SEVENTH ARMY
IN SURPRISE
MOVEMENTS
ROME, Aug. 23.—<AP>—Ameri
can troops of the Seventh Army,
in a spectacular surprise thrust
deep into southern France, through
the German defenses, entered the
large industrial city of Grenoble,
140 airline miles rrom the Medi
terranean coast.
Allied headquarters said the
swift American armored, motor
ised infantry column, plunged into
the city, long a hot-bed of the
French Patriot movement, with
Ihe French forces of the interior
playing an effective supporting
role.
This quick advance put General
Patch’s spearhead within 2,40 air
line miles of the southernmost
poin’s officially announced as
having been reached by American
troops below Paris.
It appears at present that the
two allied fronts m France, will
be joined much sooner than at
first anticipated.
Grenoble is 58 miles southeast
of Lyons ,situated on the Isere
river, which flows directly in4o
the Rhone river valley, 30 miles
to the west, and is 80 miles be
yond the last reported positions
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of American forces in southern
France.
A broadcast from Radio
France, in Algiers, said the allied
forces are less than 11 miles from
the Italian frontier, in the attempt
to cut in behind the German forc
es fighting in northern Italy.
TIGHTEN TRAP
ON GERMANS
BELOW PARIS
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS,
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FOR
CES IN FRANCE, Aug: 23.—(AP)
—Allied columns hammered in
tightening the trap on the Ger
mans, who are falling back in a
virtual rout.
During the afternoon the steel
of the pincers swept the
lower Seine, spearing deep below
Paris in menacing new drives.
Only 160 miles from the Ger
man border,, one armored U. S.
column plunged beyond Sens,
about 58 miles southeast of Paris.
On a line between Paris and
Sens, Gen. Patton’s Third Army
is operating in the woods near
Fontainbleau.
In this sector the Americans
have thrown a bridgehead over
the upper Seine, while the Bri'
ish and Canadians have scored ad
vances of 10 to 15 miles in a chase
of the battered German 7th Army,
toward the lower Seine, from the
disastrous Falaise trap.
On the coast the Canadians
ba'tered seven miles across the
water, while United States units
hit toward the sea, bringing in
the eastern jaws of the pincers,
menacing Evreux, and Vernon,
about 50 miles from the mouth
of the Seine.
Airmen declared the German
retreat had the appearance of a
complete rout.
THIRD INVASION
STRIKES NEAR
BORDEAUX
LONDON, Aug 23 —(AP>—To
day’s communiques told of the
third invasion landing striking
southwestern France near Bor
deaux, and it was reported from
the Spanish frontier that French
military authorities at Hetidaye,
France, said the landings began
last night .under cover of naval
and aerial bombardment.
Cabled reports from the Span
ish border by Charles Foltz, chief
of the AP press bureau at Mad
rid, who grossed the border into
southerH Prance after the Ger
mans evacuated the frontier
posts stated that 12 hours after he
reported that he had received a
Berlin radio report, which said,
"Small forces put ashore near St.
Jean de Luz, six miles from the
frontier, and lying between Hem
daye and Biarritz,
A Stockholm dispatch said a
Berlin correspondnt of the Alton
Bladt, cabled reports of mew land
ings in the Bordeaux area, and
described in Berlin as "probably”
correct.
Hendaye officials said the oper
ation was coordinated with ground
attacks as American and French
forces made a junction at noon
yesterday on the outskirts ol
Bordeaux, and yrere dosing in by
inland routes.
COURT OKAYS MYRNA
BUENOS AIRES — (AP)— Fer
nando Nansa and his wife re
quired a court ruling before they
could legally name their daugh
ter Myrna.
The office of birth registry re
fused to accept the name bacause
it had no Biblical derivation, as
the court held that the state may
object to a name only if it carries
an immoral connotation or is “an
affront to the bearer.”
INFANTRY BAND
OUGHT TO BE GOOD
NATCHEZ, Miss. -(API
Southern belles who found the
music of a rounded up band from!
the 253rd Infantry at Camp Van!
Dorn both sweet and hot at a
dance in the Natchez auditorium,
found exDlanation in these facts:
The leader, Ralph Cerasuola
Used to play with Xavier Cugat.
Later he was the “Leonardo” of
New York’s Stork Club. Pvt. Mar
ty Shopp belonged to the Tennes
see Ramblers of movies and ra
dio .Pvt Robert Crnek traveled
wi’h Joe Venuti’s band three
years. Pvt. Johnny Abate, guitar
wizard, was with Harry James
Pvt. Charle s Ruditoaugh came
the Grove City college band,
Pennsylvania. Pvt. Don Hamption
had his own band in Mattoon, 111.
Pvt. Tom Cortese played with
Lanny Martin and Barry Blue.
Pvt. Peter Karlovich ran his own
band in Pittsburgh. Pvt. Howard
Davenport, pianist, starred in that
role in Detroit night clubs.
HOSPITAL NOTES
James Hewitt, who entered the
hospital on the 14th c' August,
is about holding his own.
Others entered on the hospital
records are John McHugh, Buster
Noahachebuch, Mrs. Isiah Towa
ruk, William Sinuk and James
Bamhardt.
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