The Winnipeg Tribune from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada • Page 1

8 A If, i i When the British advancing on Falaise in Normandy captured this 10 year old boy in a German grenadier uniform, he sobbed: "I didn't shoot anybody." Questioning disclosed that he was the stepson of a Russian who had been shanghaied Into the Cerman army, taking the boy with him. Now Nikolai Pankov is a happy, 10 year old ally of the United Nations. (AP Wirephoto.) Russians 35 Miles From Galati Gap MOSCOW, Aug. 25 (AD Two Red armies, slashing deeper into Romania against an apparently tottering enemy from whom 47,000 men have been taken as prisoners in five days, today were within 35 miles of the Galati gap defense guarding the Danube gateway to Bucharest and the Plnesti oil fields. The armies of Gen Rodion Y.

Mslinovsky and Gen. Feodor Tok I KUKnin, enviously taKing nc chances on the outcome of i 'J" 1 nf no drerts of cities towns and villages Thursday including the Resrarabian capital of Chisinau (Kishinev). Seizure of Barlad en the lasl Gala.l railway, 58 miles north of Galati, put the Russians within 35 miles ef Natl defenses along the lower Siret and Putna rivers in the 45 mile wide gap between Galati and Focsani at the edge ef the Carpathians. Othrr major strongholds to fallen such haste during the last 24 Thursday were Roman and BamuJ hours they failed to demolisih the latter 37 miies northwest ol bridges and left some fortifications Barlad. lunmanned.

In a lightning attempt to get a The Russians said the Nazis rm grap of Romania before hre were mercilessly killing any Ro 'n Mrt overlords ran complete plan smanlan soldier or civilian making'VOZl DeStrOYCrS LOUCfnt for counter measures, the Soviet a ahow of resistance acainst thBm I Tipoff Helps Police Recover Stolen Autos A TELEPHONE TIFOFF resulted In city police recovering three tolen cars, and arresting three suspected auto thieves Thursday night. At 10.30 p.m. a woman called police headquarters to report three men arting suspiciously in the open ground near Cambridge st. and Mulvey ave. A message suit Sonsts.

Ernest Rodgers and Eernard Buss Deeding to the scent in cruiser "'V. .1 men jumped Into the.r own car to rnake a getaway. Pol.ce gave chaae thak nlnae tf Intn am a4itnk: a)t sv tiv us a nd the fugitives piled out and ran'mornlng with n'n cnarKM yet Cfl on foot. One was captured after a short chase but the other two eluded their pursuers. About three quarters of an hour later Conats.

Robert Clarke and E. Johnson, en duty in another cruiser car, arrested two men on Corydon near Stafford St. First Newsman's Southampton Base Is Almost Polar JAMES C. ANDERSON TrlbuBS autl Bfporlarl CHURCHILL. Aug.

23. outh 1 a. farther north than the Aleutians. people don 1 nying catches up with aircraft de realize that. Once there you do.

Itjvelopment. is cold. It is barren, is the 0ur erlft hld fiippe(j over Arctic. There are no trees. from Edmonton.

It does this This is glacier land, the fif the great ice ridges are clear. The air base itself is only a few; hundred yards from a pre Cam bnan ridge. Here ou can find fossils thousands of years o.d. At Southampton you are onl some 200 miles from the Arctic Circle. The base latitude is 64 decrees.

The Circle is about 66H degrees. It is not very far from the ether side of the world. Where Compass Twirls You are only a few hundred miles Tne uspects. who gave their nam lJotUi Himinuk. William Edttllr(, fi nfnmri In itv Anin against them.

They were remand ed in custody until Saturday. All three of the stolen cars had been taken from the vicinity of the Uptown theatre a short while before they were recovered. It is believed the men were about to start stripping thm when the police arrived. Visit the north. Wing tips and tail are red.

It is easier to see in the snow In case of trouble. We hart no trouh e. Trouhle less and le. as knowledge of Arctic about ence a week. It touches at The Pas, Churchill, and keeps the island base ef Southampton In personal contact with the outside.

The plane also flips the Northwest Staging Route. The pilots are old hands at this game. The crew included Capts H. E. Novinger, F.

H. Ririe and Lieut. L. Leppelman. They have flown the Pacific a number ol times, been across the North Atlantic.

Leppelman was recently decorated for his overseas trips. Three Hour. ncy mane tne omi miif nip from Churchill to Southampton; in three hours. Most of it was at l.aOO feet, only slightly I than Ocar Lake. We left; atn Tit 1akntufl 1 tCk Vms lnia from the Magnetic Pole.

Here the Crew engineer as Sgt. Bob Mont compass often turns around like a gomery. dog about to lie down. Sometimes These fellows consort with the It is reliable, sometimes not. 'Russians through the northwest.

Even without the air base It is They like them, think they are orth visiting, just so you can saslgood fliers, and "more used to im oi were once there. Tuesday provization than we are." i Chlirrhll tne firjtdnd thus far the onlv newsman to do so. Some dav this may be a great air corridor to, u0 I few bv United States air trans I fc armies took 25,000 German and Romanian prisoners In a single day. and sent spearheads to ley than inn mllai frnm Ploeitl and: jijphtiy more tnan tnat Front dispatches said Red Army tankmen, as liberators and not conquerors, cruised through nun northern Romanian towns and villages, followed by sweaty, dusty folumns of singing infantry. Civilian populations literally cried for joy on hearing of a second promise by the Soviet government not to annex Roman Ian territory, change Its existing social regime or barm its Independence, dispatches said.

The Germans have been fleeing port in a 47 with 11 American snldies. These planes are b.g houTt. Th b5 operates on; Thv can carrv a couple of Jeeps War Time. I and a gun. Thev are about the1 Flying into the approaching most jifulix transport plana jxu get atrange iUuuon ol ROMANIANS BATTLE NAZI REAR GUARDS LONDON, Au'sr.

2. (AP) Germany announced officially today that "some" Romanian tronps had stoppen fieht jnc and Moscow dispatcher told of idospread loral encashments between Nazi rear guard and King Michael's army, thrown to the Allied side hy the Balkan kingdom's ahrupt capitulation and reversal. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union Informed Romania she could earn an armistioe only by ordering her troops to fight "hand In hand' with ROMANIA DECLARES WAR? NEW YORK, Aug. 25. (AP) The Curs radio said tods that Romania had declared war en Germany and that German planes "heavily bombed" Bucharest.

The Federal Communications Commission recorded the broadcast, which was without confirmation elsewhere. the Red army," a mnv ordered In King Michael's startling proclamation Wednesday night. Repercussions were swift: Outflanked Bulgaria In tensified Its reach for peace and London speculated thnt a capitulation from the Bulgarians would come shortly. Hungary'! boundaries were bared to the advancing Russians and, according to Bucharest broadcasts, to the Romanians too. I The liberation of adjoining Yugoslavia and nearby Greece were brought Infinitely closer.

Even Finland, far to the north, was reported planning new peace overtures. Continued en Page 2, No. 3 Bulletins Cable I A mixed force of R.A.F. and R.C.A.F. rocket firing Beau fighters in a late Thursday evening attack caught two German Elbing class destroyers fleeing from Mordeaux and saturated them with rockets, setting both aflame and leaving them seriously damaged.

Nazi Ships Blown Up LONDON. Aug. 25 (AP) British and American light naval forces Intercepting Nail ships trying to escape from Le Havre at the Seine's mouth early today blew up an escort vessel, an armed trawler and boat, and damaged at least five ether enemy warships. Nazis Taken In Paris NEW YORK, Aug. 25.

Cap. tured German officers In Paris were led from the Hotel de Vtlle (Paris City Half), today and police bad to keep the crowd from lynching them, said Rad Paris, as heard by N.B.C. distance, height and horizon. The route is northeast. Looking from the northwest side of the plane we auni.

u.n there was nothing but dark; ness. iou could barely see the wing tip. It was as though plane was the dividing line the be tween day and night. Later on we could see northern liehts. Those north were colored.

fr.xntin,.rf D.n. m. 11 4 as Sore Feet Not Sufficient Grounds To Eject First Floor Tenant Because a landlady has sore feet and finds difficulty in climbing stairs is not a valid reason to ejoc' a ground floor tenant as being Judse Whilla ma'ie his decision Thursday while sitting a the rentals court of appeal. The applicant said: "I wish to move downstairs as my feet are sore and I'm not able to climo stairs." This was her sole reason for declaring the ground floor tenant, a soldier, to be obnoxious. vhitla dismissed seven other applications of a similar nature, declaring the causes to be triviai Vy I North lXT rjr ngl.ih ''PlforthtstCttmenl Gassi FRANCE Allies Seize Cannes, Blast Marseille (Compiled from Late Dispatches te the Associated Press) The Allies today launched a smashing attack on the four remaining enemy strong points In Marseille and seized the resort city of Cannes and the nearby inland town of Success was also chalked up In the Rhone valley where French Forces of the Interior entered Lyon, third city of France.

Meanwhile the Germans admitted a widespread retreat from most of France was In progress up the Rhone valley toward Lyon and declared bitter fighting was still going on In Toulon and Marseille. A dispatch from A.F war corre spendrnt said two Sid Feder at Marseille German general and 5.000 prisoners were captured ny ne Kjvpn from J700 to $775. 1 the Americans in that area in the A shortage of tr arhers. last 72 hours. 'since start of the war has become Another column, pushing progressively serious, is now des westward from Salon, no.thwest pcrate.

For the first time the of Marseille, was reported within department of education faces the eight miles of Aries and the lower! prospect of a large number ol Rhone river valley. closed schools. Lt Gen. Alexander M. Tatrh'si The shortace of nualified teach headquarters said ifnthing of gains fri increased from 25 In the hy American troops striking north (irft 0f the war to fiT0 at the of Grenohle.

Geneva dispatches lprPltrnt time. Three hundred said the troops had earhed heisturirHs. graduated ftom Normal Swiss frontier, about "0 airline in June and more took miles north of Grenoble. the special short term Normal "The force wMch captured Gren during the summer. These oble afler a spectacular advance Jhave all been placed and still there northward from Drrtguignan was a 200 vacancies, flying column, Including some ar The supply of high school mor operating in advance of the students available for teaching main body of the American troops.jpositions i at least 100 less than whirh subsequently has firmly occupied the area with the co operation of the French forces of the interior." was the only official comment todav on the activities of thnt swiflly striking force.

In ToeOon French troops drew a ring of steel tighter around the desperate Germans entrenched In the raval port and the nearby coastal area. The French troops occupied the land arsenal within the city as well as the suburban town of OHiules to the northwest. The enemy's stiftest resistance was around the naval arsenal in the harbor and on the two peninsulas which almost landlock the harbor to the south, west and southeast. Some 20.000 prisoners alreadv have pasd throush the pens 'established on the bi arhhrals. and 'hundreds more continued to marrh from the ranidlv expanding front, while hard strikine Allied troops wiped out snsill enemy units as fast as thev were ehrountered.

The Homes Of Englond Robots Hit 17,000 A Day NEW YOPK, Aug. 2S The British Information Services here said that flying bomb salvos bad reached such a pitch in England that 17.000 homes were being destroyed er damaged by them every 2 hours, Coupled with a warning that the was still e'anger of fymg bombs coining over the coast, the Entish War Office announced Thursday that the last sfetch of the English "invasion coast wou'd be renpened to the public. This stretch is en the east and southeast sdes ef the Island. The army will remain In control along the shore. BELGIUM I BACK TO THE SOMMEh FINAL EDITIOIi THE WEATHER FORECAST: THUNDERSHOWERt Minmum during night.

54; msxtirium Thursday. 79. T'mpe'aiiire at 7 3" a today. 5.5: It 7J. Bun ai me horizon: 13 houra.

minutes. t7un risea i am t'tj. 32 m. "I DIDN'T SHOOT ANYBODY 55th Year By Carrier In Wlnnlpea Sc per Week WINNIPEG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1944 No. 204 rice, cfnU; With Camlet, 10 tents.

Atriniw Don Dltd Afldl Pafirii1r Albd (Foglhfrs a from Le Havre, the Canadians today occupied Honfleur, asl i i preetrd the entrance of the tanks! the Nans in the pocket south of the Seme were steadily nni thundering: squeezed into an area less than 20 miles long. Across thciwricome fled to the safety of river indications are the Germans intend to make a stand buildings and within a few mln along the Somme Marne line of First Great War fame aii i i with humnnitv. laughing and rrvJ shown on map). Allied armor has entered Pans. South of jn(r ov.

1n( were Paris no word has been revealed Sens, last reported 15 miles east RuTCll Schools MQV 200 Volunteer Teachers Needed Hon. J. C. Prydrtv appealed for 200 volunteer teachers to take over rural schools in Manitoba which otherwise will be unable to open with the start of the fall term next week. Former teachers who have quit the profession will he paid a year if they temporarily go hack in teachine.

Hich school Grade jj Bnd 12 students for whom can be made available will a year ago. Students whs want te take a teacher training course for the present will be fmsreed by the department LWniwilM miae to pay their enpenses. tree or Interest, to be repaid when they mH hrodrSst 0VPr Vatican Light" said the Joxous citicnr forrr, rns. The are placed in schools. marking the already were cerebrating their rwt vl)s Montereau, Volunteers who will accept fifth anniversary of the statt of freedom.

Other radio riispatrhe nrar i. 0ntainebleau, and Mon teaching jobs are asked to get in the war. American troops had entered farther south, had been ii ii a Across the mouth of the Seine or the U.y spearhead out ct of that centre. AP Map.) ClOSC minister of education, today touch with the department of education. School hoards In dis trict which have an enrolment 'h 10 nunils or fewer are beini asked Ev" coherent to make arrangements.

possible. 'events mai moven so swmiy. once P(i sCmm with the nearest district which French armored column th' Smm' a teacher. The enrolment of schools likely to he without teachers is between 2.000 and S.noo. Two Injured Storm Blows Rolling Freight Cars Off Track SASKATOON.

Aus. 23. tCPi The tail end brakeman and tne conductor of a C.N.R. freieht train were injured shortly alter fi m. Thursday when nire freight cars were blown off tne track near Takeo, east, of Unity.

The train was In motion at the tim the struck bringing torrential rain and heavy hail. rope IO Druuatim VATICAN CITY. Aug 25 tAP) Wj I "DON'T BE AFRAID. TOTO" A little French boy ter cets bis own fears to comfort his deg as shells whine nvcrhorj during the Allies' fasting of Cerman defenses at Dmard in France. Wirephoto Paris Reports Nazi Surrender By DON WHITEHEAD (Associated Press War Correspondent) PARIS, Auz.

25. (AP) Street fighting rager! through the heart of Paris todav as American and French columns drove into the city from welcome lrom hundreds of thousands of Parisians. The first French column to enter the city reached Luxembourg at 10.20 a.m. Hie Germans, the collaborationist militia and the French Gestapo organization opened lire with machine guns, nilcs and patois An American Infantry column drove to Notre Dame at 11 a.m. in a spectacular ground attack to1 close in on strongholds still de fended by the embattled Germans! and the Vichy Frenrh militia.

I The columns fought toward the centre of the city, where Frenrh Foicis of the Interior and, city police have held out for the rast week. The German commander of Paris has surrendered to Eng. Gen Jacques Le Clere and the commander of the Freneh Forces of! the Interior. Taris radio reported today Marhine guns anT rifles cracked on all sides as the column 1 was with diove to within a block ol Luxembourg 'hattieirounds, As I write this storv the Ger mans are slill holding out in the area on bolh sides of the Seine i 1 7 DOrsay. Tuilerles.

Gardens of thi Louvre, the Madelaine, the Cham her of Deputies, the Srnate and v.nannel coast today occupied the Hotel Criiion. illonPcur at the mouth of the French r.triot. have a grip on opposite Le Havre, the lie de la Cite, the Talais dci 4 Justice, the Prefecture of police. the Prefecture of the Seine, most of the Mairies and the factory district. But Frenchmen are fighting Frenchmen as well as Germans In liberating a city wild with happiness over the freedom which Ihev waited for four vears.

There was so much confusion and excitement over the entranc It Is difficult to account of the nlllnn thrnnnh IS. ing fog that made vehicles lookj like prehistoric monsters appear ing out of the swamps on creation.1 Much Of City Held By Allies LONDON, Aug. 25 (AP) Paris appeared to be In Allied hand tonight with the Frenrh 2nd Armored Division operating in the city. Fight. ng, however, si ill was; going on in and around the French capital.

I Gen. Eisenhower's supreme command declared that Brig. Gen. Jacques Le Clerc's armor was operating In the capital and a broadcast spoke of the liberation of Paris as "a fact." A f.ffhtincr continued. the Frrnch forces of the Interior ap ppllrd by tnAi0 Parisians to come to the barricades.

rom the "City ol tne city in support 01 me 1 rem n. Brig Gen. Jacquese Lo Clerk en tered the Orleans gate at a.m.. broadcasts from Pans said. The bulk of the French general'? second armored divisions 30.0K Continued on Page 2, No.

4 Top Storey Wrecked Local Tannery Blaze Injures 3 Firemen Tliiee tiiemen sultcrcd Iniurics in a blaze that wrecked the entire lop floor of the four stcrey Dominion Tanners Ltd. building on Jarws neer Aihnston budge, shot My alter 6 p.m. Thuisday. Injured were: C. Davis, of No.

station, sprained back; Mclntre. the command of No. 7 station and J. h. Poitras.

o. YT, Cnjc( D. A. Bouiden. swarmed 1 station, burned hands ladders on the four sides of the This was the third fue In less brjrk 1n thousands than a week to bleak out during nln h.

the supper hour, the McColl Fron supper hour, the McColl Fron tenac O.I Co. plant and a three storey building at 15 May having been the scene of blazes last F. f1a and Vcdnrsda respecti Thur'dey nieht's fire kept tire men from Nov. 7. 11.

1 nnd "IT1 "imiii. i no nours prmie was surnuci The bUze, tne cause of which is as yet undetermined, was burning fiercely by the time the firefighters had arr ved. It was by large vats c' wax, tallew sh oil stored the top floor ot i the building, feie are used for taininj hides. the south amid a tumultous and the battle was on. CANADIANS SPRING TRAP ON NAZIS WITH THE CANADIAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Aug.

2:,. (CP) The Canadians late today made contact with American forces who are on the Seine at Lou vicis, couth of Rouen. A Western Canada armored car regiment made 'JO mile dash from Beaumont on the Risle river and linked ud with the Americans at Haye Malherbe, a small town three miles of l.ouviers. ALLIED UPREME iitrt I iyu Ali I liliS, AUf. J.

ndvancinjr Up the English kukcm. rii'nin puru An Algiers radio report said the (iermans were evacuating Le Havre in a hurry, in order to shorten their lines. The Germans said they were 'n a "detaching movement" below the Seine, and R.A F. Intel 1 1 vi ma Indicated Field Marshal von ni iipji Btrniiir uai in man nni "The wholesale slaughter of the Team of von Kluge's armor may "ever be repeated again in this a senior K.A.r. onicer sail in France.

'We just can't hit armor the enemy hasn't got." he explained. Dispatches said sde roads tn the Seine pockets were lined fr miles with the litter ef wrecked German tanks and military vehicles, enemy dead piled In the ditches and under trees or draped ever burned and smouldering equipment. Even it an attempted stand Is made on the Somme Marne line, the RAF. officer said, it as doubtful if the enemy has enougli armor to make the stand he did in Normandy, and he spoke of tho possibility the Germans would re to the German border, The Upr(tme command still re Imamed largely eilent about the Amnr.n occupied, with an advance east o( Jh(, iattpr There was no rrport on the American fores 'which two das ago penetrated 15 Irs tvond Sens, approaching to lt jjo ml 0( tna German frontier. nnl prr, fhe seem ed to gain headway, the entire roof seething with flames.

The giant volune of water finally killed the blaze at about 8 pm. A Tribune reporter entrre.t the huiHmc as soon as the flames were VI It represented a cne of desolation. Every floor was rti ater hich had soaked piles of hides and machinery. Tarts rf t'e roof were entirely aril the fourth flfvjr was a kenrd run. The nf th Com Ipary M.

Mirk. Birebank sf Continued en Page 2, No. 2.