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KfWANIANS HEAR
BRIG. BOUTERSE
Brig. W. W. Bouterse of the Sal
vation Army discussed religion in
world politics before the Kiwanis
club on Wednesday, saying prefa
torially that more good and more
harm have been done in the name
of religion than by all other influ
ence* upon human life combined.
Religion, he added, has for cen
turies been the source of man’s
loftiest aspirations and accomplish
ments, and on the other hand the
excuse for some of the greatest
crimes of history.
It found expression in the Atlan
tic Charter when President Roose
velt numbered freedom of worship
as one of the four great freedoms
that must be preserved, he said.
In our own early history, Briga
dier Bouterse cited, our forefath
ers revolted because of state dom
ination of religion. He said, they
came to the new world to establish
the right to worship according to
the dictates of their own
consciences without interference by
the state. But later generations in
many parts of the world revolted
against religion, he said, citing the
Russian revolution, the Spanish
Civil war, the French revolution
and the ascendency of Hitlerism in
Germany as examples of this new
revolt.
He invited his hearers to con
sider the present situation in the
United States, where only 50 per
cent of the population are church
members and only seven per cent
of them attend any church. He
noted that because life has been so
easy for Americans, religion has
gone out of style. What this will
mean in the years to come can
only be answered by the manner
in which we have applied the les
sons of this war to our lives, he
said. The men in the foxholes and
Flying Fortresses have been find
ing God, he said “Will the rest of
us be as fortunate?’’
Accompanying Brigadier Bouter
se as guest of the club was major
K. E. Moss, director of the Harbor
Island USO center.
William H. Shaw, postmaster at
Fayetteville, was the guest of W.
R. Dosher, program chairman.
President Donald King, presided.
7hey say she plied him with
gifts of Marlin Blades/*
Betty’s Back, Boys
Returning to her screen chores as easy to look at as ever, Betty
Grable poses for her first “pin-up” picture since the birth of her
daughter in March. The 20th Century-Fox star plunged legs-first into
her role in “Diamond Horseshoe.”
ed closely against their breast or
at the nape of their neck.”
That same day Foreign Secre
tary Eden said Britain had con
curred in the terms before they
w're offered.
The king’s proclamation indi
cated the terms offered Romania
were help in routing the German
forces from inside her borders
and recovery of Transylvania
from Hungary, which was given
the province by Hitler in the Vi
enna award of August, 1940.
The United Nations have recog
nized the injustice of the dictate
of Vienna, under which Transyl
vania was torn from us," the king
said. “At the side of the Allied
army and with their help we will
cross the frontiers, unjustly im
posed upon us at Vienna."
Interpretation in London of this
phase of the king’s proclamation
was that Romania would not be
accepted as an ally, but as a co
fcelligerent in the category of Italy.
Part of the surprise in Romania’s
decision was that she beat Bui.
garia to a withdrawal from the
war.
Bulgaria nrst to quit Germany’s
lineup in the first world war, has
been reported on the verge of a
break with the Nazis for a week,
but only Tuesday night her foreign
minister, Parvan Draganov, ap
peared before the Bulgarian parlia
ment and refused to take the
plunge.
Romania’s decision was bound
to have a profound influence on
other Balkan satellites in addition
to immediately depriving. Ger
many of the use of the rich Ro
manian oil fields.
Romania joined the Axis in No
vember, 1940, and followed Ger
many into war against Russia on
June 22. 1941. Six months later
she entered a state of war with
the United States and Britain.
Her collaboration with Ger
many — and the contribution of
hundreds of thousands of troops
in the fight against Russia—was
under the hand of Dictator Mar
shal Ion Antonescu.
His fate is now undisclosed, but
his government passed into the
hands of a new premier, Konstan
tin Sanatescu. The Bucharest radio
said the foreign minister of the
new cabinet was Grigore Nicu
lescu-Buzesti and that cabinet
posts had been given to George
Bratianu and Juliu Maniu.
Aside from evading the Hed
armies sweeping from the north
and east, Romania’s greatest stake
in swinging over to the Allies at
this time was the return of Tran
sylvania to Hungary, Romania had
lost Bessarabia and parts of Buco
vina and Moldavia to Russia
through a Soviet ultimatum agreed
to by Hitler.
These losses of territory led to I
the abdication of King Carol and
the crowning of the youthful Mi
hal, his son.
The Romania army suffered
heavily at Stalingrad in 1942 and
again in the Crimea this spring—
when the Germans were reported
to have left several Romanian di
visions unsupported in the siege
of Sevastopol, where they were
hammered to bits.
The king’s proclamation indicat
ed that the Romanian army’s
fighting now would be primarily
aimed at forcing the Hungarians
out of Transylvania, but any such
action obviously would be a blow
of direct bearing against Ger
many and on the side of the United
Nations.
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ANOTHER PARIS FREED
NEW WORK, Aug. 23—UP!—1The
Russians today liberated Paris—a
Bessarabian village midway be
tween the Prut river and the
Black Sea—it was announced in
the Soviet communique broadcast
from Moscow.
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VISITS FAMILY
Pvt. Chick Hagain, 304 Cas
tle street, will leave tomorrow
for his station at Fort Knox,
Ky., after visiting his family
hern for the nast week.
Bloody Battle Frees
Paris From Germans
(Continued from Page One)
German forces which had been
fighting west and south of Paris.
French men and women patriots
fought in this new battle of Paris
as their forefathers did in 1789 and
the fury of their assualt forced the
German commander to sue for a
truce.
With a great foroe of American
armored troops poised in an as
sault and almost half way around
the capital, 50,000 armed French
patirots, aided by several hundred
thousand citizens who wielded what
arms they could find, defeated the
Nazi occupation forces in a four
day battle ending last night.
The patriots occupied all public
buildings and arrested all Vichy
government representatives who
did not flee, said a formal an
nouncement signed by Lt. Gen.
Joseph Pierre Koenig, command
er of the French Forces of the In
terior and newly-named military
governor of Paris under General
De Gaulle.
Around the world—in London,
New York, Buenos Aires, Algiers
and scores of other cities—the re
lease of the "City of Light” from
the darkness of Nazi rule was ahil
ed in ceremonies featuring the play
ing of "The Marseillaise,” historic
anthem of liberty, and the raising
of the tri-color of the republic.
Church bells were rung in London
and many other cities of England.
So far there was no word of
any entry into the city by Ameri
can troops. General de Gaulle al
ready had conferred with the Al
lied Supreme commander, Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, on possible
Immediate resumption of French
civil administration, and liberation
of the capital lent emphasis to ru
mors that President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Churchill mijfit
hold their next meeting there soon.
Gen. Koenig was expected to go
to Paris tomorrow with his entire
London staff, and he may join Gen.
de Gaulle there, but it was pointed
Aiif at Hon TtTnoni ff’e VioaHrmorfev’t
in London that no attempt would
be made to move a full civilian
governmental organization into
Paris until the Germans are clear
ed out of the entire area and the
danger of their return in force is
passed.
The fact that the liberation of
Paris was accomplished by t h e
French, and announced by them
rather than by Allied Supreme
headquarters, may have been part
of Allied strategy to bolster French
confidence and emphasize to the
world the resurgence of France.
A press relations officer at Al
lied Supreme Headquarters said
this evening that he had no offi
cial confirmation of the news of
the liberation, but this presumably
was simply because the city was
freed from within. No doubt s6f the
accuracy of the French announce
ment was implied.
An agreement which was to have
been signed today between the
British and the French for govern
ing liberated France may now be
signed in Paris in the near future,
and a parallel agreement between
the United States and the De Gaulle
committee is expected also to be
signed in the French capital, with
General Eisenhower representing
the Americans and General Koenig
the French.
General Koenig’s announcement
said the Germans were “defeated
everywhere” in the French capital
after street battles which began
with a police strike and an order
ifrom the French Oommitee oC
National Liberation for a general
insurrection.
Then, from Saturday through
Tuesday, there came a mob battle
surpassing anything Paris has
known since the battle of the Bas
tille. The core of the resistance
was the He de La Cite, which was
turned into “a fortress against
which the German attacks broke,
General Koenig’s special commu
nique said.
A railway strike which tied up
traffic in the whole Paris area help
ed, along with the police strike, in
r»lf>a r.incr wav fnr TTrAnrh
to wrest control of the city, French
headquarters in London said. So de
termined were the employes to stop
traffic that some of them lay full
length across the rails.
Crack SS elite guard troops form
ed part of the Paris garrison, and
these placed machineguns at stra
tegic intersections in a futile at
tempt to break up the massing of
crowds.
As the outbreak started people
Nazis Flood England
With Barrage Of Bombs
LONDON, Aug. 23.— UP) —The
Germans released a stream of fly
ing explosives at southern England
in a dawn barrage today, as if try
ing to use up their stock of buzz
bombs before launching sites are
overrun by the drive of the Allied
armies — but improved Channel
weather and intensified antiaircraft
defenses brought a lull later in the
day.
were machirie - gunned in the
Boulevard, Bonne Nouville. The
Rue du Faubourg, Rue St. Denis
and the Rue de Rivoli.
There was no word of the fate
of the German force which the
French caught in Paris, and it was
expected to be several days before
any estimate is made by the
French on the number killed and
captured. It was known the Ger
mans had fled Paris by the thou
sands as the American armored
pincers closed around the capital
during the past few days. Allied
airmen reported roads to the east
jammed with Germans.
Marseille Falls
To French Polius
(Continued from Page One)
t appeared that the two Allied
'ronts would be joined much soon
er than was originally thought pos
sible—perhaps in a matter of days,
tfazi resistance to the Allied Sev
enth army’s smashing drive was
officially described as “weak and
disorganized.” More than 17,000
prisoners had been taken.
In their dramatic dash to Gre
noble, an important communica -
tions center of about 100,000 popu
lation, Yank tanks and doughboys
advanced at least 80 miles beyond
their last reported position. Tonight
they were less than 70 miles from
the Swiss-border near Geneva and
virtually had severed communica
tions between German forces in
France and Italy.
Enroute to Grenoble the flying
column captured scores of towns,
including Digne, Sisteron, Asperes,
Gap, St. Bonnet and L’Argentiere,
the latter only 14 miles from the
Italian border. Only at Digne,
where it was held up for 13 hours,
did the column encounter serious
enemy resistance. There the Ameri
cans captured Maj. Gen. Hans
Schubert, a German corps com
mander.
Allied headquarters credited
French patriot forces with “playing
an effective support role” in the
actual capture of Grenoble, long
a hot-bed of opposition to the Nazis.
The city was the first one of im
portance to open its gates to Napo
leon upon his triumphal return
from exile on Elba 129 years ago.
From Grenoble the American
spearhead—only a week after the
landing on the beaches of southern
France—was in position to strike
58 miles northwest to the great rail
hub of Lyon and to throttle all en
emy efforts to escape up the Rhone
valley into northern France.
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American Tank Units
150 Miles From Reich
(Continued from Page One)
lower reaches of the Seine was
Evreux, which the Americans
freed, while a parallel Yank ad
vance neared Couches farther west
Resistance everywhere was light
except where the Germans slowed
the Canadian advance in the 45-by
30-mile pocket by blocking further
bridgeheads across the Toques
river.
(A Belgian communique said Bel
gian troops fighting beside the Al
lies had advanced 12 miles along
the Channel coast, overcoming stiff
resistance as they fanned out above
Deauville, but inflicting heavy loss
es on the Germans.)
“The main battle for France is
already over,” declared Associated
Press Correspondent Harold Boyle,
who watched U, S. tanks drive 15
miles east of Sens to within 150
miles of the German border with |
no sign that the Germans were
rallying for a stand.
Truckloads of prisoners streamed
back in the wake of the American
advance, but there was not a single
smoldering enemy vehicle to indi
cate the enemy had put up a de
termined fight, said his dispatch,
datelined ‘En Route to Berlin.”
Only swarms of German war
planes fought against this peril to
the German border.
Supreme headquarters lifted the
cloak of secrecy only enough to re
port the thrust east of sens, which
is 65 miles southeast of Paris, and
to report the tightening of the noose
about tens of thousands of Germans
in the Seine river loop northwest
of Paris.
The Americans, driving from the
south against these shattered rem
nants of the Seventh army, seized
Evreux in a nine-mile advance.
Evreux, one of the chief German
anti-aircraft centers, is 15 miles
from the Seine and only 19 miles
southeast of where the Germans
are crossing the river at Elbeuf.
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
Reds Keep Up Drive
On Romanian Front
(Continued from page 0nt)
numbers of Romanian officers 3na
men have been slain bv the r
mans who are trying to bar tW
retirement, Moscow said even ?
the Soviet advance continued.
While this campaign was be»
ing its first great fruits in r?
manian surrender, the First
ian army of Marshal Ivan S
nev in southern Poland lashed
westward and seized the city?
Debica, a large aircraft industry
center and communications Jl
64 miles east of Krakow and u
miles east of Tarnow, next D,oh
able objective of the offensive
Konev’s drive swept npffi0,,
than 70 towns between Debica aiJ
Rzeszow to the east. a
The following new offensive
northeast of Warsaw advanced?
Russians to within eight miles
the formidable Nazi fortress j
Lomza, 20 miles below the Fa<
Prussian border, st
Romania Joins Allies;
Wars Against Germany
(Continued from Page One)
events leading up to Romania’s
decision.
On Aug. 2 Churchill told the
House of Commons, “Russia has
offered generous terms to Ro
mania and I have no doubt that
they would be accepted with grati.
tude by the Romanian peopie if
only the Romanian leaders had not
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Immediately following the storm the
the city building inspector declared all
walls, towers and other parts of the ori
ginal church left standing following the
fire as UNSAFE, DANGEROUS and NOT
USEABLE for the new structure. There
fore, friends, we cannot salvage this for
our new church and are compelled to
build from foundation to tower top_
hence the urgent need for your help to
build a better, permanent ST. LUKE’S
A. M. E. ZION CHURCH.
WON’T YOU HELP AND RECEIVE THE
BLESSING?
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St. Luke’s A. M. E. Zion Church, 709
Church St. Official receipt will be sent
to each one helping the cause.
Rev. A. J. KIRK, Pastor
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