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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-26
HEAVY BOMBERS
BLAST GERMANY

LONDON, Saturday, Aug. 26-lR
More than 1,750 heavy American
bombers blasted targets in Ger
many and Czecho-Slovakia yester-
day, including vital research and
experimental stations fo- Hitler
flying bombs, rockets and jet
propelled planes.
Other hundreds Of planes from
tactical forces in France and Italy
hammered at the enemy planes on
two fronts.
One armada Of more than loo
Fortresses and Liberators ranged
deep into Germany from Britain,
battering 10 targets including sew
eral concerned with perfecting or
making Hitler's new weapons OF
destruction. Later force OF up
to $50 bombed industrial targets
in northern France and Belgium.
From Italy nearly 500 heavies
winged over Czecho-Slovakia TO-
the second successive day. pound
ing two plane plants and two air
fields
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mighty ground attack against
enemy positions. --'--~--.---.~- ---,>-
Joyous, happy throngs who
greeted the entrance of the
tanks and infantry with a thun-
dering welcome fled to the safe
ty of buildings and within a
few minutes the streets that
were choked width humanity,
laughing and crying over the
liberation were bare battle
grounds.
AS I write this story the Ger
mans are still holding out in
the area on both sides of the
Seine halfway along the
Champs-Elysees, Place de la
Concorde, Quai d'Orsay, Tuil-
cries, Gardens of the Louvre,
the Madelaine, the Chamber OF
Deputies. the Senate and the
Hotel Crillon.
French patriots have grip
On the lie de la Cite, the Pa
lais Ge Justice, the Prefecture
of Police, the Prefecture of the
Seine, most of the Mairies and
the factory district.
But Frenchmen are fighting
Frenchmen as well as Germans
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zfRLS REPORTED FREED AT LAST;
: PATTON'S TANKS ROLL ON RHINE;
CANNES, ANTIBES FALL IN SOUTH
AMERICANS NOW
l63 MILES AWAY
Doughboys Even Closer
To Border At Saar,
100 Miles Distant

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Satur-
day, Aug. 26.-P)-Ameri-
can tanks in a 23-mile ad-
vance yesterday rolled into
Troyes, IS miles southeast of
Paris and 1853 miles from the
German border at the Rhine,
while far behind them Allied
armies were stamping out the
last sparks of German resist
ance south of the Seine.
1t. Gen. George S. Patrons ar
NOR, now racing toward soil
known to American who fought the
first world war cutting across the
last German commune alton lines
to southern France and raising
fresh perils to the Reich's frontier.
At Troyes the doughboys stand
100 miles south of the German bor-
der at the Saa-, 1853 miles west of
it where the Rhine winds north
ward near Strasbourg, and 1873
miles west of Belfort Gap, which
the Germans are expected to de-
fend strongly because it leads into
the industrial -Rhineland.
At Troyes they also are 81 miles
south of the Marine, scene of many
bloody battle in the first war,
and so miles west of Chaumont
Gen. John J. Pershing's headquar-
tiers in that war.
There were signs that even more
momentous fighting was. impending
on the plains north of Paris, with
the Germans possibly falling back
to a battle line along the somme
river, another scene of heavy en-
gagements in the first world war
At least part of their forces were
pulling out of the rocket coast for
tifications, pilots reported, probab
ly before the menace of the Aneri
can bridgehead 80 miles northwest
of Paris which the Germans have
failed to wipe out despite the heav
lest fighting.
Fighters and fighter -bombers ir
clearing weather struck hammer
blows at these forces along ane
beyond the Seine, destroying OF
damaging 105 tanks and 1873 other
vehicles.
They shot down 4 enemy planes
trying to protect these movements
probably got six more, damaged
others and lost Is of their owr
number.
Allied ground forces, closing il
on such forces as the German!
still have south of the Seine, crack
ed the final enemy line before the
river and closed in from every
direction.
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HEALTH COURSE.
OFFERED GIRLS

Inclusion of a community school
health service course in the cur
ricular of New Hanover high school
this year was planned yesterday
afternoon at meeting of school,
health and welfare leaders.
The proposed course was ten
tatively accepted, pending study Of
the subject and procurement of a
suitable teacher.
Present from the State Board of
Education to explain the newly
organized course were Charles
Spencer and Mrs. Albertine Nc
KeIar, formerly with the United
States Public Health service in
Tennessee and now director of the
program.
The meeting, held in the office
of H. M. Roland, superintendent of
schools, was called by DR.. J. Henry
Highsmith, director of the division
of Institutional service for the
State Board of Educ alton.
Spencer explained that inclusion
of the program in North Carolina
schools came from an idea devel-
oped by public schools in Michigan
to organize the course for high
school girls in the junior, senior
years.
The course in health education
will include classroom instruction
and work in different agencies in
the communities will constitute the
laboratory part, which will take up
more than one half of the class
time.
The instruction has been built
around certain services used in the
community and will afford the pu
pills great appointment to learn
ideas which may benefit them in
later life as housewives and voca-
tional workers, Spencer said.
The elective course may be I'M
der the supervision Of the home
economics, physical education, hi
ology, or sociology teachers.
The course, which is being &C
cepted by approximately 10 schools
| in the state this year, is designed
to bring closer cooperation between
hospitals, schools, health and vel
fare departments of the county, he
said. Sissy
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his carbine at the top Of the
building. The gun cracked in
my ear. .r.s,-
There's one up there" he
cried, and kept firing at the
rooftop.
Bullets ratified. on the streets
and glanced off with ugly
Whines.
The crowds, which a few
minutes before lined the streets
melted as if blast from a
furnace had hit a snoWbank.
Then the streets were terribly
lonely and barren except for
arrnor with guns gathering.
NV driver and l leaped into
a jeep and raced back down
the street, but another burst of
machinegun fire sent us diving
for the curb.
-. We felt bare and exposed
there in the street.
FIJI resistance lie d RS
crouched and ran from door to
door, pointing to the rooftops
and windows.
Up there, shooting down on
us were the Mjlice Vichy col
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in iberating a city wild WIN
happiness over the freedom
which they waited for TOUR
years.
There was so much confusion
and excitement over the en-
trance into the city that is II
difficult to give coherent ac-
count of the events that moved
so swiftly, once the French ar
mored column began rolling
through the heavy morning fog
that made vehicles look like
prehistoric monsters appearing
out of the swamps of creation.
But when the last enemy re-
sistance crumbled at the gate to
Paris then this heart of France
went mad - wildly, violently
mad with happiness.
All the emotions suppressed
by four years of German DOM
ination surged through the peo-
pie. The streets of the city as
we entered were like a COM
bined Mardi Gras, Fourth Of
July celebration, American Lee
gion convention and New Years
Eve in Times Square all packed
into one. VI. .-
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LEJEUNE TO Get
BOOT TRAlNEES
IN ~ ~

CAMP LEJEuNE, Aug. Is :
Under a. change in the recruit
training program of the Marine
corps, all East Coast recruits will
begin their boot period at Paris
Island, S. c., and complete it at
Camp Lejeune, according to an Of
fetal announc cement made here to.
day.
THE first phase of recruit train
ing will consist of training in mill
tary fundamentals, including the
rifle range program at Paris Is
land. At the conclusion of this
period, all recruit platoons will be
sent here as units fo- more ex-
tensive training in combat prin-
ciples.
The second Phase of recruit
training will find boots undergoing
four weeks of basic infantry train
ing here at the Tent camp. Upon
completion of this period, the re-
cruits will be assigned either to
advance infantry training or to
specialist training in one of the
school battalions of the training
command at Camp Lejeune.
Advanced infantry training with
take place during an eight-week
period, wherein recruits will be
instructed in machine guns, NOR
tars and rifle platoon work. The
specialist training is of varied
duration, in accordance with
schedules of the various courses.
Although the program in general
will be carried out as planned, Of
ficers pointed out that its execu-
ton will depend of course upon the
exigencies of the service such as
the need for requirements at any
particular time and similar I'M
foreseen circumstances.
The recruit furlough of 10 days
will normally be given the recruits
upon completion ofsthe third phase
of his training at Camp Lejeune.
but this, too, will depend upon a
variety of conditions and circum-
stances.
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"God Bless America. You
have saved France"
Men and women, old and
young, a n d children stormed
the jeep everytime the column
stopped and they were wild
with emotion.
Crowds were banked from
the center of the streets to the
sidewalks in a colorful, cheer
ing throng which stretched for
miles. There seemed to be no
end and apparently everyone
in Paris except the Germans
and collaborationists was
standing there to cheer, shout,
cry, and leave themselves ex-
hausted with happiness.
Our column moved to a point
one block fir m the Luxem-
bourg. Then from all sides
bursts machinegun fire. From
housetops d windows guns
ratified. Machineguns of tanks
opened up in reply. We leaped
from the jeep and took cover
behind a tank.
Jerry Beatson of Rockford,
ILL.,. Eas beside me and leveled
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TROOPS LUNCINC
TOWARDS ITALY
Nice's Capture Expected
At Any Hour AS Allies
Push Steadily Ahead

ROME, Aug. 25.-P)-
American troops lunging sud-
denly eastward from their Ri
viera beachhead in southern
France, have captured the IA
NOUS resort towns of Cannes
and Antilles and tonight were
fighting forward less than 20
miles from the Italian from
tier.
Nice, within short artillery range
of the advancing Yank forces, was
expected to fall at any hour.
Other swift Allied columns drove
methodically toward the heart OF
France and junction with General
Eisenhower victorious forces in
the north. Tonight's headquarters
communique said forces probing
into the delta of the great Rhone
valley were close to Aries and Tar
ascon. river towns only a few miles
apart.
CA German high command com
munique indicated that a general
enemy retreat was in progress up
the Rhone valley toward Lyon,
which had been reported in the
hands of French patriot forces.)
Bitter fighting still ragged in the
naval base of Toulon, where
French troops drew their ring OF
steel tighter about a stubbornly-
resisting Nazi garrison. A heavy
Allied attack had been launched to
wipe out the last four pockets Of
Germans in Marseille. Two Ger
man generals and 5000 prisoners
had been captured in the MarselHe
area in the past u hours.
American units driving westward
from Salon, northwest of Marsellle
were reported within less than
eight miles of the city of Aries or
the Rhone river. Another YanA
column pounding along the Durance
valley was approaching Avignon
on the Rhone north of Aries.
Still officially unconfirmed was
the report from Switzerland thai
advanced American units c
reached the Swiss border near Ge'
neva. However, fast armored col
umns habitually work far in ad
vance of the main body Of Allied
troops and it was entirely possible
that mechanical cavalry and com
bat engineers were at the frontier
Gan Associated Press dispatch
from Geneva said an American pa
troll which Thursday briefly visit
ed St. Julien on the border had pro
ceeded westward to Bellegarde, l;
miles from St. Julien and some
seven miles from the frontier)
An official announcement sale
the Yank force which captured the
| industrial city of Grenoble, 70 mile!
from the Swiss border, was such
a flying column operating in ad
vance of the main body of troops
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BY DON WHITEHEAD

PARIS, Aug. 25-tR-Ameri-
can and French columns fought
'Helr way into the heart Of
rars today and received a
numbering welcome from her
.iuzens as they opened battle
, .iln Germans and Vichy mi
Alamen still entrenched in i'm
poslant strongholds.
Inc Allied troops entered the
si'y from the south and al
must Immediately - as they
leached the beautiful Luxem-
poufg gardens-the Nazis and
uielf collaborationist militia
liei opened [ with machine
guns rifles Ind pistols.
a column of American dough-
o W.: Streaked for the lie de la
t''e IN the heart of the capital
f ~ me relief of French patriot
Ives and police who had been
Ishtlng the Germans for near
ly a week.
IN reaching this island in the
Selhe' the American infantry
n men drove TO the Cathedral of
O-Ie Dame, reaching there at
Il am and alosing in with a
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RedArnliies
Driving o.
Bucha1
FAST PACE KEPT UP
Greatest German Defeat
In Comparable Period
Inflicted On Nazis

LONDON, Saturday, Aug
26.-P)-Two Russian arm
les racing toward the heart
of Romania at a better than
a mile-an-hour clip yesterday
reached the Galati Gap defen-
ses at Tecuci and also drove a
spearhead down to the Dan
ube river delta at Kiliya in a
six-day whirlwind offensive
which Moscow announced cost
the enemy nearly 205,000 kill
ed and captured.
In perhaps the greatest defeat
yet inflicted on the Axis in a COM
parable period the Russians also
announced they had encircled II
German divisions of upwards of
go, 900 men southwest of fallen Chi
sinau, provincial capital of Bes-
sarabia. Thirteen thousand of the
Germans already have surrender
ed in two days, and the remainder
are being annihilated, said the
Moscow broadcast bulletin.
Thousands of Romanians were
abandoning the struggle against
the Russians and turning to fight
the Germans, dispatches said, as
the Second and Third Ukraine
armies under Generals Rodion Y.
Malinovsky and Feodor I. Tolbuk-
hin linked up for quick drive on
Bucharest, within 112 miles OF
Soviet columns which seized Tecu-
ci on the Barlad river.
A total of 500 towns and villages
were swept up by the two armies,
and the capture of Tecuci found
the Russians within 90 miles north
east of the bomb-wrecked Ploesti
oil wells. Gen. Malinovsky' troops
now were at the Galati Gap, a As
mile stretch OF defenses prepared
along the Putna, Siret and Barlad
river just above where those
streams empty INTO the DdnuDe.
To the southeast, a Soviet mid
night communique said the Rus.
SLAMS had captured Kiliya on the
Danube, Is miles west of the Black
Sea port of Valcov at the mouth
of the Delta. and % miles east
of the port of Ismail. General Toll
bukin's Third army seized that
point. To the northwest his
troops reached the Prut river or
70-mile front between captured
Leuseni and Kagul, the latter be
ing only 30 miles northeast OF the
big river and rail junction of Ga
lati. The capture of Gasan Batyl
also put the Russians only 30 miles
from Ismail port on the northeast
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NEW FLAME THROWER j.
DEVASTATES NAILS

WASHINGTON, Aug. Is. - P) -
The British tonight took secrecy
wraps off the fire-breathing alton
Churchill Crocodile" tank-mount-
ed flame throWer capable of hurl-
ing its lethal blaze $50 feet ahead
and even around corners.
The potent British weapon was
introduced TO the Germans at the
Normandy beaches. Since then it
has been used with what the Bri-
tlSh Information Services reported
as deadly effect in burning a
path for British and Canadian for
ces through Hitler's strongpofnts
in France.
The British supply council and
army staff in the announcement of
the new weapon called it the most
powerful flame throWer in the
world.
Designed to burn out strongpoints
OF the Atlantic wall and save infan-
Try lives, the Crocodile" uses a
special new type of fuel. Its flames
ean be ricocheted off nearby sur
lace, IN the manner Of billiard
snot, to burn out pillboxes and
trenches hundreds of feet away.
Inc flame gun is mounted on a
standard Churchill tank, with the
.uel carried in an armored trailer
seAlnd The flame equipment can
We jettlsoned in case of need and
ule tank can operate thereafter as
en orthodox Churchill, with no cut
In firepoWer .
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R0MANIA WAGES
WAR ON NAILS

LONDON, Aug. 25.-(P)-Roma-
mia declared war on Germany to-
day after Nazi bonbers raided
Bucharest, the capital, and radio
reports said German ground troops
within Bucharest had been swiftly
overwhelmed by King Mihai's regi-
mentS.
The declaration of war against
Germany by her former satellite
was announced in a proclamation
by King Mihai's new government
which was broadcast from Buch-
Arrest.
It said the Romanians had gain
ed complete control Of the capital
from the Germans, whose whole
Balkan edifice was fast collapsing.
GA Romanian high command COM
munique broadcast recorded by the
Federal Communications Commits
sion said: "We. have taken more
than 1000 prisoners and captured
large quantities of war material.
The liquidation of few island OF
resistance around Bucharest con-
tinues.")
The Bucharest radio said the
Germans tried to capture the Ban
casa airport near Bucharest, but
were thrown back by the Royal
Romanian Guards regiments and
that roads from there to the capt.
tai were Uttered with German guns
and vehicles.
The new government, which is
trying to swing the country effec-
lively to the side of the Allies,
again called upon Romanians to
rise and fight the Germans.
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WILLKlE, ROOSEVELT
TALKS FACES DELAY

WASHINGTON, Aug. Is. -P)-
Wendell Willkie, saying that Presi-
dent Roosevelt has invited him to
conference, took tn eattitude to-
day that he wiuld prefer to wait
until after the election.
Nohing definite has been done
toward arranging meeting.
Willkie, in New York, confirm
ed reports of the presidential in
vitation after Mr.. Roosevelt, at
his news conference here, said he
had been in communication with
Willkie.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-26
Surplus Property Bill
Passes Through Senate


WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-P-
After attaching provision that
all receipts be used toward retire
ment of the national debt, the Sen
ate tonight passed bill for dis
posal of some $500, 10000 900 in
government SURPRISES under a
congressionally controlled eight,
member board.
The measure, colliding head-on
with a rival bill approved by the
House last week vesting superviS'
ion over sales of war-accumulated
excess goods in a single admins
traitor, was approved without a
record vote at a session attended
by bare quorum of 40 members.
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RADIO ANNOUNCES
NAzI SURRENDER
De Gaulle In Broadcast
From Capital; Enemy
Fights Bitterly

SUPREME HEADQUAR"
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Aug. rs.
Up THE Paris radio ans
nounced late tonight that tho
French capital had been liber-
ated and that the German
commander had signed a doc
ument ordering his troops to
cease fire Immediately.
The announcement followed en-
try of American and French troops
into the capital during the day.
There was no immediate confirma-
ton here.
q The latest word at headquarters
was that American and French
troops had joined fighting French
patriots on the lie de la Cite in
the heart of the capital after bit
ter fighting with Germans and
French collaborationist militiamen.
Gen. Charles de Gaulle, presi-
dent of the French Committee of
National Liberation, d in a
speech broadcast from Paris:
France will take her p a C e
among the great nations which will
organize the peace. We will not
rest until we march, as we must,
into enemy territory as conquer
ors."
The commander of the Paris re-
gion for the French forces of the
interior, Colonel Rouel, issued this
proclamation to his forces, the ra-
dio said
"F. F. I. of the lie de France
(the Paris region, you have un-
leashed a rising which has iber-
ated Paris. You have improvised
your tactics, animated by strong
desire to win, and you have won."
In another broadcast the Paris
radio said that the German com.
mander had signed the following
document, presented by Brig. Gen.
jacques Leclerc, commander of
the French force which entered the
capital during the day:
"The German commander gives
orders to the forces under his COM
mand to cease fire Immediately.
Arms are stacked.
Personnel assemblies without
arms at places to be indicated, and
will wait for orders there. Arms
have to be delivered intact"
1t was the second time this week
that the French forces of the In.
terror had announced the liberia
ton of the capital from four years
of Nazi rule. On Wednesday thew
announced Paris had been freed
from within, but later reported that
the Germans had repudiated an ar
mlstice agreement and resumed
fighting.
Ton1ght's announcement followed
bitter fighting in the heart of the
capital by French and American
armored forces of the U. S. Third
Army which rolled in this morn
ing.
Col. Raoul said in his proclama.
ton as broadcast from Paris:
1.-THE F. F. I. belonging to the
liberated parts of the lie de France
is marching forward and organic
ing itself to fight with it's comrades
from other regions, from which a
new French army will m erge
which will definitely push the in
vader off French soil and into its
own territory to smash the regime
! of oppression"
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Lady Marine Knows What
She Wants On Furlough

RALEIGH, Aug. Is: -CR-A lady
Marine has written. the North Car
DINA advertising division for i11for-
nation to help her with furlough.
1t was the P. S., however, that
packed the punch. -
"P. s. she PS'd, '"Are7you; able
to give information regarding dl-
vorce in the State of North Caro-
lima 90 go -
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SPAIN REPORTS
BORDEAUX FALL

IRUN, Spain, Aug. Is. - R =
Information reaching this border
town today from the FIJI said Bor-
deaux, Frances fourth largest city,
had been liberated.
Capture of Bordeaux by French
and American forces also was re-
ported Thursday by the French ra-
clio at Algiers, but no confirma-
ton has yet come from official
sourceS.)
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SOCIALIST BARRED

WASHINGTON, Aug 25-tR-The
War Department withdrew tonight
its previous agreement to give the
Socialist party an oppor nifty to
broadcast, a political address, to
troOps. overseas. es-4
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Sec Blocks
Tide W alter
Stock Sale
! DIVIDENDS HALTED
Republication Ordered
On Single Stock Basis
! With New Debt Ratio

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. rs.
Up, - The Securities and
Exchange Commission disap-
vowed today General Gas &
+ Electric corporations pro-
nosed sale of common stock in
Tide Water Power Company,
Wilmington, N. c., to War
rem W. Bell for $50, 900.
At the same time, the commits
,ion ordered that Tide Water be
recapitalized on a single stock bas-
;s and that the ratio of its long
harm debt be reduced and its ac-
counts restated ''to eliminate
known and estimated Write-ups and
amounts representing abandoned
nroperty and expenses OF revalua-
tons"
Tide Water was prohibited from
having any dividends until further
orGer by the commission.
The commission said its staff re-
commended denial of the sale ION
the ground that Tide Water is bad
" in need of recapitalization, that
The common stock is at present in
highly speculative position and
that il would be inconsistent with
the interests Of investors to permit
. purchase of the common stock
nrt within our jurisdiction to as
Ume control of Tide Water while
be company is in its present
state
Commenting on the SEC order
last night, Mr.. Bell, Tide Water
president. said the order would not
affect his control of the company.
I'm any reorganization" he said,
"the present preferred stock would
become the controlling stock, and
as l control approximately so per
cent Of the preferred stock, I still
would be in control of the company
at completion of the reorganiza-
ton. even though SEC states J.
cannot purchase the common
stock
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wu.MINGToN AND VICINITY: Fair
n,,t1v cloudy, with moderate temper
stures today.
Temperatures Yesterday:
High 79-LoW Ct.