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I! ll - W...---e, , USS ITTLE ROC Launched on Z7 August 1944, USS LITTLE ROCK began service as a Light Cruiser QCL-921, mounting twelve 63' 47 caliber and twelve 5 38 caliber guns. After a period of inactivation from 1949 until 1957, LITTLE ROCK was converted and re-commissioned on 4 June 1960 as a Guided Missile Light Crusier lCLG-41. She was fitted as a fleet flagship and armed with the TALOS long range surface to air missile system, retaining only three of her six inch and two of her five inch guns. She has served as flagship for Commander Cruiser Division Four, Commander Second Fleet and Commander Sixth Fleet. 1 , le V M K Arla ansa VOL. 125-NO. 278. f V Loss OF LARGE 1 AZI FORCES 1 l ROMA T Germans Trapped As Ex-Allies Block Passes. London. Aug. 28 1Mondayl Urn, -An avalanche of Russian tanks and motorized infaniry poured into the Ploesll oil region in the hvart of capitulatcd Romania yes- terday. ovcrrunning the Galatl gap defenses hr-tween the Danube and thr- Carnathians as thousands nf Germans tried to escape to Hungary. ln a disaster nf Stalimzrad pro portions. tho Germans were over-. whclmcd at Focsani and Galati, anchors on the defense line, and the Russians rolled on through the petroleum fields of Ramnicul- Sarat, 22 miles beyond Focsani and 75 miles northeast of Buch- arr-sb llamnicul-Sarat is on the edge nfjho Plocsti oil belt whose cen- ter in the town of that name lic-s only 57 milvs southwest of thc :-rliiiancinz Russian-. Romanian troops going over to the Allied banner struck the Ger- mans at Ploesti, a Bucharest com- munique said, and blocked the mountain passes leading through the Carpathians to Hungary via Translyvania. Bcrlin frankly ad- mitted the German position was precarious, The Russians were expected to reach Ploesti shortly, moving over highways littered with German dead and abandoned equipment. The Germans were even throwing away their Zuns in their flight, Moscow said. Two Russian orders of tho day and a ccmmunique announced the German debacle which in its stra- fr-gic portent even surpasses the Nazi Stalinnrad disaster. Besides the sweep toward Buch- arest and Ploesti, the Russians climbing westward into the Car- pathians 'above Se Gal ti gap seized a number 'localities on a railway leading to the Transyl- vanian plateau, including Coman- csti. 60 miles northwest of Foc- sani, and Targuocna, Romania's largest salt-mining center. Russians Report 18,000 Nazis Taken in One Day. Eighteen thousand more Ger- mans wore seized yesterday by the twn Soviet armies moving to- ward the heart of the Balkans, and the bulletin said two Ro- manian divisions of 12.000 men surrendered with all their equip- ment. The remnants of two other Romanian divisions also gave up. The bulletin said the remnants of 12 Nazi divisions pocketed southwest of Chisinau, 140 miles behind thc Russians svilling through the Galabi gap, had been compressed into a small wooded area and were being annihilatcd. This trapped force has been esti- mated at bctween 40.000 and 80,- 000 mc-n. and the bulletin said three more Nazi generals had been killcd and four captured. On thc basis of Moscow an- nouncements, the Russians in cight days have killed or captured more than 300.000 Germans and Romanians. That would make an overall total of 1.081.886 Axis troops killed or captured slncc the gigantic Soviet summer offensive began June 23. Russian and Romanian Forces Near Junclion. A Bucharest communique an- nounced lhat Romanian troops had captured more than 12,000 Germans. It said the Germans had been thrown out of Buchar- ost. and were being engaged hotly along the Ploesti-Buzau highway. Buzau ls 42 miles northeast of Ploz-sti and only 18 miles from tho Russians who seized Ram- nicul-Sarat. The Germans wr-re said to be tryin: to marshal their troops in thc Plocsti area at the foot of the Prcdeal pass in an effort to escape through the mountains into Transylvania. Bucharest said Romanian troops at the other end of the pass, at Brasov, had disarmcd the enemy in that arm and secured the town. Tarxzovisu-, 28 miles west af Plorsti, along with its airfield, was captured by Romanian troops speeding lhe advance of the Rus- sians. the Bucharest announce- ment said. Relatively Little Activity At North End of Line. On the Estonian front, Moscow announced capture of 50 localities hy General Maslennikov's Third Baltic Army. including Tslrgulilna nnd Ignsle, seven miles northeast nf the Latvian-Estonian border city nl Valgn, n big rail jnnriion. Ka' ruin, eight miles west of Valga, and Hargln. 16 miles southeast, also were seized. North of Vnlgn the Russians. driving su-aight. weszward toward lhf Gul! of Riga in an effort to sph! Germany! two imperillcd Bal- lif- armies. captured Piknsllln on lhv smnh shore nf Lake Varta-Jaru. bi' miles from the lex T i 5 1 1 i I 1 l E I 1 l i i 1 7 v i I ,TA SEENQ U. S. Cruiser Little Rock Launched Philadelphia. Pn., Au -, , The S. S. lsitlle Rociaza :Ken light cruiser. slid downlugg ,ram ' - - CUBTPHNSY yards herxe. hmbundmg rs. arnuel M. W ' a Little Rock cnuncilgiirijlbrmgiexf ed the Vesnl- Congressman Brook: Hays. Arkansas, told the crowd oi' 8PPl'0XimBl6lY 5.000 workers and 81125651 thag cruisers were the hot. test. item of naval combat, The people or Little Rock ar, Eroud to haife such a ship as this ear their clLy's name, said Mr HHYS- Even those of us who know little about the classification of naval vessels know that the cruis. ers have distinguished themselves! ln the Pacific war and uni, thi, is the outstanding type of combat ves- sel for that area. The navy men tell us that the cruiser is the 'work horse of the navy,' big enough La X0 'MU BUY battle, fast enough to lead anygtask force. CQYFYIUE as it has the heaviest.: load in the Pacific where the grenl.-' est-battles have taken place lhei cruisers have added lustre to naval, h1Sl0l'y: We hope that in the time remaining before our enemies are Put down the Little Rock will lake her PIECE along side the Boise. the San Francisco, the Helena and the Chicago: preserving the prestige of the cruisers. I We are glad to honor the work-I men and the fgr which they work. I impressed with work which we observe the keel was materials for from everywh for il will be and sources to end tory lies remaining lo worl: c er yet Lorg . minder Weather Fall coffee week's ma ke terday sub-normal The green e The mercury ped lo 61 and a hi! 63 and climbed 65, Memphis had a L1rT ' lk. l J a high of sz. while rezlftfglozf isltered a low of 69 0 dune! as usend North Georgians experienced the d gvnethilgg coldest August day in 10 YOU! 55 'L : their the temperature hovered around 59' Wd' red ,, degrees. Augusta sud that read- 01' :he ing was the lowest for August 27 IOTMN as since 1904. At Atlanta the mini- h S mum was 58 and the maximum 59. wid :U len degrees under the normal lhyv' he ' e for the day. ln 501101 GOOFKIH salem ad' ln the high 80's. 9 rc mg. wuz Louisiana had ll Mississippi nd ' most normal aug:-1-Sl lggathsgtwgih Plff of dl i I OW ' . - f ' 331:25 sm? 1 sold rrorisrenterinl DIVISWH m ' 2 ln the Midwest. Wi'-h rrlson ,lin the extreme northern Diff of e HQNU,-Q stale registering a law of 61 and the Qin action Rome AUX high of 61. Little Rock hid ' 68 gig., 1-'ami Army. low. zu muh- I-TXRIS vlcronv PARADE TURNS INTO BATTLE PRO-NAZNS OPEN IB.- P rls. Aux. 26 tDelayedl Geniral de Gaulle 5:05:31 ,gash Z: 1 today U' lssigllssiana were thrown IHIOBFQQQ as the French chvlm' 'rf wud eration parade broliy UPU: mul.. llurries of flufxgg 'on' mgixlerrzlipencators were klllleiggq dozens were wounded as K 0 b K re ing spread. A Kewmouaeg'-56:51, these peonh had cheere uns as he ith ihunderoue UVB YM Pr'-d',,:0:':::..2 0- ile-an-hour c ID- LE: bi :.5i0'::'. .:z F::::'a'ifli an - . fxxlzs and heavily armed scoutngzlse French Pl'-fiflu ln me lp from began lirlnl 'L HTG! 'Hun had which Fun? Fughza ncrackle of ' d at lem, h nuifkly -pw-er gggpg,,j,: ' route from the de rhalll-and the Hotel diziiille Cathedrals . fl i 0 r. lthe fnmeh uundx of men' of the , Soon 1 0 , lFronch Forces at the lnunor WC' d