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Single Copy Fire Cento Thirty-First Year—No, 0535. Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., Thursday, July 27, 1944. NAZIS ROUTED IN FIERCE MISS, YANK DRIVES Five Key Polish DAMAGE OF RAID U.S. Tanks Score ON SABANG TOLD Biggest Advance Cities Fall; German BY MOUNTBATTEN (By the Associated Press) Of Invasion Fight Front Crumbles Allied -warships and planes, sud- denly reappearing in the Indian Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force—< London— (#)—Red army vangpards stormed today across ocean, having demolished the har- An American armored force split German centrkl defenses the Vistula river while Russian forces on their flanks captured bor works at Sabang, key Japanese wide open today in the biggest tank breakthrough of the Nor- four important German bases—, Rezekne, Bialystok fortress guarding the rich stolen is- mandy invasion. \and Stanislawow—in the blackest day for the Germans since the start lands of the Dutch East Indies and Singapore, southeast Asia head- Sherman tanks and doughboys, gaining nine miles in two days, fanned of the Russian summer offensive. out east and west, cutting the highway from St. Lo to Avranches, at Daugavpils (Dvinsk) and Rezekne both are important rail junctions quarters disclosed today. Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten, the southern base of Normandy, on the approaches to Riga in Lat- confirming yesterday's Tokyo broad- and spearing down the road to via. cast, said a 35-minute attack Tues- Counta«ces. Bialystok is 110 miles northeast Argentina Is day by battleships, cruisers, de- LT.GEN.MCNAIR Advanced patrols reached Periera of Warsaw and Stanislawow is 35 stroyers and carrier aircraft silenc- to the north west, the bitterly-de- miles from the Czechoslovak bor- ed shore batteries, sunk a freighter, fended German base already out* der. Isolated From wrecked two jetties, wrecked work- KILLED IN ACTION flanked by the armored drive toward Premier Stalin announced these shops and wharves and left the tar- Couutances. On the east end of the victories in three successive orders get area aflame. The Japanese had blazing, 40-mile U. S. front, other of the day shortly after Russian All Americas claimed little damage. ON FRENCH FRONT troops gained two miles and won forces started the push across the two towns. Vistula, last natural barrier before Close In On Tinian Washington — A eefiant Washington— (JP) —Lt . Gen. Les-3 Miles in 6 Hours German Silesia 140 miles away. Argentina stood virtually quaran- Three thousand miles eastward on The radio said still oth- Guam and Tinian, American -war- ley J. McNair, 61, until recently The armored offensive crashing tined from its western hemisphere commanding general of the army er red troops had broken into neighbors today, unmoved publicly riors—including a grim 5,000 healed through the German center picked of wounds suffered on Saipan—re- ground forces, has been killed by up three miles in six hours of bat- by a blunt United States declara- enemy action in Normandy. tle today. BULLETIN tion that its government will not be lentlessly closed in on Japanese gar- 1 risons bereft of all outside aid. The Once called the "brains of the Fanning out eastward from St. London— (£>)—Lwow has recognized until it plainly abandons army" by Gen. George C. Marshall, illes and Canisy, they began clos- a "pro-Axis" policy for a pro-allied marines and doughboys held the TANKS FROM WISCONSIN IN NORMANDY—With one exception these Yanks manning an anti- been captured, a fourth or- northern quarter of Tinian and its McNair is the highest-ranking ng a trap on Germans in a bend of der of the day announced one. aircraft gun in Normandy are from Wisconsin. Left to right: Sgt. Clifton Voltz, (Route 1) Hebron, American officer killed in action in the Vire river below St Lo, captur- A high state department official 4,500-foot Ushi airfield, rated one of 111.; Pfc. Robert Burro, Milwaukee, Wis.; Pvt. Robert Wittkopp, 416 North avenue, Hartland, Wis.; tonight. said the sweeping U.S. denuncia- the ebst in the Pacific. the present war. ng Le Mesnil Herman, six miles Battle for Guam Airfield Pfc. Hubert Braeger, 1528 S. Ninth street, Sheboygan, Wis.; Pvt, Louis Bredolo, 715 S. Indiana A war department announcement south of St. Lo and nine miles from tion charging Argentina with open avenue, Sheboygan, and Cpl. Victor Virant, 1406 New York avenue, Sheboygan. Brest Litovsk on the western Bug aid to the axis had received vir- On Guam to the south they also here said; their jumpoff point. river, 110 miles due east of War- bid for another airdrome from which "The war department has been tually unanimous approval of all notified of the death of Lt, Gen. Les- Take Canisy in Advance saw. the other American nations. the U. S. can mount its coming of- The Americans had seized Canisy 20 Miles From Czech Border fensives against the Japanese home- Battle for Florence ley J. McNair. General McNair -was The state department document, Report Allies killed by enemy fire while observing in this advance and cut the road Stanislawow lies 35 wiles from which pulled no punches in this and, the Philippines and China's HUGE CROWDS AT running south from St. Lo to Percy the Czech border, but the Russians government's statement of its firm coast. This airfield was on Orote Flares; Qermans the action of our front line units in the recent offensive." along the baseline of the Cherbourg were less than 20 miles from that stand against the regime of Presi- peinsula, on which a trapped force To Land Soon peninsula. frontier through the capture last dent Edelmiro Farrell, detailed of Japanese battled for its life. The Set for Pisa Stand DISPLAY OF NAZI Recently Promoted To the east, allied headquarters night of nearby Delaytin. charges of Argentina's failure to Americans advanced 3,000 yards out On July 14, the army announced announced, patrols entered Periers, Premier Stalin said in an order join in hemispheric defense during See—WAR IN PAClFIC—Page 11 Around Genoa that McNair had been given an im- central stronghold of the German of the day "troops of the Second the past two and a half years and Home— (£>)—The battle for Flor- portant overseas assignment, the ence, the last big Italian city in ORDNANCE HERE line stretching to the sea, and were White Russian front, after two days specified pro-Nazi actions of Far- London—(K)—Masses of allied nature of which was not disclosed, at a point 10 miles north of Cout- of fighting, today captured by storm rell's government. German hands south of the Gothic warships, transports and landing and that Lt. Gen. Ben Lear had suc- line, flared to a new fury today with Attendance records were smashed ances. See—RUSSIA—Page 11 Since the inter-American confer- Italian Based :raft were reported by the ceeded him in command of the army The armored spearhead pushing ence convened shortly after Pearl the Eighth army smashing fierce in Wisconsin Rapids Wednesday af- radio tonight to be concentrated ground forces. German counterattacks eight miles ternoon and evening when approxi- southwest of St. Lo had driven so Harbor, Argentina "has persisted with several divisions of troops in McNair, who was 61, was respon- deep, however, that it was closer to in an open, notorious and contrary Bombers Raid from the heart of the historic town. mately 8,000 people viewed the the coastal area of the Tyrrhenian sible for the training of the grount "captured caravan" exhibit of Nazi Coutances than the Periers force. course of action which was given At the same time indications grew sea for an imminent new landing forces now in action overseas, ant Fanning out westward from Marig- § NAME 3 OFFICERS constant aid and comfort .to the en- equipment, now touring Wisconsin in northern Italy around La Spezia was regarded as one of the army's Steel Works that the ancient city of Pisa would under the* sponsorship of the war ny, -this force advanced nearly a emies" of the other American re- become a major battle ground. The and Genoa. most brilliant officers. mile along the St. Lo-Countances publics, it declared. manpower commission and the Rome— (&)— Air battles, such as Germans were observed erecting Sixth service command. Another 3,- The ships and troops were said Wounded Previously See—INVASION— Page 9 IN ON BOMB PLOT It said the brief period last barricades in the main street north February when Argentina broke cost the German air force a record 100 witnessed the evening program to have been massed during the He was chief of staff of general loss of 193 planes in the past three of the Arno river and setting up at Witter field, thereby exceeding week. There was no allied con- headquarters in Washington when London— (&) — Three German relations with the axis and promis- machinegun posts. It was officially generals, two of whom led Nazi ed to take measures for continental days, raged again today when med- the attendance mark at any other firmation of the enemy declaration. the army was reorganized in 1942, ium forces of Mediterranean heavy reported the enemy was using the showing of the caravan in the and became commanding general of No Special forces on the Russian front, were defense was followed with over- famous leaning tower as well as La Spezia is on the Italian west named today by the German radio throw of the government by pro- bombers attacked the Manfrec state. coast 40'miles above Pisa, the the ground forces, one of the three Weiss steel works in Budapest church steeples for observation After being displayed on the top commanders under the chief of as participants in the bomb plot Nazi elements who opposed Argen- posts. southern section of which is held Session On against Hitter last Thursday. Berlin tine cooperation -with the rest of Hungary. West side market square during the ay the Fifth army. Genoa, Italy's staff. said two are dead and the third the hemisphere. First reports from up to 500 Most impressive gains in the steel day, the caravan moved to the leading port, is 90 miles up the In April, li>43, during an inspec- awaits trial. Argentina's public retort came in bombers participating said the ring closing in on Florence were to parking lot adjacent to Witter coast from Pisa. tion tour of the Tunisian front, he Wage Dispute They were: a broadcast last night by Foreign bomber gunners as well as Light the southwest of the city where field, where it continued to attract Both are behind the German "Go- was wounded by shell fragments. ning and Mustang pilots scored a Eighth army units surged forward wide attention. thic line" which extends across the Commenting on the general's Co), Gen. , former Minister Gen. Orlando Peluffo who There will be no special meeting German chief of staff, who was said said his country would "continue number of victories to boost the as much as three miles in the area Opens With Concert Italian peninsula along the mile- death, General Marshall said "the total of 193 tallied in the last thre of Castelnovo and Vallechio. The evening program opened with high mountains from points north American army has sustained a of the common council to set up ma- to have committed suicide when ar- its present course of conduct." chinery for adjudication of the four- rested. The Germans said he was Peluffo was embraced by Farrell days, a top mark for this theater a concert by the Wisconsin Rapids of Pisa and Florence to around Ri- great loss in the death of General One of the hardest knocks yet re- These forces were more distant, band. Following the concert, invo- mini, on the Adriatic. McNair." man labor dispute, it seemed cer- "no longer among the living" in an- after his speech. tain today, with Mayor Wm. T. nouncing his death last week and Peluffo said "We do not admit" ceived by the Germans in this area however, than the New Zealanders cation was gJven by the Rev, A. W. Landings at La Spczia or Genoa "An Inspiring Example" branding him as leader of the plot. that pro-Nazi elements are main- was delivered yesterday when allie( battling the German 4th parachute Triggs, massing of the colors by would flank the Gothic line and "Had he had the choice," said Nobles revealing that of the 20 al- tained in the government and he airmen knocked down 78 enemy division along the highway No. 2 the service organizations' color pose an entrapment threat for the Marshall, "he would probably have dermen qneried on the labor con- Today the enemy radio said he com- troversy 15 were against holding a mitted suicide when found in disputed the accusation that Argen- planes. in the area of San Casciano, only guard, and then Capt. Earl Otto survivors of two Gorman armies elected to die as he did, in the fore- "sobbing fit" after the plot failed. tina has been helping any cause but Fifty-five Mediterranean allied eight miles from the goal. gave a brief address of welcome. who have been pushed 200 miles front of the attack. His presence on special council meeting, 4 favored Infantry Gen. Friedrich Olbricht, her own. air force craft were lost in tb The caravan commander, Lieut. northwestward from Cassino the firing line with the leading ele- holding the meeting as requested by a former leader on the eastern front, three-day period. Of these, 22 fail Forrest V. Armstrong, was intro- through Home. ment in the great assault which has Central Labor union, and 1 alder- who was said to have been shot ed to return from missions Wed Cherbourg Not Ready duced after which A. E. Nelson, just been launched on the American man has not yet replied. after a court martial. The broadcast nesday, a communique announced. district manager of the U. S. enr front in Normandy, was indicative of The mayor tlid not reveal what Pressure Cooker The Manfred Weiss works is on For Traffic—Stimson ployment service, explained the pur his aggressive and fearlesss spirit answers the aldermen had given to said he was chief of a general army pose of the caravan's tour. 50tfi Anniversary department at supreme German of the largest industrial plants in ami should be an inspiring example a number of other questions which Clinic Will Be Hungary and produces aircraft en "The 'captured caravan' and the to the forces of our great ground be had asked them, in his question- headquarters. He was said to have Washington— (JP)—Secretary pictures you are about to see Celebrated Friday been second in command of the gines, guns, ammunition, machine War Stimson indicated today that army which he organized and train- and-ans\ver letter mailed to the 20 Held Wednesday tools and other war essentials. weren't brought here just to ed." mrmbers of the council Monday- German home army, now headed by the port of Cherbourg, captured by furnish entertainment, but to bring Chief Heinrich Himmler. Liberator and Fortress crewmen American troops June 26 still has By Consolidated night, A pressure cooker testing clinic, said this target was well hit and home a few grim farts," Mr, Nel- Maj. Gen. Erich Hoepner, also a not been repaired sufficiently to son stated. "The war production Asked 7-Man Board Russian front leader. He was said the only one of its kind to be held enveloped by smoke. permit full use of its facilities to The fiftieth anniversary of Con- That letter was the mayor's an- in south Wood county this summer, Simultaneously, it was announc accomplished by American factor- solidated Water Power and Paper to be under arrest awaiting trial. supply the allied armies in Nor- ies and workers has astounded the POLISH PREMIER swer to one which he received from Neither Olbricht nor Hoepner was has been scheduled at Witter voca- ed that Lightning and Mustang mandy. company, incorporated in W4, will Central Labor union which, in a tional school building for Wednes- fighters of the 15th U.S. air fore world, but we mustn't forget that be Friday of this week, George W. widely known, Beck had been our soldiers, sailors and marines general meeting of Tri-City locals known for years as an anti-Nazi day, August 2,' it was announced to- have returned to their Italian base Telling a news conference some of Mead, president of the company, Saturday night, asked that the coun- after a shuttle operation to Russi his impressions of his recent trip aren't fighting an enemy armed noted in his report to the annual GOES TO MOSCOW and headed the German general day by Miss Gladys Flanagan, voca- See—CARAVAN—Page 11 cil hold a special meeting immedi- staff until 1938, when he opposedtional school home economist in which they shot down fi4 enemj to the combat area, Stimson prais- meeting of Consolidated stockhold- ately and name three men to a spe- planes over Romania and Polan ed the invasion supply services un ers at their annual meeting in the London— (^P)— Premier Stanislaw [Hitler's annexation of Austria and The purposes of the clinic is to Sce—CITY STRIKE—Page 9 Czechoslovakia on the grounds that and destroyed many more on th der Lt. Gen, John C, H. Lee, and company's offices here Wednesday Mikoljczyk of the l'f>lish govern- test the safety valves and pressure ground. made particular reference to the afternoon. ment in exile left for Moscow today. the army was not prepared for such gauges for accuracy. The service is undertakings. orderly and methodical handling of GPL, HAFERMAN Thirty-seven stockholders were His departure came after the cab- free and all people in Wisconsin equipment In the field. v Hagerstrom Post Men MINOR COLLISION present, and they re-elected the inet of the Polish fj° ernment na(] Rapids and the remainder of south directors, George W. Mead, Stanton Ralph Roberts, Route 5, city, and "Most of the time," he added approver) a plan to send him to the To Attend State Meet Wood county are invited to attend Mead, Walter Mead, Ralph R. Cole Soviet capital to confer with Prem- the clinic. Miss Flanagan emphas- B, J. Stark, Waco, Texas, both driv- however, "they have been landing INJURED IN ACTION ing west on West Grand avenue and Tlieo. W. Rrazeau, ier Stalin in an apparent effort to Charles Hagerstvom post will be GIGARETS SENT ized that people should bring the on the same beaches they originally All officers were re-elected by the represented next week at the state Wednesday afternoon, collided, caus- took, while the port of Cherbourg a compromise with the rival whole cooker not "just the top." Mr. and Mrs. Frank Haferman directors, including George W. Mead, Polish ffidioit in Moscow. American Legion convention in Mil- ing very minor damage to the tail is being mnde ready for permanent Route 4, have received a war depart The program is under the direc- pipe of the Stark car. president; Stanton Mead, vice presi- The cabinet's decision was waukee, with delegates from the 196 LOCAL BOYS occupation." ment telegram stating that the: dent and treasurer; Walter Mead, post here including Frank Muehl- r>d as u sign thiit neither the Lon- tion of Miss Cecilia Shestock, home son, Corp. Herbert Haferman, was demonstration agent for Wood coun- vice president; Mr. Colo, secretary; don Poles nor the- llritish govern- stein, commander-elect; Harold seriously wounded in action in Earl A. Starts, assistant secretary, ment had abandoned hope of settling Wittenberg, adjutant; Von HolH- Orders for cartons of cigarettes ty, Miss Ellen Kreuger, MarshfieM France on July 11. The message for 197 overseas servicemen from home economist and Miss Flanagan. ;md Thomas J. Duda, controller. the differences between the p;(ncrc- i!ay, historian, and E. 0. Ander* Nazi Prisoners of War Have stated that further details would be Ucsictes the report by the presi- mcnt «f the peasant-born premier son, service officer. Attending from this community today were given to It ia a co-operative clinic under the given in a letter to follow. representatives of tobacco com- sponsorship of the vocational school dent, who dealt chiefly with activ- and the Tolinh committee of libera- here, too, will be Fied Bushnell The family last heard from Cor- ities of the company's plastics divis- tion with which the Soviet tftnern- district commander of the Legion's panies by E. 0. Anderson, service and the extension service of the poral Haferman July li), a letter officer of Charles Hagerstrom University of Wisconsin. There will Many Varied Stories to Tell ion, Stanton Mead reported on the ment signed an agreement for ad- Eighth district. BY WES GALLAGHER Another shaken SS prisoner said, written July 7 in France. company operations and Mr. Cole on ministration o£ Polish territory oc- The convention opens with a 40 American Legion post here. be no demonstration or lecture but Corporal Haferman, who worked The Legion post sponsors the cig- those present will be given the op- With the America First Army in "If keeping Hitler means continu- the financial status of the firm. cupied by the lied army. and 8 gathering August 4, the Le- France—(£>)—Prisoners of war ing the war he will be killed. The in Consolidated Water Power and Most of the stockholders left imme- Under terms of the accord, su- gion convention proper continuing arettes - for - servicemen campaign, portunity to ask questions. Paper company's mill here before with the public contributing the The clinic, which will be held in snapshots as the American First Germans have enough. They will diately after the meeting to visit the preme power is vested in the Rus- through August 5, G and 7. army filled its cages: not support any regime that pro- induction September 30,1042, receiv- plastics division. sian wmmander-in-chief in areas funds to glass jars placed in busi- Room 21 between 10 a. m., and 4 ed his training at Camp Clatborne, ness houses. Listing of names of p. m., is « part of the regular food A Pole who won an iron cross, longs the war." where the is stil! engaged first and second class, had a broth- La., where he was trained as a mem- in fighting, but as soon as an area recipients is done by Anderson, in preservation program which is in The vast majority of prisoners, ber of a tank unit. He went overseas his dual capacity as Wood county progress here each summer under er captured at Cherbourg. The Ahdawagam Products ceases to be a zone of military op- THE WEATHER brother sent the family a letter however, appeared indifferent to with a tank outfit in January, 1044. erations the 1'olish committee will service oficer and service officer for the sponsorship of the vocational what was happening in the Reich, The Frank Hafermans have an- Reelects All Directors the Legion post here. school. from New York, then the family assume full responsibility in mat- sent the Pole a letter saying they one way or the other, and appeared other son in service, Master Sgt. ters of civil Kovernment and estab- Mr. Anderson said today he ex- incapable of any direct action Alvin Haferman, with an ordnance At fie annual meeting Wednes- For Wisconsin; pected to send another shipment of "hoped he was as lucky as his lish an administration in accordance brother." either to support or defeat Hitler, division and stationed at Anchorage, day of stockholders of Ahdawagam with the Polish constitution. The cigarettes soon, and anticipated as Marthfield Sgt. Alaska. Paper Products company in the Fair and con- high as 700 cartons of cigarettes One of the prisoners taken with Polish administration also was auth- Killed In Action the 053rd division had just come corporation's offices here Wednes- orized to recruit men for the Polish would be sent to that number of ser- Prisoners disclosed that Lt. Col. day, till directors were re-elected, tinued cool to- vicemen from this community. This into battle from a hospital with a Heinz, commander of a battle group U. S. Casualties Jump armed forces now fighting with the Marshfield, Wis—T/Sgt. James wound in his leg. Unable to walk, including George W. Mead, Ralph Russians in the liberation of Poland. compares to 131 cartons sent over- which was badly battered, had been Past World War Mark R. Cole, Walter Mead, Cloy K. night and Friday. seas by Charles Hagerstrom post * C. Hansen, 22, son of Mrs. Myrtle he had to be carried into the fight arrested and courtmartialed by the by his German comrades. Crousc and Frank R. Walsh. year ago. Hansen, was killed in action in SS (elite guard). New Guinea on .July 11, his mother Washington—(IP)—Fierce fight The directors re-elected George STETTINIUS TO HEAD TALKS Opinions On the revolt in Ger- This was the first evidence here ing in two hemispheres has pushed W. Mead as president; Mr. Walsh, Washington—(/P)—Secretary of ToVlay's Weadwr Facts- was informed by war department Maximum temperature for 24« | ^BENEFIT DANCE telegram Wednesday evening. many differed. One tough parachu- that Hitler's chosen SS warriors the battle casualties of the United vice president; Mr. Crouse, secre- State Hull announced today that had overruled the and States past the 811,000 mark, with tary, and Mr. Cole, treasurer. Undersecretary Edward R. SU-tti- hour period ending at 7 a. m., 72; '' The VFW will sponsor a service- Hanaen waa prominent in ath- tist said, "It makes no difference minimum temperature for 24-houI men's benefit dance at the Memorial letiu at Marshfield high school. He to me. I am a soldier in the Ger- courtmartialed a professional offi- more than 63,000 dead. The manager's report was given nius jr. will head the American cer. It was considered highly eigni- The cost in men in this war now to stockholders by Mr. Walsh, the delegation to next month's post- period ending at 7 a. m., 68; tem- armory on Saturday evening. Frank was a member of the Marshfield man army. It would be better if perature at 7 a. m., 59. Precipita- Wilde and his Troubtdour* will play national guard and had been over- these defeatist generals were liquid- ficant of the conflict in the G«r-|far exceeds the 278,828 total for sales manager's report by Mr. war peace talks here with Russia, Great Britain and China. tion, 1.25. for the occasion. teal for mor* than two years. ated." man ranks. . Crousc.