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DEWITT MACKENZIE his headquarters Normandy so he THE WAR TODAY "--By DEWTTT a may be the Allies 1 i i towards Paris, it seems clear from the fresh crisis in the battle of France lhat their major objectives of the moment are to destroy the German Seventh Army on the front, and then to outflank the strong enemy forces along the English channel to the north, When tiie French capit'jt falls it certainly wjll represent great victory, both moral and military. But its -importance is outranked by these other operations. As tins column pointed out several days, jiyo, the Hitlerites are clinging to Ihe channel coast tenaciously for two reasons: first, their withdrawal would permit the Allies to pour into France from England over the narrowest part of the channel, and second, the vital launching grounds of their robot bombs are in this area and it's only from here they can icach London. The primary interest of General Eisenhower's forces is to an- nihialate enemy. a before the mere cap- lure of territory or cities.

However, the Allies have a special interest in clearing out those robot nests because, while these inventions of the devil can't the war, they're subjecting the British people to a cruel they shouldn't have to bear. Speed is imperative, not only to trap the enemy while he's in trouble, but to spare England the plague of that Hying death. And speed is what the Allies are showing in every depaitment since they acquired enough space to get their big war machine into top gear. Significant o' this greatly increased tempo Eisenhower's shiftt from can be in closer touch with operations. Yesterday the Allied effort to envelop the Seventh Army took a dramatic turn.

Canadian, British and Polish troops intensified their attack on the German right wing anchor in the Capri zone. Simultaneously an armored American force, which had been speeding towards Paris, an arc- about the German left that had been torn from its anchor nt Avranches anJ had been flying wild while the Nazis tried to swing it back north towards the Seine river where they hoped to reestablish their front. The result of this daring Allied operation has been to jeopardize a great force of Nazis south' of the Seine, but it's too soon to assay the results. The position is best described in the pungent language of General Montgomery, commander of the Allied ground forces in France: "The gi-eat bulk of the German forces in Northwest Europe are in a had way." The Hitlerites make no hones of the seriousness of their predicament. They say 1,500,000 men are engaged in this battle.

Be that as may, Ihe Allies have a great numerical superiorly on iho ground and are supreme in the air. Moreover, Eisenhower undoubtedly has in reserve much striking-power that he can release at will. Any of the enemy to retreat, or to bring up reinforcements and supplies, precipitates death and destruction along the roads from great fleets of Allied As Montgomery says, "these are momentous a and complete victory lies ahead and certain--so long as we do not Allied resources will continue to pour into France. The Germans expect an invasion of the Rhone Valley from the Mediterranean by French troops. Well, lhat could happen.

Copt. Carl Weather Missing In Action Capt, Carl 25, has ucen missing in fiction in France since June 9, hie Mrs. Lucy Weathers of Salein, has learned, Captain Weathers entered active in the i a try shortly a graduating from the University of Arkansas in 1951. He went overseas last September a training at Fort Sam Houston. Texas.

Camp McCoy, and Fort Benning, Ga. lie was married to rm Iriph girl April 13, 1944. lie has two sisters, Betty Kathryn c'i the home, Jack Humphries, San Antonio, Texas and three Bob Lee, Salem, Kugenc. San Diego, and Elk Basin, THE PUBLIC INTEREST IS THE FIRST CONCERN OF THIS NEWSPAPER Local Forecast-- i i arM i i i Gene a a i tonight find with a (cw high clouds, cooler. Press Leased Service Press feature Service VOLUME 83, NUMBER 16 FAYETTEVIUE, ARKANSAS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS Roosevelt Will Speak Tonight On Trip Major Networks To Carry Talk By President Seattle, Aug.

Prcsident Roosevelt tonight will give his first report to the nation i he accepted a lourth term nomination--climaxing a 15-day Pacific war tour which in his words took him far away from politics. He will speak by radio from the Bremerton navy yard near here nt 7 p. m. central war time. The broadcast will be carried by the four major networks.

Mr. Roosevelt boarded a cruiser at San Diego, July day after he accepted a fourth term nomination--and arrived al Pearl Harbor July 26 to confer with Admiral iNimitz, General MacArthur and other toii-rank Pacific war chiefs. From there he moved on into the Aleutians. The announcement that he wil speak from the Bremerton nav yard gave no indication of the president's immediate whereabouts. Neither did it discuss the nature of his address, but he tol( a.

news conference in Honolulu July 29 that he would reporl lo the "nation on his Pacific vlsi 1 --his first war tour this year. Mr. Roosevelt was accompanied into the Pacific by Artmira William I). Leahy, a member the joint chiefs of staff, and other high ranking White House military advisors. The entir party which left Washington with the president July 13 clii not go with Mm to the Aleutians Nazis Say Sea Thrust Failure Germans Report Lorient Attack London, Aug.

broadcasts today said Allied war ships had tried to invade the har bor of Lorient, German submarin base on the south coast Brit lany which is under America Siege. The Germans declared th sea was turned back. The German communique cle dared German U-boats off th invasion coast and in other water sank four Allied freighters tola! ing 22,000 tons and two mine sweepers, and torpedoed anothe three ships and a destroyer. There was no Allied confirma lion. Germans Reported Out of Florence Rome, Aug.

Ger infills have i a from Flor encc, it was announced i i a today. "Our troops have not advance into the city behind tiie Am river," art official British Eighl Army source said. Just Too Much East Liverpool, Aug was bad enough, says Russell Patterson, a rabbits ruined bis Victory garden, but the last straw came when he saw his cocker i for dear life, yelping at every step, with two bunnies in pursuit. A Candidate rltss Margaret E. above), 29, attorney at Fairfield, was nominated by )emocrats of the Fourth congres- ional district to oppose Rep.

Clare Doofhe Luce for her scat in Con- in the election next Novem- jer. (AP AVirephoto) States' Rights Bill Appears Measure Passed By Senate To Give Aid To War Workers Washington, Aug. 12-tfrVHcel- crushing Senate de- Murray-Kilgore re- ing under feat of the conversion plan, administration Democrats today moved hopefully toward an attempt to revive in the House their program for higher federal benefits for war workers. Their chances of. success looked slim.

Several members nt the House Ways and Means Committee, which. atari hearings Tuesday, made it "clear they lean strongly toward the "slates' rights" bill of Senator George (D-Ga), which Republicans and Southern Democrats pushed to Senate passage last night, 55 lo ID. Representative Carlson (R- Kan) predicted that the Ways ond Means Committee, which includes a number of states' rights advocates, would also approve "the George bill or something close to it." Senate Majority Lender Berkley (Ky) swung to the Murray- Kilgore side in the closing Senate debate, and later made it clear the fight for federally-fixed insurance payments to displaced workers had not ended. He termed "inadequate" the state unemployment systems carrying payments of $13 to weekly for temporarily idle workers. "I hope the House will amend and the bill so in at it will provide amply for dealing with the problem of the postwar unemployed, and also a it will be broadened to deal with other phases of reconversion," he said, Office Set Up As passed by the Senate, the George measure sets up Office of War Mobilization and Re- conversion headed by a presidents ally-appointed director to a dle demobilization planning.

It brings an CFli mated 3,500,000 federal employes under state unemployment i a program at federal expense, and sets up a federal loan to guarantee the solvency state but leaves control of unemployment insurance rntes to the states. Trucking Firms Taken Over By Government Drivers Ordered To End Strike And Go Back To Jobs Minneapolis, Aug. government today took over 103 Midwestern over-t he-road trucking companies and ordered 25,000 striking drivers in eight states to return to their jobs immediately to clear up hailed movement of military supplies. President Roosevelt last night ordered the seizure of the truck firms and assigned the Office of Defense Transportation in run the industry until the strike is settled The president raid the army was behind the ODT in its task. In Minneapolis, Mel G.

Barnes, twin cities ODT director, said fill" scale operations in i sraaem scale operations in this area might not be effected before Monday. Paul Hal pine, Lincoln, vice chariman of the Midwest Operators Association, said the 100 per cent with the federal government." Thomas E. Flynn, acting president of the International Brotherhoods of Teamsters (AFL) said his organiaztion was fully in accord with the seizure of tre truck properties. In making his statement in Indianapolis, Flynn eaid, "Our men are instructed to return to work at once." The drivers walked out a week ago when their employers refused to pay a seven-cents-an-hour wage increase ordered by the War Labor Board, contending 1 they could not afford to pay the increase unless the government extended them financial relief. The truck companies affected handle 5,000,000 tons of freight annually in Minesota, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and parts of Wisconsin and Oklahoma.

The truck drivers' strike in several Midwest states, including Americans Near Paris Defenses Missouri, was affecting in this area, it was said here today. Shipments which should have gone out several days ago were said to be stalled because of the strike. $4,000,000 Fire At Pier in New Jersey IToboken, N. Aug. pier in the Hudson river was almost completely destroyed by fire which raged about four hours before being brought under control eariy today.

Acting fire CMef Andrew Keller said the fire was of undetermined origin and began on a barge which was transferring its cargo to a ship moored nt pier No. Keller said there was no indication of sabotage. He said there was no immediate estimate of the loss, but Jt was i cially reported at Fourteen persons were taken to a hospital for treatment of burns and smoke poisoning, while more than 50 others, i i firemen, were given i aid treatment nt tiie scene. Keller said none was seriously injured. Three barges a a oerrick moored nt the pier were one of the barges sinking.

VL Ar entan Arrows show Allied drives in France, where Americans were believed to have driven far beyond Le Mans Paris. Black line is battle-front on basis of i i a nnnouncements. Can.Tdintis near p.ien were reported pushing toward Vimont. To tile rear of the i Iront, United Slates troops look St. Malo, entered Nnntcs nnd surrounded Angers.

(AP Wirephoto) Reds Advance in Flanking Move Against Nazi Front Moscow, Aug. let armies, moving through 250 captured seHk-ments over 100- mile front, advanced upon the Masurian Lake country of East Prussia today in a maneuver which seriously endangered the Germans' entire left i Rokossovsky troops driving nor Hi ward from positions northeast of Warsaw and General Zakha'rov's forces from west and striking northwest Bialystok toward the World war battte theater in East Trussia were applying severe pressure on the Germans. The Germans who had massed reserves of armor in tho east Prussia-Lithuanian frontier began a feverish i i to meet the new danger. Dispatches from the field northwest of Bialystok to the army newspaper Tied Star said the Russians beat back--often in Liand to hand clashes--initial counter-attacks launched by the reserves. Ten to 12 counter-blows were hurled against separate sectors but these were G.iitl to a slackened, with the enemy retreating westward.

This is i i country for a arid i a infantry largely is i i the battle, marching ever closer to East Prussia. Sensational news' poured in from the Estonian front General Matilcnnikov followed his breakthrough southwest i'skov and penetrated "deep the enemy rear," a Red Star dispatch said. Plans To Re There A a Aug. if he lias to hire two nurses to attend him, George H. Jones, 95,1 commandcr-in-chief of the Grant! 3 Guerrillas Fighting Madrid, Aug.

Mistake Might Have Cost Him His Very Life Seattle, Aug. an army sergeant headed back for his Alaskan outpost, Mrs. M. ItfcChesney slipped an of delicacies into his dnfllo bag, including a full chocolate malt can -which she told him to share with his buddies, A letter from the sergeant informed the donor: 'The only reason I am alive now is because we are all Chris- linns. The can of mailed milk you gave inc turned out to be i jar rubbers.

I was almost thrown i the sea." A of the Republic, said today prisoners of war and foreign lab" he would be at the a i a encampment at DCS Iowa, September 10. King and Lf. Hilton, In On Invasion Of France, Tour England, See U.A. Friends THE WEATHER Arkansas: Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Sunday. Missouri: Partly cloudy, der showers in east central portion early tonight, Oklahoma: Generally a i and continued warm tod and Sunday.

Capt, Ben i of Oklahoma City, who once was given up for dead in the Southwest Pacific. and Lt. LydEe C. Hilton, who helped lead the paratroop invasion of Fra nee, recently is. i ted two other former i i men while on a brief tour of and Scotland in Liuctenant Kind's P-38, Matilda II Following the invasion of France, during which he had numerous Lieutenant Hilton was returned to England and given a seven-day leave, he wrote his parents.

Director L. L. Hilton, of General Extension Service, and Mrs, Hilton. It was while on leave a he nnd the i to accompany Captain i formerly of Window and Fayetteville and a i i Eentonville, uatej and a i i grad- held island, where he was cared Caieon 0 1 1 ncr downed Amer- 'a 'former i and student, on the They visited of the and Morris Me Ghee, of Si loam Springs. Lieutenant Hilton sent his par- en Is arc in.signia he wore i the invasion of France, and several a Captain King was one of the first A i a pilots to sweep France on D-Drty, His plane, "Jail Ida II, sported three Japanese a on her noie--symbols of the three Nip planes he shot down in Ihe Pacific before his own plane, a i a forced down in Ihe sea, With is pi ne led wj th Japanese bullet-, nnd unable to bail out became of a damaged parachute.

Captain King then a i a landed i pLine on thfi water and mane his way on a life a to a Japunesc- orers have begun guerrilla warfare inside Germany, the a press revealed today in a dispatch from Nazi Correspondent Werner Gilies who wrote from "In the a i of Southern Germany." The correspondent said 'Mcrror- ists anrt guerrillas 1 were waging I war of destruction on Germans in i the a i regions, wiping oul i entire families, i homes, a stealing food and arms. Ho described an i i German Move Puzzles Allies Reinforce Troops Believed In Trap On the Orne River Front, Aug. Marshal Gen. thcr von Khigo is sending reinforcements into the German bulge west of the Ornc in one of the moves on the western front, it was disclosed today. Instead of trying lo escape from ever-lightening noose coffin-shaped corridor resembling the German death trap salient a 1 Stalingrad--the.

Nazi commander a a was a i troops and a into thn pocket. "Undoubtedly reinforcement- are reaching the hard-presses Germnn i i i a British a i said. "Their quality is uncertain nut in some cases nt leas' they were produced by ilk ing other or by i i reinforcements meant for other di- i.rfn i i meeting in me courtnou; md three other i usi-apcrd a a i Ihe i a which led morning, H. S. Mr.bley pro 'mm the island, a a i i above and said her.v- I fjf conn 1 i i was then assigned to ily-armed Gorman i i a a a struck out at tl Rifle Bullet Kills Child Discharged As Children Play Albert Byrum, six.

shot an i nccldentally yesterduy a the farm home near Sulphur City while he and his sister, Mary eight, were playing with a -I calther ride, Sheriff C. P. (Cap Gulley said lodny. The accidcn occurred about 1 p. m.

The a Hosie Byrum io the i that he had shells magazine of the gun, but non in the barrel, but that apparent! while the children were playin with the weapon they worked th shell into the a and the gu was discharged. The boy was sh through the breast and died most immediately, Survivors are his parents; grandmother, Mrs. Rhoda Burr of Sulphur City; two brothers, A vin and McClelland; and two si tcrs, Sadie and Mary, Funeral se vices will be held tomorrow at p. m. at the Reese cemetery und the direction Moore's Funcr Chapel.

Fulbrighl Called To Washington Little Rock, Aug. gressman (Dill) Fulbrifilit Americans Gain 10 Miles In South France Threat To Paris And German Army Made By Other Units Supreme Headquarters Allied xrieditionary Force, Aug. morican armor driving across tha rjfre river at Nantes in a new irust had penetrated 10 miles France today while United States units In a 3iir-day mystery push continued siinulnneous threat to Paris and IP German army deadlocked ocith ol Caen. Supreme Headquarters kept ilent again today on the mileago oiled up by the American columns cporled driving north, east and outh of Le Mans, possibly because Germans themselves were on fused as to the exact direction I these drives and did not know hich thnisls were feints. The ornmuniquc did not even mention sectors east and north of Le nans and Supreme Headquarters Lid 110 amplification.

A line dispatch said the Germans were putting up i re- stance to the drive io the north. This Is the one which la sawing In tchiml the Germans in the Caen irca. (The Paris radio aatd this arm ilrcady had driven through 30 miles north ot Le Mans ind 42 miles south of the Canadian First Army's battlo positions before Fal-iise. (The Paris radio said the German command had placed Paris under an 11:15 p.m. curfew begin- ing tonight.

Available Information Indicated Paris might not be ono of the immediate objectives of the sweeping American advance nnd that the Allied command was pursuing the primary aim of destroying enemy armies.) Withdrawal Keen Naal broadcasters took cognizance of the encirclement possibility -in the drive pi Le a and forecast a drawal from the narrow 30-jnlle Orne-Mortain salient 'where, amid steady and heavy fighting) the Allies both were pressing the Germans ba ck a nd th reateni to squeeze the salient to extinction between the major northern, southern and eastward drives, In addition to the arms extending to the north and northeast, one American column was reported ing due east, of Le Mans on Chatcaudun, guarding the road to Orleans and the open country between the Seine and Loire rivers south of Paris. Unofficial British reports snid Chateaudun had been reached. A column striking out from Le Mans was believed headed toward Tours to the southeast to solidify tha hold on the Loire river guarding the American right flank. Ready To Quit A small part of the Germans 1 last slrongpolnt at St. Malo, north coast port, still was holding out and heavy i i was continuing tor the Httla cape town of Dinard, just across the inlet.

The German garrison In the Citadel ot St. Malo was suffering heavy losses and was said to be witling to give up but was being kept in the struggle by its commander, the "mad" colonel, Andres von Aulock, i return lo Washington today at the invitation of Speaker the House fjam a I a-3 postwar legislation was under consideration. The congressman, who won the Democratic nomination for United Stales senator in Tiies- day's i a i forego a a a i i to make the trip. Farm Bureau Head Strikes Out At Press for Story on Meeting With about 50 persons present the courthouse navy for three w-efcs to a i in i a roil Rus- the re-cue of American flier? and foreign laborers still on the island. who to the last Hitler's own newspaper, voei- kischer reported gunr- rillns i i Germans in village.

in the island. Following a leave, be wa- transferred io the European i theater of action. He i his a Mr. ancJ Mrs, C. L.

i of a hrjma City, a he has flown over a prison camp in a where I.t. Vincent Hrilpin is a i prisoner, so that it is Jap People Warned Of Coming Air Raids i home" to a a i Kincj him in that a a London, ami i a fortress raids or a i were i when they a hut attempt on the i a of the ess as the result of a story on rr.cc I i Th rsd a morni ng in the court room. Saying the pre.ss is welcome at all "open meet- he declared the session conference based ''misconception," and was a meeting of Farm Bureau mern- I bc-rs and other people, rather Lhiiii a Farm a "Xo man with any moral char- acter rush to the public so a i any matter on whicl both the c-nemy to gather lived in iW i a 1 iu a for raids on rnajr.r not to i bomber the scak-, 1 a P-erlm a a i out I hey rtid and writes a he "hopes ied Japanese a declared a a not a the facts." Mob- to be home by i season." ing the people today. experience ley asserted. "We asked the pi i the rnceti heed us." details of story, which rooir cism "which we were for criti- i a i to a i and i problems in a i i a democratic manner." were barred from District Republican 'Rally Set for Aug.

24 Plans have been perfected and arrangements made for the first i a rnlly of the Third congressional district, comprising JO Northwest Arkansas counties, it has been announced by Ray Phillips, chairman of the Publicity Committee. The event is to be held at the courthouse at Harrison Thursday evening, August 24. A speakers will he: Harvey Stump, candidate for governor; Victor Wade, candidate lor the United, States Senate, and Wallace Townscnd, state the meet ins by clewed doors a Reference was made to an As- Public. fociated press story carried a A a a newspapers this pas' week out of i i saying th.it grape buyers were re- i i $100 a Ion for grapes, denied vehemently that $100 a ton for grapes is being a i ami said the was "trying to mislead" the public. The was in progress shortly before r.oon.

A re STJ 1 i on was adopted without opposition recommending that ml tcerr.an. The a a i will cn to I me i were iiot i in the Flying Bomb Attacks On England Heavier London, Aug. bomb attacks on London and the southern counties increased from i i i after dawn today, with, the assaults in the south heavier a they have been for TOSS the price of grapes be i i time. -ing, I per ton, A second rrotion, passed Some of the appeared to a few i a coming in on a new route over a i the be made public the French coast from behind the tiie press. Boulogne..