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A Blowup In The Balkans Could
By LOUIS F. KEEMLEE United Press Foreign Editor The war is being won on the battlefields of France and Poland, where the allies are breaking the back of the wehrmacht, but the impending collapse of Germany's Balkan structure may do much to hasten its end. The defection of Romania naturally recalls that Bulgaria’s surrender immediately preceded the end of the last war, but it is not safe to attempt to draw too close
a parallel.
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The history of 1918
the war,
The German army in 1918 was already beaten when
Bulgaria got out. The Nazi position, but the Nazis are struggle is clearly hopeless.
army today is in the same likely to fight on after the
The reason is that the Prussian military caste in 1918 saw the chance of saving its military structure for a future war, which came about in 1939. The Nazis, who
have already jettisoned the no such hope in the face of tional surrender,
old army leadership, have allied insistence on uncondi-
They will fight until they perish.
NEVERTHELESS, their task is not going to be made any easier if the other Balkan states follow Ro-
mania’s example.
It" appears certain that a Balkan
political upheavalis in progress. If Bulgaria and Hungary follow Romania's example, the freeing of Yugoslavia, Albania and Greece is almost
sure to follow.
Such an outcome would be of military value to the
allies. Economically,
the collapse of the Balkans would have serious effects on Germany.
The surrender of
Hasten German Collapse
Romania means that the Nazi of their last important source
The loss of the other Balkan states would cut off the Germans from much more in the way of material
resources and manpower.
Added to this is the fact that Germany can no longer fatten on the economic life bload of France; that imports from Spain and Potugal are blockaded; that Sweden has cracked down on shipments to Germany and that northern Italy is slowly being choked off,
s are about to be deprived . of natural oil.
was repeating itself today in Europe as political evelorartne eltiplied | in the Balkans, where wars hegin and end. The “boiling pot” is shown in the circle above encompassing
Bulgaria, hy Hungary, Yugesiavia and Slovakia. Romania started the ball rolling yesterday by breaking
HOSPITALS SEEK HELP OF NURSES
One Institution With Empty Beds Forced to Turn Down Patients.
Box With $1000
Is Taken From Omar Baking Co.
A green metal box containing!
$1000 was taken from the omar Stettinius Promises Report-
Baking Co, 903 E. 10th st, today. The money was a day's receipts brought from the branch office at Shelbyville to the office here this
Graduate nurses—retired, private morning
duty, in industry-—are desperately needed to meet the biggest challenge which has ever confronted he nursing profession. Hampered by private doctors, overcrowded facili-
ties and inadequate help, Indianapolis hospitals have turned to the
War Service fo send an 8. O. 8. tu graduates for full or part-time help. In a strongly worded appeal to nurses not in hospital work, Miss Beatrice Short, chairman of the ‘council, relayed an appeal from hospital executives that “private duty nurses apply for hospital positions to help meet the need during this crisis” and urged that “married and retired nurses render a petriotic service to their country by working a few days each week in the understaffed hospitals,
Survey Hospitals
A survey of the hospitals most badly hit by the nurse shortage revealed one institution caring for 64 patients with only four nurses. Housing poliomyelitis patients who could not be kept on waiting lists, the hospital has maintained a brilliant record of service through the aid of several graduate nurses who devote a set time daily or weekly to caring for the stricken children. At the institutions, the four remaining nurses from the former staff of 12 now are acting as supervisors of nurse assistants and nurse aids and maids and lay help are being recruited to do extra work incurred by the Sister Kenny method of treatment. The superintendent of nurses has taken over the work of her assistant, now in
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TIMES INDEX
Hoosier Heroes—
BAIR AND ELKINS
the shortage of
KILLED IN ACTION
Wounded List.
Two local men, previously reported missing, have beeri added to other casualty lists, one of them killed and the other a prisoner, while one Indianapolis man has died of wounds received in France and two others have been wounded.
KILLED Sgt. Kenneth C. Bair, 1443 Churchman ave,, over English channel. Cpl. Charles A. ‘Elkins, 2864 N. Illinois st., in France. | : WOUNDED Pvt. Morris R. Ford, 960'% Udell st., in France, T. 4th Gr. Will A. McCullough, 742 Carrollton court, in France.
PRISONER
Sgt. William M. Ransdell, formerly of Indianapolis, in Germany.
(Details, Page 19)
Ford and McCullough on
PLEDGE TO EASE BIG 3 NEWS GAG
ers More Information on Security Talks.
By R. H. SHACKFORD
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 —Edward |
chairman of the world security
R. Stettinius Jr, Dumbarton Oaks talks, promised correspondents today that the che men of the three delegations wou ; Yo get more information into pe daily communiques.
The three chairmen—Stettinius «(U, 8), Sir Alexander Cadogan (British), and Andrei ‘A. Gromyko
(Russian) —met 168 representatives of the State Department Correspondents association in Stettinius’ office at Dumbarton Oaks. The correspondents had requested the meeting to present a memorandum protesting. the secrecy surrounding the conference. Stettinius read to the committee a joint statement of the three powers which said in effect that the present system of publicity about the talks would continue. After a 45-minute off-the-record discussion of the problem, however, Stettinius said ‘the three leaders would consider the memorandum from the press and added that he personally expected that the meeting would do some good. “We wish everybody to understand,” the joint statement by the three chairmen said, “that we have met here at Dumbarton Oaks to hold informal conversations and
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FIGHTING FLARES AGAIN IN PARIS
smn.
YANKS REACH SWISS BORDER INS. FRANGE
Report Another Column Approaching Lyon;
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By ELEANOR PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent ROME, Aug. 24—American mechanized columns were reported to have sealed the Franco-Italian Alpine passes today after a lightning 68-mile advance from Grenoble to the Swiss frontier, while allied 1land, sea and air forces broke down
encircled naval base of Toulon, There was no official confirmation of the reported thrust to the Swiss frontier which, if verfied, would put the American columns with 175 miles or Jess of Lt. Gen. George 8. Patton's tank spearheads sweeping down on Troyes from the Paris area. The report said American battleflags had been planted near the shores of Lake Geneva, about 62 miles northeast of Lyon, after a forced night march from captured Grenoble. Escape Route Cut
‘With American troops astride the Franco-Swiss frontier, the mountain routes of escape into northern Italy would be closed to the German armies in southern France, ‘squeezing them into a narrowing pocket between the allied Mediterranean forces and the Anglo-American armies in the north.
Meanwhile, French infantrymen
i battled through the streets of Tou-| lon behind a tremendous air and)
sea barrdge, herding the German garrison back into the old port area. The great naval base's main fortifications already had been breached, however, and an official spokesman said the complete occupation of the port was imminent. Report Bordeaux Captured (London radio reports, unconfirmed by allied official sources, said American and French troops also had liberated the French west coast port of Bordeaux.) To the west, American armored spearheads swept 30 miles beyond newly captured Marseille into the delta of the Rhone river some 20 miles from “Arles. Salon, 27 miles northwest of Marseille, was captured, along with a number of smaller hamlets. (The clandestine Atlantic radio said American tanks have occupied Lyon. The Algiers radio reported merely that the advance on Lyon had begun and it was anticipated
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They are trying to work out the general outlines of an international organization. to assure justice and prevent wars in the future. "goes on quietly in splendid isolation. Mili tary guards patrol the place to keep out prying eyes, including those of the press. Newspapermen cannot come here. They sit in their press room at the state department downtown and take what is handed out and try to get more, in the ways th hey hae, some-sUCCESS TH & few cases.
in houses that
and white, dirty
That's just
with _ Of Barman.
Dumbarton Oaks Diplomats Meet Midst Pomp and Grace and the Little People
By THOMAS L. STOKES Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—Here, in the midst of old Georgetown, in a beautifully furnished mansion which sits in a spacious estate, there gather daily the representatives of this country, Great Britain
are being restored. Some wealthy people live here. Many government officials, in the upper strata, occupy the more modest homes. quaint, quiet and convenient. But here also still live many people in far less than modest circumstances, squatting on the fringes,
Georgetown is
need paint, in alleys. There are
skinny little boys dressed in hand-me-downs, black
of face, runny at the nose in wine
ter, never looking quite fully nourished. The come-and-go of the foreign visitors at Dumbarton Oaks meéns little to these people, if. most of them even know it is going on. -
something to do ‘with “foreign
affairs"—that stuff they skip over quickly in the - newspapers to see what is Babpening 4 to L'il Abner, or oe Hoople, or
y chance of he 3 Washisigtonl “Sen-
to find out =
WAR FRONTS
(Aug. 24, 1944)
SOUTHERN FRANCE—Yanks reach Swiss border,
NORTHERN FRANCE Reports of liberation of Paris revealed to be premature; Americans knife more than 23 miles to capture Seine river port of Elbeuf.
RUSSIA—Russians in Tiles from Bucharest.
Reich oil refineries.
PACIFIC—American bombers pound Halmahera.
ITALY—British capture three towns between Adriatic coast and 1ppolito.
REPORT YANKS
TAKE BORDEAUX
Say U. S. Forces Approaching Troyes; Seine River _ Port Is Taken.
BULLETIN SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F, Aug. 24 (U. P.).~American . flying columns, rampaging almost unopposed through southwestern and eastern Frince, were reported unofficially today te have captured the coastal city of Bordeaux and reached the outskirts of Troyes, only 130 miles from the borders of Germany.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F, Aug. 24—American troops knifed more than 23 miles through the German pocket northwest of Paris today and captured the Seine river port of Elbeuf. At the same time, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's American 3d army tank columns were reported pounding into the outskirts. of Troyes, a vital railway hub only 130 miles from the German border. A second Yank flying column. was revealed to have swept up from Orleans, crossed the Loing river and drove beyond Montargis, 65 miles southwest of Troyes, Lt. Gen. Courtney Hedges’ American 1st army troops fanned out in two columns southwest of the Seine and swept down almost unopposed toward the channel codst and the great port of Le Havre, less than
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STIMSON CALLS FOR KNOGKOUT BLOW
States Germany Weakening From All Sides.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (U, P.. —Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, declaring that Germany is weakening on all sides, today called on Americans to muster all their strength and unity for, the ockout, blows. In his first news conference in three weeks, Stimson $aid that this has been an historic week, withthe climax of the battle of northern France, the forward surge of _the allies in southern France, the liberation of Paris and ‘Romania's abandonment of the axis, The battle of Norfnandy proved to be a major victory for the allies and costly for the Gernjaps, who lost 300,000 men in dead, wounded and missing, Stimson said. Stimson, announced that through Aug. 6 total U. S. army casualties whose next of kin have been hoti-
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the total,
bo AIR WAR — Yank bombers blast
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‘LIBERATION’ ,, “NEWS CALLED ‘PREMATURE’
Request for ‘Armistice’ Tricks Patriots Into Announcement.
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press Staff Correspondent SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F. Aug. 24—Street fighting between French patriots and Germans flared up, inside Paris today and allied supreme headquarters announced that yesterday's. Fighting French communique telling of the capture of the city was premature. Headquarters revealed that the patriots, tricked by & German appeal for an armistice into believing that the enemy was leaving the
|capital, had flashed an urgent call
for help to the American and French regulars massed outside the city. Allied forces began mowing on the city yesterday against German resistance, headquarters spokesmen said. (Radio France at Algiers said American troops entered Paris to-
tacked two Czechoslovakian oil reHfineries at- Kolin-and-
-Parbudice,—40 and 55 miles, respectively, east of Prague 204 an aitheld a Pardu- of
LONDON, Aug. 24 (U. P.).— S. Gordon Frazer, Blue network war correspondent with the 3d U. S§. army. reported late today that there are “ne allied troops in Paris yet.”
night, following the arrival there of a French regular force.) (Shortly before the announcement that Paris had not yet been freed, President Roosevelt issued a special statement in Washington hailing the “liberation” of the former French capital as dispelling the “path of gloom” which had remained “through the rising tide of allied successes.” There was no official word at headquarters that allied relief columns had vet entered Paris, although a dispatch from C.B.C. Correspondent. Charles ‘Collingwood, datelined “Paris,” said the French 2d armored division arrived there yesterday. Gen. Pierre Koenig, commander-in-chief of the French forces of the interior. announced early yesterday that Paris had been liberated by an army of 50,000 organized patriot troops and hundreds of thousands of revolting Parisians,
Based on Armistice
His announcement apparently was based on the German armistice
SOVIETS 170 MILES
patches said today, despite King
REPORT BULGARIA ASKS PEACE, OLT IN HUNGARIAN ARMY;
Balkans Cracking as Romania Breaks
With Germany;
Declared in
LONDON,
had asked the allies for their Romania's stunning break with
A flood of reports from a continent made it clear that
By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent
Aug. 24.—The Hungarian army was re‘ported in revolt today, and press dispatches said Bulgaria
decision to join forces with the allies.
satellites were in the throes of a political upheaval almost
State of Siege
Bucharest.
peace terms in the wake of - Germany and her proclaipmed
llied and axis sources on the all three of Hitler's Balkan
days after the first Balkan country,
war II, gave up yesterday.
LONDON, Aug. 24 (U. P.)—World war I ended ane month and 13
Romania, the first Balkan country te break from the axis in world
Bulgaria, capitulated to the allies,
out in the Hungarian army.
Hungarian diplomat there as was imminent, if it had not a
Simultaneously, Bulgaria
!
FROM BUCHARES
Resistance by Foe Contin-|
ues as Russ Race On.
By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Aug. 24. — Russian armies still were smashing forward through Bessarabia and northern Romania within 170 miles
of Bucharest against continuing resistance last night, front dis-
Michael's announcement that So-
LONDON, Aug. 24 (U. P.).— German forces are evacuating the eastern Warsaw area in the face of active Soviet patroling, a ! patriot communique received by Polish quarters here reported today.
request, which the patriots accepted at face value as signifying that the Nazis intended to evacuate the city. | Then, even as jubilant crowds throughout the Free French empire and the allied world were celebrating the liberation of Europe's Queen City, the Nazis repudiated the pledge and resumed the battle.
LONDON, Aug. American heavy bombers from Italy and Great Britain, estimated at more .than 2000 strong, struck against widespread targets in central and northern Germany and in the wavering Balkan countries today as clearing weather permitted: resumption of the allied aerial offensive. Approximately 750 Liberators and Flying Fortresses from Italy at-
ji~wounded, ers
More Than 2000 Heavies Raid Germany and Balkans
2% (U. PY—|
| viet armistice terms had been acepted. Confused reports from the front | said the main resistance was being encountered in northern Bessa-
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identical to that which gollapsed the Central bowers in 1318, The German DNB news agency afnounced that Hungary's Nazi puppet Premier Dome Sztojay had ordered the immediate dissolution of all political parties in that nation, and Swiss press dispatches to London said mutiny had broken:
Politics Prohibited DNB said all political activities in Hungary were prohibited under the decree and the Sztojay was prepared to act
ruthlessly to put down any opposition. An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Zurich quoted a
army-led revolution was believed certain. following Romania out of ‘the axis'camp. Authoritative
‘reports from Ankara said the
‘delineation of the terms on
don said Bulgaria's peace proposals
to Sofia.
7
saying that a cabinet crisis ready developed and that an
was reported on the verge of
Bulgars had asked for a final
which they could make peace with the United States and Britain. An authoritative source in Lone
were being studied here and that, if they are found to constitute a definite, formal application for an armistice, Britain and the United States will communicate their terms
Royal Proclamation While some government circles in Sofia: appeared to be holding to the illusion that they could withdraw from the war with some territorial gains, it appeared increasingly evie dent that the Romanian move would squeeze Bulgaria out in short order —and at the allied terms. Romania itself was braced to meet possible German reprisals, and the government clamped a virtual state of siege on Bucharest. King Michael, in a royal procla« mation last night, denounced the tripartite pact, which Romania signed in the first flush of German victories in 1940, announced accept= ance of Russian armistice terms and ordered his armies to expel Hungarian and any German forces from northern Transylvania, The official German DNB agency
rabia, where the Germans were in|
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Yugoslavia, and the railway bridge {over the Po Tiver at” Ferrara in northern Italy. Seme 1300 heavy bombers, escorted by nearly 750 fighter planes, carried out the other end of the two-way assault with attacks from Great Britain on numerous oil refineries, aircraft plants and other industrial . targets int * central and northern Germany and at Brux on the German-Czechoslovakian border. Flying Portresses and Liberators
of the U, 8. 8th air force, accom- - .
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GOEBBELS WARNS ARMY TO BE LOYAL
LONDON, Aug. 24 (U.P.).~—Reich Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels warned the retreating German army today against disloyalty in the face of adversity and against internal strife at home. Goebbels, in the weekly Das Reich article broadcast over the German front and home told soldiers that loyalty and honot are not essential during good times because they can be replaced by successes and victories but in of adversity they must be uph He implied strongly that German soldiers cling to the ciples of loyalty and Hong ow, war will be lost,
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