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FDR Prefers Wallace As His Running Mate No Demand To Be Made At Chicago Convention Will llav Some Option In Making Choice Washington, July 12—(AIM President Roosevelt, having accepted in advance a fourth term nomination, which long J ad been assured, was reported ready today to recommend—hut not demand—a second term for Vice-President Wallace. The decision clinching the norni atien ahead of time produced enn 1 "tnre that Mr. Roosevelt probably •' "old pass up a formal accept nve speech to the Democratic National C (invention, either in person or by radio. Selection of a vice presiden tial candidate is the single ma jor chore remaining for the con vention starting a week from today in Chicago. Mr. Roose velt is expected to lend a hand with it by nudging the delegates ward Wallace. Today or tomorrow the chief ev er Hive n iv let ii be known Inal Wallace i. Ins preference for a run ning male, hut that the convention lice to make its own choice K"in years ago lie refused to n • opt i eiv ‘initiation until Wallace wa. gu u ,-infeed second place. But the F’i evident laid aside the weapon lit u -ell m 1940, when lie announced ye today that: if Hie convention should nomi nate me tor the presidency, I shall accept If the people elect me, I shall serve." The 194 1 strategy emphasized a belie! of many Democrats that ■ ■> iMi a preside! tial pa' on the hack." Wal lace will lie left to fend for himself against a dozen other potential nom. mcc. Wallace's- barkers claim he i- . -- surer! of 319 of Ihe ,oH9 convention voles required for renomination Plenty of opposition to the low m evi-'ts within the party, however, particularly in its southern element And Capitol Hill heard talk of < r ga! ized campaigns fur such other possibilities as Senate Majority Lead ci Allien W. Barkley, of Kentucky, 'iid Supreme Court Justice William <t Douglas. Wallace, just hack from a tpp ' ■ t'luna "lid Siberia, is- staying away from his ofice. But lie is se-' ng numerous politically-minded people at his hold. • _ Shorter Hours and Fewer Buyers Are Tobacco Problems Raleigh, July 13 (AP) Border belt tobacco grower, told Gnvernni Broughton today that shorter selling hours and reduced sets’ of buyers would cause undue hardships during the marketing season, particularly in August, and the Governor said lie would acquaint the tobacco assoe's tmn ot the United States with tlv-ii problems. In the delegation were Senator Carson M. Barker of Robeson county; H ( Hutton, sales superintendent ot the Luinberton market: W. I). Reynolds', Robeson county agent; and V d. Baker, vice president of the Border Belt Farmers Association. They pointed nut that two-thirds of tlie 19 43 crop of the belt was sold , during August and that if shorter hours and reduced buyers confronted them, as agreed upon by the TAUS, much ot their tobacco would spoil. Senator Barker said the horde • belt farmers were organized and d relief were not offered, they would WALLACE RETURNS FROM CHINA VICE-PRESIDENT HENRY A. WALLACE on his arrival in Seahle, Wash , from a tour of China and Sibci ia signs short-snorters for (1. to r.): U. E. Bowers, Van Wert, O.; I. G. C Salmons, Chester, Pa., and C'apt. Eastman Iremonger, 1 lainfleld, N J Reporting on his trip the Vice-President said in a nation-wide bron ^st that ‘'those who say Eas* is East and West 13 West and the two snail never meet are wrong. " international) Normandy Campaign Slow But Gains Are Certain Americans (jam l \\ o Mill's I* mm Na/is m Italy Home. Jillv I f.— (I’) — Amer ican light armored element's pushed two miles along (lie It.il ian west coast yesterday in the face of hitter German resistance, and captured the town of < astig lionteello. thus bringing the tilth army to within eight miles, air line, of Leghorn. Some eight miles inland, how ever. American infantry rail into j still opposition while advanc ing from < astle toward Pantiana. where the Germans showed the utmost determination lo delay Ihrii progress. American troops further east also encountered rough going northeast of Lajatieo. where the Nazis counter attacked fiercely, hut they repelled the thrust and Lajatieo itself was brought un der attack. Late dispatches from the field said the Nazis still were holding out within the town ■Meanwhile, on the Adriatic coast, the Italians were credited with in advance in the Mtisimc river aria, and the city ot An cona yy.is brought under artillery fire by the Allies, who are now only eight miles ayyay. Prices Irregular In Stock Market New V rk, Jill v I ’ < \ I ’) Price ..wine were n i ■■pilw m to day'.. tnrk market and to’ the nix jority "I leader. the ariatmn ■ were in minor tractions American Can, .1 Penney, and Southern Kml-vay rciiorled mode-I gains. Bond, were heady and eimnio'l itie., mixed. 'sk the go\ i■ i n*• r to declare < holiday Other belt - did not mm the rt’i|ne: t for relief _. I I eaders I o I akr No Chances About Possible Reverses Washington. July 12—(AP) I lie c;un|t;tign in Nni nvdiuh, i'11"' a 111 Hie more »t hail fi ve 'venks old, may appear to be moving slowly, Imi military men Imre agreed today with General Sir Ilcrnai’d I. .Montgomery's verdict that "our gains have been definite and concrete.” At D-Day i. ,• there were esti mates that the in.-.i five weeks would be crucial; 111 * *. i gains can now be ■ mari/.erl ai tin-, : ishinn: 1 the \lhc c a astif ire v, i tti l a i lewei .. a I ban they were pi epared to pay. n .n . peratio® that eel Id Pave been a c.a 1,istrnphe it luck had been bail iii-.t, ad of good. 2 Ashore, (hi ,e inies pushed in land ai cl cstahli ; • d . firm beach head, rail am ('onlentin penin sula in gain lli*- ' i a;-lead oi Ger man Iniaa's n inf.i rigid flank, ,,nd tlu n M'i/.ed tli, p, a i , ■: CHc-h nirg. 3 The Ira hiiead has been or ganized as - ba e ol i perat ions, and tile A11 ie j . i, *li aide J , e, ,n - tinue 111 e11 ..a mint.item et supplies the; e I Kimi me . .iialt ir;. h ive been inflicted on t c ene ny, with 5 t.nnn ot his lee: . ,|a ired, and undeter mined b' no, more killed and wounded ,Vi that in maul, it bc e,lines n M. i., asses's what is tmpjiem11i oe - asuch head imw. And it11 o ' n-iinl In be I, ,de is lti.il the m'.i In m ,ii i ..till aie en larged, I 11 mliig hllllt up as a base i 1 a e at imi : no -pei lacular often avc e..- ,- been launched, be ran .,- i a ia i l-li enliowci does not prop., e ia but omelhing lie can't 1 inisti It be ' man. had .hown any abi 111\ ' - mas.; important Iurces again.,i Um beachhead. Montgomery might b a e been forced to move bold ly with > major attack to knock the enemy oil balance, and keep him that wav lint the Naze, have been unable to launch a counter ottensive, and 'I Montgomery is iiolddig his Sunday punch, on the bad,- th <t there is no point m achieving a break - through until lie is ready to exploit it. Veeoj dmgly, die fighting now in progic-.. c Normandy e. strictly In. < d m char t. Pa . Nothing like the full -I i'1'iigtli ot Allied armies on the he,a Idle,id can be invok ed in these actions But not once have the Al lies l"..t tlie imilalive in Normandy Cotton Advances In I oday’s .Market New York. July 12 -tAP)—Cot ton futures opened 25 cents a bale higher to 15 cents lower. Noon prices were 30 to 50 cents a bale higher. Julv 22.51. October 21.08, and December 21.82. Pv. Close Open July . 22.44 22.41 October. 21.89 21.88 December 21.76 21.73 March . 21.61 21.60 M v 21.43 21.48 Increased Leaf Acreage Offsets Drought Losses Raleigh. July 12— (AP>—Increased tobacco acreage in North Carolina this season will more than otlset tic creased yield brought about by drought m the central and eastern sections of the state, the agriculture department reported today. Prospective production of Hue-cur ed tobacco was placed at. 564,450,1100 pounds, 2 percent more than the ten year average and considerably above the 542,200,000 pounds, produced in 1943. Border belt yields are ex pected to be about average and some what better than last season. A summary of indicated yield, and production for North Carolina types this year and a compar sen "’ith Mu-. item- in 134,'! follows; {>H FU*|t a1'■('age this season. 253, ODO; 19 l;{, 230,0011; yield thio souses 775 pounds to the acre; 1043, H6>; total indicated production this year 196,1/75,000 pounds last season, 199, 950,(100. New Bright Belt acreage this '■ i s'on 331,0(1; Iasi year. 285,900; yield, 850 pounds to the acre; last season 990; total production in 1944. 281, 350,000 pounds; last year, 282.160, 000. Border belt act rage 79,000; last sea son, 65,000; yield per acre, pounds; last season. 940: total pro duction, 77,02.5,000; in 1943, Ol.lao, op n Turkey May Join Allies By Autumn Conversations In Ankara Attempting To End Discords Ankara, July 11 ( A I’) — (Delayed) —('onversat inns are afoot here which may lead to Turkey's participation in the war before the end of the sum mer. The talks are between representa tives of Turkey, Russia and Britain. These eunvorsations, between the So viet and British an nassadnrs and Turkish leaders, principally Premier Saioglu, have been taken up at tin point where the Cairn conferences last year left Turkey's position with in Die United Nations unsettled. They must surmount tlie bit terness created by Allied charges that Turkey failed to keep her word and the Turkish counter that the Allies failed completely to equip Turkey tor war, as had hern premised. Actual military talks can begin there. The United States has been fully informed ol the sia'ccs.-ive step- m the conversations which :v.f under way about ten day- ago. Bimultan e-iiis conversations an- laki 14 place in Mo,<ow’ and London, and prob ably 111 Washington. The Turks are aid to feel that it would be beneath their national dig mty to participate m the war by merely giving bases to the Allies. Before anything else, the Turks ant assurance on the -e two p nil . I Assurance ol I urku.vV. post war political and territorial inieg nly. accompanied by a rlearrut state ment ol Allied po.-twin aim., 2. A satisfactory explanation of how and when and to vvha' extent Tut key will be armed it she mould entei the conflict, plus 1 definite idea ol precisely v hat would no ex pected ol her. The Cairo conference and the win ter military talks here, by Turkey'., estimation, left those points unan swered. Japs Guess About Next U. S. Smash (R.\ The Associated Press.) Pan hr <'■ >mr mders Nimitz. and MacAl thur blandly left it to the Ja panese today i" ponder where the next big American smash would fall in the accelerating drive across the Pacific, now 11, • t Saipan has been overwhelmed. Noncommittal!’.', they hammered at enemy -tionghnlds stretched across the 1.D00 watery miles trmn Ceram to the Kuriles. The smashes by warships and sea and land planes aided in consolidating the Saipan and Noomfoor .land victories, but were too wide lor that alone. Tokyo had its feelers out, broadcasting that a very powerful enemy fleet was prowling the wu'ers oft Tinian. ,iu>l south of Saipan 1 >n the latter island, United States infantry and Marines mopped up, even capturing some Ja panese swimming out to sea. Blows against omaining Mananas islands ..Mined yesterday by /Admiral Nimitz. who listed a war ship shelling of Guam and air raids against Pagan island, north of Sai pan. Para mu Jura and Shumushu in the Kuriles, north of Japan, and on Turk. General MacArthur's southwest Pacific flici i lidcd Carem and Ha 1 malici a. m the Hast Indies; So l ong, Mai I m Bay. Ailape, and We I vvak. on New Guinea, and Palau. Yap. Woleai, New Ireland. New Britain and Bo gamville. Tokyo, fearing the superior! ross nienaee, announced JO,000 children had been removed from the city to safer districts. Two Willkie Backers On Dewey Side Albany, N V., July 12.- (API G ivernnr Tlioma - K Dewey settled down today to i relatively quiet day after meeting with three New Ktig land Republican delegations which .aw the G.O.P presidential nomi nee's foreign policy stand endorsed hv two former supporters of Wendell I L. Willkie. I No political conferences were on Dt wey\ calendar today. Latest to riisi iss with Dewey a proposed international organization to maintain peace was Representative WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Fair to partly cloudy and warm tonight. Thursday partly clcudv and continued rather hot Withdrawal By Nazis Forced By Americans I ' i WITH THE CAPTURE of [he river port of Caen, IJi) no. •- £r.,m Bar,.-, by British and Canadian Poops, and the occupation of La Have by the Americans, the entire German front in Normandy ha., been unhinged. Yank units are contmu ng their drive on to St. Lo. Caen, with a popula tion of 50,000. ranks, as France's seventh port. (International) Reds May Be On Uerman Soil By This Week-End Drive Now Only 40 Miles Short Of East Prn ssia Jln;nHV, July I (AP) - The Red Army, knocking large new holes in the already sagging (Arman lines, surged westward today from a point Ids than 49 miles east of the East Prussian border at a pace which, if con tinued, would carry the fighting to German soil by the end of the week. General advances along the en tire 35U-o ,le front istv.icn U.itwa and Un I’npet marshes swept through more than too places yesterday, kill- . ing at least 1,000 Get nan soldiei and bringing ibnut the capture of hundreds more. New forward swoops placed the Russian array within striking distance of Kaunas. 15 miles away: Grodno, 5<>: Rialystok, 51: Daugvapils, less than IK. Mili tary observers in Moscow saw a direct threat to Rialystock and Grodno in the strdng central blow. I’insk, at the edge of the I’rinet marshes to the south al ready was lost tactically to lip N.i/is. although resistance con tinued there. (A- lie Russians sped onwaru. • German r.uiio comnu'iitator K nl Wittmci ! st night gravely v ti. the Get m people that the - : e e lest ;• has come." since tin d lance lr 'seen us attrl the battle; <'M has aim. ; vanished.” (The ■ •; i ice of War In!* irm.i' 1 quoted ■ Stockholm pa pet a.- h :m' mg thi ■ igliest state of alarm" Blest I’ - u ( I i •• paper -.aid the German b rI ( |oscd c l r>ir l ter and mined . , nppi-i'.n la adding that 'the ■ :l H ssian paraehul ists will helm. -h,. actual at tack on i Press (Tin it cle declares- i urthei '1 ' 3()(l,iinn t.111 ign workers in Blast P scan ' i nr ic.s have been aid 1c. the rib a < lerniany lava i Ira: • I v might .attack the Go I 1 troop- n the back ) Height, not and clear wratiin : •. ■ (he Ru .sian dive hombd ,, lv ■ ' 1 I d the new Soviet ' ■ in 1 ■ i ii a i ell. i nee 111 get "lit ' i He meini' i ' cumbers again 5 t1.. ■ m - treat ■ g German column \n !' .,' • 1 > II...' back 11 om the lent m (ho dp e bombers have been ch 'p pmg German couununications to sliced.,. |'i: ■ ibservcr, m Allied "II in, s.ud (be I drain ot While Hu -M.i. i i -■ the Soviets now are . par din;: I,, cycellent for air attack, since d .a cd with deep incests. I d.. md . \ mips, foremg an army to i - ai • i .dv .,een line of coinmnnicuti 1,1 i ■ . . Booth Luce, opc of Con net in at luembrr ol Congre ■ who i - tn Dewey yesterday fiie subject came up when tip’ ('mil " el icul congre. swoman, v im re cently was reported trying to In mg Willi,tc aid Dewey together, w i ished bv reporter.- if international Ufai - were mentioned m the Dewey confei once. She replied -It .eems to be in the mind of ail of u- that there is a vast agreement m part in the United States that Amene i must, vvi;,- and wants to join an intern, tional organization which , ■will keep the peace with other na tion-, and now I use Ins own (Dew ey's) words. ’By force if necessary.' " Mrs. Uuce declined to speculate on whether Willkie would approve) Dewey's foreign policy stand, con fining herself to a statement that she believes the 1940 Republican pres idential nominee would do the "right (Continued on Page Three.) I . S. Attitude On | De (iaiillc Meets I ,<>ndon \ppm\ al I ,n|lrlmi .till \ I ' -— ( \ I* I —Tllf decision of the I niter) .'.l.rtes tn t ecognize the right nf the Dr’ i (..mill' committer tn handle m il arlniinisti atinn in liberated aieas of Frailer eniiieide.s with British views, and means a three-way agreement may he annoimeetl soon. Foreign Seeretarv Anthony F.den indicated in Commons to day. ( German Oil Behind Front Is Bombed London, .fitly 1 ( A.!’) A.nd 1 .non American heavy boniher at tacked German eommumca*: a; .mil] Oher in.-ta 1 Int ions in the Munir1: no i i od.iy in the second attack hi l"" lays there. Up to 750 tighter- convoyed the Fortresses and Liberators t" Ger nn.v'. fnurtli largest city, a railway i ittleneck tor tat fie into Italy and "‘ranee. I'lie Grrn in 1 nmmtnkiae tid the null ot l.ino heyv.v 1” n:bei on tin Munich region yesterday wrn:- i - ! "i'“ nttack ’[‘In' city ol li ’ii.non pet nnis In V.’n . from London, t ■; < ... bets ll\', '5 miles from tile ! noflu 1 i 0 the Alps, It cradles numerous German : industries. American medium and lig'n !>.-...i- . . - attacked three important fuel lumps behind German line- n N n - j 11 ri y In hi. A meric, in plane • . ied >• it ft teks in Normandy m support .' I'le infantry \ fjii.ti ter hour apart. t w > t ■ > > 1 .-• .I \fa older lediuni lio 1,, ul III.' rinmp ton mile south of C'nen r. " I| I Cl niccul 1' 11 loll there 11 •• > .. • 11 . irked. Tw " other M 0 .11 idr . giiittp.. followed up with 1 In-; unit c . mil on n dump 55 ir Ir ... ,'ii ..1 1 ' 1 ■■ 1 la\ oc light In in ihi 1 wen 1 . i i - tc 1 c.iche of ga-.iline .nd ■. : r glit . ilc- ca.-t ol the Iron*. All the dumps eoniaint 1 tin 1 * Germans In Retreat On French Line British Fall Back In Some Areas On Front Before Caen Supreme Headquarters, Allied Kxpeditionary Force, July 12— (AH)—Violent new American assaults on tie w. st end of the Normandy front forced the Ger mans into withdrawals down the 1 'herhourtt peninsula today af !er attack- aloiur tile whole bat tle line had cost tin Nazis 124 >f their pr<-eiou ; tank.,. Loa.emng mmy artillery fire Miith "i La Hay. >u P u, indicated lie Germans vere in retreat before 'lie Ali en- in on night, v hictj hid pushed to vv thin three miles o£ Les •ay. enemy n.,,t a ..nehcir. and the whole Nazi ’ i a... a 'I e. . aeres w ** Mil eatei *-r| 11 ■ m < , a aid the south. Genera •! nig ■ ■ i . ffensiva ir- 'ai ( -I ■ i». Hi. ■ ’ 11■ ; '’gross ai->d lo i c nd it ■ ■ , i i - In fierce i ightmg. It.*- Mipiinn xiinmalid's com m iin i«i nr- \.i ;;; mnomicftl i8 Herman tank-. hail been destroy ed and Hi ni"ir damaged by air attaeks near st Lo, Hottot and Vimont Vimnnt is south of Tro arn. which is cast of Caen. Field dispatches didosed 80 Nazi tanks had been destroyed around Caen in Tl hours. Field Marshal K'lirnieTs blazing counter attacks struck everywhere except south ol I,a Haye, but the heaviest came at f'olombelles along the river Qrne in the Caen sector, ’■•liich tin Britbh had captured tlic dav before Here the Gem m ■ iiushed in both tanks and intantr.v, and today the exact position <.l British lines re, tnained obscure The next heaviest lighting u .is around St Bo, whore the Americans had pushed to within twenty nvlea ot that Nazi fortress town Crack German troops attacked vio lently and bitter battles res ilted The. American push had endangered the whole German western flank ft nnt St. Lo to ‘he sea Only Iin tied gams -.vere made by Lt. Gen. Hr .dley's forces west of the Vi re river and .south of C'arentan, but the threat m these two see tori forced the Germans to withdraw south of La liaye toward Lessay. PILOT IS KILLED IN PLANE CRASH Washington. N r . .1 dv 12.—(APt A military •< ,•' >i-. believed to have been fro Gol isboro. crashed near the P-nigo t ■ ’ it nlBre today md the pd- ■’ v b m nr.i to death. The plane was me ■ .| a formation of three. Marsh.tl f: • • • a null tank di v isem a i * d .; 'ti.' the British and (' mad; ms A Or i: oi . a, ipproaching be .irgf'd St t a■ dn- American £nd of l.lie I rndi t uni. ua. strafed, as wore machine gun positions nearby. (in the i oil 1 ,nii western Nor mandy I: alt - V 11' day Allied fight — I : In.I in. Hill I- net planes de nt!,,veil 28 Go inn I inks and dam aged la li.arr IT equal to about one-ltlth "i da- tan!; strength of a Co'rui.i11 .‘ii nnnod d;vision. German Oil Installations Hit By American Air Forces bare, bring hurled against Hip Ger man. nt> He- KighHi m Britain, the fifteenth m Balv, and Hie eastern eon mand in Russia Losses oi these forces dropped t 1 1.4*5? in sorties flown oj June from the previous peak avei age of a', . In 6 months the United States Strategic air forces have bombed 51 oil rclineries, 13 synthetic plants, and 6!) aircraft factories in attacks from Briiein and Italy and recently from Russia. The forces have destroyed 6.109 German planes in the air and 1,546 on the ground since January. This German loss of 7,655 planes com paies to American loss of 3,425. Of these 2,339 were lour-engined bom bers ana 1,086 were fighters. Supreme Hcadquarl'i \mrni -m I < petitionary Force .July 1 ! (Al’) -American a 11 11 >11T - on ti t German oil installations have curtailed the enemy's petroleum production to a point where the shortage is having an important effect on the mobility ot nazi ground forces, a senior Uni ted States air torce officer declared today. The objective of thwarting Gorman mobility has been 'achieved", libs officer said. He said the German air force, the other duel objective of United States air attacks in recent months, was de creasing in strength in France. He said the Nazi force had lost more planes than the Germans could pro duce every month since January. The strategic United States air
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