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COOKING UP TROUBLE FOR TOJO tHREE OF AMERICA'S TOP NAVAl STRATEGISTS are shown at Pearl Harbor afl"r discussing plans for the Pacific campaign against the Japs. L. to It.: Admiral Chester \V. Nimitz, head of the Pacific fleet; Admiral Ernest J. King, U. S. chief of naval operations, and Admiral William P. Halscy, chief of the South Pacific area. U. S. Navy photo. (lutcmatioiiul) Senate Plans Probe Of Lend-Lease On Colleagues' Report Civilian Trucks Are Sent Australia, With Half That Many Here Washington. Oct. i>—(Al'> — Tin' Senate two-day private review of what's goinK on at the war front spawned today an in vest iput ion of lend-lease operalions and boded ill lor President Koosevelt's request for an additional $5,000,000 appropriation for the Office of War Information. In cantankerous mood alter nearly hour.s" wrangling behind dosed doors yesterday. members showed a pressing desire I" look into the operation • >1 some agencies that wore criticized roundly bv live Senators \*. ti«» inspected tile war theatre.-. ( (ne of the touring Senators. Brewster tl{., Maine), served notice that lend-lease is in line for a thorough going over by the Truman War Investigating C ommittee, on which he serves. Hrewster charged there had brvn instances of mismanagement, nlAig 3(1.000 trucks .sent to Australian civilians while only 15.000 were left lor use of ci\ 111.1 us in this country. Hrew>ter said the Truman group also is interested in the President's reipu'st lor more funds for overseas oper.it iot'., of the OU'l—a subject nt which the House Appropriations Committee will have the tirs' crack. Senator Lodge |K„ Mass.) previously told the Senate he felt some OWI propaganda in foreign lands AVIATOR RUNS FOR CONGRESS IN NINTH C.'a tonia. Oct. !).—(AIM — Lt. C. Y. iNamiey. Jr.. former Union \I j J1 ousines man and now a Civil Air Patrol pilot, today announced his-candi-i (lacy for the Republican nomination to C or'gre^s from the 11 th North Carolina district in the 1044 election. Major A. I.. Hulwinkle of CJastonia now represents this district. \ Shortage Of Paper Grows More Serious Washington. Oct. 9—<AP)—Mirloting the increasing gravity of the pulp and paper situation, the War Production Hoard today advised that newspaper publishers who appealed for additional newsprint allocations over quotas In the fourth quarter of 1943 would have small chance of success. Harold Hocschenslcin. special coordinator of the WPH Industry division, concerned with paper and lumber. said the growing shortage of pulp and paper had resulted in ".i tightening up" of recommendation* l>y the printing and publishing division on appeals for more paper. The agency coordinator warned that publishers who use reserve stocks in excess of quota before the appeal board passes finally on their positions do so nt their own ri.-l;s. Sues Hospital MRS. SEIOM F. BURNS is shown with one of her twins, Annice John, born in a Seattle. Wash., hospital July !). She and her husband have started habeas corpus proceedings against the hospital for the oilier twin. The hospital rlcims the baby lied at birth, while the parents say tho twin is alive. (Intcriialicn&l) Defection Of Italians Lets Germans Out Ajaccio, Corsica. (>ct. !>—(AIM — Escape of 20,000 Nazi troops from Corsica during tnc recent campaign resulted Irom the defectum of 85.000 Italian troops fully equipped with tank., and nuns who faded to hold vital bridges against a lew German patrols. That is the conclusion reached after correspondent W'es Gallagher arrived after reviewing the campaign with Anierrcan and French olficcrs who took part in the light. It was not dissipated by conversations with the Italians themselves, The Corsicans were told yestei day bv CJeli. Charier DcGaulle that France would be freed with Corsica and that "all must give way to the cross of Lorraine." Standing in the center of lh(. Nona, part memorial and newly named "IlcCSiialle Square." the Fighting French leader received the enthusiastic cheers of li e Corsica!! population after a rapid two-day tour ol the island. I>AKST \l»"'OINTH> Kilcigh. Oct. II—W. Kerr Scott Commissioner of Agri<\illine. h i annoi. ced 'he appointment of \V. || I 'ai si .1-. head ol the Seed Lahoi aton di\ i ton .f the Slate Department o Agriculture. l>arsl, who succeeds .) VV. Woodsidc. will assume hi- ncu duties immeri'alelv. according lo Scott U'oodside will become a tec and <eed inspector and will work cm of Newton. Portugal To Declare W ar On The Japs Lisbon Is Angered By Encroachments of Japs in the Pacific London, Oct. (AI *) — Dispatches from Madrid today said diplomatic quarters looked for Portugal to declare war on Japan as a protest against -Japanese encroachments upon Portuguese territory. Correspondents ««• London morni ing i ewspapers reported from the Spanish capital ;iIm» that the Portuguese national assembly was f.«IIed into session yesterday t>> hear an "important statement by the PurUiji-H-.-i' government." Tin it' \va> nit announcemc:.t when this so/.ion broke lip. but the dispatches sa'il Premier Salazar immediately we.it in1<> conleresce with his cabinet. .Inst before the assembly convened. Sala/.er again saw the .Japinose minister in Lisbon, it was said. The Daily Ai.TT. without giving the source of it.-, infoimation. said tinJapanese minister had ordered hi> private paper- burned after returning Thursday from a conference with Salazer. L. S. Hospiral Ship Sunk by Enemy At Salerno Sept. 13 Allied lle.ilhili.irlo. Algiers. Oet. !(.— (.VI' I—Official snurees permitted llip disi'liisure today that the tnilcd states army hospital ship New fiiuiidlaiul was sunk in the (iulf of Salerno off Italy September IS. after it had licen attacked by German bombers. despite the briclit identification light it bore. The Newfoundland, v.liieh formerly w as a passenger-cargo ship on the Boston-Liverpool run. was struck by a heavy bomb at 5 a. ro. There were several British nurses and doctors aboard, some of uhum were killed, but all of the 103 American nurses escaped. No patients were aboard. Governors Are To Compete \ er\ Soon In Picking Cotton Columbia. S f.. Oct.— ( \P)— Governor < > 11: > I) Johnston. •!(». declined today to allow North Carolina's 51-year-old Governor ,1. M. Hi<niKht >ii a handicap in thei> cotton picking duel. •loh :-t in accepted Uroiigiiton's challenge yesterday to a contest to determine which coaid pick the most cotton The date and sito ol the oMite.-1. "▼> be on neutral grow d. haliot heen set. i»ut .lohnslon -aid he would meet I'roughton "any time a:.d any place". "Hroiightoti o ijhl to i>e giod," Johnston laughed. "he's been pa-king cotton almost every day a: the North Carolina experiment and tc.-t farm near Raleigh instead of playing golf." On the other hand. South Carolina's governor said he had not picked cotton in the pu.-t -II or 25 years. EXTENDS WATERWORKS Richmond. Va., Oct. !'—Mills for ! the construction of approximately 3.350 of terra-cotta sewer pipe to extend the municipal sewer system ol an KIIA hou.-ing development at | Aberdeen. N. C'.. arc scheduled to be | opened at the office of Mayor Kor' rest Lockey in Aberdeen next Wednesday (Oct. 13) at 12:30 p. m.. Ken' netli Markwell. regional director of the Federal Works Agency, announc ed. Interior Germany Feels Attacks By Fortresses | l.ondon. Oct. !• (AIM—Strong I formation- ni heavy American unni; l>crs lieu deep into Ktiinpr to homo important t irRcts in Punieraiiici. in | caste: n (Set many. 1 *• >1 iinc* and I I'rlts.-ia. it Wiis announced. The dce|>cs' daylight penetration j into Hitler, forties* from Dritish i bases I«»lI' wed lip all HAK l aid In I meat strength la»l night on tin- German rubber inaniilactiiillg center i>( Hannover and a lesser raid on the ! port of Bremen. which American bombers had left ill flame* yesterday. (The round trip from the vicinity of London to east Prussia would m, volvc a flight of at least 1.000 null's ) Referring t" yesterday's Bremen raids. tii<' llcrlili radio claimed that 4!t planes out of the powerful North ' Aim i a..m an |oimat|o||«' had been shit clown. The Americans annmnc- j cd !h« loss nf 30 bombers yesterday. | Tin HAF's night assault climaxed .1 ;l;iy of intone aerial activity and preliminary reports showed tin as-I -auit was concent ruled The Iiriti>n i lost :tl bombers. (ii imaii planes retaliated teobly | over Kugland (lin ing the night. drop- I I ping i tew bombs which the air and home security ministries said caused I only negligible damage. Two of tlur iaiders were shot I town. In a 11.lining iir battle over CJer; 'iiany. 1 ti! \.i/i lighters were knock 1 oil down ve-terday by Ainerieaii- | | loin enuined bombers and Thunderbolts beuling their way to Bremen and Vcgesicl; through fierce oppostI lion which returning fliers saki to| day included small bomb-loaded roiket planes. Allies Cross The Volturno; j Russians To Surround Kiev i Huge Breach Forged In German Line i Moscow Thinks End Of War Might Soon Become More Evident London. Oct. — (AIM —| Wasting hujri* wedges into the | :!0-n:|ile deep German defense1 zone west ol the Dnieper river north and south of Kiev, strong spearheads of the lied army have hurled back fierce Nazi counter attacks and entrenched themselves for what appeared I to lie a hujje pincer movement aimed at enveloping ihe great fortress city. Mumihv announced today that till" | majof breach in the German lilies I \\a< cat "-il out south <>l a town 50 \ iniUs below liu- I'krauiian capital. I It was expeeted expansion of this j may coilap.-.• tin- wliole front. C'arliiHl out .under the cover of darkness. tile attack caught the enemy ; by complete surprise. Or almost eiiual importance was tiir storming of the (irrman west bank defenses north of Kiev near the ennl'hienee of the I'ripet and Dnieper rivers. Here Soviet a:lvaner guards | were fanning out :o the smith in a drive evidently aimed at hitting Kiev from the rear and meeting other Kcd army columns sweeping up from llie south. A third important Red arinv loothold on the west i>anS also was 1 firmly established, the Moscow com* munique ndicateil. and Ru-sians ; were repulsing counted smashes in which the Germans hurled tanks, i planes and men to no avail. More than 2,800 Germnas fell in the lienv bridgehead battle. Soviet | airmen, screening the en»sings. shot | down .'!2 German planes m .or coin-1 bat iiiuii over the river. i Henry C. C'a.-sidy. Associated I Pre-. corrsepondent in Moscow, said | in a rh.spateh that the Red army po- j I sitiotts on the west bank were" now | regarded as secure. (C'assidv added that nobody was ! more surprised by the ited Army's I new offensive than the Russian pen-! pie themselves, and its initial sue- ■ ce.sM ... coupled w 'h it- strategic possibilities. stimiiMted the hope thai the end •»I the war might soon he ' j in sight.) 6,000 Planes ! ,ost In Mediterranean Area by the Axis Allied Headquarters. Algiers. (><l. ft.—(AIM—Tin- mm pa i«; ii thai began in North Africa last November 11 has cost the Axis more than (i.000 planes lip to Oftoiler I, Allied air force liead(liiarles said today. Of that uumhed. ."5.411 were destroyed in the air. Nearly 'J.tiflO. mostly rent by bombing, were found on captured Axis airfields. The total docs not include planes destro> cd by bombings on fields still held by the Germans. The Northwest African air force also reported sinking of 1S5 ships totalling 173.000 tons. The weight "f bombs dropped on Italy in September was computed at IJ>.SH0 tons. This was over 3.000 tons more than the last previous high for this theatre in Ausust. GENERAL CLARK THANKS HIS MEN ' l . i' > LIEUT. GEN. MARK W. CLARK, commander of the l'ittli A i y. expresses lii.; thank.-. to mimic Yank infantrymen fur their line work in moppmi; up the Na/i. at Salerno. The Fifth Army i now moving north in :• (i: i\e on Home. U. S. Signal Corps Kadiophoto. (International) Kolombangara Fort Evacuated By Japs; Enemy Vessels Sunk London. Oct. J)—(AI'>—The German news agency DXB reported today from Tokyo that Japanese forces had evacuated the island of Kolombangaru in the Solomons. Allied Head(piarters in the Southwest Pacific. Oct. !• — (Al'>—An outnumbered force of I nited States destroyers, waylaying a Japanese task force bent on reselling troops from the central Solomons, sank an enemy cruiser or heavy destroyer and at least two other destroyers in a moonlit l>attle. The cnuai;emcnt. n which the Aiiiciic;.!] were fie c nn -rl ... "inndwitc,' 'occurred shortly before midnight Wrdnwday nnrilumi <>t Vol lit Lavella island. Ii first tviii reported oy Ciem. l 1)" ^i. MacAi tii.:: The Japanese ships, in Hirer (•roups. Here intercepted l» .1 tunc commanded l»> Captain Frank i:<it>i::s<>n Walker i>f Alabama while altciiipline rilhrr !• Montgomery Arm\ Smashes Attacks Of the Germans With the Itritish I iablh \riny in Italy. Oct. 0—tAI'i— I'nder the cool ur.u eyes 01 (.corral Sir Iti rnard .Wnnlunmert *s British liulilh Arm*, tanks anil infantry Ifiii.it sinasluMl back strong ticriiian forces that hail half-cnrircleil T r r 111 o I i. cast coast anchorage of the Alliril liur across Italy. Ill a brie \ -it to the forward lmh'.i"L! /"tie Gene ;il Montgomery dcclarcil' "The sitn.i1 inn was .1 bit sticky ve-tei c 1.1 \ T^e Get man. were >nrpi isi'd win 11 we 1 .mk Ti i nmli with a M'.iiwii-lie landing and deprived then! "I the im)>ortaiU lateral mad violently Tlicy transferred lJieir forces In this sector. "Hut the Kiglith Army has held their cminter attack successfully." KM/AIIFTII CITV RFNF.FITS liichlimiid. \'.i I It 1 !1 The regional office of the Federal Works Acettcy has awarded t-> Coleman Trainor .V Company of Ilunli* gtnii. W. Va.t a ronlract for 5sJtr. 5411 tn construct additional waterworks facilities to serve military establishments, shipyards and hoiismi; developments at Kliznbeth City. N. <". Kenneth Mark well. FWA regional dircctoi an noanced. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA l.ittlr change in tenipeialure this afternoon, tonight and Sunday forenoon. pull ml Nipponese remnants still hnliliiiK out aRalnst the i Americans on Vella l.:ivelb. or In complete tile evacuation ol' Kolomhangara ti> the south. ! Without w. "iii4 for reintorcej iretits. Caplau Walker maueuveied i his forces 1 • »r buttle apiimi the first I eiien y griuip. MaeArlhui s c 111 nuinikiiio said ttunlirc c\|>l«idod .. liuhi cruisei and one dKlruyrr: . j to: pvdo .■*:1111\ .1 second destroyer. 1 ai-(i HV'j 'HiiT dt'Mi'ovi bacily I ma . ed. ; 11 pcd away. (South Paicitic lte:>d>i iarleiv> said .1 third de1 stroyir i> .nioly sank. ..:id two or , !li • «•:.!«•! destrnyci.« v.t r damaged 1 llic sceond Japanese uroup, probably destroyer-, and the ttiiiil. consisting ol' harm's anil small combatant era It. saw at a 1I1-:.nice the 1 laniillK action, then •»-.% tniK around and retired at liir.li speed. ' I" se- ilicteased to ill'Ml- ih.r. • ' •• number of warships the Jap> <• have evpei (led :j the Solo■ m. -nee M.. t A r 5: 11 t.< ..itched his ' 1 1 til fens '. '• June 30. They also have l«n»t app ox ately 1,000! planes, more than 50ti barges and ancuimted h;;!i I rn> .! H.I :i.• Little Resistance I B\ Japs to Planes j ()\ er huio-Lhina lie.illiiuarteis nl t)ir I 11 h I . S. AM in China, (tit. !•—(AIM— I. liriator homhers with a tiuhter escort yesterday heavilv attained (liliam airdrome at lla1 oi without merlins Japanese opposition and fended oil only feolile interception in a raid at a cement plant at 1'apons TlittrsII.1 <. it was .innounecd at headiliiarters tod.i\ W.ti. <ien. (luir Chuiinault said that the. failure of the Japanese to offer stiller resistance to the \inerlcan aerial blows indil utes thai the Japu'iese force is pretty well shot in northern ludo China. Stocks Are Improved New Vi>rl;. <)<•: tt. (AI'i heading stocks iiK-iin wc.i' • p <\ <•<! Ill !•> I day s 1.11 k»'t althi' «!, lew 1 .ide I miiicIi ln .1dw.1y m<l dcal:igs ,\c c the I gloW»tM li»i :rii:r 1 h;<" I'i'lllli i Tile !.st si' I nl 11 • i; lolly u ri at the sta ■: and. v !e the ! cker tape frequently w.i- iii lands|ill. gains. ol fractions I" arm-id i point were i: the ntajon v a) the eb'-e 'fran^i'is tor the two limn- wen anuifV i'tiu.lton shares. Slocks ill front tin' dealer part of the time included S.nitc Ke. Smithern Hallway. New Y"i'i. Central. I' s Steel. U s Rubber. Sears Roebuck. Cic oral Kleetl'iC. iiiternntiona Nickel, and Sperry and Standard I Oil of New Jersey. , Fee Unable To Check The Allies Fighting Lessened On Adriatic Front Despite Enemy Move t.ciiiion. Ocl, 9—(.VIM—Thr ( airo radio said today that Allied forces have rriKsrd the Volturno above Naples un a "broad front." Tin- hruadcasl said thr Germans were retreating to new positions along tin- Garigliano river 1~> to "!0 miles north of the Volturno. Allied Headquarters. Altfier.* Oct. ;i ( A 1') .All it'll patrols have fuiijrht their way across the lower Volturno river in Italy. where they a re proljinj; the strong enemy defenses oil the north Imnks. and the Germans have t'lun^' another division—the Third Armored Grenadier.^ into I tattle to hold that river line. Aided headquarters announced ,oday. The strategic railway and highway irn;.' (.'a.-eiia. mxj vti nules \ap!< .- i tin* niacin -ide i l tin- Vi !: in . w.i- i..|>;,nttl .is the Filth Aii; t • 111> the ia>t enemy 11 .-i.-!:nut lu lnw the Volturim ami C'alorc r:\ei- ufliciai reports disc!I »M*d. American . lui British patrols lorc:nu tne Vi'ltiiip.ii encountered I brisk miuiII arms ad light artillery if A headquarters officers era;ih:i>ized thai Iron! report.* indicated no major body of the Filth Army had yet pellet rated ..cross the stream, and declared "there i.. every indication til;.! llie Germans intend to try lh< i, best 1 <. h.<ld there." On the Adriatic front, fur lighting died down somewhat after three days of heavy battling in w liicli (.I-ureal Sir Bernard I.. Montgomery's Eighth Army knock* il out half of thirty Nazi tanks, including huge .'Mark VI Tigers, thrown in thr battle in an attempt to break tile British bold mi Tcrnmli. In 'ne an. the \ttr!h\Vc>t African force smashed mil again youterday : inl I • 111: -fI•.v ,.i a.riicid- in Greece, < t !e and "lie IJi decnnese. The All ^ d cnniiniiniq.it> said tiie Fifth and Eighth Armies had advanced two t'> three miles in their de.-pite heavy rai > ml floods in some areas. The weather continued bad. < aptured documents disclosed that fierce German counter attacks against Termoli were made under Nazi high command orders to "retake the port and drive the British baek into the sea at all costs." lilt Gentian, paid a limit ens I with the veteran 16th Armored Division '•'id the I- i i Para troop Division charging strongly, but it gained them iiothu g and an official message from Montgon ery's headquarter, declared the situation was "little changcd" from th» time the Nazi* elected to s ''.' fieir i :>t ni.ii.tr stand against 'he II :iish n Italy. Other units ..t Montgomery'* British .m.i Canadian troops advanced !•"'» two t.. three miles at me points farther inland, maintaining ^ ^ in the mounlninoug central sector there was little change HI ir.t% !. :(». Y ugoslavs Open Fierce Campaigns !.""I1 «■ launched fierce battle-- ir* | ;i new di ivc to w re»t the Italian loots .it |*i iest and Kiiiine from the 1 < I< mm .1 Y gnsla v eommuni(|ue I mi■ nI l ■ fi.»y. and h;ive delivered I sm.islii g l>|.iu> ,ii (icrniau forces I along interior railways. "Hitter fighting it1 going on in the southern -iibiuii- n Trieste and south of th< purl." -.ithe svitr bulletin bro.idc i ■' hy the Free Yugoslav radio. Italian b .ttle lice" units. turning aga'iist thei Immcr allies to sup! poll the Yug<>sla\ guerillas. have imiuliai ded Xa/ occupied towns on (tie l>a! natian eoa-t. the Han. Italy, rad ' declared l.i-t night in a broad' cast heard by the London Daily Express, ; The Yugoslav communique said I there was spirited lighting also ill i the Sus.ik sector. With the (}erm»n« 1 throwing a complete division against Yugoslav liberation forces holdup lie.ghts d >min»tiiig the porl ol FiuiliO,
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