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Hcnftcrsmt Daily Dispatch
THIRTi-FIRST YEAR ltheka' i amfvp'rLar_HENDERSON, N. Till A V AFTERNOON. Ai;<;UST ^l, i 10 1 rUBLisHKr.^veh^^ftbrnoon fjVE CENTS COPY
ROMANIAN ARMIES MARCH N6 ON HUNGARY
Super Salesman
11F.UF IS A FIGHTING Yank vhn
I■ i .1 good lino of talk. Sgt. Alex
■ ■ 11 ■ i Balter, of Pittsburgh, Pa.,
c ■! i ■ ■ i need 400 Germans that they
■lip surrounded on the outskirts
• Bred, France. To his surprise, all
s rendered. (International)
Election May
Be In Doubt
Long Period
Delay in Counting
Soldier Vote Could
Hide Results Weeks
W\>. York, Aug. 21 — ( A J’) —
fA;i1eleven states will not
omul their soldier vote on eloc
ii n day, November 7, it is pos
■ :!Y' l hat the outcome of the
lull presidential election will
remain in doubt for several
u>'C'k., after the polls close.
.!rl the election be unusually
■! , the winner might not ho known
i.'il a- late ;<s December 7, when
'1 ,< ' invass of the Nebraska's absen
lo- - "tcould determine whettier t't°
St of .even electoral votes would be
i a 11 i President Roosevelt or G""
Thomas K. Dewey.
r;>e-c possi.bilities grow nut an
A >ted Press poll which indicate,
;r.i'• than 2,00(1.000 men and women
■i '• armed forces have applied for
' liter ballots and that, by (he
in i 'onservativp estimate of State
■ •• tj. ii '.(finals, approximately twice
' ■ number will vole in November.
Die aildicr vote is likely !" he
e or m most of (lie eleven states
i.i'h do not immediately ‘abolate
old the eleven - including I-Vnii
■n a. with 36: California v 111 22
1 NTi- -onri with la - have a corn
ed electoral vote o| 116. Presi
*t• fit Wilson’s electoral margin tver
1 'h-olfx Kvanx Hughes in 1916 was
■ nlv 23.
h Pennsylvania, where officials
f” j• ■ I 700,000 to 300,000 soldier bal
1 1 . the absentee vote will be cmn'ed
'■•o' cniher 23. "1 hr vote of 100,000
1 ■ i 'a.i 00 persons could easily swing
• ' ' a election," commented a nie.ni
i"■ i "f Governor Kdwartl Marlin': nf
' ia| family. "We nitty not know
" I a. has won until the absentee volts
al' counted.”
t ahfornia, whose secretary nl state
I'lf-flifts a service vote of 17.1,000 to
I’liii.oof), will pot canvass it until No
v ci a her 21. Missouri, receiving more
•li.m 1,00(1 ballots applications daily,
"ail start counting absentee rotes Fri
day alter elect ion day.
(>f Ihe states which will defer their
- ilriicr \ til.c count, eight gave Prcsi
't1" l Ria sevelt a total of 99 elect. ;al
' otes in 19TO. The other three gave
Wendell Willkie 17.
Hitler’s Grip Upon France Is Rapidly Slipping
Americans
Reach Swiss
I
Border Line
U. S. Forces Also
Push hast I owarrl
German hrontiers
|
Geneva. Switzerland. An?. !1
— (AIM—American troops nave
reached St. .Inlicn. »n the Swiss
linn tier, livr miles smith of Ge
neva. A reliable report said
other advanced units also arriv
ed at I'.vian. twelve miles from
St. Gin?i Iph, on the Swiss lion
tier.
London. A tig. 24—Adolf Hit
ler s grip on France slipped with
almost unbelievable rapidity in
almost every direction today,
i General Patch’s United States
I seventh army reached the Swiss
frontier after a drive of 20U
miles in ten days through the
French Alps from the .Mediter
ranean.
General Patton's United States
third army had pushed sixteen miles
beyond Sens, til! miles noth' as’ of
liberated Paris, toward the German
tn.nticr, lot) miles away.
The p.vo lorce.s apparently ".ere
lc,. than 200 miles Irom a jimepon,
isolating all southern Trance—but al
ready much ol c.aidhein Tiauec i;
tree.
An Algiers broadcast said Bor
dens. Inc French iiort on the At
lantic roast, had hern captured
h.v a combinpfl trice of Ameri
cans driving south from Ibr l.oire
and French Maquqis. who liad
marrlicd north from ttic Spanish
border.
Patch's ,e\ enth army, continuing
its lightning pace nortli'"ec-t. has
captured Marseille and driven into
the Rhone valley, rapturing Sal"n.
only 20 miles Irom Arles on Ihe north
ot ihe i ivrr.
Trench patriot:- ' eve reported hi
irnliol ot the entire Lvon region, the
great southern metropolis on the
Rhone in southern Trance, and at
Perpignan, just north "t 'he Spanish
border on the Gull of Lyons.
April and Mar-nlle. the lu'M
citir. ot Trance had been captured
in a single 21 horns.
The second french armored
division and some American units
wcr° reported to have entered
Paris. American. British. Cana
dian and Allied units rode rough
shod over parts of two Nazi ar
mies eornered below the Seine.
With a swiftness indicating the
completeness ot the German rout, the
American third army thrust 25 miles
northwest along Ihe south haul; ri
the Seine toward the sea and rap
tured 1*111>iis, one ol the key ferry ,
!• points where Tield Marshal von ;
Kluge had been trying to rescue i
his broken forces. '
This thrust, to within .'ll) miles of ■
the mouth of the Seine, and only
nine miles from Rouen, narrowed
to disastrous size the pocket into
■which the splintered divisions ol the
‘German seventh and fiftee-th armies'
were caught.
This and other advances cut the ,
‘ pocket uown to halt its lormor size.
Nelson Gives Senators
i t
Complaints Of The Army
l''a hington, Aug. 2\—-f AD — VVI’B
( " ninnn Donald Nelson was dis
*!" 1 <1 today to liave told Senate iu
Vf-..tigatnrs ‘ that Lt. Gen. Ilrehon
•Somei veil complained of manpowei
■ i" i tages on the eve of a recent cut
l';" I. in airplane production that rc
Ira i’d thousands of workers for other
jobs.
Although acknowledging the need
"f men for the expanded require
ment . of specialized items. Nelson
said in his testimony last week be
tvr, the Senate war investigating
committee that virtually all critical
munitions programs “are being met.’
He added that the remaining prob
lem would net be solved “by letting
loose a blunderbus against the whole
manpower situation, or by general
edits and broad limitations on the
use of labor."
■ Testifying that the airplane cut
back would solve the manpower sit- ,
nation in the forging industry com-J
pletcly. Hie WI’H chief said the army
had anticipated the cutback for three
months.
He added that when Somervell,
chief of the Army’s services of sup
ply was talking with War Stabilizer
James K. Byrnes "about the general
shortage of manpower, 1 told Gen
eral Somervell, 'You have an air
plane cutback coming soon, probably
next week’."
Release of the testimony also dis
closed a statement from Nelson that
he is rot kept informed as to mili
tary reserves at the tront.
"There arc no figures available to
I us ;,t all." he said. “Once they leave
storage in this country, you have no
I figures available as to what the re
serves arc." |
WHEN AN ADDING MACHINE WOULD COME IN HANDY
A LARGE BAG of K;r/i pr i'-oncr: slowly file pn:-t American MP’s chocking them <»fT poi rv.hcro ! 'hind th#
front in the south of Franco. Tim Germans arc being taken captive in such inrrea. ng nm • •••! ; i • • \;
troops arc hard out to move them witii any japidiW to dii.vjii uenr. Signal Corps I<’adi<>pholo. (/aten ai-.-ynal)
Two Mighty Russian Armies
Sweeping Into Mid-Romania
Rrrls f iirtlirr North
.Slnrhing at Nazis
In Bcvaslating Blow
Mo -,r..v , Any. 11 ( AIM
f ';»)>(■ i v <• I'l'i void rd lx i d 11 it if,;
< | j )1 jr ] wmll tin' troop., lit
Clonnapy and Romania today,
w liili- two groat jlu. aa army
group.; swept toward tin- heart
of tho oil and wheal kingdom In
dri\a a ppa rout ly a j mod at trap
ping any Nazis st ill in t!io;r
pat h.
( 'nltip ,r. a n ,if l or ill .<■ I*tl Hid
nil) Ii; p. 1.. n r I , ■ illllnuf'd .1 [ III«-1 ■
Troops which .sci/.rd lleviro
ii fir declare! overrunning Ini"
flrrrls ol German war factories.
Hod Star said tin- I.wow-Krakou
railroad bristled with German
uar pi -sits ol all kinds. I hr ad
vance moved within 17 miles of
Tamm. rrrlhrr north. Itu ,ian
eelniniis were within .’{a mites
ol lirak-iu and 7a of German Si
te aa it . If. *"
’ . . I I a . .1 I '. V a ‘ '.av, 1:0' f h'd
a ill, v Or.Ill) ill til'o Its lie. ..f Id,'
j11:p i: •.inI rnni miinioat ion . In111 "I
Mnl/a. .’O null.- iiido'-r the F.n.;* Pi o -
;a'i fl ,n I !•'! Ill .'ll) nil1!:'" 0 ■ I
i::i i iv :|>1 i 11 i: :; (7oi'inan aiar ir; d. -
fending 'do Reich province, md
IVa-iW
The Ha ian i ri\ anon ron!innod nn
:nii i i'opti d r r\ .irrl ll.o I lano!n■ a in
and fialati Gap At midnight S, ~
v-no 11, ■ ip.-, laid galloped wot hi o I ‘>7
milo oi Hucli,'ii'csl and 14(1 m ’i■ ’
PI,,,' ,;i -tJ renter, and les.- id, -'>0
I, m thr 11anith of the Rlanube. a
pi r - i | ,i; 11 I! rnspoi'1 i rU'l'.v i .r Hiller
T'lipi-i■ i,..-airy lawns v. ■- e among
111,11 - * ■ ihaii Ini) town.- which tell .Yes
terday ail along tie' eastern front, a
t antinued on Page Five
Hungary Fears Coup
To Desert Germany
London, Aug. M ( A10 The ,\’n/i <-<.lli rolled puppet I re
gime of Hungary ordered today the di solution of all political
parties, apparent ly fearing inlrigne to tale Hungary out ot the
war.
The cahinet order wa publiJird in the ulTieial (.a/ellc and
n reported hy I >M1, official (.ertreui new .igeney, decreed that
’\wry political party "irrespective of n political outlook,' must
dissolve at once.
Property belonging to former pnrtv nrganizat ion.> wa.
frozen pending further disposition. ■ •" ere penalties were pro
vided for violations.
Allied Troops I i^ldiitii
Their Way Within Paris
*
(irnuiiv, Keputlial*'
At mist ice Signed
Wit!) French Units
liomli'ii, tug. ft— fAD—flrn
ri al I isi idem it’s headquarters
disclosed today that Ylliod troops
uni’ lighting their way into Pa
lis, large srrtiims of which arc
held In the French forces of the
interior,
I'all ol 'll" rily i,. expected mo
ment only, lea I nr as AI lied hearl
qunrlcrs is "i eieia ned il has not yet
lice; liberated (icneral l)r Gs;;l !■
and I he '■nmn: nnler of the French
forces 111 me Ulterior, General Koe
nig, l.ad ummincrd early yesterday
that the i• ain 1 a 1 was lideraterl and
their Istemeeu were hailed bv g"V
crnmonijl Ic ders the world oxer.
French underground leaders, alter
four days nl arret lighting in Pari.-,
nrgi bated an ''armistice" with die
German garri.s.ni, presumably on die
terms that the Nazis were to leave
the city, .supreme headquarters "l
the Allied expeditionary force said
The Germans apparently repudiated
the agreement anrl^kept on lighting,
and the underground called on die
Allies for help.
While err it popular interest ecu.
("red on die struggle in Pan . m
operation nl I’m greater military im
port was going on down the See e,
where Allied armies were attempt
ing In destroy utterly the i|<'ci'ig
German armie,.
The "armi re" negotiations by the
French street fighters in Paris ap
parently xx e' e made without previous
knowledge nl II"' supreme rnmmand.
A direi'dxe piovides that no Held
commander r n negotiate an armis
tice w ilh the i lermai's unless Gene; a I
Kisenlioxx ia gix'es Ids consent.
Up tn .1 late hour today, no xvid
had been reecned at suprem,. In-;.l
qoarter:- dial Allied forces artnady
had entered Paris.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Partly dourly and continu/'d
inoderatrly warm tonight; Fri
*tar fair and not Quite so '.varnr.
2,300 Planes j
Of U. S. Hit
Nazi Targets
I .oiul'in, • ig. .’ I ( A P) — A v >:;i
trniada of ’,300 A i neriean plane.-,
flashed a dozen targets in Germany :
nut on the Czech herder t< day, while
he RAF bombed and strafed a Nazi
"Dunkirk' atlem|)t lrom tile gteat
KH t (it I ,e I lav re, at the mouth o1' 'he
ieine. mil.v a lew miles beyond ad
'anciiig Allied lines.
The attacks in Germany, by 1,30!)
icavy bombers and 1,000 lightei .,
'(.instituted one ol the greatest as
;aults ever mounted by United .States
lir forces.
Targets ineluderl s.vnttietie oil
limits at Merseburg, Misburg and
fuhrland in Germany, and Unix on
he Czechoslovak border. Also bomb
id were an oil refinery ueai Dies
lent two airplane plants at Brim.—
vick; German air force stations near
VIerseberg; a radio factory at Wic
nar and other mdu.,tii.d targets at
■Gel.
As American armor slashed 2d
niles down the Seine in new light
Hrg adxanccs, the harried Ge'mans
Hit a !)ig tleet of liglit s*'rvice v.ar
ihips and other vessels from the
hreatened ports on ttie Seine e.-Ju
ny. For eight solid tiours, RAF
:oastal command planes in relays
joinbarded the flotilla, t.inking out
damaging an undetermined nienhri
if ships. Many were set alii r.
TYPHUS KPIIHY1IU
TOt.l KUAUHUS
Wit: on, Aug. til (AID Thirty
two cases of typhus lexer have been
•eported in Wilson county this year.
29 of them since June 1. county
health authorities said today. F.x
tensive rat eradication campaigns
haxm been carried out and experi
ments for control of the disease are
jnder vay.
Casualties
2,975 Over
South France
\V'i -h mi'.i mi, \ M (AIM Gf'p
|-pf 11 v o-l \V • i ! .tit o’ . • • p•«i ter! t* -
i Ha v t h ■ 11 H'‘- j, ,i day • * I the
in* i a -i of . ;* • if! ■ l-'r uv*’ po-.t the
' i in v 97.7 f-a 11 a
Oh" t; day . i - .n • ’ih d v iand
.ii': Vi th.- • : of \• . 3 13.
1 h* . died and m; i m 1 r 1 ,3!’ 1
, ,iid l;o pit. I i/.pd 1 ,7 1
The latest •, "mil batth* (•» a i-a 1 t v
.iguip foi I1* innf,d rp’ir”'., mi the
I. ,• i . of i .-poi t to next r.f kin. is
317.310. l-'r th" At my St'm;1. n put
ihf total at ’h i ,739 up in August 0,
.md not, of com-v, mi hiding the?
■ iHum-■ Kcu ■ .■ ; igm *• , Tin? N’a* v
<lr! its most rprpif e* aalty ;nf».r
i: iat inn ”'aah, ’77.
In the Mebif>a i anr-an area, St up
on aid. total ground and aij’
/•a ialt m., of th" An vimn army from
thr hr * ' mdmg »'*n tic- It dian ni.rn -
land through A ugh 3 7 vriv 17.037
killed, 71.377 wound'd md 30,411
mi- ;ing
T|ip Army aggregat" *f ’31,739 n
rIn-fled 13 330 l.dlrd. 1 ‘7.Til * • d
pd. l ' o 0. insane and 13.333 "ft
i 1*11% i c; "i fed pi Owner >
Ih" v' ras'ia 1 * v tnl.jl t >0, -
’.77 • ... rlmirled a ml!, 33.133
1.3c d; i.o.iio;; v»Minded, 0.793 mining,
and 1.100 |>ri ono
I’OI H I I A M 11,11 S
;:i ( i i \ i ju m i it?
P dcigI•, V 7 3 1 t \P) Th.- f .h
la cn f<iitpii viit oi l inm Ivor l 11 and 1
ret | )•( i n ('ll I hind I "day a v. 11 '!"d t •. t
id it -, h t.dinu SI .900 hi !.«, :i iic . "I
1 w*» (la don ia p» • I a • "let. . ■ .." r*
cci 111 \- died in l lit' lav ol dot y
An aw srd ol S 1.1 on w c , j:i.ulc to
M r.\ C>riic.• M it pi . ad"". "f
C*h;irk\- V. Murphy, who dud Aagu-t
1. and t" Murphy’s f"or children. I
The widow oi Biy.ant IS. But, aim ■
"l the Gii. tom.- Ioi pp. v . warded
SB(»0. Uirt fired in tin? line ol duty
•July 39
State Auditor George Pou ;•
(•hairniiin of the executive eon mitleo
of live olHeet s' I und.
NOTHING LEFT BUT THE ASHES
. ..A- '.VMW .w"w : :^|
ONE CIGARETTE after another goes up in smoke as a crushing sense of
defeat closes in completely on Lt. Gen. Ferdinand Neuling, 60-year-old
commander of the German 62nd Corps, following his capture in th«
south of Frsnc-. Si£ti3l Coi^s Fadiophofo. f!”f -*■ uf i ootiv.dphot^X.
Whole Nazi Set-Up
In Balkan Theatre
Is Now Threatened
Yu;_m>sI;i\i;i ;nui Greece Arc hxpectin^
Ouick i ,il)cr;it ion ;is Result's of Kxcnts
l.midmi. \ m : c hi ( Al’) —Romania began timrrhing again*!,
11 niiga i'v 11MI .• ia lire her midrn exit from the war against toe
Alii'- in an a1 ii‘Mi l ace which dirtily threatened the whole Ger
man po it ion in i he llalkans.
laienai i 11r■ •.• 11<•;• t.; .;;iid Romania ill fact had turned co
b> i = "i and I ini. were reports of spreading fighting in the
rich oil and \ !n a! kingdom between Romanian and German
- * .. . . .
Bulgaria, . Irwidy ""Blanked in (lie
.:'ujt)i by Turkey's severance "t i - h
•i>,ns with Germany, now i> ;mpi i byl
h"m the nnrlh as well, and n m
entirely untenable position.
Yugoslavia anti Greyer. w horn
patriot armies have waged long
and hitter guerilla war against
the Nazi yoke, were in position
lor quirk liberation.
Russian armies, driving swiftly in
ward the heart of Romania, igi sled
the punch which finally bio** down
the house nt (.aids which deposed
Premier Marshal Antoncscue had
built in Romania
The Germans announced lli.it
Romania's capitulation had hern
expected. The Berlin correspon
dent of a Stockholm newspaper
cabled that "German rotmter
measures ran be expected.'' 'I hi-.
Swedish report said Berlin »i r -
rlrs blamed Romania’s move m.
the Russian offensive. Turkrv .
break with Germany. Bulgaria's
peaee overtures and the sustain
ed Allied bombing of the Plor-di
oil installations.
Romania's about fare, disclosed ''*■
y one King Miahi n a broad'*-*jt
• uinounrii g foi motion 'it * ne" go -
ermiieut headed by General K ..p-i m
t in Salfinesi ii, knocked a mapa p, ,p
11 ■ m IIitler' Balkan pn .it j-.p
The Germans, trying to repair the
damage, termed flip capitulation the
art o| a clique of traitors," aid
ant oimred formation of a "national
government" -presuniahly * puppet
reg'me around which Berlin la ' • d
1 ■ a■ o a.-.ked tpe Romanian people to
rally
Tile Swiss radio, relaying Bucha
rest ill patches, aid M.u I, il Anton
ewu had (led t" Germany a report
indicating he may have been rlr '*n
to head the pro-German gc,.\■ernment.
Finland May
Leave War
Very Shortly
Storaholin, Vug. 2 t ( APi- The
Finm. h mini ter in Sweden. (. V.
Gr penborg, suddenly departed l.n. air
today for Helsinki in a journey r
vmu.xly ennnee'U'd with efforts In gni
Finland out oi flic w or.
Reliable (|uarter< said, ivm-c w,
that "as tar a- wr know, ’!m Fimu-h
government ha made no .dtemii* nj
reetl.v to contact Moscow up ; .
Thursday morning."
It was Gripeubcrg's sec aid trip to
1 lei sink lint wo weeks
Optnioi! here was that Romania-,,
exit from the war might has I'm ac
tion by Baron M,nnnerhcim, prosicient
and marshal of Finland.
Finnish soluree.s said Pie .Id lead
er had been "clearing the dock- ' fof
an anmslic. Reactionaries, (fere. o.
and former minister to the United
Stales Broeope were rcpoi ted tak ing
advantage of inactivity by pushing a
"go . low" propaganda campaign.
Midi NT OI COTTON
GINNI |» |l| ( III \S| S
Wa .hington. Aug. '.’1 fAC) - P>e
cen-us hiircau reported today that
cotton of thi. year' - growth gioned
to August 7 totaled 1 (i t 2, lfi i mming
bale... counting round a hall bales
and excluding hitter;., compared wuh
3a 1,030 bales a year ago, and 2.13,833
bale.-, two years ago.
The agriculture department ear
lier this month torecasl a totai cot
ton crop el 1 1.022,000 cijtm <h id >0(1
pound bales this year, ba: cd on con
] dition ■ cm -ting Align .1 1
i The gmmngs by stiitcs, with rom
narative tigurc.. for a yem a;,o. fol
low;
AUtbama 594 this year, and 11.795
last year; Florida 273 and 1.5(10;
Georgia 5,820 and 28,336; Louisiana
2.244 and lt.940; Texas 154,489 and
|284,191; all other states 926 and 1,
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