Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1944 — Page 14

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: e Elaborate Precaution Taken ogame commander of the| LE . {British 21st army group in France,

By Foe to Prevent Capture or Rescue.

By Times Foreign Service BERNE, Sept. ‘1.—-Marshal Petain is ‘now known to be “held” in a chateau belonging to Senator Viellard at Morvillars, where every precaution is being taken to prevent his capture by the French

“M. Petain cal hostage or Otherwise. . > “When Marshal and Mme, Pefain| arrived at “Morvillars, the 8 8. (elite guard) gave the population of the neighboring villages iwo hours to clear out. Sentinels were posted everywhere and nobody was allowed to circulate between Grandvillars and Morvillars. Anyone approaching the chateau risks being machine gunned, -- : ” » » The misapprehension that Petain had been taken to Germany arose from his frequent trips to Mulhouse. It is now disclosed that he went there to confer with Pierre Laval and Reich representatives. As soon as the conferences were concluded, however, the Vichy government and the marshal returned to Belfort while the results of the talks' were transmitted to Hitler by Spegia) plane. Meanwhile, the inhabitants of the Grandvillars-Morvillars region pray for the speedy departure of Senator Viellard’s unwilling guests. The situation is becoming intolerable for them. Day and night, at least 500 8S. 8S. men make life unbearable for the villagers with the chateauprisoh fast coming within the radius of F. PF. I. operations.

Copyrigns, 1944, by The Indianapolis Times d The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

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Monty Becomes . Field Marshal

BONDON, Sept. 1 (U. P)~King George VI has approved the promotion of Gen. Sir Bernard L.

to the rank of field marshal, effective today, the war office announced.

Six other British generals, three of whom are in virtual retirement with semi-civil posts, have been elevated to the rank of figld marshal previously during this war. ; They are Lord Ironside, chief of the imperial general staff in" the early days of the war; Viscount Gort, now governor of Palestine;

India; Sir John Dill, former chief

now chief representative on the combined chief of staff; Sir Alan Brooke, present chief of the imperial general staff; and Gen. Jan C. Smuts, premier of South Africa, who combines his political - post ‘with that Et empire military ‘counsellor.

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (U. P.. —Rep. A. S. Mike Monroney. (D. Okla.), sponsor of a joint resolution to stygamline congress, charged yesterday that the legislative branch is trying to run the world’s largest business—the U. 8. government—with methods as outmoded as “an old fashioned ledger, quill pen and high bookkeeper’s stool.” Monroney, 42-year-old former Oklahoma City newspaper editor, thas four suggestions on how to get congress-out of its gaslight era ways and into modern methods: g “1, Consolidation of some of -the house's 47 standing committees, the most recent of which was organized in 1894. 2. Improvement of committee staffing with the possible assign-

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