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LONDON, July 20 (U. P.).—Adolf Hitler was slightly burned, bruised and received a “light brain concussion” and a number of his high-ranking army and navy officers were injured, four of them seriously, today in what the German DNB news agency said was an “attempt with explosives
on the fuehrer.”
The official German news agency dispatch indicated that the explosion occurred at Hitler's headquarters—one of the most closely guarded places in the entire world—and that the intended, victims included
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Scheduled Tonight; Wallace Claims 400 Votes.
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO STADIUM, July 20. — With the ‘Democratic convention set to renominate President Roosevelt today and hear his acceptance speech by radio tonight, Vice President Henry A. Wallace's forces, in a new burst of enthusiasm, predicted today that he will be retained ‘as Roosevelt's running mate. Claiming more than 400 votes on the first ballot, Wallace's strategists said they no longer cared how soon the convention names the vice presidential nominee. They feel that Wallace is in the bag despite the bitter party disputes |
Inside Convention News
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which have arisen from moves to] unseat him, Wallace's headquarters were adside today by Alabama delegation spokesmen that the Alabama vote for vice president would be cast on the first ballot for Senator John H. Bankhead and that the delegation would swing as a unit to Wallace on the second ballot.
Wallace ‘Stays in Rooms
Wallace remained in his Sherman hotel rooms all the morning receiving callers. Governor Ellis Arnall of Georgia, ene of the callers, said: “The President told me a month ago that he would run for a fourth term, that he would take the people into his confidence on that point before the convention this time and that he wanted Henry Wallace on the ticket with him,” Arnall said. “Until Mr. Roosevelt tells this eonvention in writing that he has changed his mind we are going to keep on fighting for Wallace on the assumption that Mr. Roosevelt still wants him not withstanding any reports of notes or phone calls or anything else.” The estimate of 400 votes came
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McNutt to Start Low, Rise In Balloting, McHale Asserts
By EARL RICHERT Times Staff Writer
CHICAGO, July 20.—Frank Mc-
Hale, Indiana Democratic nationel|
committeeman who will nominate Paul V, McNutt for the vice presiency at tonight's convention session, said today he would be “happy” if Mr, McNutt gets 80 votes on the first ballot. “We ‘want Paul to start slow and
come on up,” he said. ~ Wen don’t
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of a liability” by stressing Dewey's {youth as against the “decadence™
{flower of his energy. He has more | rugged vitality in him today than s}aY two men the opposition has to er.”
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not only Hitler and some of
Jackson Ridicules G. O. P. Emphasis On Youth. :
CHICAGO, July 20 (U. P.).
—Senator Samuel D. Jackson, || Democratic nominee for gov-
ernor .of Indiana, told the Democratic national convention today that a change -in national .administration in time of war was “frightening to contemplate” and that it was “dangerous to make.” Jackson said the Republican party “to counteract the disadvantage of having such an unusually young) and unpracticed candidate,” Gover~ nor Thomas E Dewey of New York, was attempting to make “an asset
of the present administration, “That last word ‘decadence’ is an {indecent slander, if intended for the t,” Jackson said. “Roosevelt is in his full vigor and in the
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“The opposition offered weak and unwholesome pap to the American voters three campaigns in succes-
not take it from Hoover in 1932. They would not take it from lLandon in 1936. They would not take it in 1940, and they will not take it in 1944.” Jackson asserted that Dewey was selected as a nominee “in the hope’ that the 47 New York state electoral]
his top commanders, but also Benito Mussolini, premier of the so-called Republican Fascist government of northern Italy. : - Mussolini was on Hitler's calling list at about the time of the explosion and as soon as.the headquarters was cleared of debris and wounded, DNB indicated, Hitler “resumed his work” and received Mussolini “as intended.” ‘ DNB said that shortly after the attempt, Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering—who Hitler designed as.the heir to Nazi
leadership at the beginning of the war—*joined the fuehrer.”
Renomination Is Due Today
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Tired Old me Winning War, Keynoter Kerr Says
By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Stall Correspondent CHICAGO STADIUM, July 20.—Democrats went whooping into the aisles for the first big demonstration of their:convention last night when | Governor Robert S, Kerr of Oklahoma made a keynote speech calling for the re-election of President Roosevelt and dénouncing Republican administrations under which he said America “hardened under Harding, cooled under Coolidge and hungered under Hoover.”
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votes would carry the old guard The speech was interrupted by a back into the White House.” {12-minute demonstration = during “What a fantastically vain hope which state standards were paraded that is,” he declared. “But in that down the aisles to the platform hope they are willing to take the where Kerr put dn a 10-gallon
alluded in staccato succession to 58-year-old Adm. Chester W. Nimits, 62-year-old Adm. William F. Halsey Jr, 64-year-old Gen. Mac-
risk of his obvious inexperience. , . .| “What the presidenci* demands now, is not so much a bright young man, as a man of wisdom and experience, with depth and breath of vision.” Jackson said the Republicans in drawing up their platform found “no nutriment in their position on the war effort nor in the international field.” In their domestic program, he said, they were confronted with the accomplished fact of “economic and social reform, both long and broad.” “War has taught us methods of efficiency never dreamed of before,”
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want his maximum strength on the first ballot.” Mr.. McHale is counting on the inability of both the Truman and Wallace forces to get a majority in the early balloting, and upon Mr. McNutt finally being selected as a compromise. He predicted there would be seven or eight ballots. The seconding speech will be made by a delegate from the Philippine islands, where ‘Mr. McNutt served as high commissioner following his term as governor of Indiana. ¥ Mr. .*McHale predicted that the former governor would get at least 18 of Indiana's 26 votes on the first ballot. He said he would also get scattered support from Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Arizona to start with. : . There were several in the Indiana delegation, however, who disputed
one unofficial poll gave Wallace 12 on the first ballot; McNutt, Bl; Federal Judge: Sherman Minton (who will not even be nominated) 5, and Senator. Truman, %. The > tenth of Fr, ‘Wallace in the Indiana
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Arthur, 66-year-old Adm. King and 64-year-old Gen, Marshall, Then he added the paragraph which stopped his speech and produced the most deafening demonstration which this convention had seen thus far. *No, Mr. Dewey,” the : keéynoter said, “we know we are winning: this
white hat while the band blared, “You're Doin* Fine, Oklahoma.” Kerr's reply to the Republican party's “accent on youth” was the declaration that such “tired old men” as President Roosevelt, Adm. Ernest J. King, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, and Gen. George C. Marshall “are winning this war.” Repeating the refrain, “shall we discard as a ‘tired old man,” he
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Highlights of Jackson's Speech at Convention
“No convention since the birth of the republic has had such rave significance.” Cem y 8 = “A change in national administration in time of war, even when surrounded by promising circumstances, is frightening to contempiste. It is dangerous to make. , . , America cannot afford to take & chance. Our peaple will not gamble with the lives of their ~s0ns, your sons and mine.” ” . w - = »
“ « + How many battleships would a Democratic defeat be worth to Tojo? How many Nari legions would it be worth to Adolf Hitler? Frankly, could Goebbels himself do better to bolster axis morale than the word that the American people had upset this. administration—the administration that made it possible for the Russians to drive the Nazis back te the Prussian border? We must not allow Whe American WING Vax Su: by made, Hitler's secret weapon!” » s » ~ . » “Franklin D. Roosevelt is the most valuable Vale servant in . the world today.” ' . = = . * » “The farmer, the worker, and the businessman will continue to be the objects of our administrative concern. The reopening of world markets with consequent mutuality of commercial interest among nations will reinforce and and undergird the world’s . Peace structure with the sure steel of self-interest. We always have cared for -and s¥all alwayy care for the Reedy Veteran, his Widow and orphan.” - * : . ” - » "=
“We must write a peace—at whatever lengths and by whatever honorable means—supported by whatever effective implementation or common international action may be necessary to guarantee the 10 million returning veterans that their sons will be spared a recurrent war, ond Ne Shall never Tere: gis mathers of our men and women in uniform.” : * x8 . / - = “We are confident of victory at the poll. our ontency springs from appreciation of what a Democratic Saministration through Fes. of sess ha done ox our countey”
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as seriously injured were:
Lt. Gen. Schmundt, Col. Brandt, Lt. Col. Borgmann and ‘commanders
Borgamnn's aide, Berger.
Gen. Alfred Jodi, chief of Hitl
COMPANY OK’ STEERING GEAR ON CRASH BUS
Blown Out; Toll Is
1 Dead, 33 Hurt.
The steering apparatus on the Indianapolis Railways bus which crashed into a steel] girder vesterdav at the Missouri st. and Kentucky ave. underpass was intact and in good condition, railways officials announced today. Although mechanics seeking | the cause of the accident found the, front axle broken and the right; front tire blown out, investigators! said this could have been either al cause or result of the’ Stockyards |
{ bus-crash.
Meanwhile, the railways investigation department, headed by Forrest Crist, the coroners office and the police traffic department, continued to investigate the accident injured 33 others, two of them critically,
Lost Control, Driver Says John W. Bridges, bus driver, told
trol of the vehicle and said “the wheel seemed loose” in his hands. He said he was going “not more than 20 miles an hour’
1941, and Oct. 20, 1943, the speed
‘through underpasses was “Bot to exceed five miles an hour. “Effective at once, all streetcars, trackless trolleys and gasoline buses should approach all underpasses under complete control whether or not there is any pe pc cos obstruction in the * center of the streets. The speed of the vehicle _ should be gradu- ;
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Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
last Dijures Hitler, Hint Attempted Assassination
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This indicated that Goering was not’ present when the!Guenther Korten, chief of staff of the Luftwaffe; Gen. - | Buhlke, Gen. Karl Bodenschatz, liaison officer between Hitler Officers clustered around Hitler apparently received ‘and the air marshal’s office; Gen. Heusinger, Gen. Scherff, the full strength of the blast, shielding Hitler himself. The 'Adm. Von Puttkamer and Adm. Voss. fuehrer’'s wounds were described as slight.
DNB did not specify, whether the explosion was caused
by a bomb planted inside the room in which Hitler and his
s were conferring or whether the explosion might
‘have been from a bomb launched from an allied plane and
er's personal staff; Maj. Gen.|
The following were listed as receiving minor injuries: pin-pointed as in recent attacks on German headquarters =
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‘MODERATES TAKE
JAP REINS AS TOJO _ RESIGNS IN CRISIS |
9 TOWNS FALL AS BRITISH GAIN WIDE FOOTHOLD
‘Spearheads Storm Streets Of Troarn, Roll 8 Miles
Down Paris Road.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent
8 UP REME HEADQUARTERS, A E. F., July 20.—The British 2d; army, hammering out a steadily ex-| panding Normandy break-through! arc, drove through nine more towns| today, stormed into the streets of| Troarn and Bourguebus, and sent a spearhead down the Paris road to! Vimont, eight miles southeast of Caen. ° Many scores of allied Sherman | tanks were smashing through the] network of German fortifications on the Caen plain in wild battles of armor, United Press Correspondent Rich- | ard D. McMillan reported that Brit-! ish and Canadian assault forces stormed six more villages in the! area of the break-through. Whether! they supplemented or duplicated, the nine announced at supreme) headquarters was not certain. The German Transocean news
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ally decreased for some distance back so that the speed when passing under #nd @§ through the overhead construction does not exceed Mr. five miles an hour,” the first bul-! letin said. Following an accident by a motor
Henderson
agency said American and Canadian
; j army forces under Lt. Gen. George
| S. Patton had gone into action on! { the Normandy front. Gen. Dwight |D. Eisenhower's headquarters had {no comment.
Germans Forced Back
| lied advance was within 1000 yards of the river Muance, which flows
Seek to Spur War Effort in Face of Losses: May Be First Step Toward Peace Proposal in Distant Future.
By UNITED PRESS Emperor Hirohito today commissioned Gen. Kuniaka Koiso and formfer Premier Adm. Mitsumasa Yonai, both ‘known to be friendly toward the United States before Pearl -
| Harbor, to form a new Japanese cabinet in succession to that
of Gen. Hideki Tojo, which resigned en bloc after confessing it could not win the war. Announcement by the official Japanese Domei news agency that two political “moderates” had been entrusted with the organization of a new government confirmed that the extremist military clique which put Tojo in power and engineered the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor had lost control of Japan. i The’ move was regarded as the first step toward am ultimate Japanese attempt to win a negotiated peace, though no immediate peace bid was anticipated.’ The Domei news agency reported the resignations of Toshiki Karasawa, vice minister for home affairs; Yoshitomo ‘Susukida, Tokyo police chief; Chief Machimura of the police ‘bureau; and Eiji Amau, president of the Japanese informae
tion board, * ‘in connection with the resignation of the | cabinet.”
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May Increase War Effort Sources familiar with the Japanese political situation suggested the new cabinet would attempt to intensify the ‘Japanese war effort, then give way to another government within the next few months as American successes in the Pacific mount. Only when a wholly civilian government
{comes into power, these sources believed, will J apan make a The easternmost point of the al-|
real effort to withdraw from the war. Domei broadcasts heard by FCC monitors said that
bus last October at the. Kentucky east of Troarn and forms the first| Koiso, governor general of Japanese-occupied Korea, and
other bulletin was issued for drivers of Stockyards, Allison plant 5 and Mars Hill busses, “Your attention is called to the rule for gasoline busses to drive!
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RUSS STORM MAJOR | BERLIN ROUTE BASE
Close for Kill : at Lwow;
Nearing E. Prussia Gate. By JOSEPH W. GRIGG
United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, July 20 (U. P).—The Russian army hammered at. the gates of Bast Prussia today, Berlin indicated in reporting heavy fighting only eight miles from the frontier, and far to the south the Russians drove within sight of the great fortress city of Lwow in lower Poland. Russians and "Germans agreed that. a half dozen Nazi bases were endangered on a 900-mile front. : Lwow, the biggest German base on the southern route to Berlin, already was under fire from Soviet artillery, and Russian army shock troops were closing.in’for the assault on the nine-way rail hub.
By SHERLEY UHL
from a defendant in a c case, but was “holding |
source,” has been obtained from 8gt.- Francis P. Griffin, bailiff in municipal court ‘3, it was learned | today from high police officials. “Police investigating charges against Sgt. Griffin in connection ith, an-alioged court 3 “pay off”
seeking the’ “source” for ‘assertedly placed
ave. and Missouri st. underpass, an-|
fina]| H. Arford, commanding officer in
: Bailiff Claims $35 Received
From Driver Is in Escrow
: [the force yesterday, pending a safety A verbal admission that he ac- board hearing, which promises to {cepted {minor - {the money in escrow” for “another |
appreciable water obstacle east of | the Orne. | The German -garrison was put-| | ting up a stiff fight at Troarn, but, { the British were battering in from. { the west, and had consolidated; | commanding positions above nearby Emieville.
{ Meager reports from the Ameri-|
|ean front said the 1st army had icompleted the mop-up of the Vire| | river bend northwest of St. Lo and established outposts a few hundred yards southwest and southeast. Between St. Lo and Caen the, Germans had been forced back be‘low the Caumont-Tilly sur Seulles road to a general line about 2000 { yards—more than a mile—beyond it, ! “Stubborn fighting went on all| day,” McMillan reported from the Caen front. “It is a blazing hot dav, and the! entire battlefield is swathed in dust clouds. Long lines.of vehicles are still pouring into the break- -through | area with convoys of shells, fuel and | food edging through in the rear.”
ORDNANCE WORKS TO BE REOPENED
MEADVILLE, Pa. July 20 (U. PL. | —Due to increased demand for| high explosives, the government's Keystone Ordnance Works, near here, will be placed back in operation as soon as possible, Lt. Edwin
charge of the plant, said today.
‘evolve into a full-dress review of municipal court practices which eity law enforcement and Judicial authorities have been at {oggerheads for years. “Also brought to light today were Is of an affidavit signed by Grover Ridénour, R. R. 1, Greenfield, alleging that Sgt. Griffin was me man to whom he paid $35 with
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Yonai, premier from January to July, 1940, had been ordered by Hirohito at an audience in the imperial palace at 5:10 p. m. Japanese time today to “form the succeeding cabinet in co-operation.” * o. “They received the honor with great trepidation and’ departed from the imperial presence,” Domei said. Another Domei dispatch said that “important news” was expected later tonight, but did not indicate its nature. The wording of the Domei dispatches indicated that Japan for the first time in history may have two premiers at the helm of the government at the country” s admittedly | gravest hour. . If so, this would indicate that Hirohito had decided to {force the army and the navy to share equal responsibility for the defense of the homeland against American air, sea . and ground forces gradually tightening a stranglehold on {Japan's home islands. | Tokyo radio, in an English-language broadcast heard {by United Press at San Francisco, said “Gen. Koiso and Adm. {Yonai have immediately started the work of fopming the [cabinet,” carrying out the Domei indication of a dual premiership.
| Proponent of Caution.
Yonai, long a proponent: of friendly Japanese-American and Japanese-British relations, was forced from the premiership in July, 1940, by Japan's extremist military clique, which then proceeded to put its favorite, Tojo, into the government as war minister and 15 months later engineered his elevation to the premiership. Yonai also was known to . have opposed Japan's tripartite alliance with Germany and Italy. Koiso retired from the army in July, 1938, and was made overseas affairs minister in April, 1939, then governor general of Korea in June, 1942. An advocate of southern expansion for Japan, he has been regarded as a proponent of caution insofar as Japanese policy elsewhere was concerned. ; : Both Koiso and Yonai are 64 years old. The fall of the Tojo government and the commissioning of the two “moderates” to form a new cabinet was interpreted in both Washington. and Chungking as a sig that Japasess peace. proves may be forthcoming. & ees Though Washington urged caution as to pe ctin, immediate enemy bid even for 3
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