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Evening star., 1944-06-28
GriswoId Sees COP
Victory In Address
Nominating Dewey
Declares New Yorker
Is Headed in Direction
People Want to Go
STATES RIGHTS emphasized in
COP home-front planks. Page Al

STATES RIGHTS emphasized in
COP home-front planks. Page Al
BY Staff Correspondent of The Star.
CHICAGO, June 28.-Thomas
E. Dewey, Governor of New York,
was placed in nomination for
the presidency before a bowling
Republican National Convention
today by Gov. Dwight Griswold
of Nebraska.
This man will win," Gov. Girls
void told the convention, because
he is faced in the direction the
American people want to go.
Most of the next administration
will be a peacetime administration.
The direction of the war is already
set, and it will not be changed by
the coming election.
But the coming election will
change our direction here at home.
We are here to name as President
q man whose character and record
give assurance that this nation will
go forward to greater future"
Says People Want Change.
The Nebraska governor said the
American people desire a change
of administration and he proceeded
to tell why.
They want youth instead of
decadence," he said, "Vigor instead
of complacency, vision instead of
cynicism, integrity instead of
double-dealing, seriousness of pur-
pose instead of f1ippancy, faith in
stead of defeatism."
Gov Griswold said the people in
26 Safes have changed vehicles"
electing Republican Governors.
Transportation by horse in times
like these" said the Nebraskan. lis
not good enough. The American
people have common sense When
they want to go places, when they
want to get ashore quickly, trust
Evening star., 1944-06-28
| Wilkes Message
To Dewey Rejected
Under War Rules
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 28.-
Wendell Willkie attempted to-
day to telegraph a congratula-
tory message to Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey, but was blocked by war
time restrictions.
Mr.. Willkie said the Western
Union Telegraph Co. informed
him it could not accept the
message, which was filed short
ly after Gov. Dewey's name was
placed in nomination.
Addressed to the Governor at
Albany, the telegram read:
Hearty congratulations to
you on your nomination. You
have one of the great oppor-
tunities of history"
From Albany, Gov. Dewey
released to the press message
thanking Mr.. Willkie for your
gracious wire and for your good
wishes" This was done after
the Willkie message was heard
on the radio.
Evening star., 1944-06-28
Workers Are Assured
New Rules Will Guard
Job and Union Rights
Standards for NotionuI
Monpower Controls
Announced by McNutt
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG,

National standards under
which local job control programs
will start operating Saturday
were announced by War Man
power Director McNutt today,
along with assurances to workers
that they will not be compelled
to take a job they don't want
and that their union rights will
be protected.
While the national standards ap-
pear to give workers more freedom
Of choice In taking jobs than
earlier statements indicated, q VINO
Spokesman pointed out that local
areas could issue stricter regulations
in the light Of local conditions.
Mr.. McNutt emphasized, however
that "close adherence to a few ma
tionAl standards is necessary to as
sure the protection of the rights
Of both employers and employees"
Job Offers Can Be Limited.
Where a regional or area man
power director and labor manage
ment committee decides the labor
demands cannot be met unless limi-
tations are placed on the number
Of jobs offered a worker, Mr.. Nc
Mutt directed, limit on job offers
can be set under the following con-
ditions:
l. No limitation shall be placed
| on the number of jobs of equal or
greater manpower urgency which
may be offered.
2. Limitations shall not apply to
job offer which the worker has
good cause" for refusing.
5. The refusal Of a worker, with
out good cause, to accept job
opening, shall not prejudice his
right to be referred to later Job
openings in the same order.
The third provision, it was ex-
Evening star., 1944-06-28
5000 Allied Men Killed
Or Missinq in Burma
BY the Associated Press.


SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND
HEADQUARTERS, Handy, Ceylon,
June 28.-The Allies lost 5000 men
killed or missing and 10000 wounded
in the Burma-India campaign from
January l to May 81, it was esti-
mated officially today
The japanese in the same period
lost 2l,700 dead and probably 10000
wounded, headquarters said. These
figures DO not include losses suffered
or inflicted by 1t. Gen. Joseph w.
StilWell's Chinese American forces.
Chinese forces, following up their
success in capturing the Japanese
North Burma base of Mogaung in
conjunction with British troops. have
occupied Namti, miles northeast
of that town, an Allied communi-
que announced yesterday.
Other Chinese forces are advanc-
ing south from Mogaung to Loilaw,
the bulletin said.
Evening star., 1944-06-28

homes in the darlington and the
Parkfairfax Apartments OCCASION
ally to clean them and put them
in order for the hoped for return
of their husbands.
1t was the 21-year-old daughter
of Capt. Inman, Mrs. Helen Lef-
fer, child of the first marriage, who
first realized the vigil was over. She
answered the door when young
woman reporter for The Star
knocked
The reporter suggested she have
Mrs. Inman call TWA, contract
operator of the missing plane. The
daughter understood Immediately.
She took the reporters hand.
No" she said, Il am not going
to wake them yet"
With radios blaring the news re-
(See TRANSPORT PI I,ANE. Pe. A-3)
Evening star., 1944-06-28
Nelson Rejects Prohibition
Of Alcohol on War Basis
BY the Associated Press.


HOBOKEN, N. j., June 28.-Don-
aid M. Nelson. head OF the War
Production Board, says pressure re-
peatedly has been brought to bear
on him, but he has no intention o1
using his authority to return the
Nation to prohibition on the ground
that all available alcohol is needed
for war purposes.
Mr.. Nelson said, in a speech reao
for him last night at the com
Imencement Of Stevens Institute o1
Technology, that he planned to re-
turn distilleries as we'll as other in
dustries to their prewar status as
soon as military needs permitted.
He was prevented by illness from
delivering his prepared address at
the colleges 72d commencement.
Evening star., 1944-06-28
By GOULD LINCOLN.


CHICAGO, June 28-Gov Thomas E. Dewey Of New
YORK was nominated for President by the Republican Ma
tlona Convention today by 1056 to on the first
ballot The convention delegates Immediately began the
1orma1es OF naming Gov John W. Bricker of Ohio as the
partys candidate for Vice President
zone wisconsin vote for Gen. Douglas Macarthur
only dissenting ballot cast the delegates completed long
awaited draft OF the 42yearo district
attorney who for two he was not cam
didate the nomination - -
Immediately after the telephone
Gov Dewey at Albany where he notification
fore going ahead with plans rush speech
ance at o'clock tonight 90 o'clock Washington time)
Gov Bricker paved the by Withdraw
ing from the presidential nomination
the sake of only It.
Comdr Harold Stassen former Governor of Minnesota
Representative Drken of Illinois, shortly
after Gov Deweys placed by Dwight
Griswold of Nebraska.
Although Gen. MacArthurs placed before
Grant Ritter OF Beo Wis., cast his vote the South
Pacific commander explaining: my candidate We
didn't get opportunity present
-Four other Wisconsin delegates at Comdr
Stasen Before the vote announced
votes changed to Gov Dewey.
Evening star., 1944-06-28
Henriot, Vichy
|CoHoborotionist,
Slain in Paris
Propaganda Minister
Apparently Victim
OF French Potriots
BY the Associated Press.

I
LONDON, June 28.-Philippe Hen.
riot, Vichy Minister of Information
and Propaganda, was assassinated
last night in Paris by Is or 20 uni
formed men who forced their way
into his bedroom, the Axis radios
announced today.
Apparently a victim of French
Patriots. Henriot was the most i'm
portant collaborationist yet to fall.
Berlin agencies first broadcast re-
ports of the assassination. A short
time later Pierre Laval, Vichy chief
Of state, took to the air and declared
Henriot was animated only by pa
triotism. He fell this morning a
hero"
The German agency Transocean,
which said Henriot had reached
Paris yesterday in company with
Laval, declared it was not possible
to ascertain whether the killers were
dressed in the uniform of militia
or police" DNB declared fatty the
assassins were masquerading as
members of the Vichy militia.
Transocean said Is or 20 men
forced their way into the Ministry
Of Information, where Henriot was
Evening star., 1944-06-28
Biqqest I onk Battle of Invasion
Is Raging on Plains Below Coen;
British Widen Gap in Nozi Line
30,000-40,000 Enemy
Prisoners Token on
Cherboure Peninsula
MAP on Page A-3.)
~ the Associated Press.

1y the Associated Press.
SUPREME ALLIED HEAD.
QUARTERS, June 28.-Britisl
tanks shattering through Naz
defenses into open terrain only
4 miles southwest of Caen locked
with the Germans today in the
greatest armored battle of the
invasion, as supreme headquar-
ters estimated at 10000 to 49,
900 the total of prisoners or
Cherbourg Peninsula.
Smashing open the backdoor tt
Caen-Eastern Normandy strong
hold 100 miles from Paris-Britisf
tank columns burst the Germans
Odon River line and plunged miles
beyond.
Meanwhile American troops bat.
tied at the foot of Cap de La Hague
jutting northwest of Cherbourg
where the Nazis were making a last
stand. They mopped up in the
port and subdued resistance at Maui
pertus Airf1eld to the east.
Perhaps 10000 prisoners have
been captured in other sectors OF
Normandy, bringing to 40,000-50 ,00(
the total Allied bag.
Gen. Dempsey Leads British.
Headquarters disclosed that 1t
Gen. Miles C. Dempsey, Al, COM
mander Of the veteran 18th Corps
of the 9Th Army in Africa, Sicily
and Italy, was leading the British
I'd Army in France.
The huge tank battle near Caen
may decide the fate of a large part
of the German 18th and 18th
Armies. The Germans have thrown
four armored divisions into this
area.
Carving down southwest of Caen
In an outfanking drive, Gen. Sir
Bernard L. Montgomery's force tore
breach miles wide in Nazi de-
fenses, cut the peninsular base road
from Caen, poured over the Odon
River and battered 2 miles deeper
to point northeast of Esquay.
This deep penetration sliced the
road from Caen to Evrecy and
threatened the remaining German
held highways feeding into Caen
from the south and southeast.
Battle North of Caen.
British armor can move swiftly
across the open, rolling plains below
Caen, and German Marshal Erwin
Rommel must block this thrust or
face the threat of having large
forces encircled. Swift, stabbing
armored drives are an old story to
Gen. Montgomery's desert veterans.
Violent fighting also broke out a
few miles north of Caen, with British
troops pinning down German de-
fense forces while tanks swept in
from behind.
Allied planes hovered over the
tank battle and lashed at Nazi re-
serves. Twenty-Five German tanks
were knocked out in yesterdays
fighting and today's battle was on
much larger scale. Planes shot
up n troop-carrying vehicles rush.
ing about 300 German reinforce
ments to a weak spot, destroying
IL and damaging the others.
Six-mile Advance.
British infantrymen alone have
advanced more than 10000 yards
some 6 miles-since Gen. Mont.
gomery began his whiplash offensive
Monday. The punch won Tourville
along the cross-peninsula road from
Caen. then thrust on northeast OF
Esquay. about 6 miles southwes,
of Caen and midway between the
Odon and Orne Rivers.
The operation is very successful
(See INVASION Page A-31
Evening star., 1944-06-28
Three Greeks Sentenced
To Die for Fleet Mutinv
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CAIRO, June 28.-Three Greek
sailors, accused of leading a polit-
ical mutiny in the Greek fleet last
April, were sentenced to death yes
terday by court martial at Alex
andria.
They were convicted of murder
as we'll as mutiny, in connection
with the death of officers and men
putting down the rebellion.
Evening star., 1944-06-28
BY the Associated Press.

ALBANY, N. Y, June 28.-Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey stood poised to
take of In a chartered plane
about 3 pm. today for Chi
cago, where tonight he will for
mally accept the Republican
nomination for President.
The trip is expected to take about
four hours. The acceptance speech
Is set for Q pm. Central time.
The Governor, his bags packed
listened by radio in the Executive
Mansion to the speech of Gov
Dwight Griswold. of Nebraska plac.
ing him in nomination. Gov. Dewey
was notified of his nomination at
2:25 pm. There was no immediate
comment.
Gathered at the mansion, pre-.
pared for quick trip to Albany
Airport. were those accompanying
him to Chicago. They include Mrs.
Evening star., 1944-06-28
Nazi Line Split
|0pen, Soviiets
Aim al Minsk
| Two Speorheods
Directed at Capital
Of White Russiu
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, June 2s.-Red Army
troops aimed two spearheads to-
day at Minsk, capital Of White
Russia, as dispatches from Mos
cow indicated the Nazis' Father
land Line" had split wide open
before the overwhelming combi-
nation of q massed artillery,
tank and infantry assault.
A broadcast Moscow communique
said Soviet forces had seized both
Orsha, vital railway junction so
miles south of Vitebsk, and Bobar,
another rail center 46 miles to the
southwest, and declared more than
one-third of the main railroad be-
tween Orsha and Minsk was now in
Russian hands.
At the same time the Russians
announced they had captured Glusk,
about rs miles southeast Of Minsk.
Bobr is the same distance northeast
Of Minsk, and thus the Russians had
two spearheads pointed at the big
gest prize still to be reclaimed from
the Germans on Russian soil.
2e,eoo Naxis Killed.
Shattering of the German line.
which constitutes the first defense
against q Soviet march into Warsaw
and Germany itself, was being ac-
coInplished with enormous destruc-
ton Of Maxi troops and equipment,
Moscow asserted.
The Russians said they killed
10000 Nszis and captured 10000
others in liquidating ave already
riddled enemy divisions in 4 pocket
between Vitebsk and Orsha, while
5000 Germans were reported killed
in three days of fighting around
Bobruisk. at the northern end Of
the line.
Soviet troops were said last night
TO be fighting in the outskirts of
Bohruisk and in the streets OF
Mosilev. approximately 70 miles to
the northeast, and fall OF those two
remaining Nazi defense bastions
was believed imminent. The strong
holds also protect the routes to
Minsk, which is on the main line
between Moscow and warsaw.
Five German infantry divisions
were encircled in the Bobruisk
area, the Soviet communique said
when Red Army units broke into a
section north of the town and
Joined other units carrying out an
enveloping thrust from the east.
New Gains Against Firms.
In the campaign against the
Firms, who announced they would
fight on with German military aid
the Russians claimed additional
gains between Lakes Ladoga and
Onezhskoe tOnega) and further de-
struction Of Finnish troops and
equipment.
Nearly 1900 places of varying size
were retaken during yesterdays ad-
vance against the German bulge in
the center Of the eastern front, the
Moscow communiQue declared. Cap
ture of Orsha was announced by
Premier Stain in special order
of the day.
North of Orsha, the communioue
added, the Russian drive in the di-
rection of Lepel captured Chashniki
district center in the Vitebsk re-
gion.
The German radio, conceding
losses all along the central front
said Russian troops were also storm
ing Polotsk, IS miles northwest of
Vitebsk, and only 20 miles from the
old Polish border.
Evening star., 1944-06-28
Gubreski Downs 18th
Plane to Tie Record
BY the Associated Press.

BY C1It ASSOCIdIeU FTtkS.
AN AMERICAN FIGHTER BASE
IN ENGLAND, June 28-Thunder-
bolt Pilot 1t Col. Francis E. Gabre-
ski of Oil City, Pa, shot down a
German ME-l09 yesterday over
France, bringing his total of enemy
planes destroyed in the air to o.
tieing the American combat record
Maj. Robert Johnston of Lawton
Okla, has 81 victories in the Euro
pean theater of operations and Mai
Richard l. Bong of Poplar, Wis.
knocked down 81 in the Pacific
Neither Maj. Johnston nor Mai
Bong is currently flying in combat.
Evening star., 1944-06-28
Allied Invasion Losse,
Total A,549, Against
81, 200 for Germans
24,162 U. S. Killed,
Wounded and Missing
In Two-Week Period
BY the Associated Press.

SUPREME ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, June 28.-The su-
preme command announced to-
day that the first two weeks OF
the European invasion cost the
Allies 40,549 casualties, including
24,162 Americans killed, wounded
and missing-fgures which still
do not include last weeks losses
in the Cherbourg assault or the
start of the present British Of
fensive in the Caen area.
OF the casualty total for the period
from June to June 20, inclusive
5,287 were killed of whom 3,O81
were Americans, 1872 British and
1863 Canadians.
Against these Allied losses German
casualties in Normandy through the
fall of Cherbourg have been esti-
mated at about 10000 men.
| A large percentage of the Amer.
ican casualties came in the first two
bloody days of fighting on tht
beaches. when elements of the Is,
and 29th Divisions ran headon ints
a German division practicing inva.
sion exercises along the landinf
coast. The British and Canadian,
we're able to land with less opposi.
ton.
Complete Allied Figures.
The complete Allied figures fol
the two-week period:
United States-3,082 killed, 1872
wounded and 1859 missing, a tota
of 24,162.
British-l,S42 killed. $3.50 wounded
and 3,l3l missing. total of 1852.
Canada 1893 killed, 1885!
wounded. and 1903 missing, a tota
of 2,815.
| Against these casualties are NOR,
than 10000 German prisoners al.
ready In Allied hands and man,
hundreds more still uncounted, a.
we'll as many dead.
Out of the 40,549 Allied casual
ties, 5,287 were killed, 23,079 wounded
and 1913 missing.
Some of the missing probably ar
dead, others are prisoners.
Revision of Earlier Figures.
A Washington announcement OF
June % placed total American
casualties in all war theaters sine,
the beginning of hostilities at 225, 1892
This included 1857 for the Arm,
through June 6-the first day of th'
Normandy invasion-and 46,705 fo
the Navy to June %.
Evening star., 1944-06-28
DEWEY AND BR|CKER NOMINATED BY COP
Landslide Victories
Won on First BaIlot:
One Macarthur Vote
B ULL E IN

CHICAGO STADIUM Gov. Brick
er was nominated on the first ballot as run
ming mate of Gov. Dewey All the conven-
tons LOST delegates cast their ballots for
Gov. Bricker.
Evening star., 1944-06-28

MARTIN wires Dewey.
Representative Martin Of Massa-
chusetts, convention chairman, dis
patched the following telegram tc
Gov. Dewey:
May I in behalf Of this great
Republican convention advise yor
of your nomination as President?
"Heartiest congratulations. WI
Evening star., 1944-06-28

(See HENR1OT, Page A-2J
Evening star., 1944-06-28

(See MANPOWER, page ABB
Evening star., 1944-06-28
Weather Forecast

Hot, sultry for several days: high above
90 in afternoons.
Evening star., 1944-06-28

Temperatures today-Highest. IS. At
l:3o pm; lowest, II. at 4:22 am. Yes-
terday-Highest, 81, at 3:55 pm; low
est, 70, at 6:l4 AM.
Evening star., 1944-06-28

(See INVASION, Page A-3J
Evening star., 1944-06-28

See GRISWOLD, Page A-l6D
Evening star., 1944-06-28

ceptance speech
The Durant news., 1944-06-29

time, was a fine ship in 1912. The
Texas was built two years later and the
tonnage and speed was stepped up while
ten l4-inch guns were mounted in place
of the former 12-inch main batteries.
The secondary and anti-aircraft batter
was an excellent sea boat and a steady
gun platform. With her sister. the New
York, she was with the British Grand
Fleet in 1918 and, I think, was in the
Fleet that escorted the surrendered
Fleet to Scapa Flow. The Nevada was
announced as being sunk at Pearl Har-
Dor. A few months since she was noted
as having been sslvaged and joined the
fleet again. Her armament was pretty
much the same as the Texas, with q
strengthened anti-aircraft battery. Ten
14-inch guns in four turrents 12 5-inch
anti-destroyer guns and 5-inch anti.
aircraft guns. She. too. was q fine ship
in her day, still is for that matter, and
nothing better could be had for such
purposes as they are being used for
Those old war ships could not hope to
win in battle with such as the modern
Capital ships, but they would take on
anything less. We may be permitted to
assume that considerable Improvement Is
have been made in anti-aircraft and
torpedo defense (all details are from
ships of the U. S. Fleet" for sale for
a dollar).
The Durant news., 1944-06-29

allotment to bakers by small margin.
although this may not seem entire
ly fair to the rural family that does its
own baking, an oPA statement said,
1it should be remembered that the bak-
ers receive only tiny fraction Of the
amount necessary to increase the con-
sumer ration.
Non Highway Gas
Farmers and other operators who use
automobile motors to power saws,
pumps, mills and SO forth, may now be
given "E" and "R" non-highway coupons
to purchase gasoline for this purpose,
OPA announced.
An automobile repairman may also be
granted a non- highway ration to buy the
The Durant news., 1944-06-29
Current Comment
BY Henry Willis

We are not Justified in Quitting the
fight TO secure the nomination of q man
Who will hold the welfare of the Nation
above and far beyond his own personal
ambition at the Democratic Convention
next month small lot Of men with
unlimited public money has secured con-
troll of the Party machinery. There are
said TO be three million names on the
Federal pay roll. The Federal Courts
which are packed with hand picked men
with peculiar and unstable idealogies.
The law lie no longer fixed, no man
knows what it will be tomorrow; less
than a majority Of the Supreme Court
now change precedents of seventy-five
years. We have government of men
fact is extremely serious. 1t is quite
possible that even so mighty a man, SO
unrivaled q politician, SO persuasive
person as the greatest Of Presidents
from Washington down may be decisiv-
ely defeated. At any rate 1t isn't the
custom for the common man Of Missis-
sippi, Of South Carolina, Of Texas to lie
down and allow any set Of men to walk
over him. II Greatest of Great men in
sists that he and he only rule the ma
tion ms it should be ruled-and there
is every indication that that is his
thought--then our delegates will have
the courage to walk out of the Conven-
tion. They would be followed by con-
siderable body Of others and a swiftly
held Convention should nominate q
strong but reasonably humble minded
man for President. He could not get
= majority but he would get enough
electoral votes to scotch forever the
dangerous idea that some one man IL
indispensable.
Since Il has been Announced that the
Battleships Texas. Nevada and Arkansas
bombarded the Normandy coast on the
9Th, and after, II is permissible to say
something Of what those gallant ships
used-to-be. The Arkansas was the last
Of the l2-inch gunned battleships and
carried six two gun turrents. Five were
scrapped. The Utah, converted to radio
controlled target ship, was announced
sunk at Pearl Harbor. The Wyoming
was practically disarmed and used for
q training ship. The "Arky" was kept
an commission and used as a Naval
Academy cruise ship. She had an ade-
quate anti-destroyer armament for her
The Durant news., 1944-06-29

and, in turn, use the surplus eggs.
However, OPA said that after serious
consideration the Washington rationing
experts decided that even after discount
ing those persons who might pass up
the baking bonus" an extra 100 million
pounds of sugar would be required. This
amount, they said, was allowing one
pound extra to four-fifths of the ration
book holders.
What OPA did do to help solve the
egg surplus was to increase the sugar