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LEST WE FORGET FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY! A Italian air force attacks 1 British ada lease United ate in British warships shell Sardis Italian WE ARE AT WAR FIFTH YEAR- No. 47 SERVING THE RICHEST AGRICULTURAL COUNTY IN AMERICA McALLEN, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1944 NG Yanks Reach Swiss Romanians Reported Marching on Hungary NAZIS SCREAM NEW REGIME COMMUNIST LONDON- "Seph Stalin in an order of the day announced tonight the capture of Kishinev in nia. By WADE WERNER LONDON -(AP) Bucharest dispatches today reported Romanian troops marching against Hungary in swift succession to Romania's sudden change of Andes in the war in an aboutface which direly threatened Germany throughout the Balkans. stunned, called the new Romanian government communist regime," reported rioting in the rich -oil and wheat kingdom and appealed to Romantan troops "not to take orders from the traitor. king but to remain faithful to the German alwho sheds her blood for the defense Romania." March on Transylvania At 7:55 a.

however, a Bucharest dispatch relayed by the Swiss radio said Romanian troops "started a march into last night." Transylvania the mountainous province, half of which Hitler took from Romania and handed to Hungary in the Vienna dictate of 1940, Romania and Hungary have been at swords' edge ever since, 9th large proportions of their armed forces drawn, up at the Hitlerian boundary 1940. Frequent border clashes have been reported. Diplomats of both the Balkan countries have uttered inflammatory remarks, even the posed Romanian dictator, Marshal Antonescu, who was reported to have fled to 8 German sanctuary. Hungary, occupied by Germany and gravely threatened by the Romanian capitulation Russian troops to reach her frontiers, abolished all politcal parties, apparently in fear of intrigue which might take that -occupied country from Fight with Nazis Bucharest broadcasts said Romania in fact had turned cobelligerent and there were reports, of spreading fighting in the rich oil and wheat kingdom between Romanian and German Shops. Bulgaria, already outflanked in the south by Turkey's severance of relations with" Germany, now was periled from the north as well and in an entirely untenable position.

and Greece, where (See ROMANIA, Page 2) Sheriff Contest To Resume Monday (See Editorial, Page 4) EDINBURG The Hidalgo Cunty sheriff's hearing will be resumed recess after a contest, four.day granted Wednesday at the request of Sheriff R. T. Daniel's attorneys, Daniel called for A temporary It in: the proceedings after an amendment which will allow T. to call about 100 more witnesses was submitted to the court Wednesday afternoon, The amendment, which added 137 of voting and poll tax Segularities to the original allecations, was accepted. late Wednesday after vigorous protests by Daniel's The attorneys.

sheriff's counsel succeeded in having several sections A sicken from the amendmentalegations involving, three voters and against county and election officers charged with conspiring to perpetrate an election fraud at La Joya. No persons, not already named by Daniel and Bailey, will -be added to. those already included in trial pleadings, Three Killed In Mexican Bus Crash MEXICO CITY -(A)- Three persons were killed and 17 inJured Wednesday when a on the Mexico -Laredo route left the road and plunged forty into a gully near Jacala, as of the dead were identified the driver. Ignacio Nieto, and third passenger, was not identified Valencia, immedi- The Carlos ately, THE WEATHER degrees, Fair. Manimum last hours degrees: minimum same period: 78 era with noon.

weather moderate thin VALLEY scattered Continued Rainfall winds afternoon continued FORECAST: except showers 1.40 and moderate through Inch. fresh and Partly on Friday Friday the temperatures, thundershowe cloudy after- 5e A COPY TEN PAGES Border Nazis Try 'Dunkerque'; Bordeaux Fall Reported BORDER WIND, RAINS LEAVE TWO DEAD McCOOK The border today counted two persons dead on both sides of the Rio Grande from wind and rain that cut a. swath through McCook, little Hidalgo County farming community, and made roaring streams out of dry arroyos in northern Mexico, Still buried today with his auto in the mud of Arroyo Quates, about three miles west of San Pedro across the river from Roma, was Manuel Rodriguez of Mier, Mexico, who drowned Tuesday night after rescuing his wife and several children from his auto submerged in the arroyo, flooded by the rains accompanying the tropical storms. Killed by Tornado Killed by a freak tornado in the McCook section Tuesday night as she slept soundly after a day's cotton picking was Mrs. Nasario Soliz, 67, the only Texas Valley victim from the storm, Fourteen others in that section, injured when their house which path of the blow cutting a swath about a road's width for 20 mtles from Hargill to McCook, were recovering today, None was reported seriously hurt.

The house where Mrs. Soliz was asleep caved in from the force of wind. A relative, Lucia Rodriguez, sleeping in the same bed with the elderly woman, escaped without critical injury, The drowned Mier man's car overturned in the deep northern Mexico creek, swollen by a inch rain which fell throughout the area Tuesday night, Rodriguez was accompanied by his family, He drove his car into the arroyo and when he reached bottom the banks caved in on him, submerging the car and its occupants. He rescued all the children wife, Apparently thinking there was another child in the car, Rodriguez returned under wa. ter and failed to return to -the surface.

House Blown Down His body will be recovered when the flood waters subside. The McCook tornado, traveling a winding path without doing any serious damage, swept across the Leon Kotzur farm near McCook, destroying a two-story house and scattering most of the 15 persons in the house in all directions into a field with flying (See BORDER, Page 2) WPB Blows Open; Wilson Resigns WASHINGTON (P) The top structure of the War Production- Board was blown wide open today with the unexpected resignation of Charles E. Wilson, executive vice chairman, who charged unfair attacks had been inspired against him by aides of his boss, Donald M. Nelson. Wilson's letter of resignation to President Roosevelt came only a few days after Nelson himself was reported ready to walk out.

A wholesale reorganization of the upper level of WPB appeared in prospect. Posters Carry Fight on Pink Bollworm Into Border Beer Halls and Cantinas McALLEN- -The fight against the pink bollworm infestation in the Valley is even making its way into border saloons and cantinas. The department of agricul-, ture is employing contact program this year again to impress on growers and business people alike the importance of an early cotton stalk clean up program. Thousands of letters have been sent out and every cotton grower should be in receipt of one now, pink bollworm trol officials said today, Realizing a bottle of brew is refreshing at the end of a hot day in a cotton field, control officials have even put up posters in cantinas and border saloons so that all will be made aware of the immensity of the program ahead. same placards are posted -American troops slashing north from the Riviera reached the border of Switzerland today and Hitler's hold on France was slipping rapidly away.

At the mouth of the Seine the Germans attempted a large-scale. "Dunkerque" from threatened Le Havre with many war vessels and other ships which were made the of ferocious assaults by Allied aircraft. Bordeaux, last German stronghold in southwestern France, was reported to have been captured by American troops with the aid of French Maquis. Even Paris, whose "liberation" was announced Wednesday by Gen. Charles de Gaulle set -off premature rejoicing the world over, was expected to fall momentarily.

Supreme headquarters, which had maintained silence concerning the Paris situation for a day and a half after the French had declared its freedom, said French underground forces were holding large parts of the city but had called on Allied troops for help. There was no indication at supreme headquarters that troops had yet entered the city, however, in spite of previous reports to that effect. The Germans' evacuation fleet of Le Havre, including a wide assortment of torpedo boats, gunboats, corvettes and merchant ships, was bombed for eight hours from midnight on today by relays of British naval aircraft and other RAF planes, Nazis Checked Off The attempted German flight coincided with advances all around the Seine corner which hourly were choking off German escape routes, The Germans were retreating all along the front from Lisieux to the sea. Lt. Gen.

Alexander M. Patch's U. S. Seventh Army reached the BRADLEY'S PUPS WELCOME A VISITOR-Gen. Sir Bernard L.

Montgomery, commander of Allied ground forces in France, pauses to play with two fox terriers owned by Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, commander of American ground forces, during a meeting of the two leaders for a conference. Stevenson Joins Treaty Opposition a meeting of the six-state committee organized to press for ratification of the treaty.

According to an Associated Press dispatch from Austin, Stevenson declared today he favored creation of a compact commission instead of an international treaty for division of waters between the United States and Mexico. The governor added that the proposed treaty, awaiting ication by the U. Senate, could not be as flexibly administered as an act of Congress setting' up a compact commission for administration of water distribution agreements. He joined with Clark, who declared recently that an international treaty would not give the state a proper voice in distribution of public waters. The protreaty affects the Rio and the Colorado and Tiajuana rivers.

Because a treaty supercedes the constitution it cannot be changed without consent of the two nations signing it but an international compact authorized by an act of Congress could be amended to suit changing needs as to distribution of waters, the governor said. north from the Spanish border, Into the Valley Patch's Seventh Army, continuing its lightning pace northwest past captured Marseille, drove into the Rhone valley, capturing Salon, only 20 miles from A Arles at the mouth of the river. French patriots' were reported in control of the entire Lyon region, the great southern metrothe Rhone in southern France, and at Perpignan, just north of the Spanish border on the Gulf of Lion. The second French armored division and some American units were reported to have entered Paris. American, British, Canadiand Allied units rode shod over parts of two Nazi arm- Swiss frontier after A drive of 200 miles in 10 days through the Joins Lt.

French ranean. Gen. Alps George from S. the Patton's Mediter- U. S.

Third Army had pushed 15 miles beyond Sens, 62 miles southeast of liberated Paris, toward the German frontier 150 miles away, The two forces apparently were Texas, who once told less than 200 miles from a Conservation Assn. he would tion isolating all southern France water treaty ratified, today -but already much of southern of a compact commission France is free. Algiers broadcast said Bordubious about the governor's deaux, big French on the into a controversial Texas South Atlantic coast, had been Charles Clark of Austin, captured by a combined force of engineers. Americans driving south from the to Monterrey, preliminary Loire and Maquis who where he will attend had marched Mexico May Offer To Trade Chamizal -Gov. Coke Stevenson Pres.

A. L. Cramer of the Valley Water do all he could to get the U. announced at Austin he favored creation instead of ratification of the treaty. Valley water leaders had been stand on the treaty, lately developing issue now opposed by the Governor and chairman of the state board of water Cramer is on a brief vacation trip to leaving at the week- -end for Denver, Japs Fear Allied Mainland Invasion By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS New American stabs into the Bonins 600 miles below Tokyo gave point today Japanese Premier Koiso's warning to his people that "The enemy is watching for an opportunity to land on our homeland." Japan, faces an "unprecedently grave national Radio Tokyo said Liberators bombed Chichi Jima Thursday (Tokyo time.) Two days before, Adm.

Chester Nimitz announced, Liberators 'sunk two cargo vessels and set a third afire Chichi Jima, principal fortress in the Bonin island defenses guarding Japan. Mindful that the Bonins have been under steady attack since American investment of Saipan to the south, General Koiso warned of possible homeland invasion and asked the people to increase Japan's fighting power. He asked too for improved air raid defenses, no doubt in recollection of recent Superfortress attacks on the home islands, American bombers, Tokyo radio quoted him as saying Wednesday night, were certain to increase their blows. Gen. Douglas MacArthur contributed to this gloomy enemy appraisal with successful attacks on six, ships south of the Philippines.

Mindanao was hit for the tenth time by MacArthur's raiders and big fires were kindled in the island's main city of Davao, Halmahera island 300 miles south was bombed again. The bitter bloodletting centering on Hengyang for control of the Hankow-Canton railway continued without sign of approaching decision. The Chinese halted two enemy thrusts and strove to to get down the unconhalt another, Japanese attempt quered 170-mile gap in the railway, British Advance Up Arno River ROME (AP) British and Indian troops of the Eighth Army have made a considerable advance on both sides of the upper Arno river in Italy in the face of lessening enemy resistance and have captured a number of important points including Mt. Foresto, headquarters announced today. Heat Stroke Fatal HOUSTON Pick Stew- art, 35-year-old longshoreman.

died in a hospital today to become Houston's sixth heat prostration victim this summer. Paris Not Yet Free; Allies Aid Patriots LONDON-(P) -The German radio said tonight that some sections of Paris had "suffered heavy damage" in fighting against French patriots and that the Nazis still controlled the capital. HURRICANE BLOWS INTO MEXICO AS RIVER MOUNTS MIHAI OF ROMANIA McALLEN The season's second hurricane, blowing inland 150 miles south of Tampico, Mexico at midnight Wednesday Was disintegrating against the mountains in the interior today as the storm rain-fed Rio Grande swept a minor flood toward the Gulf of Mexico from Rio Grande City and transportation was disrupted between the border and Monterrey. Monterrey, prepared for heavy rains and windstorms about noon today, will get off with only rains as the force of the hurricane will not extend that far. 20-Hour Forecast The Rio Grande, swollen by northern Mexico rivers and streams, will be at Rio Grande City this afternoon and downriver stations will get the bankful supply in the next 24 to 36 hours, End.

J. L. Lytel of the International Boundary Commission announced. Chief observer Philip D. ThomAs of the Brownsville weather bureau in a morning advisory, the last issued on the storm, said hurricane moved inland about 150 miles south of Tampico at midnight last night.

High tides will continue along the coast for a distance of 150 miles north of the storm center today. The storm is disintegrating against the mountains of the interior with widespread heavy rains. "There is no further danger to the Valley and no further advisory will be issued on this storm." Flows Heavily The Rio Grande, allaying of any immediate water shortage, WAS flowing heavily eastward with the concentration of water at Rio Grande City where the San Juan empties its overflow from El Azucar dam. More water upstream from light to heavy rains in the Presidio sector will keep the supply large (See WATER, Page LONDON' -(P) The German radio reported today that Allied troops had carried out a "small" landing operation "south of Biarritz." Germany Reports New Allied Landing LONDON- -General today that Allied troops were sections of which are held by the Fall of the city is expected headquarters is concerned it has de Gaulle and the commander of Lt. Gen.

Joseph Pierre Koenig, that capital was liberated and governmental leaders the world French underground leaders, ing in Paris, negotiated son, presumably on the terms that the Nazis were to leave the city, supreme headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force said. The Germans apparently repudiated the agreement and on fighting and the underground called on the Allies for help. The Germans were said to have threatened widespread destruction to public buildings and installations. A French underground leader who came London from Paris a month ago said the Germans then had at least 10,000 regular troops. in the capital and strong forces of Gestapo secret police.

Surprise to London The supreme headquarters announcement WAS a surprise to sources in London, who acknowledged there might be fighting around Paris as the Allied troops sought to break in. The French said their best information indicated the French Forces of the Interior still were in control of the center of the Eisenhower' headquarters disclosed fighting their way into Paris, large French Forces of the Interior. momentarily but 50 far as Allied not yet been liberated. Gen. Charles the French Forces of the Interior, had announced early Wednesday their statements were hailed by over.

after four days of street "armistice" with the German garri- city and its main buildings, A mysterious German call, possibly code, repeated over and over on the Paris radio wave lengths asserted tonight: "Attention, enemy, tank spearheads which have broken through are to be wiped out at strong points. This is under While great popular interest centered on the struggle in Paris, an operation of far greater military import WAS going on down the Seine where Allied armies were attempting to destroy utterly the fleeing German Armies. "armistice" negotiations by the French street. in Paris apparently were made without previous knowledge of the supreme command. A directive provides that no.

field commander can negotiate an armistice with the Germans unless General Eisenhower gives his (See PARIS, Page 2) Yank Armada Raids Dozen Nazi Targets ROME- strong force of heavy bombers, probably numbering 750, attacked Slovak oil refineries at Kolin, 40 miles east of Prague, and at Pardubice, 55 miles east of Prague today, MEXICO CITY -(P) Settlement of Mexico's claim to the Chamizal area, comprising a good part of El Paso, by cession of another piece of land on the northern side of the Rio Grande is proposed in a bill being studied by Sen. Alfonso Flores chairman of the senate foreign relations committee.Senator Flores said today he would submit the bill to his committee and that the senate might decide to recommend the plan to the foreign ministry as basis for negotiations with the U. S. government. The Chamizal area--about 550 acres formerly was south of the Rio Grande, A sudden change in the course of the river left it on the northern side and a good part of El Paso was subsequently built upon it, Mexico's claim to the Chamizal was upheld by an international boundary commission but nothing was done, Mexico opposes ney settlement.

Missing Air Ace German Prisoner WASHINCTON -(P) Lt. Col. Francis Gabreski, 25, America's leading ace who was reported missing in action July 20. is prisoner of war in Germany, the war department disclosed today. les cornered below the Seine, With a swiftness indicating the completeness of German rout, the American Third Army thrust 25 miles northwestward along the south bank of the Seine toward the sea captured Elbeuf, one of tr chief ferry points where Field ishal Gen.

Guenther Von Kluge had been trying to rescue his broken forces. Nine Miles from Rouen This thrust--to within 30 miles of the mouth of the Seine and only nine miles from Rouennarrowed to disastrous size the pocket into which the splintered divisions of the German 7th and 15th Armies were caught. This and other advances cut the pocket down to half its former size. The German communique declared American forces which had crossed the Seine northwest of Paris at LA Roche-Guyon, near Mantes, had been thrown back across the river. Allied headquarters, however, gave out no news concerning this spearhead which was in a position to strike northward toward the Somme battlefields of the first World War and the rocket coast.

The Germans also declared Americans had suffered a reverse northeast of Fontainebleau where they had crossed the Seine southwest of Paris. River Spanned On the contrary, supreme headquarters announced 15- mile advance from Sens. to the southeast and beyond Montargris, 30 miles southwest of Sens; The Loins river had been crossed. South of Paris the Americans had a front 40 miles broad pointed toward Nancy, Strasbourg, Belfort- a string of former French strongholds facing the Rhine. The Americans who reached the Swiss frontier presumably were the force which took Grenoble.

This force, apparently was headed for a junction with Patton's army and attack on the Germans' West Wall. Hal Boyle, Associated Press (See FRANCE, Page A vast armada of 2,300 -American planes ed a dozen targets in Germany and on border while the RAF bombed and strafed a -Nazi "Dunkerque" from great port of Le Havre at the mouth of the Seine, a few miles beyond advancing Allied lines. The attacks in Germany by 1,300 heavy bombers and fighters constituted one of the greatest assaults ever mounted United States air forces. Targets included synthetic oil plants at Merseberg, and Rugland in Germany and Brux on the Czecho-Slovak Russians Sweep On in Romania MOSCOW -(P) Captives reported hostilities spreading between the troops of Germany and Romania today while two great Russian army groups swept toward the heart of the oil and wheat kingdom in drives apparently aimed at trapping any Nazis still in their path. Companion offensives in South and North Poland continued apace, Troops which Debica were declared errunning hundreds of German war factories, 150 of them in Debica alone, Red Star said the Lwow-Krakow railroad bristled with German war plants of all kinds.

The advance moved within 17 miles of Tarnow. Further north, Russian columns were within 35 miles of Krakow and 75 of German Silesia itself, North east of Warsaw, the Red Army drove within five miles of the important communications hub of Lomza, 20 miles below the East Prussian frontier, in An offensive, gradually splitting German armies defending that reich province and Warsaw. The uninterrupted Russian advance continued toward the Danube basin and Galati gap. At Midnight, Soviet troops had galloped within 167 miles of Bucharest and 140 of the Ploesti oil center, and less than 50 from the mouth of the Danube- principal transport artery for. Hitler, Tighina, and Vaslui all fell in Bessarabia.

attempt only 1,000 by Misburg border. Also bombed were an oil refinery at Freital near Dresden; two airplane plants at Brunswick; German Air Force stations Kolleda near Merseberg and Langenhagen near Hannover; A radio factory at Miemar and other industrial rail targets at Kiel, As American armor slashed 25 miles down the Seine in new lightning advances, the harried Germans put out a big fleet of light service warships and other vessels from the threatened port on the Seine estuary, eight solid" hours, RAP coastal command planes in relays bombarded the flotilla, sinking and damaging an undetermined number of ships. Many were set afire, The air forces announced late. today that 50 German warplanes were destroyed in operations from British and French bases Wednesday and that in the first 70 days of the invasion 3,641 German planes had been destroyed in the air and on the ground. In the same period 2,959 Allied craft were lost.

The figures included strategic bombing attacks on Germany itself. Swift, Mosquito bombers made "concentrated" attack on logne Wednesday night. Mosquito bombers raised the 24 hour bag of German tanks, barges and vehicles destroyed or damaged to around 1,000 as the in gins and in all related industry buildings, Notices to Valley farmers are written in Spanish and English, They stress the im. both, portance of the early clean -up by pointing out that almost all pink bollworms produced before the middle of "September complete the life about one month. These produced in late September and October will live until the following year and infest the next crop.

control officials remind farmers. "Official records show." says the notice, "that only two worms out of each 5,000 survive in fields plowed in August while 310 out of each 5,000 will go over in fields plowed by the middle of September. But, 1,450 pink bollworms, out of each 5,000 will live over the winter in fields not plowed UD. til October." 45 MORE GERMAN PLANES DOWNED ROME (A) The U. 8.

15th Air Force chewed another hunk of the Luftwaffe's fast dwindling power in Central Europe Wednesday, destroying 45 enemy planes in the course of sweeping raids which included heavy attack upon the Vienna area.