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neck south of Khakov where the last Axis-held railway splits into two lines, one running southwest tc Dnieperpetrovsk and the other ang' ling slightly more to the south to- ward Zaporozhe.
 Other Russian forces 250 miles to the north were sweeping ahead through dense, trackless forests anc enormous swamps in developing offensive against Bryansk, mair base on the central front.
 70 Towns Overrun
 These troops overran more thar 70 towns yesterday in advances ol up to six miles, among them Alekes- eyevskaya, only Il miles east oi Karachev, last important enemy stronghold before Bryansk, 25 miles farther west.
 A front dispatch to the mrayo-i
 A front dispatch to the army or gan Red Star said skillful coordina- tion among Soviet tank, artillery and infantry units was paying divi- dends in uninterrupted advances all along the Kharkov front. More than 50 towns and villages were captured yesterday in advances of up to 12h miles.
 Soviet tactics were described a, entrusting infantry and artillery with direct assault on enemy strong points while tanks struck deep into the rear, cutting communication! and seizing heights commanding the resisting forces.
 Akhyrka Falls Aktyrka fell to the Russians aftel fierce street fighting in which tht defenders were driven from the city block by block. Some 1,600 Germans were killed and 36 German tanks including 12 60-ton Tigers, IA self propelled guns, IS field guns and 36( trucks were destroyed. Another 19t trucks, as well as two food stores 8 fuel dump and other booty, were captured.
 At the twin Tishki towns north east of Kharkov, the Russians anni-
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The Female
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And that's not the worst of 1t, moaned Sheriff Steve Brunk, who picked up Mrs. Mcdonald and three male companions in an automobile stolen from Chicago.
 "It took my wife to calm her down. I'll never hear the end of thiS."
 After Mrs. McDonalds first es- capade, Brunk bound her with three inch shackle belt, fastening her hands to her sides. She slipped out of 1t and again set the jail on fire.
 Brunk tried out his escape proof handcuffs. She soaped her wrists and slipped her small hands out of them. The sheriff tried again.
 Seven times she set fire to the jail. Seven times the sheriff called the fire department and handcuffd chr. The fire chief was disgusted. Brunk was discouraged
 T decided to call my wife for advice," he said. After all, women understand each other"
 Mrs. Brunk visited the prisoner, came back and threw the cell key on the sheriff's desk.
 Her cell is unlocked" she said. but she won't escape and she won't cause anyone any more trouble"
 Mrs. Brunk was carrying all Mrs. McDonald's clothes.
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InfontiIe
 Paralysis
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tible to the disease than grown ups.
 The following symptoms usually precede the paralysis infliction: fever, vomiting, chills, nausea, list lessness and a general sickly feel ing, pr. Godfrey said.
 The Waterbury and Watertown cases that were inflicted with the disease last Friday are coming along "as well as can be expected, he added.
 Plea From New Haven
 New Haven, Conn.,, Aug. 12 -(U. P) pr. Joseph I. Linde, city health officer, awaited further re- plies today to his appeal for nurses to help combat what he termed an epidemic of infantile paralysis in the New Haven area.
 Additional nurses were needed, he explained, to administer the Kenny method of treatment to the victims "a method of massage and hot towel applications which requires much time and effort
 Nurses from Meriden and Water bury, where the disease has not been noted to any extent, already have been assigned to New Haven.
 Meanwhile, 58 patients were con- fined to isolation wards of New Ha- ven hospital, the number of cases having leaped from 12 since last Saturday. Three were admitted to the hospital yesterday.
 At Hartford, Dr, Willard w. Knowlton, of the State Department of Health, advised the public not to be alarmed over the outbreak. He warned, however, that physicians be called immediately upon discov- cry of any symptoms.
 Linde renewed his plea that par ents keep children out of public places, stay away from swimming places whose waters may be pol luted, and be particularly careful about washing the hands before eating
 The state department of health will issue a written statement to all doctors through Connecticut order ing them not to remove any more onsils until the infantile paralysis epidemic is over.
 ''The order is very good Judgment on the part of the department" said Dr. Godfrey. And will be accepted as good practice by all cooperating to halt the spread of the disease
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Post-Wor Problems

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 preclude Anglo-Americans from continuing to hold certain strate- gic points formerly in Axis hands, the retention of which would seem to be vitally necessary for main- taining the future peace of the world"
 Anglo Americans Careful Anglo Americans have been most careful not to commit themselves to territorial demands advanced by various occupied nations. British and American spokesmen are not on public record as supporting So- viet territorial aspirations which have been plainly and repeatedly stated, but there long has been 8 feeling in some circles that Russia feels the Anglo Americans will not oppose its demands as already out lined.
 Several British or American com- mitments obviously imply consider able reorganization of colonial em- pires. The pledge by President Roosevelt and President Getulio Vargas of Brazil regarding West Africa and Dakar for instance im- plies that they shall not revert to the pre-War status, in other words they presumably must be neutral ized or placed in hands which the western hemisphere regards as safe. Syria
 Another change affecting France is British pledge of independence to Syria, which plainly does not contemplate return of the French mandate.
 There is also-though the point has not yet been raised-the ques- ton of the status of Bizerte, since it has been proved that its control is necessary for the security of the Mediterranean Sea route under afr war conditions.
 Similar questions already have taken shape regarding the Italian Empire. Ethiopia already has re- verted to independence under Hail lie Selassie. The British also have pledged to the Arab leader of Cy- rencia that under no circumstances shall they revert to Italian domina- ton after the war-a pledge which implies that Italy is most unlikely to regain her North African Empire or certainly only under the most limited conditions and supervision It is obvious that thus far the line of demarcation between the At lantic Charters pledge of self-de- termination and the basic recogni- tio of the United Nations national security factors have been drawn only in vague way. There appears to be little doubt that it will be left i to peace conferee to decide where security stops and self-determina- tion begins.
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US. Troops In Tough Fight
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 Apparently the highway from Naso to Randazzo) and then worked northeastward toward the landing party.
 While the major general com- manding this division said this was the toughest assignment ever given his forces members Of his staff were confident of the outcome.
 This is really what we have been waiting for" one colonel said. If we make the Boche counter attack us that means we can kill more of them and not have to fight them later at some other place.
 This time we are not thinking of the old adage, he who fights and runs away lives to fight another day.
 This second landing represented a jump of about three more miles than the first six-mile flanking maneuver Sunday so that the dis tance separating the two American forces would be wide enough to per- init heavy sea and aerial pounding of the enemy.
 From hill I was able to See wave after wave of dive bombers sWoop down on the enemy positions, bomb- ing and strafing while of to the left the navy's big guns pumped shells into the pocket.
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Reds Drive To Edge
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Inflated 1000 enemy troops and cap- turned 400 Germans, 16 self-pro- pelled guns and 18 field guns.
 Forty-two German aircraft seek ing to hinder the Russian advance on the Kharkov front were shot down in aerial combat yesterday.
 On the Bryansk front, the Rus sians killed 2,O0O German officers and men in routing the enemy from Alekeseyevskaya and neighboring town. Eleven tanks were knocked out the repulse of counter-attack.
 Another 1900 enemy troops were killed in fighting for two towns near Dmitrovsk- -Orlovski, 63 miles south- west of Bryansk. At one point, the advancing Russians freed 5000 civ- ilians whom the Germans were de- porting for slave labor.
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(Continued from Page D nearby. Terni also is the junction point for five important highway routes.
 Meanwhile, other planes carried out day and night attacks on roads railway bridges and transport iil southern Italy across from the Mes sina Straits from Sicily and kept ur a continuous bombardment behind the Axis Sicilian lines. Bridge Blasted Observers returning from the raids on Italy said two hits were scored on bridge at Catanzaro Marina, or the sole of the Italian boot, blast ing big holes.
 Four small enemy vessels were sunk during fighter-bomber sweeps over enemy shipping lanes off the Sicilian coast while other planes in day-long attacks destroyed or dam- aged a number of Axis transport vehicles on the island roads lead ing to Messina.
 Only one Allied plane was missing lIOiIl Itlc Opcl dUlOllS.
 Only a handful of enemy planes challenged the fortresses in the first attack ever made on Terni, return ing pilots said They were so in- effective they failed to produce an incident in the raid.
 Tt was cinch," said Staff Sgt Joseph E. Sullivan, a tailgunner or one plane. Every time bomb hit fire started"
 One Hit - One Fire
 Second Lieut.. William E. Stafford of Garland, N. C., said the gas works went up in huge explosions.
 No opposition from the ground or in the air was met in the sweeps over southern Italy and over south ern Sardinia. Marauders were cre- dited with the hits on the bridge at CatanZaro Marina and Mitchells escorted by lightnings, knocked out half of vehicular bridge at an- other point.
 Long Range Bombing
 Royal air force long-range beau fighters went up the Italian coast | looking for targets as far as a point west of Rome and attacked two schooners with cannon fire.
 In the Sicilian battle zone, at least 21 enemy trucks were destroyed and light bombers and fighter -bomberl dumped explosives into a burning ammunition dump at Millazo ano the Rosarno Railway yards. The key town of Randazzo, on the north ern slopes of Mount Etna, was at. tackled several times.
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MonviIIe Goes ForNumber7 7

New York. Aug. l2 - U,P) - Tommy Manville. the asbestos heir. announced today that the seventh Mrs. Thomas Franklin Manvllle. Jr, will be a i9-year- blond, beauti- ful-and the mother Of four year. old child.
 Tommy's wife No. 1.-the mar riage will take place "in the next couple Of days" in Jersey City will be Sunny Ainsworth. a chorus girl, who first was married at i4, and at IS became the bride Of Da- yid s. Moran, brother Of Peggy Mos ran Of the motion pictures.
 She was . chorus girl in the mus sical High. .Kickers with Billie Bose. Mrs. Manville No, 6, when Billie di- vorced Tommy, Tommy went after Sunny.
 Manyille is 70,
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Bonn Gets Taste Of RAF
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slight damage in nuisance raids on western Germany last night.
 The Royal Air Forces big four engined bombers were believed to have been idle during the night.
 Coastal watchers reported that the twin -engined, plywood Mos- quitoes roared over the southeast coast last night in considerable strength for their raids on the arsenal districts of western Ger many.
 Thought the Ruhr and Rhine land are probably the most heavily defended areas of the Reich, only one bomber was lost.
 Intruder Patrols
 Fighter command aircraft joined in the nights operations with in truder patrol attacks on railway targets in France, Belgium and Holland.
 At least nine locomotives, includ- ing one few miles north of Paris, were left damaged by the intruder planes, which operated by moon- light. A Belgium pilot scored a di- rect bomb hit on railway bridge at Grammont, Belgium, and at- tackled a locomotive there.
 Daylight raiders flew out across the English Channel this morning too high to be seen, but the drone of engines indicated they were op- erating in some force.
 Air raid alarms sounded at Chi asso on the Italian-Swiss border at 10: 40 D. m. last night, but there was no confirmation of a new British raid on northern Italy. Weather conditions along the frontier were such that it couldn't be determined if bombs were dropped in northern Italy, a frontier dispatch said. Retaliation The German air force, apparently stung into retaliation by the grow ing Allied air offensive, sharply raided two English towns, one on the southwest coast and another in the south last night. One raider was shot down.
 At least eleven persons were Killed in the southern England town, where several dwellings, two schools, Methodist church and num- Der of stores were damaged.
 Estimates reaching London from neutral sources placed the number of Germans so far evacuated from bombed cities in western and north- ern Germany at 100000.
 GA CHS broadcast from Bern said 2,000 persons were killed and 10000 rendered homeless by the British raid on Nuremberg in south ern Germany Tuesday nightD
 Tn the raid on the southwest Eng land town at least i2 persons were killed and many houses damaged Rescue workers still sought persons buried in the debris,
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plans, said, I'm anxious to have the states attorney representatives come here. They will be given full rein to explore every facility of the school and to question anybody con- nected with my administration a. well as the inmates. We're proud of this institution and we have nothing to hide"
 Supt. Roselle revealed yesterday that he had received a statement from the parents of RiStoli, declar- ing that the treatment received by their son at the school left nothing to be desired, and expressed regret at the concern caused the parents of the institutions HOO inmates at the publicly given unfortunate ir- cidents" at the schools.
 The superintendent said that serious shortage of trained help ex- ists at the institution, in spite of many efforts to obtain more em- ployes. This led to the using of an- other inmate to bathe Ristoli, a job ordinarily handled by a trained at- tendant.
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the suspension bridge railroad sta- ton, where his train was waiting. Churchill and his daughter talked with station employees while await ing leaving time.
 As the train was pulling out, Ed die Brady, Negro baggage handler, ran after the train shouting:
 MT. Churchill, please, one of your cigars"
 Churchill took the cigar he was smoking from his mouth, looked at it regretfully and then, apparently changing his mind, reached in his pocket and threw his cigar case to the baggage handler.
 Mrs. Churchill did not get off the train while her husband and daugh- ter made the tour.
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There he got out of his car. walk ed to the edge, pulled fresh cigar from his pocket and lit it-no small feat in the wind that was blowing
 Have you ever been to the falls before?" a reporter asked,
 "Yes, l was here before you were born" Churchill smiled. They've been going on quite long time"
 A few moments later Churchill turned again to the reporter.
 Actually, I was here for the first time in l900," he explained. The re- porter asked If the falls had chang ed much.
 . "The main principles remain" the Prime Minister chuckled.
 He and his daughter returned to their car and continued the tour, They stopped briefly at the monu- ment to General Sir Isaac Brock and there Churchill paid one of the calls that have endeared him to people at home, He went into a restaur- ant, where his entrance caused . tremendous stirr, and bought some scenic postcards like any honey: mooner. ~tsp9uy
 There were no crowds to greet Churchill on the American side oI tho falls, busy war center with more than i6o,000 population, There were no wailing sirens of police es- eorts, although the squadron of Roy. al Canadian Mounted Police and un. obtrusive members of the U, s, Sc. crct Service remained close to the party
 Churchill was In the first Of sls automobiles which made up the par ty. Tho caravan drove through the customs without halting for the usual inspection. Still smoking ht cigar. Churchill grinned broadly ane raised his hand In the V-for- -victor, sign as he went through the GUS. toms.
 The party immediately sent k
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NCOHlHlueu rom rage l) was sunk by a direct hit with a 500- pound bombs, A near miss was scored on the second cargo vessel and the third was strafed,
 A Liberator scored a damaging near hit on 2500-ton vessel off Cape St, George. bringing the yes sel to a standstill, then swooped down to stratfe accompanying barges, causing heavy casualties, Four oil barges were destroyed off Gasmata, New Britain, by A-20 at- tack planes and three were hit in Vitiaz Strait, The A-20's also bomb ed and straffed barge hideouts of Lac, on the New Guinea northeast coast,
 heaufighters Busy
 Long-range Heauflghters destroy ed three small boats, damaged two others, wrecked a tloa tplane, shot down one of six intercepting craft and damaged two others In . sur' prise stfaiing raid on the seaplane base at Tabertane, in the Aroe fs' lands south Of Dutch New Guinea,
 Fifteen Japanese planes ineffec' lively attacked Allied positions on Woodlark Island and a Spitiire drove off an enemy reeonna aissanc bomber venturlng near Darwin Aus tralia,
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 Similar steps will be taken along the same lines" he added signifl' cantly,
 The Italian press has been giv. Ing prominent display to reports ol the forthcoming Roosevelt Church ill meeting and it was possible to read between the lines Of Italian dispatches . belief that Italy's status would be discussed and probably decided,
 Sources close to the Vatican see' retariat of state said that Pope Plus XII continues to direct all his efforts toward ameliorating the present delicate situation"
 Though these sources refused to elaborate, they acknowledged that British and American diplomats ac. credited to the Vatican had been conferring with Luigi Cardinal Mag Hone. papai secretary of state. more frequently than usual.
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 President Roosevelt)
 Axis broadcasts, as well as dis patch from Stockholm, revealed that Germany was exploiting to the utmost Stalin's absence from the Quebec conference in furtherance of her campaign to split the Allies The Nazi-controlled Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau, in a typical dis patch, quoted Berlin political com mentators that Stalin's refusal to participate in any conference with MT. Roosevelt and Churchill con- firmed that in event of an Allied victory Russia will claim all Flu rope without bothering to discuss the matter with England and Amer ica."
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ncope of . mass evacuation)
 Scuthward, at the middle of the yielding Axis defenses across the tip of Sicily, the Seventh Armys right wing pushed within llgnt artillery range of Randazzo, key function commanding the pass be- tween Mount Etna and the Caron- ian mountains.
 CThe National Broadcasting Com pany said the Americans were With in three miles of Randazzo, and the fall of the strategic mountain town was imminento
 On the Allied right wing, the British Eighth Army pdugged slow Iy but steadily up the coastal corrl- dor on the slopes of Mount Etna. Advanced clements reached a poin' at least IS miles north of Catanla, taking the neighboring villages ol praiola and Zaffarano, Al miles south of Messina.
 GA German communique said the Axis forces in Sicily had carried out according to plan" certain "ols- engaging movements toward a shortened bridgehead' an ac- knowledgment of large scale wlth- drawal)
 American Flying Fortresses, again carrying the war to the Italian mainland. plastered the Terni rali- road and highway hub 40 miles nortn of Rome with explosives Wnlcn wrecked factories, arms plants ana transport facilities. The second bold stroke behind the German lines along the north coast of Sicily was carried out III the carly hours of Wednesday Supporting it was fire from United States naval units, including cruls- CTS and destroyers, and bompers of the North African Air Forces.
 The landing near the mouth ol the Naso river east of Cape DOT lando was made in the face o1 SUI German resistance. Put on tht alert by the Sunday morning toray which crumpled the north end ol their defense line, the Nazls were ready and waiting. |,
 Accounts of the landing made Il plain 1t was no commando type hit run raid, but an operation in whicf the men were sticking to the shore fight until they join or ar Jolnee by the Seventh army.
 The Germanys assigned to --olc the North end of the wavering de' fense line now were squeezed pe' tween Patton's vanguard and hl well equipped landing party. They were under fire fro meast and west and fighting with desperation.
 Second Movement
 The second leap-frog move tow ard the complete conquest Of Sicily was aimed at the mouth or tht Naso river because it offered natural mooring for the troops going ashore in small barges anc landing craft.
 Alter the landing, the American thips offshore laid down par Alyzing bombardment Of German oositions slightly inland. Pounded from all sides aground and Iron 1he sea and air, the Germans were reported taking terrific pastlng a! The synchronized operation mad' excellent headway.
 American units pushing along thu seandazzo road from Cesaro Wer' kithin light artillery range Of th' vital junction town by p. m. yes Aerday. .,
 The concerted British Eightf Army push from Bronte was m--, Ing stiff resistance midway betweer the two cities. It had carrlec sorneWhere near the midway poln' between Bronte and Randazzo.
 All along the line the Axis force; were beginning to show signs ol fatigue and shortages of food ane water. Tactical air forces had made -uirtuallv ,iseless all the roads lead.
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 cessation of activity against the Japanese on Kiska, officials have been willing to say so. Now they in- sist. they have no information what ever.
 Most observers are inclined to be- lieve American forces are mastering strength for powerful amphibious attack to wrest Kiska from the Japanese. It is just two weeks to the day since the last reported air attack on Kiska. The observers noted that there was sudden ces- sation of aerial activity just prior to the invasion of Attu.
 Whatever the reason, it was con- sidered significant that all news from the Aleutians should be halted after month of the most intensive kind of aerial operations.
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