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| ( QWMANDS L.S. third army !' , • t il up iii a new field urii'cnr. LI. Gen. George S. Patton. Jr., miii.; from his tent on the front in N< rti’^rn France, to direct (:•■ ;n ( ! iiis fast-driving V. S. Third Army. Now moving swiftly l- v ;V ", iis, Patton’s men are giving the German forces in that v elor pic.,n to won.v about es the \Kir.ci ||- >nt approaches the Nazi-h hi 11fiifli capital, (Interratioj: I 3,81*0 Nazi / V< incles Arc Cracked Up \ Mg. 1!) (AH) VH'.'d •yei.l • f 11 imaged •1 " ■' t: ■ 1 , , : • i iv <• hir11■. m the Ki ;miv ye ,t.-i dr, . , ‘i >■ .]i lilci ,v |>td *y at .'.i. t"( • • ■ r ie. i . n . i i I ip lit attar! ■ 111> " i' • i ■ I*;. ■ I■ l Marshal inn Kin S' i i ■ i nnanl:. came at " I a pel more Ilian I ,<)()() I! A F •p , .et l ii rs at the pi i 1 .id blastetl nil and 1 ai1 : flc . iniiv, France an ! H .In am lines cii nine'll l ! - lei' . i i itei lin h i Un it In. iiit*his. aid I’"'.- . ,-|t >■ ■ 1 iii'ii <;( rin;■:i i mil s , t h" nee till ■ nigh Iht. tun i dm • 1' ii: Plot nlhouncl 0! Suite’s Prison, I I i i ,ost Standing ‘ ■ . X. C , Aug. 1!) I A I | - ii .\'i rt|i ('an>1 ma |> isnii ■■ n i.a. has Ir■. t I'ace. Kvrn dm dliuunds w1111 t have a-iy ,vi th him. and glia mi.- d tnekade have had In isn in a separate pen inr his own ,!.(•,• I 1 i null'd hunter, cnnuv'ib’d 1i,c a alp et rnr n| his profession " - allowed two escapit g ro'i ' ’ ’ • elng from a road pmt • nds with him and tie him 1*>’■ I is- prisoners, long-term eui i aped Tuesday al'ienarm, -ii 11 acked down by F" ink'.; mi 1 Pinnate, .A"11i11i'•. and ree ,p - *tln fl- ■ ’ Frank’s careet i; ■■■■:• r. Patients nuii I1 rom I.omlon \hcad of Robots ' " Aug. HI < Al’) Ah" i 11,111111 aid a n 1 s have been cr'acuated 1 I 'Petal hospitals, it was d’.s 1111 today, after the Germans had M V,1 '1 ’''‘i' a flock of robot bombs. 1 "e in i salvo, longest in the G,-r m;i s two months old vengeance '-"iipipp,, fell during the night. Pft tlp,l,s '".t too ill to travel have been n' ' hospitals in Scotland, Wales I1,111 northern and xvestern F.ngi id. *h<’ ministry of health said. Wdl 'C1 1 l;< million Londoners have '"'id nut of the eity. it is estimated, giitii this xvek-end railway station! ',ere jammed bv crowds wh cm m ' iir a ;iri appreciably nornhe” of oer t** . _ 'r -n extended --my. P;>ris, Willi I.ibfrly N'^nr, I fas I <nrpc'.l ! J i;f:- ; Mf/Und < ir'Mip I i j ■' i . , An;; i j ( vfM Pah i''l i i, , • : ii m:-.l I In • \:i/i have ( .1., i . i : 1 i I ■•! i 1 * 'I (I- i 'I ■ ■ ■ -I Fl nil’ll anil Italian .. . ri ■; ■ it I r mi Memo • id lc ri iy lull’ 11 • ■ . it li ai i at in i . i pj M f *ari 11 lip, '* i la’pl'r I'lltifl a. i i; i \ • - mt; the la "a.! ri’si.-.ianee force in all i I France. Herne ■ i1 d-ir’. .nil n" lO.OfiO • i’ll i ipiip)it- I iit n a * i i till1 id in .i , .i,:• ii• i..• 111. m i me i’l l !■ m nf I t.ilv 111 I’ lime ii <1 I i’irt . I nil the Svi . 11 mil lei , ' I" > ’ ' I . I’ pi ■ I).11 IV lilt '■!’ lime ’ II at many. flail .11 pin I ... . A-riv rl I’l have . u i .ii a Ini’ nf al 1 ni. I ni l.ii’:,rs;i and Pierin.’-nte. prn\ nee. in n-irlh V.-i s! I i I iy (it a I ■ I: I is in Lid'll -a. French patriot.; were mid ti no d Hr ■ • pi ei I aid in ;11 >>11; 1 hall • I tlv Tanic-Stn me i ";n m nf eastern F ranee. Freiieh rt ialter f rei have neeu i, • ii , i ■ ] a ront.t nicfttc lrnfn \I.-, nir t in nr 11 K. a iy amnn meed I day and II |>< hen ol the S.r ne and Is,ire denariinrnI ham- joined the Macj tiis. FORRESTAL IS ON VISIT TO LONDON 1,. nefon. \ id. I!) — ( AIM Sen e l;nv mi U:(. Mnvy Jmihcs V. Kimtos 1 ,ii h:» . ;i; r. <■> 1 in I .• ivl< n. (. cvnsnr ship j ■ i ('vi nl-'H .t y .speclint n»n no c('i nin.R 11:<• purp "• Ins visit. Ron chit rid Wide ‘Pf'cl Into Aren Roughly <,(J1Square Mil fg I rriiilon, % uii. If) < \1‘ i \ !>i '. h r,I hy ,i < its < ot r •iHHHft'ht ill .< ull'rrn J r.iinv ,» I : , ij l;ih o! I m * in;»y l;c .1 niitl-i <il Uc.irs.’ Jli.nie, Auk. I!> (AP) Ala j01 (jeiKTal I’atch s .-.rveuiii army, extemlitiK its snutn-Mii France beachhead to 1 ,()<)() square miles, has speared \vi si ward 11) witbin thirly-one mile of Marseilles m a flrnc flankm;: 'I onion and has puuiKed al I< .isI '■',2 miles inland, Allied headquar ters ammunced today. A In.ill LM nulls broafl 11;ihern unveil lo the north and below1 T Ion, the Fre; rh iui\ al ha ..i vnt n Amciiean bomber:; yesterday bl;..-led the half-.uibmerged I'e 'n ch uaiili. up Strasbourg m an el fori h. silence "e hie Kims, .’.rich v.eie -.pc . m; s Allied ; tick. l.atest anncilnerini'id pel tin erieau and f i eiuli lord's i uly a - miles northeast of Toulon, Ind mothrr advanced units. sp"edini; ever a network of inland roads, were pointed d.rrcllv toward the Itlii.lie (alley I li roilRtl routes w liirli h.vpassed liudmi and Mar seilles. I the appro mil to I Im n.i\ a I ha e along die '■..•! lie- AI lied |w ■<•:, <>n ( oUl 11 e; ( d still 1 e 1 lil.a n I eyi ;l ane ‘ west o| I5i 111,10. Inn inland Ihe np |n sit i oi was |i ;■ . Ti the wo ! he: ■ ! • mr 1 r oops pi lull ed two miles we..I d lu; hignv.ay seven. 'Ihe ad\ s ■■■• ihiongh the Argon vail".v, Ull I ■ r‘' • I nod h. v a . ap)u 1 .arilin;: ('ai ■ ■ hie path 11.. a I my V a , obvuii" ,ly I - v. .< r I 1 II f a oie ' allry. .Hired lor a pe it up th U s al artery It el feel a jonelm e with the armies nl (h neral Kiaunh k\ it. I hese I r i es were . mv le. , 11... n ;|.ill a i rlioe miles a pari. MEMORIAL SUNDAY FOR LATE DR. KOCH Chapel Mill, A ID -(AP) - Me morial services lor Dr. Frederick H. Koch, pioneei in loll; < sama and di rector of tin- Caiolma Playmakers of Ihe Univcrsilv n: North Carolina, who died in Miami. Fla.. Wednesday, will he held her" ;n the Forest, I he at re Sunday allernoon. In case of rain, services will be held in the Playmakers theatre. ■ Mrs. K eh and their son, Freder ick. Jr., were with hr. Koch in Flor ida when he died Wednesday of a heart attack. 'Ihe Indy was cremat cd and In del ..errors were held there yesterday. Britain Hails Patten As Newest Hero Of The War j.,,nriMi!. Ann 1!» -<AP) Pinions hailing i nrv her, Lt. Gen George s I 'a l.l * ii, -Ii . ui win »m they , . nrlma-ilt ul many qualities frequently attributed to Americans: dash, dari :g and rip-roaring drive. They arc apply ing such n 1 in as ■•lengcndary" to the exploits nl Pnt tmi, whose tankmen are riding --di - in id through the Germans into the he art i*i France. The press c-»ii:n nally relates his exploits with tanks, ,i.x shunters and swords on and oil tne battlefield. The Briti: i are familiar with th. soldier slapping incident of Patt m's storm v career, but, in the wo ids >1 the London News Chronicle,.General Eisenhower's faith in Patton’s ability -secured his services for the swilt est outtlanking move of any army in history. . , , The News Chronicle has pa, id “son of a gun" General Patton as its man of the week. T ne London Evening Stands o o il tonally lauded Patton and his men, commenting: "There can have been fs... jghts equal the An ertv-.n. on that rlny (their Avranrhe.-; break through). A never-ending armored host, was sweeping int.n Franco. Tue same casual young men who liven among us and shared our trials and pleasures were now thundering 01/ the annihilation of an army and the liberation of a country. ••'And leading them was a leg 1 • dary general ■ -Pa I Ion of the grim jaw anrl disco: cei ling manner.” An editorial page feature in 'he News Chronicle described him as ai perman in appearance, and possess ing a "drive and dash that doesn’t count the cost because he believes victory is won mi re chiefly that way." The paper said Patton has con stantly justified his "theory of li 0 and movement"—moving into the crcmy and pushing past. It added Patton's task has taken the Gerunu blitzkrieg of 1940. and. with Ameri ca’s overwhelming war-making re sources, has gored it into irrcsislablj weapons to turn against the aggres sor.” NAZiS SHOW WHITE FLAG NEAR TOULCN '' ' ' IT & 1 ; 1 ' *Mt. " ’ WIS2MtF~ ’ I ( A AFTER BEING CORNERED by American a.- ..'iiit lr;. , a >'ri h b>n ea t of Toulon. < ;• ui <; a hni: jedly improvised white flan surrender to the y . The \ 's-ir:,n doughboy. is. . • ' .n ca.,c the Nazis act up as they move along' U. S. -i I'orp.. ltadiophuto. <Internal >v ;l n. ip, eoi Nasi Retreat To Narrower Line Likely Wii! i'roSahiy Be UnrBilr to Stand A lorn; tin Acme (1)1 I In i'.|-n i I'runt, An,". I ( A I' i A (.■ ■ it. i n ivl it,nl I n a imri'i v..•i . < i11 was 1 nrc'dist today 11 v a Id'll i 11 s l a M i ul i i c ■ r wild il"(,iar:d " i iiiin 't t hink i Im [Jodie can .-tup at the Seine. la plight ,field s.iirs.:a. c 'll Kl , , | : ■ i ;111 ill till.' gl'i ll jpg ,j ’ . .V-rinaml} : ' •• a, i ,-ib(.'i 1 "greatest pud dig even,” with ' "Ms.-mds nl Ger mans smuggling i ;.-1• Bcaliy to escape i ,i.- •.. . o. \ .... i.'.-m Br l ...:.■ : l ice r w.e quote:' saving, -\\,' killed a frightiui lot nl' il ms, Ti c enemy is in bed shape." Elements nl' Ik German divisions were raptured y sierday and, . I thpugh the numin'i' nl prisoners laic • on the British "• - d army i'ri.o' dropped "Ii apprer:. oly, a hcadquar io.; c u ua.'ut a -.nil tile enemy v;. ■ suffering terrific ses in killed and wound' d. He said As the sdciatb '. stands li'-w. 1 don t Ihink the encm\ i tin' Sni ,■ He' must go flat out to a narrower front. . i. ais ousii.ess "l fb'l.'o'iic' us . u - .a rivers i-. liu ished. There will be ope big jump back l i I lit S .nc a u I can't see to" Buell,■ holding iis Iimto." Last Snipers Wiped Out In Mid-Flcrence It "i o' ■, At’ IP A 1 * i- I’i to 11 d - jnn front ,, ■ I relat ivel.v ip i <■ l today, "..Hi n.i 1 t snipers clean ed up m lIm isti 11 pari nl' Eloi pure, I here v.'.i c .'lie lire along the Arno river and "me enemy patrol; were repulse 1 \ bed palrols car l ied out. deep reennaissaneso in liie pnnei- A’" , . 11 Icy and in line Ad riatic seelnr. Heavy icons fell along the front, hampering operations. Meanwhile, the material necessary to crack Hie Gothic line and open a path into northern Italy w> being prepared S .t 15 ><H< FOR NORTH CAROLINA Fair with moderate tcmucra turcs I on I.r 111 and Sunday; slight lv coc ler tonight except little I ; . a ii it . ns. 7 wo So Diet A rm ies Surge Forward dor Gains On Germans In Hitler Plot .smmmm. — THE BELGIAN RADIO announced that tiic I", cr mayor ol Leipzig, Ger i .m;'. Dr. Karl Goerdeler, accused of ji.i: : s'lpating in the plot agnur-t fin . v. is arrested. The Ns? h d offered a reward of $200,ho i for Dr. Goerdeler. (Internationa1 j u. S. BOMBERS HIT PLOESTI OIL AREA I!••in*-, \u-.. Ill (A.'* I izhlor I «»i trpvsps hnmhvii * % *» ni.iri.m <til cmtrr, for tin* Ihod rsnirtcH I S. \»r Furrc Myinir < r,s riilivr cl a > hday. |pri!sR intpnw« il.tk s‘inr* riv mv Ii^lifpis. \ sinnk * mt< c*ii pUscir r i rPslIHs. MARKETS BLOCKED AT THE WEEK-END Fit pnr®. N. C, Aim. ID -f Af’ • - Mocked sails mi the Carnhnas Hor ner 11*‘It m irket. yesterday left a large volume "I '' haven on hand '" Monday's sales. The auction mar'tcls ai e eliv-eri ■ n Saturdtn s. As the second week of the season elided, the War Food Adniimst''ation i op >rted advances ot "lie to two cent * a pound for most lugs and nonde script grades. There was a sharp i. ctease in list amount o, leaf grouts , offered. J-iecisive Victory In Poland Await Russian l.f forts Mo W. V. . n I \ ] ' I Two Soviet .it mil . nr• • i■<i for wan I ioiiav in coor'IioM. ,1 tf lacks q gai;: I a Hitt mile ■ ctnr stretching from Warsaw's east ern sulturlis to the 1 ,ysii ni'iiin tains gaianlilift (lerman Silo■ ia. .Marshal Stalin - high wm m a j t < i t imed the I ’ol isit drive to st rke wit It (ieiiera! < 'herniako\ - sky's assattlf in Past Prussia. (The (ten. .m t " . : 11,■ !t .....ins had i.emeiit d ai 1 lea ." ill a wide trout mil l! iea --! • ; \V;ii - The S r act home ! "■ .nj ti: nseiy awaited • a !.111 : o .Mo -rw,\ galls mini mi.-inn th.n ited ai my iiad won ttie st itv : e Tiie (term.i .. h e .ns q'; .nderea nearly Tan tanks in lour days nl unit* r at tee;..-, v ei e Ian d v. nil a sr.ia,-iiiia; 1 (n i eh i! !i-nge ' M' decisive vie'1 a \ in IT'land. Mar-k.il Konev's ir.-t fkrainp .m y sew ed cnlum caring lip the West hank m 111" Vistula. > 1 i 11 i e in y ’ 11 a i Other amis mashed low.ad several-; Ha Wa i. ". -K i ar.nw on I way. Konev - dest met a •” m the upper V is l e la n ,-t a lie,. I a the sign I (a Mai Ki la • mi t Whit' Hu. • ,.e: ,. rni.v '• • I'gaill the initiative ill tin halfh i gink lour '• e'er; ’ miles e.i-i at Win ..iv, He | ;man ti v. wit] | o"wi I'n I ai 111 le v q a aa last’d I tfci the Hank < > I the n e-p w ( ea i n ." i i tent ("■; Ie|)rl:ng I • 'll ! V, - ga to < ).. iw Retreat Of Nazis May Battle of I ranee Fast I umint; Into Rout for Germans I .oii'tr.n, In;. 1')- i A P )— (ii.p.tith frojii Stork toH.t\ fj noted ;i IV^i tin cor tr .p'-iiclcn! ip, wiving finer Av « ii» in columns u n r non fight *ng their u.i\ through thr Paris nhiirbs. I h*• i r was no Mli.rl mntii mat ion, .mil thr ccrrrspun dent sanl Ins i‘-ports were nnol Fondon, Anpr. !!) (AP) —• ' iiili'd Slat pearliead ; have readied I he S<■ ii:*• river at point 27 and 12 miles northwest of Pari; in a lightning offensive. Perlin aid today, which threat < ned in cin i eft liir ret rent- of ‘ leeinj; ( h rnia n Iielow t he rh - <• r, and to eat i ’an.s from wc.it - ern France. I i IciHli p, to a ce a stimed propoitiei f a If*' t : I ! 1 I I ’ • ; >'t)C,i jr-r I ;j tOP^ matt r ni time. 1 «• • • r -d.' i j . ;rj fed »rniteH . • ■' dt . I'm : '..' if < ! • shin..' .'Pith Oi ’ 1 '■ i tv .vii: ... • 'i:: ■ .• f-.v i i- . -i'll :. 11 * I iii,';- Amei i ■ • i. in-it . vie i oniiiint: '..lUiiu Is'..; v n'ilej Ml f’l ' . i lie liu II lc i.! Ihr wr.lrrii iron1 1 u i' list stage nl pur nil and iiiiiiliil.ilii n. supreme headquar ters ilrelared. Mail) (Hermans ivrr I being unrthw aril and east ward mi lo'it alter Allied planes dr trnverl and damaged .l.800 ir liirl*'s mi congested roads in At horn s. ’i : a ■ alio r|i■' 1 ' ■. i !■ ,rt of AI:. i ; , I1"!..:,, mg Pi ... '-nl : i "ir V ii'liy. and that 1 ;. ■ ■ I .a i ■ ■ 1 "i ■! nl go . q i ,n icn1. ■ 1 •• ■1 i ,;i h " i a 11 ' a i v 11 ■ I IV,1 1 There was no confirmation Iren) snpi'ine headquarters of spearheads reaetiing Nantes and the (Herman report of Aineriean Vernon, near Paris. If true, it meant It. (Hen. Patton's tank columns were building a serins m p ckets south of tiie almost hiidgeless Seine, inr the (Herman •a" en1 i: arm) and oart of the lifleenth arm) falling hack from defeat in Normau.lv. A : • Betti: h si.,: i nflicei .at :> ■ id i'llic!‘Vi F.eUi .M.n shai Gen re, . V"! Kluge's ..ires ivuld n ■ .1 at the Seme. i’.■ i IV i ;,n lr ires pushed ■ : ■!i ::if thr Normandy coast id in y nd Caen in a pursuit which 1 1.000 (Hern : —[’.outs again t .- mg estimated 40.in.id i • Sr a • and the laws "t the But ton threat. !'• d< ist . which said Am erica! tank: 1 on fight in.; Gem. m V r . - null: of Par's, added ' a uirrrt 11,rust of these Amori •• ,n : s n Par s I - net ->n at he mrixtent." Supreme r id | larters n : nl,aired teen e.v nt Patton's drive, hi11 said aim • rd pati'nl 1 id p shed out. I r n On iiv. rtiarlre.s ,nd Orleans. in .> fm ; west ,nd - nth o: Paris, In sev er; i d rretic ns. and in s ane rasf's had withdrawn. VV : h i.a\ al ■ flight from Pari - '• ere German Amlw tviilot Otto Abetz and all personnel of the Herman r i i ssy. Beilqi radio -aid. A .spokes man was q , tnl a- saying no detail* ■ aild lie givri until Monday. Vvar Is Going Very Badly For Japs On Most Fronts 'I i■ \ . i-M1 I’m- ,i With A1 lirri Inimiii-i ■- |)• indm; Nipp1 pci'' position Iron. ’I .i n r 1 the Vi-lvano i-lands, while- g; nine light ng in ('hi a si"--.-.i\. d ndeci siwiy. the v. :p win' I', li.i i'll' Jatnr along n si of In i- fronts i iday. Nevertheless. .Japan's c -n r-’ii for the study ot in si war problems chose to propose the postwar --stub lishment of "three regional bl ms o nations"—the East Asiatic, the Euro pean and the North and South Amor —i-.- o -' o'1 *s le 'li-r n. »!'at , Mouiv !ilr, General Douglas Mac Arthur announced today his air planes had attackde Japanese air planes had attacked Japanese air | the M( uccas. and had scored (lire'’ 1 bomb lids on a Japanese merchnnt man in Mindanao's Davao Gulf, in ' j the Philippines. Admiral Nimitz reported that his - planes bombed two islands in the f • olvano group 750 miles south oi - "i-vo. Wednesday and also bombed - and strafed Roto and Pagan in the J l ai'. j,- and T-uk. n ♦he Cs relines. 9
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