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Blitzkrieg Drive Is
 Meeting Opposition
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battle near Duvno, on the road to Kiev. A total of 120 Russian tanks were claimed captured at Duvno. The Russian communique reported that heavy counter blows had been inflicted on the enemy on the south ern sector.
 Fury of Red Army
 Both London and Moscow were cautiously encouraged by the fury with which the Red army was smashing at German advance tank units and attempting to cut of the German spearheadS at the only points they have penetrated the pre-war 6efenseS of the Soviet Union. But there was as yet no definite cause for optimism on the part of the Allies and the Germans again made the most spectacular claims.
 The German high command, in a special communique from Adolf Hitler'S eastern front headquarters, claimed that the greater part of the Russian forces they had surrounded in the Bialystok area of Poland, west of Minsk, had been destroyed as a military factor.
 The communique reported capture of more than 100, 0,000 men out of an estimated 420,000 to 640,000 men caught in the trap as well as the seizure of 400 tanks and 300 guns. Another 200 Soviet tanks were re- ported taken or destroyed in an- other battle in Galicia.
 Extent of this victory claimed by the Germans obviously could not be determined pending more de- tailed reports but if it proves to be as great as indicated by the com nlunique 1t would mean & serious al- though not necessarily fetal loss to the Red army.
 Nazis Are Being Hit
 The Moscow version of operations on the central front, however, was that the Germans were being heav- fly counter-attacked by artillery, planes and tanks and that there was hopet hat the advance Panzer uI1its-many of which have been srnashed-could be cut of behind the Russian defenses, thus block ing the German tactics of moving infantry in trucks through holes cut by the tank spearheadS.
 The Russians reported they had checked the German main advances on the Minsk sector and further south in the Luck-Lwow region guarding the Ukraine, where the fighting is still in former Polish ter- ritory. Counter attacks were launched by the Red army, accord ing to Moscow, with the Red air force hanlmering hard at enemy concentrations in the front lines and on rear communication lines.
 The Russians also reported they were counter-attacking on the Dviask front, near the Lithuanian border, but this thrust appeared in tended chiefly to relieve the trapped Soviet troops which the Germans now claim to have crushed in part.
 Great Depth to Battles
 Fighting all along the central front from Dvinsk to Minsk and southward to Luck was in great depth. Both sides emphasized that long, swift advances and similar counter -thrusts were not unusual and that there was no definite front line, because the Russians were seeking to fight the blitzkrieg offensive with counter-blitz tactics. British experts said that the front was 200 miles in depth at some points and that this gave the Red army opportunity to stab at the enemy flank.
 The German advance units ap-
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 Back Hard At Nazis
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front the Russians by alternating artillery beTrages and tank and axi- fantry attacks were infhcting heavy losses on the Germans)
 It was indicated that the main bodies of the Russian and German force were now engaged in . big scale battle in which the Germans sought to thrust forward to the great Dnieper river defense line east of Minsk. The German losses are heavy, it was said.
 The communique told of heavy fighting on five fronts-the Mur- mansk area of the Arctic coast, Rex holm on the west shore of Lake Ladoga in southeastern Finland, Dvinsk on the Baltic front. Minsk on the White Russian front and Luck on the Uluainian front.
 Fighting in the Murmansk area was assuming important proportions, it was indicated, with the Russians holding their ground against super for forces.
 German and Finnish troops launched attacks in the Kexholm sector at several points in an at tempt to penetrate Russian terri tory, the communique said, but were stopped and heavy losses were in- flicted on them by counter attacks. Tanks and infantry divisions were fighting furiously on the Baltic front, the communique reported. Russian troops are opposing stub- bornly big forces of German tanks were trying to get up to their ad- vanced steel-tipped rapid troops.
 Russian forces are resisting new German offensive in the MurInAnsk area of the Arctic coast, 1t was sid. Again, the communique said, the Russians were fighting stubbornly and inflicting heavy losses on the Germans who had moved over to Finland from Arctic Norway.
 Battles On Three Fronts and infantry attempting to break through aiozzsSS the Dvina river area, 1t was said.
 Halt German Offensive
 On the Ukrainian front, the Rus SA1AA6 WS4C 4CPV4vS0 " %A&VG &A04US0 big German offensive in which, in the course of many days fighting. the Germans sustained great losses in men and equipment. It was indi- cated that the German advance was stopped east of Luck after the Rus- sians had abandoned Lwow.
 The Germans and Rumanians have still failed to cross the shallow Pruth river on the Bessarabian front after il days of fighting. 1t was in- dicated.
 Detailing acts of heroism by in- dividual Russian units and men, the communique said that at one sec- tor of the Karelian Isthmus of Fin- land, opposite Leningrad, Finnish troops drove across the frontier only to be stopped by a regiment of in- fantry which drove them back with losses of up to 100, men killed For wounded. Five Finnish prisoners proved to be intoxicated" the com munique said.
 It was asserted that the Russians had shot down 56 German planes yesterday, 50 Of them in air fights, against the loss of lI Russian planaA
 It denounced also ..raving tehrip cattonp that Russian bombing planes had used German dentificatidD AA.>A4 Als
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ritory from central and northern Finland.
 Uniformed quarters in Helsinki reported that increasing German pressure on the Russian extreme right wing virtually had driven a wedge between the Arctic port of Murmansk and Leningrad and made communications between the two cities dif1cult).
 It had been reported that 1.-two Russian armies" were trapped in the Bialystok area by German spearheads that swung around 1t from the north and south in Q drive on Minsk.
 Number Trapped
 German estimates of the Soviets trapped in that area ranged be- tween 420,0o0 and 64o,0O0 men. An army consists of three to four corps and a corps is of four divisions or about 10000 to S0,Oo0 men.
 In addition to the losses in the Bialystok area, another 220 Soviet tanks were reported destroyed or captured in a big-scale battle in Galicia which ended yesterday.
 Destruction of the Soviet armies east of Bialystok and outcome of the big tank battle in Galicia was reported in a special communique.
 The regular oommunique from the Fuehrer's headquarters report ed that operations were proceeding smoothly"
 German troops, dwriving along the Latvian coast, occupied the port of Ventspils (WindaW yesterday, the high command said.
 German and Finnish troops smashed into Soviet territory on the northern front from central and northern Finland yesterday, the high command added.
 In a tank battle near zloczow, in former Polish territory, south of the Pripet marshes, the Soviets lost 100 tanks, the high command said.
 Night, Day Attacks
 Stuka dive bombers have opened a night-and-day attack on SmolenSk ls0 miles northeast of Minsk and 230 miles southwest of Moscow, in support of the German tank col umns driving into White Russia from the Minsk sector, 1t was un- derstood today.
 While one force of planes attack ed SnolenSk, an important indus trial and railroad center, others bombed and machine gunned Rus sian troop and supply columns, rail- road tracks and trains, bridges and Whole trains and many trucks and tanks have been destroy ed, NaIs asserted.
 The number of Russian planes shot down or destroyed aground yesterday was put at 322, against the loss of 12 German planes.
 It was indicated that the Ger mans were seeking now to thrust across the BereSina river toward the Stalin line of defense along the broad Dnieper, SO miles to the east, from the Borisov-Bobruisk line.
 Germans asserted that it was only a question of time before a large force of Russians originally in the Bialystok area on the Baltic-White Russian front surrendered or was wiped out.
 Last Sunday it was asserted that two Russian armies had been trapped. This would mean between APO 900 and GAG, 900 men-two armies of three or four army corps each. An army corps normally would con- sist of four divisions each, and there would be between 10000 and 80,O00 men to corps.
 Today informantS were indefinite about the actual number of Rus sianS involved. Dive bombing planes were aiding the ground forces in holding the Russians, it was said, and informants said the Russians were enduring terrible punishment.
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THEATRICAL VETERAN

Elliott Nugent, director of Para mounts Nothing but the Truth" ]" recently helped his father, actor writer-director J. c. Nugent, cele- brate the latter's flftieth year in show business.
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 tleship was berthed, was straddled with bombs and add that a second German battleship and a cruiser, which have been tied up in the French port for several weeks, still were there.
 One Battleship Ruined GA dispatch reaching the United Press at New York last week from an authoritative source said the 26,- 900 ton German battleship Gneise- nau had been wrecked by British bombs at the Brest dry dock and might have to be rebuilt completely if it ever sees service again. The other battleship at Brest is the 26,. 000-ton Scharnhorst and the cruis- CT Is believed to be the 10,000-ton Prinz Eugene, which was the the new German battleship Bismarck on her fatal voyage in MayO
 The air ministry said the Cher bourg docks also were bombed last night and that fighter command planes bombed German airdromes in France. Two British ombers were reported lost in the operations. The air ministry revealed that British planes had gone virtually unchallenged in a gigantic sweep over northern France yesterday eve ming, the fourth major opration of the day for the R. A. F. Only a few German planes were encountered and there were no casualties on either side, a communique said. Sweep Northern France Earlier in the afternoon, British fighters had swept northern France without incident, and before that Blenheim bombers had made an- other daylight raid on northwest Germany, concentrating on railway yards souqth of Oldenburg where a large fire was started, and on barges in nearby canal, which were ma chine-gunned, and in another of fensive, British heavy bombers operating off the Frisian Islands had attacked the seaplane base at Borkum, where bombs were seen to explode among hangars and other buildings. Two British planes were lost in the Oldenburg raid and one German fighter was shot down at sea and several others were damag- ed in the Borkum raid, the air min- istry said.
 A dispatch from Harry Kicking bottom, United Press correspondent at Folkestone, said the British air fleet which massed over the south- east coast for the northern France sweep yesterday evening was so large 1t took 20 minutes to pass a given point. He said he had not heard such a roar in the sky since forces of 400 to 800 German planes attacked Britain last fall.
 Russia Confident
 London, July 2-(UP)-Russian general staff chieftains have ex. pressed firm confidence within the last A hours that the Soviet Union can beat the German blitzkrieg, it was understood today.
 It was said authoritatively that Lieut.. Gen. F. N. Mason McFarlane, tank and blitzlrieg expert who is head of the British military mis-
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By ROBERT BELLAIRE

I(United Press Staff Correspondent
 Tokyo, July 2-(UP)-A declara- Hon of policy which meant a de- Unite turning point in Japanese foreign relations was approved to- daly at an imperial conference which met under the Emperor Hirohito.
 Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuo- &a indicated in a cautious statement that the governments course for the moment would be one of watch RuI waiting.
 Matsuolxa said the government could not meet the situation result ing from the Russo German war on the basis of the simple idea that q war had started between those two eountEies."
 It must cautiously watch with Arm determination not only the circumstances directly concerned with the Russo German war but the world situation as whole, he said, and the relations between the pow CTS as well as the powers move nneuts.
 T feel that a super-emergency situation Is developing before our eyes In East Asia and therefore our people must all the more take cool Z and calm attitude, live up to the HOvereign's wishes and not err in ks1e Slightest degree in treading the path before us" he said.
 Of Much Importance
 MatSuoka'S statement lent im- portance to a special article today an the bi-monthly revue diploma ttque, which is supported by the eoreign office.
 It said that Japan intends to re- npect both it's alliance with Ger many and Italy and its treaties with Russia in order that it may con- centrate on Its new order in East Asia and prevent the spread of the war to the Pacific.
 It said that Japan must complete Ats Asiatic new order before it steps ltnto any other world scene, mo mat Ter how the war develops or the international situation develops"
 The revue said that foreign pow CTS avoid '.meddling" in the Chin -Japanese war and at the same time @Japan should stick entirely to East Asia and settle the China affair"
 RidicuIes Jap Newspapers
 It ridiculed Japanese newspapers for having failed to inform the public of Russo-G German tension before the new phase of the war started.
 @Cf course Hitler will follow the great Mein KaInpf doctrine" it said. (referrin gto the drive to the East which once was the keynote 0k HitleTian policy).
 Diplomatic sources said that there would be nothing inconsistent in a Japanese decision to respect both the Axic and Russian treaties. Japan ss merely obliged not to attack Russia under the Russo Japanese neutrality treaty, they said. As re- gards the Axis, informants said, Germany prefers Japan not to att tack Russia but to remain free, thereby fulfilling its major part in the Axis alliance, that of keeping the United States out of the war.
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Kaaren Verne, one of the stars Of Underground" gave q party for the cast--in the furnace room q her hotel 4
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sion to Russia had reached Russian general headquarters on the eastern front to aid the Soviet generals on the spot.
 Tn conference with members of the British military mission at Mos- COW Tuesday, 1t was reported, mem- pers Of the Russian staff held that the present campaign would prove a contrast to that in France last year in which German mechanical tongues laShed deep Into allied ter- ritory without resistance.
 FIERCE COUNTER ATTACKS
 Londop, July 2.-(UP)- Russian troops are developing fierce coun- ter-attack with the object of arni- hilating advanced enemy tank unity'' on the Dvinsk -Minsk line of the White Russia front. a Russian war communique broadcast by the Mos COW radio said today.
 On the Ukrainian front Russian forces are dealing heavy blows to German motorized and mechanized units, the coumu1ique said.
 German forces have begun an of. tensive toward the sredny Penin. Sula in the MurmansS area on the Arctic coast opposite Finland, the con1munique said, and 1t was as- serted that Russian troops were not only offering stubborn resistance hut were infiicting heavy losses on the attackers.
 Despite bad weather, Russian air. planes are attacking German tank and motorized units. airplanes in the air and aground, fuel oil stores and munitions dumps to prevent the Germans from bringing up the new forces of motorized infantry they must have to support their tank spearheads, 1t was asserted.
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taneously. There were Il alarms at Danbury.
 The rain and wind obscured the vision of Edward J. Kelley and his automobile plunged over a sea, wall at Bfidgeport's Seaside Park.
 The heavy downpour of rain lev- eled many crops and gardens, but no extensive agricultural damage was reported
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&N304Ab&A4GG0 II O4A4 ASO 4I mtxictly under the drastic state secrets law even to speculate on the nature of the governments de- Eision.
 However, the following dispatch &y Robert Bellaire, chief of the United Press Tokyo Bureau, report ing q statement by Foreign Minis ter Yosuke Matsuoka and an in- npired article in the foreign office supported bi-monthly publication revue diplomatique seemed clearly [ otndicate that for the present Tt least Japan had decided to stay on the fence as regards the world situation. This did not mean that At might not continue vigorously to forward its East Asian and South Seas expansionist policies.
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CHAPTER v

Bill Roper walked slowly TO the
Gordons' tall house, on its rise at
the edge of the town, and let him.
self in softly. He wanted desperate
ly to talk to Jody Gordon; but il
was nearly midnight, and he couldn't
make up his mind to wake her.
AS it happened, decision was IN
necessary. In the fireplace some
lengths of cottonwood lop still
burned, and before the fire Jodv
lounged upon a buffalo robe, wide
awake
you've been a long time"
Il know" lie stopped beside her.
half raised her in his arms. and
kissed her lnGcringly. Her arms
and her lips chung, making it diff
cult for him to think Of the road bc
had chosen. But presently he
sat beside her on the buffalo robe
and turned his eyes to the Goals.
There's some stuff we have TO
talk about, Jody."
Il can think of better things TO
do with freight than Just talk"
"Jody - King-Gordon is splitting
up"
Jody brought herself I'D on one
elbow. "Why, Bill-what do you
mean?"
"Dusty's share comes TO me, as
you know. I'm taking it out"
"You're-Bill, you must be Iocol"
Maybe. I'm going against Ben
Thorpe"
"But-but-" Jody was at loss
for words.
Since the trail began, he's stood
for everything we're against. Four
OF the biggest rustling gangs in the
country are directly hooked up with
him, if it could be proved. He's
stopped at nothing, and where he
couldn't force his way he's bought
his way. But now-he's gone too
far"
~ ITO BE CONTINUED ~zn
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war materials all the Nazi
power would soon be gone. and
the United States has a navy
second to none on earth. and an
army growing like magic to
huge size. SO, there may be a
little truth in these peace talk
rumors, especially when one
regards Rudolph Hess with a
liShy eve - the Berlin-London
bus that GENE down in the
wrong place the LAST trip-yep
we believe there were other trips
and that Hess is back home now.
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W. Va. STATE GETS CITE

Professor Austin w. Curtis,
ST.. Director of the Department
Of Agriculture. West Virginia
state college, presented to the
college library Il set of the ninth
edition of the Encyclopedia
Britannica According to the
librarian. Miles M. Jefferson,
this is Il particularly valuable
edition since it contains articles
no longer available in later sets
of In standard reference work.
This contribution, by request of
the donor, will be known the
"Thc Scmi-Ccntcnnial Gift"
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tunity is not lost to the English.
There is strong under cur
rent of peace in Europe toward
the end of the week. RumorS
say that Hitler has made offers
to the English to cease opera
lions on the basis of keeping
what he has conquered, which
the English have not spurncd.
This is because the British en-
pre- has not lost any territory.
Both sides realize that the war
cannot be won by either side eX-
ccpt ut terrific cost, and both
Hitler and the English have
come to be aware of what might
might happen if both exhaust
themselves. The Italians do
NV NptllI slll'l lutltIOlt ult llol
involved in the peace talks one
more than suspects are being
held overseas.
The Japanese let the cat on;
of the bag two weeks ago. For
which indcScrction Hitler has
not consulted her it appears.
1t is highly important to
get peace before rising anger in
the United States brings that
mighty nation down ON his head.
The day that America declares
war on Germany llitlcrS stock
VIII go down to zero and stay
therc-and he knows it. With
American factories pouring out
vast and endless streams Of
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you're going TO start rounding 'em
in"
What you Offering these boys?"
Horses and grub, and what other
stuff well need. Not another thing"
They sat silent for a long time
more.
"All right" Dry Camp said. "In
60"
In the starlight Bill Roper swung
down in front of the little Shack
which served King Gordon as a load
ing-foreman office at their Ogal-
lala pens. Within, Bill Roper found
Lew Gordon sitting alone.
Il just talked to u man." Roper
said, that saw the killing"
Gordon was instantly alert. "Who
was it?"
Hes man that can't come for
ward, because he's already an out
law i'll his own right. But Dusty
was killed by Ben Thorpe, and
Walk Lasham, and Cleve Tanner,
the three working together. Walk
Lasham bore down Dusty's gun"
They looked at each other for a
long moment.
"This man that told you this
we've got to get hold of him; his
story has to 60 to the authorities,
Bill"
Roper shook his head. Hell hanr
if they lay hands on him. Anyway,
nobody would believe him against
these three"
Lew Gordon made a gesture at
once impatient and weary. "Wher-
ever we turn we hit some snag
of lawlessness," he said There's
too many men afraid to stand for
ward and face out the law. Seems
like nothing is done open and above
board any more"
Never was, since / remember, "
Roper said. 1--WE got a couple of
ways in mind right now. I'm going
ON the warpath, Lew"
Gordon had been fddling with a
pencil, and now he threw it on the
table in front of him. We're figur-
ing you TO take over the Crying
Wolf, Bill. Dusty's half of King
Gordon naturally will stand in your
name now; Dusty never paid any
attention to any other kin. But the
Crying Wolf was where he figured
for you to 90 and work; and there
isn't any call to change that, now"
"You can count me out of the
Crying Wolf Lew"
What do you want to do?"
Were going to branch out new
way" Roper said. Were going 10
have a warrior outfit. And I'm its
new boss"
II don't get you"
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"ThCn, by God. KinG-Gord!

Then, by God, Kins-Gordc-. 49,
come to its 5plit-up!"
Silence again before Dry Camp
said, And l suppose I'm expected
to just kind OF stand aside and stay
out of it and see how you work it
out, huh? Well, won't do it, Bill"
You're in this, Dry Camp"
How am in it?"
I've got to have me an outfit.
It's got to be made up of boys
that aren't afraid of Ben Thorpe or
all he'll; boys that haven't got any
thing more to lose. I'll need near
fifty men. But to start off with
want Lee Harnish, and Tex Daniels
and Tex Long; Nate Liggett-Dave
SHANNON
"Wow!" said Dry Camp. "You get
those four or five in the same bunch,
they'll eat each ether alive"
That's the kind l want" Bill
Roper said. Il want a wild bunch
such as the West has never seen
before"
"And me-what am l supposed to
do?"
"You - you're heading south
You're going back to Texas and