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AXIS COMMANDER ,
SURREfrtlERS CI1Y
AS MDAXBIVES
Yankee and French Tanks
Pour Into Capital Allied
Comment Withheld.
New York, Aug. 25. (U.R)
Gen. Charles de Gaulle has ar
rived in Paris, Radio Paris
said today.
London, Aug. 25. (U.R) Paris
was reported firmly in allied
hands tonight, conquered by
i the ' overwhelming might of
American and French armored
forces and a motley street army
of hundreds of thousands of Pa
risian patriots.
Brig. Gen. Jacques Leclerc
and the unnamed commander of
the French partisans accepted
the German surrender in the
Montparnasse railway station
and issued a stern warning that
any Germans who continued
fighting would place themselves
outside the rules of war and lia
ble to execution if captured.
A dispatch from BBC corres
pondent Robin Duff said all the
Germans had been cleared from
Paris this afternoon.
United Press war correspond
ents James McGlincy and Robert
C. Miller both entered the capi
tal in the wake of the American
and French armor, and other
United Press reporters were be
lieved to have followed them in.
Henry T. Gorrell, writing from
the outskirts of the city, said
the roads leading to Paris were
black with American tanks and
troops, and Edward W. Beattiel
reported that a similar great
force of British armor and menj
was marching on the capital.
An unidentified announcer,
reported to be an American
war correspondent, boadcasting
from a secret fighting French
transmitter said to have been set
up In the center o fthe city, said
the Yanks stormed through the
Orleans gate on the south side
of Paris at 10:40 this morning
and fanned out swiftly along
the main avenues.
A few minutes later the
spokesman announced that
doughboy columns had reached
the Luxembourg gardens and
hnrl cnn on bevond Into the
Latin quarter, where regulars
nf the Fronrh 2nd armored divis
ion already were attacking Nazi;
ttrongpoints.
1 The German DNB news agen
cy said the Americans broke
across the Yvctte river at two
points just south of the capital
under cover of an aerial bar
rage, and asserted that violent
fighting was in progress In and
around the capital.
Brig. Gen. Jacques Leclerc.
the French desert warrior, led
his 2nd armored division into
Paris early today, bringing the
first regular army relief to the
city's embattled and outmatch-
norfican armv.
(NBC Correspondent Merrill
Mueller, broadcasting from Gen.i
oral Eisenhower's headquarters
In France said this afternoon
that the liberation of Paris is
a fact." but the statement was
not elaborated.)
The unidentified announcer
said also that Canadian troops
were in action inside the city,
hut hp did not expand on their
part in the battle.
Allied headquarters, guarding)
against the possibility of another,
premature victory announce-!
mcnt such as me r ranu v
report of the capital's liberation
two days ago, made no official
comment pending word from
the front. .
The Paris transmitter said,
however, that the capitulation of
the enemy garrison with all
arms and equipment had been
confirmed by allied commanders
In the city.
SIDE GLANCES
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TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Sigurd eleven deciding that
ome patriotic woman should
start a barefoot fat among the
feminine citiiens and thereby
solve the problem of shoe leath-
or.
Thurman Hart describing a
pool game with appropriate
flourishes.
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Washington, Aug. 25 (U.R)
President Roosevelt told his
news conference today he did
not know whether Donald M.
Nelson would resume his duties
as chairman of the War Produc
tion Board after his trip to
China, which begins today. The
President explained that it was
difficult to say what was going
to happen in the future.
The President's statement
came shortly after he had or
j,j T. r-mHr J. A. Krutf.
nnre a WPB vice chairman and
now iust returned from a ncvy ,
assignment in ivormanay,
to
take WPB and "run it" in the
absence of Nelson and the sur
prise resignation yesterday of
Executive Vice Chairman
Charles E. Wilson, former Gen
eral Electric president.
Mr. Roosevelt was asked
whether he contemplated that
Nelson would resume his duties
as head of WPB after the trip
to China which Nelson Is mak
ing with MaJ. Gen. Patrick J.
Hurley on a mission assigned to
them by the Chief Executive.
He replied that Nelson was
leaving today and that the mis
sion was very Important. He
said the question was almost
iffy and he did not know.
He went on to say that It Is
sort of iffy to say what's going j
to happen in me iuiure. una
again, he said he did not know.
BREMERTON CHAT
OF F. R. POLITICAL
Washington, Aug. 25. (U.R)
The war department revealed
today that it has agreed to a
request of the socialist party for
radio time to make a shortwave
broadcast to servicemen over
seas on grounds that President
Roosevelt's Aug. 12 speech from
Bremerton, Wash., was a "politi
cal address." It said the socialist
party will have time equal to
that of the president's address
for its broadcast.
The department said other
political parties asked for and
have been furnished copies of
the correspondence between the
war department and the social
ist party concerning the matter.
Everywhe re in Battle
Colair'
BASEBALL
National
Philadelphia 9 15 0
Boston - 7 10 3
Raffensberger, Karl, Shuman,
D. Barrett ann Peacock; Barrett,
Hutchinson, Tobin and Hofferth.
American
St. Louis .
Detroit .....
4 2
5 1
Man-
Galehouse, Caster and
cuso. Turner; Trout and Swift.
HULL AND DULLES
NOT AGREED UPON
PEACE TALK PLAN
Washington, Aug. 25. (U.R)
Secretary of State Cordcll Hull
and John Foster Dulles, foreign
policy adviser to Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey, issued a Joint state
ment today indicating lack of
complete agreement on the
question ot non-partisan discus
sion of means of attaining a last
ing peace.
The Joint statement said that
they had agreed on "numerous
aspects" of the subject and
would continue to confer about
developments as they arise.
"The secretary maintains,"
the statement said, "the position
that the American people con
sidered the subject of future
peace as a non-partisan subject
which must be kept entirely out
of politics.
'Mr. Dulles, on behalf of Gov.
Dewey, stated that the governor
shared this view on the under
standing, however, that it. did
not preclude full public non
partisan discussion of the means
of attaining a lasting peace.
F
E
OF STATE 8
Washington, Aug. 25. (U.R)-
Sen. Guy Cordon, R., Ore., to
day estimated that in the three-
! : i i U
year pcriuu jiiniicuiMiciy iuiiun-
ing the war Washington and
Oregon would receive a com
bined total of $18,211,000 In fed
eral aid for roads, If the post
war highway bill, now ready for
consideration by congress, is
passed.
He said Washington would re
ceive $9 448.000 and Oregon
$8,763,000. Under terms of the
bill, the federal government
would pay 60 per cent of the
cost ol construction. -
of France
7 Brussels. J 'J
i,le BELGIUM? J
(Acm Telephoto)
SOVIET TIGHTENS
GRIP ON BALI;
TARTU CAPTURED
London, Aug. 25 (U.R) Red
army troops tightened their hold
on the traoDf-d German Baltic
army loaay wii- me cap u.
Tartu, key rail Jtinct on In con-
smith Romanian trooDS were de-
I scrting the Nazi allies and sur-
renaering Dy me mousanus iu .
the two Russian armies driving
on Bucharest.
The capturp of Tartu, describ
ed as 'an important German
stronghold covering the roads of
the central region of Estonia."
was announced by Premier Mar
shal Josef Stalin In an order of
the day.
(The clandestine Radio Atlan
tic reported in a broadcast re
corded by NBS today that large
forces of Russian paratroopers
had captured Brasov, 25 miles
northwest of Ploestl and 83 miles
northwest of Bucharest).
The Romanian troops on the
southern front meanwhile, after
having been ordered by their
king to cease resistance against
the Russians were surrendering
to the two Soviet armies which
have overrun virtually all of
Bessarahia and northern Molda
via and driven to within 138
miles of Bucharest.
OCT. 7 DEADLINE
FOR REGISTERING
Voters who have failed to
vote for the past two years- are
required by state law to re
register at the county clerk's of
fice at least 30 days prior to the
general election on Nov. 7 If
they want to rast ballots, Coun
ty Clerk George Carter warned
today.
Regardless of whether they
have moved from former pre
cincts, all voters are required to
re-register If they haven't voted
In two years, Carter explained.
Deadline for re registering, and
for those who are not registered
Is Oct. 7, he stated.
ROAD "CONTRACTS LET
Sacramento, Aug. 25. U.R)
Five contracts entailing expendi
tures on the state li'ghway sys
tem In northern California total
Ing $179,000 today were award
ed by the department of public
works. -
CANNES FALLS TO
ALLIES; ADVANCE
CLOSEJHYONS
Axis Battle To Delay Cap
ture of Rhone Valley, Key
To Escape Routes.
Rome, Aug. 25 (U.R) Allied
forces have captured the coast
town of Antibes, 10 miles south
west of Cannes, it was announc- j
ed officially today.
Rome, Aug. 25 (U.R) Ameri
can forces captured the Riviera
resort city of Cannes today and
were reported battling the Ger
mans only 15 miles below Lyon,
big Rhone valley industrial cen
ter, 170 miles inland from the
Mediterranean coast.
A United Press disnatch from '
Annccy, capital of Haute Savoie
province, said an American iiy-
ing column was expected there
momentarily from Grenoble, 53
miles to the south. .
The fact that the Americans
had not yet arrived at Annecy
appeared to disprove earlier re
ports that they already had
reached the Swiss border at St.
Julien, 18 miles farther north, '
and Evian, 25 miles northeast of
St. Julien.
The Rome newspaper II Tem
po said an American armored
column had engaged the Ger
mans 15 miles south of Lyon
after an advance from Grenoble,
58 miles to the soj.ithoast. French
maquls were said to be ln con
trol of Lyon, long a resistance
center, but the Germans appear
ed to ba fighting to prolong
the American advance as long
as possible. .
The fall of Lyon would cut
all the main escape routes for
German forces remaining in
southwest France and close the
gay between the allied armies ln
central and southern France to
170 miles. The -American ad
vance already had cut the last
railway link between France
and Italy.
French forces tightened their
rlng of cncrricmcnt about the
doomcd Gcrm(m garrlson ln
Toulon, capturing the land homeland,
arsenal inside the city and the The Soviet foreign commlsar-by-passed
stronghold of Olll- lat, In the first official Russian
oules, two and a half miles west statement since King Michael's
of Toulon. j announcement that Romania had
PACIFIC RAIDED
Pearl Harbor, Aug. 25 (U.R)
Army and navy bombers, in a
series of new attacks, raided
the Bonins, Wake, Ponape,
Nauru and remaining enemy
bases in the Marianas and Mar
shall, Pacific fleet headquar
ters announced today.
Seventh AAF Liberators
bombed Iwo Jima, approximate
ly 700 miles southeast of Tokyo,
Wednesday night, against only
slight anti-aircraft fire. A navy
Liberator bombed Ponape in
the Carolines Tuesday and army
Mitchells returned for another
attack Wednesday.
Venturas attacked Japanese
Installations on
the phosphate
Island of Nauru both Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Marianas-based planes hit
Pagan Island, north of Salpan,
anr Aguijnn, between Rota and
Tinlan Wednesday, attacking
gun positions, storage facilities
art1 rmirlln0 nnrf .Inrt nif imf. '
eral fires.
Search planes bombed Wake
Tuesday, while Dauntlesses and
Corsairs and Liberators carried
out further neutralization raids
against enemy positions in the
Marshalls.
QUAKERS AID JAPS
Palo Alto. Cal., Aug. 25. (U.R)1
The facmc uoasi Association
of Friends, representing Quaker
groups In California, Oregon and
Washington, has pledged aid to
Amerlrans nf Japanese ancestry,
eeklnff to return to former1
homes on the Pacific coast, it
was announced today. .
ROMANIA AT WAR
WITH HUNS, CAIRO
BROADCAST SAYS
a
Troops Surrender En Masse,
Confusion Rife Reds
Give Terms.
London, Aug. 25 (U.R) The
Romanian government has de
clared war on Germany as a
result of fighting between Ro-
manian and German troops,
BBC reported late today, quot
ing radio Bucharest, and the
same source said the German
garrison at Bucharest had sur
rendered.
London. Aug. 25 (U.R) The
British Broadcasting company
heard Radio Cairo broadcast an
announcement that the new
Romanian government had de-
ciareci war on uerawnjr,
The German Luftwaffe bomb
ed Bucharest late today, BBC
said.
Moscow. Aug. 25 U.R)-
Ro-
mnnian troops ordered by their
king to cease resisting the Red
npn.ii wnr. cnrrpnrtprlnr? bv the
thousnnds today In the face of a
,,. 0nSiamihl. that already
has overrun virtually all Bessar
abia and northern Moldavia and
carried to within 138 miles of
Muchnrest.
Front dispatches indicated that
the Romanian army had col
lapsed completely as the 2nd
and 3rd Soviet Ukrainian armies,
advancing up to 28 miles ln 24
hours, rolled to within 40 miles
or less of the Galatl gap to south
ern Romania and 118 miles of
the great oil center of Ploestl.
German forces still were of
fering last-ditch resistance at
many points and some engaged
In armed clashes with the Ro
manians, who were surrender
ing en masse. More than 25.000
prisoners, most of them Roman
ians, were rounded up yesterday
alone.
Dispatches likened the con
fusion to that prevailing in Italy
following Prvr Marshal Plet-
m nnrinirlln'a ..finltlllntlnn In the
Allies while the Germans still j
i were resisting fiercely In his
accepted a Soviet armistice of
fer, warned last night that the
Red army must continue mili
tary operations in Romania un
til German forces there had been I
destroyed.
BID TO F.R. TALK,
DATE UNCERTAIN
Washington, Aug. 25 Aim
Commenting that he sees lots of
people privately, President
Roosevelt said today that he
had been In private contact with
Wendell L. Willkle.
Mr. Roosevelt, under news
conference questioning, said he
knew of no plans for a "pri
vate" meeting with the 1940 re
publican presidential nominee.
Then he went on to say he
might meet him but that no
. aie had been set.
Asked whether he had been
In touch with Willkle, the Pres-
ident said. well, yes: privately.
"Docs privately preclude any
j ..." a reporter started to ask.
nut he was quickly cut off by
, the President wso said yes, It
precluded.
New York, Aug. 25 flJ.R)
Confirming reports that Presi
dent Roosevelt had Invited him
to a conference, Wendell L.
Willkle said today that he
would prefer such a meeting
after the election, but that If
Mr. Roosevelt wished to see him
,0oncr he would comply.
LT. COL. ALLEN PASSE3
Fort Douglas, Utah, Aug. 25,
(U.R) Lt. Col. Charles J. Allen,
55. commanding officer, eastern
security district, ninth service
command, died of a heart attack
i at bU borne bert yesterday.
War Bulletins
(Br Unitad Praas)
Tokyo radio haard by Unit
ad Prass reported today tha
cabinet of Premier Kuniaki
Koiao had set Sapt. 5 as tha
data of tha opening df tha
naxt extraordinary sauion of
tha Imperial diet. Tha session
will last flva days.
Chungking, Aug. 25 (U.R)
Chinese forcas era making
coordinated attacks at soma
two doian points along tha
Hankow-Ichang highway and
tha Hwajung-Ichang section
of the Yangtie waterway to
- divert Japanesa troops from
Hunan to Hupah province, a
Chlnasa military spokesman
said today.
GERMANY OUT OF
WAR BY OCTOBER,
WOODRUM CLAIMS
Washington, Aug. 25 flJ.R)
Chairman Clifton A. Woodrum,
D., Va., told the House Commit
tee on postwar military policies
today that the army "tentative
ly" estimates that the war
against Germany will end in
October.
His statement came as Presi
dent Roosevelt declined at his
press conference to make any
guess on when Germany will
collapse or how long the war
ln the Far East will last.
It followed by 12 hours a
statement by Secretary of Navy
James Forrestal quoting Gen.
Dwlght Eisenhower as saying
there was no rational way to
predict when the Germans
could be finished off.
Woodrum declined to expand
on his statement. But the com
mittee heard Rear Admiral
James H. Irish, who was testify
ing on disposal of surplus prop
erty, declare that the navy .Is
"assuming that the war against
the Japanese will proceed on at
least until the end of 1945."
POPE ASKS ITALY
MADE FULL ALLY
Rome, Aug. 25 (U.R) Vatican
sources reported today that Pnpc
Pius XII had informed Prime
Minister Winston Churchill dur
ing a 45-minute conversation
Wednesday1 that the church rec
ognizes the Justice of punishing
war crimlnab.
The Pope, however, was said
to have expressed the hope that
punishment not be extended toj
the people of Italy, which he sug
gested be made a full ally with
other United Nations.
The church s attitude toward
war criminals was among many
Important International subjects
discussed by the Pope and the
British Prime Minister at the
Vatican, Informed quarters said.
These sources, expressing be
lief that the conferenre tended
to Increase the church's Influ
ence in world affairs, pointed
nut (hnt , I. n .hIiim . .nhtMl.
had emphasized that Churchill's
visit to the Vatican was not Just
a courtesy call.
The Pope was said to have ex
pressed keen concern over forth
coming peace terms and urgi-d
Churchill, when ho Is at the
peace conference to consider the
principle of nationalities on the
contention thnt nationalities do
not die.
Cut Public Debt By
Excess Food Sale
Washington, Aug. 25 (U.R)
The senate todoy amended Its
surplus property disposal bill to
earmark government revenue
from the sale of excess war foods
for retirement of the public debt.
Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, D
Colo., objected that the amend
ment restricted the future pow
ers of congress over appropria
tion and expenditure of public
funds. Wherrv rentier! thnt it
would insure that "this money
Is going to a purpose for which
it is needed reduction of the
I public debt." -
NAZIS EVACUATE
BOMB COAST, FLEE
TO SHORTER LINE
Mass Flight to Marne and
Reich Border Underway;
Havre Fall Near.
By Virgil PInkley
United Press Correspondent
Supreme Headuarters, AEF,
Aug. 25 (U.R) The Germans
were reported evacuating the
robot bomb coast of northern
France at top speed today, fall
ing back towards the valley of
the Marne and the western bor
ders of the relch.
Word of the mass enemy with
drawal was flashed back to
headquarters by allied airmen,
who reported the roads leading
east and south from Dieppe,
Amiens, Beauvals and the sur
rounding areas Jammed with
German traffic.
Throughout Thursday, large
numbers of Nazi trucks were
spotted racing down toward the
Mams and the German frontier,
and RAF night fliers reported
that the flow of traffic Increased
after dark.
For the first time since the
battle of France began, the Ger
mans ignored the presence ot
allied night planes overhead
and rode bumper to bumper
with their headlights blazing,
indicating the frantic haste of
the evacuation.
Headquarters spokesmen had
no Immediate comment, beyond
the grim note that the weather
ln northern France was clear to
day and that allied warplanes
already were ranging over the
crowded highways.
The reported evacuation of
the channel coast from which
Nazi robot bombs have been
spreading death indiscriminate
ly through London and southern
Enland since mid-June, came as
four allied armies crushed thru
the beaten remnants of the Ger
man seventh army with a speed
that Indicated the battle of the
Seine had reached Its final
hours.
British and Canadian forces
from the west slashed as much
as 10 miles into the Nazi pocket
between the Rlsle and Seine
rivers while the American 1st
army crushed in from the south
ln converging drives that threat
ened to carry quickly Into the
great channel port of Le Havre.
Canadian 1st army troops
pounded along the channel coast
to the outskirts of Honfleur,
directly across the Seine estuary
from Le Havre and within full
view of the port, while .the
Americans last were reported at
Elbeuf, less than 40 miles south
of Le Havre, and closing ln rap-
Idly.
RAF fliers smashed one ap
parent German attempt to evac
uate Le Havre early Thursday
morning, and an unconfirmed
report broadcast by radio
France at Algiers said British
air borne troops had been landed
near the port in the Seine estu
ary area.
HITLER WEAPON
IS
(By Unitad Prass)
German secret weapons "will
overwhelm the allies at the very
last moment" on the western
front, a Domel news agency dis
patch from Berlin, broadcast by
Tokvo radio, asserted today.
"The much-rumoreo V-2 se
cret weapon has made its ap
pearance on the eastern front
and lt will not be long before
it comes to make its influence
also felt on the western front.
The time for its employment de
pends on the always well-timed
decisions of Fuehrer Adolf Hit
ler. "It Is stated miracle will
hanocn In which full division
of the enemy forces will be
smashed In a few moments by
Incredibly high explosives and a
I group of tanks and armored cars
may share me same rate uy ui
I pressure of liquid lr."