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i CALIFORNIAN A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Information and Enjoyment For Every Member of THE FAMILY The Weather SALINAS VALLEY Clear today, tonight and Sunday. Warmer today. Yesterday's Temperatures High. .78 Low 48 rnnlimtinff Colinne and CSalinac Mnrnjnrf VOL LXXIII, NO. 203 SALINAS, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1944 FIVE CENTS French Greet Allies Pattons Tanks Drive On From Troyes, Reims Gen.

Eisenhower Warns Luxembourg and Alsace-Lorraine That Invasion Armies May Very Soon" Roll Into Their Lands ROMANIANS EATTLE NAZIS; BULGARIA PROCLAIMS NEUTRALITY LONDON Adolf Hitlers Balkan entente collapsed today as Rumanian troops, supported by American warplanes, turned in open warfare against their erstwhile German allies and Bulgaria, proclaiming her full neutrality, defiantly ordered all Nazi troops from her soil. Violent fighting between Romanian and German troops broke out at many points, centering around the capital city of Bucharest where Premier Marshal Constantin Senatescu's loyal army units were battling strong German forces that attempted to seize the city. American heavy bombers and fighters swarmed np from Italy to join in the battle for Bucharest, and radio Moscow Indicated that Soviet troops were racing toward the capital from the cast. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF (UP) American armored spearheads were reported striking for the German border beyond Troyes and Reims today as Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhowers headquarters warned the people of Luxembourg and Alsace-Lorraine that Allied invasion armies may very THE FEOFI.E OF PARIS rush into the streets to enthusiastically greet American and Frenr armored forces entering the capital city to crush filial, bitter German resistance. This photo, the first made inside the city since iis liberation, was radioed from Cherbourg to New York and telephoned from New York to San Francisco by NEA Service. Asphalt Tank Is Burned Damage at Wax Paper Plant Is In "Tar Room" Tank filled with 350 gallons of hot asphalt, igniting at the Salinas Valley Wax Paper company plant on highway 101 south early this morning, destroyed the roof and damaged the interior of the tar room, according to rural firemen who rushed to the scene at 2:30 a.m. The fire is believed to have been caused by a faulty valve on the heater which controls the temperature of the asphalt used 1 to coat a commercial paper. Kept at a 850-degree temperature, the boiling asphalt was tested hy firemen and found to he well over 500 degrees.

Because of previous fire damage from the same cause when the plant was located at Spreokels, the tar room in the present plant, built in 1037, has fireproof walls and doors, which prevented damage to other portions of the plant. Extent of the loss had not been estimated today by the firm which is headed by T. G. Emmons of 56 Acacia street. False Alarm While rural firemen battling the flames, two soldiers hurried to an Abbott street alarm box and called out the city trucks, causing considerable concern among residents in that part of the city.

Telephone calls to a depleted force at the fire house added to a hectic night for the department. Rural firemen answered an earlier false alarm at 7:30 p.m. which took them to the Monterey highway. During the afternoon they extinguished a grass fire on highway 101. City firemen were called to the N.

A. Holaday home at 30 Harvest street about 4:30 p.m. where hot ashes against a rear wall threatened the building. There was no damage. Foley An sue rs State Board on Liquor Charges SAN FRANCISCO (i.Pl Presiding superior court Judge Thomas Foley, countering charges that San Francisro courts have been lax In enforcing state liquor laws, today advised state board of equalization members "to get their own house in order." "The state board of equalization should be the last ones in the world to throw stones, Foley said.

"They should get their own house in order first and check on licenses. They grant licenses to anyone ex-convicts, bootleggers, crooks and pimps. 3,000 Ford Plant Workers Still Out DETROIT (r.n Ignoring appeals of local and regional leaders of the united automobile workers (CIO), 3,000 employes of the Ford Motor company Highland Park plant remained on strike today, protesting against layoff procedures and pay classifications. Cheering Frenchmen Are Free--But Hungry By ROBERT RICHARDS t'nlted Press Mar Correspondent PARIS German resistance Which was still blazing when we rolled Into Paris at this time yesterday seems to have been wiped out today except for a pocket here and there and the Frenrh awoke this morning to find themselves free but a little hungry. Now that the cxeitement of the battle is over, the people of Paris are beginning to realize their hunger and weariness.

I have yet to hear one of them to ask an American for food, but they are standing on the street corners this morning watching ith wistful eyes the trailers which jeeps are towing into town, loaded to the brim with food. Paris is not starving, hut it is mighty close to it. But don't get the idea that the Parisians are idly around goggling at incoming American food supplies. Like the big, warm-hearted city it Is, Taris has taken the Americans to her heart. An American soldier can't walk a block without having a Parisian man, woman, or child dash up and plant a kiss on his cheek.

The GI's are doing all right on the love front, too. They had only been In town a few hours last night, but walking along the street to my hotel to go to bed, every jeep I passed had two heads in it, close together and you could hear girls softly laughing in the darkness. It was never like this anywhere a city under 4 lie conqueror's heel for four years battleground yesterday today free to turn on the electric lights, to let the electric, refrigerator run ail night instead of tho one hour the Germans allowed during the occupation, to wear the tricolor and hoist tho Hag, to greet one another without fear of the lurking Gestapo. The lights came on in Paris with a burst of brilliance. I had not seen so much illumination since I left New York.

Except for the troops in the streets, city upon which I gaze from the balcony of my room In the Grand hotel might be a million miles from war. A Parisian bicycles slowly along with a long loaf of bread under his arm. Others stroll past as if sightseeing. They are completely relaxed. Now the Americans are here and the Boche is already a bad memory.

It is good to be a Parisian today after what must be the biggest 48 hours in the history of the city. titles Expect Heavy Fighting On Robot Coast WASHINGTON (i.pi The heavy flow of German traffic along the robot coast was believed by military exp rts today to be a withdrawal of surplus supplies from the area for use for a new stand, possibly on the Somme river, rather than a general evacuation of the region by the German 15th army. The experts said they could "see absolutely no indications in the enemy movement to hope that the Allies would not have to fight hard for possession of the coast where the robot-launching platforms are ocaled. in Paris S. F.

Youth Killed Near Arroyo Seeo Tyuds G. Thornton, 16, of San Francisco, died in the King City hospital this morning of injuries received about 11 oclock last night when the car he was driving, with eight other youths as passengers, overturned at a curve one-half mile west of the Arroyo Seco bridge and rolled over four times, according to Coroner J. A. Cornett and California highway patrolmen. Three King City girls were injured, Including Barbara Bn- leggy Lingo and Pauline Houx, according to Cornett.

They were treated for cuts, bruises and possible fractures. Other passengers in the car, registered to Mrs. J. E. Bengard, were Jack Foley, James Brandon and William Greer, all of San Francisco, Jack Straight of San Jose and Allen Whitney of King City.

The youths had been employed by the state division of forestry fire patrol and were planning to return to their homes to enter school after completing their work on the fire in the Paloma area this week. The group was returning from a dance at Arroyo Seco when the accident occurred, according to Cornett. Bell, Mankind United Face Fraud Charge OAKLAND A petition filed by the two daughters of an elderly widow today charged Arthur J. Bell and 13 other officials of Mankind United and its religious affiliate, Christ's Church of the Golden Rule, witn defrauding 65-yexr-old Mrs. Ruth Willard Moss of her 16.500 home by threats of starvation and slavery.

Mrs. Ellen Moss lfodghead and Dorothy Moss asserted in the pelition, filed yesterday in Alameda county superior court, that leaders of the cult obtained their mothers home hy fraud and undue influence without giving anv thing in return. They asked that it he returned so that she would not become destitute and a burden. The widow was told that she would he supported in ease and comfort, would work only four hours a day, and would receive a round-the-world vacation trip in a secret airplane now circling the earth in the stratosphere, the pe tition alleged. If she did not join the organization, the daughters continued, she was told she would starve to death when Mankind United took over the world by means of a secret device permitting it to immobilize oil machines using electricity.

In addition, she would be forced to perform menial tasks for members who gained "master" status by relinquishing their assets and property to the group. Thieves Cut Screen To Enter Cafe Till Thieves last night took a undetermined amount of money from the till of Clara's Cafe. 24 '2 West Market street, after gaining entry by cutting screen on a back door. In a report made to city police, damage included a smashed cigarette machine. BULLETINS LONDON (f.p) Tim Romanian government has accepted Russias armistice conditions, a Soviet foreign oflice liiatemont announced today.

LONDON (IP) The Russian foreign oflice announced today that Bulgaria has decided on a "full neutrality." The Sofia government has asked the German high command to withdraw all its troops from Bulgaria under threat of internment. ROME (TP) Allied troops wiped out all organized German resistance in Toulon and continued to mop up enemy forces in Marseille today, while American armored columns captured Avignon, Taraseon and Arles on the Rhone river and swung northward in a powerful drive lip the Rhone valley. ROME (V.P) Former Romanian Premier Ian Antonescu was arrested and is being held under armed guard in the royal palace in Bucharest, a Russian foreign office statement broadcast hy radio Moscow said today. German troops are shelling Bucharest, the broadcast aided. ZURICH An American armored patrol reached the Fran-co-Swiss border at Tcrly today.

SUPREME HE DQUAR-TERS, AEF (V.P) American troops have launched an assault on Brest after a tremendous air-sea barrage that wrecked the German batteries inside Hie be-Bicged port. i LONDON (V.P) Red army troops have raptured Ismail, 39 miles southeast of Galati on the Danube river, radio reported tonight. Ord Soldier Killed Under Train Here Pvt. Robert Gambrell of Fort Ord died between the wheels of a southbound Southern Pacific train near Metz last night when riding "blind baggage with a companion, Pvt. George H.

Weed, also of Fort Ord. The tragedy was reported by County Coroner J. A. Cornett today. Frank Fernandez, assistant conductor on the train which left Soledad at 11:05 p.m.

told Cornett he heard an unusual bumping under the floor of the train which was stopped for investigation. Meed, uninjured, said Gambrell lost his balanre and fell between the baggage cars. The two were enroute to San Luis Obispo to visit friends, he said. They boarded the train here. Gambrells body, mutilated beyond recognition after being dragged two miles was turned over to military authorities in King City where Weed is held for investigation, Cornett reported.

Gambrells home was in North Carolina. YAI.ENZULA HELD Francisco Valenzuela, 21, was picked up by Salinas police last night, and turned over to the United States marshal for improper draft classification card. his conversations with Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Kurusu, according to the Magnuson report, had declared that his efforts toward peace were being thwarted by Japanese militarists, who pointed to the fleet and air patrols as indications to the Japanese people that the Americans would attaek Japan shortly. "The siory is, Magnuson Is quoted as saying, "that the Japs made a Patsy out of the state department, contriving to have our fleet bottled np in Tear! Harbor where it could easily be dealt a death blow.

CROWDS OF FRENCH PATRIOTS surround this Allied jeep, one of first to enter Paris, as American and French armored forces drove Into city to aid hundreds of thousands of Parisian patriots battling against fierce German resistanee. Final capitulation of the enemy garrison with all arms and equipment was announced by Faris radio. Germany. Slashing almost unopposed through the rear of the distinle-grating German armies in Northern France, Lt. Gen.

George S. Pattons American tank columns Were reported, bivqly J00 miles from the German frontier after crossing the Marne river below Reims. Headquarters announced that one American force broke into the railway hub of Troyes, 65 miles south of Reims, and about twice that distance from the Reich. Aimed at Sedan The Yanks fanned out beyond the city and, according to a still unconfirmed German report, raced northward to Reims in a thrust pointed straight at Sedan and the forest of Ardennes where the German army broke through the French "hinge in 1940 and won the battle of France. Luxembourg was barely 80 miles beyond the American spearheads and Alsace-Lorraine only about 65 miles away.

The Allied warning made it clear that Elsenhowers armies were on their way into the Reich itself. A high staff officer broadcast the invasion proclamation early today, warning residents of the threatened areas against helping the fleeing enemy or exposing themselves to the Allied air attacks which, he said, will be carried on by night and day wherever the German armies are to be found. Nazi 7th Eliminated "The elimination of the German seventh army as a fighting entity has decidod the battle of France, he said. "The survivors of the Normandy battle and a handful of German divisions north of the Seine can at best fight a series of delaying actions on their retreat into Germany. "The areas in which you live are already today in the rear area of military operations.

Very soon they may become a theater of war. There was no Immediate indication of the strength of the American columns now pounding toward the Nazi frontiers, but they were believed to be operating in considerable force with the aid of French partisan units known to he prowling through the countryside. Their dramatic thrust carried squarely across the path of the German 35th army, now in full flight eastward from the robot bomb coast. Paris Retaken Supreme headquarters announced that German resistance in Paris was almost completely ended, with the possible exception of some unorganized fighting in isolated parts of the capital. Gen.

Charles de Gaulle, French leader, set up headquarters in Paris after the Nazi commander had signed a six-point surrender. A communique said that except for pockets of enemy resistance, notably at Toulon and Mairseille, nearly all of South- WAR In Brief By United Tress NORTHERN FRANCE American tank columns break into rail hub of Troyes, 120 miles from German frontier, and another force is reported to have forced Marne river 80 miles northeast of Paris. SOUTHERN FRANC American columns capture Avignon. Taraseon, and Arles on Rhone river and swing north in powerful drive up Rhone river on ancient route to central France and Germany. RUSSIA Red army troops smash toward Romania's famed Galati Gap and threaten annihilation of 12 German divisions, bypassed in drive that carried to within 108 miles of Bucharest.

AIR WAR Hundreds of Allied planes intensify aerial offensive against Europe after RAF night bombers strike from Berlin to French seaport of Brent. ITALY Germans withdraw slowly in upper Tiber and Amo river sectors offering little resistance to Eighth army troops approaching Gothic line across Italy. PACIFIC Allied bombers sink or damage 12 Japanese vessels and scores of smaller craft in concentrated raids on shipping through Dutch East Indies. ern France east of the Rhone and south of Avignon and Brian-con has been liberated. There was no official word on the progress of the American forces which had captured Grenoble, although it was believed they might he fanning out towards the Italian border to threaten the rear of the Germans In the Fo valley.

Rome reported that the Germans in Italy were withdrawing slowly in the Upper Tiber end Arno river sectors, offering little or no resistance to 8th army troops jressing towards their Gothic defense line across the peninsula. Reds Near Bucharest The Russians carried their front in Romania to within about 100 miles from Bucharest and less from the Ploesti oil fields as they stormed the Galati Gap. To the south Don Cossacks, tanks and infantry broke into the outskirts of Ismail in the Danube river estuary. Behind the advanced lines, 12 encircled Nazi divisions were being chopped up in a pocket below Chisinau. Moscow announced that Soviet forces have killed or captured 205,400 Germans and Romanians in the last six days.

The estimate was compiled before the Romanians ceased fighting the Russians. Radio Bucharest said the Germans had been driven out of Bucharest and those remaining wera being killed or taken prisoner. Paris UP Office Opened Again Willi Many Kisses By HENRY T. GORRELL United Press Mar Correspondent TTNITED PRESS BUREAU, Paris (UP) -We brought dusty typewriters out of hiding today and formally opened the Paris bureau of the United Press at No. 2 Rue des Italiens.

This dispatch is being written on a typewriter which surely would have long since travelled to Germany had Emilio Herrero, a Spanish employe of the United Fress Paris staff, not concealed It with the other typewriters and vital office records in his home. nizing McMillan, who had spent many pre-war years assigned here. "Ah, you have returned at last!" she exclaimed. "Vive LAmerique. The cry was taken up by the crowd, which pinned up against the wall in a demonstration of noisy Slale Department Denies Being Duped by Japanese affection.

While the landlady ran to find Herrero, with whom Heinzen left the office keys when he left ahead of the onrushing Germans in June, 1 40, Mac, Ernie and I entered into the spirit of the thing and returned kiss for kiss, ineliuling the wet ones bestowed by babes in arms whose mothers held them tip. Our laces were covered with lipstick and our backs sore from thumping. Our jeep driver, Alexander Belon, Amherst, looked like an Indian from lipstick smeared over his face when we rescued him from the nearby office of the Petit Parisien. Soon Herrero, with whom I once was in prison in Madrid during the Spanish revolution, arrived and asked weakly: "United Tress?" He hardly could believe we were back but when he spotted his old colleague, McMillan, he wept and embraced us. As we jeeped across tho Pont Neuf over tho Seine, Richard McMillan, Ernio Fyle and I had tried to guess what we would find of the old quarters.

The bridges ovet- the Seine were intact but we had to crawl past barricades of trucks, tree branches. and cobblestones. Some fine old buildings were scarred by the shrapnel but in tho main the damage was not great. Near the bureau were several burned out German tanks which the French had destroyed with champagne bottles filled with petrol. Halting the jeep in front of No.

2 We found ourselves surrounded by scores of French women, old men and children who wept with joy and insisted on kissing us over and over. Vive LAmerique From' the door rushed the caretakers wife, immediately recog WASHINGTON (I.pj The state department denied today that at any time during the conversations with Japan In 1941 It had asked the navy or war departments to curtail naval and aerial patrols in the Central Pacific before the Japanese struck at Pearl Harbor. Rep, Warren G. Magnuson was quoted that he had heard reports that the U. S.

fleet was withdrawn to Pearl llarhnr amt air patrols curtailed by the army and navy at the request of Saburo Kurusu during A.