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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-24
More Synthetic Rubber
To Appear in War Lines

Observation-Disclosures rubber
within two or three months will be-
gin replacing the small quantities of
natural rubber permitted in hot wa
ter bottles, ice bags, and similar
war" line rubber drug sundries.
The Office of the rubber director
reported that the result will be a
definite improvement in many cases
because Of the stronger resistance
Of some synthetics to acids. medi-
cines. oils, and greases.
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Wanted: 3 rooms South (Im-
mediately) by 2 adults. Locust
5437.
For Sale: Several houses and
duplexes. Call Locust 5000, NAL
lory.
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Social and Personal
q ST. PAUL {

Miss Raye WhitmOre, ACT Rondo Ave, gave birthday
party her home Saturday. March 49, After refreshments
served, games played Harry P. Richardson,
Louise Sutton and Gladys Clemens the prizes Other
guests Dr. B. Jordan, Catherine Neal Mr. and Mrs.
Wilson, Martha Price Sherman Harper, Mr. and Mrs K.
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Social and Personal
q MTNNEAPOTJS a
MINNEAPOLIS

Married: Lucille M. Fields Portland Oregon, and John
Norris Minneapolis married Wednesday, March Is,
at the home of Pvt. and Mrs William Burre 85 Hoag Ave-
Rev. Henderson Reddick performed the ceremony Walter
Cash the best and Mrs Ruth Cash the maid of
hOnO
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United Drive
Aim Of Dewey

Albany, NJ. T.. July 25-(UP)-
Gov. Thomas e. Dewey, Republican
presidential candidate vii take adj
vantage of his trip to the st. Louis
COP Governors conference to lay
the groundwork Of his campaign
In pivotal mid-western states, It was
disclosed today,
Determined to conduct q united
and well-orgaDized campaign IN the
politically important mid west,
Dewey said he would confer with
Illinois and Missouri Republican
leaders. He viii meet with the III
inois representatives Aug. !, q day
before the Governors conference
and win talk with the Missouri poll
teal chieftains Aug. 4.
Dewey said he would meet the
Illinois group at Springfield, Con-
gressmen from Missouri, home state
of Sen. Harry Truman and Nation
al Chairman Robert =, flanagan,
win meet with him the day follow
ing the Governors conference.
James G. Hagerty Deyey's exec
cutiye assistant, said the midwest
ern meeting would be devoted to en-
exchange of ideas on campaign ls@
sues and problems, particularly
those affecting that section Of the
country,
The agepda Of the Governors
Conferences Is virtually completed. u
will call for consideration o. ~
least nine problems ON which Dewey
hopes the Republican party w'D
take specific positions.
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Break With Hitler And End
War Says Captured Nazis

gitz, Engel, Michaelis, Mueller Rue-
low, Gehr, Gottfrled Won Ermans'
droff and Schmidt,
Each was identified with his form
eT command, which included that OF
army crops, divisions, and fortified
regions, They represented the com
mand of the former central group
OF the German army on the casters
front,
Reviewing the initial course OF the
war, the generals characterized the
preliminary victories OF German
arms IN Poland, Norway and France
as CHEAP"
They sharply criticized the Ger
man 0ffenslyes Of Iai2 into the eau-
eausls and StalingTad, pointing out
thai the operations OyeFstFalned
ayailable German forces and opened
the way for the Russian counter
drive from Htalingrad
They also criticized the OrelE
KuFsk offensive year ago, W
which they said the Nazl command
expended picked divisions IN . futile
attack rather than holding them ~
reserve 10 meet the Russian ofgenT
sive which II knew vas being pre-
pared,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-07-25

Boston, July 25 - CUP )-Stary-
alton was blamed today for the
death of Miss Elizabeth Joyce OF the
South End, 82-year-old recluse
whose body was found in her gloomy
l4.rOom home along with three
bank books with deposits totaline
$4,000.
Police, who discovered the bank
books under q worn carpet. said the
woman apparently died two months
ago. They entered the antlquely fur
nished house, In which Miss Joyce
had lived alone for the past 20 years
at the request OF q cousin, Frank
Joyce of Wollastop, who was fearful
when he received no answer after
knocking necessarily at the door
The absence of any food or cash
in the house led investigators TO be-
lieye the aged woman died OF hun
ger,
Joyce told peysmeD she had lived
in the vast south end house Tor the
past 70 years. taking In hoarders un-
til q QuaTteT-century ago when she
retired alone into the prison-like
quarters, Children who ran errands
for her were her only cOmmunica-
ton with the living world,
The II rooms We're Well-furnlshed
with pre-Ciyil War furniture, and a
box with reeeipted bills dating from
1864 was found IN q closet,
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1912 Audit
Of City Books
Wins Praise

The annual audit for the year
1912, as compiled by the Arm OF
Barrow, Wade, Guthrie and Com
pany, was filed this morning at the
once Of the Mayor at II a. m.
According to the report the audi
tors expressed pleasure over the inn
proyement shown In the recording
OF the financial operations Of the
city as over the previous year. but
recommended various improvements
some Of which had been included in
the report Of the year previous.
Outstanding among these is an
amended revision Of either the city
charter or the existing operational
procedures Of the city SO that the
two viii conform more closely. Rel
alive to the latter 1t is the recon-
mendatiOn of the auditors that q
committee of three, comprised OF
the corporation counsel, budget di-
rector and a representative of the
auditing firm, be formed TO make a
thorough review of all provisions OF
the Charter which pertain to ac-
counting matters"
A review OF the recommendations
reveal that In face of the fact the
audit is for the year 1912 there have
been numerous ad0ptions of such
recommendations between the latter
period and the present. This may be
cited by the adoption during the
past year by the city OF
such recommendations as those
applying to the water fund sug-
costing that the fixed capital
and bonded DEBT accounts be estab-
lished within the fund, Also, recent
ly adopted, but recommended In
the 1912 audit Is the redefinition OF
the duties OF the tax collector and
the corporation counsel relative to
the collection of taxes. As recon-
meDded. it is now the primary res
possibility of the tax collector TO
collect the actual taxes and account
for the receipts and for the coun-
sci to be responsible for all legal cut
Continued on Page u
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MOSCOW, July 25-(UP)--SiSteeH
captured German generals issued
Joint appeal today to German Of
floers still IN action against the A.
lies to break at once Adolf Hitler
and refuse to carry out Nazi orders
and thus bring the war to its end,
All veterans of both the present
and last World Wars, the Officers
expressed their conviction that
further struggle by Germany was
hopeless,
"All the generals and Officers who
realize their responsibilities face the
alternative either 10 wat until Hit
Ter leads the German army 10
catastrophe and drags the whole
German people down TO the grave,
or to answer with foTee-Teslst Hit
Ter, refuse to carry out orders, break
with the Hitler regime, thus finish
ing off the war; the appeal said,
Don't wait until Hitler brings
Vol, TO disaster. To fight Hitler Is 10
glpht for Germany
The appeal was signed ~ geneEs
lls VoelekeFs, 0ollWltseE, Mueller
Baron Won Laetzow, Traut, AmleF
Klammt, 6telnkellag, ConFady, Tyo-
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Raj Pounds
Stuttgart;
Austrio Hit
~ WALTER CRONKITE
UNITED Press War Corresponds


London. July supp -Ameri-
can and British warolaaes smashed
az the German battle lines In Nor
mandy and secret rocket bomb in
stsllations elsewhere In northern
France today after a great fleet OF
Raj night raiders had set the
German industrial city of Stuff
CART ablaze with 1850 tons of high
explosives and more than $4,000 fire
bombs.
The German radio said Italian
based American bolnbers joined in
the daylight assault with an at
tack on Austria, but there was no
immediate confirmation for Allied
sources.
Swarms Of British-based Ameri-
can heavy, medium and light bomb
ers Joined In the battle OF Normandy
throughout the day, laying a carpet
OF bombs and gunfire across an
area Of several square miles In the
path Of the American troops at
lacking west of st. 10.
Not a single enemy fighter rose to
challenge the American warplaneS as
they numbered In across the battle
lines to lay salvo after salvo OF
bombs the Nazi positions.
Giant LancasterS of the Raj
bomber command opened the day
light offensive with an attack on
robot bomb platforms in northern
France and q mysterious target
which the air ministry said "ap-
peared TO be connected with the
enemy's threatened use of long-dts-
lance rockets"
More than 1000 British raiders
ranged over the continent dur
ing the night, with the main weight
OF the assault falling upon al
ready battered Stuttgart, deep IN
southern Germany,
The British armada unl0aded its
huge cargo of destruction on the
city In a swift saturation that lasted
only is minutes.
Although Stuttgart was the main
objective Of the nights attacks
Mosquito bombers again attacked
Berlin and other medium and heavy
raiders struck at Aachen, near the
Belgium border. and Frankfurt. IN
southwestern Germany, both rail
centers feeding the Normandy pen
insula.
The bombers dropped an esti'
(Continued on Page u
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London. July 25-UPl--A
Madrid dispatch said today
that Adolf Hitler has approved
q plan for an imminent attack
ON New York City with robot
bombs launched from subma.
rines In the Atlantic.
A non-Spanish diplomat in
Madrid told United Press stan
Correspondent Ralph Forte
that the plan had been submit
ted 10 Hitler by Grand Admiral
Karl DoenitE, commander In
chief Of the German navy. The
submarines would submerge
after launching the flying tor
pedOes from specially-Tigged
platforms ON their decks In the
general direction Of Manhattan
Skyscrapers.
The Robot bombs used
against London and Southern
England have q range Of APP
pr0ximately 100 miles, but the
Germans were said 10 have
others with longer ranges and
heavier cargoeS Of explosives
than the one ton carried BY
those launched from France.
Reports reaching neutral
countries said the Germans
were experimenting with flying
bombs loaded with five 70 Is
tons Of explosives. An American
air raid last week on Peene-
munde, Baltic experimental
station where the robot bombs
first were developed may have
interrupted work on heavier
missiles.
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London, July 25.-tUP)-An EX-
change Telegraph dispatch said to-
day that Romania, since the UNI
successful attempt on Adolf Hitler's
lie, had Fedoubled its efforts IN
neutrals capitals TO obtain faYoF-
able armlstice terms. No Romanian
peace feelers however, have been
extended as Yet in AnkaFa, the dis
patch said
(The Stockholm newspaper NYA
Dagligt Allehanda said IN an ar
ticle reported TO the Office OF War
Information today that the Ror
manian and Bulgarian cabinets met
in secret session all day Saturday
while great peace demonstrations
swept the two capitals The Swed-
ish paper said the cabinets "lmr
pressed BY the demonstrations had
postponed declarations OF loyalty to
lIitlerD
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Soviets Cross
Polish Front
Continued on Page u

London, July 25-(UPD-The Rus
sian foreign office announced today
that Soviet troops have crossed the
frontiers OF Poland proper to lib
crate the "brotheTly Polish people"
and resurreet an independent po-
land. according TO q Moscow radio
broadcast.
Soviet troops now are operating In
territory which Moscow considers
part OF the "soYeFign. friendly eoun-
try" of Poland. ana therefore there
viii be no Russian administration IN
the liberated territories, the state
ment said.
Government Of the liberated areas
Of Poland win be turned over 70 the
Russian-sponsored Polish national
council, II added,
THE Red army advance Is dletat-
ed only by military consideration"
the statement declared,
Soviet Russia does not intend 10
NEEDLE with the Polish administFa-
ton and social structure. This will
bring about friendly Soviet Polish
cooperation"
THE Soviet foreign office Is auth,
oFlzed by the Soviet government e
make the following declaration" the
Moscow broadcast said,
1.-THE Red army, successfully f0Fg-
Ing ahead, has reached the state
frontier between The USRR and 20,
land, Pursuing the retTeating Ger
man armies, Soviet troops, together
with the Polish army operating on
the Soviet German front, crossed
the River Bug, crossed the Soviet
Polish frontier, and entered into
Poland,
THUS has begun the liberation Of
the brotherly ana long suffering
Polish people from the German Oer
eupation. Soviet troops entered into
Poland Lmbued with the one an1
Continued ON Page q
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French Casualties $1,000
Since Amnistice--DeCauLL

gaptic role IN the war ana SPOKE
Of the cordially Of bis talks Wlpll
Canadian government leaders ana
those Of refugee governments w
London,
DE Gaulle said that the first OBJ
jectiye OF the French plans Is con.
sultatiOp of the people ny means o.
elections, eliminating ~ the foTllleT
ton Of o constituent assembly
which viii write o new CONSTITUTION
for France, =,
While determined to purge all
traitors, he said, I'VE by no means
intend 10 sweep away Q great ma
j0Ttty Of the servants Of the STATE
most Of whom have done the pest
they could during the occupation"
French resistance movements re-
eeiyed seven times as much arms ~
June and July ag IN any previous
month, he said, They nov "e0ps
tain" seven 10 eight German dlvl-
slOns, and have inftcted 800 casual
ties on the Mails while IN some
eases controlling entire departments
Of France,
Since the aFmietiee, Dc oaulie
said, the French have suffered g..
90 casnaitie N killed, wounded and
Msaeln8s
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Hitler Appoints Goering
Virtual German Dictator

Hitler today ordered the total mo-
bilization OF al the resources OF tne
occupied continent N support o. tne
Nazi war effort ana named helcn-
marshal Hermann Ooering virtual
dictator Of Germany and the con-
qrered territories.
The German DNB New Agency
broadcast the Hitler edact whicI
aimed at bringing AL OF the en-
shaved continent unoer tne most
rapFtRncea gtneN the beginning OF the
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Algiers, July rs up Gen,
Charles De Gaulle told the kFenep
Consultative assembly today that ne
hoped for the conclusion soon 81
practical aecoFds with Britain ana
America regarding the eollaDofa-
ton OF the French administrator
and Allied armies on liberated teF-
Fttory,
De Gaulle addressed the assembly
n his flrst public statement slpce
he returned from the United states,
Ne said he hoped the prospective
accords win be point Of departure
for smoother relations between hls
Committee OF Liberation and Hle
Allies. and win be . precursor 70
French participation IN the aFlnls'
tlee ION which Frances destiny osT
pends."
De 0aulle esid be found the
bF0adest understanding Of Frances
problems IN his talks with President
Roosevelt and British leaders,
There rs q notable bond OF COM
mon Interest between France ans
England he said. with the Untte1
states cur friendship 10 At the same
time reasoned and distinctive"
10 paid tribute 70 RalsSinss "gi-
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Russians Within Sight
OF Vista River-Nazii
Front Armies Battered

UNITED Press staff Correspondent

UNITED Press staff COrrespondeasD
Moscow, July IS. - (UP)
- Russian armor raced west
ward less than so miles from
Warsaw and to the south
struck within sight Of the
Wisla (Vistula) river as mill
tary sources proclaimed jubi-
lantly that the entire group
of German armies on the CEN
trail front had been virtually
destroyed.
(The London Evening
News quoted a Morocco
broadcast as saying that the
Germans were preparing to
evacuate Warsaw and Kra-
kow.)
German military power In the
east appeared to be totsering IN the
balance under Red Army blows
opening the way for whirlwind ad-
vance which promised to bring War
saw under siege by the weekend.
Siedlce. SO miles due east Of war
saw, was being stormed and hao
been by-passed. The great fort
ress cities Of Lwow and Brest Lac
toysk, we're under siege far behind
the Soviet Vanguard. Russian
troops were pouring across the SAN
River 90 miles west Of Lwow. IneI
ancient citadels OF Jaroslaw anu
Przemysl were threatened.
(NaA broadcasts said the RUS
SLAMS were pushing forward from 81
line through Siedlce, Sokolov. ~
miles TO the north, and fallen Lu-
kow, 10 miles to the south-A s.
mile arc aimed squarely at War
saw
CThe Nazi party organ VoelkischeP
Beobachter said the Russians were
striving for q great decision" In
Poland; that time-worn defense
measures will not sufree. but the
decision depends on generous meas
ures. namely. TO gather new strong
forces behind the front which will
absorb the withdrawing troops and
form strong forces which finally will
check the enemy" 1t added that
where this line viii lie depends onl
the time necessary to gather such
reserves.~
(The German high command said
powerful Soviet infantry. tank ana
air forces were attacking on q l50-
mile Baltic front, "in an attempt
10 break up the cohesion Of our
units who gradually are disengaging
themselves."1
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.232 Hostoses
FincIIyFvee

With The Elgnth Army, ltaly,
July rs - (uP) = British Army re-
ports said today that 232 Italian
men, women and children, held by
the Germans as hostages In the
Saint Ubaldo Monastery atop Monte
TngimO, near Gubbio, were set free
Yesterday,
The first dispatch did not say
whether the Italians had been "
brested by British units whose pro-
gress beyond Gubbio had been ham
pcred by German artillery directed
from the Monastery or whether the
Germans themselves had freed the
hostages,
When the British rolled into Cub
bio on July II they learned that
20 fanatieal Naais under q lleuteD-
ant had established themselves IN
the Monastery, holding the Italians
as q shield against aid and artillery
COMMANDMENT. The situation was
SIMILAR to that at Monte Casino,
south OF Rome, where the Allied IN
shelllng the Abbey into hubble to
drive out the Germans, inadyertaptT
- killed many civilian hostages,
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Washington, July 25-(UP) The
Sixth War oI.ap win begin AFmlstlce
Day, NOV II, run thTough Pearl
Harbor Day, Dec, 7, It was learned
today,
II the war ~ Europe is over by
Nov II, the siytll wer loan viii be
held lust the same but under the
name OF "VictGry Loan"
The goal OF the sixth war loan "
the war continues, may be even
higher than the $1,000 100000 goal
Of the fifth war loan, whieh was
topped BY several billion dollars
When final figures are ~ sales are
expected 10 exceed $4,000, 900 $500,
swollen by fifth war loan sales
the tEeasury'g working balance
from which war costs and other
government expenditures are paid,
4 now a. e22. SOC 900 900.
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Argentine
Called Home


Buenos Aires, July rs - kU.PD -
The Argentine government recalled
DR.. Adrian Escobar. Its ambassador
to Washington. because Secretary Of
State Cordell Hull announced that
he had sent a memorandum 10 other
American Republics redeiining UNI
ted States policy towards Argentina.
it was revealed today.
Escobar was instructed TO return
to Buenos Aires 10 report on Hulls
statement the ofllcial announce
ment said. adding that II It were
confirmed. the dignity OF the Ar
gentine people and government
would have been injured
The announcement was made
shortly after midnight last night.
but was withheld from foreign
countries until dawn today TO give
EscObar time TO receive the of1ctal
instructions before they were pub
lished.
The text Of the announcement:
I'm the face Of declarations at
tributed to the Secretary Of State
Of the United States IN connection
with the Argentine situation which
have been reported from Washing
ton, and considering that IL such
declarations. II confirmed, would
mean a statement which the people
and the government Of Argentina
could not accept without injury to
their dignity. the foregn once has
decided as a first measure TO recall
Ambassador In the United States.
Adrian EscObar.
The foreign minister on the 26th
Of this month viii make an ample
declaration of our foreign policy
with special emphasis on the facts
mentioned"
The newspaper La Naciop added
the comment that the declarations
lNo..ksrasaA ON nana ~
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Joseph NeiII
Not To Seek


Republican state senator from
the 32nd district. Joseph II. Neill,
WATERFOWL, viii not seek renomina-
ton this fall, he declared today.
Senator Neill. who has served three
terms in the General Assembly,
gave as his reason tor "retirement"
that he was "of the sincere belief
that someone else from one OF the
eleven towns within the 32nd dis
trict should be given the opportu-
nifty to serve the district"
Senator Neill. prominent manu-
facturer, has Iong been considered
one OF the most independent OF leg
islators and has prominently served
as prepayment of various social
beneficial measures.
Party sources today declared that
an effort will be made TO seek the
reconsideration OF Sen. Neil. but
the latter stated today his decision
was final.
Senator NELL is a member Of var
ious state committees, serving on
the board OF the Cheshire reforma-
Continued on Page "
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lDntee0 HresS war A@FteepeWuebD
Pearl Harbor. July 25-(UP)-
American Marines, plungipg more
than q mile inland on Tinian
Island, today engaged the japanese
In fierce fighting for the Ushi
Point airstTip. while ATmy troops
on Guam sought to isolate the Apra
harbor naval anchorage after cut
ting Of 0TOte peninsula and It's inn
pOrtaDt airfisld.
In the first days fighting on
Pjpiap, the second and fourth
Marine diyisi0ns-the units which
conquered EalpaD - spread their
heachhead two and Ope-half miles
along the northwest coastlipe and
drove One-third Of the way across
the Ushi FONT Rirstrip,
THE situation Is considered well
IN hand" Admiral Chester W,
Nimitz said In his second commu-
pique OF the day.
Marines and Army troops on
Guam, 100 miles to the south, mean
while, were meeting bitter opposi-
ton,
lRadio Tokyo claimed IN broad
cast heard by the United Press IN
San Francisco that 1900 Americans
we're killed In the Invasion OF
TlDiap and were routed IN disor-
der toward Salpap," The broadcast
repeated earlier Tokyo claims that
Tinian defenders had set one bat
tleshtp and two destFoyeFs ablaze),
But they drove to within two and
q half miles Of junction along the
eastern shore Of Apra haTboF, cut
ting % that former United States
naval station from further Japa-
nese use,
The 0rote peninsula was cut on
by the FIRST Provisional Marine
Brigade and the 77tb Army DlVl-
sion, while the Third Marine plylT
sion expanded tine northern beach,
head By pushing southwark approx
lEpRtely 0pe-guarter OF . mile, Their
lines now stretch over Q two and Q
half mile area from the mouth OF
sasa river 70 Adelup Point, Just be-
low AgRna,