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RUSS ADVANCE CAINS HEADWAY

2-Pronged Drive Threatens To Make Orel ‘Another 2 Stalingrad.’

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‘Surrender or Die,’ Italy PLANE FLEETS Hopher erent

Warned by F.D.R., Churchill BLAST ITALY: 2: ke Milles

Bombs Rocking In Wichita

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FATHERS’ DRAFT Wallace, Jones Get Spanking FATE UNKNOWN In Directive From Roosevelt

| The dispute widened considerably |to involve government spending | policies and post-war ideologies. reach 10,800,800 by Dec. 31, leaving! Grass roots reports convinced the | 1,500,000 stili to be found. | White House that the people were| | Alread i : 4 | shocked, and astonished by the per=- _ Already there are 1,566,000 men | so mance. Byrnes laid on Mr. Roosein class 1-A, or in the process of velt's desk a recommendation that |§ | classification, examination and in- he act to reassure the people that]: duction. But selective service says Ne was boss of the home front and

that after making allowances for re-| Was capable of enforcing discipline.

jections at induction stations and | He acted last night. New Director Named

reclassifications on appeals, only

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statement accusing Wallace, in turn, || of lying and of ill-planned and|;

president and the prime minister V——

| “The time has now come for you, to the people of Italy follows: Tons of

the Italian people, to consult your “At this moment the combined own self-respect and your own in-| i armed forces of the United States terests and your own desire for al Naples in Record and Great Britain under the com- restoration of national dignity, se-| Smashes (Continued from Page One) mand of Gen. Eisenhower and his curity, and peace. The time has] | Neil Shew, and M. Sgt. and Mrs. | |

> . PU | A > % | i he Var deep mio he erry alan nah ce on Muy (C00 frm Page One) | Jour, Hct Jes, Tidanapale | | (Conined frm Page One) of your country. Hitler—or live for Italy, and for and knocked out 20 locomotives in | R. P ne of NF nd Mrs. ‘Shameful Leadership’ | civilization. : ‘attacks on railway communications. es > “This is the direct CORE Me eh it 4 gl it en sie aback oot Wisin Ss 1 3 ‘onse 6 Mr. Roosevelt an r. urchill no flash in the pan became apparen ' of the shameful leadership to which| offered the Italian people but one when two huge formations of day-| Er, to eget, form you have been subjected by Musso- alternative to capitulation—to suffer | light raiders streaked across the] band of Mrs Prances Mow ivr lini and his Fascist regime. | “the tragic devastation of war.” channel for more blows at the ledge Anderson has been NR rt“Mussolini carried you. into this| The message emphasized that the Nazis. ed missing in action over De war as the satellite of a brutal de- | air over Italy is dominated by vast| Ajljed land progress in Sicily, al=} since July 4. sttoyer df peoples and liberties. | numbers of allied planes. They were | though apparently slowed by stif- A bomber crewman. Sgt. Rut-

barrage whose din could be heard 30 miles from the front. After artillery pulverized the enemy's de=

fenses, infantry and tanks rushed into the breach to widen and deepen the gap. An eight-mile advance was recorded the first day and this pace was bettered as the offensive continued. At times, the Russisn guns laid

”

“Mussolini plunged you into al war which he thought Hitler had |

dropping pamphlets today, but it fened German opposition, was decould be block busters tomorrow. |seribed officially as highly satis-

ledge had been in England since May.

enough will be left to fill the calls of three months. Just how many men this is was

Wallace was chairman of the hoard of economic warfare sum-

already won. In spite of Italy's] And the Italian sea coasts are great vulnerability to attack by air | threatened by “the greatest acand sea, your Fascist leaders sent cumulation of British and allied sea your sons, your ships, your air|power ever concentrated in the forces, to distant battlefields to aid | Mediterranean,” the message said. Germany in her attempt to conquer | “The forces now opposed to you| Engl ane, Russia and he ou | are pledged to destroy the power of “This association with the designs | Nazi Germany—power which has of Nazi-controlled Germany Wee un-| ruthlessly been used to inflict slavworthy of Italy's ancient traditions ery destruction and death on all thd | ’3 : of freedom and culture—traditions | those who refused to recognize the to which the peoples of America ai'd| Germans as the master race.” the

factory. | Catania supported the east coast advance through mountainous sec-

A naval bombardment of | |

Prisoner T. 4TH GR. Raymond S. Law-

not divulged because, Maj. Emmett marily abolished last night. In its Solomon of selective service told a| Place was set up a new office of

it would reveal economic warfare headed by Leo T.

tors, while allied air forces struck] with tremendous strength at enemy | bases in Sicily and southern TItaly.| The additional towns captured in-| cluded Canicatti, which is at a crossroads 15 miles inland from | Palma and on the road to the vital Mi-Sicily road center of Caltanis- | setta. This put the Americans]

ver, son of William H. Lawyer, Oolitic, listed as missing in action since February is now reported to be a prisoner of Germany, his father learned this week. 8S. Tech. Lawyer was acting postmaster at Oolitic before being inducted into the service on Jan.

| press conference, the actual plans of the armed forces.

In addition to the 1,566,000 al-| Who already is efficiently perform-

‘ready in 1-A, there enters the selec-| tive service jurisdiction each month some 90,000 bovs who reach their 18th birthday. Despite the sizable] number, Solomon said, only 50,000 will be inducted from each month's | contribution of the new 18-year-|

Crowley, a Wisconsin industrialist

" * ¥ Chester Bowles is the new OPA general manager, with hiring and firing powers, named by OPA Administrator Prentiss M. Brown. Bowles holds the post sought by resigned OPA executive Lou R.

ing the duties of alien property custodian and chairman of the federal deposit insurance corporation. That move just about eliminated Wallace from specific participation in the war effort other than in his capacity as vice president.

Great Britain owe so much. i “Your soldiers have fought not| in the interest of Italy, but for Nazi| Germany. They have fought, cour- | ageously, but they have been betrayed and abandoned by the Germans on the Russian front, and on every battlefield in Africa from | El Alamein to Cape Bon. “Today Germany's hopes for world | conquest have been blasted on all fronts. The skies over Italy are dominated by the vast air armadas of the United States and Great Britain. Italy's seacoasts are threatented by the greatest accumula-/ tion of British and allied sea power ever concentrated in the Mediterranean.

Pledged to Destroy

“The forces now opposed to you| are pledged to destroy the power of Nazi Germany—power which has ruthlessly been used to inflict slavery, destruction and death on all those who refused to recognize the Germans as the master race. “The sole hope for Italy's survival lies in honorable capitulation to the overwhelming power of the military forces of the united nations, “If you continue to tolerate the fascist regime which serves the evil power of the Nazis, you must suffer the consequences of your own choice. “We take no satisfaction in invading Italian soil and bringing the tragic devastation of war home to the Italian people. But we are determined to destroy the false leaders and their doctrines which have brought Italy to her present position. “Every moment that you resist the combined forces of the united nations—every drop of blood that] you sacrifice-——can serve only one purpose: To give the fascist and Nazi leaders a little more time to escape from the inevitable conse-| quences of their-dwn cfimes. “All your interests and all your traditions have been betrayed by, Nazi Germany and your own false! and corrupt leaders; it is only by disavowing both that a reconstituted Italy can hope to occupy a respected | place in the family of European nations.

German homeland.

within about 13 air line miles of | Caltanissetta.

Riesi Captured

British and American leaders said.

Stress Betrayal

Again and again the message em- ; phasized that it was .the Fascist! *The communique also announced leaders of Italy who had “betrayed” “apture of Siesi, 18 miles nprtheast the Italian people. lof Licata, and Niscemi airdrome, “If vou continue to tolerate the | about the same distance northeast Fascist regime which serves the evil | Of Gela. These advances extenced power of the Nazi, you must suffer| th® American front well inland the consequences.” ‘from the south coast. As & prelude 16 the “last chance” Vizzini, a road junction 22 miles ; ' a : f ir » - appeal. swarms of allied planes last | 28% OR a br night attacked northern Italy for Poo: VHUe epic Ho : y |over Palma Di Montechiare, on the south coast west of Licata.

the second time in three nights. Sh, 61 Corse, Jor daYs lhe axis | Other fowns taken were: Canicatagni, Vittoria, Campobhello,

propagandists have been preparing. . B the Italian people for the loss of | sortino, Modica, Comiso and BisSicily, where allied armies are strik- | oi airdrome. some of which had ing into that island's vitals ahead peep previously reported seized. of schedule. A total of more than 18000 prisThe Roosevell-Churchill message jners had been taken, including was made public simultaneously | ,robabiy 12,000 taken by the Amerhere and in London and Algiers at! jeans. : Tam BWT { Despite the lack of a time limit Resistance Tougher on the demand for capitulation, the| The British 8th army under Gen. message—with its description of the Sir Bernard L. Montgomery was enallied might poised at Italy implied gaged in the bitterest fighting of the that the united nations would not| invasion on the east coast, north of wait long. © | Augusta. Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill re-| Montgomery, who told corresponpeatedly have hammered at the dents that he was “quite satisfied” theme that they believe the Italian | wtih progress so far, hurled his people to be the victims of that| veterans northward from Augusta “jackal,” that “blackhearted Ital-|to the mountainous and narrow ian” as Churchill called Mussolini | Lentini front, where the enemy had on his last visit to Washington in| massed considerable strength for a May when he appealed to the Ital- ‘counter-attack. The reformed Nazi ians to revolt against their leaders. | 15th panzer division as well as the Barly in June, on the morning of Hermann Goering division were in the fall of the Italian island of action but the 8th army smashed Pantelleria, Mr. Roosevelt again back everything they could offer at urged the Italians to revolt. the edge of the plain. The joint message to the Italians |

avow both the German Nazi lead- allied attacks all along the Sicilian ers and their own “false and cor-| line.) rupt leaders” as the only way for “a reconstituted Italy can hope to occupy a respected place in the! family of European nations.” | have decided to fight a rear guard No promises were held out for action all the way back to the the Italians—such as food. The northeastern tip of Sicily, making message was devoid of any com- | the best possible use of the moun-

Use Rear Guard Action

mitments concerning the future of tainous area across the base of the running from

Italy—such as the type of leaders| northeastern strip and government to follow Mussolini. Catania through Mt. Likewise it avoided any statement northern coast, probably that would preclude the uge of Ital- | Capo D'Orlando. ian bases to carry the war to the| The key to the whole campaign, | however, may depend on what hap-

Etna to the around

THREE

Odds and ends throughout our stores are now drastically reduced for imme-

diate clearance.

| pens in the next few days on the

tania. would endanger the whole axis line and threaten to cut it off | from the Italian mainiand. | The Americans knocked out at least 10 Mark IV tanks, which are | equipped with long-barreled 75 mm. | guns, and inflicted heavy losses on | the enemy. The American gains | were more than four miles and at | some points patrols advanced still farther.

SISTERS

East Coast Shelled

Broken size ranges.

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and breadth of the island in support of ground troops, laying down {a “rolling barrage” of bombs to

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soften up axis resistance. Allied parachute troops have been thrown into the fighting at a numclini tists eG g £ | helped to push back the enemy, in|flicting heavy losses, especially in

the Augusta area. (Allied para-

20, 1941, Honored

AMONG OFFICERS and men of the army air forces in the Soutnwest Pacific who were decorated recently are 1st Lt. Philip E. Cartwright, Summitville, and S. Sgt. Pilot Russel F. Means, Gary, who were awarded the oak leaf cluster and 2d. Lt. William R. Gish, South Bend and T. Sgt. Wathen F. Cody. Tell City who received the distinguished fying cross. » » ”

Pvt, Francis B. Pruitt, Avoca, has been awarded the legion of merit for exceptional meritorious service in the Hawaiian department. Pvt. Pruitt, now demobilized, was cited for evacuating the wounded with “great dispatch,” driving his ambulance to areas of heavy enemy action under machine gun fire during the Jap-

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President Roosevelt said that] Some Rejected Crowley would continue for the time being as custodian of alien property. | This difference in numbers was, Mr. Roosevelt did not say wheth- | explained to be due to the 20,000 er Crowley also would retain his | of each month's class who have | other federal job—that of chairman | entered the enlisted reserve at the |of the federal deposit insurance | age of 17, and the rejection for phy- | corporation. sical, mental, education, or moral| Asked whether Milo Perkins reasons of ‘another 20,000. would remain as executive director Solomon revealed that there has|of the new agency. Mr. Roosevelt been a sharp increase in the number | replied that that was a matter for of ‘mental, or psychiatric, cases | Crowley to decide. Perkins has| found at induction centers recently. held that job in the board of ecoThe number, he said, has reached nomic warfare. “tremendous” proportions. Jones remains as secretary of There are 6,559,000 men now in commerce and. as such, he will con-3-A, but a portion of these are be- trol the reconstruction finance corlieved to be childless married men poi.tion which is attached to his and men with collateral dependents department. But RFC's subsidiary such as parents who have not yet corporations which have to do with been reclassified under the directive economic warfare on the foreign which denied dependency defer- | front, are transferred to Crowley {ments to all but fathers whose child |along with the export-import bank. {or children were born prior to Sept. | Specifically listed for transfer were

olds.

Maxon, Detroit advertising man.

Wallace's position in the dispute and said the vice president had done

only what “any red-blooded American” would have done in challenging Jones. As chairman of the board of economic warfare, now abolished, Wallace was responsible for formulation of vital policies of procurement of strategic material from abroad as well as what is known as “preclusive buying.” The United States has done a lot of preclusive buying in Spain and elsewhere of scarce materials which the Germars otherwise would have bought. As chairman of BEW, Wallace until last night also was a member of the war production board.

In abolishing the board of economic warfare, Mr. Roosevelt assigned to the war mobilization committee, of which Byrnes is chair-

(Axis broadcasts said the German today warned that they must dis-| and Italian forces repulsed many,

It was believed the enemy might

| Catania plain, since the fall of Ca-|

| ber of points in Sicily and have]

114, 1942, Number Is

anese aerial attack upon Oahu, Unknown

Dec. T. The childless married men and those with collateral dependents would add to the pool from which

ACCORD SEEN IN men could be obtained without dipping into the fathers, but the numARRESTS FIGHT > of such prospects is not known. | Additionally, there remain some

{1,373,000 men (single) in occupa(tional deferred status. The evert progressing reclassification of such men will make certain numbers |available for induction as their de- | ferments are not renewed.

Blue Hopes for Agreemen With Police Officials By Monday.

Hope that some agreement may be reached next Monday in a cooperative program of local law en-| forcement was expressed today by |

forcement was expresed. IN POULTRY ACTION

At a two-hour conference Vedei| An Indianapolis ultry dealer day. the prosecutor and Police Chief W3S among 19 poultry dealers and Beeker failed to reach an agree- 'hree firms from six states indicted ment but the chief indicated he 9¥ a federal grand jury at Wiimmight go along with Mr. Blue's pro- | ington, Del. today on charges of gram after conferring with Sidney ‘black market” operations.

Miller, city corporation counsel. The indictment was one of a The prosecutor sought an agree- number sought by the government

| ment on uniform enforcement poli-| throughout the east in an effort to {cies at a conference with all law|Preak up violations of poultry price | enforcement officials last Monday | Ceilings fixed by OPA. ‘but Mr. Miller served notice that| The Indianapolis man was Harry the city administration would not|Smith, trading as the Harry Smith

AVL: § ; ork | CO. 337 W. New York st. The in- | be told how to run its police work“ |by the prosecutor's office. |dictments charged all the buyers

Mr. Blue asked that all affidavits With paying over ceiling “bonuses”

: ‘ | regating over $11,000 for upin police cases be approved by his 288 , | office before going into court and Wards of 250,000 ‘pounds of poultry that all search warrants for police Pought in Delaware.

a a ; “I knew they were investigatin be cleared through his office. ] g g 8 but that's all I know about it. We

didn't violate ceiling prices that we {knew of,” Mr. Smith declared.

LOCAL MAN NAMED

Agreement Sought

An agreement on these points 'was sought by the prosecutor after| Ne YORK. July 16 (U. P.) — he charged that police had made | oa rators of several im lo [700 illegal arrests since Jan. 1 and accused of operating a black [that he ‘no longer would Approve, yet through five states and the Sduvies in cases where illegal ar-|pigiriot of Columbia will be arI a Inde, Mr. Miller | reigned next week on information that if the prosecutor's office on Lo agains) thers uy ie office of fused to approve affidavits in po. | Price administration in federal | court. Brooklyn, vesterdav.

{the United States commercial corporation, the rubber development corporation and the petroleum re|serve corporation, and “all other” | subsidiaries engaged in foreign fi- | nancing. That left in question the ree of the metals reserve com{pany and the rubber reserve com- | pany. Jones Has Several Jobs

man, responsibility for formally approving in writing future policies for procurement of strategic mae terials ahroad.

FDR's Curt Letter

Mr. Roosevelt's curtly - worded joint letter to Wallace and Jones said, in part: “Gentlemen: “I have come to the conclusion that the unfortunate controversy and acrimonious public debate which has been carried on between you in the public press concerning the administration of foreign eco-

Jones will remain as chairman of {the defense plant corporation, war |damage corporation, defense supplies corporation, and as nominal head of the RFC mortgage com|pany, the federal mortgage association and the disaster loan corpora- [nomic matters makes it necessary, tion. He also is a member of the i, the public interest, to transfer war production board and was not {nase matters to other hands.” removed by last night's whirlwind.| ye said there was no time in this In addition he has a dozen other | ,erjoq of crisis to “investigate and responsibilities including member- | qetermine where the truth lies.” So |ship on the national munitions | je concluded that to get on with 'board and representation in the|ine war at once “requires a fresh {office of economic stabilization. start with new men.” The future of Milo Perkins,| To all heads of agencies and de- | executive director of the late board partments, the president recalled of economic warfare, is uncertain. | that in a circular letter he had told Jones believes Perkins wrote and |them on last Aug. 21 to stop publicly persuaded Wallace to publish the airing their disputes. He said some original attack on him. Crowley, of them had failed to do that and as director of the new office of eco- | henceforth he nominated Byrnes or nomic warfare, apparently super-|himself to umpire all disagreements sedes Perkins. But the president’s|of fact or policy between agencies— order transferred to Crowley's new |and privately. office all the funds, property and “But if when you have a dispersonnel of the old BEW. Perkins | agreement with another agency as to fact or policy,” he added, “in-

was top member of the staff and stead of submitting it to me or to

ran the show. Perkins to Be Available the director of war mobilization rw are (Byrnes) for settlement under the vas ‘earned at BEW that terms of the order creating the of- | Perkins considered himself out of | fice. vou feel vou should submit it |& job under provisions of Mr. Roose- | tq the press, I ask that when you jyeivs order, but would make him-| release the statement for publica-| [self available to Crowley for any tion. you send to me a letter of {assistance desired during the | resignation,

down a curtain of shells before ad= vancing troops. Soviet tommy gunners infiltrated the enemy’s rear at one point and shot down retreating German in= fantrymen from the rear.

Germans Resist Bitterly

The Germans were reported ree sisting bitterly to prevent the cap= ture of Orel, which they have held since the autumn of 1941, or the encirclement of their troops in that area. Despite unfavorable flying weather, fierce air combats were re= ported over the battle zone. While German forces have given up entirely their 11-day-old nffensive at the northern end of the Orel-Belgorod front, they still were throwing large forees against Ruse sian positions to the south. In one sector alone, a Russian tank unit destroyed 51 enemy tanks'y and 100 trucks with war supplies’ and fuel and killed upwards of 2000 officers and men. Another company near Belgorod repulsed an attack by two German battalions supported by tanks. “Not one man left his post when enemy tanks broke into the unit's positions,” the Soviet midnight com= munique said. “By rifle fire and machine-gun fire, our men cut off the German infantry from the tanks and killed over 300 Hitlerites." Russian artillery in a third sector knocked out 14 of 17 tanks that at= tempted to penetrate a Soviet minefield.

ALLIES TAKE MUBO, PUSH ON IN PACIFIC

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American destroyer Gwin, damaged in the second battle of Kula gulf early Tuesday, sank later while being towed to an allied base. The Gwin is the only American casualty announced so far in the second battle, while Japanese losses have been announced as a cruiser and three to flve destroyers. They Japanese ships were believed at tempting to sneak in reinforcements to Munda. The capture of Mubo, occupied by the Japanese in March, 1942,

in New Guinea since American troops swarmed ashore and caps4 tured Nassau hay, 10 miles south of Salamaua, June 30. Nine enemy bombers attacked American positions at Nassau bay ineffectively yesterday. 45 Jap Planes Downed

Allied planes attacked Japanese shipping and bases northwest of New Georgia island in the Solo(mons. Fifty-four tons of explosives were dropped on Vila airdrome and adjacent bivouac areas on Kolom= pbangara island and fires were observed still burning an hour and a half later. Around Vella Lavella, medium bombers sank a small cargo vessel and two landing barges and set fire to another cargo vessel and a

| transition period. Perkins called his| «If any subordinates of yours viochief assistants into conference | lates my instructions in this rethis morning and urged them to | gard, I shall expect you to ask for | | keep BEW operations going without | his immediate resignation.” | interruption pending new instruc-| The White House obviously antions from Crowley. nounced the president's action with At a meeting of BEW employes an ear cocked for resounding ap{night before last, Perkins backed up |plause from almos: everywhere.

barge. Allied fighters shot down 1% bombers and 30 fighters out of an enemy formation of 27 enemy bombers and 50 to 60 escorting zeros over Rendova island, south of New Georgia. Three or four allied planes were lost.

lice cases “some other way will be

found to file them.” i Although Mr. Blue has empha-| sized that the conflict over law] enforcement policies “has nothing | to do with politics,” the background | of the controversy is steeped in Re- | publican factional strife. | City administration Republicans) | have broken off relations with the regular G. O. P. machine with

| which Mr. Blue is identified.

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gave the allies their first big success /

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