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Evening star., 1944-07-02
BY HAL BOYLE,

hsSUCldlcu rIcSS WhT SOTIcSpOAOeuL. u.
WITH AMERICAN TROOPS
ON CAP DE LA HAGUE, July /.
last organized German
units northwest of Cherbourg
laid down their arms early to-
night before the pressing bay
onets of American troops, who
completed mopping up the pen
insula by bagging 5000 prisoners
in the last 48 hours.
A number of German prisoners
brought back after being cornered
in their pillboxes were roaring
drunk, and it was indicated by one
that they kept up the battle of the
last few days only under the pistol
threats of their officers.
The officers paid bitter price
for this "do-or-die" stand. One
captured officer said losses among
them ran on a much higher per-
centage basis than among the en-
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Allied BottIeships
Pounding lie Hovre,
Nozi Agency Reports
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 1.-The
German news agency, Trans
ocean, said today in wireless
dispatch not Immediately con-
f1rmed elsewhere that Allied
battleships in Seine Bay had
opened fire on the French city
and harbor of LIE Havre.
The dispatch, reported by the
Federal Communications Com
mission, said there is not yet
any report of the effect of the
bombardment." The dispatch
followed a German broadcast
stating that Allied landings
were being effected" behind a
thick smokescreen least of the
Orne Estuary"
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holed-in japanese, bypassed previ
OuSlV. were being wiDod o,lt

holed-in japanese, bypassed previ-
ously. were being wiped out.
The American forces were fight
ing over rough terrain-ridges
slashed by ravines and dotted with
caves. The work of consolidati ting
gains was slow and tough.
The Japanese continued their
nightly nuisance raids over Ameri-
'can-held areas. One japanese
plane was shot down.
Tinian Blasted Again.
Naval shells and aerial bombers
rained without halt on nearby
Tinian Island in an effort to neu-
tralize Japanese gun positions
there.
Rota Island, about 50 miles
south of Saipan. was subjected to
its daily aerial blistering Thursday
Buildings and runways were blasted
by carrier planes. Japanese air.
craft did not attempt interception
Far to the north Navy planes
staged a predawn attack on the
.kurile Islands. Paramushiro and
Shumushu were bomber Thursday
Again the japanese offered no air
tSee PACTFIC page A-s1
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Colts and lambs were gamboling in
pastures swept a few days ago by
shells, hand grenades and bullets.
Farmers carts had taken the place
of tanks and tank destroyers.
Military police were directing
traffic at the crossroads. Only the
shell-shattered towns of st. Saveur
de LIE Comte, Valognes, Montebourg
and a few others where French
people were salvaging what was left
of their homes. were pathetic wit
nesses of the tide of battle which
had rolled over them.
I am trying to go back over my
notes tonight. They are rain
soaked, mud-spattered and stained
where blood has sprayed over them
They start with the scene in the
barnyard of a cross roads farm
house, where Maj. Gen. Manton s.
Eddy, commander of the 9th Di-
vision, and the colonels command
(Continlled an Page A-I CoiII,,,r .
Evening star., 1944-07-02

DEWEY HALLS ELECTION as proof
to world Of U. s. liberty. Page AT.
By the Associated Press.
Senator Samuel d. Jackson of
Indiana was picked yesterday to
serve as permanent chairman Of
the Democratic National Con-
vention opening in Chicago July
19 to select President Roosevelt
for another nomination if he
wants it. Gov. Robert S. Kerr of
Oklahoma had been chosen pre-
viously as keynoter.
This choice was announced as
Robert E. Hannegan, chairman of
the Democratic National Commit
tee. entrained for Chicago to COM
plete plans for the convention,
which will be held in Chicago Sta
dunn, scene of the Republican con-
vention last week-which nominated
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York
as its standard-bearer.
Senator Jackson-an appointee to
the Senate now running for Gov
ernor Of Indiana-was nominated
for the permanent Craftsmanship by
1See DEMOCRATS page 1-70
Evening star., 1944-07-02
$4,000 Danes Battle
German Garrison
In Copenhagen
Allied Flags Hoisted
As Potriots Prepare
For Fight to Finish
By the Associated Press.

STOCKHOLM, July 1.-Allied
flags flew tonight from barri-
cades in the streets of Copen-
hagen, where $4,000 Danish pa
triots, brandishing machineguns
and rifles, were reported ready
to fight to the finish against a
German garrison of 5000 being
bolstered hourly by other troops
rushing in from Zealand.
After night of street fighting,
during which one unconfirmed re-
port said German planes machine
gunned the demonstrators, the pa
triots broke out American, British,
Russian and Danish flags and hung
them defiantly above their impro.
vised "fortresses.
The Swedish newspap per Alton
bladet quoted a report from the
underground that the demonstra-
tors-who began a general strike
yesterday-now were $4,000 strong.
Smoke Seen Over City.
Observers at Malmo, Sweden, Just
across the Orc Sound from Copen-
hagen, said smoke could be seen
rising above the city, apparently
from the bonfires started by the
demonstrators.
The general strike was described
by the free Danes as 100 per cent
effective, and as a result food sup
plies shrank, water and electricity
were cut off, and all transportation
was at Standstill.
Unconfirmed reports said more
than 700 persons had been killed
or wounded, while the free Danish
press service reported that violent
street fighting had sent 400 persons
to hospitals.
So heavy was the demand for
ambulances, the service said, that
Communicated milk trucks were
carrying the wounded away.
Demonstrators ranged through
the streets, smashing more than 100
shops which refused to join the
strike
The Germans closed the harbor
of Copenhagen today. the press
Evening star., 1944-07-02
RommeI Reported
At Front as Both
Sides Rush in Men
HITLER ADMITS DEFEATS, but
says fanaticism' will bring victory.
Page A-3
GERMANS FALL BACK before 5th
and 9th armies in Italy. Page A-3.

By the Associated Press.
SUPREME ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, Sunday, July O.
Britain's I'd Army knocked out
Is German tanks and hurled
back a dozen enemy counter
attacks southwest of Caen yes
terday, while American troops
cleaning up the northwestern tip
of the Cherbourg Peninsula cap
tured 1000 Germans-boosting
Axis dead and prisoners on the
American front alone to nearly
$4,000 men.
Both the Allies and the Germans
were rushing men and material
into the line arching on three sides
Of Caen for impending critical tank
battles on the 120-mile invasion
route to Paris, and Marshal Erwin
Rommel himself was reported to
have arrived at the Caen front.
Headquarters communique No. So,
issued at 11:30 pm, said: mo fur
ther gains have been made in the
strong Allied bridgehead across the
Odon River" southwest of Caen.
Infiltration Unsuccessful.
A local enemy movement in the
vicinity of Esquay, 2 miles across
the Odon and miles southwest of
Caen, was noted by headquarters
which also said that enemy inf1ltra-
Evening star., 1944-07-02
Laugh|in Files Petition
Asking Impeachment
OF Justice Eicher
Sedition Defense Lowyer
Charges Jurist Uses Office
For Political Purposes
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

A petition asking impeach-
ment of Chief Justice Edward C..
Eicher of District Court, presid-
ing at the sedition trial, was filed
in the speakers Office at the
Capitol yesterday by James j.
Laughlin, a defense attorney.
The petition charged that Justice
Eicher has used his judicial office
for political purposes and has
been guilty of misconduct in office
by his arbitrary, tyrannical and
abusive attitude in the so-called
sedition case
The document will be referred to
the House Judiciary Committee
when Congress reconvenes early in
August. Meanwhile. it will remain
on file in Speaker Rayburns office.
Chairman Summers of the Judiciary
Committee may refer it to a sub
committee for investigation.
Mr.. Laughlin has been fined twice
for contempt of court in the course
of the long trial. The attorney cited
as alleged evidence of political ac-
tivity that Justice Eicher despite a
previous blanket ruling that he
would not consider defense motions
to subpoena witnesses at Govern
ment expense until two weeks before
the close of the prosecutions case,
held special hearing on a motion
by Ira Chase Koehne, a defense at
torney, for an order compelling Sen
ator Nye, Republican, of North
Dakota to deliver certain evidence
which he assertedly held. This hear
ing, according to the petition, was
held because of the jurist's intense
dislike" of Senator Nye, who at the
time was engaged in bitter strug-
gle for denomination in North
Dakota.
Justice Eicher was alleged to have
held the hearing, with all members
OF the press present" because the
judge well knew that the press of
North Dakota and the radio would
broadcast the fact that in some
-
Evening star., 1944-07-02
Nazis Hurled Back Dozen Times
Near Caen> 25 Tanks DESTROYED;
Yanks Clean Up Cap de La Hague
Drunken Nuzis Take u. S. Lives
In Futile HoIdout on Peninsula
Americans Bitter Over Needless Casualties
In Lost Days on Cop de Ia Hague

listed men who were fed up with
the hopeless struggle.
Feeling ran high among Ameri-
can front-line troops I met. They
felt that the stubborn Nazis had
cost needless lives in a battle al
ready lost.
At forward post, 1t. Col. Robert
Robb of San Francisco told me:
"You can't blame our boys for feel
ing they ought to have bayoneted
them rather than accept their sur
render.
Some 5000 Of them sit there nice
and snug in concrete bunkers and
pillboxes. killing our men in a lost
cause and then when we surround
them and start blasting them out
they come forward with hands up.
They should have done that days
ago.
Most organized resistance had
ceased by noon and then it was only
question of chopping up a few
isolated units. We made a spec
Evening star., 1944-07-02
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sunday, July O.
Driving irresistibly westward,
Red troops made advances of as
much as 20 miles on the fianks
OF the White Russian capital of
Minsk yesterday and captured
more than 500 places, including
the large railway center of
Borisov, Moscow announced.
The days fighting. adding thou
sands more killed and captured
Germans to the losses already in
flicted on the shattered Nazi
forces, prepared the way for a
final assault on Minsk itself.
Eddy Gilmore, Associated Press
correspondent, in dispatch from
Moscow said three of the four
Russian armies fighting in White
Russia already had united their
forces and begun their attack on
the great city which guards the
route to Warsaw and Berlin.
Borisov Occupied.
Borisov, city of $4,000 popula-
ton, 46 miles from Minsk on the
direct railway, was occupied early
yesterday after a night of violent
street fighting in which more than
5000 Nazi officers and men were
killed, Moscow's supplementary
communique early today said.
Even before Borisov fell Red
troops had driven far beyond and
Moscow announced that two distric.
centers north of Minsk, Begoml
and Pleshchenitsky, had been cap
tured.
In the south the 1st White Rus
sian Army of Marshal Konstanin K
Rokossovsky advanced 20 miles
northwest Of Slutsk and captured
Kopyl and two other towns.
Besides menacing Minsk from the
south, this drive also was pointed
directly at Baranowicze, big railway
junction in Old Poland.
Nazi General Captured.
Among the prisoners taken al
Bobruisk, 1t was disclosed, was Mai
Gen. Canaan, at one time the mill
tary commander of Orel and called
by the Russians "Hangman Canaan
for his mass murder of innocent
civilians
In the northern area of the White
Russian front Gen. Ivan Bagram-
ian's lst Baltic Army, apparently
driving toward Latvia, smashed
closer to Polotsk across the nu-
merous streams in the area and cap
tured Trosnitsa, two miles northeast
OF that German stronghold.
The 3rd White Russian Army
Of Gen. Ivan Cherniakovsky, driving
directly toward Minsk along the
rail line from Orsha, widened its
front on the western bank of the
Berezina River to 10 miles, the
Soviet communique said, and
plunged onward even while units
to the rear wiped out the last Ger
man resistance in Borisov.
1900 More Nazis Taken.
Flanking movements by other
Soviet troops were even closer to
the White Russian capital, which
field dispatches said was within
sound of battle
The capture of 10000 more Ger
mans by the 1st White Russian
Army also was announced in the
communique, which said that a Nazi
lSee RUSSIA Page A-4l
Evening star., 1944-07-02
Nelson Due to Leuve
Hospital This Week

BY the ASS0clated Press.
Chairman Donald NJ. Nelson of
the War Production Board, who has
been i'll with pneumonia at Doctors
Hospital here. is expected to be able
to leave the hospital this week, his
Office said yesterday.
Although Mr.. Nelson is reported
to be recovering satisfactorily, he
is not expected to return to his desk
for some time.
Evening star., 1944-07-02
Roosevelt MESSAGE
ToFisea| Farley Asks
Dynamic Economy
Morgenthou Is Named
Unanimously os Heed
Of Allied Conference
By the Associated Press.

by tne Associated PresS.
BRETON WOODS, N. H.. July
calling for "a dynamic and
a soundly expanding world econ
omy," President Roosevelt today
sent a message of confidence and
hope to the opening session of
the United Nations monetary
and financial conference.
Delegates from A nations, Joined
by an observer from a 45th, Dem
mark. heard Mr. Roosevelt's greeting
as they assembled in the mountain
encircled Mount Washington House
for three weeks of discussions out
of which may grow two new man.
moth international financial insti-
tutions.
They Immediately and unani-
mously named Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthau, head OF the
American delegation, as conference
president and heard him predict
their decisions will shape to a sig
nif1cant degree the nature of the
world in which we are to live"
WIN Consider 8 Billion Fund.
The group will consider proposals
for an $4,000, ,OOO, 900 monetary fund
designed to stabilize world curren-
cies and a $4,000, 900 900 bank for
reconstruction and development.
Emphasizing that. their discussions
will affect ordinary men and
women everywhere" Mr.. Roosevelt
said that only through a dynamic
and expanding world economy can
the living standards of individual
nations be advanced to levels which
will permit full realization of our
hopes for the future"
Secretary Morgenthau pleaded
with the delegates to conduct their
talks mot as bargainers but as part
ners; not as rivals but men who
recognize that their common well
fare depends. in peace as in war.
on mutual trust and joint en-
deavor."
The inaugural plenary session
only business meeting to which
newsmen are to be admitted-was
aeld in the flag -draped auditorium
Of the hotel.
Feverish Activity.
Delegates and their staffs who
arrived on two special trains this
morning found the hotel a scene of
feverish activity as workmen added
touches to the refurbish-
ing needed to make the building
after two years OF idle
ness. Painters and carpenters were
Furniture was being
moved and crate after craft of type
writer's. filing cabinets and other
ofice equipment was being shunted
from floor to floor.
The hotel grounds were declared
! military reservation for the dur
alton of the conference, with armed
MPs on duty. All those at the
conference, including delegates -
with rare exceptions-are required
10 double up in bedrooms. A
threatened crisis in the American
delegation was averted when last
minute arrangements were made to
provide room for one protesting
member.
Terming commerce the life blood
D. free society, Mr.. Roosevelt told
The conference the arteries that
larry that bloodstream must never
again be clogged by artificial bar
(See MONETARY, Page A-6.5
Evening star., 1944-07-02
I'd and 9TH Marine
And 18th Infantry
Divisions on Soipon

BY the Associated Press.
The I'd and 4th Marine Divi-
sions and the Army's 9th In
fantry Division form the "prin-
cipal components" of the ex-
peditionary troops fighting on
Saipan, the Navy disclosed last
night.
The Marine I'd Division pre-
viously had relieved the lst
Marine Division on Guadal-
canal and later launched the
attack on Tarawa. The 4th
Marine Division took part in
the Marshalls campaign.
Evening star., 1944-07-02

ton attempts from the east were
unsuccessful"
Front dispatches said the Ger
mans also hit the west flank of
the Allied bridgehead a dozen times
during the day with no success at
all These jabs were beaten off
in the Cheux, Granville -Sur-Odon
and Rauray areas, which are from
three to four miles northwest of
Esquay and on the north side of
the Odon.
The destruction of Is more Nazi
Evening star., 1944-07-02

NEW YORK, July l R.-Radio
France In Algiers said tonight in a
broadcast reported by the. Federal
Communications Commission that
Gen. Charles de Gaulle, leader of
the French National Committee of
Liberation, had returned to Algiers
from Rome.
Evening star., 1944-07-02
Lebunese Cabinet
Reported to Have Quit
3y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 1.-The French
radio at Algiers broadcast today
that the Lebanese cabinet had re-
signed, but that it was believed
Premier Riad el Solh would be
asked to form another cabinet.
The broadcast was reported BY
Federal monitors.
Evening star., 1944-07-02
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PACIFIC FLEET HEADOUAR-
TIERS, PEARL HARBOR, July l.
American marines and dough-
boys are slowly consolidating
their gains on bloody Saipan
Island as they liquidated pockets
OF Japanese hiding in caves be-
hind their lines.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz' S
communique today reported small
gains" Thursday and added that
Evening star., 1944-07-02
(See SEDITION, Page A-6.)
Houre Is Made d Viscount

LONDON, July lR.-Sir Samuel
Hoare, Ambassador to Spain, has
been made yiscouht, an an
nouncement from Prime Minister
Churchill's residence said tonight.
His elevation to the peerage creates
q vacancy In Commons,
Evening star., 1944-07-02
The Star Is the Greet Want Ad'
Medium Of Wushinoton

Thousands of people refer to the Columns of
The Star day for all things serve their
personal needs.
Todays columns set in uniform style in the least
possible space but In that serve all alike at
minimum cost to the advertiser and maximum convenience
to the public
These advertisements ready reference as they
are alphabetically indexed with the first indicating the
character OF the service.
Evening star., 1944-07-02
Important Post Here
Is Awaiting Armour
3 Would Leave U.S.. Without
Envoy to Argentina

U. s.. WITH BRITISH support, pre-
pairing to crack down" on Argen-
tina. Page Az
Evening star., 1944-07-02

Today's Sunday Star con-
sists of two sections in addi-
ton to This Week magazine
and the colored comics. All
the regular features are con-
solidated in these sections.
Evening star., 1944-07-02
'Yanks Consolidating
Their Gains Slowly
In Saipan Fighting
Pockets Of Jops Hiding
In Coves Behind Lines
Being Liquidoted

JAPS LAUNCH DRIVE NORTH
WARD from Canton to cut of
coastal area. Page AS
Evening star., 1944-07-02

{See RUSSIA, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1944-07-02
boriisov Taken;
Reds Press On
Toward kinsk
Moscow Reports
2O-MiIe Advances.
500 Places Captured

SOVIET RESTORES CITIZENSHIP
TO POLES fighting Germans.
Page A.
Evening star., 1944-07-02

(See INVASION, Page A-3)
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(See DENMARK, Page Al.
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tSee PACIFIC, Page A-5.)
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tSee BOYLE, Page A-4)
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tSee DEMOCRATS, Page A-7D
Evening star., 1944-07-02
Senator Jackson to Preside
At Democratic Convention
lndionon Chosen as
Honneeon Leaves
For Chicago

DEWEY Halls ELECTION as proof
to world Of u s. liberty. Page AT
Evening star., 1944-07-02

(See MONETARY, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1944-07-02
De GouIIe Ends Rome Visit

(See WAR LOAN, Page A-61
Evening star., 1944-03-17

Comdr. John Dwight Shea, United
States Navy, 33, who visited him
in the hospital. The younger boy
had mentioned his brother was in
the battle area, she said, but miles
away" A few hours before she re-
ceived the official notification two
weeks ago, Mrs. Shea said, she got
a letter from Comdr.N Shea pre-
pairing her for the news and saying
the sergeant was not wounded but
badly shaken up Comdr. Shea
heavily underscored the words, mot
hurt" his mother said.
Sergt. Shea later wrote letter
himself, his mother said, describing
his feelings when his brother ap-
peared beside him in the hospital.
BEST thing of all, mother" he
wrote. 1--WE seen Mike We had
a lot to talk about"
A third son, 1t. Comdr. William
w. Shea, United States Navy, 80,
is also in hospital, in Colorado,
from a long tour of
overseas duty. Mrs. Shea is proud,
she said, that none of her sons
has ever revealed his type of service
or battle station to her. She is
the widow of j. William Shea,
lawyer who died two years ago.
A native of Washington, Sergt.
Shea was studying at Georgetown
School when he enlisted
two years ago. The other two sons
are graduates of the United States
Naval Academy.
Evening star., 1944-03-17

r ~ a. - ~ -
near him in the
South Pacific,
h i S m o t h e r,
Mrs. Mary Ann
Shea, 4420 Win
dom place NV,
said today as
the Navy De-
partment re-
ported him as
wounded.
Mrs. Shea got
her information
on the nature
of her sons in
jury from his
older hrOt,her
Evening star., 1944-03-17
Bloody Clothing Proves
Only q Clue to q Skunk

BY the Associated Press.
EASTON, Pa. - Northampton
County detectives and State police
scented foul play when they were
called to investigate the finding OF
a boys blood-spattered clothing on
the bank Of the Delaware River near
Sandts Eddy.
Investigation disclosed that a boy
had killed a skunk-but not soon
enough. ,Ap
Evening star., 1944-03-17
FOR ITCHING OF
MINOR SKIN RASHES

get this medicated powder. Contains in
gradients often recommended by many
specialists for simple rashes. diaper rash
and chafng. Mexsana soothes and forms
coat of protection on tender skin.
Costs little. ALWAYS demand Mexsena.
Evening star., 1944-03-17
'Sergt. Shea Suffers
Shock From Blast in
japanese Air Attack

Marine Technical Sergt Robert
E. Shea, 81, is recovering from
severe shock as the result of
an explosion during an air attack
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-15
Entire Cestapo Likely
To Be Placed On Trial

Continued From Page One)
tiles Of political rehabilitation Of the
people.
So little reliable information has
been available for about five years
that there is no way of gauging
at present the extent of possible
underground organizations, the
probabilities Of separatist tenden-
cies among the several old Ger
man states, or any Of the multi
tude Of similar broad questions
which will have an important bear
ing, if they are not decisive, on
the future Of Germany.
The second factor-Russian fear
or suspicion-was described as be-
ing simpler to handle, although it is
of equal or perhaps greater impor-
lance to the hope of permanent
peace in Europe. The American
governments view was said to be
that, for the immediate future at
least and for the long run prob
ably, complete and wholehearted
Russian cooperation was the alb.
solute essential, and accordingly
there would be no presentation of
an Anglo American agreement
which the Russians might by the
widest stretch of the imagination
interpret as pressure on them.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-15
Health Board Favors
X-Ray. OF Teachers
Continued From Page One)

CONTINUED From Page One)
dition OF building and equip
ment, general operations and hand
ling, and refrigeration of places
that dress fish and poultry.
Neither the state nor county
government, he pointed out, have
ever had Specific regulations in
regard to dressing Of fish and poul.
try"
Addison Hewlett, chairman Of
the board of county commissioners
acted as spokesman in welcoming
of DR.. James H. Smith newly
elected dental member of the
board of health.
DR.. Elliot said that one new case
Of infantile paralysis was reported
Wednesday, the victim being
Donald Patterson, 4. of Sunset
Park. He added that another chile
from Sunset Park was under obser.
walton.