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. out downstream toward the chan-

__ troops, supported by Belgian and Dutch “units, herded the Nazis Trmto ‘the Seine river funnel from the

- Kansas City, Mo . a . Minneapolis-St, P ~ New York

‘CHANNEL PORTS | YANKS’ TARGET

New Drive Starts Down ~~ Seine; Report Second Column at Marne. (Continued From Page One)

toward the handful of temporary pontoon bridges thrown across the

Seine between Elbeuf and the estu- |’

ary that offered their last hope. of escape. No Details Revealed Headquarters gave no details on the progress of the new American thrust, beyond .the -fact that Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Yanks were driving hard along the south bank

of the Seine from the Mantes area.!

The Germans themselves, however, had reported American armor around Gaillon, 21 miles to the northwest and barely 17 miles from the river port of Elbeuf, where thousands of Nazi troops and transport vehicles were jammed in a tight mass, waiting their turn to cross the Seine. At the same time, ‘other American units were across the river in force at Mantes and Vernon, 13 miles to the north, and fanning

nel coast and upriver toward Paris. Herd Nazis Into Funnel Canadian, British and American

east, advancing as much as 10 miles along a 50-mile front ‘from the channel coast to west of Argentan.

Far behind the eastbound allied line, many thousands of Germans milled in"the- trap bounded by Argentan, Chambois and Trun. Some | 30,000 Nazi prisoners already had been taken in {he pocket and headquarters. spokesmen estimated that 100,000 men would be liquidated there when the full count of dead and captured is in.

FRENCH FORCES Decision Near

CIRCLE TOULON

Yanks Drive Within Eight Miles of Marseille,

Cut Escape Route, (Continued From Page One)

. . regardless of fatigue or pos-

Meanwhile, the battle of Paris:

appeared to be nearing a showdown as American armor ‘pressed in on; the city from three sides against!

sible shortages of food or equipment.” “We have achieved a great initial

slightly stiffening enemy resistance. | ViCtOIY.3 he said. “The enemy ir

Etampes Is Captured Berlin admitted the loss

Orleans-Fontainebleau highway, 35 miles south of the former French capital. Headquarters spokesmen refused to confirm or deny front reports that other American units had plunged across the Seine 2t Fontainebleau and driven 40 miles north to the Marne at Meaux, 22 miles east-northeast of Paris. The reported thrust appeared highly possible, however, as the

sufficient force in the Paris ares for an all-out defense of the city. “Henceforth the allied armies will be able to advance virtually at will in -Prance,” high military

spokesmen told a United Press war! correspondent in the field. “There!

is nothing that can stop us at the present time.”

500,000 Nazi Casualties? Front reports said a high mili-

jour area are perplexed and stunned. {Except for his coastal ef Etampes, 14 miles south-southwest of Paris, and Malespherbes, on the

defense forces, he is in full retreat. . . . The opportunity for decisive results is in front of us.” Liberate 2000 Miles Gen. Bir Henry Maitland Wilson, supreme allled- commander, announced in his daily communique that the bridgehead in Southern France now comprised more than 2000 square miles—an average of 285 square miles a day liberated in the past week. French tanks and infantry, covered by a barrage from two battle-

Germans were not believed to have Ships SIX cruisers and swarms of

bombers, completed the encirclement of Toulon with the capture of Bandol, on the Mediterranean coast seven and a half miles west of Toulon, Doomed to death or surrender the German garrison of perhaps three army divisions and assorted marine units nevertheless was putting up a back-to-the-wall fight for the naval base. Escape Rout Cut Northwest of Toulon, American

tary authority in the fleld estimated that the Germans havé lost 300.000 men-in killed, wounded and |

{ captured since D-day 77 days ago,!

arid headquarters sources indicated |

the enemy's casualties might be | around 500.000. i Under merciless pounding of alHed ground and air forces, the broken German Tth army and the di-| visions rushed to its-aid by the 15th army from the ! area, were believed to have lost,

25,000 to 30,000 motor velidles de- | : | stroyed or damaged, and mére than | the largest French city yet captured

1000 tanks. In addition, allied war- | planes smashed some 15.000 freight |

forces driving along the main

{highway to Marseille stabbed into

the outskirts of Aubagne and fanned out either side of the town to within eight miles east of Marseille, France's largest port and second largest city, Fifteen miles north of Marseille, American forces cut the main escape route from the big port with

Pas de Calais | the capture of the communications!

hub of Aix after a two-day battle. Alx, with 45,000 population, was

in the southern invasion. The Americans were advancing so

The deepest penetration of Yank and French troops in South France is 54 miles north of Toulon, at an undisclosed spot on the Asse river. Other columns have taken Aix, Fertuis and Castellane, .Toulon is. completely surrounded, as is Cannes. One Yank column is eight miles from Marseille.

i i i

For Bulgaria | To Quit Nazis (Continued From Page One)

fessions of a desire for peace to “the lamentations of a thief who had been caught in the act.) (Radio Moscow, warning another partner of Germany, told Hungary last night that her only hope of “salvation” lay in a complete break with Germany and the ouster from the country of all Germans and their “hirelings.”) An Ankara dispatch said Draganov also was expected by diplomatic sources in Turkey to denounce the anti-comintern pact which Bulgaria signed in the first flush of Germany's earlier victories in Eurepe.

FIND NEW EVIDENCE OF ROMMEL'S DEATH

{Continued From Page One)

blitzwar thundered past and the big guns rumbled in the hills beyond. Two weeks ‘before the accident, he said, Rommel had a warning of what “was coming. That was when trucks behind his car were wrecked by a plane,

Hides Behind Church

Rommel's car rushed up the main street from outside the city, Lescene explained, and he hid behind the church. About 6 p. m. on July 17th, he said a car pulled up at the crossroads, in front of the War Memorial and a distraught tank officer jumped out, inquiring for the village doctor. Lescene gave him directions, but the officer seemed confused and the group dashed off |to Vimouterie. Half an hour later, someone informed Lescene at a cafe |that an officer and two other peo‘ple were injured and were unable {to find a doctor, | “I decided to go myself,” Lescene said. “The officer lay on a stretcher lin the vestibule at the hospital and sisters were washing his face. I noticed he was a general because lof the” red tabs and broad red stripes on his breeches and high

cars and knocked out 2000 to 3000 rapidly inland thdt in many places | +o

locomotives:

the annihilation of Field Marshal | Gunther von Kluge's reeling divi-| sions seemed imminent,

3 POWERS DISCUSS WORLD LEAGUE SITE.

By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent

cantaloupes and tomatoes taken from gardens along the roads.

GUS JONAS, 45, DIES HERE AFTER ILLNESS

Gus Jonas, 806 N. Bosart ave. lifelong resident of Indianapolis, died this morning at St. Vincent's hospital. He was 45. An employee of the Pennsylvania railroad for 30 years, Mr. Jonas was

{ they had outrun their ration trucks A showdown battle to complete and were subsisting chiefly on|

Bleeding From Ears

| “An officer told me we would (have to put him in another room 'and I had him carried to the {dining room next door. Then 1 | noticed he had a large open wound {above the left eye and was bleeding {from the ears. This convinced me ‘he had a fractured skull. He was {not wounded by bullets, but his

{face was completely swollen and!

| disfigured.

| The next day, someone from

{ | WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.— The a labor foreman at the time of his /Bernay told Lescene that the genUnited States, Britain and Russia, d¢ath. He was a member of theleral who had been brought from

already agreed on the broad outlines of a world security organiza-! tion, will discuss early in their current Dumbarton Oaks conference | where to locate the new world league, it was learned today. There is expected to be strong oppostion to returning to Geneva, the seat of the old league of nations, and there may develop strong support for suggestions that at least the council of the new organization meet in various capitals. Some of the subjects to be discussed may be revealed today when the press receives its first statement on the progress of the conference. The working sessions of the conference are expected to continue several days before ¢oming to maJor controversial problems.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

avis. Us 8. Weather Bureau

All Data in Central War Time ~Aug. 22, 1944

Sunrise... 6:03 | Sunset.... 7:32 Precipitation 24 hrs. end. 7:30 a. m... .17 Total precipitation since Jan. 1...... 25.82 Deficiency since Jan. 1............... 81

The following table shows the temperatures yesterday. SE

High Low 86. 69 84 66 84 63 Cincinnati 01 67 Cleveland . 81 66

Denver .. Evansville

Ft. Wayne .. Indianapolis (city) ... Miami, Fl

New Orleans

{four daughters,

and the Knights of Columbus. Survivors are his wife, Helen Louise; a son, Gustave J. Jr, and Mrs. Elizabeth Schusler, and the Misses LaVerne, Marcella and Bernice Jonas, all of Indianapolis.

4 EVENTS TODAY

Columbia club golf tournament, Broadmoor Country club,

Navy club, auxiliary 42, card party, Food Craft shop, 1:30 p. w

diana State Nurses examining board, Hotel Lincoln, y ’ Indianapolis Newsboys band alumni, luncheon, Washington hotel, 12:15 p.m. Rotary club, Claypool hotel, 12:15 p. m. Universal club, Columbia club, noon. White River conference, United Brethren church, University Heights U. B. church,

EVENTS TOMORROW

Daughters of America, Hotel Lincoln, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Washngton hotel, 12:15 p. m. Apartment owners, Washington hotel,

12:15 p.m. fubler police, Garfield park shelter house, 3 , Mm. : Bind concert, Brookside park, north ter-

race community center, evening. Lions club, Claypool hotel, noon.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

These lists are from official records in the county court house. The Times, therefore, i» not responsible for errors in names addresses.

Howard Tu Je, U. 8. army; Jean May, | 1pa ia 2 -

- Sapulpa, . Michael Zim, 122 N. Delaware; Josie Snevely, 1817 8. Delaware Don Harrison, 321%

'N. Addison; Lucy Rife, ton

2317 W, Washin

Arthur Bertram 1118 Oliver; Lorene Fish-|7 ‘er, 2

0 N.- Colorad Edward English,

Hovey

0. A 5 Hovey; Bertha Sims,

| Little Flower Catholic church, the Livarot “died during the night.” | Holy Names society of that church!

A village policeman, who had been {listening to Lescene’s story, broke in: | “A German officer, who later was |treated at the hospital, told one of [the sisters that Rommel died at 3 'a. m. the next morning at Bernay

land his body was flown to Berlin.”

Gerald Harding, 149 8. Illinois; Hazel Tipton, 42 W. Georgia. Jack Woods, U. 8, army; Rosemary Loudermilk,- 547 N. Livingston, Sylas McMath, 920 Hackley, Hattie Fears,

Muncie. George Higgins, U. 8. army; Jean McKib-

King, 1203 Sturm. ‘ Detroit Grimmett, 421 Bright; Susie Robertson, 421 Bright. Harold Anderson, 828 Harrison; Georgia Hoskins, 214 N, Walcott. Jewell Huddleston, 933 Park; Albert Wiliams, 809 Broadway. . Edward Friedmann, U. 8. 3 Sadie Johnson, 2134'2 N. Talbott. . John Elett Jr., 1942 N. Talbott; Genevieve Evans, Grove, Bevin Granger, Holiday's Cove, W. Va.; Mary Harness, 1513 Carrollton. . Charles Jackson, 630 N. West; Elizabeth Lane, 2444 Paris, : Claud Wilson, Lawrence; Percy Gordon, 1503 Park. Edward Cage, U. 8, army; Rita WadsWw. 27th

worth, 834 4 John » U. 8. navy; Catherine Zimmerman, 1046 N. Alabama. Everett Schafer, a EB. 63d; Etta Schafer,

gausins Clark, Juse Sentral a ree: am! diana; 3 Hughes, 901 Medison. nary. ——— BIRTHS Fehie Girls ~:~ Raymond, Mary Assingale, t. nels. Walter, Helen a dary

Sallie

Putt, at St. Prancis. Dorothy -Cutling, at St.

navy; Charlotte Barrett, Ri

ben, 811 N. Keystone. James Brodley Jr, U. 8, army; Virginia | Geo Mimms, 1456 E. 16th, Charles Herron, 1203 Sturm; Dorothy

R. R. 16, Box 268. : William David, 1930 N. Pennsylvania;

* Americans 54 Miles From South France Beachheads |

AITING

15,000 W

| SCHOOL'S CALL

Classes to Resume Sept. 5:

Washington Twp. Additions Planned.

It’s back to school for approximately 15,000 Marion - county boys and girls starting Tuesday, Sept. 5, Robert E. Gladden, county school superintendent, announced today. Plans have been completed, Mr. Gladden said, to relieve the crowding in the three Washington township schools by the construction of additions but they will not be available for the first term of the school year. : . Blueprints are being drawn for additions to John Strange, Nora and Crooked Creek schools.

Institute Sept. 16

The annual county teacher institute will be held on Sept. 16. Dr. Robert Phillips of

university department of political |

science - will be the principal speaker. Mr, Gladden estimated that enrollment in the county schools. will approximate that of last year. Enrollment in grade schools for the 1943-44 school year was 12,393 and

in the high schools 3,186. The aver-

lage attendance was about 13,000.

WORKERS NEEDED AT

PATRIOTS SHELL NALIS IN PARIS

Liberate 14 Departments of France; Swiss Say Petain Arrested,’ - «

(Continued From Page One)

the interior had liberated 14 de- | partments, including 13 large towns, and that patriots inside Paris had been supplied with light artillery to besiege German strongpoints on the Place de la Republique and along the boulevard Bonne Novelle, Koenig identified the liberated departments as Indre, Haute Vienne, Dordogne, Correze, Cantal, Lot-et-Garonne, Lot, Aveyron, Tarn-et-Garonne, Gers, Basses Pyrenees, Haute Garonne, Tarn, and Haute Loire. The towns included Chateauroux, Limoges, Perigueux, Tulle, Aurillac, Agen, Montauban, Rodez, Auch, Pau, Toulouse, Albi and Le Puy. » . Swiss reports, meanwhile, said the Germans had spirited Petain away to an unknown destination in Germany. ) Earlier reports said Petain had resisted all German pressure to ‘leave Vichy and was contemplating turning over his authority to Gen. Charles De Gaulle, president of the French committee 6f nation'al liberation and his hated rival, as {a mean of continuing what he regards as the legal government of France. . The Swiss journal De Geneve said igestapo agents seized Petain in | Vichy's Hotel Parc Sunday mornling, along with a group of his aides, | including Gen. Bridoux and Adm. i Belhaut. { Before leaving Vichy, the news{paper said, Petain wrote a short letter of farewell to the French people, which obtained immediate and | widespread circulation. Report Laval Has Fled Persistent, but still unconfirmed | reports, said Pierre Laval, Vichy {chief of government, already had {fled from his Nazi-controlled cap|ital and established a new puppet i seat of government in or near Bel- | fort, close to the Franco-German border.

sources asserted that the bulk of the ‘German garrison in Paris was believed to be evacuating Paris, if it had not already done so, leaving only rearguards to defend the city against thousands of rebellious pariots. } Street fighting between the rearguards, studehts and other patriots was described as mounting daily in violence with the Germans turning machineguns on their tormentors. Skirmishing has spread to the Champs Elysees in the center of the city, French sources said. Gen. Pierre Joseph Koenig, commander of the French forces of the interior, was named to be military governor of Paris last night by Gen. Charles de Gaulle, president of the French committee of national liberation, who arrived in France only two days ago in order to be among the first to enter the capital after its liberation.

N INDIANAPOLIS-EVENTS=VITALS

Raymond, Clara Stickle, at fe ist. Kenneth, Kathryn Thoms, at hoi. Edwin, Martha Worley, at Methodist. SOI, Christine Cook, at 1048 E. ork. William, Annabelle iia, Hughes, at 242 N. Cary, Lulu Hutchinson, at 417 W. Smith Norge, Doris Proctor, at 1818 Bellefon-

Claude, Charlens Sc Bude. TUges, at 1503 E.

James, Ora Williams, at 835 S. Iii Chainey, Lillie Wright, ‘at 3023 Maran:

; Boys . Thumas, Marguerite Collins, at St. Fran-

cis, Glen, Mary Fithian, at ‘St. Vincent Melvin, Clara Cooper, at Colerian, * Stewart, Lelin Garlic, at Coleman. Wayne, Lucille Hedman, at Coleman. Raymond, Wanda Johnson, at Coleman, Max, Carol Ryerson, at Coleman. Everett, Edith Alderson, at Methodist, Max, Cecil Bird, at Methodists Charles, Wilma Powell, at Methodist.

DEATHS Emma M ed, 83, 1143 N. ton, chronic ocarditis. N: Hamy William C. wn, 88, 1062 W. 32d, carci.

noma. Vicy Collins, Methodist, carcinoma. Charles Y, Poster, 71, Methodist, diabetes mellitus,

New

Bertha Brownell, 43, 1023 Central, chronic

Ann Wright Martin, 94, 2824 W. 81st, congestive heart.” Mary E. Cull, 20, Methodist,

Emmet. Win Kisite, 87, Lon | Herbert Chandler, 81, 969

in Jones, U. 8. Bicknell o

2619 Bloyd,

“Meanwhile, authoritative Fremch| =

Staff, 56, Methodist, brain tumor. |.

cardio

Salient:

CAMP ATTERBURY

Because of the expansion of “Camp Afterbury’s facilities a need

civil service rating board.

jan personnel branch at the camp.

(Continued From Page One)

Britain native and was purchased from a native chief. It was learned from the library here, however, that the carving may represent some volcanic mountains, in New Britain, the Mother, the North Daughter and the South Daughter. Cpl. Corns sent the wooden “family” home to his sister, Mrs. Ruth Henson, in Frankfort and the 30-inch figure was wrapped in a copy of The Indianapolis Times.

‘Walter, a pupil at the Mars Hill grade school, is a carrier of The Times and was named after his

the Purdue]

for a large number of civilian em- |p ANpy RAPIDS, Mich, Aug. 22

ployees has been announced by the (U. P.)—A message by William | | Green, president of the American Workers are sought for clothing Federation of Labor, today officially and tailoring, automotive work, hos- | recognized the International Typo- ‘| pital duties and general office work. graphical Union as an affiliate, folApplicants should contact the civil-| lowing I. T. U's four years of inde-

| uncle. | Before going to New Britain {| where he saw action, Cpl. Corns

Weird Statue Arrives Here From New Britain

was stationed with the army engineers, in Panama for two years and served in Australia and New Guinea. He was in the bucket line in the film, “Attack,” which recently was shown at Indianapolis downtown theaters, describing the action on New Britain. When his uncle, Grover Corns of Frankfort, learned that his nephew was in the movie, he sat in the show all day, seeing the film over and over. He hadn't been to a show for years previously, Joining the army before Pearl Harbor, Cpl. Corns- has been in service five years. Another sister, Mrs. Fred Cripe, lives at R. R. 9, Box 583, and his mother, Mrs, Mabel Corns, lives in Kokomo.

LOCAL PLANTS CALL ‘FOR 13,000 WORKERS

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in production, commonly called ‘cut-backs.’”

opening of school will take many youths who helped man production lines and essential services during summer months.

ireason for area directors to redouIble efforts in their areas to recruit idditional manpower.

~“We-will-use- the-entire-eflorts ef yyy ~ AlrRsugh Ka ufmieRl Speaks “F-don't-think-the-taxpayers want”

the WMC for recruitment” Jennings said. “All paper work is out

the window.”

A. F. OF L. WELCOMES I. T. U.

pendent operation.

COUNTY BUDE SLASH STUD

Hearings Open Today @ $2,275,315 Request For Next Year.

Hearings intended to slash $100.0 to $200,000 off the Marion coun government budget and cut 3 of 4 cents off the proposed 1945 tax rate were started today by the county council, A 1945 bugget of $2,275,315, calling for a .tax rate of 479 next year

44 cents, Was submitted to the

Moore.

'4 GERMAN FUGITIVES

' BEING SOUGHT HERE

Officials of the Federal Bureau of

| Investigation office here have been {asked to aid in the search for four

| German prisoners of war who es- |

Mr. Spencer pofnted out that the caped sometime prior to 5:30 a. m.|

| today at .the prison camp at Alle-

i gan, Mich. Officials of the bureau said the i fugitives are: Egon Burger, 23 years

“The victory psychosis prevailing cid; Arthur Kaufmehl, 23; Heinz| ; \in the Midwest” was given as a|Pluethger, 19, and Hermann Leuche, Outbreak of malaria fever that may | become serious as the result of une

20. Detailed descriptions were not available. - None of the prisoners spedk Eng-

both German and French, i port stated. i — — MORE BLUE STAMPS DUE

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (U. P).

the re-

Sept. 1.

| cent increase in pay for county workers in the lower wage brackets, the principal item of increase for (next year is a $30,000 request made

i for malaria fever control.

Health Item Favored

| dent, said councilmen have indie

compared to the current rate of

council last week by Auditor Ralph

In addition to a general 10 per

‘by the county health department.

Addison J. Parry, council presi« |

|cated they will give favorable cone

| sideration to the health depart-

| ment request. | “Indiana is a danger spot for an

(dreds of veterans returning from "the tropics,” he said.

to gamble with their health just to

save a fraction of a cent on their

| | proved, would match a similar fund

tax rate.” .

The $30,000 appropriation, if ape :

Bod hy 0 SR ri

{in the city health budget. Together |

—The office of price administration | the two funds would be used to announced today that five more eliminate breeding spots of mos blue stamps, worth ten points each, : will become valid for buying ra-| Most of the budget cutting will tioned processed foods beginning | be made in the county general fund The stamps—GS5, H5, J5, | K5 and L5—will be good indefinitely.

| quitoes.

{which calls for a rate of 30 cents compared to 25.83 cents this year,

P. Chis is the same Coat as pictured below at right— CORRECTION: The lady added the belt to give the more casual effect. 39.95.

The Specialty Shop for Tailored Women— presents . . . THE

STRAUSS SAYS: IT'S ONE DAY NEARER VICTORY

SPECIALTIES go

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