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Truman Likely
‘Dark Horse’in
Demo Confab
CHICAGO STADIUM. July 19.
—(AP)—Saying that he was acting
in deference to the “wishes of the
President. James T. Byrnes, mem
ber of the board of economic
stabilization, withdrew from the
race for vice-presidntial nomina
tion, one hour and 10 minutes be
fore the opening of the 29th na
tional convention.
The move was unexpected, and
while he was well up among the
leaders, he apparently left Senator
Truman the top contender for the
sffice
Vice President Wallace, himself,
came to take command of his own
drive.
The Brynes announcement came
in a letter to Senator Maybank of
South Carolina.
Welles Challenges
Nation to Make
Timely Decision
WASHINGTON. D. C.. July 19—
(AP)—Sumner Wells, former un
der-secretary of state, in a book.
^ published Wednesday, called today
“the time for decision".
The book lists, free exchange of
news among all peoples on earth,
among essentials for maintaining
world organized peace.
Welles cites his visit to Ger
many in 1940, when he picked
Up a Berlin newspaper in which
he found three items on the
front pages, which purportedly
tells of incidents occurring in the
United States and England, which
“were not only untrue, but were
fantastically untrue."
The former undersecretary said;
“These and other incidents gave
* me a new concept of the tremen
dous power which the complete
control of the sources of infor
mation glveg the government.”
C. I. Joe Scoops
News Chroniclers
i)n War News
WITH THE AMERICAN
«r TROOPS IN TORMANDY, July
19 _(AP)—A small two-page army
corps newspaper claimed a world
news beat on the capture of St.
Lo, rolling the edition of its
press and the adjutant general’s
duplicating machine, a few min
utes after the armored divisions’
columns rolled into town.
The paper is edited by Maj. Roy
Craft of McCleary, Washington.
Major Craft achieved renown
• editing the Kodiak Bear with the
troops in southeastern Alaska, and
also in announcing the capture
of Cherbourg, 24 hours before
.‘•import was taken.
Craft said the Cherbourg faux
pas resulted from listening to a
radio broadcast, but the St. Lo
scoop was the “real McCoy”.
NEW OFFICE MAN
FOR BOMMERS
A recent arrival in Nome, to
work for Sommers Construction i
Co. was John Gillings, formerly
* of the Fairbanks office, who re
places Paul Audett, who left for
Anchorag recently via the Alas
¥ ka Airlines.
Advertise In The Nugget
100 TONS DID THIS — Breaking loose from the top of a drawbridge across the Mobile
river at Mobile, Ala., a 100-ton counterweight made this hole in the bridge floor.
158,000 Germans -
Listed on Invasion
Casualty Roll
MONTGOMERY’S HEAD
QUARTERS IN FRANCE, July 19.
—(AP)—General Montgomery to
day estimated that more than 158,
000 Germans have been “written
off’ as killed, wounded and cap
tured, in the six-weeks’ campaign
in Normandy.
1 He declared: “The British and
Americans will have no difficulty
in defeating the Germans in
France."
In a press confrence, the gen
eral said:
Our object is to write off Ger
man personnel and equipment and
to bleed the German military ma
chines to death,” and he contin
ed: “Until the time when the en
emy can’t go on.”
In conclusion, General Mont
gomery stated:
Bond Sales Up
For Alaska Area
Total bond sales for Alaska in
the Fifth War Loan drive through
to July 15th, amounted to $2,799,
089.50, placing the Territory 40
per cent over the quota.
Nome topped its quota of $55,000
by a 48 Vfe per cent margin, for a
total, through the end of last
week, of $81,625.00.
Lightning starts ten per cent of
the forest fires in the United;
States eaeh year.
“Our troops have captured 60,
000 of the total number of Ger
man casualties, and also buried
8,000 Nazis in the most cheerful
mode, since “D” Day.”
His report also included the
news of the new British attacks,
saying, “The new surge, althought
violent, cost the British almost
negligible casualties.”
Battleships In
Use Against
Guam Defenses
PACIFIC FLfTET HEAD
QUARTERS in Pear! Harbor, July
19.—(AP)—Battleships using spot
ter planes are blowing up Japan
ese defenses on Guam, at ‘‘can’t
miss” range. Southwest Pacific
bombers sent to the ocean bottom,
the men and supplies needed for
other hard-pressed enemy garri
sons.
This outline was sketched from
reports from Admiral Nimitz and
General MacArthur.
Admiral Nimitiz said:
“Battleships aze battering
Guam, and today moved in clos
esd to pick off targets, and enemy j
anti-aircraft guns firing at the
spotter planes were silenced by
the off-shore destroyers and
cruisers.
CANNO R W A R D—Part of the continuous stream of supplies that Is folaf
to Allied invasion forces In France# this rubber-tired cannon rolls ashore. ^
Reds Purge
German Lines
Fore Heavy Gain j
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MOSCOW, July 19—(AP)—Six
Russian armies floured through
the huge holes in Hitler’s eastern
front, from Marshal Konev’s 125
mile break-through on the south, j
to General Yeremenko’s drive into
the Soviet-Latvian republic on the
north, and 20 miles inside the
border.
Significant objectives are just
ahead from one end of the line to
the other for more than 550 miles. J
The new offensive was set off j
by Marshal Konev’s First Ukraine
Army between Lwow and Kowell,1
and made a three days’ gain of
31 miles and are now less than 10;
miles from the Polish border set
by the Russian-German agree
, ment of 1939.
London today estimated that
north of Lwow and also across
! the Bug river, the Russians are
j within five miles of the frontier,
through which Germany attacked
I Russia, in Gallicia, north of the
| Carpathian mountains.
| One Russian column is within
122 mites of Lwow.
Defense Force
Sinks Merchant
'Ships of Japs
j ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS ON NEW GUINEA,
1 July 19.—(AP)—Today, Wednes
; day, Lt. General George A. Ken
i ny’s new far Eastern defense air
; force sank or damaged four mer
j chantmen, three coastal vessels
| and several barges in continuation
| anese shipping, headquarters an
Jof the scourging attacks on Jap
j anese shipping, headquarters an
;nounced today.
j The bolws at the enemy’s al-,
ready harrassed supply routes
brought the total of the allied
bag as announced in the last two
| days, to nine ships, five coastal
j craft and at least eight barges. |
1 Americans tightened their squeeze
i on the Japanese forces caught be
j twen Aitopae and the Driniumor
j river.
' Yank guns killed 175 of the(
enemy who had penetrated the
lines in an attempt to force their
way from the trap.
West of Wewak, where other
starving and decimated Japanese
units are trying to break out of
the encirclement, allied planes
dropped 63 tons of bombs in sup
port of Yank ground forces.
Allied destroyers Monday moved
in close to shore to add their fire
to the bombardment of the Jap
anese Wewak positions.
Specific Prices
On Canned Juices
Revision of specific prices onj
several items of canned juices,
soups, fruit and vegetables effec
tive July 10th, has been announc
ed by D. J. O’Connor, price exec
utive of the Office of Price Ad
ministration.
Complete lists of these prices
have been furnisher retailers in
the towns affected and a supply
is available to consumers at the
War Price and Rationing Boards
in the various towns. Consumers
are urged to secure copies of these
pprice lists, study them carefully
and use them when doing their
shopping
| Fifth Army
Captures City In
Pincers Move
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ROME, July 19.—fAP>—Gen
eral Clark's Fifth Army today
I captured Livorno In a wide pin
cers move, forcing the Germans
1 out of the third largest seaport in
Italy, just a few hours after Po
i lish troops on the Italian front
siezed Ancona, an important port
on the Adriatic Sea.
| Livorno is only a few miles be
i low Pisa, the western anchor of
i the next German defense line,
i The Germans made no effort to
defend the city, street by street.
Infantrymen siezed the hills
i overlooking the great port late
! yesterday in sporadic, but none
! the-less, vicious fighting with ar
I tillery, mortar and small arms
firing.
This city harbor, the business
center between Rome and Genoa,
is the grave of many sunken
ships, mostly the victims of allied
air force raids.
I The Poles took more than 2,000
prisoners and large quantities of
! war materials at Ancona, on the
! Adriatic, the nearest port to
! Yugoslavia.
British Troops
Crash Defense
At Fasbourg
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SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF
THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCES IN ENGLAND. July 19.
—iAP)—British and Canadian
>
troops, after crossing Rommel's
Orne river defenses, crashed
through Faubourg and De Vau
ceiles into open tank country to
j th southeast, field dispatches said
today.
The advancing forces penetrated
at least five miles, reaching Cagny
on the main road to Vimot.
American units mopped up
enemy remnants in occupied, stra
tegic St. Lo, cutting off a force of
Germans in a salient two and one
half miles deep, north of the town.
| The Yanks also cut the St. Lo
Periers road south of the village
1 of Amigny, which is also in Amer
ican hands,
Front line dispatches said the
Germans have pulled back their
lines nearly two miles on most
sectors of the 48-mile American
front.
Field reports told of long lines
of tanks, armored cars and trucks
bumper to bumper for miles, mov
Canadian spearheads.
Many German positions have
been overrun or by-passed.
Headquarters announced that
Montgomery’s mopping up forces
cleared Faubourg. De Vaucelles of
Germans, t
The Americans captured Ram
pan, two miles northwest of St.
Lo. ,
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Nichols Advocates
Statehood
CHICAGO, 111., July 19.—(AP)
—Stanley J. Nichols, chairman of
the Alaskan delegation to the
Democratic national convention
being held in Chicago this week,
asked the platform committee to
include in the plan, “Statehood for
Alaska”.
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