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Toulon Virtually Encircled By Hard-Driving Frenchmen Hull Hints This Nation Will Back World Peace With Strong Commitment fVare Conference Told That Force Must lie Available U i hniglon, Aug. 212—-(AT) — Secretary ol State Hull open ed the history-making postwar security talks today, with a dec iai at a n I hat t he organization ol pr.iei must he hacked by force "available promptly, in adequate measure, and with certainty.” Hi .1 section in a prepared ad dr, trongly indicated that the United States it. entering the four |, , icting with plans tor strong (•!r:.t' a nts on the use of its own |, : at support of world security In; g. ::ei Uions to ta me. Sir Alexander C. Cadongan, Bri i ■ |iresentalive, appealed Lor the Bn’ American. Soviet a d Chi ju'-i a o ermnonts to act speedily in creel-w: a world peace structure in urdi ’ i gw. sonic of it working belore tin ■ ,i ends. Hi i : tciulv referred to ttie British pi■ . which so far has produced little (’ i deuce ol support in ollicial ii11 11* r hei e. that at a minimum tin- mg lour nations should band I., iv e, t* get her now in "me sm” i i .lonal cmiiiciI until a perma nent • , ami/.alion can be formed. I ■ i m are moving fast and pcac-' n ei e sooner than some expect, Alex nuler said in his prepared II would be folly to delay th( ■ i ‘ruction of at least some fi ■ , ’ !. of tuturc international co "i.t(■ n until the problems of pear ' i mu nt i with all their insistency.’ I •I'M’..mg speaking tor President B • • ‘ It as well as bin -ell. Hull, a -m ni host, opened the first . Uii Inst international meeting t not a secunt v organizati m si., i rnal work started on the dl t- o I I • ague of Nat a ns "a year ■ ac 1 l ■ i : o ,i d Ambassador (Ironr !. s a i epre.scntiitl' ('. :.|iol;e n i *’ i ,,r a, Hull, who then turned ovei n • ■ i lmg American role to tbid'o S‘ . ’ ii v of State Kdw.ird I! Slot • tunu .. .11. Cotton Rises Near Finish York, Aug 21.-(AI’)— I"1; ' iic, opened live to to cents a ini'1 1 r.'. cr. Noon prices were 20 t" 4.7 " Mi-, bale higher. October 21.66, 1> '.Or 21.11, March 21.28. IV. Close Open U< i 21.61 21 Mi lier,' .. . 21.12 2 1. hi M-nrli . 21.22 21.21 May 21.00 20.1)7 July . 20.71 20.00 _ Georgia Belt Is Preparing To End Sales Valdosta, Gy., Aug. 21 —(AIM— ■ La i week's sales of 35,771.666 pounds of Hue-cured leaf brought the sea K°o s highest prices on the Ge.v'gi-,j-j Florida tobacco markets, the War j ^°od Administration reported. 1 he average for the week enoing Augi'.M If) was $35,24 cents, with the season's average standing at $36.08. Market observers consider the crop about !)!) percent sold. 1'bc market at Hahira closed last week. and several others announced 'bat Iinal sales would be held this week. Gross sales and averages for last week and for the season were; Gerogia 31.929.432 at $35.18; and 93-774.122 at $36.98. Florida, 33,842.234 at $35.72; and i M.7HI.672 at $36.98. HFAIHUf for NORTH CAROLINA. Fair to partly cloudy with j moderate temperatures tonieb aad Tuesdav Represents Dewey "" '' ill liiiwiimii> PROMINENT attorney John rosier Dulles (above) has been rhosen !>f Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Republican presidential nominee, to represent him in a series of conferences with Secretary of State Hull on postwar intei national plans. (Intpruatinintl) Submarines Get 19 Mare Jap Vessels l ight Cruiser Is Included in Bag Of Enemy Shipping Washington. \ nc. *—-lAFl-— American submarines in die ,*;§■• cilic ami Ear East have sunk Itt mme .laiiane.se ships, including a light cruiser and an escort ves sel. the Navy reported tod;", bringing to 7ft(i die total of enemy vessels sunk by submarines. Mnkin" it first report on United States submarine activities in eleven flays, the Navy said these vessels lied been sunk: One light cruiser, one escort ves sel. one large tanker, three medium cargo transports, eleven medium for go vessels and two small cargo ves sels. The t dal id combatant ships sunk by submarines rose In ati. while eleven others have been reported probably sunk and 1 1 damaged. American under water craft have sunk bad non-combatant ships, prob ably su: k 2(i and damaged 10], bring ing the total ol Japanese vessels ot all kinds sunk, probably sunk or damaged since Pearl Harbor bv submarines. Nazi Losses Are 109,575 Result Of Patton Offensive With the 1'. S. Third Army in ' France. Aug. 21—(AIM—IX Gen. l’atlon'.s F. S. third army has inflicted 109,575 casualties on the Germans since August 1 in his dash across Brittany ajid Northern France to the outskirts of Paris. The third army has captured 49,650, killed 11.025 and wounded an estimated 48.900. The losses constitute a total of about eleven Nazi divisions in their present depleted state. Information was lacking today on most of Pattons columns probing through France like the arm of an octopus. Refugees slipping from Paris reported street fighting of in creasing violence between French resistance forces and the Ger iitbitlc liic capital. U. .S. Infantry In Within 15 Milos Of Marseille City Koine, Auir. JI '• A I’) i I.inl hi tvtnj-r Kn itch I n»o}> . . irt nally encircled T n u I u n, bn akinpf tlirouyli to within three miles of the naval base, while American infantry, within fifteen air line miles ol Marseille, fanm d old today tlirouyh the Ihiranee val ley and headed for t lie It hone against disorganized enemy re sistance. The Americans sped forward on ‘both sides ol the town <1 Term is, eleven miles mirth ol Aix-en-lo- - cnee, across (lie Durance river, and jei cd French patriot, who had sur rounded Nazi troops within the town. Another of (tenoral Patch’.- Amer ican co-11mins charged on ,o\ oral miles In llii' northeast ol Aix. key junction ol ■ "vni highways la mile. north ol Marseille. (The German radio said Al lied \iarships shelled Toulon yes terday. It claimed hits on one of “several" battleships and one ol nine cruisers in the attacking fleet by Nazi shore batteries, which, it was claimed, also str uck a destroyer and torpedo boat.) A dispatch from an Associated Press correspondent with French troops chiving on Toulon, said French commandos, joined with patriot for ces and lormcr members of the French Navy, were don mating la - Faron area just north ol Toulon. The Ogrma; s have given no in dication o; strength nr determination to make a real -land in or near the mouth of the Rhone - alley, the na tural invasion highway lor a junc ture with General Ki wiihuwer ln northern France. Di..organization among the German.- indie,e d ihe Nazi command might he resignui t> eventual licieida'ion of the whol • ■ rca. and can hope to ;ai age only a portion of it beleaguered remnant .. The ea. l ei n . ■ a r n ol I lie bridge head faring Inward ('nine., and Hi:" Italian 11 ontier wa report"'I inns11 y table," wilia lit i-elerence to new gaii s. In most sect' r . o| Hie rapidly ..xpanding southern France bridge head, the -evriith nmy lollowod Hi" aeties ol bypa-siiig enemy Iron-: points. ■J'he eoont of pi I mv, pa ■ < <1 Hie I t.nno m i)-;- .mi - -• n c comm" !lt Oily. bays Uen, Ike Has Utmost Cooperation General lb .*■())i'• • i-t Headquar ters, Aug. ’I (At’) Sei relary ol ihe Navy .lame V I'1 are-taI ram’ away from a eonfereuee will. (len eral Eisenhower torlay "Iremenon., I.v impre.-.acd" 1111 the pint ol eo operation which lie said the up preme eommander ha:; lo.dcrcd among the I!nti. h anil Amei u an mil Ineir allies. "Wlial he Im . done in Hie way of resolution beta ecu u anil Hu Bnt i li —and all our allic- —is a great example lor the rest of the world," ■orrcst.il said. The leerelar.v came ’ • alter watehing landings in southern Kranrc. lie Iff 1 this morning to visit Cherbourg. In his entliisiasti,; praise ol General Eisenhower, Eor restal said: "The confidence of both sides in his fairness has been maintained be cause lie pursues one itiea: the win ning ol the war. Everything else is secondary. It is a pattern of e >op cration which could well be continu ed alter the war." The navy secretary said the pres sure is on in tiie Pacilir and that the trend in that theatre was compara ble to that in Europe. "Speaking in terms of acceleration of our own planning," he said, "we arc ahead of schedule.” He cautioned against over-optim ism on the .Japanese campaign should Germany collapse suddenly. Irregularity With Stocks New York, Aug. 21.—(AP) — Pricos developed moderate irregul arity in today's stock market alter a fairly steady opening. Modest advances were posted for American Telephone and Interna tional Harvester. Laggards includ ed Chrysler and Goodrich. Bonds and commodities were | YANKS READY »-OR SPRING INTO SOUTHERN FRANCE ■* T—IIII! MW 11—0,1.H*. . ! >*PISW» * '«■ PREPARING FOR the invasion of the sooth of Franee, thousands of American troops of the fit d Iiivirv-ri •!•••,ji the order on an Italian beach that will ; nd them n hoard I .he ha: I ,craft in the barky -und. F. n e -• -e, ; •round and take it easy while others run over final instructions. Signal Corps photo. (/tit -mat j■ ■ at) Three German Divisions Are Smashed By Reds A t Wa rsaw Army’s Superforts Hit Double Wallop At Jap Home Lands V.’ 1 .hi rh- n. 'mm ’1 CAP) Thr Arm;/'. Amj . t - i 11 < . .r , . |r;»! t J : . m pi n|if t i' . 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The hi I In . .i *1 i, • • in i' y inrhi hrie . !m .>» • i lnl 1 ■ ieo j.: i" ■ H' .ly. f’• .ii - .111y i. ;i! Wi" nr. ,<1 bn r* ;11 .•» ' < ‘ .; in J he . Jj .! il ('i i ‘.Mil I h;i t Mi' i' i i • • .• -• rii. < ■< Ie< 1 11 nnrthem ' . v11 ini ;iimI 'hr ■ * (•-i ■ ( I mijm i.. -1 i < i ' n ni W-<r I n I »m* ' - • i ’ •! 11 : .'•» I ' hn^nl; n" i . SI r n;n ;iI !•:. <• * n lln* ;.i-nn j .:;ipu <>! ! I • : i Ini. 'I In ',(>l 11 i i ( fni f’i\ 11- -I . i . ill'll i i Ii. 11 n 11;n•!. .» .. . tin- I i r r I r I. vij n; 11 < |H T,V I ■ > • I III prnji IlC ’ !|i.- 1 t'.i ill irk <n T< »k v > ] i .»f 1 r I hv < I■ 'in-i • I I )i ml 111 |c Aim” I I h ! '.I \ '. Jinrl n-1 inf1 m ;! mn oil re; n,| t n| hr' ■ «r in I b r .iy. {Nazis Evacuate Defense Along Border Of Spain I: in. ' .iii. 11'I (AT) Three : ;; * 11 , \ i * .eil rrm.or. begin he||mg 1:■: ■ 1 min-existenI flei ■ man fleien e m the Bayanne aic.i ut southern I r.inee before dawn to day. Spanish residents of this bnrdci town, HI mile- t i the south, had a grandstand .-eat. The cruiser which first patrolcd the coast south of Bordeaux evi dently were feeling out German de fenses, but dicA only an occasional reply from Isa > os three coastal na. terms near Bayonne. South of Bay iime, Hiller'- At MU' .' -1 iv p I• pilin' i-I .I Itin' lli m in i. : I iff i <ii 11 l.i .1 n 11; 111, lea . - in:; V • r el mi <• '-.voiT,.. m mm. The three .\llierl warship wen plainly ■■ isihle limn the Spanish -.i .'.hen the Inn veihnn their ap )ji i ar:; end li! ted. They .helled the ma t line iielhn dicall.v ini' mure Ilian halt an hnur. Splashes el shells in the water amend the cruisers trnm tne lignt (dm mail enunter fire were aim semi, but no lid.- were observed. Tin' warships ceased fire about 1 ta ■' m. and disappeared norlli ■a ard. American Bombers Fire ()il Plants In Fneim Countries I Hump, Any. 1 — (AP) Aiioui ' ,100 American bombers set lire to 1 two oil rofmone in Poland and mi'' ' in Czechoslovakia yesterday, and for the first lime encountered only a few enemy lighters only over those heretofore fiercely defended regions. The Kortressc.-. bqmbcd a bn; oil and rubber factory at Oswiec. in Poland, about thirty miles west of Krakow, starting three great tires. The Liberators caused fires and explosions in a Vacuum Oil re finery at Czehowice, Poland, 45 miles west of Krakow, and a State oil refinery at Dubova, Czecho slovakia, 70 miles southwest of Kra kow. Paralysis Grows Worse Throughout Nation in August Washington. Aug. 31 — (Al'l— The rnlilic Health Service said today the infantile paralysis e| i dentie grew worse in the first two weeks of August. Cases reported in the week ended August 5 numbered 033. In the following week there were 1,01 a eases. This brought the nationwide total since the start of the out break to nearly 4.351) oases. The weekly number of cases during July increased from 300 in the first week to 738 in the last week. The July total of 3.300 cases was about 1.000 more than in July. 1043.3 the highest o4 re cent years. Nazis Lose Heavily Trying to Liberate Pailic Front Army M* trow, Atg. 21 (A I’) So', iei fore ; Iv..- >• .^mashed three Nazi divi. inns in the San rh mierr. salient below Wai'savv, while other Red army units have yielded slightly before costly (lermcn attempts to rescue pos sibly 'Juo.oiiu troops isolated on I lie Unit ic front, a Ru - -ban com mimiqne announced today. Ill tin- Warsaw sector, meanwhile. Russian troops 'nave driven rlosr-i to Pruga, s lic.rl) to the cast ol tee <■ 11 v imi )m■ * raptiired ..oiac 1 a d p1 at i*1;i- I,, th(. northeast, I n>nt Hi. - )J 11 l ln■ S viol. Ki i si I . nnc army unit:, ■ h ro .1 - tut p the "si haul: oi the V .to) i. i <|iijri.ia rl ttv irapperl Gei mm . nm Hi • Sat ili.ini. /. A - tiic cneni.v r■. i ■ crl to ic remler. most ol flip en ' ., clcd enemy troops vero killed." tin. 11 . : • 11 ir iii; 1 letin dcclare:!. The victory treed the I kniin ia 11 lino forces fur a pnssibl*’ drive rjllier southwest of flic rail lortress of Krakow, north low.nil Warsaw, or directly west .oriiss the Polish plains toward German Silesia, which would snap the I’olish capital s i oinmunii ation lines. The light Itci 1 .1 rni.v n et .c oc :t i i’ll ill the .tidga' a sect• ir, ihm ii. G ■: 11 ... Riga. w. here 111 Germ ,m t.oiks at d -el I-propel led g m hit. . . )..ii * si i% nocked ■ *0 111 Fslomi i, third Ha it ic army ' op . . apt i;r iig more t it a lad pop. aicd place., drove t 1 within seen miles oi Tarto i n the Tallmn-Rig a rail way. 1 !c|o \ the K.-t.imi oi -ci ' - > . :n I .at is, .seventh Malt ic army forces. " acpmg op more 111.io -c cuty plan s. idvanecd In w ithin ii mile ! Ill Riga. ’1 or ,-cit d and third M.dl ic armies wci c hanimi’roig oar., dll’ rare I I’,, chc- in 1 lie Mallics, cut ■ u I by the Fiist Maltie army drive that reached the Maltie Sea 2a null's west at Rigi several weeks ago. The Russian war bulletin said Rus sian troops had wrecked more than 1.300 German tanks during the past nine days ol lighting . ai the f ’ • 1.h plains, ah ng the Giro .in edge ot Fast Prussia and in the Maltie re publics. Allied Units In Parts Of Paris City Underground Rises; Seine Is Crossed Ry American J anks M it h 1! r i t i - 11 I mop i n I'1 ranee, .Auk. ~ I (AT)- Men • era I Sir llernard M. Alontjoirn nry 11iliI hi tmops toniirht : " I lie end i/t’ t lie v. a r is in ■iuiil. Met !i i finish off the bn i ness in record timc. Mont^cmery's special me oik - said the Merman army in north west franco had suffered a do. t;si\ e defeat. I here will he ma ny sit rpri <• in store for ihe fleeinir reni na nt' he a cserted. Montgomery aid tie' victor' had I teen '‘definite, complete atio decisive.’' In Paris •Supreme HciirtfpjHriiw,, Allu-d fv,_ pedition.n y Knree, Aug. II !AI’) United States armnrerf roiiumi. speared on both side, ni i1,.; i(j., and Allied Ibmks v. - i e rcpoi left M ready living n many parts ot Hi•• historic capital as ..a 11 "dergromid army staged a I t ree revolt in an ticipatii n ol c rly - liei nion. A ■ erican tank.- estal>1 isheci ■ firm lr idgrhcad .wins, the Seine at Man tes. H."> mile north west o| ['an opening a path to the living i>■. •, i CO.) I III) miles i a it tier noil h Probing thrusts hi the Seme n, points Hi. I’o and Ha miles smithes, of Paris put 1 he Aloe, in po.-atm i ‘o sweep completely arooed the <■ t* and toward the World Wa battle fields nt Heims, Soissons and ii. * Marne river. General ration's third armv vanguards were fighting in the vicinity of \ersaillcs. ten miles from the heart of Paris. where Hie pea<c was signed in Hie Mall of .Mirrors in Ifflfl. (The Gw man new . igenrv ti'ttt aid Amei ran rernnnn i.',:r <'r foi'T, are m the viburhs ol Par - t .nit i (nvasi*ni ■ i the Ion i*oi y m t)i . f die Seine at Mantes threatened Os eoinpre ss lurlbci the To-mile-long. aO-mile deep coi ner bein'," the rive.. ' holy ei w s o ii | . i,[ if-; ,\:., ■, ri i ■ ■ i .j oi . I r<III! a ■ I lore , loll oi p. "|-;e| , with were lighting desperately to o-rap ' the hope ,,f executing i German . turn i ri. . mi ' - . an dll a ;,t bndgeles , Seine. M idi.v charging lilt I tlm Allied bands n| ,|i-el. Hip Germans made ' i' lent i■ i; 'I't:, in break ■ >ut of tiie traps, one ia.t night ind ti° tber yesti'i'lay, held dispatchc, re I orleil. I hirty-lhj-ee fani; . ere reported i" t is iveH in pie two (nil . j r i c lunges. FIVE NEW CASES OF POLIO LISTED Raleigh. Aim. >1.— (AD — I’ivc non cases of infantile paralysis urn* rrportrrl today to the State Health Depart ment. brine im; thr total since •Innr 1 to 571. \eu cases u err reported today from fiaslon, Harnett. Aleck Irnhurc’. Pender and Rutherford counties. IMVI KSITV Mi l) S( HOOt. PI. \ ( I S M 1 OR \IM \TJ s ( h ape! Hi!!. A li. ‘.’I Tin* f’;ii'e -ily >1 Tt I • ( ii' »Ima has rnm[i|rk-l • Ik* plnrnnent in huadmn medical rol lejiu s ;,)1 1" er die muni rv <•! all .to • dent v lv- 1 ill complete the tv* <i-yea*' medical co'ir c -ii (‘nrnlina on S«*p ternoer 9. The list ot siuflenls '''hn are '»in plcting the t\\n-year cv.r.-e m t}*<* University Medical Sellout, with the,, homo towns and the whool- to ** Jtieh they will tran.-Uv in September. announced today by Dean \\\ tJe-'t F-ierrymll. RAF Bombs Nazis Along Seine All During Night salvaged In in the abortive i;i|n r.nn paign n> inv ade England v a.- bln-ted. American lighter bombers in d > light and evening attacks mapped out JO others. A simultaneous melt - long attack west of the Seme, through which the beaten Nazi , are steaming from the Falaise trap, knocked out 130 vehicles and 10 t, uks io bring the day's total for both dm RAF and the United States Army air force to more than 350 vehicles aid nearly 100 tanks. The attacks are taking place a scant 25 miles down the Seine Irani . I he American bridgehead. Inn.ii n, Aug. 1. < AT) KAK Mitchell- and Mosquito- raced up land down the nur Seine all last night bombing and ,-trating Nazi ri\ I cr-bank troops and concentrati >n barges .-Iruggl'iie across the 2(Hi-yard water barrier which impedes Ger man.- fleeing the Allied armies in France. The Nazis' lour principal cro-.-mgs were hammered in treetop level at tacks as the record scourge from die , skies today swept inti its fifth day, j despite handicapping weather. A line of barges extending some I three-fourths of a mile and reportei
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