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32 Fulf Leased Wire Associated Press PARIS, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 23, 1944 TEN PAGES ESTABLISHED French Liberate Paris Yanks 160 of Mazi Border 9 Record 135 -Ton Halmahera Bombing Marks New Climax By J. B. KRUEGER Associated Press War Editor The unceasing Pacific air offensive against Japan has achiev- No Party Cleavage Over Peace Issues Predicts Senator Republicans In Senate In Harmony This Time Says Austin WASHINGTON prediction that there will be "no party cleavage" over issues of peace and postwar security was made Wednesday by Senator Austin (R-Vt) after a conference with John Foster Dulles, foreign policy adviser to Gov. Thomas E.

Dewey. Austin, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who has supported peace organization efforts leading to the current Soviet-British-American peace talks, and Senator Vandenberg, of Michigan, another Republican committee member, discussed international questions with Dulles before he went to the State Department to confer with Secretary Hull. Dulles came here as Dewey's representative after the Republican Presidential Nominee had commented publicly upon the Dumbarton Oaks conference. Leaving the private residence where Dulles is a guest, Austin said: "I'm strengthened in my opinion that the campaign for president and vice president will not cast into the field of discussion any element of discord based on artisan, selfish interests." Austin said that Republicans in the Senate, where opposition to the League of Nations after the last war blocked American participation, this time were in harmony. Purpose To Be Constructive As for the Republican party, Austin said, "it is not our purpose to obstruct; it is our purpose to be constructive." He added: "This does not mean we are to shut our mouths and be silent and that the subject of international organization is not to be discussed from the party platform." ed a new climax with a record 135-ton bombing of strategic Hal- mahera Island 300 miles south of the Philippines, General MacArthur announced Wednesday.

This strike was the latest and biggest of air blows steadily reducing Halma- hera as a barrier between MacArthur's New Guinea forces and the 'Philippines, which he aims to recapture. Liberators and cannon- packing Mitchells went in unopposed to plaster its airfields, supply dumps and defenses, and to destroy eight parked planes and sink a freighter. The blow followed a 110-ton strike announced Tuesday. Elsewhere the Allied air offensive currently bridging a lull between invasions ranged from the Flores Sea 1,000 miles south of the Philippines to tiny Marcus Island 1,000 miles sutheast of Tokyo. MacArthur's planes hit Ce- ram, Davao, Vogelkop on Dutch New Guinea, Biak Island, Wewak, Paula, New Ireland, New Britain and Bougainville.

Set Fire To 2 Ships Central Pacific air forces under Admiral Nimitz set fire to two ships near Marcus and attacked Truk and Ponape in the Carolines and Yap Island southwest Guam. Wake, U. island some 900 miles east of Marcus, was hit also. The Wake and Marcus blows could have been designated to blind enemy reconnaissance to impending blows in the Western Novice Community Man Fatally Burned James A. Bates, 91, Overcome by Fire Menacing His Barn Overcome by fire which menaced his barn while an adjoining pasture was being burned off, James A.

Bates, 91, of Novice community, Rt. 2, Blossom, was fatally burned Tuesday. He died at 6:30 p. m. at St.

Joseph's Hospital here where he had been brought about 1:45 p. m. Only his wife was near at the time, and she was unable to drag him away from the flames when he fell. His clothing caught fire, and he was badly burned before help could be summoned. Funeral services were set for 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at Springhill tabernacle, conducted by Robert G.

Cook, Church of Christ preacher, Brown-Roden Funeral Home making interment in Springhill Cemetery. Named as pallbearers were Emory East- crwood. Claude Johnson, Marvin England, Ellis Allen, Haywood Howard and Charley Turner. Born in Nashville, March 9. 1853, he had lived in Novice community since 1900, engaging in farming.

Survivors include his wife, the former Miss Mary Lou Ford, and three daughters, Mrs. Esker Moss, Medill; Mrs. Jesse Welch, Kilgorc, and Mrs. Anna Quinn, Mineral Wells, besides a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. THE BEST ENGRAVINGS For use in newspapers, on stationery or In booklets and catalogues are made right here in Paris by The Publishers Emrravinu Co.

Locally owned and operated. Ask for price Explosion Kills 2 Maxey Officers Accident Occurs Tuesday in Camp Moving Target Area Two field artillery officers were, killed by premature explosion of some surplus explosive agents after completion of a demonstration of bombs and mines, Tuesday afternoon at 3:05 o'clock at Camp Maxey. The accident occurred in the moving target area. Killed were 1st Lt. Roy O.

Yost 23, and 2nd Lt. J. H. 22, both of Battery 776th F. A 23rd Corps.

They had started to set off the surplus explosives after the practice demonstration in bomb and mine detonation, when the blast Russian Troops Within 180 Miles Jittery Bucharest 155 Miles of Oil Center, Reported Reached Riga Beaches MOSCOW New Red Army offensive, probably designed to knock Romania out of the war and break Hitler's grip on the Balkans, smashed forward Wednesday on a 150-mile front beyond lasi to within 180 miles of jittery Bucharest and 155 of the great Ploesti oil center. (An official German broadcast said the Russians had reached the beaches at Riga, Latvian capital and largest Baltic states city, indicating a new trap for the German 16th and 18th Armies.) Advancing over the bodies of 25,000 Germans slain in three violent days while 12,665 others trudged back to prison cages. Red Army groups under Gens. Rodion Y. Malinovsky and Fedor I.

Tol- Ukhin drove within 51 miles of the mouth of the Danube. Try to Stiffen- Divisions German shock troops tried to stiffen war-weary Romanian divisions as Russian tanks rolled at least ten miles' south of lasi. Tol- Stall Photographer GIDEON BIBLES display of Bibles, arranged'by The.Gideons, is part qf that organizations program of work in Paris this week. More than 300 Bibles have been provided for Paris and Lamar County school teachers, in to the thousands placed in the hands of Camp Maxey soldiers. Part of the 322 Bibles delivered to the schools are seen in this display.

"Gideon Day" program is. scheduled by. the Ministerial Alliance for Sunday. Lend-Lease Aid Should Continue Until Enemies Give Up Allies Drive Into Grenoble 140 Miles Of Mediterranean Bitter Battle Said Still Raging in Encircled Toulon ROME troops, of the Seventh Army, in a spectacular surprise thrust deep into Southern France through German defenses, entered the large- industrial city, of Grenoble, 140 airline miles north, of the Mediterranean Coast, it was, announced Wednesday. A swift American armored and motorized Infantry column plunged into the city, long a hotbed of the French patriot movement, with "French forces of the Interior, playing an effective-support role," Allied Headquarters said.

This quick advance, put Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's spearhead within less than 240 miles airline, from the most southerly points officially announced as reached by American troops below Paris, and it appeared that the two. Allied French fronts would be joined much sooner than originally thought possible.

Grenoble, 58 miles southeast of Lyon and situated on a river leading directly to the Rhone Valley 30 miles to the west, is 80 miles or more beyond the last reported Allied France. positions in Southern WASHINGTON President Roosevelt told Congress Wednes- bukin's drive through Basserabia day that lend-lease aid should headed cross country for a June- fiT A tion with Malinovsky in the Galati gap, the capture of which would make much of the Balkan area untenable for the enemy. Advances ranged to 44 miles. The Bessarabian capital of Chisinau was left trapped in a deep pocket on the Dnester. In Northern Poland, the Russians gradually were outflanking Warsaw and splitting German forces between that besieged Polish capital and East Prussia.

The Russians moved 14 miles southeast of Lomza, communications continue until the unconditional surrender of both Japan and Germany. Apparently taking note of statements by some persons in and out of Congress that this vast program of Allied aid should be curtailed or dropped after Germany is defeated, the Chief Executive, hub. occurred prematurely. Lieutenant Yost and his wife, employed at the Post Engineer's office at Camp Maxey, lived here at 76 S. llth St.

Their home had been 1003 W. 4th North Platte, Neb. Lieutenant Christian's home was 329 W. 6th Huntington, W. Va.

Both home for burial by Brown-Roden Funeral Home here. bodies will be shipped New Tank Attacks Desperate German attempts to salvage her Baltic positions brought new tank attacks in the direction of Jelgava, which controls road and rail routes in Latvia. As the Red Army drive into Romania went through its fourth day, Bucharest was reported in panic with many of Premier Antonescu's formerly fanatical supporters openly discussing the chances of suing for peace. Each mile the Red Army advanced strengthened peace tremors in Bulgaria, too, and gave new hope to Yugoslavia and Greece, Romania, besides being Germany's greatest oil reservoir, is one of her largest breadbaskets. Red Star said the "Soviet blow was so swift the Germans and Romanians could not evacuate their wounded and left 147 cars of munitions and food in the rail yards." Body of Former Paris Girl's Husband Not Recovered From Lake Intensive search of the deep waters of Lake Mead near Las Vegas, Nev.

has failed ta find any trace of the body of Sgt. Harold Shedlebar, who was drowned there, Aug. 2. He was the husband of the former Miss Doris Rogers, sister of Mrs. Mae Rogers Smith of 129 S.

26th, and Detroit, Texas, was his home town. Sergeant Shedlebar, stationed at Las Vegas Army Air Field, had fallen overboard with the auxiliary motor of the boat which he and two other men, one a soldier, were occupying. The craft had stalled and one of the other men was handing the extra motor to Sgt Shedlebar, who lost his balance and fell into the lake. Mrs. Shedlebar, who teaches school at Las Vegas, is here for a shorf stay with her sister, Mrs.

Smith, who recently returned home after treatment at the Sanitarium of Paris. in forwarding, a quarterly report to Congress placing lend-lease help through June 30 at $28,270,351,000, asserted: "We should not permit any weakening of this system of combined war supply to delay final victory a single day or to cost unnecessarily the life of one American boy. "Until the unconditional surrender of both Japan and Germany, we should continue the lend-lease program on whatever scale is necessary to make the combined striking power of all the United Nations against our enemies as overwhelming and as effective as we can make it. Playinp Vital Role The President said lend-lease is playing a vital role in current offensives that find the Allies "moving relentlessly along the roads which lead to Berlin and Tokyo." The last time the question arose as to the life of lend-lease was on August 7. Then, a report was issued by the National Association of Manufacturers saying British officials were insisting on keeping lend-lease alive after Germany gives up.

The report caused a flurry in Congressional circles and caused the State Department to declare: "The British government has not raised with us the future of lend- lease." AEI W1GS i formerly occupied by German officers. (AP Wire- display pictures ot hifrh Ger- photo from Signal Corps) man officials which were found in French hotel Cox Field Pilot Crashes At Antlers Suffers Leg Fracture When Wing of Plane Comes Off, Crashes ANTLERS, Okla. Staff Sgt. John E. Delehanty of Cox Army Air Field near Paris, Texas, suffered fracture of the right leg above the knee when a wing of his training plane cairc- off and he crashed a mile north of town, Wednesday at 10 a.

m. His leg was badly cut and mangled also, and he had severe cuts on he head and face. Witnesses said he had flown over town here and was circling to head back toward his base, when an explosion was heard, and the eft wing parted from the plane. He was flying above the Frisco Railroad at the time, and his plane landed on the right-of-way, turning completely over and landing on its back. The severed wing struck in a tree a short distance away.

Sergeant Delehanty, a liaison pilot, said he was on a routine flight from Cox Field. He could give no explanation as to what caused the accident. He was taken to the Regional Hospital, Camp Maxey, Texas, by Lying in the French the city has a population of approximately 100,000 and is a rail center on the Paris-Lyon-Marseille route. It also commands access to important mountain passes in Eastern France. (A broadcast by radio France at Algiers said Allied, forces Were less than 11 miles from the'Italian frontier, but there was no" confirmation.) Close to Swiss Frontier At Grenoble the Americans were roughly only 70 airline miles from the Swiss frontier and for all practical purposes already had sealed off the Nazi forces in Southern France from communication with the enemy in Northwestern Italy.

The Americans also were in position, by striking westward, to cut off German units reported fleeing from the Mediterranean beachhead along the Rhone Valley. (An Associated Press dispatch from Geneva said French forces of the Interior were reported attacking Lyon.) An Allied Headquarters statement on the northward drive said 'enemy resistance was spotty during the advance." Thirteen hours of house to house fighting occurred at Digne. It was there that the Allies captured Maj. Gen. Hans Schubert, a German corps commander.

On the Mediterranean Coast, a bitter battle still raged in encircled Toulon, French armor and Infantry had pushed virtually into the outskirts of Marseille, and the French occupied Hyeres east of Toulon. Over 17,000 Nazis Taken The Allied command announced that the total number of prisoners taken since the landings had risen to more than 17,000. Inside Toulon French troops Tuesday blazed their way to points half way between the railway tracks which bisect the city. The naval arsenal was half a mile away and the docks only a few hundred yards. Triumphant Strains Marseillaise Sound Again to Victory LONDON loose the shackles of four years of enemy bondage Wednesday and stood free ohce inore, liberated by armed and unarmed tens of "thousands ot Frenchmen who swept the Nazis from the city's 'streets, while American armed might drew up around the Capital.

A special communique from Gen. Charles de Gaulle's Headquarters in London, announced the liberation after'four days of street fighting, that recalled scenes of Bastille "Day when the mobs of Paris once before struck an historic blow for liberty. This time, the communique said, the fight was- led, by 50,000 organized French forces of the Interior, bolstered'by hundreds of thousands more who joined in with whatever weapons they could find. "La Marseillaise" For Victory The dramatic announcement touched off Frenchmen everywhere as the tri umphant strains of "La Marseillaise" sounded again' to the new; of a French There was no word immediatelj that American troops had enterec the city. But the French said they had seized all "public buildings, won complete control of the situation and captured all the Vichy representatives who had' not fled.

A pictorial story of liberated Paris will be found on Page 5 of this issue. Paris, the city of light, was back in French hands just four years and days from the time Adol Hitler's troops marched in. German troops, then at the flood tide of conquest, entered June 14, 1940 De Gaulle conferred with Gen Dwight Eisenhower in France two days ago. De Gaulle In, Rennes (The British radio reported Wednesday that 'De Gaulle had arrived in Rerines, on the Brittanj peninsula, after visiting Coutances Avranches and a number, of other liberated French cities.) There was no announcement after the De Gaulle-Eisenhower conference: It seemed likely the French, who their capital would be allowed, to administer it There was no indication in the French communique what casualties had been inflicted on the German forces or how many had been captured. Allied airmen for two days had been reporting the Nazis pulling out of the city to the east over every road.

(The Germans did not immediately acknowledge any change in the status of Paris. A DNB broadcast recorded by the Federal Communications Commission at 6:17 a. m. War Time, said "the situation in Paris has calmed down as the result of strict measures, but it cannot be said whether terrorists and irresponsible elements will not provoke unrest By WES GALLAGHER SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, patriots. have liberated Paris, Gen.

de Gaulle's Headquarters announced Wednesday, as Allied airmen described the flight of the.battered German Seventh Army across the Seine as having the appearance of a "rout." On the left of the Allied line British and Canadian armies raced ahead 10 to 15 miles, pushing the Germans tighter against the Seine and into the fire of American flanking forces moving toward the sea along the left bank. Still a third dramatic development came as an American armored column drove more than half way across France and plunged past the ancient town of Sens, only 150 miles from the German, border to the northeast near the Saar town of Neunkirchen. Supreme Headquarters had no comment on reported Allied landings near Bordeaux in Southwest- en France. If'such landings jtooK place it was believed they were on an extremely small scale. It is regarded as unlikely that Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower would undertake a dangerous amphibious expedition to capture an area which the Germans are trying their best to get out of and which: could be had by the Allies for the asking. While Paris Is in French hands it is likely there still are German rearguards at Rambouillet and Etampes to the south which are, engaging -American tank' units. While the capture of the capital was certain, to have airemend- oqti psychological effect -on tht Germans bring joy- to every home, militarily Paris already was out'pf the picture. The city had been outflanked by 'American bridgeheads across the Seine, to the northwest and southeast and some radio reports, which were not confirmed Supreme Headquarters, alreadyiplac- ed American tanks than 25 miles from; Chateau-Thierry.

If true," this report meant the Americans already were fighting on battlefields where they won undying fame in the first World War. Severity of Enemy Treatment of Italian Patriots Increases ROME severity of enemy treatment" of harassing the Nazi rear Northern Italy was disclosed.by the Eighth Army's capture: of, an order from Colonel von which decreed immediate shoot. of "anyone assisting the crim-, nal and treacherous giving them food or clothing." He announced he would support 'any officer who exceeds' our cus- omary degree of restraint in his choice of measures for 'dealing ivith the partisans." Only minor activity.was reported on the entire Italian front, the Poles continuing to clear he enemy from their few- remain- ng positions on the south side of he Metauro River on the Adri-; itic sector. German fighter planes appeared Tuesday to-oppose the massive U. 1.

15th Air Force bombing assault gainst Silesian and Austrian, oil argets and 57 were shot down, an fficial announcement said Wednesday. Liberation of Paris, France Announced Day Before Paris, Texas Notes 100th Anniversary Liberation of Paris, France from German occupation, by the Allied Armies and the French patriots, was made known to Paris, Texas, just one day before the one hundredth anniversary 01 Paris as the county seat of Lamar County by the gift of George Wright of 50 acres of land or which to build a court house and a toxvn. August 24, 1844, George Wright executed a bond of $10,000 payable to George W. Stell, Clai- aorne Chisum and John Emberson (the elder), conditioned that he would make them a deed as commissioners appointed by Chief Justice John A. Rutherford to locate the county seat, as soon as he could get his deed from Larkin Rattan, from whom he had bought 1,000 acres.

Piris Chosen By Vote Jones Funeral here. Home ambulance Paris had been chosen by vote of the people in February, 1844, as the place for the county seat, receiving 267 votes, with 129 votes for Mount Vernon where the county seat then was located, and 21 votes for Somerville. Court had been held in April in Wright's store, where now is the west side of the Plaza, but Lamar did not own the site until th making of Wright's bond, George Wright had bought his land in 1839 and built a store anc a home, and called the settlemen' Paris. The name was suggested by Thomas H. R.

Ppteet, who was employed in Wright's store, anc who admired the French city said to be the most beautiful city in the world. He and Wright believed their Paris could be made the most beautiful town in Texas, if not in the entire world. Poteet was not a Frenchman. He had aeen a merchant in Tennessee until his partner swindled him and ic came to Texas to recoup his fortune if possible. His grandson, late Gibbons Poteet, said that the family name derived from the presence in France of a body of scots who had gone over there to help the French king fight his enemies.

They were big men and the Drench people called them affec- ionately "Petite" (little fellows) nd became their name. some of them came to America nd brought the with them, but spelled, it differently. If that tradition be. true, there was some connection between the two places named Paris. Rejoice With Oririnal Paris So Paris today rejoices with all the Allies that the original Paris is freed of the invaders.

George Wright and Thomas H. are long ago gone to their eternal rest, as have all the other men and women who saw the birth of Paris, Texas. Could they see the Paris of today they would know that their hope had become a Paris is a bea'utiful city and one of which its citizens may well be proud, as It enters iti second century of existence. There are other towns and cities named Paris. They are in Arkansas, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri New York.

Ohio Tennessee and Virginia, and a Paris crossing in Indiana, with ranging from one hundred to about 1 OVERSEAS etectMn ped, masted, injured free. nines. Xtoh I.