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Sweltering Convention Opens in Chicago. (Continued From Page One)

determined by a United Press sur-|

vey, to 679, a round 150 more than

he will need on Wednesday for a

first-ballot nomination. The convention's first session lasted only an hour and four min-

utes. It recessed at 12:30 p. m. until 8:15 o'clock (Indianapolis time) tonight.

Having delayed the convention opening for an hour and a minute past the scheduled opening time, the Republicans quickly got down to the business of getting preliminaries out of the way and electing Gov. Earl Warren of California as temporary chairman. He will deliver the keynote address ‘tonight. Dewey's Total Grows Last-minute state caucuses were swelling Dewey's total of pledged votes and cutting into those for Governor John Bricker of Ohio. Shortly before Republican National Chairman Harrison Spangler called the WHelegates to order, Bricker’s total of pledged first-ballot votes, a check showed, stood at 77. Despite the apparent hopelessness of his position, however, Bricker re-

fused to withdraw and accept a re-

ported proposal by Dewey managers that he make the nominating speech for the New Yorker. The Dewey managers then selected Gov. Dwight Griswold of Nebraska to make the speech for their man on Wednesday. The cpnvention was opened with a prayer.by the Rev. John Holland of the Little Brown Church of the Air who said that “what we do here may bring throughout the earth and fn America first government of the people, by the people and for the people.” Bricker Stands By Guns

was announced by his campaign

E.| which machine gunners fanned out

arms get r A. R. 101-year-old Civil war cavalryman from commander, and John C. Adams,

Marion; Isaac W. Sharp of Warsaw, 96-year-old department 97, of Jonesboro, who was a drummer boy with an infantry division.

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through the center of the city and established a strong point near the great Transatlantic docks from

along the waterfront. With the battle of Cherbourg in its final stage, Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery struck out in a stinging attack on German positions along the Tilly-Sur-Seulles sector at the southeastern part of the bridgehead west of Caen. But conservative headquarters reports told only of “local gains,” and said there was “little change” anywhere along the line below the Cherbourg peninsula.

Seize Villages Montgomery's British and Ca-

Yanks Smash Through Cherbourg To Blast Enemy Nests on Waterfront

had captured the “town area” and the Cherbourg arsenal, the latter on the west side midway between the seaplane base and the shipbuilding

yards, Reports Fall

(A German broadcast in French to European areas outside the Reich said the “Fortress of Cherbourg” fell at 9 p. m. yesterday, German time, FCC monitors reported, but other German broadcasts asserted that heavy fighting was continuing at the port.) DNB said the last radio message from the Cherbourg garrison was received at 8 p. m. (German time) yesterday, stating: “The last struggle for Cherbourg has started. The general is fighting with his troops. Long live the Fuehrer and Germany!”

| nadian forces seized the villages of | Tessel Bretville, two and a half | miles southeast of Tilly, and Brettvillette, four miles south of Tilly. The villages are on high ground | commanding nearby territory. The attack, which began yester-

All allied sources expected the

complete occupation of Cherbourg, the allies lost two cruisers andj

party in Indiana, to do something

Hoosier Delegation at Chicago Concentrates on State Issue.

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Ralph Gates, the G. O. P. gubernatorial nominee who is supposed once again to have assumed the role of leader of the Republican

about it. Meeting Called

Mr. Gates said he believed the district chairmen should themselves make a recommendation so a meeting was called for the “wee” hours this morning. But the district chairmap couldn’t “corner” Ivan Morgan, ninth district chairman, who was seen frequently moving at a fast pace through the Stevens lobby, so the meeting was postponed until 10 a. m. so that all the district chairmen could be present.

and grenades. By-passed forts were

through the embrasures and by heavy artillery and naval bombardment. Hundreds of Germans were surrendering, but the enemy still had not cracked completely. Only a few thousand of the estimated 30,000 in the doomed garrison have been accounted for so far. Enter Cherbourg American shock troops broke into {Cherbourg soon after noon yester{day simultaneously from the south, {northeast and west while Amerlican and British battleships, cruis{ers and destroyers pinned down the defenders with broadsides from two miles offshore. The German DNB agency said

with machine guns, rifles, bayonets |

reduced by dynamite dropped]

It was predicted in advance of the session that the district chairmen

CHICAGO, June 26 (U. P).— Gerald L. K. Smith and his Amer-

they have demanded from the Republican national committee for what Smith termed an attempt to “stifle free speech” at the 1944 G. O. P. convention. He laid the blame for nearviolence which exploded in the grand ballroom of the Stevens hotel yesterday, because the hotel did not want the America First meeting to be held there, directly on the

chairman, Harrison Spangler.

efforts into a full-fledged crusade to defeat the Republican presiden-

Lindbergh as our own candidate.”

of the ballroom was signed some time ago but that the hotel management had been “coerced” by Spangler and the backers of Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, whose headquarters adjoin the ball= room, not to let him in it. The hotel insisted that the meet=

{would vote seven to four in favor of retention of Mr. Morris.

much more than just the national committeemanship.

Lauer's Post at Stake

The Post of G. O. P. State Chairman John Lauer is definitely at stake, and insiders are offering all storts of odds here that Mr. Lauer will not remain in the state chairman's post long. (It was Mr. Lauer who called the “quickie” meeting at which Mr, Lyons was elected.) These dopsters say that ere will be no concerted move on the part of the state committee mem{bers to remove Mr. Lauer, but that the heat will be so intense that he | will be forced to resign. Already it is reported a number

{third largest port in France and suffered heavy losses in an attempt of prominent contributors to the railnead of a double-track trunk|to force the port from the sea, but'G oO, Pp. coffers have stated defi-

momentarily, and a Paris broadcast hinted the next phase of the

lied source. Ft. Equeurdreville, guarding the

line to Paris, to come almost this was not confirmed by any al- | nitely that they will not give one

jcent as long as Mr. Lauer remains {chairman. And, a number of Re-

{day morning, carried the allies to! Anglo-American invasion already Western approaches of Cherbourg, | publican editors reportedly intend Bricker's determination that his Within a mile of the main highway was under way. name shall be placed in nomination running southwest from Caen 10 British and Canadian forces have

Villers-Bocage.

{launched a full-scale offensive

y .| German resistance at Ft. Duroule, | petw Tilly-sur-Seull dC manager, Roy D. Moore; who as een Tilly-sur ulles an aen ) serted that all rumors he would One of the strongest of the German at the eastern end of the beach. column heading for the Cherbourg | man who put Mr. Lauer in.

withdraw “are without foundation.” In view of Bricker's determination, New York Republican leaders immediately turned to Griswold as Dewey's nominator because, according to State Chairman Edwin F. Jaeckle, “many people over the country active in the Dewey movement thought he was the ideal ¢hoice.” . Griswold's selection was interpreted as a move to solidify Midwestern support behind Dewey. Delegates began streaming into the hall an hour ahead of time but the stadium filled slowly. Despite the high enthusiasm of a political | party which believed it was turning | the corner after 12 lean years, this was a serious gathering, made so! by war and a strong Republican feeling that President Roosevelt should be retired to private life. It was in this stadium 12 years ago this month that the Democrats named Franklin Delano Roosevelt for the first time and the Republicans went through the hopeless motions of putting up Herbert Clark Hoover for a second term, |

Weather Sticky

The weather was hot and sticky and fans were waving as the crowd | settled down. Governor Warren, apparently fs first choice of eastern and western delegates for vice president. The “Draft Dewey” campaign wound up in a stampede fof) his band wagon yesterday as the big, unpledged states caucused In Chieago's hotels. Pr One by one the big oties fell to Dewey. Dapper and: politically astute Governor Dwight H. Green, of | Illinois, started the big state delegations into the Dewey camp. | Green called a caucus last Saturday night and yesterday morn-| fing 50 of the state's 59 delegates had pledged themselves to the New Yorker. Pennsylvania caucused and Dewey tallied 70 more. Michigan added 41. Then the managers of the “Draft Dewey” campaign came

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!forts in the system guarding the lcity's south gates, collapsed today,

| Gorrell reported, when U. S. shock |

troops destroyed its big guns with charges of T. N. T. | Some Germans were holding out in the Pt. St. Sauveur area. Diehards fought back as patrols penetrated the regions of Brenaville, Beaumont-Hague and Ste. CroixHague.

{| The British lashed out this morn- |

ing under cover of a three-hour | creeping barrage by massed artillery, and a front dispatch said they advanced on a broad front. Nazi | broadcasts described the. offensive

head, the Paris radio said, and a fleet of 350 landing craft, carrying {250000 men and protected by

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ran up the white flag at 12:50 p. m. 'after a heavy mortar barrage. The Americans swept on past the race course into the city itself, with one

{hospital in an effort to liberate wounded American prisoners. Heavy machine-gun and artillery

{to start a concerted “oust Lauer” {campaign as soon as the national convention is over,

| Involved, too, is Mr. Gates, the

More actual invective is directed at Mr. Gates than any one else. They blame him chiefly because he

\ warships, has been cruising in [if Was encountered in some out- |aliowed the Lyons incident to occur | Seine bay for 48 hours, presumably skirts, but others were penetrated in the first place and now because

in connection with landing at- with comparative ease. However, all he has let a second phase of the tempts in the Dives Estuary, 13 forces ran into stiff resistance on | fight settle itself upon the party.

miles northeast of Caen. No Quarter Given

man report of an offensive in the Tilly-sur-Seulles-Caen sector, Ronald Clark, United Press war correspondent with the British, said a

reaching the inner city and a halt was called at dusk for the final battle at dawn.

Though not confirming the Ger-!

DETEGTIVE INJURED, WIFE DIES IN CRASH

| District and state G. O. P. lead-

ers who only a few weeks ago regarded Mr. Gates as the greatest politician in the party since the hey{day of James Eli Watson now are saying things of the most deroga- | tory nature about him and they say frankly that unless he pulls things together everything is lost.

This continuing fight now involves|

tremendous barrage from hundreds!

as on a full scale and belatedly ac-|of allied guns—usual prelude to an (Continued From Page One) knowledged the loss of Tilly-Sur- offensive—thundered out on the Seulles, 10 miles west of Caen, central sector of the front this eth Owens, 22. and her two chilwhich the British took last week. |morning. The barrage continued dren, James Leroy, 5, and PaGet Ultimatum for nearly three hours without in- tricia, 2. terruption, Clark said. The family was returning from American infantry slashed The main German survivors, their Great Lakes, Ili. where they had through to the waterfront in the packs to the sea, were making their spent the week-end visiting their southwest section of Cherbourg late jast stand from fortified dwellings son, William Owens, who is in the yesterday as the Germans, while and other buildings in a narrowing navy there. still Sghiing hard in the south and | pocket on the approaches to the | State police at Lafayette said the northeast quarters of the city, de- docks and the naval base, while Owens car pulled into the highway bated a U. 8. ultimatum demanding other enemy forces fought to the from a restaurant and was struck their unconditional surrender. |death from surrounded Fort du by a tractor-trailer driven by HerAn American flight officer deliv- Roule and other encircled and by- bert Doles of Indianapolis. ered the ultimatum to Lt. Gen. passed strongholds on the edge of | Sgt. and Mrs. Owens lived at 1445 Wilhelm Von Schlieben, the Ger- the city. {Montcalm st, and their daughterman commander, yesterday evening.! It was a no-quarter battle. In- in-law lives at 1447 Montcalm st. It pointed out that Cherbourg was side the city, American assault! The Owens have another son. cut off and that if the ultimatum troops cleared the enemy from Aubrey, who is with the army in were rejected it would be only & nastily improvised strong points Europe. matter of time before the city fell. —— ee .

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peated demands for surrender, and (Continued From Page One)

today's Berlin communique reported | that it “was engaged in grim house-to-house fighting inside the town and port area since yesterday.” The ultimatum, as reported from the Cherbourg front by United Press correspondent Henry T. Gor-| Some delegates—though not the| “Ag yoy circulate you hear little rell, said: | leaders—would welcome the news pgises of complaint from the follow“The fortress Cherbourg is now that Wendell Willkie had arrived ers for instances, of Governor surrounded and the city is isolated. town—which he wont—just 0 Bricker and Lt. Cmdr. Harold E.

You and your troops offered stub-|PFeak the monotony, | Stassen, who seem to feel that they | There were two rumors with gp, being given too little recognition.

born and valiant resistance to our] tan advance. You are overwhelmingly S°7© substance. | Governor Bricker ‘and his Ohio colleague, Senator Taft, are influ-

much further for international cooperation than is planned.

outnumbered, and it is merely a One was that Governor Bricker

Leader Gives Views

Commented one prominent Republican leader who only a few | weeks ago said he would do any- { thing Ralph Gates wanted: | “Two months ago I would have bet every cent I had that Ralph Gates would be elected governor. Today I wouldn't bet 15 cents on { him.” That's how bitter things are. | Embarrassing too, to the Indiana | delegation are the vice presidential aspirations of William L. (Big Bill) Hutcheson, international president of the Carpenters union. | Mr. Hutcheson issued a statement | yesterday saying his name would be placed in nomination. But his own | delegation is cool to his aspirations { although they naturally will go {along if he is placed in nomination. Mr. Hutcheson has headquarters and is acting like a candidate.

Minor Issue

The main event of the convention, the presidential nomination, {was a minor issue as far as the Hoosier delégation was concerned, {the national committeemanship coming first. The Indiana delegation is ex- | pected to give all but two or three | of its 29 votes to Dewey and it may | go solid for him if the stampede to | Dewey is what it seems to be. | The two ninth district delegates,

question of time until the city will of Ohio would withdraw from the

be captured race and nominate Governor Dewey.

out from behind their caution and |

opened spacious “Dewey for Presi-

dent” headquarters on the Stevens)

hotel's mezzanine floor. Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, most likely compromise nominee if this meeting had been maneuvered into deadlock, did not give up. “The great majority of the delegates,” said the senator, “prefer to vote for Bricker, Why? Because he’s the strongest candidate.”

Cite ‘Rubber Words’

There still is some fight in this eonvention, however, and it will show, if at all, in a possible floor fight over the platform which some of the more internationally inclined of the assembled statesmen complain contains some “rubber words” in the foreign relations plank. But beyond that there does not appear to be any major likelihood of a rift in party harmony. The domestic platform planks tentatively are shaping up into an indictment of “New Deal régimentation,” a hint of hope for lower taxes and an agricultural program for bountiful production and some satisfactory substitute for subsidies. There is not much talk here of early balancing of the budget, but economy is riding high.’

Demand Surrender

“The immediate unconditional | surrender of Cherbourg is demanded. Communicate by radio on 1520 kilocycles and raise white flags or shoot white rockets or flares from the naval hospital and the hospital pasteur in €herbourg.

‘Thereafter send staff officers with white flags by way of Ft. Roule to the farm De la Montague to receive detailed conditions of surrender. (Signed) Cémmanding General of United States forces before Cherbourg.” Gorrell said the ‘break-through in southwest Cherbourg appears to make a German reply to the final American ultimatum unnecessary. Crack American units raced to be the first to enter Cherbourg, he said. Officially, the southwestern suburbs were penetrated in strength yesterday afternoon, and since then the assault forces chopped deeper into the city. “It can now be said that the city is ours,” Gorrell said, at the same time reporting desperate resistance by the Nazis at a number of strong points. - : Lt. Gen, Omar N. Bradley's triumphant forces already had reached

the German DNB news agency acknowledged that they also

at about 7 p. m. (Indianapolis time) that day. Spay

the sea a mile east of the port and} official

ential, not only in Ohio and the Ivan Morgan and Andrew Kops, are al Midwest, but also in the old guard the only members of the Hoosier Still more exciting was the Dros- wing of the party, and all this is delegation who have definitely compect, discussed by some Midwestern jmportant in the campaign ahead. |Mitted themselves to Bricker as far |leaders,” that the Ohio GOVEINOI's| A lively convention, too, is a help aS it is known. (appearance before the convention, tq the party workers. |

in such a gesture, might result in| Annybody who followed the 1940 (his own nomination as vice pres- convention and the. campaign knows WILSON SERVICES SET |idential candidate, instead of GOV-|that the thrilling horse-race at| Services for Otho Wilson, who died jernor Warren of California, who philadelphia, and the slowly mount- | Saturday at the home of his son, has been Governor Dewey's choice ing excitement which came to its! Loyd L., 6270 N. Chester ave., will hitherto. | frenzied climax when Wendell Will- be held at 10:30 a. m. tomorrow at The other was that there might kie appeared in person before the the Usher \funeral home. be a floor fight on the foreign Té- convention, carried over into the! A resident of Indianapolis for 40 lations plank in the platform, campaign and exhilarated the party years, Mr. Wilson was 71. threatened by Governor Edge of | workers. Survivors es the son, are his New Jersey, still jaunty at three-|. This all puts quite a burden on wife, Mrs. Wilson, a brother score-and-ten, who emerged sud- | the governor of New York when he Frank, and three granddaughters, denly to demand that the party go appears here to deliver his speech. all of Indianapolis.

IN INDIANAPOLIS-EVENTS-VITALS

EVENTS TODAY Sixty-Fifth Indiana department encamp-

William E. Adams, 21, of 272 8. Mlinois;| William, Mildred Hedden, at Methodist. Clarine Luttrall, 21, of 5903 N. Central.

James Albert Scarton, 24, U. 8. arm J Ann Kumb, at ment, Gri : art y 3 y.| Pred, Jane Ann Kumb, a Kirchbaum po Fo foe Reutie, at Butler university. Kise Jean Ridley, Donald, Wilma Schaedel, at Methodist.

20, Springfield, Ill. Jaies Leroy Ogbary, 27, of 4150 W. ashington; Jeanetta | of 1809 Lambert. May Bowe, 8, Robert Meyers, 21, hogy Claiborne, La.;| 9 E. 16th

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| Pirsters marched in a body to the

ballroom where Smith announced | that the America Firsters had oc.cupied and held “their bridgehead.” While squads of police milled through the main lobby and a dozen plainclothesmen filtered | through the crowd, Smith warmed to his subject: (1) Fire Spangler! | (2) Down With Dewey! and (3) {Down with “cocktail lounge, belly and cigar politicians!”

FIRE AROUSES GUESTS ‘AT DOWNTOWN HOTEL Guests at the Victoria hotel, 507 |E. Washington st., were awakened early today by a fire in a second

floor room and hallway. No one was injured and the damage was

Gerald Smith Raps G. O. P. For Trying to

G. O. P. national committee and its

tial nominee and elect Charles A.

Smith said his contract for use ?

Halt Meeting

Gerald L. K. Smith . . . speech anyway.

makes his |

Ss Seizure of Entire Marianas Group.

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18 the number of enemy warships sunk or damaged in two days of naval and aerial action west of the Marianas, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said the carrier was hit by seven 500-pound bombs, although he did not describe the damage to the two other vessels, one a heavy and the other a light cruiser. Nimitz also disclosed that 116 enemy planes were destroyed last ‘Friday when planes from 8 carrier task force raided Iwo Jima in the volcano islands, 753 miles south of Tokyo and almost midway between Japan's homeland and the Marianas, Casualties ‘Light’

Another 49 Japanese planes were added by revised reports to the score rolled up by the American fleet supporting the invasion of Saipan, raising to 402 enemy aircraft lost in the abortive attack last Sunday. In the air and sea fighting in those engagements four American ships were damaged; 151 planes lost and 98 flight personnel missing. A communique said that Japanese planes damaged several landing craft off Saipan Friday, and dropped several bombs in the American troop area on the island tHe same night, causing “very light” casualties,

RAPS NEGOTIATED PEACE LONDON, June 26 (U. P.).—The

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