Th avy c onfi rms th t o r y o f a no th e r A er i"' · n a t c t t v . ry d o o r te o f J apan . Tokyo ga v e an Kariillrll rlier re p ort of n assault against t he B on in an i ■ iI Volc a no I sla n d s , nd ad e d big sea battle ,, , .s · n pro ress o t th e re. One enemy account see me d t o indicate th a t Ameri c an forces had landed on isl a nds n r to Ja p an, s i x hundred~and,s e ven- un red- nrl-tw en ty-five mile ' from Tokyo, respectively. The Bonin an Vol ca no archipelagoe~ are, in fact, a part of th e inn e r ~ creen of the island defen s es of Japan. the However,Aofficial Navy dispatch states the as · ault was entirely from the air, a bombing attack by p lan e· from American carriers - in the course of . ' ~ h1ch se venty Japan e se planes were shot down. This was the se cond blo w , hurl e d by an American task force at island s so ne a r to the enemy ho me -land, a long adv a nce w es t wa rd by the United State ~ fleet - naval an d air p ower, re a ching to the inner line of Japanese defenses. b INS - 2 ----- On i H n , 1 n th the have ca tured Gar ap · n, ital of t.h island. That to w n was bitt erly con sted, th . Japs , tting up a tubborn re ~ istan n e for long ay s. But now Garapan has been taken, nd that ive s our forces control of Tanapag Harbor 7 ~ on of the best in the Mariana s , a 1 n -loc'ed body of w a ter id al as a port. Today's com uni ue from Aamiral Nimitz discloses that the Americ ns to date have buried ' mo re than seven thousand Japanese dead. Thf111.Jti.11"1;\ I addition to numbers that the Ja~s~ t h e m ~ v e s ~ disposed of. The total enemy force on Saipan was some twenty thousand to begin with - and that number has noWbeen ~ cut to\ha'l.f, or less. I A l a te i p tch fro m Saip n state · that b eca u e of r ce n a dvan c es , the me i c an f~rce~now control even-ei hths of the isl a nd after eighte91 days of the most bi ter b a ttle of the Pacific ' ar. The Ja s are now pion in a narrow sector of northern Saipan. 1 The J a r co n fin ed t o a ock e t of nine s u a re mil e s a t th •,• up e r mo · ti of Saipan, and ha-e they a re fi g htin s tu b o rnly - in one of thooe familiar losing b a ttles th t u s t inevitably end in the wi , in out f the enemy force. r I I n th e s outh e s t ern P a cific, p aratnoopere have b en f l o at in d own on Noemfoor Island, off the nort h e s t ~ co a · t of N :, Guin e a. These sold i e re o f t he s k y a re reinforcem e nts for the Am e rican troo p s th a t inv a ded Noemfo o r on Sun ay. There has been no h eavy fightin g - appar e ntly because the Jape ~ er e caught so complet e ly by surprise. Our troops facilitates have seized an airport. And this,_,(fa•iiitt•~ the landing of the paratroopers who are swarming down to complete the conque s t of the island. CHINA_ The wor d fro~ China is, h & the Japs are -MrWo ithin a hun red and seventy-five mile s of o jec ive o cutting China in the main enemy of en ive/ riv in so u th1 is coordinated ith the thrust by other Jap forces moving n o r ~ they've g44 only a hundred and seventy-five miles to go to I\ effect junction. The strategy of the/whole thing is simple based on a railro ad . China's numb e r one rail line runs from Peiping The Jape all in the north to Canton in along have had"'- stretch the south. from Peiping to Hankow, in Central China. Their recent offensive drove south along the railroad from Hankow and captured such important places as Changsha and Hengyang. Meanwhile, the Jape at Canton started pushing north along the railroad. Both forces have made such progress th t Chungking no~ says that only a hundred and seventy-five miles •1s eparates them. Once they cov e r th a t di tance they•~ ill cut China i n t o and i l have establi hed direct land conn e ction from anchuria to Singapore - via Inda-Chin a . The intern· tional mo tary conf rence w s in sessi n today - 1n spite of he holiday. The pr ceedings ere mark bJ a hine e appeal for American a · i tance in the i ost-war development of the reat Far Eastern land. Dr. H. H. Iun, Chairman of the Chinese delegation, declared: "China will give protecti n to forei 6n investments". And he urged that A erican tools and m chines, capital ana engineering ervices be grant ~ d to China when the ar is over. 0 Q_ IA The Russians have captured the city of Polotsk, deBcribed as the g teway to th Baltic states ... - .. . of Latvia an d Lithuania. This is the l a te s t in the story of Russian victory, hich ells of the increasing collapse of the German armies. Moscow st a tes that in White Russia, the Nazi s no longer have any definite battlefront. Their troops are KJ ■ split up into units, often isolated from e a ch·other. The Russians are now within twelve miles of the frontier of Latvia - and a hundred and ten mile ~ from the borders of Germany- proper, East Prussia . ITAIJ: The re •• are indic tions th a t the Alli e d forc es in It a ly are ap roaching a ne w line of German indicted d e fens e . Th i s i s l\iixxi•lii~ by the fact th a t American and Briti s h tro o ps are now encountering a type of weapon that they haven't faced for weeks. Nebelwerfus - a i in }\..CA. ru ortar w ith any barrels. In their previ o us stan~p:::manent lines, the Nazis relied heavily on fire from the Nebelwerfers. multiple Then in their long retreat, the m ortars withA•* ~ barrels Nia absent from the fightin g - the Germans A obviously pulling that kind of equipment back to their next line of permanent fort)fications at Rimini. Row, with the Alli d forces p u s hing uvth a t w~ y, •• the Nebel w erfers are in a ctivn once again - at many pointF alon g the front. Enemy re~istance is stiffening, as is reported by American troops pushin g toward Le g horn. are The3 ~ now fourteen m ile B from that import a nt harbor. The Germans seem bent on p uttin u p a h a r d fi g ht for Leghorn, which i s a t~ vit a l center fo r their tranoport 1TA1Y - 2 of supplies by a . Inland, Fr nch troops that captured Siena h ve thrust ahe d for ei ht miles and cut a road lea ing to Arezzo, w hich medieval city now becomes a maJor objective. And along the Adriatic, the British .!_ighth Army is still fighting on tow a rd the port of Ancona - moving slowly through difficult mountain country. RAN CE ---- They had a Fourth of Julys · lute in France today. At the exact hour of oon, hun red of guns thund r in a tre me ndous b rr a e. Cel brating Independ nee Day - but also ao·ng li task of war. Th Gre t salvo was part f the Am e ric a n drive southward fro m the Chabourg Peninsula. Tod a y our tz ■ , troops made a t o ■i ■• mile advance, and captumd two important J ■■ i points on high ground and fifteen villages. The battle is raging in a coastal country of marshes and sand dunes, and the drive along the shore threatens to outflank German positions farther inland. At the other end of the battlefr~nt, the eastern end, the guns toda were lhundering too- hurling a frontal attack the Brit is h~••ixsi ■ xa••axt ■ iaJx••z~ against Caen. They are now three miles from that old Norman city, which ev r since D-Day has been a focus of the storm m d e r n ~ The Nazis are defending Caen stubbornly Nr:::::J::Qi*_.. been doing all alon, though half ••ziax ncircled by salients th at Briti hand Can bd i a n troops h a v driven on both sides of th t town. Afil!_FR!NCE The lat eu t tells of the j i ning of forces by t · o of the British-Canadian groups attacking in the C aen s~ctor, a juncti n that greatly improv s the Alli d osition. And e are informed that the Army of invasion is about to capture the airfield at Carpiquet (Car-pea-kay). The fall of this important air base is "~•i a matter of hours", says the communique. Fro N orth Afric, e he a r about a luncheon da l e th e W hi t e Hou s e i n Washin g ton. In Al g iers, per s ons clo s e to the Fr e nch com m ittee of lational Liber at i o n decl ~ r th t G e neral DeGaulle wil~have luncheon with Pr es ident Rooa e velt on Friday. The DeGaulle visit to th · s country has been m u ch talked about, after all the disagreement between the Americans and British on th~ne side, and the French com m ittee on the other. The word has been that President Roo&elt himself has been foremost in blockin DeGaulle's claims th · this group is the provisional g overnment of France. And now the President and the Gen e ral will thrash out the matter between themse l vEB. We a re informed, additionally, th a t DeGaulle w ill go to Canada to confer w ith Prime Minister M acienzie-Kin g - b e fore he returns to the other side of the Atl a ntic. V ACCI NTS ----- Th e Fou rth of July is a tradi ion 1 day for wa rn·n about acci ents, w ith t he tional S a fety Coun c il e a ch y e ar repeatin £ it message of - be careful - n d as it hap ens, this Fourth of July brings news of major mishaps - two~atz ■ x ■ ia ■ ,a,,- one an explosion, the other a railroad wreck. In both ar e elements of the fantastic. The ex lo s ion occurred at Bedford, New Ham ps hire. There 1 for some reason not as yet determined, a storeho se crammed with high explosive blew up. A unit of an ammunition plant, the power house was deep in the woods, where the least harm might be done if anything should happen, but th~ blast was so violent that windows were broken as far away as Worcester, ~ass chu tts - a distance of seventy miles. In the town of Bedford, dozens of houses were knocked down, and p ani c ky people thou g ht it was a bombing raid. Yet, for all th a t violente~ no lives appear to have been lost - only a fe m inor injuries are reported. At th e pl ace · here the storehous e o f high explosives o d, there is no w a hu G e crater ouged out of th e a rth - a hole ei hty feet lon g and from fift e en to t ~ e nty feet deep. Only a fe~ yards a w ay is another powde r house - the sam sort of storage place c r mm e d it h h i g h e x p 1 o s iv e • I t s e v ms a\m i r a c 1 e that this one, /4e.c$. so /\ too, did not blow u p . But it was near tZt the stup n d ou · blast. undamaged - In the railroad w reck - the late count is now f i v e ~ kil l ed and some forty injuredj Victims of the accid e nt to one of the crack trains of the .. ,. southwe s t, the Santa Fe Chief. ~- . ,, The Chief was speeding around a curve in the plateau country of Arizona, when something happened-.• it--tra~....,_--baerr-d'MN ■ iDeti- ;nfta'h.. The cars went off the tr a ck, and p iled up. And here's a freakish thing rel a ted by an eye-witbess, Earl C. Jones, a n executive of a New York ~ress firm. "The atran est thing•" says he "was the of ~ ~ c a r s . Two of t h em were lying for wa r d of th e engine - no b ody s eems to kn~w how they location g ot there or just w hat hap ened". It oes s ee m str ange how in the wreck the baggage c· rs got out in front of th e locomotive. The ex 1 n · tion of h . fr · k · ould seem to the loc omotiv hit s e ction of road-bed that gave ay, h reupon the en in roll d ov r o its si , sun around a nd rever s ed its direction - while th baggage c rs plun ~d on ahe d. A re p ort from Albany today tells us that the Dewey ca ■ paign during the next few weeks will be de- voted largely to promotion of a maximum of unity in his party. Tbe Chicago convention was a ara■ atic display of unity, and Dewey wants to keep tbe ~•- publicans going along that way - in smooth working harmony. Today the Governor in Albany stated that he will soon confer with his running mate - Vice Presi~enW. Candidate Governor Bricker of Ohio. This, of course, is in line with Dewey's previous statement that he would ooa, sult with Bricher on all important matters. We are now told that he will see Bricker constantly during the campaign, and will not make any decision unless bis running mate is completely in accord with it. For ••ample, here's one auestion up right now - should the Republican governors of the various states hold a conference for a discussion of campaign policy? Today Dewey said: •1 haven't discussed the proposed Governor's Conference with Governor Bricker POLITICS - 2 -------~ yet, and I am waiting ~is view.• Meanw~ile, the Dewey presidential campaign is faced with one most difficult, and perhaps even insoluble problem, the Governor plans to spend the coming weekend at his Ouaker Rill home near the village of Pawling, Rew York, a thing he is likely to do on and off during the campaign. The perplexing dilemma lies in the fact that the candidate will be accompanied by the usual force of newsmen and photographers who cover a presidential campaign. In this respect, President Roosevelt ~as the better of it. Be lives in the same county, Dut?hess, over at the Western end. And not far away from his hom at Byde Park is the city of Poughkeepsie. Poughkeepsie has its Nelson Rouse, of which newspapermen covering Presidential affairs at Hyde Park have a most agreeable memory - especially a lovial haunt downstairs! In Pawling, as they say when a localite becomes prominent - •You're an import a nt man now, you should fQ1!T!~I - J move to Poughkeepsiet• From which you can judge that the village of Pawling, in the campaign spotlight will have to exert itself to keep the oncoming invasion of news ■ en happ7. And now Bugh, who is always happy. ~IGLI FOLLO~ ITALY ---------- Fro , Italy ·· e h a ve a bit of ne a that recalls a famous st t ment ma d by ~ark Twain years ago. A re p ort as ublished th , t he had died. to hich ~ark Twain responded - that the news of his death was greatly exaggerated. Yesterday, i• we had of the death of th famou s tenor, Gigii, once a star of New York's Metropolitan Opera House and today Gigli said that the report of h i s death was some more of those bad things that people have been saying about him/ The famous t enor has been in difficulties in Italy, because of his former cooperation with the Fascists - in the days when . Mussolini was riding high. For this he is being attacked by anti.- Fasci s t elements, and ha s been prevented from aig singing a scheduled concert for Allied soldi rs. Gigli announces this as what he calls - "a campaign of villification". They are telling bad stories abou~ him, says he. It is hard to see ju8t h ow you villify so me body by saying he has died. But, to the Tenor, th e r e o rt of his demise is another one of thos e b ad s tories. Bad, if true l!OLITI S - 3 ------- !'11 ,,; •✓ ( . As for the Willkie sid e , we have a s tory by the Uni d Pr s politic a l correspondent - Paul F. Ellis. He says th a t Pre s ident Roos e velt's rival in ai ■ forty has not y e t made up his mind - whether or not to support Tom Dewey in the present campaign. Hol e ver, ai the U. P. political correspniden says the likelihood is th a t Willkie will back Dewey, and make some speeches. He bases all this on information from i ■ what he calls - "private sources". from these he has laarned that Willkie a■ was impressed by Dewey's speech of acceptance in Chicago. It is well known, of course, that Wilkie was irked by the foreign policy plank in the Republican platform. He called it - •ambiguous•. Then, upon De ey being nominated, Willkie sent him a strikingly orded telegram of congratulation sayjng th a t Dewey had an opportunity to make history. After w hich Willkie li tened to the De ey speech of acceptance, an studied its text - a nd found it okay. The st-;!y adds that Will k ie will not commit A himself in the m atter of sup J ortin Dewey about the