CONTINENTAL EDITION 1* THE S RIPESlj ily Newspaper el 114, Armed in the European Theater of Operations

Vol. 1 No. 15 Printed "Somewhere in France* Thursday, July 20, 1941 Soviets Have BRITISH DRIVE BS BIGGEST SINCE D-DAY; lOOMLtoGo AMERICANS CLEAN UP POCKETS IN ST. LO But Captured City One of First Men to Enter St. Lo Monty Says Nazis To Warsaw Js Under Heavy in Normandy Shell Fire Is Borne Into City in Hero's Funeral Lost 156,000 In th* ^Russians' farthest St. Lo, July 19—There was a strange funesal procession which advance west, Soviet tanks yes- TJ. S. FIRST ARMY HQ., July entered this town when it fell last night. Riding in state, hi an British and Canadian ta»8 terday blasted their way to the 19 i Reuter)—Battling fierce mor- ambulance sandwiched between tanks and armored cars, was the columns, spearheading the aeqi lailway between Brest-Litovsk and flagKiraped body of the major who a few hours before had led faks Allied breakthrough toward the tar and artillery fire, American men to take the last hill in front of St. Lo. Bialystok, 100 miles from War- troops mopped up important St. heart of France, smashed tae» sew. The commanding general of the division ordered that the body ward several males through th* Lo today and severed another of the Virginia battalion commander who had died so that others Thus in, 2S days pince their highway leading from the city, breach in th* German* Oast summer offensive began behind might reach the town would enter St. Lo with the first troops. River defenses yesterday, whV»e fee Vitebsk-Orsha-Mogilev itne while the Luftwaffe made its The major, whose name is not releasable, was laid in state CHICAGO, July 19—War Mob- the sixth paralyzing American ties in the first day of the new eavalry, attempted a "surprise" piano was shot down by anti- ilization Director James F. blow against the Reich in nine offensive were extremely light— assault"1 on Brest-Litovsk from aircraft fire and another by a U Byrnes withdrew from the race "ilmost negligible." for the Vice-Presidentta'. nomi- days, about 2,700 warplanes yes- the southeast yesterday, Col. Al- S. fighter. terday raided more than 12 key Before the breakthrough south- fred von Olberg of German Over- Resistance along the entire natior. as the 1944 Democratic targets in Southern Germany and east of Caen the allies slammed seas News Agency said last night. front was, in the words of an National Convention opened to- boosted the toll taken of the down 14,000 tons of explosives on He claimed the breakthrough at- Army spokesman, "stiff" South- day, saying he was acting "in def- decimated Luftwaffe in 48 hours various targets, one dispatch said tempt was foiled. east of Carentan, veteran TJ. S. erence to the wishes of President to at least 144. yesterday, and near Colombelies, Roosevelt." northeast of Caen, there was a To the south, Koniev hurled troops were meeting some of the From Britain more* than 1,200 masses of armor into the battle gigantic pall of smoke 50 miles fiercest resistance they have ever AS toe same time, Vice-Presi- Fortresses and Liberators con ■ wide, 20 miles deep and five miles for Lwow where the Germans ad- met—prinicpally from crack para- dent Henry A Wallace arrived voyed by nearly 750 pursuits mitted the Russians were gain- high. German defenders were left trooper units All fronts remain- to take personal charge of his smashed at more than four plants so shaken that many of those ing because of superiorty In men ed fairly static, the principal campaign for renomination, fol- feeding the enemy war machine captured were pot able to work amd equipment gains being made northwest of lowing a virtual SOS from Iowans as well as rail yards and Luft- the bolts of their rifles. winter drive from Kiev had swung St Lo, and southeast of Caren- of his home-state delegation. waffe stations, while from Italy The fury of the greatest aerial Marshal Stalin's Order of the tan. up to 500 15th AF B17s and B24s bombardment ever dealt on such Day said the Russians had Many delegates believed the an- nouncement by Bymes forecast a escorted by fighters struck air- a concentrated battle area and punehad e hole 128 miles wide in craft factories, airdromes and the swift advance—after tanks the Nazi line an d&dvanced 32 •FOLDING BAZOOKA' IN USB more positive move by Mr. Roo- sevelt to point out his preference ordnance plants near Munich. surged across three Orne bridges miles through "strictly fortified, WASHINGTON, July 19— As a smashing sequel to the which had been secretly built fee deeply echeloned defenses." American jungle and parachute for a running mate, as he did in 1940. Byrnes' withdrawal appar- previous day's assault in which night before—apparently left fee troops are being equipped with the Eighth AF shot down 21 In- German High Command confused "foWing bazookas" while Army antly left Sen Harry S. Truman, terceptors, fighter pilots and of Missouri, as Wallace's leading as to the status of the battle and plares in the China-Burma-India bomber gunners yesterday de- the depth of penetration. 436 Believed Dead theater axe using new large 4 5- contender, although Sen. Alven stroyed 59 Nazi aircraft, of which ihch bazookas, the War Depart- W. Barkley, of Kentucky, also had the P51s. P47s and P38s bagaed ment disclosed today. supporters 53—17 in the air and 30 on the The new2.36-cal rocket launch- aThe selection of a Vice-Presi- ground U. S. losses were 18 In Navy Explosion er doesn't actually fold, as its dential candidate and the deli- heavies and seven fighters. 2nd Nazi General name implies, but can be assembl- cate question of Negro rights Preliminary reports did not indi- MARTINEZ, Cal., July 19—Up ed in a few seconds to form a were tv/o of the principal matters cate how many had been destroy- to late last night only four bodies bazooka 01 inches long. bafore the convention. Oontlnued on Back Page n France Is Fired: of a mounting death toll unoffi- cially placed ax, 436 had been re- Adolf Hitter has fired Gen. Von; covered in the wreckage of an Falkenhausen, German comman- explosion Monday night of two der - in - chief in Belgium and 6,500 - ton ammunition ships St. Lo 'Living Hell' Under German Fire northern France, and also changed j which shattered the Port Chica- the administrative setup govern- ! go naval ammunition depot. ing the two areas, a German Early estimates on the number By Andy Rooney I "I thought I'd never see hail, St. Lo was the German field News Agency announcement ! of dead ranged as high as 650, Stars and Stripes Staff Writer but I guess I'm right in it now " headquarters for their govern- quoted by United Press said jrea- j but 12th Naval District headquar- said Pvt. Harry Elder, of Rifle, mental control over the French terday. ters subsequently announced chat ST. LO, July 19—This town, Col. people in this section. The town Von Falkenhausen is the seeond casualties would not ran that from which the Germans ruled At the entrance to the town is third in size and importance German military leader in the j the Cherbourg peninsula, is bat- there is a large factory. Some in Normandy behind Cherbourg battle area dismissed in two high. Official figures listed the tered and broken tonight. known dead as 250 sailors, nine of the boys guarding it say its and Caen. weeks. The first was field mar- officers, seven merchant seaman St. Lo was a town of 10,500 a distillery which makes Calvados, '"Rehabilitation will be much shal Gerd Von Rundstedt, and four civilians. A party of 40 people, but there are no French (renamed Jersey Lightning). mere d-fficult in St. Lo than tt The German announcement armed guards aboard the ships here tonight but the dead. Down Some claim it's a power plant was in Cherbourg," said MaJ. said Von Falkenhausen handed the main street the furniture for the city and a few swear it is Asa B. Gardiner, of Baltimore, over civil affairs to a new Helen and a combined civilian crew list hangs out of the broken buildings of about 130 were also presumed a cement factory. Bob Casey, senior civil affairs officer with commissar, Grohe, and miUtery like the intestines of the cows in Chicago Tribune correspondent, the division which took the town. duties to Gen. Grase, who will lost. the field outside the town. Between 600 and 800 persons, observed there wasn't a lot of "It will take the engineers a take over in Brussels. From the hills south of St. Lo d HI ©r GUC G good week to clear the streets and the majority of whom are Navy Further on mto the town there GERMAN 'WACS' SEIZED personnel, were reported injured. Th« Germans axe sending artil- it will be at least two mouths be- lery and mortar fire into the is a little cemetery Which has fore anything like normal tife is CAEN FRONT, July 19 (AES)1— Material damage reports exceed- town and U. S. troops walking 'jeen shelled. There are wrecked ed $5,000,000. i ectored in the town," Maj. Gard- German "WACs" were among fee through the streets are sticking vehicles in the cemetery streets iner said after an early recon- prisoners captured in the sudden close to the sides of buildings and people long dead have b;>n C. S.-1TALY MAIL naissance. onslaught yesterday east of the with an eye on the nearest dc-sr shaken out of their graves by 'The Germans are backing up Ome River They were the first WASHINGTON, July 19, (Reu- on constant watch for snipers. bursting shells. Out on the steps ol the stone mausoleum of La French civilians with them as women of the German Army cap- ters—Resumption of civilian mall The GIs who came in yester- they are driven back and at some turned on the British front in service for personal correspond day morning and who once Famille Blanchet soldiers are stopping to eat their K rati me. points we will have a flood of Noimandy, and were a disheveled ence between the U. S. and Rome pushed one-half mile south of French refugee? n<~<-»--~~ ■«•> our town said St. Lo was "a living The Blanchet family's mausol'wm lot, too dazed to bother to put OS J and the Vatican City has been —T makeup. announced hell." makes a handy shelter e i THE STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, July 20, 1944

THE STARS AND STRIFES JPWnteU tot It. S. Armed fo.-cen. undo-.' ausi>*te« of the Spetlal Serv- Welles Advocates ioe Dltiiu ETOUSA U.S. Scours Oomeaus p«sed b> the TJ. S. Andersson Runs 4:1.6 Mile, Army and Navy ccmora: subscrip- Splitting Reich tion iti> fram.* per j ear plus post- US*. ContUieuta: edition. Ente.-ed WASHINGTON. July 19 — as secon'l cats matter Mar. IS Sunmej Welles, former As 144», a* the (4 The brothers are truck drivers many ox them might be women. the pack by three full games in in an engineer unit attached to a Leghorn, July 1, 1943, was accepted as a Western Union offices to aojoyt their o.rive to bring the first A. L. large headquarters. Being identi- To make it easy for them to world standard. pennant to St, Louis. With more loan 30,000 fans cal twins a;id each, driving tlw appiK. he authorized 4S.0OC Two prize- Italian seaports- Six-hit pitching by Bob Mun- same type truck, Melvin and Al- jammed into the 14,000 -seat, collect telegrams to the W MC Leghorn on the Tyrbheruan Sea crief and three home runs sent vin leave & trail of confusion and McNutt pointed out that worri- stadium, Andeassoc once agair* and Arxona on tire Adriatic- Emerson Rosar, Yankee rookie to "double takes" la their wake. er, already were -helping to make. csltesd on his sizzLferg stretch were captured by the Allies yes- def eat. The circuit blows were An MP who directs military 400 - pound parts for the B2d terday. sprint to nip Haegg in the last super - Fortress at Harvey 3tiuck by Milt Byrnes with two 100 yaaxis and win by a three- traffic at an important cross- LI., American Fifth Army troops while others were doing forge on in the second, by Geno Moore ywd margin. Hacgg's time of 1.C3 roads is jtiil seeing double. "One tootan^ghorn, third largest port twin came along and asked tlve and foundry work in factones with the bases empty in the sixth also broke the old record. m Italy, without opposition in the Lennart Strand, who paced way to a supply dump," he said. near Chicago ana in Cleveland. end chet Laabs with one ai»ard city itself after one of the stiffest in the seventh. Haegg the first three laps, col- "I told him and he drove triple-threat shot at Kes- Outlaw's single drove in the mile in 4:06!4, trackmen hava had never been separated before, of McLennan County voted to SF-lring's Gothic Line along the winning run « been pursuing the elusive fouv- restore prohibition locally. Daiia-s their parents wrote the President, north banks of the Arno River. The Athletics shoved three minute dream, Andersson and explaining the situation. Shor •-,!;/ and. Tarrant Counties, in which runs across in the ninth but fell Leghorn was reported to be Haegg have been trying for it afterward, the pair were ordered Dallas and Fort Worth are loca- one short of their goal and lost more seriously smashed even than more than anyone else. Haegg to an engineer outfit and have ted, will hold a similar election to the Indians, 4-3, under the did it in 4:06.2 in 1942 and shorijy Naples The Germans also oar- been with it ever since. Aug. 5. Shouid th? two counties lights a*t Cleveland. afterward in 4:04.6. Guilder's rec- vote dry, there will be no legal rie,i out extensive demolition of In the National League, the ord stood until Andersson regis- Ancoua's harbor installations, but liquor for sale in Texas north of fast moving Cardinals widened tered his 4:02.6 last year when. A battalion of U. S. infantry repair work has already begun. cut off from its regiment dur- Austin. their margin oyer the idle Reds Haegg was running in Americ.i» ing the fight for St. Lo, had Morocco radio reported that the to 12 full games by white-wash- several badly wounded men THE CO RELENTS rdministration of Rome and the ing the Dodgers, 5-0, as Max MIAMI, July 19—Screen act whe needed Wood transfusions Rome area would be taken over Lanier humbled the Brooks with resa Gail Patrick and her bride- in a hurry. A call back to th.; by the Italian Government on four blows SKots in Arm — groom. Navy Lt Arnold Dean artillery support brought low- Aug 15. after Col. Charles Pol- Phil Weintraub's homer with White, were reunited when flying Piper Cubs over and blood efcti the U. S. administrator, mov- the bases loaded gave the" Giants White's CO removed restrictions plasma was dropped ed to newly-liberated regions in a 5-2 decision over the Pirates Ost's Bat Booms confining him to quarters for go- the north in a night game at New York. ing to Jacksonville without a pass Bill Voiselle was the mound vic- U. S. Army staff officer re- NEW YORK. July 19—BasebaU to marry Gail. Neither was avail- tor, yielding only three safeties. 'vealed. yesterday that the first able for comment. fans are asking how ccme Mel Ott "clear and definite case" of the hit only 18 homers last year but Germans bocbytrapping American JUST A BEGINNING Guam Bombarded has clubbed 20 so far this season. dead ir. Normandy had been NEW YORK, July 1.9—The And the best man ti supply the esta&ished Aimy Air Forces have cancelled, answer is the Boy Wonder him- Three dead American soldiers a contract for 499.000 yards of 13 Days in Row AMERICAN LEAGUE self. 'T just didn't feel comfortable Were found its a ditch somewhere red tape. They have found olive- Detroit 6, Washington 5 south of Carentan with booby drab tape more satisfactory for at the- plate last year" the Giant PEARL HARBOR. July 19 (U>?) S4>, Louis 8, New York 0 manager says. "And for a while traps fixed tc their bodies, the .sealing shipments of planes Cleveland 4, Philadeipdia 3 spokesman said. Definite evidence —American sea and air power this Spring I couidn't get in the against sea moisture t-cftening the way for an expe;*;ed Boston 4, Chicago 2 that the bodies were boobyfcrap groove Then suddenly f started i.anding on Guam are pasting the W L PCT. GB ped was authenicated by signed to relax anc? the homers started island with the heaviest bom- St. Louis 49 37 .570 — coming I honestly can't account statements of an American sta.l Air AssauBt . . . bardment since the outset of the New York 43 37 .538 3 sergeant and another American Continued from p««o 1 for it" Pacific War. Boston 44 40 .524 4 One reason given for Mel's in- soldier who removed the lethal ed by the Italian-based planes. Washington 41 42 .492 6'.-j The 225 square miles of the creased homer output is his daily weapons. Nearby, the spokesman On Tuesday, however, they got Detroit 41 44 .482 7% added two more cases of booby- 66. island have been subjected to submission to 'the needle mani- e^ght surface assaults, including Cleveland 41 44 .482 7Va trapping American dead were Continuing the spectacular sup- pulated by Dr Francis Sweeney, three by battleships, and 18 Chicago 36 42 .462 9 found. port of ground troops in France, club physician. Mel bares his arm carrier attacks in the last five Philadelphia 37 46 .446 10 "4 to Sweeney and the Doc jabs vit« which began Tuesday with a NATIONAL LEAGUE massive assault on German posi weeks. A raid by carrier sr^t aniais into his system. The vit- A Red Cross mobile unit 'rf Sunday marked the 16th d^y New York 5, Pittsburgh 2 amins have worked such wonders 31 girls, led by Virginia EUis, of bens near Caen, the Ninth and S;. Louis 5, Brooklyn 0 Second Tactical Aw Forces, al- running the Americans had him- for Ott the downhearted Dodger Brookiine, Itfass., are in Nor- mered Guam. Only games scheduled. fans got up a petition to ha,ve mandy to got around with though handicapped bf ctouds, «- W L PCT. GB tacked enemy military mowemew/* Gen. Douglas MacArthur an- every man on the Brooklyn team dcughiiuls-auiV coffee service, nounced that land-based U. S. St. Louis 55 23 .705 — take them stage movies and distribute sta- to the front. Led by pathfinder Cincinnati 44 36 .550 12 Mcrauders, Havocs bombed a rail rianes sunk or damaged four OtVs long?range hotting has tionety, cigarettes, toilet art- bridge at St Hilaire du Harcourt, Japanese merchant ships, two Pittsburgh 41 34 .547 12 M> benn perhaps the biggest factor m icles. cn a line leading to th© Norman- south of Celebes in the East New York 40 41 .494 16% keeping the Giants in the first dy battle area. All the A20s, es- Indies, the other off Dutch New Fhiladislphia 34 43 .442 20 "4 div-s-ion His team is only a little ADD CLOSE CALLS:Pvt. Reu- corted by P47s, returned Guinea. Chicago 32 42 .432 21 improved over the 1943 cellar ben Post, rifleman from Lterii- Brooklyn 34 46 .425 22 dwellers tut his spirit itas spread strom. Miss., was standing behind Boston 32 47 .405 23 Ji throughout the club and kept its a hedgerow when a mortar shell INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE head above water. There isn't hit on the other side. A piece of Now to the Normontiy Sago Add Baltimore 5. Jersey City C a bettor competitive player m shell fragment ripped through Newark 5, Syracuse 0 baseball than the diminutive Ott the lapel of his field jacket, Toronto 3, Buffalo 2 and Iras men are reflecting his through the sleeve of the jacket, Deeds of 90th infantry Division Only games scheduled fire. shirt and undershirt—all without W L PCT. GB touching his skin. About 100 yards Montreal 46 37 .554 — HQ, 90th INF. DIV-, July 19- posts. By June 12 the division DURATION TITLE MATCH from Post l/Lt. Wallace Riddick, Baltimore 45 38 542 1 BOSTON, July 19—Willie Pep, The Army lifted tho veil of secrecy had broken the German's sotiih of Demopolis. Ala., experienced em flank at Pont 1' Abbe and Jersey City 45 40 .529 2 featherweight champion from the sensation of seven German today from the 90th Division, 43 thiee days later it pushed through Buffalo 45 40 .529 2 Hairford, Conn., hooked and jab- machine pistol shells passing days after one of its regiments on the northern sector. Newark 45 43 .511 3% bed his way to a ten-round de- through the front of hfe helmet landed at H-Hour with the Fourth With their lines broken, tn-i Toronto 44 45 .494 5 cision over Manuel Ontiz, bantam without touching has head. Be- Division and 41 days after the enemy forces split to the north Rochester 39 49 .443 9% ruler from El Cer.tro, Cal., here lieve it or not entire division was here ready and south, and as the 9th Divi- Syracuse ?4 51 .400 12 last night at Braves Field before for action. sionn drove on to the western AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 10.000 fans. It was Peps 57th More than 12 hours after the For security reasons the storv coast of the peninsula the 90 ch Columbus 9. Indianapolis 3 (1st) triurr ph in 58 bouts and his sec- drive into St. Lo got under of what the 90th did in the Cher- blocked the German elements a.- Columbus 4, Indianapolis 1 (2nd; ond straight verdict since being way, and after hundreds of ve- bourg campaign and the later tempting to escape from ths Louisville 14, Toledo 9 (1st) discharged from the Navy. hicles passed down the main drive to the south has never be»>c north. During the drive for Cher- Louisville 10. Toledo 4 (2nd) road fion? Isieny, Pvt. Clarence made public. bourg, the 90th consolidated its St Paul 13. Kansas City 2 (1st) PEP BEATS ORTEZ Smith and Cpl. Mack Gosiew- The 90th, veteran ot Word positions and prepared for ti'.e St. Faul 5. Kansas City 2 (2nd) CHICAGO, July 19—Promoter ski, both ef Akron, Ohio, de- War 1, passed through the li-ves attack south. Minneapolis 3 Milwaukee 2 jack Kearns announced today The new attack commenced on tected a mine under the pave- cf the 82nd Airborne Dtarision on ' W L PCT GB the Illinois State Boxing Com- f July 3, and after three day's D-plus-Four and established i ~ Milwaukee 62 28 689 — mission had sanctioned his heavy- •merit. righting units of the 90th cleared self generally along the Merderet Columbus 52 32 $58 J Keight match between Leo Sa< River where the 82nd had estab- cAit the Foret de Mont Cast re void and Joe Baksr for Aug. 7 amilie J.. DeMonte, of Hart- while another unit captured the Toledo 51 35 m 9 lished a small bridgehead. The Louisville 51 38 .573 10% and will recognize the winner as C ford, Conn., occupied a distinct town of Beau Codray. The day enemy was established along a St Paul 44 38 .537 14 "the duration heavyweight cham- position among the 54 Wacs in ihe 90th took Hili 122 (Forel de main line of resistance extending Minneapolis 33 53 ''.384 27 pion." Baksi and Savold have met France. - She is the only buck Mont Castre) it repulsed 15 coun- f>om Gourbesviile to Pont 1' Aboe. Kansas City 25 58 .30T 33% twice before m Madison Square private m the detachment. How terattacks, one of which was Elements of the 90th advanctt, Ir.dianaDolis 25 61 .291 35 Garden each winnine a decision. about a promotion for the little w*-~**a hsttnlinn strength. woman'