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WLUME XL VI.
MEXIA, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUG. 25, 1944.
.NUMBER 32.
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Hungary Revolts As
Bulgaria Asks Peace,
Romania Quits War
LONDON, ^piiK. 24. (UP)—The Hungarian army was
reported in revolt today, and prows dispatches said Bul-
garia had asked the Allies for Iheir peace terms in the
wake of Romania's stunning break with Germany and her
proclaimed decision to join forces with the Allies.
A flood of reports from Allied md Axis sources on the
continent made it clear that all three of Hitler's Balkan
satellites were in the throes of a political upheaval almost
identical to that which collapsed the central powers in
1918.
The German DNB,News Agency announced that Hun-
gary's Nazi puppet premier Dome Szetojay had ordered i,he
immediate dissolution of all political parties in that nation,
and Swiss press- dispatches to London said mutiny had
broken out in the Hungarian army.
&f"''— , Simultaneously, Bulgaria was
on the verge of following
the Axis camp.
Today's War Map
English Channel ^
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BELGIUM
Poles Advance on
West Italy Coast
Yanks Drop Out of
Official Reports
ROME, Auk- 2*. (U.R) Polish
troops of the British Eighth Army
captured the towns of Sail Giorgio
and Piagge, just south of the Me-
taur-r. River between the Adriatic
coast and Ippolito, 12 miles inland,
today while on the western flank
of the same sector Italian troops
occupied Gagli, five miles north
of Cantianu.
Polish patrols crossed the Me-
tauro at one point and encountered
much stiffer resistance than anti-
cipated, front dispatches said, but
generally the Polish units were
engaged in consolidating their po-
sitions south of the Metauro from
Mount Maggiore to the sea.
j reported
I Uc,mania out of
Authoritative reports from Ankara
said the Bulgars had asked for a
final delineation of the terms on
which they could make peace with
the United States and Britain.
An authoritative source in Lon-
don said Bulgaria's peace propos-
als were being studied here and
that, if they are found to consti-
tute a definite, formal application
for an armistice, Britain and the
United States will communicate
their terms to Sofia.
Romania'-! surrender cracked
Germany's hold on the jittery Bal-
kans and brought rapid repercus-
sions in Bulgaria, Hungary and
Slovakia.
Reliable sources in Cairo said
Bulgaria had begun withdrawing
its troops from oe'eupfed territory
in Yugoslavia and speculated that
she may be the next of the satel-
lites to abandon Germany.
The surrender of Romania laid
I open the entire Balkans- to the
In addition to taking Cagli, ,
, . , „ Allies and posed an ultimate threat
Italian force i sent out patrols four „ ...
miles east to Mount Martollo and ,
two miles beyond, around Mount
San Lorenzo, without making con-
tact with the enemy, it was an- '
nouncod. The Germans were car- j
rying out numerous demolitions in j
the Tiber River bend north of An
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Vanguard Now 170
Miles of Bucharest
Governor of Paris
Allied drive reported headed south toward Bordeaux, where Allied
landings are reported to have been made near the city, Yank' capture
Grenoble, with possible drive to Lyons, which would cut all rail-
roads from southwest France to Geimany. (NEA Telemap)
Germans Trick Paris;
SOS Summons Allies
MOSCOW, Auk. 24. (U.R)—Red
armies still were smashing for-
ward through Bessarabia and
northern Romania within 170 miles
of Bucharest against continuing |
resistance last night, front dis- !
patches said today, despite Kins
Michael's announcement that So-
viet armistice terms had been ac-
cepted.
Confuted reports from the front
gaid the main resistance was being
I encountered in northeastern Bes-
j saiabia, where the Germans were
i in control, although the enemy
everywhere was in retreat.
(A German broadcast said
heavy fighting" also was under
I way at Roman, on the Cernauti-
Plocsti railway 35 miles south- j
I west of liberated lasi.)
Romanian prisoners told the So- I
I viets before the announcement of I
| the armistice that the Germans
j had fired • on their units, killing '
I a large number of officers and :
■ men, in a vain attempt, to halt the
| retreat. In some sectors, prisoners
said, there had been "armed clash-
J es between retreating Romanian
• units and blocking German de-
| tachments."
Nothing official was announced
•j tei Moscow regarding Romania's
i capitulation.
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ghiaii, which was taken as an in-
dication they intended a limited
withdrawal in that section.
Conf:rm QuisfingEate
LONDON, Aug. 24. (U.R)—Ger-
man sources have confirmed that
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and
Premier Pierre Laval of France
had been taken to Germany.
Wall Street men should make
good' farmers. They know how to
water the rtock and shear the
sheep.
Uf encirclement over German forc-
es holding Bulgaria, Greece, and
Southern Yugoslavia, all south or
southwest of Romania.
Germany also faced imminent
loss of the I'loesti oil fields, the
largest single source of oil for
her battered war machine.
Germany apparently was caught
off balance by Romania's defec- !
lion, but was expected to make j
every effort to retrieve the situa- |
tion. The Nazi Command was j
known to have had !C> divisions—
possibly 100,800 men—in Romania I
last spring, but since has drawn 1
heavily on that force to meet great I
threats to her borders in Poland
and France.
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF, Aug. 24. (UP)— ' '
Street fighting between French patriots and Germans flar- Water Tournament at
fed up inside Paris today and Allied Supreme headquarters ; i i nnpn a Public
announced that yesterday's Fighting French communique I "
telling of the capture of the city was premature.
Headquarters revealed I hat the patriots, tricked earli- I
cr by a German appeal for an armistice into believing that
ihe enemy was leaving the capital, had flashed an urgent
call for help to the American and French regulars massed
outside the city.
Allied forces began moving on the city yesterday a-
gainst German resistance, headquarters spokesmen said. taking the
(Radio France at Algiers said American troops enter-
ed Paris tonight, following the arrival there of a French
Troyes Thrust Cuts
Last Exit To Reich
Seal Alpine Passes, Occupy Toulon,
and Smash Le Havre Evacuation Try
ROME, Aug. 24. (U.R)—American
mechanized columns were reported
SU PR EME HEA DQU A RTERS,
AEF, Aug. 21. (U.R)—RAF bomb-
to have sealed the Frenco-Italian | ers smashed an /ttempl by Ger-
A) pi lie passes today after a light- man light warships and merchant
Bobby Mitchell of Houston has
arrived to spend a few days in
Mexia with friends.
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regular force.)
Gen. Pierre Koenig, commander ;
in chief of tlu French forces of j
the interim, .innoi.-.acd early yet- J
I terday thai Paris had been lib«-r-
j i.ted by an army of 50,000 organ-
ized patriot troops and hund:-'ds
I of thousands of revolting Pari-
1 sinus.
The Nazi commander appealed
for an Armistice under the pre-
text that he intended to withdraw
his troops from the city and turn
it back to its people. Under cover
of thr.t truce, he apparently re-
assembled his forces and, when
the armistice expired nt noon 1
Wednesday, resumed Ihe !>ig bat-
tle raging today.
Latest reports reaching Allied
headquarters from the turbulent
city suggested that the French
still held the greater part of Paris,,
with the Germans fighting them
from street barricades and put-
ting up a desperate "screening"
battle against thi Atneiieun ar-
mored divisions moving in on them
from the west. ,
The public was invited today to
attend the Water Tournament to
I be held Friday morning from !> to
10 o'clock at tthe municipal swim-
ming pool. The diving, racing ami
'exhibition form swimming contests
i will bo held by those 3!< Girl Scouts
two-week course jus
completed under the leadership o
Miss Ix'Nellt- Underwood.
As FFI forces of Gen. Pierre
Koenig took over Paris, this pic- i
turo of Koenig arrived in the U. S. I
showing him as lie steps from a
theater on a recent visit to London.
Koenig has been named Military
Governor of Parts by Gen. De-
Gaulle, and it i< believed that he
is now in Paris. (NEA Telephoto)
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History to Repeat?
?
LONDON, Aug. 24. (U.R)—World ,
I War I ended one month and 13 j
days after the first Balkan coun- I
try, Bulgaria, capitulated to the
Allies.
Romania, the first Balkan coun-
try to break from the Axi? in j
World War II, gave up yesterday, i
Certificates to those completing
their swimming badge require-
ments will be given by a member
of the Scout Association council,
and first and second prize ribbons
awarded the winners of each por-
tion of the tournament.
{jSharply Criticize
Hash Hush Parley
News Men Protest
Runarounri (Jivcn
WASHINGTON. Aug. 21 (U.R)~
I Edward R. Stettinius, .Jr.
i
Election Closes Banks
chair-
World
The violii ist is
his chin in music.
Mexia 'tanks will be closed Sat-
always up to { urday because ef the election, they
| announced today.
Newsman Breaks Military Blackout Shroud
in# Armored Spearhead to Picture Yanks
GE's Wilson Has
WPA Office
l$y ROBERT RICHARDS
With Gen. Button's Armored
Spearheads
WITH AMERICAN ARMOR
ON THE SEINE, Aug. 20. (U.R)
This is an almost unbelievable kind
of warfare being waged by the
flying armored columns knifing
deep inside the German lines a-
round Paris.
It'-- the pcifection of modern war
| making—ai d yet I think a couple
| of fine old fighters named Buf-
| falo Billy C dy and Col. .leh Stu-
Quit „.v/...v
' art would somehow feel at home in
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. (U.R)— I this camp tonight.
Charles F. Wilson resigned today We are bivouacked iu a wheat
as executive vice chairman of the ' field under the branches of apple
War Production Board because of trees. Our tanks are drawn around
"unfair attacks and ..criticisms" in a protective rectangle just like
which he charged were inspired by they used to do with the covered
member-' of WPB Chairman Don-
ald M. Nelson's staff.
Wilson, whose resignation was
accepted by the president with re-
luctance, said most of the criticism
was based on allegations that he
was opposed to beginning recon-
version of industrial plants to pro-
duction of civilian goods now. He
said these allegations were not
true. Nelson, he said, had acknow-
ledged repeatedly that he had
"been fully cooperative in recon-
version,"
wagons in Indian country.
The jeeps and reconnaissance
cars are out testles-ly probing the
surrounding roads like advance
scouts in the days of Buffalo Bill.
Now and then a jeep conies rolling
back into camp with four or
five prisoners sitting sullenly on
its hood. Cody would have had his
war-painted prisoners on the end
of a lariat but the illusion is in-
escapable.
The armored men from Kansas
and Nebraska and Missouri and
man ,of the Dumbarton Oaki
Security talks, promised corres-
pondents l.oda.v that the chairmen
of the three delegations would try
to tret, more information into their
dailv communiques.
The three chairmen Stettinius
(D. S.), Sir AloNgndci Cudogan
(British), and Andrei A. Gromyko
(Russian)—met Hi representatives
of the State Department Corres-
pondent* Association in Stettinius'
, , ,, I office at Dumbarton Oaks. The
of a tin hat but their eyes hold . , . ,
i coi respondents had requested the
i meeting to present a memorandum
protesting the secrecy i urround-
Louisiana look up from their at-
tempts to get, a sponge hath out
these
mutter:
"Christ,
no welcome for
Some of them
more Heinies."
Like the plainsmen, they hate
more mouths to feed and hands to
watch. These are mobile fighters
who must keep going fast if they
want to live awt prisoners tie them
down.
About the time you try to go to
ing the conference.
Stettinius read to the committee
a joint statement of the three pow-
ers \yhich said in effect, that the. |
present system of publicity about ;
the talks would continue. After a I
45-minnte off-tin'-record diseu^-
sii.n of the problem, however,
sleep the bitr guns on the outskirts I Stettinius sai I t.lie
of camp begin to boom as they ! would censidoi the
draw bead on important road in- j from the press and
is c
ailed
ter-ections in the area
fleeing Germans. This
"interdiction."
At dawn you rub your eyes and
watch the reconnaissance cars and
halftracks swing out with
thiee leader!
memorandum
added that he
to catch personally expected that the meet-
inn- would do some good.
The cot respondents did not seek
admission to the security talks,
hut suggested that 'a dynamic in-
their | formation policy emphasizing the
flapping as the release of facts on a day to day
warm up their I bftRis' rat,lcr ,, "1 ,hei'' suppres-
radio antennae
tanks begin to
motors for the day's run and some- | : 'r'"• wo11'" i'ejtei rerve the pur-
how you get that feeling you have lms,'s >rgaivzed peace i'-.nn the
seen the army swinging out for | pollcy ,of aecrecy now f'.forced."
battle with this same gallant dash
ninff 68-mile advance from Gre-
| noble to the Swi-s frontier, while
Allied land, sea and air forces
broke down the last German de-
fenses in the encircled naval base
of Toulon.
There was no official confirma-
tion of t.he reported thrust to the
Swiss frontier which, if verified,
would put the American columns
within 175 miles -or less of Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton's tank spear-
heads sweeping down on Troyes
from the Paris area.
The report said American bat-
tle flags had been planted near
the shores of Lake Geneva, about
62 miles northeast of Lyon, after
a forced night march from cap-
tured Grenoble.
With the American troops
astride the Franco-Swiss fron-
tier, the mountain routes of
escape into northern Italy
would be closed to the German
armies in Southern France,
squeezing them into a narrow-
inn pocket between the Allied
Mediterranean forces and the
Anglo-American armies in the
north.
Meanwhile, French infantrymen
battled through the streets of
Toulon behind a tremendous air
and sea barrage, herding the Ger-
man garrison back into the old
port area.
The great naval base's main for-
tifications already had been
breached, however, and an official
spokesman said the complete oc-
cupation of the port was imminent.
Much of Toulon already has been
liberated, Gen. Sir Henry Mait-
Iatid Wilson announced in his
daily communique, and front re-
ports said French forces finally
had overwhelmed giant concrete
fortifications east of the city and
smashed into the eastern and
northeastern outskirts after a
j four-day battle.
To the west, American armored
spearheads swept 30 miles beyond
newly captured Marseille into the
delta of the Rhone River some 20
miles from Aries. Salon, 27 miles
northwe-t of Marseille, was cap-
tured, along with a number of
smaller hamlets.
Allied headquarters again
clamped a protective cloak of se-
crecy around the American col-
umns which liberated Grenoble in
a spectacular dash 140 miles inland i
from the Riviera, but they were be- j
lieved fanning out toward the big
communications center of Lyon 58
miles to the northwest, and Cham- j
bery, 27 miles to the north oil the j
last German-held railway between
France and Italy.
(The clandestine Atlantic
radio said American tanks
have occupied Lyon. The Al-
giers radio reported merely
that the advance on Lyon had
begun and it was anticipated
maqtiis patroling the Lyon
area soon would make contact
with Ihe Americans.)
The latest Allied advances in-
creased the Allied bridgehead in
Southern France 6,000 to 8,000
square miles--an average of near-
ly 1,000 square miles a day liber-
ated since the invasion forces
ashore Aug. 15.
—in the movies with horses.
You seem to feel that Jeb Stu-
art's cavalrymen in Confederate
grey would feel at home with this
scene and would climb aboard and
ride away humming, "jine the
cavalry."
WEATHER
EAST TEXAS: Mostly
cloudy. Scattered showers and
thunder storms this afternoon
and Friday afternoon. Partly
clnndv toniirht.
Bomb Tirpitz Again
LONDON, Aug. 24. (U.R)—A
Stockholm dispatch reported today
that British carrier-based Barra-
cuiins again attacked the damaged
35,000-ton German battleship Tir-
pitz yesterday north of the Nor-
wegian port, of Altenfiord.
vessels to evacuate Nazi troops
from the doomed port of Lc Havre
today us far-ranging American
tank columns were repotted un-
officially to have captured Bor-
deaux, deep in southern France,
and Troyes. ouly 130 miles from
the German border.
Thwarting a Nazi "Dun-
kirk," the bombers inter-
cepted the German ships
shortly after midnight and ill
an eight hour runniug battle
between Le Havre and Bou-
logne, put the ships to (light.
The bombers made 25 separate
attacks ugainht the surface
craft, which presumably were
carrying trops from Le Havre
now on the verge of being en-
gulfed by the First Canadian
army.
Some of Llie rhips put into Bou-
logne harbor and then attempetd
to sneuk out again for a dash up
to the North Sea—but they were
driven hack into port again by
j the bombs and guns of the RAF
| planes.
The evacuation was attempted
! as American flying tank columns
; rampaged almost unopposed thru
southwestern and eastern France.
Allied headquarters spokesmen
declined to confirm or deny a re-
port broadcast by Radio France at
Algiers that an American tank
column had swept down more than
150 miles south of the Loire, join-
ed forces with French partisans
and captured Bordeaux, the fourth
city of France.
Two other American col-
umns, meanwhile, sped east-
ward toward the German fron-
tier in a drive that menaced
the entire line of communica-
tions between the Na_zi forces
in southern and central France
and their homeland.
One armored force of Lt. Gen.
| George S. Patton's U. S. 3rd army
was reported striking into tha
| outskirts of the Troyes rail hub.
A *econd tank column drove up
from Oi leans in a wide sweep
round the southeastern suburbs
of Pairs, cut across the Loing riv-
j er and drove eastward through
Montagris, 65 miles so.i thwest of
Troyes.
Northwest of Paris, two Amer-
ican columns struck down the
j south bank of the Seine against
feeble enemy opposition, and ad-
vanced as much as 231 miles to
within less than 40 miles of Lc
Havre.
One column captured Conchcs
and lunged on 23',i miles to the
northeast to capture Elbetif,
where thousands ol Germans and
huee musses of inemy equipment
i had been reputed jammed along
the Seine river bank, trying to
[cross in small boats and impro-
vised rafts. Ix> Neuborg, 13 miles
north of Conches, also wsa taken
j in the American drive.
j The second column seized Ev-
reux after a 28-mile dash from
Dreux and went on 12's miles to
take Louviers on the ScVe.
The whirlwind drive to El-
heul narrowed to a hare 25
miles or less, the last c< rridor
of escape for some 93,000
beaten Germans fleeing east-
ward before the 1st Canadian
and 2nd British armies and
uni:ts oi Hedges' American
1st Army.
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Ask Total Surrender
ANKARA, Aug. 24 (U.R)—Diplo.
matic sources said today that Rus-
sia'f armistice terms to Romania
call for unconditional surrender
and establishment of a democra-
tic government, in Bucharest
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