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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-03
American Columns Roll Into Belgium
As<1thers Move Nearer Reich Border;
inns Quitting; Reds Reach Bulgaria
Gives Up Neutrality
Dream, To Seek Definite Peace

LONDON, Sept. 2. - Up -
Amid indications that the Ger
man armies have begun a mass
flight out of the Balkans, Bull
gacia today gave up her brief
dreams of edging out of the
war through a neutrality"
back door and resumed her eff
forts to make a definite peace
with Britain and the United
States.
American heavy bombers
from Italy were busy pound
ing rail communications in Yu-
goslavia while fighters strafed
Nazi transport that damned
the highways and railroads be-
tween Belgrade and Mis-.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-03
THROW GERMANS
ACROSS DANUBE
Enemy and Romanians
Lose 418,600 Men Be-
tween Aug. 20-31
By w. w. HERCHER

LONDON, Sunday, Sept. 8.
-<P)-The Red army hurled
the Germans across the Dan
ube river on a 65-mile front
southeast of Bucharest yes
terday and reached the Bull
garian frontier on a winding
150-mile front extending in
land from the Black Sea coast
to the big river port of Giur-
giu, Moscow announced last
night.
In Balkan disaster SURPRISING
that suffered by the Axis at Sta
lingrad, the Germans and former
pro-Axis Romanions lost '418,60O
killed or captured between Aug. 20
and Aug. 81, special Moscow COM
munique announced. OF those cap
tured in that period, 97,100 were
Germans.
The Romanian campaign casual
ties brought to 1,200,486 the mum
Der of Axis troops killed or cap
tured in the overall summer cam
paign begun in the east on June
%. on the basis Of Moscow AM
nouncements.
In Critical Position
With Bulgaria and Hungary both
in critical position because of
Romania's capitalization and declar-
alton of war against Germany,
Budapest reported that pro-Allied
Romanian troops had smashed into
Hungarian annexed Pennsylvania
at point less than $50 miles from
prewar Hungary.
Fighting is going on in the area
nor h W e t of Marosvasarhely
(Targu-Mures), the Hungarian COM
munque said, and also near Stan
tul-Gheorghe, above Brasov, and
to the east in the area of the
Ghymes and Oituz passes.
Budapest admitted penetration
of several miles into Hungarian
held Pennsylvania, and said the
Romanians were working with the
Russians in the swift effort to
overrun the big plateau, beyond
the Carpathian mountains and far
above the Danubain plains.
Report BY Armies
Moscow said the second Ukraine
army had killed 100000 enemy
troops and captured 108,400. and
the Third army had killed 10000
and captured 100000.
In addition, great stores of booty
were captured or destroyed, in
Guiding 351 aircraft. 956 tanks and
self-propelled guns, 5,576 guns of
various caliber, 1856 mortars. 49,
los machineguns, 46, $40 trucks, 49,
427 carts carrying supplies, 3d.
AT horses, 70 locomotives. 6,493
freight cars, % merchant ships and
% small naval craft and other
vessels.
Gas a sum total of IL days often
sive operations. the grouping of
the German and Romanian troops
in the south has been routed, :"
the announcement said. The Mol
davian U.S,S.R: and the Ismail re-
gion of the Ukraine have been
completely liberated and Romania
has withdraw from the war and
from the alliance with Hitler Ger
many"
Gen. Rodion Y. Malinovsky' sec
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and summon them as Churchill
did to fight in the hills"
There was no advance notifica.
ton by Nazi press or radio ser.
wees that Hitler would speak, but
for security reasons there has not
been any for any of his recent
talks.
When he last spoke over thu
radio dramatically in the early
morning Of July 81 after the al
legged attempt on his life the onIv
ADVANCE notice was "Achtung.
achtung. the fuehrer will speak in
few minutes" Several times hia
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ago and then declared war on
Germany, waited in Moscow to
sign formal armistice terms
with Russia.
The delegation was headed
by Lucretiu Pateascanu, COM
munist who is minister of state
in the new Romanian govern
ment. Bucharest's banners of
welcome to the Red army bore
the slogan, ''long live Stain"
Formal capitulation of Bull
garia, which tried vainly to
dive into a neutrality" fox
hole when the Romanian bomb
shell burst, was held up tenn
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-03
GERMANS AGREE
TO WITHDRAWAL
Soviet Leaders Have Not
Demanded Uncondi-
tional Surrender
BY RICHARD KASISCHKE

LONDON, Sunday, Sept. 8.
is getting out
of the war and the Germans
have agreed to withdraw
from the country, Premier
Hantti Hackzell announced
last night.
eve do not know what
terms the. Soviets will i'm
pose, but they have not de-
unconditional surren-
der" he said in disclosing
that Russia already has been
asked to grant an armistice.
Later a Helsinki dispatch which
passed through the stringent Fin
nish censorship to Stockholm SAID
Finland broke completely with
Nazi Germany tonight as the first
step toward withdrawal from the
disastrous war with Russia, amid
indications that seven or so Ger
man divisions would quit northern
Finland immediately"
Accepts Terms
Because Finland has chance to
get out of the war without uncon-
ditional surrender she has accept
ed Russian terms and informed
Germany that the latter must with
draw her troops within IA days, :"
the premier declared.
Finland, he related, established
contact with Russia Aug. Is in
Stockholm and on Aug. 20 she OBJ
tanned the Russian conditions for
receiving a Finnish armistice dele.
cation at Moscow.
Terms were submitted Gin the
name of Britain and the Soviet with
the approval of the United States"
Hackzell said.
In addition to withdrawal of the
Germans, the Russians demanded
a diplomatic break with Berlin.
The Finnish parliament which
met twice today in secret session
to approve the government pro-
posals decided to appeal to Ger
r1any to do this (evacuate) and
hoped Germany will accept the
conditions because it will really be
an advantage to themselves"
Hackzen continued.
He expressed the hope Finland
and Germany would continue on
a footing Of ancient brothers-in-
arms"
Better Conditions
Hackzell described the conditions
as "better than those presented be-
fore because they would not mean
unconditional surrender and gave
an opportunity which could not be
passed"
Developments in the Battles and
in Finland itself when the Rus
slams drove to Viipuri he knew
as 'impelling reasons" for MAX
ing peace. Former President Risto
Ryti's signature pact with Joachim
Won Ribbentrop he declared illegal
because it did not have parlia-
approval and therefore the
Mannerheim government was not
bound.
Germany was so informed, he
continued, adding that Germany
has not given the help it promised
under the Ryti pact) and the
troops which arrived already are
ins the process of being with
drawn"
The Germans still have about
seven divisions in the far north
under General Rendulic, who sue
ceeded the late Co. Gen. Eduard
Dietl. They primarily are guard
ing the Petsamo nickel mines.
Hackzell closed his speech with
a reference to "our great neigh
Dor in the east" and expressed a
hope Russia will believe "our peo-
pie are filled with an honest Will
for peace"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-03
WIN VITAL ROAD i
HUB OF JOURNAL
Yanks Knife Through Lor'
raine To Within II
Miles OF Frontier
By AUSTIN BEALMEAR

SUPREME HEAD(aOAN
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI>
TIONARY FORCE, Sunday,
Sept. 3.-(P)-Two American
columns rolled swiftly into
Belgium yesterday, capturing
the seven-way road hub of
Journal within 46 miles of
the capital at Brussels, and
other u. S. armored forces to
the southeast rolled almost to
the German frontier in a
weekend of sensational gains
virtually ending the battle of
France.
Journal, five miles inside the lit
tie country, was taken quickly as
flimsy enemy resistance was
brushed aside and the Yanks sped
on toward the famous Flanders
battlefields.
AS the Germans fled Brussels,
the war Numbered nearer to the
Reich and already the din of bat
lie may be echoing in the Saar, for
the Germans said strong American
forces had knitted through Nazi-an-
nexed Lorraine to within II miles
of the border.
Cheered by Belgians
Laughing, cheering Belgians.
emerging from four years of Nazi
captivity, met the forces Of 1t
Gen. Courtney H. Hodges First ar.
my as they streamed along the
roads.
Most of the Germans had pulled
out hastily last night, and the re-
sistance the enemy put up as the
Americans drove across the from
tier was scattered quickly.
A front line dispatch from Asso-
ciated Press correspondent Don
Whitehead, who entered Belgium
with the advance units, mentioned
two drives, one towards Mons and
the other to the northwest.
Swedish railway officials said
Berlin had advised the Belgian
frontier was closed, another report
from Sweden said all German CT
villains were being evacuated from
districts west of the Rhine, and
a German Transocean agency re-
porter said numerous villages
within range of the Maginot line"
were being emptied of civilians.
Crossing Reported
(Radio Atlantic, clandestine
German-language station whose
location has never been disclosed,
said American tanks had crossed
the Reich border at two places
and the German civilian population
was in mass flight along jammed
highways as in the days when
France fell. 1t also said Ameri-
cans had crossed into Belgium,
Holland and Luxembourg after
flooding the northern lowlands in
forlorn hope of stemming the
Allied tide - and the Belgian cap
ital of Brussels was no more than
IS miles in front of the onrushina
British second army.
Pilots raking the enemy line d
retreat reported that the 18th Ger
man army was abandoning the 70.
bot bomb row along the channel
coast all the way to Pas-d'e-Calai1
and beyond as British patEpls pop
ped up in the village a Pernes,
80 miles south of DunkeN tae.
Resistance Rising
Dispatches from 1t. Gen. George
S. Patton's Third army driving on
the Siegfried line to the east of
Verdun said American patrols
were up to the Moselle river and
a bag of 1000 prisoners indicatsd
resistance was rising.
The Germans declared that these
forces had lunged to the area of
Thlonville, on the Moselle lust IL
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-08
POLl'S

As far as ten million service men go- and millions more of home front fans too-lnorale is Q gal called Betty Grable. Certainly no more indisputable reason for the above could be put forth than that
 which 20th Century-F'ox presented yesterday at the Loew Poli theater in Pin Up Girl" which stars Betty in as wonderful a musical as these eyes have seen in many a moon. Tn brief, this beauty-filled song crammed laugh-packed Technicolor extravaganza is heart-lifting enter
 tainment at it's peak; more welcome now than a trunkful of red points. There is of course more to "Pin Up Girl" than the nations No. i pin- up girl herself. singing, dancing and being entrancing as only she can. There are, too: John Harvey to give female hearts a "jeep" ride;
 dynamic Martha Rave teamed with hilarious Joe E. Brown; roly-poly Eugene Palette; the breath taking Skating Vanities and the incredible Condos Brothers, and as If this were not enough. music played by Charlie Spivak with his sweetest horn this side of heaven" and his orchestra, as an extra bonus. In the film Betty displays more than her famed conspicious assetA revealing a truly impressive ability in the handling of a dual role. By night. she is her glittering. singing, danc- ing self as the ueen of the pin- ups: by day she's prirn and prissy bespectacled stenographer in the hurly-burly of wartime Washington. But at all times she's La Grable and who could ask for anything more? Her throaty voice aided and abetted by that distinctive Grable person. ality, make the Mack Gordon James Monaco songs. "Once Too Often, "The Story of the Very Merry Widow and Don't Garry Tales Out of School' hot contendera for the top of the hit parade. John Harvey. as Betty's bewitched. both- cred and bewiidered sailor-sweet- heart: Martha Kaye as the voi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-08

canic night club entertainer; Joe E. Brown as the harassed owner of the Club Diplomat. and Eugene Pal lette as the woman-hating Chief Petty Officer all give delightfully."- outstanding performances. The Skating Vanities-led by dainty Gloria Nord who clearly justifies her designations as "The Sonia Henie of Roller Skates" are seen in the spectacular Red Robins, Bob Whites and Blue Bird" number. cas- fly one of the most beautiful tech- nicolor numbers ever filmed. The high spots of the film, however. is the thrilling presentation of the military manual of arms precision routine. performed by squadrons of beauties under Betty's leadership. in tribute to our women in all armed services.
 The co-hit on this dazzling pro- gram is "Candlelight in Algeria" with James Mason.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-08
NEMS 9MUUYyHcS
FIRST CHURCH Sunday SorviceS

Union service of First and Second Congregational churches in First Church at II o'clock. Rev. A. Greig Ritchie, pastor of the Union Con- gregational Christian Church o1 Burlington, N. c. will preach. MT Anthony will conduct the service.
 MT. Ritchie grew up in the First Church is the son of MT. and Mrs Adam Ritchie of 225 Wood street He has been pastor of the Union Congl Christian church in Burling- ton, N. C., for the past two years and Is chairman of the Home Mis- sionary Board of the North Caro- lina and Virginia Conference of Churches. For two years previous he was pastor in the Valley of Virginia (Elkton, Val He graduates from Guilford College and Hartford Sem- mary. His wife is the former Pegi Carlson. They have two children Sidney and Jane. MT. Ritchie has just returned from the meeting of the National Council of Churches held in Grand Rapids, Mich. They are staying with Mrs. Ritchie's s mother, Mrs. Elna Carlson, North Main street.
 Union service at First Baptist Church at 7:30 p. m. Sermon by MT. Anthony.
 Wednesday, 10 a. m. Sewing for the Red Cross, Bundles for America and the hospital. Workers take their sandwiches, coffee served.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-08
Catholic Information We'll, then isn't the Pope pro-American?

Mexico and Catholic Spain? If so. no American need ever fear the menace of Rome" Nay. but rather boast that the Pope is strongly pro- American.
 But no. dear Neighbor. the premise at the beginning of this article is wrong. The Pope has no power over any Catholic in civil affairs, with the exception of the handful who populate the Vatican City State. He is not pro-American any more than he is pro-British, o-Gerrnan. or pro- Japanese. But perhaps the reason for outstanding Catholic loyalty is best given by the quotations below from De Harbe's Catechisrn-a doc- urine taught in every Catholic school and college in the world:
 Question: What are our duties towards our temporal rulers7"
 Answer: We are bound to show our temporal rulers, ordained by God. respect, fidelity and con- scientious obedience, and to suffer anything rather than to raise sedi- ton against tnen-to assist them in their necessities and dangers and even to sacrifice our property and our lives in defense of our country against It's enemies"
 For information, write to: St Francis Xavier Children of Mary 625 Baldwin street, Waterbury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-08
DOCTORS QUERIED
 ON FUTURE PLANS
OuestiOnnaires Mailed to $50 Physicians Now in
 Armed Forces

Questionnaires have been mailed by the Connecticut Post-War Plan- ming board to the more than $50 Connecticut physicians now in mill itary service regarding their plans after the war, seeking to ascertain if they intend resuming practice in the old home town and whether they will need refresher courses in medicine.
 Questionnaires were compiled in cooperation with the Connecticut State Medical society and mailed by the boards committee on medical care andA health, headed by pr. James R. Miller, Hartford, which is concerned over the effects of long military service upon the gen. eral practitioner, and the question of the supply of doctors in the state after the war.
 The committee letter says: 'We realize that 1t Is not possible for you to state now exactly what you will do after you are discharged from the service, but we would like to know what you are thinking about and what your proposed plans may be-"
 Recently upon the committees recommendation the planning board memorialized congress regarding provisions for medical refresher courses. !.
 Doctors in service are asked if they plan returning to Connecticut after their military discharge, and if so, whether they intend locating in their former communities, or de- sire to practice in larger or smaller places.
 Those stating they desire refresh- CT courses are asked their prefer ence regarding a hospital residency or Q short-term post graduate di- dactic course.
 Physicians in uniform are asked whether or not military service in their case has been so specialized that they feel themselves grown rusty for general civilian practice.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-08
RECENT INSTITUTE
 VERY SUCCESSFUL

Washington, D. C., July g. (Special) )-Gratified at the success of the Institute on the Elemen- tary. School. recently held at Catholic University of American officials of the University have al- ready began consideration of mak- ing these seminar or round table library discussions an annual affair, held in connection with the summer session of the University. Future programs which will cover the high school library and later the college and university ibaries will be ar- ranged.
 The program for this years in- stitute was arranged by the Rev. Dr. Francis A. Mullen, head of the Department of Library Science at Catholic University. Tn addition to large number of the leading li- brary authorities of Catholic instiu- tions throughout the country, a number of faculty members of Catholic University, participated in the discussions which continued for three days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-08
GRACE METHODIST
 Waterville. Evan H. Bergwall, minister Sunday. Iuly 2.

9:45 a. m. Sunday School. Vincent Leonard, superintendent.
 11:00 a. m. Morning Worship. 2 Prelude Ida Lowell Hymn, Q day of rest and gladness' Call to Worship Prayer of Confession, Silent
 Meditation Lords Prayer
 Special Music Responsive Reading for the 2Sth
 Sunday
 Apostles Creed, the Gloria Patri Scripture Lesson, Psalm 1l5 Pastoral Prayer, Prayer Response Announcements Hymn, "Work for the night is
 coming" Presentation of tithes and offerings Doxology Sermon, Interim Religion"
 Rev. Bergwall Prayer Hymn, Lord, for tomorrow and
 its needs" Benediction, Threefold Amen,
 Silent Contemplation Postlude
 7:30 p. m. Union service at First Baptist church.
 Camp meetings are In session at the camp grounds at Forestville. Meetings at il a. m, 2:30 and 7:30 p. m. today and each evening dur ing the week at 7:30 p. m. Bishop Chen will be the principal speaker next Sunday, July 18th.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-08

If the Pope has power to call all Catholics to arms-make them fight when, where and for whom he pleases-then really, isn't the Pope pro-American2
 Wasn't it a brazenly patriotic Catholic - Charles Carroll of Car rollton - who boldly signed the Declaration of Independence and who used so much of his brain, time and money in the American cause that he goes down in his- tory as one of our foremost pa- triots? Wasn't it a Papal sub- ject, John Barry, who won re- nown in the Continental Navy and held Commission No. of the U. S. Navy? And didn't Washington him. self say in his address to the Cath olics in l789. .. I presume that your fellow citizens will not forget the patriotic part which you took in the accomplishment of their Revo- lution. :"
 And in our Civil War - oh most inconsistent Popel - did you not call to the co.ors of the North those famous Catholis generals, Sheridan, Meagher. Rosecrans, Cor coran, Shields, O'Brien and others. to battle against your own brave Catholics of the South, Beauregard. Girady. Hardee. Bowling. Mallet, Adams and Semmes?
 An, Marshal Foch. patriot of France, "minion of Rome" was 1t the Pope who commanded you to lead the Allied armies to glorious victory? And what say you, our own Admiral Benson, our own Gen. McAndrew, our own Gen. Bullard, and all ye hundreds of thousands of American doughboys. devil-dogs and gobg-was it His Holiness who commanded you to offer your brains bodies, lives for our country's cause2 And in other wars could it have been the Pope who compelled Catholics in such great numbers to fight against even CathoIlt
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-08
ARMY SETSUP
 PROGRAM FOR TOOL SALVAGE

Kansas City, Mo. July s-(UP)- The St. Louis Ordnance Depot has been made the national center for tool reclamation under a new plan likely to save the taxpayers from 30 to 50 million dollars a year, the Ordnance Department announce ed recently through Maj. A. H. Gardner, Jr., commanding officer of the Lake City Ordnance Plant near here.
 Troop units about to be sent abroad surrender the tools they have used in training and are issued factory-new equipment upon arrival overseas. Under the previous Set-up, tools left behind were Scat- tered among various ordnance de. pots for reclamation. Capitalization of reclamation in St. Louis not only will effect large monetary savings, Maj. Gardner pointed out, but will forestall consumption of critical man hours and materials in the manufacture of new tools.
 The new plan provides that all tools left behind ift Army camps by troops sent overseas shall be gath cred up and rushed to the St. Louis Ordnance Depot to be cleaned, re- paired, reconditioned, and made vir- tually as good as new. The reclaim ed tools are then classified, packed and stored for subsequent redistri- button to ground and air forces still in training or to be activated. Tools that are damaged beyond repair are promptly converted into salvage.
 The reclamation program in- cludes wrenches, hammers, files. shovels, axes, picks, screwdrivers. grease cups, drills. air compressors, blow torches, chains, oil cans, brushes, rubber hose and even rope.
 Used tools are pouring into St. Louis at the rate of 10 to 12 car- loads in 8 day, Maj. Gardner said, with the daily volume expected soc @ to increase to 30 to 40 carloads.
 The value of tools already re- claimed by ordnance in the first three weeks under the St. Louis plan exceeded one million dollars. The St. Louis Ordnance Depot has been the tools and equipment sup ply center for the Army since its establishment nearly two years ago, Maj. Gardner said. Centraliza- ton of tool reclamation at this de- pot was natural and logical devel- opment, according to the officer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-08
TRUCKS TO VISIT
 OVER l5O STREETS
Collection of Scrap Paper to Be Made Saturday,
 July IS

Approximately l57 streets will be canvassed for scrap paper on July IS. Names of the streets which are located in that section between North Main street and Watertown avenue and north of West Main street, will be announced in this pa per soon.
 This is the first of the summer series of paper salvage canvassing to be undertaken and salvage au- thorities today urged residents of that area to start now to prepare in bundles of 25 or 50 pounds, securely wrapped, all available scrap paper for the canvassing.
 Members of the Bunker Hill Mems league will join in the paper collec- ton on July IS by canvassing all streets in that area west of the Nau- gatuck river and north of Robbins street to the Oakville line except those streets in Fairmount which come within the Waterville section.
 The streets to be canvassed by the Bunker Hill Mems league will also be announced next week.