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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16
75-MIe Gan
Rippedin
Nienrnen= Line
Five Columns SWING
TO Block Escape
Of 100000 Nazis

MOSCOW. July IS Sunday
(INS) - Soviet forces, breaking
Though the last great natural bar.
rier before Germany's East Prus-
sian border, crossed the historic
Niemen River Saturday along a
75-mile front, in the same area
where Napoleon personally led his
Grand Armee across that river
1872 years ago, to launch his dis
astrous invasion of Russia.
Thus the stage at last was set
for a Red army surge into Ger
many proper with other Soviet
spearheads, farther south, which
previously had driven to within a
dozen miles of the Suwalki area.
which the Reich had incorporated
into its eastern territory.
The Soviet crossing of the river.
where Hitler's retreating hordes
had been expected to make a
stand in defense of what Nazi
broadcasts called the sacred soil
of Germany. was achieved at sew
eral points" north and south OF
Alytus (Olita) deep in Lithuania,
Russian communique announced.
BRIDGEHEADs ESTABLISHED
Reaching the famous river on a
75-mile stretch. and capturing the
rail city of Alytus, Is miles north
east of the nearest point on the
German-claimed boundry of East
Prussia, troops of Gen. Chernyak-
hovsky's Third White Russian
Army were declared to have "es-
tablished bridgeheads on the west
bank"
(The Germans admitted the
Russians had rammed dents"
into the Nazi lines both In the
Tarnopol and Lutsk sectors, but
claimed 5000 Russians were
killed and LOT Soviet tanks de-
stroyed in the first day of fight
ing. Moscow did not confirm the
launching of this drive.)
Along the northern wing of the
front, Gen. Yeremenko's second
Baltic army, striking northwest
and southwest of Idritsa, overran
more than 40 populated places, in-
Guiding the Kalinin province dis
trict center of Opochka, only 2S
miles east of central Latvia's
border.
MAJOR BASTION TAKEN
Opochka. a major bastion on
the German line defending the
Threshold of the Baltic states.
was taken by storm after the
Russians had broken into the city
and engaged the Nazis in street
fighting day. and a night.
twenty-five miles horth-northwest
of Idritsa on the railroad to the
fortress city of Pskov which
guards southern Estonia, Opochka
is about ITO miles east of Riga.
seaport capital of Latvia.
Farther south, Gen. Bagrarn-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16
Legion Chief 10 Tour
Western Hemisphere

MIAMI Fla, July 15-Wsrren
II. Atherton national commander
of the American Legion. in q radio
address tonight over the Mutual
network announced = goodwill
tour Of the nations of the Western
Hemisphere, beginning next week
and terminating August Is.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16
Gen. Clark Pr Boat
Shot al by u. 5. Ship

ROME, July Is (UP)-A Y. s.
navy communique revealed today
that Gen. Mark Clark, commander
of the Fifth Army in Italy, was
aboard an American PIT boat
which was mistakenly fired on by
a U. S. minesweeper last Jan. %.
The action caused the death of
one naval officer and one en-
listed man. 1t occurred off the
AnZiO beachhead.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16
Nazi TrawIers Hit

LONDON. July Is tUP)- Brit
ish light coastal forces sank one
German armed wler and
severely damaged another off
Iimuiden, Holland, early yester-
day. the admiralty announced to-
daN
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16
Tin Can Collection
Monday; Get Set!
Continued on Page SKI

Monday is TN can collec-
ton day
OF course. Mr.. and Mrs.
Detroit. you are aware of IT.
But this is a IuSt reminder
10 have the tin cans you have
been saving since the last
collection pressed out. put
into cartons and placed AZ
The curb in front OF your
home Sunday night.
Your contribution is needed
10 aid the war effort. SO
please don't fail.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16
Poses Questions for Dem Convention

In carrying her appeal TO the Democratic convention
Mrs Kent will confront the delegates with these questions
1Do know that Young diplomatic clerk, Tyler Kent
American citizen by birth has been held in British
prison for four because he ncensed the
government secret code to transmit these messages:
"0-DO you know that then ambassador In London.
e Joseph r. Kennedy. NOT ONLY PERMITTED THE
USE OF OUR GOVERNMENT CODE By A FOREIGNER,
without informing the Foreign Relations Committee
but that under orders he diplomatic courtesy
In the Of young Kent TURNING HIM OVER TO THE
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16

is so vast Il can swallow all the
armies in the world"
Now the Red armies of a Conn.,
munist Soviet Russia will ayenge
the disasters to the czarist armies
at Tannenberg and the Masurian
Lakes.
News dispatches from France
agree that the Germans there are
fighting like fanatics"
1t is clear from all reports that
the Germans are not fighting with
the same desperation and fanati-
cal spirit against the Red armies
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16
Warning on Alps

NEW YORK, July Is INS)-
The Soviet-Sponsored Free Ger
man national committee warned
the Nazis today in a broadcast
from Moscow that the Alps would
not halt the Allied armies IN ltalN
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16

The Red armies are nearing
the battlefield of Tannenberg,
where in August, 1914, Generals
Won Hindenburg, Ludendorff
and Hoffman crushed the i'm
perial armies of Car Nicholas
Ii under command of his two
6 GENERA Is, Rennenkampf and
Samsonoff, and took 100000
prisoners. Samsonoff commit
ted suicide on the field Of battle.
In the winter battle Of the Ma
surian Lakes, the Russians were
driven out of East Prussia. /
was there as an American corr
respondent, as also l was in Bel
GUM and northern France 26
years later when France coll
Iapsed. and was the first Amer
ican TO reach Paris within "a
hours Of its capitulation to the
Germans in June, 1910.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16
U. S. War Spending Up

WASHINGTON, July IS (INS)
-WPB reported today that war
expenditures by the u. s. govern
ment hit a new monthly high in
June of seven billion 957 million
dollars.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16
LEGEND IN STRATEGY

Tannenberg and the Masurian
Lake battles became something
of legend in military strategy
and tactical operations. Jealousy
and a feud between Samsonoff
and Rennenkampf contributed
largely 10 the Russian disasters
there. I shall ever remember my
talks with Hindenburg and Luz
dendorff on those battlefields and
Hindenburg's remark. Russia is
so large that all the armies in the
world can vanish in it," Az an
other time he said to me. Russia
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16
ATROCITY MURDER CLEAR

The inference was plainly left
that captured B-29 crewmen had
been subjected 10 the same sort Of
atrocity murder which was in
flicted on some or all Of eight
L. S airmen who participated in
the Doolittle raid on Tokyo on
April lS, 1912. and later fell into
japanese hands.
The broadcast said the B-29
crewmen had "bailed out 20
meet with the same fate which
was meted out 10 raiders Iof
Tokyo some two years ago
II added that "any Allied air
man who falls or balls out over
Japan will he executed" a
This settled policy Of murdet
against air prisoners OF war, the
broadcast continued, had been
promulgated in an order Of the
day issued by the Jap warlordS.
NUMBER NOT MENTIONED
The enemy propagandiStS whose
identity was not revealed, went on
10 say that the June ID attack
on Yawata. Japan's greatest steel
center, the first against the Jap
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16

Good News. Home Owners At
tention! New furnaces or furnace
repairs may be made now. No
payments until November FLA
terms. Industrial National Bank
ADV.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16
CAPTURE 81 VILLAGES

Al least n French villages were
captured by the Americans In the
past 80 hours in their onward
sweep.
LesSay. coastal anchor OF the
wavering 49-mile enemy front, al
ready had been abandoned by the
Germans, IL was disclosed. A
message filed from that sector
az z p. m. said the German
troops in the western half Of the
lower Cherbourg Peninsula had
broken contact with the Ameri-
cans at numerous points. with
drawing south across the Ay
River.
At the opposite end Of the
American front, Yank forces re-
newed a powerful storming as
sault on the 81. 10. sending one
column down 10 within two and
half miles due north OF that
devastated pivot.
In the center. American artil-
lery cut the life line highway
between ST. Lo and Periers and
drove also 10 within two miles Of
Periers
AS IN 80 day old struggle
mounted toward a peak. headqar-
tiers revealed tonight that Field
Marshal Rommel. despite disrup-
ton Of his communication lines,
had arrayed 20 to % German di-
visions-at full strength between
100000 and 375 900 troops-on the
battlefront.
NAILS CHANGE STRATEGY
II was felt that the Germans
now may have given up their
strategy of piecemeal counter
thrustS in favor of full-scale
general push 10 beat Gen Mont
.gomery 10 the punch.
This change of method was be-
lieved TO have been signified in
Hitler's recent replacement of
Field Marshal Won Rundstedt by
Field Marshal Won Kluge as COM
mander-in-chief of German forces
in western Europe.
OF the 20 10 p German divisions
assembled on the 100-mile Nor
mandy front four were described
as badly mauled' in recent fight
ing. Two Nazi divisions. II was
stated, had previously been "ae-
counted for
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16
Ydnk Blows
DENT NdziS
French Line
invaders in Outskirts
Of Lessay; Begin New
Assault on ST. 10

SUPREME HQ.. ALLIED EX.
PEDITIONARY FORCE, July l.
HNSD-The entire German line al
the base of the Cherbourg PENN
sula sagged near the breaking
point tonight under the piston
blows Of Americans who burst into
the outskirts of LeSsay and imme-
date environs of Periers and St
Lo in advances up 10 five miles.
The 1870 p. m. Allied commu-
nique reported the capture Of
Gonfreville in an advance 10 the
banks of the Seves and an ap-
proach 10 the immediate out
skirts" of LessaX-
Liberation of all three Of these
vital junction Strongholds appeared
imminent as British troops dashed
forward and recaptured Maltot
and strategic Hill 112, southwest
of Caen. in a new outbreak oil
fighting on the eastern wing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16

D&C LAKE LINES To Buffalo
every evening at $50; to Cleveland
every night at 11:30. Lake Ride
every Sunday at IL a m.-Adv
THE MICHIGAN BANK
For Auto Loans, Call CA. 1912
Adv.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16

DIR. J. c. TooLE. DENTIST, 10
w. Lafayette AZ Mich. Opp. City
Hall. Hours: go. Tel. CA $3.50.
ADV.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16
PRODUCTION RESUMED

Officials AT The tank arsenal
said the Saturday night shift re-
ported and production was normal,
after the 1904 day workers
walked out protesting the disci-
plIning of worker for alleged
attentions 10 a woman
The Ford statement announcing
closing of the bomber plant read
This Is the elimination Of n
series Of minor stoppages be-
ginning late last night In sew
eral departments.
THE union should follow the
contract In which there il a
thorough grievance procedure
set up to take care Of the COM
plants that seem 10 he the
basis for these stoppages. The
union itself has filed no formal
complaint or grievance.
BREWING FOR MONTH
Quilhcos statement, made as he
left Grand Rapids TO return TO
Local 80 headquarters. was
The situation at Willow Run
has been brewing for a month
and il the direct result of the
company's fragrant violation of
transferring workers regardless
Of medical status and disregard
ing seniority provisions.
The company Is actually TO
menting this trouble and making
all production workers sweep
floors. This is definitely the
work Of established cleanup de-
partments.
Two other strikes in Detroit
continued Saturday as the 20
women elevator operators al the
Barlum Tower stayed away from
their posts in their dispute over
the firing Of one of their number.
and five diaries remained idle as
AFL drivers refused 10 work.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16

War Messages
In '39 Revealed
BY DAVID CAMELON
Detroit Times Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, July 15-A desperate appeal for
Justice for Tyler Kent American embassy code clerk held
In British prison. will be carried to the delegates to the
Democratic national convention in Chicago next week.
Tyler Kent arrested by British authorities in May
1916 Immediately after Winston Churchill became prime
minister Of Britain He given secret trial. and
sentenced to years prison He still serving his
term
Some months before in 1899 he had worked encoding
and DECIDING President Roosevelt
Churchill then first lord Of the admiralty Those messages
phrased in the American embassy code began October
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16
CALLED PROPAGANDA

(At Santa Barbara, Cal. Brig.
Gen. Wolfe. commander Of the
10Th Bomber Command. made
up Of B-29's, today termed Jap
reports that SuperfortreSs air
men who rsided JapanS home
land had been xecuted as
propaganda 10 holster morale
on the home front" He IS home
on leave
The Jap suggestion that the
enemy had piled new brutality
upon old was contained in A broad
cast from Singapore recorded nv
the Federal Communications Com
mission.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16
ChurchiII-RooseveIt Message Quoted

According TO Kents mother. Mrs A. H. P. Kent widow Of
American diplomat the first of the
BY Churchill Ia Roosevelt and read in
II AM HALF AMERICAN, AND THE NATURAL PER-
son TO WORK WITH YOU. 1T IL EVIDENT WE SEE EYE
TO EYE. WERE TO BECOME PRIME MINISTER OF
BRITAIN WE COULD CONTROL. THE WORLD"
Six weeks later Mrs Kent charges Roosevelt cabled
Churchill for details Al the
Germsny-but America still neutral.
During the ensuing rnter. Mrs. Kent charges. the
exchange Of ncSSGgcs outlined the steps rhich rcert
designed 10 lead to American participation in the ror.
The mother charges that her incensed the of
American embassy codes for such prePea Harbor deals
believed that his duty American citizen mpelled him
ovulge the contents of the At he did dvuge
tnemand his arrest and Imnrlsonment followed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16
laps Report
Execution of
Big Raiders
U. S. War Department
Doubts Any Yank
Fliers Captured

WASHINGTON. July Is CUP
A broadcast japanese hint that
captured Bog creMmen were exc
cuted after the June IS attack on
Yawata was accepted AT face
value here tonight, as consonani
with jap barbarity and disregard
for civilized conventions.
II confirmed. the executions will
be added 10 the growing Inst of
Jap war crimes which this coun-
try has promised 10 avenge with
out STOPPING 10 reprisals IN kind.
ms said war department
sources declared today II was
unlikely any of the crew men,
-herS-nL R-29S-en- Super
FortreSseS had been captured
by the Japs IN the first raid
these big ships made UPON
Japan. -Four OF the B-29s were
reported lost. and the depart
ment has fairly well accounted
for all crew members
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16
NUMBER NOT MENTIONED

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Evening star., 1944-11-09

knocked out by max, another was
disabled, and the right wing was set
ablaze. According to the citation,
he "resolutely maintained his posi-
tion In the formation until the
target was bombed. Then he aided
the pilot In making . safe landing
In Italy.
Col. Truesdell recently received
Poland's highest military decora-
ton. the Virtuti Militari. He also
holds the Legion Of Merit and Dis
tinguished Flying Cross with Cluster.
Pfc. Charles r. Bornwasser, son Of
Mrs. Martha L.. Bornwasser, 930
Longfellow street NV, has been
awarded the Silver Star posthu-
mously for operating his radio under
"difncult" battle conditions during q
two-day attack on Cisterna di Lit
toria, Italy, January 80 and 81, 1914.
The citation said Pvt. Boruwasser
operated his radio effectively, despite
the fire Of four enemy machine guns
and despite the bursting of mortar
shells within IS yards Of him.
Pvt. Bornwasser resisted success
fully the efforts of three Germans
to capture him and his radio, the
citation said. He was wounded seri-
ously. but refused evacuation and
continued with the attack. He died
from his wounds February Z.
Evening star., 1944-11-09
Gen. Julius 0. Adler,
Times Vice President,
Wins Legion Of Merit

Brig. Gen. Julius Ochs Adler, vice
president and general manager OF
the New York Times, who for
nearly three years was assistant
commander Of the 9Th Infantry Di-
vision, which has been announced
as being in the Southwest, Pacific,
was awarded the Legion Of Merit
yesterday.
The medal was presented by Un-
dersecretary OF War Robert p. Pat
terson, q teammate Of Gen. Adler
In the World War. Gen. Adler then
was commander of Company H,
3O6th Infantry, 77th Division, and
Mr.. Patterson then was commander
Of Company r In the same regiment.
In his official duties between Sep
tember 20, 1941, and June 10, 1914,
Gen. Adler displayed outstanding
qualities of leadership" the cita-
tion declared.
Served in Last War.
In civilian life Gen. Adler, who
is 81, also was president and pub
Usher Of the Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Times in addition to his executive
posts on the New York Times. He
held q reserve commission and was
called to active duty by tie Army
on October z, 1910. The Army
called him to active duty while he
was serving as civilian aide to the
Secretary Of War.
Before going overseas with the 9Th
Division he served with the 4th
Motorized Division at Fort Benning,
Ga. In the World War Gen. Adler
was awarded the Distinguished Serv-
Ice Cross, the Silver Star with Oak
Leaf Cluster, the Purple Heart, as
well as the New York State Distin-
guished Service Medal and decora-
tions from France. Subsequently
he was historian of the 77th Di-
vision and wrote a history of the
S06th Infantry.
Col. Karl Truesdell, jr., 36-year-
old commander of the 9th Air Force
e5th Bombardment Group, has been
awarded the Silver Star for gal
lantry while commanding a Flying
Fortress formation which few from
England to Italy and thence to
Russia to drop supplies to patriot
forces in Warsaw.
Col. Truesdell's wife and two sons
live at 1886 Forty-fourth street NV.
His father, Maj. Gen. Karl Trues-
dell, Is commander of the Army's
Staf1 and Command School at
Leavenworth, Kans.
During the second lap of the
trans-European shuttle flight, an
engine on Col, Truesdell's plane was
Evening star., 1944-11-09
One Killed, Two Ball Out
In Marlin TEST Plane Crash
" the Associated Prsss.

~ the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Nov. s.-The Glenn
L. Martin Aircraft co. announced
that one OF it, B-26 Marauders had
crashed yesterday while on . routine
company test flight near EastOn
killing one man.
A Martin spokesman said r. @
Knox, night engineer, was killed
but the pilot. Henry Poplawski, and
another flight engineer, r. L
Woody, parachuted to safety
The plane developed trouble while
flying at approximately 1900 feel
5 miles from Eastoii, the spokes-
man said, and the pilot ordered the
other two crew members ito Jump
Mr.. Woody made 1t safely, he added
but the second flight engineer wa
killed, presumably because his para
chute failed to open.
Mr.. Poplawski stayed with the
Evening star., 1944-11-09
Smokes She Cont Use
Cost Woman Half Hour

PORTLAND, Oreg.-An elderly
woman spied long shopping queue
and promptly fell In line. Halt an
hour later, and nearly to the store
door. she queried: what are We
waiting for2"
Cigarettes" she was told.
oh, she said. hurrying OIL, y
don't smoke"
Evening star., 1944-11-09
Utah 6oysrnorship Race
May Require Recount
BIZ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY. No. s.-Ii
looks as II the Democrats made !
clean sweep Of Tuesdays elections
In Utah. even though the race for
Governor Is 50 close . recount may
be needed to determine the winner
Democratic Gov. Herbert B. Nav
Is ahead for reelection. He has
12S, ,066 votes to III ,665 for Repub-
lican ]. Bracken Lee, on returns
from S33 Of the States s72 voting
districts.
The State went to President
Evening star., 1944-11-09
French Club to Meet

The Young Peoples Franco-Amer-
lean Club will hold it's first meet
ing of the season in the parish
house of st. Johns Episcopal
Church, 1921 Sixteenth street NV,
at BIS tonight. Capt. Pierre Kalt-
enback of the French Military Mis-
sion will speak of literary shrines
in France. Young people with a
knowledge of French are invited.
Evening star., 1944-11-09

plane q 1t descended to m altitude
lot 1,000 feet and then parachuted
when he waS unable to control the
craft. the company said.
Evening star., 1944-11-09

Roosevelt, and Ill national o6aces
were given to Democrats.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-01-20
REDFMpTj0N5 OF WAR BONDS
 E EXPLAINED

A circular received from the War Finance Division, U. s. Treasury Department by the local War Fi- nance Committee, contains informa- tion which will clarify some erron- oous impressions which seem to be ' revalent with reference to War Bond redemptions.
 United States Savings Bonds (De- -cnse and War) Series E. F. and G were first issued on May 1, 1941. Since that date through December 3l, 1943, cumulative sales total over s25, ,424,000,000 Redemptions (cost Illus accrued interest," through De- cember 31, 1of2, total $1,763, ,00O, ,O00 CT 6.93 per cent of cumulative sales. Therefore, 9397 per cent of the funds invested in Series E, F. and G bonds since they were first of fered fer sale is still invested in these bonds.
 United States Savings Bonds (De- fense and War) Series E alone since May l, l9i1 aggregate sl7,500, ,000, 900. Redemptions (cost plus accrued in- terest) through December 31, 1943, total s1,6oO 100000 or 9.16 per cent of cumulative sales.
 As of December 31, 1943, 90.84 per cent of the $l7,5O0 100000 of Series E bonds placed remain in the hands of the public