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Southeast Asia Headquartera. Randy, Ceylon, June 26-(UP) Chinese troops closed in on the trapped Japanese garrison inside Mogaung today after capturing the southern half of the town, one ok the enemy's former strongholds im northern Burma on the Mandalny~ Myitkyina railway.
 A communique said the Japanese were fighting bitterly inside the town against Allied troops which were driving from the north. west and south in an effort to seal on another point on the enemy supply route to its southern forces.
 Other Allied forces continued their slow penetration of Myifkyina. 36 miles east of Mogaung, and Cha communique scaid airburne Chin dits made further progress on tIle western edge of the rail, river and road center on the Irrawaddy.
 In the Manipur hills Of India. where British imperials recently cleared the 60-mile highway fr0n1 Imphal to Kohina, troops were mppoing up the scattered japanEAs forces. The enemy was reported 30 have lost almost its entire 56th xess iment and all the guns of the eth regiment in the Manipur fighting.
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Dewey Piles Up Big TotoI

Convention Headquarters, Chicago, June 26 - (UP) - Here's how the assured votes shaped up today for the Re-. publican conventions first banOt on a presidential nom- inee:
 Dewey (679)-Alabama 12; California 50; Connecticut 16; Delaware g; Florida 10; Georgia IA; Idaho II, Illinois 50; Kansas 19; Msasahcuse,Hj 30; Maryland 16; Mihcigan 41; Missouri l9 ;Montana 8; Me- 'braska 14s Nevada 6; New Jer- sey 34; New Mexico !; New York 93; North Carolina B; Oklahoma 2l; Oregon Is Pennsylvania 70; South Dakota II; Tennessee 19; Texas 21; Utah 8; Virginia 2; Vermont g; Wisconsin IT; Hawaii 2; Puer- to Rico 2.
 Brickner (7D-AIabama 2; Florida 5; Missouri 4; New Jersey 1; New Mexico I; North Carolina 2; Ohio 50; Oklahoma 1; Texas II.
 Stassen (36)-MinnesOta 25; North Dakota II.
 Numebr of delegates-l,05
 Number of votes required to win nOminatiOn-529.
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British Break Through Nazis' Central Line In Italy
NEA Telephoto,
BY ROBERT VERMILLION United Press War Correspondent

(Untted Press War COrTeSpOndent)
 Rome, June 26. - (UP) n British 9th Army troops broke through the center of the German line north and west of Perugia after three days of bitter fighting, while American forces on the west coast captured the port town of Pionbino and swept on to within 38 miles of Livorno (Leghorn), the second larg- est Italian harbor left in German hands, a communi- que said today.
 Hard fighting was continuing along a 25-mile front from the Perugia area to the west shores of Lake Transimeno and down into the city of Chiusi, bout official re- ports said the Germans were being hammered back relentlessly by Brit ish, South African and Indian armored columns.
 The 8th Army advances yesterday were measured in hundreds of yards, but headquarters spokeSmen said the strongest enemy defenses in the Perugia sector had been preached and that the British veterans were sweeping forward rapidly today.
 Tank columns experimenting the advancing infantry rode hard on the heels of the retreating enemy, frequently surprising demolition squads left behind to destroy roads and bridges.
 By mid-afternoon yesterday, one wing of the British line reached Pi- anello, eight miles northeast of Perugia, while 8 second spearhead thrust up the west shore of Lake Trasimeno to within two miles of Castiglione. Nine miles to the south west, strong German forces still were holding out inside Chiusi, but they already had been by-passed by the British advance and had little choice but to retreat.
 Forward Elements
 Forward elements of the 9th army were within about 50 miles of the
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Ole Olsen Opens Drive
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN

~. P. Hollywood COrrespOndent)
 Stadium, Chicago, June 26. = Ole Olsen, assistant sergeant-at- arms of the Republican Na- tional Convention, climbed wearily into the upper tiers of the stadium today to open his private campaign for reelection of President Roose- welt.
 The Republicans approached by the sweating sergeant gulped at the thought, but Olsen said he was des- perate. He said if MT. Roosevelt didn't go back to the White House this fall, Mrs. Roosevelt obviously wouldn't, either, and then where would he and Chick Johnson be?
 Sunk" he said, answering him. self. If MT. Roosevelt doesn't get this job in November then all the gags about his wife that Chick and I have thought up for our new show this fall lose their meaning. She runs all through the play.
 we spent $250 for mask to make girl look just like her and we have her in coal mines and up- per berths and Kansas tornadoes We've even got her in a bathing beauty contest. She comes out on the stage with a ribbon across her chest, Miss Everywhere. It's all sure fire stuff. And that isn't all"
 It certainly isn't. One feature
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ALL CHERB0URc I'M ALLIED HANDS
 Greatest Russian Offensive Rages
Americans Swarm Through Streets Of Great City Fortress
BY VTRGIL PTNKLKY

United Press War COrrespOndemtl
 Allied Supreme Headquax. ters, London, June 26. - (UP) = Triumphant A1neKi- can troops swarmed through the streets of Cherb0urg to- day against resistance so light as to indicate the Ger mans had abandoned thelx erstwhile violent defense O1 the city, a dispatch datelined "Cherbourg, 8 a. m." re- ported.
 As the Americans plunged in to give the coup de Grace to the last diehard clements of the German garrison, the Nazis wrote off the Nor mandy port and an Allied communique said it's ccnn- plete liberation cannot be long delayed"
 United Press War Correspondent Henry T. Gorrell, in a dispatch from Cherbourg, said United States armor and infantry slashed through the streets in 6 heavy rain and. in some parts of the city, under heavy artillery fire from Cap DO La Hague to the northwest.
 German resistance at Fort Dll Roule, one of the strongest of the German forts in the system guaFd- ing the city's south gates, collapsed today, Gorrell reported, when D. s. shock troops destroyed its big guns with charges of TINT.
 i The Americans had rounded m 3,400 prisoners in the last 24 hours. Gorrell said. The rate of tils roundup, tfre Nazi shelling of parts of the town, and the dwindiinE oE resistance in the streets indicated ta him that the German defense wA4 about over.
 Isolated German strong points on the right flank continued resist ance. There were pockets of re- sistance in the Hardinvast area. m the western section of the city. only sporadic sniping from buildings in the arsenl area innpeded the Ameri- cans.
 Some Germans were holding out in the Fort St. Saveur area. Die hards fought back as patrols pence trated the regions of Brenavilie, Beaumont Hague and Ste. Crolx< Hague.
 The nassing of artillery on Cap De La Hague, from which coastal batteries also were active against Cherbourg, suggested that the Nazie were seeking to deny the Alias the use of the harbor as long as possible, Gorreli said.
 CThe Blue network reported in & broadcast from Normandy that organized enemy resistance in Cher- bourgh ceased just after dawn this morning. Cherbourg is ours. but the port is still under artillery fire.")
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By JACK GAvER

Limited Press Stan COrrespendent)
 New York, June 26.-(UP)-Any serviceman who feels the urge to write a song and is proud enough of his misdemeanor to want the public to know about 1t can get at least a one-shot professional play ing of it by sending the manuscript along to bandleader Andy Padova at the Warwick hotels Raleigh room. Padova's found out that he's really let himself in for something,
 So far the band leader has re- ceiYed 107 songs from servicemen. And you'll never guess what % per cent 0f them are about. Love. Just
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neSs'' instead. The family immedi- ately on receipt of the message communicated with the War De- partment and this weekend receiv- ed confirmation of the report.
 Staff Sergeant Lubinskas enter ed the service Jan. 21, 1942 and re- ceived basic training at Camp Pick ett, Va. He was sent overseas in May, 1943 and served in Sicily and other Mediterranean posts before getting an assignment to Anzio. His last letter here came May 25.
 The youths family today express ed the belief the cousins report in effect speeded the War Depart ment's announcement of the casual ty. The War Department communi- cation, which ordinarily would have been addressed to the soldiers par- ents, was addressed instead to his sister, who wrote to Washington of the message reaching here from the lighting front.
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G. o. P. Platform Makers
 Work Against Deadline

it's product will be ready for the full conventions seal of approval tomorrow.
 Taft hoped, but with fading prospects of success, that he could offer the convention a declaration of policy as streamlined as the shortened convention schedule and with an unanimity of support com parable to the steam-rolling Dewey presidential drive.
 A convention floor fight on for- eign policy threatened despite six months of intensive efforts among party leaders to eornpromise ua-
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De1Uey For President Unless Miracle Stops
By LYLE c. WILSON litAd Press Staff COrrespOndent

On1teu fFeSS StaIK COrEeSpOuueuL
 Chicago Stadium, June 26. (UP)- Thousands of cheering Republicans seated tier-on-tier in this big sta dium began a noisy victory chant today as the party's national con- vention opened to nominate Thomas Edmund Dewey for President of the United States.
 There were some preliminaries but the New York Governors nomina- ton, scheduled for some time Wed- nesday morning, is the principal business. The successful candidate awaited the draft in Albany with a ticket to Chicago in his pocket dated June 28. He will arrive here Thursday and, barring political miracles, will accept his nomination that night.
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young Smith, 8 staff sergeant with the U. s. Rangers, went overeaS last October with the Rangers, landing in England.
 Previously he has seen action with the Connecticut National Guard in two major battles in the Pacific theater of war. Staff Sergeant Smith joined the colors in 1941 with the National Guard, the year that organization was federalized. In the interim between 1941 and going overseas to England he has been stationed at Fort Benning. Georgia, at Officers Candidate School many months. He was an undergraduate at Wilby High School before join ing the colors.
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Fred Smith Killed In Wor

Frederick D. Smith, 21, only child of MT. and Mrs. Frank Smith of 60 Lounsbury street and a former em- ploye of the circulation department of The Waterbury Democrat, was killed in France, June 6, invasion day, according to a telegram his parents received this morning from the War Department.
 Engaged to Miss Kathleen Sheehy of Hill street, student nurse at St.. Mary's Hospital Training School,
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NAz| FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN
 LIKE FLIES
BY HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent)

BY HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff COrrespondent)
 Moscow, June 26. - (UP) = Russian storm troops battIed through the streets of encircIed and tOttering Vitebsk today, chopping down the survivors of its 5000 to 75,OOO trapped Nazi defenders and hOisting the Red banner atop one of the biggest buildings in the White Russian stronghold.
 The Red Army's general su m mer offensive W a s spreading along a 285-mile battleline to cl mp a stranglehold on Vitebsk, outflank Orsha, and threaten Moglier and Bobruisk, key stones of the defense of W1lL6 nuSSld.
 We have broken the so- called German defense wall for White Russia" a front dispatch said. Panic IS spreading among the Ger man officers.
 (Nazi boadcastS acknowledged that the vitebsk garrison was cut oft, that the Russians scored a rather deep penetration" in the Bobruisk area to the south, and had gained more ground southwest of BobruisS and east of Mogilev and on the W- tebsk front)
 Highlighting the offensive launch ed against the strongest German hedgehog system on the entire Rus sian front was the assault on Vi- tebsk, climaxing a brilliant flanking maneuver in which two Soviet ar mics sliced in behind the big base and sealed 1t off for battle of ex- termination against the German garrison.
 White Russian dispatches said the assault forces were blazing their way through the streets of Vitebsk and swiftly disposing of remnants Of five German divisions.
 Some German clements which es- capped from Vitebsk before the trap closed were reported falling back along the highway toward Orsha, 47 miles below Vitebsk. But with Orsha itself in imminent danger, the en- countered a new threat.
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Delegates began streaming into the hall an hour ahead of time, but the stadium filled slowly. Despite the high enthusiasm of 8 political party which believed it was turning the corner after 12 lean years, this was a serious gathering, made so by war and a strong Republican feeling that President Roosevelt should be retired to private life.
 It was in this stadium 12 years ago this month as the Democrats named Franklin Delano Roosevelt for the first time and the Repub- licans went through the hopeless motions of putting up Herbert Clark Hoover for a second term.
 The weather was hot and sticky
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ANTI-CLIMAX

Cambridge, Mass, June 26-(UP) Ut. (jg) Francis Scott Key of Gib- son, Ga., descendant of the Star Spangled Banner" composer and a naval student at Harvard college, reports that $1S5 worth of jewelry was stolen from his apartment last night.
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SerDicenen Say Writers Are GiDen BroadlDay Break

plain, old-fashioned, June-moorl- soon love. Tin Pan Alley had better look to its laurels.
 "One odd thing about the songs is that so far I haven't received a single waltz" Padova said. About 90 per cent are fox trots, seven per cent are marches and the other three per cent consists mostly of Latin rhythms. I guess I'll have to wait until some of our boys get to Vienna before I get any waltzes out of them"
 Padova said he hadn't found any thing yet that sounded like it had
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By JOHN .. CUTTER

Limited Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Convention Headquarters, Chi cago June 26.-(UP)-The Repub- lican national conventions resolu- tons committee raced against time today in an effort to trim and pol ish an anti-regimentation platform from which Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the virtually-certain presidential nominee, can huTl his challenge of the New Deal.
 Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio committee chairman, kept his draft ing subcommittee in session far into the night and called them back for 1l a. n. EWr today In the hope that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-26

Stadium, Chicago, June 26. .-(UP) - Governor Dwight H. Green of Illinois welcomed delegates to the opening ses- sion of the 1944 Republican National Convention today with the assertion that the hopes of the American people for a restoration of free and constitutional government are pinned on a COP victory in November"
 "The eyes of the nation are focused on this meeting, and the American people are eagerly await ing the selection of our candidates" !" he said. "They realize that the parasitic growth of bureaucracy which is rapidly absorbing the last vestings of their civil liberties must be halted abruptly if America is to be saved from the very Fascism which their sons are fighting to de- stroy on foreign soil"
 Green, predicting a Republican victory in November, said i've will win because the Republican party emerges again as the only major polite force in the United States which stands forthrightly and four lTsquare for the republic and it's con stitution.
 "The most serious threat to our liberties" he said, lis the assump- ton by Q small group that 1t pos- sesses a monopoly on wisdom, good will, and social justice; group that seeks to exercise arbitrary power over the legislative and judicial departments of government by its concentration in Q domineering bureaucracy"
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Robot Bombs BIitz Again
BY WALTER CRONKITE

United Press War CorrespOndent)
 London, June 26 - W.P) - Nazi robot bombs hit southern England this afternoon in the first daylight attacks since Friday as hundreds of Allied warplanes swept across the Channel to renew their assaults on the battlefields and enemy com munications in France.
 The daylight raids followed wide attacks over the continent last night when Allied planes hit Germany
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Local Lad
 Dies sInAction

Staff Sergeant Victor Lubinskas, son of MT. and Mrs. John Lubins- kas of IT Poplar street, was killed in action at the Anzio Beachhead June 2. according to word received by his family from the War Depart ment, following an unofficial report from the fighting front.
 First reports of the casualty came in letter last Wednesday from the soldiers cousin, who stated he went to the sergeant's post to meet him for 8 re-,inicn and received "bad
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Conn.'s 's16
 Swing to Tom
Especial to The Democrat)


 Chicago, IL, June 26.-Connecti- cuts IS delegates to the national convention at Chicago have aban- doned the plan to present the name of Governor Raymond E. Baldwin tot he convention and will cast their votes for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York on the first presi- dential ballot.
 According to reports, Gov. Bald win will now accept renomination this fall as the states chief execu- tive contingent upon certain defin- ite stipulations. It is possible how ever, that he may possibly withdraw his plans in favor of lucrative offers made from private concerns. Providing he agrees to run again this year it seems likely that the state G. o. P. party as it now stands will remain intact for the fall elec- tionS.
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Score Heauily
 In Marianis BI0w
BY FRANK TREMAINE Limited Press War COrrespOndentl


 Pearl Harbor, June 26.-(UP)- American troops captured towering Mount Tapotchau overlooking Tanapag harbor on Saipan, a front dispatch reported today, and high ranking officers with the invasion forces expressed confidence that the entire Marianas group, less than l. 800 miles from Tokyo, will be seized.
 The Japanese attempted coun- ter-attack before dawn this morning, the dispatch said, but the assault failed as the Americans held firm ly to positions on the mountain, one of the prize targets on Saipan and focal point for new drives against the enemy in the northern part of the island.
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Wounded U. P. Correspondent Brings Back Cherbourg Story

Editors Note-After being wound ed in the back by a shell fragment Richard D. McMillan, veteran Uni ted Press War Correspondent, con- tinued into Cherbourg and wrote the following eyewitness descrip- tion of the entry of American as- sault forces. Outside the town yes- terday he was pinned down by a heavy German barrage. The shell which wounded McMillan in the fleshy part of the back killed serg- cant standing beside him and severey wounded several officers.
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 By RICHARD D. MCMILLAN United Press War Correspondent
 Cherbourg, June 25 = (9:20 p. m.) -(UPO - American assault troops have cracked the German defense ring and were flowing into the center of Cherbourg tonight but the Ger mans still were giving fanatical re- sistance at by-passed strong points.
 I entered the town from the southwest, leaving by jeep in the outskirts and proceeding on foot. l passed block after block of white stucco houses and large factory buildings which bore no mark of war. Off to the east, however, l could hear the sound of heavy fighting and the detonation of Ger man demolitions sounded from the waterfront.
 French civilians came down out of dugouts in the hillsides above their houses to tell me that the Germans had retreated toward La Roule, a fortress on the southeastern fringe of Cherhourg, leaving snipers in houses.
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Noxon TriuI In 5th Week
By JOSEPH NOLAN

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Pittsfield, Mass, June 26.-CUP)- Attorney John F. Noxon Jr.'s mur- der trial went into its fifth, and possibly final week today with the prosecution intent on breaking down the testimony of a defense medical witness who supported the socially
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lReeistration Week June 26th, July sfh. snmmer School July 6. Rogt Ir. College ok CammeKces
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GOP'ERS OPEN CONVENTION IN
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BULLETIN

Chicago, June 26. - (UP) - The Dewey forces have selected Governor Dwight Griswold of Ne braska to make the nOn- mating speech for the New York governor, it was learned today.
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-04-13

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
that the Subscriber has obtained
from the Orphans Court Of Mont
gomery County, in Maryland, Let
tiers Testamentary on the Person
al Estate of
MARY T. KRAMER
late of Montgomery County, de-
ceased. All persons resident and
nonresident having Claims against
the said deceased, are hereby
warned to exhibit and file, the
same, in said Court, with vouch-
ers thereof, on or before the 18th
day of October next: they may
otherwise by law be excluded from
all benefit of said Estate. All per-
sons indebted to said Estate are
requested to make immediate
payment.
Given under my hand this 9Th
day of April in the year of our
Lord, one thousand nine hundred
and forty-four.
WILLIAM L. KIRKLAND,
1874 Executor.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-04-13
JAMES H. PUGH,
Attorney at Lda0
Rockville, Md.
&c To Creditors

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
that the Subscriber of Montgom-
cry County, has obtained from the
Orphans Court of Montgomery
County, Maryland, Letters of Ad-
ministration on the Personal Es-
tate of
LOTTIE M. FRIZZELL
late of Montgomery County, de-
ceased. All persons having Claims
against the deceased, are hereby
warnd to exhibit the same, with
vouchers thereof, legally anthem
ticated to the subscriber on or be-
fore the 9Th day of October next /:
they may otherwise by law be ex-
cluded from all benefits of said
Estate. All persons indebted to
said Estate are requested to make
immediate payment.
Given under my hand this 29th
day of March in the year of our
Lord, one thousand nine hundred
and forty-four.
CHARLES E. FRIZZELL,
c/o Hilltop Inn,
Macarthur Blvd,
879 Friendship Station, d. C.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-04-13

for Montgomery County, as a
Court of Equity, ORDERED that
the plaintiff cause copy of this
Order to be inserted in some news
paper printed and published in
Montgomery County, Maryland,
once a week for four successive
weeks before the 9th day of May
next, giving notice to the said
nonresident defendants Of the
purpose and substance of this Bill,
and warning them to be and APP
pear in this Court in person or
by solicitor on or before the 18th
day of May, 1914, to answer the
premises and show cause, If any
they have, why decree should not
be passed as prayed.
CLAYTON X. WATKINS,
Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County,
Maryland.
CLAYTON X. WATKINS,
013 Clerk.