Caen Citizens Weep
With Joy as Allies
Liberate the City
(Villiani Smith White. Associated
Press Correspondent)
Cfltn. Ftsnce ? The people of
Caen ? those who are left ? shouted
and sometimes cried fear joy in their
Iitlersd Streets Sunday night as Al
lied troops nailed down the greales
Allied victory since Cherbourg.
I entered this city Saturday aft
ernoon to find s moving welcome ?
extended because I. was an American
? while fighting still was going on
just to the southeast o!' the center
of Caen.
The eitv 'itself ha*- been heavily
damaged. Frencii civilians already
were clearing the wreckage here and
there
I came in with two others. Capt.
Colin Ra.vmer.t. Canadian officer
from Montreal, and Alan Wood of
the London Daily Express, and we
were astonished to find oi'rselves
treated as a sort of Allied delega
tion.
.Looking into ti-.eir fitces, they all
seemed either youirg or old. no one
could doubt the spontaneous exul
tation of these people as we hit the
main eitv from the suburb of St. j
Germain La Blanche.
We sat low in our jeep as the fir- '
ifig broke out intermittently but I
ostite scir e distance away. The fi>'st I
civilian we saw was an old woman j
with stiff, bristling gray hair, a red ?
faces a pugnacious chin, and teats 1
ir> her eyes But or: her face was a-t
enormous smile and she thvust hc-i
hand upward in the most emphatic
thurnbs-up salute I've ever seen.
It was like that all the way to
the middle of the city, and we went
to its heart iji the shadow of the ca
thedral.
We had not gone a block when tin
old man in a blue smock ruined
forward, stopped us with a bow and
hand us a brown paper package. It !
contained cherries hurriedly snatch-:
ed from a branch of his tree.
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Where Do We Go From INormamlv?
I? Ma first press on the Mormand* beachhead, Ucut.
Gesi. Omar Bradley, commandor of the American ground force*, point?;
the war toward Berlin. The general wa? obviously pleaded a* what
he had to JciiJ the war ccrre^pandeai*. Toe raptore of the port of
Chcrbotir? made it possible for liim to turn hia eye-; toward larger x?sd
stronger fields, eventually with eyes set on Berlin.
Ssno-Jap War Now
in Eighth Year
Ch'.nickini;. 'jvm % ? China com
pleted its year of mi with ;
i the Japanese todffy. and despite;
' sweeping advan-xs of the enemy in :
j three liaHie-locked provinces. Gen- '
? waiissimo Chiang Kai-shek predict-;
j ed. "liberation is close al hand."
Cn this "triple seventh'" day ? j
Hie seventh anniversary of the clash j
, at Marco Polo bridge near Fe\pingj
| on July 7, 1037 starling what the!
? Japanese called the 'X'lv.en i nei j
I dent." China's generalissimo wadej
| no attempt tc underestimate the j
gravity of the Situation. But he I
said that Japan now fully realised j
"a genera! counter-offensive from J
China is imminent."
Tile anniversary found the Chi
nese battling tn stem a Japanese
tide in Kwangtung province from
Canton, which already had pierced
Chinese defenses along the last
Chinese-controlled strip of the Can
ton-HanWow-Peiping railway, and
locked in a struggle to the death in
Hunan province against strong' one
j my forces pattering the last Hunan
| stronghold of Ik-ngyang. To the
i north, in Honail province, therci was
i sporadic lighting. although the Jap
I anese had won virtual control of the
Peiping-Hankow railway through
that province and the I.unghai rail
way going west towards Shcnsi!
province.
Only in the southwestern province!
of Yunan wcer the Chinese enjoy
ing success There they were pro
ceeding with an encircling move
ment against the main enemy base
of Tengrhimg, and conducting con
certed attacks on other enemy forti
fications, in an attempt to push
westward tor a junction with the
troops ot Lt Gen. Joseph W. Stil
we!l in North Burma, and reopen
an overland route (the Burma Road)
to Chins. The gap between these
two forces at last reports had been
narrowed to about 26 miles.
Chiang admitted that the scale of
enemy operations in China today
was the largest since the assault cn
Hankow in 1928, and said, "It is of
no use to ignore the fact that the
enemy has made a rapid advance in
his new drives, and the situation is
grave "
Ihere frtudt be No Shortage
of Telephone Equipment on War Fronts
T ons on tons of telephone cables, wire, switchboards,
telephone instruments and hundreds of other types of
telephone equipment have been shipped to England for
use by our armies in their advances through Europe.
More shiploads are following to meet the growing
demands of the war fronts, not only in Europe but the
Pacific, as well.
All out production of. telephone equipment for our armed
forces takes virtually all available manufacturing facilities
and manpower, and reserve supplies are about exhausted.
The shortage of supplies for home use has made it impos
sible for us to keep up with civilian orders for service. That
is why we, over here, must continue to do the best we can
with the limited amount of equipment we have on hand.
We keenly regret that more and more people are having
to wait for telephone service, due to the increasing war de
mands. But there must be no waiting for the men who fight
our battles.
Your continued patience and cooperation in these difficult
times is grextly appreciated.
tomm 8ell Telephone m Teiecrrpk CsmpaBs
INCORFOIATIB
Uncle Sam to Pay
G. I. Baby Expense i
Washington ? Kr,!f a million G. 1. j
bsibir* tire expected to make their ;
debut during the next. !2 iruinths all
Uncle Sam's expense.
That many .nfanto and tfjeii I
rrto^Hc'.'S will bo cared for under the
emergency tr.atevnily and infans
care program for which coiigrv:?? hcis I
appropriated S42.ft00.0ti0.
The ciftgressionai appnnriation }
y? ovides Tor help to servicemen's j
wives srid babies, with no questions :
asked concerning !he financial abiii-i
ty ol' the father to foot the hill him- !
pelf.
S37.000.000 EDUCATION
BUDGET iS VBOPOSED:
Raleieh? The State Board of F.d- j
.nations finance committee met
here last week and completed iU :
proposed budget of more than }37.- i
000.000 for the 1044-45 nine-months!
period.
157 Die As Flames
Destroy Circus Tent
? . ? |
Hartford- Co'in , J;i!y 6 ? Thei
grcotos disaster in American circus;
hist, ry kiiled at ieast. 1ST persons, !
iit a tori ifving hurst bf flames that :
enveloped (lie huge 'nain tent of the J
Singling Brothei? and Barnum and j
Bailey chvi.s and brought injury to!
at least 220 persons.
The fire, discovered war the en- i
fiance of the big top a few minutes
after a mighty thunder of applause
?';ki signaled the close of the open
ing annual act. turned 'J. 000 erst
j while festive spectators into a mass
! of frantic men. women and children.'
| screaming and shouting aod fighting!
! to reach, the exits.
Children were tossed by fear- 1
I stricken parents from lofty seats to I
! the ground beneath, so roe to escape!
? hut many to be caught in the folds j
i of the f i-iming tent. Their cries j
; .-ans \n the ears of spectators.
| Men. women and children alike j
I were trapped beneath the canvas as j
[ it crashed to the ground in a fiery j
I climax to a catastrophe "as horrible," I
j said Felix Adier, noted clown, as j
lover witnessed by any circus per- j
| former.
As Governor Raymond E. Bald- j
[ win mobilized all of the state's I
I emergency resources, a s t e a d v |
stream of motor vehicles brought (
{he dead, among them many chil- j
dr. n. to a temporary morgue estab
lished in the drill shed o( the state
armory. Thi count there showed
127 dead.
Meanwhile, other ears and ambu
lances brought scores of injured and
burned to city hospitals after first j
aid treatment at the scene or in j
nearby drug stores
Hal Oliver, circus press agent. t
termed the blaze "the- first great j
fire in the whole history of (tingling i
Brothers circus" and estimated the i
damage to circus property at $300.- i
000.
FOOD DRIERS
Stove top driers are most practical I
in preserving food in the average j
tarns home, reports N. C. Tetor of j
the agricultural experiment station ;
at State College.
BUY WAR BONDS I
Hf.tler, Gloomy, Tries to
Spur War Production
I. tuition ? Adolf Hitler, in a gloomy,
asirf forboding speech to key war
production men Wednesday said that '
unheard-of strength of nerve; and j
determination were necessary if !
Germany was to survive "suchj
times as the present" an J surmount |
"a magnitude of difficulties."
In an apparent attempt to squeeze j
c-ven greater efforts from workers 1
he repeated his boasts that Ger- j
many would never surrender and, I
that somehow, sometime, she would :
win final victory. But he admitted !
implicitly that the Allies were
smothering the German armies un
der a vastly superior weight of war I
production.
Hitler said: "This gigantic strug
gle for the fate of the German na
tion is deciding the to-be-or-not
to-bc of many generations."
Hitler's speech was broadcast by
German news agencies and recorded
here. Listeners familiar with his
speeches over many years were in
clined to regard it as the most de
pressed he had made, even gloomier
than that after Holy's capitulation.
It was announced, in the German
broadcasts, that Hitler and Albert
Spcer, armaments minister, had con
ferred with war production leaders
and as the result had decided that
despite Allied air attacks it would
be possible to increase production
further, because of the exemplary
work of German workers and in
tensified rationalization and simpli
fication of production.
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He's still Our
G.I.Joe
r
m a series of ads on
post-war opportunities
The question of post-war jobs ? especially for returning vet
erans ? ia a big one and a live one. It will get more 00 as the
war comes nearer its end.
Our own job security plan for Esse Marketers' employees now
m uniform went into operation the day after Pearl Harbor. It has worked so well for so long
iliat we want to pass our experience along.
In general, it is based on the idea that we are saving his place for our fighting man while
he's away, whether he volunteered, was drafted, or was called up as a reservist. Chief features
of the plan are these . . .
1. Each employee who has been with us a year or 4. His rights in company retirement and benefit
longer is given two months' salary as he enters the
armed forces.
2. His dependents receive monthly payments from
the company while he is away? up to half of his
former company pay.
3. Each employee has been assured by letter from
our company president that his old job? or another
a? good or better ? will be waiting for him. Experi
ence gained in the Armed Forces may result in
hi b immediate advancement.
plans are protected while he is away.
L)etails of the plan have been put into a booklet
which we shall be glad to send you*
Soon we will announce in this newspaper further
plans for making some good new jobs in the oil business
after the war.
As we see it today, next to winning the war itself,
nothing is more important than the matter of post-war
jobs.
?ssa
*Fot booklet ftddNw
Mr. C. M. Ryera, Division Manager
Standard Oil Company of New Jeremy
901 W<*t First Street
Charlotte 1, North Carolina
STAND A -RD^OIL. COMPANY OF NEW J E iTsTzFy