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Evening star., 1944-08-31
Patterson Is Confident
Supply Trouble Won't
Slow Gains in France
By NELSON M. SHEPARD,

Acting Secretary of War Robert
P. Patterson declared today he was
confident that the Allied advances
in France won't be held up for want
Of fighting supplies" but he warned
that American production of certain
important war items must be
speeded up and maintained.
Thus far, he told a press confer
ence, the supplies have kept pace
with the advance of our troops de-
spite production deficiencies in some
OF the major supplies demanded by
American leaders in the field
Our troops will be kept supplied
and maintained despite these diff
culties," Mr.. Patterson said.
Pipelines in Use in France.
Oil now is being pumped through
pipelines in Northern France to
feed the tanks and vehicles of 1t.
Gen. George S. Patton's rapidly
rolling Sd Army, he disclosed. Just
back from a three-week inspection
trip of the European front, Mr.. Pat
terson said that pipelines were being
laid at the rate of 10 miles a day.
He warned the press conference,
however. that If production sched-
ules are not met. overseas time
tables will be delayed.
Mr.. Patterson said that in his
radio speech last night, when he said
that Germany's oil supply has been
reduced to 20 per cent of total pro-
duction he was referring to both
natural and synthetic OIL Germany
still Is getting a little oil from Po-
land. Hungary and Austria, but he
added that there is almost no oil
production in Germany itself.
His estimate of German oil sup
plies included the amount formerly
obtained from the Ploesti fields in
Romania, now shut of by the Red
Army.
Tonnage Landed at Cherbourg.
Mr.. Patterson said the Allies are
landing great amount of tonnage
in Cherbourg and are using other
French ports as we'll. both large
and small He would not designate
these ports for security reasons.
Mr.. Patterson said the French
railroad system when fully repaired
will be available for both military
and civilian supplies.
American engineers have pre-
fabricated bridges with which they
are restoring railroad bridges de-
stroyed by the enemy. While a
great deal of French rolling stock
has been destroyed or rendered use
less, the rail system as a whole is
not badly damaged, he said.
Complete and final victory over
Germany is not far of, Mr.. Patter-
son said in his radio talk last night
Mr.. Patterson said that among
the troops engaged in the battle
"the sense Of success is unmistak-
able, in the bearing of the soldiers
and everything they do"
Complete and final victory over
the Germans is not far off, VIC
tory that will be won not by our
men alone but by the combined
power of the armies of the United
Nations he said.
Evening star., 1944-08-31
|De GauIIe Will Head
Temporary Regime 10
Guide French Nation
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS. Aug. 31.-Tne French Ma
tional Committee Of Liberation has
announced formation Of a provi-
sional French government.
1t is headed by Gen. Charles de
Gaulle as president of council and
includes some Communists and men
whose identity is cloaked in assumed
war names.
The organization is expected to re-
main substantially unchanged until
war prisoners and Frenchmen de-
ported by the Nazis to work inside
Germany can be returned to vote in
a general election.
Guns were heard in the city for
hours last night and fighting was
reported around Champigny, less
than 8 miles from the capitals CEN
ter, possibly against small German
resistance.
More C0llabOratiOnists Seized.
Arrest of persons accused of COL
laborating with the Germans con-
tinued. They included Nine. IT,
tayna, novelist, and Francois Lehi-
deux, former Vichy automobile in
dustry director.
Principal posts in the new gov
ernment included:
Andre lie Troquer, former Socialist
party deputy, commissioner of lib
Grated territories; Quartus Cerat
former Senator Henri Queuille anc
former Deputy Francois Billoux
commissioners for territory still oc.
cupied by German forces; former
Deputy Andre Phillip, liaison be-
tween the provisional government
and the temporary Assembly, and
Gen. Georges Catroux, co-ordinator
of Moslem questions.
Ceret is the assumed name Of q
former attorney general Of the
supreme courts who has been Gen
de Gaulles Minister at Large, doing
liaison with the 40-odd under
ground groups.
Also announced were the names
Of 13 commissioners, rank equiva-
lent to cabinet minister A former
Communist deputy, whose name
was given incompletely as Diethem
was named commissioner for war.
radio France in Algiers said
last night that members Of the
French Committee of National
Liberation and the Consultative
Assembly had left Algiers for
PariS.)
The provisional government was
received with varying degrees of
enthusiasm by the newly revived
Paris press and there were indica-
tions of an early revival OF tradi-
tional French political dissension.
Evening star., 1944-08-31
LIST Of War Criminals
Growing Impressive,
Commission Reports

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 3l-The list of
war criminals being compiled by the
United Nations War Crimes Com
mission already has reached an i'm
pressive length, Chairman Sir Cecil
Hurst told press conference yes
terday, but their identity and num-
Der cannot be disclosed now.
The commissions function, he ex-
planned. Is limited to investigation
and preparations for punishment of
actual war crimes-violations OF the
laws of war by belligerents-such as
massacres of prisoners, shooting
hostages and other atrocities.
He stressed that the competence
of the commission docs not cover
treasonable behavior of collabora- a.
tors with the Axis-the so-called
Quislings.' Such persons will be
dealt with by the nations concerned.
Sir Cecil suggests that such cases
Evening star., 1944-08-31
Southern France
Continued From First Page

cts south of the junction of the
Rhone and Drome Rivers.
Equally impressive were the ma
terlal losses of the enemy.
In pocket slightly more than II
miles south of Livron losses intlict-
ed by our ground forces include
1000 motor vehicles, 1000 horses.
II flve-millimeter antitank guns, II
seventy-seven-millimeter guns. 3
batteries of field artillery pieces, 6
railroad guns, 40 twenty -millimeter
antiaircraft weapons 8 selfpropelled
guns and trailer with printing
press" 1t. Gen. Alexander NJ.
Patch's headquarters said.
Additional hundreds of vehicles
and guns knocked out by Allied
planes Uttered the roads throughout
the valley and 200 enemy dead were
found in the same area.
Yesterday morning the Germans
locked in sharp battle with an
American column in the vicinity of
Livron on the north banks of the
Drome River. IL miles south of
Valence. In the afternoon the enc
my broke of contact and fed north
when the avenue of escape was
threatened by another Allied column
which punched into Chabeuil, 6
miles southeast of Valence.
Heavy Cost Pointed Out.
by accepting heavy losses of the
last several days a substantial por-
ton of the enemy personnel has
succeeded in reaching the Lyon
area" an official headquarters state
ment conceded.
"On August 80 from the vicinity of
Livron to Lyon the Germans are
fighting where they are forced to,
and are delaying and blocking at a
heavy cost in men and equipment" ="
During the course of one of the
most violent Nazi rearguard actions
in the Montelimar area, the Ger
mans drove Gen. Patchs doughboys
out of the occupied village of Clary,
5 miles northeast of Montelimar,
Monday night. The Americans re-
took it the following day, but against
light opposition.
Farther north in the Alps of the
Franco-Italian frontier south of
Switzerland enemy forces have
been showing signs of nervousness
and have been moving out of from
tier passes, particularly the Larche
and Mount Genevre Passes, to try to
contact our forward clements" an
official report said.
It was one Of these thrusts In
Evening star., 1944-08-31
|Goebbe|s Tells Nazis
Not 10 Count Yet on
New Secret Weapons
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Aug. 31.-The German
people, fed on propaganda that new
secret weapons would turn the tide
of battle swirling ever closer to the
Reich. were told today that it woulG
be very foolish" to expect even
these to change the course of the
war Immediately.
Paul GoebbelS urged patience in
an article in his newspaper, Das
Reich, which was broadcast to the
home front and the armed forces.
Goebbels' article declared "ou1
war morale at present is far ahead
OF our war potential" and warned
that the new weapons could not be
used extensively in all fields until
the present Allied technical mate
rial superiority is overcome.
Well Informed on War.
An analysis of Nazi high com
mand communicates indicates the
German people are being kept in
formed of Allied advances in the
east and west, apparently as a
means of rallying them in a maxi
mum effort for defense of the home
land
The high command acknowledges
the Allied gains, then Nazi propa- :
gandlsts stress the need for harder
work in the factories, from which
they promise will come secret weap-
ons that will mean a German VIC
tory.
Frequently the German communi-
ques are ahead of Allied reports. AL
most invariably the eastern front re-
treats are announced before the
Russians claim advances.
When 1t. Gen. Kurt Dittmar.
German military analyst, said that
the gravity of the German situation
In the west could not be disguised,
he slipped in the soothing assertion
that the Nazis are trading space for
time-time to bridge the gap caused
by shortcomings and weaknesses in
the military field.
Stress Allied Air Supremacy.
Allied superiority. especially in the
air, is stressed constantly as the
main reason for the Germans un-
doing.
Gen. Dittmar confessed the last
two months had cost Germany
spoils in the east and west which
took years to gain. But he offered
the Germans hope that a tooth
and CLAW FIGHT might rnoke +ha
Allies stop to consider If their
sacrifices are worth the victories
achieved.
Through all this "unvarnished
truth" as Gen. Dittmar calls it,
Propaganda Minister Goebbels drums
his desperation theme-it is now a
question of either self-preservation
or annihilation for the German
people.
Evening star., 1944-08-31
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Evening star., 1944-08-31
Casualties
Continued From First Page.)

scale. In pointing out the over
all increase of Army casualties re-
ported since last Thursday, he said
they largely reflect the period of
the heaviest fighting in. Northern
France during the end of July"
Army losses of personnel through
combat, discharges and other causes
totaled l,279,0O0 from the start of
the war through June 30, the War
Department announced last night.
They include $1,000 officers and
1,226.000 enlisted personnel. Total
Army strength today is approx
mately 100000.
Honorable discharges for various
reasons led with $4,000 officers and
950,000 enlisted personnel, total of
967 900. Battle deaths as we'll as
noncombat deaths in the Army ac-
counted for 74,0OO, including 1900
officers and $4,000 enlisted personnel.
Evening star., 1944-08-31
Northern France
Continued From First Page }

mans of balance and hastened the
day of their final collapse.
About 200 enemy vehicles caught
on road racing northeast of Amiens
in todays clearing weather were
wiped out, the RAF reported.
Yanks Drive Past Laon.
1t. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges
American 1st Army, shifted east
ward several days ago. drove 2la
miles northeast of Laon in a swift
dash toward the Belgian frontier.
From Paris to the sea, American,
British and Canadian bridgeheads
over the Seine were blended into
a single attack which cut the in
land road from Dieppe and stabbed
north Of the Seine to Amiens.
The British and Canadians were
veering directly toward the rocket
bomb coast.
In the center to the east Gen.
Hodges forces drove to Senlis, %
miles north Of Paris. and neared
Creepy, IS miles farther to the North
east. These elements were closing
on Compiegne
1t. Gen. George S. Patton's forces,
after capturing the cathedral city
OF Reims 80 miles northeast of Paris
drove on 10 miles north of the city.
Other forces which crossed the
Vesle River strcde forward south
east OF Reims. The Reims Cathedral
was undamaged.
Evening star., 1944-08-31
Injured U. S. War Writer
Is Captured by Germuns

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 3l.-The Berlin
radio declared today that an in.
jured American war correspondent
from New York had been captured
by German troops during fighting
in small town on the Marne, but
did not identify him.
when German sappers attacked
an American column with mine ex-
plosive charges and hand grenades
fully laden car blew up in the
midst OF the column" said the
broadcast. "A correspondent from
New York was rescued by German
Red Cross personnel from his burn.
ing vehicle. He Is suffering from
numerous burns"
Evening star., 1944-08-31
Seattle to Honor
Youth Killed
In Action at IS
By the Associated Press.

By tne ASt0CitLeU Ft6B1.
SEATTLE, Aug. 81. - William
Westlake, then 13, was reprimanded
two years ago for scribbling his
name at the base of the Victory
Square pylon which bears The names
OF Seattle's honored World War
dead.
Some day my name might really
be up there" he replied.
His name is among I'll to be
placed on the pylon in a memorial
service. His mother, Mrs. Beatrice
Atwell, received word yesterday that
the l5-year-old boy, big for his
age, was killed in the Pacific. He
enlisted in the marines when he
was IA.
Evening star., 1944-08-31
Belgium Braces Self
As New Battlefield
For Allies and Nazis
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, Aug. 81. - Belgium
braced herself today for the ordeal
Of again becoming a battlefield,
and the country's tightly knit un-
derground, now concentrating on
sabotage, awaited orders from Gen.
Eisenhower for a general uprising
as American troops neared the
border.
A spokesman for Prime Minister
Hubert Pierlot's exiled government
in London said Nazi attempts to
exploit British-American bombing
as q propaganda weapon to ALLEVIATE
his countrymen against the Allies
had failed, and that 95 per cent of
Belgians are supporting the Allied
cause.
The Belgian underground fighters
are perhaps even better organized
than those in France because of
Belgium's thickly populated areas.
They have stolen arms and vehicles
from the Germans and have become
a guerrilla outfit.
Two Raid Depots Destroyed.
The extent of the activity was
demonstrated by an underground
report that two nights Of sabotage
recently resulted in the destruction
of two railroad depots, % locomo-
tives and scores of cars.
The size of the resistance move
ment is uncertain, but its protential
strength obviously has been reduced
by Hitler's action in deporting ap-
proximately 100000 workers-almost
the size of the Belgian Army before
the Nazi invasion-to Germany.
On top of this Government sources
say another 100000 Belgians are i'm
prisoned or are in concentration
camps, while $4,000 are held as pris-
oners of war and approximately
$500 have been hanged or shot.
Most of these were from the age
brackets which would make the
best resistance fighters. But despite
this the Patriot force has developed
during four years of occupation to
a point where collaborators and
their German masters have been
driven to stringent measures SINH
lar to those taken in France.
Nazis Call Them "Outlaws."
The Germans have labeled the
Belgian guerrillas as outlaws, say
ing they will be treated as "treach-
erous murderers."
Meanwhile, Leon de Grelle, one
OF the country's chief collaborators
and founder of the ReXist party,
has organized the Rexists along the
lines of Joseph Darnand's Vichy
militia into big spy organization,
one group of which wears the Nazi
uniform and guards German in
stallations.
Sabotage has mounted steadily
since D-day, probably aided by spe-
cially trained Allied troops-includ-
ing Belgians-parachuted into the
country to coordinate work with
the liberating army.
Meanwhile, the Belgian Army un-
der Gen. Chevalier van Strijdonack
de Burkee, which was trained and
equipped in Britain, Is advancing
with the Allied armies in France
or 1t probably is being used in the
drive toward Belgium because of it's
knowledge of the terrain.
The size of the army cannot be
disclosed, but it has been built up
gradually from men who escaped
the country since 1910, when Bel
gium capitulated after desperate at
tempts to bar the German advance.
Evening star., 1944-08-31
Army Officer Reindicted
In Fraud Conspiracy
By the Associated Fress.

BY the Associated fTeSS.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31.-Col
Joseph J. Canella, formerly of Bur
lington, Iowa. and quartermastel
at the Santa Ana, Calf, Army Ali
Base, has been reindicted oy Fed
eral grand jury. He was charged
with conspiracy to defraud the Gov
ernment through violation of reg.
ulations governing purchase anc
dispensing of dairy supplies.
Raymond w. Wykoff, Kenneth w
Ranney and Harry E. McCormac
Santa Ana dairy officials, were in
dicted with him.
Earlier indictments against the
four were dismissed July II because
their language was too vague te
constitute a cause of action.
Evening star., 1944-08-31

as Hitler, II he is captured. might
be dealt with through direct deci-
sion Of the Allied governments, as
was done with Napoleon.
Asked II the soldiers defense, II
only obeyed orders" would likel. be
accepted, Sir Cecil termed that 4
delicate question which courts might
decide on the merits Of each case.
The Soviet, Sir Cecil said, is not
at present collaborating In the COM
missions work, but rs dealing with
its war criminals in its own way"
Evening star., 1944-08-31

force that compelled the small
American garrison to withdraw into
the outskirts of Briancon, 5 miles
from the border.
Swift French assault forces
punching up the west side of the
Rhone River Valley today were re-
ported to have made contact with
enemy rearguards in the vicinity OF
Bourg- ST. .-Andeol, IA miles north of
Bagnols, their farthest point of ad-
vance the preceding day.
Evening star., 1944-08-31
Heads Nozis Focinq Reds

STOCKHOLM, Aug. 3l.-The
newspaper Dagens Nyheter report
ed In a Berlin dispatch last night
that Col. Gen. Ferdinand Schooner
had been appointed commander in
chief Of German armies on the
northern sector OF the Russian
front.
Evening star., 1944-08-31
Moscow Reports Doriot
Hos Arrived in Berlin

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 81. - Jacques
Doriot, collaborationist leader of
the French Popular party, has ar
rived in Berlin, the Moscow radio
said today, and has been given an
Important post in connection with
the employment of war prisoners
and foreign workers.
The broadcast was recorded by
the Soviet monitor.
Evening star., 1944-08-31

Goebbels called our Flying For.
tresses Flying Coffins." We meet
more Of them over Germany. Let,
all back the attack. Buy more Wal
Bonds.
Evening star., 1944-08-31
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-15
OBITUARY

EDWARDS-Mrs. Helen Edwards, wife of Prank Edwards, l57 Ball Farm road, Oakville. died at her home last night after a long illness.
 She was born tn Ireland. the daughter of the late Eugene and Mary tMurray) Egan and had re- sided in Oakyille for the past l6 years. She was communicant Of St. Mary Magdalen church and a member of the Ladies Aid society Of the parish.
 Besides her husband she is sur. vtyed by a son, Eugene; two daugh- ters, Miss Frances, Oakyille. and Mrs. Vincent Muliigan of ToFring- ton; two grandchildren, Barbara and Mary Mulligan Of ToTringt0n; and several nieces and nephews.
 The funeral will be held from the residence. l57 Ball Farm road. Thursday at B:l5 q. m. to St. Mary Magdalen church where sole einn high Mass will be celebrated at 2. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery. Friends may call at the residence after 2 D. m. today. ORUFvA-Mrs. Anna (JOhnsonl Drufya, widow Of Axel Drufya, 25 Wheeler street, died early this morning at Waterbury hospital. She was born April 2, 1852. in Sweden.
 Surviving are one son, Agel c. Drufva, Waterbury; three daugh. terg, Mrs. Henry Henricksen. Mrs. Agnes Drufya, both of Waterville. and Mrs. Esther Glsh, Bridgeport; five grandchildren; and three great grandchildren.
 Mrs, DTuyfa was . member of the Gospel hall, Waterville.
 Funeral services will be held Fri. day morning at II o'clock ct the Alders0n funeral home, 70 Central avenue. Burial viii be in Riverside cemetery, Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday from 3 to 5 and [ to 2 ?. m.