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r~ FORECAST A|A||A ^ ~ Wilmington and Vicinity: Clear and 1 V "V <4 BEMEMBEB ~ 14B Ilulluflllll t PEARL HARB0R - -r50-.--_J T AND BATAAN ! —----------. L_____* / ^,77^0236--WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, OSTOBER 23, 1944 ~ -FIN AT EDITION * Beach Houses Smashed By Hurricane I I Some 50 cottages were smashed by waves and high winds at Fernandina Beach, Fla., below Jack sonville by the 100-mile an hour hurricane that swept across Florida. This general view shows a number of the wrecked beach homes. (AP wirepho to). DEWEY TURNING TO AGRICULTURE ALBANY, N. Y., Oet. 22.—(.Pi Gov. Thomas E. Dewey tonight completed a postwar agricultural program speech and prepared to deliver it in the farm belt this week. The republican candidate for president who worked today at the executive mansion on the final drafts of his forthcoming middle west speeches, is expected to state his case to the nation’s farmers in a broadcast from Minneapolis Tuesday night.. He previously had promised, during his cross country tour, to discuss the farm problem in at least one major speech during the campaign- Unless present plans are altered, Minneapolis and Chi cago will be his final two appear ances in the middle west. The next, and closing week of the campaign has been set aside for an intensive drive through the east. The governor was said by James C. Hagerty, his executive assist ant, to have no comment “at this time” on President Roosevelt’s address before the Foreign Policy Association last nieht. In this connection it was recalled that Senator Joseph H. Ball (R Minn) has said he would not sup port either candidate until he had a clear expression of their foreign policy views. i Dewey is scheduled to leave cere at 9 a. m., EWT, tomorrow by special train for Minneapolis, arriving there sometime Tuesday. From the Minnesota city he goes to Chicago, stopping on the way hr a three-hour round of confer ences Wednesday with party lead ers in Milwaukee. He will make another major broadcast Wednesday night from Chicago before returning to Albany to prepare for his eastern cam paign. -V VMCA Council Favors World Court, Police BUFFALO, N. Y„ Oct. 22.—m -The national YMCA council 'rent on record today as favoring an international organization com prising a judiciary body and pc *ice force. , A resolution adopted at the clos ■ng session of a three-day meeting called for: ■ An international organization composed of representatives of all f„,°Pe, whose nations accept the hne of law; 2- An international judiciary de oud to attainment of political and S0CIal justice; and - An international police force enw'eVent egression and insure “forcement of law and order. V ^ Ms Road Mine "eor Aachen; Driver, Correspondent Dead A^nH ™E v- S. FIRST l?“?nN,EAR AACH£N. Oct. ayed) -W— David the y’ correspondent for was Worker magazine, Ml , "iUred fatally and Rus y'J correspondent for the in med to! Heuald Tribune wr, hl d y when their jeep tl bl.ow“ ul> by road mines wae,,l-„The jeep drlv , S'J "as killed. /l""’ fon of the late fam Bil, “m“r,st Ring Lardner ami tr-~sliert Ve‘Urning from th« Press e,»erm.an c,‘y 10 a la a f "hen they ran in said ti,‘led area" 0ne report strinr Jeep touched off a mines seveu anti-vehicular V. Jap Ships Race North To Escape Destruction CHUNGKING, Oct. 22. —(JP) Japanese ships in the south China Sea are racing north ward to escape destruction by American planes, Chinese re ports today said. Many of the ships, which steamed northward under em ergency orders after the bat tering given seacraft in co ordinated attacks by U. S. nav al planes and land planes of the U. S. 14th Air Force have reached the coast of north ern Fukien province. Chinese war minister Ho Ting Chin, in an interview, said the time for a decisive battle between the Allies and Japan was drawing near, “Final victory is well in sight,” he declared. NAVY DAY PLANS COMPLETED HERE Naval and Coast Guard officer., will speak at each of the 15 schools in the city and county on Navy day, Oct. 27. They will make brief talks, during school chapel exercises, on the growth of the American Navy and its tremen dous role in achieving victory. Local “Navy Mothers” will be honored at an outdoor meeting at the postoffice at 4 p. m. Navy day. Commander E. M. Doar, U. S. N. R. and a leading Wave will nriHrpss the J?rOUD. Capt. R. N. S. Baker, U. S. N., of Charleston, will speak at a luncheon at the Cape Fear club at 1 p. m. Captain Baker is industrial manager of the Charleston Navy Yard. Many naval and marine of ficers, community leaders and prominent citizens will attend the luncheon. PROCLAMATION RALEIGH, Oct. 22.—<#)—Gover nor Broughton has issued a proc lamation designating Friday, Oc tober 27, as Navy Day, in accord ance with the 23rd national cele bration of this occasion. Declaring that “the United States Navy during the nearly three years of the present World war has experienced the greatest achievements of its long history,’ the governor urged that all people join in the observance of Navy day and “share fully in a salute to the United States Navy and to its co ordinated sea power, the Marine corps, Coast Guard, Naval Avia tion and the Merchant marine.” -V EXTENDS GREETINGS NEW YORK, Oct. 22. — — Carrying greetings from the pro testant churches of America. Dr. A. L. Warnshuis, foreign coun sellor for the church comuittee on overseas relief and reconstruc tion, will leave shortly for Lorn don to aid in making plans for the establishment of European church programs, the committee announc ed today. __ FDR TO EMERGE ON FRIDAY NIGHT NEW YORK, Oct. 22. — UP) — Committed to unpredecented pow ers for America’s spokesman on a world peace council, Prescient Roosevelt doffed his campaign gear today and retired once more behind a curtain of censorship which conceals his wartime move ments. > The curtain will be pulled aside again next Friday night, howev er, for his fourth big political speech of the fourth term drive in Philadelphia’s Shibe Park. The chief executive may be “on the record” much of the time from then until election day. He has a speaking date in Bos ton, probably Nov. 4. and Chicago and Cleveland have been mention ed as likely spots for more orator ical efforts to sway votes. Furth ermore, the special train which brought Mr. Roosevelt to New York for a round of political ac tivities yesterday had a newly rigged out press car. Reporters figured it wasn’t fixed up just for trips to New York, Philadelphia and Boston. For a major pronouncement on foreign affairs, delivered here last night at the Waldorf Astoria hotel, the chief executive selected as a forum a dinner of the foreign poli cy association. Two thousand per sons, stacked up in balconies and bulging into foyers, vigorously ap plauded the President’s stand on the use of American power to help maintain future world secu rity. “The council of the United Na tions,” he said, “must have the power to act quickly and decisive ly to keep the peace by force, If necessary.' It is clear that, if the world organization is to have any reality at all, our representative must be endowed in advance by the people themselves, by consti tutional means through their re presentatives in congress, with authority to act.” Mr. Roosevelt took a soaking, 50 miles of it, on a four-hour drive which paraded him in a rain - swept open car past tens of thou sands of New Yorkers yesterday. Presidential secretary Stephen Early said the chief executive’s physician, Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, had examined him im mediately after the tour and found no ill effects. And Mclntire him self told reporter that “it’s much better than an even chance that he won’t be patient” as a result of the outing. -V REDS FREE EGYPTIANS NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—(B—The Russian Army in Bulgaria has liberated from a German prison camp 104 Egyptian survivors of the Egyptian merchant ship Zam Zam which was torpedoed and sunk by the Germans on April 17, 1941, the Soviet Tass news agency reported tonight. Russian Army Kves Ahead into Norway INVASION IMMINENT Red Forces Also Advance Deep Into East Prus sia; Shell Tilsit LONDON, Monday, Oct. 23. —(TP)—Russian troops hifcled the enemy across the Norwe gian frontier on a 40-mile front yesterday, capturing valuable nickel mines and driving to within 17 miles of the Nazi naval base at Kirke nes. Berlin meanwhile an nounced that other Soviet forces were now 21 miles in side German East Prussia and shelling the strategic rail city of Tilsit. Red army units attacking East Prussia from ’ the north reached the Niemen river opposite Tilsil in a 15-mile advance and farther south other troops in a 21-mile penetration from the east overran the Rominter forest, cut the Gumbinnen-Goldap highway, and began assaulting those communi cation towns, Berlin said. As the gruelling East Prussian offensive entered its seventh day. Moscow still had not mentioned the battle which Berlin describ ed as the most savage of the en tire war in the east. iue nusbia.li;>, nowever, report ed that their troops had advanc ed 12 miles closer to imperilled Budapest in Hungary, had cap tured the big eastern Hungarian junction city of Nyiregyhaza and other points near the southern Czechoslovakian border; had top pled the north Yugoslav commu nications town of Sombor and forc ed the Sava river beyond fallen Belgrade in a pursuit of the ene my. In northern Finland the Soviet Karelian army under Gen. Kv+A. Meretskov, supported by the Red Arctic fleet, reached the Norwe gian frontier on a front extending from Vuoremi on the Barents sea inland to lake Kuotsjarvis. Nickel mines in the Petsamo area which were ceded to Russia by defeated Finland were torn from the enemy At Vuoremi the Russians were 20 miles east of Qirkenes, the Na (Continued on-Page Three; Col. 5) RED CROSS WORKERS ALREADY IN GERMANY ROME, Oct. 22.— (PI —Basil O'Connor, chairman of the Amer ican Red Cross, who is inspecting Red Cross facilities in Italy, said today that Red Cross workers are already in Germany and that his organization is formulating plans for operations there. He said $9,000,000 in clothing has been distributed in Italy and that the budget for services to the armed forces in the Mediter ranean theatre was nearly $7, 0Q0.000 annually. O’Connor was received by Pope Pius XII this mornring. -V Churchill Fit And Well On Return From Moscow LONDON, Oct. 22. — (JP)— Prime Minister Churchill returned to Lon don today by air from his confer ences in Moscow with Marshal Stalin. Mr. Churchill was met at the airfield by Mrs. Churchill, Lord Swinton, Marshal of the RAF, Sir Charles Portal, chief of air staff and air Vice Marshal Collier, de puty air officer in chief. The Prime Minister wore the uniform of an air commodore of the RAF and looked fit and weil. Mr. Churchill’s conversations with Marshal Stalin lasted from Oct. 9 to 18. He left Moscow to Air Oct. 19. The Prime Minister is expected to make a statement to Commons this week on his Moscow talks. Cleveland Explosion Death Toll Mounts To 98, With 107 Missing CLEVELAND, Oct. 22. — (ff) — Weary searchers probed charred ruins of a 50-block east side area today for bodies of the dead, while living refugees trudged slowly back to what was left of homes shat tered by thunderous blasts and raging flames of a liquid fuel gas storage plant explosion. Casualties from the disaster, which struck at the East Ohio Gas Co., plant at midaftemoon Friday, rose tonight to 89 dead and 107 missing. Many of those listed by a miss ing persons bureau at county mor gue, however, may be found among the unidentified dead. Coroner S. R. Gerber, directing the searqfi at the scene of Cleve \ land’s worst catastrrophe and one of the nation’s major disasters, said “it may be days” before the rubble gives up all its dead. Seven victims remained in cri tical condition in hospiflls, and 165 others were being treated for less serious injuries. Two dozen small fires still flar ed and died away Intermittently 48 hours after the first of a series of blasts, which set a holocaust rag ing. Muffled explosions continued to reverberate from pools of gas trapped in underground mains. County engineering crews man ned bulldozers to raze gaunt, fire blackened walls of gutted buildings and to pull down naked chimneys. Nearly 10,000 persons who resid 1 »d on the fringe of the flame-rav aged neighborhood, worked their way fearfully back to homes dam aged by concussion. Shattered glass carpeted their front yards, doors and windows were missing or blown askew, and here and there a porch was smashed. The Red Cross, manning refu gee centers, listed 680 men, wo men and children who have no homes to which to return. Inside the half-mile square sec tion which felt the greatest havoc, helmeted Soldiers, with fixed bay onets augmented police cordons to keep sight-seers away. Property damage estimates (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) V. AMERICANS EXPAND PHILIPPINE POSITIONS, AD VANCING 4 MILES; ALL WEST FRONT BLAZES ANEW ■- ★_ w _. AMERICANS DRIVE TOWARD THE SAAR British, Canadians -> Start Squeeze Play On West Dutch Flatlands LONDON, Monday, Oct. 23. —(j*P)—The whole water-log ged Western front from Hol land to the Belfort Gap burst back to life in a thunder of Allied attacks Sunday as the British and Canadians launched a clean-up squeeze on the Western Dutch flat lands and the American Third army made a new thrust east ward to the Saar. The Germans, surprised, reeled back before the fury of the at tacks and, in this hour of ven geance, their civilian slaughter weapon, the robot bomb, was seen for the first time in the frontline battle zone: The flying bo-nibs were noted “in some numbers” over the U. S. First Army front, which in cludes the Aachen area. At what they were aimed was not clear and where they fell was not dis The new allied offensives flam ed with rising menace to the Ger man hopes of maintaining their block On Antwerp and holding the Americans from the Rhine. Striking at dawn yesterday in a surprise offensive, the British Second Army drove within less than four miles of the Germans’ Dutch bastion - of ’S-Hertogenbosch and put a giant squeeze on south western Holland in concert with a powerful Canadian drive from the north. The Canadians meanwhile seiz ed Esschen, 16 miles above Ant werp, and also .captured the stronghold of Breskens in the pocket, south of. Achelde, thus racking up a double triumph in the fight to open Antwerp’s port as a floodgate for Allied supplies. The U. S. Third Army at the same time broke forward in a push east of Nancy, in France, advancing two miles in the sector below enemy defenses inundated by the bursting of a dam by air assault. The British offensive sliced 2 1-2 miles toward ’S-Hertogenbosch, main escape route for the Ger mans fighting desperately to held the southwestern Dutch coast. It (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) ALUEDBOMBERS HIT FOE TARGETS LONDON, Oct. 22.—(T*-A fleet of more than 1,100 American heavy bombers, attacking with-, out loss, bombed northern Germa ny’s Reich industrial belt from Hamm and Munster east to Han nover and Brunswick today. Two of the 750 covering fighter planes did not return, and the were be lieved to have landed in friendly territory All of the bombing was done by instruments through +he overcast clouds. No enemy aircraft were encountered and anti-aircraft fire was generally modeate. Fighter pilots reported the de struction of 13 locomotives and 24 railway cars, and the destruction or damage of five barges and five small steamboats. Two gas manu facturing plants were shot up. RAF Lancasters escorted by fighters made a heavy attack this afternoon on the German inland port and railway center of Neuss, just across the Rhine west of Dusseldorf, and 20 miles northwest of Cologne. No planes were lost The RAF’s famed Brazilian ty phoon squadron, named in honor (Continued on Page Two; Col- 3) -V 39 Corporations Give $5,507,600 To War Fund NEW YORK, Oct. 22.— UP)— Thirty-nine of the nation’s large corporations have contributed or pledged a total of $5,507,600 to the National War Fund in the current campaign, Irving S. Olds, Chairman of the fund’s national gifts committee, announced to day. He listed among contributors United States Steel Corportion, $750,000; Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) and Domestic Af filiates $350,000; General Elec tric Co. and Bethlehem Steel Corp., $300,000 each; Internation al BiisinessMa gazines, \$230,000, gnd Union Carbide and fiarbon Corp., $200,000 TV He Came Back Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur on a landing barge during the invasion of Morotai island. Welcome In Philippines Astounds Broadcaster NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—WP)— William J. Dunn, CBC radio correspondent, today broad cast this account of the wel come Filipinos are giving Am erican forces on Leyte island: MacArthur's Headquarters, Philippine Islands, Oct. 22.— Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to witness scenes such as those which greeted American troops returning to the Philippines. Little children, hardly three years old, certainly not old enough to have a memory of any days before the Japanese occupation, shouted and danc ed in the streets of Tacloban. They waved two fingers in the famous “V” sign and shouted in piping voices: “Vic-tor-ee, Vic-tor-ee.” The first Americans to en ter the city were greeted with mingled laughs and cheers. What cheers. They were al most inarticulate because of the emotion behind them. Filipino women, dressed in their colorful costumes which are a vivid combination of the orient and Occident, waved from every window and every doorway. Old men threw smil ing salutes at everyone in uni form. Most of te Americans had never heard the Filipino greeting, “Mah Boo Hy” be fore, but they caught on Continued on Page lK.ce Col. 5) American Shot Wife, Baby To Save Them From Japs By KICHAKD BERGHOLZ WITH AMERICAN RANGERS [N THE PHILIPPINES, Oct. 17.— (Delayed)—(JP)—A tragedy of the Pacific war in which an American civilian guerrilla fighter, killed, his sick wife and child to keep them out of the hands of the Japanese and who was slain himself after he had shot many of the enemy was disclosed to me today by Ran ger Lt. Leon Tinnell. I met the lieu'enant when I land ed with the Rangers who went ashore on Dinagat and other islands in Leyte gulf several days before Yank assault waves hit Leyte beaches. The lieutenant, his words calm ■ but his face tense ana muscles tight, told me, “the most unforget table man I knew who was fight ing with brilliance in Mindanao was 6n American—a civilian who had .taken to the hills with his wife and baby. “Ever since the Japanese had forced this American famity out of its home in 1942 they had lived with Filipino guerrillas—always scared—always on the move—nev er any time to catch their breath —never any feeling of security “'But there came a time when the wife became sick and couldn’t be moved. The Japs were report (Continued on Page Tw<»; CoL 6) M’ARTHUR ASSERTS PUPPET REE VOID Captured Airfields Being Repaired For Use In Future Operations GENERAL M’ARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Leyte, Philippines, Monday, Oct. 23. — (Via Army Radio)—(/P)— Steady expansion of Ameri can ground force positions on all Leyte island fronts today paralleled the beginning of work on what a communique called a “great base for all arms fox; future operations.” Simultaneously, Gen. Douglas MacArthur in a proclamation de clared the Americans had com# as “liberators for the entire Phil ippine archipelago.” He declared the seat of the islands’ government had beep reestablished under Pres ident Sergio Osmenia, of the com monwealth government, who land ed with liberating forces. Enemy forces on Leyte a;^ar ently are withdrawing westward after their “preliminary defeat,” the pommunique reported. It said work had begun to pre pare the captured airfields near Tacloban and Dulag for American use, as other preparations com menced to make Leyete a great offensive base for future cam paigns. HIT_A _»__;__ muwii uiui u uv. dared the laws and regulations of puppet President Jose P. Laurel’s “republic” government are “null and void” in areas “free of enemy occupation and control.” The authority of the common wealth government will be extend ed by “constitutional process” to liberated areas as soon as they are freed, the proclamation said. The commonwealth government is “subject to the supreme authori ty of the United States.” The headquarters ' communique reported the Japanese supply problem already had become diffi cult and might become worse. . The Japanese attempted “'minor and ineffective” air raids on Am erican shipping off Leyte, the an nouncement said. Allied bombers, however, were extremely active in bombing flank bases in the Philip pines and other southwest Pacific areas. Heavy bombers unloaded 94 tons of explosives on Mindanao, smashing buildings and other in stallations. Among targets was Tagayan, principal communica tions center in the northern part of the island, which was attacked without enemy opposition, the communique said. Medium bombers and fighters also roared over Mindanao, the latter strafina 23 trucks on Sayre highway. They also damaged two small vessels Off Sarangani island. Medium bombers hitting the Visayan islands, in the central Philippines, sank three small freighters and probably sank four more. Night reconnaissance planes continued to harass the vital oil center of Balikpappan, Borneo, among other widespread attacks reported in the communique The Yanks on Leyte already have occupied the island’s capital, Tacloban, and its adjacent airfield, as well as the airfield and town (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) JT_ Yankees Free Philippine Town From Japan’s Yoke; Thank God, Says Bishop PALO, Leyte Island, P. I., Oct. 22.—WB—The little Philip pine town of Palo today cast off its forced affiliation with the Japanese Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity sphere and “we thank God for that,” Bish op Manuel Mascarinas told lib erating troops. American soldiers freed the town of 3,000 yesterday and then fought of Japanese coun terattacks during the night. What is it like to live under the Japanese? Bishop Mascarinas answers: "At first they tried treating us as friends but they don’t know what friendship means. Then they began suspecting u* as being guerrillas and only a few days ago they took one of us out on the bridge and killed him.” The bishop welcomed tho first American correspondent to reach the town. It has been little damaged. Japanese dead Uned tha macadam road leading into it.
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