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DRESSES

(3) Navy Bolero Dresses;
with white vestee. Sizes IA
and Is. Orig. 1895 500
(l0) Navy and Black Dresses;
one of a kind. Broken sizes.
Orig. 8.95 $50
t5) Two-Pc. Suits; of rayon
butchers linen, brown with
white braid. Misses sizes.
Orig. 500 ---2.OOs
(9) Maternity Dresses; of
rayon crepe in black dots and
checks. Sizes IL to 18. Orig.
8.95 5----------~--2.66
t10) Maternity Dresses; of
black rayon faille. Sizes IL
to l8. Orig. 7.95-----1.66
t18) Uniforms; of blue and
white stripe broadcloth. Bro
ken sizes. Orig. 1.99--l.3o
~ White Chenille Robes;
sizes 38 to AZ. Slightly soiled.
Orig. 500 -------3.o9
Goldenberg'S-SecOnd Floor
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3
EIl;h3 y r.

1O Panty Girdles; with zip
per closing; material front
and back for added support,
elastic sides for comfort.
Sizes Is to 80. Orig. $50,
3.95
t2D Stockholders Garter
Belts-makes precious hose
last much longer. Small,
medium and large. Orig.
ESQ --------.-------1. 90
19) Girdle Holders; for
bare-legged wearers of gir-
dies and corsets. Small,
medium and large. Orig.
100 75,
Goldenberg 'S-Second Floor
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NOTIONS

500 Stationery Novelties;
orig. 100 to 1913 book ends,
frames, etc. 47c
(l4) Trapeze Style Garment
Bags; fits on closet rod, snap
closing. Solid colors. Orig.
2.49 ---------2.lo
az Double Hook Scar
nent Bags; with metal
frame. Orig. 3.98-- 3.29
(24) Floral Covered Sewing
Boxes; with thread drawer.
Slightly damaged, sold "as
is" Orig. soc
16) Stained Wood Shoe
Racks; holds 6 prs. of shoes,
stands on closet door. Orig.
100 --.-----------2o 2oc
(l6) Crib Blankets; stamped
in easy-to-embroidery de-
signs. Sizes 36X33-in. Orig.
69c ------- ------ Ate
$50 prs.) Crescent Dress
Shields: size 2 only, white
and flesh. Made by Kleinert.
Orig. 25c -------- -l9c
800 Lightweight Garter
Belts; flesh color, with rub
Der insert. garters. Sizes
"a to 30. Orig. 100 SIC
$50 Two-Way Stretch Panty
Girdles; with rayon insert.
Small, medium and large.
Orig. 1.39 -----8o 8oc
(55) Knitting Wool; 1907
wool; in variegated colors.
Orig. 100 --------- 6oc
uD CretO Knitting
Bags; sateen lined, wood
handles. Orig. l.00-----87e
(20) Rubberized Raincoats;
white only, water-repellent
fabric. Medium and large
sizes. Orig. 2,98 =------l.97
u7) Rubberized Household
Aprons; bib style. Orig.
100 69e
GOJdenb enbern'S-Mnju EIoor
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GLOVES

t216) Women's Rayon Fab
ric Gloves; white and colors.
Broken sizes. Orig. 79c- -59e
n34) Women's Rayon Fab
ric Summer Gloves; many
one-of-a-kind. Orig. Acc,
Ste
1l8) W0men's Rayon Fabric
Gloves; in assorted colors,
broken sizes. Orig. SOC 25e
Goldenberg's-Main Floor
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E;sE71,J

1890 yds.) Rayon Fabrics;
useful lengths. Orig. 43c
yd. yd.----------28e
Goldenberg's-MGin Floor
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Clearance!
SPRING COATS
AND SUITS
Originally 1896 to 1895
1000

The COATS-Misses' and women's spring
coats in shetIands and tweeds, fitted and
boxy models in all the favorite shades.
Sizes IL to 81 in the group.
The SUITS-Msses' models in shetlands,
tweeds and twills, one and button styles,
with kick pleats. Broken range Of coIors and
sizes IL to 20.
Goldenberg's-Coats and Suhs-Second Floor
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Plane Crash Kills IS Children

unaccounted for. All, 40 in an
other group of children who
were in the junior and senior
departments of the school es-
capped serious. injury. 80
r. There was great. crack,
the windows caved in and chill
dren all over the school were
knocked over" said F.. A. Bill
ington, the headmaster. THE
flames spread rapidly every
where
American soldiers in the vii
lage joined in rescue work,
, comforted frightened children
: with candy, and shed their
coats to provide covering for
others.
1.-THE Americans were really
Splendid" said one mother.
"After the crash they kept the
children uiet by playing
games and joking with them,
and they did splendid rescue
work" ts
Lacking full details, the U.
S. Army Air Forces issued no
report on the accident tonight.
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GULF HURRICANE T..
MOVING INLAND

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. %. -(P-
The United States weather bureau
here announced today that the guilt
hurricane was centered apparently
about ITO miles east-southeast OF
Tampico, Mexico, and would move
inland near Tampico shortly after
midnight tonight.
The advisory said the disturbance
was moving west-northwestward at
about II miles per hour and that
the strongest winds were 65 to 81
miles per hour near the center with
gales extending over an area about
1875 miles north of the center.
Strong winds and high tides
will begin late this afternoon on
the coast, extending from the .vici-
nifty of Tarnpico for distance OF
$50 to ITS miles northwards. the
advisory said. -.----...
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LONDON, Aug. 23.-(REFif-
ty-four persons, including IS
children all under five, were
killed today when a flaming
American bomber plunged into
a church school infants depart
ment in the quiet Lancashire
village of Freckleton.
1t was feared 80 or 40 other
persons may h ave been
trapped in the ruins of snack
bar across the street. None had
been reached by rescue parties
when darkness fell.
Eight American soldiers
were among those killed, in
Guiding three members of the
planes ere W. Normally 10
men comprise the crew.. The
death toll was expected to
reach rs in Britain's worst ac-
cident of the kind.
The U. S. Strategic Air Force
announced that the bomber, a
Liberator, crashed after it was
caught in sudden storm. The
pilot was among the three
creWmen killed. Other men,
bers of t b e crew were in
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BULGARIAN TACTICS
RECEIVED COLDLY

LONDON, Aug. % R -, Bull
garia's latest efforts to get out OF
the war before Germany collapses
received a cold reception today
from belligerents, on both sides.
Authoritative British sources
termed Foreign Minister Parvan
Draganov's peace speech yester-
day, in which he insisted mis-
country's declaration of war had
been a mistake, as a rather silly
show and in other Allied quarters
the Sofia governments attitude
was likened to that of man try
ing to sell something he no longer
owned
In Germany, where Bulgarian
regrets for the error Of declar-
ing war on Britain and the United
States could only mean recogni-
ton that Hitler's war is lost, q
foreign office spokesman said he
did not consider it necessary to
express German reaction to Dra-
ganov's own personal views.
Competent sources said the Bull
garians already have been told
by Britain. Russia and the United
States that it is too late to drive
a bargain for peace and that Bull
garia must surrender uncondi-
tionally, expel all Germans, and
withdraw troops from non Bull.
garian areas received as gilt
from Hitler at the expense Of
Greece and Yugoslavia.
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'jtred.. 7.Identifi cation Of; these.
casualties was withheld. ( NJ.
Another, lib rator,- accom-,
panying planeSS ontinued
on local flight +.
The plane sna shed through
the top Of the school building
where Al children under five,
many nan sof them refugees from
robot bomb att eks, were as
sembled. It careened across. the
street and crashed into snack
bar where several dozen SOL.
diers and a staff of six women:
were gathered -;
The flames. spread swiftly
through, the school, the snack
bar and several buildings near
by. Fire brigades from neigh.
boring districts brought the
fires under control, and tn e
bodies. of IS children and 10
adults were recovered from the
smolder;ng wreckage. Two or
three of the Al infants removed
were injured.
The rest were missing and
believed dead and others WAC
had been in the snack bar were
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CUNFIRE ROCKING
BORDEAUX SECTOR

lRUN, Spain, Aug. %. - P -
Inc sound of distant bombing and
"a n n d in G in southwestern
france could be clearly heard to-
way at the Spanish frontier, but
heavy fog masked all other signs
VI naval or military activity.
french military officials who an
nounced an Allied landing last
Alght In the Arcachon area south
west Of Bordeaux declined to give
any information on the situat ton
there.
Berlin declared a small force
VI American troops and French
pdInsans had landed at St. Jean
p ~ LUZ six miles above the
tIench-Spanish frontier.)
norder advises said French and
a d troops were continuing their
uiive on Bordeaux. seeking to liq-
uua'e the last German pocket OF
.eslStance below the Loire. These
. sspVs said Americans had driven
, uusn 10 Bordeaux from the Loire,
n WIN French forces advancing
i ',raa. to the port. forming a
'"'eIloh al its outskirs.
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CONFERS
ON PEACE MOVES

WASHINGTON, Aug. %. - P -
John Foster Dulles. foreign affairs
advisor to Republican presidenti-
cal nominee Thomas E. Dewey,
talked peace plans for two and one
half hours with Secretary of State
Hull today and told reporters after
ward that they had made very
considerable progress in exploring
the possibilities of bipartisan CO.
operation
Dulles, who came here to work
with Hull a plan for insuring dual
party support for American parti-
cipation in a world security or
ganization, said that he still had
some. things to talk over with Hull
and that he would meet the sec
rotary again tomorrow afternoon.
The HulI-Dulles efforts to remove
foreign policy as far as possible
from the political campaign over
Swallowed for the moment the work
of the Dumbarton Oaks conferees.
The delegates broke off their dis
cussions of the form a world Sc.
curity organization should IKE III
order to visit the White House and
meet President Roosevelt.
They heard the President de-
clare that the Nazi ideas implanted
in Germany's youth will menace
the world for many years, and
hence the Allies. must work cab
solutely in unison" to enforce "a
peace that will last
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AMERICAN BOMBERS
SINK 9 JAP SHIPS
BY The Associated Press

American bombers sank or dam
aged nine japanese ships, Pacific
communicates reported last night,
boosting the daily average for Au-
gust to more than four Nipponese
vessels destroyed every "a hours.
Two navy Liberators found a
five-ship convoy near Chichi island
in the Bonins, $50 miles south OF
Tokyo, and sank two freighters.
Another was damaged.
Southwest Pacific bonbers left
large fires blazing in Davao, ma
jor city on Mindanao island in the
southern Philippines and sank a
small cargo ship northeast of Min
danao.
Another freighter and three coas-
tai vessels were either sunk or
severely damaged near Celebes IN
the Dutch East Indies. A destroy
err tender was left dead in the water
by air raiders over the Palau is
proaches to the Philippines:
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EXTENSION ASKED
FOR LEND-LEASE

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23-sR-The
possibility that Lend Lease will
stimulate postwar America foreign
trade was suggested in the latest
report on it's operations, dispatch
ed to Congress by President Roose-
welt today along with reconamen-
dalton that it be continued until
both Germany and Japan surren-
der.
1.-THE war has introduced Ameri-
can products to other countries IN
a volume and variety never ap-
preached before" the report com
mented. "After the war these coun-
tries will want to continue to OBJ
tain many of these products by
buying them.
american industry will have a
greatly expanded foreign market,
provided that our international &C.
onomic policies make it possible
for these nations to pay for their
purchases.
The report, covering Lend-Lease
operations through June 80, gave
the total of American supplies and
services furnished to Allies since
the program started in 1941 at $685.
27O, 351 900. In addition. American
commanding generals in the field
have been supplied with $67S,241.-
600 worth of arms and other ma
terials for Lend-Lease to Allied
forces.
The value OF reverse Lend-Lease
the goods and services supplied
American forces by Allies--Was es'
tinated in excess of $4,000, 600, 600
The report commented, however
that the true value Of the Lend
Lease program must be measured
in lives saved
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 23-04-
In one of the largest antitrust
suits in history, the Justice de-
partment today charges group
of railroads, trade associations,
investment houses anc rail ex-
ecutives with conspiracy to les
train and nlonopolize trade in
the transportation of freight ana
passengers in the west.
Defendants named in the suit,
filed. in Lincoln, Neb., include
the Association of American
railroads, the Western Assocla-
ton of Railway Executives; J.
P. Morgan and Company and
Kuhn, Loeb and Company, New
York investment houses; Al raj
roads and several score OF indl-
viduals associated with the rail
lines or the trade associations.
Among many charges in the
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ECONOMY GROUP
RULES IN HOUSE

WASHINGTON, Aug. % R -
The House Ways and Means COM
mittee, taking militant stand
against planning for large govern
ment expenditures on the postwar
struck fl m the
Senate's rehabilitation legislation
today a section providing federal
unemployment compensation COW
erage for 100000 government en-
ployes
Earlier, the committee had turn
ed thumbs down on the whole plan
for retraining and unemployment
of war workers.
If the Ways and Means commit
tees position finally prevails in
House and Senate votes, the I'M
employment compensation pro-
gram would continue on its old
basis-in the hands of the states.
The committees decision left on
ly one major provision of h e
Senate measure remaining for &C
ton, that to create an Office of
War Mobilization and Reconversion
to have overall supervision of con-
tract Examinations and surplus
property disposal.
Rep. Mills (D.-Ark.) moved to
eliminate the Senate provision for
employment compensation for fed
eral workers but both Democrats
and Republicans were in the group
voting to tear out hunks of III e
Senate bill.
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lwo Japanese Columns
Halted Near Hengyang

w., uslHqJNGKING, Aug. %. -. up Il
n wv japanese columns attempting
u W outflank Chinese positions north
w. HesL OF the enemy-held Canton :
h sna rail junction of Hengyang
I've oeen halted, and to the south
otb na'ue was in progress with an
ess str Japanese column pushing
award ,n.S from the suburbs of cap
for eu Lelyang to prepare the way
~: d Drive down the railway, the
tonight. i'"''' "hi'o'i'eeo
don ne battles ragged in a heavy
o. "hpour, but despite this Chin.
Of a. ullt recaptured the small town
wy. 'uhgpo, 10 miles south of Heng-
irn ns' ABOUT midway between the
mrs esion and Leiyang, and recap
mand said. ls'
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Famed Poilus
Quickly Take
Big Seaport
8-DAY CAMPAIGN ENDS
American Forces Sweep
Inland 40 Miles
In Big Push

ROME, Aug. 23.-P)-Mar-
seille, Frances second city
and greatest seaport, fell to
the swift onslaught of French
infantry and armor today as
American forces swept 140
miles inland from the Medi-
terranean and captured Gre
noble to within less than 240
miles of a junction with Gen.
Eisenhower's legions below
liberated Paris.
Only eight days after the land
ings in southern France, the in
spired Poilus battered their way
into the heart of Marseille against
slight Nazi resistance and tonight
were cleaning out pockets of last
ditch defenders.
The unexpectedly easy capture
of the great port insures the Sew
enth army of Maj. Gen. Alexander
M. Patch an adequate flow of sup
plies and reinforcements for speedy
continuation of their thrust toward
northern France. Prior to the city S
fall, other French troops had cut
the last escape route for the Ger.
man garrison along the coast to
the west.
The encircled and doomed Nazi
force in Toulon. big naval base q
miles east of Marseille, still was
holding out tonight, but French
troops had fought their way within
a few hundred yards Of the docks
and the city's fall was expected
any hour.
Matching the French victory In
its spectacular quality was the
dash Of American forces into the
big industrial city of Grenoble-a
reckless drive that threatened to
bisect France and trap every Ger
man soldier in the southern and
western parts of the country.
AS the swift American column
of armor, self-propelled guns and
motorized infantry plunged almost
unopposed through the French Alps
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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Country First
Balkan State
To Quit Naziis
PROCLAMATION ISSUED
Tiny Kingdom Gets Jump
On Bulgaria In Move
To Gust Germans

LONDON, Thursday, Aug.
24.-(F-Romania announc-
ed last night that she was
switching from the Axis to
the Allied side in the war and
a subsequent Soviet commu-
nique reported that shooting
had broken out between re-
treating Romanian and Nazi
soldiers on the eastern front.
Accep4 ance of armistice terms
offered by the Soviet union. Great
Britain and the United States was
announced in proclamation
broadcast from Bucharest
The early morning Russian com.
munique, recorded by the Soviet
monitor from a Moscow broad
cast, told of clashes on Romanian
soil between the Romanians, order
ed by King Mihai to cease hostili-
ties against the Red Army, and
the Germans.
Romanian prisoners were quoted
as saying that the Germans were
firing on the Romanians and
blocking their withdrawal.
"A large number of Romanian
officers and men have thus been
killed" said the communique, in
armed clashes between the re-
treating Romanian detachments
+ and German frontier attachments
in several places" -
A Proclamation by young King
Mihai, read over the Bucharest
radio, said all hostilities against
the Red army as we'll as Ro-
mania's state of war with Britain
and America would cease rom
this moment"
Russian armies were stabbing
into Romania to within 1877 miles
of Bucharest and threatening the
Ploesti oil fields as the announce
ment went on the air.
Romania, the king said, will
fight "at the side of the Allied
army and with their help"
There was no immediate off
cial confirmation of the royal
proclamation by any of the three
Allied nations, but London show
ed no inclination to doubt the
broadcast-the first crack in Hit
ler's Balkan structure.
Prime Minister Churchill has
been in Italy for more tnan week
and presumably had hand in the
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
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Wester1, Railroads Sued
In Big Anti-7rus Case

Justice department complaint,
: the defendants are accused of
acting collusively to. maintain
non-ccmpetitive rates; prevent
ing Improvements of service
and facilities of western lines;
and with retarding and suppress
sing the development of motor
carriers and other competitive
transportation agencies.
Attorney General Francis
Biddle, who is completing a
tour of the west, declared in
statement that the agree
ments, combinations, conspir-
acies and activities of the kind
charged in the complaint vio-
late the Sherman act and are
not authorized by the Inter
state Commerce act or any
other act of Congress"
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BloodyBattle
Frees Capital.
From Tyrants
FIJI SCORE VICTORY
Patriots Fight To Death
To Rid City Of Light
From 0ppressors

LONDON, Thursday, Aug.
24,-(P)-Paris - freed yes
terday by it's own people -
was reported to have been
occupied early today by the
Second French Armored di-
vision and some American
units ordered into the city by
1t. Gen. Omar N. Bradley to
seal the patriots victory.
There still was no comment from
Supreme Allied Headquarters on
the liberation of the French capital
but from Paris, CHS Reporter
Charles Collingwood broadcast that
General Bradley decided to act
when an armistice negotiated by
the Germans with the French
Forces of the Interior expired yes
terday.
Associated Press Correspondent
Hal Boyle, with American armies
driving beyond Sens toward the
German border, pointed out the
American army could have occu-
pied Paris at will during the last
few days. But he said Paris was a
side issue and 1t. Gen. George S.
Patton's slashing spearheads had
more important task-chopping
10 pieces German forces.
Symbolically Brig. Gen. jacques
lie Clerc, one of Frances greatest
heroes of the war, headed the troops
entering Paris, Collingwood report
ed
Patriots liberated the capital
from four years of bondage by
beating down the Nazi garrison in
street fighting as bloody as any
the French revolution ever saw.
Immediate occupation had not
been in Allied plans. 1t was sup
posed to wait while the main mill
tary weight was hurled against Ev-
reux to pin down as much of the
herman Seventh army as possible
along the Seine northwest of the
capital
But the Germans were reported
using the armistice to withdraw
VContlnued on Page Two; Col. A.
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9TH Army Commander
Wounded In France

LONDON, Aug. %. - (P - Col.
Gen. Paul Hausser, commander Of
the German Seventh army, has
been wounded in Normandy, the
Berlin radio said tonight.
Hausser. under the overall com.
mand of Field Marshal Gen. Guen,
Their Won Kluge, led the army which
was battered heavily in the Fa-
laise pockets and now is falling
back upon the lower Seine, menac.
ed with new development.
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American Tank Units
$50 Miles From. Reich
Fresh Gains Ground Out
On All French Fronts
By Lightning War

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, Thursday, Aug. 24-P-
American armor hammered out
fresh gains south and southeast of
Paris today while to the northwest
of the capital-now fully in control
of French patriots-Americans and
Canadians clamped a tightening
stranglehold on remnants of the
German army still below the river
Seine.
Allied fighters and fighter bomb
ers harried the Germans frantic
efforts to withdraw across the
river by any possible means.
The latest advance south of Paris
saw armored reconnaissance units
drive more than IS miles east of
Sens while others passed through
Corbeil and Melun, and still others
gained positions between Orleans
and Sens.
Chief prize in the drive on the
Continued on Page Two; Col. g.
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Pennsylvania Mines
Seized By Government

SHENANDOAH, Pa, Aug. 23.-
R)-Government,, seizure of the
mines and other workings of the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron company was ordered today
by President Roosevelt in "a move
to break a strikesthat started June
29 and has made a 900 anthracite
miners idle. - se'22''.s1 ''e5e =
There was no official comment
Immediately from the miners, but
conversations with individuals in.
dictated ,there would be no imnledi-
ate back-to-Work moyem ent.
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COP Fails To Deny
Dewey Overseas Trip

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.--@-
Chairman Herbert Brownell, Jr..
of the. Republican national COM
mittee declined today to answer
directly a question whether Gov
Thomas E. Dewey would 60 over
seas or to army camps in this
country during the presidential
campaign.
He did say, however, that the
prospective soldier vote had been
taken into consideration by him
self and other Republican leaders
in reaching the conclusion that
Dewey would win the presidency
in November.