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Himiterson Baity Bisyatdt thirty *_*st year thrkas^)'■ iatk » y;tg/;r henderson, n. c., Wednesday afternoon, sei'temper p.m 'UBU31ScEi-TrSi'\7KKNOON five cents copy American Forces In Germany mAm A A MSB " * # * * * * * * * ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Demobilization Plans Are Revealed FREED AMERICAN FLIERS IN ITALY FLOWN IN MASS EVACUATION from Romanian prison camps to a 15th Air Force base in Italy in 38 Flying Fortresses, liberated Yank airmen stand at ease as they listen to Gen. Nathan F. Twining (right foreground) im mediately after landing. Signal Corps Radiophoto. (International) mi • 1 V 7 TV i inird vacancy Uevelops In WPB High Personnel Bishop Dies James Cannon, Methodists’ Bishop, Dies Chingn, Sept (i. (AP) -Bishop .fame, (‘aiinon. ,Jr., 7!). Meth alist churchman, who gained national prominence through hi . work lor the defeat of Alfred E. Smith m tlw presidency in. 1928, rlicrl today in Wesley Memorial hospital. He va. born in 1861. The bishop had come to f’hieago 1"f a meeting of the Anti-Saloon Prague, an organization in which he "'it' active for years. He became ill last week, and was removed from his hotel to the hospital. A native of Salisbury, Md., Bi bop Cannon studied at Randolph-Macon College and Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1888 he married Burn Virginia Bennett, who died in 1929, and in 1930 in London he married hi former secretary, Mrs. Helen Hawley McCailum. For many years he headed the hoard of temperance of his church. Surviving” arc the widow, and six children: Dr. James Cannon, of Duki University, Durham: Edward Can l'nn, of Raleigh; Mrs. B. I). Stephens, of Newport. R. I.; Mrs. H. C. Stock man. of Birmingham. Ala.; David Cannon, of Falls Church, Va; and H. M. Cannon, in the Army in England. Funeral arrangements were to he anouneed later. Only Two Cases Of Paralysis For The Day’s Report Raleigh, Sept. 6.— (AP) —The number of infantile paralysis eases lor 1944 reached 671 today, or with in four of the record set in 1935. When 675 cases were reported lor Ooulwarc Resigns As Vice-Chairman To Avoid Friction Washinylon. Sept, c -(AP) The third vacancy in t-«o wrH.s m the War production Board'.-* top conf mand >>'•( m red today vIipii Acting Chairman .1 A Kruy e-cepted “'with great 1*011irt.me**" thr re agnation r,l Operation., VicoChairman L. It. Bnnlu a re Boulwarr, d, clo.-mg that his re > ynatmn submitted tlie day Krug to charge of the war agency, said he va ; leaving because it '«sv; his sincere conviction that die ac tivities of WPP* '.vill be truer of tlie possibility et further public con troversy" if Krug had a U»— ' ire chairman hnoM n to be completely of your o’.cn choo'.ing." Krug announced that Bouhvare will l»e neceeded by Highland C. Batchelor, president fit the A lie ghan.v Ludlum Steel Company, who also w;ii B-onlware'* predecessor as operations vice chairman. Liscnhowcr Sees Buttles Soon ()n Soil of (jcrm.ni> (IV, rile A >sociatrd Press.) Declaring "battles "ill soon lie rough) on Grim m soil," General Dwight Eisenhower's hcaduar leis today broadcast a second set of instructions to foreign work ers in Germany on how to help (he Allied troops in war areas. The Offiee of War Information said the broadcast instructed "inkers "hose countries arc at war "ill! Germans to “go into hiding and await the arrival of Allied forces, gathering useful information and. if unable to es cape tn the country, do every thing in your pewrr to prevent the destruction" ol facilities needed by the Allied armies. Democrats Have f]0,720 Reserves For Their Chest Raleigh, Sept, fi.—(AP)—Monroe Redden, of Hendersonville. retiring chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee, has turned over $10,720.25 in party funds to his successor, William B. Umstead, of Durham. , Redden said the total he recen ed in the approximately two years he served as chairman was $12.a79.,-. He listed disbursements at Sl,7oJ.4/. Umstead, who handled It. f'tcgg Cherry’s successful campaign tor the Democratic gubernatorial nomina tion, became chairman August la. 4 the entire year. Dare and Halifax counties, here tofore unlisted, reported one case each today. The State Health Department col lected the Cleveland county total to 13. instead of 14. Since June 1 there have been baJ -■jses distributed over 74 . counties. Releases To Be Limited In Beginning Needs in Pacific To Determine Rate Of the Discharges Washington, Sept. (> (A P) Plans for a limited start at de mobilizing America huge army soon after (Jermany’s defeat based in part on the olirif'd suggestion of fighting (I. |. toe's—were .announced todav by the War Department. Because of the continuing war 'vifh Japan, reletise of troop.' i rom service at first w ill be slew and small in number. The army cautioned soldiers and the public that the war with Japan "'ill take "1 irst priority'' in military calculations and ship ping. Since demobilization has hren : \ cd on an indi'.a -hiaI ha-- | will be sent hack from live Par.; a as well a. Ir-en Europe and Amer ican on I posts. tour essenl ial laclor: winnowed from -uggest ions gathered in an army survey will guide Ihc prior,iy systeni of releases. They are; Lengfn of sen-ice, overseas time, com I at credit, and number of depnndeni-.. I Mr hulk ol the army's strength will Mr shifted to the Parifir. The awesome might of tlir additional forces to be un leashed against Japan is indi cated in these words: 'The Pacific theatre will |,;p e No. 1 prim itv claim .; all civ nr ,t wait. To it w:I Ihe trap p o le ! million • of fighting men: million., of ions ol tons of landing barge.,. I mi;.,, plane, guns, ammunition and lootl, over longer supply line- Ilian those to Kurope " The pi iordy system " ill govern the relea .e ol Hie i flat n r|y silia II uumbei o( mmi to be demobilized, .inner thev l otiditcm - Tlie tour i.'ctor. ■ dl be ealeul d ed in tbi, mamiei : 1 Service credit. based oil Ihe total number of months "I army ei vice nice September Id. 19-10, when the dial! law became effective. 2. Overseas credit, based on the number of months overseas. .'>. Combat credit based on the congressional medal of honor, dis tiiigui died op. ice rro;, legion of merit, silver -Mir. list iiignislied fly ing cross, soldier's medal, bronze star, air medal, purple heart and bat Die cla .. on theatre campaign ribbons. 1 Credit ■ for each dcpcndenl child under 1.1, up to three children. Most ol the reduction in total strength will occur in the ground forces, with considerably less de mobilization ol .nr and service forces which will be needed in greater pro portion m the Pacific. Military committeemen of the House and Senate were given an ad vance outline of the plan yesterday, and Chairman May, Kentucky Dem ocrat. of the House group, endorsed il as fair. A Ncvy representatives sa! in on the meeting, but little, if any, reduction in Navy strength is BULL?* ! INS I.« Mfinn. Sept. (> \ I’ 1 !.r Tokyo radio said today that .» Japanese vire-admiral ami live rear admirals were Killed remit - ly by •'rnrmy art ion”—-pri >um ably air attacks—against the Yokosuka naval station, thirtern miles southwest of Yokohama ( bunking. Sept. f>—f \P» Donali M. NeJsrn. head nt the I piled States War I'rodnrljon Board, and Major Cieneral Pat riek Hurley arrived in f Imnkin?. today, aeeoiripanird hv Cieneral Joseph \V. Slilwell. Navy Won’t Free Men As Nazis Quit Wiil Expand Until Japan Surrenders, Forrestal States W'ashi ngton, Sept. li i A I ’) — Navy Secretary Forrestal said today there will he no demohili /.ation (,]' the navy when Ger many is defeated. “On the contrary,’’ Forrestal said, “the Navy is expanding and wiil coni inue to expand. 'I lie Navy canned demobilize until Japan is defeated. The tri . y ; ••iiitUi tif v. t ...I...fitly shove X.non,(Kill o| iicei . and enli ted i >et tnnnel, nd Foi rental -aid it wil I cent'nue to grow until the autlio, i/cd sir n;;lli o| e irly 1,000.1111(11) i ..li ef) next .Inly. Pi si war navy plan., he .aid will hr dele nil 111 •1 ■ I to a large ''■■lent by lie "unique pi'ooleni.-." laced by the United Stales in wag'lig a war. lie said n I i q S(. ol (tern icily, in - tiler will present it with new tasks ()ii<'. Id >i ri"• t:11 nd, will he 1 ans poi I a t ion "I n 'ii i n r | inn to i ia I . freed i i oin tic I'.1 i * | "'an I lien I re ii 11 , t hr I'aclt e- to r|. i' f'r iie.'e irr hi a gal l t .lap. 11 . • (term, nv' d'd'enl," Furrc .1 aI do rian 'I, will i *■ lit in a redi .1 nhn 1 ion rather than a rcdin tion of naval st tenet h." He reported that the n;ivy for a methods and has completed lenta year has .tudied demobilization live planes In meet any contingency. The navy has worked in cooperation with the arn .v and preset t plans agree in principle with those an nounced by Ihe War Departmrni. I .ike the ii my." the secretary nd, 'the navy, i i e lablishing priority lor s'eri ice. intends, when the time comes for demohi I i/al n n, to give due con sideration to the factors of length of service, .m ice outside th(. continen tal limit-, combat service and parent hood." expected until aftci Japan is defeat ed. In a related development, Coin mander-in-( 'liief Jean A. Brunner, of the Veteran.. of Foreign Wars, carried to the White House a request for a furlough rotation system which would bring home nine with lfi months or more loreign service. Border Was j Crossed On Last Sunday I’rilish Driving North Somewhere In Netherlands 1 .ondon, Arpl. (> ( A I ’) A in erica n older. 11: i" • ri irb'd t In war to (In man oil. endinj t a id. >11 pport ed patrol, acros t lie w- t< rn front in- in 1 he firs of I icia II y rniort ed entry into t in Reich liy land .ince I'Vance fel in lit in. The>e peiiet rat ions were made last Sunday hy armored patrols hid i lie I 'nited States t bird army pel milted the disclosure of them only today. Since Sunday tin fast moving third has been bat tlink in force alonjr ti,e .Moselle river and ha. had plenty of time to drive on to Saarbrucken. Ger many, some forty miles farthni east. Sw is border reports yes terday said American forces had taken Saarbrucken, but then has been no confirmation. l’itd.-iy th*• iiMin of Gcnora‘ Pal ton’s mrl j> ; ‘ fl o cr ! firm M ri cr : bp-brad ncai | Vaorv in • bma toward Si rasbnurg j 70 miles to thp past Th.- pal i- '! ;, front di pslrh said j rrm.-f ei t'a io'mdav S- nday, rangor1 j about in Gpi nra. brnritery and thm I withrin’w • •> Pm main Au-prican j)n»i | linns 1 n 'in' Mn;p||p -then rPran | in vaitri' mi ion annarputlv acrom nl i slu'd Siin'Tmr h«;icJ<|ii;u’b*rs con firmed t hit fhe British second 1 armv \va > driving somewhere i11 the Netherlands. It offered n) oonfirmation of a Paris radio re port tint the British were ad vancing: within sight of Rotter dam. the great Dutch port 50 mile.'* north of Antwerp. It In • i -tnnniinfTfl that ♦he f’mtorl S' i!e army ha.; liberated the !' ]• • • | Belgian oily <t Namur at the '-n,i| hi' iire of the Meuse and Sham bn* r v rrs The uni' unroment concerning the British ;rh;ice lifted supreme head qm.rtci :_M-hour news blackout of operation to the north. Supreme headqi i,»rt < • continued into the fourth dev. !• -• secret of the reported American p'-ud r.it imi of Luxembourg and Ihe (m uw.ard . v/'v;) to tlu' Rhine The «• i a ♦inn of the Ameri can- tin h mg mmowhen’ in the h; I me,, between unconfirmed French frontier repmu that Uniter] State, tnops ■ * I eaptured Aachen and Saarhruckrn n Gernutny. and coach ed Stra-.boure. and the disci >suro by sm mne headrpiarot rs only of ad vances toward those points. Fleeing Nazis Are Bombed By U. S. Planes London. Sep'- 'i (Al’l Some 75(1 Uni led Slides heavy linnibcis, flying from Italy, bombed rnneentratinns of (uTiu.’in troops moving northward from below the Danube today, dong witli Nazi retreat routes in the Bal i kans They struck as wave upon wave of '.m iller A owrienn iiombers battered be ieged Brest ror a .-olid hour and ranged behind the western front and into Germany, -nailing tran-porla ' ion. One large formation ol Liberator from (lie se.i.ith bombed a mass of en emy troop-, tank- and vehicles jam med into the -mall town of Olleskn vac, 15(1 mile- southeast of the Yn go-lav eapital of Belgrade. First re ports said Ihe German air (dree was absent again Fortrc—cs bombed rail yards 125 miles .- intheast of the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Before dawn. British Mosquitoes battered Hannover without loss and Typhoons attacked shipping off Hol land with rockets, sinking a medium sized vessel, setting another afire and damaging eight others. AS YANKS CROSSED BELGIAN BORDER AMERICAN SOLDIERS MARCH past a stone marker on the road leading from Ardennes. France, into Namur, Belgium. The underground army of Belgium came out to fight alongside the advancing Allies after Gen. Ilisenhovver h,.d said. “The hour for which you have been waiting so long h.is struck.’-' U. S. Signal Corps Radioohoto. (Ir.fernational Sovndphoto\ DRIVES HIT HOLLAND AND REICH THREE AREAS which now are highlighted by the spectacular thrusts against Hitler's homeland are. as shown in the map (1 > near Perl, where the first breakthrough into Germany was reported. The entire section around the Lorraine border appears to be crumbling as the smash over the German holder proceeds Particularly thrilling a>e reports of the thrust fom Sedan (2) to the Netherlands and (3; of the British Canadian gain - through Arras and Lille to Brussels 1 International: Bulgaria Hastily Asks Peace After Soviet War Order m illion, Sept. <; — ( A i’> Bulgaria appealed hastily to Mo*, •ow tor an armistice today only a few hour-, after receiving »So\iet Russia s declaration of war, and bolstered her plea !>y declaring he government had ordered strong measures against German ■orccs which she accused of attacking Bulgarian army units. The armistice appeal, tne official —--—------— ■ nilgai i.m raoio ama a11 ’' ‘ ri, ■ ,k fir. livered to the- Soviet legal inn m .Sn ia shortly after midnight There was no immediate reaction from Moscow and no indication whe ther Red army troops had (dread’, crossed the northern birder of Bul garia, along which they havc hern poised for several days after a swiff advance through Romaic ■ [I appeared, however, that should Bulgaria succeed ip making ;i°a.-e i with Russia, slip might lind Iter .d at war with Germany. The Sofia radio said the Bulgm ru; council of ministers was -till m r - sion early today after directing the armistice appeal. The noun inert, ing was summoned at p. n, yes terday, Sofia said, to "take dect , T 'v « r i an i mm measures againM tmrmm ha *p': who .attacked Bulgarian arm; unit.. engaged in o'r i mni£ Nazi >n1 dmr. tiering aerothe border from R mania. Vim disarming order had b<n given in r mtormity with Bul garia's previous declaration of "rmu t rality." While the meepng V, a , in progi p . ' • ‘d W,m !'• 'Wveb rtj Moscow's d°e ■ la tart [on of war. and •< foreign min 1 ry « it * ' d 1 * . dr p'Ur*]md imm*1 d. •'<■!;.• ' t ti-r Sir jrf legation to r? •i ;* d m ,)i m.-aic*', Sot'a declared N" r* Irmii" war; n adp m th® La* .ideast P> the IS ted State- or Britain, up -n both "i whom Bulgaria declared war oarlv in the present conflict, while remaining technically at pe.ac,. with Russia. r 4 i Kusstans mast , i ncaa At Warsaw, Romania Mo-rn-. Bppt If ( A 11} I,'n .an Irnop. |Mi hod hth (he or north of War .aw today .him .Ii mh,. Inward Fast Prns hi mi a ran d I i|t !gaint heavy Genian nppo linn, dispatehe. sairi. I Al the southern end n| the 1 mi -tern front, tp mp whioh ap"i, • <l (’i'.a jnva in soil!Ii ve ,t |!nn an: . Pro . along I he Walleehian plain nn i| ■■ ■approaches <•( Yuh.Ih'm ph- . jio-a lion with Marshal Tito',- parti ai a. . my to rut off all t|m enemy in Hod garia. southern Yugn.la ia. G free and I ho Aegean island The .wilt Russian eolpn n in Ro mania were less than filly icih's I ro: Yugoslavia, less than a a froiM 11' o Iron Gate where the n.iinihi' cut through the Tranylvanian Alp-, a than 1 Id from Belgrade and 17a fr m Hungary proper. I'here iva . no So 111'' i •• th-if Krri tro'-P7 ' ! :• • ■■ d*ii P. i ; \. . i, ’ipotl h P . . • 'l'-i : 11ml * i: !,1 t mght (The ( P • 11, - < ■< 'H! i'< ’ i lod * ^ In i;*dm - ;i id Bn , I■1 • '^ l.‘*d ni -.’md Bulg^r .: mi ' i pi 'nr p,v<'ri the rc • v • ■ f 'H i’u • n 111 o n i * * • n 111 p -t - • ■ i i • . ’d llr. fvnrn Be lhr — tin- <■!(,:« I ) !■} - II ‘rrl .i ppl n^f*h Of »n \ '!;»'d . ii'*vv ' <n no M injjf -Crt°r *1;• • (n .in ' n ■ n'N'rfi tour di ■ i - mu Pi * ■ i ’i i > .)' .1 <■)•, . t ' iHomama .. d 'iir (*n •* rd fcno_g rou >lder.ih]n 1 */ i t n-ri m Tr.in-yl' inir* m. inil ;i in i , . . 1 i 1 n >nd n< Tth'oefct <>i Titf'i i. The ' ’ipu n f* ( r i :•>’ i, Virgo .♦ m.irl ,md i-mI n'n'"' in wrstrm Ho tn;n i i.i pl.i(’*d K'i i n I n » .ps 1c j * Ihiil 1 dl) ni|in> i■:i t <d Brlfii-idc. French Closing in Upon German Escape in South Rome. Sept f> (A 111 French troop o| the -evpnth army, i h ing tin- German.- out ol ■ »>itlit'i n Fi mcr. are approaching C'haion-Sur-Kaoiie, the Nazi escape path into southwes tern Germany, a little more than 90 • airline miles 1mm American thiid I army units last reported at Bai Sur : Sein.c southwest ol Troyues, Allied . headquarters disclosed today American unit of the seventh ar my have captured Louhans and Lons-le-Saunier, in the area between the Saone valley and the Swiss bor- , der, headquarters stud. The German garrison in the small principality of Monaco, on the Ligu ••irn Sea. near the Italian border, lied altot m \mi’i irui rnn °r -inj rli'strnyi'r- .11«-11 • -H \a/j latlci ir. m tlir Mime l' n in .111•• i, a naval an nouncement revealed. The Germans destroyed their defenses and tun' f the hills. Allied headsuai ter> said the french drive up the Saonc ' alley was large ly unopposed, and there was no in dication of the position of the main German force which yesterday va.3 reported racing toward Chalon-Sur Saone and Dijon. The Navy said various batteries in the vicinity of Monaco were still ac tive and that one of them opened in effectual fire September -t on ships operating off the coast. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy and not quite so warm tonitrht and Thursday.
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