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; : I ; i . ' ; T 'I " r i ! i - VTcailicr : I - Max imam temperature Friday 74 fierrees; miAimom .42; trace ef rain; river -4 ft Partly c 1 a d y Saturday; ; ; Sunday cloudy west of Cas ' cades. With Uxht raia north '; west portion ' betinnlng . In - afternoon; partly cloudy . Sunday east i of Cascades; little change in temperature. "ff -r.lHJDS .11 n I M III I Sale of the . Wasco Warehouse , Milling company ' of The' Dalles, one of the few" substantial inde pendent milling enterprises left - in the state, to the milling sub sidiary of a national biscuit com- . pany is expected to mean the ex pansion of the plant and -its busi ness at The Dalles. The location is an excellent one for flour man- ufacturing. " Not only is grain produced in large quantities on the hills back of The Dalles in Wasco, Sherman ; and Gilliam counties, but . ware house and terminal facilities and shipping " possibilities add to i the i city's desirability for flour man ; ufacturing. It will be easy for a v mill there to obtain wheat 1 for blending purposes on milling-in i transit rates; and with a national organization to use or distribute J the flour there is every reason to (expect that the promise of future 'growth will be realized. At the same time, one cannot but regret the passing of another firmly established 'independent ; enterprise. Once flour milling was ..l all done in - local, independent ' mills. : Water power with stone I burrs were, used in the pioneer ' mills which came with the earli r est settlements. r Water power h (though now usually as hydro electric power) still drives the ' mills, but steel rolls have replaced the stone burrs. The ownership is i more and more centralized. One by one the independent mills have passed into chain owner ship, or gone out of flour ; mill ing, though here ',. (Continued on Editorial Page) Yank Bombers Hit Nip Cruiser, Sink 5 Ships . GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, " Southwest Pacific, Saturday, Aug. ; 26-VP)-Mitchen bombers, attack ing at mast-heighr; probably sank v a Japanese light, cruiser and de--,: stroyed . five medium freighter? transports near Manado, northern Celebes, headquarters reported to , day. i ( .J : The attack wa5.'madeThursday 'by tho modium -bombers, during '. their .ceaseless hunt for "Japanese '., shipping ' withdrawing from the r- Philippines-Halmahera . line.' When last seen the cruiser had exploded in the stern, was blazing i from end to end and had a 20- degree list The communique said the warship .was. believed to be sinking. A headquarters spokesman said - the freighter-transports averaged between 2000 and. 3000 tons. Two other vessels of this class were damaged. An estimated 40 luggers ; and barges were riddled' with ma- - chinegun bullets. Nazis Depart FromBelfort LONDON, Saturday, Aug. 20- (PWA Swiss report reaching Lon don today said the Germans were withdrawing from the French city of Belfort, near Switzerland's northern border and only SO miles from the Rhine river, and were "taking up positons along the Sieg fried line." The . report came from a Swiss . paper's correspondent in Belfort The Swiss radio, without giving details, said the suburbs of Bel fort have been liberated. , - The Belfort dispatch said the Germans were moving - toward Mulhouse, 24 miles northeast of Belfort and. only 10 miles from the Rhile. If the? report is true, the Ger snans are moving out of a fortified area which commands the Belfort gap leading into the Rhine valley. Maquis forces have been reported strong in this area. New Storm Breaks About Nelson's Head as J. A. Krug Takes Over WPB Chairmanship WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 : An angry new storm broke about Donald M. Nelson's, head tonight shortly after the war production board chairman ; left for China with his agency still seething from the row which led to Charles E. Wilson's resignation as vice chair man. ' Rubber Director Bradley M. Dewey accused tho WPB head of "typical Washington sniping" In comment on the rubber program. It was, Dewey declared, the same ; sort of "sniping" that led to Wil ; sen's resignation "and many good Americans unwilling to give ser vices that otherwise would be of value to the country in the con duct of the war. . . Zlr'crs t Statement Dewey referred to- Nelson's tes f .cr.y to the senate war Investl f r c:r.:tices ivcn lsst week 1 ! t : '3 1 ' -'"2 cr.ly yesterday. . -..; ". I; '. the senste ccnrrJt- ' : ; r .1 tlouX Dew- HXHETY-FOUBTH TEAR I French Paris Radio Says . Nazi Commander Calls It Quits SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Aug. 25r(T)rTbe Paris radio announced late' tonight that the French capital had .been liber ated and that the German com mander had signed a document 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 con firmation here. Fighting Bitter The latest word at headquarters was : that American and French troops had joined fighting French patriots on the lie de la Cite in the LONDON, Saturday, Ao. 2C Cff-A Berlin broadcast Satur day morning said heavy fight ing still was m progress la Paris, especially "at the Place de L' Etoile and around the Are de Trlomphe." heart of the capital after , bitter fighting with Germans and French collaborationist militiamen. Gen. Charles De Gaulle, presi dent -of the French committee of national t liberation, said in a speech, broadcast' from Paris: ."France ; will taffe her ' place among the great nations which will organize the peace. We will not rest until we march, as we must, into enemy territory as con querors." "'" " . Proclamation iMned - .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: , .. "FFI of the He de France (the Paris region); you have unleashed an .uprising which has liberated Paris. You' have improvised 'your tactics, animated " by the strong desire to win, and you have Won Nazis Fleeing From France In Confusion NANCY,. France, Aug. 22-(De- layed)-iP)-The flight of nazi sol diers from the fighting fronts in France has created confusion, dis organization and panic far greater than that of the French in 1940. Many . Germans have escaped from a trap in the south, but their condition is hardly that of the old-4 time nazi. Hundreds escaped by changing into civilian clothing and reached northern France exhaust ed.' Camps are established for these soldier refugees whose first duty is to present themselves for ques tioning by intelligence officers. Transport services in northern France are disintegrating rapidly. Railwaymen are striking every where when they get a chance. Underofficlals who tried to flee Vichy had a tragic time. Some cars broke down, some ran out of gaso line. The officials set out afoot, but the Maquis captured many, and others who reached Nancy and Dijon sought German assist ance. Some got help, others were laughed at eys recent announcement that the rubber, program was ; completed and he would resign Sept 1. "It was completed, all but get ting the tires, Nelson commented. (Ample synthetic rubber now is being produced, officials say, but the army has complained that hea vy tire production is lagging be hind needs.) Job Not Complete , "Then you don't agree that the job was completed?" asked Com mittee Counsel Rudolph Halley. "No sir. It Is like the army say ing they are completed except for the shooting,'' Kelson said. . The new outbreak came with Nelson's future role in war pro duction clouded and J. A. Krug, appointed by President Roosevelt to run WPB in his absence, taking over with a strong hand. Stars New Deal Following a meeting late In the day wiii the various VP3 .vice iW . ' k i ' ' "- ...... r J- ' ' - ' " ."' Lapital . : 'pJfcwJtm 1 10 PAGES Allies Squeeze Seine iPocheL yir X?iKLS Arrows Indicate main allied drives the Seine pocket from all sides, ojnarters has. been silent concerning; the drives bey end Dens and Montarcls to the south. (AP wlrephoto) On Germany After Raid ' . LONDON,' Aug. 25-yP)-Romania i declared war on Germany today after nazi bombers raided Bucharest, the capital, and radio reports said German ground troops withm .Bucharest , had been swiftly overwhelmed by King Mihai's regiments I j ; ' -' The declaration of war against Germany by hir former satel lite was announced in a proclamation by King Mihai's new gov ernment which was broadcast from Bucharest J -. '. ; - , It said the Romanians had "gain ed, complete control of the capital from the Germans, whose whole Balkan edifice. was fast collapsing. " (A' Romanian high' command communique ' broadcast recorded by the federal communications commission said: "We have taken moro than 4000 prisoners and cap tured large' quantities of war ma terial. The;; liquidation of a few islands Of resistance around 'Bu charest continues.") i . The Bucharest radio said i the Germans tried to capture the Ba neasa airport near Bucharest,; but were'' thrown back by -the Royal Romanian Guards regiments : and that roads from there to the capi tal were . littered with German guns- and vehicles. ; The new government, which is trying to swing the country effec tively to the side l.of the ' allies, again called upon Romanians to "rise and fight the Germans.' Japs Launch New Offense I From Luichow CHUNGKING, Aug. 25-(;p)-The Japanese have launched a j new drive northward from the neck of the Luichqw peninsula in south China opposite Hainan island, and heavy fighting is in progress with both. sides 1 suffering considerable losses, !!the Chinese ,; command an nounced tonight There was no immediate i indi cation whether the Hew drive was merely! another, mopping up oper ation or the beginning of a more ambitious mOVf a thrust on the Kwangsi province city of Liuchow 200 miles to the northeast, a June tion of the Hunan - Kwangsi and Kwangsi 4 Kweichow railways. Capture of Liuchow would threat en several important air bases and neutralize Kweilin, provincial cap ital of Kwangsi, as the key center in the . defenses of south China.. chairmen,' Krug told reporters he was '"starting a new deal, from here on out" and that he intended to "kill any sniping" right; away He said that while none of the nine-vice. chairmen had asked to resign, he would not be a "bit sur prised" if they did, j : Asked If he had, been given au thority to clean house if he saw fit. Krug replied:.' Takes Authority ;. nvhat Is the authority of the chairman? to run WPB and that includes hiring and firing.f Krug said he had called the meeting to find out what the trou bles of the vice chairmen were and to lay a blueprint for eliminating the difficulties. The uncertainty over Nelson's future arose from President r.ocse velt's news conference statement that he did not know whether Nelson would continue as war pro duction chief -ft hen he returns from China. , In western' France. Allied troops while other units penetrated to - r Churchill Has PopePiusW VATICAN CrmAug2$A Pope . Pius" XII j received , Prime Minister .Winston; Churchill for. a 43-minute private; audience Wed nesday in which ithe two leaders discussed "essential questions'! re ferring: to a Vsmcere . desire of .a ust and lasting peace," it was an nounced today, L j f Churchill left Rome! the same dayj Announcement of his audi ence -'and departure - apparently were delayed until he reached his destination. r i I i 'I - The f Vatican announcement of the ; visit said, - "Many - essential questions were touched upoflj re lating to important problems of the : present hour.? Affable cordi ality marked the conversation, the announcement said. ; Monsignor PucdL's Vatican feews service said that the question! un der! -discussion probably did not concern ways w soive s ternwruu, economic and: material problems, but rather referred to the spiritu al criteria of Justice and equity. Clear Weather Slows Robots! ; i i f - r r i if LONDON, Aug.! 25- -Clear channel weather Which gave coast al! anti-aircraft batteries a chance to! get flying bombs on the Swing, today brought a temporary respite from the menace in southern Eng land after the Germans had de livered their usual post-dawn at tack. til Returning from! an inspection tour of London's bombed districts. Health Minister Henry ,U. Willink cautioned evacuees against drift ing home ' J j "rWe have to expect! that these dangers will continue ! for ' some time cornered beasts axe vicious," he said. "Parents imust not let the glorious victories 1 of the Allied armies blind them to! risks to which children who are : kept in London and other evacuation areas are still exposed, j l-i Desperate Nazis Try To Swim Across; Seine NEW YORK, Aug. ! 2 ft JT Al lied - forces - advancing: along the coast of northwestern .France are now six miles beyond Honfleur at the mouth of the Seine estuary, and many Germans are trying to swim the stream, the London ra dlo said, today In a broadcast heard by CBS. j -" Federal Fund Boosted ; la Independence Word "was received frcm Con gresEman James W. Ucit Tridiy tLat the federal works sracy h approved an increase; cf $11,2 IS for child care facilities at 1 Illwau- kae and $2435 for tcrvicemens recreational facilities at Initpeni Declares Meeting Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, August Enter Paris took Honfleur and closed In on the center of . Pmrb. Allied head' Finishing Nazis Tentatively Set WASHINGTON, Aug. 25T-W-- October 1, 1944, is the army's "ten tative" date for finishing its job against .German y Chairman Woodrum (D, Va) told the house postwar military policy commit tee today. -Rear Adm. James II. Irish, in ventory control officer, indicated to , the same committee that the navy expects to be fighting in the Pacific at least through 1945. , Prsidnt Roosevelt, meanwhile. declined to be dcSwn into the dis cussions'.of when the war may end, telitng rtytrterst hta-news o- 1 erence that he is about the only man , who hasn't expressed , an opinion.'.' " Amplifying his statement later. Woodrum said the October I date had ' been chosen by the war de partment over a year ago, as basis for tactical planning, pur poses and was not regarded as an outright prediction that German resistance would be ended by that time. - .... USBomHers Hit Nip Isles US PACIFIC FLEET. HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl, Haibor, , Aug. 25-(if")-Striking over a wide ocean front, bombers of the American Central Pacific command were re ported by Adm. Chester W. Nim- itz today to have blasted Japanese' held islands ranging from -the Vol-, cano group, some 700 miles couth of Tokyo, to Nauru, west of the Gilberts. - - , - Land , based army - Liberators were free of Japanese intercep tion as they bombed Iwo Jima, in the Vplcanos, during .the night o Aug. 23-24. Anti-aircraft fire was meager. In the Marianas the American fliers attacked Pagan and tiny Agiguan Wednesday. Bombs were rained on gun positions, storage facilities and buildings. The raid ing airmen reported several fires in ine target areas. Gen. Von Kluge Reported Dead STOCKHOLM, Saturday, Aug. 26-iflV-Field Marshal Gen. Guen- ther : Von " Kluge has been killed, the newspaper Dagens Nyheter said today on the basis of infor mation received from Germany.: Circumstances of his reported death were not known here : and the newspaper had no additional details. (There was no immediate confirmation of this report in either axis or allied official quar ters.) . Von Kluge, 61 years old, had held command of the German ar mies on the western front since July 6, when he succeeded Field Marshal Gen. Karl Rudolph Von Rundstedt. - riazi' Prisoners Total 250,000 in France NEW YORK, Saturday, Aug. 2d H-The London radio said today in a broadcast heard by CCS that "it Is unofficially staled that so far "3, CCD Germau soldiers, exr.cr.2 theni 11 csiwrils, have teen rrJs prbantrscf war i.a France.". . The broadest said that cp to Izst niht "C3,C:0 Gerrr.a' priscn crs cf war were counted irt sru'h cxn Friace. . ' .. ' " For October! 3 1S44 Allied A riving, Mapi&lyEm t Gerei axis Flee Thru i Red Armies Race ! Ahead at Mile . ! An Hour Speed LONDON, Saturday, Aug. 26 (P)-Two Russian armies racing toward the heart of Romania at a better than a-mile-an-hour clip yesterday reached the Galati gap defenses at Tecuci and also drove a : spearhead down to the: Danube river delta at Kiliya in a six-day whirlwind offensive which Mos cow announced cost - the enemy nearly 205,000 killed and cap tured. ' In perhaps the greatest defeat yet inflicted on the axis in a com parable - period of Russians also announced they had encircled ;12 German divisions of upwards of 60,000 men' southwest of fallen Chisinau, provincial capital ' of Bessarabia. , Thirteen thousand , of the Germans already have sur rendered in two days, and the re mainder are - being annihilated, said the Moscow broadcast bulle tin." ' ' : ' -s i f 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.';Toli bukhin'linked lip for a quick drive on Bucharest, within 112 "mi Si or soviet columns which seizi Tecuci on the Barlad river. 1 1 A , total of . 650 towns and vil lages were swept up tj, the . two armies, and the capture of Tecuci h found 4heJ Russians within ,92 miles northeast of the bomb wrecked Ploesti oil wells.;, (Addi tional details on Page 2.) British Reveal N etc Crocodile Fire Thrower - f WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (ff) The British tonight took secrecy wraps -off the - fire-breathing 41 ton -ChuSchill Crocodile," tank mounted flame thrower capable of hurling -its ' lethal blaze ' 450 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 Brit ish information services reported as' "deadly effect" in burning a path for British, and Canadian forces through Hitler's. ' strong points in France. i The British supply council and army staff in the announcement of ' the new weapon called it the most powerful flame 'thrower in the world. ' - i . Designed to bum out strong i points of the Atlantic wall and save infantry lives, the "Croco dile'' uses a special new type of fuel. Its flames can be ricocheted off a nearby surface, in the man ner of a billiard shot, to burn out pillboxes and trenches hundreds of feet away. . Hitler Gills. Meeting LONDON. Saturday, Aug. 28-H (AVThe Cairo radio said today Hitler, shaken by Romania's capi tula tion, had called a conference of military and political leaders at Berchtesgaden. (SalatiGap Hull, Dulles Reach Agreement OnNumeromAspectsoiTalh . WASHINGTON, Aug. 25-(ff) Secretary Hull and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's foreign affairs advis er, John Foster Dulles, announced agreement today "on numerous aspects" of . the proposed world peace agency, but Dulles pointed ly reserved republican rijhts to discuss the subject in the forth coming campaign. f Ccrr.jletir.2 a series of three ta":s, Hull and Dulles Issued an extraordinary election-year pro-nour.ccr-cr.t sajir.j they tcCi filt the subject ij a nc3-part:i ere. la st:pulat:r.g Cat the rreer.ent d:cs not "preclude full public rcn-rartisan dcussicn cf the r-.?;r.s cf t'.'lr'.-s a la it in" ri-." Dui::s x;'..ux:I V :t Is Price 5c mmes in Yanks Push' To Within 20 Miles of Italy ROME, Aug. 25 American troops, lunging suddenly eastward from their. Riviera beachhead in southern France, have captured tte famous resort towns of Cannes and Antipes and tonight were fighting forward less than 20 miles from the Italian frontier.1 - " Nice, within short artillery range of the advancing Yank for ces, was expected to fall at any hour. ' ' . i:-.: ".-,; Other swift allied columns drove methodically toward the heart of France and a junction with Gen.' Eisenhower's victorious forces in the north. - Tonight's headquarters communique lsaid forces probing into the delta of the great Rhone volley were close j to Aries and Tarascon, river towns only a few miles apart f ' (A German high command com munique indicated that a general enemy retreat was i in progress up the Rhone valley! toward . Lyon, which had been reported in .the hands of French patriot forces.) Bitter fighting still raged In the naval " base. - of . ! Toulon, . where French troops drew their ring of steel tighted about a stubbornly resisting nazi . garrison. A heavy allied attack had i been launched to wips out the last four pockets of Germans in i Marseille. Two German generals and 5000 prison ers had been captured in the Mar seille area in the past 72 hours. Deehliiberated DXUN, Spain, Aug 25-(ff)-In- formation . reaching this border town today from the FFI said Bor deaux, France's fourth largest city, had been liberated. V 1 j' i (Capture of Bordeaux by French and American forces also was re ported Thursday by the French- radio at Algiers, but no confirma tion has yet come from ; official sources.). l : The mayor of Bordeaux, Adrian Marquet, deputy minister of the interior in Pierre'-Laval's Vichy government In 1940, was arrested within an hour after the port was taken, according ' to the French patriot authorities: ' French said .they expected American 1 troops! - to reach ' the Spanish-French frontier at Hen daye, acrosst he border from Irun, sometime today. . Allied technicians were declared already hard at work repairing the port installations of St Jean de Luz, Bayonne and Bordeaux, on the Atlantic, and Port Vendres, on the Mediterranean, which were wrecked by the I Germans before departure. ......, , ,, ,.n im-.iuniii, n.,, I, ,n - State Liquor Bonus - Will End After Today . ' i," . " ' . PORTLAND, Aug. 25-(P)-The Oregon liquor control commission announced tonight that tomorrow will be the last day permit holders may obtain an extra fifth of whis ky by purchasing two fifths of imported rum or brandy. . " Chairman Hugh Kirkpatrick said the offer will be discontinued because of opposition from the re gional OPA in San Francisco. The commission has appealed to the national OPA, he added. wanted to leave no -loophole for a charge of bad faith when Dewey talks on the subject. 1 Furthermore, 1 Dulles told re porters before leaving for New York, where he will see Dewey, that there will be "plenty of po litical discussion on many other aspects of foreign affairs, espe cially in regard to past conduct of foreign policy.- : - The joint Hull-Dulles announce ment said the two agreed on "nu merous aspects' of problems in volved In an. internaticr.cl securi ty organization. Dulles said later that he foursd himself in gsheral srecnient wita llull, with "dlf f.Tcr.ces, cf errj.otls rc'.her the: sui stance. Ko. 137 a1 ranee US Tanlcs RoU Into Troves S;E. of i Paris : -SUPREME. HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Saturday, Aug. 26 -(ff)-American tanks in a 23-mile ad vance yesterday rolled into Troyes, 85 miles southeast of Paris and r 163 miles from the German border at the Rhine,! vhile ' far.-. behind them Allied armies wero stamping ' out the last sparks of German re sistance south, of the Seine. ' ' Lt Gen. George sVPatton's ar mor, now : racing ; toward soil . known to American " who fought the first world war, was cutting LONDON,1 Satarday. Aar. 26r v (y-The News Chronicle said to- : day an unonlclal report: had reached V London placing-' the Americans ' at Reims, 65 miles northeast of Paris and 15 miles north of the Maine. The source of the report, ueonflraed . at Allied i headquarters, was' not given. ... Jj.-' - across the last German communi cation lines to southern1 Francs) -and raising fresh .perils to the reich's frontier. - - v- Near Nazi Border At Troyes the doughboys stand 130 miles south of the German border at the Saar, 163 miles west" of it where the Rhine winds north ward near ; Strasbourg, and 138 miles west of; Belfort Gap, which the Germans are expected to de fend strongly because it leads into the Industrial ;Rhineland. : - At Troyes they alsafe 37 mEle south Of the Marne," scenof many a bloody battle in the first wart and SO miles! west' of. Chaumont. ' Gen. John J. perehing's headquar ters' in 'that war.' ' ' BatUeo Impending "7 . ! ' There were signs that even morf irwthentoua" fighting was impend . Ing on the plains north of Parisf wiin ine uermans possioiy railing , back to it battle line along the Somme river, another scene pi heavy engagements in the first world war. :;'." v . -' i At least part of their forces were pulling, out of. the rocket coast fortifications, pilots- reported. probably before the menace of the American bridgehead 30 miles northwest of Paris which the Ger mans, have failed to wipe out de spite the heaviest fighting. ' Planes Active '..-. " Fighters and fighter-bombers in clearing .. weather struck - hammer . blows at these forces along and beyond the Seine, destroying or damaging 105 tanks and 158 other vehicles. . A - - -' They shot down 41 enemy plane. trying to protect these movements, probably got six more, damaged 21 others and lost 18 of their own number. - . Allied ground forces, closing in on such forces as the Germans stilj have south of the Seine, cracked the final .enemy line .before ( th4 river and closed in from every di rection. i ; Germiui&Say., End Nearing STOCKHOLM, Aug. 25 HV Many Germans now give the Ger man army only two more months' in the struggle with allied troops, but believe nazi last - ditch fight ers will drag the reich through chaos for months after that, the newspaper Morgontidningen said today. It quoted two Swedes newly re turned from Berlin. ' ; , . i Another - Swede, - an - engineef who lived in Stettin and Berlin for the last year, said Berliner m called the collapse of the Germans) around Paris and the capitulation of Romania the "beginning of the end," and openly ; expressed the hope for peace before winter. . June Payrolls Less Than for Year Ago Payrolls in Oregon during June, 1944, were approximately a mil lion dollars - less than those foe June, ,1213, but six million dol lars larger than May, 1944, pay rolls, state- industrial accident eomrr-''-ri figures released Fri dr r;-.cLl.. - Drir.g J--.e cf this year aclucl payrolls reverted to the conun' -s:cn tc:z.l:i ?:2,4::,t;i, ccrrrr : 'v;-.'i ?:3,K!,c:2 3 1 jur.-, i:. mi x.) ia ir.-y,