davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-10-20
DEWEY SMERKIA
SLAPTUMA

Tom Dewey, Republiko-
ny kandidatas j preziden-
tus, savo kalboje Spaliu Is
pareiske jog 81 sails "bran-
giai moka krauju uz musu
nepajiegima tureti rimto
programo tvarkymui Vo-
kietijos kaip il bus uzima-
MAJ, If pastangos sudaryti
pastovia taika gall nueiti
niekais is priezasties ''pre-
zidento asmenines slaptos
dirlomatijos".
Uzsienio politikos vado-
vavimas Dewey sake ture-
tu butt grynai Valstybes
DEPARTMENT. rankose, ne
paties prezidento slaptoje
zinioje.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-10-20

VOkieciai stengiasi igas-
dinti savo zmones ateinan-
ciais alijantu kareiviais ir
zmones kaip kur tiki kad
Amerikieciai ateje JUGS is
zudys. Vienoje ANGLES ka-
sykloj uzkariaujanti Ame-
rikieciai uztiko 800 vyru,
moteru ir vaiku, kurie bu-
vo pasislepe tikedami kad
ateje Americas kariai nu-
kapos jiems galvas 81.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-10-20
Lynn, Mass.

Lynn, Mass. = Pravesti
klausimai apie moteru dar-
ba General Electric dirb-
tuveje, kur dirba 70 nuos.
moteru, is to paaiskejo kad
40 nuoS. moteru-merginu
nores If toliau palaikyti
savo darbus. karui rasibai-
gus. Kita dalis gryS ] sa-
vo nanny seimynini gyve-
nina.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-10-20

Penkta paleido. Tremon-
ton, Utah. = Borgstrom
Seimos keturi sunai uzmus-
ii arba dingo be zinios. to-
del karo vadovybe paliuo-
savo penkta sunu gryzti j
uki dirbti. Jis jau buvo is
veztas j Pacifiko salas.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-10-20

sc ir remia Roosevelta ketvir-
tam terminui.
/ Komunistu itaka ir agresin-
gumas auga ir dideja ne tik
Europoje bet ir Amerikoje, -
baigia Wiegand.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-10-20
ROMMEL mire,

ROMMEL mire. Galuti-
tinai pranesta is Vokieti-
jos kad garsqs naziu Mar
Salas Rommel mire nuo
suzeidimq gautu Vakaru
fronte kai Alijantai isiver-
Re j Prancuzija vasaros
pradzioie. 10 nelaime bu-
vo slepiama, bet zinios is
ejo j pasauli.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-10-20

rikos laikrasciu karo korespon-
dentas, viename savo straps
niu, "Stalinas Tyli apie Save
Taikos Islygas', raso kad tue
laiku kai Amerika ir Britannia
net perkarstai diskusuoja "ko-
kios rusies taika" uzmes Vo-
kietijai kada j bus galutinai
sumusta, Stalinas, Sovietu Ru-
sijos valdovas, nieko nesako.
Apie tai kaip Vokietija bus
baudziama, isdraskoma, naiki-
mama pc sio karo, teikia savo
paziuras ir Prezidentas, ir jo
kabineto nariai. Senatorial ir
kongreso atstovai, baznyCios
ir lvairios organizacijos, rasy-
tojai ir redaktoriai, bel radio
komentatoriai atvirai disku-
suoja apie visokius griezciau-
sius budus Vokietijai nubausti
ir susilpninti. Stalinas suo tar
pu, jau paemes puse Europos
kontinento savo kontrole ir
tebeplecias savo itaka kitoje
puseje Europos, national lures
sprendziama reiksme Vokieti-
JOS atzvilgiu, ne Amerika ar
Anglia, sake Wiegand.
I as raudonojo kremliaus
raudonasis marsalas Maskvoje
tyli ir nesako kokia taika jis
padarys su Vokietija. Jis ma
tomai Zinc savo galybe ir lau-
kia atitinkamo laiko diploma
tijoje ir politikoje ir tada pra-
kalbes.
Paties Prezidento Roosevelt
to kabinete ivyko skilimas pa
ziurose apie taika Vokietijai.
Sekretorius Hull, sakoma, ne
pritaria kitokiai taikai 41aip
Tx tokiai kuria uzgirs Stall,
mas.
Henry Morgenthau, lido Sc
kretorius, paskelbe savo plana
sulyg kurio Vokietija turetu
butt supleSyta ir isdalinta, kad
is 80 milijonu valstybe liktQ
tik apie 40 milijonu tauta. Tie
40 milijonu turetu butt paver-
sti mazais ukininkais, Vokie-
tijos dirbtuves turetu butt SUI
naikintos aria is SALES pra-
Salintos.
Toks planas, sake Wiegand,
turetu du efektus: Priverstu
Vokiecius kariauti dar despe-
ratiskiau ir prailginti kara,
tue budu dar daugiau Ameri-
kos ir Anglijos vyru turetu zu-
tt karo lauke; antra, stumtu
Vokietija labiau ir labiau j ko-
munizma ir prie Sovietu Rusi-
jos.
). * y
Stalinas siuo laiku labiau ru-
pinasi tik savo Sales reikalais
ir pakelimu Rusijos Interest,"
auksciausia visko.
Roosevelt tue tarpu patapo
zymiausiu pasaulio internacio-
nalistu, kaip matosi is jo pa
stangu sudaryti . nauja Tautu
Sajunga.
Stalino planai naujai Euro
pal palengva aiskeja ir tampa
tikrais ir nedvejotinais.
10 taika SUI Suomija praple-
tie Rusijos sienas siaurej ar
tyn prie Atlantiko ir naujai
vel pasijunges Estija, Latvija
ir Lietuva, jis gal but parei-
kalaus sau uosto ir karo laivy-
no bazes Vokietijos Rytu Pru-
sijos pajuryje, kas suteiks So
vietu Rusijai pilna kontrole
Baltijos juros.
Lenkija taip pat paliks So
vietine ar artimai surista SUI
Russia.
Toliau Wiegand irodo kaip
komunizmas plinta kitose Eu-
ropos salyse, Stalinui gudriai
savo poiitika warrant, tue tarpu
kai Amerika ir Anglia nieko
nedaro.
Neuztenka to. Pacioje Anne
rikOie kOmunistai. VadOVauia-
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-10-20

Apie 800 karo reikmenu
dirbtuviu Sioje salyje ga
nina $4,000 skirtingu da-
liu reikalingu bomberiams
ir 10000 daliu is kuriu su-
sibudavoja tankai.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-10-20

John L. Lewis, Anglia
kasiu unijos vadas, dabar-
tiniu laiku patylomis dir
ba uz Republikonu parti-
ia, nors viesai nepasireiS-
kia ka iis rems prezidento
rinkimuose.
Anksciau jis buvo karS-
ciausias Roosevelto rene
jas, bet veliau su juo susi-
pyko IL pereituose rinki-
nuose jau rene Willkie.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-10-20

Pirma karta po to kai Anne
rika istojo kara, Washingto-
ne tapo apsviestas 555 pedu
aukscio Jurgio Washingtono
paminklas. Tas atsitikO kai
naujas sargas netycia sujunge
ne tas elektros uzdegimo svi-
ces. Bet tas paminklas netru-
kus bus apsvieaiamas kas nak-
ri
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-10-20
ArmiiOs vadai

Armijos vadai pranesa
jog siuo laiku pc apie 30,-
900 Americas kareiviu kas
menesi pargryzta j sia sa-
Ii is uzjurio, kuriems duo
dana pasilseti. o .iu vieton
gabenami naujai pralavin-
ii kariai.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-10-20

Marion, O. - Sustreika-
vo 1,500 darbininku Marion
Steam Shovel CO. dirbtu-
veje.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-10-20

Ar Roosevelt lures pa
simatvma SUI Stalinu vel,
prezidentas tue tarpu sake
nera tikras.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-10-20

Akron, o. - Buvo su-
streikave GOODYEAR No. 2
dirbtuves darbininkai del
nubaudimo uniios atstovo
kuris kisosi j darbo vede-
10 rareigas.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-10-20
Britu Vakaru Indiiu gv.

ventoiu $4,000 skaiciuje,
kurie vasara dirba Ameri-
kos ukese, ziema naudoja-
mi gelezies lieiyklose, uz-
pildymui darbin.nku stoka.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-10-20
:: .''':ia|aA|l|y
D A r B Al
lR DARBJNINKU ZINIOS
Darby Bus del 80 Mill
jonu Darbin,nku, Sake


LaivQ statytojas Henry
J. Kaiser irodineja kad 20
karo turetu butt 80 miliio-
nu darbininkams darbu or
laiviQ, automobiliu, staty-
bos, transportacijos ir ap-
tarnavimo industrijose.
Pirma meta po karo tu-
res butt isstatyta du mill
JONAH gyvenamu manu. o
tas pareikalaus daug dar-
bininku.
Reikalinga bus isstatyti
bent tukstantis modernis-
ky ligoniniu ivairiose ben
druomenese, Kaiser sake.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-10-20

Detroit. - Spalui II d.
baigesi $500 darbininku
streikas Timken = D e t roit
Axle Co..
Pereitos savaites pabai-
goje apie 10000 darbinin-
ku nedirbo Detroito srity-
je del nesusipratimu SUI
darbdaviaas.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-31
STIFF FIGHT
ATFLOREN(E,
ITALY FRONT
Germans Hurting Them
selves Into Artillery
Fire Of Eighth Army

ROME, July 31.-Counter attack
ing at every opportunity, Nazi in
fantry and tanks hold the Eighth
Army at Bay Hills, five to seven
miles southwest of Florence, at a
cost hardly likely to prove worth
while to the enemys depleted ar
mics, Allied Headquarters said.
The artillery laid down thunder
ing curtains of fire as the German
units dashed out in an effort to
knock the Allied spearheads farther
back from the defenses of Florence.
Along the Fifth Armys 30-mile
front on lower Arno River, big guns
on both sides continued to trade
fire across that stream.
There are no indications the Am
orleans have penetrated beyond the
southern limits of Pisa on the east
coast.
The Polish troops are fighting i'll
the streets of Senigallia, about 40
miles below Rimini and 80 miles
airline from the Pc River.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-31
Filler AT
(ORD0vA
IS KILLED
Motor Conks, Plane Dives
Into Eydk Ldke-Van
BrockIin Is Victim

CORDO VA, Alaska, July 81
Robert L. VanBrocklin, private filler
for two years and respected bust
nessman and councilman, was kill
ed Saturday afternoon when the
motor of his Aeronca Lycoming
plane conked out as he was trying
to make it to the municipal field.
VanBrocklin put his plane into
sharp bank but lack OF power
allowed the plane to sideslip into
Ekay Lake, so feet off shore.
Employees of the Cordova Air
Service got a rope on the tailskid
and pulled the plane to the bank
in five minutes, where the cockpit
was in eight feet of water.
Elmer Hedstrom and Perry Davis
dove and pulled VanBrocklin from
the plane, and doctors and many
willing hands tried for three hours
on artificial respiration, but with
no results.
VanBrocklin had been in the
water about Is minutes and doc
tors believe he died from shock
and possible internal injuries.
William Miller, passenger in
tEe rear seat of the two-seater
plane, managed to extricate him
self and was taken to the hospital
with cuts but otherwise unhurt.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-31
LIBERAT0RS
SMASH FOUR
nip DR0ME5
General MaeArthur's Air
Force Makes Big Raid
in Sorong Sector

ADVANCED A l. L E D HEAD
QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA,
July 31.-Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
Liberators smashed four Jap air.
dromes in the Sorong sector at the
northwest tip of Dutch New Guinea.
The heavy raid was announced this
Monday morning.
The Liberators attacked Moemi,
Sagan, Otawite and Utaron airstrips
last Saturday and almost nullified
Japan's remaining air strength in
New Guinea.
Meanwhile, Nit hell medium
bombers bombed and strafed the
east coast of Halmahera, across the
Halmahera Sea.
The sector lies directly between
New Guinea and the Philippines.
the major goal of MacArthur's
forces.
The Halmahera attack was a fol-
lowup of the raid of last Thursday
when Allied planes shot down Is
Jap planes over Halmahera and de-
stroyed 80 on the ground. =
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Miss LELAND,
SECRETARY TO
FDR, IS DEAD

WASHINGTON, July 81. - Miss
Marguerite Alice LELAND who served
as President Roosevelt's personal
secretary for more than a score OF
years, died today at Chelsea, Mas
sachusetts, of cerebral embolism.
Her death was announced at the
White House. She had been stricken
Unexpectedly.
She retired as the Presidents
secretary in December 1912, because
of i'll health, but had improved
somewhat since that time.
The President issued statement
saying: Her memory will ever be
held in affectionate remembrance
and appreciation, not only by all
members of her family but by the
wide circle of those whost duties
brought them in contact with her."
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-31
Guam Harbor
|s0ttupied by
U. 5. Vessels
Planes Using Airfield-
Stars and Stripes Flying
at Many Places

UNITED STATES PACIFIC
FLEET HEADQUAR ART Err S IN
PEARL HARBOR, July 81. - Am
erican warplanes are using Guam's
Orote Peninsula airfield, and AM
erican warships are anchored i'll
Port Apra harbor.
The onetime American Pacific
stronghold island on the route to
the Orient took on the resemblance
of former American occupancy and
the Stars ard Stripes are flping
over many places on Guam.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz, in a
communique, says Our ships are
now using Port Apra Harbor on
the west coast of Guam, site OF the
former American naval base, and
several of our aircraft have landed
and taken OFF from the Orote PEN
insula airfield."
On Tinian Island, another OF the
southern Marianas group, United
States Marines have captured an
other Tinian town and swept ahead
to bottle the Jap defenders on the
islands southern end. Resistance
increases steadily as the Americans
compressed from 1000 to 5000 Jap-
anese troops in an increasingly
ever smaller pocket.
Restoration of Guam's Port Apra
Harbor to American control meant
sort of homecoming to hundreds
of naval officers and enlisted men
from the warships anchored in the
harbor, and they recounted previous
occasions when in Apra to rest,
they went ashore to Agana, Capital
City of Guam.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-31
ELDCN DAILY
ISvICTIM0F
BOAT FIRE
Believed Body Of Man
Found in Charred Hulk
thdtofKetchikdn Man

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 81
The body of a man believed to be
Eldon J. DAILY, President OF the
Ketchikan Spruce Mills, and one of
Alaska's best known business men,
was found in the charred hulk OF
a small boat in which DAILY had
left alone yesterday morning to
spend a week at the Bell Island
Hot Springs.
Details are not yet available, but
a passing craft, late yesterday, saw
smoking hulk about 35 miles
from Ketchikan, investigated and
found the unidentified body inside
and made the report on arrival
here.
Officials left to investigate, but
their boat has not yet returned.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-31
RED ARMY
MOVING ON
FOR BERLIN
Kaunas Is Captured After
Fatal Sunday for Ndzis
Conflicting Adviees

LONDON, July 31.-The Germans
indicated early this morning the
Russians may have reached Warsaw
proper as the Nazi communique ac-
knowledged the fall of the former
Lithuanian capital city of Kaunas
after a fateful Sunday in which
other Soviet forces stormed seven
miles inside the Suwalki triangle
in East Prussia.
AT Warsaw, the German troops
prevented the Soviet forces from
breaking through to the town." the
German news agency DNB said, but
shortly after, Berlin radio COM
mentator said the Russians were
drawn up in an arc, six miles from
Warsaw and within sight and easy
artillery range of Warsaws old
spires.
The last Moscow bulletin placed
the Soviet forces ten miles from
Warsaw.
The Berlin radio told of a fresh
retreat of the Germans below War
saw and the military spokesman
obviously was preparing the Ger
man home front with early news OF
the fall of Warsaw.
Kaunas, the second city in Lith-
uania has a population of 10000
and lies IS miles east of the pre-
war East Prussian frontier on the
Niemen River.
A Moscow report reported Red
troops were well west of Kuanas
and the Germans were throwing in
many fresh men reserves to halt the
Russian push in East Prussia itself.
All along the meandering front OF
1000 miles, the Russians reported
progress. They have captured a
total of liza localities and the sixth
large pocket of Germans trapped
since the summer offensive began
on June %. They have liquidated
a vast territory.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-31
ROBOT BOMBS
BUSY AGAIN
ON WEEKEND
British Defenses Improve
But Casualties Are
ChdIked Up

LONDON, July 31.-British anti
craft units and fighter pilots scored
new successes over sporadic salvos
of robot bombs hurled at Southern
England and the London area over
the weekend.
But some of the bombs broke
through, causing damage and cas-
ualties. Much of London's popula-
ton left the city during the week
end.
In spite of the improved de-
lenses, reported damages included
hits on a children's playground, a
YMCA building, hospital and several
houses.
Royal Air Force bombers returned
to the Pas de Calais area and struck
at supply depots where massive con-
crete structures are believed con-
nected with the new German threat
to flying lotion rockets.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-31
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, July 81. = Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 6%, American Tel.
and Tel. 1913, Anaconda 25A, Beech
Aircraft 10, Bethlehem Steel 62%
Curtiss- Wright 5A, Dupont COM
mon 154A, International Harvester
1914, Kennecott 32ls, North Am
erican Aviation 8as, New York Cen
trail 1919, Standard Oil of Califor-
MIA 573s, United States Steel 58A
Dow, Jones averages today are
as follows industrials 146:11, rails
41.29 utilities 1890.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-31

AIR BLOWS
HIT NAILS
Huqe Forces Bomb Ger
many, French Bases
and Oil Fields

LONDON, July 31-More than g.
600 American planes, 7,700 of them
heavy bombers. attacked the Munich
area in central Germany and French
airfields as well as Rumanian oil
works at Bucharest and P1oesti.
Twelve hundred Fortresses and
Liberators from Britain cast new
destruction in Germany and France
and another force of more than 500
heavy bombers of the U. S. Fifteenth
Air Force in Italy struck Rumanian
object YES within 1870 miles of the
RUS :fln front lines.
Pdndreds of other planes operated
tactically, attacking before the adj
vancing Americans and Britons in
Normandy. Formations totalling 22O
American Marauders and Havocs
bombed a wire area behind the
battle zone in spotty weather, strik-
ing railyards and bridges from Bonn
front to Evreaux, as far south as
Tours.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-31
DEWEY HITS
new DEALS
DEPRESSION
SAYS Roosevelt Admins.
trdtion Isn't Ready
for Peace
(By Associated Press)

Touching off verbal fireworks at
the start of a week of intense
political activity, Republican Presi-
dental nominee Thomas E. Dewey
told reporters in Pittsburgh today
that as he sees it, the United States
simply cannot face another period
like the Roosevelt depression which
lasted eight years"
Asserting that more than ten mil
lion men were unemployed con-
tinuously from 1888 through 1910"
Dewey declared the New Deal has
also failed to plan for postwar re-
conversion.
1T may not be long," he said, be
fore a most vital thing faces every
American-hiso opportunity to work"
Dewey stopped off in Pittsburgh
enroute to meeting of Republican
Governors in st. Louis which will
share political interest with can
didate picking parties in seven
States this week.
The denomination efforts by Rep.
Hamilton Fish, New York Repub-
lican whom Dewey criticized last
week on the grounds that he raised
racial and religious issues" is Of
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-31
The W ASKING ton
Merry Go Round
Editors Note-This is the sec
ond of Drew Parsons columns
telling the inside of the Chicago
merry go-rOund)
By DREW PEARSON
ct. Col. Robert g. Allen now on active
service with the Army)

WASHINGTON-After Hannegan,
Hague, Kelly and Flynn got their
telephone instructions direct from
the President to put across Sen
ator Truman, they found their job
complicated by the fact that they
had a letter from FDR endorsing
not only Truman but also Justice
Bill Douglas
Finally, after lot of inside de-
bate, they decided to take the bull
by the horns and make the letter
public, even though it only half
way proved their point. The effect,
however, was bad. Delegates ac-
cused Hannegan of holding out re-
garding Douglas. A half-truth,
they said, was as good as lie.
By this time, the grass roots re-
volt had got alarmingly out of the
bosses control.
Senator Barley of Kentucky
learning that FDR had turned
thumbs down on him for V.P., de-
cided to turn thumbs down on
FDR for a fourth term. He started
to withdraw his nominating speech
1t was only the midnight inter-
vention of Mayor Wilson Wyatt OF
Louisville which finally deferred
him.
Meanwhile, Mayor Kelly's own
Illinois delegation bolted his leader
ship and refused to go for Truman
Secretary of the Interior Ickes
though a member of the Presidents
Cabinet, led the revolt.
THE only thing I am interested
in Ickes told the Illinois delega-
ton in secret caucus, lis the re-
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-31
Warsaw Reported Reached by Soviet Force!
King George 300 Yards
Distant When Two Nazi
Mines Explode in Italy

New York, It. Gen. Mark Clark and
other British and American military
leaders were lunching today.
The American soldier who set off
the mines inadvertently, was killed
instantly.
The conclusion was felt at the
lunch table but none were injured.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-31
PLANE DOWN;
rs ARE LOST

WASHINGTON, July 81. = The
War Department announces that a
C-54 transport presumably went
down last Wednesday between Ice
land and Newfoundland with 26
aboard including Is Army and three
Navy stretcher cases. The trans
port was enroute from Scotland to
Mitchell Field.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-31
SMASH IS
MILES TO
KEY CITY
Entire German Forces in
Western France Now
Threatened

BULLETIN July 3l.-Am-
erican armored forces are fight
ing i'm the streets of Avranches
i'm an effort TO clinch control
of the town as springbOard
into central France.
Granville has been seized by
the Americans.
Torigni sur Wire, ~ miles in
land, has been captured by the
Yanks. The hamlets Of La
Reavierre and La Frectiere also
have been taken.
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF
THE ALLIED ExPEDITIONARY
FORCES, July 31.-A high speed
American armored column. brushing
through the Germans scrambled
Seventh Army, raced into Avranches
in dash of 10 miles from last re-
ported positions to establish a piv-
otal line threatening the flank of
the entire German defenses in
western France.
Avranches is go miles across the
Normandy Peninsula from the D.
Day beachheads.
A firm grip on the town will en-
able the Americans powerful tank
columns to swing around the Ger
mans toward Paris, I60 miles to the
east, or chop off Brest Peninsula
in an offensive to the south.
Avranches is located at the elbow
of a right angle formed by the Brest
and Normandy peninsulas.
Ready for Break
At any rate, the Allies have now
thrown a 500-mile arc across the
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-31
Pink Salmon
Run Starts in
Cordova Area

CORDOVA, Alaska, July 3l.-The
pink salmon run in Prince William
Sound started last Friday, and
more than 100000 fish poured into
the three local canneries. For two
days cannery crews worked l6 or
more hours daily to keep up with
the procession.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-31
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Cheering Frenlhmen Wei
come Ydnks Into
Towns
BY HAL BOYLE

ASSOCIATED Press Correspondent
BREHAL, France, July 3l.--Rose
garlanded Sherman tanks, rumbling
through lanes of cheering civilians,
cracked the German rear guard
defenses and rolled southwark
through this coastal village, as
knife brandishing French youths
helped to round up hundreds of the
pocketed demoralized Nazis.
Not since the capture Of Ferry
vile in the Tunisian campaign
have the American troops received
such a heros welcome as that ac-
corded to the Yankee tankmen.
The long armored columns were
decorated from head to foot with
red and white roses and hydrangas,
showered on them in thousands by
laughing and weeping men, women
and children.
1t was veritable battle of flow
ers, but there has been much blood
spilled, too, on the whole coastal
march
ROmmel Runs Again
The Germans tried to make a
ctand north of Brehal to enable
trapped Nazi elements to pull out
of the fishing village of Granville,
but Lieut.. Gen. Omar Bradley's
vast mobile wedge speared through
on hot trail after the escaping
remnants Of Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel's broken legions.
AS soon as the last group Of
Nazis began a frantic withdrawal.
the French homes broke out the
tricolor.
Many of the American tanks rode
into battle with French flags tied
to their radiators.
In the thrust on Coutances and