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fo) o) Lra L&Lra t.:. ft era I 1" c -CM 1 5 i met J-; i. In The Shania.Cacadn Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS, ORECON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1944 August 34, 1944 , Mix. (Aug. 23) 79 Min 37 Precipitation last 24 hour ....00 Stream year to data 10.62 Normal 12.36 Last year ......:.17.B5 Forecaitt Partly cloudy. - Number 10245 ftgrihst nn nunganr lw.if-0 ABOUTFACE ACTION STUN!:. ' tun- tP.NKINS laEuropo today is nrou tlinfl ami ----- WKtodo ..tot oi t pii thing, however.we can ianHIMer-ihourBlP.. Sunning out; . , irigr (allied supreme head ffie .) t" u officially ,? I'irlj didn't auluully W Into Ml M lhnl, Blllod Tiw IUhtln their way 'Umuch confusion., biit Jsw lo be the outline of Si happened: The French un .rtround mndo aomo sort ot See permitting the per Zln Parli to leave Tho Cor iSreneitfd. Whereupon the rwch called on us for help, y fte Pari! German apparently ; o work a foxy scnemo to 1 tha German army units to Jiouthwo.it of tho c ty use irijii ihort cut to Rot out Of aftipthat had been iprung on ..- , . , . ::.- "HIRE l myaterlous. ,ob f Tioualy heavily censored, ro kd today of an attempted Got fa DunWque out of HAVRE, (ill wanhlps and other vosaW. fed with troops, cam pour rtout o( the Seine estuary ttrtd pHf ittscked'-feroclously"' by ur planes. Tho fight raged for W- ncurs, ana largo, num n" of the German elites are ported to hnve been sunk,, ',; were they taking this loAl chanco to got out of me by sea? There can be onlv one answer: pier are afrnld wo will bush 'IN BEHIND Havre and cut them off. Iw are badlv needed for the locket coast defense. So thoy pits, to .gel there by way of the (Ihli Is euro tucsswork.' re- pember.) . .. . '..... - 5 must bo threatening the rocknl pnn.l MrHE DlRK.rT. fY than appears in tho dis- Itld that rrniaxH h Rr.liin BR. pw Paris Is still umiccountcd I.-It may be heading north, -.. MARSEILLE falls. Bordeaux r n I ..ll Th.lk ., , uuvu iniivii, awi. 'OMinff lin ft-ftm Ittn. n,,ll, l "than 200 miles from a Ion Willi Pulton's . forces pusninji eost from Paris, When Nit iunctlnn it: AT.T. Ihn prrnans led In France south of K"U will be cut off and trapped. kmKIe.wm lllon bo THAT P ANY LESS Germans for the pi nana behind tho Rhino. sa ITHFrnnco won back (all but light ihn " , " . "r. Romania (apparently) quits tho wnnans and comrs over to our tJS5.11 Immedlntoly starts ZmiSS UNGARYr ,to S"'01' h""1 K'vcn holf of TiMiun Transylvania. '' !-:- '.. . , GAIN Hitler's chickens' arc i nomo to' roost. - " hit i;1 sangsier rasnion, iZ. th5 dl,ys when ho was ti.g00f 110 toolt half of 'TOsylvanln away - from'. Ro H, ,? M avo It to Hungary. Kvd rcccf D!id Vugoslavla and .')0n to Buliinria. ' . ', 'ryinK to hold onto to b. i j . u"crs to come over .i00 .lr. we " confirm her But .l'!n'.of hor Ill-gotten. gains. hiiZ . If "queczed between whfth..! """iiiiiin, Helmut ui Mri&l1! Qnjtlou8 to neo BulKarla Bolknng lUnnlln,.;:, HIKJ IMVlOOl ; u on fogo Thirteen), tomes Guthrie U Off NanfAc It lo,. 1VT9N' Aug.124. (PV- rhcr,.i, lno ivioerty snip 5 $Hc off Naples 'a few "QU, V" ""W"'K u min is tear .iff -Kim. wbi m Guthrie and' an Ner r!;ly ' shlPi the-Alex-th4d mimm Beil- dls Plt,8jLmmtory cargoes at Na- Shen tLWe.re starting home, though ?vL'1ru mines, i- At Vnd nAlveJy damaged, tho 'caiuaijno Port..There;were NAZI LEADERS GermansAppeal " People to Keep Faith ' to By WADE WERNER LONDON. Aim, 24 UP) Bucharest dispatches today re ported Romanian troops march ing against Hungary In swift sue cemlun to Romania's sudden chango of sides In the war In an ubout-fuco which directly threat ened Germany throughout tho .Balkans. Germany, stunned, called the new Romanian government a communist regime, reported rioting In the rich oil and wheat kingdom and appealed to Ro manian troops not to take or ders from the trnltor king . But to remain faithful to the German ally who sheds her blood for tho defense of Romania," ' 8tert Offensive ' At 7:55 a. m., however, a Buchareit ' dispatch relayed by the 6wlss radio said Romanian trooos "started a march - Into Transylvania last night." Tran sylvania is me mountainous pro. V1IIVD, linitlWh W,V, , f.V V". frntW '.RnmAnlo ntirl lianrtprl to Hungary' In Vienna dictate of Romania and Hungary have- been at swords edge ever' since with Urge proportions of their armed forces orawn up ii me Hitlerlan boundary of 1040. Fre quent border clashes have been (Continued on faga Two) Officers Trace. ; Lost Money Here '. Juvenile and pollco officers arc still busy tracing the balance of tho $850 found and distribut ed by three small boys hero re cently. About $650 of the mon ey, has been recovered, and the youngsters are being questioned as to tho names and descriptions of, persons to whom -they gave we money. - , , ' Hnrold Hcndrickscn. head Ju vcnlle officer, requests that thn who received money from the boys assist tho authorities by notifying tho Juvenile office. Stock Market TrendsDowhward NEW YORK, Aug. '24 (P) TV.- artn1 mnrtrot with scattered exceptions limped Into lower territory today , without being glven;. much .. of .a liquidating push.' ". . ' v " ' 1 While Issues with good peace prospects' did bettor than others thnt may face reconversion diffi culties, bidding for these was on tho timid side and few were able to mako any notable progress. Quitting of Romania and the quickened allied drive against the nazls-accentuated investment conservatism. '. ' : - French Hold Part Of Paris, Allies Smash Into City . . ..,.'.'( , - By The Associated Press LONDON. Aua. 24 lI'l Gen. Elienhbwar'l headouarlan Hif. closed .today that allied troops Were lighting-their-way into Paris, larne sections of which, are held, by . the French forces of the interior.- : - . ; (An official statement from aupreme headquarters, as dis tributed by the OWL said French patriots were in possession of "a greater portion of Paris"). . Fall of the city Is expected momentarily,' but 'so far. as allied headquarters Is concerned li has not yet been liberated. Gen. Charles de Gaulle and the commander of the French .forces of the interior, Lt. Gen. . Joseph . Pierre Koenig. had ' announced eariy yesterday mai -ine capital No Reservations Necessary A 1 '" TO By EDWIN BHAN1CE STOCKHOLM. Auk. 24 UP) The Finnish minister to Sweden, O. A. Grlpenberg, suddenly de parted by air today for Helsinki In a journey obviously conneoted with efforts to get Finland out of the war. Reliable quarters said, how ever, that. "as far as we know, the Finnish .government has made no attempt directly to con tact Moscow up to-Tnursaay morning" -. j- ( ,f trlif to Ticteinlt.l In. two weeks... U pin Ion nero -was inai no-, mania' exit from the -war nilgW hasten action by BarOn Manner- helm, president and' marshal of Finnish gburcessald- ihii 'old lenrinr hoi heori '"cleanhg 'the decks"5 for an armistice.'! 1 Re actionaries, Germans and- tha former Finnish minister, to the United States HJalmar PrOcope were reported taking advantage of Inactivity- by pushing a: "go slow" propaganda campaign; re garaing peace. ' '. Proaaaanda Snread' J ' Information from Finland said tho Germans ' were- spreading propaganda that they were giv ing up France. in order to launch a tremdndous .offensive against , (Continued on fags- tw Mercury Neors Danger Point Temperatures dropped nar the.dangcr point In varlom parts of the Klamath basin last night, but no serious damage- to crops was reported. The minimum-in Klnmnlh Valla was .37.. White . frost was visible at some places in the vallay, this morning. At Hildebrand, garden flowers were frosted down,. Several farmers who. attended a committee meeting at tne coun- iv .ncrAni'c nffien said thev ob- served-no crop damage while itnmintf Infn town. Part, but not all, of the grain In the lake oasins nas Deen "marip" and is beyond frost dam. ortn Rnrlov hIoiib the west side Tuielake road is well matured, and tho; first harvesting has started In ; the extreme corner near the entrance to .the Lava Beds monument. . , ' was . liberated and . their state ments were - hailed by govern mental leaders the world over. French underground leaders after four days of street fighting in Paris, negotiated an "armis tice with-the German garrison, presumobly- on the terms that the. nazls were to. leave the city, supreme headquarters of the al lied expeditionary force said. Tho Germans apparently repudi ated the agreement and kept on fighting and .the underground ailed on the allies for help. - - . Threaten- -Damage i ' Thn Germans 'were said to have threatened widespread de struction to public buildings and installations. - A rrencn unaer,- S round leader who came to Lon on from. Paris a month ago said the Germans then had at .least 10.000 regular troops irv ' the VI nouncemept was a : surprise to FMbh-s'ofirces tH LSnaon, who acknowledged .there might be fighting around Paris'. M the al 4t.nnfSD' sihtfht"ln break, in The French &ld their best infor- fnaUon Indicated that tne rrencn forces of the Interior still were ill bontrOl of the center of the city, and the main buildings , Mysterious Call A mysterious Germart call, possibly code, repeated over and over on the Paris radio wave Unfettx nMrteH tonieht: "Atten tlon. Attention, enemy tank ensnrhnnrls uihich have broken through are to be wiped out at stronoDolnts.-; This-, is under cnoolr i n rJ " ; While great popular Interest centered in the struggle in Paris, an operation of far greater mili tary import was going on down the-Seine where allied armies nftpmntlnff to-destroy . UV terly the fleeing German armies. No Previous Knowledge ' The "armistice',' negotiations hv thn French street fiehters in Paris apparently .were made without previous knowledge of the suoreme command. A direc- (Continued on Page.Two) Gabreski Taken By Germans WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (IP) T.t.i Col. Franc Is Gabreski, ZS America's leading ace who was reported missing in action JUiy 2n. is a nrisoner .of war -in Ger many, the war department dis closed today. No details ' were .'given. Ga breski, a fighter pilot from' Oil City, Pahad Si, kills to his credit' . when he was reported missing 28 of them In the air. """St: ' ' ' ' r, 1 Nv.rV-'rj ten tW? ti if. ' -' t -i vi..iuiHiai,Hi .frflm traval- don't' hatha Clair- Birtwhistle (above) of Montpelier, Ida. With' his handy pushcart he has travelled from Pocatellol Ida., through Klamath Falls on his war to' Visit his brother in Tuielake, Calif.) and he went by foot -almost all the way. He said he would work a few days in the tpwns along the way, sleeoing by the road when night came. The steep 'grade on the South Sixth atreet viaduct had him stopped when The' Herald and Mews photographer snapped hU picture. . ? . Barracks Medical Progrom Progress Tod ot Luncheon Germans Try -.! Large Scale Evacuations; -. ; : . . . - ... : . ' -1 By The Associated Press . . ' LONDON. Aua. 24 WPl-Amerlcan troops slashlna north' from the Riviera reached the border of Switsefland today, and Hitler's bold on France was slipping rapidly away. - At the mouth , of the Bein the . Germans' attempted larger scale '."Dunkerque" from -threatened L Havre, with .many war vessels and other ships which -were made the targets of ferocious assaults by allied aircraft. J - . . ; Bordeaux, .last.-German' stronghold in southwestern Franca, was reported to have been captured by American troops with tha aid of .French Maquis. - - ' v. - . Even Paris, -whose "liberation," as 'announced yesterday sr. la: Charlau da Gaulle, set off premature reioicing the world, over, was expected to fall momentarily: - - . . , . . , . Tha Germans', evacuation fleet of Le Havre, including a wider auartmanf 'of 'torbedo boats, gunboats corvettes .and . merchant ships was bombed for eight solid hour from midnight on today by relays of British- naval airerait ana oiner tuvr pianes. - - -The' -attempted German flight coincided with - advances all, around tha Seine -corner which hoiftly were .choking off German- escape i route. - u The German were retreating airaiong tne xroni jromv uuaua. to the sea. ' . Una "riliriatehaa maid- Field Marshal General Guenther ron- Kluge's seventh and 25th armies r had. been reduced to about 10 'diVlSlOHS, - - ..j: .... .-I '' The British closed. tn rapidly on the dwindling Seine pocket, captUririg'ThiberTille, JO miles northeast of Orbee, and two other TUVOIUI lIMMtli. .... ... Lt uen. Alexander ra-.faicn E- I1NDOM. Aue. 25-WV-'Rus-; sian forces have captured- Chis- inau and Roman, aa miles soum eaii of Iasi in r.omania, Marshal Stalin announced in two orders of the -day.. Bacau, 53 miles southwest of Iasi, - was among, several, other towns- captured in: sweeping red army advance deep into Ro mnnia .whesa' sovernment al ready has announced, it .was .de serting i Aaou Miuer. - , . - Btr: vil. v."mr -The. advance : took, the Rus-. sians - to '-within -120- miles of the oiL center pf- PloestL' -Both Roman"ahd-Bacau. are on - the '- Cernauti Bucharest raU'- line -akirting lthe Carpatb hBlS; - ' Kishinev CGhlnihauV. riad been hvnassed- fcy the; red army' Ixacture of Iasi, 55 miles to the. --' 'Vf-. v CapHal City . - r "The-:cAf -was the capital of the cs0viet : Moldavian - republic, which' liicludes -Bessarabia- an--nexed from-Romania in. 1940.' -Stalin's -order was- addressed to-Gen.' ROdion -Y.-Malinovsky's second Ukrainian army- group and' .'GV - Fedor -I.' -Tolbuklan's third .Ukrainian group.' A inlld flurry ofilocal rumors about the Marine Barracks re ceived a conclusive de-bunking from . Colonel B. Dubel and Commander Lowell T. Cogges hall in talks before the Kiwanis club at a luncheon meeting held at the Barracks today, Dr. ' Coggeshall, the senior medical officer at the Barracks, said that a single case of sus- Wilson Resigns WPB Post, j Charges a ; Unfair Attacks By Aides to Nelson WASHINGTON,' Aug. 24 (P) The top structure of the war pro duction board was blown wide, open, today with the unexpected resignation of Charles E. Wilson, executive vice .- chairman, who chargcd.unfalr attacks had been inspired against him by aides of his boss, Donald. E. Nelson. .WIlson's.letter.'of. resignation to President Roaicvelt came only - a few. days after Nelson himself , was reported, ready to walk, out.,; :.'.. --' rn ', ' ", ; A' wholesale reorganization of the upper -lovel of WPB appear ed Inprospept. ' ' : . .! . ! . Differences Smoulder . 'Differences .. between. -Nelson and Wilson and their prospective adherents long had smouldered at WPB. In accepting Wilsons resignation , after - conferring with- Ne!s6n. the president, took note of this fact by saying "I was made aware of some dissension within - the . w a r production board.".-, . . ' i ' V. Recently;- the 'i disagreements dustrlBl reconversion problems , . In the WEB. organ za,tion, Wll-t.-'L-.'MinM o0,v,o a. stunning BUIi.B ' WMV vh... - . , . surprise to. most officials. Both Nelson .and ..Wilson -addressed: a staff meeting hold behind closed doors only .minutes after ' the White ' House, resignation v- announcement.- Just before it broke up, loud cheering -was rheard' inside the auditorium. Questioned after ward, Wilson joking said: ."May be they were glad to get rid of me;".- ' : ' . ' ' - - f :' Plans to Leave ' Nelson SRid he still'- planned lo leave soon for' China on a spe cial mission for. President Roose velt. .' The original White House announcemont.that.Nplson.might be in Chungking two or : three monthsrcorning at a . time of In tense dispute over. .'how great a resumptioa .pf.- civilian produc tion should be perhiitted had prompted authoritative , reports that Nelson would' step out. , I Wilson had been slated to. run WPB in Nelson's- absence. Nelr son told reporters-tbday that the man whoi now. would have the top place was yet-'to bo chosen. Appears. Before Board,': I i Wilson left ,hl office In mid-afternoon- to? ajjjear' befdre the i senate war Investigating . com mittee in response to an invita tion Issued yesterday. Asked' if he nlanned to tell the committee everything, he replied "You're goi-durned right.',' .. , ; f . He added that he had no lm- wtAloln .rtlnnta fni tho flttliro hut probably would "gravitate back LO uuiicrui . Cj1VI.VI.. ' no c- signed as president to, take, the government post. ; f "Unfair Attacks" ' jn' a letter of re?lgnation to the president; Wilson said differ ences among subordinates on the war production board had result ed in unfair attacks upon, him. Stories that he is opposed to re conversion, - Wilson said, ' were "In my opinion inspired by sub ordinate officials of the board connected with the personal staff ... of Mr.v, Nelson." ' v. . - M. Nelson,-WPB chairman, who , 1- .4' 1 .. , U ... i , U DaoI- conicrf vif .Hi--iciiKwi njui- i dent Roosevelt about two hours before: Wilson's resignation was announced. Wilson, said he has encounter (Continued on Page-Thlrteen) Contract Award For Bonanza School Deferred Awarding of the contract for the construction of Bonanza high school has been deferred laooi nnnnspl. according to Harold Ashley, county school clerk. As the low bid submitted h -nmctprhnus' Construction company, Klamath Falls, at $94,- ZOU Was aoove me mnuuin oupM- lated in the school budget, the present building plan probably cannot be carried out. . - 'The board is considering two nUornniKs tn the original plan, one of which- would involve the omission, of the gym,-the other the Elimination, of the gym and offices, until money can be bud geted for the completion of the building. The decision, of the board, will be announced in ,a few days. ,, . '. American Tanks Enter Paris :' NEW YORK, Aug. 24 '(P)A Free French radio using a Vichy freouencv said in a broadcast monitored by NBC today that "the first .American tanks have entered Paris through the Alesla . ea'te and ''established a juncture with the French forces of ' the interior." Th.e broadcast, ; not immed iately confirmed'- by official auarters. said -the Americans were- established in Bourg. La Reine and that-the Germans were massed between the- Or leans and the Chantiliy gates, pected malaria had been ; report-, ed among' the -civilian popula-: tion here, and ' that diagnosis failed to show- that this patient actually had - malaria.- .He said there- is- no danger of any seri ous spread of the malady. here, whereas filarlasis cannot possi bly maintain itself in an area possessing elevation and .climat ic conditions such .as those, at Klamath -Falls. : j. Marine Move Out The first "sraduating class" of marines who have thrown off the tropical maladies has, moved from here. These boys were given final tests including three lenethv hikes with lequipment, a half-day at manual of arms and a vigorous workout with cross-cut saws. They? came through these tests satisfactori ly. V ;' ; '--I Althoueh marines at the Bar racks number more than 2000, it-has' not been necessary yet to open the second dispensary ward for bed cases. ' , s Men Not; "Sick",' '".. j ' . Dr. Coggeshall explained that a major feature! of the medical (Continued oh Page Two) Melon-Loaded Truck Hits Car . A truck loaded with1 water melons sideswiped a stalled car on- highway 9T about 10 miles soutH of Klamath Falls Wednes day night, sending both of them toppling into the irrigation ditch at the side of the road, -j No one ,was injured. , ' ' i Names of occupants of? either vehicle were not Immediately available from state police rec ords. ; r ' ' " i One car was stalled ion the highway at the side of the road when the truck coming the same way tried to avoid it, but did not turn but far enough and side swlneri it. The occupants of the stalled car got out of the-way in time to escape injury, p As the car was sideswiped, it was knocked -into the ditch, ac cording to state police, and the truck i went about 70 feet when the driver lost control and it too, went-into theiditch. "MOSCOW,- Aug.- 25 -W) Captives' -re ported hostillties spreading between -the -troops of '-Germany - and- Romania to day while two great. Russian army groups' swept toward the heart of the oil and wheat king dom in drives apparently-aimed at 'trapping any nazia stllj in their -path.v ; . ' . Companion offensives In south and -' north- Poland continued apace.- , - . .-. Troops "which- seized- Deblca were' declared overrunnmg hun-. : (Continued -on' Fage- two)" . Yoiiih Dies as Resiift of Fall BELLINGHAM,- Wash.,. Aug. 24 .(iT-A rescue party radioed todav.it found 17-vear-old Larry Strathdee ..dead at the foot of ai Mount Baker, ice cliff over which' the S e a 1 1 1 e. . youth; plunged Thursday in a hiking mifihan..' - j -. . : The body was -being -brought to the Komo Kulshan ranger station.' : , Jack Schwabland.. ',-16, ,7 with, whom- Strathdee had made the dangerous; climb- over ice slopes, Euided the rescue ' rjarty. He-re-. ported his companion . slipped and 'fell over a sheer cliff -at the 9000-foot level. landing oir-a frozen- ice' field TT. S. seventh armv reached the Swisg -frontier -after a drive, of 200 miles in 10 days through tha? French Alps from the Mediterranean.-, . ';... .'..-" . . . Pushes Beyond Sen - L "Lt" ' Gen. ' George S; Patton' U. S. third army had pushed 15 miles beyond Sens, 62 miles, southeast of liberated Paris, -tor, ward the- German frontier,. 160. miles away. : - Ther-two - rforces apparently, were less than 200 miles- from.-, a junction' isolating all southern: France but already : much . ot. southern France is free. n Reach St. Julien 1 ! 'A- dispatch from Geneva said American troops have, reached. St. Julien on-the Swiss -frontle-flve -miles south- of - Geriev8.-.-.-A; reliable . report.- said other - ad vanced-units -had 'arrived at Kvlan, 12 miles: above- St. GIrn. golph on- the Swiss frontier. ! u An Algiers broadcast said Bor deaux, big . "rencn- port- on tneg south. -Atlantic .coast, had .been (Continued : oh 'Page Thirteenl . Sunk in New " Air, Smashes, , . "GENERAL" HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHWEST ' PACIFIC, Aug.. 24 (P)-7-The allied flir campaign to isolate Japan's, island: garri. sons by - sinking . supply. . ships yielded' reports today . of new blows on the Philippine's door step and .in Japan's front yard. Gen-.- -Douglas - -MacArthur's Thursday - communique .-listed successful - attacks in 'his command-area on six- enemy- ves sels,; including- a- freighter- sunk near Mindanao, southern Phil ippines. ' At-Pearl Harbor, Adm. Ches. ter.W. Nimitz-announced a raid Tuesday hy two navy Liberators on a frve-ship. convoy- off ChichJ Jima, m-the .' Boruns, a.- little over 600 miles south of Tokyo. Goebbefs Closes Nazi Amusements "LONDON,-Aug. 24 -OP) .-A new "austerity order", - by Pro paganda .Minister - Goebbels, rpich representative for total mobilization,-will close all German theatres; -shows, cabarets and theatrical.and music - schools, ef fective September 1,- . ; . t i Film, and- radio entertainment will be available only to soldiers and war workers .... : . .- Actors;' circus performers and others, will be. drafted Into the artny. . . . - ...;.;.;. ....". Goebbels also ordered , closing; of all .art: exhibitions, art com petitions and art colleges and the suspension. of publication of fine art literature, fiction and most illustrated - publications. - The number of daily -newspapers will be curtailed.- - - " Bntons Urge Speeding Up . :-;Of World Security Plans By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER I WASHINGTON.' Aug. .,24 (P) Evidence from Romania that Hitler's :EuroDe: is beKmnina :tq .collapse .on .political as iwell as military ironis gave- new .-.em-,-phasis today to British .insistence-, at .the: Dumbarton Oaks conferences for . early .decisions on ; postwar . world . security . or ganization, , . Sir : Alexander Cadogan,: chief xV the:, British:-delegation, - has taken the . lead - in -urging: that at. least a-part of -the security organization' should be set up soon. to.. Span .the gao between the- end of . the .European war which. ne says, may, come, sooner than- expected and .the formal creation ot a new international league; to -preserve peace. . i-. : t, iVlews: Coincide. V'r.v.'.i: ; The; British-view, it ;was learned; is in line 'with the feel ing in s o m e quarters' of the American delesation that .' the British; Russian 'American-Chl nese pieage-maaeiai: ivioscow- vu cooperate, in - the . enforcement o peace' -after the. war-should now. be given some specif ic and organized form, .: ; : j i ; -. v -' This, has raised .speculation In diplomatic circles here that tha spadewgrk : of the Dumbarton Oaks talks; might be followed relatively, quickly-by a -meeting of -. President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin to confirm. and set In-action, three-power . cooperation ; In the- European area an: the im mediate postwar period. , Work May Be Rushed ; -.. Despite recent assertions that the- work? ' might: be . rushed through i to a. full-dress United Nations conference this fall,, the opinion ! in .informed quarters) -.here 'Still isUhat :it will ibe-the end'of the Waror the first part of 1945 before such a meeting -can be, arranged., ,v- . . r r. While the conversations were pushed lorward, at, Dumbarton Oaks, ; Secretary .of State- Hull . .(Continued on Pa jje Thirteen)