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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-06

Scientists were among Tie last
to admit the possibility Of stones
falling from the sky, a. IN the
case Of meteorites. and not until
the early part of the 10th century
was it conceded generally.
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Commodores Down Pre-Flight, 40 To 20E

appearance Of the season today.
The Bluejackets ground out
net Of 218 yards rushing and COM
pleted six out Of eight forward
pass attempts for an additional
159 yards to dominate the play all
the way.
Great Lakes rolled up 81 points
in the first half and after going
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METAL SALVAGE

Our 'tin" cans are more than
l IL per cent tin and at least 90 IL
per cent steel. Steel provides the
durability, tin the weather-stripping
and insulation that gives extra pro-
lection. When you salvage tin cans
you salvage two Of the most preci-
Gus metals needed to win the war.
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Bluejackets Triumph
Over Marquette, A5-7

MILWAUKEE,, Nov. S. Up -
Great Lakes flashed a devastating
atatck to smother Marquette, As
to 7, in the Hilltoppers' final home
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Canada's policy for divorcing air
and surface transport companies
after the end of the war is likely
to interest transportation men in
this country, since the same prob
lens hiatt confront Canada are al
So confronting the U. S.
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UNBEATEN CADETS
LEADING in EAST

NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-(P- Re-
cords of Eastern football teams
that have won at least half Of their
games, showing team, games won,
games lost, tied, points scored
and against:
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for Little Rock; and Bill Sein-
soth. a pitcher recalled from Tole'
do lust before the season ended.
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scoreless in the third period added
two more touchdowns and one
conversion in the last quarter.
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Professional
Chicago 81, Green Bay 0.
New York 81, Boston 0.
Detroit q, Card-Pitt 0.
Philadelphia 81, Brooklyn I.
Washington IA, Cleveland 10.
Late Saturday
Virginia 1s, Maryland z.
Tennessee 10, L. S. U. o.
Dekalb 10, Wheaton 9.
Concordia 7, North Central 8.
Simpson 20, Central 8.
Sampson Navy SO, Scranton 0.
Catawba SO, Richmond AAB O.
Daniel Field 20, Charleston Coast
Guard 10.
Vanderbilt 70, Tennessee Tech
8.
Arkansas A. l. M. 20, Louisiana
Tech IA. j.
Millsaps 10, South La. Inst. O.
Maxwell Field rs, Fourth Infan'
try 7.
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FOOTBALL SCORES
SUNDAY
College

Submarine Base 6, Holy Cross 0.
Great Lakes As, Marquette Z.
Fleet City rs, st. Mary's 0.
Service
cambridge Navy 40, N. C. Pre-.
flight 20.
Third Air Force "a, Ga. Pre-.
flight IL.
Algiers Navy 6, Charles AAB 0.
Second Air Force 46, Amarillo
Air Field 6.
Camp Lejeune Al, Bogue Field
v. Arr 9Nr ta-i-.r el .cfe go
Fort Monroe rs, Military Reser.
walton 6.
Camp Peary Al, Camp Lee 0.
Gulfport AAF IL, Gulfport Navy
Keesler Field 20 Selman Field
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-09
Symbol Of Faith and Hope nd Easter!

TODAY AS MILLIONS all q or.frembIinq world
look to Him this glorious Eoster for spiritual
guidance and comfort the Red Gross stonds the side
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Is MEN KILLED
OFF STATE COAST

POPE FIELD, July "a 'R -
Three CAT transport planes and
Is men comprising their crews to-
day were officially reported miss
ing off the North Carolina coast
bv the commanding officer OF this
army air base at which the men
end planes were stationed.
The planes we're on an over
water training flight Friday night
when last heard from. Since then
continual and extensive search for
the. men and planes has been con-
Quoted by Army, Navy and Coast
Guard installations, but was ter
minated tonight, the announce
rlent said, with exhaustion OF all
hope of finding them.
The missing men and next OF
kin:
Second 1t. Junior R. Davidson;
father, John R. Davidson, RID No.
2D No. 3, Keota, Okla.
Capt. Robert J. Miskell; wife,
Mrs. Jayne E. Miskel1, Southern
Pines, N. c.
Flight Officer James M. Drew;
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FOE HURLED BACK
ON new GUINEA

ADVANCED A L L l E D HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Tues.
day, July 25.-(P)-American artl-
lery and rifle fire turned back three
desperate Japanese attacks along
the Driniumor river front in Bril-
fish New Guinea, headquarters an
nounceu today.
The Japanese attacked Saturday,
Saturday night and Sunday. The
few isolated units which managed
to infiltrate the American lines
are being wiped out, the announce
ment said.
Enemy casualties are running
into the thousands.
A spokesman for Gen. Douglas
Macarthur said the counted dead
in the WeWak sector even before
the last attacks began totaled 1,474.
An estimated $4,000 japanese trap
ped between Australian forces
along the Sepik river on the east
and Americans at Aitape on the
west, are attempting to drive
through American block into the
comparative safety Of Dutch New
Guinea.
MacArthur's planes, meanwhile,
continued their support of Ameri.
can landing operations in the
Marianas, far to the north, by ham,
mering Palau, zap and Woleai in
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New Boss Takes Over ARC.

"More important than any
other because of the invasion"
He hasn't made his dona-
tion-yet. He's been busy re-
ceiving. Ill two yeats ago and
his normal weight Of 40 down
to 100 pounds. O'Conor receiv-
ed 10 transfusions.
4 know how important they
are" he observed wryly.
He said he would not do any
work with his New York law
office while in the Red Cross
job "for the Duration" hasn't
had a chance yet to speak to
Mr.. Roosevelt about appoint
ment which came by telephone
from the White House, hopes
some day to go abroad for
first-hand look at the A. r.
c. work, and sees ahead
"plenty of expar ION" needed
in foreign fields.
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3 PLANES, Is men
REPORTED MISSING
Were On Training Flight
Off North Carolina
Coast Last Friday

POPE FIELD, July "a. - (P -
Three CAT transport planes and
Is men comprising their crews to.
day were officially reported miss.
ing off the North Carolina coast
by the commanding officer of the
Army air base at which the men
and the planes were stationed.
The planes were on an over-wa.
ter training flight Friday night
when last heard from. Since then
continual and extensive search for
the men and planes has been con-
Quoted by army, navy and coast
guard installations, but was ter
minated tonight, the announcement
said, with exhaustion of all hope
of finding them.
The missing men and next of kin:
Second 1t. Junior. r. Davidson;
father. John r. Davidson, RID. No.
3, Keota, Okla.
Capt. Robert J. Miskell; wife,
Mrs. Jayne E. Miskel, Southern
Pines, N. C.
1t. William E. Beckhelm; wife,
Mrs. lola M. Beckhelm, Southern
Pines. N. c.
Flight Officer James M. Drew;
mother, Mrs. LAWN B. Drew, Good
water, Ala.
1t. Chris c. Nicorvo; father,
Christ Nicorvo, 165 North Broad
way, South Armboy, N. J.
Second 1t. Walter H. Zuidema;
father, Egbert C. Zuidema, Walnut
Grove, MINI.
Second 1t. Donald w. Copeland;
father, Fayne H. Copeland, 41s
Damon ST., Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Second 1t. Cakes Mcdowell;
wife, Mrs. Phyllis A. Colwell, Sou
them Pines, N. c.
Second 1t. Milton ]. Verburg;
father, David C. Verburg, 20 East
18th St.. Holland, Mich.
Sgt. Ben L. Dean; father, Joe
B. Dean, 6O2 Elizabeth ST., Corpus
Christi, Tex.
Sgt. Frank E. Sherwood; father,
Percy G. Sherwood, 9 Collins Lane,
West Hampstead, N. Y.
Sgt. Leo C. Fair; mother, Mrs
Mittie Fair. General Delivey, Ash
land, La.
Corp. Roger o. Weston; wife
Mrs. Barbara F. Weston, 48 F'iske
Ave, Lynn, Mass.
Staff Sgt. Fred J. Carini; mother
Mrs: Bruna Carini, 307 9Th ST., Car
negie, Pa.
Sgt. Edward G.. Hillman, wife
Mrs. Virginia A. Hillman, 1912
Peach St., Erie, Pa.
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POLISH BORDER
PLAN PRESENTED
BY EDDY GILMORE

MOSCOW, July 24.-lRHThe new.
ly.created Polish Peoples Nation
al council said in manifesto to-
day that the "Polish Soviet Dor
der should come about by mutual
agreement" and also declared for
a wide outlet to the sea-"
The manifesto declared for "Po-
;ish border posts ON the Oder Riv-
or"
(The Oder flows through Bres-
lau, Germany, to the Baltic at
Stetti:l. A frontier on that line ap-
parently would include in Poland
all of East Prussia, most of Pom
erania and part of Brandenburg.)
The manifesto was dated at
Chelm, Poland, taken Saturday by
the Red Army.
Establishment OF the council was
interpreted in Moscow to. mean
that, SO far as the Soviet Union
is concerned, the Polish govern
ment in London no longer repre-
sents pland.
The eastern border" said the
manifesto, SHOULD be line of
neighborly friendship, not a bar
neighborly friendship, no bar
rier between us and our neighbors;
it shuold be regulated according to
the principles: Polish lands - Po-
land; Ukrainia1, White Russian
ana Lithuanian territories-the So.
Wet Ukraine, Soviet White Russia
and Soviet Lithuania.
A firm alliance with our imme-
diate neighbors, with the Soviet
Union and Czecnoslovakia, is the
basic principle of the Polish for
cien policy carried out by h e
Foolish council Of national liberia
ticn"
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Russians Split German Forces
Poland By Capturing Lublin:
allied Planes Bomb Kiel. Berlin
MANY TARGETS
SUFFER BLOWS
Germany, France, Yugo-
slavia, Italy Hit
In 700 Sorties

LONDON, Tuesday, July
25.-P) - Another heavy
Raj night raid on Germany
as we'll IS an attack on Ber-
lin by Mosquito bombers. was
indicated by the Nazi radio
early today as big British
bombers swept across the
channel in a follow-up to
their previous nights blast
at the naval base of Kiel and
daylight blows by u. S. bonn
bers striking from Italy.
A large force of Raj bombers
was heard roaring across Eng
lands southeast coast last night
at dusk and later the whole radio
network in the Reich BACKED out.
The enemy's air raid warning serv-
ice earlier reported single enemy
planes, a term usually meaning
Mosquitoes, over Berlin.
Up to 500 Italy-based American
heavy bombers pounded German
airdromes, harbors and other tar
gets in France, Yugoslavia and
northern Italy during the day after
the AT had delivered the heaviest
and most concentrated assault of
the war on the Nazis' great north
ern naval base of Kiel.
Kiel was saturated with nearly
5000 tons of high explosives and in
cendiary bombs. 1t was there that
sailors mutinied as Germany col
lapsed in 1918.
Thick clouds over the Normandy
battlefront restricted tactical air
operations for a time. But as the
weather improved during the late
afternoon, Thunderbolts, including
fighter bombers, winged toward
the French coast to strike blows
in support of the invasion troops.
The Frankfurt radio went Oft the
air during the night, usual sign
the Raj is out, and later the Ger
man radio reported bo1nbers ap-
preaching northwestern Germany
across the sea and a battle forma-
ton approaching southwestern
Germany.
BY the end of the day, the planes
supporting the stymied ground for
ces had mades more than 700 sor-
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of German birth and ancestry
"and indoctrinated for the
idea" of his own superiority.
After their marriage, she
said she transferred to his
bank account 81, All, 697. AS a
price for his consent to a
divorce, she said she estab-
lished for him trust fund for
the same amount.
Under a separation agree
ment, Mrs. Grant and Revent-
low were to share Lance's
custody for alternate six
month periods. Mrs. Grant
was to obtain possession of the
boy July 1, but on June 80 Re-
ventlow's attorneys announced
he had taken Lance to Canada.
Mrs. Grants complaint al
legged that on July IL she
phoned Reventlow in Vancov-
err, B. c., demanding Lance's
return. Reventlow, she said,
told her negotiations must be
carried on with his lawyers.
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TRUMAN MEETS
BUDDIES OF 1918

KANSAS CITY. July 24-tRH sThe
G l boys OF Battery D of theSold
Missouri National Guard who serv-
ed under him in France in 1918
gathered around to congratulate
Sea. Truman O-Mo) today while
tie Democratic vice-presidentia]
nominee awaited word from Presi-
cent Roosevelt as to where and
when they would meet to map
campaign strategy.
Il haven't heard from the Presi-
dent since he sent me telegram
Of congratuIation on my nominal
tion," Truman said amist a busy
round of receiving friends at his
Federal building office here, but
speculation continued that an early
meeting between the candidates
would be in order.
The Presidents whereabouts
have not been disclosed since he
accepted the presidential nominal
ton by radio from a west coast
naval station July 20, "A hours be-
fore the Chicago convention chose
Truman as the Democratic running
mate.
'I'd be very happy to meet him
here or anywhere the senator
said today. missouri is a very
hospitable state and I know the
people here would be glad to see
the commander in Chief
President Roosevet's move
ments while he is away from Wash
i2gton are not reported due to
censorship restrictions on the
movements of tne chief executive.
Truman has said he would re-
main in Missouri at least until
after the crucial state primary
Aug. l. in which his democratic
colleague Sen. Bennett Clark is run
ming for denomination, under at
tack by opponents against his pre-
Pearl Harbor isolatioslist stand.
Truman today held open house
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ROMMEL'S TANK
LUSS Sci Al 593

ON THE ORNE RIVER FRONT,
NORMANDY, July 24.-(R)-Field
Marshal Rommel has had 593
tanks knocked out of action on the
Normandy British front since D.
Day and $50 of these are known
definitely to have been destroyed,
British staff officer said tonight.
No figure was given for British
tank losses, although with over
Whelmlng superiority in the skies
Inc British have been able to re-
cover virtually all their knocked
OIL tanks and to repair most of
them.
Inc Germans have been doubly
handicapped because they not only
are retreating but also cannot ven
lure forth in daylight to recover
melr disabled armor except at the
lSk Of deadly aerial and artillery
attacks.
one observation is that Ger
man tank losses have been consid.
cred heavier than was officially
Oa anne by the British tonight.
with additional British conser-
stauSm, Army headquarters has
ueen prone to pare down" fig
u.es Of the number of enemy tanks
locked sI out after these have beer
ssuomltted by the various corps
Nn ~, and brigade commands
Inc midnight communiqe made
~ mention of ground activity an<
ttoiIlAed itself to reports of light
WI sOinoer attacks on enemy troop!
t ran movements from east O.
VIC SEINE river to the battle are,
S a. me Germans struggled to brin,
~ felnforcements for the BIZ
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Leaf Holiday Threatened
1t Ceiling Not Increased

+ WASHINGTON, July "a -(R,E
Representatives of the five flue
cured tobacco belt states asked
the Office of Price Administration
today for az cent increase in 1914
ceiling prices announced last week,
promised that auction markets
would not open until the increase
was received, and sat back to
await results.
The only promise they received
from the OPA, represented by f.
F. Ragland, head of the tobacco
section, and James F. Brownlee
deputy price administrator, was to
try to give them an answer within
"a hours.
J. B. I:utson, representing the
Commodity Credit Corporation and
the War Food Administrator, sat
il on the meeting attended by more
than 80 representatives of farmers
END warehousemen in Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Georgia
and Florida.
The 80 cent ceiling for ungraded
and united tobacco and 43 1-2 cell
ing on graded and tied leaf an
1ounced last week was two cents
below the minimum figures re-
Guested at a meeting here in
March.
The tobacconists contended today
that the 80 cent ceiling on loose
leaf as sold on the Florida and
Georgia markets was in fact a
"rollback'' from last year when a
ceiling of Al cents was fixed on all
fiue cured at the start of the sea-
son. Later, after most of the Flori-
da-Georgia crop had been sold, the
OPA reduced the ceiling on loose
leaf to 80 cents, but the group to-
day argued that the only effect of
that action was to prevent the
Middle and Old belts from selling
their tobacco loose and ingraded
as they were threatening to do.
The group argued that labor, the
biggest item in tobacco farming,
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certificates to send the three
workers abroad. After that it
was a steady round of "here's
how we've been doing this,
Mr.. O'ConOr.
The new chairman said he
would work on a full-time
basis except for continuing his
activities with the Warm
Springs Foundation in Georgia.
The unexpired term to which he
was appointed ends Dec. IL.
AS chairman, he will SUPER
wise the work 1900, 900 wo.
men volunteers, 10000 trained
workers with the troops here
and abroad, and $4,000 nurses.
Though the Red Cross has OBJ
tanned 100000 pints of blood
O'Conor said he saw further
expansion of the blood bank as
the most important job ahead
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Heroic Truck Driver
Sticks AT His Wheel
As Dynamite Burns

BAKERSFIELD, Calf, July
24-tR)-When a truck laden
with 1850 pounds of dynamite
caught fire today, the driver
stayed at the wheel until he
was able to maneuver his
dangerous cargo into a field
well off the highway.
Passing motorists went to
his help but the driver, Lynn
Stacker, L ind say, Calf,
shouted them off and after he
made his way to safety the
explosive let loose with a roar
heard over radius of 10
miles.
No one was hurt, reported
State Highway Patrol Capt.
Roy Galyen, but parts of the
dlsintegrated truck were
found more than a quarter OF
4 mile away
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Barbara Hutton Sues
Count Over Young Son

LOS ANGELES, July 24-R
barbara Hutton Grant, heir
ess to dime storm millions,
today sued her ex-hrssband,
the former Danish nobleman
Court Haugwitz- Reventlow, for
sole custody of their nine-year-
old son, Lance. She alleged
that his purpose in removing
the child to Canada last month
was to harass her in the hope
of obtaining large sums of
money for the boys return.
Mrs. Grant, wife of film star
Cary Grant, asserted Revent-
low is not a fit custodian for
the boy; "That the desire for
money and the accumulation
of wealth without work is
paramount" with him "to the
exclusion of otter ideas or
sentiments"
Mrs. Grant alleged that Re-
ventlow was given to violent
fits of temper, disregarded the
boys welfare, and that he Is
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BREST LlTOVSK
NOW ISOLATED
Some Red Forces Said
To Have Advanced 40
Miles During Day
Ry w. w. HERCHER

LONDON, Tuesday, July
25.-(P)-Marshal Konstan-
tin K. Rokossovsky's first
White Russian armies yes
terday split the reeling Ger
man forces in Poland by cap
turing the rail city Of Lubin
and topping Lukow, only GO
miles southeast of Warsaw.
while the first Ukraine army
in the south leaped the San
river at several points in a
direct drive on German Sile.
STA, less than $50 miles away
A special Moscow comnluniqut
also announced that the Germans
had lost $50, 800 troops killed AND
captured since the gigantic Soviet
summer offensive began June %.
These casualties were inflicted by
only four Russian armies, ano
there are at least seven now hurl.
ing the Germans back on an 800
mile front from the Baltic to the
Carpathian mountains.
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's troop.
who jumped the San river in the
south have killed or captured at
least 47,175 Germans in a single
trap northeast Of Lwow, the daily
communique said. This boosted
German losses in one month Of
the whirlwind Soviet offensive to
at least 5S7 ,065.
The troops Of Rokossovsky. son
of a Warsaw cobbler, also cap.
tured Belzhitse, 10 miles south.
west of fallen Lublin, in an over
towering drive which put the Rus.
slams less than 20 miles from the
Vista Wistula) river the last
Axis natural defense line before
Germany itself.
Lukow's capture represented a
30-mile smash in the last "a hours,
and by its seizure the Russians
cut off the German fortress city
of Brest Litovsk far to the east.
German broadcasts also said the
Russians had reached Siedlce,
only so miles east of Warsaw, and
20 miles north of LukoW.
Rokossovsky's troops already
have torn more than 5000 square
miles out of the Axis grip in
German-occupied Poland, and be.
yond their immediate objective,
Warsaw, lie only open plains lead.
ing to Germany on the shortest
road to Berlin 1865 airline miles
from Sied1ce.
Low, big German stronghold in
the south and Polands third lar
est city, appeared about to fall to
the Russians who swept around ON
its west side and captured Jawo-
row, 30 miles West-northwest; Sa-
doWaWisznia, 30 miles west, and
Moscyshka, 40 miles west.
Capture of the last two places
cut the observation-disclosures ST.
lesia trunk railway, and the cap
ture of Moscyshka put the Rus
SLAMS only IS miles east Of the
stronghold of Przemysl. Other So
Wet units were sweeping down the
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WASHINGTON, July PAW
Basil O'Connor strolled into
American Red Cross head
quarters today, took over as
boss, sent three girls to Eu-
rope and then sat back to say:
Gosh, there's = lot to learn
here!"
Scurrying e m ploy e who
seemed to know what they
were doing were impressive
and a little mysterious to pres
ident Roosevelt's former law
partner, new chairman of the
A. r. G..
"I'm going to be busy just
being = student with lots OF
home work." O'Connor told his
first press conference as sue
cessOr to the late Norman H.
Davis.
His fist job was signing
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Naziis H old
iron Hand
Over Reich
contradictory Reports
Received On Number
Killed In Purge
d, The Associated Press

LONDON, July 24.-Tht
yazis still ruled Germany to:
nigbt under the iron hand Of
the Gestapo but advices from
+bp Reich's frontier declared
The purge had wiped out only
few of the leaders among
the army conspirators deter
mined to liquidate Adolf Hit
ley and all his regime.
A reliable report to the Asso.
Gated Press said the only member
NJ a high committee of opposi-
tion' who had been caught was
tbe executed Col. Gen. Ludwig
Beck who had been warned Of
arrest and was taken by accident.
Heinrich Hinmler, the Gestapo s
head executioner. doesn't even
know who the members of the
committee are This account said
although the committee, enbrac-
inc Catholic and Evangelical rep
resentatives as well as the mill
tarv was said to have existed for
mere than half a year.
Meanwhile a broadcast by Alb
Sic American Tiansmitter in Lon
Dc, monitored by NBC tonight
8 sw IS dispatches reported that
I ,.r has called a conference at
~ - sghaden tomorrow ito Sc
lc.t rev generals for the Russian
c fronts
a later Absie broadcast re-
c-.5 i by CHS said that General
T. mann, commander of t h e
{ -on Baltic armies, was report
e. under acrest-)
The Transocean News agency in
a broadcast from Berlin said there
Y re Indications that a great num-
her of new DEGREES, some of them
cutting deep into our everyday life
may be expected soon," adding
that 1--WE shall become a people
OF fighters in the most literal sense
of the word
Hitler set out to Nazffy his army
completely as the Berlin radio an
nounced that Thursdays bomb
which repeatedly singed him had
taken the lives of two high rank
ing officers.
The victims were Col. Gen.
Gaenther Korten, chief of the Ger
man air force general staff, and
major Gen. Heinze Brandt, first
officer in the army general stats
operative section.
Previously the Nazis had an
nounced the death of Hitler's
double Heinrich Bergner,
" Sc name first was given as
Berger.
Frontier reports said Germany
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IMPHAL PLAIN CLEARED

SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND
HEADQUARTERS, Handy, Ceylon,
July 24.-(P)-Allied troops have
cleared the Imphal plain near the
India-Burma border of all japanese
and have struck into the beginning
of the Kuki hills east of the plain
Southeast Asia command headquar-
tiers announced today.