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Crack Parachute Division Breaks Under Assault Of British.

ROME, Sept. § (U. P).—Allied ~ troops advanced to within four . miles of Rimini today as Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's crack first parachute division, breaking under the combined assault of Brit-

sbanfloned a key ridge -defending! the important Adriatic coastal city. In the western sector of the Ital-| fan front U. S. 5th army troops] captured Altopascio, 10 miles north of the Arno river, and sent patrols ‘into the important city of Lucca, nine miles to the northwest.

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Front ‘dispatches reported. that the Americans hold all dominating heights just north of the Arno be- | tween Florence and the Tyrrhenian sed, and were poised for a drive against the western. end of the Ger- | mans’ Gothic line. {The British radio reported today | that Italian patriots had’ seized con-| trol of the entire Ligurian sea coast | of northeastern Italy,, with excep-| tion of Genoa, and a state of siege | had been proclaimed in Bologna, endangered - by the allied drive through the gap in tite Gothic line.) Polish -troops operating/ at the eastern end of the front took pos-| session of the southern suburbs of the town of Hiccione Mariana, five miles below Rimini, and there were | signs thati enemy resistance in tra! “sector was rapidly Weakening:

' BRISSAGO, Switzerland, Sept. 6 (U. P.).—Italian partisans reported from the frontier fown of San Bartolomeo Di Valmera to- | day that German commanders in northern Italy held a secret meeting at Cernobbie Monday and drafted plans for the evacuation of the Italian peninsula. The partisans said they understood the Germans had packed all their documents for shipmert to Germany.

British troops two and a half] miles . inland from that point] advanced a mile past Misano, while | Canadians to the left drove another two miles forward to within 1000 yards of the Marano river, only four miles from Rimini and the last river guarding the approaches to the city. The Canadians seized high ground | Just. north of the town of Coriano, ! six miles southwest of Rimini, and! held it against counter-attacks by | the Germans yesterday. There were indications the Germans had left | “Turcoman conscripts to defénd the Marano river and had withdrawn inside Rimini to make a last- ditch | fight to hold the coastal city which | i= the gateway to the Po valley | northward. | Ships Shell Nazis Two British destrovers, Undine | and Urchin, again went to the support of the allied troops before Rimini yesterday and fired more than 600 rounds at coastal batteries and gun emplacements around the! city. { An island of German resistance at Montefiore, orie¢ and a half miles’ - below the Conca river and pight]| miles inland, was finally overrun by British troops, but further inland! the Germans were still holding northwest of Tavoleto and about five miles southeast of the tiny republic of San. Marino.

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While silence shrouds the exact whereabouts of British and Yank armies it has been officially announced that patrols from Gen, Patton's forces have crossed the German border in undesignated localities. Meanwhile .the British driving on Rotterdam have thrown a cordon of PT boats and planes around the. coast to_stop any attempted Nazi sea evacuation from channel ports.

MANUAL BEGINS 7th Army Races Up Sdorie 1S 50TH YEAR . Valley Virtually Unopposed

| By ELEANOR PACKARD

(An ‘NBC correspondent reported United Press Staff Correspondent {that allied troops were driving up| ROME, Sept. 6.—Lt. Gen, Alex- the Besancon-Belfort road and were ‘ t my raced Ss than 30 miles from: the Wanders Through School's anger M. Pe a - y vail . | Besancon, juncture of the highways| =~ up’ the French Saone river VALEY |... ine from the south ‘and west! Hallowed - Halls. virtually unopposed today, quickly toward the German frontier, is ap-| tumbling five key road junctions! proximately 43 miles north of Lons.) | i ig ee pubic and driving to within less than 6) There ere no reports of any| schools, Manual high school enters! efini erman stand in the valits 50th year. miles of American lines in north- ley and the Nazi forces apparently] In February,” alumni celebrated ern France, | were withdrawing as quickly as pos- | ithe school's 49th’ birthday with the (Unconfirmed Swiss radio reports; sible to the famous passageway for, ig a phage the gold|peard in London and a C. B. S. ions and Jetrents before the | {rush days of the 49'ers | {allied armies join | Yesterday E. H. Kemper McComb, broadcast from France said ine East of Lors, nearly midway to| principal, said of the prospecting lof the 7th army and Lt. Gen.|gennecey, a second American sailent| “I hope they find gold in George S. Patton's 3d army had| {captured the .town of Louhans,! these halls of Manual.” | made contact in an undisclosed! straightening the Tth army line! Steeped in a half century of tradi- | area of central France.) across the valley, tion, Manual alumni can look back| Officially the gap between the The American force, which oc-| {to the day there were but 21 teach- two forces was 65 miles, but ele- | { cupied Lons, a town of about 13,000 | ers and a handful of pupils in what ments of both armies probably were | { population, were moving northeast- | was then the Industrial Training | several miles beyond the points an- | ward toward the Swiss frontier school. Today the faculty and office {nounced in communiques. { above Lake Geneva. Lons is ap-! {force numbers better than 90 and| French troops, who have met proximately 30 miles northeast of 'the student body more than 1400. {almost no opposition in the rage| Montrevel, hee ope Awenieans] i through the Proke through a stubborn German | Glorioys Tradition Hr ws Lali pret and | stand several days ago, and a simi- | A glorious tradition lies back of |Sennecey and reached the ap- {lar distance from Switzerland. the school’s athletic standing. From proaches of Chalon-sur-Saone, nine TD eee 1895 to 1900, Manual elevens took | miles north of Sennecey. IRISH BRIDES IN U. ee re ar Dea fares Give ameompassel » f-miel wow: YORK. Sept. & (0, 20] {Franklin and Indiana. {where yesterday the French were 90 | Sixty navy Lyides, Just arrived from} ‘But yesterday & new generation’ miles from northern allied forces. | fréland, divided their time today! went through the halls of Manual.| The French troops advancing on | between preparing to meet their {The class of '48 wandered with wide|chalon-sur-Soane anchored a 28- | “in-laws” and getting a close up of eyes through the halls on con-imjle front which stretched across] York's skyscrapers; “They

ducted tours. Sophisticated seniors the valley to the road and rail junc-| {given an enthusiastic welcome as {stood by, typically aloof. tion of Lons le Saunier, which ‘the | thelr navy port. docked yester.

Another semester opened. Americans captured in the sweep | | FINNS EVACUATING NEW AREA

LT northward toward the Belfort gapi INDIANA CENTRAL'S LONDON, Sept. 8 (U.P.).—Press!

/into Germany, German DNB news agency é ’ (A | WALKOUT TONIGHT broadcast, heard in London, claimed |Teports from Helsinki said that the} a Nazi tank formation has smashed | {Finns had started evacuating disThe annual “Big and Little!

Buddy-Biz and Little Sister” walk-} an American tank group from the tricts east of Finland's 1940 fronI di Central col wn | South near Pontarlier, 41 miles tier as 8 Finnish commission left oul, of ndiana Central college Wid|, .theast of Lons and 56 miles today for Moscow to negotiate the be held tonight. Women of the, uthwest of Belfort.) | terms of peace.

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meeting. The men will go to Longacre park for a program at 6 p. m., to be conlater tonight. Miss Ardith Kitter- | SEYMOUR, Sept. 6.—The first helicopter training school for the {army air forces has been established at Freeman field near here, Col. E. cc fi Rundquist, commanding officer of the field, announced today. men as mechanics, 4 Reasons for the establishment of ‘Maj. Sanduski is director of “heliat Freeman Reid: were) {copter training and Lt. ‘Guttenber-

campus will leave at 5:30 p. m. for {Garfield park, where Miss Helen | Ruffner will be in charge of their! Freeman Field ls Selected | * o eo, h Six pow shop wd tein AS Helicopter Training School groups will meet on the north col- ; lege campus for a campfire program Times Special Personnel of the heligopter section of the field consists of officers and {enlisted men who received their training at the Sikorsky plant, Bridge- | port, Conn. The officer instructors" are rated as pilots and the enlisted oo {ger is -a helicopter instructor at {not given. | Freeman field, | Two officers of the school; Maj.| Field officials said that while {John J. Sanduski of Omaha; Neb. |gther reasons were responsible, selang Lt. Norbert T. Guttenberger of lection -of the field for the school |Chicago, recently made aviation yas particularly fitting because the [history when they flew two R4-B helicopter has: proved in many intype helicopters 725 miles ‘on the stances. to be a “mercy” plane. . The {longest formation. flight ever made field was named after the late Capt. by rotary-type planes in the U. S.|Richard 8. Freeman of Winamac, | The : flight /was from Bridgeport, |Ind., who. won {fame for “mercy” | Conn,,_to Freeman field, flights in Alaska. On the trip, new os cous | Recently it: was" announced that helicopter speed records were “sei#helicopters were used in the air-

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back into civilian production,” Krug said at his first press conference. “We can't wet-nurse ~200,000-odd enterprises. The 36-year-old Krug, who wos) velt less than two weeks agd to run. production as he saw fit, refused to;

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to make swift new jobs for an estimated 4,000,000 war workers who will be thrown out of employment when Germany falls. An informed source high in government said that radios may be one of the first non-military items to reach the public. Other equally informed sources estimated that some passenger car manufacturegs should be in production in from 90 to 120 days after the end of the war in Europe. It was emphasized, however, that a crimp could be put in the whole! civilian production program if any unexpected shortages suddenly de/veloped while the war against Japan

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ge ve in process of manuface within 90 days After Germany falls, ; Krug said he believed mii civilian productiion could “: be achieved “without detailed priorities regulation from Washington.” So, he said, it was decided to retain only two priority ratings after the German defeat. One will be the overriding emerrgency rating “and the other will merely designate a particuar order as military, Under the program, all manufacrturers can use any plant and any materials that are not needed for! military production,

ei SLAYS BLOCK NAZI ESCAPE LONRON, Sept. 6 (U. P.).—Yugoslav partisans have blown up a key bridge at Zelenkovo, cutting off | communications with Gerffian troops in Macedonia.

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