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Evening star., 1944-07-04
u. 5. Troops Invade
Noemfoor and Seize
Principal Airfie|d
londine Represents
l0O-MiIe Advance
Toword Philippines
MAP on Page A-4.J

by the Associated PreSs.
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, July
4.-American troops have in
vaded Noemfoor Island of Dutch
New Guinea and seized its prin-
cipal airdrome in a 10O-mile
Swoop toward the Philippines.
Headquarters announced today
that units of the 9Th Army, under
1t. Gen. Walter Kruger, landed on
NOemfoor's western coast at 8 am.
Sunday.
| Within two hours. the green-clad
infantrymen overcame light enemy
opposition and captured Kamiri air
strip, 5.0O0-foot landing field
badly cratered by Allied bombs. The
troops found 80 Japanese airplanes
there. most Of them damaged beyond
repair.
At last reports. the invaders were
pushing toward the islands two re-
naming airdromes, one OF them
3 miles away.
Murlin Spencer. Associated Press
correspondent, said American cas-
ualties were among the smallest
suffered In any landing operation in
the Southwest Pacific. Only As Jap
anese dead were counted in the first
few hours Of fighting.
Noemfoor Is 400 miles southwest
Of the Marianas. where other Amer
ican soldiers and two divisions of
Marines have taken almost two
thirds OF Saipan Island and have
killed more than 5000 japanese at
cost of more than 1900 American
dead or missing-the heaviest casu-
alties of the Pacific war.
The Americans have surrounded
Saipans principal city, Garapan. on
three sides, and have squeezed the
remaining Japanese defenders into
the narrow northern end of the is
land.
tThere was no Pearl Harbor
communique for the 24-hour
| period of July 3, Honolulu time,
indicating that the situation on
Saipan had not changed con-
| siderably)
| Gen. Douglas Macarthur in an
Independence Day communique re-
ferring to the Noemfoor operation,
said:
Our forces landed with practically
| (See PACIFIC. Page A-4D
Evening star., 1944-07-04
DE Guu|Ie's Plans for Visit Here
Complete; Due Late This Week
Hos Outlined Subjects for Discussion
In Note; U. S. OfficioIs Optimistic

the atmosphere was completion OF
negotiations between Britain ano
Gen. de Gaulle's Committee Of Civil
Administration and Currency Agree
ments for France.
American adherence to the agree
ments. which have not reached
Washington yet, probably will be
taken up with French diplomats
after Gen. de Gaulle has finished
his brief discussions Of the general
situation.
Talk of recognition OF Gen. de
Gaulle's Algiers committee as provi-
sional government of France has
subsidized. and this may help con-
siderabiy in obtaining concrete re-
suits from Gen de Gaulle's talks
with Mr.. Roosevelt because the
Frenchman previously had taken the
stand that the question of authority
should be settled before other topics
could be taken up.
There is no sign of any change in
the American policy against accord
ing full recognition to any French
government before the French
,See DE GAULLE, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1944-07-04
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
Gen. Charles de Gaulle has
made definite and final arrange
ments for his visit here, it was
learned today. He is expected
late this week.
The French leader in previous
discussions about the trip had quail
fed his plans with big "if'-as to
whether he found he could make it.
Gen. de Gaulle is understood to
have sent a note on the subject Of
the talks with President Roosevelt
and others, which are to be on gen.
eral policy rather than specific
issues.
The United States Government
already had messaged Algiers its
views on the conversations, stressing
military topics bearing "on the con-
duct of the war"
Washington oficials look to the
visit with increased optimism. fol-
lowing the marked strain between
this Government and Gen. de
Gaulle's French committee two
weeks ago.
A factor which has helped clear
Evening star., 1944-07-04

pulled down over his face. arrived in
Union Station this morning with his
oandwagon stars for the finale OF
the three-week War Loan tour.
Mischa Auer, film comedian,
stepped off the train "punchv with
exhaustion and made a beeline for
the station coffee shop with John
Payne, who is a flying cadet with the
9Th Ferrying Command stationed in
Long Beach, Calf, and Rosemary
Lane. who scorned Washington
summer weather by wearing q silver
fox jacket.
Hopes to See City.
Youngest of the troup is Eileen
Woods, 18. radio singer with the
Whiteman band Her first trip to
the Nations Capital, she said. and
she hoped there would be enough
time to see the city.
Blues Singer Ethel Norman also
was on hand with her bag of
tricky arrangements. including
Pocket Full of Dreams" and Il Get
a Kick Out of You" She will be
accompanied at the show tour by
Pvt. Stanley Freedman, former
concert pianist now with the Army
Air Forces Band.
Also with the group arriving today
were Film Stars Gil Lamb and
Dennis OKeefe, who has been i'll
for several days. but who expects to
bait up some stuff" for the show
tonight.
At noon today the entire galaxy
Iof celebrities and the band went
to Fort Belvoir where they will
entertain. They will return here
and rest for several hours before
assembling at 7:45 pm. at Con-
necticut avenue, south of the May.
flower Hotel. on L street.
The stars will then parade ts
the Monument Grounds in Army
jeeps with military escort. The
| parade will start at sis pm.
The event is being held under
the sponsorship of the District Rec
reation Board. the District War
Finance Committee. the Greater
,See HOLIDAY, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1944-07-04

Mr.. McClintock said the dyna-
mite was 1880 mixture and was
kept in long one-story warehouse
The dynamite was owned by the
Dupont Co and distributed by the
Varreck organization.
Terrific Conclusion.
The warehouse went up in a sud-
den squirt of fame followed by q
terrific conclusion, according TO wit
nesSes.
Many persons in Bedford and
nearby Manchester were cut by
flying glass and at least a dozen
persons received hospital treat
ment. No one was reported killed.
Among the injured were 10 per-
See EXPLOSION. Page A-3D
Evening star., 1944-07-04
New Hampshire Dynamite Blast
Throws Thousands in Panic
Rumor Of Enemy Bombing Of AirfieId
Follows Warehouse Explosion at Bedford

Bv the Associated Press.
BEDFORD. N. H.. July 4.-The
terrific blast which shattered
thousands of windows within a
70-mile radius, rocked scores of
homes and created panic in
many communities late last
night was caused by the explo-
sion of 7l2 tons of dynamite
George E. McClintock, manager
of the John B. Varreck Co., de-
clared today.
At the same time the Boston of
flce of the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation announced that agents al
ready were at the scene attempting
to determine wha: set off the stored
explosives.
Evening star., 1944-07-04
0rioIe Baseball Park
In Baltimore Wrecked
By Eieht-A|arm Fire
BIoze Destroys Uniforms,
Makes DoubIe-Heoder
Today impossible
picture on Page A-4.)

fT tSt"e OH Tuyc A.f.J
By tho Associated Press.
BALTIMORE July 4.-Fire
early today razed the stands and
clubhouse of Oriole Park. home
Of the Baltimore Interna tional
League Club, causing a loss esti-
mated by club officials at about
Sl50.000. An adjacent store and
cafe were badly damaged.
Cause of the blaze was undeter-
mined.
The wooden stands burned so
rapidly that within little more than
an hour only charred and smoking
timber remaineEsaround the field
where Jack Dunn once led his
Orioles to seven straight league
pennants and where he developed
such famous stars as Babe Ruth
Lefty Grove. George Earnshaw. Joe
Boley. Tommy Thomas. Max Bishop.
Jack Bentley and others.
All the uniforms and playing
equipment of the league-leading
Baltimore club and of the Syracuse
Chiefs, scheduled to play an Inde-
pendence Day double header here
were destroyed. Thomas. now Balti-
more's manager. said it would be
impossible to play today's and pos
sibly tomorrow's games because OF
this loss
Will Shift Later to Stadium.
Emergency plans were made a
long while ago. Thomas said, to
utilize Baltimore Stadium, and il
equipment can be obtained the clut
expects to start playing there Thurs.
day.
! Oriole Park had a seating capacity
OF approximately 10000 Watchmer
said the precautionary watering o.
the stands was made as usual i'm
mediately after last nights gam,
which Baltimore lost to Syracuse ir
10 innings before about 1000 fans
| Shortly before l am. watchmar
said he smelled smoke and that thu
area was wet again. the procedure
being repeated after 2 o'clock.
Mike Schofield. groundkeeper. sale
the fire started at 4;23 am. in sec.
! ton I of the third base stand.
Sheet of Fire Swept Park.
Il was able to move the batting
cage out of the runway between thu
grandstand and pavilion in ordel
to allow fire engines to come on tn.
field" he said. Il had hardly done
this when the fire swept around thu
park like a sheet. never saw any.
thing spread so fast"
! Doc SeisS, watchman, was treat.
ed at the hospital for slight burns
The blaze swept through tn,
30-year-old stands so fast the tw,
employees and an Oriole playe
barely were able to get out of tn,
structure. Eight alarms were turne,
In as the fire threatened scores o
houses surrounding the field.
Interiors of a hardware store ant
cafe on a corner next to the stand
were destroyed. Intense heat cracked
window panes in nearby buildings
A truck and two automobiles wer,
burned and others damaged.
Besides loss OF the stands, Thoma
said the club also lost about $50 uni
(See FIRE, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1944-07-04
ISee RUSSIA, Page A-3.J
New Allied Raid on Bonjns
Reported by Tokyo Radio
BY the Associated Press.

0y tne AsSOClhteu TIeSS.
Tokyo reported that aircraft from
A naval task force this morning at
tackled Two Jima and Chichi Jima,
in the Bonin Islands less than 500
miles southeast of Japan, and de-
clared that "at present heavy fight
ing is in progress
There was no immediate Allied
confirmation of this report, but on
June Is planes from an American
task force delivered heavy blow to
airflelds on the two islands.
The Tokyo broadcast, recorded by
the Associated Press. said the at
tacking planes returned to Two Jima
this morning after a preliminary
attack yesterday. The broadcast
asserted at least 40 of the planes
were shot down.
Evening star., 1944-07-04
Five Killed, 26 Hurt
As Santa Fe Chief Is
Wrecked in Arizona
: Deoth Toll May. Rise to 6
II Cors Leove Trucks
On Downhiil Curve
BY the Associated Press.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., July A.
At least five persons we're killed
and rs injured in wreck of the
westbound Santa Fe Chief 10
miles west Of here shortly before
midnight, railroad officials said
today.
The locomotive and L. cars were
derailed and some of the cars were
telescoped.
John o. Edwards. fireman. OF
Winslow, Ariz.. was the only victim
identified so far. The four others
known to be dead were passengers
in one car of the all-Pullman train
Two of the bodies had to be cut from
the wreckage.
Sixth Death Unverified.
A sixth body was reported by
Deputy Sheriff Dan Cronin of Flag
staff still pinned beneath the same
car. although train officials did not
verify this.
Among the CRITICALLY unSared was
Carl Stilwell. engineer of Winslow
The l4-car train was rounding 8
4-degree curve into a straight-away
downgrade when the tender jumped
the track. dragging the engine with
it and overturning, Santa Fe off,
cialS said.
Most of the passengers on thu
train were asleep as the cars wer.
thrown from their speeding course
The first four cars behind the en-.
gine telescoped after passing th'
overturned locomotive, officials said
Four of the other derailed cars re.
mained upright and parallel to th'
track
Five Mail Clerks Escape.
Five mail clerks IN the mail car
which was one of those that tele
scoped over the engine, escaped with
slight injuries.
The injured were taken to hos
pitals at Bellemont, Williams an,
! here
The train left Chicago at 20
pm central war time) Sunda
and was due in Los Angeles at lis
pm. central war time) today.
Rails of the track buckled an
looped back over the wreckage o
the locomtive. it was reported.
| New trackage was being laid thi
morning in a switch around tn
twisted mass and service was ex
/ pected to be resumed by 1890 a m
central war time), officials sale
Trains were tied up over Northern
Arizona, including several passenge
trains. The eastbound Chief wa
being held at Ashfork.
Victor F. Dunsmore, an executive
of the Los Angeles Herald and Ex
press, who was a passenger on tn
wrecked train. telephoned his ONO
from Williams that "the Army an,
Navy personnel aboard the Chic
were magnificent"
They went into action immedi
ately. directed by several militar
doctors" he added. 1.-TWO men who's
efforts I witnessed were especiall
heroic. They were Pfc. Duncan
Shepherd of the Marine Corps an,
william Keefe, boatswain's mate
second class, in the Navy"
Mr.. Dunsmore said he was walk
(See CHIEF. Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1944-07-04
Red Army Of ItoIions
To Aid Allies Abandoned
By the Assoc,ated Press

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, July 4.-The Communist
newspaper l'Unita announced today
that a plan for raising a separate
Red Army" of Italian volunteers to
fight alongside the Allies had been
abandoned because the Italian gov
ernment desired to incorporate all
volunteers in the regular army.
The announcement said volun-
teers already recruited for the
Red Army were being disbanded
but urged them to support the Com
munist party in the political field
as the only organization capable OF
giving the working classes proper
representation
Evening star., 1944-07-04
Every American Gun
In France Marks 4th
By Firing at Nozis
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
ST. SAUVEUR LIE VICOMTE.
France. July 4.-Promptly at
noon today every American gun
in action in France sent a shell
screaming into the German
lines.
Weapons from sharp-cracking
little 37-mm. pieces to the heav-
lest rifles in the Yankee armory
joined in the great chorus, while.
swelling this mighty barrase
were the impromptu bursts
from thousands of machine
guns.
1t was one of the greatest
July 1 fireworks displays in
history. The Americans were
observing Independence Day by
continuing the attack begun at
dawn yesterday.
Evening star., 1944-07-04
Nozis Soy Roosevelt
will Visit Frunce Soon
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOclated Press.
LONDON, July "A German
Transocean broadcast recorded by
Reuters today said President Roose-
welt is expected to arrive at Cher
bourg within the next few days" and
will attend the hoisting of an
American flag on the citadel OF
Cherbourg."
Then he will go to Scotland where
he will meet Mr.. Churchill the
broadcast said. The two will then
probably proceed to Rome to meet
Stain"
The broadcast was totally without
confirmation from Allied sources.
Evening star., 1944-07-04
Nazi Reign Of Terror
In Paris Reported by
Refugees in Spain
Thousands of Frenchmen
Arrested as Unsast and
Resistance Spread Anew
By the Associated Press. b.

MADRID, July 4.-Frenchmen
arriving today at the Spanish
border said Paris was a city oil
terror as the Germans, with the
support of frightened collabora
tioniSts, pressed program o1
house to house manhunts, anti
Jewish roundups" and kidnapping
of French labor Qnequaled ir
the four years Of their occupa-
ton of France.
1T is worse than Anything France
has known in modern times" one
escaping Frenchman said.
Spanish correspondents OF Madrid
newspapers, writing from Paris. said
the city was yellow with panic" as
the Germans and Vichy officials
staged mass arrests in 'reprisals'
for the assassination last week OF
Vichy Propaganda Minister Philippe
Henriot.
Thousands Arrested.
Thousands of persons had been
arrested by Friday when I left" a
refugee saio. and according to
official dispatches I saw in Vichy
Sunday it goes on without halt.
The Cirque d'Hiver 'huge indoor
stadium in Paris is so crowded with
Jews and partisans that there is
standing room only the refugee
added
The informant said the Germans
were cutting off whole districts of
Paris. one by one Then Gestapo
agents and Vichy militiamen 90
from house to house.
They seize anybody they please,
he continued. ANY men of mill.
tary age are arrested for work serv.
Ice in Germany. Any Jew or Jewess
of any age is arrested for God know.
what fate"
Unrest, sabotage and active re-
sistance. meanwhile. were reported
on the increase throughout France
particularly in the south.
Partisans Attack in Rear.
Reports reaching here from Dor.
der points said that along the Medi.
terranean coast German garrison!
were fighting Partisan attacks from
the rear while awaiting an expected
Allied attack from the sea and thai
several smaller mountain towns ir
the Pyrenees within sight of the
Mediterranean were in the hands
Of the Maquis.
Prats de Milo and Aries Sur Teci
on the same mountain road anc
railway from the coast are firmly
held by the Maquis. bulwarked by
200 gendarmes of the mountain dis.
trict who joined the patriots, thes.
sdvices said.
All the Pyrenees foothills of the
Roussillon department were report.
ed in Maqui hands and their power
was said to extend deep into the
Aude and Ariege departments. Al
three districts are along the Spanish
border near the Mediterranean
coast.
Powder Factory Sabotaged.
A report from Irun said the Tou.
louise powder factory was wrecked
Sunday night by saboteurs and de.
clared the German commander ol
the district had ordered all Vichy
militia leaders in that entire area
of Southern France to report al
Nazi headquarters Immediately, pre-.
sumably In preparation for a new
German-Vichy offensive against tn.
underground in that zone.
Tuchan and. Durham, less than q
miles south of the important rail
Evening star., 1944-07-04
GigIi Blomes Jealousy
For Report He Is Dead
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
ROME. July 4.-Benjamin Gigli,
former Metropolitan Opera singer.
declared today that reports Of his
death we're malicious slander"
spread by his enemies.
They are jealous Of me-" 0igli
said, gazing morosely from the win
dow Of his villa. They are always
saying things about me. First that
am Fascist. Now that am dead"
Evening star., 1944-07-04
Reds Take Gateway to Lithuania
And Latvia I'm Drive Past Minsk;
Canadians Seize Town NearCaen
Yonks Convereing
On La Hoye From
Three Sides
MAP on Page A-2.)
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SUPREME ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, July 4.-The Nor
mandy bridgehead roared into
action at both ends at dawn on
this American independence
Day, with Canadian troops, cap
turing Carpiquet, 3 miles west OF
Caen, matching the Yanks' Of
fenSive down the CherbOurg
Peninsula. which was closing in
on La Haye du Puts on a 20-mile
front.
The Americans drove to within
Ia miles of La Haye
Field dispatches said the Cana
dians were fighting at close quarters
for the Carpiquet airfield.
British troops joining the Cana
dians in the new attack advanced
Ia miles and captured Verson
south of Carpiquet.
The British and Canadians now
have advanced about Ia miles on a
p -milewide front, headquarters
said tonight.
The Canadian attack chopped at
the heart of the German defenses
about Caen. but there was as yet
no indication that Gen. Sir Bernard
l.. Montgomery had ordered a gen.
eral all-out offensive on the city.
Called a Key to Caen.
Canadian Press Correspondent
Ross Munro in front dispatch said
This was the first major Canadian
action since mid-June and it was a
great achievement to have cracked
into Carpiquet. considering it is one
OF the strongest points on the Caen
perimeter and one of the keys to
Caen itself.
From slope in our forward gun
lines watched the attack as bed
lam of firing shook the front" MI.
Munro wrote. The guns drummed
with a steady rhythm as they beat
up the objective, and rocket firing
Typhoons dived like black meteors
right on the German positions
blasting them at point blank range
German guns and mortars are
/ hitting the Canadians now The
| fighting is lar from over and Ger
man counterblows against Carpiquet
may be expected"
Converge on La Kaye.
American columns were converS-
Ing on La Haye from the north,
east and west. One column reached
high ground controlling communica- :
ton arteries "a miles from the
town.
(Today's German communioue
acknowledged the Allies had
made several penetrations on the
western wing Of the Normandy
bridgehead, but claimed most as
saults in that area were repelledD
In many places the American
doughboys fought their way through
water waist deep. 1t Gen. Omar
N. Bradleys forces we're pushing
forward in rough semicircle from
ST. Lo d'Ourville to point near
Carentan, a sector roughly 20 air
line miles wide.
There were no reports of any ad =
vances from Carentan south to
st. Lo.
The Germans admitted pos
sibly deeper penetrations than
the Allies announced otficially,
the Nazi International Informa-
tion' Service saying in a Berlin
broadcast: During American at
tacks launched yesterday be-
tween Carentan and the west
coast of Normandy German
positions were withdrawn several
miles at some points,
Allied communique No. 81 said
this morning that heavy rains Sc.
verely restricted air support.
| Until last evening the American
drive had no air support, but then
clearing weather allowed fighter
1See INVASION paoe AC).
Evening star., 1944-07-04
Jops Help U. 5. Celebrate

:. NEW YORK, July R).-NBC
Said the Tokyo radio commented
today that the Americans are cele-
brating their Independence Day"
and then began broadcasting re-
cording Of "The Stars and Stripes
Forever"
Evening star., 1944-07-04
No Night Final
Edition Today

The Star observes indie
pendence Day by eliminating
the Night Final Edition. Sub
scribers to this edition will
receive the regular Home Edi-
ton.
Evening star., 1944-07-04

(See UNREST, Page A-2J
Evening star., 1944-07-04

tSee RUSSIA. Page A-3D
Evening star., 1944-07-04

,See INVASION, Page A.
Evening star., 1944-07-04

(See CHIEF. Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1944-07-04
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Sportogroph
Keeping Posted on Sports
BY PVT. A. RANDALL

Brickbats for Gold Bricks? Some
body has been casting stones at the
athletes who work in the Special
Service unit. The remark has been
heard that the fellows don't do
anything to merit being released
from combat training and that they
are given gold brickers" jobs be-
cause they're athletes.
Nothing could be further from the
truth than these remarks. Most of
these fellows assist the Post Recrea-
ton officer in maintaining the tre-
mendous athletic plant here which
provides recreation and athletic fa-
cilities to the many thousands of
men stationed here.
The two. athletic officers, Capt.
B. M. Irwin and 1t. James Cham
bers, have the responsibility of see
ing after the field house, tennis
courts, swimming pools, roller Kinks,
three playing fields, boy scouts,
cub scouts, bowling alley and the
golf course. Equipment, schedules,
organized and supervised competi-
OAOA1 ctA10 COAClllA1S AAlOOO NC Co4 A4OO
on in each of these places.
Without the help of trained and
able enlisted men the athletic pro-
gram would go to pot, and soon.
So tremendous is the volume, even
of paper work, that two WACs
battle typewriters furiously every
day in an effort to keep up with it.
Let's see what the men do. Pvt.
Mccain handles bowling and has
steered two leagues to successful
conclusions of their schedules. He
managed the WAC basketball team
and he will also life guard ntat the
swimming pool. Sgt. Simms is ia
charge of supplies at the golf club.
He sees to the renting of clubs and
equipment and busieS himself in
hundreds of ways to keep the plant
running smoothly. Now that club
house has been erected, his duties
will increase beyond all proportion
With this duty. Sgt. Simms also acts
as 1/Sgt. at his outfits barracks,
a full time job in itself.