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Overturns on Curve in Arizona; Cars Packed With Holiday, Crowd.
WILLIAMS, Ariz., July 4 (U. F).~At least ive persons were killed and 26 to 40 injured when the Santa Fe rail-
Among the dead were Fireman John H. Edwards, WinsJow, Ariz., and the mailman, railroad officials reported. First
death and injury toll would be much greater. The injured were taken to Bellemont, Ariz., to an army ordnance hospital and to Williams. All available ambulances
and other vehicles from both places were pressed into service | to remove the injured to hospitals. .
Santa Fe officials said the train, powered by a steam engine, was rounding a curve on a fairly Jevel stretch of the rugged mountain route he the wreck occurred. Twelve
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[The Price of Tpedons
An Editorial
JULY 4, | 776:
THAT IS A DATE which i is written on the heart of every American. For on that day was born the charter of our freedom. On that day this nation first heard the words that framed a sacred right, a precious privilege. On that day, the immemorial yearning of mankind reaching to the sun at last found form in two great sentences, in 50 words that. summed up the ageless striving and aspiration of the race: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these
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AEROS THE BEARS bebwisn the mors sti ring true and crystal cleat. On this anniversary, they are more
| filled with meaning, more precious because they are in
jeopardy, more real becalise acroés the world men are
|. dying to prove their truth.
: We are fighting, as a nation, not otily to defend those “certain unalienable Rights” for ourselves, but to extend them to all men. And 30 it should be, for freedom belongs truly only to those who freely bestow it on others; the more we give of it, the more we have.
We are fighting because we had allowed those words
‘ to grow dull and tarnished, because, perhaps, we grew complacent, assuming that since these truths were selfevident to us they would be so to all the world. We are fighting because we forgot that eternal vigilance is the price, because we forgot that there were other words in our great charter which gave strength and vigor to its guarantees.
EVERY GREAT PRIVILEGE has its obligation. The
wot gift of liberty must be earned, must be cherished, must ; 1 be defended. To be free, men must be strong.
These truths, too, were self-evident to-the men: who
| gathered in Philadelphia to form a mation. They did not
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state them so, but rather by their deeds they gave reality ‘to the words: .
Bf. “And for the support of this Declaration, with. a firm rank, #1 ‘séliance on the protection of Divine. Providence, we muonth} tuall; pledge to éach other our Lives, our Fortunes, and 0ur Sacred Honor.”
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then, Today, as then, the a ae: Divided, | we caniot be free. We cannot be free when class stands. ‘against class, race against race, creed against creed, and ‘man against man. Only in fellowship can we find the
to hold%our heritage, the liberty that long-dead
men earned when they, as we must do, resolved their
in one great cause, “Po be worthy of those living words that made us free, we too must find the meeting-ground of common purpose, we 100, in solemn unity, must pledge to our nation and to one another all that we have and are— kd lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”
: Aids Tavasion, Tokyo Says.
By UNITED PRESS A Axis reports: said today that American troops have landed in the Bonin islands, 700 miles southeast of Tokyo, and that fighting was under
DNB news agency said a force of American = “commandos” attacked the islands from the air July 3 and 4. “Our troops .engaged the enemy
“At least od enemy planes have been.
The reported landing, according to Japanese accounts, came at the ‘of a powerful American carrier assault on Chichi Jima in the Bonins and Iwo Jima in the adjacent Volcano group.
The Japanese forces were said to be abandoning the city, fleeing north toward the ridges and ravines in the northern tip of the isalnd. Cruisers Support Attack The enemy also suffered another setback in India, where British imperials captured .the major Japanese supply base of Ukhrul, 35 miles northeast of Bnphal, yesterday. The southeast Asia ‘command
killed more than 17,700 Japanese in the North Burma campaign. While cruisers and destroyers stood off shore and hurled high explosives into the enemy defenses on Noemfoor island, the troops landed on the northwestern shore Sunday morning, a communique said, and were rapidly consolidating their beachhead for drives throughout the rest of the island, Within two hours, the troops captured 5000-foot Kamiri airfield and immediately prepared for drives north and south toward the two remaining airdromes at Namber and Kornasoren. Capture of Kamiri airdrome, ap-
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Sgt. Barrett Lt. Greig Jr.
Lt. Greig, Sot. Barrett and Pvt. Keith Killed; Two Wounded.
Missing ‘more than a year, an Indianapolis airman is now reported killed in action, and two local soldiers have been killed in the recent drives in France and Italy. KILLED
Second Lt. Alfred F. Greig Jr. 123¢ N. Tacoma ave. Sgt. Mearle E. Barrett, hi E. 16th st. Pvt. Robert A. Keith, 3450 N. Guilford ave.
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BERLIN ADMITS
BULLETIN MOSCOW, July 4 (U. Pl Triumphant’ Russian armies neared the Branaowicte gap, gateway to Warsaw, and smashed to within 20 to 25 miles of both
- Street fighting was raging in bypassed Polotsk, 122 fniles northeast of Minsk,
- LONDON, July 4 (U. P.)—~German broadcasts today acknowledged the fall of Polotsk, by-passed Nazi ‘stronghold guarding the approaches to Latvia and Lithuania and Moscow dispatches said Russian army vanguards to the southwest had
Prussia. The official German DNB agency, in a Berlin transmission heard by!’ the United Press in London. reported the evacuation of the fiveway railway junction of Polotsk only 2¢ hours after the Russians captured Minsk; White Russian capital 122 miles to the southwest. DNB also conceded the loss of Minsk. Gen. Ivan C. Bagramian’s 1st Baltic army smashed into the northern - and © southern suburbs of Polotsk yesterday and engaged the garrison in - fierce street fighting, Moscow reported. The fall of Polotsk cracked the enemy's Dvina river line and was expected to bring a rapid Soviet advance along the Smolensk-Polotsk-Riga railway to the approaches to the enemy fortress of Daugavpils (Dvinsk), just across the border inside Latvia and 90 miles west of Polotsk, -Across the Dvina river from Polotsk, Bagramian already had sent an outflanking column 60 miles {west of Polotsk to within 40 miles! ‘south of Daugavpils, 20 miles south of the Latvian border and 25 miles east of the Lithuanian border. Still farther southwest, Moscow
RESISTANCE | IN ITALY
Nazis Shift Stror Strong Forces’ To Defense of Livorno. ROME, July 4 @. P.) ~American ig by yard through savage Ger-
tanks and infantrymen, battling
.| planes across the’ channel today to
POLOTSK'S LOSS
Russ By-Pass City Follow-| ing Lapturs of Ming | pur x
21 Miles, Push On La Haye.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent
"ALLIED SUPREME HE AD QUARTERS, LONDON, July - 4. — American
(forces seized a 400-foot hill overlooking La Haye-du Puits
in advances of up to two and a half ‘miles in the first 24 hours
nounced today, while Canadians struck out at the opposite end of the front and captured Carpiquet, two and a half miles west of Caen. (Radio Berlin said “lively landing activity” at the mouth of the Vire river and extensive regrouping of allied forces in Normandy “indicate that the enemy will, in the Nearest
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end of the front went over to attack west of Caen early under cover of a terrific barrage and in the first two captured’ Carpiquet, two and miles from the outskirts and and ‘a half miles from the center of Caen. Pressing on, the Canadians attacked the Caen-Carpiquet airfield, one of the main airfields serving Caen. - Ronald Clark, United Press war correspondent, wrote in a from Carpiquet that heavy was under way at the airfield. " Front dispa
positions before and inside quet. Canadian infantry advanced une der’ the curtain of shells. The Germans had a number of tanks and guns in Carpiquet, but pulled them out under cover of a smoke /screen as the Canadians closed in, Allied fighter-bombers wheeled overhead." The weather was slight ly improved, enabling the air forces
ARMS DEPOT EXPLODES BEDFORD, N. H., July 4 (U. B).
men today guarded a crater w an ammunition depot exploded my teriously on the eve of July 4, send-
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‘LONDON, July 4 (U,- P)~—4An aerial fleet of more than 750 American Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the 8th air force led a parade of 2000 other allied war-
attack a number of enemy air-
but injuring only three persons,
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