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Delaware's Morning Paper Fint with the Latest News United Press Associated Press International News Service Latest City Edition Sunny; rather hot. (Weather Conditions, Tides, Etc, on Page 14.) wnitnrnma VOL. 126 NO. 56 WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. 1944 SIXTEEN PACES PRICE THREE CENTS I I II fill I IV QUWUAAUVJ 111! II (vie Ente Brussels Drive Into Holland Allied Offensive Rolls Into Reich FINN-REDWAR t.yprwj QUtOCHt -1 w-'77 Paris tttS A 1 Arrow between Trier and Thtonmlle is where the first German town, successes at Metz, Nancy, Namur and Hons.

SovietDriveforYugoslavia 135 Miles From Border City Captured 24 Miles Beyond Ploesti Fields; Troops Poised for Moscow Decision to Invade Bulgaria MONS, NAMUR1, METZ, NANCY ARE SEIZED Perl First Town Inside Reich to Fall; British Troops Plunge Into Capital of Belgium; Le Touquet, Boulogne, Calais And Dunkerque Reported Taken By ERNEST AGNEW Associated Press Correspondent SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, Allied Expeditionary Force, Monday, Sept. 4 American troops stormed into Germany and captured their first town, neutral reports said today, as other Allied armies ripped through Belgium and into Holland, crushing remnants of the broken German army. While a Stockholm report said American tankmen had captured Perl just inside the German frontier near the junction of Germany, France and Luxembourg, farther to the north in a sweep through the Low Countries U. S. First Army units took Mons, nine miles inside Belgium, 30 miles from Brussels.

Miles C. Dempsey's British Second Army crossed the Belgian frontier shortly after 9 a. m. yesterday and by 2 p. m.

British armored cars were rolling into Brussels. There was no confirmation at supreme headquarters that tha Americans had crossed into Germany or of a German report that they were now fighting in Holland. Headquarters Silent (Supreme headquarters generally was silent for "security reasons on the rapid advances of Allied forces but it appeared -the showdown battle for Germany was on.) The assertion the Americans had crossed the German border came after an earlier Berlin radio report placed Allied units only a few miles from Aachen (Aix la Chapelle), border town and stronghold in the Siegfried Line on the road to Cologne, 50 miles to the east. Perl, which the Yanks are said to have captured is 12 miles northeast of Thionville, where the Germans Saturday reported fighting underway. Armored columns of Americans plunging up the broad valley of the Meuse reached Namur, 35 miles inside Belgium yesterday while 125 miles to the south George S.

Patton's Third Army pushed through Metz and Nancy toward the German frontier 35 miles away. The Germans, nowhere on the scattered battlelines, were making any determined effort to stem the racing armor and there was no indication they were planning to use French-built, German-dismantled Maginot Line as a defense. British and Canadian forces swung two more bridgeheads across the Somme, east and west of Abbeville, which was being mopped up, and reached Ailly le Haut and Clocher, four miles beyond the river, and Grand Laviers, about two miles northeast of Abbeville. Supreme headquarters had no official confirmation of reports that Allied forces had captured Le Touquet, Boulogne, Calais and Dunkerque. Yanks at Maas, Nazis Say (Axis reports said American troops had reached the Maas (Juliana Canal) which is actually inside Holland in the Maastricht Appendix jutting down between Germany and Belgium.) As the battle for France apparently ended and the for Belgium appeared nearing its end, the B.

B. C. in a London broadcast recorded by the.F. C. C.

said "the Belgian government, now in London, is to return to Belgium in a few days." With Allied armies drawing closer, the Germans were reported pouring troops into the Siegfried Line for the showdown battle for Germany. (German heavy gun batteries in the German West Wal See WEST FRONT Page 4 Hour Hat Struck, Eisenhower Tells Belgian Patriots SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, Allied Expeditionary Force, Sept. 3 (At As the Allied advance rolled into Belgium and toward Holland, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower today sent three messages to the Low Countries one to the Belgians telling them their hour had struck, one to the Germans in Belgium warning against atrocities, and the third to the Dutch, telling them not yet to attempt any mass uprising.

Prince Bernard of The Netherlands was appointed commander ol The Netherlands Forces of the Interior under the command of General Eisenhower, and Ivan Gerard was made chief of the Belgian Forces of the Interior. This is the supreme moment. Fulfill your task loyally. If all play their part, the liberation of Belgium will be quickly achieved. Long live Belgium." Eisenhower told Belgian resistance forces: "Your orders are now to pro-, tect, not to sabotage factories.

See PATRIOTS Page 4 Seven Persons Injured In Series of Highway Mishaps Through State Traffic on Buses, Trains Slackens, But Continues Much Heavier Than Normal A record breaking 20,000 persons jammed Rehoboth Beach yesterday as holiday automobile traffic on highways of the state was reported increasing and thousands of persons continued to crowd bus and rail facilities during the four-day Labor Day week-end. More than a dozen automobile ac cidents throughout the state, in which seven persons were injured and property damage totaled more than $3,000, reflected the increase in traffic as motorists began to use their rationed gasoline to take advantage, of the clear warm weather for the last holiday of the summer. Automobiles streamed into' Re hoboth Beach all yesteiday and Saturday and residents said that every available inch of parking space was taken up for a distance of five blocks from the boardwalk. Employes at the bus terminal here stopped selling tickets for Re hoboth Beach Saturday afternoon. As many as three buses were used on some runs to get the crowds to the resort.

Food Running Short Food also began running short at the resort with some items unobtain-ihl- in the crocerv stores. Even vegetables became sxhsuited for limited times until stores could be replenished. Hotels at the resort were booked to the limit even before the holiday and early Saturday every available room and cottage was reported filled. Traffic at the bus center here slacked off slightly yesterday in comparison with Saturday, although most regular runs offered standing room only. Some persons who wished to go beyond Washington returned to this city when they were told in the Washington terminal See HOLIDAY Page 13 WOMAN LOSES $2,580 WHILE SHE IS SHOPPING Refused Advice of JKin To Bank Money Received From House Sale City police nd detectives who have had to contend with several large "pocketbook bank" losses during the past year were confronted Saturday afternoon with the biggest to date.

Frank Pastalenlec, of 902 Chandler Street, reoorted that his mother, Mrs. Mary Pastaleniec. while on a shopping trip downtown had lost her pocketoook containing sz.aau, four ration books and a number of miscellaneous cards. The money, in denominations- of $50. $20, and $10.

was the proceeds from the sale of a house about a month ago and Mrs. Pastalenlec had carried the sum in her pocketboos despite the advice of her family that it be put in the bant, it was learned City Detective John R. Corrigan HOLIDAY CROWD OF 20.000 AM REHOBOTH FRENCH TROOPS Seventh Army Seizes Third Largest City Of France After Balking Vain Stand by Nazis Battered Germans, Fleeing From Forces of General Patch, Face Peril of Having Escape Blocked, by Patton By NOLAND NOBGAARD Associated Press Correspondent ROME, Sept. 3 American and French troops of the Seventh Army took Lyon today after brushing through light enemy forces, and Allied war planes took a bitter toll of Nazi lives and equipment in the final phase of the battle for south-em France. Ahead of the advanced American and French forces raced a bedraggled and disorganized rabble of soldiers, the remains of ihe German 19th Army running for the Reich.

An official announcement said American and French forward ele ments have entered Lyon" after overrunning a vain attempt by the Germans to slow down the Allied pursuit at the outskirts of the great southern France city. While vanguards of Lieut. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army moved into France's third largest city other elements of the Allied forces slashed across German escape routes from the area and it was possible that official information was far behind the swift movement of the troops.

May be Cut Off by Patton It appeared likely that few if anv of the retreating Germans, among whom all semblance of unified com mand has disappeared, would reach the Reich. Thirty five miles" northeast of Lyon the Americans in a flanking movement wereeported yesterday attacking to get astride of the shortest escape route for the Nazis. Until today the Seventh Army command had little to say about this encirclement. The German frontier is nearly 200 airline miles from Lyon and the highway distance is much longer. Even if some elements of the Ger man 19th army slip through Patch's net.

they still must outrun advance elements of Lieut. -Gen. George S. Patton American Third Army which have a long head-start on them and are meeting virtually no opposition in an intercepting thrust. The American column making the swift encircling movement was at tacking in the vicinity of Bourg- en-Bresse.

The Germans also were in pell-mell retreat up the highway due north of Lyon through Macon, a little over 40 miles away. This route in the Saone River valley also was threatened. Despite unfavorable weather, American-flown British-made Beau-fighters made continuous strafing attacks on enemy motor transport col- See SOUTH FRANCE Page 14 FIREMEN USE ENGINE AS AN AMBULANCE Rush Injured Woman to Hospital When No Other Machine is Available Internes and nurses at the Del aware Hospital were amazed last night when a fire engine was driven up to the entrance to the emergency department. Their amazement vanished, how ever, when Mrs. Louise Cooper, 46, of Wildel Avenue and the DuPont Boulevard, Minquadale was brought into the department by members of the Minquadale Fire Company.

Mrs. Cooper, while working in her home, had driven a nail through her right foot When no immediate ambulance service could be obtained, the fire engine was pressed into service. She was treated and dis charged. FRENCH EXECUTE RED NEW YORK, Sept. 3 The French radio at Montpellier in a broadcast recorded by the Federal Communi cations Commission said today that Fern and Valat, former Communist deputy from the Department of Gard, in southern Prance, had been condemned Aug.

25 for collaborating with the Germans and had been "executed immediately." CAPTURED At TO EHB TODAY; Russia Ready to Aid In Disarming German Troops Staying Past Sept. 15 Deadline Peaceful Withdrawal Said To be Assured by Chief Of Occupying Forces; Break Apparently to be Complete Bp The Associated Press LONDON, Monday, Sept. 4 A Reuters dispatch from Stock- holm said had been announced officially in Helsinki that the Finns and Russians had agreed that ighting wonld cease on Finnish-held sectors of the East ern front at 8 a. m. today LONDON, Sept.

3 (JP) Unconfirmed reports reaching Stockholm tonight said German troops had begun evacuation of northern Finland, as the Moscow radio announced that Russia was prepared to assist the Finnish army in disarming Germans should the Nazis fail to get out of Finland by Sept. 15, the date set by Premier HantU Hackzell In his peace proclamation. The reports, reaching the Stockholm newspaper Tidningen, said Germans were leaving from the Finnish port of Oulu, near the northern end of the Gulf of Bothnia, about 80 miles from the Swedish border. Another Stockholm report said an unbroken stream of German troops observed from points on the Swedish northern border moving south in northern Norway, apparently as part of the Nazi withdrawal from northern Finland. At the same time another Swedish dispatch said Norwegian patriots had begun guerrilla warfare in the vicinity of Narvik and Mosjoen.

The fighting occurred Saturday when patriots attacked a small German coastal patrol near Narvik, At Mosjoen the guerrillas, reportedly using arms and ammunition dropped by Allied planes, engaged the Germans for three hours until they were forced to disappear in the darkness after the Nazis were reinforced. Meanwhile, the little Baltic nation moved toward a complete mili tary and diplomatic rupture with Germany in the wake of Hackzell peace overtures last night. Russia Sees Distortions (A Reuter Stockholm report tonight said the German commander-in-chief in Finland had assured President Mannerheim that German troops "will withdraw from Finland before Sept. 15 without The broadcast Soviet Foreign Com missariat statement the Finns had agreed as a precondition to peace talks to oust or intern German troops by that date and withdraw meir own lorces to me xvw nussian- Finnish border. Laterf however, the Moscow radio charged there were "distortions" in the peace proclamation made by Hackzeli.

and that actually his statement had not complied with See FINNS Page 4 ACCIDENTAL DEATH TOLL 130 DURING WEEK-END Traffic Fatalities Lead List For Long Holiday By The Associated Press A total of 130 accidental deaths have occurred throughout the nation thus far this Labor Day week-end, it was reported last night. With Labor Day itself still ahead toll, reported by 29 states since 6 p. m. Friday, exceeded last' year's 137 for the same period. Of the deaths.

80 were from traffic accidents, 26 from drowning, and 24 from miscellaneous causes. In 1943, deaths reported jumped from 77 Sunday night to more than 300 at the close of the holiday. California led the toll by states with 17, while Pennsylvania listed IX New York 11, and Illinois 10. 32 SOLDIERS HURT IN WRECK NORTON. Sept.

3 A troop train and a Rock Island freight crashed head-on near Here tonight, injuring at least 33 soldiers and two trainmen. First reports from the crash indicated there were NAZIS WE OUT 'CMrlartkSX It cKTSi r- AUied Romanian troops 'were said to have seized a German-held air field, and only 31 miles from the important rail and highway junction of Pitesti, which also is an oil and salt center. Ten miles northwest of Ploesti, another column seized Filipestl, pursuing the Germans retreating up the Carpathian Mountains toward Transylvania. Filipestl is 28 miles from Sinaia, Romanian summer palace city, and 40 miles from the Predeal Pass. Romanian troops on the other side of the pass were said to have sealed it off with the seizure of Brasov.

Wheeling north from Ploesti, other units captured Valeni de Munte, 15 miles beyond, in their pursuit of the Germans trying to escape into Transylvania. Among other points taken, the communique named Dobra, 15 miles southwest of Ploesti, and the rail station of Ghegeni, 20 miles northwest of Bucharest on the railway to Pitesti. German broadcasts reported bitter fighting in the southern and southeastern Carpathian. Mountains, where Soviet troops and pro-Allied Romanians have attacked Ger- See RUSSIANS Page G.O. P.

LEADERS TO HEAR DEWEY Invitation to Speak Here Will Be Renewed on Thursday; Rally Set for Next Monday A group of prominent Republicans will go; to Philadelphia Thursday afternoon to greet Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, Republican "Presidential candidate, who will make one qf his major campaign speecnes in that city Thursday night. Included in the party from Delaware, it was announced, will be Gov. Walter W.

Bacon, U. S. Senator C. Douglass Buck, U. S.

Rep. Earle D. Willey. Republican National Committeeman Harold S. Schutt and Isaac R.

Brown, chairman of the Republican State Committee. It was disclosed also that the Republican State Committee will renew its invitation to Governor Dewey to visit Wilmington during the The governor, it was said, will be unable to stop here during the current trip but has indicated his strong desire to make a speech in Delaware during the campaign, possibly after the middle of October. Assistant City Solicitor Leonard G. Hagner, chairman of the Republican First District Committee, announced last night that the first informal campaign rally here be See G. O.

P. Page 4 SUPER-TROOPSHIP LAUNCHED KEARNY, N. Sept. 3 (TV-The super-troopship Gen. William Wei-gel, the tenth of its type of largest non-combatant vessels being constructed on the Atlantic Coast, was launched today at the yards of the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company.

St, MHtft3 1 Perl, was captured. Other arrows show 3 STATE SOLDIERS J. A. Ware, F. E.

Harvey And G. N. Turner Lose Lives in Battle M. N. Wilson, W.

G. Keen, Listed as Unaccounted For; Three More Wounded Three Delaware soldiers are dead, two other men from this state are missing, and three are reported wounded, according to announcement made over the week-end. The casualties are: Private John A. Ware, 19, Felton, kilted in France July 13. Tech.

Sergt. Fred E. Harvey, 31, of 1309 New Road, Elsmere, died from wounds suffered in France. Sergt. Gordon N.

Turner, 25, Holly Oak, killed in France. Machinist's Mate First Class Walter G. Keen, 34, of 2602 North Monroe Street, missing in action In southern France. Pfc. Miller N.

Wilson, 23, of 1915 Maple Street, missing in Italy since Feb. 11. Private Frank A. Cox, 25, of 302 South DuPont Road, Elsmere, wounded July 9 in France. Pfc.

James J. Quinn, 29, of 1406 West Second Street, seriously wounded July 12 In France. Sergt. James P. Connor, 25, of 218 West Eighth Street, wounded in Southern France.

Private John T. Ware Private Ware, a son of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Ware, was called into the service Nov.

11, 1943, while he was assisting his father with farm work. He received training at Fort McClellan, Alav and Fort Meade, before being sent to England last May. He was born near Felton and received his education In the Felton High School. In addition to his parents he i- survived by five sisters and one brother. Sergeant Harvey, wounded in ac- tion in France, died as a result of tne wounds, according to word re ceived by his wife.

A native of Huntington, Sergeant Harvey came to this city when a child and See CASUALTIES Page 13 BOY, 2, DIES OF INJURIES AFTER BEING HIT BY CAR Harvey C. Fulton of Elliott Heights succumbs in Hospital-Harvey C. Fulton. 2 years old. whose mother and sister saw him struck by an automobile Friday afternoon near their, Elliott Heights home, near Newark, died last night in The Memorial Hospital from head injuries.

The boy's father is serving in the Army in France. Deputy Coroner C. Everett Kelley, who investigated along with state troopers, said that the mother called to the child to stop running, but that tiny Harvey continued on in front of a parked truck and into the path of a car driven by Franklin E. Pope, 28, Newark. In addition to the head injuries the child suffered fractures of the arm and leg.

The mother, Mrs. Ruth Fulton, did not wish any charges placed against Pope at the time of the accident, state troopers said last night. KILLED IN FRANCE AR MISSING By TOM YARBROVGH Associated Press Correspondent LONDON, Monday, Sept. 4 Gen. Rodion Y.

Malinovsky's Second Ukraine Army troops, rolling halfway across Romania in a drive aimed at linking up with Marshal Tito's Partisans, yesterday captured Rasvadu, 24 miles beyond the occupied Ploesti oil fields and only 135 miles from the Yugoslav frontier. 'f. Other Soviet units, mopping up south of Bucharest, wiped out or hurled across the Danube River into Bulgaria the last German remnants caught in a 37-mile area between Oltenita and Giurgiu, a Moscow communique announced. Malinovsky's southern units and the Third Ukraine Army under Gea. Feodor I.

Tolbukhin were poised on a 150-mile stretch of the Bulgarian frontier, and the tone of Moscow's press suggested the Russians might cross into Bulgaria unless Sofia joins the war against Germany and grants the Red Army passage into the lower Balkan Peninsula. Malinovsky's troops carried a total of 55 localities during the day, 40 of them in an arc beyond Ploesti. The column which took Rasvadu was only three miles from the road junction of Targoviste, where pro- ALLIES ENLARGE Foe Blasted Out of Anchor At Pesaro; Advance Is Pushed Well Beyond Pisa By GEORGE TUCKER Associated Press Correspondent ROME, Sept. 3 Allied troops tore wide holes in the vaunted Nazi Gothic Line across the Italian. Peninsula today furious fighting, cleaning the last Germans from the eastern anchor at Pesaro and storming beyond Pisa for Impressive advances in the West.

British Eighth Army troops now in full stride, despite fanatical Nazi resistance, capitalized their success of two days ago when they hacked a gapirjg 20-mile hole in the German line. The breach was enlarged" considerably, a communique said, and after the Germans were routed from the Adriatic defense bastion at Pesaro, the British surged on to within three miles of Cattolica by last night. Canadians, in their "most successful" fighting against crack Nazi parachute troops, sent armor ahead and overwhelmed key heights at Tomba, di Pesaro and Monteluro, both beyond the Gothic defenses. Counterblows Repelled At the same time American Fifth Army fighting men who captured Pisa stormed through the historic city and by daylight had plunged four miles beyond it. The Canadian successes enabled them to repel all counterattacks and exploit gains in the drive north along the coastal sector.

In the open country of the Gradara area, four miles south of Cattolica and See ITALY Page 14 GOTHIC LINE GAPS Fury of U.S. Air Power Turned on Nazis in Brest By PL'GH MOORE Associated Press Correspondent LONDON, Monday, Sept. 4 Five great waves of American war plane, under orders from Supreme Commander Eisenhower to bomb Brest until the last remnants of the German fanatics holding the French Atlantic port were killed or surrendered, blasted the city's fortifications and defenses yesterday and last night with more than 1,700 tons of exploding steel. General Eisenhower said "bomb and keep bombing until Brest surrenders," and the waves of U. S.r heavy and medium bombers lam-L uis iuoata auiuug UiC Ugll lcr LKJIIiO ers and the fighters, up to 250 of which escorted the heavies.

The attack on Ludwigshafen cost one bomber and one fighter. No enemy aircraft was met by the See AIR WAR Page 13 Index of the News basted the port city's gun positions, anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft batteries, artillery emplacements and concrete shelters hour after hour. Some 500 Fortresses and 150 Marauders flying in great waves roared over the Germans who have been under siege for four weeks at the naval base of Brest with the Fortresses dumping around 1,500 tons of high explosives and the lighter bombers around 200 tons. Ludwigshafen Hit At the same time Up to 500 Flying Fortresses struck at enemy targets in western Germany and the Ludwigshafen area, deep inside the Reich, and from Italian bases heavy American bombers battered Nazi rail and communication centers in Yugoslavia and Hungary, hampering mass German retreats from the East. Nazi air fields in Holland received a going over late in the afternoon by big R.

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