Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, August 24, 1994 TAG: 9408240034
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 8 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
On the 75th day following the invasion of France, American troops were prepared to advance into Paris at any time Gen. Omar Bradley chose to give the order. U.S. reconnaissance forces were reported already in the city. And in the south, French tanks led the U.S. Seventh Army to within 25 miles of Marseille.
If the bandwagon theory of the way people vote held true (in other words that people tend to vote for a winner), then Gov. Thomas E. Dewey was in for a thrashing by President Roosevelt in the coming election. Seventy-one percent of those polled by the Gallup organization said they believed Roosevelt would be the winner of the fall election.
Russian armies had brought the war that Hitler made to Germany's soil on the east. And in response, the German propaganda machine began preaching a doctrine of ``retreat to victory'' in an effort to divert the public's mind from the country's huge losses.
Virginia's division of motion picture censors, which had been on the job for 23 years, had reviewed 35,178 films. Of those 2,063 had been altered in some way and 77 had been rejected outright. The censors were concerned with enforcing a state law that films not be ``obscene, indecent ... nor of such a character that their exhibition would tend to corrupt morals or incite to crime.``
An Elliston soldier, Pfc. Harry E. Lucado, was awarded the silver star for braving artillery fire to rescue wounded men from a mine field.
Lt. Dan R. Justice of the U.S. Marine Corps, a former star athlete for Washington and Lee University, was killed in action in the South Pacific. Justice had scored the first touchdown ever in Roanoke's victory stadium in 1938 as Washington and Lee defeated Virginia Tech, 6-0.
An isolation ward for Negro polio victims was to be established at Burrell Memorial Hospital. The announcement came as a young boy and young girl were reported to have died from the diseases, bringing Roanoke's polio deaths for the year to five.
Lt. Gen. George Patton's armored forces had raced the Seine river on both sides of Paris as they raced ahead on a 100-mile front. Crossing the Seine later in the week, U.S. forces pressed ahead toward German rocket bases that had been raining terror on England.
Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, who was deposed as Pacific Fleet commander after Pearl Harbor, demanded an end to untruths about the sneak attack and predicted the American people would be amazed when all the facts are known.
Bob Hamilton of Evansville, Ind., upset Texan Byron Nelson to win the 26th renewal of the PGA championship 1-up in match play. Hamilton won on the 36th hole by matching Nelson's birdie.
Marshal Petain and Pierre Laval, leaders of France's Vichy government, which had collaborated with the Germans, were reported to have been kidnapped by the Gestapo and taken to the eastern French town of Belfort, where the Germans hoped to maintain a Vichy presence on French soil.
Romania, Adolf Hitler's most useful satellite, announced it was abandoning the Axis and joining the Allies in the war against Germany.
Fifty-four people, including 34 children under five, were killed when a U.S. bomber crashed into church school in a quiet English village.
Soviet troops had killed or captured 205,400 German troops in a six-day fight in the Balkans.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull and John Foster Dulles, foreign policy adviser to Republican Presidential candidate Thomas Dewey, issued a joint statement that the future peace was a nonpartisan issue.
by CNB