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FORECAST AMM &*4> | BEMEMBEB WILMINGTON AND VICINITY: Partly "0R [ftrfl j PEABL HAKBOB High 73—Low 80. 4*M ^r 4'Vi'i AMD BATAAN | VOL. 77.—NO. 218_ ~ WILMINGTON, N. C., MONPAY, OCTOBER 2, 1944 FINAL EDITION She Collaborated With Nazis Screaming in terfor, a woman accused of collaborating with the Nazis is dragged by the hair down a street in Eindhoven, Holland, by two Dutch patriots. Shortly after British troops had entered the city, scenes like th^ were reported to be commonplace as the pop ulation sought out those friendly with the German forces. righting 1st. First On WITH THE U. S. FIRST ARMY IN GERMANY, Sept. 25.—(Delay ed)— (/P) —The famous fighting First Infantry Division has done it again. The boys proudly wearing No, 1 on their arm patches, who fought through Tunisia and Sicily, whip ped an entire German division rn the Normandy beaches D-day and then helped engineer the great breakthrough west of the St. Lo, were among the first ground troops to fight their way across the Ger man border and were the first to breach the Siegfried line The battle record of this great combat division is one of the epics of this war, for wherever the fight ing has been the heaviest the first division usually has been in the middle of it. They are still “the fighting first from hell to vic tory.” It took them just 24 hours to breach the Siegfried defenses east of Aachen in a sudden thrust which pierced two belts of anti-tank dit ches, dragons teeth barriers and concrete pillboxes. In 24 hours they were piling through those formid able defenses which Hitler had Ihnil-f alnr»rf +V< a riorroon VmnH or* +n protect the Reich. An armored division fighting alongside the First was the first to penetrate the Reich in force on Sept. 14. Tanks rolled across the border just a few minutes before doughfoots of the First crossed and Lt. Col. Edward Driscoll of Dong Island (no fuller address available) radioed: “This is Driscoll report ing from Germany.” These doughboys penetrated first into the somber shadows of the Aachen town forest and the next day began the Siegfried assault. At the spearhead was a com pany commanded by Capt. Kim ball Richmond of Windsor, Vt., a youthful veteran of Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns. Kimball led one of the campanies which cap tured Troina in Sicily in the battle ■which broke the back of German resistance on the island. This cagy young warrior, wear ing a nondescript cap, sat in a farmhouse and studied his maps and the positions of the German de fenses until he figured he had the problem licked. . : - •tr ■ - FOUR OF CREW DEAD IN CRASH COURTLAND, Ala., “Oct. 1—(At Four crew members were killed •nd three others injured today When a B-24 bomber op a training ■ight from the Courtland Army field crashed near the field, Col. Walter W. Gross, commanding of ficer, announced. The dead were identified asf Second Lt, Joseph Kupa, 19, s£>r ef Julian Kupa, 664 North Mail) •treet, Bristol, Conn. Second Lt. John G. Ronning, 26; •on of Mr. and Mrs. Sam J. .Ron hing, Bainville, Mont. Second Lt. Robert Rutley, 20 •on of Mr. and Mrs. Harold B Rutley, 107 Nova Drive, Piedmont Calif. Pvt. Voster Scorboria, 25, engi r.eer, who died a few hours afte: the crash. He is the son of Mrs Marie Scoboria, 33, hfottinghan Road, Malverne, N. V. The three injured were listed a: follows: Second Lt. Robert V. Kelsey Riacksburgh, Va. Second Lt. Robert C. Schad Cincinnati. Plight instructor First Lt. Wh Mam R. Hill, New Hampton, N. Ti Infantry German Soil AUTO TCI PLEA DENIED BY KRUG WASHINGTON, Oct. 1— {ID — WPB Chairman J. A. Krug, de clared today the government can not grant now the request of auto mobile manufacturers for priority on machine tools to give the in dustry a fast start on passenger cars after German collapse. Record breaking munition schedules for the rest of the year— described by him as "the peak of our war needs”—stand in th£ way of the preparatory ffihve^e new War Production Board chief said in an interview. ’• "If WPB did that for the auto motive industry, we would have to do it for all other industries,” Krug observed, “We haven’t the manpower now to make the ma-1 chine tools. “Issuance of such a piece of paper would simply be defraud ing business into thinking it was getting something it couldn’t get-” Krug, acting chairman during Donald M. Nelson’s mission to China, became permanent chair man when Nelson resigned yes terday. Nelson shortly will step into what President Roosevelt described as a major government position to lay foundations for “postwar economic cooperation with other nations.” Despite his firm "no” to the proposal advanced by automotive leaders in Detroit last week, Krug promised that WPB “Will do every, thing we can to assist every in dustry.” “I have requested each of our industry divisions to study with the industries the additional meas ures that can be adopted,” he said. The motor group proposed that its order for peacetime machine tools and equipment be given pri ority equal to the ‘less urgent” class Of war orders and ahead of some of the consumer goods now given “essential civilian’” priori ties. '■ • -V— ENVOY NAMED LA Paz, Bolivia, ct. 1—W~-En rique Baldivieso, 42-year-old inde pendent , socialist and former foreign minister who has been named ambassador to Washing ton, will leave for his new post soon, it was announced today-; . IT. 7i i- :v 1 ... 1 1 1 Allied Troops Increase W; 210 JAP S Admiral Increased duction ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS, New Guinea, Oct. 2.— (/P) — Ending one of their most successful months in a blaze of Japanese destruction Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s flying forces ranged from Ce lebes to the Philippines, dam aged or sank three Japanese ships, set fire to airdromes and destroyed a number of parked planes, today’s com munique announced. The month-end’s bag of ships brought to a total of 210 ships and smaller craft, including barges, that MacArthur’s men have sunk or damaged in the southwest Pa cific in September. (These figures are in addition to those included in a Pearl Harbor announcement last Thursday that the Third Fleet’s carrier planes had destroyed 160 surface craft of all types and had damaged 200 others of all types in seven dayrf raiding the Philippines.) Two of the largest ships of the lot were accounted for Saturday, when a 10,000-ton tanker was dam aged off Zamboanga, southern Philippines, and an 8,500 . ton freighter-transport was sunk in Tiworo Strait, southern Celebes. A coastal vessel also was damaged near Zamboanga, second largest city on Mindanao. Heavy bombers extended their Celebes attack to enemy aircraft facilities at Kendari, where three grounded planes were set afire and others damaged. Meanwhile carrier planes and air patrols pounded the enemy’s Halmahera airdromes day and night. , Raids on Ceram and Boeroe air dromes by .Allied heavy,, -medium and fighter bombers which dropped a: total of 79 tons of ex plosives put the airstrips out of (Continued on Page S; Col. I) -V— CHINESE PARLEYS OPEN AT CAPITAL WASHINGTON, Oct. 1—Chi nese talks with American and British delegations beginning to morrow morning at Dumberton Oaks are expected to reach quick agreement On most major points. Kn<Jtty questions on details, how ever, mya require thorough ex ploration, at Chinese suggestion, before these initial conversations on a world security organization are wound up and the results are forwarded to United nations gov emmnets and announced to the world. Ambassador Wellington Koo, Chinese delegation chief, has out lined China’s desires in consider able detail and they appear to dovetail smoothly with the prin ciples which generally are under stood to have been agreed upon by the Russian, British and American delegates in the first six weeks of the talks. Koo stressed the necessity for a security system which could move unhesitatingly and force fully to forestall aggression and which would be flexible enough to adapt itself to changing con ditions. , It is precisely in the working out of such machinery, even though basic principles are agreed upon, that difficulty is expected. For example, China’s century (Continued on Page 2; Col. 5) GERMAN COUNTER-THRUSTS REPULSED BY BRITISH AND AMERICAN ARMIES; REDS 23 MILES DEEPER IN YUGOSLA VIA - ' *—*-.—£—.— ---•.* ' RUSSIANS STRIKING! FAR INTO HUNGARY Siege Of Latvian Capital Expected To Be Long, Bitter Struggle LONDON, Monday, Oct. 2. —(fP)—Russian troops struck 23 miles deeper into Yugosla via yesterday, fighting through the mountains of northeastern Serbia to with in 43 miles of the Belgrade Nis railway, the main escape hatch for 200.000 Germans imperilled in the lower Bal kans. Simultaneously, an unconfirmed Budapest dispatch via Turkey said other Soviet forces and Ro manian contingents had smashed 22 miles inside southeastern Hun gary, chewing up the troops - of that shaken Axis satellite prelim inary to a swift mobile thru*4 across the farmland plains toward Budapest, Magyar capital less than 100 miles distant. Budapest officially acknowledged Russian ' gains, but did not disclose their depth. Moscow was silent about the Hungarian drive, and also about the Warsaw situation, which Polish patriot reports described as "cri tical,” and where Berlin said the Nazis were badly mauling the dwindling guerrillas. Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky’s ! Second Ukraine army — which , Berlin says now has poured 30,000 ^ men across the Danube into Yu- , goslavia below the Romanian city of Turnu-Seem — was reported in ] Moscow dispatches to be 80 miles east of Belgrade, Yugoslav capi tal, with Marshal Tito’s Yugoslav partisans acting as advance ! acoatSF—*—~ x 1 The Soviet communique dis- 1 closed that one Red army spear- 1 head had veered southwest in a 1 (Continued on Page 8; Col. 4) ] -v_ ONE RESISTANCE POCKET ON PELEUU ■ i — i U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Oct. 1. ' —(IP)—American forces have secur- 1 ed all of Peleliu island except iso- 1 lated “Bloody Nose Ridge,” Adm. Chester W. Nimitz reported in a 1 communique today. Marine planes 1 were smashing the strong positions . still held by the Japanese in the heart of Umorbrogol hill. The admiral disclosed that more ' than 10,000 Japanese soldiers have ( been killed in the southern Palau islands, of which Peleliu is the ' largest. The Yanks now control not only Peleliu but all of Angaur, Ngesebus, Konhauru and five smaller islets in the some general region Fliers of the second Marine air craft wing hammered the Japanese hill positions last Friday with “numerous” 1,00-pound bombs in an effort to demolish remaining Nippon fortifications. Isolated en emy remnants continued to offer bitter resistance from hillside caves. The wiping out of open organized Japanese resistance on Peleliu and Angaur, and the taking of seven nearby islands in the same chain, virtually concludes the first Allied invasion of the Caroline islands, probably Japan’s strongest pre - war insular possession. Other en emy strongholds in the Carolines, such as Truk and Ponape, were neutralized by aerial invasion but ground forces have never landed there. Ample Coffee Available, Says Byrnes; Rumors Of Rationing Are Dispelled WASHlWGr&f, Oct. 1— WT War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes said today that there is no necessity of rationing cof fee now. Ample replacement stocks for retailers are available from whole salers and coffee roasters, Byrnes said. His statement took cogni zance of “reports that coffee ra • tioning' was imminent, causing runs on grocery stores in some [ parts of the country.” Byrnes’ statement: “With four months supply of • coffee now available to civilians, and on basis of assurances re > ceived today by the Department of State from Brazil that the fill , ing of orders for United States coffee importers would be resum • ed tomorrow, rationing of coffee i . is unnecessary I “Stocks of coffee in this coun try available to civilians Septem ber T totalled 670,000,000 pounds compared with 201,000,000 pounds when coffee rationing began in November, 1942, and 487,000,000 pounds on July 29, 1943, when cof fee rationing ended.’’ Byrnes office said that Brazil ian Finance Minister Arthur de Souza Costa, had given assurance that 1,000,000 bags of coffee a month would be provided the American trade through normal trade channels. American importers have had difficulty in recent weeks in con tracting more adequate supplies from exporting countries and stocks therefore had been declin ing. OPA said last night that “spec ulative exporters” in coffee pro ducing countries had been holding back on shipments in in attempt to force an increase in price ceil ings. American importers have ap pealed to the OPA to lift coffee from price controls, but OPA sources have said there is little chance that this will be done. „ Byrnes said that coffee stocks now in this country amount to about 3 and 1-2 months supply which is more than a normal sup ply.” These stocks together with . coffee now on shipboard bound for this country and that purchased J for shipment constitute about 4 months supply. The resumption of shipments, he said, will make pos j sible the maintenance .of an ade I quate working inventory Coming In To Give Up Riding on a field kitchen, Germans who had a greed to capitulate to Allied forces in France drive toward the appointed rendezvous. n • f A • jar. V Imrni ahiak kaiiihi ontisnotn.,Americanom. i Armies Gaining In Italy '-:-— ■¥ ROME, Oct. 1.— (tfl —British Cighth Army troops have captur id Savignamo, 10 miles inland rom the Adriatic on the Rimini-1 lologna highway, after several! lays of bitter fighting, and have' hrown the Germans back at some| loints from their strong Fiumi :ino . river line, Allied headquar ers announced today. Despite rains which hampered novements, Eighth Army men lave cleared the east-bank-of-the iver from the coast to Savigna no. Southwest of that town, they iccupied Tribola and Montalbano. Americans of the Fifth Army mocked, back a third and power 'll! German counter blow aimed it recapturing Mt. Battiglia. a lommanding height 11 miles from mola and the lateral highway to lologna. Elements of at least three Nazi liv sions, strongly supported by irtillery and flame - throwers, iharged in the vain effort to oust he doughboys from the mountains iverlooking the Po valley. Lt.-Gen. Mark W. Clark’s troops here threaten the main supply ine of Germans battling on the Vdriatic sector. Two miles farther west along hi, central front in Italy, Ameri :ans attacked neighboring Mt. | lappella, where Germans were itubbornly defending strong posi ions. Still farther west, the Yanks won 'round north on Giugnola, 18 miles south of Bologna, and cleared ene my remnants from Mt. Fredente, !1 miles southwest of that main city. The Germans have rushed rein !orcements from other Apennine ireas against the U. S. thrust making slow progress through mud ind rain and . imperiling Field Marshal Albert Kesselring’s grip cn northern Italy. On the west coastal sector, the Vazis stepped up artillery fire against Brazilian and other Allied inits maintaining pressure on mountain strongholds. Despite foul weather. Allied combers struck nine bridges ■ in :he Milan and Venice areas yes ;erday in the campaign to isolate Germans in the Po valley. Fight sr-bombers cut Po valley rail lines n 21 places, taking a toll of six .ocornojtives, 14 railcars and .16 ve iticies destroyed, with many others iamaged. • —_tr._ WEATHER GROUNDS BOMBERS IN WEST LONDON, Oct. 1—All Ameri :An and R AF heavy bombers Vere ?rourided today . due to weather on, :his”opening, day .of October, tra iitionally a. bad month in Allied air operation's, but rocket-firing typhoons from continental bases struck furiously at German tanks lorth of Nijmegen in Holland. The typhoons swept into the tanks in an effort to break up a projected Nazi attack On British lines at Huissen. During October last year the U. 3. Eighth Air Force bombers found only seven operational days, and three in October, 1942. This ivas in sharp contrast to 20 days of bomber blows at targets in Germany last month, with fight irs out every day. FOUR CAROLINA RIVERS RISING RALEIGH, Oct. 1.—CSV-Heavy overflows of eastern North Caroli na’s four principal rivers — the Neuse, Cape Fear, Tar and Roa noke — are expected as result of Continuous rains,-H. E. Kichline, chief of the weather bureau, said today. Indications are that the Roanoke river, which had almost subsided to normal after flooding last week will reach 43 feet at Weldon by Tuesday night or Wednesday, Kichline said. Flood stage at Wel don is 31 feet. A stage of 46 feet or more is ex pected on the Cape Fear river at Fayetteville sometime Monday. At Elizabethtown, the river may reach 33 feet by Tuesday night, the weather bureau chief said. Although there is no immediate threat along the lower reaches of the Tar river, the Tar, like other streams, is rising fast, Kichline said. The Neuse will reach 19 feet or more at Smithfield by Wednes day, Kichline predicted. Flood stage there is 14 feet. “The picture may be changed within the next few hours by fur ther reports,” Kichline said, but at present, heavy flows are anti cipated.” Rains over ‘ the river areas averaged two to five inches by Saturday. DELTA COTTON HIT BY PICKER SHORTAGE MEMPHIS, Oct. 1.—<iP)—A great deal of delta cotton may be left on the stalks this year because work ers are not available to pick it, a Commercial Appeal survey report ed tonight. The paper said cotton gins in the area reported only one-third 1 as many bales had been ginned by : Sept. 15 this year as for the same period in 1943. Planters were quoted as saying the labor supply was 20 to 25 per cent below that of last year with the crop considerably larger. Many of them said they doubted that they could get their full crop picked. ' lArLUMUn mm NEARS FOR POLES LONDON, Oct. i.—usn—jh* dy lamite-laden struggle between Premier Stanislaw Mikolajezyk’s ;xiled Polish government in Lon ion and 'the rival Soviet-sponsored National Committee of Liberation in Moscow for political control of Poland approached the exploding joint today in a controversy \*hich nay breed civil war within thekun lappy land. \ Mikoia—czyk’s bid for friend ship of the committee and Russia hrough replacement of Gen. Kazi nierz Sosnowski as commander in :hief of Polish forces by Gen. Ta ieusz (Bor) Komorowski drew such a violent reaction in Moscow —apparently with Stalin’s appro v il — that it virtually eliminated my hopes of effecting a reconcil ation between the rival political groups. President Asubka Morawski, president of the Moscow commit ;ee in a press conference in the Russian capital expressed deter mination to bring to criminal trial hose in the London government responsible for the untimely War saw uprising. He denounced Komorwski, lead er of the Warsaw fighting also mown as General Bor, as a crim inal and said the London govern ment was “crazy” for appointing lim commander-in-chief. London Poles, officially silent on he committee president’s blast pending a cabinet consultation, were frankly stunned by its rat ifications. Nor were they alone in heir astonishment, for it raised liplomatic implications far more important than the denunciation of ndividuals. The Moscow Polish Liberation :ommittee has been regarded in London as a creation of Russia with its power derived from the Red army and its words reflect mg the views of the Kremlin. Thus Morawski’s statement on he latest peace move was deemed i Russian rebuff not only for the London Poles but also for Prime minister Churchill and foreign sec retary .Anthony Eden, who have leen the prime movers in urging lpon Premier Mikola jczyk and President Wladyslaw Rackiewicz he necessity for sacrificing Gen. Josnowski in the interest of ac :ord. ALLIES MASSING TANKS, SAY NAZIS First, Third And Seventh U. S. Groups Prepare For Major Drive SUPREME HEADQUAR TERS ALLIED EXPEDI TIONARY FORCE, Oct. 1.— TP) __ British troops on the Arnhem-Nijmegen front to light fought off the nearest thing to a German counter affensive since the unsuccess ful drive to split the Brittany bound American armies at A tranches in Normandy two months ago. Although some German in fantry and tanks were able to cross the Neder Rhine at Heissen, four miles southeast of Arnhem, the drive defi nitely has been broken up, it was reported at Supreme Al lied headquarters. The massing of Nazi tanks and infantry eight miles north of Nij megen had been spotted by British force. Rocket-firing typhoons were summoned and dipped into the en emy forces. Field Marshal Walter Moaei teamed frith his Western front al ly, bad weather, to stage his lat est attack. It was coordinated in haphazard fashion with stabs that were not quite so strong against the American First army fronl southwest of Prum and in the Gre mecy forest northeast of Nancy. None of their thrusts gained any ground for the Germans. The size of the German force in* dicated it was not a local counter attack such as have harassed the British Second/Army and the air borne American troops since they landed in Holland two weeks ago The Germans apparently had planned to drive east from Huis sen and nip off the tip of Lt. Gen. Sir Miles Dempsey's spearhead, still on the banks of the Neder Rhine west of Arnhem. Americans routed the enemy from a key stronghold 30 miles southeast of Nancy today in one of many battles fought across sod den plains and mountains of north eastern France, which the supreme command said soon would spread to Austria. The Berlin radio, adding to the air of expectancy over the 460-mile front, asserted that the British Se cond army and the U. S. First army had massed strong tank forces for a great offensive that would be aimed east and northeast at the Rhineland. All along the rain-drenched front the Germans lashed out with vigorous counterblows in ea afr tempt to keep the fighting lines sta tic In Holland the British shattur ed two blows at their Nijmegen corridor and widened it further aa strong forces began driving the last enemy across the Maas (Meuse) river, where Tommies already ar« entrenched along 25 miles of the west bank south of the Siegfried line’s northern terminal at Kleve. The U. S. First Army dug deep er into the Siegfried line from east of the besieged forrtess of Aachen to 40 miles near Prurr., overran a number of pillboxes and repelled attacks by tanks and flamethrow ers. The U. S. Third army broke up a big German assault in a blazing four-hour battle 16 miles northeast of Nancy and carved out local gains in the same sort of slugging match that has marked that front (Continued on Page 2; Col. 2) Dover, Liberated From Shell Fire With Calais Capture, Numbly Smiles By TOM YARBROUGH DOVER, Oct. 1.— M—Liber ated Dover, in its strange new freedom from shell fire, was too numb today from four years of front line terror to realize right away the mean ing and goodness of quiet and peace. There were bright smiles— and that was all—when the BBC gave first place to the news: ‘‘Calais has been liberated.” Churches had special thanks giving services and the mayor raised the town flag in a little ceremony on top of the ancient town hall tower. Every train into Dover brought many civilians back to greet those who had stayed through the worst. In their modest Sunday best they ming led with dusty workers clear ing away the ugly rubble of the last salvos the Germans had fired in hate and spite. In a taxicab office a woman looked up from her work and said, “I hear they got 3,000 German prisoners at Calais. They ought to put them on a ship and bring them to this waterfront and say, ‘Now, if you can get through Dover alive you can go back to Germany free’.” A taxi driver wearing an ar tificial left leg to make up for the real one a shell had ripped off, said, “seems quiet, sit ting around listening for the si rens. doesn’t it? We are all happy but just can’t believt it.” Not all of Dover’s people stayed and took it. Displaying common sense, thousands who could, did leave and they are coming back now. Mayor J. R. Cairns said the city’s normal population of 42, 000 dropped to 14,500 and then gradually rose to 18,000—until the last three worst week* when another exodus began. The mayor said wearily "we are glad it’s over”—and then quickly added — "or nearly over." He warned ‘we mustn’t think the war is over.’’ Eyeing the wreckage of 2, (Continued on Page 3; Col. •£ J *
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