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Eisenhower: ‘The Battle Of France Has Been Decided’ |
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press Foreign Editor
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The pattern for finishing the battle of France, which ?
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said has already been decided by the elimination of the German 7th army as a fighting force, is set forth in the allied commander-in-chief’s order today to the people of Alsace-Lorraine and Luxembourg. Eisenhower said the survivors of the Normandy battle and the reduced 15th army north of the Seine can at
into Germany.”
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Tomato Canners call for Help
Einanuel Taylor . . . his hunched-back doesn’t slow down his loading 3 F24ueprung skids of tomato soup. »
Mary Physially Handicapped Workers 'Pinch Hit" at Plant
By MILDRED *KOSCHMANN
" # The peak tomato season will hit Indianapolis next week and for
several weeks canners have-been crying for help of any sort but their ealls have been unanswered, At the Columbia Conserve Co. 1735 Churchman ave, tomato soup at the rate of 350,000 cans a day should be rolling off the production line but the factory has only 85 per cent of the employees it needs and
gee many of them are physically handicapped. VON KLUGE KILLED, Lawrence Goodnight, who lives
in a trailer at Villa ave. and Beecher st., has only 32 per cent
STOCKHOLM SAYS
The order eoitin the general belief that the Germans will be unable to send a fresh army into France, and that they haye no prospects -of establishing a line along the Somme and Aisne rivers, toward which they are now in retreat. The Germans presumably are expected to use the Aisne to delay the allied advance as long as possible, and to make a determined stand in the hills and woods from the Argonne down to the Vosges mountains in the region of Strasbourg. Eisenhower forecasts such a stand in warning the people of Luxembourg and Alsace-Lorraine that they may be called on by the Germans to help build emergency
fortifications and advising them for their safety to get out of the danger area. The aerial bombardment, he declared, will be as devastating as that in Normandy. “The implication of Eisenhower's order is that he expects stiff resistance from the Germans—possibly their final stand before the soil of the Reich—but that he also expects to march into Germany. As a consequence, an early cleanup of the channel
“coast may be in order.
The Germans originally had intended to cling to that coast as long as possible, and massed their greatest defenses there in expectation of a frontal allied assault across the channel. When the allies surprised them by the
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‘Romania Expels Hitler Troops
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LoNpon? Aug. 268 (U. P.).— Former Romanian Premier Ilan Antonescu has been arrested and is being held under armed guard in the royal palace in Bucharest, a Russian foreign office statement broadcast by Radio Moscow said today. German troops are shelling Bucharest, the Moscow broadcast added,
ROME, Aug. 26 (U. American bombers and fighters | based in Italy flew te Bucharest today te give aerial support to Romanian government forces defending {heir capital against German attacks, an allied commu nique reported. -
LONDON, Aug. 26 (U. P).— : The Russian foreign office announced today that Bulgaria has décided on a policy of “full neutrality.”
By J. EDWARD MURRAY Times Foreign Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 26—A Moscow broadcast said today that Bulgaria ‘has broken dipiomatic relations ‘with Germany, paving the way for ‘an armistice with the allies, while ‘Romanian troops began expelling {Nazi forces from their soil under 'a formal declaration of war against the Reich. Adolf Hitler's Balkan coalition | was falling apart in. the wake of Romania's capitulation to Russia and the Russ army's thrust into southeastern Europe. Radio Cairo said Hitler had called an emergency conference of political and military leaders at his mountan-top headquarters at Berchtesgaden. A cabinet shakeup was reported in Hungary and Swiss dispatches said Adm. Nicholas Horthy, the regent, and most members of the former government were under the | “protective custody” of gestapo agents. Other Swiss reports said Joachim von Ribbentrop, German foreign minister, had gone sto Budapest in {a desperate effort to prevent Hun{gary’s defection from the Nazi | cause.
‘Hoosier Heroes—
NORTHERN, WHITSON (ILLED IN BATTLE
Ellis a Prisoner of Nazis; Six Wounded.
One Indianapolis man has been killed in action in the Pacific and another has been killed in France. Today's hero list also includes six fighting men who have been wound-
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IT'S A BLOODY JEST—
Denny: 'Krauts Beaten, but Don't Know I# And Meanwhile Our Boys Are Blown to Bits’
By LUDWELL DENNY it” Secripps-Howard Siaff Writer
WASHINGTON, Aung, 26.—Clearly it is time for Germany to surrender. Any headline reader can prove in two minutes that she is defeated and her situation is hopeless. Hence the latest crop of rumors that the war in Europe will end any day now. But when these home-town predictions get back to the Yank fighting in France, he replies bitterly: “Yeah, the war is over—but the Krauts don't know
bloody jest.
At which point he ducks another Nazi bullet and moves forward. Our forces at the front have a grand sense of humor but, while their buddies are being blown to bits beside them, the civilian assumption that the Germans are quitting seems a very
WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Demobilization plans, anticipating end of the European war, are so far advanced the army is setting up “separation” camps, where men will be discharged. Mistakes of world war I will be avoided. Then the army was disbanded by units, division at a time. Most men were discharged in New York. Many who lived in distant places spent their railroad fare, couldn't get out "of New York. This time demobilization will be on an individual basis.
Aftey victory over Germany our “high command will decide to reduce .the army by a certain percentage—say 20 per cent of officers and men, for example. (Divisions can operate at three different ‘levels—war strength, peace strength, maintenance strength—and would not be crippled) The men to g6 home first will be chosen this way: A point system will be applied to each individual—peints for each month of service, for each month overseas, for major engagements, for decorations, for being married, for each child or other dependent. The total number of points you have decides the order in which you move.
As they come home, men will be taken by the army from port of debarkation to the separation camp nearest their homes.
SOME MANPOWER officials ‘want to add another factor in the |
point system: Essentiality of job, discharging those most needed in production. It's not likely to be done. England has had little luck trying to make the “necessary man” system work.
Decision about whether to keep on drafting while demobilization is in progress has not been made. Answer probably is yes.
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RUSS NEARING DANUBE RIVER
| Drive for Bucharest and Ploesti Oil Fields. ‘
By HENRY SHAPIRO | United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Aug. 26. — Russian
YANK TANKS STRIKING FOR Gi ANY, ~U. 8. PATROL REPORTED AT SWISS LIN BE
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The Germans did not quit at St. Malo. "They are |! still holding out at Brest and other Breton ports. They did not fold when caught in the Falaise trap—
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daringly conceived landing on (he Cherbourg peninsula. the Germans banked on sealing them off in the peninsula. When the battle of Normandy was lost, it was too late for the Nazis to revise their strategy, nor had they the resources to put a new plan into effect if they worked one out. The Germans still may make some sort of suicide stand north of the Somme in an effort to cling to the Pas De Calais bomb installations as long as possible, but the retreat of the 15th army suggests that it will not be on a scale large enough to prevent the allies from clearing the coast reasonably.soon as far as the Belgian ar even the Dutch border.
As Allies Warn Frontier States to Prepare.
BULLETIN | ZURICH, Aug. 26 (U. P.).—An American armored patrol reached the Franco-Swiss border at Perly today. A United Press dispatch from Geneva reported the arrival of the Americans at the frontier opposite Perly and said they left shortly afterward for Annecy, 161; miles to the south. The patrol apparently was part of the mobile force known to have struck northward from Grenoble several days ago.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY sor is
United Press Staff Correspondent
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A, E. F.,, Aug. 26.—
| American armored spearheads were reported striking for
in the German border beyond Troyes and Reims today as Gen,
Dwight 1). Eisenhower's headquarters warned the people of Luxembourg and Alsace-Lorraine that allied invasion
larmies may “very soon” roll through their lands into Ger-
many, and declared that the Nazi 7th army's crushing defeat had decided the battle for France. Slashing almost unopposed through the rear of the dis-
"horsemen, tanks and infantry drove integrating German armies in northern France, Lt. Gen. |into the outskirts of Ismail on the George S. Patton's tank columns were reported barely 100
'today and to the west began an| assault on the Galati gap, last important barrier to Bucharest and
offensive “of the greatest possible {extent northeast of Warsaw,” apparently in an attempt to outflank
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{Romania's rich oil and wheat fields. into the railway hub of Troyes, 65 miles south of Reims, and (A German Transocean dispatch | {said the Russians have launched an |
. | Danube river estuary in Romania|miles from the German frontier after crossing the Marne
river below Reims. Headquarters announced that one American force broke
about twice that distance from the Reich.
Reported Racing Northward The Yanks fanned out beyond the city and, according
(the Polish capital from the north to a still unconfirmed German report, raced northward to
| and cut its ‘communications with {East Prussia.)
their horses in the Danube, prob-| ably were doing so. Far behind the front, now only 100 miles from Bucharest and per{haps 85 miles from the oil center tof Ploesti, other Russian forces were chopping up 12 encircled German divisions—possibly 120,000 men —in a pocket below Chisinau. The trapped Germans were reported on the verge of collapse and
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ne MARY COMES TO TOWN—
‘Ernie Pyle for President’ Boom Amuses His Relative and Neighbor on Visit Here
By EDWIN C. HEINKE MRS. MARY BALES, Ernie Pyle's famous “Aunt Mary.” and her good friend and neighbor, Mrs. Ella Goforth, are shy just like Ernie when it copes to publicity.
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STOCKHOLM, Aug. 26 (U. P.).— The Stockholm Dagens Nyheter said today that Field Marshal Gunther Von Kluge, commander-‘in-chief of German forces in northern France, was reported to have been killed. ' The report, said to have come from Germany, gave no details and a spokesman for the Nazi legation in Stockholm was quoted as saying that he was unable to confirm or deny it.
YANKS ASSAULT BREST
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS,
A, E. PF, Aug. 26 (U. P.).—American
troops have launched an assault on ‘Brest after a tremendous air-ses barrage that wrecked the German batteries inside the besieged port. headquarters announced today,
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vision, according to the local draft board, but he helps load the cans of soup at the shipping platform.
Emanuel Taylor, 1508 E. 17th st., has a crippled back but he takes finished cases of soup off the conveyor, loads them on a platform and pulls the 2200-pound load to one end of the shipping room, - And Connie Smith, a 4-foot, 4inch midget, has to stand on his tiptoes to look in the copper ket-
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So it wasn't a surprise yess terday when they stopped in at The Times and their friends found out they already had spent two days in Indianapolis and
ed and a local woman's nephew who is a prisoner. KILLED Pfc. Virgil .C. Northern, 35 N. Walcott st., in Pacific. » Pvt. William H. Whitson, 1210°N. Oxford st., in France. WOUNDED Sgt. James G. Sharpe, 718 Lexington ave., in France. Capt. Charles R. Stineburg, 590 East dr. Woodruff Place, in France.
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without telling hardly anybody. Aunt Mary walked in just about. the same time as word of an “Ernie Pyle for President” boom was being suggested in soldier circles. They threw back their heads and laughed as. they read a Seripps-Howard Newspaper Alli-
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Field dispatches indicated that ‘of Ardennes where the German army broke through the Don Cassacks, who vowed to water | French “hinge”
in 1940 and won the battle of France. Luxembourg was barely 80 miles beyond the American spearheads and Alsace-Lorraine only about 65 miles away,
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Doughboys on Every Corner As Paris Cheers De Gaulle
By JOHN A PARRIS United Press Staff Correspondent
Aug. 26.—American soldiers strolled the
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'phantly set up headquarters in his liberated capital after surrender of the Nazi commander had ended German resist‘ance except for a few isolated pockets. As supreme allied headquarters announceq the cessa- ‘ tion of virtually all hostilities
PYLE ENTERS PARIS 11, Foc United Pree ie AMID CELEBRATIO
(dated at 9:10 a. m., reporting that | fighting had subsided and that the 'main concern now was the feeding lof the 5,000,000 population. Richards said that American . doughboys were on every street In Capital. |corner and that jeep-towed trailers {loaded with food were rolling into By HENRY T. GORRELL United Press Staff Correspondent . |Ng, Richards said, but he was told
UNITED PRESS BUREAU, Paris, that apother month of German oc Aug. 26.—Dusty typewriters were | (Continued on Page 2—Column 2)
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