Show rthc Salt Cnke Zeibutte Yank Atmor? Surrounds Toulon Port ': ' 3y bomhar ding ' ' allied-hel- d i Cuers with several heavy batteries apparently rushed up from Toulon to stem the American advance on the naval base A headquarters bulletin said that on nearly all sectors of the front—the largest ever carved out on enemy soil in so short a time— Gen Alexander M Patch's liaj forces including the veteran IT S Third 35th and 45th divisions were advancing steadily against crumbling resistance" Revealing the phenomenal suceess of the Tuesday morning drive wheeling in the direction of Toulon ? I - port Battleship Bombed Headquarters announced that American Mitchell bombers joining the battle of Toulon had bombed the scuttled French which the Germans had partially dismantled and aRt up as a coastal battery Also raked were the French cruiser La Galisson-Nier- e a destroyer and a submarine (The clandestine Radio Atlantic reported that allied warships had ITUIVed In off Toulon and begun bombarding it-- ) The two inland columns moving In to cut off Toulon and reach Marseille were reported fighting through the rugged foothills of the Maritime Alps One front dispatch said the allies had secured their lines in that area against possible German counterattacks from the riorth (The German war bulletin said its forces had withdrawn inland from the coast to high positions above the allied lines and was in progthat heavy ress in the fighting Argens valley around Draguign all g) allied war An bulletin said that allied reinforcements were arriving steadily on the beachhead and that the last pocket of nazi resistance had been crushed by battleship fire in the medieval fortress on the island of of Port Cros off the south-toas- t France The neighboring Island of Levant also was cleared of the rg early-mornin- enemy big choir OAllt Mittel of pallor 1411011 ingshwtglott end ISTIMATE 0C VS" lilt! 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Makes you twice IS makeup alone! 97mw lare-a-p zrzAtfo' n tak sinwaceve 0 ------- (2v444 nt I I ANT-B-GO- MOO LUXOR HAND CREAM 79 flak Indicative of the damage inflicted the Eighth air force fighters alone reported destroying or damaging 739 railroad cars 38 locomotives and 215 motor vehicles From British bases American heavy bombers lashed out three times at airfields oil depots and transportation routes and It A Lancasters matched this grueling pace Some 750 U S heavies from the Mediterranean area hammered anew at Ploesti oil fields Six airfields and a plane engine works in the area stretching 70 miles north and 175 miles east of Paris were pounded by two formations of up to 750 American heavy bombers from Britain In their third operation of the busy day American Flyins Fortresses swung over to Holland and Belgium battering bottlenecks on transport routes N SMOLA Shoe Cleaner for Argestino and ants sweets-eatin- g 4 fined dispensers a Ei'41 catort for Flies oc!:!ATTERS SCHICt Sand '116 - Ware Mesh I 1 7PT Razor Blades Pkg of 20 oc MAIL Envelopes Res Size or Easiness aar g tze r Fleas or Sand Files when you are protected with 6 Pleasant Smelling ! 25c Sit - - - t Oil Capsules Box of 50 I EasQUITOES IRed Buss Chlecers 1 KNOX GELATINE- Pkg 23 FROM I gaiLLI:z:::1 1 59c Ro - or Natural ANT POISON S 6000 Allied Planes Hammer France Front Ploesti Oilfields LONDON Saturday Aug 19 UP) —Great fleets of allied planes blasted airfields in northern France Friday rained death and destruction on retreating Germans shot from the skies 35 enemy fighters of a temporarily resurgent German air force and were out again early Saturday for more blows at the enemy In addition to the 35 planes downed the allied airmen destroyed at least 51 on the ground Allied lozses for the day in which 6000 planes flew from the west and south in eight attacks over four European countries totaled 21 fighters and two bombers American l'qarauders escorted by R A F Spitfires got in the day's final blow Friday bombing rail lines northeast of Paris and returned without loss despite heavy :I :: 0S IN SHOES QUK:SANA Bottle 250 r I WAYS - long-dorma- 6 GUARANTEE 110 RAZOR EIC17 MALTED MILK Patton Blocks Nazi Escape :From Trap Befcre Seine (Continued From Page One) offensive power was spent that and before them was a position from here on these German forces fraught with peril were capable only of rearguard ac- The sea was on the north tion and that in winning the bat-- i American armored might was on tie of Normandy the allies will the south the British and Canahave won the battle of France dians with their allies were plungBoth the Seventh and 15th—the ing in from the west and the only striking force the Germans Seine with all but one bridge had along the Atlantic wall—were blasted was ahead backing into estimated to have had up to 25 a The Germans were "Dunkerque" of their own at divisions at the Seine and like the British in Half of the 15th army it is es- those black days of 1940 were timated was thrown into the lost summoning a motley fleet to try battle of Normandy in the last two to get their forces away to fight weeks and has been badly mauled again But it was difficult to see how Replacements brought in to guard the channel are believed to be low the Germans could get much of grade and spread all the way their armor on which they must through the low countries rely for the showdown battle for (The united nations radio at Al- France across the river which giers said 400000 Germans had around Rouen is tidal wide and been put out of action in northern deep France and 60000 more were surAllied might was loose under rounded in the ports of Brittany) fair skiesair and 23 of the The hesitant German command 500 or more at least to barges waiting not knowing where allied blows Germans across were were coming from sent these im- ferry the within 24 hours along portant elements of the 15th into destroyed 33 armored and 612 other with the cauldron of battle "in pieces vehicles trying to get them there and too late" the British officer Press Correspondent Associated said The German command was Edward D Ball declared Patton's forced to this hard decision he as- forces blocking off this harried the south were "driving serted by Patton's drive to the army on on the last lap toward Orleans gap south of Paris forward and were through which the Germans were Paris" from Chartres reinforcing their Normandy posi- "rapidly shaping a wall of steel" on the outer approaches from Ortions Supreme headquarters lapsing leans to Dreux Into silence to mask possible new "Following the occupation of blows found occasion to Chartres" he said "our drive lightning announce officially that it was slackened somewhat to consolidate "unable to confirm" earlier reports and let supplies catch up with that American forces were near forces whose spectacular gains seven miles outside made Hitler's blitzkrieg look like Versailles Paris horse cavalry" It did report however that Ame r ic an patrols ranged American forces had widened their through the vicinity of Paris bridgehead over the Eure river where aerial reconnaissance had both northeast and southeast of disclosed forces of German armor Dreux only 20 miles from the deployed west and northeast of Seine a drive which apparently Chartres he reported prompted the Germans to 'check The their rush toward Paris and veer force came to life andGerman air attempted north toward Rouen strike with its old fury against said the to Supreme headquarters menace around Dreux and Falaise-Argenta- n gap now had this been narrowed to two miles—a 50 enemy fighters were knocked front line broadcast said it had down (German broadcasts writing off snapped shut entirely around Trun southeast of Falaise—and that al- forces left in the Normandy pocklied advances from the north et said a war of movement had threaten to split up what remained begun before Paris with Americans 12 miles away at one unof the pocket Into three parts Already those that could get specified point and with tanks through the gap had to straggle attacking Bambouillet 23 miles out southeast from Argentan then west of the capital and Etampes Move northeast toward the Seine 28 miles south) Canning Lich 1 SI At f 9 447 KERR SC 1r '! -- MASON SHOE CLEANER Patton's brilliant French campaign almost duplicates his CHEC1:S 25c 3-- Sicily drive " 7 40c 4( ACE escape 11 -- 25c In y: - river Patton's drive one of the fastest in military history and aimed toward Paris and the Seine virtually cut the Germans off from the French capital when it crossed the Eure river north of Dreux 'The situation is like that of a pifton Patton established a wall By Henry T Gorrell NEAR ARGENTAN France beaten GerAug 18 (UP)--T- he man Seventh army is "giving up an easy" when it has a chance American sergeant told me today on a tour of the battlefield and he had a good story to prove it had stopped at a newly occupied crossroads town to ask an M P He was for directions First Sgt Robert Becton from Clinton N C "You can go most anywhere you like around here for the Germans give up easy these days" he said aimed at jr infantry Headquarters told of only one column moving toward Toulon first great prize of the fourth front invasion but front dispatches said another was hitting toward the port along the Cor- Lithe coastal highway from the east One dispatch filed late Thursday afternoon said armor advancing along the coastal highway had broken through strong German delenaes and reached a point 10 miles east of Toulon It said the Americans many riding outside their tanks were pouring along roads lined with cheering weeping Frenchmen Both that force- and the column striking down the broad St Raphael-Toulon highway through the Capea valley were leading toward a junction just east of the city where the highways meet (The London radio said the al- lies already were fighting in Toulon's outskirts- aneBerlin said we had made new landings on both sides of the city) American artillery was firing into Toulon from the same rugged Ilium where Napoleon as a young artillery officer first made his mark as a soldier in 1703 Later as a would-b- e world conquerer 1apoleon planned his ' Egyptian campaign in Toulon main base of the French fleet The overland columns were rac- ing to take Toulon before the Ger- mans destroy its vast naval installations Front dispatches said the Germans were blowing up all bridges on the roads to Toulon in an effort to delay the allied advance and gain time to sabotage the corraled them la a new encirclement south of the Seine river FORCE Aug 18 VPfr—Lt Gen George S Patton's Third U S army riding relentless herd on the harried German Seventh army ha3 all but corraled it in a new encirclement south of the Seine to The forces make the use of barges pontoon bridges and ferry boats a haphazard dangerous process That the Germans believe the route to Paris is lost to them is seen in the report that the direction of their retreat has turned north toward Rouen Allied troops put on the pressure breaking the stagnated pock- -' coastal front with drives of four from the Falaise-Argenta- n run et is going to get any equipment - to six miles The object is to and across the Seine over the one nar- over the German rearguards row bridge remaining which It-- 1 give them no rest nor any time to self may already be cut by bombs cross tpe Seine of cylinder 70 miles in from the sea which forms the other The piston squeezing the Germans is composed of the U S First army the British Second and the Canadian First and is driving east and north et the way from a point east of Falaise to the sea Harassed by allied air forces it Is difficult to see how the Seventh army already battered and reeling from its narrow escape Paris and the Seine Friday they had headed the broken nazi army off from Paris and it was - mid-Januar- Gem George S Patton Jr riding herd on the German Seventh and 15th armies has all but forces are making one of the fastest drives In military history foxhole Ij Nazi Troops Identified I Allied camualties were described h as leas than those suf- - I") fered when the 38th division—the 0- '04TVII-- vs Texas diviaion—which is now a fighting in France—unsuccessfully crossed the Rapid° river near Casaino in Headquar- tens announced that the two Gerrnan divisions identified as oppos- ing the allies along the coastal areas were the 242nd and 1488th one-tent- Et HEADQUARTERS EXPEDITIONARY His speeding 4 Into southern France the bulletin 'aid the allies had lost fewer than 30() men killed wounded or captured through Tuesday noon The total of German prisoners had mounted to 7000 and still was increasing Included among them are a general and his entire staff captured by paratroopers and another nazi general captured in a SUPREME :' tarontinued From Page One) systematic shelling since 13-d- Mark 'Nazis Shoot Own Officer Pattoil's Drive Toward Seine Sets Speed are certain the air went out "rhla ALLIED Hits Remnants Of Scuttled Fleet in Harbor fIrst 3 Saturday Morning Aug 19 1944 c AFo MOO PEACOCK BLEACH CREAM 4111111111111111011111111101111101111 r DOTTif fint-fa- 00 Handy Cotton Squares A-1- 4 n u soc soc CITRATE OF SKIMKO MAGNESIA Skim Milk 12-o- 00SrITORIES 1 stkunrt: aildults—flottle of Glycerine 12 In- - 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