1> CONTINENTAL EDITION V THE S TRIPES | ff. Bally Newspaper of U.S. Armed European Theater of Operations i Vol. 1 No. 16 Printed "Somewhere in France* Friday, July 21, 1944 German Accent Vain Attempt Is Almost Fatal BRITISH TAKE 12 MORE TOWNS WITH AN INFANTRY DIV., July 20—An American with a To M Hitler (hick Gorman accent almo»e IN BIG PUSH SOUTH FROM CAEN brought a barrage down on his artillery observation post re- cently when fellow artillery- men heard his voice over a U. S. Patrols Cross Is Described telephone. Japan's Situation Worries Emperor, Pvt. Lothar Braunschweig:*.1, Ay. River; St. Lo of New York, new to the batta- lion, went on the line to the Under Fire •S'iigMiy Wounded, battalion CP just after another Tokyo Admits; Tojo Out Completely party had hung; up, which add- British and Canadian armce Berlin Says; 13 ed to the illusion the post had The shakeup in the Japanese government, presumably caused by forces, fanning out from Cae; been captured. the mounting American successes, assumed the proportions of a major crisis yesterday as Tokyo radio announced that Gen. Hideki Tojo, into an arc ten miles wide, ha Others Hurt Capt. Merril W. Younger, of one spearhead seven miles eat Tex., talked" with Braunsch- Japanese Premier since before Pearl Harbor, had quit not only his post as Army chief but had bowed entirely out of power with his in Troarn, another spearhea weiger, and his Operations S?t, eight miles southeast at Vimonj Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped Henry Ward, of Dearborn, whole Cabinet. •Serious Injury or possible death Domei, the official news agency, and another four mites due soua Mich, listened in. Neither rec- and therefore handed in its re- in Bourguebus yesterday. -gpetsterday in an unsuccessful att ognized the heavily accented said that Japan's present situa- tanpt to assassinate him with tion was causing Emperor Hiro- signation to the Emperor July 18." Twelve towns fell before th voice, but before ordering the Tokyo radio went to fantastic armored drive. It was led by Lt ifctigh explosives, the German Off! position shelled, Younger called hito "much concern" and that dial News Agency announced last the Toto Cabinet had apologia*! length to assure the puzzled Jap- Gen, Sir Richard O'Connor, wrt Braunschweiger's CP and learn- anese people thrit everything w is once was Rommel's prisonec Wight. ed the voice really belonged to for "the government's meagre power." To jo's resignation, com going to be all right. It told inw Rommel's forces drew back li The only injuries suffered by a Yank. the Germans were going to ra'ss several sectors, apparently eitha Hitler in the blast were ligfrit ing almost a year after the down- to prepare for a major battle U J»rns and concussions, but three fall of Mussolini, left in power New York and the whole Atlantic only one of the original Asia coast with new 10-ton robot the Caen plain or to withdrai ioers of his staff were severely bombs traveling 7,500 miles an toward Paris. lured and ten others, includ- warlords, Adolf Hitler himself. S FDR Is Nominated hour. At least 1,500 Germans IULU ing the German artillery expert, The official explanation for been captured by British au4 jOor. Gen. Alfred Jodl, were slight- Toto's resignation was: Fresh developments in the Pa- Canadian troops in Normandy ii ly hurt 'The Japanese government, in cific war gave the Emperor good the last two days. The announcement did not dis- For Fourth Term the closest cooperation with im- cause for concern: (1) U. S. ships Outside Troarn, a British ar- idlbse., the- nature of the explosion perial headquarters, has made siid planes attacked Guam lot mored spearhead poured fire hit* or where it took place, but the every effort since the outbreak cf the 14th and 15th straight days; strong German defenses in .th4 war in eastern Asia in connection (2) on New Guinea the trapped railway station and swept througl .United Press suggested it was By Sen. Berkley with the prosecution of the war. 'possible that the locale was Hit- Jap 18th Army quit its frontal it toward the center of the tOivn In the present difficult situation drive and sought to sweep the another column reached the out- ler's headquarters and that a CHICAGO, July 20—Sen. Al however, the need for.strength ;n- American right flank; (3) the ^bombfroman Allied plane might ben W. Barkley of Kentucky for- ing the Cabinet with new per- skirts of Vimont, where hoivj tftave done the damage. It pointed Navy Department announced U. S- fighting was in progress. A light- mally placed the name of Frank- sonnel has arisen. Although tir? submarines had sunk 14 more ning thrust into Bourguebus was out that a "near miss" from a lin D.. Roosevelt in nomination present Cabinet has used all Jap vessels, including two com- 500-pounder woulld account for made by British tanks, outflank- for re-election to a fourth term means at its disposal, it has not bat ships, bringing the total to ing remnants cf German defenses all of the injuries and bums suf- as Pusident of the United States succeeded in fill fill ing its task 806 in the war. fered by the group. along the Orne River. today. Foe 200 Yds. from St. Lo A particular point made in the Barkley told the Democratic Announcement was that Hitler convention that the Chief Exe- On the American front, patools Was able to resume his normal cutive's leadership had been "un- Yanks 25 Miles Russians Fighting which crossed the Ay River were schedule "at once." Immediately surpassed, if ever equalled, in engaged in hand-to-hand fight- fctfter the explosion It said Hitler ing with the Germans in Leswy. American history"; that his "re- At St. Lo, German forces were <rteceived Mussolini, and Goering. ord of achievement in national One of those injured was lit. Beyond Leghorn 8 Mi. from Lwow stilt only 200 yards from the ;>ut- and international affairs" was "so skirts on the south and south- pen. Schmundt, chief military amazing and successful that his fcide de camp to Hitler for several Despite torrential rain which west and they continued to pour friends proclaim it and his en- Bitter battle raged only eight shells at U. S. troops mopping ye1$rs and chief of the German emies dare not threaten it with increased the hazards of mines mites from besieged Lwow in up resistance inside the city. aamiy's personnel department, re desTruction," and that the name and demolition and interferred Southern Poland yesterday, while The Luftwaffe, making its flrsl sponsible for advising the Fueh- Roosevelt stood today as the with forward movements, Ameri- Red Army columns in the center appearence in strength over the rer on promotions and appoint 'symbol of freedom and deliver- cans of the Fifth Army yester- of the 000-mile front rolled back American sector of the front, S9it merits ance" to "millions of dejected and. day extended their front beyond the enemy within eight miles of over 50 planes which bombed arid abdit is the 59-year-oW chief of disheartened men and women." captured Leghorn about 25 miles pre-war East Prussia. strafed front line positions. Ewfs personal military staff The delegates moved swiftly to- along the Arno River. Several The beginning of the fifth week American troops were driven Which the Fuehrer's own "brains day to get the platform out of the patrols reached a hill less than of the Soviet summer offensive from part of a bridgehead they toBSt* * set up to make him inde- way because arrangements had nine miles from Pisa, strongpoint saw the Russians force the Bug had established across the Taute pendent of information from the been made for Mr. Roosevelt's ac- on the left flank of the German*' River on a 20 mile front above River, about six miles south of jRrmy's general staff. ceptance speech to be carried to Gothic line. Lwow and this crossed the demar- Carentan, after days of wading A hint that the explosion may the convention by radio tentative- The threat of direct German cation line adopted between Ger- through swampy fields. !6Jgve been caused by a bomb ly at 9:15 PM (3:15 AM, Nor- shelling of Leghorn was removed many and Russia after the fall of Canadian troops on the east 4iropped from an Allied plane mandy time). by the clearing of hills north of Poland in 1939. bank of the Orne River captured Came from Berlin radio which Selection tomorrow of a run- the city, and sappers were restor- The Russians seized Krystyno- Fleury and HiU 7, then drove on (charged that the Allies, "who ning mate appeared meanwhile ing port facilities. pol, 40 miles northeast of Lwow to seize four towns in an east- shave so often worked with mur- on the Bug's west bank, one oi ward sweep—Its, Bras, Cormeltea to have narrowed down to a Father west, other units of the and Hubert Folie. derous methods, once again have Henry A Wallace and Sen. Harry Fifth Army had cleared the town the points from which the Nazis (tried to achfeve by murder what invaded the USSR in June, 1941. British and Canadian troops S. Truman of Missouri. of Varna, Certaldo and San Do- Continued on Back Page ,dould not be> achieved by fair mil- Gov Robert S. Kerr, of Okla- nate, which is 16 air miles from New Army Attacks in North Itairy means." homa, keynoting the convention Florence.