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How Many Bonds Today? Any bonds today? A lot of Jap fighters in the Pacific may be wondering if their friends back home are buying bonds as usual in order that, the road to Tokyo will be blasted with consistent force, The $4,513 purchase here Friday won't send many supplies to the islands, and many more are needed there, for quite awhile to come yet. Don't think the war is over, even if Hitler is out in a few months. still be buying more than before to the very end. The Austin America! Volume 31 AUSTIN, TEXAS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1944 Number 86 I. ncafii t.

Within Am Rubber Boss Charges Nelson With Sniping His Program Nazis Lose 205,400 In 6-Day March Toward Bucharest Bickering Blamed For Holding Many Top Men WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. (AP) storm broke about Donald M. Nelson's head Friday night shortly after the war production board chair man lpft for rhino wilh hi awnrv still cppthinff Romania Declares Her War LONDON, Aug. 25.

(UP) Romania's new peace government declared war on Germany Friday, sending its troops against the nazis with orders to disarm every Ger Yankees Reach Rhone ROME, Aug. 25. (UP) American spearheads, in a 10-mile thrust through shattered enemy defenses, reached the edge of the lower Rhone river at two points northwest of Marseille Friday, as other US forces from the row which led to Charles Spearhead Rolls Across Marne River US Patrols Also Get To Troyes, 120 Miles From Hitler Frontier nation as vice chairman. Rubber Dir. Bradley M.

Dewey accused the WPB head of "typical Washington sniping" in comment FX). Refuses Comment On WPB Head Return "It was completed, all but getting the tires," Nelson commented. (Ample synthetic rubber now is being produced, officials say, but the army has complained that heavy tire production is lagging behind needs.) "Then you don't agree that the job was completed?" asked committee counsel Rudolph Halley. "No sir. It is like the army saying they are completed except for the shooting," Nelson said.

Dewey's sharp attack on Nelson was made in a statement which he said would be sent to the senate committee. The new row developed at a time when some in Washington were questioning whether Nelson would continue as WPB chairman after he returns from China. Asked about that at his news conference, Pres. Roosevelt said he did not know. WPB sources said that 37-year-old J.

A. Krug, who took over as acting chairman as Nelson on page 5, col. 4) lon the rubber program. It was, the same sort of "sniping" that led to Wilson's resignation "and made many good Americans unwilling to give services that otherwise would be of value to the country in the conduct of the war." Dewey referred to Nelson's testimony to the senate war investigating committee, given made public only Thursday. While before the senate committee.

Nelson was vasked about Dewey's recent announcement that the rubber program was completed and Sept. 1 DEWEY 8,000 Travis County Voters Are Expected To Go to Polls tSaturday for Second Vote Some 8,000 voters of Travis county are expected to trek to the polls a second time for the summer Saturday to select their choice for attorney general, for associate justice of the supreme court, for representative, Place 2, Travis county, and in addition, the voters of Justice Precinct 2 will decide upon their jus- tice of the peace for the two-year Another 12 Divisions Are Encircled Baltic Troops Seize Estonian Rail Center; Warsaw Hits Repelled LONDON, (Saturday) Aug. 26. (UP) Two soviet armies, killing or capturing 205,400 enemy troops in a six-day nazi Balkan catastrophe, pursued fleeing German forces 30 miles through turmoil-ridden Romania to within 108 miles of Bucharest Friday and encircled another 12 nazi divisions far behind the lines. Sleeping forward with the aid of Romanian troops already reported clashing with the nazis following Romania's declaration of war against her former ally, the second and third Ukrainian armies plunged to within 14 miles of Foc-sani, western bastion of the famed Galati gap guarding the approaches of Ploesti oilfields and the Romanian capital.

Reach Danube Soviet infantrymen, spearheaded by saber-swinging Cossacks and giant tanks, swung deep into Romania, reached the Danube river and charged with ease through abandoned enemy defenses. Plunging to within 32 miles of the fortress city of Galati. Russian troops Friday encircled 12 enemy The Road to Berlin By lh Associated Trent 1. Russian front: 322 miles (from the eastern suburbs of Warsaw). 2.

Northern France: 495 miles (from Troyes). 3. Italian front: 601 miles (from Florence). 4. Southern France: 608 miles (from Grenoble).

divisions in Bessarabia as they sped toward the heart of industrial and political Romania. Already of the surrounded enemy group have surrendered. Take Estonian City While this new triumph was reported in Moscow's communiques, the Soviet information bureau revealed that in addition to 100,000 enemy soldiers killed and 105,400 captured, three Romanian generals had been seized, including the commander of the 110th Romanian division, Gen. Tenescu and his staff. Simultaneously, Russian Baltic troops, breaking some of the strongest German resistance of the summer offensive, captured the Estonian rail and university city of Tartu.

Sweeping forward at lightning speed, aided by Romanian troops already reported clashing with the Germans following their country's (Continued on page 5, col, 4) Jail Revolt In Florida Quelled JACKSONVILLE, Aug. 25. (UP) Military and civil police using tear gas and gunfire Friday regained control of the Duval county jail in which insurgent armed prisoners led by a crippled man had barricaded themselves for more than six hours. Three prisoners one a woman-were injured in the violent exchange of shots that followed seizures of the jail by seven of its more than 100 inmates. Sheriff Rex Sweat said the crippled man had apparently smuggled a into the jail when he was arrested several days ago, concealing the weapon in braces he wore on his legs.

Overpowering their jailors, the insurgents broke open the jail arsenal and armed themselves with repeating rifles and sawed-off shotguns. County authorities regained possession of the jail only when the ringleaders surrendered in a mist of tear gas thrown into the building after gunfire failed to queU them. Connally Chosen To Notify Truman KANSAS CITY. Aug. 25.

Sen. Tom Connally (D-Texas), chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, has been chosen to notify Sen. Harry S. Truman ot-ficialy that he has been nominated for vice president on the democratic ticket. The notification will be made Aug.

31 at Lamar, Truman's birth place. 7 An angry new E. Wilson's resig Dewey declared, last week but he would resign BRADLEY term beginning next Jan. 1. The Saturday run-off primary will have the shortest ballot in years and the totals are expected to flow into the county election bureau at the courthouse rapidly with results probably decided here within several hours after the close of the polls a 7 p.

m. The present primary election campaign ended Friday after several weeks intensive efforts on the part of 'candidates and friends to get out the votes for their cause. Less than one-half of the July primary vote is expected in the election Saturday over the state, with seasoned observers placing the possible total at 400.000. Hard campaigning has prevailed in the two statewide races. Jesse Martin of Fort Worth is contesting for the attorney general's race against Grover Sellers of Hopkins (Continued on page 3, col.

4) Rio Grande To Flood Waters Mc ALLEN, Aug. 25. tJT) Storm-fpd rains from a hurricane which struck near the lower Rio Grande valley this week, plus flood waters from Mexican tributaries, will force the Rio Grande out of its banks Saturday, J. L. Lytel of San Benito, international boundary commission engineer, said Friday.

Little damage is anticipated as much of the overflow will pass through floodways, possibly a few hundred acres of crops planted in the floodways will be ruined. Brownsville reported the river reading was 13.9 feet Friday and would go to 19 by noon Saturday and 19.5 or 20 feet late Saturday. Flood stage is 13 feet. Advices from Monterrey to Mexico City were that heavy rains in, the Monterrey region had interrupted rail traffic at Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros. The anticipated flood is not expected to reach the 147,000 cublic feet per second of 1938, last major flood to strike the lower valley.

Damage at that time was heavy, with two international bridges smashed by raging torrents. Five Willacy county oil wells were shut down this week when their supply of water, coming from the floodways, was cut off. The expected overflow may aid their reopening. Nazi Forced Laborers Work on Siegfried Line MADRID. Aug.

More than 100,000 foreign laborers were reported in a radio message received here Friday to be working night and day under nazi overseers in an effort to strengthen the Siegfried line. Hitler's old west wall facing France, before the arrival of allied spearheads. Dewey's Adviser But GOP Wants WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. Secy.

Hull and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's foreign affairs adviser, John Foster Dulles, announced agreement Friday "on numerous aspects" of the proposed world peace agency, but Dulles pointedly reserved republican rights to discuss the subject in the forthcoming campaign. Completing a series of three talks, Hull and Dulles issued an extraordinary election-year pronouncement saying they both felt the subject is a non-partisan one. In stipulating that the agreement does not "preclude full public non-partisan discussion of the means of attaining a lasting peace," Dulles evplained man the country, and fast-developing situations in Hungary, Bul garia and Slovakia indicated the entire nazi satellite system in the Balkans might topple within 24 hours.

The German garrison in Bucharest was overcome and made prisoner by Romanian troops after first promising to refrain from hostile actions and then trying to disarm the Romanians, the Bucharest radio said. There was brisk fighting with some casualties. Fighting also broke out at Boneasa between Germans and Romanians. Bucharest said the Germans were defeated and "a real Romanian victory is on the march." Radio Algiers reports from Ro mania that Romanian troops were (Continued on page 5, col. 4) Troops, Citizens Smash Germans' Paris Resistance Garrison Commander Quits When Forces Roar Through City LONDON.

(Saturday) Aug. 28. (UP)Allied troops and frenzied civilians, battling shoulder to shoulder in crowded, bullet-swept streets, smashed most of the organized German resistance in Paris Friday, forcing the commander of the nazi garrison to surrender, and gave Paris complete liberation from the hated Crowds of Parisians, summoned to the barricades early in the day by the French forces of the interior, followed the course of battle through the streets, screaming the Marseillaise between bursts of gunfire from allied tanks and the guns of German forces, radioed dispatches from the French capital said. LeClerc First to Enter As Paris rose and allied tanks rumbled in. the plight of the Germans, isolated in a city aflame with patriotism, became more and more precarious.

Finally, a report of the Paris radio said, the German comman-der surrendered to the commander of the FFI and to Brig. Gen. Jacques LeClerc, whose French second armored division was the first allied force to enter the city. He agreed to tell her commanders to cease firing and hoist the white flag; to collect weapons intact at a predetermined spot until they were disposed of. Germany army forces which received the orders and disregarded them were regarded as guerrillas, no longer under protection of the laws of war, the surrender terms said, but those who fought on because they did not know of the order were guaranteed humane treatment.

Not AH Aware It appeared that not all German troops were aware of the order, or that some disregarded it Late radioed reports from the city said snipers continued their fire into the night. Wildly celebrating Parisians, kissing every American in sight, following the course nf skirmishes so closely that they blocked the passage of armored forces, practically ignored the bullets. Gen. Charles De Gaulle promised Parisians the battle against the Teuton would continue until every German was forced from the soil of France; that the only Germans left in France would be prisoners or dead. Secrecy Wraps Tank-Mounted WASHINGTON, Aug.

25. UP) The British Friday night took secrecy wraps off the fire-breathing 41-ton Churchill "CrocodWe," tank-mounted flame thrower capable of hurling its lethal blaze 450 feet ahead and even around corners. The potent British weapon was introduced to the Germans al the Normandy beaches. Since then it has been used with what the British information services reported as "deadly effect" in burning a path for British and Canadian forces through Hitler's strongpomts in France The British supply council and arm staff in the announcement of 125 miles to the east captured the Riviera resort towns of Cannes and Antibes. The American drive into the eastern slopes of the Rhone valley near the towns of Aries and Tarascon slashed a major German road of Retreat from southwestern France and cut off a 700-square mile coastal pocket extending eastward from the Rhone delta to Marseille.

Nazis Admit Retreat The Germans, by their own admission, were retreating up the Rhone toward Lyon, 150 miles north of Aries, presumably in an effort to reach safety before an American mystery column last imported in Grenoble cuts off the northern end of the valley road. (A French force of interior communique said the Maquis entered Lyon Thursday, thus bottling up those Germans in the Rhone valley between Aries and Lyon.) Headquarters announced that Germans already had been herded into allied prison pens in the 11 days Lt Gen. Alexander M. Patch's Franco-American 7th army has been on the march across southern France. Hundreds more were being seized in the Mediterranean coastal ports of Marseille and Toulon, where fighting still raged.

Mop I'p In Marseille A late bulletin said that the French still were fighting the nazis in the port area of Toulon and were mopping up the enemy in already-liberated Marseille. Front reports said the French had begun a final drive to crush the Germans still holding out in Forte St. Jean and St Nicholas in the old port area of Marseille, A late dispatch from Toulon said that most of the city had been freed of the Germane by late Friday but that big enemy garrisons still were holding out from underground positions, Toulon's forts and varioue isolated buildings along the waterfront Silent on Grenoble For the second successive day headquarters gave no report on the progress of the American column in Grenoble, 58 miles southeast of Lyon, It was announced that Grenoble, 140 miles up from the Mediterranean, was captured by a flying column detached from the main body of troops. The independent Rome newspaper, II Tempo, without quoting its source of information, claimed that the Americans had moved to within 15 miles of Lyon where they were engaged in a violent battle with the Germans. It also claimed that Chambcry, 28 miles north of Grenoble and on the last nazi-held railroad from France to Italy, had fallen, along with St Etienne, 32 miles southwest of Lyon.

Planes Hit Near Lyon Supporting a possibility that the Yantc flying column might be moving toward Lyon, headquarters announced that Mitchell medium bombers, in their deepest penetration of France, had attacked two bridges northeast of Lyon. Thunderbolt fighter-bombers also hammered targets in the Lyon area. At the southern end of the river, the late bulletin announced that forward American elements had "closely approached" the Rhone in the vicinity of Aries and Tarascon. Aries is 45 miles northwest of Marseille and 25 miles up the river from the Mediterranean. By drawing near it the Yanks cut off the huge coastal pocket to the south of the Marseille-Aries line.

Tarascon, on the east bank of the Rhone, is nine miles north of Aries. Capture Cannes A German broadcast said it was "difficult to obtain a clear survey of the situation in the interior of France, and added that the Germans had been "disengaging" from the Rhone delta in the direction of Lyon. On their eastern flank the Ame-leans smashed five miles along the Mediterranean coast Thursday to win the famed resort of Cannes. They also toppled the road center of Grasse, eight miles to the northwest The Americans struck four miles west from Cannes to win Antibes, 11 miles from Nice and 24 miles from the Italian border. It appeared the Americans might be developing a drive against the nazi right flank in northern Itaiy along the Riviera coast for at Antibes they are only 110 miles from the great Italian port of Genoa.

Acute Suffer Shortage Predicted Immediately CHICAGO. Aug. 25. (INS) Civilians may expect an scute butter shortage in the immediate future, with less than one-half pound of butter available per capita monthly. Dr.

H. A. Ruehe, excu-bve secretary of the American fiuV ter institute, said Friday, LONDON, (Saturday), Aug. 26. (UP) Allied troops, spurred on by the news of the liberation of Paris, rolled the Germans back toward the Rhine on a 200-mile front across France Saturday, and unofficial reports said an American spearhead had crossed the Marne river and reached Reims, cathedral city 80 miles northeast of Paris and about 110 miles from the German border.

Allied headquarters sources also confirmed that American patrols had reached Troyes, some 120 miles west of the German frontier and while it appeared that they had penetrated even further, any official confirmation of the Reims report was banned by the veil of secrecy drawn over news of operations sodth and east of Paris. Scrambling Over Seine Some 200 miles to the northwest, beyond Paris where allied forces had rescued patriots in a battle with German resistance pockets in the street, fleeing Germans still were scrambling across the lower reaches of the Seine under heavy air attack. Virtually all of the territory below the Seine was in allied hands. The fall of Rouen, the great com munications center west of Le Havre, appeared imminent. The Germans, running for their lives, were in no position to defend it If the allies chose to make a major attack northward in the direction of the Pas De Calais and the rocket coast.

Le Havre Dead City Ninth US air' force fighters and fighter bombers reported destroying 54 German tanks and damaging 50 more, mostly along the south bank of the Seine from which the final remnants of the German seventh army were fleeing. They also destroyed 158 motor vehicles. Le Havre, across the broad mouth of the Seine from allied troops al ready and within easy artillery range, appeared a dead city. For 48 hours, German shipping had been trying a "Dunkerque" evacua tion under sea and air attack losing at least one vessel, probably two more, and at least five damaged." Clamp Firm Hold There was no firing from German guns in the city at allied lines, which had been advanced three miles east of Honfgleur to the mouth of the Morelle river, about 7 1-2 miles southeast of Le Havre. Americans driving down the (Continued on page 5, coL 3) Von Kluge In Mystery Death STOCKHOLM.

(Saturday). Aug. 26. INS) Field Marshal Gen. Gunther von Kluge, commander in chief of the German armed forces in western Europe, has died mysteriously, according to reports reaching Stockholm early Satur-dsy.

These reports said it was not known whether Von Kluge had been killed in battle action or in an accident or had died from some other cause. Von Kluge replaced Field Mar shal Gerd von Rundstedt last month when the latter was dismissed by Adolf Hitler as western European commander after he failed to prevent the allied armies from establishing a beachhead in Normandy. It was Von Kluge who received the most credit for having broken France's Maginot line in June, 1940. and subsequently he commanded the German army group on the central Russian front Taken From Flame Thrower the new weapon called it the most powerful flame thrower in the world. Designed to burn out strong-points of the Atlantic wall and save infantry lives, the "Crocodile" uses special new type of fuel.

Its flames can be ricocheted off a nearby surface, in the manner of a billiard shot to turn out pillboxes and trenches hundreds of feet away. The flame gun is mounted on a standard Churchill tank, with the fuel carried in an armored trailer behind. The flame equipment can be jettisoned in case of need and the tank can operate thereafter as an orthodox Churchill, with no cut in firepower. Willkie Prefers To Meet F.D. After Election Invitation Confirmed In New York With No Plans Yet Made WASHINGTON, Aug.

25. (P Wendell Willkie, saying that Pres. Roosevelt has invited him to a conference, took the attitude Friday that he would prefer to wait until after the election, Nothing definite has been done toward arranging a Willkie. in New York, confifmed reports of the presidential invitation after Roosevelt, at his news conference here, said he had been in communication with Willkie. The disclosures followed several days of rumors that the White House was making overtures to the 1940 GOP presidential nominee for a conference on foreign policy.

The reports had attracted more attention from the standpoint of politics than from foreign affairs since Willkie has kept silent on what role, if any, he intends to take in the presidential election campaign. Willkie left little douht, however, that if he does see the president before the election their talks will be completely divorced from partisan matters. Brownsville Fort Ordered Closed BROWNSVILLE. Aug. 25.

(fFs Historic Fort Brown, born during one war, has been ordered abandoned in the midst of another. The fort, for which Brownsville was named, was declared a surplus military installation by the army and will be abandoned Sept. 25, the eighth service command announced Friday. Brownsville Herald Editor Ray Sicard, saying he represented "hundreds of lower Rio Grande valley residents." immediately wired a protest to' the war department terming the action "unwarranted in the light of postwar developments" Fort Brown was formed in 1847 by Gen. Zachary Taylor, later president, and was named for Maj.

Brown, killed in action there. It would have been 100 years old in less than three years and the city was planning a celebration. It has the unique distinction of probably having saved the United States from invasion when the nation, weakened by Civil War, was threatened by Emperor Maximilian. The Yankee general who said "war is hell" was rushed to the valley with an army of 50.000. Maximilian did not invade.

Pope To Broadcast Sept. I VATICAN CITY. Aug. Pope Pius XII will make a world broadcast over the Vatican City radio Sept. 1, marking the fifth anniversary of the start of the war.

and Hull Agree, To Argue that he wanted to leave no loophole for a charge of bad faith when Dewey talks on the subject. Furthermore, Dulls told reporters before leaving for New York where he will see Dewey, that there will be "plenty of political discussion on many other aspects of foreign affairs, especially in regard to past conduct of foreign policy." The joint Huli-Dulles announcement said the two agreed on "numerous aspects" of problems involved in an international security organization. Dulles said later that he found himself in general agreement with Hull, with "differences of emphasis rather than substance." Japs Lose More Ships To Yankees Navy Expects Nip War To Lost At Least Through '45 By 'he Associated Pr Skip-bombing Mitchells sank five Japanese freighters and damaged three other ships, including a light cruiser, in the Dutch East Indies Thursday, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced Friday night. The cruiser was left blazing from stem to stern and believed to be sinking.

Nothing on Invasion Forty luggers and barges were riddled in the attack near Menado on Celebes island, west of Hal-mahera. Other bombers clearing the pathway to the Philippines for MacArthur set off explosions and started fires on Halmahera, 300 miles south of the Philippines. McArthur made no mention of an attempt to invade the Mapia islands east of Halmahera, reported earlier by Tokyo radio. Enemy broadcasts also told of a third carrier raid on Sumatra. The navy expects the war against Japan to last "at least until the end of 1945" an admiral said in Washington Friday as Tokyo radio broadcast reports of a new American invasion and a third carrier raid on Sumatra.

In Washington Rear Adm. James H. Irish, navy inventory control officer, complained "the navy's war in the Pacific is being handicapped by the failure to obtain necessary ships." He said the navy assumed the war would last "at least until the ned of 1945." US warplanes raided the outer fringes of 1,800,000 square miles of the central Pacific ocean controlled by Japan seven months ago but now dominated by the American navy. Targets included Wake Island: Iwo Jima, 750 miles south of (Continued on page 5, col. 6) Senate Approves War Surplus Bill WASHINGTON, Aug.

23. The senate passed by voice vote Friday a bill providing for the disposal of upwards of $100,000,000 of postwar government surpluses under an eight member board with tight congressional controls, and earmarking receipts to retirement of the national debt. The action came after rejection of a proposal to compromise differences between advocates of one man control and board supervision under an amendment retaining the board but providing administration by a presidentially appointed director. The measure now goes to a conference between representatives of senate and house where efforts wilL be made to reconcile differences between the senate bill and one passed by the house last week. The house approved legislation not only placed disposal authority in a single administrator but differed widely from the senate bill in other respects.

Leslie Howard Leaves. Property to Widow LOS ANGELES. Aug. 25. (JPt The will of Leslie Howard, late British film actor lost at sea more than a year ago, was Med for probate Friday, leaving most of his California property tn his widow, Ruth, now in England.

Howard died when a plane flyins him between Portugal and England was shot down, June 1. 1943, supposedly by the nazis. The -will filed here disposes of property valued at $11,732. Mexican Bus Company Lacks Tires for Service MEXICO CITY, Aug. 25.

JFy The bus company "Transportes Paso Del Norte" announced Friday that it has suspended service be- i tween Chihuahua and Ciudad Juaraz. opposite El Paso, Texas, I for lack of tires. banks and bars To Close Today For 2nd Voting Light Ballot Looms With Only Few In Runoffs Saturday Texas banks and bars will be closed Saturday and polling places will be open to register the democrats' choice of an attorney general and an associate justice of the state supreme court. In addition, the run-off primary will decide races for three US con gressional posts, two state sena torial offices and 28 representatives' places, as well as numerous local and district contests. So Primaries In 45 Counties This primary is for races in which no candidate received a majority in the first democratic primary July 22, Some 45 Texas counties, with no local runoffs at all, will not conduct second primaries, the Texas election bureau has been advised.

This, together with the few state contests and the distractions of momentous events abroad, led some election officials to forecast a vote of fewer than 500.000 as compared with 823.460 ballots cast in the July primary. Sulak In Runoff All ballots will carry the names of Groves Sellers. Encumbent, and Jesse E. Martin, candidates for attorney general; and Judge Richard Critz and Col. Gordon Simpson, for associate justice, supreme court.

Run-offs in three congressional races are between Nat Patton. incumbent, and Dist. Atty. Tom Pickett, Palestine; Rep. Joseph J.

Mansfield, Columbus, and state Sen. L. J. Sulak. La Grange, and Rep.

Sam Russell, Stephenville, and Clyde Garrett, Eastland. In the state senatorial races, Howard Carney, Atlanta, and Ed B. Levee, Texarkana, are candidates for the Dist. 1 nomination; Karl Lovelady. incumbent, and Buster Brown, Temple, for Dist.

21. Floodlights Granted To Wharton Field WHARTON. Aug. 25. -The civil aeronautics authority at Washington has granted removal of floodlights at Damon emergency landing field to the Wharton municipal airport through efforts of Cong.

J. J. Mansfield, Mayor F. Hains of Wharton announced Friday. Hains said work would start immediately on the project to cost $35,000.

The local field will better serve the army as an emergency landing field. San Antonio Bishop To i Address State Meeting SAN ANTONIO. Aug. Four San Antonians, including the Most Rev. Robert E.

Lucey. D. archbishop of San Antonio, will address sessions of approximately 75 affiliated societies of the Catholic State league meeting in a three-day -convention. Monday through Wednesday at Castroville, it was announced here Friday. The meeting coincides with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of.