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- ] FORECAST A|4|| ^ - WILMINGTON AND VICNITY: menu- gM [ I [""■ <^a I REMEM1 “■” w“ llrl T I ||T ‘ PEARL HARBOR L!^0W 86 * AND BATAAN V0L^7—NO. =====^r - — ______ _ FINAL EDITION _ESTABLISHED 1867 Marines Find Shelter Under A “Duck” First division Marines find shelter from Jap fire under the stern of an amphibious truck known as a “Duck on the beach of Peleliu in the Pallau islands of the Pacific. Two other amphibious ve liicles, hit by Jap artillery fire, burn in the backgro und. (AP wirephoto from U. S. Marine Corps). CHINESE LOSSES CUT U. S. HOPES CHUNGKING, Sept. 29—(fl—The prospect of effective Chinese sup port for any landing made by Al lied forces on the coast of China has faded in the opinion of leaders in this war-weary capital. The general view here today was that recent Japanese successes al ready have prolonged the war’s probable duration by months and^ reduced seriously the offensive ca pacity of the Chinese army. The possibility that Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault’s TJ. S. 14th Air Force might lose more of its advance bases in south China con tributed to pessimism. Politically, the Chinese defeats lave reduced the prestige of the central government, an important factor in its relations with the Chi nese communists in the north and the communist guerrilla forces op-! erating in Japanese-occupied prov. inces. Moreover, there is a grow ing concern over the possibility that China’s influence at the peace table might be adversely affected. From the military viewpoint. Chennault already has lost several major and minor air fields and the loss of his three remaining forward bases—at Kweilin, Tanchuk and Li uchow—is possible within a short time. If that happens, he would have to move his operations back to the big base at Kunming, 450 miles west of Kweilin. Bombing of Japanese shipping from that point would be difficult. Supply remains a major problem. Some of the best Chinese divi sions have been chewed up and disorganized by the better-trained, better-equipped and better-led Jap anese forces. Under the most fa vorable conditions, their reorgani zation and return to the field as effective units would require sev eral months. Reconstruction of even an av erage-quality Chinese division re quires an enormous amount of time. The Chinese army is largely illiterate, with the inevitable result that training is jnore than ordina rily slow. Just now the Chinese press and radio are campaigning to obtain 100,000 men from the student class for technical services such as com munications, and to provide non commissioned and commissioned officers. But even if this is success ful little immediate benefit could be expected. Pitifully lacking in equipment, badly fed and almost without med ical facilities, the Chinese have been fighting under the most ad verse conditions since 1937. Argentine W arned About Nazi. Trend WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—(A3)—President Roosevelt served notice on Argentina today that if the “growth of Nazi-Fascist influence’’ there continues to impede the Unit ed Nations program, that South American nation will have to pay for it in the future. *-: At the same time, in a formal statement, he struck sharply at what he called the ‘vicious ru mor,” circulated in part by the Nazis and in part by "irresponsi ble” persons, "that our councils are dvided in the course of our policy toward Argentina.” He adopted in full this statement by Prime Minister Churchill in an August 2 speech to the House of Commons: "This is not like some small wars in the past where all could be for gotten and forgiven. Nations must be judged by the part they play. Not only belligerents but neutrals will find that their position in the world cannot remain entirely un affected by the part they have chosen to play in the crisis of the war.” The statement asserted that the Argentine government “has repu diated solemn inter-American obli gations” providing for a common front against axis aggression, and added: "Unless we now demonstrate a capacity to develop a tradition of respect for such obligations among civilized nations, there can be little hope for a system of international security, theoretically created to maintain principles for which peo ples are today sacrificing to the bmit of their resources, both hu man and material.” Argentine news stories and car toons, it has been reported from Buenos Aires, have been claiming that Secretary of State Hull is not supported by the President in his policy of political and economic at trition against the militaristic re gime of General Edelmiro Farrell. At the same time, some Argentine officials have insisted that Britain disagree with the United States on this policy. President Koosevelt said that the American policy has been clearly set forth by Hull. He expressed his concern at the “extraordinary paradox of the growth of Nazi-Fascist influence and the increasing application of Nazi-Fascist methods in a country cf this hemisphere” while aggress ors are meeting defeat in the rest of the world.__ DEWEY LAMBASTS ROOSEVELT AGAIN ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 29. Condemning what he described as dictatorial tendencies of the “gov ernment in power” Gov. Thomas E. Dewey expressed confidence to night that “our free press will con tinue to resist government domina tion.” He did not specifically name President Roosevelt, his November opponent in the presidential elec tion. “The dictators have given the world a bitter and bloody demon stration that government tyranny is still the great enemy of free press and speech,” Dewey declar ed. “Measures to suppress com pletely the freedom of the press were carried out by every one of the dictators as natural and es sential steps to their success. “The lesson is not without some application to our own country, as has been indicated by some of the tendencies of the government in power, against which most editors and publishers have been watch ful.” The statement was issued in con nection with National Newspaper Week, Oct. 1-8, as the Republican presidential nominee rested from his three-week campaign trip to the west coast and back. He slept late this morning and aides said he had no engagements for the weekend, part of which may be spent at his farm in Paw ling. Active campaigning tentative ly is scheduled to be renewed next Friday with a speech at Charles ton, W. Va. There has been some discussion of a radio broadcast from Albany before then, but no definite de cision has been reached. Republican National Chairman Herbert Brownell, Jr., who told the governor yesterday the latter had corralled "hundreds of thousands of independent and democratic votes” by his initial tour, returned to New York City today to com plete the itinerary of Dewey’s ex pected swing through the middle west. _ Rain, Mud Stall Italian Drive ROME, Sept. 29“tPI—Rain »nd mud, .defensive aids of field Marshall Gen- Albert Kesselring in the past year of fighting from one mountain line to another in Italy, have now helped to slow the ad vance of the Allied Fifth and Eighth armies into the Po Valley. The weather, however, is not the only reason that Allied forces are almost at a stand still. The Germans are fight ing with a ferocity bom of the realization that a single Al lied breakthrough might bring disaster to their entire posi tion in northern Italy. They ®re counter-attacking violent ly whenever the opportunity offers. In the only ipecifically an nounced giim of conse quence yesterday, American troops pushed to the top of» four more hill* commanding stretches of mountain road* leading down the northern slopes of the Apennine moun tains into Bologna and Imola. One of the captured heights, Mi. Battaglia, is only 22 miles from Imola, on the highway between Rimini and Bologna. The other three—Mt. Bastione, Mt. Canda and Mt. II Bogio— are roughly 20 miles south of Bologna, on the main highway north from Florence. There still remain many more heights from which the Nazis must be dislodged .before Allied armor and infantfy can flow out onto open Terrain from this sector for a show down battle. The heaviest of yesterday’s German counterattacks hit British troops at the south western end of th* 10 to 12 mile - long front, which the Eighth army has established on the Adriatic edge of the Po Valley, roughly parallel to the Fiumicino river abote Rimini. Two strong enemy thrusts ' ' ' - v " /*' - . " ■ were repelled northwest of the village of Canomica, eight miles west of Rimini, but the British were driven from a 1,000-foot ridge southwest of Savignano. Canadians forced the Nazis out of San Mauro Di Romagna, eight miles north west of Rimini, and established a small bridgehead across the Fiumicino. There, as on the American central front, rain and low clouds virtually stripped Al lied troops of their usual air support. Headquarters made no men tion of specific gains at the western end of the front, where American and Brazilian troops are pressing toward the naval base of La Spezia, but said that “important advances” had been made there and that “the entire Gothic zone now had been penetrated with the exception, of a spnall area of the west icoast-’V Allies Press Nazis On Opposite Ends Of 460-Mile West Front; Enemy Retreating At Arnhem M X. _. U. S. MARINES BLASTGROUND THROUGH PALAU TWO ISLANDS INVADED Japs Military Position Darkened By Drive Of Nimitz By The Associated Press American Marines have successfully invaded two ad ditional islands in Japan’s strategic Palau group 515 miles east of the Philippines, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz re ported late yesterday (Fri.) These new Yank victories furth er darkened the Japanese military position in the Pacific where the Nipponese have met defeat after defeat. But in China the invaders were driving roughshod over wav born Chinese forces and were seri ously threatening the Allied posi tion in the vital southern part of that embattled country. The Leathernecks, encountering only light Nippon resistance as they went ashore early Wednesday on Ngesebus and Kongauru islands, in the Palaus, quickly seized a 4,800 foot fighter plane airstrip on the firmer and were mopping up on scattered Japanese forces in one small sector of the latter. They landed after the islands were blast ed by cruisers and destroyers and , i_i_i i__:___ American forces now., control eight islands in the Palaus- Earlier they captured Angaur, Noarmoked, Ngabad and two small unnamed islands. They have about conquer ed Peleliu. major island on the southern wing of the group. The latest landings drop Japa nese artillery out of range of Pele liu and its -important airdrome. On Peleliu Marines and soldiers drove southward on Umorbrogol mountain. They control the entire northern end of the island, except for one hill pinnacle. The Japa nese still hold a small east coast area. Adm. Nimitz also reported wide spread air hits against Japanese Pacific island strongholds includ ing the Kuriles, Bonins, Marianas, Carolines and Marshalls in addi tion to Wake and Nauru. Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s com munique today (Saturday) said southwest Pacific planes hit Japa nese shipping in wilespread raids, sinking or damaging 17 small freighters, barges and coastal craft. The Yank airmen ranged the south ern Philippines and waters off Bor neo. Six Japanese planes bombed Am erican-held Morotai island, 300 miles south of the Philippines, but the attack was recorded as “harm less-” The critical military situation in ' China, where the Japanese are reg- ; istering their only successes, was ; highlighted by a Chinese high com mand acknowledgement that one Nippon column advanced to with in 35 miles of Kwelein, capital of ' Kwangsi province, threatening to - outflank the city. -V Sew York Attorney ] Jailed For Contempt WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 —UP)— i Presiding Justice Edward C. Eicher today sentenced Henry H. Klein, a New York attorney, to 90 lays in jail for contempt of court j in withdrawing from the mass se ction trail. i Klein, who quit the courtroom last July after leaving a memoran- ' Sum saying his client was being j deprived of his constitutional rights * and that he no longer could ade quately defend him, was given the 1 alternative of serving 10 days and naving the remainder of the sen- J tence suspended if he would re sume the defense of his client, Eu- ' ?ene N. Sanctuary. -V !Vo Action Taken Yet In Davis Resignation Chief C. H. Casteen said yester day that officially no vacancy exists on the city police traffic squad in connection with the re ported resignation of Capt. John Davis. Although it is generally known that Captain Davis has made ap plication for pension, Harry Solo mon, chairman of the police pen sion board, disclosed yesterday that no action had been taken by the board and no reports concerning Captain Davis had been made., He said there would be no action until final reports have been made to the board. Captured Allied Paratroopers, Say Germans | Hi i ———mu — —nrTITI—————HiW mmfm \ The caption on the German picture, serviced b y Pressens Bild, Swedish picture agency, says it shows Allied parachutists captured by the Germans in Holland. No other information was given re< i garding the identity of the paratroopers. (AP wirehoto via radio from Stockholm). BIG THREE MEET DRAWING NEARER BY EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Sept. 29—(#'—Premier Marshal Stalin will be just as glad :o meet again with President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Hhurchill as they will be to see iim, it was reported on good au shority here today. Churchill’s call yesterday for a iecond meeting of the Big Three ;0 plan the final phases of the European war and to consider nroblems of the peace brought a lavorable response from the Rus sian people, but there was no offi :al intimation as to when or where ;he conference would take place. The first meeting at Tehran, it vas recalled, perfected plans for ;he Allied invasion of France. It vas felt here that a second meet ng might effect coordination of ;he three high commands, lay the groundwork for the peace and de :ide just what is to be done with i defeated Germany. Churchill’s address, supporting Russia’s claim to a safe western 'rontier and expressing hope for a 'riendly agreement on the entire Polish problem, received wide spread treatment in the Russian >ress, some papers printing up to :our columns of the prime minis ers words. Emphasis was placed on Church ll’s assertion that Russia is “en itled to safe frontiers and to have riendly neighbors on their western lank.” This statement, it was felt, vould have an important effect on he settlement of the Polish prob em. •Since the Polish government in wile in London broke with Gen. Cazimierz Sosnkowski, Polish mil tary commander and Soviet critic, here appeared here to be a better :hance for a Polish-Russian rap irochement than at any previous ime. The inclusion of Stanislaw Miko ajczyk, premier of the Polish gov irnment in exile, in a revamped irovisional government on Polish oil has been a compromise sought >y American and British diplomats tere. A second visit to Moscow by Mi :olajczyk, as forecast by Church 11, might well result in the forma ion of a united Polish regime, it vas believed here. weathFr (By U, S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours mding 7:30 p.m., yesterday. Temperature 1:30 am, 75; 7:30 am, 76; 1:30 pm, 82; :30 pm, 78. Maximum 83; Minimum 73; Mean 78; formal 70. Humidity 1:30 am, 96; 7:30 am, 94; 1-30 pm, 78: :30 pm, 87. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 pm, 1.00 inches. Total since the first of the month, I. 48 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by J. S. Coast and Goedetic Survey) High Low Wilmington - 8:01a 2:50a 8:33p 3:llp Hasonboro Inlet _ 5:46a 6:18p 12:02p Sunrise, 6:06 a.m.; Sunset, 5:58 p.m.; Uoonflse, 5; 25 p.m.; Moonset, 4:03 a.m. ♦ Reds, Romanians Battle At Nazis LONDON, Saturday, Sept. 30.—{IP)—Russian and Romanian armies chopped holes in Axis lines along the Czech-Polish border and in northern Transylvania yester day, and also penetrated into the strategic rail city of Ora dea in their massive three-way drive aimed at knocking Hungary out of the war. * Bucharest and German an nouncements told of the fight which has spilled onto Hungarian soil at points along a 100-mile front, while a special Moscow announcement said that Marshal Leonid A. Govo rov’s Leningrad army—which has freed all the Estonian mainland and now is pressing heavily on Riga, Latvian capital—had killed 30,000 Germans and captured 15, 745 between Sept. 17 and 26. Radio France at Algiers said that new demonstrations had brok en out in Budapest, Hungarian ca pital, afier it became known that the Russians had reached pre-war Hungary. Berlin implied that the Red army temporarily had smashed imo Szeged, Hungary’s second city, as well as other key towns, when it reported that Szeged, Gyula and Oradea were “again in Hungarian hands.” The Germans acknowledged re treats in Transylvania, far to the east, and said a general Nazi army regrouping was. going on through out the Balkans, presumably with the idea of diverting more troops to Hungary in an effort to keep that weakening, satellite in the war on the Axis side. Targu-Mures, important Tran sylvanian city 48 miles southeast of Clujr Hungarian-annexed capi tal, fell to the Russians who surg ed across the Mures river, Mos cow’s broadcast communique said. Fifty other localities were seized in the pursuit of the Germans who said they were leaving Hungarian: rearguards behind them. MARINE’S WIFE SLAIN BY KNIFE ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 29—OP)—A lone fingerprint was the only clue Orange county officials had to work on tonight as they sought to un-j ravel the mysterious slaying of Mrs. Erville S. Stewart, 23-year old attractive blond wife of Ma rine Corps Pvt. Cyril J. Stewart, stationed at Camp Lejeune, N. C. Pierced By four stab wounds, the semi-clad body of Mrs. Stewart was found earlier today in a rail road ditch one mile south of Pine Castle, near here. Her automobile, its interior blood-spattered, was parked about 100 yards away, Sher iff Jim Black, Orange county, re ported. Two knives were inside the car, as was her pocketbook. Sheriff Black said he did not believe rob bery was the motive for the killing, which was discovered when a resi. dent of the area noticed the park ed automobile in front of his home. Following the car’s tracks, he came upon the body in the ravine.! Sheriff Black said the victim had been stabbed once in the heart, once in the breast and twice in the back. The fingerprint had been taken from a door handle of the car, which, the sheriff believed, had been driven down to the ravine, apparently to remove the body, and then returned to the roadway. While her husband was in mili tary service, Mrs. Stewart had been living just outside Orlando. MANS RETREAT FROM BRIDGEHEAD )N NEDER RHINE SUPREME HEADQUAR TERS ALLIED EXPEDI TIONARY FORCE, Sept. 29. —(IP)—Allied armies pressed he Germans back tonight at ipposite ends of the 460-mile vestern front — at Arnhem, vhere the enemy blew ap )roaches to the Neder Rhine »ridge to balk pursuit through lorthern Holland, and in he mountain strongholds 11 niles west of France’s Bel !ort gateway to southern Ger nany. German forces who slipped south across the Neder Rhine ne«r Vrnhem by night fled from their limsy bridgehead as the British second army swept into action, rhen they turned and destroyed ipproaches to the bridge—which he famed “Red Devil” division ought more than a week to hold -lest the resurgent Tommies try o force across after them. The Germans were hotly beset ilso on the extreme south, where he U. S. Seventh army fought live miles across a battlefield strewn with enemy dead and seiz :d a fortified village 11 miles from 3elfort, which stands at the west urn edge of the gap leading to the leich, 30 miles beyond. (The London radio said the first snow of autumn was falling on Americans closing in on Belfort lap). In a concerted drive to the lorth, the seventh army beat back ;nemy lines in gains of three to live miles and struck toward four passes through the Vosges moun sains on other routes to Hitler’* Irontier at the Rhine. oeiween me Drmsn on me norm ind the Seventh on the south, the U. S. Third army carved out a five-mile gain between Metz and Nancy after blasting 82 German tanks, and the U. S. First army stabbed to the German frontier at two new points to keep the enemy high command off ballance. (The Berlin radio said “the fo cal point of fighting on the west ern front is now clearly on the southern wing” and DNB said the rhird army, going over to the at tack, drove the Germans back in some sectors.) While the British were repaying the Germans for reverses at Arn hem, they also were widening the Dutch corridor, warding off three successive blows at their vital bridge at Nijmegen, and were in creasing to 20 miles their hold on the west bank of the Maa» (Meuse) river facing Germany. Their holdings along the river south of the Siegfried line termi ial, of Kleve placed them within 11 miles of that anchor. And in po sition to drive acros sthe river to ward Germany’s industrial Ruhr /alley. Broadening the Nijmegen corri ior on the west, the British cap tured Best, six miles northwest of heir base at Eindhoven, but the Germans still were dug in on the edge of the town, along the rail road. -V JOHNSON TO SPEAK GREENSBORO, Sept. 29. — (JP) _ Dr- Mordecai W. Johnson, presi dent of Howard University, Wash ington, D. C., will be the vesper speaker at Bennett college tomor row at 4 p.m., it was announced here tonight. Music will be by the college choir directed >by Orrin Zflayton Suthern, II. Air Line Seeks City Stop WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. —(JPj —Colonial Air Lines, Inc., to day laid before the Civil Aero nautics Board plans for a net work of 12 postwar air routes to connect New York, Charles ton, Miami and smaller-'east coast pities with points in the Atlantic, Caribbean, Mexico and South America The airline, which now op erates between New York and Montreal, was the 10th com pany to testify in the CAB’s hearing on postwar [Latin Am ' erican Air Service which will enter its third week Monday. Colonial’s proposals; present ed by Sigmund Janas, company president, include service to Nassau and South America from a number of Atlantic coast points and promotion of Charleston, S. C-, as a major terminal to Latin America. The coastline route, originat ing at New York, would in elude stops at Atlantic City, N. J.; Norfolk, Va.. Elizabeth City, New Bern and Wilming ton, N. C.; Myrtle Beach, Georgetown and Charleston, S. C. Charleston was selected, Janas said, as hub of its pro posed domestic and foreign routes because of its “superb ly equipped” airfields, good labor supply, climate and geog raphical location- Airports at both New York and Miami, he said, are congested now and , will be even more crowded af ter the war. Improved air service to Charleston from the north, the Colonial president said, would open up the South Carolina coast as an important health and vacation center in competi tion with resorts in Florida. Janas said the nsoposed routes would provide se*ice by American planes from Canada to the Caribbean and South America. The proposed Colonial routes: New York to Balboa, Canal Zone, via Charleston, Nassau, Cuba and Jamaic; New York to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil and Montevideo, Uruguay, via Charleston, Nassau, Domini can Republic, Haiti, Venezuela and Manaos, Brazil; New York to Natal, via Charleston, Nas sau, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Trial* dad and Belem; New York t# Mexico City, via Charleston, Havana and Merida, Mex.; New York to Puerto Rico, via Ber muda; New York to Bermuda; New York to Nassau, via Atlan tic Coast points. Norfolk, Va., to Bermuda; Miami to Nassau; Miami to Trinidad, via Cuba, Haiti, Puer to Rico and the Virgin islands; Miami to Merida, Mex., via Havana; Miami to Canal Zone, via Cuba and Jamaic.
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