4 The Weather Cloudy, Warmer (Details of Weather on Page 19) 1 Springfield ESTABLISHED BY SAMUEL 1844: SUNDAY BOWLES IN 1878 SPRINGFIELD, WEEKLY IN 1824: DAILY Reds Take Six Big Nazi Bases In Great Drive GREATEST ONE-DAY TRIUMPH OF WAR HAILED BY STALIN Strongholds of Lwow, Bialystok, Stanislawow On Central, Southern Fronts, Daugavpils and Rezekne in Baltic 300,000 Germans Believed Trapped London, July 30 (UP) The mighty red army yesterday captured six major Nazi bases and more than 1632 towns and settlements in its greatest one day triumph of the war, crumbling the basic structure of German defenses along the blazing 1000-mile eastern front. Great Strongholds Fall The great Nazi strongholds of Lwow, Bialyston and Stanislawow fell to the red armies on the central and southern fronts, and in a sensational breakthrough in the Baltic states, other Soviet forces seized Daugavpils (Dvinsk) and Rezekne in Latvia and Staulini in Lithuania. Onrushing Soviet tanks and cavalrymen, advancing 25 miles in 24 hours, also smashed to within 31 miles southeast of Warsaw by capturing Garvolin and broke into the streets of Siedloe. big rail junction 30 miles due east of the Polish capital. The great series of victories overshadowed other successes scored by the estimated 2.500.000 Russian troops smashing the beaten Nazis back to Warsaw and Berlin.
Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossoveky's 1st White Russian army all but encircled the embattled and doomed fortress of Brest Litovsk--the last major bastion to hold out before Warsaw -leaving the German garrison only a six -mile -wide escape route to the (Continued on Twelfth l'age) Washington, July 27 (UP) The Intensifying struggle between the OfPrice Administration and the War Food administration for rationing authority was in a state of temporary truce tonight with the OPA holding A slight edge. There were strong indications that War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes would be called in to calm the ruffled interagency waters. Earlier in the day OPA announced that the July ration point values on 'ments, fats and processed foods would continue until August 13 "to allow for full consideration" of changes which the WFA attempted to put into effect by August 1.
Point changes usually go into effect around the first of every month. The delay was viewed an A temporary victory for OPA inasmuch as the WFA last week ordered the agency to remove point values on commercial and utility grades of beef com August 1 and restore point values to pork Joins and hams, now off the ration list. The order, as it applied to beef, TEMPORARY TRUCE HALTS RATION FIGHT OPA Wins Slight Edge in Rationing Authority CurPoint Values Continue Until August 13 (Continued on Twelfth Page) ELECTRICAL STORM DAMAGES 30 BUILDINGS Fort Smith, July 27 (AP) A wind and electrical storm of about an hour's duration struck the Fort Smith area this afternoon, damaging about 30 small buildings in the south part of the city. Windows in the downtown area were blown out and electrical service throughout the city was disrupted for about 30 minutes. 1914 Ashfield Auto Registration Is Issued Boston, July 27-Mildred C.
Reniff of. Main street, Ashfield, evidently believes in following the have been urging advice of federal fenchestoring public to make their cars last as long as possible. She was issued a registration for a Ford roadster, Model manufactured in 1914, Chief Accountant William F. Campbell of the registry of motor vehicles, announced today. This is believed to be one of: the oldest gasoline-driven cars now being operated on the highways of Massachusetts.
LIEUT-GEN M'NAIR KILLED IN ACTION ON NORMAN FRONT One of Nation's Most Able Commanders, He Was Hit On First Visit and Killed On Second Washington. July 27-(AP)-LieutGen Lesley J. McNair, one of the nation's most able and most fearless military leaders, has been killed on the Normandy front. Enemy fire struck him down while he was with a leading element of the new allied offengive in France, observing athey work. of the American ground which he organized and trained, the war department announced today.
McNair, commander of army ground forces until he received an unspecified but "important" overseas signment a few weeks ago, had gone to the battlefronts of this war twice. On his first visit, in March, 1943, to Tunisia, he was wounded by shell fragments On 'his second visit he met death. He was the highest ranking American officer to die in action in this war. Four other generals have been killed in battle, in addition to a mo number of other' deaths, including eight who died in plane crashes while traveling to or in war zones. "Had.
he had the choice, he probhe andrould forefront of the atably have elected to die as tack," said Gen George C. Marshall, army chief of staff. The 61-year-old McNair was gen(Continued on Twelfth Page) CIRCUS RESUMES ITS TOUR MONDAY at Akron, Under New Program of Outdoor Performances Features to Be Retained Sarasota, July 27 (UP) "The greatest show on earth," Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey circus, which recently returned to its winter. quarters here following the disastrous Hartford (Ct.) fire, will depart Monday for Akron, where it will resume its tour on August 4. George Smith, general manager of the circus, said the show has been revised conform with its new policy of out performances.
Performers will act in full view of the permanent seats found in ball parks, stadiums and other arenas, he said. The old arrangement of three rings and two stages, which was designed to give equal entertainment to spectators. on all sides, will be retained. Smith said that all canvas used in the circus has been tested for fireproofing and found completely safe. Pat' Valdo, program director for the circus, said that there would be no change from past performances other than the ones necessary to conform with the outdoor setup.
The circus is scheduled to play at the University of Detroit stadium August 8-20 and at Soldiers field in Chicago August 22 to September 2, Valdo said. No other dates have been disclosed. British King Watches Artillery Pound Nazis North of Arezzo Rides to Front Sitting On Back of Jeep Decorates Two American Officers At 8th Army Front With the Party. July 25 (Delayed) Britain's King George VI drove through thousands of cheering British and empire troops today to an observation post from which he watched artillery and tank assault guns hammer the Germans north of Arezzo. The king donned khaki shorts and rolled up his sleeves before starting the drive to the observation post, where for more than 13 minutes he looked across the blue-green plain to a sharp peak which was belching smoke like A volcano.
Watches Shelling With Glasses On the mountain top under that smoke the village there the Germans had 'dug themselves in was being shelled preceding the infantry assault. With field glasses. the king could see British -manned Sherman tanks hid- All the News and the Truth About It PRICE THREE CENTS. NINE DOLLARS A TEAR FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1944 TWENTY-TWO PAGES ONE HUNDRED FIRST YEAR OF DAILY: NUMBER 107 AIRMEN SINK 10 JAP VESSELS IN WEST. CAROLINES Carrier Pianes of U.
S. Task Force Score One Destroyer Among Victims Marines On Tinian Capture Mt Laso and Now Control Third of Island 13 Japs Die for Every Yank Pearl Harbor, July 27-(UP)--Carrier planes of a powerful United States task force have sunk 10 8 daring raid on the western Tinian have captured dominating of the little Marianas island, it was At Bases Flanking Marianas Admiral Chester W. Nimitz nounced that the 'carrier-plane attack occupied Monday and Tuesday and was directed against the Palau islands and Yap and Ulithi islands. enemy bases now outflanked by the invasion of the Marianas. He listed the following damage to the enemy: One destroyer, an oiler, a destroyer escort or mine layer, seven small cargo ships and "many smaller craft" sunk.
Five enemy aircraft were shot-down and 21 destroyed on the ground. American losses, Nimitz reported, THOUSANDS FAVOR ARGENTINA'S STAND IN DEMONSTRATION Crowds Form in Front of the U. S. Embassy at Buenos Aires Proaxis Attitude Excludes Country Buenos Aires, July 27-(AP) harmless noise bomb exploded in front of the newspaper La Nacion building tonight during an otherwise orderly demonstration in favor of the government's foreign policy by several thousand persons who assembled in front of the United States embassy. No one was hurt by the explosion although concussion shattered a shop window.
At the time the main demonstration was moving toward the foreign ministry, several blocks distant. Follows Pelufio's Address The demonstration, sponsored by numerous organizations, came 24 (Continued on Twelfth Page) Greenville, July 27-(AP)Three small training planes, part of a Alight of nine, were missing tonight in the wilderness north of Moosehead lake where one pilot parachuted to safety and another made a forced landing on a lumber tote road. Four men were reported aboard the missing planes. The planes had been purchased by the United States from the Canadian government and were being flown by American airmen from New Brunswick to Dayton, by way of Millipocket, Me. The craft left New Brunswick Wednesday and were due at Millinocket about 3 p.
m. that day. Three arrived on schedule and another reached Megantic, Quebec, near (Continued on Twelfth Page) TRAINING PLANES MISSING IN MAINE Three, of Flight of Nine, Lost North of Moosehead Lake -Flying From Canada to 0. Soldier Is Held For Kidnaping Omaha, July 27 (UP) A man who identified himself as William R. Meadows was arrested by police at Kearney, after kidnapping Harry C.
Barton, a farmer, near Gering, and driving more than 150 miles across the Nebraska plains, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said tonight. The said Meadows. A soldier from Camp Carson, was apprehended while driving Barton's automobile. 4, First news of the kidnaping came from Mrs Barton. She said her hushand telephoned her from Brady, that he had escaped.
Barton said he was forced to remove most of his clothing. When the automobile developed motor trouble Barton slipped out and ran. He reached and telephoned Mrs Barton. Meadows continued traveling toward Omaha until he was stopped by police at Kearney. Japanese ships, including a destroyer, in Carolines, while American marines oll Mt Laso and now control one-third announced tonight.
were five planes, but four of their pilots were rescued. Marines Storm Mt Laso Pushing steadily ahead on, Tinian, the marine veterans of the battle of Saipan stormed Mt Laso to capture 3 peak which dominates the smooth, rolling, the plateau island land where on the the southern remaining enemy garrison must make its final stand. Nimitz, revealing that American losses on Tinian through last Thurs(Continued on Twelfth Page) Southeast Asia Headquarters, Kandy, Ceylon, July 27 (UP) Battleships, cruisers and destroyers of an allied eastern fleet task force have leveled virtually all heavy instalations at the Japanese naval base of Sabang, northwestern Sumatra at the mouth of the Malacca straits, in a surprise 35-minute dawn bombardment, and sailed away with only minor damage, it was announced today. Into Harbor Itself Attacking just after sunrise Tuesday, the allied commanders sent a Dutch light cruiser and three British destroyers audaciously into Sa(Continued on Twelfth Page) SABANG NAVAL BASE SMASHED BY TASK FORCE Surprise 35-Minute Attack Levels Virtually All Heavy Instalations Ships Go Right Into Harbor London, July, 27-(UP)-Stanislaw Mikolajczyk Tadeusz Romer, premiter and the foreign Polish minister, government-in-exile. respectiveleft for Moscow by plane today in an 11th hour attempt to reach agreement with Russia and the Sovietsponsored Polish committee of national liberation regarding the administration of Polish territory liberated by the rede army.
It was generally believed that Prime Minister Churchill, and possibly President Roosevelt, interceded on behalf of Mikolajczyk by arranging a ing for him 'with Premier Joseph Stalin. Russia has recognized new Polish national committee as the provisional government of Poland and had entered into formal agreements with it for the administration of Polish territory. Hopes for Compromise Mikolajczyk also hoped to confer with representatives of the Polish national committee and to arrive at some. sort of compromise acceptable to (Continued on Twelith Page) POLISH PREMIER FLIES TO MOSCOW Government-in-Exile Making 11th Hour Attempt to Compose Russian-Polish Differences Baseball Results AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 6, Detroit 1. Cleveland 8, New York' 1.
Philadelphia 7, St Louis 5 (n). Chicago 4, Washington 0 (n). NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati 4, Boston 2. St Louis 8, Philadelphia 7 (1st, twilight). St Louis 5, Philadelphia 0 (2d, n).
Pittsburg at New York (n, rain). Chicago at Brooklyn (n, rain). Railroad Smoke Nuisance Here Is Result of Heavy War Loads Locomotives Built to Haul 1600 Tons Are Now Pulling, 2600 Tons -Problem Will Remain for Duration A railroad freight engine. built to! haul approximately a 1600-ton load on a mountain road, and now carrying 2000 to 2600 tons of war 'freight, is bound to smoke and nothing on earth can be done to stop it, said Harry Sibley last night, a fireman for years on the Boston Albany railroad. In spirited reply to accusations leveled at the railroads concerning Springfield's dirty, smoke-hung streets, Mr Sibley admonished residents to bear with the smoke problem while the railroads struggle as best they can to keep war freight moving in spite of a serious lack of equipment.
The best freight engine the railroads have, the 1400 class engine, must now carry 2000 to 2600 tons instead of the 1600-ton load it hauled before the war. Both passenger and freight engines are. strained to the ut- Yanks Smashing Ahead 10 Miles 4 Into Normandy CENTRAL FIGURES OF REVOLT PLOT NAMED BY NAZIS Gen Friedrich Olbricht Has Been Executed -Gen Erich Hoepner Said Awaiting Sentence London, Friday, July 28 (UP) -Telephone communications tween Berlin and the outside world reported in Stockholm to have been suspended again last night similar to the tions blackont that followed the attempt on Adolf Hitler's life last week. mans named in two comparatively obLondon, July 27-(AP) The Gerscure veterans of the Russian front today as central figures, along with the previously identified Maj Gen Ludwig Beck, in the deep-laid conspiagainst Adolf Hitler which misPared a week ago. Friedrich were Infantry Gen Olbricht: 65, described as the leader, and Maj-Gen Erich Hoepner, 57.
Berlin said that Gen Olbricht, the only one of the trio on active army service last week, was executed in Berlin on the night of the, assassination attempt last Thursday, and that Gen Hoepner wag awaiting sentence. Report Beck a Suicide Gen Beck, 64, who was chief of the German general staff in 1938 described earlier as "no longer among the living." shot himself upon being found in a "sobbing fit" after the plot failed, Berlin said today. Gen Olbricht was identified as chief of a general army department at German supreme headquarters and second in command of the German army at. home. He "held the ropes of the conspiracy" in his hands because he was in a position to give false orders.
Berlin said. was the man, the German announcement said, who was referred to by Propaganda Minister Goebbels (Continued on Twelfth Page) LABOR URGES U.S. PREPARE FOR PEACE Leaders Appeal for Adoption of Reconversion Plans Ask Legislation Be Enacted system." ROBOT 'GUINEA PIG' WINS IRON CROSS Berlin Radio Announces Award to German Woman Who Flew in Experimental Robot Bombs Washington, July 27-(AP)-Labor leaders voiced A new appeal today for immediate adoption of plans to reconvert industry to peacetime production with a minimum of unemployment and it was suggested that Congress, returning August 1, stay in session until the legislation is enacted. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, declared a sudden end to the European war would plunge the American home front "into chaos." Unprepared for Peace "Right now we are wholly unprepared for Green said in a statement urging adoption of a bill by Senator Kilgore (D-WVA) which would create an Office of War Mobilization and adjustment to handle the reconversion job, retrain and reemploy workers. The AFL said Chairman Reynolds (D-NC) has called the Senate military affairs committee to A special meeting August 1 to consider the bill.
At the same time, the CIO in its publication Economic Outlook, expressed the same thought, adding that Congress also should enact "needed improvements to the social security London. July 27-(AP)-The Berlin radio said today Mrs Hanna Reisch had been awarded the Iron cross first class for flying inside an experimental robot bomb-unloaded and instrumentless-during 1912 test Alights. She was seriously injured, said the radio, despite an emergency landing device affixed to the robot and despite her "extraordinary physiological characteristics." wiTh the tests robots were lost their designed wings to learn after short, flights, Reisch made Berlin the broadcast, flights in and a nearly horizontal position, gazing through a periscope. Her robot had no instruments but was aimed to hit a target without human direction. After four days of tests the trouble was a found but she was seriously injured." Mrs Reisch, said the radio.
was a "biological phenomenon insensible to pressure who attained more than 500 miles an hour diving in gliders." JULY HAS ITS SANTA CLAUS New York, July 27-(AP)-As New York sweltered in July heat, a genuine Christmas party with turkey, eggnog, plum pudding and Santa Claus today opened the 1944 campaign for early overseas Christmas mailing. Nazi Defense Lines Broken As Americans Drive to Sea Germans in Normandy Face Greatest Catastrophe Since Cherbourg--Air Aids Armor Advance By HENRY T. GORRELL United States 1st Army Headquarters, July 27-(7 P. tonight face their greatest catastrophe in Normandy since the fall of Cherbourg. The enemy defense line on the western sector has been cracked wide open and the 84th German army corps, involving upward of seven depleted divisions, is reeling back under the heaviest pressure and faces encirclement as American armor drives toward the sea after a 12-mile advance.
Lessay and Periers have been captured. The strategic rail and high- in way junction of Coutances is danger, with our fast-rolling armor now only four miles away. The enemy REPORTS ON PLAN FOR DISPOSAL OF U.S. WAR SURPLUS Senate Group Recommends Use of Regular Trade Channels, Protection of Small Business Washington, July 27 (AP) Placing at $103,000,000,000 the probable value of surplus war goods, a Senate subcommittee tonight recommended disposal through "regular trade channels" wherever possible. assuring small business a substantial share.
In a preliminary report, the special small business subcommittee headed bro proposed Senator that Stewart Congress pass (D-Tenn.) upon also the disposition of government-owned plants costing $5,000,000 or more. Such plante would he leased for two years by the surplus property administrabut final sale or disposition would require the lawmakers' approval. The volume of surplus war materials, facilities and equipment contemplated in the report is roughly 17 times that which remained (Continued on Twelfth Page) PROBING ACTIVITIES OF U. S. OFFICIALS Dies Committee May Seek Prosecution of a Number for Alleged Violations of Hatch Act Washington, July 27 (UP) The special House committee investigating un-American activities may seek I prosecution of a number of government officials for alleged political activities in violation of the Hatch act.
The United Press was informed that one alleged instance involves work by a federal official "at the direction" of Chairman Sidney Hillman of the CIO's political action committee. of the officials could not be learned, While the exact number and names it was said that their federal salaries range from $5600 to $10,000 a year. Each member of the committee was disclosed to have received a tentative, 50-page report men alleged violations from Chairman Martin Dies who is retiring from Congress at the end of this year. His report was said to state that the officials violated A section providing that "no officer or employe of the executive branch of the federal government shall take any active part in political management or in a political campaign." Dies asked that the committee file the report direction with Atty-Gen Francis Biddle going through the usual procedure of hearings. At least one member, Representative Parnell Thomas (R-NJ), en however, favored A full public airing.
BYRNES NOT TO QUIT MOBILIZATION POST War Bureau Director Denies That He Will Resign To Seek Congressional Action Spartanburg, S. July 27-(UP) -James F. Byrnes tonight denied reports that he will resign as war mobilization director. Byrnes, before, he left his home here for Washington, said he will remain on the job, but added that he has no interest in taking an official part in the demobilization work in the postwar era. "I am not going back to Washington to resign, but to urge Congress to Immediately consider bills that would provide for disposal of surplus property and for development of reconversion policies," Byrnes said.
"I feel that recent events in Germany require us to be ready when peace comes. Meanwhile I shall continue AS war mobilization I he said. I 5 U.S. TANK THRUST HURLS NAZIS INTO CHAOTIC RETREAT Yanks Within Five Miles of Coutances 20 Towns Captured in 48 Hours Enemy Fleeing Under Hail of Fire- Entire Nazi Corps May Be Trapped caught north of Coutances is retreating hastily an effort to get out before American tanks bar the way. Air Force Has Fleld Day The United States air force has been tanks as field, pull out to the having a day, beating up.
German west. We have taken a dozen towns in the past 24 hours. And well over 2000 Germans have been captured, many of them as direct result of the terrific aerial bombardment, The 84th Nazi corps has only a few available roads over which it can retreat, At best, it is estimated, that Germans won't be able to save there than a' third before darkness (Continued on Twelfth Page) 500 U.S. BOMBERS START AIR BATTLES COSTLY TO NAZIS They Smack Steel Works in Hungary Fighters From Italy Enjoy 'Hunting Trip' to Russia By NOLAND NORGAARD Rome, July 27-(AP)-More than 500 American heavy bombers, fiercely protected by Lightning and Mustang fighters, cracked down today on the Manfred Weiss steel works at Budapest, Hungary, stirring up great aerial battles such as those which cost the Nazis 78 planes yesterday and a record Mediterranean toll of 193 craft in the past three days. no returning Liberator from and today's Fortress assault crewmen said the Weiss works, a large producer of aircraft engines, guns, ammunition and machine tools for the enemy, was left enveloped in smoke from many direct hits.
20 Oil Defenders Downed Twenty of yesterday's 78 allied victories in southern Europe were scored by American fighter pilots in the Ploesti-Bucharest area on their return Alight from a three-day "hunting trip" to Russia, during they joined Soviet airmen Tuesday in a series of smashes at German air forces in Poland. In all, the three-day operation netted the Yank "hunting party" a. total of 61 enemy planes shot down and many more destroyed on the ground. Two American fighters were lost on the round-trip of perhaps 1500 miles. The biggest individual score was credited to Lieut James Brooks of Roanoke, with four victories.
An official report called the opera(Continued on Twelfth Page) 10-Ton Rockets Not Propaganda Advance Command Post in Normandy, July 27-(UP) -The attacks by allied Lancaster bombers with sixton "quake-makers" on possible V-2 sites underscores the statement expressed here by a commentator that German talk of using 10-ton explosive rockets against England in the near future may not he sheer propaganda. The new rocket is reported from certain unauthenticated sources inside France to weigh about 90 tons at launching. It diminishes in weight as Its fuel is expended in flight through the stratosphere. and the 10-ton warhead is designed to arrive at the destination. The commentator sald the v-2 might be highly inaccurate or might fizzle out in flight, but.
there should be no wishful thinking. It is highly possible that the Germans may use it soon to bolster the flagging morale of the German population, reeling under military defeats and the ghattering allied bombings of their cities. Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, July 28-(AP)Lightning United States tank columns shattered the Germans' western Normandy line yesterday in sudden breakthrough that plunged the enemy into chaotic retreat and drove to within five miles of strategic Coutances, whose fall might trap the entire 84th corps of seven battered Nazi divisions. Smash- Nazi Resistance Thundering lines tanks, halftracks and -propelled artillery, revealed hy supreme headquarters for the first time to he striking in divisional strength in the greatest armored blow since D-day, smashed all organized field commanders declared. Without a fight the enemy yielded the old seacoast strongpoint of Lessay, 12 miles north of Coutances, and under a 'hath of bombs and shellfire Periers west, and fled south to try to make a stand, possibly around Coutances.
But the midnight communique disclosed that besides the column driving. headon toward Coutances from the east, a second column fanned out four miles southwest of fallen Canisy in what may be, an outflanking threat to that next stop 011 the American drive deeper into France. Field dispatches sald one armored finger had stabbed to Cerisy la Salle, (Continued on Twelfth Page) DEPLORE SPREAD communities, of groups to study vital American and international problems. (Continued on Twelfth Page) OF NEO-COMMUNISM Priests of Polish Union, Meeting at Kimball, Dislike Action of 'Pink-Tinted' Citizens and Moscovites The spread of Neo -communism among Catholics of Polish descent in the United States, "propagated by Muscovites and pink -tinted American citizens," was deplored at the quarterly meeting of the priest members of the Union of Roman Catholic Americans of P'olish Descent yesterday afternoon at Hotel Kimball. Twenty nine priests from Western and central Massachusetts were present and participated in the discus.
sion of this and a other topics. Most Rev Thomas M. O'Leary, bishop of the Catholic diocese of Western Massachusetts, is honorary president of the organization. Rev Dr Andrew Lekarezyk of Webster served as presiding officer. Also discussed was the feasibility of the application of the Atlantic charter in the strained relations hetween Soviet Russia and Poland, "the first country to defend world democracy against European dictatorship." The establishment of an historical memorial of Roman Catholic parishes of Polish origins in the state of Massachusetts was suggested.
The aim of this memorial will be to gather historical information and to present to all Americans the pioneer work of the early Polish emigrant as An American citizen and member of the Catholic church. Plans were formulated for the organization, in all American Polish Cherbourg So Completely Wrecked It Delayed Allies in Normandy Stimson Says Virtually All Men and Supplies Still Landing On Beachheads behind the cyprus trees and slamming explosives on the Germans. In order to reach the observation post. King George flew from Gen Sir Harold Alexander's headquarters to a forward airdrome, where he was met by Lieut-Gen Sir Oliver Leese, and then motored to the front in a Jeep along the narrow and tortuous mountain road. Most of the time the king sat on the rear end of the open car with his feet on the back seat.
Once when king left the car, the general took the seat out of his own sedan and placed it on the rear of the king's car for his majesty. When the king returned. he grinned and raised his evebrows in exaggerated surprise. Then he sat on the seat gingerly and (Continued on Twelfth Page), most under double the normal peacetime transportation problem, he said. With all this extra tonnage, Mr Sibley pointed out, the fireman must burn tremendous amounts of coal.
"I think railroads are doing a wonderful job," he said. "Take it from someone who works on them every day in the week. And if you're complaining about cinders in your eyes because we're burning more coal, think of us up there where you really see cinders." The normal haul of passenger cars before the war was six to eight per engine, he explained. Under the stress of troop movements and Increased passenger travel, one engine now pulls as many as 13 to 18 cars. "In normal times any passenger.
train with 12 cars would carry two engines, We (Continued on Twelfth Page). A Washington. July limited 27 allied -(AP) offensive The in Normandy got its first real illumination today when Secretary of War Stimson disclosed that the port of Cherbourg, captured a month ago, was so completely wrecked by the enemy that it still is all useless to the allies. In a discussion of beachhead operations at a news conference, the secretary, just returned from an inspection of the Normandy front, let it be known that virtually all men and supplies for the invasion forces still have to be landed on the D-day beaches. Praises Supply Troops It was while he was praising the supply troops under Lieut-Gen John C.
JI. Lee that Stimson revealed the condition of the port through which allied leaders had expected to pour masses of men and supplies for the big smash on the German armies in northern France. "Most of the time." the secretary said, "they have been landing on the same open beaches they originally took, while the port of Cherbourg 19 being made ready for its full occupation." In view of the staggering ments in equipment and supply before a major offensive can be launched, the delay in getting this one major, port in the beachhead area into op4 eration would be enough to explain the apparently slow progress in mandy. Stimson added another reason in description of the difficulty of the torrain, which he said had made a strong impression on him. Not only is the area.
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