clock tn the thousand
college main auditorium, college and
military authorities artnounced to-
day.
The scene of the action
--rniav,
enemy's Rahil) Airdrome
cusions.
Also present, it w’as said, were
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief
of the Jjlgh command; Z ‘ ‘ ‘
Karl Doenltz, commander in chief
of the Navy; Air Force Field Mar-
I shattered Messina in their heaviest of "nfr^forc/s/coi (Ten Hans' jeiu,- 1 preparing to proclaim Berlin
( Attack deva‘■tatiliiz this last Slcil- ------l. ,v.- „AnArai rameva Ih, mi
of the air forces;
flanking the line of advance and the
supply from Guadalcanal to Munda.
ft* elimination u vital
Other bomber* 750 mile* to the
we*t ranged along the New Guinea *an* said the German* were moving
Coast, wrecking the supply barges the population to the west and also
garrison at Salamaua. New Guinea.
1 and Americans only five miles way,
' is the objective of the }**»
! the offensive which opened
1 June 30 Munda was the goal on
the right
Track Down btraggler*
.. . t On Munda. our Jungle troops fann-
which Jed to Premier Mussolini ( out frmn the newly won 4,000-
oyr* ® ♦ f* --a fw* nusviip U1VU licrtaivy umilfivvv i — -7* ' -----..... atamro
htEqu^Sa# UtafjS iSXs 0?XnScruX7j.fS
dead^have been counted'and'There farther north which <J*
likely are many more. | German* from Orel and opened the
(A dlspatchlrom William Hippie. I tor a simultaneous push toward
Associated Preas war correspondent J .
- at South Pacific headquarters I
hrtd.. ara»y engineers and Navy Sea- 1
onaae K*—- Mr. nndartakine
repairs to battered
leaders were said to have met and
the city." Many arrest* have been
made among refugees from bomb-
battered Hamburg. Reuters said. to.
prevent their spreading stories of
fantastic casualties In that north
port city.
Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph
Goebbels ha* admitted a partial (
evacuation of Berlin, but he said
Admiral 1 the list was restricted to non-es-
‘ '-■-f sential resident*
Reuters also quoted report* heard
shal Erhard Milch, chief Inspector I in Istanbul that the Germans were
‘ ‘ ---"> so
inr B^ircini ovoil , open city and remove the minis-
Gen Kurt Zeit- tries and other services to Dres-
zler, chief of the general staff of ■ den. Leipzig, Munich and Prague.
enemy air and shii
the most formldabl
the t
heaviest artillery barrage of the |
issued to the world on < ing German keystone defense*
possibility of a military coup in
Germany.
Included In this speculation werf
rumors t.>»v n.Uv.
en out. both as head of the Reich
government and as supreme mili-
tary commander, perhaps to be re-
placed by some military veteran.
Reuters, the British news serv-
ice. quoted arrivals in Zurich from
Berlin as saying that the capital's
authorities were at their "wit* end
Ry JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, Aug. Ad-
miral Rrnest J. King outlined to-
day an Allied world strategy eined
at keeping China ta the war against
Japan and exerting “every possi-
ble effort” to aartrt RiKeto by di-
verting German force* from the
Russian front.
The commander ta chief of the
United Statee Fleet said tRat ta
the Pacific area the Allie* are tal-
lowing a * concerted plan of opera-
tions” to pot increasing pressure on
Japanese communications and atoo
capture strategic PM*'*
enable us to give the
hell as we go along."
King, a member of the Allied
High Command M wen ae cfatef at
the fleet, discussed the war tn an
_ ttatarvtew granted on the request of
have already advanced 37 miles to . wire service reptrters at the Navy
: department.
| He had been aated particularly
a ; to diacuae the situation in the Pa-
broadcast recorded in London that cifle on this annlven
another Russian column has ported . start of the ctmqueot
HEX E*S
^4 our forces is the capture of Vila mand
Airfield on Kolombangara Island. °**? J
Dwn fievro to One j w
In the ReugeiRrilte Air fight.- Id1------
of our planes sought battle with 30
1 Zero*, downing seven while we test1
one The scene of the action wa* . — -. —
at Buin-Falst, which includes the ; |etl>P in the initiative seised from
—to the
utterances of Premier Ptetrv Bad-
oglio.
The Pape’s astien eaaae rr MH»
hope that Italy might be rescued
by Germany from ultimate eumn-
der to the Alitos faded on the bat-
tlefields of Russia and BtoOy aad
in the bomb-shattered Reich itself.
It appeared, however, that Adolf
Hitler has not completely aban-
doned hope of holding Bdy in the *
Axis orbit. An Italian frontier re-
port said that Nasi Pbreton Mta-
ister Joachim von Ribbentrop met
the new Italian foreign minister.
Raffaele GuarigUa. somewhere In
northern Italy yesterday. 7T
there were no details available on
the subjects discussed, it wee pre-
sumed the Nasi leader sounded out
Italy's plane for the Immediate fu-
ture and her position regardtag ter
alliance with Germany.
was
| the German army on July 12. sum-
Now :hat the Japanese have lost ;1 "" *' “
succession the Guadalcanal L---- —
(Henderson) and Munda Air fields. »u,7®d attempt J^Kursk
Kahili is the biggest air base re- | “* *
maining tn their hands In the Solo-
mon*. ----------------------------
'Hints of development* to come •u™'1
in the Pacific were supplied at two
other points. At an unidentified
advance base, it waa disclcoed that
' Lt. Gen Alexander Archea Vander- 1
grift, who led the Marines ashore
at Guadalcanal Just one year ago
today, is back on the job. He
I gave assurslice “the amphibious
’corps is ready for action anywhere."
At Honolulu, the Commander-ln-
, *!*<, w.noeu «.c "escape Chief of the Pacific Fleet Admiral
3 port" at Messina, and hit Naples. ; JJL' aald the Ja|*;,
r Ebolt, Battipaglla and Paolo on the : *fter temptrary conquest*
which 1* now anchored on the Sea Italian malnllnd. with a total of ™ must stand ready cra7Wh«*
! 1 54 persons killed and 71 injured [°r a“a,ul1 from ^e surface and
I „f I The Italian communique again , a,r >
viousty Reported jnlsslng in i the rest of the front to the north, ! spoke of "continued violent fight- | R»rw.ri. UaImkma r*i*
“ " — — ■— —— AM^A. MMV uw.,.,.,,- .. ... ____r
A | previously explained, if the Ger- j that "new strong enemy
IV morta ar* nnmt>*ll*i/1 wmfrmat ih*v launched with omit RilDDOl
tillery and armor were withstood I
by Axis troops "
Other World Event*
Other world event* at-a-glance:
GERMANY — Nazi authorities
seek to check “ma*s stampede” from
Berlin, panicky resident* fear capi-
tal is next on Allied bombing sched-
ule: Istanbul hears German* plan
to declare Berlin an open city to ’
escape fate of Hamburg; london
report* serious strikes by German
peace demonstrators.
RUSSIA- Red Armies advance on
44-miie front in drive out-ftanklng
Kharkov, seize 150 villages; Soviet
troops also threaten Bryansk, gain
six miles, capture 70 villages.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC — Ad-
miral Halsey promises United
States will carry war to Japan it-
self.
SOLOMON ISLANDS—Outnum-
bered U. 8 fliers whip Japanese in
air batle of Bougainville Island,
Allied bombers hit enemy base at
Rekata Bay with 65 tons of ex-
plo«tve»; air blows hint direction
of new American offensive
CHINA"—U. S air force lists 9-
to-1 victory over Japanese in num-
ber of planes definitely destroyed
[13 months of operations
swamps
total of Axis prisoners was now
135.000
The fall of Troina was also an-
nounced officially.
Troina lies 25 miles below the
enemy'* northern coastal anchor
at Ban Agata and marked the---
ter of the dwindling Axis t— _
head perimeter in northeast Sicily
Batteries of more than a hun-
dred American 105 MM. and 155 j
MM field guns laid down a eerie*
Of drum-fire barrages on the ridge
town belore U 8. troops surged
forward to capture it.
An American officer described
the batle for Troina as the "most
savage' of the campaign as en-
trenched German troops fought bit-
terly to save Axis forces in the
southeast from entrapment | Mrt4eW ~ ..
Ocevpy »staad ------ I arU> ntoe^mlle* north of MuudSJ ; n0—*
lultaneously. Gen Dwight 1
__„ihower's headquarters an-1
nounced that American Naval and ;
military force* had occupied the
Italian prison island of Ustlca, 40
miles north of fallen Palermo. Sici-
IN
8OUTHWE8T PACIFIC. Aug 7-
(O— Vulnerable spot* where the
next blows against the Japanese
may fall, now that Munda is ours,
felt the fiery Impact of America's
growing air might in the Pacific
during raids reported in today's
communique from Gen Douglas
MacArthur
Our fighters whipped a numeri-
cally superior enemy hi an air bat-
tle off Southern Bougainville. That
‘ Ipping sector is
>le barrier still
between us and Japan's mighty for-
tress < >f RabauL New Britain
Our bombers, blaMed Rckata B«y
a floatplane base, with 65 tons c.
explosives. It is on Santa Isabel
As the battle of Sicily neared a
R, num
man frontier told of a grave in-
ia and Messina
Italian headquarters said Allied
fier* also bombed the Axis
command would be compelled to port'
l«’ withdraw their entire right wing.
W s HVI ■ ao ssvw VM A_ra« v«*v
I of Azov, west of Rostov This tn
j turn would force an adjustment of ’
clear to Leningrad. As this column ing" In central Sicily and declared
_ --—-j attacks
compelled to retreat, they I launched with great support of ar‘ j
I likely will fall back in the first 1
instance to the line of the Dniener
International Red I
tary commander.
High Nazi military and political
to control a mass stampede from discussed the crisis.
‘ * London speculated on the possi- |
bility of a military coup in G«r- I
many, perhaps similar to the coup ■
which led to Premier Mussolini *;
Poet; airrtrip into neZrty mani^e the UBy River, the Ruuian. raced
j tfaektng down ’ ihmioh zoiochev a little more than
stragglers of the crushed Japanese
“—More than 1.900 enemy
. dead have been counted and there
a*^-* — I - - __. _ _ __ w
William Hippie. ,or a simultaneous puih toward
at South Pacific headquartan
"TirF? en--b^he«™ •£££..
drome for use in ecoilng operations ’ -—---. ——
against Rabaul, 430 mile* north-
west Munda was captured in mid-
afternoon Aug 5. Guadalcanal
time The enemy concent rated an
estimated 4.000 trooph on New
Georgia Island, among 10.000 be-
lieved holding strategic enemy bas-
es in r ----- •
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