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War on Japan, Allied Leaders Declare in Statement.

~~ QUEBEC, Aug. 24 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt and Prime minister Winston Churchill announced today that their eight-day war conference had been largely devoted to the war against Japan and promised that powerful “for-

T:and air forces of the two nations. In what probably will be regarded as their “Declaration of Quebec,” the two leaders announced the possibility of a ite conference with the Soviet Union, but in an explanatory press conference accompanying their statement explained tactfully that Russia was not asked to this largely

Pacific meeting because she is not at war against Japan.

Refraining from any positive statement on details. of the . decisions reached here,

Mr. Roosevelt and the prime minister told in their joint statement how the war talks were devoted “largely” to “the war against Japan and the bringing of effective aid. to China.” { Then they announced their unan{mous approval of the plans reached by their combined chiefs of staff and agreement on “political issues underlying or arising out of the military operations.”

* | Study French Question

The statement also disclosed that the question of recognition of the French national committee for liberation had been on the agenda and that announcements from a “many” governments on this

te this week. ate nis and. American leaders will hold another similar conference be-

nouncement said, “in addition to rtite meeting which it may, “to arrange with Soviet

Then clearly saying that Russia has no part in allied plans for the Pacific, the statement continued: “Pull reports of the decisions so far as they affect the war against Germany and Italy will be furnished to the Soviet government.”

Other Plans Develop

The two leaders reminded the approximately 150 reporters gathered in thé open on the upper terrace of ihe king’s bastion at the citadel that “the whole field of world operations” was surveyed in “the light of many gratifying events.” Mr. Roosevelt pointed out that plans reached at their Casablanca conference last January had just ‘become apparent—in Tunis and Sicily. | Mindful that he and Churchill had met last May in Washington, the president said he thought it could be assumed that other plans were about to be developed—a statement that generally was accepted as meaning activities, because at several other points in the talk they spoke of action soon. . Churchill said the armed forces of Great Britain and the United States were more closely united than any armies of different counies in history. Because the emphasis of the Que(Continued on Page Four)

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REPORT RIOTING IN COPENHAGEN

Invasion Jitters Mount as Allied Warships Con- , verge.

By UNITED PRESS German artillery on the French coast shelled Southeast England today in a demonstration of severe invasion jitters otherwise accented by a shakeup in the Nazi hierarchy, renewed nervousness in Italy and street fighting between Nazi troops and patriots in Copenhagen, The official German news agency DNB reported that Heinrich Himmler, notorious chief of the Gestapo, had been ‘appointed min-

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Nazi officials. The agency said Baron Konstantin von Neurath had been relieved of his post, as “protector” of Bohemia-Moravia and Wilhelm Frick was- relieved as minister of interior and: appointed to succeed Von Neurath,

Zero Hour Seen Near

London freely expressed the belief that the zero hour for the allied invasion of Italy was at hand following the arrival of huge. reinforcements at Mediterranean bases and a prediction by Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery that His 8th army would attack “very soon.” The shelling of the British coast was considered significant in the light of recent reports that ‘that particular area has been the focus of heavy troop concentrations. The Nazis began their barrage at 10:50 a. m. and continued on a desultory basis for sometime. In the first half hour or so, only half a dozen shells came across the straights. The French coast was clearly visible. Even the clock tower at Calais could be seen, Observers on the coast saw the puffs of smoke as the German guns were fired.

Fighting in Copenhagen

An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Stockholm quoted the newspaper Aftonbladet today as reporting that Copenhagen was occupied by 50,000 ‘German troops, street fighting had broken out with a number of fatalities, and Nazi tanks were patroling the streets. Theft of a big store of firearms at the Copenhagen docks and extension of the German state of emergency to major Jutland towns were revealed by the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, Several thousand light weapons were said to. have been stolen from a Nazi arms depot during a fire in the Copenhagen harbor. Dagbladet reported several instances of important sabotage. A factory near Copenhagen which had been making parts for U-boats, was said to have been leveled by an explosion.

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-. DENOUNCE CAFE HEALTH SURVEY

Restaurant Assn. Charges Inspection Grading

Was ‘Unfair.’

The Indianapolis Restaurant association today bitterly denounced the methods and procedure used by the U. 8. public health’ service and the state health board in making the sanitary survey of local restaurants, the results of which were announced Saturday. The sanitary report: gave Indianapolis’ restaurants collectively a grade of only 41.6 per cent—T75 per

| cent is said to be good for a normal

community. E. E. Keller, secretary-manager of the association, declared that the method. used” to arrive at a grade for ‘each of the 18 points checked “was most unfair and unjust.” He cited as an example the grading of toilet facilities whish ‘counted (Continued .on Page Five)

NEWSPAPER ASSERTS WELLES ON WAY OUT

Philadelphia Inquirer Claims Ouster..

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2¢ (U, P.). —The Philadelphia Inquirer in a special dispatch from Washington said today that it had learned “on the highest authority that Undersecretary of ‘State Sumner Welles is about to be replaced in that important diplomatic post by Assistant

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The Inquirer dispatch said that “there is reason to believe that he (Welles) already regards himself as finished with the department.” The dispatch continued:

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Nazis Sing Different Tune; They're on Receiving End

LONDON, Aug. 24 (U. P.).—The tune the Germans sing about bombing seems to depend on who plays the accompaniment. At noon on Sunday, Sept. 8, 1940, the Berlin propaganda ministry called a foreign press conference to announce the beginning of the London blitz, Throughout the day and succeeding days, the German radio played non-stop programs of martial music interspersed with trumpet fan-. fares and special bulletins announcing new destruction in London. The German press blazoned headlines such as “London under hail of fire and destruction,” or “London’s doom sealed.” The :German radio said London had become a “real hel and compared it with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. “The faces of crews are radiant as every one of them has had a great experience,” said the German news agency DNB at the height of the blitz, “The impression of the fire of London was indescribable.” 2 8 = ® 8» :

BUT LISTEN to the same station on Aug. 1 this year: “The German people at home are experiencing great trials, for’ the air attacks are devastating our towns. This is a stab malls by people without honor, against people without defense. »

Political Picnics at Parks Are Taboo, Explains Mayor

‘ There : appeared to: be. “no hard: feelings’ “today as Mayor Tyndall clarified his stand on a city Stdinante: bauning; ihe; G., 0. P. county organization picnic from Garfield park. ‘Although ' some were" inclined to read factional politics into the mayor's decree pointing ‘out that “political meetings ‘are prohibited in

public parks; he. emphasized that his move was a sincere attempt to

enforce park regulations. . “If -'we overlooked "this “infraction,” said the mayor, ‘we'd probably have every political -outfit -in the city harassing’ us for pienic

THREE. ITALIAN RAIL JUNCTIONS RAZED

Mayor Tyndall said that “mor | tunately” he had not been aware of | the ordinance when he attended an outing sponsored several weeks ago by the Garfield Republican club, of which one of: his politica Inenchmen,

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Communications. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,

Yoiay's Hof spots fa Europe? 1 L. Gorman pune shell southeast Engin Yofeatiug Mowing Invaslon Jiiern 2. Getsioii, troops’ repoiind to have occupied Copenhagen as street fighting develops. 3. R. A. F. delivers one of heaviest

assaults on Berlin. 4. Russians smash into the Donets after the fall of Kharkov. 5. Huge allied telaforcentents reported reaching Meditersaneas. ! hi ' ‘ :

Bombers Strike at | Axis

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Soviets Smash Deep Into Donets to Liberate Captured Lands.

MOSCOW, Aug. 24 (U. P.).—Soviet armies smashed deep into "the

mineral:rich Donets basin against flerce resistance today, - liberating territory held by the Gérmans since 1941 and threatening to c®llapse the whole axis position in south Russia. % “The two-pronged offensive — fourth by the Soviet armies this summer--gained ‘momentum along a broad front. as ‘other Russian forces surged through burning, recaptured Kharkov in a drive to

{hammer the enemy back behind

the Dnieper river, and farther. More than 30 towns and villages, including ‘ Donetsko - Amvrosievka, on the Stalino-Taganrog railroad 70 miles southwest of Voroshilov-

first. three days of their break-

into the Donets basin. Advances of up to 22 ‘miles Sigoe Saturday through defenses t stopped both the 1941-42 and. 194243 Soviet winter offensives were re-

last night. One Russian formawrecked ‘15 axis tanks * Seventeen (Continued on Page Four)

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Nazi Capital Due for ‘Hamburg’ Destruction,. Observers. Believe; R. A. F. Loses 58 Big Bombers.

By UNITED PRESS : * Vast areas of Berlin were in imotlering ruins today after the city’s heaviest air raid of the war, possibly the forerunner of a great allied offensive to wreck the Germagy capital after the Hamburg pattern. The raid preceded by a few hours a Berlin announces ment of a shakeup in the Nazi party by Adolf Hitler. : A mighty force of British heavy bombers let loose 1500 to 2000 tons of bombs on four square miles of Berlin last night, starting fires that could be seen 250 miles and sending pillars of smoke towering thousands of feet. The raid was twice as heavy as any of the 72 previous air attacks on the capital and one of the three or Tour:

grad, fell to the Russians in the|®

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smoke rising 15,000 feet into

heaviest assaults ever on Germany. Great four-ton super block-busters and hundreds of thousands of incendiaries turned Adolf Hitler's capital into a raging inferno, returning crewmen said. Fifty-eight bombers were lost, the greatest number ever lost in a single British raid on the continent.

Smoke Towered High

The hee four-engined Stirlings, Halifaxes and Lancasters, each capable of carrying up to eight tons of bombs, loosed destruction on four square miles of the city and left

the sky.

The whole assault took a little less than an hour, but

on an annihilation scale.

STOCKHOLM, Aug. 24 (U. P.).—The Swedish legatich has been evacuated from Berlin, it was announced officially today. : ment of the Swedish legation’s departure from the German capital followed press reports from Berlin describing the damage in the British air raid as very extensive, with the inhabitants ayn more attacks

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in clear weather just before midnight and preliminiary reports indicate that the bomb‘ling ‘was highly concentrated;” the air ministry said. Airmen who participated in some of the nine raids that all but blasted Hamburg off the map between July 24-Aug. 2 said last night's raid appeared fully as effective. “It probably will take a few extra raids to wash out Berlin,” one pilot said, “but we certainly made a good start in that direction.” The bombers swarmed over Berlin in what was officially described as “yery great strength” at a time when the German government was rushing the evacuation of non-

in anticipation of ‘a “Hamburg” offensive. Dispatches from neutral countries said Berlin residents have been frantically digging trench, shelters in the parks. ; “5 Air experts have estimated that

through of the axis Mius river: lige |

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essential civilians from the capital

Hitler Shakes Up Party Chie

As Himmler's Power Increases

LONDON, 24 (. P) The Berlin radio today announced pe, ple . chief of the secret police, as

nevertheless was foun times as heavy as any single a

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Last night's ‘raid, believed: 1a the three or four heaviest ¢ made on Germany, was the: major attack on Berlin since 900. t of bombs were dropped on the last * March 29." However, smi formations of twin-engined quito bombers have made - nuisance raids on the city in interim. "The raiding force was unde to have been made up entirely four-engined aircraft and probabil constituted the largest such ever sent against a single target. Though "58 bombers were three more than on any previ raid, air experts said the losses

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weight of the attack and ren of the defenses.

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