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"tJVENTY-jr.CGND YEAR MONIiOE, N. C UNION COUNTY, MONDAY, AUGUST VI 4. 8-MONTHS. 75c; 6-MONTII3, $1.25 II-VEL-LY, 5 2X3 A . .ay Ccm?n Pre:: 3 Ley GrczsJ- wctk rcr mzz Hw , 01 Retreat - THE RESISTANCE IS WEAK 4no - ta with. t' homeland wow High uommanu i t-- . - - -, northweai oi 7 r" --hine airborne troop Mid to to cemen w r, ' , TThe Brazzaville " -- dT 'Patriot, had J7'. Jj"t2 ' ardnea ?y co.------- .- & Laval .and 0 S i'i arrived at weuww - - ; ' Gennan now.' v Sunday press wo r ., iJr.MtMi oresaaring retreat au ' toe way back to the Reich's borders. To martins bitter dose as patato- Die as possums, " ; . Its secret weapon propaganda, and pre - - atances." - ' . ruonre rne repor m S. Patten's tanks had crossed the . seme. ..presumably about 80 mUes northwest of Paris, first came from mnRV DNB. Which said powerful -airborne farce were tonaea r t , l a wuwk nnt German '.v on hu earn, w " - , Th"cWm'an Blgh Command radio then reported that Ueut. Oen. Omar W.J Bradley, had thrown to reinta-ff - menta oi nuanury tend the bridgehead on the east bank. DNB said a previous- attempt to cross the Seine bad been thrown back before the airborne troops struck, and Wat uevj iin"ip .---- a This same source said the American armored drive in the direction of Paris bad, been halted along a line -tunning through Houdan, Ramboufflet, ArpalonrEiAmps, and Plthlvieis, from 18 'to 47 miles from the capital on the west and south.. v FIVE DAY C? OSERY k Cant Poser On Visit Bern Relates 'yp American Ksperisnoer, " Wve narrowing days and nights lost i ,MMpiii c.T,lii"r"l ma.ij.Qri iiiticrlnii -waS.vthe ; u.vlaniMi nf rin.nta.ln .; J. '. W iPiiKr. Jr.. who. is spending ft sksk leave here with his wife, who was . Miss' Virginia' Triplett, daughter of . Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Triplett. 1 ' Captain Pussy has been in the Air Transport Command since July 1943, when he completed his-training. Last month on a flight to India the cargo ' plane, which he was piloting develop- a tmiiMit.' nmr South America and be -and his four crew members were ' forced to bale out. It was In the sec i tion of South. America where. Lt Tom Harmon, famous football star, was lost to many days last year. "It was the first time any of us vlabs." said Capt. Pusser. "We aU sot together about an hour after jumping. None was seriously hurt, " althougn one nao ! uwu "i""""-" . ankle. Most of us landed ' In the Srter we) got back together we held a consultation. Day was barely ' breaking when we Jumped. We de cided to go north and started out. After about eight hours hacking with our machets we came to . a swamp and toad to turn back. We hadn't a nnunlto nf miles. guar muo mw, . vwK. We made camp that night, using our parachutes as tents. .We had our mergenoy field rations of 18 bars of chocolate and we caugnt rain wawr. : ' ni,o tATrihiK but there ; were no mosqultos, only ft few, snakes nii mmi monkeys. - - ' ' "The next afternoon we found k creek and managed to make ft smaU raft. It was almost impossible to walk In Khe Jungle. Our hardest Job, when we found the creek, was Ann Irani that would float. Very little of the wood In that part of the country would float, so we would cut a p:oce oJ trets untU we finaUy . foui'si one that would stay on the ..... nr. moA ttin raft and one man got on it and the others held j . . .1.3.. pm.. wnta, watt 2fl fftfiti . or t ore deep and pretty swift. at n' ht, we made cs"-p and got our ti'ht re-1 S""re a Xig buU ill' -.or. It's t e : t i - n down th. ; a- 1 it 1 " 4 " n 8tv r i h im. jlixc n.' " " er-', " -,s adny b ' i . X. e never rit V t'st rre t( us c.i t c i, , j i -tat f U 4 , i i i J ' j t ('I t' ' ! - 7 - A ' t . 9 cr i r i lilt , t ives-yai if' , f 1 a r i- V ( 1 ( : !' t . .r t 1 r 1 f : - f i : i s e i f r i i i-ei t (f r ncoztn v.nuLus - to iirfiitTv aw t'rsn Had Previously Been Reported BOasint; . -i In Action Ia France. ..i';"-'v. ,. - "' ' Vic. Oscar W. (Bill) MulUt, was kul ed In action in France on July 31st The news of his death was received Wednesday, August 16th by his father a. O. Mullls, of R3, Monroe. Pfo. Mullls had previously been re ported missing in action according to a message received . on August 8th, Nothing more had been heard as to his whereabouts until the message, telling of his death, was received Wed nesday. . "'. Pfc. Mullls entered the Army De cember 21, 1943 and was transferred overseas the following April and was never home on furlough. He - was ft member of the Infantry and had seen considerable action in France. 6gt. Kufus A, Mullls, ft brother of Pfc Mullls, wa wounded in action In France, June 14 and was returned to England, where he was hospitalized until July 11th whence returned to active service in France. ' Last week his father received the Purple Heart which Sgt. 'Mullls has been awarded. Pfo. Munis is survived by his father, S. O. Mullls. three brothers, 8gt Rufus O. Mullls In prance, Edsei and Ralph Mullls of the home; six sisters, Mrs. Or en Love of the county, Bessie, Doris, lee. Betty and Susie all of the home. i Memorial services for pfo Mullls are being planned for the near future. .. 9 Basic Food Kens; Picked 4 t V OPA Lists CeCIn? Prices To .'Be Cbffged Cy Eafa 1 1,'' !' Placet ' c"-':;'- r.:usT now post prices Selection of 40 food items! oonstl tiitn itafc whirii. with the lawful ceUing prices,' must be: posted In aU reetaurants, - eaxing ana urummi w-Oim -rwrlnfc--dl8trlCt of the OfSoe of . Price Administration, which includes Monroe, nas veeu announced. 4 ' - . 4T nni iAVm iM1 MVmt Alt Mtmg or drinklnff' establishment an order Issued by a..?nes J, Kuroy, oepuiy cu itrtnt riliwtr of the- OPA. stipulates, "you must, on' or;, before August 16, 1944, show on ft poster, w oo mwu k. ,v.a rvfflM nf Prtfui Administration. your lawful celling prices tor 40 food items, ana means, as eet ioyin u " order .v-'V !..? --'--;idf. "Although ' the eating establishment is required to have Its completed pos ter on display by August 18, 1944,'' risnma w ThaoVsr: dtatrint mica ezeds utlve, in a memorandum subsequent ly issued at unarwne oisu-kv ueau miarhwiii nf ntK. said, "no enforce ment action will be taken until after August: 23 because of the delay in printing- and - distributing the posters." - inciuaea in tne msirucuuiui u ww ttranMno tnn MMtjMinuit nnerator. noon receipt of the order and the poster, to fill in the poster "with 4s many of the 40 basic items as he Serves, and as many additional Herns as are. neces sary to constitute a total of 40, togeth er with the lawful celling price for eaoh item. Within one week of receipt he shall, place the poster in a con spicuous' place in' his establishment, in plain view of his customers, usually near ' the main entrance, or at the cashier's desk if the checks are paid there. : The Items should be legible at six feet or more." Th mwatnr alwi 1 rMlubed to sub mit to his local War Price and Ra tioning board a list in triplicate oi tne 40 items and prices which he ' has posted. It is stipulated, too, that: "If tha nmtiratnr rmttx niiflflK for items for which he has not filed base-period nrku tViot U ifmna fir ntTntnd since April 10, 1943, the lists he . sends to ,the board shall be consiaerea a sup- nlntan. flllnir .ami wtftlmwl In the board's flles. Subsequently they shall hi Mrinvl ttr thA lnnul hoards. In the order issued by Mr. Kilroy appears this Instruction: "If you do not offer as many as 40 items, place on the poster all the items which you do offer and your ceiling price for each." - , . svi:""::g contest to L-i i:jld v;lx;;zday tnteresUng Program Planned By Park And Recreation Committee. . . ' Monroe is again invited to meet Camp Sutton at the Country Club and sw' i'ir' ? pool Wednesday aftdmono. An a. , - tsof n and evening of enter t t;ii;iu.t bss been arranged Jointly by t e s t fvi. r of recreation for the I , rroe I art and Recreation commit- e s i V a fpecial Service officer of . . . . 1. "f . j.. s j c ..'.ft for souiers - ' - i i H 3 p. m. The S,.'..l i t 1 Le st the pool to i r ' - r '-rn.-' contest t' e Ci- j i , ; j -.ne i t'.e count-y cli-' a. 'i. 'e v..J teiO. 1 show. I r, srd tl-.cn a tv.r.et surper ci 1 n for 10 service men and i l v dun-!? the f!'"nwn -r n:U te f..l-, (,,?., i f ; ovr f r . y 1. IS i ; . a -i i"'- is iixcescive General Echcb TeG Senate Group U. S. Losses Are yr; .;;-;iJgLt,v;: s ,: MAKE PRODUCTION CUT America's losses In heavy, bombers have been so much less than antici pated .that, production is being- cut back gradually and. 294,000 workers will be laid off in the aircraft Indus try by next July, Major Oen. Oliver p. scnois said Saturday.., At the vast Ford Willow Run plant In Detroit a reduction of 50 per cent will be. effective by December, said Echols, who is assistant chief of Air- staff. :.. Testifying before the Senate nation al defense committee' ori disposal of surplus war property,: he said that more than' 100,000 aircraft workers are now employed, and that "we fig ure approximately 100,000 win be cut off by the first or the year." Senator Ferguson, Republican of Michigan, said the committee heard that 200,000 more men are needed in other phases of war production, and asked Schols why this number could not be relaesed by the aircraft indus try to "other employers right now." "I dont think they ' could place them properly," Echols replied, adding that it's a f question of shifting man power." . v- , He also said that while Willow Run employment will be 'reduced to rough ly 15,000 by December, "we want to keep' something there in -order to adjust' production "plant "if we're wrong," as in ' the - recent " instance when' 'hortace'- of tanks' develdned. - pillow Riih, ii "riot counted, on.'; for the production of B-29s, Superfortress esf now being ' used 'to 1 bomb. Japan, "because of labor - shortages," JEchols said. . ' , . Since 'June, the Air force reported l0S00,0O0Llwbrth1' or surplus' material for disposal, Echols revealed, including approximately ';98,000,00p', in aircraft and 13,E0.)i0i- in.; other , Items, one third of whjch was "jmeep. shearing" for' flying ' suits.. About MJWAM) worth of 'the, material. has-been dis posed of, he said. -. , V -i About 8,000 "obsolete", planes nave been turned over to the ' Surplus War Property administration,.' for . disposal and, additional planes will be added the "next two or, three months," he said. .,, P0LAI.T) IS ASSUMED , f- 07'FAEt TKEAHOT Stalin Says Russia Win Not Inter fere With Nation's Internal Affair. . ' - - - r r Premier Stanlslaw Mlkolajczyk . of Poland's ' exiled government has ob tained personal assurance from Pre mier i Joseph Stalin of Soviet non interference in Poland's political and Internal affairs, Polish headquarters in London has announced. . While the exiled cabinet : gingerly approached showdown decision on re lations with Russia; a source close to the government who. has been relia ble in the past, said, an accord with the Soviet and agreement with the National Liberation committee is not only possible, but quite likely, with in a few days. - - , The Informant " said if everything goes well, Mlkolajczyk , would go-di rectly to Warsaw .to present plans for bringing representatives of the rival group into the government and ; for going ahead with the country's re habilitation. Final decisions . probably would await liberation of the Polish capital, he added, an dthey would depend to a major extent upon, conditions under which the city,; now being stormed by the. Russians, is freed,' and upon the treatment ' accorded to : under ground army leaders loyal to Mlko lajczyk, v Meanwhile, Moscow's Communist party newspaper Pravda ; accused, the Polish government-ln-exile of a "per fidious political maneuver". In the up risings of Polish Patriots within War' saw to "make propaganda and strengthen its prestige in the United States and England," N . ELECTTJC C0-0? AT,D FATJ.I GROUPS I 'SEl 508 Attend Joint 1'eetlng Held Last Friday Ini.Wadesboro. , ; A Joint meeting of the Pee Dee Electric Co-operative, r which has a membership of 1,850 in Union, Anson, Stanly, Montgomery, Richmond,, Scot land, and Moore counties, and the Anson County Farm Bureau was held at the Wadesboro Country Club Fri day. ' ' : : ,-! , - The mer-Mna was err- '. Jed ov -T ty J. B. 1 Alock, president of both or-! ' :i'...i.s. r-"vts or re v-.i r's 6i s Tf.e given ty cr..i'1's i f t; e c -"nrat;on and ' rt- for t e e . yc .r v. -re e' L i"?ra l.i-e, f'orth Cum chur ns' i, pave a.i t-'T-rl t .5 1 raral c i1...,,fi')n In !.,.:.' C, - a. V.ie 1 'i !'' 1 ft t r -r---j ? if' livUl e i c e' -..y of i..e N. C, 1.. 1 ; va 1 rsi;. in, t1 o c' I t s r 'ul-, f J xt 1 r i 1 ! I 1 1 !. A r , - I r ' ;'- I 1 tit : ' S 1 t f .- I ! L I ) i'l t : ' (' TIIZ latest yar kews -t; IN CHIEF ivv !.;,. i i x1'"" 'i' "' ' Rome' Bard ', drivlnt French . , troops' virtually encircled Toulon, 1 breaking throagh to within three miles- ef the naval base while Amer-r lean 1; an try, within, fifteen air line m. -s of Marseille fanned out today titrough the Daraaoo valley " and beaded for the Shone against disorxanised enemy resbtanee. , - .' - - r " ''-. Oeneral Headquarters,, South- , west Pacifier-Japan, la withdraw- L ing her planes fro mthe Molnecas, and- rippinf , ap the abandoned :' dromes, leaving that Island cluster below the Philippines wide open , for Allied inraslon. , - ? Moocow Soviet., forces. v have . smashed, three Natl divisions In ' tho -- Candomlers salient below Warsaw while - other Red Army -units 1 ave. yielded sllghUy before eostiy lierman attempts to reseaeS, I possibly 200.000 troops Isolated on '(the B.Ue front, a Russian eom S munlqu announced today. . Supreme 1 Headquarters Allied Expetiillenary Foree. Amerlean armoroed. columns, firmly estab lished a bridgehead over the Seine River ai Mantes, 28 miles north- E west of Paris, today, opening' a path to, the Nads' flying, bomb coast 80 miles farther north. This advance came as other elements of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's V. 8. Third. Army fought German element Jn the vicinity of eVr sallles, within ten nles ,of the heart of - Paris, and established ' themselves along the Seine sotnh- east of fho French capital. Parte Itself ,ws said to be seething In revolt in: anticipation of liberation from German rule. . IT um:3y LQiinry, s tien III service Jack WaUerstein of the Merchant Marines, now in command of his own ship; arrived Friday momtog to spend a leave with his- wife, and her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. O. M: Beasley. On a recent -trip to. England he was hit oy a robot plane (buss bomb) which picked nun up and carried him 15 feet, and bruised his shoulder. " Pvt Conley O. Ayooth, who has been stationed !& the Infantry at Camp Famdiv Texas, - Is spending ft 12- days furlough here with his wife and his parents. Mr, and Mrs. J.. W. Ay coth oft fii, Monroe, and Is being transferred to" FoKt Meads. Md. He WUiqStSW r9yi wmp, AUgUM ;ZW? T3,C has been' in service, seven months. Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne division fought S3 days in Normandy before they were relieved, says a dis patch tram "the army.' Among the men taking . part was PFO James B. Howard, R2,. Monroe. 1 1n - a quarter master' unit - with the same division was 8-6gt. John W. Black of Waxhaw, ." PFC A. Russell Wounded ' Mr. and Mrs. Luke Russell of Mint Em, who live in Union county, re ceived message Thursday from the War Departments that their son, Pfc Austin Russell, serving with the In fantry In' France, was seriously wound ed on July 29th. He had been over seas about two years stationed in England.' ; " 1 He is a grandson of B. D. Austin of Wingate,! and a nephew of Mrs. E. Blaiz Blvens of Monroe. Prior to his Induction he held ft position in Kannapolls. . Allen 8. Simpson, Waxhaw, recent ly graduated at the naval training school at .Iowa State College as a fireman, second class, and ia now eligible to qualify for the petty officer rate of electricians mate third class. . Roy Wilson Hunter, Aviation Ma chlnist's Mate, son or Mr. and Mrs. V. S. Hunter of R3, Waxhaw, is sta tioned at the Naval Air Technical T raining Center, Memphis, Tenn. He enlisted December 21, 1943 at Spar tanburg, 6. C. and took his boot train ing in Jacksonville, Fla. He is a grad uate of Waxhaw high school, and studied Aircraft Inspection at N. C. State College. . Prior to entering ser vice he was . Aircraft Inspector ' for Falrchlld Aircraft Corp., at Hagers town, Md, and Burlington, N. C, for one and a half years, . , , Wounded In Action In France 1 Mrs. Bettie Staton received a tele gram, August 17th, stating that her son. Private First Class Charlie W. Mullls was seriously wounded in ac tion in France, July 29th. Those who wish to write him may secure his address from his mother. : First Ueut J. C. M. Vann. Jr4 was amon ? a group of oHcets who received : oates of pro'.Jpncy at gradua ; ii exprclses r'" nt.1y at the AAF '-.ird Oiacers -t.ool of the Ml'.-iary i e Tralntr? O-nter Avlat.:n at' . le Field. l.e is stationed at r I. eld, Alexandra, La., where hei ui K.iant rrovost Marsnai. m Don v,:":s of the TJ. 8. N. .ne last Vf. k for a two weeds' v,:th Itrs. wails and lltUe I " r. El;. "e, at the. home of ".Is' parents, Mr. and Mr !:,;lloway. Tom P. I-""' -y soi v of arry - . 1 :. -y sr-i Pvt J vn r. 1 I -s. J. 1 1. ff t" - 1 h it 1 .irt 2 ' 1 tu 'i 1 Lf. r la 1 ' i v . i n ' m f Jas Back Up Before Allies jM ,4 V- ' ft 1 1 1 Is. si r, ji r $ Although In Retreat, They Announce Plans For Three l World Regions ENEMY PLANES BLASTED Japan was backing uo on most of her many fronts Saturday : but her postwar planners came out nonetheless with a fresh plan for the 'coprosperity of nations" as part of their projected "new world order." Domei news agency said. Imperial Japan, deep in deliberations on post war problems, planned the creation of three regional blocs of nations. East Asia, Europe and the Americas. "Leader nations" for each bloc would be responsible for promoting the "thre basic principles of neighbortlness Joint defense, and reciprocal economy." This, came as Allied aircraft ham? mered'' Japanese defenses from' the Volcano islands, 750 miles, from Tokyo, Oen. Douglas MacArthur says enemy surmlv has hMin SKrlnuslv rrinnlftd. - v Admiral Chester W. Nlmitz reporter bombing raids on Iwo in the Volcano Island on Wednesday, while other air craft hit Rota and Pagan isulands In the Marianas and Truk In the Caro lines. MacArthur's bombers wiped out at least 14 aircraft, nine of them in an air battle in the AmboniaCeram area of the Moluccas, and sank or dam aged three enemy merchant ships, one of ' them in Davao gulf in the southern Philippines. An oil field near Sarong at the west ern tip of Dutch New Guinea was bombed. Numereous airdromes were cratered along Japan's lengthy south ern defenses. , , - The Japanese reinforoed. their troops occupying' Hengyang, Important Hunan province rail center which the Chinese are striving to retake, and weren shifting considerable strength westward In an apparent push toward Kweilln, provisional capital of Cfwang si province. , , , Japan's overland supply rpute from Hankow was endangered, however, by Chinese, drives against Kingme, Nip pon strong point 55 miles northeast of Ichang in Hupeh province., , PFC. JOHN H. DAVIS f IS KILLED IN FRANCE Message Received Yesterday Morning ..States He Died In Action July 88.., rfMr'srw.-Ubkvu-oria; Monroe, yesterday received a message from the War Department stating that their son Pfo John Hayne Davis, had been killed in action in France, Friday, July 28th. No other Information was contained in the message. - -' Pfc . Davis, was twenty-three years of age and had been In the service two years serving in the Infantry.- He had been overseas for about four months and in France six weeks. Ha is survived by his parents. Mr, and Mrs. W. O. Davis; three sisters, Misses , Nell Dean and Annie Lee of the "home and Mrs. Mary- Frances Williams of UnlonvUle; one brother, Heath, with the U. B. Army at Camp Croft, 8. C; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Baucom, well-known residents - of the Mill Creek section; a number of uncles and aunts, includ ing Hayne Baucom of Monroe and Harvey Baucom of the. Mill ' Creek community. -' .- . second time to be wounded. S-Sgt. Purser said he expected to be out again soon. . . Master Sgt. Thomas Outen returned to Camp Campbell, Ky, Sunday after spending a two weeks furlough with his mother, Mrs. Raymond Outen on Windsor street. His brother. William Outen, who volunteered for submarine duty has finished his course at New London, Conn, and Is now stationed in California. Pharmacist Mate S-C Marvin Smith Carnes, adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Rogers, of R2t Monroe, is spend ing: a 15-day leave here with relatives. He Is stationed at Olathei Kansas and has been in service 18 months. & He would be Clad to hear from his friends back home and he receives his mail care Dental Dispensary, Ola the, Xan. John H. Phifer, ; Jr, ' Seaman 3-c, who is stationed at Gamp Peary, 'Va, has returned to camp after spending a ten-day leave with his family. Sea man Phifer entered the service .May 29, 1944. Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Aldridge, of R4. Monroe, received a- letter Thursday from their son, Sanford H. Thompson, cox, of the U. S. Navy.Vho is now in England. t This was the ' first news they had received from him since the early part of June. ; (Sanford has been m ti.e Navy tnree years and has seen action in most of the theaters of Var. His last leave was in Sep tember, 1943. . Lieut. Wade A. IXlnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Kinson. on R-l. Mon- roe, has reoeived his commission and wln?s at Pensacola, Fla., and is spending a several days leave with his parents before going, to Miami, Fla., lor further training. - Pvt. Ilap-y V.". 'i-ng, who Is with - pp. -;r.nt at tve Navy f " C i .rgire I , t t' e vevk-eni 1 i f t M f if 11 Is, I 8:. I S. 1 : Washinyton Is Upset " Over Lt Laney's Fate ' , . inn, ,i, 1 . The news that First Lieutenant Thomas Percy Laney of Hinro, ; ia missing in aUon was receive 4 among members of the North Car-, t Una . delegation Saturday, ,, with deep sorrow. ' -;'i , ' One ef the first . conirresslonai secretaries on Capitol Hill to ret ' sign his peat to volunteer for ser vice with the Army, Lieutenant Laney Is also one of the first re-, ported missing', s and Is the first . casualty among North Carolina secretaries. Lieutenant Lanes wife, Mrs. ' Martha Laney, was notified by the - War department that her husband ' had been missing in France since : August L - Ho was an effloer la , the 230th Field Artillery, attached to an Infantry division and had been in the thick ef the battle in -France. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Walter Laney live In Monroe, -; Lieutenant Laney was a member of the secretarial staff ef Senator Joslah W. Bailey when he vohm-. ' teered for servloe In 1948. Before that he was connected with the offiee of former Congressman Wal ter Lambeth of the Eighth district for several years. Be was oen of Monroe's most popular young men, and has .many friends here and 1 'elsewhere, who have heard the dis- ;; treating news with deep regret. Nazis Fleeing French Capital ' . .1 ' . Germans Abandoning Equip .' mentIn 7iIJ Race To . . - Cross Seine ; REPORT STREET FIGIITS Lt. Oen, George S. Patton's armored, powerhouse raced eastwash through France on a 100-mile front yesterday, reaching the Seine on both sides of Paris. One oolumn stabbed within 10 miles of the ' French capital where street fighting raged between Partisans and the tottering German.. Near Mantes, 35 miles above Paris, the Americans ' smashed in force to the Seine, boxing hr the riddled, re treating remnants of the German Seventh army. (The German radio said the Americans already had cross ed - the seine with ' the air of para chutists.) - ' ' 1 American columns also reached the Seine at Vernon., 45 mites ftbovrthe caWtTand in the vicinity of Fbn talnbleau, 35 miles southeast of Paris, ei"well as driving to the vicinity-of Versailles, 10 miles from the heart of the city. . Others were around Corbeil and Me lun, 15 and 25 miles respectively southeast. Farther south another force neared Montargls afer swing northeastward above the Loire river and 20 miles eastb of Orleans. - AS the onslaught bulged unchecked 65 miles beyond Chartres through the, Orleans gap, threatening a great en circling sweep south of Paris, Berlin dispatches, ; indicated ' the German people " were being prepared for a wholesale ' withdrawal from Franc to the Reich -borders. ! There star were no reports of any great stiffening of German defenses and from Paris Itself came the sound of demolitions. The Paris radio was silent through the third day. . A Versailles resident told an Amer ican patrol near the city that street fighting was raging in Paris between students and Patriots on the one band and Germans on the other. He said then were numerous fires in the city and urged that Americans - quickly come to the aid of the Partisans. This resident said he Vhad been In Paris only two hours previously.' The time of liberating Paris ap peared a matter of Allied choosing. but there was more at stake than; rans risen. Although the capital In the public view is one of the biggest plums of victory, on Allied officer commented, "We are - shaking the tree to uproot the German army, sot primarily to get tne fruit," . . Nevertheless, In anticipation of possible earrly Allied . occupation of the capital. Gen. Charles De Gaulle and Brig. Oen. Joseph Pierre Koenig, commander, of - the French Liberation forces, flew to Oen. Dwight Elsen hower's headquarters Sunday for a half -hour conference. No news of the decisions was given out but De Gaulle emerged smiling. Uatton's formidable battle array was in a position to ' smash through on either side, north across the Seine toward . the.!' Pas-de-Calais or on through the gap around Paris to the south or both. There ws no lncn- atlon among the sta3 o to en close which way he woi i sir ' e. Above Paris rerefr. .--'" Seventh army so' " .rs 11 " r J air attack were ...- . 1 1 1 lnjr acro. the f t e 1 i : hemmed in by t ,e 1. Lt. Gl. Gpo i K. 1 :& " Army plurred tit"' rt ' river s t I '. - 1 -i r , ' non at the very p. t , mans were f :. - ' y f barges In an t t to s Marshal C"i. C. -r v t Seventh s v . i f .3 f from dcoi... : "ti. C.i.1 1 cm. n - -'e : - - "v 1 i 1 1 1. Is Arrangenierj Ccr:p!i!:J Fcr Collection Gf Scrap Vzzr ; ,' 'f . c J ' . drive is cournr-virz ' Plans have been completed for the big scrap paper drive to be conduct ed here Sunday afternoon August 27 th, according to W. T. Wall, president of ' the Lion's Club, sponsors of the drive. Beginning Sunday afternoon at two . O'clock the city trucks, accompanied ' by members of the Lions club, will cover the city in a city-wide collection of scrap paper, while in various sec tions of ' the county, collections will also be . made or collection stations will be set up in the rural sections where no col lections have been scheduled, residents are requested to take their scrap p per to the nearest collection station, where it will be collected and brought to the central collection station in Monroe. : Trucks will call for it at Monroe, from whence it will be taken to the mill for reprocessing. , People are asked to leave the bun dles of waste paper, including news paper, magazines, paper bags, etc., on the sidewalks. In front of their resi dences so that the trucks can pick it Up. - , In Monroe, a large tent will be erected on the vacant lot in front of the Quality Chevrolet Co., and people In the country are asked to bring their bundles there any time on Saturday. Local residents who expect to be' out . of the city on the day- the collection Is made, can leave their bundles at the Quality Chevrolet . Company this . weex..and it will be turned over to the proper authorities. , . At Marshvllle. trucks furnished bv R. P. Stegall and manned by Boy Scouts, will cover the town beginning at 3 o'clock. Polks from the count; y are asked to bring their waste pa-r on Saturday to the Stegall wareboire in Marshvllle and the T. R, Nbtt warehouse ' at i Waxhaw. In Wingate. the oli vtion station will be at the Perry K.a Comy under the direction of Earn n. Cu-y At Mineral Springs, t,e eZlon sta tion Is located at (Joan's store. Pennln Uving In these communities are re quested to leave their bundles at the '' anove named places. men is a great need for salvar-s paper and it Is highly important that Uniin county residents respond to this critical calL This is the first such drive here and c'""1 of t"- Llone-XJlub r- hopeful of " uie anai 01 oo.ouo pounds. . ujjDrELLY stc?j::d YITII A!,!AZi::3 Coastal Defenses FaUed To Materialize In Southern France, Jntil a few hours hfnr tmnni stormed 'ashore last week in southern France, the coastal lofannu nt t o underbelly of Hitler's Europe appeared about twice as towh as those en countered in Normandy. ' But the ex pected resistance failed to material!. I watched the landings from a B-1'3 Mitchell bomber 1,000 feet above tiie beaches, states ! Kenneth L. Dixon, American Press correspondent. As far as 20 miles inland there was a constant lack of any sign of stru 'a to mark the entire rupged lancLc, e. From my vantage point, It arrau4 that the new Allied blows to Llw-te Franoe were meeting almost no ret ance In the first stages. v 'Preliminary reconnaissance lndlr- r i shore defenses would form all shell, not too well supported from be hind. Twice during recent d,is I had flown over those defenses in re connaissance planes. They were V ' "t- linff With rUtlS bphlTMf hun ments. However, I saw few 1 a- jion or strong defenses f r'.: or i It . still seems hicre:;.:s f - i were not fired upon as m 1 jr i i v ) the gliders and raracv' 9 tr 1 is also strange tast t. a Nt 4 and landing craft unl .'! cargos of men and e;u r.' t not be showered h er,- 7 f Apparently both t a .r 1 ' Navy did a powerf-il ),i Cf r ing those shore d ;,,.. s c thundering three-ho-r Y before the Uuvlir 3 s , , Along the e:.':re ( 1 i aircraft battciica v,.-.e . packed a few c"vs s j t 1 of .daily recorded f.. Bi -TCet no one abc- 1 f Which I watch. 1 . ' single shot fit rr , . tivity S the g": ' ' Filots who c: - over f ' -y r"ri' t 1 l ' 1 'T(fl', 1 i 1 a ! '
The Monroe Journal (Monroe, N.C.)
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Aug. 21, 1944, edition 1
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