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FAGE FOUR TAMPA MORNING TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1943 Text Of Roosevelt's Tal Th Nation armed forces who are winning this war for Of course, the returning soldier and sailor and marine are a part of the problem cf demobilizing the rest of the millions of Americans who have been working and living in a war economy since 1941, That larger objective of reconverting war-time America to a peace-time basis is one for which your government is laying plans to be submitted to the congress for action. But the members of the armed ments that I see in the press. One day I read an "authoritative" ttats- ment that we shall win the war this year, 1943 and the next day comes 1 another statement equally "authoritative," that the war will still be going on in 1949. Both Extremes YVronj Of course both extremes of optimismare wrong. The length of the war will depend upon the uninterrupted continuance of all-out effort on the fighting fronts and here at home.

The effort is all one. The Americcn soldier does not like the necessity of waging war. And yet if he lays off for one fingle instant he may lose his own life and sacrifice the lives of his comrades. By the same token a worker her the whole United Nations' offensive strategy. The world has never seen greater devotion, determination and self-sacrifice than have been displayed by the Russian people and their armies, under the leadership of Marshal Joseph Stalin.

With a nation which, In saving itself is thereby helping to save all the world from the Nazi, menace, this country should always be glad to be a good neighbor and a sincere friend in the world of the future. Push Japs Around In the Pacific we are pushing the Japs around from the Aleutians to New Guinea. There, too, we have taken the initiative and we are not going to let go of it. It becomes clearer and clearer that the attrition, the whittling down process against the Japanese is working. The Japs have lost more planes and more ships than they have- been able to replace.

The dauntless fighting spirit of the British people in this war has been expressed in the historic words and deeds of Winston Churchill and the world knows how the American people feel about him. Ahead of us are much bigger fights. We and our allies will go into them as we went into Sicily together. And we shall carry on together. Today our production of ships is almost unbeiieveable.

This year we are producing over nineteen million tons of merchant shipping and next year our production will be over twenty-one million tons. And in addition to our shipments across the Atlantic we must realize that in this war. we are operating in the Aleutians, in the distant parts or the southwest Pacific, in India and off the shores of South America. For several months we have been losing fewer ships by sinkings, and we have been destroying more and more U-boats. We hope this will continue.

But we cannct be sure. We It is Interesting for us to realize that every Flying Fortress that bombed harbor installations at Naples from its base in North Africa required 1110 gallons of gasoline for each single mission, and that this is the equal or about 375 ration tickets enough gas to drive your car five times across this continent. You will better understand your part In the war and what gasoline rationing means if you multiply this by the gasoline needs of thousands of planes and hundreds of thousands of jeeps, trucks and tanks now serving, overseas. I think that the personal convenience of the individual or the individual family back home here in the United States will appear somewhat less important when I tell you that the initial assault force on Sicily involved 3000 ships which carried men Americans, British, Canadians and French together with vehicles, 600 tanks and 1800 guns. This initial force was followed every day and every night by thousands of when they can fully provide for themselves.

Indeed, the people in Sicily today are rejoicing in the fact that, for the first time in years, they are permitted to enjoy the fruits of their own labors they can eat what they themselves grow instead of having it stolen from them by the Fascists and the Nazis. In every country conquered by the Nazis, the Fascists or the Japanese militarists, the people have been reduced to the status of slaves or chattels. It is our determination to restore these conquered peoples to the cf human beings, masters of their own fate, entitled to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, freedom from fear. Started to Make Good We have started to make good on that promise. I am sorry if I step on the toes of those Americans who, playing party politics at home, call that kind of foreign policy "crazy altruism" and "starry-eyed dreaming." Meanwhile the war in Sicily and Italy goe3 on.

It must go on, and will forces have been compelled to make greater ecoromic sacrifice and every other kind of sacrifice than the rest of us, and are entitled to definite action to help take care of their special problems. Minimum Benefits The least to which thev are entitled. fighting front, we are failing miserably on the home front. This is another of those immaturities a. false slogan easy to state but untrue in the essential facts.

For, the longer this war goes on the clearer it becomes that no one can draw a Nue pencil down the middle cf a page and call one side "the fighting front" and the other side "the home front." The two of them are inexorably tied together. Every combat division, every naval task force, every squadron of fighting planes is dependent fcr its equipment and ammunition and fuel and food, as indeed it is for its manpower, on the American people in civilian clothes in the offices and in the factories and on the farms at home. The same kind of careful planning that gained victory in North Africa and Sicily is required if we are to make victory an enduring reality and do our share in building the kind of peaceful world which will justify the sacrifices made in this war. Agree on Objectives The United Nations are substantially agreed on the general objectives for the post-war world. They are also agreed that this is not the time to engage in an international discussion of all the terms of peace and all the details of the future.

We at home may not like the driving. wartime conditions under which he has to work or live. And yet if he gets complacent or Indifferent and" slacks on his Job he, too, may sacrifice the lives of American soldiers and contrbiute to the loss of an important battle. WASHINGTON, July 28. The text of President Roosevelt's radio address tonight: Over a year and a half ago I said to the congress: "The militarists in Berlin, Rome and Tokyo started this war, but the massed, angered forces of common humanity will finish it." That prophecy is in the process of being fulfilled.

The massed, angered forces of common humanity are on the march. They are going forward on the Russian front, in the vast Pacific area, and into Europe converging upon their ultimate objectives, Barlin and Tokyo. The first crack in the Axis has come. The criminal, corrupt Fascist regime in Italy is going to pieces. The private philosophy of the Fascists and Nazis cannot stand adversity.

The military superiority of the United Nations on sea and land, and in the air has been applied in the right place and at the right time. Wouldn't Save Mussolini Hitler refused to send sufficient help to save Musolini. In fact, Hitler's troops in Sicily stole the Italians" motor equipment, leaving Italian soldiers so stranded that they had no choice but to surrender. Once again the Germans betrayed their Italian allies, as they had done time and time again on the Russian front and in the long retreat frcm Egypt, through Libya and Tripoli, to the final surrender in Tunisia. Mussolini came to the reluctant conclusion that the "jig was up;" he could see the shadow of the long arm of justice.

'But he and his Fascist gang will be brought to book, and punished for their crimes against humanity. No criminal will be allowed to escape by the expedience of "resignation." Cur terms to Italy are still the same as our terms to Germany and Japan "unconditional surrender." We will have no truck with fascism in any way, shape or manner. We will permit no vestige 'of fascism to remain. Must Reconstitute Self The continuous and energetic prose must not lower our ''guard for one reinforcements. Pays Dividends single instant.

Ask These Questions The next time anyone says to you cution 'cf the war of attrition will drive the; Japs bad: from their overextended line running from Burma and Siam and the Straits Settlement through the Netherlands Indies to it seems to me, Is something -like 'this: 1. Musterlng-out pay to every member cf the armed forces and merchant marine when he or she is honorably discharged, large enough in each case to cover a reasonable period of time bstween his discharge and the finding of a new job. 2. In case no job, is found after diligent search, then unemployment insurance if the individual registers with the United States employment service. 3.

An opportunity for members of the armed services to get further education or trade training at the cost of their government. 4. Allowance of credit to all members of the armed forces, under un that this war is "in the bag" and "It's all over but the shouting," you should ask him these questions: Lnd Coffee Rationing; One tangible result of our great increase in merchant shipping which will be good news to civilians at home is that we are able to terminate the rationing of coffee. We also expect that wiftiin a short time we eastern New Guinea and the Solo Are you working full time on your Job?" mons. We have good reason to believe that their shipping and their air power "Are you growing all the food you cannot support such outposts.

can?" shall get greatly increased allowances Are vou buying your limit of war Constantly Growing Our naval, land and air strength in bonds?" must not relax our. pressure on the enemy by taking time out to define evry boundary and settle every political controversy in every part of the world. The all-important thing now is to get on with the war and Are you loyally, cheerfully co- employment compensation and federal opperating with your government in preventing inflation and profiteering and In making rationing work with old-age and survivors' insurance, for the Pacific is constantly growing. If the Japanese are basing their future plans for the Pacific on a long period in which they will be premitted to consolidate and exploit their conquered go on, until the Italian people realize the futility of continuing to fight in a lost cause a cause to which the people of Italy never gave their whole-hearted approval and support. It is a little over a year since we planned the North African campaign.

It is six months since we planned the Sicilian campaign, I confess that I am-of an impatient disposition, but I think that I understand, and that most people understand, the amount of time necessary to prepare for any major military or naval operation. We cannot just pick up the telephone and order a new campaign to start the next week. Gives Example For example, behind the invasion forces cf North Africa were thousands of ships and planes guarding the long, perilous sea lanes, carrying the men, the equipment and the supplies fairness to all?" their period of service. For the.se purposes they should be treated as if they had continued their employment in Because if your answer is 'No' resources, they had better start re private industry. then the war is going to last a lot longer than you think." vising their plans now.

I give that to 5. Improved and liberalized pro Plans Succeed The plans we made for the knock visions for hospitalization, rehabilitation and medical care of disabled The meticulous care with which the operation in Sicily was planned has paid dividends. For our casualties in men, ships and material have been low in fact, far below our estimate. All of us are proud of the superb skill and courage of the officers and men who have conducted and are conducting this operation. The toughest resistance developed on the front of the British Eighth army, which included the Canadians.

But that is no new experience for that magnificent fighting force which has made the Germans pay a heavy price for each hour of delay in the final victory. The American Seventh army, after a stormy landing on the exposed beaches of southern Sicily, swept with record speed across the island into Palermo. For many of our troops this was their first battle experience but they have carried themselves like veterans. And we must give credit for the coordination of the diverse forces in the field, and for the planning of the whole campaign, to the wise and skillful leadership of General Eisenhower. Admiral Cunningham, General Alexander and Air Marshal Tedder have been towers of strength in handling the complex details of naval, ground and air activities.

You have heard some people that the British and the Americans can never get along well together of sugar. Those few Americans who grouse and complain about the inconviences of lire here in the United States should learn some lessons from the civilian populations cf our Allies Britain, China, Russia and of all the lands occupied by our common enemies. Most Decisive in Russia The heaviest and most decisive fighting today is going on in Russia. I am glad that the British and we have been able to contribute somewhat to the striking power of the Russian armies. In 1941-1942 the Russians were able to retire without breaking, to move many of their war plants from western Russia far into the interior, to stand together with complete unanimity in the defense of their members of the armed forces and to win it.

While concentrating on military victory, we are not neglecting the planning of the things to come, the freedoms which we know will make for more decency and greater justice throughout the world. Among many other things we are, today, laying plans for the return to civilian life of our gallant men and women in the armed services. They must not be demobilized into an environment of inflation and unemployment, to a place on a bread line or on a corner selling apples. We must, this time, have plans ready instead of waiting to do a hasty, in merchant marine. ing out-of Mussolini and his ganj? have largely succeeded.

But we still have to knock out Hitler and his gang and Tojo and his gang. No one of us pretends that this will be an easy matter. 6. Sufficient, pensions for disabled members of the armed forces. Draws Up Plans them merely as a helpful suggestion.

We are delivering planes and vital war supplies for the heroic armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, and we must do more at all costs. Our air supply line from India to China across enemy territory continues despite attempted Japanese interference. We have seized the initiative from the Japanese 'in the air over Burma and now enjoy superiority. We are homing Japanese communications, supply dumps, and bases in China, Indo-China and Burma. Your government is drawing up We still have to defeat Hitler and other serious, constructive plans for Tojo on their own home grounds.

But certain immediate forward moves. this will require a far greater con They concern food, manpower, and centration of our national energy and other domestic problems but they tie i it i.i our ingenuity and our skill. It is not in with our armed forces. Within a few weeks I shair speak with you The success of Russian armies has shown that it is dangerous to again in regard to definite actions to be taken by the executive branch of to the point of attack. And behind all these were the railroad lines and highways that worried the men and the munitions to the ports cf embarkation there were the factories and the mines and the farms that turned out the materials there were the training camps where the men learned how to perform the strange and difficult and dangerous which were to meet them on the beaches and in the deserts and the mountains.

All this had to be repeated in the attack on Sicily. Here the factor of air attack was added for we could use North Africa as the base for soft make prophecies about them a fact the government and specific recom Eventually Italy will i reconstitute Jierself. It will be, the people of Italy who will do that, choosing their own government in accordance with the basic democratic principles of liberty and equality. In the meantime, the United Nations will not follow the pattern sst by Mussolini' and Hitler and the Japanese for the treatment of occupied countries the pattern of pillage and starvation. We are already helping the Italian people in Sicily.

With their cordial cooperation, we are establishing and maintaining security and order we are dissolving the organizations which have kept them under Fascist tyranny we are providing them with the necessities of life until the time comes mendations for new legislation by the forcibly brought home to that mystic master of strategic intuition, Herr efficient, and ill-considered job at the last moment. I have assured our men in the armed forces that the American people would not let them down when th war is won. Hopes Congress Will Act I hope that the congress will help in carrying out this assurance, for obviously the executive branch of the government cannot do it alone. May the congress do its duty in this regard. The American people will in congress.

All our calculations for the future, Hitler. The short-lived German offensive too much to, say that we must pour Into this war the entire strength and! intelligence and will power of the United States. We are a great nation a rich nation but we are not so great or so rich, that we can afford to waste our substance or the lives fot our men by relaxing along the way. We shall not settle for less than total victory. That is the determination of every American on the fighting fronts.

That must be, and will be, the determination of every American here at home. you have heard seme people say that But, we are still far from our main objectives in the war against Japan. Let us remember how far we were, a year ago, from any part of our objectives in the European theater. We are pushing forward to occupation of positions which in time will enable us to attack the Japanese islands themselves from the north, from the south, from the east, and from the west. You have heard it said that while we are succeeding greatly on the however, must be based on clear understanding of the problems involved launched early this month, was a the army and navy and air forces can never get along well together And that can be gained only by desperate attempt to bolster the mo-rale of the German people.

The Rus- that real cooperation between them is straight thinking not guess work or "sians were not fooled by They ening up the landing places and lines political manipulation. I confess that I myself am some impossible. Tunisia and Sicily have given the lie, once and for all, to these narrow-minded prejudices. went ahead with their own plans for sist on fulfilling this American obligation to the men and women in the of defense in and the lines of supply in Italy. attack plans which coordinate with times bewildered by conflicting state HAMBURG AGAIN Fourth Largest City High Ugh ts Of Ta Ik By The President BLASTED BY First Crack In Axis Has Come, Roosevelt Reports To Nation EXPANDING AIR FORGE POUNDS JAPS IN PACIFIC Of Sicily Ghost Town After U.

S. Bombing thing now is to get on with the war and to win it. RITISH BOMBERS WASHINGTON, July 28.. (IP) Following are highlights of President Roosevelt's speech to the nation: Our terms to Italy are still the same as our tzrms to Germany and Japan "unconditional surrender." With a nation which, in saving it- self is thereby helping to sve all the ried 160,000 men together with 14.000 vehicles, 600 tanks and 1800 guns. By HAROLD V.

BOYLE TRAPANI. Sicily, July 24. (De 'This force was followed every day world from the Nnzi menace, this country should always be glad to be a good neighbor and sincere friend in the world pf the future. and every night by thousands of U. S.

Junjrle Fighters Close to Munda Base layed.) (JP) Bombed Trapani is- the ghost town of all Sicily. U. S. Follows Up Air Offensive on Germany Only American soldiers arid a few Roosevelt said the Sicilian cam paign was planned six months agoT The first crack' in the has come. The criminal, corrupt Fascist regime in Italy is going to pieces.

But he (Mussolini) and his Fascist gang will be brought to book No criminal will be allowed to escape by the expedient of "resignation." remaining residents move through- the all but deserted streets of this fourth largest city on the island. In the perimeter of the town there is compara which places the planning at trie ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE time of his conference at Casablanca (Continued from Page 1) philosophy" of the Fascists and Nazis cannot stand adversity, and said that military superiority of the United Nations had been applied in the right place and at the right time. Then, in words which appeared to be directed as much toward the Italian people as his own, Roosevelt asserted that Hitler had refused sufficient help to save Mussolini and the Nazi troops in Sicily even had stolen Italian motor equipment and left Italian soldiers stranded and with no choice but surrender, "Once again." he said, "the Germans betrayed their Italian allies as they had done time and time again with Prime Minister Churchill ot SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. July 29. Britain.

(Thursday) (IP) The growing air camp," said Mead, who sounded a bit envious. "There still are some pockets' of resistance in the hills, but they are being cleaned out rapidly. Fires were burning everywhere when wa first came into this town. We were with the artillery. All of us wanted to come in with the' infantry to do the mopping up, but they made us stay back and fire the big guns." Airport Smashed -Outside Trapani the airport adjoining the road to Palermo had been literally smashed apart by Allied raiders who for weeks had made it one of their principal targets.

Craters of shocking size in he-billiard table surface of the field were momentoes of spots where "block buster" bombs came to earth. The hangars and administration buildings tively little damage, but areas near the port which the Axis Used as a supply center during its abortive North African campaign are heavily battered. Ycu have heard it said that while we are succeeding greatly on the fighting front, we are failing miserably on the home front. Ihis is another of those immaturities a false slogan easy to state but untrue in the essential facts. The heaviest and most decisive fighting today is going on in Russia.

I am glad that the British and we have bzzn to contribute somewhat to the striking power of the Russian armies. Detailed Appraisal Roosevelt went Into an exceptionally force of the Allis3 in the south Pacific continued its ceaseless pounding of the detailed appraisal of war in Russia Japanese today after another "heaviest" raid of the war in this area. and in the Pacific. Allied air bombs made a shambles It is our determination to restore these conquered peoples to the dignity of human brings, masters of their own fate, entitled to freedom of speech freedom of religion, freedom from want, freedom from fear. The heaviest and most decisive of the piers and warehouses and falamaua, strong enemy air base on LONDON.

July 28. (U.R) Strong formations of American Flying Fortresses struck within 95 miles of Berlin blasting air facilities in central Germany after Britain's giant night bombers loosed a record bomb load of more than 2300 tons on Hamburg in the sixth raid on that seared and flaming city within 72 hours. The big Fortresses of the Eighth JJ. S. air force, making their fourth major mission in five days or the renewed and massive Allied air offen-sive, smashed at aircraft installations at Oschersleben, only 95 miles southwest of the capital, in the nearest approach they had yet made to Berlin.

Other Fortress formations attacked fighting today, is going on in Russia, spars of sunken ships mark another the noith.ea.st coast of New Guinea, was hit by 123 tons; of bombs he said, and he asserted he was glad Britain and the United States could watery graveyard, for Hitler and Mussolini's vanishing merchant marine in this blue corner of the Mediterranean. dropped by the largest force of bombers ever used asainst that port. contribute somewhat to Russian striking power. on the Russian front and in the long retreat from Egypt, through Libya and Tripoli to the final surrender in Tunisia." No Truck with Fascism Ahead of us are mar.y bigger fights. We and our allies will go into them as we went into Sicily together.

And we shall carry on together. Bric'ges Hit Four Visible From this harbor apex of destruc "The success of the Rus-ian armies In the Pacific we are pushing the Japs from the Aleutians to New Guinea. too, ws have taken the initiative snd we are not going to let go of it. The Wednesday communique5 of has shown," ha declared, "that it is tion only four persons are visible dangerous to make prophecies about Without qualification, the President General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters reported that direct hits were were shattered and scores of wrecked and burned German fighters and bombers rested in one corner of the The Nazis had more time to set out of here, however, and left behind no an old man sitting silent in a chair, his head in his hands, and three little said that "we will have no truck with fascism in any way, shape or man them a fact forcibly brought hom: to that master of Urategic intuition, Herr Hitler." brown-eyed Italian girls, one so young made' on the wireless station, gun positions, barraclts and a bridge. Returning pilots told of heavy explosions ner," and that "we' will permit no the others are pushing her in a baby vestige of fascism to remain." One tangible result of our great increzJse in merchant shipping which will be good news to civilians at home is that tonight we are abL to terminate the rationing cf coffee.

We also exp3ct that within a short time we shall get greatly increased allowances of sugar. and towering fires that indicated To the Italian people, he held out buggy. They asked for candy. The old man said nothing, sitting still as an unhappy gargoyle just another heavy damage. The German offensive begun this month he characterized as a desperate attempt to bolster German morale, which did not foci the Russians.

The latter, he said, went ahead with their Among other things we are, today, laying plans for the return to civilian life of our gallant men and women in the armed services I have assured our men that the American people would not let them down when the war is won I hope that congress will help in carrying out this assurance. again the prospect that eventually they would be allowed to choose their A second Japanese air base at Lae, ruined figure along a ruined street. less than 20 miles from Salamaua. "Everybody moved out for their own own government under democratic principles and promised that the Axis own plans for attack which coordi safety," said Private Wiley Brooks of was the target of another attack which caused explosions and fires in pattern of pillage and starvation for The United Nations are substantially agreed on the general objectives for supply dump areas among barge con occupied countries would not be followed by the United Nations. centrations.

In the third heavy attack rsported Already, Roosevelt said, the United Nations have started to make good the post-war world. They are also agreed that this is not the time to engage in an international ducussion of ail the terms of peace and all the air facilities at Kassel, 75 miles southwest of Hanover, which the Eighth air force had raided last Monday. Bitter Opposition The Fortresses battled their way through bitter fighter oppositipn to reach their targets, shooting down at least 69 Axis aircraft. Twenty-three B-17's were missing. While the big workhorse bombers were busy in Germany, medium bombers of the USAAF hammered an industrial plant at Zeebrugge, Belgium, and American-built Boston bombers of the RAF hit at Amsteidam.

RAF fighters, filling the air in criss-crossing sweeps over the English channel, supported the heavy American daylight assault with attacks on air fields in Holland, France and Belgium for the third straight day. Hamburg Blasted For the second time since Saturday, The length of the war will depend upon the uninterrupted continuance of all-out effort on the fighting fronts and here at home. The effort is all one. on' Wednesday torpedo ana owe large numbers of operational aircraft as they were forced to do at Comiso and other airports in the eastern and central parts of Sicily. Among planes destroyed on the ground were a couple of six-motored Merseburg 323s.

These lumbering transports seem to catch it the worst during raids. They are such big easy targets. Ona sees them smashed on the field so often one wonders if they ever spend any time in the Yards Ruined The most concentrated scene of air-wrought destruction lay a few miles farther on toward Palermo at the Erice Napola station. The railroad yards' were a blackened mass, of twisted and burned steel An Italian peasant said a lone American strafing plane had set fire nated with the offensive strategy oi all the United Nations. Singing high praises for the Russian people, armies and leadership, the American President said this country should be glad always to be a good neighbor and sincere friend in the world of the future to a nation which was helping save the world from the Nazi menace.

Initiative Over Japs in their determination to restore con quered peoples to the dignity of hu bombers dropped 35 tons of explosives on the enemy defenders of the Munda details of the future the important man beings, masters of their own fate, air base on New Georgia island In the central Solomons, 700 miles east entitled to freedom of speech, free dom of religion and freedom from of New Guinea. want and fear. Parliament's Dignity Disturbed By Fist Fight am sorry," Roosevelt said, "if I step on the toes of those Americans, who, -playing polities' at home, called In the Pacific theater, Roosevelt said that "we are pushing the Japs around from the Aleutians to New Guinea," where we have taken the that kind of foreign policy 'crazy initiative and are riot going to let altruism ana "starry-eyed Approach Munda The Munda bombing was in support of ground forces which a spokesman said had advanced to appoint one and one-fifth miles from the airdrome. The. American jungle fighters passed the coastal village of Tetere east of Munda.

This followed a gain of 500 yards reported on Tuesday. The progress made on the two days was the At another point he struck at what to fuel and ammunition trains. Ex go of it. Hamburg last night was the target for the heaviest air asault ever made on he termed a few Americans who com Savannah, who came down the street later with Private Curtis F. Parsons of Rush, N.

Y. "They are beginning to come back. We are helping guard against rioting, but everything is under control now." Gas seeping from broken mains made on avenue malodorous. Other streets were blocked by huge chunks of masonry tossed about by bomb blasts as if they were no heavier than tumbled children's blocks. From one coiner came the stench of unburied Four soldiers came swinging along one street after a dip in the Mediterranean the first bath they had had in Sicily and told how the city had fallen.

Tells of Conquest Said Private Joseph Haymer, Chicago, proudly: "The infantry moved in under cover of artillery, fire. An hour or two of shelling was all it took. The troops just walked on in after that. The only resistance was a little mortar and artillery fire. The Italians came out in droves to give up.

I heard we took 10,000 prisoners in this area." With Haymer- were Private Robert E. Compston, Quincy, Corp. Philip Lewandowski, Chicago, 111., and George Mead, South St. Paul, Minn. any city.

plain about inconveniences of life With the Japs having lost more planes and ships than they have been able to replace, the chief executive However, last night's attack, the air here at home, saying they should learn lessons from the civilian popu ministry announced, exceeded Saturday's bomb load of 2300 tons' and the said, the process of attrition and whittling down was working against them lations of our Allies and the enemy- Predicting that they would be pushed back from lines running from Burma occupied lands. 1 1 Coffee Rationing- Terminated crushing tonnage of explosives and incendiaries was concentrated within a period of 45 minutes, five minutes less than was required for the previous He had some good news for civilians and Siam and the straits settlement through the Dutch East Indies to New Guinea and the Solomons, Roose Locker-Lampson broke In to inquire "what medical disability was Captain Cunningham-Reid suffering when he left England in the blitz?" This had to do with a trip Cunningham-Reid made to Hawaii during the heavy air attacks on Britain. He explained in commons last April that he had gone to Hawaii to arrange with Mrs. Cromwell for the evacuation of 500 British children to the United States. Angered at Locker-Lampson's question today, trie captain commented that his detractor reminded him of the cuckoo, which "makes a nuisance of itself in other people's nesjs." When commons adjourned, Cunningham-Reid said he drew Locker-Lampson aside and asked if he were LONDON, July 28.

A fist fight between two members of commons vied with the war news for space on the front pages of London's newspapers today and brought smiles to the faces of a few million readers. The principals were Capt. Alec Cun-ningham-Reid, 47, and Comdr. Oliver Locker-Lampson, 63, and they went at it busily for several minutes in the corridor near the entrance to the houso of lords. It had been a long time since parliamentary dignity had been so upset.

Locker-Lampson, a former weight-lifting champion at Eton, came out of it with a lump on his head. His younger and handsomer opponent was described as "bruised." Only a few members saw the milling, and they voted it a draw. heaviest assault. ploding ammunition had ripped huge holes in the ground. The railroad fuel tanks were, crumpled like tin cans and blown yards away.

Boxcars gutted to fragments of $teel stood in this cradle of Axis disaster with their frames dropping like wet spagnetti. For hundreds of feet in every di-tection the seared grass was strewn with chunks of metal. One great span of railroad trackage had been lifted intact and hurled more than 100" yards -up the mountainside like a giant javelin. This solitary American raider had tied up the railroad so completely that the Axis could ship nothing in or cut because of. the havoc resulting at home that coffee rationing was being terminated tonight and that greatly increased allowances of sugar No city ever had been subjected to velt said there was good reason to believe their shipping and air power comparable punishment.

In 72 hours could be expected shortly. first reported in about three weeks. Allied airmen also struck at New Britain, northeast of New Guinea. Two enemy cargo ships beached on that island as a result of a previous attack were set fire and considered to be a total loss. At Gasmata, New Britain, a wharf was destroyed and fires were started.

Japanese raids, which caused no damage, were on Woodlark island and Nassau bay, near Munda, where American troops landed at the start of the present offensive action on June 30. six bombing missions two of them could not support such outposts. The he said, is that ship Apparently in answer to those who by American Flying Fortresses had battered the city with well over 5300 have contended that the Japanese are losses have decreased and the destruction of submarines has mounted. The President told his fellow coun tons of bombs. being allowed to consolidate their positions while 'the United Nations con It was an all-out effort to eliminate trymen they had heard it said that centrate on the Axis in Europe Roose a major metropolis through ceaseless while we aie succeeding greatly on air pounding and the German attacks velt said that our r.aval, land and air the fighting front, we are failing miserably on the home front.

He strength in the Pacific was growing on London in 1941 paled in compari from the colossal explosions of the ammunition train. "Some Italian women have been bringing wine to prisoners at one going "to continue making these per The difficulty arose when Captain son. Reliable estimates were that the called this "another those lm Cunningham-Reid, a friend of the sonal attacks upon me." Then, it seems, he called Locker-Lampson a constantly. He advised the Japanese to start revising their plans if they based them on a long period in which they would be allowed to consolidate maturities a false slogan easy to luftwaffe dropped 7500 tons of bombs on the British capital in 90 days and state but untrue in the essential Navy Casualties facts- and exploit conquered resources. heiress Mrs.

Doris Duke Cromwell, asked Foreign Secretary Eden the nature of the disability Prince Paul of Yugoslavia was suffering which necessitated ths prince's removal from Kenya to South Africa. "nasty old man," and in no time at all they were swinging lustily. Cunningham-Reid claimed to have scored a knockdown, but there was no official count. The President asserted that we rose densely from the new to ft heighth of 16,000 feet well above the altitude from which the bombers were operating. One.

flight commander estimated that three times as many fires were burning as were seen Saturday night. must do more at all costs" to deliver Then, as be did at a press and radio conference yesterday, Roosevelt asserted no one. could draw a line down the center of a page and label one side the fighting front and the other side the home front because the planes and vital war suoplics for the heroic armies of China. The air supply line from India to China continues. he said, despite attempted Japanese interference and the initiative in the two were "inexorably tied He said careful planning both at air over Burma has been seised.

With ning the sixth close-spaced attack in the saturation of Hamburg, had hoped to save five minutes under the time required to drop a somewhat smaller load on Saturday night. "We did so," an announcement said. "Every such cut in the bombing period means greater destruction and greater safety for our men and aircraft." Reconnaissance photographs had showed fires still burning on Hamburg's docks at midday and the big four-engined bombers found enough light from them last night to serve as a guide to the targets. Visibility was good as the British and Canadian airmen pressed home Hamburg's 105th attack of the war. Fliers said they saw a huge warehouse near the dock area ablaze and smoke nights of raids.

In last night's record raid, made at a cost of 16 British and two Canadian bombers, more than 5,152,000 pounds of explosives fell on Hamburg. Statisticians figured than an average of 144,488 pounds of explosives and incendiaries were dropped each minute, or more than 11' pounds for each of Hamburg's 1,682,000 inhabitants. Continuous Activity There was almost continuous aerial activity over the English channel today, with sweep after sweep of Allied fighters and bombers crossing the Dover strait. Anti-aircraft fire and bomb' explosions were heard frequently from the French coast. The air ministry pointed out that Air Marshal Sir A.

T. Harris, plan- home and abroad was required to guarantee such victories as have been WASHINGTON, July 28. The navy announced today 22 casualties, including eight dead, 12 wounded and two missing. In addition, 25 men previously reported prisoners were listed as dead, and three previously reported missing were ILted as dead. Casualties (those listed are navy and non-commissionsd personnel unless otherwise specified) include: n.iinin.x Wolfe.

Cn'vin. nmimlnl. Wife, Mr. MaM Jiffare Wolfe, 2S3 Fot IRMMA Helms. John Allen, dead.

Westmoreland. Preston Lee, wounded, DeWut. air superiority, we are bombing Jaoa nese installations in China, Indo-Chi na and Burma. While we still are far from th achieved in North Africa and Sicily not expected to be called until late in September, and the summons indicated that the government's case was shaping up more rapidly than was expected. POLK COUNTY HUNTS CONVICT BARTOW, July 28.HMSpscial.) John Duncan, 28, escaped from the state road camp on the Lake Wales road about 5 o'clock this afternoon, camp officials reported to the eheriffs office.

They said Duncan walked out of the camp and escaped on foot. Miami Police Officers Are Called to Nassau MIAMI, July 28 () Capt. James O. Earker and Capt Edward W. Mel-chen of the Miami police department will leave for Nassau, Bahamas, Saturday to testify at the hearing scheduled there Tuesday for Alfred De Ma-rigny.

charged with slaying his father-in-law. Sir Harry Oakes. Barker said he and Melchen had PROTEST RICE CEILING STUTTGART. July 28. (U.R) The government's ceiling price" on rough rice has been protested by more than 300 Arkansas rice growers, at a meeting with the OPA officials.

Possibility of a black market in rice, if the ceiling is not fixed was stressed by the OPA. The farmers claimed that wartime labor costs would force them to sell at a loss, if the ceiling is fixed. main objectives in the war against the Nipponese, the President said, we are pushing ahead to occupy posi "I think that the personal convenience of the individual or the individual family back home here in the United States," he said, "will appear somewhat less important when I tell you that 'he initial assault force on Sicily involved 3000 hips which car- tions which "in time" will permit at tacks on the Japanese islands them selves from all directions..