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NO. 278 nn Rfonm'Q JU Ifi) UVI 0 Hitler's House Totters 0 li Balkans as Russians Continue Speedy Advance Once Mighty Armies Guarding Rocket Coast Now Capable of Fighting Only Delaying Actions; Great Numbers of Prisoners Being Taken by Allies By GORDON BROWN Associated Press Whr Editor German troops retreated from channel strongholds across northern Trance yesterday before triumphant Allied forces surging: over the Seine river, and in the Balkans Bulgaria withdrew from Hitlers tottering hodge-podge house, Bulgaria said the Moscow radio, has ordered Njtzl troops from the country, thus taking herself out of Hitlers camp and putting herself a step nearer the Allies. As Bulgaria acted, Romania seized the Carpathian mountain passes and fought the Germans retreating before Russian offensive. In northern France the Allies pursued the shattered German armies retreating from the Normandy debacle and from tho channel strongholds at Lc DCCPDVP FI FFT Lined up, ready and waiting for combat, these B-l. KlJlKi I LLLI Flying: Fortresses are assembled.in England as replacements for the strategic bombers of the U.

S. eighth air force. (AP Wirephoto from army air forces). it Adolf Hitler performed this joyous dance at Complrne In 1946 after dictating armistice terms to Prance. Now Parle haa been liberated and Allied armies are preaaln German force back toward the rclch'a own border.

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tobert urine re- tiavi Par- Ott. larine other, 'arine other, d. arm Wife, 4 I Jap Strong Points Hit By Bombers Tokyo Bemoans Fate of Thousands on Truk; Un load on Palau By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Pres War Editor" Sizeable forces of Amer can Liberators smashed strong points on the proaches to Japan and Philippines, Pacific commsn ders announced yesterday (Saturday) as Tokyo radio bemoaned the fate of thousands of imperial soldiers isolated at once-threatening Truk in the mid-Pacific. Southwest Pacific bomber un loaded 85 ton of bombs at midday on Koror in the Palau islands, Japanese southweat Pacific admin, istrative center, despite fierce in terception by Zeroes. One Liberator was shot down.

The relatively heavy bombardment followed two weeks of nightly reconnaissance raids over Palau, 600 miles east of the Philippines. 4 A hid Oc- 'use hid ields spa. rnlan i ben Red res rear Ro- vard 1 Havre and Dieppe, now threatened with encirclement. -s "The elimination of the German seventh army ss a fighting entity has decided the battle of France, Allied headquarter said, in warning that Luxembourg and Alsace-Lorraine might become a battleground. What remained of the German seventh and the once-mighty 15th trade which guarded the rocket coast now were capable of fighting only delaying actions this tide of Germany, supreme headquarters declared.

These retreating forces were pounded again by swarming Allied planet whose pilots' reported the backward trek -extended into Belgium and Germany. Paris, after a night of celebrating ita liberation, went to work to erase the scan of fighting, which were not severe. Supreme headquarters announced the German garrison in Paris which aurrendered with Gen. Diet-rich von Choltitx was estimated at 10.000. Race Northward Allied forces In southern France raced northward to cut off fleeing German below Lyon.

The road wa open at least as far as the Swiss border, since Associated Press Correspondent Edward Kennedy and the uxu-d to vere iter, lere cog- out ical the ey'i eip. oad aim Million Damage From Hail Saturday Over Eastern Slope Extension pf Advisory Group Advocated in Security Sessions and the temperature dropped from the 70s to within 15 degrees of freezing after the storm abated. The was striped in pattern, veering into the city from the northeast. It struck Pueblo with a heavy downpour and dumped tons of ice Into the downtown area. Nearly 12 inches of hail cluttered the sidewalks and in some spots drifted to a depth of three feet.

Many business establishments had their basements flooded and heavy damage to merchandise was caused in a number of places Refufe GOP Claims Of Chance lo Win Control of Senate Life Hard in Paris of Nazis 250 Americans Hide Away; Germans Tell of Secret Weapons (Airs. Maude Rae, a magazine writer who formerly lived at 315 North Nineteenth street, Portland, has been a resident of Paris eight years. In tho following account she tells of what it was like during four years under German rule). By MRS. MAUD RAE Paris, Aug.

'25. (Delayed) Tbs bottom fell out when the Germans came into Farit in June, 1940. Wa realized that everything decent was gone -there would be no tomorrows, just probabilities. We knew we would be up against terrible difficulties, but we decided to stick it out. There were 250 of us Americans hiding away in Paris under false identities.

1 had better not tell just yet what my assumed name was. Since we assumed fictitious names we had no ration cards and had to buy in black market at exorbitant prices. The prices in the black market were controlled by the Germans and wbat they had to sail was usually stolen from their own canteens. Coffee coat us 2,000 francs (about $40) per kilogram, tea 6,000 francs. We were showed 50 grams of butter monthly, 90 grams of meat weekly, 275 grama of bread daily.

Each month we received one email cake of soap, most of which was sand. For the past three, months we could get only one pound of vegetables monthly and no wine. We had to line up for hours for our pittance of bread. The Germans said at first they would take 80 per cent of our foodstuff, but actually they took 98 per cent When they entered Paris the city had enough food to last two years. Within two weeks they had cleaned it all out.

Prices skyrocketed. Butter cost 800 francs per kilogram, meats 350. There was no fruit at any price. Jn four years we had no beating whatever. Germans kept their own restaurants where they had oceans of butter, cake end fruit which they devoured under our very noses.

For four years we had only wooden shoes. They cost 800 francs $16.00) a pair for the cheapest ones and 3,000 francs ($60.00) for the best. Artificial silk stockings cost 600 francs ($12.00) on the black market. A clothes ration totaled 20 points a year a suit cost 40 points. As far as transportation was concerned, I would say allied bombing was 100 per cent effective.

Not even a cart has been -able to move into town in months. A German press officer named Frlederich came to Paris a week ago and said we will be back. You think you are smart but you doftt know about the secret weapons we have. Die luftwaffea refrigerator bomb and bacteria bomb are going to be our terror weapons." Denver, Aug. 20.

(A3) Unofficial estimates of damage caused by violent hailstorms which battered parts of Colorado today mounted toward the million-dollar mark tonight. Ia the wake of the storms, truck crops, fruit, greenhouses sud gardens were left badly damaged; greenhouses and windows were smashed; damars to roofs In Denver, Pueblo and Colorado Springs was extensive. Ia the Denver area, one third of the estimated total loss was sufferer by greenhouse operators. One reported 175,000 square beet of glass smashed; another 150,000 squars feet Plants being grown for Christmas trade were battered to bit in several greenhouses. Some operators said replacement of glasa and planta would be impossible under the present conditions, at least in time for Christmaa marketing of some Colorado-grown flowers.

Truck fanners northwest of Denver reported almost complete loss of tomato, corn and fruit crops in on region where worst of the storm apparently was centered. In Denver proper, hailstones drifted eight inches deep, and tha heavy rainfall blocked traffic in lower portioni of the city. More than three-quarters of an inch of fell in less than an hour. Colorado Springs reported hail damage severe in the Pikes Peak region. Apples, plums and garden crops were bard hit at Fountain.

Woodland Park reported four of hailstones the size of walnuts caused heay damage to roofs. By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Washington, Aug. 26. (A3) Extending the European advisory commission and broadening Us power is being advocated by American officials, it was learned today, as the best way to bridge the expected gap between the end of the war in Eftrope and the proposed creation of a world security agency.

Diplomatic measures have been developed for continuing the commission, with Its Rifssian-Ameri-can-British membership, into the peace period. They could be adopted by the three powers either through regular diplomatic channels or In a meeting of blg-three leaders President Roosevelt, Marshal Stalin- and Prim Minister Churchill. Three Arguments The need to bridge the gap has been urged especially, by military and naval leaders on three main arguments: 1. Through German resistance can be prolonged, it may collapse any time. The next two months are critical, with the Allies driving for an autumn victory and the Germans trying for a winter stalemate.

2. The end of the war Is almost certain to be followed by internal revolution and "little between traditionally quarrelsome neighbors, such as Romania and Hungary, over territory. If there is to be any order in Europe the big powers will have to enforce it. 3. Permanent cooperation of the big powers for world security will be shaped largely by their tempor- Other southwest Pacific bombers raided airdromes and wrecked Is tbs Dutch islands, of the to S.

several other newspapermen reached the Swls frontier 200 miles north of the Riviera beachhead, with one soldier as driver. There was no official word as to the whereabouts of Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patchs advance units wbich now have freed all of France east of tho Rhone below captured Avignon and Briancon, but German accounts said one column was stride the Rhone valley 50 miles north of Avignon.

French officials at Hendaye said 10,000 Germans had surrendered to American and French forces st Belin, 30 miles south of Bordeaux, thus ending all Nazi resistance In south western France. The report was not confirmed by Allied headquarters. Russians reconquered Bessar-baia and seized control of a 73-mile stretch of the Danube river from the mouth inland. They captured the Black sea port of Val-cov and the fortress town of Is-il, farther upstream, both in Romania. 61,000 Surrender In the Carpathian mountains Soviets pursuing an enemy retreat-in ft toward Hungary captured 61-OOO prisoners including five Ro-mainlan divisions which surrendered with all arms and equipment, Moscow announced.

Berlin also hinted of a new Soviet break through northeast of Warsaw, broadcasting that the Soviets bad hurled 150,000 troops and masses of tanks into a new offensive. Brief Flurries of Robot Bombs Today I-ondon, Sunday, Aug. 27. (A3) Brief flurries of robot bombs were hurled against London and southern England last night and early today, ending a lull that had stretched to 40 hours the longest quiet Interval since the assaults began in mid-June. There was some damage but no casualties.

The lull had raised some cautious hope that the Germans had abandoned their launching hoses icross the channel as a result of terrific Allied aerial bombardment and outflanking of Nazi lines east of the Seine river. Past Seven Days Jammed With Fast Moving War Events By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Associated Press War Analyst Events of this August weekend were so obviously snow-balling to a crisis for Germany in Europe that speculation, was rife as to whether total nazi collapse might be only weeks, not months, away. Nor could Japan read the war portents with much less apprehension. Famiar Pattern In France, allied force Were swiftly weaving the struggle into an old familiar pattern that spelled German defeat a quarter century ago.

German evacuation of all France west of the Somme-Marne line was so certainly in progress under pulverizing allied attack that nazi commentators admitted ttie i'etreat. And even that line, the last short of German frontiers, was gravely menaced. Two vast and powerful American, forces and a reborn French army were converging for a junction in the plains of France southeast of liberated Paris. Their meeting would do more than close the trap on remnants of the nazi occupation trbops in France south and west of that allied line. It would aim an immediate flanking threat at the Somme-Marne front before the nazis even reach it.

It would expose the Rhine itself to allied assault Location Blackout It la that way the most dangerous allied spearheads are thrusting up the Loire, the upper Seine and the Rhone under a significent headquarters news blackout as to their Turn to Page 11. Col 3 Britons Having No Thought of Relaxing Ambassador Dedares Washington, AJg. 26. (A3) Allho the war soon will be five years old for Britons; they have "no thot that we might begin to relax now, British Ambassador Earl Halifax, ust returned from England, told a radio audience tonight. The destruction done by German robot bombs, he said, serves only to harden British determination to put the last ounce of effort Into the struggle against Germany, and then go on to finish the war wilh Japara.

The robots, he reported; have been damaging an aver gge of 700 houses every hour. Speaking over the Columbia network from the British embassy, Halifax described Germany's leaders as desperate men who have everything to Irtse by peace. He reported that In England he found a conviction that now is the time, when the enemy is gasping and reeling under heavy blows, for us to put in the last ounce of effort and energy, to work and fight I Spanish foreign ministry has its 41 summer office here. large freighter East Indies. Another squadron of Liberators, operating from the Marianas struck within 750 miles Tokyo hitting Iwo island in volcano group in a daylight raid.

Ten Japanese planet intercepted. Three or four were shot down. Two Liberators were damaged. "Constantly raiding enem; planes come night and day" to Trul from bases "within a stonea throw" of the by-passed strong hold, Tokyo radio said, sometimes bombing "continuously for seven hours. The exhaustion of our ilota and the loss of aircraft are 4 Cut off from their source ef supply.

tha broadcaster reported, troops are turninr wastelands into truck gardens to keep from starving. Japanese could shed the same tears for a dozen other once mighty garrisons, fanned out around Truk from Rabaul, 780 miles south, Jaluit and Wotje, around 1,250 miles east in the Marshals. In the last seven months U. bombing raids have steadily crept westward over more than 20 island groups in the 2,000 mile long Caroline chain from Kusaie to Palau. Palau, potential American stepping stone to the Philippines and Japan' gateway to the Carolines, was bombed by 17 Liberators Friday, Tokyo reported.

Nlmltz told of six other Pacific air bombardments, including Yap island, near Palau. Ground Fighting Ground fighting in Asia brought only small advance for either side. Japanese were in auch a hurry to fall back into the Chindwin valley of Burma that they failed to blow up bridges behind them. In another western Burmese sector they were preparing to defend their Tiddim base. The Allies reported a half-mile advance in ten day in their drive from north Burma down the railway toward Mandalay.

Chinese inched forward inside the enemy's two crumbling citadels guarding the China sector of the Burma road Tcngchung and Lungling. Nipponese, renewing the monthlong drive from Luichow peninsula in extreme southeast China, bi-oke into Llmkong, highway junction and their immediate objective. Bury 36 Children Freckleton; Aug. 26. (A) This grieving town today buried in a communal grave much of ita hopes for tomorrow in a mass funeral for 36 children all under six who were killed when a btazing American Liberator bomber crashed into a schoolhouse.

With them were buried eight adults who died at the same time. Spain Stand San Sebastian, Spain, Aug. 26. ---The Spanish government has withdrawn its recognition of Vichy, it was announced tonight. The harder than ever before.1 I (I try cooperation In Immediate post war Europe.

Temptation to wrangle over political and economic privileges amid. the wreckage of Europe will be strong but in the interest of a lasting peace they must be subordinated to ordered cooperation. 1 4. Efforts to plan a world peace organization, beginning -in the Dumbarton Oakes conversations here, probably will require sew eral months more so there is little or no chance of setting up permanent machinery before the end of the war. Created at Moscow The European advisory cor slon was created by British-Amer-ican-Soviet foreign ministers st Moscow last October.

The state department said today that its powers still were limited to the examination of European questions Turn to Page 11, Col. 1 Hew York Soldier Ballot Working Well Dewey Announces Albany, N. Aug. 26. (AV-Ex-pressing a hope that service men and their families "will remember it was the Democratic party and its satellites that made false and Irresponsible charges" against New York's soldier voting law, Gov.

Thomas E. Dewey Issued a report tonight describing the system as a "tremendous success." The report, released thru the governor's office here during his absence in Pawling, was submitted to Dewey by Chairman William. T. Simpson of the state war ballot commission. Estimating that 550,000 or 75 per cent of New York's service men and women of voting age will receive a full state ballot, -Simpson declared that New York has already established voting contact with twice as many servicemen the national average." Dewey commented: "This proof that the system adopted by New, York state Is working so well Is the best possible answer (o those who sought to sabotage Its effectiveness by making blind partissm attacks upon It.

The system adopted by the leg-ishtlhe year on- Dewev's recommendation ha been criticized as unworkable hy (he Democratic State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick and the I. political action committee. Democrats and the PAC have called for use of the short form federal war ballot Instead. But Dewev's legal ajivlser hold the federal ballot lCneonstitutlonal because It doevfnt offer a full state as well as fedeial ticket. Washington, Aug.

26. (JP) Republican claims that they have fighting chance to win control of the senate in November were countered today by Senator 0Ma honey (D-Wyo.) who contended in a formal statement that the 11-year old senate Democratic majority will be "easily maintained in the next congress. If there is any doubt about this, said O'Mahoney, chairman of the Democratic senatorial campaign committee. It would be "dispelled by an analysis of the' Aug. 23 Gallup poll.

This survey, he said, showed that of the 35 senatorial contests this year 19 are in states which the poll gives to President Roosevelt and 16 in states it puts in the column of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. He figured that 35 Democrats and 24 Republicans will not be up for reelection this fall, with the Democrats needing to win only 14 of the contests to keep a majority 49 and the Republicans 25 to achieve an overturn. The Wyoming senator declared further that 15 of the 25 elections will be in states which the poll assigns to Roosevelt and In which incumbent senators whose terms expire are Democrats.

"This fact alone makes it a certainty that the next senate will continue to be Democratic, he said. The present political lineup of the senate is: Demwrats 58, Republicans 37, Progressive 1. Pueblo, Aug. 28. (A3) Downtown Pueblo was pelted by what weatheA officials reported as the worst hailstorm In the local bureau's history shortly after 4 p.

m. today. The precipitation was estimated at between 1.25 and 2 inches. Ail means of transportation was demoralized for nearly an hour Rumpus Grows Over Socialist Candidate Being Refused Chance to Speak io Troops Road to Berlin (Auoclated Frtsa) 1. Russian front 322 miles (from Warsaw's eastern suburbs).

2. Northern France 495 miles (from Troyes). 3. Italian front 601 miles (from Florence). 4.

Southern France 605 miles (from Briancon). denfify Victim of Strangulation Slaying Near New York Museum New York, Aug. 26. (A3) A house-to-house canvass of New York city's west side today effected the identification of the attractive blonde victim of a strangulation slaying, found near the museum of natural history, as Mrs. Phyllis Newmark, a resident of the Hotel Clifton.

Police said identification was made by the hotel clerk through nctures of the dead woman made Bellevue hospital morgue and clothing found on the body. Mrs. Newmark was last seen leaving the hotel with a woman companion about 5.30 p. m. The dead womans husband, Melville G.

Newmark. wa notified of her death at Wingdale, N. where he reportedly had gone for hli health. He returned to the city tonight and collapsed when he confirmed Identification of his body at the Bellevue morgue. Newmark told detectives he had gone to Wingdale Aug.

16 and had received a postal card from his wife yesterday, the day her body was found. He said he knew of no enemies Mrs. Newmark, 40, might hsv had and could give no clue as (o the Identity of the woman with whom she was last seen. The woman's bodv was found hy two park department emplovc less than 30 feel from the Hayden planetarium entrance. 30,000 State Ballots Asked by Service Men Nearly 30,000 request for ballots to be cast in fall elections have come In from Colorado voters in the armed services, Walter E.

Alexander, chief clerk In the secretary of state's office, said today. He predicted a possible 40,000 ballots cast bv the men and women In uniform. Political observers predicted their voles would be a major Influence upon the Colorado gen-eril election, and might decide some November contests. Surplus Property Bill Stirs Up Hornet's Nest Washington, Aug. 26.

(A3) Provisions of surplus property disposal legislation passed yesterday by the senate stirred up a hornet nest of opposition in the house today, pre-saging a long-drawn-out fight in conference to iron out differences between the two branches. In recess when the senate passed its own measure instead of the one sent over from the house, the house will not receive the bill until Monday, but house managers lost no time attacking it. House leaders objected partlcu larly to senate provisions creating eight-man board to handle the disposal program, and giving public institutions the right to purchase or lease surplus property at fifty per cent discount. The house specifically had rejected these proposals. Bombers.

Hit Prussian City; Berlin Last Night London, Sunday, Aug. 27. (A) H- A. F. heavy bombers smashed great strength at the East i russian capital of Konigsbcrg and the great nazi Baltic naval base of iel last night, while Mosquitos hit erlin for the second night in a it was announced today.

n- es Jatest blows in the mighty allied sir offensive "came after American heavy bombers, operating a schedule of 100 sorties an hour since last Friday night, joined actical air units yesterday in a mastng assaults at nazi 1 Pro(urtion centers, and supply t1' and communications in Chance. niably a political candidate at Bremerton," Chairman Herbert. Brownell Jr. said in New York. He announced that he is renewing a demand on radio chains for equal free time for the Republican can-, didate.

Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. Brownell's demand apparently was for domestic broadcast' time, since the government, and not tho chains, controls overseas radio for the troops. 1 Republican members of congress and some Democrats contended that virtually any Turn to Pago 11, Col.

T. Annual Peach Harvest Gets Underway In Region Monday; Weather Slows Crops department of agriculture to estimate that the over-ail Colorado peach crop will be greater than last year. Washington, Aug. 26. (A3) The war departments about-face ban on a Socialist party campaign broadcast to troops overseas stirred up rumpus today, headlined by a coin plaint of "White House pressure' to have President Roosevelts Bremerton, speech held non pol itical.

The Socialist party, describing the address the president made upon his return from his tour of Pacific fronts as a political speech, demanded equal time for a broadcast to the armed forces The servicemens vote law say the opposition shall have 'equal time If a political speech is radioed to troops. Reverse Ruling The army first agreed yesterday to give the Socialists the time, then reversed the ruling, holding that the president didnt talk politics. Senator Wherry of Nebraska. Republican whip, led off congressional complaints with the assertion that the reversal was due, without doubt, to White House pressure." The GOP national committee Jumped Into the row with both feet I President Roosevelt was unde Germans Repealing lo Golhic Line in Italy Rome, Aug 26. (A3) Germans are retreating to the shelter of the Gothic line In central portions of the Italian front and Polish forces of the eighth army are feeling out new enemy positions north of the Metatiro river, allied headquarters said today.

The nazi withdrawal to Gothic line fortifications In the northern Appcnine range was concentrated mostly in the area of the upper Tiber river and on the east side of the upper Amo behind Pontassieve. Following up the retreat, eighth army units drove without opposition to Apecchio, 35 miles from the Adriatic and 24 mile due south of the republic of Sv Mriu. branch labor office at Palisade, said today that the demand for labor will increase by 1,000 workers a day from Aug 30 to Sept. 6, when 7.000 workers will be required at the peak of the season. The level of'Sept.

6 will be maintained for four or five days, after which demands will drop off until the end of the harvest Mr. Finch asks that farmers in the Palisade district send or telephone their labor orders to his office, set up in the bank building at telephone number is 157. 6 For other Mesa county growers, a labor office has been set up in the officq of Countv Agent Carl Turn to Pago 11, Col. 7 The busiest season on the western slope' starts Monday, when the annual harvest of the peach crop will get under way with prospects of a yield larger than that of last year. Delayed by a late start In the spring, and now further postponed by rain and cool weather the end of the week, the harvest will get underway generally Monday and Tuesday, and show a rising crescendo of activity for about two weeks until It hits the peak of effort around Sept.

6. The yield in Mesa county is expected to be slightly less than last vein 1.396.000 bushels, ut increased crops at other points on tho western slope have caused the Appeal in Slovakia London, Auif 26. (A3) Deputy Premier Sano Mach, in a speech broadcast by the Slovakia home radio tonight, appealed to the Slovak people to support the government and "help maintain law and order under the martial law decree of Aug. 12. Mach said the government had been forced to declare martial law after attacks on troops, police and civilians by saboteurs and parachutists Tho.

deputy premier said, weredropped by "the enemy." Fruit i of excellent quality, declared Walter Stout, manager of the Mesa county peach control board, as orchard men went Into the busy season of picking and shipping their peaches. Labor on hand is sufficient for the atart of the harvest, but fear Is expressed that there will not be enough help to get in the crop when the peak of the season is reached. Howard Finch, who has etab-' listed for the extension service a.