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The Weather THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN WEDNESDAY howtrs; partly loudy Wednesday night, little change temperature; maximum near 80-Mnrfy. Tuesday high. 80; low. 65. i State forecast, details, pace 14.) Ernie Pyle Reports On Paris' Freedom See Page 10.

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BROADWAY, OKLAHOMA CITY, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1944. SINGLE COPY PRICE: Daily 5c, Sunday 12 This Sooner Brings 'Em In- -946 Tanks Over Dash 25 Miles in Day Old War's Battlefields Salary Raises Voted Teachers In City System Demonstration School Announced at Irving With Picked Faculty Salary increases totaling an estimated $45,000 for 90 percent of the city's public school teachers and for all principals were voted Tuesday by the jchool board. Other important developments Tuesday included: -Announcement by Dr. H. B.

1 Bruner. superintendent, that Irving school will become a demonstration school" with a selected faculty. Greatest Execution Grim Efficiency Is Factory's Revealed By DANIEL DE LUCE Russians Seize Vital Romanian Black Sea Port Constanta, Nazis' Main Base and Oil Supply, Is Captured LONDON, Aug. Russian forces in a daring" combined land and sea operation Tuesday captured Constanta, Romania's great Black sea port and for three years the main German naval base in those waters. Seizure of the city of 60.000 represented an 85-mile advance LuoLiN, r'oiana, Aug.

27. (Delayed) iff) Four German prisoners of war stood with a bored air in front of. a Russian-Polish atrocities commission here tonight and told their stories of Majdanek, perhaps the greatest horror in Nazi Europe. In curt phrases they asserted that men, women and children of 22 nationalities had been gassed, hanged, shot, burned, drugged or starved to death in the three years of the operation of the Majdanek barbed-wire-enclosed encampment in a rolling meadowland at the edge of Lublin. Russians and Poles have estimated that it received more than half a million persons doomed to.

extermination. Majdanek is a ghastly fantasy. It was established for murder on a vast but methodical scale. Until a group of American and British correspondents visited it today with its six-concrete vaults for execution by cyanide or carbon monoxide gas, its open air crematorium surrounded with skeletons, its mounds of human ashes mixed with manure for fertilizing cabbage patches and its overflow burial ground in a pine woods carpeted with decaying bodies most of these newspapermen could not even begin to imagine the proportions of its fright- differently of Majdanek's scenes of slaughter and blamed all on "orders from above." N. A.

Stalb, a blond, six-foot German butcher, arrested in 1939 for selling meat in the black market, told in a clear, strong voice of his incarceration in Majdanek, during which he once became, a member of the barracks police detail. "I have seen a tractor haul as many as 400 corpses at one time from the 'bath and disinfection house' to the ovens on the hill," he said. "One day I saw the bodies of 157 Polish children who had been gassed. Another time I saw a group of Polish women marched up a hill to be shot to save the trouble of gassing them. They were ordered to disrobe.

One refused, a girl about 28 to 29. Two men tied her hands and legs, put her on a steel stretcher and thrust her alive into the white hot oven." Hermann Vogel, 42, an SS group leader from Muhlheim. stared ahead with a set face as he told or shipping 18 carloads of clothing in two months to Germany from the Majdanek warehouse he supervised. "Yes, all this clothing, even babies' garments, belonged to those executed," he said. "I have seen groups of 120 to 150 persons taken to the gas house in the evening and their bodies stacked outside the next morning.

Yes, I knew children were murdered, but what could Invasion Route To Reich Cuts Famous Points Belleau Wood Falls As Patton Thrust Approaches Border HEADQUARTERS. AEF, Aug. 30 (fl) The American Third army in a swifl 25-miie smash across hallowed battlefields of the firs! World war Tuesday captured Belleau Wood, Chateau-Thierry and Soissons, rolling northward along- the historic Ardennes invasion rout within 55 miles of the Belgian border. Covering miles for each bloodj yard their fathers won in 1913 the Americans under Lt Gen George S. Patton encoun-tered only minor resistance, and Associated Press Correspondent Edward D.

Ball reported from the front that the Germans were "in headlong flight" toward Belgium and their homeland. Turning northward from their positions east of Paris and advancing a rate of better than a mile an hou the Third army threatened to flanl tne Nazis' rocket bomb installation the northwest. Northeast of Paris they drove to th approaches of the World war sieei city of Reims. 81 96 Miles from Border East of the capital they were, tr German account, fighting in th streets of Chalons, only 96 miles fron expenditure to further a survey of the school system by two aa-EffsaHy known authorities. The board's action means that all school teacher will receive $50 yearly ttaie boosts, except the 129 already drawing the maximum scale and those teichinsr industrial arts, physical education rr.tiMc, science and commerce.

The board gave principals, vice-principals and eo-ordinators S100 yearly increases and all custodians a $36 a year boost. The board also voted an additional $100 for all teachers rTr.0 received a. masters degree dur- oy sea from the port of Sulina, taken Monday, and of 70 miles by land from Tulcea on the Danube, and it put Russian uoops oniy 9 mdes from the border. Constanta, terminus of the oil nine line from Ploesti, has at lteast 37 huge fumess. petroleum storage tanks and a special tanker basin.

In announcing its fall. Premier Stalin credited fast-moving motorized and tank formations nt Tonight with our clothes still reeking of the dead, we sat in a stuffy Lublin courtroom while three German SS (elite guard) officers and one German civilian renegrade spoke in I. Tolbukhin's army and naval forces unaer Aam. E. s.

Oktyadrsky. The Germans alreadv hud aoknrm-- Lieut. Clarence E. Coggins in his jeep somewhere near Grenoble. Note the 45th division's Thundcrbird shoulder patch.

The army said that all the prisoners in his record bag were note confined in a 45th division prisoner of war camp some-tchere in southern France. GRENOBLE, France. Aug. 25. (Delayed) (-Pi A formation of 946 German troops surrendered todav to Lieut.

Clarence E. Coggins, 24. Poteau. who earlier had been captured by the German unit. The Nazis were members of a force which the French said had been ruthless in opposing patriot activities and it was believed they surrendered in fear of what the French might do to them.

Coggins, who is a graduate of Oklahoma A. and M. college, Stillwater, was captured Wednesday night while on a reconnaissance mission. He was listed as missing. "They put me with 11 of my men who were captured, but when they learned I was an officer they called me over for a conference with their officers," he said.

Eventually the Nazi commander asked Coggins to 'take a surrender offer over the lines. The Oklahoman did so accompanied by a German officer. Later he returned to the German lines with terms from his battalion commander The Germans accepted early today. Coggins' wife and their 2V2-year-old son live at Woodward. Okla.

ledged during the day that Soviet troops naa reached the Plocstt-Con- pipeline, iney also admitted Paris Again Cheers March Of U. S. Men withdrawing from Bubau. oil and railway town 40 miles northeast of Ploesti. 150 Other Towns Taken Cimarron Puts Planes on Sale Bids Called on 36; Procedure Outlned Tr.e board's action also boosted to the pay of any teacher with a baehrier'5 degree receiving less, and to $1,300 the pay of any teacher, who hi bfen paid less, who has a master's George Salary Increased Anv teacher switching to half-time la cne of the five special fields will receive the regular $50 increment, phs a special bonus of $50.

making 13 increase of $100 over last school The board also voted a $300 raise for George, business manager, whose pay will be $5,500. and a $100 increase for Mrs. Flora Penney, clerk-secrttary, whose pay will be $2,900. M. J.

Burr. Jackson junior high-school principal who now is personnel fcretor. received a $25 a month raise. will make his salary $3,680 for The school board approved Miss Alta Thomas, first Krade at Shield Heights, as principal ci despite protests of a croup tl patrons who said they wanted Mrs. Srr.nb returned as principal.

Benefit Seen for System They cited her work with children South France Victory Near Thousands of Nazis Captured in Drive The Soviet midnight communique, confirming capture of Buzau, said more than 150 other towns were taken in the extending drive in that region rest. The communique also listed 50 towns taken in the southward sweep auoss me isanuoe to Constanta. ROME. Aug. 29.

(m The bat- The first of scores of army surplus planes assigned to Cimarron field at Yukon for disposal were advertised for sale the Hungary's Cabinet Quits As Russians Pound on Back Door PARIS Aug. 29. UP) Past the Arc de Triomphe and down through the avenues where their fathers had walked a generation ago, the men of a great American infantry division marched Tuesday. This was Paris' first real commemoration of her new freedom. There were cheers and laughter, but it was a solemn moment when Lt.

Gen. Omar N. Bradley and Lt. Gen. Joseph Pierre Koenig laid a wreath on the tomb of France's unknown shadow of a potential death trap fell miles from the battlefield east over dun on which the Germans and tin World war armistice was announce Nov.

1918. rrh' SiSSOas American! reached the south bank of th Aisna nxer and promised momenurilv tc break across the Aisne-Somme line, guardK "L.rrr tie ior soutnern France and destruction of the German 19th army neared completion Tuesday night as uncounted thousands of Nazis trudged back to the Germans still standing to de Tuesday. Thirty-six. all of them trainers, fend the vital Ploesti oil region. At least one division of elit anti were lined up to await the highest LONDON.

Aue. 29. fP) The Hungarian toward delinquency and told aircraft troops is believed to be in the auiea prison camps and disorganized enemy remnants fled up the Rhone valley, scattering bidders or "cash on the barrel' ceiling prices. In the batch wen district, plus the Nazi forces hose. she has "saved." saying they Nazi Doeme Sztojay fell Tuesday amid allied and axis reports believe no other person could fill her that Nazi troops were Withdrawing from Riiltraria in hiet out of Bucharest bv the Ro Aeroncas, seven Taylorcrafts.

three wieu- equipment oenind them. aee sa the school. Bruner said establishment of manian army and those falling back before the Soviet drive -down through Focsani and Buzau. Hungarian frontier defenses against the approaching Red army. The Hungarian regent, Adm.

Nicholas Horthy, accepted the soiaier of World war Interstates and seven Fair child The greater part of the army to "demonstration" school at Irving has PT-19S. gium and the homeland. As the allies neared Belgium oa-2 that coumry gcT. preliminary call to arms from the Independent front. AU able-bodiea patriot were ordered to join the resistance army, to steal arms from the Germans and to prepare for an all- seen planned since last year, and will resignation oi faztojay govern wind, inner entrusted the defense of southern France against allied invasion has been wined out ir Officials of the civU aeronautics Garrison Hemmed In Romanian troops already were hem ment and appointed Col.

Gen. Hundreds of thousands of persons stood along the line of march along the Champs Elysess. the Place Ven-dome, at the obelisk. Place de la Concord, In the Rue de Rlvoli and all administration, acting as sales agent the entire school system. "It is the hope of the plan to center ihs best teachinc in the city in Irvinz.

a fortnight's whirlwind campaign by ming in the Ploesti earrison from th for the Defense Plant which v. u. icAanuer i. aten Amer souin. ana me uerman radio declared vuez Geza Lakatos as new premier, according to the German news agency Transocean.

The Hungarian development fol tnrougn these beloved avenues. rucsaay night "very bitter fighting owns the machines, outlined the following procedure to prospective bid- ican ana i-Tencn seventh army. American troons slajshj at At the obelisk Bradley, Gen. Charles taking place between Romanian and uoeration. On Alsne Banks The Americans ai so the res of the system can learn and ill benefit." Bruner explained.

He said the staff of nine teachers his been selected from "among the best in nine different school ae uaune. uen. Sir Bernard L. Mont German troops in Bucharest and Labor to Hear President First Political Talk to Be Made September 23 Sealed bids. for each plane.

south bank of the Aime at Ftsmes, miles east of Soissons fleeing enemy Monrcllmar in the Rhone valley. 100 miles north of Marseille, where a flying Yank column reached the eastern bank of the Rhone river in a surprise thrust lowed a visit to Budapest by Field Marshal Gen. Wilhelm Keitel. supreme commander of German forces. Keitel flew back to Berlin after conferences gomery and Brig.

Gen. Jacques Le-Clerc reviewed the great parade. First came armored cars, four abreast and then lone files of foot The Ploesti wells, which once fur should be mailed to the CAA This spectacular We don't want to put the onus i school on the new organiza- nished Germany at least one-third of her natural oil needs, stretch for about 60 miles from Sinaia eastward in the Worth before September 11 with i 10-percent deposit on the bidder" price. (Ceilinz nrlccs are listed oi with Horthy and War Minister Lajos soldiers slogging along with the beat Artenne. forest and Sedan was putting to reverse invasion marches which the Germans jcn." Bruner said.

He said plans call sales notices mailed from Fort Worth direction of Soviet-captured Ramincul- reshuffled cabinet. In addition to Csatay the new or cir.tr teachers to observe tne pro at the request of prospective buyers.) ln places tne Held is as much cedures methods followed by the wide. The planes, being sold as is, should be Inspected at Cimarron before bids inet retained Finance Minister Lajos Remenyi-Scheller. Agriculture Minister Bela Yurzek and Interior Minister Both Buzau and Constanta are of WASHINGTON. Aug.

29. MV- The staff 'will consist of: Georgia Rogers, from Horace Mann: sent in. The field is open to buyers Fire Sweeps Area Near Los Angeles ho to liy or arive mere. rxiKoiaus Honczos. high tactical value to the Russians.

The former, a city or 36.000. is. a Junction for the railroads from Ploesti, Ramnlcul-Sarat and Braila and is an Those who wish to buy on the spot Lt. Gen. Gustav Hcnyey was named new foreign minister.

Other new min may do so by paying in full the listed celling price. isters, iransocean said, were Minister of Justice Gabriel Vladar. Minister for biing French in the spring of 1940 The 25-mile drive which Pattona men made northward from Chateau-Thierry to Soissons in one day seerned almost miraculous compared with thft French drive which captured the towS to the great second battle of the Marne in 1918. Then the Prench required from July 18 to August 2-16 days to move into Soissons from their nearest positions just three mile Those who wish to fly their pur LOS ANGELKS. Antr 59 OP A chased craft out of Cimarron after the CAA Issues a ferry per mat sweeping orusn lire ourned controlled in the Tarzana-Girard Culture Ivan Rakovszky, president of board of trade.

Oliver Markos, and Minister for Industry Tibor Gvulay. Qualified observers in London saw the Hungarian reshuffle executed Norris Critically III In Nebraska Home McCOOK. Neb. Aug. 29.

(UP) W. Norris. 83-year-old former wtiator from Nebraska, was uncon-Kioii? Tuesday after suffering a cerebral hemorrhasr. according to Ir. 5-F- lesnirmer.

his personal physician. Tn daughters in Washington. D. Nazi Troops Occupy Puppet Slovak State NEW YORK. Aug.

29. JP Gen. President Roosevelt i closed Tuesday that he has chosen the same setting for formal opening of his re-election campaign that he did in 1940 and will address an ALF teamsters union -meeting here September 23. He told a press conference it would be his first political speech of the campaign. Actually, he said, he did not believe the speech would be very political, but that it would seem so and he might as well label it in advance.

He said the Democratic national committee would pay for radio time for his September 23 speech. west of here Tuesday night, blackened hundreds of acres of rugged terrain. mit and the buyer agrees to paint his license number on the plane immediately after reaching his destination. He must also have an 100hour within 24 hours of the Russian deposited ashes in downtown Los An ing Into Transylvania as producing a Hungarian cabinet. Ferdinand Catlos.

commander-in-chief of Slovakia's armed forces, announced South, West of SoIiMni The American inspection made by a licensed chanlc. NC numbers, will be issued the spot by the CAA. gelcs, 30 miles away. Firemen said they received a report, as yet unconfirmed, that the blaze started when scuaaea witn generals and stronit broadcast over the Bratislava fighting beside the Fvnv, hands lomeumar 18 American Valley roads are littered with abandoned German vehicles, guns and supplies. The few vehicles still in use by the shattered Nazi columns were able to use the roads only under almost constant attacks by allied war-planes.

Allied headquarters said American tanks and infantry were locked in a bitter fight with enemy elements near Sauzet, four miles up the Rhone valley from Montelimar. From Montel-imar to the sea west of Marseille the great valley was declared free of Nazis except for a scattered lew. (A German news broadcast told of fierce fighting" in the Rhone valley between Montelimar and Valence. 27 miles to the north, but declared that Nazi forces were withdrawing "in accordance with plan." (The enemy radio said American troops commanded by Brig Gen. Fred- CoBllniil on 1.

Clum The War in Brief 77te war at a glance as told in Tuesday's dispatches: FRANCE American forces swarmed across World war I battlefields of Chateau-Thierry. Soissons and Balleau Wood northeast of Paris, heading for Belgian border In the south Germans were trying los Angeles, have been south and west of Soissons. radio Tuesday night that German Both the new premier and foreign minister are military figures. Henyey is former corps commander at Stuhl- reported. oms.

a- f-dB tighter plane crashed and ploded. was emphasized Tuesday that of the planes for sale will re i the troops were carrvine out a full-scale inaicaiinK the speed of the Ameri-m drive, supreme headnuarr No lives were reported lost and i 1943 quire any modifications- before being weissenourg. (The German controlled Hungarian The teamsters' union, headed by Daniel Tobin. has been called to meet estimate of property damage was mediately forthcoming. news agency.

reported Sztojay occupation of the Nazi-established puppet state amid continuing guerrilla activity. In his broadcast, which was reported by the federal communications the market are situated on the north side of the field. Those on the south here September 23 to discuss union problems. Union officials expect Starting near th Wmriianri Kills resignea oecause or "nis slaK nounced Tuesday morning that the Americans were six miles from Chateau-Thierry. Then late Tuesday th fall of that historic town.

Belleau wood five miles to the northwest, and Soissons. 25 miles north, were section, the flames spread eastward about 700 members oi local unions an The Sztojay cabinet was formed last v4 are out of bounds to public. In charge of the ales staff is Al-ed K. Younsr. chief of the caa min commission.

General appealed wwara larzana and Encino, the latter the home of manv HoUvwood film but about 100 of them trom states east of the Mississippi. Before his news conference. Mr. allies and to obey "only govern-nt orders" and not be swaved bv colonists. Most the homes to Encino appeared to be by-passed, but film producers, directors, actress and Belleau Wood is a rrm.n.n eral inspector branch here.

Assisting are Hope Biggers and Al Schuller, also of the CAA. the guerrillas. Roosevelt had his first meeting with Vice-President Henry A. Wallace since Marcn alter the Germans formally occupied Hungary. Mine in Kansas To House Cars of Food WASHINGTON.

Aug. 29. (Pi The memorial to American marine and infantrymen who died there in Jun. actors aiih-e joined with other towns the Democratic national convention which shoved Wallace aside in favor Showers Forecast Over State Today Sswer an(j thunderstorms are ttiit for Oklahoma City and the Wednesday and the early au-''if1 '-swh in the air will remain. fSehigh for the city will be around Msday.

with top temperatures to 80 in northwest Oklahoma Votad 85 in the east and south people in naming out hose and sprinkling their roofs and yards. Kundteds of rciScr mm. r.nm from BeIow Chalons, where American en- of Senator Harry S. Truman as a camps nearly 100 miles away, joined Roosevelt Censures Senator For Saying Nelson Job Chosen Asked about their mectine. Mr.

Roosevelt told reporters that he had city ana county workers in combatting the blaze. the American struck the central Marne at two points between Chalons and Vitry. For the present at least the lightning advance of the Third army over the rollinK ereen battfefirtrfc th. government will start storing reserve stocks of perishable food Thursday in a 75-year-old limestone mine near Atchison, which has been converted into the world's largest known natural cold storage warehouse. a nice luncn am wouia not go into the intimate conversations they had.

smiled when he remarked that WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. (jp, President Roosevelt" took Senator Fer Soldier Father Finds Second Son Is Dead GAINESVILLE. Anir 2fl-tfi earlier war overshadowed the opera The war food administration re members of his famUy were present and hence the talk was perfectly decent and respectable. cently took over the mine to help ease tions of other allied forces between Paris and the channel coast.

guson Mch.) to task Tuesday for saying he had word from "reliable RUSSIA. Russian forces captured Constanta, Romanian Black sea port, and the Danube delta, and drove within sight of the Ploesti oil telds- (This page.) critical cold storage nroblem. The es" that Donald M. Nelson would Allies Ready to Strike There were siena. hnvr mine will accommodate 3,000 to 3,500 carloads of food.

succeed James F. Byrnes kte continued to enjoy pre-autumn weather Tuesday with one point. Gage, with 91, rc-tmPeratures above 90. trace of rain fell in the city. a moisture was reported Tues- any state point airport station reported a high and a low of 66.

The high at obilization director upon return from China. U. S. Recognition Of Polish Army Revealed WASHINGTON. Aug.

29. The United States government recognizes the Polish home army as a combat force and has warned Germany that A 25-year-old soldier returned to this little Georgia town Tuesday night to find two of his quadruplet sons, born prematurely Sunday night, dead. Pvt. Charles E. Lee, given an emergency furlough, arrived from Camp Blanding, to find that his 23-year-old wife had named the two surviving boys Charles Edward Jr.

and George Robert. Asked about the Ferguson state had spread a few rumors himself to watch how and by whom they are spread and appeared to enjoy it. When a reporter said he had heard from "a very low source" that OPA Director Chester Bowles might head the new reconversion program, the president said Bowles agency was getting along alright with no internal rows there. The president again refused to say whether Nelson would again head the war production board when he returns. J.

A. King is acting chairman in Nelson's absence. 'Only a week ago." Rtprtsentntiie Halleck Ind.) commented, "the president; was protesting that he -was not kicking' Donald Nelson In the here, too, American, Canadian and British troops were now ready to strike out, possibly with General Pat-tons men holding the east wall of a huge pocket. In an effort to conquer the defenders of the Hying bomb sites along the channel. Southeastern England Shaken by Explosion LONDON, Aug.

29. (JPj A myster ment, the president said that if the senator would tell him where he, got since was 80 at 4 p. m. ana his information he would give him an 7 a. m.

On the same the hissh was 101 and ious explosion the heaviest felt in Britain since the war started shook He added he had some rights to iow where certain information comes two British armored columns broko it of the Seine bridgehead at Ver-m soon after daybreak, one drivin 73. Highest temperature the whole southeastern coast of Eng land just oeiore Bomber Falls at Tulsa TULSA, Aug. 29. py A heavv BERLIN Peace bid hinted In Nazi general's broadcast to German people. (Page 6.) Paris Americans parade- amid cheering thousands of Parisians (This page.) IN THE AIR Allied planes again swarmed over scattered German PACIFIC Air raids on Japanese positions continued with addittnnni several seconds the earth from and chided those, who try to hide Identity of their informants by using such terms as high official sources.

forward 12 miles to Etre Pagny and Hacqueville and the other nunrhtn she will be held responsible for reprisals against it. the state department announced Tuesday night. The statement followed a report by Polish Ambassador Jan Ciechanowski to the American and British government that the Germans are trying to exterminate the population of Warsaw as revenge for the military activity of Polish partiot forces inside the city. five mile forward to Bray-Et-Lu on seemed to tremble as in an earthquake. The shock appeared to come from a seaward direction" and- possi- He said he sometimes wonders about army bomber crashed and burned about two" miles east of the Tulsa municipal airport Tuesday nishe.

hut. 39! ior ine last 54 years was 'n 1943 and the low. .50 in 1893. ran Gage a close second, re- high of 87. It was 86 at 84, Clinton: Ponca City fti Jrnid- 8: Ardmore.

79: Tulsa. fcrt Natlnl park reported a r3 6 and a low of 66. ource and that he was some to teeth. And within, three days it developed the president was not. just kicktost him-in teeththat he was just kicking him 10,000 miles across the Epte river.

Simultaneously two British bridgeheads across the Seine east of Louviers the result of the Germans try to find out where Ferguson got headquarters for the air transport his information. blowing up a large munitions dump in noraiera France. command ncre said all 10 members The president smiled and said 'ha tne Pacuic." and at Vernon were so enlarged they were vircuallz Joined together and la ox tne crew balled, out. and were enemy shipping attacked. jPu U4.