Show ZEZ ik -- Patton Rides Again LONDON Aug 18 (UP)—The London Evening News cartoonist tinder the caption "Blitzkrieg 1944" Friday depicted a flabbergasted German soldier standing on a battlefield his head spinning and exclaiming: "1a dot is Patton t i A1 t rir-- 0 L111-- 7 1 r I j i 0 rpf es : 0 -- ‘ v- outfit of a Benefits would be both physical and mental he said citing imof provements in the make-u- p thousands of youths who trained In the civilian conservation corps Muscle building resulting from ditch digging is a good thing for some he declared Warrants Study Saying he personally has studied the matter and that it warrants public study the chief executive said such training would teach youths the special art of living together in groups and also teach them cleanliness and discipline He remarked parenthetically that discipline Is rather a good thing for the nation that it is not to be aneezed at Such a program also might make for an improvement in law and order he added saying we are not such a lawusbiding people though we are not so bad on order The president's remarks were prompted by a question whether study Will being given to compul- sory military training in peacetime Net Wholly Military Emphasizing that the study was not wholly along military lines he replied that the nation would have a postwar problem in deciding what to do with all the housing put up to train service men He said these houses had 5000000 beds and unlike first world war housing which had to be scrapped a few years after the war probably would last 25 years He offered three suggestions for utilizing these camps in peace- &ring for a large number of nonambulatory sick veterans 2 Housing vocational trainees so it will not be necessary to build new structures to carry out a program already legislated for 3 Housing for many other trainees—some e not ry some not WASHINGTON Aug 18 (UP) —Pres Roosevelt disclosed Friday the United States Britain and Russia have reached general agreement on the occupation of Germany but that specific details such as the sections each nation will occupy remain to be worked out He also told his first general news conference since July 11 that he plans to meet soon with Prime Minister Winston Churchill Of these plans he would say only that We the same old story—soon The 00 Par icomly1 t Col umn Three Six) Pistol Packin' Generals Get Nezv Gun Belts WASHINGTON Aug 18 1—The army now issues a Browne belt to generals so they can pack their pistols It's quite a job: Made of russet-colore- d calfskin with a shoulder strap and two shoot-iholsters for irons Designed to hold up pistols not pants it's worn over the regulation web service belt to which it can be at- tached by concealed loops Snaps make it adjustable so it can be worn over any number or combination of coats blouses field jackets and other garment& And it has decorative value with an Interlocking buckle stamped with the coat of arms of the super-Sa- m er United States n' It Is Issued to all generals but no census has been taken of how many of them wear It Lt Gen George S Patton who always carries two pistols has been photographed wearing his 9 Roosevelt Sees Army Navy Merger Later WASHINGTON Aug 18 — Pres Roosevelt said UP) Friday there is general agreement on the need for postwar Merger of the army and navy into a single department under unified cornmand But nothing will be done about it he said at a news conference until after the war The president's remarks were made while commenting on a magazine article in which his vice presidential running mate Sen Harry S Truman urged unification of the services The did not elaborate president but his comment indicated that Opposition to the idea largely with the navy has been overruled at the top command level At hearings before a special house committee several months ago navy witnesses were generally skeptical of the value of merger while the army witnesses supported the Hull Accepts Dewey Bid For Meeting WASHrNGTON Aug 18 (UP) —Secy of State Cordell Hull late Friday advised Gov Thomas E Dewey he would be "delighted" to confer with his foreign policy representative John Foster Dulles and that he was immensely gratified to receive Dewey's assurance of cooperation in efforts to establish lasting peace Hull told the Republican presidential nominee in a telegram that he would be willing to confer with Dulles on "any date or dates convenient to him" His telegram was In answer to one sent by Dewey earlier Friday accepting Hull's assertion Thursday that he would "welcome" a conference with Dewey on foreign policy in a spirit" The exchange of telegrams was an outgrowth of a statement by Dewey earlier in the week voicing fear that "power politics" would dominate the postwar se"bi-partis- an curity talks starting at Dumber-to- n Oaks Monday and result in the "big four" dominating the world by force Hull said Thursday that such fears were "utterly and completely tounfounded" and invited confer with him on forDewey eign policy Dewey replied by designating Dulles to confer with Hull Dulles last January signed a report advocating a volunteer international air force whose personnel would swear allegiance to a world organization The report outlining a security and world organization was the fourth made by a commission to study the organization of peace Dulles Dewey's adviser on foreign affairs and possibly the next secretary of state if Dewey is elected president has been a member of the commission since it was set up IContintlød on Patio Six) (Column A i ' V If ri 711e-- L) '':‘1 -- 1 t i 71 "" ''' e 0' "" adwrak - iii - eeins -' -" - t-I - -- r- I le (Continued on Page Three) (CoNmn One) I r-- t - il - - -- Il II 7- - - b - ismeourk r -- - limper -- 2 f 4- -- 0 -- - crash" - But Maude Bennot director of the Alder Planetarium at CM t cam being of a scientific mind and not inclined to cry "robot" until she sees one was more inclined to think it was only a harmless little meteorite That explanation put many minds at ease and brought a few citizens out from under the bed But Miss Bennot continued: "The earth has Just seen perselds a collection of meteors which are the result of the disintegration of Tuttle's comet August 12 was the peak date for the earth to pass through the shower and Fridays celestial disturbance was a particle" Astronomers at Yerkes ob : ' -- - -- - i Clermont - : T '' ::--7:--- - 4 - ‘ ' - - Cr! 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4- - - COrmoire pni 11011teik10041 toward Rouen As spearheads through Chartres and Orleans help Patton complete the trap rear forces and planes (symbol) chase foe to doom The nazi Falalse-Argenta- n gap had been narrowed to two miles escape Russ Capture Fortress At Vistula Crossing Russia (Official)—By United Press LONDON Saturday Aug 19—Sla3hing northward toward Warsaw Russian troops Friday captured the vital nazi fortress of Sandomierz and in a new 'crossing of the Vistula river encirtled three nazi divisions—some 30000 to 45000 men—as the soviets extended their great west bank bridgehead to 74 miles Troops of the First Ukrainian army drove to within 45 miles of as much as 31 miles removing one Radom a southern bastion of of the bigpest obstacles to an in circuitous advances of sault on the Polish capital from the south While Marshal Josef Stalin announced the new red army triumphs in an order of the day other Russian troops using artillery and even rifles were pumpsteel into Prussia preliminary CHARTRES Aug 16 (Delayed) ing in11931011 of the UP—French mobs celebrating the to a large-sca- le end of four years of nazi rule ran "holy soil" of Germany the Moscow radio said mad with freedom Friday Possibly indicating that Russian Townsfolk beat collaborationists shaved the heads of 30 women troops had crossed the border who consorted with German Stockholm dispatches early Saturmilitary troops and clashed in bloody street day said that Berlin spokesmen according to the S T B battles with enemy snipers All day gendarmes were busy agency had admitted that German troops had "failed to hold their restraining men women and chil- own" and had fallen back between dren of this city of 23000 They in Lithuania and the of Mariampole the around the gates surged town of Gumbinnen East Prussian d new Each prefecture German prisoner marched into the in the Insterburg gap Sandomierz 115 miles south of inclosure was greeted with jeers (ContinuP4 on Page Two) " catcalls and derisive "Heil (Column Two) ---- Chartres Hails End of Nazi Rule iron-barre- Edwin C Johnson (D) Colorado provides that board members would be appointed by Pres Rooseterm at $10000 velt for a two-yeThese prisoners looking dazed annually The house has rejected like punchdrunk boxers' showed a similar amendment fear of the crowd and walked si4 lently through the storm of outcries Periodically the French broke into "La Marseillaise" singfering with fierce revolutionary Two vor Tale of of Dickens" Wis servatory William's Bay were inclined to believe that the Cities" characters One small courtyard was covhad been caused "sky spots" ered with the hair of sheared womman-mad- e some by object point- en collaborators Each new susmeteors out that very few ing can be seen with the naked eye pect was dragged in and sat in a In daytime—not even on a clear chair Her head was shaved by a barber "He make' no charge" day Before Miss Bennot's reassurlaughed a pretty French girl oning remarks the "thing" had looker looked elicited various rumors: SomeThey sadly funny these with knobby thing just whoosed past my stolid ugly women house and rattled my windows legs ungainly bodies and heads An airplane just crashed in my like newborn pelicans Most went corn T w o airplanes through- - the ordeal in silence but field crashed Three The world is one girl afterward ran behind a door and sobbed "I have coming to an end Perseids had pulled an Orson no mother no father I am alone Welles that's all I have not been with Germans" Hit-!era- I q J ‘k T lc c -- ' I 1 1 t I Allies (Official)—By Associated Press SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE Saturdpy Aug 19—The bulk of the German 15th army guarding the north French rocket coast has been Ihrowa into an eleventh hour attempt to avert a Normandy debacle and has gone down to a defeat that may spell an allied victory in the battle for France it was disclosed officially Friday night Mighty allied forces were driv Ing the beaten 15th and Seventh Ir-- Ir armies toward the all but bridge less Seine and Lt Gen George S to the Patton's tanks smashing vicinity of Paris—only 12 miles away by German accounts—had blocked off their 'retreat toward the French capital (A Berlin broadcast quoted a German war ministry official statement early Saturday as say- ' ing "we must be prepared for a Report Patton's German withdrawal from France"' In a scarcely veiled reference to Tanks Within Paris the statement said: '"We 12 Miles of Paris must expect the loss of places with world-famonames") Gen Dwight D Eisenhower sumLONDON Aug 18 L'El—Nazt moned his field commanders to an propaganda agencies began preurgent conference which soon may in new and overwhelm- paring the German people for be reflected to blows break the German trig the shock of wholesale flight— grip on the whole of France on the eastern front pattern— from large sections of France Envelop Crack Units The surging lines were developFriday and announced that Lt ing a great enveloping movement Gen George S Patton's armored west of Paris where a senior Britspearheads had already reached ish officer disclosed the Germarn had rashly committed roughly halt within 12 miles of Paris The early removal of the their crack 15th army This the intimation puppet French government to that Field Marshalfirst Gen Guenther some place safer than Vichy was von Kluge had brought across the Seine Important elements of his hinted at by the German foreign army guarding the channel coast office and the rocket roosts to try to exThe Geriiian agency Trans-oceatricate the already battered Sevsaid Patton'l man thrust enth from the pitfalls of Normandy was along the "high road leading Americans British Canadians to Versailles" a western suburb Poles Dutch and Belgians—the of Paris "The war of movement in the Rood greater area neighboring Paris has led to a series of heavy batBy Associated Press 1 Russian front: SD? tles during the last 24 hours" miles (measured from eastIt reported rn suburbs of Warsaw) Talk Weapons' 2 Northern France: 56$ mile (measured from AuHitler! personal newspaper Voelkischer Beobachter frankly thon) 3 Italian front: 603 miles said the German army would pull out whatever necessary to (measured from Florence) 4 Southern France: 630 "maintain operati64ml freedom" mile (measured from near and to keep the' forces in being until miracle weapons could Cannes) "change the whole aspect of the war" The paper said "this final last two disclosed for the first goal is more important than time to be in action—were in hot holding on French towns and pursuit of the estimated 40000 to Nams tlint At Flight From France -- n? to-Berli- departments" The Transocean military commentator Sertorius Ludwig said "the strategy of German defense will be changed or already has been changed" as a result of rapid allied advances between the middle Seine and middle Loire As during the various phases of the eastern campaign elastic defense in deep space now seems also applicable in the west" he said "Mobility of the enemy will be counteracted by mobility of defense In this defense there will be no striving rapidly to use available reserves but rather to keep them back and concentrate them for counterblows when the opportune moment arrives" Suggest Great Exodus This comparison with the collapse of the eastern front suggested that the Germans were preparing withdrawals on a much vaster scale than retreats thus far A German foreign office meanwhile hinted spokesman that Vichy Chief of Government Pierre Laval would soon join Mussolini as Hitler's guest inside Germany Benito ar 1d v “ L240"1 us I Arpolost - 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i i — ell P '1 711 77 --A On CHICAGO Aug 18 (UP)—If the midwest were equipped with bomb shelters many citizens gladly would have moved in Price—Five Cents 7 7 7-- Allied Armor Closes hi On Toulon WASHINGTON Aug 18—Pres Roosevelt said Friday public opinion should be gradually formed on the idea of offering a year's postwar training—both military and civil—to 1000000 or 1250000 youth between 17 and 23 the United States Alaska the Aleutians and elsewhere—capable of housing 5000000 men—could be utilized for the purpose He said it would not constitute ompulsory military training- but some military and some civilian vocational and training including stenographic courses to prepare young men for civilian jobs some of them in the government service ri - -10 172117: Or He told a news conference that excellently built service camps in 6-- lino—NE By Associated Press 1 2 7 1 z Says U S Britain Russia Agree To Occupy Postwar Reich 'Expects to Meet Churchill Soon time: 1 t 7 ''0gfee 4 t Salt Lake City Utah Saturday Morning August 19 1944 ) 1 I - Dosevelt tH) k 0 Vol 149 No 127 - Utah: Fair with afternoon cloudiness in west Partly cloudy afternoon showers east Slightly cooler northwest Idaho: Fair Warmer north portion Wyomi Partly cloudy few showers coder Nevada: Fair little change in temperature Details on page 18 - dot vas!" 11- Today's Weather datztemor St Maio Nazi Garrison Holds Farewell Party Surrenders ST MALO Aug 17 (UP)— Shaggy grimy and reeling 'from a farewell party of Cognac wine and cider—but with their boots shining —the motley German garrison of St Maio which had held out for weeks under the whiplash of their stumbled out mad commander blinking in the sunlight today to surrender First out of the citadel were seven Yanks who had been prisoners Of the Germans for six days There had been eight when they were captured by the nazis during an attack last Friday but one had been hit in the leg by a shell and later was forced to undergo amputation They were nice to us They brought us cigarets cognac wine and cider and then they finally told us to get out and give them a chance to give up" said one American "They spent the morning shining their boots getting ready to surrender And then they started in on the liquor" The Americans reported that the St Maio citadel consisted of four etories under a solid concrete and stone top and that while they didn't feel any blasts from the bombs dropping on the dome there wereslight concussions from artillery shells n 100000 enemy troops who had squeezed from the Normandy pocket with the bulk of their tanks and were heading toward Rouen They strewed behind them the wreckage of tanks and vehicles under ceaseless assault from tactical bombers whose pilots reported the Germans were in such headlong flight they did not even pull off the highways when the planes roared over Offensive Power Spent The unexpected news that the was 15th army which on the greatest German army in France had been committed to a lost cause in Normandy came from the staff officer at 21st army group headquarters who likened its fate to that of the broken Seventh army The staff officer declared their D-d-ay (Continued on (Column ?its Teo) Thrips) Europe War Fronts At a Glance By tnitt‘ct Preos WESTERN FRANCE --- Pat- ton's tank columns reach the Seine other columns converge on Paris SOUTHERN FRANCE — Allied Mediterranean front extended to 80 miles as armored units plunge to within five miles of Toulon gain six miles in drive on Marseille move to outskirts of Cannes and advance southwest of Drairaignan 33 miles from coast RUSSIA — Soviets widen Vis- tula river bridgehead gateway to southern Germany capture Sandomierz Germans reported Ewa Prussia borsetting fire to 14 red army der towns as WO-Mo- ns advance ITALY — Eighth army patrol of outflanks strong Pontassieve east of Florence Indian division enters Rosana citadel t m F- - |