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Evening star., 1944-09-01
Experience Expected
10 Be Democrats
Campaign Theme
Trumon Emphasizes Time
Needed to Learn Job
In Missouri>Address
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LAMAR, Mo-, Sept. 1.-Senator
Harry S. Truman, Democrat, of
Missouri has summed up in one
sentence what may be the main
theme Of the Democratic presi-
Dental campaign.
There is no substitute for ex-
perience, which can be gained only
through years of application and
service he told an audience OF
$4,000 which jammed the town
square of Lamar, his birthplace
last night.
Senator Truman. informed off,
cially that the Democrats had nomi-
mated him for the vice presidency
in President Roosevelt's attempt to
win a fourth term, repeatedly
stressed the proven leadership" and
the proven experience and quail
fication" of Mr.. Roosevelt.
Although he never referred to
the Republican party or ticket by
name, he said, Il am confident that
the people of the United States .
will not choose for President, by
political chance, a man who lacks
experience And he added:
1T takes time for any one to
familiarize himself with a new Job
This Is particularly true of the
presidency of the United States"
This he-best-teach.
er speech, the first omcial Demo
cratic address of the campaign and
devoted almost exclusively to praise
Evening star., 1944-09-01
Pleasant Weather Forecast
For HOLIDAY Week End

Generally pleasant weather, with
warm afternoons and cool evenings
is forecast for the Labor Day week
end by the Weather Bureau, which
offers this note from Forecaster
Donald Cameron:
For those fortunate enough to
get away to the mountains. the
lakes, the resorts or the beaches, the
seasons closing week end will be
climaxed by bright full moon
Saturday and Sunday night, and
for those not so fortunate the week
end evenings may be enhanced by
the bright moonlight
Cloudy weather is predicted fol
today, with a possible thundershower
tonight and a warm and humid
night. The maximum temperature
forecast is 86, with a minimum OF
70 expected.
Evening star., 1944-09-01
Verdun Gives
Joyous Welcome
ToU. S. Troops
Petoin Still Revered
By Many at Scene Of
World War Defense
BY EDWARD D. BALL,

VERDUN, Aug. 81 Delayed -
The French citizens Of Verdun
flocked into the streets of their
immortal city today to give a
deliriouS welcome to 1t. Gen.
George S. Patton's American
troops.
Casualties were light, but the
enemy put up brisk fight for
awhile. A number of buildings were
hit and windows were shattered
Enemy guns fired from the fortress
studded hills surrounding the town,
but with each burst our divebombers
pounced on them.
One persistent battery kept lobbing
shells from the vicinity of a tower
ing monument which stands over
(See BALL. Page A-1O.)
Evening star., 1944-09-01
Nazis Fleeing
South France
AT Top Speed
Units Are Ordered
To Return to Reich
BY Own Resources
BY the Associated Press.


ROME, Sept. 1.-Sharp attacks
by American tanks and infantry
today crumbled Nazi rearguard
resistance in the Upper Rhone
Valley of Southern France to-
day and the Germans fed north
west at top speed with the pur-
suing Allies less than so miles
from Lyon.
Valence, 55 miles below Lyon, fell
at noon yesterday, 1t. Gen. Alex
ander M. Patchs headquarters said.
LIE Bourg du Pease, II miles to the
northwest, capitulated earlier to
Americans closing in from the east.
Apparently despairing Of ever get
ting their 10Th Army out of South
ern France as an intact fighting
unit, the Nazi command has ordered
its units Ito return to Germany by
their own resources" an official re-
port said. Such an order was given
by artillery personnel in tha Mines
areas, prisoners related.
Drive Toward Spain.
From Narbonne a French flying
column, in sweep around Southern
Frances Mediterranean coast, was
reported thrusting down to the
Spanish border after showing
through Montpelier Beziers and
Narbonne-60 miles from the Span
ish frontier-without meeting enemy
resistance
Other French units were well
beyond Ales. 38 miles west-north-
west of Avignon.
The 7th Army command declared
the situation remained unchanged"
on the Riviera, following Amer
lean occupation of Nice.
In the Alpine regions along the
French italian frontier farther
north. however, the Americans en-
tered the village of Condamine-
Chatelard, which the Germans had
burned in reprisal for Patriot ac-
tivities.
Contact Enemy Outposts.
From the devastated village the
Americans pushed along mountain
highways and paths and made con-
tact with enemy outposts Just
northwest of nearby Lagache Pass
on the Italian frontier, some 55
miles northwest of Nice
The British radio said Swiss
correspondents had reported that
American troops after the capture
Of Nice crossed the Italian border
and effected a junction with
Italian patriots" The BBC-Ger-
man language broadcast was
,See SOUTHERN FRANCE, A-3D
Evening star., 1944-09-01
Romantics Shift to Allied Side
Frees LOO American Flyers

of Ploesti Is months ago being con-
fined in q stockade near Brasov and
the remainder in q camp at Bucha-
rest.
Their treatment has been far from
severe, the airmen told me, and the
gates Of both prisons were thrown
open within matter Of minutes
after King Michael issued his afmis-
tice proclamation.
The flyers were particularly elated
over the German bombardment Of
the prison wing of the hospital
where q number of Americans had
been kept prior to August "a.
On that day they moved out and
German prisoners were moved In.
Only 4 few hours later Nazi dive
bombers came over. apparently sin
gled out the building ana plastered
1T with bombs.
Evening star., 1944-09-01
Bulgarian Government
Falls After Failure 10
Ease Way Out Of War
Allied Commission Drofts
Armistice Terms; Reds
Pressing Along Frontier
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, Sept. 1.-The Bull
garian government of Ivan Ba-
grianov fell today shortly after
its failure to win an easy way
out of the war by pleading neu-
trality, and amid indications of
far-reaching internal develop
ments within the Balkan king
dom.
simultaneously it was disclosed
that the European Advisory Com
mission had drafted armistice terms
for Bulgaria. demonstration OF
British-American-R Russian solidarity
on the terms which the Balkan
satellite L,ust meet to get out OF
the conflict. Russian armies were
pushing along the country's north
ern frontier. ready to send tank
columns coursing across her north
ern plains.
At the same time rumors spread
throughout Europe that Hungary
was trying to contact the Allies
on armistice terms.
Balkan Front Crumbling.
With Romania already out of the
Hitler lineup and negotiating in
Moscow for terms on which she
might join the Allies as a co-bel-
ligerent, Hitler's southeastern front
thus appeared to be falling apart in
three countries.
| Bagrianov read a proclamation in
which he said non-Bulgarian Ger
NAM troops in the kingdom were
ordered disarmed in keeping with
his governments policy of trying to
avoid war with Russia, the Berlin
radio reported. The proclamation
also said the government had or
dered the withdrawal of Bulgar oc-
cupation troops in Greece and Yugo-
slavia. process started several
days ago. The Bagrianov govern
ment will remain in Office until a
new cabinet is formed.
Berlin Immediately launched a
campaign of denials to contradict
ICoo nm CApTA po0n A2l
Evening star., 1944-09-01
BY the Associated Press.


MOSCOW, Sept. Red Army
flying columns. skirting the
southern shoulder of the Tran
sylvania Alps after marching
triumphantly through Bucha-
rest, headed today in the direc-
ton of Serbia's northeastern
mountains, where Marshal Tito's
partisans are battling the COM
mon enemy.
A junction between Soviet and
Yugoslav Partisan forces became q
prospect Of the near future as Gen.
Rodion Y. Malinovsky's armored
scouts approached within 40 miles
of the Yugoslav- -Romanian frontier
The German command was re-
ported trying to organize a new
defense line along the Olt River,
which runs within IS miles OF
Serbian territory.
A vital north.south railway paral-
lels the west bank of the Olt, con-
Meeting Sibiu-one of Transylvania' s
Evening star., 1944-09-01
9Th Army Smashes
Past Outer Defense
OF Nazi Gothic Line
Penetrotes 1000 Yords
Despite German Tanks;
Infantry Holds Position
BY the Associated Presa

ROME, Sept. Eighth Army
troops have broken through the
outer Gothic Line defense ir
Northern Italy to a depth of 1000
yards at one point, but are meet.
ing strong German resistance
north of the Foglia River, where
the NaZis have hurled in tanks
in repeated counterattacks, Al.
lied headquarters announced to-
day.
The 1,000-yard penetration was
made west of Borgo Santa Maria
where the strong point of Montec-
chic was captured. Tank supported
infantry followed through and es-
tablished themselves among the
NaZi defenses.
Capt. Ludwig Sertorious, Ger
man military commentator, said
in broadcast heard in New York
that the whole right wing of the
9Th British Army was attacking
between the Adriatic and the
main ridge of the Apennines in
serious attempt to force access
to the Pc Plain.')
In Pesaro steady fighting was re-
ported continuing between British
and Polish troops and the German
lst Parachute Division-their old
enemies of Casino.
Pesaro Report Premature.
dispatches from Rome yester-
day declaring that Polish troops
had captured Pesaro apparently
were PREMATURE
Pesaro is now divided between the
Germans and the 9Th Army, which
is established along the railway
line running through the town.
Monte Della Croce, described as
one of the key points of the Gothic
Line, was occupied Wednesday and
9th Army forward elements are
now fighting hand-to-hand on the
south slopes of Mount Calvo.
In Belevedere Fogliense, AZ miles
southwest of Montecchio, the Allies
penetrated the first line and pushed
on to within 1000 yards of Monte
Gridolf.
The Germans were described as
almost back on their main de-
fensive positions" in the Apennines
where close contact was being main
tanned
The communiQue said Significant
gains" were made in the Florence
area. Patrols which crossed the
Arno River northwest of Florence
yesterday failed to make contact
with the Germans. Vincigliato wa.
occupied.
Planes Support Adriatic Drive.
Artillery and patrol activity con.
tinued on the 5th Army front.
The Adriatic drive was supported
strongly by air power.
In some cases fighter-bombers hac
to drop their explosives only 1000
yards from Allied troops
The Navy announced that the
British destroyers Loyal and Undine
bombarded German gun positions
and transport north of Pesaro Au.
gust 30.
Evening star., 1944-09-01
| Allies Capture
| 7th Army Chief
| At Breakfast
,y the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SUPREME ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TERS, Sept. 1.-The capture of Gen.
Eberbach, who succeeded to the
command of the shattered German
7th Army when Col. Gen. Paul
Hausser was wounded, was an
nounced today by supreme head
quarters.
The Advancing Allied troops 50
took him by surprise that he was
caught at the breakfast table yes
terday.
It was not Immediately disclosed
where he was taken prisoner except
that it was on the 21st Army group
front where British and Canadians
are stabbing swiftly north from the
Seine to beyond the Somme.
Evening star., 1944-09-01
baruch Places
Must Label
On JobIess Aid
Senote ond House
Arrange to Adjourn
Until Tuesday
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Congress cleaned up odds and
ends today for a brief Labor
Day holiday, after clearing ma
jor issues of the summer session
into compromise-seeking con-
ference committees.
The House, in a burst of speed,
passed the war demobilization and
reconversion bill late yesterday by
a shouted vote and Immediately ap.
pointed conferees to meet with Sem
ators in an effort to find a common
ground between two diverse meas
ures
The bills twin, surplus property
disposal, Is being threshed out by
another joint committee.
Proposals Differ Widely.
The House reconversion bill sets
up machinery to unwind the Ma
tion's gigantic war effort, but it diff
fers widely from the Senate pro-
posal. The House knocked out Fed
eral plans to refrain war workers for
other jobs. return the migratory en-
ployes to their homes at Govern
ment expense and to put $500 900
Federal employees under unemploy-
ment compensation protection.
A small bloc in the House sought
through a substitute bill to have
these provisions revived, along with
guaranteed $25 a week in unem-
ployment compensation for 50
weeks, but was overridden by q
vote of 1873 to 81.
On one major point both branches
agree - unemployment compensa-
ton for war workers should remain
in the hands of the States.
Baruch Criticizes House Bill.
White House Adviser Bernard
Baruch, asserting in a abatement
that unemployment compensation is
must legislation" said the House
bill seems certainly inadequate"
The most important determining
factor" his statement declared, is
the cost of living as it varies in the
different States. The purchasing
power of unemployment compensa-
ton should be the primary concern.
1T would be obviously advantage
Gus to the whole economy to have
unemployment compensation cover
as many groups as equity would
permit. Legislation certainly should
guard against encouraging idleness
or causing hardships."
Senator George, Democrat, Of
Georgia, author of the Senate ver-
sion of the reconversion bill, said
of the Houses action:
II had hoped the House would
decide to cover Federal civilian en-
ployes under the unemployment
compensation program, at the State
level. I also had hoped the House
would restore the provision for con-
tributions to assist workers to re-
turn to their homes, or to the loca-
ton of other employment, in hard
ship cases.
George Regrets Omission.
Il regret that those two features
we're omitted My personal feeling
is that the House could have been
more liberal, and in conference !
hope we will be able to work some
thing out. 1t seems eminently fair
that Federal employees be on the
same basis as their neighbors, as
far as unemployment compensation
is concerned.
1T is true. of course, that most
war workers should have saved
enough to be able to take them
selves to . new location. or back
Evening star., 1944-09-01
Red Flying Columns Nearing
Junction With Tito's Forces
Sweep Around TronsyIvonio Alps
After Marching Through Bucharest

leading cities-with the Wallachian
Danube port OF Corabia, across the
stream from Bulgaria.
Malinovsky threatened to cut this
waterline at the southern entrance
to Turnu Pass. whose possession
would safeguard his right wing while
he drove across the Danube plain
to make contact with Tito.
The Soviet leaders forces, which
paraded past the rubbie of German
bombed buildings in Bucharest yes
treday, drove rapidly westward along
the BuchareSt-Craiova railway.
Front dispatches said the Ger
mans were still in disorderly flight
up the Danube Valley.
Bucharest's war-weary populace
saw Malinovsky bare the mechani-
cal power of his army. Huge self
propelled guns, squat and thickly
armored tanks and a seemingly
endless stream of motorized infan-
try crossed the city from end to end.
A Red Star correspondent. Alex
See RTISSIA pace 40
Evening star., 1944-09-01
Few Over 26 Face Draft
This Year, Kees|ing Says
~ tho Associotadp proSe

Ey the Associated Press.
Selective service reported to Con-
gress today that the armed forces
estimated at an overall HAT 900
can be kept at full strength with
out changing current draft policies
barring Unforeseen military reverses
Col. Francis v. Keesling, jr., in
formed the Senate and House Mill.
tary Affairs Committees this means
that if future induction calls re-
main constant, few men over 26 viii
be drafted during the remainder OF
this year.
During July 83 per cent of the
men indicted were between 18 anc
26, he said.
Evening star., 1944-09-01
YANK DRIVE MAY REACH REICH BY TONIGHT
French Situation
Hopeless Now,
Germans Say
y the Associated Press.

LONDON, Sept. Ia German
military spokesman described the
German situation today in Northern
France as hopeless for the time be-
ing"
Speaking over the Berlin radio Of
two big Allied bulges in the Amiens
and Meuse areas. the spokesman
compared the plight of the Germans
now with their hopeless" situation
four weeks ago which he said had
been mastered"
Earlier. another Berlin spokesman
analyzing developments said the
German high command refused to
accept the Allied challenge to fight a
decisive battle in France"
The German armies, he said, are
fighting "a delaying action within
the framework of mobile warfare" +"
Evening star., 1944-09-01

Associated Press War Correspond
ent Edward D. Ball, writing from
Verdun, said the Americans plunged
on beyond the Meuse in close pur-
suit of the Germans. who put ur
only a brief fight for the city.
Another column. advancing from
St. Dizier, captured Commercy.
Everywhere the Germans were ir
full fight for the dubious safety Of
their homeland fort lines.
The Battle of France is all bu
over" wrote Associated Press Cor.
respondent William Smith White
What is developing now is the be-
ginning of the Battle for Germany.
On the southernmost American
flank a 20-mile advance east o.
Troyes carried to Bar-sur-Seint
within 160 miles of linkup with
spearheads of the 7th Army driving
up through Southern France.
Supreme headquarters had no late
information on battlefront posi-
tions in the Sedan gap, but the Bel
gan government in London ordered
it's red, yellow and black national
flags raised at its headquarters this
morning in salute to arrival of the
Americans at the frontier and tht
bright promise of liberation.
Patrols Near Compiegne.
In a fanout north of Paris, the
left flank of the American 1St Army
shot patrols within mile of Com.
piegne, 43 miles from the French
capital. These reconnaissance forces
presumably went along the mair
road by-passing the historic forest
where the armistices of 1918 ano
1910 were signed
Other forces branched out te
Bresle and Fouquerolles. just east Of
Beauvais and occupied Creil, Creepy
Bethancourt and Harmont.
The British were pouring troop
and armor across the Somm
bridgehead on both sides of Amien
into the back door to the Pas d.
Calais coast, center of the flying
bomb bases and reported site o
some great concrete works of tn,
threatened giant va rocket bomb.
Evening star., 1944-09-01
BY JOSEPH MORTON,


BUCHAREST, Aug. 81 Delayed
Russian troops arriving in this
Romanian capital today found 1,100
American airmen here-prisoners of
war who had been liberated the
day King Michael proclaimed an
armistice and who have since been
given the run of the city.
I stood with q group of these
plucky Yanks and watched q Soviet
motorized column move through the
streets.
Among the liberated Allied airmen
in the city, I was told, are about
AZ Britons.
The Americans had been confined
in two camps-those who went down
during the low-level bosnbardment
Evening star., 1944-09-01
B BuIIetin
Borborism Dying Out,
Pope Asserts on Radio

LONDON P.-Pope Plus
XII, speaking over the Vati-
can City radio, said tonight
that ION this fifth anniver-
sary of the war the spirit of
injustice is dying out" The
p0ntiff declared that this
barbaric world is going to end,
and a new world of Christian
ity Is to be created"
Evening star., 1944-09-01

"laStminute dispatch"
OF Dleppe had been captured without opposition.
SUPREME ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Sept.
IAN American avalanche of men and tanks passed
over the historic fortress cities of Sedan and Verdun
rolling up to or across the Belgian border and threat
enlng to spill over into Germany before nightfa
Allied armies drove in mighty pursuit all along
2Ome front from the sea to the border regions Of
Germany.
NBC recorded BIC broadcast saying reports
from advanced correspondents in the Verdun sector
place American forces only Is miles from the German
border)
Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomerv', British
virtually closed off 80 miles the rocket coast with bolt
of armor.
The Germans admitted the fight for Northern France
was as good
Channel Coast All But Cut OFF.
The British, slashng away at rate of nearly 80 miles
day, stabbed to Longpre only 10 miles from Abbevie
where the Germans reached the Channel 194O and all
out cut of all the Channel coast southwark LIE Havre
The were within e5 miles of Calais the point from,
which German have shed narovest part
OF the C Channel ilt for more than four years.
2-mlle north of Amiens British column
to Hebuterme u miles from the fields
While the British Dunkerque, Canadians to the
drove to within miles of Dieppe where 5000
Sun farther south waves of American Maauders pounded
os ana gun positions at the beeged of Brest Brittany
fortress naval base.
Nazis Off, Berlin Admits.
While Marshal Montgomery threatened close fist on
Calais and Dunkerque this trap area
Berlin oroadcas reported swervng six
armored motorized divisions Seine
and Somme reaching the
OF Rethel-and Is miles from the Belgian border.
But it to the the invasion
route the Sedan and then the
Magnot Lnethat the American directed
1t Gen George S. Pattons advance
IS miles in less than "a hours reach Veduna pace
oca headquarters communicates tagging hours behind
But at that gait he could catch few
fell yesterday
On 70me front Americans stabbed Or
Belgian border the vicinity historic
40 miles of the frontier Verdun eastward
through Commercy within
miles of Germanys
Yanks Cross ArgOnne Forest
They had crossed the famous Argonne Forest and
the MeuSe where Gen Pershg doughboys fought for bitter
weeks in 1918 driven through of the most
portant works of the old French Maginot Line
Verdu only 80 miles from the Duchy of Luxembourg and
As miles from the rail center of Metz.
Commercy IA miles from Toul 26 miles Nancy
important cities the border region and only 10 miles
south Of St Mihe
Courtney Hodges American 1st Army the
left and Gen Pattons forces the right the Americans
driving spike into the vital where 1918
Pershngs penetration lines of out of Northern
France and Belgium forced the November armsce
dispatches last night told of the drive the
Charevie and the outskirts of
Sedan itself Sedan miles from the Belgian border
Evening star., 1944-09-01
SibeIius Works DESTROYED

STOCKHOLM, Sept. (P).-All the
manuscripts of Composer Jean
Sibelius were destroyed in a bomb
ing of Leipzig, the Dagens Nyheter
reported from Helsinki today. The
works were kept at Leipzig music
publishing house.
Evening star., 1944-09-01
Back From the Wars
BIGGEST Air Bottle

Score for one day: 402 jap
planes down al of ours.
American carrier-based pilots
who downed these planes and
won this amazing victory are
home again. Read their ex-
traordinary stories, as told to
George Kennedy, Star staff
writer, in the feature section
VI
@)e Sunday Staf
Evening star., 1944-09-01
Allies Pursue Nozis
On 27O-Mi|e Front:
Pass Sedan, Verdun
80 Miles of Rocket Coast
Is Virtually Cut Off
BY British Advance
BULLETIN.

LONDON tP.-The United Nations radio Algiers quoted
ast minute dispatch" tonight saying Channel mort
OF Deppe had been captured without opposition.
Evening star., 1944-09-01

(See RUSSIA, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1944-09-01

(See TRUMAN. Page A-4)
Evening star., 1944-09-01

(See CONGRESS. Page A-4.
Evening star., 1944-09-01

tSee BULGARIA, Page A-3D
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-12-28

ment in violation of the law
whether they be local, state, or
federal officials. Every enumer-
ator is a sworn government en-
ployee.
Now we have come to the place
where some of our people will be
chosen to take this national in
ventory. If some of you should
want to earn good income dur
ing the slack time Of year and
also it would be a diversion from
your every day work on the farm,
come in or write into our office
at 300 Old Court House in Yakima
in care of the Bureau of the Cen
sus, or write me personally and
ask for an application. We will
soon have a three-day training
school for enumerators. They
will be paid for this training and
after January 9th, they will be
paid for each enumeration, which
is each farm. Many who took the
census before are reapplying for
this work.