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and the allied warnings mad it clear that Eisenhower’

armies were on their way into|

the Reich itself. A high staff officer broadcast th

invasion proclamation early today, |

warning residents of the threat ened areas against helping the flee

ing enemy or exposing themselves to the allied air attacks which, he |

said, will be carried on by nigh and day wherever armies are to be found. 1! “The elimination of the Germar Tth army as a fighting entity ha decided the battle of France,” said.

Germany,

“The areas in which you live are already today in the rear area uf]. Very soon they! '

military operations. may become a theater of war.”

There was no immediate indication of the strength of the American columns now pounding toward the Nazi frontiers, but they were| believed to be operating in considerable force with the aid of French partisan units known to be prowling _.through the countryside.

Their dramitic thrust carried

squarely ‘across the path of the Ger=

man 15th army, now in full flight eastward from the robot homb coast First word of the reported thrust into Reims came from German military commentators, who said the Americans crossed the Marne yes-

terday and lunged on 15 miles

northward into the cathedral town. The last officlal reports had placed the 3d army spearheads at Sens. indicating the Americans had driven more than 100 miles in the past three days—a speed comparable to that attained in peace time maneuvers. Capture of Reims would place the American armor within 50 miles of the Belgian border. Troyes appeared to have fallen almost without a fight. Official sources confirmed the headlong flight of the German 15th army from the channel coast, and aerial reconnaissance reports said the main highways leading eastward to the Rhineland were jammed.

hile Allied warplanes bombed al new-found freedom, French | Put he added that he thought the : : German army would have to be destrafed the fleeing enemy columns [interior forces broadcasting from a feated before any German civilian all day yesterday and on into the station they identified as liberated! ollapse y night, while other aerial formations |Radio Vichy announced that Vichy, |c0lapse.

piled the Seine river crossings high |

with Nazi dead and the wreckage ationist government, also had beend¥here the Fascist grand council The announcement was! 82Ve€ Up after military defeat. That

of enemy tanks and equipment. Transport Destroyed

About 270 German trucks and 56 tanks were destroyed by low-flying |

rocket-firing British planes, along | with 29 troop-packed barges caught | on the Seine yesterday. Allied ground forces crowded in! from the west and south on thet Seine pocket, moving in for the kill on an estimated 90000 Ger- | mans squeezed against the river in| a triangle measuring less than 300 | square “miles. -

American, British’ and Canadian | forces linked up just south of Rouen | and threatened momentarily to] break into that key river port, | while British and Canadian units from the west broke across the! Risle river at a half-dozen points and fanned out along the Seine estuary within artillery range of | Le Havre. {

Le Havre “Dead City”

freely along the opposite bank of | the Seine without drawing fire from | the big German coastal batteries there. Swarms of German mine-sweep-ers, torpedo boats and coastal craft Jammed the harbor, however, in a desperate and apparently doomed | effort to evacuate part of the! garrison. i American and British warplanes smashed repeatedly at the Nazi! evacuation fleet, sinking a number of vessels and turning most of them back into port, | Far to the heavy fighting flared up around the besieged Breton port of Brest as American troops launched a climactic assault on the aty under cover of shattering air and sea bombard- | ment. Swarms of bombers pounded the cornered enemv garrison while allied warships, including the BritIsh battleship Warspite, poured’, round after round of high ex-! plosive shells into the port.

west

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HEAR REPORTS OF PETAIN EXECUTION

LONDON, Aug. 26 (U. P.).—Un® confirmed reports from Alglers said today that Marshal Henri Philippe Petain has been executed by French partisans at Metz. There was no confirmation of the reports, and French sources in London described them as “incredible,” because the aged Vichy chief of state never had been included on the partisans’ “death list” of (rajtors and collaborators, Petain had been reported ar- | ‘rested by the gestapo and removed lo Germany.

SAILORS INVITE JACKSON Senator Samuel D. Jackson, Democratic candidate for governor, said

. today that he Kad accepted an in-

vitation - to address a graduating class of sailors Monday at the ‘Great Lake, Ill, naval training station

Clry Wide

ther Trust Co. Mamba Peers Dogs LmcrssGapenion [J]

YANKS DRIVING Tom Harmon and _ FOR GERMANY

Vanguards Only 100 Miles

the German {

he “The survivors of the Normandy battle and a handful of German divisions north of the Sefne can at best fight a series of delaving actions on their retreat into

Elyse KnoxWed

ANN ARB@R, Mich, Aug. 26 ¥.—P)—Hero—— Tom Harmon came back from the wars to the college town of his all-America football trigmphs and took movie actress Elyse Knox for his bride | today. Lt. Harmon, 24, and Miss Knox, {| 26, whom the athlete-hero met met in Hollywood while making a -film based upon €! his football cag| reer, were wed at St. Mary's student chapel at the University of Michigan. i It was Here that Harmon's family and friends prayed for his safety when twice he

| | - | |

Elyse Knox | was missing in action after para-

7| chuting from his plane—once in

s| Dutch Guiana and again in China. Despite the fiction-rivaling

circumstances of their romance, the petite, blond bride said that she and Tom hoped for a cozy future. “But as for now,” she said,

{at home seem unable to accept;

Denny. Says—

‘BEATEN KRAUTS DON'T KNOW IT"

They Still Fight On—and Our Boys Are Blown To Bits.

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most of them got out. They go on shooting from a few Marseilles pockets long after the city has fallen. By and large any willing sure render has been by labor battalions, foreign or satellite troops, or middleaged Germans; the main combat outfits continue to fight long after allied officers consider it a suicide defense. And crack Nazi troops when captured usually turn out to be exceedingly arrogant prisoners, sure that Germany is unbeaten. There are many explanations and guesses as to the reason for this surprising attitude. But the fact is the important thing—regardless of the explanation. It is a fact which many Americans here

ignoring the record, they go on insisting that the German is a poor

“we're just like any other warRITE “am wed couple. *% We can't make "plans now and . consequently I will continue . my movie career and Tom of course will

Our soldiers would not be winning

soldier, stupid and yellow. Yanks Know Better Our own officers and men know from experience that the German soldier is tough, tricky and brave.

these bloody battles today if they underrated the enemy. Secretary of the Navy Forrestal has just flown bsek to this coun-

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

Drive for Bucharest and Ploesti oil Fields.

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selective service officials would like to see congress get started on legislation to extend it and also ‘include permanent universal military This is what they want: One year's training, at 18, for all males physically able to take it. All training to be military. Refresher courses required till men reach 26—but they'd rather see training of six weeks to two months every third year or so, than two weeks every year. Employers would be required to give men leaves, .

F. D. R.-Churchill Meeting Soon?

WATCH POR that new Roosevelt-Churchill meeting soon. It will have to do with winding up the war in Europe and speeding the against Japan. Because of the Jap angle, among others, Stalin probably won't be present. But he will be kept advised.

tered, dispatches said.

among the prisoners.

driven into the river. through into put the Russians within

RUSS NEARING |” DANUBE RIVER

Reach Estuary Town ‘in

thousands were surrendering. Those still resisting were being slaughMaj. Gen. Werner Klepp, commander of the German 9th infantry division, was

Fierce fighting was raging along the approaches to the Danube delta, but the Germans rapidly were being The breakoutskints of Ismail a few thousand yards of the northernmost of the three mouths of the Danube

Physically

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tles in which the soup is cooked. Known as “Shorty” to the canning factory boys, he used to be a clown in Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey circus, but got tired of his job and wanted to see what making soup was like. He lives at 1428 St. Peter st. Also on the payroll are a onearmed man, two men with partially useless arms, a lame man and a deaf and dumb boy. o Boys and girls between the ages of 168 and 18 are among the employees, althoug , their type of work and length of working day are governed by legal requirements.

| minors may quit to go back to school,

Part Time Help

— SATURDAY, AUG. 2, 194 Handicapped Men "Pinch Hit" at Canning Plant

In a week or two, however, these i

Another result of the war has been that only 35 per cent of the 1941 tin can allotment is given for non-seasonal soups this year, - “We have just had to forget about the high-brow soups and

ager,

The rush on tomatoes will last until the third week in October, Miss Dorthea Nordholt, personnel manager, explained. The peak week will be here about the'middle of September and the company will work 80 hours a week if possible, Sixty-five hours a week are ‘the average during tomato season. . Although the canners are so hard hit by the manpower shortage, the farmers have had little trouble gete ting pickers.

make only three kinds,” said Ken ‘J neth W. Lucas, production mane *%

As a result of the meeting, reshuffling of Far Eastern command may be expected. There have been persistent reports of serious friction in that theater, extending as far as India.

Its & good guess that the Nelson-Hurley mission to China fits into all this. China will come more and more into the picture from here out.

» » »

SERGIO OSMENA, president of the Philippine commonwealth, along with his cabinet and staff, will leavé’ for MacArthur headquarters Within 30 days, it's indicated. Osmena expects it won't be long now before he can return to Manila,

do what. the army him OHI tart a

life of our own.” Miss Knox has just comunreleased movie

Tom Harmon

pleted the “Army Wife.” “It looks as though we're in for real-life portrayal of that show,” she sighed.

jus always fall back on the convenient out that the German people are ready to rise and stop the

Watch Throngs Cheering as

in Normandy.

the fact that the German army is still army and that, while it has suffered damaging blows, it is still {able when it chooses to put up

| ' bitter and sustained resistance.” YANKS ON EVERY | current proofs “of their tooth-and-

In lieve that holding out serves a “But military purpose.”

try “from conferences with Gen. Mark Clark in Italy, Gen. Alexander Patch in southern France and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower He says all “stressed

a competent and effective

Eisenhower cited Brest and other

ail stubbornness when they be-

But the wishful thinkjers among

war. Maybe so—but there is not| ti De Gaulle Takes one shred of evidence of that to date. :

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lcupation would have created an lacute food situation. Parisians

luxuriated in|

former seat of the French collabor-

liberated. I; coupled with an appeal for order's among the people of Vichy. 2

The virtual end of fightling in|

ters announced.

a six-point surrender demand last |

night and then toured the city Bucharest were able to prevent popwith allied officers, ordering his|ular revolt, what reason is there to troops manning strong points to|eXpect that the all-powerful ges{tapo, dealing with the much better disciplined and goose-stepping Germans, will permit revolution before defeat?

lay down their arms, a headquarters spokesman said. (A Berlin broadcast, for German consumption and recorded by FCC monitors, said the surrender order

was “forged and freely invented” |Europe this fall are good. But those and claimed that Nazi troops still| Prospects have been created solely |were fighting inside the French|by greater allied military successes, and they can be realized solely by greater allied military achievements.

capital) Surrenders to French

Nazi was

The name

commander, not disclosed,

army unit to break into the city. De Gaulle entered Paris at 7 p. m. (noon, Indianapolis time) yesterday| . while French and American tanks

hower about that also. The general readily agreed that in view of Ger[many’s hopeless situation her people {“should be ready to roll over now,”

after military defeat. Paris came only a few hours after Romanian action came from above American fighter-bombers and in. surrender of the Nazi com-|rather than from below, and in each mander, supreme allied headquar-|case only after Hitler was unable |to send enough reinforcements to The German commander signed StOp the victorious allies.

whose the victory road is the number of sur-| German divisions destroyed. The | rendered to Brig. Gen Jacques le!distance we have to go is measured Le Havre itself was reported a Clerc, commander of the French by the German divisions that re“dead” city, and allied troops moved | 2d armored division, first allied main,

Defeat Necessary: Ike Secretary Forrestal asked Eisen-

That is the way it was in Italy,

the way it is in Romania, where palace guard is switching sides Italian and

If the weak regimes of Rome and

Allied prospects of total victory in

The distance we have covered on

CROSBY IN ENGLAND LONDON, Aug. 26 (U, P.).—Bing |in

told by i air. terest, particularly in view of hot WPB reconversion fight.

ROME, Aug. armored columns captured Avignon,

river and swung northward today] in

& = BRITAIN IS starting work on

post-war passenger planes.

From now on these will have

equal priority in design and production with military machines, except for some of the special war types, commons has been undersecretary for

Ww. n notes with in-

Finger Put on Maverick CRITICS OF the part Donald

Nelson played in the conflict that led to resignation of Charles E. Wilson from WPB are putting

he finger on Maury Maverick,

head of Smaller War Plants Corp., as the one who waged inside war

Wilson. Maverick has

supported Nelson's reconversion program vigorously,

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ROOSEVELT'S side-stepping of

the fight. over unemployment benefits for displaced war workers keeps him at arm's length * from C. I. O.s Political Action Committee, which is leading ecrusade for liberal federal payments.

It's first test of P.A.C.’s legis-

lative strength, and F.D.R. excused himself from comment on ground that it was congress’ problem. (No-comment rule on pending bills has been flexible in the

ast.) P.A.C. was soundly beaten in

senate and in house ways and means committee.

Anti-P, A. C. congressmen are

confident of defeating move to insert Kilgore bill payments ($35

week maximum) when measure

reaches house vote next week.

By ELEANOR PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent 26.—American

rascon and Arles on the Rho

a powerful drive up the Rhone's

rosby, movie and radio star, was valley, ancient invasion route to

and troops, aided by tens of thou- 7 route here by train today from central France and Germany.

sands of partisans, still were bat- | tling Germans and collaborationists in the streets and buildings of the world’s fourth largest city and first | allied capital to be liberated in this war, His arrival ended an odyssey that | began in June, 1940, with his departure—alone of the Reynaud government, in which he was undersecretary of war—for England, there to rally under the Fignting | French banner the forces that eventually were to rise up and help free his beloved France. | Today he was to receive the acclamation of Paris, which had listened over forbidden radios to 4is| counsel during the four years and two months of German occupation. | Radio Paris said De Gaulle would | lay a wreath on the tomb of the! Unknown Soldier under the Arc de | Triomphe late today and drive. along the Champs Elysses to the | Place de la Concorde where national anthems of the allied nations will be played. He later will attend | a service of thanksgiving in Notre Dame cathedral, the broadcast said. |

U. S. Wheat Arrives

Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, | chief of state in the Vichy govern- | ment, was reported by Madrid to have addiessed letters to Prime Minister Churchill “and Pope Pius| XII in which he defended his pol- | icy and handed over his disputed | authority to De Gaulle. i Paris broadcasts said the first. consignments of American wheat already had begun to arrive in Paris to relieve a drastic food shortage. Water and gas service also were said to have been restored. Jean le Levre, provisional secre-tary-general-for agriculture, set up | headquarters in Paris to handle the | feeding of the city, the Paris station | Said, and had broadcast an appeal | to farmers of the region to “thresh | and deliver’ grain with the utmost | haste” - ~ 7 N a Gen. Alphorise Juin, chief of Btaft | of ‘national defense for the French committee of national liberation, ordered the population of the Paris region and ‘neighboring areas "to stay ofl roads Jeading into the city for imperative military reasons.

Glasgow night by air from the United can spearheads were reported 17 niles northeast of Avignon.)

Erni

Stripes after a long tour of duty in the Mediterranean, said:

would be incomplete without the meteoric success story of Ernie Pyle. . .

France has surmounted his previous efforts, so far as the readers are concerned. '.

are as much news as President Roosevelt's, . , .

diana has become symbolic of all the fears and the hopes of their own people overseas.”

claimed Aunt Mary and Mrs. Goforth together. :

a good President?” asked Aunt Mary.

reporter but I don’t know what he'd do as President,” she laughed.

Goforth several times and Aunt Mary came to town to see Mrs. Goforth’'s daughter, Mrs.. Clara Nixon, who works in the Internal Revenue department, and whose husband, Carroll, is with the havy

to Kentland this winter to teach

landlady, Mrs. F. Wh Weeks, 3948 College ave. and they want their hostess to know they “had a won-

day’ noon and spent the afternobn shopping. Aunt Mary bought : 8 black felt hat but was disappointed bécause she couldn't find

where he arrived last] (

ates.

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: SO “Some of his reports from

“His health and his feelings

“To many, the man from Inwi the trials and tribulations,

co! 8 nn =

“WHY, HED be like Gen. Mac-

Arthur, he wouldn't accept,” ex-

is th fir

“Do I think Ernie would make

“Well, T know he's made a good

Ernie has written about Mrs.

t Pearl Harbor. Clara is going

chool. They were: guests of Clara's

erful time.” They came Wednesa

yearly visit to Indianapolis. bought a black and white checked

some blue on - top,

A London broadcast said Ameri-

e Pyle's "Aunt Mary' and | Her Neighbor Come to Town

one with a little dab of color

it. That's all she bought, but rs. Goforth splurged on their She

rsey dress, a black felt hat with shoes and me other accessories. Mrs. Goforth likes her hat, but

Aunt Mary is sorry she bought hers and would like to trade, but Mrs. Goforth won't listen.

They had “a grand lunch”

Thursday noon at one of the downtown stores and went to a picture show yesterday afternoon

th Clara, who managed to get

off work. “We like to shop here” they

nfided. “because you've got real

dry goods stores here and you get good service, too.”

THE HOME FRONT at Dana

getting along all right only e tomatoes have “started to e” as Aunt Mary put it. The

green tomatoes are shriveling because of no rain down there and the leaves are turning brown. Ernie's father, Will, couldn't come, because somebody had to stay home and take care of the chickens and Betty, their dog. They were planning on Mr, Pyle meeting them at the B. & O. station when the 7:05 train pulled in last night. Aunt Mary and Mrs. ‘Goforth were eager to get home because tomorrow is the big day of the year at the Bono ¢hurch, homecoming, and today, Dana residents are frying chicken, mak-- | ing pies and getting ready for the

“ Aunt Mary isn’t going to bake

It's

cake, however. i i . > “I'm too short of sugar so I'll | .; Just buy one at Aunt Mar,

the bakery,

some 40 miles inland from the Black sea. 2 The 2d and 3d Ukrainian armies, joining for a decisive advance on

OFFICE OF defense transpor-

tation foresees early curtailment

of city and interurban bus service due to shortage of heavy-duty tires. Improvement won't be felt until early 1945, ODT predicts.

» ” ” ADMINISTRATION will. press for action to reinstate soft-coal stabilization program modeled after Guffey act, which expired a year ago,

Senator Truman was expected 0=Sponsor--of--the-new-|

_to become c bill with Senator Davis (R. Pa), but shied away after his nomination for vice president. Senator Davis sponsored the bill alone, only to find that Senator Stewart (D. Tenn.) had unexpectedly slipped in an identical bill Just ahead of the Davis bill. John L. Lewis and majority of individual soft-coal operators favor stablization; big low-cost Southern operators oppose it, and other industries view it as bad

precedent, possibly leading to federal control in other fields. ” » ~

Post-War Aviation z

BATTLE FOR post-war position among aviation interests with conflicting points of view has gone on for months, but, according to participants, it's only beginning.

Senate commerce committee's letter to President Roosevelt, released this week, indicated favor for big one-company “chosen instrument” airline plan, but the majority of U. 8. airlines, opposing it, say they're far from through,

U. S. steamship interests are putting out a new policy statement pressing their case for entry into overseas aviation. s » » CONGRESS LEADERS drive for early September recess, plan resumption in mid-November. House will shelve $1,500,000,00¢ highway bill, on its calendar since June. Senate will put over floodcontrol and rivers-and-harbors bill, both pork-flavored, and carrying such explosive items as St. Lawrence seaway, Missouri valley irrigation. Both houses will postpone bills to aid small business.

Yanks' Tanks Sweep North On Rhone, Take Three Towns,

‘burned out German tanks which finery at Emmerich near the Dutch sald the French had destroyed with |border, an oil finishing plant at {champagne bottles filled, with petrol. ng the jeep in front of number

(A/ German communique erck fighting was in progress in

{the Rhone valley, where motorized gti at-'2 w pting to prevent our movements +

erican detachments “are

To e fortress town: of

through the French Alps the Italian border.

the Turin-Lyon railway and only 50 miles west of the Italian industrial center of Turin itself. i “Except for pockets of enemy re- | sistance, notably at Toulon and| Marseille, nearly all of southern!

|France east of the Rhone and south |

of Avignon and Briancon now has been liberated,” Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Mediterranean commander, announced in his daily communique. i Dana Adams Press war correspondent, reported from Toulon that though most of the naval base city had been cleared |

resisting stubbornly from Ft. Mal- | bousquet dominating the main road | from Toulon to Marseille and from | the Napoleon coastal forts on the St. Mardrier peninsula. Allied warships and planes con- | tinued to join land artillery in bom= barding strong points in Toulon. | An; American destroyer landed a | small force of French troops with- | out opposition on the Gien penin- | sula, 11 miles southeast of Toulon, | after a heavy attack on the area. In Marseille, French troops consolidated their positions and attacked an enemy pocket around Notre Dame de la Garde in an ef-| fort to complete the liberation of | France's second largest city. | At the opposite end of the Riviera, American troops pushed four! miles northeast of Cannes and cap- | tured the resort town of Antibes, 10 miles southwest of Nice.

Bucharest and Ploesti after snapping the trap below Kishinev, began their attack on Gaiti and Focsani, keys to the..vital 45-mile gap between the Danube and the Transylvanian Alps, from positions some 15 miles to the north. German resistance was reported crumbling everywhere on the Romanian front. The Romanians, who had lost more than half their army in previous battles and the bulk of the remainder in the present offensive, were believed incapable of

pulsion of the Germans from. the Balkans, ‘which remains the principal job of the Russians and their allies,

Part-time help also is employed. School teachers from Indianapolis high schools worked last year and are planning to werk after school hours again this year, The plant has been hardest hit by the lack of ‘men workers. Enough women are available to keep their part of the cannery running but a 556 per cent darger male force is needed. Before the war the Columbia Conserve Co. made 26 different kinds of soups, chile con carne and catsup. Lack of employees and government restrictions on tin cans and on their contents, however, have cut their products down to chicken and noodle, chicke rendering effective aid in the. ex~{rice-and tomato soups:

n and

Earnings Run High

The pickers, many of them ime ported from Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas, are a migratory group. They finish up the tomato crop in Indiana, then go to Miche igan to dig potatoes and from there to Florida to pick strawberfies, Their work also is stimulated by the fact that a good picker may earn from $20 to $24 a day. Last year, the Columbia Conserve Co. used army inductees during the tomato rush. The boys, whose trahsportation to and from Ft, Harrison and their meals wers fure nished, came daily in groups of 30 but they had to be paid daily, too, because many of them were

‘Husband Vanishes

frst day's work. But this year, the inductees cane not be used. Even the U. S. employment

Thousands Captured

|back with “enormous” losses.

A Soviet communique said five of the Nazi divisions, equipped with tanks and self-propelled guns, attempted to break from the trap in a desperate attempt to reach the | Prut river ferries, but were thrown

From Home Here

AN EXPECTANT MOTHER issued an urgent plea today for anyone who may have any information concerning the whereabouts of her husband, Dewey

Lee Miller, 23,

agency cannot find help in Indiane apolis for the cannery. And now, it seems as if the only solution for the company is to do direct hiring in Kentucky. Living and sleeping quarters will have to be furnished by the factory if theses employees are imported, but the tomatoes will get into the cans °

(A Moscow broadcast, heard in London, claimed the position of the encircled German troops was be-| coming more critical by the hour.) The quickening Russian offensive was extended to the Baltic front where Soviet troops captured Tartu,

vital Estonian rail and university city and swept to within 64 miles

a 4

of 852 8. Meridisan st, to © om m unjcate with her, He has been missing since the night of July 13, Mrs. Miller said, when he told

and onto the tables this winter,

Briancon, with the aid of French| Maquis after a 10-mile advance from! |L’Argentiere to within®five miles of!

Briancon lies 20 miles south of!

of Germans, the enemy still was | UP

of the sea. o The greatest strikes, were made in Romania where the Russians were unloosing sledgehammer blows ‘at ‘the staggered

the Romania capital. In the last six days the Russians killed or captured 205,400 Nazis and liberated more than 1800 towns and settlements and were rapidly approaching the eastern and western bas tions of the 45-mile. wide gap in the mountains leading to the capital and the oil fields, Among Russian. prisoners were three Romanian generals, including Gen, Tensescu Trajan, commander of the 110th Romanian division.

PYLE ENTERS PARIS AMID CELEBRATION

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| close by the opera and in the heart [of the Grand blvd. section. The bridges over the Seine were intact but we had to crawl past barricades of trucks, tree branches and cobblestones. Some fine old buildings were scarred by the shrapnel but in the main the damage was not great.

Near the bureau were several

and children who wept with joy|

and insisted on kissing us over and, over,

From the door rushed the care-|, the tonnage unloaded on Brest

by R. A. F. fliers in the last 24

taker's wife, immediately recognizing McMillan, who had spent many pre-war years assigned here. “Ah, you have returned at last!” she exclaimed. “Vive 1 Amerique. | The cry was taken up by the| crowd, which pinned us against the wall in a demonstration of noisy affection. They said we were the! first Americans to penetrate the neighborhood. While the landlady ran to find! Herrero, with whom Heinzen lest | the office keys when he left ahead | of the onrushing Germans in June | 1940, Mac, Ernie and I entered |

| . | y - Schmidt, United | Dt0 the spirit of the thing and | centrated on several flying bomb {

returned kiss for Kiss, including | the wet ohes bestowed by babes| In arms whose mothers held them Our faces were covered with lip-| stick and our backs sore from thumping. Our jeep driver, Alexander Belon, Amherst,*Mass., looked |

| like an Indian from lipstick|

rescued him from the nearby office of the Petit Parisien.

smeared over his face when we |

however, |

German forces in a great push to

| e found ourselves surrounded by . | scores of French women, old men!

reserves.

her that he was 5 going to visit his mother in Mr. Miller the 400 block of E. Washington st, and that he would return in an hour, Mrs. Miller said that her hus-

band of a year was inclined to worry: & great deal. He did not visit his mother the night he dis- | appeared, it was learned. i Mr. Miller was employed hy the | Climax Machinery Co. i

750 BOMBERS RAID RUHR OIL TARGETS

LONDON, Aug. 26 (U. P).—An | estimated 750 Flying Fortresses and Liberators aftacked German oil installations in the Ruhr today, con‘tinuing the great aerial offensive to {shut off Nazi sources of fuel. Strong forces 46f fighter planes; (accompanied the fleet, which struck | only a few hours after British! {bombers had hammered the Germans from Berlin to the French | seaport of Brest. { | The U. 8. strategic air forces {headquarters identified the targets in northwest and southwest Ger{many as including synthetic oil ‘plants at Gelsenkirchen, an oil re-

|Salzenbergen, west of Osnabruck, and a synthetic oil plant at Ludthe Swiss border. | It was the third day of the American blitz against Nazi oil i

| wigshafen near

Meanwhile, another force of 250 heavy bombers added more bombs!

hours. The Americans attacked gun positions and fortified targets! in the great French Atlantic port, | and reported that good results were obtained. i The RA. F. sent out well over 1000 planes for the night operations, | in which the German industrial city | of Russelsheim, near Frankfurt, was | singled out as one of the main ob- | jectives. ! Mosquitoes carried out another | harassing assault on the German capital, while Halifaxes and Lancasters, escorted by Spitfires, con-

launching sites in northern France. ——————————————————————————— - AUTO WRECK KILLS GIRL AURORA, Ind, Aug. 28 (U. P.).— Cornilla Putnam, 16, was killed yes- | terday when an automobile driven by her mother, Mrs. Margaret Putnam, overturned after a tire blew out near here. They were return- | ing from the Dearborn county fair. | Two sons of Mrs. Putnam and®a

neighbor, L. Pry, were injured,

said |

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"vy" DAY COMES CLOSER

Have YOU —in all your work and sacrifice of "winning this war— figured on your part in the "Days After Vietory?"

Each of us MUST be ready for our part of "Post-War Buying!"

What will YOU need? Will you have the money to buy with?

One thing is sure— we cannot all rush and "cash in" our War Bonds. In fact we must buy more.

SECURITY'S POSTWAR PLANS include serving YOU better in every department of this established, progressive financial institution,

Just as we have helped in building up and providing the money for many of our great, growig factories and business—we are prepared to help you personally.

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