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VOLUME XUV NUMBER 240 I·A,l · It ' A Ib t J u, S, Hard Slugging ,;Y a e r . eres sup I Reaps Local Gains Superforts Hit Naval Base 'resident Emeritus, Dies o~~:~::~~~~ --~-'--''--, * * * * * * Southeast of Carentan In N;pponese Homeland ,erves SU.I Isolate Nazi Junction SUPREME HEADQUARTERS 18 Y ALLIED EX P ED I T ION A RY At a Glance- ;Chinese Smash Jap JI'ORCE, Saturday (AP) - United All Planes ears States troops surged forward along L d ' I a flaming 33-mile battlefront yes- 0 oy S Hold on Hengyang terday in a drive to crush the Physician Attributes whole German line based along In Swift Comeback Return Safely the marshes a t the b3'Se of the I Death to Heart Attack Cherbourg peninsula, and the out- owan I Clanked enemy anchors or La Haye Troops Counter-Attack I SuHered Wednesday du Puits and St. Jean de Daye Aerial Task Force seemed doomed. To Remove Threat I Bombs Sasabo, Tobata, NEW YORK (AP)-Walter The most specticular American President Emeritus* * * Walter Al­ To Strategic Railway Vital Steel Center bert Jessup, president emeri· drive was a new one southeast of bert Jessup dies in New York I of tbe State University of Carentan, where doughboys struck City. CHUNGKING (AP) - Chinese I iVa, wa found dead Wednes. under one of the heaviest artillery WASHINGTON, Saturday barrages of the campaign, forced troops in a ciramatlc comeback y in his New York City apart­ (AP)-An aerial task force of the Vire river so swiftly the dazed Superfortresses born b naval have smashed through the encir- I B-29 Superfortresses smashed at :nt. His deatb was announced Germans did not even blow up the base, industrial centers in Japan. clement rin« a~ound vital Heng· , great Japanese naval base sterday by tbe Carnegie Cor­ the main bridge, and thrust spear- yang, surrounded Japanese troops of Sa ebo and industrial targets ration of New York and the heads north and south of St. Jean Chinese smash Japanese encir- east, south and west ot the city, at Tobata and the steel center roegie Foundation for the in a three-mile advance which all clement or Hengyang. and seized the Inmative on all sec- I of Yawata Friday night without but Isolated that enemy road june-I tors of the Hunan province fight- IVIIDcemeot of 'l'eachiog. He the loss of a single plane. tion. Americans push ahead in Nor- ing, the Chinese high command ~ president of both organiza. The successful attack on 'The 08. Yanks Push Ahead mandy in hard fighting. said last night. Supreme .. Headquarters in a Jap Occupation Japanese bomelaod, carried out Dr. ~efIIlUP '8 body was dis· brief communique reported that A Chinese army spokesman an- J u I y 7-anniversary of the ,ered after hill family reported troops striking toward St. Jean nounced on this seventh annlver- Marco Polo bridge incident It the educator had not returned B'tf Sf I R westward from captured AII'el had I er rugg e ages sary of the start of the war that : whicb s tar ted Japan '8 war his summer home at Arlin.ton, thrown a small bridgehead across these counter-thrusts would re- I with China seven years ago-­ • as scheduled. He left there the Vire river, but late front line In Ruined Rosl'gnano move for some time the threat of wa~ announced in communiques dispatches gave more detail of oomplete Japanese occupation of CAPTURED BY THE American of the 20th air force headquarters ly 5. what the charging Americans were the 1,000 miles of Peiping-Han- Iibera.tors of Cherbourg. Maj. Gen. in Washington. )1'. Hllfold Keyes, the family doing to enemy defenses In that Nazis Slow: Advance kow-Canton r a I I way through Carl WUhelm von SchUeben com. ,.uclan who pronounced Dr. area. China, m~jor Japanese goal. mander of the Cherbourg ·garrl. The attack was announced, ap­ Swift-moving infantry dominat- Of Fifth Army Yanks The hIgh command reported parently while It was still in prog. IliUP dead, said death probablY son, steps Mhore from a landing ing hi~h ground west of St. Jean F' F' h' from the lront that reinforced ress, early Friday afternoon, and ,ulted from coronary thrombosis. craft tank on arrival I! t a. British a second communique was issued President'. Statement and other dpughboys moving down In ur.ous .g tlng Chinese began their counter-of- iTom thc northeast late in the fensive the morning of July 4, port. General von SchlLeben sur· in the early hours of Saturday ·nformed in Iowa City of his a(ternoon bridged the canal link- ROME (AP)-A bitter struggle ' penetrated Japanese lines In sev- rendered to Maj. Gen. J. Lawton morning after all ot the gigantic !decessor's death, President Vir- ing the Vire and Taule rivers reminiscent of the fight for eral places, occupied 10 strong Collins. U. S. A.• commander of planes had returned safely to their M. Hancher declared: cas- I which Corms a natural barrier on sino several months ago raged' points, and even behind the Jap­ the Seventh corps. base in China. 'I am profoundly shocked to the northern approaches to the yesterday in the ruined viliage of I~nese lines wo~ the upper hand Arnold LIsts Tu,ets rn of the unexpected death of town. ... m offensive actIons. The text of this second com­ mer president Walter A. Jessup. Presldenl Emeritus Walter AI be'rt Jessup Engineers Build Bridge Roslgnano, 13 miles below the bIg (Jhlnese Break Sie,e munique issued by Gen. H. H. e State University of Iowa owes This pincers movement was Halian port ot Livorno (Leghom), Attacking key points on the Americans Advance Arnold, commanding the army a,ir tremendous d\lbt , to his vision .--------------, made possible by engineers who as the Germall;S struck back furi- various enemy advance routes, the forces and the 20th air force, said: :i foresight d1,lrlng the 18 years Inquiries- threw a footbridge acrOss the canal ously at Amencan torces along a Chinese also broke into Yupg­ For Saipan Knockout "The 20th bomber command effective service which he gave . • Russian Troops Reach in 20 minutes. 30-mile lront ·extending inland feng, 45 miles northwest of Heng- force of B-29's which yesterday ~ institution as president. La Haye was in even sorer from the west coast. yang, and battered at the gates of Carrier Planes Join attacked naval and industrial tar­ 'We have been proud of the dis­ Outer Edge of Wilno straits, and it appeared that the Yanks Reput.., AUaektl Yuhsien, 38 miles northeast, and gets in the Japanese homeland gul$hed service which he has enemy soon must fall back to Les- AIter lhree days and nights of Liliug, 80 miles northeast or Assault on Enemy have returned to their bases with­ ltinued to render the cauae of say, foul' and one-half miles south. savage pouse-to-house fighting 'Heilgyan.~ Evacuation Attempts out the loIS of a single plane. :Jc~tiO!1 as p~ident' o'f t1Je C.jJt­ Red.Drive Continues or let the Americans spring the inside .RosiiIlano. American in- The siege of Hengyan, was "The targets hit were Japanese lie Foundation for the Advanc!l­ Along 350·Mile Front trap which was a scan~ two miles fantry was reported In possession broken, the Chinese said, on its U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- naval installations at Sasebo and J nt of Teaching and also of the from closing south of the city. Iof two-thlrds ot he flattened vil- 12th bItter day by Chinese who QUARTERS PearloHarbor (AP)-I vilal war industries at Tobata and rnegie Corporation. Toward East Prussia There the Americans were in lage. At best it was a grim yarp- stabbed suddenly from the south­ Steady adv~nces on Saipan and Yawata, all on the island of Kyu­ 'Invaluable Interest' * * * ----- possession of the wooded heights I by-yard advance for Lleut. Gen. west of the battered rail junction, the crushing of an enemy attempt shu. Yaw a t a was previously ·His con t j n u e d interest in LONDON (AP)-Russian troops of Mont Cash'e, two miles east of Mark W. Clark's doughboys as after slashing atlacks by United to evacuate 200 or its groggy de- bombed on the night of June 15." HARTFORD, Conn. (AP)-With ~rything which pertained t 0 the c~sed tightly around the outer La Haye, unhinging all German the y tackled successive NIIZi Slates 14th air force fliers all fenders were reported yesterday Planes Based in China Ie of Iowa Ilhd especially to five persons already under charges holdings in the sector and leaving strongpoints and repulsed the jp- along the front had disorganized perimeter of Wilno yesterday. as American troops, aided by new "This mission was flown from university. has been invalu- of manslaughter, State's Attorney the Americans in a position to evltable enemy counter-attacks. Japanese supply and communica­ carrier aircraft strlkes, pressed for China bases on the seventh annl­ e." Hugh M.
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