Bradford Era (Newspaper) - August 8, 1944, Bradford, Pennsylvania 1877) Oldest Newspaper la the Rich Bradford Oil Field Published Every Morning Except Sunday The Newspaper That's Read In the Home TUESDAY AUGUST 8, 1944. ASSOCIATED FOUR CENTS of spital M Cases in Set If me Strikes Building Will Be Converted Into tjon Unit Fully Equipped to Administer to Methods of Treatment If Necessary tismA intended to provide the best possible keni any polio cases are reported in Bradford yv officials of the Bradford hospital bounced that of that town behind movement to adequately bj infantile paralysis cases which may develon i or immediate * & superintendent of is often & attending physician diagnose of this aid of the the latest are difficult tie average has provided to take fluid for These be carried out any of the patients for Transfer reveals that a ften the hospital er those patients department and surgical hospital and to use building as an hospital has on to admit the officials are voluntarily the doors of this sincere effort to immunity health German Troops PuU Out of South France as president announced of the polio situations taken in $ would be held at members of the society and interne mayor's today at 5 p. m. cases of infantile said Mayor it sensible to 2taa in view of the * in other roops Move Son for * Assault men moved into the next great vater faring their path Ned Gothic troops and many ot the bloody Sangro vailed only for if pockets of completion by Nations for the grimly t f Uce of Allied r that left ailes east of 12 miles Handful of Gestapo Agents and Police Left to Cover Spanish Frontier Aug. 7. forces In southwestern whose communications are seriously menaced by the American drive eastward Into began a full-scale evacuation last it was learned here leaving only a handful of Gestapo agents and gendarmes to cover the French-Spanish Regular army forces moved out of the region south of Bayonne over a week leaving SS units The SS forces in turn began leaving last reports and today only French custom guards and two or three German gendarmes were on duty at the international bridge across the river As the Germans moved north from Bayonne and French Maquis several hundred strong in a daring raid struck railroad communications on the outskirts of dynamiting a bridge north of the city last thus cutting a direct line from German police forces at the Hendaye bridge maintained the evacuation of the troops was a temporary due to the of the border region Frenchmen living on the Spanish side of the are convinced the Nazi high command is abandoning Southwestern reported to 50 the sate June 1. 7 sufferers the city local hospitals Biddle Assures Dies PAC Probe Is Being Made Aug. 7. General Francis Biddle assured Rep. Dies today that the Justice Department Is investigating activities of the CIO Political Action Committee but he alleged violations of the Hatch act by government Cases involving Hatch act restricting political activity of federal Biddle axe handled by the government agencies hiring chairman of the House committee investigating un-American had called on Biddle to take immediate steps to what the Texan called political abuses practiced by the also urged the attorney general to ascertain If government officials who he said had been active in PAC had violated the Hatch act. Two Army Fliers Die in Plane Crash William P. anu Lt. Orlando F. Del W were killed in the crash of Army * Borne army airfield officials Japs Report U. S. Strike at Philippi Shows Yank Ingenuity uies Nipponese Report Says 2 Planes Over Davo On Absolutely No the Associated The first Allied aerial strike against the Philippine islands since the surrender of Corregidor 27 months ago was reported by radio Tokyo yesterday without 2 Planes Reported The Japanese report said two Allied planes appeared over main Nippon stronghold in the Southern The Japanese termed them as claimed no Meanwhile American marines and soldiers on Guam Island were slowly closing in on what remains of the Japanese garrison Indications were the Japanese might put up a last ditch stand at Guam's northern Japanese Imperial headquarters in another Tokyo that an American task force staged a two-day raid last week on the Bonin Islands within 600 miles of Again the Japanese claimed light 41 Vessels Damaged Official American * reports on the raid said big naval guns shelled the Bonins and destroyed or damaged 41 Japanese Including five Tokyo said a U. S. cruiser was heavily damaged and 41 planes shot There was no American confirmation of damage to a S. official figures placed plane losses at 16. The Chinese High Command reported Japanese forces were threatening Limkong and immediate objectives of a new drive in Southwest Kwangtung Furious fighting continued far to the north at Hunan Railway junction Walls Breached In China's Yunnan facing the Burma American airmen breached the ancient walls of Chinese forces were reported to have poured into that Japanese is the main objective of the Chinese Salween River a drive designed to make junction with Stilwell forces in North Burma and to reopen the old Burma The defeated Japanese in North Burma apparently were attempting to establish an emergency defense line on the left bank of the Allied forces pushed deeper into Northern Burma beyond captured frontier base 40 miles southeast of w Prepared to Treat Infantile Paralysis Germans Thrown Back in Attack Near Avranches AMERICAN ENGINEERS made this for use in forward areas in where armament is needed along with The Implement has been in use for a long but the picture was just released by military The not only clears but puts outs digs ditches and is capable of fighting while it * Reds 25 Miles From Kieke Five War Plants Remain Strikebound Aug. 7-(#)-Five war plants and 1,920 workers remained strikebound in Western Pennsylvania One new walkout was Twenty cranemen quit work at the Elwood City plant of National Tube company in a dispute which a company spokesman said arose over an incentive Their strike made 200 other workers the company Other most of them involving desired pay and the number of workers idle plant at 300; Crucible Steel company's La belle 800, Jones & Laughlin Steel plant at 300; Pennsylvania Transformer 300. Poles Close Third Conference Session * Aug. 8.-CSV-Negotiators for the rival Polish political regimes left their third meeting at midnight last night without agreeing when they would confer but a source close to Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk of the London Polish government said if has yet been Retake Last of 2,000 Galician Oil Wells as Sambor Fall Aug. 8-(>P)- Russian attacking a foe beyond the River in Southern yesterday smashed to within 25 miles of the German stronghold of while other Soviet forces in the Carpathian mountains reconquered the last of 2,000 Galicia noil wells which had been feeding the Nazi war j Two orders of the day announced the fall of the oil center of in the Carpathians and the seizure of a communications hub whose capture gave the Russians firm grips on five routes leading into nearby three other powerful Soviet armies far to the north began a great pincers movement on German East Prussia along a 200-mile which was being savagely defended by reinforced German Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Ukraine Army captured 60 localities yesterday in expanding its bridgehead west of the The Russians now have seized 650 square miles on the west bank of the Vistula in a drive which rolled northwest to within 37 miles of last big German bastion before In the Gen. Ivan C. First Baltic Army struck out suddenly yesterday in a twin drive toward Tilsit and key East Prussian In Eastern Latvia and Southern Estonia two other Russian armies were herding these German troops westward toward The daily bulletin said the railway and highway between Madona and 80 miles east of had been cut in this steady Presidential Citation Awarded Sgt. F. Killed April 4, 1943 4 Mrs. Catherine Wagner of West Washington street recently received a Presidential Citation in memory of her Staff Sgt. Francis L. who was killed in action on April 4, 1943, in the North Africa The signed by President reads as In Grateful Memory of Staff Sergeant Francis L. A. S. No. 33223049 who died in the service of his country in the North African April 4, 1943. He stands in the line of patriots who have dared to die that freedom might and and increase its Freedom and through he a way that humbles the undertakings of most 65-Foot Water Well Gushes Oil at Rate Of Barrel an Aug. 7 well which Cooney Ball of nearby Greece City hoped would produce water and instead produced oil early last today * began gushing the black gold at the rate of a barrel an With oil selling at a Ball's promised to bring in approximately mystified by the flow which comes from none of the familiar attributed it to a Col. Son Of Late Killed in Guam Truck Strikers Cause Aug. 7. The death in Guam of Col. Douglas 37, only son of the late Lt Gen. Lesley J. McNair was announced today by the War The circumstances of his death were not reported in the news message which the War Department received from his Maj. Gen. A. D. commander of the 77th division now in action on General the colonel's former commander of the Army ground was killed by a bomb of art American plane while he was observing a action near St. Lo in Normandy on July 25. Surviving young McNair are his Mrs. Freda and their infant Bonny of Santa and his who lives in D. C. News Guild Members Asked to Support FDR Aug. 7.-(vP)-Members of the American Newspaper Guild were called upon today to work actively for a fourth term for President Roosevelt and to support candidates endorsed by the Political Action Committee of the CIO in the but delegates to the guild's 11th annual convention awaited a report of a poll among the membership before acting on the - GOP Plans to Unfold Strategy Election Day h- Aug. 7.--(#)-Republican National Chairman Herbert said at a press conference today that full details of the 1944 campaign would not be unfolded until three months from polls open for voting meantime the party's strategy would be keep the opposition Three-State Strike In Hit the Associated With Philadelphia's transportation system restored to normal yesterday the transport labor spotlight shifted to the where a three-state strike of AFL truck drivers spread to ' Des Moines and six other Iowa The new disputes brought to almost 5,000 the number of drivers and helpers not working in St. Paul Kansas City and A tramways walkout and 20 continuing strikes throughout the nation kept an additional 15,500 workers from their movement of vital war material was crippled badly in Central Pennsylvania by a walkout of hundreds of truck The War Labor Board at Washington ordered the strike Lancaster Draft boards cancelled occupational deferments of strikers in a or The dispute was between trucking operators and the Brotherhood of Warehousemen and Helpers over a new contract to replace one which expired April 19. The return of 6,000 Philadelphia Transit Workers coincided with weekend settlements by 7,000 employes ot five General Motors Corporation plants at Detroit and 1,400 glass workers of the 111., plant of the Disputes involving 1,200 persons at the St. Louis Car company and the same number at the Chicago Screw company remained Another 1,200 employes remained away from their jobs at the ordnance and an additional 1,100 at the Sixteen other work stoppages involved 7.000 additional You Meet Someone From Brooklyn Almost Any Proof - Aug. 7-{JFh-Every place you go you meet someone from Two ancient trucks wheezed into the town square jammed with French resistance guns sticking out in all In the center of all this bristling might were four frightened Nazi One of trembling in every spotted the He Ich Von Brooklyn r a I'm from Tuesday Nazis Penetrate 3 Miles and Lose 135 Tanks as Push Is Scope of Attack Limited and Aimed at Splitting 3 Armies Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary American forces drove to within 120 miles of Paris yesterday as their comrades far in the counter Norman tank divisions tried to split in half the three Allied Allied Aerial Might Hurled Against Nazis Dawn Until Midnigh Sorties Provide Land Forces Greatest Aid Since May Aug. 8 might was the iii France from to j midnight with warplanes smashing the shaky enemy from the to his supply centers far in the rear in possibly the greatest support of ground forces since RAF Typhoons and Allied blasting at Nazi armor that was counterattacking into the heart of the American line across the base of the Brittany alone knocked out 135 German tanks and smashed scores of other enemy At 11 p. 1,000 RAF Lancasters and roared over the lines south of Caen and dumped many thousands of tons of high explosives on German positions facing the Allied Railroads Hit VVhile the fighters and were raking the frontlines during the 1,500 U. S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators hit the enemy rear in an arc running from in Northwest through the Paris area to Bordeaux on the Bay of The big bombers rained explosives on railroad fuel tanks and supply Field dispatches last night said the night assault in the Caen sector compared favorably with the blows during the day on the German counterattack south of and aimed at The American heavies over France on Page Postwar Security Talks Delayed Aug. 7-(ff>-With the explanation that the Soviet government needs little more to the United States today delayed for a week The beginning of postwar security talks here with Russia and This action moves the date from Aug. 14 to 21, possibly by lengthens the pre-conference period in which present negotiations for a solution of Russo-Polish problems may be Finns Act Slowly In ling Government Aug. 7-(/P}-Finnish political leaders were described today as haste toward formation of a government the new Marshal Baron which presumably will be called on to negotiate peace with the Soviet maneuvering continued in Helsinki without a sign as to when a list of new Cabinet could be said a dispatch to the Stockholm armies in 135 Nazi Tanks Erased A total of 135 enemy greatest enemy loss in a single day since the Allies stormed ashore June 6-were knocked out by Allied planes alone in the futile thrust toward Thrusting 15 miles beyond last reported positions across the Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's tanks and doughboys ran into first organized resistance In their dash toward French already being emptied of high Nazi Even this opposition was not in and some of whom have advanced 115 miles in a were already of leaves in was beyond Mayenne and but specific mileages were not Hard Fighting at Brest In the mop-up of the Brittany hard fighting was reported at Brest and within two miles of the north coast 0f Fifty ' of St. American force occupied Guincamp with its network of Late dispatches put an American column within nine miles of the port of Lorient on Brittany's south but with the garrison offering to surrender it was believed possible the city already was Allied the importance of the German attack on the emphasized that Avranches never was threatened because the scope of the enemy counterattack was ' Nazi Attack Wilts With Tiger and Panther tanks the Germans drove forward three miles and neared w narrowing the Avranches corridor to little more than 15 but there the attack wilted in the massed fire of big U. S. guns and swarms of Then U. S. tanks raced into the battle and the enemy was driven back out of 19 miles east of which he had carried in the initial Late front dispatches indicated the thrust had been This coming at a when the enemy's flanks both north and south of the bulge were was described as a strong local counterattack and not in the proportions of a Berlin a six-mile gave strength to this quoting a dispatch from German headquarters to the effect r that the attack was a success in that it had an American attempt to crush the Vire salient with an outflanking movement to the CBS broadcast from Normandy said that at least 88 enemy tanks had been knocked out in this Far the west American tank ran on through where they have captured 13,300 Germans and killed at least 3,400 and were fighting in or all the five great St. St. Malo and Enemy withdrawal from Paris was reported to have begun in the face of the imminent S. troops rolling east along a 53-mile the British across the Orne river and the Canadians lashing out east of last according .to German With nearly of continental France now in Allied the Americans and British were steadily driving the enemy from his on Page t I - 4-^ h T f 7 i h F r
