Altoona Mirror (Newspaper) - July 21, 1944, Altoona, Pennsylvania STOCKS The Circulation of the Altoona Mirror Yesterday WEATHER CLEAR COOL quota of waste paper this year is Are you providing your share 33 FRIDAY JULY TWENTYSIX FOUR CENTS TROOPS LAND ON GUAM New Party Showdown Is Seized On First American Island Lost to Japs BURGLARY OF HITLER OPENS GARS CHARGED TERROR REIGN TO BRAKEMEN Three Altoona Yard men Are Arrested by Police and Much Loot The Pennsylvania Railroad com pany for the past several months has been annoyed by the burglar izing of freight cars in traffic over the main line and through the Al toona It came to light claims from shippers for the loss of a varied class of mer and other amounting to several thousand dol The Middle and Pittsburgh divi sion police departments have been working on the robberies and burg laries for the past five months They followed up each claim for loss of goods in transit which might provide a clue to the perpetrators of the sacking of The arrest of three Altoona yard freight all on night by Shinn of the Pittsburgh police department and City Detectives Russell Sell and as noted in yes Altoona will clear up of burglary cases of the past few Shinn said All Night The three men taken into cus tody are Clarence Cox of 10 Sixth Norman P Maurer of 701 Crawford and George Hoover of No They were cd yesterday shortly before th noon hour and lodged up in th city prison on charges of bein dangerous and suspicious charac Shinn and his aides late conducted a search of the home of the three men with the resul that they said they recovered mer and other materials val ued at several hundred dollars When confronted with finding an recovery of identifie as having been in transit and con forming to goods reported lost bj shippers and the men are said to have confessed t the burglarizing of cars in the yarc over a period of five Shinn notified C Rodkey of the Pittsburgh division police who came to Altoona last After the loot he ordered the tion ot the three In formation will be made this after noon before Alderman Ira Shel charging the trio with burg Loot The police said they recovered a varied assortment of stolen good in the search of the homes of the three with the greater amount being recovered at the home of John Giles of the Middle division police department and his men have been working on car robber Just his men picked up a half dozen of large cartons of cigarets intended for distribu tion in vending It is be to be a part of the loot stol en by the accused Shinn this morning made an inventory of the goods In it was enough to have started a small Included in the loot were numerous cartons of various brands of cigarets for men in the armed forces sport ladies mens and also a con of babys There also were six empty beer one full empty bottles of chewing auto several zinc a a hydraulic jack and a light and ex tension cord bearing the companys mark of There were also several boxes of shotgun shells and revolver and rifle REICH Perpetrators of Bomb Plot to Be Ar rested or Shot on ALLIED DRIVE SUPPORTERS IN NORMANDY OF WALLACE OVER CONFIDENT i Marshal Rommel j Roosevelt Aide Says Truman Has Been FOR TERM BULLETIN July The DNB news agency said today that Ludwig described as one of the German gen leading the revolt against Adolf had been to Avoid British Liquor Board Makes Change Robert assistant enforcement supervisor of the Al toona district for the past four has been promoted to the position of supervisor by the Penn sylvania liquor control board and transferred to the WilkesBarre district Where he has already as his new The newly appointed assistant su for the Altoona district is William who was transferred from the Pittsburgh Backner is a veteran of ten years service with the liquor control In new position Backner will as assistant to Mark supervisor for the Al Continued on page column 1 By JOSEPH Staff July Hitler appeared to have regained firm control of Germany today with loyal air and gestapo forces ruthlessly tracking down dissident generals and other leaders of an abortive that threatened to plunge the reich into civil The German Transocean agency said Ludwig aged chief of the German general staff until was one of the generals leading the He was a brilliant but strongly opposed Adolf Hitlers ex Transocean did not disclose whether Beck had been Given command of all armed forces within retch and ordered by restore order at all Heinrich dreaded chief of the embarked on Continued on page column 6 By VIRGIL PINKLEY War Correspondent SUPREME July armies drove forward in drenching rain through five villages in Normandy today as Marshal Erwin Rommel with drew most of his tanks from the expanding British breakthrough salient along the road to Paris in order to escape a threatened en A United Press the Caen front reported that the battle still is going well with the definite failure of the German and it now is safe to say that the allied offensive is over the The battle of on the left flank of the Caen pocket raged into its second with British assault forces fighting ahead from the captured rail station on the edge of the Street On the left other British forces were fighting street battles in southwest of and the village of Bougy a and a to was clearing bank of the river four miles due south of and to the west a drive more than four miles Continued on page column 1 Requested by the HAS MOTHERS ARE BEEN JUNE 12 HOSPITALIZED NORMAN Norman Richard aged son of Edith Lear of 710 has been missing n action in France since according to a war department received by his mother Lear was a member of the and had been overseas for he past fourteen all of he time in His last let Continued on page column 2 Two of the three sons of and A Stahl of 2831 West Chest nut avenue seiving in the United States armed forces in the Euro pean area are patients in hospitals in one because of a wound and the other because of an according to word received by the parents Robert Stahl suffered a hip wound in the invasion but ac cording to his letter yesterday is under with good food and books to occupy his Fred Stahl is suffering from an infection of the right hand according to his letter yester is recuperating the letter being written as he Jay on a blanket in an orchard near the A third Bruce may also be in the family having last heard from him some weeks ago when he was still sta in All three young men have been Continued on page column 1 KILLED IN July Nelson Macy aged of member or the army general staff and Le ion of Merit was killed in action in according to word received here from his No official verification has come from the war in a fair imitation of the room huddle Text of Democratic platform will be found on page By LYLE WILSON Staff Correspondent CONVENTION HEAD CHIC A G July left and right wings contest that has been brewing in the new party for some time comes to a significant show down today when this Demo cratic national convention de termines whether to nate Vice President Henry Wallace or retire him to Balloting is expected to begin late this Strategy con ferences lasted here into the early morning famous of As the Wallace strategy meeting broke up there were claims of al most votes to renominate the vice the first bal But one of per sonal aides here scoffed at the re port and told a United Press re porter that the nomination of Sen ator Harry of had requested by the presi He said the suddenly en livened campaign for Wallace was against the expressed wishes of Presidential The president accepted his own fourth term renomination last night after a routine process of afternoon The score was Roosevelt Senator Harry Byrd of 89 James Farley of New The surprised delegates learned as the president talked that his radio speech was being made from a west coast naval But the presidents voice was the only calm note around this con Continued on page column 2 FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT By FRANK War Correspondent PEARL July 21 States assault expanding their foot hold in the inner defense zone pre paratory to striking at Japan landed on Guam early Thursday and seized beach heads on the first American island to fall to the Japanese in the Pacific a communi que announced Army and marine forces still were pouring ashore today under cover of a mighty sea and air bombard ment and against only moderate ground Chester early morning announce ment The invasion of a prewar United States naval station miles southeast of fol TIT i r i TIM lowed by only twelve days UPON fina conquest of 130 miles to the at the heaviest cost in any single operation iii RED ARMIES AIM PINCERS CONDUCTOR FDR Delivers Speech From Base T Text of the presidents ac will be found on page By MERRIMAN Staff WITH PRESIDENT ROOSE VELT AT A PACIFIC COAST NAVAL July Roosevelt began his formal fourth term campaign tonight in tlic heavily armed might navy aman ner that underlined his plans to seek reelection as a wartime com Roosevelt came try by traveling in strictest wartime secrecy and broadcasting his acceptance speech to the Chi cago Democratic convention from his special He was surround ed only by his top military and naval commanders and aside from a special his leisurely trans continental trip had none of the usual campaign year Wartime security regulations prevent exact description of the presidents he ex to the convention and a nationwide radio audience in his address tonight that he was at a west coast naval base in the per of my duties under the While he did not refer to him self as speci Continued on page column 2 By Staff July power ful Russian outflanking the fortress city of Brest drove strong spearheads westward today in a giant pincers movement on with one of the armies only ninetyfour miles from the Polish The new offensive came as other soviet forces hammered out steady advances along the entire front from Latvia in the north to Lwow in the where the red army troops struck within five miles of the huge railway center and began a terrific artillery bombardment ot the German A German report that Ivan me 1 war Russian army was eight miles from East was not confirmed by the The dual drive toward was being carried out by Marshal Konstantin 1st White Russian army frum north and south of Best Marshal Ivan SUFFERS INJURIES Freight Wakefield of 515 Sixth ave a Middle division freight is a patient in the Lewistown hospital as the re sult of an accident which befell him in the Lewistown yard at oclock yesterday He attempted to get on a gondola car of his which was stand ing in the He slipped and fell and when removed to the it was found that he had sus a fracture of the left hip and body Postal Stations Are Limited By Number of Applicants That some sections of the city re without the postal conveniences nd accommodations afforded by is due to a lack of for the Paul Tillard cx The postmasters statement was le in answer to scattered com received by the postoffice nd this newspaper against the ab ence of postal station service in ome sections of the city while ther districts continue to enjoy for has been a postal station for a year r Other areas have lacked he services of centrally located tations for shorter periods of Substation service has been re in two districts in recent and postoffice officials arc their efforts to reopen tations in other Fully the inconvenience caused y the absence of a station in Eldo ado Postmaster Tillard has con all business houses in that area at regular intervals during the past attempting to interest them in bidding for the but to no Eleven substations are in op in the city at this time and there arc five vacancies waiting to be Stations closed in recent months arc as follows at Eighth avenue and x Seventeenth street at Eighth avenue and street at Grant avenue and Kettle and at Sixth avenue and Fiftyeight Each of these districts has been periodically sur in efforts to reestablish the Tillard Twentyfour contract postal sta tions were in operation here a doz en years ago but the number was reduced approximately onehalf during the depression of the early thirties after a survey by tors of the department in Continued on page column 5 RAIN TOTAL The rain of yesterday afternoon and last night amounted to 44 of an according to measurements at the railroad test department The high temperature yesterday afternoon was 74 de the low last night was 58 degrees and at 9 oclock this morn ing the temperature stood at 61 BOMBING July Ger mans resumed their flying bomb attacks on London and southern England early today causing an undisclosed number of casualties and The first bombs fell shortly after following a lull since yesterday and Wreck Halts Train Service Passenger and freight traffic over the Middle division of the vania was delayed for sev eral hours this morning by a freight wreck at oclock which occurred a short distance east of the passen ger station at Twelve Nazi Forces Entrenched on Monte Pisano By REYNOLDS PACKARD War Correspondent July com bat of the 5th army stabbed Ukrainian army from Kowe further Their two forces joined yester day at thirty miles southwest of to open the way for a heavy assault toward one of the key German de fense points on the railway to War troops were fan ned around Brest to north at thirtyone miles south of and to the south along a front on the east bank of the Bug In the center of the the White Rus sian troops held twenty seven miles east of Brest and across the Arno river while I Morc than and the entrenched on Monte continued sporadically into day but no persons were The special with seventyone was moving east from Altoona to loaded with various commodities consign ed to eastern While the train was between the passenger station and the to the the fifteenth car of the train was derailed by a broken flange on a The eleven following cars left the rails and blocked all four halting all main line traf Superintendent and members of his staff went to the scene of the wreck and Continued on page column 8 and Pisano guarding the approaches to WEATHER July Western and cool Fair weather over the a artillery bombardment of The patrols were probing Ger man defenses on the north bank of the where the enemy was believed to have constructed strong points of pillboxes and antitank guns especially at fording sites in an effort to halt the American drive toward The main body of Lt Mark Clarks 5th already spread along a front on the south was cleaning out Continued on page column 2 ments were liberated the three days of the thirtymile drive that carried to the south of Brest where the troops were only twelve miles cast of one of the outlying protec tive bases before Furious tank battles were re ported along the with the Germans losing scores of armored vehicles and more than dead The battle for one of the greatest railway centers in was believed approaching a with forces hammering at the citys outskirts with artillery t and tanks from which fell American Heavy Bombers Hit At Roots of Nazi Air Force First First reports indicated that initial opposition was not as strong as that encountered at but the islands 225 square miles as compared with seventy one may foreshadow a longer cam The invasion came while Japan was in the midst of its gravest 3rd White political crisis of the Only fighting at Tokyo announced the fall of the warlord cabinet of Premier Hideki Tojo as aftermath of the conquest of Sai pan with naval base and air fields miles below Hundreds of planes and the big guns of and cruisers and destroyers from the 1st powerful 5th fleet paved the way for the landing with an almost non stop bombardment lasting seven teen most intensive ever mounted for any amphibious oper ation in the Pacific Terrific The terrific barrage of bombs and shells reached its peak as tiny assault amphibious tanks and tractors and other landing craft put out from transports and moved toward the shore in the dark All the landings were effected a spokesman indicating that nowhere were the Americans kept off the beaches where they wished to move The size and scope of forces in volved was described as compar able to those who landed on Saipan three divisions or 000 No official estimate of the siza of the Japanese garrison was avail but it was assumed that enemy had made an attempt to im prove his defenses in the past few southernmost and largest of the Marianas fell to tha Japanese after only minor resist ance four days after Pearl The Japanese claim ed to have captured 300 Thirty Miles island is thirty miles four miles wide at its northern end and eight and onehalf miles in the The southern two thirds of the island are rugged with hills rising to while the northern third comprises a plateau 300 to 600 feet Apra Guams main port Continued on page 7 twentysix miles Carl aged of 1113 Fifth avenue suffered a fracture of the left arm and a severe lacer ation of the right leg early yes afternoon when he fell while climbing over the old stone quarry at Columbia Ten sutures were required to close the laceration of the leg when he was in Mercy hospital The arm fracture is of the green stick He was re moved to the hospital by a motor ist stopped by the boys Just how far the boy fell can not be estimated by his companions but Carl was climbing along the face of the some distance from the The boys had stopped there on a bicycle Demonstration For Wallace By United CHICAGO STADIUM Four years ago they greeted him with boos evening and night Democrats jammed in great stadium gave Vice Presi dent Henry Wallace the greatest demonstrations of the convention to who came here to fight to the finish for his renomination in the face of strongly entrenched conservative faced his friends and foes and told them that the Democratic party cannot long survive if it abandons liberal prin He was seconding the nomination of President man he Continued column By WALTER War July fleet of more than American heavy bombers struck at the roots of the nazi air force today in a heavy attack on aircraft assembly and ball bearing plants in southeastern Germany after a similar force of British night bombers smashed the enemy through the Belgium and northern The 8th air force bombers ham mered an assembly plant ati Reg fiftyfive miles southeast of the vital ball bearing factories at and Eber bach also in the Nurnberg and other military targets in south ern Nazi radio stations also reported that other American bombers had struck into Germany from but this was not immediately con firmed by allied The German reports came after hundreds of including heavy headed across the chan nel at apparently for tactical targets far behind the battle front in Heavy clouds blanketed the fight ing and the chan nel straits were lashed by a halting almost completely aerial support for and Ameri can troops in During the night heavy RAF bombers split into small task units to batter the Germans synthetic oil plants at Hamborn and Bottrop welheim in the Ruhr the industrial city of an important rail junction at Courtrai in and flying bomb installations in northern Lancaster and fought through intense antiaircraft fire and swarms of enemy fighters in smashing the Hamborn and Bot trop two of the largest in Continued on page column 6 Answer Given By ERNEST BARCELLA 1 Staff Correspondent CHICAGO July The Democrats had a answer for the Republicans Clare Luce and her Jim movie actress who matched her glamor and a war correspondent who said nobody could presume to talk for Jot or L Prom the very rostrum Luce turned on the charm and oratory for GOP three weeks Helta Gahagan Douglas and dent Reynolds did same for the Democrats last Miss California Continued on page column 1
