$20,000,000 LOSS
TO CITRUS CROP
(Continued from Page One)
water distillers, which were to have
been removed tomorrow also, were
ordered to remain in the area.
MOVE OUT
ELIZABETH CITY. Oct. 19.—Iff)
—Residents of the coastal village
of Avon on the outer banks, just
recovering from havoc wrought by
the September 14 hurricane, were
evacuated to Manteo and Eliza
beth City late today as another
violent tropical storm swirled up
from the south.
Old and infirm men and women
were brought out in two patrcl
planes of the coast guard which
cooperated with the Red Cross in
carrying out the evacuation. Oth
ers came out on trucks, jeeps, and
other vehicles.
Avon with a population of 200,
was evacuated, officials explained
because the last storm had left
practically no houses standing in
the community. In other villages j
on the banks, all of which suf- ,
fered severe damage last month, .
the residents decided to stay ‘
■ home and let the hurricane do
its worst.
Red Cross workers, who have
been in the area for the last :
month aiding in the rehabilita
tion of the Storm-wrecked ham
lets, remained in the zone as the
newest tropical storm approach- :
ed, prepared to render any heip 1
needed.
Coast guard stations along the
fringe of islets comprising the
banks stood ready to receive the
inhabitants of the region if the
storm should be severe enough to
drive them to shelter.
The Hurricane was expected. hv
weather bureau officials to strike
in the vicinity of Cape Hatteras
around 8:30 a.m. tomorrow.
AT MYRTLE BEACH
MYRTLE BEACH, Oct. 19. —{JF)
—The army air base here said
early tonight the west Indian hur
ricane off the coast would cause
winds lin to 45 miles an hour in
Myrtle Beach by 9 p.m, tonight
and up to 65 miles an bour by
midnight- Extremely high tides
were also forecast.
It rained practically all day and
late this afternoon the winds were
gathering velocity.
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during the mating season, fierce
and bloody battles are fought by
rival males of this seemingly gen
tle bird tribe.
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City Alerted
If Hurricane
Should Come
(Continued from Page One)
ters at Woodrow Wilson hut re
ported that three bus-loads of Car
olina-Beach residents and many
private car-loads had come to the
lut for shelter.
From the hut arrangements
were made by the Red Cross for
rooms in hotels, private homes and
Maffitt Village for the evacuees.
Two sick cases requiring first
iid and physicians, were brought
irom Carolina Beach, Red Cross
workers reported.
Coast Guard and Red Cross
leadquarters in the Customs house
were on the alert and standing by
n case the storm should strike
iere.
The Coast Guard, working in
:onjunction wUh the. Red Cross,
lent warnings'to resident of riear
>y beaches about 6 p. m. to come
nto Wilmington.
Those who did not have friends
n Wilmington with whom they
night stay, were told to stand-by
md if it seemed necessary for
hem to leave. Coast Guard trucks
would go down after them.
Henry Gerdes, Chairman of the
ited Cross, reported about 9 p.m.
hat all possible preparations
were being made in the event
hat the hurricane did strike in
his vicinity.
Workers at the Wilson hi)t said
hat the Shelter committee was
/ery Dusy la&iug uaxc uj. cvacut-cs.
rransportation from the hut to
odgings was handled by the Red
2ross motor corps.
Twenty families who had come
ip from the beaches were hous
ed in the Hughes section of Maf
fitt Village by 10 o’clock and giv
en bedding and other necessary
terns. Accommodations for 100
Eamilies were available if neces
sary, H. R. Emory, executive sec
■etary of the Housing Authority,
reported.
A Tide Water Power company
spokesman reported that all
irews were alerted and the com
pany was keeping in touch with
he weather bureau and airport.
He declared that the utility would
teep its main circuits on as long
is reasonably practical, should
he storm strike, but emphasized
hat power would be severed
hould consideration for life and
property become a factor.
He said that they anticipated
ligh winds but no hurricane, but
vere standing in readiness if the
course of the storm should change.
One or two primaries were re
Dorted out because of blown fus
es, occasioned by the wet weath
er. No outside utilities had been
-lotified to send in help crews,
out said that they could be gotten
Erom Carolina and Duke Power
companies if need required, a 10
p.m. report said.
In the event of power cut-off, the
procedure for restoring light facili
;ies will be ttye same as that fol
owed after the August 1 hurricane,
ie said: the first lines to be opened
will be those feeding the water
works. hospitals, and other vital
public institutions; the next will
oe lines serving other important
:ustomers, Such as restaurants,
:ood stores and such.
The 9:30 p. m. advisory received
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Foreign Affairs Take
First Campaign Place
(Continued from Page One)
icy association in New York tc
morrow.
Dewey made no comment on th
State department’s statement be
fore leaving Albany for Pittsburg:
(where he will make a labor speeci
tonight. Paul Lockwood, his secre
tary, said tonight’s speech wouli
be a discussion of "what happen
to free labor under personal one
man government and what labo
in America has a right to loo)
forward to under a new adminis
tration.”
Dewey endorsed a state depart
ment warning to Nazi leaders tha
they will "pay the penalty for theii
heinous crimes’’ if they carry ou
reported plans to extermir,at<
Poles, Jews and other no - Ger
mans in concentration camps.
The vice presidential nominees
continued campaigning on the wes
coast with Gov. John W. Brickei
telling a Bakersfield, Calif., au
dience he had been infft-med thal
agents of the CIO Political Actior
committee had launched a “cam
paign of threats and intimidation’1
to line up labor voters for th«
New Deal.
In New York, Sidney Hillman,
chairman of the CIO-PAC, said
Bricker’s' statements were the
• “charges of a candidate gone wild
with fear at the sight of the grim
i spectre of defeat constantly stalk
■ ir.g him and his running mate. Gov
1 ernor Bricker knows that he has
1 no evidence to prove this.”
Senator Harry S. Truman mov
1 ed from Oregon into Washington
s for an automobile tour of the state
• climaxed by a major address at
■ Seattle.
: Other developments:
Former Senator William H. Sma
thers told reporters on the White
• House steps that President Roose
: velt would carry New Jersey by
■ 150,000 votes. Last Tuesday, for
: mer Democratic governor Charles
: Edison, after a White House call,
said it appeared Dewey would car
ry the state by a substantial mar
gin. Smathefs said he had told the
President that “the former gover
nor’s judgment has been warped
ever since he started an intra-par
ty fight with Mayor Frank Hague
(of Jersey City.)”
Secretary of agriculture Claude
Wickard, speaking at Sioux City,
la., said President Roosevelt was
“the best friend agriculture ever
has had in the White House.”
REDS SMASH EAST
PRUSSIA HEAVILY
(Continued from Page One)
A midnight Soviet bulletin de
scribed Belgrade as a "Cauldron”
where several thousand isolated
and pocketed Germans fell in a
single day, and Marshal Tito’s
Yugoslav partisan headquarters
said the Yugoslavs alone had kill
ed 5,000 Germans there.
The liberation of Belgrade ap
peared to be imminent, with the
enemy compressed into a narrow
portion of the Danube city.
In Hungary the Russians struck
to within seven miles of Debrecen
after a violent ten-day tank bat
tle, Moscow announced, and in five
days ended Wednesday captured
more than 11,000 German and Hun
garians, in addition to great stocks
of equipment.
New gains also were reported in
southeastern Czechoslovakia but
Moscow did not give the progress
of other Soviet troops and attached
Czechoslovak units battering their
way into Slovakia, the middle por
tion of the'Allied state which was
shattered by the Germans and their
Allies before the war began.
The smash into East Prussia
presumably was under the direc
tion of the brilliant 37-year-old
Jewish tank expert, Gen. Ivan D.
Cherniakhovsky. This Third White
Russian army troops, using thou
sands of American-made jeeps and
trucks, swept over Eydtkau, a half
mile across the Lithuanian border
on the Kaunas-Kcnigsberg high
way.
The Russians broke through the
main German fortifications. But
Berlin hastened to assure the home
land that the Nazi lines were
“elastic and staggered” and that
the loss of German soil was not
necessarily decisive in the war*
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Kansas Correspondent
Has His Troubles Too
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 19.-The
Associated Press this week asked
one of its correspondents, a Kan
sas editor, to cover a political
speaking in his town. No report
was received but today the edi
tor explained:
“Sorry to have failed you. I was
unable' to hear the speakers be
cause I was on a typesetting ma
chine that afternoon, as usual, and
immediately afterward delivering
papers to trains and postoffice.
While doing this I passed the
speaking place and saw between
25 and 50 persons listening, but
today couldn’t locate anyone who
could give any kind of a line on
What they said. I was unable
even to have a line on the meet
ing in our own paper—which is
very bad but unavoidable in these
days when the help shortage puts
the ‘old man himself’ in the back
s/iop. Hope some day to do bet
ter.’’
by the Weather Bureau from Wash
ington said:
“The hurricane is centered near
Savannah, Ga-., and just a short
distance off the coast driving north
northeastward or northeastward
about 25 miles-per-hour, attended
by winds 60 to 80 miles-per-hour
near the center and by gales over
a 200 miles radius, except in the
area more than 100 miles inland.
The storm center will pass over
Pamlico Sound during Friday
morning if present movement con
tinues.
“Winds north of Hatteras to
Virginia capes will range from 50
to 70 miles-per-hour and tides will
increase probably culminating in
flood tides ahead of the storm cen
ter, along the coast South of Hat
teras, • but will fall off rapidly
with passage of the center.
“Precautions should be continued
along the Norfolk area tonight and
preparations made -now for whole
gales and high tides north of Hat
teras to Cape Charles Friday
morning.
"Hurricane warnings are display
ed from Savannah northward along
the Carolina coasts through tne
Pamlico Sound area, with who
gale warnings North of Pamlic
Sound to the Norfolk area, with
northeast storm warnings con
tinued north of the Virginia Capes
> to Block Island/' /
F. R/S REELECTION
ADVOCATED BY COX
DAYTON, 0., Oct. 19.— Wl -
James Mi Cox, a staunch advocate
of the league of nations which the
U. S. Senate rejected after the last
war, declared tonight "the powers
that directed the conspiracy of 1920
control the Republican party still.”
The former Ohio governor and
Democratic presidential nominee
who campaigned in 1920 on a plat
form calling for participation in
the league, urged the re - election
of President Roosevelt, saying:
“The Allied nations which are
winning the war together must lead
in winning the peace together. And
thrt trio, Roosevelt, Churchill and
Stalin, whose united leadership is
winning the war, are not they,
standing together, the best guar
antee of the victory for peace for
which our people yearn?”
Speaking on a Coast-to-coast CBS
broadcast sponsored by the Demo
cratic national committe, Cox said
in a prepared text released by his
office:
"Die American people are to de
cide whether, at the crisis of the
war and the hour of opportunity
for the peace, we are to dissolve
the leadership which has brought
us thus far so gloriously on our
way. I believe our people know
their duty too well to desert this
great cause now.”
He asserted that a 'minority of
Senators” blocked America’s en
trance into the league in 1920, and
the Republican convention adopted
that year a “platform ambiguous
enough to insure a Republican
president by gaining the support
of both friends of the peace and
isolationists.”
•XT
BERLIN SEES FRESH
ALLIED DRIVE NEAR
(Continued from Page One)
the ground for a big smash into
the northern Siegfried line
The British drove to points ap
proximately three miles north of
Amerika, while American forces
pushing steadily eastward from
the Deurne area continued to roll
across the Deurne canal and stood
about the same distance west of
the town.
Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’
American First army in hand-to
hand and house-to-house fighting
through Aachen won control of
more than half of the city, find
ing German resistance as stub
born and strong as it was on the
first day of the siege of the big
German center 11 days ago.
At the channel end of the west
ern front Canadian troops ad
vanced northward to within a mile
of the key German fort of Bres
kens on the south bank of the
Schelde estuary and also closed
in on the town from the east,
reaching an unnamed bay two
miles away.
The rest of the front was rela
tively static on a day of continu
ed bad weather worst toward the
south; Lt. Geri. George S. Pat
ton’s American Third army in
eastern France was bogged in
mud, the doughboys lying in ma
ny of the same trenches their fa
thers used in the, first world war,
while American and French
troops in the Vosges foothills fur
ther to the south consolidated and:
improved their positions despite
German counterattacks.
The focal point of the entire
front- was the British-American
drive against the enemy’s Maas
oalionf anH narti’f>iilorl« «■ maL.i
the railroad town of Amerika. Ly
ing six miles south of Venray,
Amerika is on the railroad from
Helmond leading southeastward
through the border city of Venlo
and on into Germany through Cre
feld to the Rhineland. Amerika
is just eight, miles northwest of
Venlo, an important prize in it
self.
Northeast of Venray where the
Germans had dug in as if for the
winter, the determined onslaught
of the British Tommies and the
Allied success in Venra77 appar
ently .forced the enemv to chanse
his strategy, for the Nazi troops
were pulling out of this sector to
day.
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Adm. Robert E. Peary was ac
companied by a Negro and four
Eskimos when he discovered the
North Pole in 1909.
REP. H. P. FULMER
PIES SUDDENLY
(Continued from Page One)
by the “middleman” and an un
economical distribution system.
Among the agricultural laws en
acted by Congress which bore his
name, are the United States Stand
ard Cotton Grading act, and the
original Agricultural Adjustment
act containing the domestic allot
ment plan; farm mortgage refi
nancing, and drainage district re
financing.
Fulmer was born June 23, 1875,
near Springfield, S. C., a son oi
James Riley and Marthenla Ful
mer, and was educated in the
county public schools and Spring
field High school. He was grad
uated from Massey’s Business col
lege, Columbus, Ga., in 1887.
He was married Oct. 20, 1901,
to Miss Willa E. Lybrand, of Aik
en County, S. C., and they had
three children, Mrs. Charles Gor
don Smith and Mrs. William T.
Reed, both of New York city, and
Mrs. John Benson Sloan of South
Carolina.
Himself a farmer, Fulmer began
his political career in 1917 when
he was elected to the South Caro
lina House of Representatives as
one of five elected from a ticket
of 13 candidates.
Re-elected two years later, Ful
mer served as a member of the
Ways and Means committee of the
South Carolina House, and in 1920
he was first elected to Congress.
He served in Congress continu
ously since, though rarely was he
re-elected without opposition, eith
er in the democratic primary or
in the general election.
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JAPANESE REPORT
PHILIPPINE LANDING
(Continued from Page One)
ments to the north, was silent on
the Tokyo claims.
Tokyo, in a broadcast recorded
by the Federal Communications
Commission, said American forces
had landed pn the tiny island oi
Suluan at the entrance of Leyte
gulf on the eastern side of the cen
tral Philippines.
(The Blue network also reported
a Tokyo broadcast of a Japanese
imperial communique shortly af
ter 10 a. m., Pacific war time
which said Americans “started
landing attempts” on the big is
land of Leyte between Mindanao
and Luzon).
Confronted with the necessity of
backtracking on claims of an “an
nihilating victory” over the Amer
ican navy off Formosa — claims
repudiated in Toto by Nimitz—To
kyo radio said today:
“Despite his serious losses suf
fered in the waters off Taiwan
(Formosa), the enemy has com
menced his reinvasion of the Phil
ippines.”
Tokyo attempted to explain
away the alleged destruction of
America’s task force 53 by saying
the American Fifth fleet, under
A A C-_____1_S
regrouped itself with the Tlrfrd
fleet of Odm. William F. Halsey to
make the invasion possible.
MacArthur said his Liberators
blasted Davao and Zamboanga on
Mindanao Tuesday, unloading 106
tons of bombs and that his fight
ers went over the next day to hit
Cotobato on the west-central coast.
The landing on Suluan was cov
ered by powerful Allied fleTTfs
from the southwest and central
Pacific, Tokyo said, and by Al
lied warplanes based on Morotai
and Peleliu islands, to the south
and southeast.
Coastal areas about Leyte gulf,
Tokyo reported, were being sub
jected to heavy naval and air
bombardment.
For days, carriers of Adm. Wil
liam F. Halsey’s mighty Third
fleet have launched furious air
attacks on every enemy base that
could oppose a ground invasion of
the Philippines
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said
Fighting Irishman
SITTING on the aft gun barrel of
a Coast Guard-manned invasion
transport somewhere in the Pacific
is “H. E. (High Explosive) Kelly”,
the ship’s mascot Bom on a 83
footer in the Atlantic, “Kelly” £as
served on two oceans and only
been ashore twice in his life—on
the docks of Honolulu and the
beach at Eniwetok. (International)
yesterday that these sweeps con
tinued and the enemy-controlled
Manila radio today reported a new
attack in that area by 270 carrier
planes.
Japanese plane tosses in these
assaults on the Ryukyu islands,
Formosf and the Phillipines al
ready approached 1,000, on the
basis of incomplete official re
ports. Some 350 enemy surface
craft, including 150 small vessels
such as barges and sampans, had
been destroyed.
The Tokyo radio, as monitored
by the Federal Communications
Commission, hiked its claims of
aerial damage to Halsey’s fleet
in what it has termed a “brilliant”
victory for Nipponese arms in the
Formosa area. The new claim
was that 11 American carriers, two
battleships, three cruisers and one
bxuiaci ux ucau ujci uau uccu suiia.
and 40 other warships damaged.
“No damage of consequence” to
American battleships or cruisers
was reported by Nimitz in a com
munique Oct. 17 covering the
enemy aerial attacks on the Third
fleet. Two “medium sized” ships,
however, were withdrawing from
the action, he said, having been
hit by aerial torpedoes.
Meanwhile, Vice Adm. Marc A.
Mitscher’s carriers, a part of the
Third fleet, gave the lie to the
Tokyo claims by continuing to
launch their aerial fury against
the enemy’s island positions.
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CHUNGKING, Oct. 19.— <*> -
The semi - official Chinese agenc;
central news said today that Chi
nese troops had recaptured Ta
jungkiang, a town 23 miles nortl
of the Kwangsi province capital o
Kweilin, and that the retreatinj
Japanese were being pursuei
northward.
There was no confirmation fron
the Chintse high command, whosi
latest communique indicated a Jap
anese advance to a point 21 mile
north of Kweilin had been achiev
ed as the result of an enemy col
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Kwangsi railway town of Hingan
Fighting ensued there and w a
continuing yesterday morning, th
communique added. ,
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miles west of Hingan have beei
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- Kweiping, 70 miles southh ,!t "•
1 east of Liuchow, the high m’J01'
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• There was elation in the rv
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