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BERLIN MAY GET
AERIAL POUNDING
(Continued From Page One-)
. s important “from the stand
point of morale'”
..gerlin means a lot to Ger
any_” he continued. “There al
vs has been a certain amount
„f bother whenever Berlin was hit.
The German people have made a
tremendous moan about it. Ber
,ner3 themselves, however, had
‘ . moaned so much when the
i llhr has been raided ”
At the same time, the commen
. t(|1. disclosed that 800 big RAF
bombers pounded Hamburg night
)v jn the series of attacks that
virtually eliminated Germany’s
f-atest port.
’ The Berlin radio said today a
Cerm.m convoy had been attacked
0tf Dunkerque early this morning
bv British motor torpedo boats,
but commenting' on the aircraft
nHack upon the “E-boats,” the
tadio said that 10 British planes
rere shot down by fighter planes
., d escort ships.
The RAF spokesman called the
American raid Sunday on Rumani
an oil fields at Plosti “one of the
neatest air achievements of the
war.”
He said the skill, courage ana
determination shown by the Amer
ic;,n pilots who flew the big Lib
erators on the 2.400-mile trip rank
ed with any other aerial feat.
Saying that “an hour or two
more of darkness” was needed
for favorable bombing of the Ger
foot
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Stimson Views Red
Drive On Orel As
General Offensive
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—(/P>
—Secretary of War Stimson,
describing the Russian advance
to Orel as a “major defeat for
tlie Germans,” said today that
tlie Soviets may now be trans
forming their counter attack
into a general offensive.
Bryansk and other German
strong points in the Smolensk
area definitely are threatened,
he declared.
The war secretary, who leans
to tlie conservative in his ap
praisals of tlie war’s progress,
expressed this view in the
course of a press conference in
which lie also reported that the
Allies have taken over 100,000
prisoners on Sicily while suf
fering losses “considered mod
erate.”
He said American casualties
through July 33 totalled 501
killed, 3,870 wounded and 3,370
missing while Britisli losses
were “not a great deal high
er” although he did not have
exact figures. Since July 33. he .
said, losses have been relative
ly light.
rr,an capital, the commentator add
ed that this should not be taken
as a promise of a blitz On Berlin
as soon as the 10-hour nights ar
rived.
He called the raids on Hamburg
a “classic example of round-the
clock bombing’’ and called it an
example of perfect cooperation be
trween the RAF night and the
American day bombers.
He added that United Nations
planes, based in Great Britain,
dropped a total of 12,000 tons of
bombs on Axis and Axis-occupied
countries, during the week of July
24, to 31, while the Germans ui>
loaded only 70 tons on Britain.
Orel And Belgorod Taken
By Victorious Red Army
(Continued From Page One)
mer »f 1941. For 22 months they
had Jortified it for miles on all
sides. In such circumstances and
because of its location the loss of
the city is a major blow to the
enemj.
Belgorod was held temporarily
last winter by the Russians in
their sweep from Stalingrad on
the Vtlga, but the Germans re
took it March 22 Along with Orel,
the tovn was a base for the Ger
man offensive begun July 5 in an
effort t pinch off the middle Kursk
salient.!
The Russians absorbed the full
ferocitj of that German drive,
launched their own counteroffen
sive Ju'$ 12 above Orel, and after
a month of heavy fighting now
have totaled both big German
bases. T
Moscow dispatches said the Ger
mans falling back from Orel Were
running t death gantlet between
there ant1 Bryansk. There still is
a possibiity that the Russians
would trsp large forces of t h e
German a:my in that sector, these
reports sad.
Southwest of Orel Russian units
hold a saient reaching within a
few miles of the Bryansk - Kie
railway in the Sevsk area. This
dangerous finger pointed toward
the Dnieper river remained un
broken despite the powerful Gr
man offensbe launched last month
to rase it.
Stalingrad veterans participated
In the douKe Red army victory,
and Stalin mnounced that the di
visions whici first broke into the
two cities would be honored with
the addition of “Orel” and “Bel
gorod” to :heir regular names.
The 5th, 129th and 380th infan
try divisions were the first to fight
their way irto flaming Orel, and’
the 89th guards and 305th infan
try divisions were the first inside
Belgorod, said the order of the
day as leeorded here by the Soviet
monitor.
The commanders singled out for
praise were Generals Constantin
Roossovsky and Nikolai Vatutin,
and Colonel Generals Vassily So
kolovsky, Ivan Konev and P. K.
Popov.
Berlin propagandists said that
the Russians had lost 3,538 tanks
since July 5. This was offered by
the Germans as “convincing proof
of successful tactics of attrition
employed by the German troops.”
Further losses suffered by the
Soviets in other arms and men
were declared to be “beyond es
timation.”
The Russians have not yet dis
closed German losses in the last
month of violent fighting, but on
July 24, Marshal Stalin announced
that the Germans in 19 days had
lost 70,000 killed. Thousands of
German tanks and planes were
destroyed by the Russians.
Stalin himself went to the front
last month to spur on his troops
in the initial development of the
big offensive which tore through
the heart of the German defenses
and surged into Orel Wednesday
night.
Block by block in the city of
110,000, the Russians ferreted out
isolated Germans cut off or left
behind to fight rear-guard action
for the main body of retreating
troops. Supply troops sorted and
counted large stores of German
materiel abandoned in headlong
flight for life. What fighting con
tinued in Orel today was only
rearguard defense rather than a
serious German challenge for pos
session of the city 200 miles be
low Moscow, dispatches from that
capital said.
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CATANIA SEIZED
BY ALLIED ARMY
(Continued From Page One)
Such towns as Biancavilla, Adra
no, Bronte, and Randazzo astride
this artery faced Allied occupa
tion.
Crushing back the Germans
from the former central sector of
the bridgehead, British and Ca
nadians were giving strong sup
port to American forces held up
three days in the Troina area
northwest of Mt. Etna by the ma
nacial resistance of the Geripan
29th motorized division, whose
namesake was annihilated at Stal
ingrad.
On the shore of the Tyrrhenian
sea, Americans supported by crack
gunners of U. S. cruisers and de
stroyers engaged in a battle for
San Fratello some 55 miles west
of Messina.
Duplicating their superb gun
nery when they helped smash the
Goering division tank attack at
Gela bay on the second day of the
invasion, American warships gave
this coastal column of Gen.
George S. Patton, Jr.’s Seventh
Army tremendously effective co
operation from the flank. They
were officially credited with speed
ing the troops’ advance.
This north coast road like the
east coast road is virtually at
the mercy of Allied navies which
have thrown a noose around
northeastern Sicily, strangling the
enemy’s power of long continu
ing the fight.
The Germans threw in airplanes
in their desperate attempts to
gain time so forces withdrawn
from the southern sector, could
reach new positions.
On this fanatical resistance the
whole fate of Axis divisions in
Sicily depended.
Catania, although damaged by
naval and air bombardments
which denied its use to the en
emy as a port since the third
day of the Allied invasion, was
expected quickly to become a ma
jor supply base for future oper
ations which Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower in a recent message
plainly told the Italian people
would be directed against their
mainland.
The Levante mole and some
newly-built facilities were almost
unharmed by Allied explosives
which littered harbod waters with
sunken vessels, including a 350
foot merchantman.
Gerbini’s big airbase and net
work of nine satellite fields 112
miles west of Catania now are
(Completely available for Allied
air forces which are dividing their
fiery offensive between direct
support of ground troops in Si
cily and longer smashes at Nap
les and rail communciations from
there to the Messina strait.
The German command already
has seen the hopeless character
of the rearguard actoin in Sicily
and for nearly a week has been
removing supply and service troops
to the mainland in a small but
steady withdrawal across the nar
row Messina strait.
SCHOOL' IFFIC
LIGHT CUT OUT
(Continued Frftm Page One)
traffic lights at Seventeenth and
Castle streets.
The elimination of the light ex
cept during school hours will allow
the heavy traffic on Market street
to travel from Seventeenth to
Third streets without a stop.
A city council committee is cur
rently conducting an investigation
into the city’s “stop” streets with
an eye to eliminating any that
prove unnecessary.
The Office of Defense transpor
tation and other agencies recently
urged municipalities to cut down
on traffic stops as a measure to
conserve gasoline and rubber.
STATEMUSTCALL
FATHERS SHORTLY
(Continued From Page One)
power pool. These men are need
ed in these essential industries as
much as they are needed in the
military forces. Consequently, if
we are to meet the government’s
demand for draftees, the drafting
of men with children is almost a
necessity,” General Metts said.
He said that the supply of single
men and married men without
children has been exhausted in
North Carolina.
However, pre-Pearl Harbor fath
ers in deferrable jobs are not to
be drafted before October 1, Gen
eral Metts said, explaining that
the national headquarters wanted
to be ‘‘set to go” on that date.
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2,226 EMPLOYED
The United States Employ
ment Service placed 2,226 per
sons in jobs last month, ac
cording to Felix A. Scroggs,.
manager. Approximately 15,
000 persons sought employ
ment and statements of avail
ability at the office. Of the
total sent to jobs, 416 were
women.
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