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192 Wilmington, Delaware, Monday, August 21, 1944 20 Pages Price Three Cent rv cd in bJ uv u9 Home Edition III Iffll is Allies Cross Seine After Decisive Nazi Defeat Americans Cross Seine River I J- French Patriots Rise As Americans Drive CAENAdSzuU yr -5 i.i.M.ia yjfj V.rnon vaabv m. i lii i 'A MrgwriTart Dreuxl r.V, It On Two Sides of Paris FRANCE I Ll Mm Pattern's 3rd Army Already Has Killed 11,000 Germans, Captured 49,650 And Wounded 48,900 as Yankees Battle On Versailles and Press Toward Coast I bbbbbW aV MANS American forces have reached i I fv J-jr By Associated Press SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Aug. 21. American tanks had thrust into sectors on opposite sides of Paris today and Gen. Sir Bernard L.

Montgomery told Allied troops the enemy in northwestern France had suffered a defeat, "definite, complete, and decisive" with the end of the war "in sight." The Americans had established a firm bridgehead across the Seine at Mantes, 25 miles northwest of the capital, where they threatened a sweep toward the rocket coast. But they were meeting heavy resistance in that direction. Tanks had probed as far as Corbeil, Melun, and Fontainebleau on a 20-mile front 15 to 35 miles southeast of Paris where they were pointing toward the World War battlefields of Soissons, Reims, and the Marne northeast of Paris. established a bridgehead across the river. Arrows indicate directions of drives.

V. S.9 Britain, and Russia Open World Security Talks Three Nations Stress Necessity of Sovereign Equality' For All Nations as Secretary Hull Welcomes Delegates to Washington WASHINGTON. Aug. 21 OP). Representatives of the United States, Great Britain, and Russia today began planning a world security organization which all agreed must be based on the "sovereign equality" of large and small nations alike, and must be backed by military forces available promptly and in strength.

Secretary of State Hull opened the initial session of the historic conference at Dumbarton Oaks on' Airfields on Riviera Begun D-Day Plus One ROME, Aug. 21 UP). American aviation engineers began constructing airdromes in southern France the day after Allied assault forces put ashore, it was disclosed today. The cooperation of French farmers, who showed the engineers where minefields were located, was credited officially with saving many precious hours and possibly many lives in the task. Lieut.

Seymour Miller, Pvt. Bailey Killed 4 Delawareans Wounded, One Reported Missing In Day's Casualty List Two Delawareans were reported today a killed in action and four wounded. The dead: First Lieut. Seymour Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Nathan Miller of 1508 Pennsylvania Avenue and husband of Mrs. Louise Miller of Dover; in France on July 26. Pfc. Charles C. Bailey, 24, husband of Mrs.

Margaret E. Bailey a-nd son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Bailey, all of Laurel; in Italy on Feb.

23. Missin; Lieut. Louis J. Finger, U. S.

Army Air Force, son of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Finger, 2305 Harrison Street; missing sine July 28 in action over Romania. Wounded Pfc. Joseph Gott, 20, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Francis J. Gott of East Fourth Street, New Castle; in France. Staff Sergt. Robert J.

Looney, 25, husband of Mrs. Dorothy Cullen (See CASUALTIES Page 10) Vittorio Emanuele In Italian Capital ROME, Aug. 21 OP). King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy has arrived in Rome, it was announced today. (The purpose of the king's visit was not immediately disclosed.

Last June the 74-year-old monarch turned over his "royal prerogatives" to his 39-year-old son. Crown Prince Umberto, carrying out his promise to retire from public life with the entry of Allied troops in the Eternal City.) Nazi Artillery, Planes Devastating Warsaw LONDON, Aug. 21 (P). The Germans are laying waste large sections of Warsaw with artillery and planes, trying to smash underground forces battling Nazi troops within the city, Polish quarters here said today. Much of the old city has been virtually wiped out and the famous fifteenth century cathedral has been almost pulverized, the informants said.

A communique relayed from the underground said German infantry and tanks had penetrated into the old city, where patriot fighters are concentrated, after a terrific artillery and plane bombardment. The Polish Telegraph Agency said the Germans have seized 70,000 Poles in Warsaw in the last few days and herded them into a concentration camp in an effort to break the revolt. Launching Record Set At Philadelphia Yards PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 21 UP).

Naval launching history was made at the Philadelphia Navy Yards yesterday when the Antietam, aircraft carrier, and the Los Angeles and the Chicago, cruisers, slid down the ways. Ralph A- Bard, undersecretary of the Navy, said it was "the largest launching at one time and one place in all naval history." R. A. F. Bombs Nazis Fleeing A cross eine Barpes, Pontoon Bridges Hit by Mosquitos And Mitchells All Night Long LONDON, Aug.

21 JP). R. A. F. Mosquitos and Mitchells raced up and down the Seine River all last night, bombing and strafing Nazi river bank troop concentrations and barges struggling across the 200-yard water barrier which impedes Germans fleeing Allied armies in France.

The Nazis' four principal crossings at Elbeuf, Duclair, Caudebec and Quillebeuf, were hammered in flare -lit tree -top level attacks as the record scourge from the skies today swept into its fifth day, despite handicapping weather. A line of barges extending for three-fourths of a mile and reportedly salvaged from the abortive 1940 campaign to invade England was blasted near Quillebeuf. American fighter bombers in daylight and evening attacks knocked out 20 others. A simultaneous night-long attack on the belt west of the Seine, through which the beaten Nazis are streaming from the Falaise trap, knocked out 136 vehicles and 16 tanks to bring the day's total for both the R. A.

F. and the U. S. Army Air Force to more than 350 vehicles and nearly 100 tanks. The original total barge force upon which the Germans are depending for their miniature Dun-kerque over the bridge less river was estimated at 1,200 to 1,500.

The Germans also have used hinged pontoon bridges, which swing back against the shrub-shrouded river bank in the daytime, but these are very susceptible to bombing. The attacks are taking place a scant 25 miles down the Seine from the American bridgehead. In addition, the U. S. Ninth Air (See WAR IN AIR Page 4) War Reporter Dies Under Tank Tom Treanor, Press And Radio Correspondent, Killed Near Paris NEW YORK, Aug.

21 IP). Tom Treanor, war correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and the National Broadcasting has been killed on the road to Paris. Advices to Supreme Headquarters in London said it was reported one other American correspondent had been killed and three wounded. Treanor's death was announced from France by John MacVane, another NBC reporter there, who said the Jeep in which Treanor was riding was run over by an American tank MacVane added: "Tom was where he wanted to be, at the very tip of the units of the American Third Army pushing to ward Paris. There were Germans behind him and all around him.

"It was his great ambition to be the first radio correspondent to reach Paris and send the word back to the people back home." French Gain Near Toulon As Germans Flee to Hills Infantry Within 15 Miles Of Marseille as Patriots Join in Fight on Nazis; Berlin Says Own Batteries Answer Warships' Gunfire By Associated Press ROME, Aug. 21. Hard-driving French troops virtually encircled Toulon, breaking through to within three miles of the naval base while American infantry, within 15 airline miles of Marseille, fanned out today through the Durance Valley and headed for the Rhone against disorganized enemy resistance. The Americans sped forward on both sides of the town of Pertuis, 11 miles north of Aix-En-Provence across the Durance River, and joined French patriots who had' surrounded Nazi troops within the town. Another of Alexander M.

Patch's American columns charged on several miles to the northeast of Aix, key junction of seven highways 15 miles north of Marseille. Another unit was last reported in the outskirts of Aix and today possibly had completed occupation of that town. (The German radio said Allied warships shelled Toulon yesterday. It claimed hits on one of "several" battleships and one of nine cruisers in the attacking fleet by Nazi shore batteries, which, it was claimed, also struck a destroyer and torpedo boat.) (The German news agency Trans-ocean said that La Ciotat, about halfway between Marseille and Tou- (See RIVIERA FRONT Page 4) U. S.

Subs Sink 19 Jap Vessels Underwater Craft Have Destroyed 56 Combat Craft Since Pearl Harbor WASHINGTON. Aug. 21 OP). American submarines in the Pacific and Far East have sunk 19 more Japanese ships, including a light cruiser and an escort vessel, the Navy reported today, bringing to 706 the total of enemy vessels sunk by submarines. Making its first report on United States submarine activities in 11 days, the Navy said these vessels had been sunk: One light cruiser, one escort ves-fel, one large tanker, three medium cargo transports, 11 medium cargo vessels and two small cargo vessels.

The total of combatant ships punk by submarines rose to 56, while 11 others have been reported probably sunk and 14 damaged. American underwater craft have eunk 650 non-combatant ships, probably sunk 26. and damaged 101, bringing to 853 the total of Japanese vessels of all kinds sunk, probably sunk, or damaged since Pearl Harbor by our submarines. Truck Drivers' School Opens; No Pupils Come The training school for truck operators, ready to begin today on the athletic field of the P. S.

du- Pont High School. Thirty-fourth and Van Buren Streets, was unable to start because of lack of pupils. The training program was set up by the Delaware Department of Public Instruction with the assistance of the War Manpower Commission, to bring relief to truck operators of this area, now for many months faced with acute shortage. On hand this morning was an instructor with one straight truck but no pupils appeared. Bulgarian Partisans' Activity Is Stepped Up CAIRO.

Aug. 21 UP). From 5,000 to 15,000 Bulgarian Partisans are increasing their activities, it was learned here today, as the Bagrinov government anxiously watched Allied successes in Europe. The Partisans are reported operating in three main zones inside Bulgaria. They are striking at Bul-gar collaborationists.

Games Postponed National League Eciton at St. Louis, rain. Democratic State Chiefs Meet Tonight Committee Will Discuss Platform and Proposed Candidates at Dover On Eve of Party Convention The state Democratic Party meets in convention tomorrow at Dover to nominate three electors to support President Roosevelt for reelection, and also to select candidates for U. S. representative, governor, lieutenant-governor, state treasurer and state auditor.

As a prelude to tomorrow's convention, the state committee will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the Kent County Courthouse to, discuss the party's platform and the proposed slate that will be presented to the general meeting tomorrow. Dr. Isaac J. MacCollum of Wyo ming, who is now lieutenant governor, will be nominated for governor. Dr.

Philip A. Traynor of Wilmington, former U. S. representative, will be nominated for Congress. Elbert N.

Carvel of Laurel will be nominated for the post of lieutenant governor. Wilbert Jacobs of Harrington and J. Harry Latchum of Milford are being mentioned as possible candidates for state treasurer. The choice for auditor will probably be decided at tonight's committee meeting with the candidate likely to come from New Castle County. John C.

Hazzard of Wilmington, chairman of the state committee, Is expected to be named chairman of tomorrow's convention. Collins J. Seitz of Wilmington, chairman of the platform committee, will present the draft of the platform which is expected to be about 1,000 words long, stressing proposed aids for labor, school teachers, maintenance by the state of roads in new home developments, and the advocacy of a Delaware River tunnel. If the state committee members can agree on their candidates to- (See DEMOCRATS Page 17) Donald Nelson, Hurley Got Mission To China WASHINGTON. Aug.

21 McDonald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, and Patrick J. Hurley, traveling diplomat for President Roosevelt, prepared today to leave for China to discuss military and economic problems with Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek. 1 Mr. Roosevelt, in announcing the new assignment for Nelson and Hurley, said the mission would take "several months." The President designated Charles E.

Wilson, WPB executive vice-chairman, to take over Nelson's duties on the home front. Hurley, former secretary of war, has handled several diplomatic-military tasks in the Pacific since the start of the war. Berlin Says 4-Engine Bombers Now in Action NEW YORK, Aug. 21 UP). A dis patch wirelessed from Berlin for use in the army newspaper front Und Heimat said today that a Ger man four-engine bomber, the HE-177, known as the Griffin, already had seen action in bombing attacks on British ports.

The new aircraft "has indeed four engines," the dispatch said, although it has the appearance of a two motored plane, so that even many an old hand of the Luftwaffe has been taken in." The four engines ar "combined in two groups of two," according to the dispatch. "That means that two engins drive one air screw. The bomber was described as having a 104-foot wing spread, 2400 horsepower and "double wheels of special thickness." Steamer Bay steamers, the Southland and the Ley den, formerly the Northland made possible not long ago the safe passage overseas of a second convoy of great military importance. How the bay boats went to war is told in a dispatch from head quarters of United States naval forces in Europe, released by Fifth Naval District headquarters at Nor folk, which said in part: "People here find It hard to be lieve that steamboats, built for peaceful careers on inland waters, crossed an enemy-infested Atlantic "Actually, they beat their way overseas during the most critical period of enemy submarine activ ity, in the blackest days of the (See STEAMER Pae 7) Gisor Soissons Chant i Chateau Thierry eaux Versailles PARIS r.Etampes. Witargifi Joigny the Seine near Mantes and have Soviets 3 Nazi Smash Forces At Sandomierz Reds Give Ground As Foe Seeks to Relieve 200,000 Trapped Men MOSCOW, Aug.

21 (P). Soviet forces have smashed three Nazi divisions inlhe Sandomierz salient below Warsaw, while other Red Army units have yielded slightly before costly German attempts to rescue possibly 200,000 troops isolated on the Baltic front, a Russian communique announced today. In the Warsaw sector, meanwhile. Russian troops have driven closer to Praga, suburb to the east of the city, and have captured some vital positions to the northeast, front dispatches said. Marshal Ivan S.

Konev's First Ukraine Army, thrusting up the west bank of the Vistula, liquidated the trapped Germans north of Sandomierz. "As the enemv refused to surrender, most of the encircled enemy troops were killed," the Russian war bulletin declared. (The Germans asserted today that the Russians had driven a third bridgehead across the broad Vistula River west of Kazimierz, 75 miles below Warsaw and 35 east of Ra- dom. (Other crossings have been re ported 30-odd miles below the be- (See RUSSIAN WAR Page 4) Sforza Wants Colonies Returned to Italians ROME, Aug. 21 UP).

Count Carlo Sforza says the Allies should let Italy keep her colonies after the war unless the other nations turn theirs over to an international administration. Sforza, a minister without portfolio in the Bonomi government, told a public meeting attended by Premier Ivanoe Bonomi and cabinet members yesterday he thought Libya, Eritrea and Italian Somali-land should be given back to Italy. But he indicated he did not include Ethiopia or the Dodecanese Islands. Fear Felt for Banana Crop in Jamaica Gale KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug. 21 (INS).

Jamaica crops, including the copious banana yield, were feared severely reduced today after a 60-mile-an-hour storm had struck Kingston and the eastern end of the island. Little damage was found in Kingston but the transportation and lighting system was out of commission, and communication with the rest of the country was cut. They were fighting in the vicinity- of Versailles, the western suburb of Paris and were meeting only-negligible resistance, while travelers from the capital itself told of a rising wave of violence in which French underground forces fought fiercely with the Germans. Allied flags were reported already flying over part of the Capital as the resistance forces anticipated the hour of liberation. Resistance was fed by Allied air forces.

Hundreds of American and R. A. F. bombers on several occasions have dropped great loads of arms to resistance forces, it was announced. Enemy Casualties 109,575 Already, it was announced that George S.

Patton's Third Army in its sweep to Paris had captured 49,650 Germans, killed 11,025 and wounded 48.900 a total of 109.575. Now Patton's invasion of the territory north of the Seine at Mantes threatened new destruction of Germans caught in a 75-mile-long corner below the bridgeless river. "The end of the war is in sight. Let us finish off the business in record time," Montgomery declared in his message in which he said there were fresh surprises in store for the enemy. At least 10.000 men from the combat elements of possibly 18 enemy divisions were caught in a succession of pockets west and east of Falaise and the total bag of German killed and captured was likely to total 36,000 equal to the number captured in the Cotentin peninsula.

While the Germans made wild efforts to break out of the original pocket, now reduced to an area about six bv 10 miles, British and Americans were cutting it to pieces. Many Towns Captured Occagnes, Sentilly, Bailleul and Goulet, all about three miles north of Argentan, were captured in these slashes. The Canadians were busily engaged in punching a hole in the Seine corner to the east where new pockets might be carved out. They crossed the Touques River in a two-mile' advance just south of Li-sieux. On the left flank of the Allied offensive, which is forcing Field Marshall Gen.

Guenther von Kluge's forces back upon the Seine, British troops pushing along the coast towards Trouville and Le Havre drove deeper into Cabourg's outskirts. Cabourg is about 25 miles from the mouth of the Seine. Farther inland British troops of the Canadian First Army thrust to within three miles of the communi- (See WAR IN FRANCE Page 4) Senator Buck said, "a New Deal senator took occasion to berate the Republican Party. The following is a quotation from the Congressional Record. Friday, Aug.

11, 1944, on page 6969: 'When they (the Republicans) control the federal government, we have men like Thaddeus Stevens. When they control the federal government, we have force bills, anti-lynching bills, and even worse "Reluctant though I am to take time delving into history. I feel it would be inexcusable for me not to make some reply on behalf of the Republican Party and the respected Negro citizens of the State of Dela- (See SENATOR BUCK 4) i French Maquis Take Toulouse, Algiers Reports Captured Yesterday By Patriots, Radio Asserts; 8 Departments Freed LONDON, Aug. 21 (JP). The Algiers radio said today that on Sunday the Maquis captured Tou- louse, sixth largest city of France.

Toulouse (pop: 213,200) is in Southwest France. 60 miles north of the Spanish border. Frequent neutral reports have told of German withdrawals, from that area. Another Algiers radio report French Forces of the Interior were fighting German troops in the streets of threatened Marseille, second city of France, which lies close to American Seventh Army advance units. French patriots now control one third of France comprising eieht departments, says Gen.

Jose Koenig. commander of the French Forces of the Interior. In a communique broadcast bv the Algiers radio. Koenig said that during the week ended Aug. 19 French patriots killed 1.821 Germans, wounded 415 and captured 2.265.

suffering only slight losses tnemseives. Reports relayed here throueh Port Bou. Spain, said the Maams controlled the entire Pyrenees re. gion of Southwestern France from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. All German forces just north of the Spanish border have withdrawn northward and French patriots have appointed new civil administrators.

A dispatch from Irun, Spain, said (See MAQUIS Page 4) Churchill Fires U. S. Gun at Nazi Positions ROME. Aug. 21 (JP).

Prime Minister Churchill personally shot a bi American gun at two German cannon positions north of Pisa, It was disclosed today. After he pulled the lanyard, the shell fell 200 yards short of the target. A gunner officer corrected the elevation and two rounds later, both enemy guns were destroyed. An artillery spotter flying overhead reported fires and explosions at both gunpits. Churchill's very personal participation in the war occurred during a recent visit to the Fifth Army front.

In Today's Paper 4-5 11 8 17-18-19 18 12 17 8 17 17 12 15 13 1" WAR NEWS Amusements Answers Questions Classified Comics Cnlbertson on Contract Death Notices Editorials Financial Obituary Radio Sports Society Women's Interests the dot of 10:30 a. m. with a sharp rap of the gavel on the horseshoe shaped oak table and said: The conference will come to order." In his opening address Hull called for strong commitments to use force when necessary, saying it must be available promptly, in ade quate measure, and with certainty." Ambassador Andrei A. Gromyko, chief Russian delegate, responding to Hull, likewise emphasized the need for force capable of preventing recurrence of the World War. While he stressed the responsibility for world security to be borne by the great powers because of their strength, he said the foundation of a world organization must be "the principle of the sovereign equality of all freedom loving countries." Gromyko expressed the convic tion that the war-created unity (See DUMBARTON Page 7) New Plan to Stop Phony Gas Sales Check on Volumes By Distributors to Be Tried in Phila.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (JP). A new program aimea at detecting black market gasoline sales will be put into effect on aft experimental basis in Philadelphia next month and be extended to the rest of the country if it works, the Office of Price Administration announced today. The plan requires that all gaso line distributors serving Philadelphia retail outlets report monthly the volume of sales at each outlet, compared with sales for the same month in 1942. The reports will show whether any service stations have noticeably increased their gasoline business since the start of rationing The agency said that while an increase in volume of sales would not in itself make a case against any station, possession of such informa tion would help in selecting retail outlets for "detailed auditing and checking." Now You Can Really Get to Work on Time LONDON, Aug.

21 UP). Pendulum clocks at Greenwich observatory, by which the world has set its watches for decades, are today being replaced by quartz crystal clocks. The quartz chronometers are accurate within one-thousandth of a second per day. The pendulum clocks' inaccuracy was one-hundredth of a second per day. Six Spaniards Executed MADRID.

Aug. 21 Span iards were executed today on charges of treason at Cueta in Spanish Mo rocco. They were accused of "close contact' with an unidentified for eign power. Wilmington-Built Buck Sees Netv Deal Party Fearing G. 0.

P. Aid to Negro Joins in Battle in Normandy The Republican Party has striven always to guarantee to Negro citizens the basic right to vote "and hideed to live under the shelter afforded them by the Constitution," U. S. Senator C. Douglass Buck stated today with reference to a recent debate on the George Reconversion Bill.

Referring to the leadership of the Republican in the interests of the Negro citizens, Senator Buck added. "We will again, as The majority party continue to add to the progress which they have made and thii assistance may well be the 'even worst measures' which our New Deal fritnds view with alarm." i "In the course of the recent debate on reconversion measures." A Wilmington built excursion steamer which once plied peacefully between Baltimore and Norfolk for 14 years is now In battle garb and is taking part in the Atlantic convoy operations off the Normandy coast, having crossed the Atlantic with other ex-pleasure craft as a decoy to draw off U-boat attacks from more important convoys. When it was launched at the Pusey and Jones yards Feb. 6, 1928, it was named the President War-field, in honor of S- Davies Warfield, a former president of the Old Bay Line and joined the service of the company in the following July. Her present duty concealed for security, reasons, the Warfield.

in a convoy with two other.