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I Americans Hunt Nazi Enemy In Their Homeland
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As a camouflaged tank opens up on a hidden N azi position in the town of Roth” Germany, Ameri
can infantrymen crouch by a roadside fence and ho id their machine guns ready. The moment the enemy
i, flushed out, the guns will begin their deadly cha tter. This is an official Signal Corns nhntn.
Reds Roar Through Estonia
TROOPS ADVANCE
HEARER BOLOGNA
ROME, Sept. 25——American
Fifth army troops, smashing be
yond the core of the enemy’s Goth
ic line, were fighting forward to
night less than 12 miles from the
Bologna-Rimini highway, main es
cape route for German forces still
battling desperately northwest of
the Adriatic port of Rimini.
The thurst toward the highway—
the Via Aemilia of the Romans—
was made northeast of Firenzuola.
Farther west Yank troops contin
ued to advance in the Futa Pass
area and reached points roughly
15 miles from the big industrial
city of Bologna.
(An Associated Press dispatch
from the Swiss-ltalian frontier re
ported American forces were with
in 12 1-2 miles of Bologna, a city i
of 300,000. It said Allied bombings
bad disrupted all public services
in Bologna, including its water sup
p!y, and that bloody fighting was
in progress in the streets between
Italian partisans and fascists.)
In the Adriatic sector Eighth
Army troops penetrated 2,000 yards
beyond the Rimini-Bologna railway
north of Santa Giustina and to
within 1,500 yards of the historic
Rubicon river, where they were
checked temporarily by fierce Nazi
resistance.
Enemy parachute troops, infan
try and armored forces were fight
ing desperately to hold a line across
the entrance to the wide and fertile
Po valley, home of almost half
Italy’s population. Eighth Army
headquarters emphasized that
there yet was no indication of a
general German withdrawal in the
Adriatic area.
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Churchill Back Home
After Trip On Liner
LONDON, Sept- 25— UP) —Prime
Minister Churchill and Mrs.
Churchill have arrived in England
from the Quebec conference with
President Roosevelt.
The journey both to America
and back was made on the liner
Queen Mary.
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Russian Army Speeds On
Toward Riga; Germans
Fleeing For Lives
LONDON, Tuesday, Sept. 26.—UP)
—Russian troops on the ninth day
of their powerful northern offen
sive yesterday had virtually freed
all of Estonia, winning the Baltic
seaport of Haapsalu and a 35-mile
strip of the Gulf of Riga below fal
len Parnu as they sped on toward
imperilled Riga, Latvian capital
and Nazi escape bottleneck.
The enemy last night held only
a thin belt of western Estonia,
about 20 to 25 miles wide and 40
miles deep, as well as a few is
lands off the west coast and Mar
shal Leonid A. Govorov’s Lenin
grad, army was expected to over
run that area by today or tomor
row.
Germany’s fleeing troops had
only one evacuation port left to
them, Virtsu, and Red army arm
ored columns were bearing down
swiftly on it. Soviet planes were
bombing and strafing the disor
ganized enemy, and the Red banner
fleet was loose in the Baltic sea
for the first time in three years.
Red Army columns were within
65 miles of Riga on the north, 56
miles on the northeast, 40 on the
east, and last were reported only
six miles from the prize citadel
on the south. Soviet artillery was
pouring shells into the city.
Tho Mncmw bulletin announcing
the increasing German disaster in
Estonia and Latvia, where origin
ally 200,000 Germans had attempt
ed to hold off the Russians, also
told of the capture of 50 localities
in southern Poland, including Be
rehy Gurne, only three miles from
the Czechoslovakian frontier.
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Powerful Red Fleet
Moves In Baltic Sea
HELSINKI, Finland, Sept. 25—UP)
_Heavy gunfire from the Finnish
gulf echoed in Helsinki today, in
dicating that the Red fleet had
moved in strength into the here
tofore German - controlled Baltic
sea for the first time in more
than three years.
Russian naval forces were said
to be firing at all sea-going craft
sighted in an effort to smash
Nazi attempts at evacuation and
may even have engaged one or
two German heavy cruisers which
informants said were covering the
enemy’s confused withdrawal
from the Baltic states.
Land Would CutUp Trade
Of Germans And Japanese
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25—®
~ Vice Admiral Emory S.
Land, chief of America’s war
time Merchant Marine, swung
into the capital’s raging argu
ment over German peace
Policy today with an assertion
that the Allies should carve
UP both German and Japanese
foreign trade and divide it
among themselves.
Denial of world commerce
to the enemy, states would
mean their end as modern in
dustrial nations, Land made
ciear, and in advocating such
a course he apparently rang
ed himself alongside Treasury
Secretary Morgenthau in fav
oring the return of Germany
specifically to an agricultural
state.
At the state department
Secretary Hull gave virtutl
official conformation to an
Associated Press story of
Saturday night disolosing a
o^binet split on German peace
policy- Hull was asked at his
news conference for comment
on published reports that
Secretary Stimson and he op
posed Morgenthau’s plan to
break up German industry.
In reply he disclosed that it
is a subject of wide open dis
cussion not only among of
ficials here but also among
American, British and Russian
leaders.
“The whole question of deal
ing with the postwar German
situation has been receiving
attention by each of the govj
ernments most interested,
Hull said, “and that includes
this government and the state
department.
“It would serve no purpose
to say moro ot thib time ex
cept that the higher officials
of the governments concerned
will reach mutual understand
ings, I hope, at an early stage.
It is very necessary that we
wait until we know the true
conclusions they reach.'*__
COUNTY MAY AID
CITY DRAIN AREA
A step to help the U. S. Public
Health Service eliminate mosquito
breeding areas was taken by the
board of county commissioners in
its weekly meeting yesterday when
it moved to take under considera
tion a plan proposed by J. A.
Loughlin, city engineer, by which
the city and county would join in
furnishing the machines for the
drainage of the area on lower Third
St,
Under this plan the city and
county would furnish the machi
nery and the public health service
would do the work, in the drain
ing of that area west of Greenfield
lake from the river to Third street.
Loughkn suggested that the city
and the county halve the expense
of the prqjegt. Further action is
expected to* be taken next Mon
day by the county.
Sometime ago the area was
drained by the Works Progress Ad
ministration. The plan now under
consideration j..oposes to open up
the main canal a,nd the lateral
drainage into that canal from the
railr ' "'-ossing west to the Cape
Fear river.
The board voted to request the
state to take the action requested
in a petition signed by 30 residents
of Myrtle Grove sound and living
on the road leading from Roger’s
landing to the Carolina Beach loop
road. This petition requested that
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culvert through and under the road
and to replace a bridge now on
the road which is in such bad con
dition, due to heavy raips that
the road is now impassable.
A letter was read from Col. Adam
E. Potts, commanding officer of
Camp Davis, thanking th'e board
and through it the citizens of New
Hanover county for the splendid
cooperation he has received dur
ing his stay here.
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BRITISH DISCLOSE
NEW SECURITY PLAN
LONDON, Sept. 25.— <-T> —The
British government made public
tonight on the eve of the recon
vening of parliament, a tremen
dous social security plan affect
ing every man, woman and child
in Britain and the government’s
answer, at least in part, to the
controversial Beveridge plan of a
year ago.
During the first year it is esti
mated the plan will cost $2,600,
000,000, compared with $2,788,000,
000 for the Beveridge plan. It
covers human needs from the
cradle to the grave.
It would provide unemployment
and sickness insurance; health
service; widows pensions; retire
ment pensions; family allowances;
orphans allowance; motherhood
grants and death grants.
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Committee Considers
Contempt Proceedings
WASHINGTON. Sept. 25.— </P) —
The House campaign expenditures
committee today postponed until
tomorrow action on a recommen
dation of its counsel that it insti
tue contempt proceedings against
Edward A. Rumely for refusal to
turn over records of contributions
to the Committee for Constitu
tional Government.
Chairman Anderson (D-NM) said
the contempt recommendation was
made by John A. Caddell, commit
tee counsel following Rumely’s ap
pearance before the committee
this morning. Rumely is execu
tive secretary of the organization.
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Victory Will Increase Need For A Bigger War Chest
eat Battle Rages In Holland;
lane Sinks 3 Jap Warships;
Dewey Calls F.D.R.’s Record Bad
GOP NOMINEE
BLASTS AWAY
AT PRESIDENT
Quotes Senate In Effort
To Discredit Regime
On Prewar Defense
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept.
25—(JP)—Assailing President
Roosevelt’s record in office as
“desperately bad,” Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey tonight hit
back sharply at his oppon
ent’s opening catnpaign
speech with this statement:
‘He jokes about depressions—
about the seven straight years of
unemployment of his administra
tion. But he cannot laugh away the
record.”
The Republican nominee, patent
ly aroused by Mr. Roosevelt’s Sat
urday night assertion that the GOP
campaign has been marked by
“fraud” and “falsehood,” quoted
from Senate records in an attempt
to show the White House was res
ponsible for the ‘shocking state of
our defense program four months
before Pearl Harbor.” But, he said:
‘I shall never make a speech to
one group of American people in
eating tnem to Hatred ana distrust
of any other group.”
Shouting “he has asked for it—
here it is,” Dewey then re-qouted
Selective Service Director Lewis B.
Hershey as saying “we can keep
people in the army about as cheap
ly as we could create an agency
for them when they are out.”
"But, says Mr. Roosevelt, the
War department thereafter issued
a plan for ‘speedy discharges.’”
Dewey said. You can read thgt
plan from now until doomsday and
you cannot find one word about
speedy discharges.’
“It is, in fact a statement of the
priority in which men will be dis
charged after the war. It does not
say whether they are to be retain
ed in service a month or years
after victory. That will be up to
the next administration.”
Declaring Mr. Roosevelt tried to
“laugh off the problem of jobs after
the war, Dewey said:
‘Let’s get this straight. The man
who wants to be president for 16
years is indeed indispensable. He
is indispensable to Harry Hopkins,
to Madame Perkins, to Harold
Ickes, to a host of other political
job holders.
‘He is indispensable to Sidney
Hillman and the political action
committee, to Earl Browder, the
ex-convict and pardoned communist
leader.”
ca’s leading enemy of Civil Liber
“He is indispensable to Ameri
ties—the mayor of Jersey City. He
is indispensable to those infamous
machines in Chicago—in the Bronx
—and all the others.
This was in renlv to Mr. Roose
velt’s statement, in his opening
campaign speech for a fourth term
Saturday night, that it was a “ma
licious falsehood” to say he ever
had represented himself to be in
dispensable to the nation.
Dewey then declared:
“Let us look at the closely su
pervised words of the hand-picked
candidate for vice president. He
said of my opponent: ‘The very
future of the peat ' and prosperity
of the world depends upon his
re-election in November.’ I havi
not heard Mr. Truman repudiated
by Mr. Roosevelt as yet.”
He referred to Senator Harry S.
Truman of Missouri, Mr. Roose
velt’s vice presidential running
mate.
‘Here are the words of Boss
Kelly of the Chicago machine,”
Dewey went on, 'the manager of
that fake third term draft of 1940:
The salvation of this nation rests
in one man.’ V. - that statement
ever repudiated by Mr. Roosevelt?
No, it was reward'd by increased
White House favors. . . .
“And was it a falsehood that one
of the first acts of Mr. Roosevelt’s
newly selected national chairman
was for a fourth term and—that he
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European War Flashback |
By The Associated Press
Sept. 26, 1918—American First arirfy' ii cooperation with the
French, attacked over a 20-mile front west of Verdun, advancing to
an average depth of 12 miles through the Hindenburg line and captur
ing 12 towns and more than 5,000 prisoners. The front of the com
bined offensive was 55 miles. - British and Greek troops invaded Bul
garia from the Doiran region, amid Bulgarian demoralization.
Sept. 26, 1940—Germans dive-bomb Southampton; British bomb
channel ports.
Reopen Embassy
Smiling as he prepares to raise
the French Tricolor over the
French Embassy in Washington is
Henry Hoppenot, chief of the dele
gation of the French Committee of
National Liberation. It was the
first time the flag has flown over
the building since it was closed in
Nov. 1942, when the U. S. broke
relations with Vichy.
MINISTERS BACK
CLOTHING DRIVE
The Wilmington Ministerial as
sociation, at the request of the
United Nations Relief and Rehabi
litation Administration decided
yesterday to take part in a nation
al campaign next week to collect
15 million lbs of clothing to meet
the urgent needs of war-stricken
people .in liberated countries dur
ing the coming winter.
People are asked to deliver tfny
new and good serviceable used
clothing to the churches through
out the city.
All clothing will be distrbuted
free to needy men, womrfen and
children in liberated areas,
through UNRRA.
Those types particularly needed
are infants’ garments (especially
knit goods), men’s and boys’ over
coats, topcoats, suits, jackets,
shirts, work'clothes, sweaters, un
derwear, robes and pajamas and
women’s and girls’ coats, jackets,
shirts, sweaters dresses, un
derwear, aprons, jumpers, smocks,
robes and nightwear.
Blanket, afghans, sheets, pillow
cases and quilts are also urgently
needed.
Clothing need not be in perfect
repair, but must be such as will
be useful. Cotton garments should
be washed but need not be ironed.
Rags, evening clothes, shoes and
rubber goods are not wanted in
this collection.
The need for clothing in Europe
today is second only to the con
tinued need for actual materials
of war, according to authorita
tive statements. Food stockpiles
have been created to take care of
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SECOND SECURITY
TALK IN OFFING
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. — (JP) —
The Anglo-American-Russian phase
of the Dumbarton Oaks world se
curity talks is about to conclude
and it is now virtually certain that
the Big Three will have to have
another discussion on the same
subject.
It was learned authoritatively to
day that the three powers have
reached a number of agreements,
totaling a document of about 20
pages, but they have failed to de
termine the voting powers of large
nations in the future international
peace organization.
Delegates of the three powers
are expected to wind up the pres
ent talks tomorrow or Wednesday,
and Britain and the United States
will go into conference with Chin
ese representatives.
FLYING BOAT
SETS RECORD
ON BOMB RUN
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Two Destroyer Escorts,
Seaplane Tender Sunk
In Davo Harbor
ALLIED HEADQUAR
TERS, New Guinea, Tuesday,
Sept. 26.— (IP) —A Catalina
flying boat sank three Japan
ese warships off Davao,
headquarters reported today.
A Nipponese seaplane tender and
two destroyer escorts were destroy
ed with a single bombing run.
This was one of the most singu
lar feats reported during the con
sistent bombing of Davao har’vr
in southern Philippines.
The Catalina was on patrol over
the important Japanese base which
has been under almost constant
American aerial surveillance for
weeks.
The attack was made during Sat
urday night and Sunday morning
In other .Allied raids, a 10,000
ton Japanese tanker was sunk and
a 3,000-ton freighter tanker was
sunk and a 3,000-ton freighter dam
aged in Dutch Celebes.
A total of lt2 tons of bombs were
unleashed on airdromes on Celebes
and Ceram, in a continuation of
neutralization raids.
When the Catalina roared ovet
Davao gulf, crewmen discoveed
the seaplane tender fueling the two
destroyer escorts, one on each side
of the mother ship.
“In a single bombing run,” said
the communique, “all were hit,
resulting in tremendous explosions.
The smaller vessels sank almost
immediately and the tender later
was observed to capsize and sink.”
The ships were sunk with four
bombs. The explosion lifted the
plane 300 feet into the air. The
crew jubiliantly claimed a world’s
record for tonnage of shipping de
stroyed by a single plane in a sin
gle run.
Meanwhile, Richard C. Bergholz,
Associated Press war correspond
ent, reported from Morotai island,
in the Halmaheras, that the Ameri
cans had reached all tactical objec
tives and combat patrols had en
circled the islnd at selected points.
Although no Japanese opposition
had developed. The patrols report
ed finding installations capable of
accommodating large forces. Moro
tai, 375 miles southeast of Davao,
was invaded Sept. 15.
BIDDLE SAYS CIO
POLITICS LAWFUL
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—(iP)—
Attorney General Biddle reiterated
today that investigations have dis
closed no violation of election law
by the CIO Political Action com
mittee or the National Citizens
Pac.
He explained that the former
organization confined its activities
to primaries, and that the latter
financed itself through individual
contributions.
On Senator Moore’s (R-Okla.)
contention that the Hatch act had
been violated by contributions
amounting to more than $5,00?,
Biddle wrote that his investiga
tion showed that the Pac had stay
ed within the limit on each con
tribution to a candidate or com
mittee. He added that provisions
of the law apply only “when in
fact real contributions are made
to particular political committees
and candidates.”
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2,000 Planes Hammer
At German Factories
LONDON, Sept. 25.— (2P) —More
than 2,000 American planes, in
cluding nearly 1,300 Flying Fort
resses and Liberators, hammered
home Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower’s warning today to foreign
workers to leave German plants
or face the gravest danger.
In the month’s heaviest attacks
on Reich targets, the heavy bomb
ers dropped nearly 4,000 tons of
bombs, ripping apart two large
freight yards at Frankfurt, Ger
many’s tenth largest city; ware
houses and railyards at Coblenz,
at the confluence of the Rhine and
the Moselle; and railyards and
synthetic oil-chemical plants at
often -bombed Ludwigshafen
farther down the Rhine.
Hay Foot
An ancient marching theme of
Army rookies, “Hay-Foot, Straw
Foot”, has new meaning for Pvt.
Patrick J. McDonald, of Grand
Rapids, Mich., ever since he ac
quired the straw boots he wears in
the photo above. The old footgear
was part of equipment left behind
by fleeing Germans somewhere in
France.
CHEST CAMPAIGN
GETS UNDER WAY
Following a breakfast meeting
yesterday morning at St. Paul’s
parish house, where Harry Collins
Spillman, noted public speaker
addressed some 200 War Chest
workers attached to five unit divi
sions, Chest solicitations began in
earnest among the city's indus
tries, commercial establishments,
public utilities, schools, and gov
ernmental agencies, according to
Ranald Stewart, general chair
man of the current drive.
The workers, who expect to con
summate their divisional duties
by the end of the week, are press
ing toward the campaign goal of
$164,838. Next week, workers of
the general solicitation program
will take over and continue the
vigorous drive for funds.
Spillman’s message to the
Chest leaders was one that em
phasized the importance of ac
complishing the War Chest goal,
an act that will indicate the meas
ure of Wilmington's interest in a
better postwar society, one that
will provide no soil for the roots
of dissension, unemployment, ill
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ENEMY HURLS
MANY TROOPS
AT BRITISHERS
Nazis Violently Attack
Second Army In Drive
To Free ‘Lost’ Men
BULLETIN
SUPREME HEADQUAR
TERS ALLIED EXPEDITI
ONARY FORCE, Tuesday,
Sept. 26.—(JP)—Parts of three to
four German divisions, smash
ing repeatedly at the valorious
little ‘-and of British para
troor * s holding a precarious
footht -< on the north bank of
the Neder Rhine, were re
ported early today to have
gained control of one end of
the highway bridge at Arn
hem, Holland.
A dispatch from the front
said the British airborne units
had finally been forced to auit
the north end of the bridge
after holding it desperately for
three days while surrounded.
SUPREME HEADQUAR
TERS ALLIED EXPEDI
TIONARY FORCE, Sept. 25.
—(/P)—A great battle raged
o n eastern Holland’s ap
proaches to Germany tonight
with the enemy hurling ele
ments of three to four divi
sions against a valorous Brit
ish band clinging stubbornly
to its foothold north of the
broad Neder Rhine just west
of Arnhem.
The British Second Army, throw
ing a bridgehead across the river
barrier, also was under violent
attack as it strove to drive up to
the beleaguered airborne force
which has fought alone for nine
days. Its supply lane stretching 50
miles southward was under assallt.
Still supplies came through, still
sea-going trucks and assault boats
crossed the stream in a hail of
shell and machinegun fire, and an
officer decalred “the situation is
not critical,” although only a drib
ble of men and supplies was reach
ing the cut-off forces.
Meanwhile, the Allies swung guns
and troops from Holland into Ger
many at two points some 15 miles
south of this fighting, driving ahead
to within eight miles of the Sieg
fried line’s northern terminal at
Kleve, keeping up the relentless
pressure on the enemy’s more vul
nerable northern defenses.
Supreme headquarters joined in
with a call to the 12,000,000 foreign
workers inside the Reich to take
up arms, indicating climatic battles
were at hand.
Southwest of Kleve the British
Second army was moving out east
of its Dutch base at Eindhoven on
a 13-mile front and advanced ele
ments knifing into Deurne were
about 18 miles from the German
frontier.
Supreme headquarters said Al
lied forces had entered the forest
of the Reichswald, which screens
the fortress of Kleve on the south
west, and front dispatches said
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Disaster Faces Germans
Throughout Balkan Area
ROME, Sept. 25.— (3>> —The
Balkans were described today
as “a morass which threatens
to engulf all of the enemy
forces that are left,” with
chaos spreading- among the
Germans in southern Greece,
Albania and Yugoslavia.
The Allied air command dis
closed that since the summer
of 1942 more than 5,000 tons of
guns, ammunition and other
supplies had been flown to
Yugoslav partisans and patriot
forces in other central and
southern European countries.
“Without this vast variety of
supplies,” the report stated,
“the partisan armies would
most likely have remained
guerillas, their losses would
have been heavier, and the
Balkans would have remained
a German bastion, instead of a
morass which threatens to*en
gulf all of the enemy forces
that are left.”
German forces in the Bal- -
kans are said to lack coordina
tion with individual groups
shifting for themselves, sur
rendering or fighting more or
less on their own responsibil
ity, according to reports from
Cairo. Experts expressed be
lief a similar pattern of chaos
would appear in Germany
when the Wehrmacht disinte
grates.
The about-faces Romania
and Bulgaria, and the swift ad
vances of the Russians to the
frontiers of Hungary, Yugo
slavia and Greece placed the
outflanked Germans in an un
tenable position.
Air blows coupled with
partisan activities have dis
rupted enemy communications
throughout the Balkans.
The air command reports
said secret landing fields have
;been laid out in Yugoslavia,
Greece, Albania and other
countries, and that the number
of such airports “would aston
ish the Germans.”