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1 tt. *t yvtt Wut* P»t*r wilt »k« *a* • hell cat*. I Tnbirne SUrt f»vlar WAR BONDS NEWS P A V Jb 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—Daugavpils, 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 Moscow 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 Berlin 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.