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WILMINGTON AND VICINITY: Partly ^ ^ ^ ^ OL 4 REMEMBER c™ Jfumutgtmt JNUirmng mux ypLj7-—NO. 185_____WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1944 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1567 * * * ★ ★ ★ * ★ * ★ ★ ★ 'A * Pam ^4nc/ Marseille Both Fall --*__ _ It _ Bloody Battle Frees Capital From Tyrants FFI SCORE VICTORY Patriots Fight To Death To Rid Xity Of Light’ From Oppressors LONDON, Thursday, Aug. 24.—(/P)—Paris — freed yes terday by its own people — was reported to have been occupied early today by the Second French Armored di vision and some American units ordered into the city by Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley to seel the patriot’s victory. There still was no comment from Supreme Allied Headquarters on the liberation of the French capital, but from Paris, CBS Reporter Charles Collingwood broadcast that General Bradley decided to act when an armistice negotiated by . n_- _Z4-1. ~ Forces o£ the Interior expired yes terday. I Associated Press Correspondent Hal Boyle, with American armies driving beyond Sens toward the German border, pointed out the American army could have occu pied Paris at will during the last few days. But he said Paris was a side issue and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s slashing spearheads had a more important task—chopping to pieces German forces. Symbolically Brig. Gen. Jacques Je Clerc, one of France’s greatest heroes of the war, headed the troops entering Paris, Collingwood report ed. E Patriots liberated the capital lrom four years of bondage 4ry beating down the Nazi garrison in street fighting as bloody as any the French revolution ever saw. Immediate occupation had not been in Allied plans. It wTas sup posed to wait while the main mili tary weight was hurled against Ev reux to pin down as much of the German Seventh army as possible along the Seine northwest of the capital. But the Germans were reported Using the armistice to withdraw (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) -V GUNFIRE ROCKING BORDEAUX SECTOR 1RUN, Spain. Aug. 23. — (JP) — The sound of distant bombing and cannonading in southwestern Trance could be clearly heard to day at the Spanish frontier, but ^heavy fog masked all other signs W naval or military activity. frencn military officials who an "ounced an Allied landing last r'1--!- 111 the Arcachon area south east of Bordeaux declined to give' information on the situation there. 'Berlin^ declared a small force 01 Amencan troops and French Mrttsans had landed at St. Jean e Luz. six miles above the rench-Spanish frontier.) wder said French and ted troop; were continuing their J*ve on Bordeaux, seeking to liq Qdie iht last German pocket of csistance below the Loire. These f?° ts sold Americans had driven ,„ !'n ln Bordeaux from the Loire, , breach forces advancing nhvard to the port, forming a netton at its outskirs. ^Wo Japanese Columns Halted Near Hengyang CllUXCI-aXG, Aug. 23. — (ff) — 0 Japanese columns attempting „ ,u f a:1h Chinese positions north u ; of the enemy-held Canton - h,°,,Kow rai- junction of Hengyang 5 ,e, ,;en halted, and to the south ctl a t e W2S in progress with an . 2 Japanese column pushing from suburbs of cap [ he;yang to prepare the way 11 ,J- ,v_e down the railway, the ton .,^7 eomman<l announced del*!6 baltles raged in a heavy 'np°ia\ but despite this a Chin /r recaptured the small town Van "*p°> 18 miles south of Heng v]nFi’. atlout midway between the turpH°tL arid Ceiyang, and recap mand ,tj-dposition’ the hi§h com' I Tightening Falaise Trap Allied infantry and armor move up a dusty road toward Falaise, forming part of an Allied force which trapped units of the German Seventh Army in France. Smoke from burning German equipment rises in the background. (AP wirephoto). American Tank Units 150 Miles From Reich .._— w + EXTENSION ASKED FOR LEND-LEASE WASHINGTON, Aug. 23—(*P1—The possibility that Lend - Lease will stimulate postwar America foreign trade was suggested in the latest report on its operations, dispatch ed to Congress by President Roose velt today along with a recommen dation that it be continued until both Germany and Japan surren der. “The war has introduced Ameri can products to other countries in a volume and variety never ap proached before,’’ the report com mented. “After the war these coun tries will want to continue to ob tain many of these products by buying them. “American industry will have a greatly expanded foreign market, provided that our international ec. onomic policies make it possible for these nation*; to pay for their purchases.” The report, covering Lend-Lease operations through June 30, gave the total of American supplies and services furnished to Allies since the program started in 1941 at $28, 270,351,000. In addition. American commanding generals in the field have been supplied with $678,241. 000 worth of arms and other ma terials for Lend-Lease to Allied forces. The value of reverse Lend-Lease —the goods and services supplied American forces by Allies—was es timated in excess of $3,000,000,^p0 The report commented, however that the true value of the Lend Lease program must be measured in lives saved. _, Fresh Gains Ground Out On All French Fronts By Lightning War SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Thursday, Aug. 24—Iff'— American armor hammered out fresh gains south and southeast of Paris today while to the northwest of the capital—now fully in control of French patriots—Americans and Canadians clamped a tightening stranglehold on remnants of the German army still below the river Seine. Allied fighters and fighter bomb ers harried the Germans’ frantic efforts to withdraw across the river by any possible means. The latest advance south of Paris saw armored reconnaissance units drive more than 15 miles east of Sens while others passed through Corbeil and Melun, and still others gained positions between Orleans and Sens. Chief prize in the drive on the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) -V GOP Fails To Deny Dewey Overseas Trip I WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—W— j Chairman Herbert Brownell, Jr., of the. Republican national com mittee declined today to answer directly a question whether Gov j Thomas E. Dewey would go over | seas or to army camp's in this ! country during the presidential ! campaign. He did say, however, that the prospective soldier vote had been taken into consideration by him self and other Republican leaders in reaching the conclusion that Dewey would win the presidency in November. _ Western Railroads Sued In Big Anti-Trust Case WASHINGTON, Aug. 23—t®— In one of the largest anti-trust suits in history, the Justice de partment today charges a group of railroads, trade associations, investment houses aim rail ex ecutives with conspiracy to t es train and monopolize trade in the transportation of freight and passengers in the west. Defendants named in the edit, filed in Lincoln, Neb., Include the Association of American railroads, the Western Associa tion of Railway Executives; J. P. Morgan and Company and Kuhn, Loeb and Company, New York investment houses; 47 rail roads and several score of indi viduals associated with the rail lines or the trade associations. Among many charges in the Justice department complaint, the defendants are accused of acting collusively to. maintain non-competitive rates: prevent ing improvements of service and facilities of western lines; and with retarding and suppres sing the development of motor carriers and other competitive transportation agencies. Attorney General Francis Biddle, who is completing a tour of the west, declared in a statement that the “agree ments, combinations, conspir acies and activities of the kind charged in the complaint vio late the Sherman act and are not authorized by the Inter state Commerce act or any I other act of Congress.” -ik % ECONOMY GROUP RULES IN HOUSE WASHINGTON. Aug. 23.— UP) - The House Ways and Means com mittee, taking a militant stand against planning for large govern ment expenditures on the postwar reconversion, struck from the Senate's demobilization legislation today a section providing federal unemployment compensation cov erage for 3,500,000 government em ployes. Earlier, the committee had turn ed thumbs down on the whole plan for retraining and reemploymenl of war workers. If the Ways and Means commit tee’s position finally prevails in House and Senate votes, the un employment compensation pro gram would continue on its old basis—in the hands of the states, The committee’s decision left on ly one major provision of the Senate measure remaining for ac tion, that to create an Office oi War Mobilization and Reconversion to have overall supervision of con tract terminations and surplus property disposal. Rep. Mills (D.-Ark.) moved tc eliminate the Senate provision for employment compensation for fed eral workers but both Democrats and Republicans were in the grouj voting to tear out hunks of t h e Senate bill. -V AMERICAN BOMBERS SINK 9 JAP SHIPS By The Associated Press American bombers sank or dam aged nine Japanese ships, Pacifii communiques reported last night boosting the daily average for Au gust to more than four Nipponesi vessels destroyecl every 24 hours Two navy Liberators found s five-ship convoy near Chichi islani in the Bonins, 650 miles south o Tokyo, and sank two freighters Another was damaged. Southwest Pacific bombers lef large fires blazing in Davao, ma jor city on Mindanao island in thi southern Philippines and sank < small cargo ship northeast of Min danao. ’ Another freighter and three coas tal vessels were either sunk o: severely damaged near Celebes ii the Dutch East Indies. A destroy er tender was left dead in the wate: by air raiders over the Palau is proaches to the Philippines. -y CHARLOTTE GETS MEET CHARLOTTE, Aug. 23—(#1—The International Typographical Union, now’ holding Its annual conventior in Grand Rapids, Mich., today ac cepted the invitation of Charlotte Local No. 33 to hold its 1945 con vention here Famed Poilus Quickly Take Big Seaport 8-DAY CAMPAIGN ENDS American Forces Sweep Inland 140 Miles In Big Push ROME, Aug. 23.—(fP)—Mar seille, France’s second city and greatest seaport, fell to the swift onslaught of French infantry and armor today as American forces swept 140 miles inland from the Medi terranean and captured Gre noble to within less than 240 miles of a junction with Gen. Eisenhower’s legions below liberated Paris. Only eight days after the land ings in southern France, the in spired Poilus battered their way into the heart of Marseille against slight Nazi resistance and tonight were cleaning out pockets of last ditch defenders. The unexpectedly easy capture of the great port insures the Sev enth army of Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Patch an adequate flow of sup __i_+ ~ continuation of their thrust toward northern France. Prior to the city’s fall, other French troops had cut the last escape route for the Ger man garrison along the coast to the west. The encircled and doomed Nazi force in Toulon, big naval base 27 miles east of Marseille, still was holding out tonight, but French troops had fought their way within a few hundred yards of the docks and the city’s fall was expected ! any hour. ! Matching the French victory in i its spectacular quality was the I dash of American forces into the big industrial city of Grenoble—a reckless drive that threatened to bisect France and trap every Ger man soldier in the southern and western parts of the country. As the swift American column of armor, self-propelled guns and motorized infantry plunged almost unopposed through the French Alps (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6)’ GULF HURRICANE MOVING INLAND NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 23. —(A3)— The United States weather bureau here announced today that the gulf hurricane was centered apparently about 170 miles east-southeast of Tampico, Mexico, and would move inland near Tampico shortly after midnight tonight. The advisory said the disturbance was moving west-northwestward at about 17 miles per hour and that the strongest winds were 65 to 80 miles per hour near the center with gales extending over an area about 125 miles north of the center. “Strong winds and high tides will begin late this afternoon on tire coast, extending from,the vici nity of Tampico for a distance of 150 to 175 miles northwards.” the advisory said. _ Plane Crash lils 35 Children _— LONDON, Aug. 23.—Iff)—Fif : ty-four persons, including 35 children all under five, were killed today when a flaming l American bomber plunged into a church school infants’ depart ment in the quiet Lancashire village of Freckleton. It was'feared 30 or 40 other persons may have been ! trapped in the ruins of a snack bar across the street. None had been reached by rescue parties when darkness fell. ’ Eight American soldiers were among those killed, in ' eluding three members of the plane’s crew. Normally 10 men comprise the crew. The death toll was expected to reach 75 in Britain’s worst ac cident of the kind. The U. S. Strategic Air Force announced that the bomber, a Liberator, crashed after it was caught in a sudden storm. The pilot was among the three crewmen killed. Other mem bers of the crew were in jured.. 7 Identification of these • casualties Was withheld. Another'- Liberator, accom-. ; panyin'g continued . on a local jpS^Hfcv : The plane • smashed through the top of -the school building where '41 ’ehi'idren'"under five, many of th'em refugees from robdt^ bomb attacks, were as sembled. It caregned.across the street and Crashed into a snack bar/ where .several dozen sol-./ • dlers and. a staff of six women Were gathered. • / The flames, spread swiftly through the school, the snack bar and several buildings near by. Fire brigades from neigh boring districts brought the fires under control, and the bodies of 35 children and 19 adults were recovered from the smoldering wreckage. Two or three of the 41 infants removed were injured. The rest were missing and believed dead and others who had been in the snack bar were unaccounted for. All 140 in an other group of children who were in the junior and senior departments of the school es caped serious injury. “There wits a great cfack, the windows caved in and chil dren all over the school were knocked over,” said F..A, Bill ington, the headmaster. “The flames spread rapidly every where.’ American soldiers in the vil lage joined in rescue work, comforted frightened children With candy, and shed their coats to provide covering for others. “The Americans were really splendid,” said one mother. “After the crash they kept the children quiet by playing games and joking with them, and they did splendid rescue work.” Lacking full details, the U. S. Army Air Forces issued no report on the accident tonight. ——*^——— Comforts Dog During Shelling * ki*s i.tae French boy comforts his dog as shells whine overhead while U. S. soldiers blast away at German defenders of Dinard in northern France in the St. Malo area. Note the broken window and the debris on thg_ street. (AP wirephoto from Signal Corps). Reds Keep Up Drive On Romanian Front • - r ..., .-__ -• w- ■- •_*> • - LONDON, Thursday, Aug. 24.—(JP)—The two-fisted Soviet offensive that knocked Romania out of the war roar ed through its fourth day yesterday, capturing Vasuli, 140 miles northeast of the Ploesti oil center, and toppling the two big Bessarabian bastions of Tighina and Cetatea-Alba on the vyest bank of the Dnestr, and more than 400 other tnwn s + Disregarding developments on the political front, at least for the present, the Second and Third Ukrainian armies deepened to as much- as 60 miles the holes they have ripped in the German - Ro manian defenses and advanced within 167 miles of the capital city of Bucharest. Romania still was garrisoned with thousands of German troops, and the Russians were likely to continue their lightning campaign to drive the Nazis entirely out of the country, regardless of what Romanian troops chose to do. The Romanians were attempting to retreat, and fighting the Ger mans in doing so. an early mor ning supplement to the Russian communique said. Already large (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) Pennsylvania Mines Seized By Government SHENANDOAH, Pa., Aug. 23.— tffl—Government seizure of the mines and Other workings of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company was ordered today by President Roosevelt in a move to break a strike'that Started June 29 and has made.4.000 anthracite miners idl'e. There was no official comment immediately frbin the miners, but conversations With1' individuals in die a ted there, would Ijeho immedi ate hapk-to-work movement. DULLES CONFERS ON PEACE MOVES WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. — (IP) - John Foster Dulles, foreign affair: advisor to Republican president! cal nominee Thomas E. Dewey talked peace plans for two and one half hours with Secretary of State Hull today and told reporters aftei ward that they had made “verj considerable progress in exploring the possibilities of bi-Partisan co operation.” Dulles, who came here to wort with Hull a plan for insuring dua party support for American parti cipation in a world security or ganization, said that he still hac some things to talk over with Ilul and that he would meet the sec retary again tomorrow afternoon The Hull-Dulles efforts to remov: foreign policy as far as possible from the political campaign over shadowed for the moment the worl of the Dumbarton Oaks conferees The delegates broke off their dis cussions of the form a world se curity organization should t- ve ir order to visit the White House anc meet President Roosevelt. They heard the President de clare that the Nazi ideas implanted in Germany’s youth will menaces the world for many years, and hence the Allies • must work ‘.‘ab solutely in unison” to enforce "a peace that will last.” r - Country First Balkan State To Quit Nazis PROCLAMATION ISSUED Tiny Kingdom Gets Jump On Bulgaria In Move To Oust Germans LONDON, Thursday, Aug. 24.—(IP)—Romania announc ed last night that she was J switching from the Axis to the Allied side in the war and a subsequent Soviet commu nique reported that shooting had broken out between re treating Romanian and Nazi ?oWers on the eastern front. Accen'ance of armistice terms offered by the Soviet uivon. Great Britain and the United States was announced in a proclamation brcndcast from Bucharest The early morning Russian com. munique, recorded by the Soviet monitor from a Moscow broad cast, told of clashes on Romanian soil between the Romanians, order ed by King Mihai to cease hostili ties against the Red Army, and the Germans. Romanian prisoners were quoted as saying that the Germans were firing on the Romanians and blocking their withdrawal. “A large number of Romanian officers and men have thus been killed.” said the communique, “in armed clashes between the re treating Romanian detachment! and German frontier detachments in several places.” A Proclamation by young King Mihai, read over the Bucharest radio, said all hostilities against the Red army as well as Ro mania's state of war with Britain and America would cease "rom this moment.” Russian armies were stabbing into Romania to within 167 miles of Bucharest and threatening the Ploesti oil fields as the announce ment went on the air. Romania, the king said, will fight “at the side of the Allied army and with their help.” There was no immediate offi cial confirmation of the royal proclamation by any of the three Allied nations, but London show, ed no inclination to doubt the broadcast—the first crack in Hit ler’s Balkan structure. Prime Minister Churchill has been in Italy for more than a week and presumably had a hand in the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) -V BULGARIAN TACTICS RECEIVED COLDLY LONDON. Aug. 23— (iPI — Bul garia’s latest efforts to get out of the war before Germany collapses received a cold reception today from belligerents, on both sides. Authoritative British source* termed Foreign Minister Parvan Draganov’s peace speech yester day, in which he insisted his country’s declaration of war had been a mistake, as a rather silly show and in other Allied quarters the Sofia government’s attitude was likened to that of a man try ing to sell somehing he no longer owned. In Germany, where Bulgarian regrets for the error of declar ing war on Britain and the United States could only mean recogni tion that Hitler’s war is lost, a foreign office spokesman said he did not consider it necessary to express German reaction to Dra ganov’s own personal views. Competent sources said the Bul garians already have been told by Britain. Russia and the United States that it is too late to drive a bargain for peace and that Bul garia must surrender uncondi tionally, expel all Germans, and withdraw troops from non - Bul garian areas received as a .gift from Hitler at the expense of Greece and Yugoslavia. 7th Army Commander Wounded In France LONDON, Aug. 23. — UP) — Col. Gen. Paul Hausser, commander Of the German Seventh army, ha* been wounded in Normandy, th» Berlin radio said tonight. Hausser, under the overall com mand of Field Marshal Oen. Guen ther Von Kluge, led the army which was battered heavily in the Fa laise pockets and now is falling back upon the lower Seine, menac ed with a new envelopment. .1
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