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LAE CAPTORS ROLLOUT THE BARRELS METAl BARRELS containing gasoline and oil are rolled from an open-bow landing craft on the beach at La«, New Guinea, to be used in the successful campaign to capture the strategic Jap base there. To facilitate the unloading, the men in the foreground ore using a teeter board. The capture ol the stroafihold greatly helped the Allies in their drive ocainst nearby I'inschhafen. (international) Cards Defeat Yankees 4 To 3 In Second Series Contest Mort Cooper Winner Despite Early News Of Death of Father Yankee Stadium. Oct. <>— (AD—IJurdened by news of tile sudden death of his father. Mort Cooper pitched with his arm and his heart in a ureal Kansas City. Ol't. <•—(AIM— Hubert .1. Cooper. 58. father of .Morton and Walker Couper, ulio may form' the battery for tin Cards in today's World Series game with the Yanks, died today. competitive exhibition today to hurl the St.. Louis Cardinals to a 4 to :5 victory over the New Yoik Yankees and square tin.* 1 World Series at one Kama apiece. The game 'Aii- marked by another great attendance, with the ofiienl record place at tiH.f>78, almost tin stone .is toi the opening game Tues day. The score by innings: 1! II K St. Louis . ...not :i(io nan—t 7 'l New York . . .oou loiMHK!—;i ti o POINT REDUCTION FOR BEEF URGED Washington. Oct. (!—Drastic redtic tion icomplete elimination of ra tion point values lor beef was rec ommended tonight by the Kcpubli can congrc.-siniiul food study com mittee. In a letter 1<> Price Adiiunistral >r Prentis- M Hnnvn. CliairiK.in Th no as A. .lenkins, (tepublican, <>lno. siid on behalf of the group that more cattle an- being slaughtered now than ever before in history ai.d re tailers arc in a position to offer the public a wider selection ami variety of choice beef. Most Stocks Rather Dull New York. <>rt. 6—(AP)—A small area of today's stock market showed animation but the gem rat list, in cluding virtually all the industrial leaders, continued it autumn siest i. Among .-locks which drew a little buying interest were American Tele phone and Western Union. Philip Morris. Woolwotih and Goodrich were lower. Bonds and commodities were fair ly steady. Senate Votes To Induct War Workers In Service H)R Says People Know Victory Is Washington. Oct. fi.— (AP) — Victory is still a long way off I but the American people know that "we shall have to pay a great price " lor it. I'rcsuieiit Roosevelt told the nation in a radio address last night in open ing a campaign to huild up a M25.000.0U0 national war lund for welfare work and aid to ser vicemen. With the exception of the l!cd Cross, driv's lor all welfare and reltrl organizations are neing i oiisolidated this year in the fund, which will provide money for community chests. I uited Ser vice Organizations, war priso ncrs aid. I'nited Seamen's Ser vice and foreign relief agencies. Handy Ousted By State SBI, Report Says High Poinl. Oct. (>.—<AP)—The Jl;gh Point Enterprise id today 'hat :In- resignation i»| Kred Handy. <1 - rector of the State lUnea.i o( In vest igation. litis been rei|tii*ste(l l>y Attorney General llarrv McMullati The paper quotes McMullan its saying that the resignation icipie.-t i- not an iif'.ermtith of the recent trial and acquittal at Wilkcsboro ot SMI Agent Ciuy Scott. It was decided upon by both the governor and the attorney general on the ground that in the r opinion Handy was not giving satisfactory ,-ervice. the Enterprise tisserled. The effective lUile of the. SHI chief's resignation litis not been de cided. said tile Enterprise, tint wo! be between now and .(miliary I. Mc Mull.in has not decided on the ap pointment of a succcsMir. the paper said, adding that several men. in cluding the assistant chief <>f the bureau. Tom C'reekniore. are under consideration. Roosevelt & Roosevelt Perfect Working Team W;ishini;l<>n. Oct. :t.—Now and tlicit von hear somebody Nily. "Why doesn't the president manage Mrs. Roose velt? Why doesn't he keep her ;it home? What «"od dues she do, run ning around the place in Ihe \v;iv she does? He mils! he downright eni barrased ;• t her Roin~ on." Nonsense! Such talk! Mr. Koosc velt isn't ;il all embarrassed by Mrs. Roosevelt's goings-on. lie is pleased and grateful thai she does just as she does, lie wants her lo running around the place." Why? you ask. I'll i ve you the cur , reel ;i: swer In the '! ie-tion. Reofr.ise F* t-iink I in find Klt'fiimt- IIiukci «*l t fire | 'he most perfect working team in tiny | public office in I In* t'mtcd Stales of ' America since Martha Washington planted the crops .it Ml. VcnvMi while , fJen George was off winning the | Revolutionary wv If I my-elf had evei doubled Mich a thought. I would I121 \ e krinivi. I i wits mistaken when I heard Mrs. I Roosevelt's report on her trip Down Under at her first White House press (Continued on Page four) Wheeler Measure Is Scuttled by Decision; .. May Lower Physicals ! Washington. Oct. (»—(A1 *) |—The-Senate v;,tc(l to .snbsti ! tnte for the Wheeler "don't draft fathers" )>ill a measure designed t<> steer thousands of Federal and War plant workers I into the armed forces l>y re ! <|iiirin>r evidence of the "indis j pensability" of all draft-age ■ ni.n fathers holding occupation I al deferments. i The acti >n, by voice vote, scut llcd the bill by Senator Wlicclcr (U., Mont.) to postpone further induc Viiit of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers un til January 1. The Senate previously, with ad it,inistr.'i'.ion approval, wrote into I'the .substitute * Wheeler amendment requiring written explanation to (halt boards for all request for in j oustrial determents. Final action on the measure await, ed 'ti.-p »ition ot .1 pending amend ment by Senator Tatt (I!.. Ohio) to restrict occupational determents for •neii tinder .'ID and set tip a series of cla-sil ications for the induction of fathers. The revised substitute, offered by Senators Bailey (I >.. \\ t\) and CI irk (I).. Mo.)), al-o inrhidcd an amend ment setting tip a medical commis j sion to consider lowering army i and navy physical standards to per mit induction of many of the men j 1111,, cla.-sificd fa I K. Aussies Now i Near Madang |Jap Defense Allied Ilead(|iiiirtersi in the South west I'acilic. tic'. ti. (Al*)—Aus tialian troops have fought their way into New (>uinc.1- liainti valley, (ill mile.- trom the Japanese coastal base ot MlidaiH',. and the tightening American air and sea blockade in the ceuti'iil Solomons has increased the price the enemy is paying 111 ships and men lo evacuate Kolotnbangara -land. The new successes were announc ed todav by hc 'dcinarters which also acknowledged receipt of congratula tions by Crucial Doiglas MacArthlii from (General George C. Mai shall, army chiel-ol stall, foi the tactics and speed wh eh have won MacAr thtir new air bases trom the .tapim ese in northca-tei 11 New (Siuttca. (An indication that major develop ments 01 the Pacific offensive may be 111 the olting was given last night t al Honolulu. There it was decloscd | that Admiral Krnest \V King, com ntander-in-ehicf ol the United Stales j tlcel. had visited the Pacific area for the tii si lime »inci the war's out j break lo confer with Admiral Ches . ter \V. Nimil/. commander-iii-clnel of the Pacific Heel, and Admiral William F Halsey, commander of the South Pacific force (Admiral* King end Halsey «incc Senators To Ask Advice Of Hoover Plan Is Sought for Feeding Starving Millions in Europe Washington. Oct. ti—( AI *) — Striking out ahead «»!" post-war planners, a Senate committee today asUeil former ['resident Heriiert Hoover to draw on his World War Medium relief ex perience and help devise a plan to feed some of Kurope's starv ing millions'now. Tho lornier president. chairman of the commission lor rebel in IV-lgmm I'nim 15)15 to 1UI!>. was invited to testily November 4 i»n a resolution calling for immediate action to avert ■"the impending tragedy ot ina-s starvation" in Belgium, the Nether lands. Czechoslovakia. Norway, I'o land. Greece and Yugoslavia. A first-hand repurt of prac tical. shoulder-to-shoiildcr rela tions of Americans and their al lies Is cxiir \ ril tomorrow from five senators who recently circled the globe in an army plane, visit inc; all major hattlefronts except Itussia. In (he expectation that no punches will he pulled, the Senate ordered a closed session withoet even the usual steno graphic transcript of proceed ings. Foreign relation* committeemen conceded that the travelers' state ments and the ensuing debate might have considerable influence on the Senate's attitude toward pending post-war proposals, hut at the same lime expressed a conviction that "something will be worked out be fore the liirt of tiie year." Yugoslavs In New Success London. Oct. l>—(API—Important now successes agauiM the Ocnnans, including the cutting of the strategic railway line between Trieste and the Austrian border, were announced by the Yugoslav National Army ol Li beration today. A communique said that Croat patriots liad won complete control ol the former Italian is'and of Lus sino, 50 miles off the Dalmatian coa<t. following a surprise naval as sault which overpowered the German garrison. Croat units attached to the parti san army oi .Jo.-ip IJro/. completed tiu occupation oi t lie island, the communique said. Severance of the Trieste-Austrian railway, one of the three main line.; feeding German troop* and equip ment to the Italian hattIdront. was described as an effective blow in sup|>ort of Allied forces battling their way up the Italian peninsula. The successful attack was carried out 14 miles from I'ostumia. MEAL. GRITS, RICE SCARCE IN STATE Kalcigh, Oct. (AP)—A serious shortage corn meal, gi 11- and rice was present in N*-»rt!i Carolina today, but the state agriculture department expre-sed the opinion that the n coming corn crop would niter some relict. Little hope was held out. imw e\ er. lor Millii-ient rice. It was practically in.pos-ihle t> purchaM' any of those staples in Ka lcigh today. have returned in their headquarters after a conference which undoubted- ; Iv ctiicciiicd plans to .step up the] I'acil ic ot fe:i.-i\ • > On .New (tii11ic.i, Australian^ have crossed tlf divide between the Markham and liainu valleys and otisled the Japanese Ironi Ihc vil lage ol Kaigulin. lit) miles .south ol Madang. Mad.uu is the next eiien.y i base ol importance up the coast trom captured 1* itisclihafeu. Solons Revolt Against New Treasury Tax Bill Washington. Oct. I>— < AI' > More stone* were thrown nl the adminis tration's $10.500,0110.0(1(1 new I.is I progmm today. Some lawmakers, ill revolt .iu;i' proposed large levy increases, de- j manded (hut the Trcnstiry bring tt> Congress it $5,000,000.0011 suiisi iiiitc. Itcpuldicans on 1 lie Mouse Way- and Mr,hi Committee, withholding spe cific commitments on new taxes, de clared m favor of immediate gov ernment economics which would re duce the treasury's program by 40 percent. Representative Knndson (H . Minn.), speaking for his party col leagues on the commifTce."~Rhich luu | control of tax legislation, declared th:«t in tfeneral, "it appears to Ui Fifth Army Moves Over River To Pursue Nazis GERMANS TRY TO RETAKE COS THE ISLAND OF COS, in the Dodecanese group (within dotted lino) hns bc.'n attacked by German:; in .111 attempt to retake the i>a>*e from tlx* Hriti.-h, v.ho seized it, along with Santos and 1 .or<■ . on Sept. 22. I're v ionsly the British toi>k CaiteliOiiO. The Nazis ilill control Rhodes. tii« lurue^t islaiul in the grouo. {hitcriialioiml) Reds Are Planning New Drive To Turn Both Nazi Flanks Coast Guard Boat Is Lost in Storm In the Atlantic Washington. Oct. I>.— t.VI'i— I.iiss of I In* Coast < • iiartl patrol craft Wilcox in a storm oil the Atlantic coast was annunccd to day by the Navy. One crcw member was lost when the former fisliinc vessel I'ouiiflereil in a storm Septem ber ::o. The -17-toii vessel, formerly the Kowland Wilcox, registered out of lieedville. Va.. was com manded by 14 (.in i I*. Slower, of Southampton. New York. British On | Coo Isiand Resist Nazis Cairo, Oct. •>. (AP) Tlw II li (icii'iiderx ('(»• >•;.uid li I' • - cane>e Hi* coldmi.ini; * » i nle | auainsi .-Irmiy (it m.it l;i. • • n li I landed llnr la-l Suiin.iv. Mutnic East vonimtini<|iH sinimiiiiceci indny. There I.- ti" chaime n the general situation mi the Maud. mi the IjIii lelin. which uave n • dei.ui* > >nce; n itit* till* on"liress «■! Hit 11ulit 11ii* (The lJerlin ratlin detiiiwl .vinter diiv thai tierm.ii' had hrnkcii | the backbone ol I'. ' re 1-t.mce -in | the inland ami wen- in |w>-."e-.»i«in oi i all im|Mirtaiit inilifa y Mwtallatiiitto>.) ; The «itiiin11miuidid that l!.\K Hud-on and I'.cauliuhter> had jit — lacked .. . I lelds oil lihnde- and C.ete Monday tn|*lit. uttiiinni; without Ih.it llii' increases proposed l>y the Treasury £o tar beyond till' UVcrauc person is able tn pay." "We lot-1 th.it Iwlmv asking the Amciican people In bear iiny addi tional I.in burden the admml.-tuitiou ought 11 rM tn ell ret ill! pos>ible eeon onilc.s in expenditures. Coiiricss menibcr i>f the I Imise Appropria rnjin Tahcr, ranking Republican Imus Ci'inniillee has shown liotv the 'I'i•ni-iii v's ten and one halt hHam dollar program can tie pared down •III percent by economies that will in no way Impair the war effort. There can be no excuse for not doing k<>. "At the proper time, on(. position on the proposed tax bill will be made abundantly elc-tr." Russians Still Hold Initiative All Along Soggy Marsh Region London. Oct. (>—(AIM —Re ports of jrrowinj; activity of Russian mobile column- on liotli ends of the lmi},r. rain-soaked eastern front sujore.Med «li«- pus sibility today that Red army forces were preparing a new drive in force to turn I lie flank of the Hermans in one or both of these widely separated sec tors. Tnc central front. \\ iMcii the i.-. al itrmies stood massed on either . ,fi. ■ 'mi' IV rper 11\< I in' Iri'in Ki Hi to IJnepropct rovsl;. ri' I' i.Mt'fi t|tlicl. Pcspil,. almost impassable roads ami (•I'rin.oi cnimter-.it l.ii Us. the Kril Arn:« ,i|i|).iri'lltl> ni< keeping llii' initiative in the Miusy marshlands «l' While ICiissia. Vesterd.i* Russian lin er-, captlllfll Hi ll>\\ lis ,lll(l vil lan<"s in the Vitelisk seetnr. In anehiir llieir spearheads only ".0 miles Irom I he important Nazi liaslion. a Soviet comniuiii<|Me broadcast Ironi lloseow saiil. I Scrim rcporVd •< IS •> ..u I. . «■> were depioy 111 k a -trcnjjth mound l«uke llmen. far to tin- north, and :it Oil- southern end the iron! jiwl north ol the mm Azo\ Outside til" Ilir sains in While Russia. MiN'iin dispatches re ported that German enitnler blows were increasim: in num ber and strength. but tli.it the front as a whole was relatively inactive. Soviet iiir force pilot,, silenced IB Nazi batteries on one unidentified seel--!. Iiic coinii :nii|iio >.ii(i. and destroyed 70 loaded trucks whili dis|H'i'.-iiii< infantry i-oiiccnti atio'is (HI the 'i'ainan pi l.i. othel lleil iitmy u ai planes ,-aiik lour troop hide:- ii irges. pre-uu ably .some of those e\ acuatiin: t' i last (5ei -..i.i remnant:* from the western Cau casus. Japanese Mn\ in^r I housands of Men I o China Proper ('hllliKUiliu. (M (• -IAI'1 Cliinc-I officials reported today that I lie .la panese were »vir i: loin da ision* into Cltinn proper from Manchurin and intcrpreled the present .lapa tics,, offensive ii I he H.iiigchov .nul Nanking area as principally an etlort to save the N'ipp.'iii c -lanil.ind lion Chin l> ised ut attn Asked ni a pre s conference iilMMtl the possibility ol Hi 1;-h troop- tnkmu an active role :ti the fighting ii China proper, one official said, "il is not customary to give details ol military plans ill adv aiice " The Chinese said the lour .'a|ianesc rli\ i-ions from Manchiu la might l« employed in China, or tie scheduled to go alternately ;o sonic theatre outside ol China. Fee Fails To Offer Much Fight Heavy Fighting With British on Eastern Coast Is Developed Allied Il«'a<l<|iiart('i's. Algiers, Oct. (>—(AIM—Tin- Allied Fifth Arm\ has l«.rced a crossing of I hi* Volturno river, the Ger mans" strategic first line of de leiise on the road to Rome, it was ai'iiotuieeil today, ami cap tured the towns of A versa and .Matldaloni north if Naples. * >ne unit crossed the Volturno. which nil- L'n mile- above Na[lie.-, | :'ii unspeci .«_•«! 11.1,11:. Tlie river. , Ilowi'g ait'' tin' coastal plain on '.'ii' west .«ide "I Italv. had been ■ expected tn be tin* M't'iic 11! a dc ' l.ivam action by 11it- Nazis. Keserv e» nt ' 1.1 Ccn Mai lt \V. I Clurk'x troops were thrown into ac t "ii in r.i 1.-0 *»t stubborn German ii.'.-: - lance. On the Adriatic side, General Sir licrnard I.. .Montgomery** K.iglith Arm.v cunaeril tit*- (ior maiis in heavy lie.tiliiik along the Ititeriio river tine near Term >li as the enemy attempted a strong delaying action there. The Germans have tlirown j four to live division* (up to tiO. 000 or 7.VOOO troops) into the Italian liatlle line. Coursing tar ahead of land troops, l Io. 1wa\e> ot Klyitm Fortresses | rained htaidreils ot lon.< .• > l>.>mi>.^ ion Bologna, rail centci on the Bivn I tier I'ass line 18(1 miles below the ! German border. "one 1.1 ihc most I acc.eate and success! til attack-" ever ! marie b.v the Northwest African air j torce. Other plane- hammered Niizi I communications elsewhere in .1 wide : area. 1 he \ 1 •!111 ■ 11 1 r ver crossitiB prob ably was marie inland 111 the moun tain areas whe.c the river is a tort i ons stream. Aversa. sei/td 111 Hit- steady Allied thrust II..! thw arcl ihe lace ot iieav \ 1 • • a! demolition.-. 1.- ail im portant rail junction eight miles "01 tli oi N'aple- and was much bombed by the Allies. Moduloni is fourteen miles northeast ol Naples. The Germans are using tanks in their battle with the ivightli Army in the Itifernn river area, and livel> artilery duels took place > estcril.1 \ atone the river, which British units have crossed in some places. I'"'1 one tue "latcsc links II ti e N*.,/i r.nl -apply sy-tein. is a .le.nilv delended area, and the Kor trc.-.-cs met -1: • 11 lx opposition. The Kifthth Arm.v pushing west of ' -id .ii .1 surprise landing Sunday, and 00 the scm ,a| line the Biferno river snuthwcftt 01 the port, encountered ciieiny force to 1 11 a 11 ii'-stance also stittened eiounta iioii- ironlal .-cctor of the IIHI-mile ziK/.a« front lino across Italy—which now run* from Ihe orea on the went nwl a litt i«- north • Naples rl: ,»h \\ ersa. Bemn ( n t . and Monlecalvo the Adriatic at the in..Hi ,,1 the Hileriu. Allied Planes Continue To i Raid Europe I.• 'Milli|i. Or' Ii I AIM • Allied huiiti i nd 11>:;■!< 1 ■ 11il»«• • kept •he . ••: . -- .1" i>!i (leinuili Kill >|»«* ttnir.U >r-ti d.iv Willi .itliU'K- "Hi l,ir m-: ii |'. .met ,in«l tlit.* I"\\ i i'iinli ic-i. ~ r l\|il ■ !i> priiri i «tl i im the I'iiris MM »• l« •-« rl!"!.«h t> -IT III!' Kllll'l Tow ei. I Tin* Tj'pIhhuis sluit down two •• in»— kei> -88 mid I wit Ficuvtcr SlttrHi .«»i-1\ i.111 iji plain - ju.-l M«nlh "I I'illlS Olliri Mlii il |>l,tnr- -Intel; .it > >m ■ linn..I urn . I..il.>in ,Hid irilitny in-i.ill;iii hi-, ili -'niyiiiu .i tiiinibei nf j IikhiiiiiIHw, .in ml refinery insii (ihri ' llt-lpum. ;nul |>l;me.» nuiinmd nil Nii/.i oirdi tunes. Sin Allied |il,mi's vcic missing l nm l!ir tl i\ n|ii'iiiti which Inl l"\M'd lii ;iv \ H.\K i .nils mi KiiiiiK lliri. tin* tci.nd .in twelve limits, l.ndw it I ilcn. M.nililu'i" . \Vinm>. (l||. it>;icli .nut S i. i 1.1111 r111 11■ IId• iy n^lil H'l Vllill KOK NOHTII ( AllOMNA Continued cool Hits afternoon. t on >k li I it ii d Thursday formoon. { Light scattered frosl Interior of I liorlll portion IoiiIr lit. j
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