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IANKEES STORM THROUGH MARNE VALLEY

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Juries Are Selected For September Term Petit, Grand Jurors Drawn This Morning Three women and three men comprise the Adams county grand jury, which was drawn thia morning In the county clerk'a office by James L. Kocher and Alliert liar low. Jury commissioner*. The grand Jury selectees are: Mrs. George Sprague. Decatur; Vada K. Stuckey, Geneva; Mrs. John Chrlatener. Monroe; James Sasser. Root township; Walter Whlttenbarger, Vnion township; Erwin Bauman. Wabash township The members of the petit Jury were also selected today by the Jury commlaalonera Two of the 12 members are women. They are: * Mrs. Bertha Rice and Mrs. R. A. Stuckey of Decatur; James Brown Kirkland township; Henry Winteregg. Simon Gilliom. Berne; Ivan Barkley. Union township; Chester C. Bryan. Blue Creek townahlp; Robert Allspaw, Berne; Milo Glendening. Hartford township; W. K Faurote. Washington township; Edward Elchenlierger. Berne; Willis Glendening, Geneva. The petit jurors will serve at the first jury trial that might tie tried during the September term of court. It is likely that the grand Jury will have a busy session this fall. Beside* the annual Inspection of public buildings and Institutions which the grand jury will conduct, several Important criminal cases may be presented to the Investigation tiody for action. Prosecutor Ed A. Bosse announced that the Gerald Grandstaff case and the shooting of Clark Snyder by George Adams, local truck driver. would in all probability be presented to the grand jury for review and further action. Grand staff is charged with reckless homicide, in connection with the death of Mrs. George S. Cooley, (Turn To Pas’* «. Column V)

Four New Teachers At Catholic School Domestic Science Department Added ■A department ot domeatlc science will 'be opened at the rail temexter and four new Instructor* will join the *tadf of the Bister* of St. Agnes at the Decatur Catholic high school. It -was announced today. Three ot the Sisters take the place of former Instructors and the fourth .will I>e the supervisor of the domestic science department, which will be opened for the first time next, month A practical class room has been arranged in the kitchen and dining room on the fliwt floor of the Catholic school 'buHdlng. Bister M Dorlnda of St. John's high school Defiance, Ohio, will Be the department instructor. The change* In the high school staff art: Bister M. Alma. English teacher, formerly stationed at Catholic high school. Victoria Kan Sister IM Hugolin*. formerly of Sacred Heart high school. Yonkers, iN. T.. iwiil head the commercia! department. Sinter M. Joachim, of St. Florian’s school, (Milwaukee. Wls., will be the assistant instructor tn music and choirThe remaining member* of the high school sUff and the subject* CNra Te Pane ». Colam* () 0 Butter Remains At 16 Points A Pound Washington. Aug. EB—(VP)—Butter will stay at 1< pointe a pound when the aww September ration point raluas go into effect next Sunday, The office of price administration announced today. O>U explained that it had au<lo a tentitive decialoa to raise U>e value to 3 points but that further study indicated that September consumption would not go over the allocation of 38.000.9fi0 pounds under the present value.' Jlatlon point chart* tor September already have been printed to abow the 30 point value. OPA said, but grocers will be advised to make the eorreetloa.

French Patriots Cheer As Allies Enter Paris j* i w k| < j ■ ■" ■ y< Jwl If 1 aMIK gra HL * ** r ‘ z Wk imf J ■ jl ■ JKSHk Citizens of Paris gave the Allied troops entering their city a hearty welcome as they cheered wildly all along the street* the liberator* appeared. The above photo, one of the first taken since the Allies' arrival in the French capital, was radioed by the army signal corps from Cherbourg. France

10 Major Japanese Bases Are Attacked Three-Day Series Os Raids Reported By United Pres* Allied lumbers aaxnulted 10 major Japanese bases in the Pacific in a three-day series of raids and the Japanese radio annouaced today that Allied destroyer* had bombarded battered Wotje island in the Marshall* Sunday morning The sweeping serie* of attack* made from Thursday through Saturday ranged from the Philippine* to the Volcano island*. 750 mile* from Tokyo. The target* included: lowa Jirna in the Volcano*. Truk and Ponape In the enatern Carte lines. Yap and Woleai in the western end of the Caroline*. Agulgan in the Mariana*. Nauru, west of the Gilbert*; Paulu. 588 mile* east of the Philippine*; Davao harbor on Mindanao in the southern Philippine*. and iialmahera island. 250 mile* south of the Philippine*. The Japanese liroadcant. recorded by FCC. said the garrison on Wotje “Inflicted lo*Me*" on surface unit* but gave no report of damage. Liberator lumbers ot the 14th air force raided a storage area at Nbanghal and bombed the Amoy harbor on China * Fukien coast. First detailed report* of an Allied carrier based air raid on Numatra laat Thursday revealed today that a large cement work* had been smashed at Psdang and that harbor installation* had been damaged at nearby Emmahaven. United Pre** war correspondent Hugh Crumpler, who was alioard a (Turn To P*xe •. Column I)

16 Oil, Gas Leases Are Recorded Here St. Mary's Township Sections Recorded Oil drilling operation* may start in Bt. Mary * township, it the lease* recorded In the county recorder'* office today are an Indication or step tn that direction. Hlxteen Oil and gas lease* In the central and northeastern Metlons in the township have boon filed by James M. Hawkins of Mattoon. 111., with county recorder Ruth Hollingsworth. Section* in which farmers have given the standard oil lease, include 4, 6. 8. 3. I 5 anu 18. it requires about five full pages in the recorder's docket to record the instrument*. The acres covered number 1300 and it was stated that Mr. Hawkins, who personally obtained tne )ea*M. would transfer them to one of the major oil companies In the near future Several months ago. oil well drilling started in Wells county and on one farm along tbs WaliaAdam* county line. About M years ago the area around Geneva wna one of the active oil fields in this section of the state

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Road To Berlin (By United Prees) The shortest distances to Berlin from advanced Allied fronts today: Northern France — 450 miles (from point near Vitry en Francois. Kain of 98 miles In week.) Southern France — 590 mile* (from point near Grenoble. Gain of 88 miles in week). Italy -583 miles (from point near Pesaro. Gain of 18 miles In week). Russia —338 miles (from point near Warsaw Unchanged for week). —■ o Four Os Graduates To Enter Convents Catholic Graduates Enter Mission Work Four young women of the 1944 graduation clas* of Decatur Catholic high school have chosen hom<or foreign mission work a* their career. Mary Agne* Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Miller, and Virginia Spangler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Spangler,, left Sunday evening for St. Agne* convent. Fond du Lac, Wls., where they will enter a* postulants, preparatory to becoming member* of St. Agne* Community. They will attend Marian college conducted by the Slater* of St. Agnes. Joan Miller, daughter of Mr. and M;*. Caspor Miller, and president of the senior class, will leave for Maryknoll. New York, to join the foreign mission society, which conduct* mission work in the Orient and laitin America. MU* Miller will leave on September 4. Mary Catherine Rumschlag. daughter of Mr and Mr*. Lewi* Rumachlag. will Joint the home mlsaioner* of America early in September. Thl* community Di just in the act of being organized and ba* It* temporary headquarter* at GlendaJe. Ohio. The purpose of the new community Is to devote Baself to mlMlonary work In the rural districts of America, particularly in the southeastern section.

Snipers Are Sought In Paris After Attempt On De Gaulle

Paris. Aug 28.—(UP)—French partisan* and police, aided by Allied troops, searched Pari* today under order* to shoot on sight German sniper* and armed collaborationist* following the death of at least 15 person* in a series of abortive attempts to assassinate Gen. Charle De Gaulle during *a “liberation parade" Saturday. One attempt on De Gaulle's life touched off a miniature hattie in Notre Dame cathedral, where snipera hidden In the gallery exchanged shots with worshipper* during a thanksgiving service climaxing the parade. Other sniper*, entrenched on the roof of the American embassy, had fired into crowd* on th* Place De La Concorde, killing two persona and wounding 18. Still other shot* came from building* near the city hall as the De Gaulle party approached.

Veteran Solon Is Defeated In Texas Congressman Patton Defeated By Pickett Dallas. Tex.. Aug. 2.8, — (UP) — The number of newcomer* in the 21-member Tt-xa* congressional delegation was boosted to three today when unofficial return* showed that Rep. Nat Patton, a veterau of five term*, waa defeated by Tom Pickett, 38, district attorney of Palestine, In Haturday's Democratic run off primary election. Unofficial returns from all of the seventh district's 12 counties, eight of them complete, gave Pickett more than a 4.000-vote lead over Patton. The count showed 20.054 vote* for Pickett and 15 514 for Patton. Patton had opposed several administration -supported measure* but had supported the national Democratic party nominee*, favoring Roosevelt for a fourth term. The election battle over support ot «»r. Roosevelt which ha* split Democrat* in that state, did not enter Into the congre**iona| campaign. Other newcomer* In th<- Texas congressional delegation are Maj: John E. Lyle, now on duty in Italy, who defeated Rep. Richard Kleberg in the 14th district last month, and Judge J. L. Comb*. Beaumont, who was. elected in the first primary to fill the seat left vacant by retirement of Martin Die*, chairman of the committee on un-Amer-ican activities. 0 Enter St. Joseph's School Os Nursing (Eileen Keller of Decatur and Eleanor Kennel and Marie Schrock of Berne are among 38 pre-cadeta who have entered the fall training class at St. Joseph's hoapl'al echool of nursing In Fort Wayne Families and friend* were honored at a reception at the hospital Bunday afternoon.

But even as authorities pressed tueir manhunt. Paris already was well on the road to normalcy after its most exciting week since the French revolution. (Train service was resumed today between Pari* and suburb* and mall again was delivered, a Pari* bro.idcait heard in Algiers said. Charles Lulzet, former prefect of Corsica, ha* Iteen appointed prefect of Paris, the broadcaJT said, adding that he had left Algiers and arrived In Paris one month before it* liberation.) (A Vichy broadcast heard in London said the French newspaper* LAube. Figaro. Le Populaire, and three underground resistance paper*. Front National*. Liberation and Combat, had . esumed publication in Paris). Street barricade* thrown up by (Tura Ta Page •» Ooluua t)

Battered Nazi Armies In Full Retreat; New Threat From British

Polish Troops Gain On Italian Front Seven-Mile Advance On Adriatic Coast Rome. Aug. 28 — H'P) —British kth army Polish troops, pushing northward in general gains along a 5 mile front extending inland from the Adriatic sea, advanced seven miles lieyond the Metauro river today and sent spearheads across the tiny Arzilla river at a point five miles southeast of the important coastal town of Pesaro. Gains were made elsewhere along the Italian front as the Germans withdrew towards their fortified gothic line to the north. Fossombrone. 15 miles inland, and Fano. both on the main lateral road leading to the Adriatic, have been occupied by Polish troops, while between those points their line was extended in a bulge northward with the capture of Cartoceto, two mile* northwest of Saltarra. the seizure of Monte Delia Mattera. two miles northwest of Cartoceto, and an advance one mile northwest of Monte Della Mattera to the high ground around Monticelll. While a majority ot the German troopa were reported to have withdrawn behind the Arzilla river. RAF heavy liomVier* came to the assistance of the advancing Polish troops and for the second successive night pounded targets in the Pesaro area last night. The plane* hit enemy troop concentrations, gun position*, and equipment

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Trace Phone Calls In Chicago Slaying Mysterious Calls Traced By Police Chicago, Aug. 28. —(UP)—Police today attempted to trace a rnyster- ! lou* telephone call from the Drake hotel to a nearby rexiaurant to determine if it had any connection with the slaying of Mr*. Adele Born William*, wealthy wife of a Wa*hington diplomat who wa* wounded fatally in her hotel room la*t Jan 19. The call wa* made from Mr*. William’s eighth floor room less than three hours before she was shot by a woman in black. Police established that the victim wa* wa* not In her room at the time and they attempted to trace the call in the belief It might have been made by her as*ailant who fired upon Mrs. William* and her daughter. Mr*. Patricia Goodbody, from behind the bathroom door. Another call, hotel record* »howed. wa* made from room 190 to the same restaurant Jan. 2. Room 190 was occupied by Mr*. Ellen Bennett, a key clerk at the hotel who wa* questioned previously about the shooting. Police also planned to submit Mrs. Bennett's brother. Adolph Vaiants, a Chicago policeman, to additional lie-detector tests. Valanl*' name ha* been linked with the revolver that wa* used In the slaying by Walter Brown, a convict at RtatesvlUe penitentiary who said he left the weapon at the Valaitis' home 11 years ago. Valanis has denied that he ever owned the weapon. (Turn To Pace i. Column 1) • ■ .... o K. C. Basket Dinner Picnic Here Sunday Plans are complete tfor the K of C. old fashioned banket dinner picnic, to be held next Bunday at Hun Bet park, east of Decslur. For those who do not bring their bssket* of food, a supply of sandwlche* and coffee will be available. In the afternoon there will be a serie* of game* and outdoor amusementa. to .which the public is ißvitesd. Grand prises will be swarded In the “YeshtE

15,000 Nazis Are Trapped In Rhone Valley Americans Closing In; Great Base Os Toulon Is Liberated Rome, Aug. 28. — (fP) — American tanks and artillery, racing more than 50 miles overland into the Rhone valley, closed behind the beaten remnants of the Germans 19th army at Montelltnar today and turned a murderous fire on some 15.000 Nazis trapped against the east bank of the Rhone. With their bridges across the broad Rhone cut by Allied bombers, the survivors of the 19th army faced imminent death or capture between the converging guns of the main American forces moving up from Avignon and the enveloping column at Montelimar. halfway between the .Mediterranean coast and Lyon. Headquarters spokesmen, who previously had issued an ambiguously worded statement indicating that 15.000 Germans were killed, wounded or captured In the new American stroke, explained tha' that figure w-ferred to the number of Germans now pinned against the Rhone river. The trap was sprung by a strong armored force that swept into Montelimar after a secret forced inarch from the Hiaterorie-Grenoble highway more than 50 miles to the east. The battered Nazis, fleeing up the east bank of the Rhone, raced into Montelimar to find the Americans ready and waiting Front dispatches said the start!-

<*d German* fell back to the river edge and braced for a death battle against the American* closing around them Throughout yesterday. United PrPess war correnpondent Dana Adams Schmidt report-j ed. American guns poured a dead-i ly fire into the cornered enemy. American riflemen and hundreds of warplane* Joined in the slaughter and casualties among the Nazis wre described officially ax “enormous.” Among the already-decimated German unit* brought to bay against the river bank* were element* of the 11th Panzer and 198t7i infantry dlviHiou*. po**iihly reinforced by troops from three other division*. In addition, most of the German (Turn To Pace I. Column 4) i O —— ..... Nazis Escape Routes Attacked From Air Italy Based Planes Are Also In Action London, Aug. 28.—(UP)—Hundreds o( Allied fighter plane* and fighter-bomber* attacked German e*eape route* north of the Heine and supply route* along the Franco-German border today, while , 500 to 750 heavy bomber* from Italy bombed enemy target* in France. Hungary and Austria. Medium bombers from Italy hit bridge* In the Lyon area and Rhone valley, and the heavy bomber* attacked an oil refinery 22 miles northwest of Vienna: another refinery on th* Danube 50 miles northwest of Budape*; the Avlslo viaduct and Ora bridge on the Brenner paa* railway tine 30 miles north of Avlsio. and railway yard* at Mlskoies, 100 miles northeast of Budapest and at Hsolnok, 55 mile* southeast of Budapest. The attack by American and British fighters and fighter-bomb-ers on German transport target* was made from both Normandy and England, and In weather which kept the plane* slmoet at tree-top tiura To Fa«o 3, Ooiamg 4).

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Robot Bomb Bases, Borders Os Germany Itself Threatened By Powerful Drives Supreme Headquarter*. AEF, Aug 28—(UP)—Triumphant American troop* stormed through the valley of the Marne today, approaching the historic battleground of Chateau-Thierry, while a powerful British armored force streamed across the Seine above Paris in a double-edged threat to the Nazis' rolnrt Imhiili liases and the liorders of Germany itself. The battered German armies of northern France were in full retreat and Nazi reports said one American column had thrust on beyond captured Troyes to reach the Marne at Vitry-En-Fraiicois. 100 miles southeast of Paris and barely 90 tnlies from the German frontier. As the Americans struck eastward, long lines of Britisli tanks and mechanised infantry swarmed across the Seine river bridgehead at Vernon. 38 miles northwest of Paris, and struck out for Fleury, six miles lieyond the Seine and It miles southeast of Rouen, Other British columns swept across the Seine In force at Mantes, Elbeukf and a newly won bridgehead at Louviers, aimoat mid-,way between Vernon and | Elbeauf. Only feeble enemy opposition was encountered by the British spearhead*. but headquarter* *poke*men warnod it wa« too early to determine whether Hitler had ordered hi* troop* in the Pa* D« Calais to hold al all cost* or to abandon their flying bomb base* to avoid encirclement. Equally weak resistance met the American column* in their *wlft thniHt up the Marne, and official report* placed the Yank spearheads on the upproache* of Chateau-Thierry. barely 30 miles south-southeast of the forest of Compiegne where the armistice of 1918 was signed and where Germany imiMised her harsh truce of 19)0 on beaten France. The third battle of the Marne was on. but official reports indicated that this time the Germans had nothing left to stem the khaki tide sweeping eastward on their frontiers Lt. Gen George S Patton’s vic-tory-flushed Yanks met sharp resistance at a numlw-r of places from enemy rear guards numtiering up to LOW men. but at most points only a handful of Nazi* barred the way and they were des'royed swiftly. Meaux. 23 miles east of Paris, 1 (Turn Tn P»gs I. Column 1> ‘ O 1.., Late Bulletins Roms. Aug. 28—(UP)—Armor ad patrols of the 7th army have reached the Bwi** frontier three mile* *outh of Geneva, the Canadian service newspaper, Maple Leaf, said today, without quoting the source of its information. Washington, Aug"- 28—(UP) —The Polish government In exile today appealed to Allied and neutral governments and to the Vatican to prevent Germany from exterminating a > large portion of th* population of Warsaw “within th* next few days.” London, Aug. 28 —(UP)— A Stockholm dispatch to the Daily Express reported today that an Armistice between Finland and Rueala was impending and may be announced within ths next 24 hours. ’ <> TEMPERATURE READING DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m- <2 10:00 a. m. <2 Noon <2 2 ; 00 p. m <4 WEATHER Clearing tonight, fair Tuesday, cooler tonight and a little warmer Tuesday.