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pS^I OTntmgtmt iUnntutrt §tar 1 _ ______ WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1944 __ FINAL EDITION Russians Cut [scape Route FromHungary Occupy Strategic Junction OfCsap On The Upper Tisza River gain in LATVIA Costly Battles "Of Attri tion Slacken On East Prussian Front Bv W W. HERCHER toMDOV Monday, Oct. 30.—(IP) Russian troops who fought their " ‘ 50 miies acrosswnountainous WLn Czechoslovakia yesterday occupied the strategic junction of r j Cop) On the upper Tisza river cutting the enemy’s last rail escape route out of northeastern Hungary. A Berlin announcement said that other Soviet troops attacking in western Latvia had penetrated to the prekule area, 20 miles south east of the Baltic port of Liepaja, Drive Not comirmeo Moscow's communique did not conf'rm the two-day-old .Latian offensive aimed at wiping out 100, 000 Germans pinned against the sea nor did mention the Ger man east Prussian front where Berlin said the costly battles of attrition had slackened. Gen. Ivan Petrov’s specially equipped fourth Ukraine army, in reaching the great Hungarian plain after a thrust from Poland through the snow-capped Carpa thian mountains, freed the last bit of the 4.385 square miles of Hun garian-annexed Ruthenia, wheeled westward into neighboring Slovak ia and raced along the Tisza river In an effort to trap numerous Axis divisions fighting in eastern Hun gary. Petrov’s troops already had link ed up with units of Marshal Rod ion Y. Ma’inovsky's Second Uk raine army and attached Roman ians who were fighting a stubborn j series of battles in the area of Myiregy-Haza, big Hungarian city 38 miles southwest of fallen^ Csap. Railroad Junction Csap. on the pre-war Czecho slovakia-Hungarian frontier, is a junction of the Lwow-Budapest railway and an east-west line run ning through Czechoslovakia and northern Hungary. Its capture re presented a 13-mile advance from Ungvar, former Ruthenian capital taken Friday. In northeastern Hungary, south of Csap, the Russians announced the capture of eight villages on a 2C-mile front in gains up to eight miles. These included Nyireparos 'Continued on Page Two; Col. '£) • -V POLISH SOLDIERS SEIZE PREDAPPIO Cold Wind And Rain Sweep Across Northern Italian Battlefront ROME, Oct. 29.—OP)—Predap pio, dose to the hilltop hamlet of *wano do Costa where Benito Musolini was born, has been occu py by Polish troops of the Eighth Allied headquarters announ ce today as a cold wind and rain a"opt across the entire northern Italian battlefront. fn entering Predappio, which is six miles south of Forli, an impor «nt junction on the lateral Bolog ;a;R®ini highway, the Poles , ,over s°il which the follow s of Mussolini had invested with of fascist reverence. m ,e entire area abounds with p. ,ein fascist monuments and tj. appi° was at one time the cen tal a Nourishing tourist trade b ,rom Bol°gna and Rimin: I; j[ at the humble birthplace itni°r,th °* Bl'edappio the Germans «r0a ,!ere eiltrenched on the ap '^jMofJForli. “Dr.” Ernie Pyle Exchanging his war correspond ent’s uniform for a cap and gown, Ernie Pyle is shown as he was granted an honorary degree. of Doctor of Letters at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque for his remarkable work as a roving battle reporter. In conferring the degree, Pyle was commended as the “friend and comforter of thou sands of relatives whose loved ones have fallen in the service of their country. GREEK PATRIOTS SEIZE PLATAMON German Radio Reports Al lied Landing On The Island Of Melos ATHENS, Oct. 29.—UPl—Greek guerrillas have seized the town of Platamon, 46 miles southwest of the flaming Grecian port of Sal onika, and at the foot of the re doubtable natural barrier formed by Moun Olympus, patriot head quarters announced today. Platamon lies north of Tempe Pass between Mount Olympus and Mount Ossa on the south, where for four days in 1941 valiant Brit ish rear guards held back the German tide sweeping over north ern Greece. (The German radio said allied troops under cover of the guns of British warships and warplanes had landed on the Greek island of Melos, 70 miles north of the enemy stronghold of Crete, and on the staging route for German evacuation movements from re maining Aegean islands. /"While there was no immediate allied confirmation, it was an nounced yesterday that the big guns of British warships had op ened up on this strategic 60-mile square island in the Cyclades.^Ber lin said its garrison ‘‘is engaged in bitter fighting.”) Pillars of smoke towered over the great port of Salonika in northern Greece, pilots reported, as the Germans speeded demoli tions before abandoning the port ahead of the onrushing British and Greek patriots. At Kozane, 58 miles southwest of Salonika and only 40 miles from the Yugoslav border where the British had bypassed Olympus and caught up with the German retreat for the first time since the liberation of Athens, there was continued fighting. ---V Winston-Salem Girl Signs Movie Contract LOS ANGELES, Calif., Oct. 29. (JP)—Sixteen-year-old Sally Borth wick of Winston-Salem. N. C., has signed a contract with Metro Goldwyn-Mayer. The North Carolina beauty, act ing on the advice of a business ac quaintance .of her father who sug gested she take a screen test dur ing a trip to New York, received a contract calling for $125 weekly. She was accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Harry R- Borthwick, when she signed the contract. A state law requires court approval of film contracts involving minors. senator Walsh Reveals He Will Support F. D. R. Eo'sTnvN*;ST B' yAccARo CL?' 29. —(m—Senator setts npi'. 3 sb’ veteran Massachu le„ceP°bbcal flgUre' broke si paign tnl,the 1944 election cam port of 4° ann°unce his sup re-electionreSiCient Roosevelt for it made 'nis announcement 52 milpp°Crabc ralJy In Lawrence, ^troduced °sth f h6re’ Where he man YbSenator Harry S. Tru ruilnine‘e^Pfesident’s fourth term to God !?ate' as “a real, honest istat*. -lnJ“ **>d a- mighty able Walsh ’ ilG(iuently a crilic ol ad ministration foreign policy prior to Pearl Harbor, did not mentior President Roosevelt by name bul told the gathering: “I am heart and soul for the sue cess of our entire ticket.” Later he told reporters he meani by that “the national and stat< tickets.” Walsh’s action bora out a pre diction made earlier at aJBostor press conference by Robeit E Hannegan, chairman of the demo cratic National com>xuttee, wh< | (Continued on Pag® Col. 4) Jtap Snips Reaches 58; Holdings In Philippines; > ng To Trap 40,000 Nazis _ 1-1 !-» * W ___ TOSSING PUNCHES IN SOUTH HOLLAND Polish Troops, Under Cana dian Command, Storm Into Breda LONDON, Monday, Oct. 30. —(JP)—Allied forces were throwing powerful punches throughout southern Holland last night in an effort to pre vent approximately 40,000 Germans from fleeing across Hollandsch Diep and the Maas (Meuse) river in the direction of Rotterdam. As the offensive against the desperate Nazis mounted, the Allies yesterday marked up these advances: 1. Polish troops, under Canadian command, stormed into strategic Breda, midway between Roosen daal and Tilburg. 2. The Canadians linked up with the British on south Beveland and drove into Goes, the peninsula’s main communications center. (The American broadcasting station ir. Europe reported Goes had fallen.) Nearing Maas , 3. The British captured Loon Op Zand, north of Tilburg, and then plunged within four miles of the Maas. a r J T J! i.L J.' ■i X XJ. Ull UJllt. that American troops under Cana dian command had joined the spectacular cleanup drive »ome where on a 22-mile front between Bergen Op Zoom and Breda. The doughboys joining the drive to knock the Germans from the lower coastal—«©J"»er of Holland and open Antwerp as a port to re ceive supplies for the conquest of Germany seized several unidenti fied towns, it was reported. Late reports said that the Poles who seized Breda, a city of 48,000 and a key to German defenses in southwest Holland, found only a few Nazi snipers left there and late last night moved up across the Breda-Roosendaal road. Allied fighter-bombers ripped at the fleeing enemy, and pilots de clared the area below the Maas was “alive with transports.” The bombers needed only good weather to take tremendous toll of enemy forces forming two bottlenecks at bridge and ferry crossings. The German stand in the Schel de estuary, with guns barring the water pathway to Antwerp, like wise was crumbling rapidly. Canadians who drove onto south Beveland island across a cause way had swept nearly half the length of that island. One south ward-turning arm linked with a British beachhead expanding along the southern coast, and another Canadian column drove to the out skirts of Goes, biggest city of Beveland. Some 3,900 prisoners of the island’s 11,000 garrison had been taken by the Canadians. To the southwest across the Schelde estuary, Canadians reach ed the edge of Zuidzande, 5 1-2 miles southwest of Breskens, and had taken 6,000 prisoners from the dwindling German forces trapped in a pocket there. Only a few hun dred Germans were left there. Fifty miles east and south of Breda, the Germans lashed out again Sunday with strong armored attacks from the German border, (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) -y TEMPLE CHURCH FUND ENLARGED Total Of $5,000 Expected To Be Obtained Before thrive Closes ^ i The new building fund of Tem ple Baptist church has reacned over $1,000 more than the original $3,000 goal, set early this month, and workers anticipate a total of ■ $5,000 before the campaign closes on Emphasis day, November 5, Louis O. FonvieUe, Chairman of the Initial Gifts committee, re ported last night. The goal was attained and ex ceeded when solicitors met yes terday afternoon and made their reports, he added. The drive to raise an additional $3,000 for the new church fund was formally launched Oct. 15 at a meeting of more than 50 workers. It is under the super vision of Ira D. Ferrell, general chairman of Emphasis Day com mittee. I Roosevelt Campaighs ] —■paaM.WP lllMIWillli»lii*J0iy«BWWB»lBM8MWMBagg^:a8S388R^^3^a:£>Sg-::::^:--:::-wv-3g--;'-'v-; On his way to Philadelphia to make a major campaign speech, President Roosevelt Is shown as.he stopped In Wilmington, Del., to make a brief talk to the crowd which gathered around the observation platform. ___ Roosevelt Returns To Capital After Seven-State Vote Tour _—-±-- -- PLANS SHORT REST Talks Reforestation During Short Stop At Clarks burg, W. Va. ■—a 1 WASHINGOTN, Oct. 29— CP)— President Roosevelt returned to Washington tonight after a three day campaign tour that took him through seven states for a half-doz en speeches including two major fourth term addresses. The president’s special train reached Washington shortly after 8 p. m. (Eastern War Time). Mr. Roosevelt is counting on a few days rest before starting again on more vote-getting excur sions before the Nov. 7 election. Final Appearance The final appearance of the chief executive on a heavy schedule through Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illi nois and West Virginia, was for an extemporaneous talk at Clarksburg in the West Virginia mountains. The state has eight electoral votes but Mr. Roosevelt talked mostly about trees, reforestation and conservation. He said he liked Sundays in campaign years be cause he didn’t have to think about politics, even though he couldn’t get away from the war. Every day, even aboard his spe cial train, he said, he received dis patches telling of the progress our boys are making in Europe, the Philippines and the Pacific. “I can’t get rid of that,” he said. The chief executive’s campaign special, winding through the au tumn-tinted Alleghanies stopped in the midst of thousands of people assembled at the station. Previ. ously he had spoken at Wilming ton, Del., Camden, N. J., Philadel phia, Fort Wayne, Ind., and Chi cago. Surrounded by state Democratic leaders who had boarded his train at Wheeling, Mr. Roosevelt told his Clarksburg audience that it was a great comfort to come back there on a Sunday in a campaign year. Coming through the wooded mountains, Mr. Roosevelt said, he was reminded of the words of the poet, “only God can make a tree.” Then- he spoke of a need for re placing American woodlands, not (Continued on Page Two CoJ. 5) BRITISH BOMBERS BATTER COLOGNE Take Advantage Of Bright MfffflrFw Twird~Bir^ Raid In 36 Hours LONDON, Oct. 29.—-W)—British mosquito bombers, taking advan tage of a bright moon, pounded battered Cologne tonight for the third time in 36 hours. The night attack on the German rail and industrial center just be hind the battleline followed a Stockholm-reported British and American air foray today over Sweden, apparently the first direct air support of Russian and Fin nish troops clearing the German 20th army from northern Finland. The British announced that their Lancasters, in a daring 2,400-mile roundtrip flight had struck the German battleship Tirpitz with another six-ton earthquake bomb in its lair west of Tromso, Nor way, and smashed at U-boat pens at Bergen on the Norwegian west coast. Tonight was the second in a row that the mosquitoes have hit Cologne, following up Saturday’s daylight raid by 750 Halifaxes and Lancasters. The air ministry said that returning crews tonight agreed “fires started in the day light attack Saturday were still burning fiercely.” A communique from Swedish defense staff headquarters first said that the formations of four engined planes heading toward Finnish Lapland across northern Sweden were American, but a later communique said at least part of them were British. One British heavy bomber was forced to land at Pofjus, in northern Sweden. The Allied bombers were at least 1,300 miles away from their British homes and whether they were on a hazardous round trip or' would land at bases which may have been prepared in northern Russia or Finland was not. im mediately known. (BBC said Allied planes sank a German transport and 10 other ships ih a north Norwegian Fjord.)", • • Withdrawal Of Stilwell Hits U, S. Army In India By PRESTON GROVER -NEW DELHI, India, Oct- 29-—(iP) Withdrawal of Gen. Joseph W. Standi'from command of the Chi na-Burma-india theater appeared here today to have pulled the props from under American activity in this area. Stilwell has been a dynamic per sonality with a double job of great difficulty. He had first to divert all pos sible British and Indian support to his main job of supplying China, although the British had many other things to do. He had the second job of per suading the Chinese to use sup plies once delivered in the most effective manner against the Jap anese. Despite the War department an nouncement that Stilwell will be given “a new and important as signment/’ there was immediate speculation, especially among In dians, that he had bqpn withdrawn under British pressure. This cor respondent is confident such a surmise is unfounded. The whole aim of the American operation in the CBI theater has (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) BULGARIA OFFERS HELP TO ALUES Armistice Terms Also Call For Stimnder Of An nexed Territory WASHINGTON, Oc. 29. — UP) — The United States, Great Britain and Russia today published the armistice terms made with Bulga ria, disclosing that the defeated en emy has promised full aid in prosecuting the war against Ger many. The terms also provided that Bulgaria relinquish all claims to Greek and Yugoslav territory which the Bulgars had sought to annex as long as they fought at Germany’s side. No specific reparations were re quired although it was stated that Bulgaria must either restore all property taken from the United Nations and their nationals, includ ing Greece and Yugoslovia, or else must pay for the losses caused. In general the terms parallel those imposed on Romania in Sep tember excep't that a specific rep aration of $300,000,000 was fixed against Romania by Russia and Russia alone signed the Romanian armistice in the name of all the allies. The Bulgarian armistice is sign ed not only by Marshal Feodore I. Tolbukhin, as representative of the Soviet high command but also by Lieut. J. A. H. Gammell, for the supreme allied commander in the Mediterranean. This double signature was a means of recognizing the. primary British as well as Soviet interest in Bulgaria and also the fact that while Bulgaria had long been at war with Britain and the United States and other United Nations, Russia declared war on the coun try only at the last moment. —-V RUSSIANS IGNORE WORLD AIR MEET Will Not Participate Be cause ‘Pro-Fascist’ Countries Invited LONDON, Oct: 20.—C/P)—The Moscow radio' announced . tonight that Russia would hot participate in the international conference on civil aviation at Chicago because “countries# like Switzerland,. Por tugal and Spain, which for many years have conducted a pro-fascist policy hostile to the Soviet union —have also been invited.” The Moscow station broadcast this statement by Tass; offciial So viet news agency: “Reports have appeared in the foreign press concerning participa tion by representatives of the So viet union in the international con ference on civil aviation which takes place Nov. 1 in Chicago. “Tass is authorized to state these (Continued on Page Two; Col. S) TREES 1,500,000 I ON TWO ISLANDS fanks Control Two-Thirds I Of Leyte, Practically ,N All Of Samar MacARTHUR’S HEAD 9 U A R.T ERS, Philippines, 1 Dct. 30.— (Via Army Radio) J —(/P)—Hard-driving Ameri-1 ;an forces, who made new i ?ains of nearly four miles to- ’ Jay, have “virtually accom- i plished” the liberation of a < million and a half Filipinos on 1 Leyte and Samar islands Gen. Douglas MacArthur announc ed in a communique. The Yanks control roughly two-thirds of Leyte, with an area of approximately 1,800 miles, while on nearby Samar —stepping stone, to Manila— the small Japanese garrisons “are helpless and can be de stroyed at will.” All organized resistance in Leyte valley has ceased and the Ameri cans control this vital areaj after capturing Dagami, a key commu nications center on the main high way. Four-Mile Gains On the northern front, the 24th Division made gains up to four miles in a three-pronged drive to ward the island’s northwest coast to cut off a major enemy escape route. Guerrilla forces and the 21st Infantry regiment have conquer ed the southern one third of Leyte, and patrols are cutting westward across a narrow land neck from Abuyog to cut the island in seg ments. The Americans hold an unbrok en coastline of 212 miles, from Caragara', on the northwest coast, to Panaoan island, off the south east coast “Enemy garrisons and outposts in the coastal sectors have been liquidated,” the communique said. It named five additional major towns liberated in new surges which tightened the American grip on communications and left the Japanese little chance to es cape, except into wild hills. Churches Opened The liberation drive was drama tically underlined by the com (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4j DIES GROUP SAYS * PAC COMMUNISTIC Claims Committees Rally ing Point For Red Party And Its Allies WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. — (IP) - A Dies subcommittee of the house said today the National Citizens Political Action Committee ‘.“re presents the communists’ supreme bid for power” in this country. In a formal report the subcom mittee said the NCPAC and the Political Action Committee of the CIO, “are now the rallying point or the communist party and its allied groups and organizations to rise to power by taking control of a major political party.” The findings were submitted by subcommittee chairman Costel lo (D-Calif), and Representatives Starnes (D-Ala) and Thomas (R NJ). Starnes and Costello, defeat ed for re-nomination in the 1944 (Continued on Page Two Col. 5) UMITZ REPORTS ON THREE FIGHTS (elated Actions Off Phil ippines Cost U. S. Only Six Vessels U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 29.—(fP)—The hird and seventh U. S. fleets lank or damaged 58 Japanese varships in the second battle >f the Philippine sea, scoring me of the most crushing )cean victories of the war and perhaps the most decisive in naval history. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz today reported first details of the three related actions which were fought in the early days of last week, and which cost only six Ameri can vessels. This overwhelmingly one-sided victory was more devastating to the Nipponese navy than the ham mering given it in the first Philip pines sea battle last June 19, dur ing the early stages of the Amer ican invasion of Saipan In the Marianas. Toll Nimitz said that the toll of ene my ships in the second Philippine* battle was 24 ships sunk, includ ing four carriers and two battle ships 13 so severely damaged they may have sunk, and 21 damaged “Amplifying reports, although still subject to revision as more information is received, indicate an overwhelming victory,” the ad miral stated in an 1100 word com munique, his first since he receiv ed preliminary figures Wednesday midnight. .‘'The Japanese fleet has been decisively defeated and routed. The second battle of the Philip pine sea ranks as one of the ma jor sea battles of World War II in the Pacific.” Not more than possibly two Jap anese warships escaped destruc tion or damage in the three phases of the battle. Nimitz’ communique listed 58 to possibly 60 ships in the three Ja. anese forces. Greatest In History Although the Admiral said re ports indicate an overwhelming U. S. victory, the Japanese defeat unquestionably was the most crushing in the history of naval warfare. Never before, so far as could be learned here, has any nation's fleet been so nearly de stroyed. Nimitz unqualifiedly said, “the Japanese fleet” was engaged in the overall battle. Naval observers stated that Tokyo threw virtually everything it had into the desperate attempt to surprise and trap me third and seventh U. S. fleets and to wipe out Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur’s might invasion force on Leyte island More ships were sunk and dam aged in the Battle of Jutland in the first World War, but there the losses were nearly equal, wherea* in the Philippine sea all three Jap anese forces virtually were wiped out, but the U. S. forces were only lightly hurt. . , . The British lost 14 ships sunk at Jutland; the Germans 11. Twenty eight British ships and 22 German ships were damaged. This total of 75 sunk or damaged exceeds by 10 the total of 58 Japanese ship* sunk or damaged, six American ships sunk and the Australian cruiser H M. S. Australia lightly damaged, in the Philippine engage ments. , , . Large Kumber Involved Although exact figures < innot be given, the total of ships involv ed in all three Philippines battle* exceeded the number engaged at (Continued on Page Two; Col. T) DeGaulle Regime Disarms All But Police And Army Bv JOSEPH DYNAN PARIS, Oct. 29.—UP)—The De Gaulle government precipitated a first-class crisis today with a de cree disarming all save the regu lar army and the police—a far reaching order directed at com unist partisan elements who have defied its authority, particularly in South France. Hardly had the ink dried on the decree than the National Resist ance Council — brains of the French underground under Ger •man occupation—challenged the decree in an extraordinary session at which it declared the patriotic V Milice (militia) — an anti-Vichy guerrilla 'organization which i> largely communistic—‘'should be given a definite iegal status." Its firm stand was a potent challenge to the DeGaulle govern ment, since the council kept the resistance spirit aflame during the black days under the German boot and enjoys widespread influ ence throughout France The communist press joined in the attack on the order, which di ! rects all but members of the army and police to surrender arms or | (Continued on Pftge Two; Col. 4)
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