Iola Register (Newspaper) - July 20, 1944, Iola, Kansas THE lODA VOLUME XLVII No. 228 The Weekly Established 1867. Daily Established 1897. JULY 20, 1944. to Tta lols lob tai lola Daily BIGHT PAGES Hitler Escapes Death At Hands Suffers And Bums Three Nazi Military Leaders Critically Others Hurt in Attack on Der Fuehrer July 20. - Adolf Hitler was slightly burned and bruised by a bomb in an attempt on his life today while he was surrounded by closest personal an announcement from headquarters Seven generals and two admirals were injured by the Berlin FCC said one Gennan broadcast said the Hitler's life was Another mentioned and still a third said merely attempt to was made on the life of the fuehrer The broadcast did not give the scene of the but it obviously took while Hitler was surrounded high members of the military May Have Been in Holland A source In London with close European connections said the incident probably occurred at reported to be the headquarters of Field Marshal Erwin This same who cannot be by said the critical question of reserves for the German armies on three fronts had provoked a split between Rommel and Field Marshal Gen. Guenther Von commander of the forces in He speculated that the incident might Have resulted from a division of the German resulting in a The announcement came 16 hours after Tokyo's announcement of the fall of Premier and Berlin said after the attack Hitler received Benito third member of the ill-starred trio who Axis into HiUer Aid Injured Seriously Among the seriously Berlin was Lt. Gen. chief of the German army's personnel department and chief military aidie de camp to Hitler for several Two lieutenant colonels named Brandt and and a named Berger also wera listed as seriously Slightly injured were Generals Hitler's personal military Karl aide to Guenther chief of staff of the German air Heusinger and Walter Scherf f. Admirals Voss and Von Goering at once went to Hitler upon learning of what had the Berlin broadcast Second Death Escape Only the Russian press published a statement by the captured comander of the 41st German army tank Lt. Gen. Edmund saying there was grave dissent in ranks of the German command at a recent in with old generals dissatisfied with Hitler's m refusing to The as published In described Hitler on Pace 8. No. Walton Foundry Builds Employees Shower Room A new office and a shower room lor the employees has been added to the Walton R. C. Walton has begun to move his equipment into the newly constructed brick office The office consists of two rooms with painted Across from the new building is the shower room for the 36 men whom Mr. Walton now has on his Many of these men are working a 54-hour week and a shower at the end of a nine-hour day is very According to Mr. the work done by the foundry is now 99 per cent work for the war The greater part of the work is made-up of castings lor the navy and for oil The Weather KANSAS scattered thunder showers and Friday again late Friday afternoon or Saturday northeast Warmer extreme west Friday partly scattered showers in Warmer west and north In Highest temperature Friday lower SO's except upper SO's extreme for the 24 hours ending 5 p. m. 86, lowest last night 66; normal for today 81; deficiency yesterday 4 excess since January 1, 301 this date last lowest 76. Precipitation for the 24 hours ending at 8 a. m. total for this year to 30.59; excess since January 1, 9.27 ' Sunrise 6:15 a. set 8:42 p. m. ' Thermograph Readings Ending 8 a. m. 9 a. 9 p. 10 a. 10 p. 11 a. 11 p. 12 noon 12 1 p. 1 a. 2 p. 2 a. m. p. 3 a. mj 4 p. 4 a. 5 p. 5 a. 6 p. 6 a. m. 7 p. 7 a. 8 p. 8 a. Western Kansas Gets More Rain July 20. heavy rain hit western Kansas again last night and Weatherman S. p. Flora said the one time dust area was like a mud puddle had a most remarkable situation in he This Is the time I ever recall eastern Kansas being dry and praying for rain while western Kansas is praying it'll The outlook continued showery and Flora was hopeful the rain belt would extend into the dry northeastern area tonight and With the rain came pleasantly cool Highest reported yesterday was 90 at Coffeyville and 57 at while the mercury sank to 57 at Dodge City last Flora said temperatures would remain 80 and 85 today and dip to the fifties and low sixties again MUNICIPAL BAND PROGRAM 8:30 p. m. Tonight Court House Flag Catholic Church Boy YasseL Made a Touchdown in My March U My Piccolo Harlan Descriptive American Legend of Sleepy Operatic Doll Star Spangled Lt. John Foust Wounded in Action Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth H. Foust were notified this morning that their Lt. John Foust was wounded in action on 8th. The telegram gave no Prior to this official notification Mr. and Mrs. Foust received a letter from their son in which he told them that he had been He assured his parents that he was recovering rapidly and expected to discharged from the hospital within a few Lt. Foust was in charge of a boat which landed troops the invasion of He has been overseas about 18 and took part in the landings upon Sicily and It is presumed that he is now a hospital in Three More to Report For Induction July 31 The Local Board of selective service has ordered three more men to report for induction on July 31, including George William Archie Edward and Wilfred Wayne This brings to ten the total number of men from the county who will leave on that Demos Roll Toward Crisis Nomination of FDR Expected By to Vice-Presidential Vote Friday JACK BELL Chicago July 20. - The Democratic overwhelmingly for Franklin Roosevelt but battling bitterly over the choice of a rolled ahead rapidly today with prospects a nomination would be in the bag by The convention will hear Roosevelt's voice of acceptance tonight at a time as yet unannounced With hope of getting to vice-presidential nominations Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky prepared to place Roosevelt's name in nomination with a speech tentatively planned for about p. m. The Situation Stacked 1. Cabinet members themselves split between Vice-President Henry A. doggedly for and Senator Harry Truman of for declared Postmaster General Walker as Attorney General Francis also a declared he'd stick with Interior Secretary Harold earlier reported strong for said he was campaigning for no 2. all but counted out only 24 hours picked up a pledge of 16 votes and North Dakota's 8. This gave Wallace 327% pledged delegate votes with 589 needed to Seat Two Texas Delegations 3. Settling the big fight of national The credentials after a three-hour voted 20 to 6 to seat both contesting Texas delegations and give each group 50 per cent of the state's 48 One called the on Fafe 8. No. 3) Smash Armor British Advance 10 Miles Russians German Armies Are Cracking 2,000 Plane Raid White Supremacy Plank Fight Is Dropped July 20. suddenly dropped their fight for a plank today after the Democratic platform committee turned them down have exhausted every means at our we have run out of said former Governor Dan Moody of a leader in the bitter southern fight against the committee's platform racial Moody said the platform fight would not be taken to the convention It could he because the signatures of only eight could be obtained for a minority Twelve signatures are necessary to do a study of the rules Finds Normandy Hedgerow Fighting Tougher Than in Pacific Jungles Memorial Service Sunday For Sgt. Eugene Peck A memorial service for Sgt. Raymond will be held at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at the Salem United Brethren The Rev. Robert Vance will be In Sgt. the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray D. Rt. 1, was killed in action in France on July 6. He was a gunner on a based in The war department has not released the details of the engagement In which be lost bis me. BY EDWARD D. BALL With Americans on the Ay River Front in July 19. officer veteran of Guadalcanal today described the Job of rooting out Germans on Normandy's hedgerow battlefields as far worse than anything he encountered in the Pacific The fighting this battle must edge forward from hedgerow to hedgerow and literally blast the enemy from one foxhole at a It's a tortuously slow ifor the Germans are well dug in land well-acquainted with the lay of the The officer said that in the jungle both were equally handicapped by the wall of which concealed each other's the German defenders have the advantage because in the puzzle of little plots every hundred yards or so they have perfect concealment and a perfect field of fire against advancing The attacking forces are virtually without observation and have little vehicular means they lack elbow room for Bulldozers have helped some in plowing up the but in general it's up to the foot soldiers to go in and dig them Besides presenting greater difficulties than the hedgerow fighting was described by one officer as 50 times harder for an attacker than trench When you kick an enemy out of a usually have him on the he but in Normandy when the Germans lose one hedgerow they simply fall back into The Germans have hundreds of lines of these natural hedgerow defenses extending some 40 miles to The Normans began the hedgerows centuries ago to keep their black soil from blowing The average one is six feet thick at the base and from five to eight feet tapered off at the Some began as stone walls and were subsequently buried by On the sides and tops are thick tangled growths of scrub cherry wild berry privet and On each side of the hedgerow are ditches six to eight feet deep which make natural Most of them are covered with In the ditches Gorman outposts bad established themselves A lot of them had shanties made of corrugated and well-stocked pantries aad wine DWIGHT PITKIN Pnu War British armor drove back the Germans today iii tank battles on strategic roads leading to the Port of Le Havre and to Allied advances on a ten-mile front from the southwest to the east of Caen swept up more than a dozen Moscow reported that the derman army showed signs of in the battleground west of the Niemen river before East Prussia as the Russians beat back the in a Berlin radio said the Russians bad reached at the base of the SuwaM annex to East The cities of Kaunas and Daugavpils were Bombers Hammer Reich An armada of 2,000 U. B. struck today into central bombing aircraft and synthetic oil plants around Bad weather limited night but Mosquitoes shifted attacks from Beran and bombed The kept up their bombardment of London and southern England with flying resistance in northern Italy was reported weakening the Allied capture of j the key ports of and British and Canadians drove to within one half mile of a small railroad town seven miles due east of Caen on a highway skirting the mouth of the Seine river on the They also approached eight miles southeast of on the high road to less than 120 miles away on the plain of Pow in Armor AP war correspondent Roger Greene reported from the that Marshal Rommel was committing armor on an increasing Upwards of 30 Tiger tanks impeded the British advance in country between Cagny and The Germans had a bristling screen of gims around Lt. Gen. Sir Richard Nugent who was captured in the African desert in 1941 but escaped from an Italian prison commanded the British armored The Americans made local advances between St. Lo and Feriers capturing three supreme headquarters American patrols crossed the Ay river on the western coast of the Normandy Other forces clashed with Germans dug in at Lwow Doom Near ' The AP's Pulitzer prize-winning war correspondent Daniel De now in reported that battle-scarred rail southern appeared nearly lost to the German fell back over 13 miles in the past 24 Eight miles northeast of Lwow the army bad four to five German divisions of 40,000 pocketed west of About 50 miles to the the Russians breached the Bug river defense In a hew offensive along the north Latvian border the Red army pushed back the Germans 26 miles on a 4S-mile front in two The Germans fell back towards their Gothic defense line in Italy with the Americans in hot The Fifth army Colle 8al-vetU, seven miles of and reached Uie south banks of the Lower Amor river on a 25-mile CoUe Salvetti is about 10 miles southeast of anchor of the Gothic Polish and Italian units advanced from east coast port of Ancona and cut the coastal road at Torrette a nearly three mUes west of the Chinese Rout Jap Column in Yunnan July 20. having routed a Japanese column sent to the relief of besieged Pingka in western Yunnan are relentlessly retreating enemy forces and are now In contact the Japanese rearguards .at 10 miles west of a Chinese communique said At the same time other Chinese units are the column at a point nine milea the bulletin key Tillage in the river bend of the Surma road dty of was reported under BULLETIN 20. Red antsy baa opened a new offensive west of Marshal Stalin Kowel is abont 95 miles north of Lwow and on tbe main road to and forces reached the vicinity of Kowel last In an order of the day Stalin said tbe new offensive had more than 400 populated places in three days of and bad advanced np to 50 kilometers along a front of np to 150 kilometers reaching tbe western Bug the Time To Chicago July 20. Senator Samuel D. Jackson of declaring wartime is no time to change told the Democratic convention today that the ballot box must not become secret The he must not be taken from the fighting forces Taking over as permanent Jackson told the convention be was confident of an election victory next November because American electorate will not vote for and in winning the will win this finally and no matter who is elected president of the United States next he how many battleships would a Democratic defeat be worth to many Nazi legions would it be worth to Adolf could himself do better to bolster Axis morale than the word that the American people have upset this the administration that made it for the Russians to drive the Nazis back to the Prussian Kerr Keynote Highlights Um The forces of democracy will challenge and defeat on the issue of what they did not do and cannot do or on the issue of what we have done and will The Republican party has no program except to Let us limit them to that Our Republican opponents are not even united among Millions of them favored and deeply resent his being driven from the Most Democrats and Republicans agree that our president has done a great Job as a war Our opponents attack him and seek to defeat him on domestic I share your pride In the unparalleled peacetime advances won under the matchless leadership of our great Mr. we know we are winning this war with these old What experience have you had or what deeds have you performed to indicate that you could do as Flood Control Meeting At Tomorrow AU farmers and others interested in flood control of the Neosho river are Invited to meet at 2 p. m. tomorrow with Senator Clyde M. Reed in the dining room of the Kelley Senator Reed is holding the meeting primarily to gather information about the river and to determine whether or not those living In the basin are really in favor of the proposed plan to control the stream by the construction of reservoirs at two or three strategic George chairman of the state water resources will accompany Senator Reed and will briefly discuss the plans worked out Jointly by the state and the army Rake Guam With Fiery Terrific Assault Now Triples Blows Which Preceded the Invasion of Saipan U. S. Pacific Fleet Pearl July 20. thundering for four straight days at of the war sectors so gravely worrying Japan's emperor that the Tojo cabinet carried the unprecedented assault into the The often applied to screen operations for landing was used for the first time by Adm. W. in his reports on 15 straight days of bombing and shelling the former U. S. outpost in the cruisers and destroyers laid down an intense barrage against defensive positions on the said in a Wednesday press release which also added two new attacks by carrier dropping 4^ tons of Triple Saipan Bombing fiery combing of Guam already has more than tripled the continuity of the attacks which preceded the invasion of 125 miles to the Saipan's conquest cost more American lives than any other Pacific Wednesdays report covered naval and air attacks Monday and Tuesday on gun anti-aircraft enemy positions and supply Rota between Guam and was hit Monday by nearly 80 tons of carrier plane bombs and returning fliers reported the town of Rota has been wiped Tuesday's warship shelling of Guam was the the last five of which have been in unbroken Carrier planes haven't missed a day since July 4 in blasting its particularly those guarding fine harbor of Port Monday alone the planes flew 650 to attack the very types of defenses behind which the Saipan up a fierce Prom the Southwest Gen. Douglas MacArthur today reported a growing bag Of Japanese dead and He added 582 Nipponese to the 787 previously announced as slain while trying unsuccessfully to break out of a British New Guinea trap west of Churchill to Make War Statement Soon Jap Emperor Orders New Cabinet Formed Chase Japs Toward Border Southeast Asia Command July 20.- pursuing the Japanese down the Tiddim road in Southeastern India have reached a point south of the last important on the Imphal plain before the road enters the hill a Southeast Asia command headquarters said Miore progress was made in the bitter siege of last major Japanese base in North Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stllwell straightened his lines in the south and his artillery made direct hits on two possibly dug in Fighter bombers working with American and Chinese infantry inside the city of 8,000, destroyed several The Regime Falls Because It Can't Explain Away String of Jap Defeats BY MORRIS J. HARRIS of the Shanghai Bureau of the Associated Press at the time of Pearl Harbor and later a war prisoner of the July 20. Tojo has that nation's supreme warlord who personified its tyranny over East Asia and boasted tbe world that Japan's in the was as master of the has walked out the face of a grave In the words of the Japanese as broadcast by its propaganda news has been decided to strengthen the cabinet by a wider selection of the Emperor is about Japan's and War Lord Tojo and his now filled with Feels Noose and diverse will be the explanations out of as to why and his band had to but in plain American they will add up to the fact that is around Japan's American military power is tightening the rope aud the Japanese are to Someone must be the goat and that unpleasant role has fallen to Tojo and his They are not the first to fall victims to military and political expediency in Nor will they be the The fall of the Tojo indicates to me at last the real import of the situation into which Japan flung herself IS beginning to sink into the collective Japanese Since the mikado's navy made its sneak raid on Pearl or even and up to the inevitable results of Japan has been doing in the Far East for at least a dozen years has hidden from the Japanese public by a screen of airtight control of the printed word and and Begin to Ask Why But will and that is an Page 8. No. 2) July 20. Secretary Anthony Eden announced today that Prime Minister Churchill will make a statement on the war situation to the House of Commons on August 2. Short Stay in Bed Needed After Normal Childbirth may safely be permitted to be out of bed on the third or fourth day after birth of their babies if there are no Dr. Morris L. of Baltimore reported today in the Journal of the American Medical On the Road to Paris Hundreds of tanks spearhead the British drive Caen to break through Rommel's panzer troops for a gain of over five miles and on tbe raid Paris on tbe Job to Two Military Leaders Choice Indicates No Change From Drastic Militarist Tone of Fallen Tojo Government tha Premier General Hideki who Japan into war against America and Britain and had been virtual dictator for two and a half has fallen with his entire cabinet and Tokyo announced today that Emperor Hirohito had ordered another general and an admiral to form a government Hirohito's mandate was given General governor general of and Admiral premier In 1940, two of the most powerful leaders of the fighting Tokyo broadcasts said completion of the new cabinet was expected tonight or early tomorrow The choice indicates there will be no fundamental departure from the principle of Both and Yonai have been known as aggressive proponents of Japanese Unite in Peril The designation of two men is unprecedented and signifies a determination to combine all elements of the army and navy in a government to cope with the acknowledged peril of defeat by the United States and its The announcements of Tojo's fall and the choice of bis successors came in a series of broadcasts recorded by the Federal Communications Commission and the Associated The ousting of Tojo was a sequel to the series of defeats climaxed by the loss of Saipan July 10, bringing American air and naval power within a few bomber flight of the Japanese homeland and confronting the empire with what Tojo himself called an great national Drastic Upheaval His constitutes one of tho most drastic governmental upheavals of the second World since his position had been considered similar lo that of Hitler in Germany and Mussolini In the official news Indicated that Tojo had a losing battle for the past week to maintain his One of tho problems facing said was the necessity of capable men in his cabinet and renovating the cabinet He held a series of meetings with senior statesmen but failed and thereupon collected the resignations of all liis ministers and presented them to tho emperor Propaganda Chief Quits Eiji described by the Office of War Information as Japan's No. 1 resigned the presidency of the Japanese Information board connection with the resignation en bloc of the Tojo the cabinet's chief and director of the legislative also The mikado turned for advice to his highest ranking Marquis Kolcho lord keeper of the privy Designation of Koiso and Yonai to select a government apparently was an outgrowth of conferences which Tokyo earlier sr. id Kido had held with many senior Japanese None of the Japanese broadcasts said anything about Tojo's Two Kansans Missing In Port Chicago Blast Port July 20. The death toll of the explosion of two ships here Monday night stood at 322 today with a navy of 213 names of men to be dead or Listed as missing and presumably dead include these men from Kansas and Leroy Cleora Hughes 1, Box 858), Okla. Rudolph William Dora Lee Oklahoma William Humphrey William Humphrey Kansas William Claude Janetta HABIT Long Calif. married four times Osee B. 83, and Fannie 72; Long obtained a marriage said neither had ever been
