Batlu Htspatrh THIRTIETH YEAI1 '.kakkii wiiik ki-;i:vi<-i-: miItilUllEiin 1LlrtU Till-: ASKlH'IATKIt 1-ltKHS HENDERSON, NORTH CAROLINA MONDAY AFTERNOON, XOVF.MUKI; 1, 1JM« 1: 1.11I K l^ ■ K A KTI. U.\«•«K, yft ( KNTS COPY CLOSER COOPERATION PLEDGED AT MOSCOW Reds Near Nazis' Last Exit No German Large-Scale Evacuation Railway on Isthmus Within Easy Range Of Russian Artillery .Moscow. Nov. 1 — (Al') — The Germans wore reeling hack in ut 1 it confusion today along ch'kod retreat roads above the Crimea as the Russians' fourth ( Maine army battered its way to within eight miles of the last rail exit from the peninsula. Willi tiic Russians driving toward the Crimea over a broad inull, it now is impossible fur tin- (irriiiiiii' to evacuate large limes any longer by the only i ailway. \tliiell runs up the I'erekop isilinius. only four ntiles wide al its narrowest point, to Kherson on the lower Dnieper river. The railway, which the Russians brought within easy artillery range jeslerdu.N Willi the rapture of Chaplinka. had become virtually useless to the (•ernians as a line of eouimiinicatious by today and in another 'II hours il should be severeu. N.i/i troop concentrations and i .|Hni columns attempting to live It.- iii'..ili irap wt'iv being pounded i wilt — ly by the Keel air lonv. N-i/uro ot Novo Troit.skoc also I ho Hod army strong central |u>:t: n.s for operalion.s westward H i; i I iward the Perekop-Kkorson liiilw ay, Ki.--i.in torees storming into NovoA \eyevka, about Hi miles east m Hie IVri'kop land bridge, bad already cut the only other railway lino leading • ■ it ot ilio Crimea, and the captun ni more than i!nn settlements l i - '.cell the Dnieper and thi" Crimea put ihe Hod army virtually in pos.< !'■n "I the entire Nogaisl; Steppe. It is (iiieslionable how desperate a defense I lie Nazis ran put up for the Crimea. They had a stroni; defense line from Zaporo- j /lie through Melitopol to the Sea ol V/.ov, but the Russians cracked it. The Germans had prepared lor this by erecting iighler. but impressive, lines behind this one. Ii too fell and with its crumbMing the Kcd army ran roughshod over the fleeing Grrman*. Nazi Attacks Are Repelled By Guerillas I.'Midon, Now I. — (icncral Jnsip CI it llro/' unci" 111 ■- arc repelling he.i\y German in I r: ntry attacks near K '■> iii .nid Ilorani in the interior (>t Montenegro, an army of liberation c - iii in i«| tier said (today. The coimmini(|tio. broadcast by the Free Yugoslav radio, reported an otilJ'e.ik of lighting between units "I Tito's riflh division aid forces ul the puppet Field Marshal Milan Nedic !ind Yugoslav War m'liister Di aja Mihailovic near Priboj on the Serbiati-liosniaii frontier. "The enemy ■ Millering heavy losses." said the r. >n 11 ii i hi m 11 le. Numerous German alt clss wive •v."itl in have been repelled in Croatia tind Slovenia. An earlier communique reported that the combined forces of Tito and Albanian guerillas, coordinating their f,l!cii>ivos on the Albani iii border. Ii^'tl captured the Yugoslav town ot IX'biir, near the Albanian border. TARGET OF U. S. WARSHIPS U. S. WARSHIPS are writing a new chapter in the Italian campaign by blasting at Rommel's Appian Way communications line. From the Gulf of Gactn, as shown by the map, a destroyer antl cruiser made the Minturno area its first target, pounding at railroad lines, highways and coast defenses near the Garigliano River mouth. In the right corner, inset, a square indicates the extent o£ the fighting area in relationshio to the whole of Italy. (Inh-rnaliuual) House Group Favor Out Of Town Mail Postage Increase New Revenue Reduced As Committee Lowers Several Other Rates Washington. Nov. 1. -(AIM An increase I rum Ilutt' to lour iii charges mi iiiil iii-tuun leitoi.-. was voted today by 11 iu* llolisr Way- and Mfau.- ('• >ninnttco. Tlit1 revenue mmiji prcvmu-|y I) i.i raised the IixmI i..to 11<• tiii back (he air mail rate from .i tuuatitvejy,,ppio\t-(l ten cents t>> eight colli.-. Tlic prc-etit i.iii- is mx ceills. The •mmil• «_•»• also dccidcd there shall • II" |l"ta.HC late IIHI (MM- nil licw>pa|>ei> .Hid church .ilid religion* publication . luil (lniibli'ii iill iillici second class po ill charge.-. The general admission lax wa» nil back In 20 percent inslcad nl the |hi v ioiisly approved I!o percent. Tlii' present rale N leu cents. Tlii' I'onimilloe rejected .i proposal t ill back it.- previously approved !."> pcrcent rale mi lucal • ol«*|»ln»ni' bills. The late now is III pi recur. Chairman Dniighton (I). N. C'.), said llic net result \va> to reduce the amount • >1 new revenue in the lax loll I com SiJ.I IV.(M)(l,(Kl() to $2.:i»i:!,000,000. SLAUGHTER QUOTAS ON STOCK EXTENDED Kalcigh. Nov. I. The sii-pcnsioii ot (|uota limitations on the slnughtci of livestock is extended to Decembci 1. ccnrdiim an annoiiiiceiiieli: Inday by llillm.in Moody. Stale supervisor ol the Food Distribution Ailiiuni-ti ation. All limits on quotas for licensed slaughterer- were -u-piv tied lor tin months ot September and October n order to allow an unrestricted market for livestock coining oil ranges and dried-u|> pasluiers. Since the heavy run of cattle is not yet over, the suspension i- extended through tin month ol November. Seme Labor Leaders Risk U. S. Future, Murray Says t'liil.iflHphi,.. N,,v. I. (AIM Tin "I Industrial Oi«iini/iiii..iiil.s sixth (/(Histjlllliiiiiill conU-",,n h,.,.,. ||s 1 hilip Muri,iv charged thai ci*r, within the labor min ti, H'iHUlS ill' |Jl'l ili.' ' ''ills hit willing In risk i n u p tiitin,, ,,f ](„. udtioti in iiin tit T s'r,|KKlt* for survival l>> . t !' division, cncourauniK strike? S'"l>p(i8fs of work lo impede thr •'won i m i pi.... . Mm i.i.v -;i>|ii'ciiiI liiu-k' Hi'Mind iind iiitiHilinili'iii »■» (lie .iclivitn's "I tin' rnrniic*- "I labor ii C'linyi'o.v Ilr ic|)iiilrd Hi i' C Ii> 11n-inix'r-In| iilcrriM'd I.KM.IWIi sincr Hie l.i ■ ci'ii\nil inn and si.icl mine than Sl.25d.lino was upcnt on nrgfini/niiitini , . •.. iiir. Mt- vmifj Goldshoro Paper Included Anions New sprint Grants Washington. Nov. l -(AP)—Tlu War Produt-tnin l:< .ml iiiiimuiu'i' In ' day grant of 1.2!'! additional ton: , i>l newsprint In 7(i new.-papers foi Oil' III i\ll tpial'tci III l!l 1:1. Anmng tin- additional grantj (inldsbiiri) I* inlislimg Company i (ioldsbnro. N. I'., four. , Rabaul Hit, i Battling At Choiseui J , 445 Japanese Planes Destroyed at Rabaul; Brisk Choiseui Fight Allied llcadiiuurlcrs in llir Southwest Pacific. Nov. 1 — (AIM ( —itahaill sl.iceered today under anothcr massive liomhinu. while l» tin* south. American ami New /calami troops were lucked ill battle with tin- .la|iaiie.se for possession of Choiseui island. VunaUanau airfield ill the import I I'll New liritaiil ailbasc look a I la ton bombing from tin- high llymj hi'iivy bombers and I ii»lil«*:-.- Kridaj Ocneral Douglas M icArtliui ar. I iioinifi'ri. Kn ly-iive .lapanc-c planes wer J dc.-troyed. 25 "I them ill combat . This brought lo 8-" Ilic October Iota 'ol enemy ..mi.ilt destroyed lor cci Uiiii in this war theatic. Four Allied planes were acknnwl edged lost. Meanwhile, jungle eamouflaced Iroops landed at two piiin.s on Choiseui Thursday morning met enemy resistance the next eveninr atid at latest reports were engaged in "brisk" lighting with I lie .lananese around Sangagal. a h.irqe concentration point six miles lo the southeast of the beachhead. II tbe Choiseui .la!»anc1oiKly |>i <««i'e-.». I lie Kiylitli Aini> mashed thr-mxl) tin* mountain^ !•> i i|)tiliv the villages <>1 C'lialaliipn -Hi,, town «if the siruiim w.iII. :11t Imtii-'i. eenti'al !iasti"ii <>t the CSerni.in niiHilitaiii lir.e. Bflttl'IMI those twil Willi's American tioops prrlonne :l our 11! tin- camiiaisn's must sp;-clacula r single clay achievements when they advanced live miles thrcimii \s npmirs ami up sleep moiliituin slopes 1" sei-zc Yalleagrieola. a citadel percliwl on a S.OOO-lool hill tniii' miles north of llaviscauina. in the push Inward Venafro. reaching tliiv objective would have been "*!>;>i(i ouj>h ordinary peacv -T:me Sunday ;• I 1n walk." but the Aim'! i« an- runcd the distance In tin- lace nl intense I'lii'iny artillery. ! pTliir and machine-gun fin- and despite caret illy laid mine field* KUiit'diiifi the approach. Teavo. ton. was taken only after a furious battle wltli elements of the Hermann (ioeritiK division. I.I. (it'll. .Mark \V. Clark's troops wasted no time in capitalizing on the capture of the vital roatl center and fanned out swiftly tn the northeast and northwest to cut the highways piercing (lie German's defense lines to the north of Massico ridge. Tno ai|- cnminanrt ruiii uinced that American heavy bombers had attacked a railway viaduet near C;.linos. in France, while long ratine I Iightcrs blasted the enemy airdr< nw , acres.. the Adriatic at Tirana. Al| biinia. American war a ps steamed baldly into 'he fliil! •! (iaeta bv daylight to shell railroad-. and IllliM'ls in tin- Si.iini area at the northern end .>t the gull a dozen i)>ile< behind tin enemy's Ma.s.sico ridge delcn-e.-. sr.wi i: u'okk \t \iti:iti>i:i:\ Kiehmoiid. \' ■ .Vn . 1. The legi>• nal office ol I ie Fedei 1 Wmi.Agency has limi :.irted kii >e\\er installations ,>t \l»e leen. N ('.. i > extend (lie |n;v:.'s ewcrage laeilitie.: In a housing development l >r war vvorkei TO CONTISOI, UKi;i)S Snithlield. i\'" 1. — Johnston County farmer ..re buying cyanain.d j and will ti-e it in rontiolluig weeds nil their tobacco plant beds, reports County Agent M A. Morgan of the State College Kxte sion Service. WEATHER FOR XOKTII CAItOMXA 'Moderate temperature this { afternoon, tonight and Tuesday forenoon. Young Star III VIRGINIA WEIOIER, young motion picture star, ii seriously ill with pneumonia 1,1 Sim Francisco, 'vheio she arrived a?'cr « tour through tho t fnfrr*11if)*J} I> bUVIcT VICTORIES AT FRONT ' Vv 1 -Mir" --inrnif) — HERE ARE TWO EPISODES along the Russian front which h.iw why the Soviet offensive continues in full force. A Red Army r (!•>;>) win for the crew of a burning Nazi t:ink to emerge after hit' u i'. with a "Molotov cocktail." A Russian sniper beliind a barricade < bottom > picUs oil a German soldier as he crosses an open field. (It :cniutioiiat> \\ nrchousc Storage Compain at Wilson Is I n corpora red Ullrich. X..v. t— (AP) — for; '.It It .ill-.- iiij1 ii" wai't'lmusc: iiiilliori/od capital $25.1)0(1. siih.sfrihprt sl"r;c SHOO Iiv K'lliei-; C'hokielt. I .nl llai: and Chnrlcs I'-. McLean. ,.ll .»i Wibun. Decisions Are Awaited By Miners Coal Miners Are IdleAs Policy Committee Meets in Washington The vast liiilk at tn«' nation :',7 l.nun -uft eual miner.- !ai< | down tlicir tools today t<> fresh ili'\r|o|inii-nts in tli.• lot •.. drawn out dispute mrr a nev. working contract. An early morning . invy . • •' < virtually nMiiplele -i .• d "I operation- I Wi'-' \ 'i PcHlisyh..ii i. < aril I 11 m.inMi liitiiiiiino Sin larlv. Ohio . rpi ■.:«■>!. • I i'l• in ... itiemhcrs of tin- United At in* Workers policj eoiiin ittre u.itt:« • I ii W; hingtoi for a m>- 'ii .-•■ tiliilcci to start at 11 n M • • • - .Ii-. • wen in the oi'inm \« . ng a choice be tw een urdi .: ' < ■ . ■ e \\ orkei I lark (>• t i :«• pi* • t i . nu nther ac> I it >n wliii i' nr.: i\ oke presiden i i.i I inlet vention ind n new gnvernment .re "I tlie \v«»i"kmu-. BIG FEDERAL GIFT TO VENEREAL WORK Uvhmoiiil. \' i . \'i>v. 1 \ rlirr• tin SI.nil |>. y:i rnl o a Federal «>ei11'' 1 i on ot S'Jln.L'ci low ird the »'"-l <>i opcrntini: a venereal di-easr vapul-t reatment erntei al Charlotte. has heen forwarded by the region .I oltiee of (lie Federal Work* Ageney t° Hi C'arl \'. Reynold*. State health "II ■ •" . at ttaleigh, Kenneth Mal'kwell. I'W A regional | d lector, annoirccd The initial payl ment wa> in the anoint! "! >"'-.aa(l. I Mr. Markwell sa (i. 40 F ROM THIS STATE JOIN WOMEN MARINES IMIanta. Nov. I. Forty women Irom till' Stale of \ ulii Carolina t< dale have ioutcd the Marine Corpi Wo-neii'- IIcmtvc t • tree male leai I her necks to light, it whs announced tod iv. The Mai ine Co p-. which celcJ hrates N HtKlh Inrthday Xovc'iihei In .aid i» tlie branch ol the country fighting lori is. was the !a.»t of tin I ""C1 '<> '.<> '"li.'i. Six States Have Voting On Tuesday Results May Indicate Trend of Next Year's Presidential Contest [I'ii Tin . I -siH'i/iti il I'n .-■> VlltlTS — |PCl llil|>S m <> s I them women—will mark wa time > in oll'-year eleilio] in -i\ -tales tomorrow, and p lilical leader.- and t'.roca»to will In uatehinjr the iv-ull- !■ I less i I i!e lind- of a 1 it 1 | -win l■■ .-u'i-o 1 h:>t at.* the • thin the i •i ' thf .'"It t e\ el ■ ii public scntiii i til.-. ( birf ii.ition.il iiitin'-t li«>s in (lit- raw fi»>- lieutenant aovernor in \i".\ ^ in i\. in !iii h President Koii-rvclt and Ciiivnnor TltoinaI!. Dnio are »iii>|h>i li'is "l»|ii»iim i.tiuliilair- miheriiatnrial I'liiilcsU in New .lrrse> and Kriilii( l,\ and (lie in.iv oi ial scr.ui in tradition.ili\ Itrinihlii an Phil adelnhi.i. m - i>f v. n _ ..n • liirm.il •> ■ < .eel ilii; I >e oera'ie Mtilo I'l! <• • nli'lji governor. who w ere v. t O - . 11 A Ht'.-t I'l niai e>. V \ !l I Til" stale le^ -la"": - and \. Yuri; i Pent'.syh anta v. II ' ■ -i .! ea ir. ihe na! mia! (I • l!eprc-« tnlive*. Ii 'ft v .cant by death a a i c- ■ ion l".i i ati-e -•> in,it•> \ i aye . . i■ ill '!h limit ■! ■ . \ 11111\ In new v. aid \ ..ties, v men a • expceled i i poll > • .11««t >•!' the \■ de.- :n in. • \ irtunit Tlie total vote in iilmost certain be light 111 vlw irl s' . .• > rat tail rem -It mis and the iac . •! I: issue.-. l r;iiisport Sen icc Application M;ulc P>\ I Ainihcrtt >n Kin Washington. v I ( AIM l la iiiituniii leave- drnppnm I rem .t It appl '*a I ii ills lor pi i\ idi'tf* t' e Sou tis welt as the t• ■ I it tie nata witli II s a l- m| \x. i i ■ \ . e ii lliilte: ine into the office of the (' Aeronautic.- 1 •■ >. ■. < i. c ive till oinipai! i1. .. a • to provide, raiifSiliK from t'.iitspi el it ail. pa.-M'tmri s and espi es* helicopter til itlsl frcicht M'|Viee nla'-e. accordiiiK to data liirni
  • Allioim 'lie ap|>l;cation* |or -er\ in the soiilheast. with n ■•.»! oi tlv for mail, passenife a'irt esore-s. Seaboard Air 'I't an-port. laitllbi ton. ,N. C. —between I .•miberioti a i oluniiiiM fi. i *i. Communique Issued At Conference China Included in Declarations Made At Conference End Washington. Xvo. l — < A1 *) | — -Closer cooperation on tin- battlefroiits and 11 iiitt-ii action in t hr iii'itff to follow victory through ev« ntuai creation o|" "a I jfeneral internatii nal orjjani/.ajtion" wcii' pledjred ;it tlit- hi — : toric .Mom'ow conference l»y ihe Cnilcd Stairs, liritain and Uus| sia. Attended by Secretary of Stale llnii. Foreign Secretary Anthony Kden of liritain ami Foreign Commissar .Molotox. and their -taff>. the conference wa- th.-' I'ir-t of it- kind. A tri-partite ci mmunih:j) ij\ ;il! ach Slate.-" lor I naintaining pcaefe I 5. They •.'. ill consult • • 11 the main■ Ii'i'. rci peace .i*«ci sec.ii- 1y penrlj inn inauguration • >i a general >y.*iem ii Aiti : •• "!i(\v v. II int s i.-f tiir !n.■(•(•- n other r i. ii -i see; • • tc ! mi; cot.sulfation. 7 !'• • \ will c •lite' u th each othei and • United Nation, on rcgu lation "t )M*lwar armaments. A -! ..ti ' i I' ii " 'f declaration*: Austria will be liberated but the e\i*■! ' In i ,. (1 ' Hi' i'i ill- ("n-rn .i»i> ..nd hoi ettiTts for her own liecdoit will be *.i!•:i■ •: into iifi'iilillt. Italian declarations: A.; \i — I u;I ,-i . ->ri will h<» ora-ed i : Italy; (rcedrwi <>f .-1m■ i■ i i■. worship, political belief, press and public meeting shall Ihj lie .,|. W.i ( : i 11 i 11S Will l>e -ii;: back t • the eenea "t their a»I rocitie., to i'i punished by their vic•liciit C'-nimun'itin*" Created i>asis loi the < Wi-c.*t military cooperation on decialonn taken mil ii'.n- kI\ 'c 'lj j '-pared, i- A IV ->pcatl ..ti!lii-*l<• -i'' up i 1.. 'Iid->n In study ,i t)Ue-l: ti- .i • 'iu the w:ir devel - op- .mil •• . in; icci'ii mend.iv tions in the three governments. i t.illl. fills* m.i and China pledged theniselves v tn united n-Tton :i tile |M*are to t<>||ov. in • il.iMtiiil .- :'t-ndi" ol I!k-ii ' resfieet ve eiiei es and t" establish (j ' -cut ■'! "«« :;c it! lilt't lliit loliat or* it.i'i •*iiT ■ ' i itinlainaiit peace 1 iillfl see I Iv Liquor Ration Cut In Half For November In I In- Sir Waller llnlH. MiilM Dispatch Itlircail. IIV I.VW MsltlT KiilciUh. N'n\ I When tin* cu»I'Htiri hi AIM" slim - ■ 11 North C«nihn.iV J."> ci.nti.il ruinttc- (irc.-cMlcd then ( ui|i"ii l«Hik«. ihix tiiormnr, 11 n •> wire .il'li in s{rt ' 11« siinio (|ii«ml|l\ n| liijtini 111 < > wrir lll'CllslfiliH'd In li viiii; .it iiiit* tunc. Inil liiiil to •■II It'llflci 111(11 cutipnns HI:-Um