True to tradition and to the amusement world, the parade must go on.

This is the announcement by Attorney Zeno F. Henninger, chairman of the Fifth War Loan parade. The parade is scheduled for 7:30 tonight over the principal streets of Butler and past the reviewing stand in front of the courthouse.

There was some talk this morning of postponing the parade as the rain was pouring down at the time. But as the noon hour approached and skies began to clear, the chairman declared that “the parade is on.”

Highlights from the program to be presented from the reviewing stand will be an address by Corp. Frank Larry Bogart, who served on the USS Hornet from which planes took off to bomb Tokyo, an address by Judge William B. Purvis and the auctioning of a baseball presented Elias Ritts, war bond campaign chairman, by Honus Wagner, “the Grand Old Man of Baseball” last Saturday night.

The baseball will go to the highest bidder for bonds, and bonds likewise will be sold tonight by Thomas R. Nicholson, better known as “Tommy” Nicholson, at the speaker's table. Butler County citizens recently received into full American citizenship will also be presented their certificates tonight.

ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, London, June 14 — American and British mobile forces have smashed through the center of the German defense line in Normandy, and headquarters revealed today that they have thrown patrols 30 miles inland and 25 miles southwest of the stubbornly defended Nazi stronghold at Caen.... A dispatch from Richard D. McMillian, United Press correspondent, the entire front south of Caen “now is a roaring battlefield, with chains of fires spouting geyser-like from Hamlets hit by tank shell fire or blown up by the Germans.”

PEARL HARBOR, June 14 — Japan's air and sea power in the Pacific was weakened further today by a smashing three-day assault on the Marianas by a powerful U.S. task force which sank or damaged 29 enemy ships and destroyed 141 planes while land-based Liberators sank seven more enemy vessels to the bottom off New Guinea.The task force strike into the Marianas, the second carrier-based attack on the strategic islands since February, raised the toll of Japanese ships knocked out in four major raids on the enemy's “front-line defense perimeter” through the central Pacific to 107, in addition to 691 planes destroyed.... A Japanese imperial headquarters communique, broadcast by the Domei news agency, said that one U.S. warship was sunk, more than 121 planes destroyed and three heavily damaged in the raids. The Japanese admitted only “slight” damage to their forces. The broadcast was heard by United Press in New York.

WASHINGTON, June 14 — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's announced intent to “blast other openings in Hitler's European fortress was hailed today as a masterful stroke in keeping German strategists off balance in deciding how much of their available strength to throw against the growing Allied beachhead in Normandy.... His promise was made public by President Roosevelt at his news conference yesterday when he released a message in which the Allied commander in chief said that new landings would force Germany to fight “throughout the perimeter” of the continent. This suggested that new assaults might be made on Norway, the low countries, the French Mediterranean coast or the Balkans.

Despite the inclemency of the weather, Butler County's civil defense volunteers started out this morning obtaining the names and mailing addresses of Butler County men and women in the armed forces of their country, on the first day of the canvass. Flag Day.It was announced that the canvassers would attempt to conclude their canvass in three days — today, tomorrow and Friday — but Carl J. Goldstrohm, chairman of the canvass, said today if the workers fail to do this, they will continue daily, if necessary until military ballot day on July 7.

WASHINGTON, June 14 — President Roosevelt, tight-lipped as ever about his fourth term intentions, has tossed to Vice President Henry A. Wallace, now in China, the question of who would be the president's running mate if he should run again.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, June 14 — American and British armored columns punched into the hastily established German line in the hills bordering the Etru-can plain above Rome and advanced two miles or more in the heaviest fighting since the fall of the capital to days ago it was announced today.

LONDON, June 14 — The appointment of two violent pro-Nazis to the Vischy cabinet was expected today to mark the beginning of a “reign of terror” throughout France in a desperate effort by collaborationists to stamp out uprisings of the French underground armies.

A new schedule of office hours for the Butler OPA headquarters in the Community building was announced today by John H. Allman, chairman of the Butler County War Price and Rationing board. The new schedule becomes effective Monday, June 19.... The changes were made necessary, Mr. Allman explained, because of the shortage of help and the workload at the office, which has doubled in recent months.Most rations may be obtained by mail. The board requested the public to forward their ration needs through the mail, which makes for easier and speedier processing.