GOOD EVE I G EVERYBODY: The confusion of the Germana in France is almost equalled in the Balkans. The surrender of Rumania and the advance f the Russian army through Bessarabia has created panic throu bout not only Rumania, Jugoslavi ana Greece, but also in Bulgaria. The Bulgars, we hear, have asked the British Ambassador in Turkey for armistic ispatches from Switzerland report mutinies in the Hungarian army. The Nazi government of Hungary has dissolved all politic&l parties, nnd clamped down a igorous martial law. There is virtually a state of siege in the caoital of umania, and disturbances all over the country. A dispatch reports Rumanian troops marching a ainst the Hungari ns in Tran y vania, while other Rumanian units are fighting the Germans at the port of Constanta o n the Black Se a. ~ Le Berlin radio today reports Soviet forces are within one hundred odd miles Bucharest, the Rumanian capital. Obviously it will not be long before the Russians have those oilfields, which ought to put a crimp in the already atuabl,ing lazi war machine. 0 BALIA S = R YS IA - 2 --- -- Stalin to da y announced with 1 nucb pride (Kishinef) that Soviet forces had captured Chisinau in ituaania, s out b and ea st. of the city of las i which the Russians took 1 t Tuesday. Michael of Rumania announced yesterday that his government had accepted the Allied terms for surrender and were joining t ■ the Allies in the fight against Germany. The azis are -- or were -- still holding onto many of the strong points in Rumania, and lishinef was one of them. The Nazia took the place in lineteen Forty-one and have been holding on to it ever since. lishinef is on the railroad from the main Rumanian oilfield s , the last route by which the G_!]uns could escap e. ~ ti{; ~/7~- ~ - ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~-4~,... ~ lf-The Secon and Third Okrainian armies had aur~ounded the city, and it looked as though they were g i Evl .dently its capture is the first o n g to by - pass . direct result of Ruma nia turnin g on the Axis. V Stalin issued second order of the day ~,,,.,_c-- t announcin g the efeat of the Nazi army south of Iasi A and the capture of three more fortresses in that region . The Nazis admit the two Ukrainian armies have been able to achieve deep penetra~iona in the direction of the estuary of the Danube as a result of the political situation in Rumania and confusion in the Rumanian ara7. ermans are ~till in control. risoners a oldier STill ON ------ ecret~ry of ar Stimson, at his first press conference in three weeks, expressed his ~ jubilation ov r t ~ ne'!s'~-~ called this an 4<> tc,d,l .& /A.c_,..,. ~ historic week 1 While he pointed out that Germany is weakening on all sides, he also added that this is not the time to be so triumphant that we relax. Instead we should muster all our strength, and unit7, for the final knoo kout. The Secretary for War ie&tf gave an idea of the magnitu•e of the disaster the German military aachine has sustained. The Battle of Normandy, said he, ~ has turned out to be a major victory -Ytat has cost the Nazis three hundred thousand dead, wounded a~d missing. A number that witl probably increase before the fighting is shifted to lands north of the Seine. Then he went on to sa7 that all the German armies in F ance have been crippled and their oommbDications cut, 1ii h the result that th Y will have to make ' their next stand farther north, where the battle lines of the last World War were drawn -- unless they col apse entirely. Be added that all the German pockets in the rest of France will be out off as completely as are, say, the Japanese on lew Britain and on the eastern Marshall Islands. ... F R __ A_N .Q~- FOLL O \ ' _.§ T .!_.§Q!i / / 1senl:ro er o e of S V ri US C ov r ce north west d so / tha the )';erman / n Ar~y begins t 0 / ret · t . / 1 v or1ous g nera 1 s t Honver, we do know that hree Allied coluans I~~ are sweeping down on LeBavre, at the mo u th of the Seine, the second largest port in France. The Germans tried a Dunkirk evacuation, but huge flocks of Allied aircraft poured a rain of bombs on them. It looks as though Eisenhower's next objective will be the liberation of both LeHavre and Rouen. The Algiers radio broadca s t the report that French patriots and Allied troops are now in control of Bordeaux, the third largest French port. But we don't kno for sure. One American spearhead was rumored to have reached the suburbs (Tr-wah) of Troyes, way to the sout beast of laris, am only a hundred and thirty miles from the .;4apat.eiloa_d.escPiead aa eu:ing :reallhed Sens, &lS6ut ttf:qt ■ ~le& a~e eaet of Sens. It oe, thea \Mia._ 40lll ■ll ie appxoaehing Allied head q uarters ib Rome reports another American armored column from the southern invasion forces as havin g reached the S iss frontier ne a r Geneva, havin g rolled at terrific speed some two hundred and t en miles north f rom the Mediterra au. Maybe one of Gen e r a l Patch's columns, the one that captured Grenoble yesterday. If so, it has advanced at the rate of s izty-seven miles in a day. west Still another column a rd b of Yanks has advanced arseilles, to within ten miles of Arles, gateway to the valle., of the lower Rhone, one of the classic invasion routea to Germany. This report coaes from Allied headquaeters, and the Nazjs admit that their army in that region is retreating rapidly up the Rhone Valley to scape being tzJxt•s, ■tx trapped. ---o-- On this the sixth day of the siege of Toulon, the French are pushin g the Nazis gradually b a ck towards the harbor. We hear the great naval base fall at any hou~r_:·~-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ,, Although ija r seilles was also reported a been libe r t e d are said t o b e by the French y~terday, th e Nazis ' t L c _ ( ) . k ~ "'- I hol d i g out l'Mli t be wet erfroAt, t he harbor one u s e d b y the a ncrent Greek a nd Phoeni c i a ns three o'clock yesterday afternoon, ajor Gener a l Schaffer, commao:ling the Geraans there, asked the com ander of the French Corps for a truce to discuss terms of surrender. He begged the F~ench coamander to come into the fort because he himself was afraid [IJillCB !QllQ!....§llUSOJ - I to 1•••• tin, f'cn b &lM run the risk of being hit by the ~~~ - . fire from French snipers~ The French commander found ~i the German general standing behind a desk with a gestapo major at his side. The Geraan asked about teras, ,nd the Frenchman replied: •unconditional surrender.• The general turned to the gestapo major, who shook bis head. So the French comaander left, and the fighting continued. In spite of the gunfire, the streets of occupation of Lyons,by American tanks. c~ t=eiQif' soldiers 114 the eit1awas •••• But that again ia unofficial. However, it seems likely that the Yanks UUCH F.Q.!41.Q_...§lll!§Q! - 6 will soon m ak e contact with the Maquis in that region. lleanwbile, another s t o r y # U ~ ... ~? a,211 American coluan fro• Grenoblel\toward the Swie1 - e ? - c ~ ~ ~ ~ frontier. ttan'RPaor~ss 21 fer so t:a · ■ LJ it.at,•• -+,' __ ~f ~~ p a s a ~ A l p ~ ~ U n g = ~ Jan~• have sealed the ,,. ... -~ France and Italy. ,.. - - - - - 0 ~ Th re have been P1Ql:J stories of dissension in the upper br a ckets of the lar Production Board a ' gst • difference of opinion between Executive Vice Chair■ an Charles E. lilson and Chairman ~onald Belson. 8,,d. w~ ~ ~ ~ t4. ~ Thof aave ao\ baer ia aoeep~ about alloying so ■e 04 ~ ~ I 11nnf1otuP0Pe te Peatt■e ■akiag good fop oiviliaa use. Tbe deteila of tbe hnt 1t. IDJ rete i\ eaae to a fa':!:.~ Wilson resigned., -2:::2 ~ 111~c:::!' of unfair attacks and criticis■f!i le ~ ~~ inspired by 11e■bers of lie ls on' s personal staff. ~ ~ p r e a d false reports about hi■, ~ di1agreem@nt are noL q~i\o clear, said ilson~reports that he had opposed reconverting aoae factories to civilian production. 4hie, Ao ie1la1ed;-,-wa1! not All this he set forth in a letter of In th.\ letter A resignation to President Roosevelt. h e ~ 881• Nelson ,{ claimed to know nothing about those • JJLSOL- 2 criticisae, and had repeatedly acknowledged that Wilaon had been fully cooperative in reconversion . Wilson went on to tell the President that he did not want to be a party to such a controversy. Be added that if those attacks continued, they would iapair the efficiency of key aen (ln the Production Board and would offset any contribution he could aake to the i■provement of lagging programs. The President accepted Wilson's resignation with regret and thanked him for his ou\standing service to the country. The White Bouse released this information shortly ~ afterAlelson had paid his farewell visit to Ir. Roosevelt before leaving for China with Major General Burley, on a confidential mission for the President. Shortly before the White House revealed this wires news, th'l\~••Acarried a story that a War Production Plan for reconverting forty per cent of the country's ni,so1 - J plants to civilian production had been prepared under ~I~ t- P--i11son's direction. Under this plan, cutbacks will be ~ arranged so as to perait industry to make as large a volu ■e of civilian goods as possible withou~ w:;d interfering 1lt war work. It e ■ phasizes the necessity . -< f~r doing everything in an orderly fashion so as to create no dislocation. Another blow at Balaaher/only three hundred ailts fro• the Phill)pines. The news coaes fro ■ General MacArthur. Be sent a flock of Liberators again1t the Jap inatallationa there 7eaterda7, and they accoaplished the ao1t destructive raid that ha1 yet been carried out, on that Jap stronghold. President Rooaelt issued a statement today joining in the chorus of congratulations over the news '"' O f the liberation of Paris. It was quickly followed ~ J • by a dash of cold water fro ■ liaoakowo••• keadquePt•rs. ~ Ill 4}\ told ua that the fAJqS - 2 ;.ae t u -w.a! .. Q +, y@-t. arr-,,--oa th,. at.ePHI ire- af. ,kaatdeut ltooee,eH, 1 11 •••••~~~~;:14, French communique from Major General ~ P. I . o ierre- oenlg was premature. said Allied supreme ,Git--~ headquarters at London. Ai•~ noon today, Paris had not yet been freed, although the French forces of the ~ Interior parts of the City of Light. Selie ■ aa¥e tae ai• wa,aa aud caele wire.a Q.aea ia e~eb a etate ef eeafualon. Shortly before that bulletin from supreae headquarters, General Pierre-Ioenig F ~ 1 commander of t h e ~ had issued another communique • in which he described the fighting which led up to the conquest of Paris, and inferred that the French troops •~re in complete control. French he dquarterp in Lon on insisted ala~t•atas~that Paris was liberated, though the spokesman acknowledged that there were enemy pockets holding out in the streets and fighting on the boulevard~, So far as we know now, the explanation is this!- The Germana pulled a characteristically Razi trick. They asked for a truce in order to withdraw their troops. Then they changed their minds and threatened to destroy the city. Thereupon the French Forces of the Interior ~ f o r help. Allied k■ai■■•*••• headquarter■ aent m1A trooper but, it is not ~ ~ a r r i v J in the interior of the city. French forces of the Interior are in possession of the greater portion of Paris, but up until noon today it could not be said that the city was liberated. At the sa ■e time, it is evident tonight that the complete conquest of the French capital ie only a matter of hours. The Paris police have join~d the patriots and ' ' Citi ~ _"'!2 0 t z ens of Paris ~~ s 1 aught e ~ a 11 the Ge rm ans ho 1 d i O 1 . ; _ .0 : one of th.e is 1 a n~s jn .11th~ m!9dle of the River Se iae.... •·•c 1 !Vu - ~ ""4A...K ~ c:xa.,... ~ A story out of London tonight . suggests \be confusion about the liberation of Paris aay have been caused by a misunderstanding of the r~ench ffords in the co,aunique issued by the r~ench forces of the Interior. The people in London who took down that broadcast thought the French were saying that they had taken the whole city of Paris: lhereaa, what tbeJ actually said was they had taken that ialand in tbe Seine which i• in olden tiaes was the core of the a ■ attar of verbiage. Tonight relief caae for the Patriots fighting iA the heart of the old city on the Seine. First, French armored forces crashed their way through the ••••• suburbs. The Ger■ ana at that ti■e were still /:': P. I . ~ attack in _ the.14l• 1 ,ci 0 ~ besieged in the City Ball. Then another broadcast announced that a column of laerican troops bad entered the outskirts and were only four and a half miles fro■ the Arc de Triomphe. i - 5 J Before he ltlf't, &hair■ an Donald Nelson told •• the Senate Co1111i ttee investigating. the-war'' why there is a lag in the manufacture of artillery. It is due to the fact that plans were changed, said Nelson, and also f r becauaf;( \istPt •,t a critical shortage of aanpower in foundry shops. The Senators asked why plans were changed. ,, ~ e mostly to a ch3nge of concept,• said lelson. Thereupon Senator Truman asked whe~her it was because the generals found out that at ·•Mt:t bombing ~~ekn not take the place of artillery? l■l• ■a:l:sxz ■ 11l Nelson · replied: •That is,._. true.• 'does •In other words,• asked Senato4ergusL that mean the dropping of a bom~;:;/ not~•~ the same effect as the shooting of a shell?" 1 . d that the Ordnance To that Nelson rep 18 knew it and proved i Department knew it from th e st art, in every w ay, shoe and form. <CJ We h a ve heard before that small business firas have suffered considerably on the home front during . the war. Senator Mead of New York today gave out figu~s. In Nine ~ een Forty-Two and 'Forty-Three, one million, 1eventy hree thousand concerns went out of business. Ot these, eighty-five per cent were firas that employed three persons or even fewer. On the other hand, ■ore than half a aillion new concerns were foraed and started business, ao that the net loss during the first ~. two years of the war is half a aillion~ The lew York Senator considers this is a s ■ all figure.