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WEATHER1 Cooler with possible showers Saturday. WORLD, NATIONAL AND STATE NEWS BY ASSOCIATED PRESS 8 P. It. If You Daily A Copy Will Bo Scut By Honenaw ONE HUNDRED AND TWELFTH YEAR, NO. 190 LOGAN, OHIO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12,1944 PRICE FOUR CENTS ME CLOSING NAZI ESCAPE I 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 soners On The Cuff The pioneers who cleared a primeval forest and hewed the logs for their early homes had little on the boys who are making the South Pacific jungles able.

We heard Mrs. C. L. Wonn read parts of a letter written by her son, S-Sgt. Carl Hoskins, stationed at Bougainville, and he described cheerfully the little lean-to he has built next to the post office.

only ten-by six feet but its canvas roof and sides shut out the rain and keep him comfortable as long as his imagination co-operates. With all the food in the market to tempt him to dream of caviar and pate de foie gras, he says he is hungry for bacon and fresh eggs, turned over for a minute, two pieces of toast, a tall thin glass of milk and a cup of coffee. folk have entertained the boys, Joe Brown, Little, Bay Boiger and Randolph Scott and they were anticipating a visit by Frances Langford and Bob Hope, with Carole Landis and Jack Renny to follow. Miss arrangements called for an overnight stay which would make her the first white woman to remain for a night on the island. It has become a joke with the boys of his division, the 37th, that they have been shipped to ports where there ate no white women.

Flight nurses make an occasional stop for a day but it was ten months last December before Sergeant Hoskins saw the first white woman arrive at his jungle station. Some of the boys have not seen a white woman in 17 months, but there will be hero-worshipers a-plenty when they come home. To Start Judging 4-H Club Projects Judging for completed projects of 4-H clubs will begin Tuesday, August 15 and last until Friday, August 17, according to a report issued Saturday by James R. Smoot, county extension agent, Halsey H. Lafferty, associated with the Soil Conservation Service, will assist Smoot with judging.

Vegetables, potatoes and other small projects will be judged at the designated place, and then the, judges will visit the home of any member who has a project which can not be moved, such as livestock. The judging schedule is as follows: Tuesday, August Township, 8:00 A. A. M. at the school and homes; A.

noon at school and homes; Rockbridge P. P. M. at the school and homes; and Gibisonville, 3:00 P. P.

M. at the school and homes. Wednesday, August 16: Mt. A. noon at the Garrison home and farms; South Bloomingville, 1:00 P.

P. M. at Kitchen home and farms; and Laurelville, 3:00 P. P. M.

at the school and homes. Thursday, August 17: Noel North A. A. M. at the homes; Union Furnace, 10:50 A.

noon at the school and homes; Haydenville P. M. at the church and homes; and Logan, 3:00 P. P. M.

at Kachelmacher Park. Friday, August 18: Dicken A. 10:00 A. M. at the home of John and Bob Clark; A.

M. noon at the club house; P. P. M. at the school and homes; and Carbon P.

P. M. at the school and homes, FDR WILL 6IVE RADIO REPORT SATURDAY NIGHT Chief Executive To Speak From Seattle at 8 P. M. By Howard Flieger SEATTLE, Aug.

(JP) Roosevelt tonight will give his first report to the nation since he accepted a fourth term a 15-day Pacific war tour. The chief executive will speak by radio from the Bremerton navy yard near here at 8 P. M. eastern war time. The broadcast will be carried by the four major networks.

Mr. Roosevelt boarded a cruiser at San Diego, July 21- day after he accepted a fourth term arrived at Pearl Harbor July 26 to confer with Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Gen. Douglas MacArthur and other top-rank Pacific war chiefs. From there he moved on' intd the Aleutians.

The announcement that he will speak from the Bremerton navy yard gave no indication of the immediate whereabouts. Neither did it discuss the nature of his address, but he told a news conference in Honolulu on July 29 that he would report to the nation on his Pacific first war tour this year. Mr. Roosevelt was accompanied into the Pacific by Admiral William D. Leahy, a member of the joint chiefs of staffs, and other high ranking White House military advisors.

The fact that the President had gone from his three-day Hawaiian inspection on north to Alaska to look over the Aleutians became public last night with the release of delayed dispatches dated week ago yesterday. Tokyo Charges Trio Killed Manchurian Police Inspector Byron Eby Named Athletic Coach At Murray City FIRE RAZES WAREHOUSE SANDUSKY, Aug. Fire destroyed three-story warehouse owned by the American Crayon Co. yesterday, causing damage estimated by company officials at $19,000. County Superintendent Samuel H.

Dillon announced Saturday that a coaching contract was given to Byron Eby recently by the county school board to coach the 1944-45 term at Murray City. He was born and reared in Circleville and attended Ohio State University where he was an All American football player on the Buckeye team. He played on the basketball team and participated in other sports. In 1941, Eby coached the basketball team and taught at Gibisonville and then transferred to Roseville where he has taught for the past two years. Dillon also stated that the teaching positions iq the county had all been filled except the vocational agriculture position at Laurelville Schools.

JAPAN REINFORCES PHILIPPINE ISLANDS CHUNGKING, Aug. The Japanese are pouring reinforcements into the Philippines and Formosa to meet an American onslaught and are believed to be bolstering defenses in the Canton area against a feared landing Qn coast, a Chinese army spokesman said today. Chinese quarters regarded President conference with Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz at Honolulu as the forerunner of ed and accelerated operations against Japan.

WASHINGTON, Aug. The Japanese have executed three American prisoners of war on a charge that they killed a police officer after escaping from a prison camp in Manchuria. The Navy disclosing details of the deaths last night, said the Japanese foreign office had relayed the information through the American Red Cross. The sentence of death, imposed by a military court upon the three Americans, was carried out July 31, 1943. Those executed, the Navy said, were: Marine 8gt.

Joe B. Chastain, 24, Waco, Tex. Marine CpI. Vietor Paliotti, 23, Cranston, R. I.

Seaman Frank Meringolo, 21, Brooklyn, N. Y. The. Japanese gave this version of the Held captive in a Manchaurian prison camp, the trio escaped on June 21, 1943, and headed for the Russian border. For 11 days they sought to get out of Japanese territory, but finally lack of sufficient food made them desperate.

They halted a police inspector and asked for something to eat, asserting that they were German fliers whose plane had crashed. The inspector and two Mongol companions insisted upon seeing the crashed plane. route, according to the Japanese the Navy said, of the prisoners killed the inspector with a kitchen knife and another seriously wounded one of the Mongols. PLAYS DEAD IN GUAM SHELL HOLE TO STAY ALIVE A8 HE 8AT with three other wounded Yanks behind a table in the medical library of the U. S.

Navy Hospital in Hawaii, Marine Corp. Fred Hoffman, (right above) of Hoboken, N. told war correspondents how he stared up with dead, wide eyes from the bottom of a shell hole on Guam as drained out of his back, only clutching his .45 automatic a bit lighter when a Jap soldier reached down and poked him in the leg with his gun butt. The Jap moved away, and the corporal, after imitating a corpse for six hourse, came back to tell the story. Seated with him above left to right are Mate Second Class Warren A.

Sunzeri of San Jose, Mate First Class Norman F. Cook of Portland, and Marine PFC. Floyd L. Oiler of Tulsa, Okla. Sunzeri and Cook were also wounded on Guam, while Oiler was a casualty of the Tinian invasion.

All four suffered arm injuries. (International Soundphoto) Reds Slash Across Estonia Skip Brands Now; You're Lucky To Get Smokes At All Reconversion By States Set Up In Senate Measure WASHINGTON, Aug. With a Republican-southern Democratic coalition in command, the Senate passed overwhelmingly last night a postwar reconversion bill after rejecting, 49 to 25, the Murray-Kilgore measure setting up federal standards of unemployment compensation. The vote on final passage was 55 to 19. The approved measure, sponsored by Chairman George, Democrat, Georgia, of the finance committee, sets up an Office of War Mobilization and sion under a presidentially appointed director to co-ordinate planning for the gigantic switch back to a peace-time economy.

It embraces a provision extending postwar unemployment compensation coverage to 3,500,000 employes of the government, in addition to the millions now covered, but leaves the fixing of rates to the states. Under it the government would reimburse states tor payments to ex-federal workers and set up a federal fund to guarantee the solvency of state unemployment systems. NEW YORK, Aug. Quit asking for brands, lucky to get any cigarets at all. what the tobacconist is telling his customers, hit by the shortage of popular makes of smokes.

In many cases leading brands have gone where coffee went in the pre-rationing shortage under the counter. One midwestern druggist, plagued with more cigaret buyers than he could handle, recently advertised his frank intent to supply only old customers. Trade sources say the scarcity of big-name brands probably will continue as long as the war. They point out: shipments to our armed forces continue to increase, and the soldiers, just as civilians, favor the popular brands; of cigaret tobacco in warehouses are relatively small. The volume of overseas shipments for this year is estimated in a trade survey at 70 000 000,000 cigarets, or roughly double 1943 shipments.

Manufacturers continue to alii- cate available cigarets to dealers. Drive Aims at Destroying 300,000 Nazi roops By Daniel De Luce MOSCOW, Aug. Red army slashed across southern Estonia today in a new drive aimed at destroying an estimated 300,000 Nazi Baltic troops, whose fate was sealed in advance by blind refusal to extricate them when retreat was feasible. At the same time other Soviet forces, driving forward on a 100- mile front northeast of Warsaw in what may be the greatest strategic maneuver of the summer campaign, smashed within 15 miles of East Prussia from broken German lines east of the Bie- brza River. Gen.

Ivan Maslennikov, striking from the Pskov area southwest of Lake Peipus, shattered an enemy front on a sector 43 miles wide and more than 15 miles deep and sent an armored vanguard racing past Petseri, 115 miles east of the Gulf of Riga. Petseri, an important raid and highway junction, was among 200 Estonian border cities and villages captured in the massive drive dooming possibly 30 German divisions. The troops of Gen. Andrei emenko below forces thrust westward toward Riga from central Latvia, occupying 50 settlements, including Gravenderi, only 55 miles southeast of Riga. With methodical efficiency Marshal supreme command has thus carefully set in motion all but one of the Baltic armies which will participate in executing these isolated Germans.

GERMANS ISOLATED ON CHANNEL ISLANDS LONDON, Aug. Germans on the channel islands of Jersey and Guernsey have been cut off completely from their Nazi comrades in France by the American grip on the Cherbourg and Brest peninsulas and the Allied naval control of surrounding waters. They have heavy guns, however, which they are using to invalidate, largely, the American- captured ports of St. Malo, on the Brittany Peninsula, and Granville, in Normandy. Nazis Dodge VOTE FOR GEORGE BILL WASHINGTON, Aug.

senators Harold H. Burton and Robert A. Taft voted yes as the Senate yesterday adopted the George states' rights bill, a substitute for the Murray-Kilgore conversion bill, which calls for federally-fixed unemployed benefits. NEW JUDGE NAMED COLUMBUS, Aug. Paul D.

Smith of Marion was named as a Marion County common pleas judge Gov. John W. Brlcker, succeeding Hector S. Young. MOSCOW, Aug The army newspaper Red Star said today German SS and Gestapo captives were trying desperately to shift responsibility for the Lublin factory" where, the Russians say, the Nazis executed a program of extermination against Poles and Jews.

Correspondent Konstantin monov, in another eye witness dispatch from Lublin, reported that SS men accused the Gestapo of running the death factory while captives from the Gestapo declacred it w5s the work of the Schutzstaffel. His dispatch yesterday quoted a survivor as saying that Leon Blum, former French premier, died there. Remembering the Kharkov trial which punished German war criminals by hanging, Red Star said the prisoners pleaded they had no part in the horrors in Lublin, now the seat of the Polish Committee of National Liberation. Pravda, however, specifically accused the following: SS Officer Tuman, assistant manager of the death establishment. Chief of the crematory Mon- feld, who used to pat victims on the back, remarking: worry, make it very SS Officer Shouldin, manager of the warehouse where doomed persons left their clothing, shoes and other effects.

Provda said he searched them, he forced them to open their mouths and he pulled out gold Surrounded by electrified wire, the death factory was reported located a few hundred yards from the Lubin-Chelm highway. The Moscow press said preliminary figures indicated hundreds of thousands of persons were killed there. Simonov described a cell which could hold 250 naked victims into which he said gas was piped by masked German guards. He said the Germans built a new crematory after development of the Katyn fortest case, in which the Soviets exhumed the bodies of thousands of Polish officers after the Germans retreated from Smolensk. The crematory was said to have had five stoves and a total capacity of 1,400 bodies.

The Germans, Simonov reported, employed prisoners of war in the crematory and killed them in turn after one month of service. Simonov said scores of thousands of shoes and even some soft knitted footgear for babies were found in the warehouse where possessions of the dead were collected. 100,000 Enemy roops FaceT rap American Armor Lashing in Every Direction Across Northern Plains of France SUPREME HEARQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Aug. S. tanks battled to close a 33-mile escape gap on an estimated 100,000 Germans reported in retreat west of Paris last night while other wide-ranging armor struck out suddenly from Nantes, bust across the Loire River barrier to southern France and plunged 10 miles beyond.

American armor, in apparent control of the field was lashing out northern plains of France and nowhere did the Germans seem able to parry the rain of blows, such as this new one across the Loire. Fee Bad great bulk of the German forces in northwest Europe are in a bad Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, chief of Allied ground forces, messaged his troops in France. are behind them in many places and it is possible some of them may not get Lt.

Gen. Omar N. forces striking north from Le Mans were closing in on the entire German 7th once boasted over 30 and the Paris radio declared they already had driven through Alen- con, 33 miles south of where Canadian forces were fighting befqre Falaise. At the end of the front his thrust across the broad beaches of the Loire within 24 hours after the river port of Nantes fell still had encountered no resistance in strength. Mop Up At Nantes American troops were mopping up along the north bank between Nantes and Angers, which also was captured yesterday, but there was no word of any crossings As the Germans were confronted with the same sort of peril with which they bewildered the French in the 1940 lightning war, captured troops reported that Field Marshal Gen.

Guenther von Kluge had given the signal for a general retreat. This was apparent from an array of field dispatches reporting a march of conquest through Normandy, including British advances along a six-mile front east of Vire and their capture of the hilltop fortress of Thury- Harcourt, 14 miles south of Caen in the rugged country known as Bombers Rip Enemy Allied medium bombers pounded away at the German antitank screen which held up the Canadians before Falaise, but even this enemy stand might be a covering action for a general withdrawal. Gen. Bradley kept hie drlvee radiating from Le Mane cloaked by almost complete silence, leaving the enemy guessing at which might be feints and which the big punch capable of dealing them a knockout. British and American heavy bombers in strong force blasted rail concentration points north and east of Paris as air reconnaissance showed Von Kluge was trying desperately to bring supplies and reinforcements from deep in Germany for the battle of France.

Up to 500 other U. S. heavies bomber German troops, armor and coastal gun positions at Brest in close support of doughboys fighting into the perimeter of defenses. The German communique declared the column traveling lower jaw of the potential powerful one under strong air support and declared it had been engaged in heavy fighting, the first intonation of any stout resistance since American armor began rolling over the Paris plain. ISLANDS NEAR JAPAN ARE HIT First Strike from Marianas Bases Hit Strategic Installations U.

S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Aug. bombers of the 7th Army Air Force bombed Iwo Island in hte Volcano group Wednesday in the first full-scale heavy strike from newly won airfields in the Marianas. Iwo is 750 miles from Tokyo. The Liberators dropped 47 tons of bombs on the Iwo airfield and adjacent installations, Admiral Chester W.

Nimitz said in a press release today announcing the raid. Iwo, 725 miles northwest of conquered Saipan, is situated about half way from Saipan to Tokyo. It was first bombed from the Marianas by Navy Liberator search planes in a series of strikes starting July 19. Several enemy fighter planes attempted to intercept raid, Nimitz reported but did no damage. Anti-aircraft fire, however, caused minor damage to three bombers.

A dive-bombing and strafing attack was made the same day on Mili atoll in the bypassed Marshall Islands by more than 100 planes of the 4th Marine Aircraft They met only meager ground fire. Other enemy positions in the Marshalls were subjected to bombing raid. U. S. Seizes 103 Striking Truck Firms In Midwest WASHINGTON, Aug.

The government seized 103 mid- western truck companies embroiled in a strike of 25,000 drivers last night, and ordered all the men back to work immediately. President Roosevelt ordered the seizure at 5:30 P. Eastern War time. He assigned the Office of Defense Transportation to conduct the $50,000,000 segment of the truck industry until the controv- sery is settled and put the weight of the Army behind the move. The strikers quit wqrk last week after the companies refused to pay a 7 cents an hour wage increase ordered by the War Labor Board.

The operators said they afford it without financial relief from the government. Col. J. Monroe Johnson, director of ODT, said his organization was taking over operations at midnight and from that time on the men would be paid the authorized wage boost. Back pay from November, when the WLB order was handed down, will be given to the drivers only from the future net operating revenue of each company, Col.

Johnson said. The ODT chief named Ellis T. Longenecker of the highway transport division as federal manager of the truck companies which handle 5,600,000 tons of annually In Minnesota, North South Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri and parts of and Oklahoma..