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_ REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR AHD BATAAH FINAL EDITION Leyte Battle Declared In Final Stage showdown in making Japanese Manage To Land • More Troops Despite Prowling Planes General MacArthur’s Head urters. Philippines, Wed *y, Nov. 1. yfP) Amer ran 24th Division troops, aid dbv powerful mechanical nits, rolled northwest thro# Leyte valley today above Jaro within eight miles of Carigara bay positions the Japanese have been leinforc jng for a week. i final enemy suicidal counter tac|t in that area any time with the next few days was expected t j'aj. Gen. Franklin C. Sibert, ; fc'rmer chief of staff to Gen Jo seph Stilwell and now command- ( cr of the 10th corps. . , The Japanese, persistently , sneaking in barges at Ormoc bay ! on the island's west coast despite the destruction wreaked by prowl j„g night air patrols, were said ; by a headquarters spokesman eith er to be: , tn mfikp a stand at J Oimoc and more than 20 miles ( to the north around Carigara, or 2 Setting up a perimeter of de fense with fresh troops in an at- , tempt to evaluate remnants of the Japanese 16th division, the same ’ Nipponese who organized Bataan’s ; “march of death.” ' Headquarters announced this gathering fight in a communique which also reported the annihila- , iio.n of a trapped Japanese force further south in the Leyte valley near Dag ami. American flamethrowers killed between 1,500 and 2,000 Japanese in the trap and wrecked a score of pillboxes. ' Even 'as Japanese fell back north ( ton Jaro before the men of the 24th, First Cavalry division troops 1 battled west toward the Carigara '• positions less than live miles away from captured Burigo on the coast. The Japanese reinforcements first started at the height of the naval battles of Leyte. Had the Japanese Navy won, the enemy might have endangered greatly the operations on Leyte island, a spokesman siad. There were increasing reports that Japanese wearing uniforms and helmets similar to American uniforms were infiltrating Yank lines. Others were reported utilizing civilian dress. Spencer Davis, Associated Press var correspondent, said in a field dispatch that regardless of events impending in the northwest the Japanese already have lost their i strategic hold on Leyte in 11 days cf fighting. One prisoner told Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge, whose 24th corps cleaned up in areas to the south (Continued on Page Five; Col. 1) _17_ ME BOMBED AGAIN BY BRITISH LONDON, Wednesday, Nov. 1.— f-T'1—Cologne was bombed twice be fore 9 o’clock last night by Brit an3 swift Mosquito bombers, bringing to 18 the shattering aerial ° ows delivered against that crip W Nazi citadel during October. The RAP pilots took advantage ® a bright moon to race across ,”e channel and northern France ‘0 their twin strike against the Mme river stronghold 20 miles bemud the western front. no raids culminated the busi — combing month in the history j‘rcboth American and British air The Eighth Air Force raided Ger f,ny with more than 17,500 w/eases and Liberators and alm°st as many fighter planes the month that ended to «lng ab°uh 200 bombers and ™ fighters. omv n j nDers were grounded da3's in the month, a com ’itm showed. In October, 1943, ,,Ir!1? were idle 24 days. In .^fp^nbmg stepped up this n%efiRAF’ whose bombers us al! ln aR weather, were out Th*>u1‘two nights. little*nv^t*1 ^ir Eorce losses were ies !m,er °ne per rent for heav pe.- cert fabout six'tenths of one Fif- P 401 the fighters cperstir"1 , Rorce bomber crews man, * (rom Italy struck Ger on five °f the 11 days •founded d|!%0t ,the Eighth were RAF r England. month tnri!l'astei'‘ wound UP the •ynthetio f Wlth an attack on a «! ten in 01 plant at Bottrop, one itlg October Ruhr smashed dur i>oniber!erman ladio reported fast in a briphier the Reich tonight Vent to n , rnoon' Mosquitoes t0 Berhn iast night. STIL WELL’S RECALL HA BAD EFFE Chiang Accused Of Being Too Severe On Chinese Communists WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.— (£) — President Roosevelt said today a difference in personalities between Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek and General Joseph Stilwell was respon sible for Stilwell’s recall from his China - Burma - India command. Mr. Roosevelt told his news con ference that the Generalissimo and Stilwell had a certain falling out juite a while ago, and subsequent y Chiang asked that someone be sent to replace the American gen eral as his chief - of * staff. And .ve did it, he added. The withdrawal of the American .eteran, the President said, had 10 connection with matters of strat egy or policy in China. He told ■eporters they had better say it vas a matter of personality. At the same time, Mr. Roosevelt lisclosed that the ambassador, Clarence E. Gauss had notified the State department he is going to •esign his post in China. The Pres dent said that this had not even i remote connection with the Stil vell affair. Mr. Roosevelt said he hasn’t yet licked a successor to Gauss and imphasized that the latter most :ertainly will receive another ap lointment. Mr. Roosevelt opened the Stil vell discussion by saying he did lot think anybody could make lolitics out of the incident. He said Stilwell has done an extremely GENERAL STILWELL good job but for one thing — the differences with Cmiang Kai Shek. The Generalissimo, the President said, Is head of the Chinese gov ernment and commander in chief of the army. If there were a British officer in this country whom he didn’t like, Mr. Roosevelt said, and he told Churchill he wanted the man re called, he was sure that it would be done. Stilwell is coming home, he con tinued, to take another assignment (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) JAPANESE CLOSE IN UPON SWE1LIN CHUNGKING, Oct. 31.— W) — Phree Japanese columns were dosing in tonight in Sweilin, stra egic Chinese defense center in :outheast China. The Chinese high command com munique said Japanese forces had hammered their way to points six miles east, six miles northeast and nine and one - half miles southeast Df the Kwangsi province capital, vhich the defenders have promised :o make “China’s Stalingrad” and iefend to the last man. The high command said Chinese ;roops, in an effort to disrupt ene my lines of supply and communica ;ion, had struck toward the Hu man - Kwangsi railway town of rungan, 90 miles northeast of Kwei in and had captured Japanese itrongpoints four miles northwest md 12 miles northeact of the city. The communique also asserted hat the Chinese in surprise attacks )n Japanese shipping on the Siang -iver sank a total of 39 transport :raft on Oct. 25. The high command said Chinese :roops on the West river front had igain halted the Japanese drive on l.iuchow from Pingn-»m, a Japa nese - held base 115 miles south )f Kweilin. All enemy attempts to nenetrate Chinese lines 25 miles vest of Pingnam were repulsed, he communique said. Fighters of the U. S. 14th Air Force, in support of Chinese ground ;roops resisting the Japanese push vestward from the West river, trapped and strafed a two-mile col jmn of Japanese troops and pack aorses in a canycn. Both ends of the canyon were blocked by bombs and the fighters bombed and strafed the trapped column. In the first sweep more than 100 enemy troops were killed, the U. S. Army communique said, and an unestimated number were slain in later sweeps over the can yon. _v DENTZ FACES TRIAL LONDON, Oct. 31.—W>—Gener al Henri Dentz, Vichy commander who surrendered Paris to the Ger mans in 1940 and who later fought the British in Syria, will be tried by the Paris assize court for high treason, the De Gaulle-sponsored Brazzaville radio said tonight . 2,595 FOE PLANES DOWNED BY FLEET WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.— UP) — Carrier aircraft of the U. S. Third and Seventh fleets destroyed 2, 594 Japanese planes and prob ably destroyed or damaged 252 others between Aug. 30 and Oct. 31, the Navy announced tonight. Our losses in the same period, the Pacific fleet headquarters com munique said, were approximate ly 300. Many of the American pi lots and crews were rescued. The communique also reported that search planes sank one cargo ship, badly damaged another and set a third ablaze in strafing and bombing attacks on five small cargo ships at Kita, Iwo Jima in the Volcano islands. The enemy suffered its greatest plane losses, the communique said, between Sept. 9 and 24 when 362 planes were shot down and 584 destroyed on the ground in the Philippines by Third fleet planes. Third fleet aircraft also shot down 528 planes and destroyed 304 on the ground from Oct. 10 to 16 in the Philippines and on Formosa. In the battle of the Philippines Oct. 22-27, Third and Seventh fleet aircraft shot down 392, de stroyed 31 on the ground and dam aged 20. Earlier, Third fleet air craft shot down 55, destroyed 31 on the ground and damaged 55 in the Philippines Oct. 17-18, the com munique said. _:_v_ HALLOWE’EN HERE PASSES QUIETLY Hallowe’en pranksters were few er last night and the season’s top notch pranks were minus, as city police and the sheriff’s depart ment reported one of the quietest observances in many years. Police reported that the public as a whole was “most coopera tive,” and few calls were made to headquarters because of van dalism. Residents of Colonial Village were roused early last night by the whine of the community’s air raid siren, but sheriff’s deputies determined the “alarm” was the act of pranksters. The air raid warden was not at home. Recreation Department Program Arranges For All Ages, Classes Contrary to the general belief that the City Recreation depart ment provides recreational inter ests for children alone, Jesse A. Reynolds, recreation superintend ant, asserts that there are facili ties and interests embracing age groups from seven to 70, and above if interest exists. . Supervised recreation in Wiiming* ton has grown from a few extra curricula activities to what can be considered big business. Wilmington is recognized as a national leader in municipal recre ation, and Reynolds says the suc cess of his department is due to cooperation and the realization of capable leaders that recreation is important. “It is important to ev eryday living of our children,” he says, “and is becoming more im portant in the lives of those of us who have grown old enough not to be called children any longer.” To successfully conduct these ac tivities, the city uses all available amusement centers. The Recreation department has the cooperation of all schools, YMCA, housing proj ects, and other groups. All have helped to carry on the program. “Otherwise,” said Reynolds, “Our program would be limited to a few facilities which we would have to set up ourselves with limited funds, space, and under war - time condi tions.” The program was set up in Au gust of last year when surveys J i showed a marked lack of adequate recreational facilities. Even such standard amusement centers as bowling alleys and movies were not numerous enough to serve the war - boosted population of Wil mington. Reynolds, whose horns was in Richmond, Va., was asked to take the job and was given a free hand with the recreational problems of the city. His department is under the direct supervision of City Man ager A. C. Nichols. His first step was to size up the limited facili ties, and his idea to make a little go a long way has succeeded. The principles of the Recreation (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 2) Hitler Defeat ^enIn Spring By Churchill JAPS, 18 MONTHS MORE British Premier's Forecast Linked With New Parliament LONDON, Oct. 31.—(/P)— Prime Minister Winston Crurchill, seeking to prolong the tenure of the present par liament and his coalition gov ernment, told the House of Commons today “it seems difficult to believe” the war against Germany “can be ended before Christmas or even Easter,” and that he could not predict the end be fore early summer. “It would not be prudent” to as sume that it will take less than 18 months after Hitler’s downfall to defeat Japan, he warned, but conceded that an election must be held after Germany is disposed of, without waiting for Japan’s down fall. There was no reference in Churchill’s address to the presi dential election campaign in the United States. Churchill frankly admitted that "many high military authorities with every means to judge “were more hopeful than he on the end of the war with Germany; as for Japan, he said his “forecast must be revised every few months by the combined chiefs of staffs.” His picture—in contrast with his declaration only four days ago that “we are in the last lap”—came as background for his demand for another 12 months reprieve for Parliament, already nine years ojd, and retention of the coalition cabi net until after Germany’s defeat. The House of Commons gave their leader amid cheers every in dication that his wish would be granted, moving without dissent his^ bill to prolong Parliament on step nearer passage. Leaders of op position groups chimed agreement that the time for a general election had not arrived. Churchill conceded that “politi cal convulsion in Germany may bring it (the war) to a speedy end at any time,” but added that "against that must be set the iron control of German life in all its forms’,, which he said "exceeds anything previously known among men.” After citing the “utmost tenaci ty” of German troops and the vigor of their counerattacks, along with (Continued on Page Two; Col. S) \T COTTON LEADER ASKS ARMY AID MEMPHIS, Oct. Nation al Cotton Council President Oscar Johnson urged War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes tonight to assign at least 5,000 members of Army labor battalions to Miss issippi valley cotton warehouses and compresses for about 60 days to relieve what he termed a “se rious emergency.’’ Johnston wired that a bottle neck had arisen in warehouses where an “acute labor shortage has resulted in almost complete breakdown of facilities for re ceiving farmers’ cotton, compres sing and assembling it in ware housts and handling shipments to mills.” He suggested an immediate conference with the War Produc tion board, the Office of Defense Transportation, the War Food ad ministration, the War Manpower commission and the Army. , The cotton official said he had completed a telephone survey of five states and had learned: “More than 90 percent of ware houses and compresses are em bargoed. Almost 1,000,000 bales (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) ANTWERP PORT BATTLE DECLARED WON BY ALLIES . —. .— -----★ - Plant Two Bombs On Jap Battleship __ « Two bombs explode near the forward turret of the Japanese bat tleship Yamato as she flees from the U. S. Third Fleet throughTablas straits in the Philippines on Oct. 25. The Yamato was under ful steam when Navy fliers caught her. Lt. Comdr. Arthur L. Dowing (right), South Haven, Mich., and ARM 2-c John L. Carver of Hamilton, Mont., scored the hits. 18 ENEMY SHIPS HIT BY U. S. SUBS WASHINGTON. Oct. 31.— <&) — New heavy blows by American submarines which struck 18 ves sels including a destroyer from the rapidly shrinking Japanese fleet were reported today by the Navy. The latest bag of the submarines operating deep in Japanese terri tory was announced while the ene my navy still may be endeavor ing to re-group remnants of its battle fleet after last week’s dis astrous defeat in the Philippines area. Less spectacular man me sunt ing or damaging of 58 warships in the big battle of the Philippines, the submarine sinkings neverthe less are of material importance in the ultimate result of the Pacific war, for they reduce enemy abili ty to maintain island bases and supply the home front. The new submarine toll raises to 978 the number of Nipponese ships of all types sunk or dam aged by submarines patroling reg ularly along the Japanese shipping lanes. The Navy, pursuant to custom, in announcing the new submarine figures, gave no indication of where they operated on their lat est patrols. However, they have been in action along the enemy coast line and it is reasonable to assume they were clcsc to strong enemy positions while destroying the latest reported group of cargo and transport craft. In addition to the destroyer sunk by American torpedoes, probably while endeavoring to protect con voys, the Japanese craft sunk were three medium 'argo transports, two small cargo transports, five medium cargo vessels, four small cargo vessels, a large transport, which may have carried troops, a medium tanker and a small na val auxiliary. i Roosevelt Risks Two Bits On Election In One State WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—(/P) President Roosevelt has made one bet on the election—a 25 cent even money wager on how one state will go. But he wouldn’t tell report ers the details today. One newsman asked him with whom he had bet. Mr. Roose velt laughed and said that was a dangerous question. Cupping his hands across his mouth, he said it was none of the report er’s damn business. The President said be hasn’t had time yet to make his cus tomary guess on the outcome of the election nationally. He turned to his secretary, Ste phen Early, and asked io be reminded to do that pretty soon. Mr. Roosevelt said he would put the guess in the top drawer of his desk as usual. JAPS LOSE 35,000 IN PHILIPPINES U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR. Oct- 31.—OP)—Japanese fleet per sonnel losses in the Philippines ap proached 35,000 men, including a few admirals and 200 pilots, it was unofficially estimated here. The figure was based on the probable complement of crewmen aboard the 60 enemy wa'rcraft sunk or damaged in the actions and caught in Manila bay. Admiral Halsey, whose fleet drove back an enemy force off Lu zon in the Oct. 23-25 battles', sink ing Nippon's main carrier force of four flattops( said Japan had been whittled down to a “naval runt.” But he said he doubted if the Jap anese ever would admit their loss es. •'All Japanese are congenital liars from top to bottom,’ said the forthright admiral, who often has declared his hatred of the enemy. ‘‘They will suppress all they can.” The Nipponese not only were suppressing figures of their losses, but were broadcasting additions to their previous extravagant claims of damage done United States ships. Nineteen more American war vessels, including nine aireraft car riers, have been sunk by Japanese planes east of the Philipines since Oct. 25, the Tokyo radio said, broadcasting a communique. The enemy previously had broad cast they sank or damaged 141 American warships and auxiliaries in the Philip?kies-Formosa area in the past two weeks, and made much of stories of a special unit of suicide airmen who drove their ex plosive-laden planes onto the decks of Yank ships. TT German Broadcast Asks Revolt Against Hitler STOCKHOLM, Oct. 11.—UP)—A mysterious German broadcast on an unusual wave length tonight urged the people of the Reich and the German army to revolt against Hitler. The newspaper Dagens Nyheter, which monitored the broadcast, said the speaker called himself Col. Gen. Ludwig von Beck and ridiculed Nazi reports that he had committed suicide after the abor tive attempt on Hitler’s life July 20. _ [ENEMY FLEEING SOUTH HOLLAND British Reinforcements For First Army Break Up Counterthrust LONDON, Oct. 31-—(/P)— Allied armored forces, operat ing under extreme difficulties of weather and terrain, fought through-to the Maas (Meuse) river north of Til burg tonight and closed with in a half-mile of the Geer truidenberg bridge, one of the main escape routes for German troops fleeing south western Holland. “The battle for the port of Ant werp is over in our favor,” de clared a spokesman for Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempsey, commander of the British Second army. “It is a question how fast and how far back the Germans will go.” Canadian troops to the west, clearing the seaward approaches to Antwerp, charged across an 1,* 100 - yard causeway from south Beveland island in a climactic . ts sault on German forces still hold ing out on partly-flooded Wai cheren island at the entrance to the Schelde estuary. Tonight they were within 25 yards of gaining a foothold on Walcheren, and a dis patch declared the position of th« Nazi garrison was "hopeless.” Highways below the Maas were black with Nazi transport moving toward the four fixed and pontcfcn bridges left standing across the stream. A thick .fog prevented the enemy’s outright destruction by Al lied planes, but a field dispatch declared the scenes on the road* were reminiscent of the German 7th army’s flight to the Seine in France last August. American, British, Canadian, Po lish and Dutch troops pursuing the retreating Nazis across the flat and flooded Dutch countryside were forced to remain on roads and highways, as even infantrymen found themselves wallowing in knee - deep mud the instant they left hard surface. German rear guards hidden in houses alongside the roads had literally to be blown out of action. Canadian troops driving north westward from Breda were within five miles of the Moerdijk bridge (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) __\T_ RUSSIANS ADVANCE ON 60-MILE FRONT LONDON, Oct. 31.—</P)—The Red Army, advancing toward doomed Budapest on a 60-mile-wide front between the Tisza and Danube riv ers, reached points 43 miles south east of the Hungarian capital to day and fought the Germans in the streets of the large railway junc tion city of Kecskemet. The thrust into Kecskemet, Hun gary’s third largest provincial city. 44 miles southeast of Buda pest and 20 miles west of the Tisza, was announced in the So viet daily communique broadcast from Moscow and recorded in London by the Soviet monitor. Earlier the German radio had said a Russian mechanized col umn penetrated to the heart of the city of 80,000. but claimed a coun terattack pushed the invaders back to the southeast fringes. An even closer approach was made to Budapesf with capture of Izsak, 17 miles southeast of Kecskemet and 43 miles below the capital, the Russian commupi que disclosed, while more than 200 (Continued on Page Five; Col. Dewey Calls Job Promise Worthless/ Roosevelt Before Mike On Thursday Associated Press Staff Writer Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, laying down a post-war economic pro gram, asserted last night (Tues day) that President Roosevelt’s promise of jobs is “worthless” on “his own peacetime record.’’ ‘‘It will still be worthless, even though it is repeated again and again and again,” Dewey declared in an address prepared for deliv ery at Buffalo. As the Republican candidate set off on a final Atlantic seaboard pre-election tour, another major address and three lesser ones were added to Mr. Roosevelt’s cam paigning schedule. The White House announced that b the President would speak by ra dio from the White House Thurs day night (9 p.m. EWT-NBC) and would talk informally at Bridge port and Hartford. Conn., and Springfield, Mass., Saturday in connection with his visit to Boston for a Saturday night speech. At a news conference, Mr. Roosevelt laughed when a report er mentioned the “One Thousand club" which Dewey asserted was organized to “sell special privi lege” to contributors of $1,000 to the fourth term campaign. The President said that way back in the summer he suggested a $100,000 club, or a $10,000 club or a $1,000 club but thought no more about it until a man from Chicago walked in the other day and handed him a certificate of membership in the One Thousand club. He said the certificate wai worth maybe half a cent—in ap parent implication that that’s what membership was worth to anyone. From Buffalo, Dewey headed for Boston and a speech tonight with brief stops scheduled en route at Pittsfield, Springfield and Worces ter. Mass. He will go to Baltimore for a speech tomorrow and hae talks scheduled for Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, Pa., en route back to Albany. (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 9}
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