Kiev Captured By Soviet Army ★ ★ ★ ★★ ★★ -*-★ ★★★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★ ★★★★ Allies Smash German River Defense In Italy J Nazi Army NowShcrtOf Manpower May Not Be Able To Replace Losses Oil Russian Front Washington, Nov. (5—(A1 *) —(•< rmaiiy's manpower is soj exhausted t li.it she likely will I find it impossible to replace the jinny's stajijrerinji losses of thel liu.-'iaii campaign. I'nitedj Slabs Army men now believe.; Km ii il the Kussian announce-' i : thai Nazi casualties in the last ni'iiith.N amounted to 2.700,000 • • :.rn .it considei jibly less than I l:i,- value. iMormed persons here ii a (lav the German losses have lnr!i enormous and to all practical Jin jic-e^ irreplacahle. A month ago. military circles tin- 1 ti id that Germany had 300 to :t 1II • i in.-. However. many of these (i \ ..-.on., were assumed to be below 1 strength, and made lip of inferior | |,(1 -onnel. The Nazis put on an extensive I manpower drive last winter and , etg, when the 17-year-olds were: d:.<:ted jiikI men up to 50 were as ? ma il to combat units. The objec tive was 2.000,000 men. the results )>: >n..bly about 1,500,000. To get tin the Reich relaxed physical mlard., virtually ended all em ■ > .lent in service grade?-, closed (i v. ii thousands of retail shops, and iMil took men out of essential in dustry, replacing the latter with . l red labor from occupied coun ties. •* ! I Till- drastic effort is believed lo !i been the last sLaw for Ger-] ir iv's manpower possibilities ex cept fur ihe increment of perhaps I aiin.OIMi youth who will become 17 1 each year. Stocks Dull And Irregular New York, Nov. ti—(AIM—Selling I 1 Puvmiiv slackened further in to- I 1 day".- slock market but buying was j i I illy lax and trends were only j . : i ulitly irregular. The volume was • id 300,000 shares. In front at intervals were Santa Fe. Great Northern. Northern I'a c c. Standard Oil of New Jersey. I s. Steel. Bethlehem. General Mo ' Scars IfoebucU. General Elec ' ic. U. s. Gypsum, International Nickel and International Harvester. Cotton Drops 65c Per Bale New York Nov. fi—(AIM—The I I ' 'Hon market resumed its decline: '•"lav on increasing hedge selling i I and liquation, influenced in part by ] I i* w Allied victories. ' I' ilures closed (old contracts) (>•"> • IMI ccnl.s a bale lower. Open Close | I 'eccmber 111.70 l!».ti(ii) March 10,46 10.401 < M:|V 10.21 10.15 1 i -1111 v 10.05 18.7!), vliddhng spot, 20.31. H- 80.YEARS OI -D SUNDAY Ken. Robert Houghton (abovel of I.uurel Springs. chairman of the lax-framing House Ways and Means Committee, will be 80 years old tomorrow. Now serving his 341li year in Congress, he looks up from a pile of work on his office desk at tile Capitol, where he make* it a habit to be on duly 16 hours daily, begining at 6 a. m. Congress To Invite Hull To Explain Moscow Pact Address Would Add To 85-5 Approval By Congress Friday Washington, Nov. (>—(AI*) —Senators who rolled up an 85 (i 5 endorsement of the peace irinciplc enunciated at the Moscow* conference now want 0 have a firsthand account of he document from the man vim helped make it possible— Secretary of State Conlell Hull. A movement was prompted 1<> in ■jto Hull Id address a joint session 1 the Senate nad House upon Ins eturn from Kussia. Senator Luca.s (I).. 111.) said sueh convocation would show the world hat the United States and its eleel (I representatives are intensely in ast minute effort to save it. but lid the establishment of machinery it maintain it. While the final decision re-ts with lull, it was learned that the move nent for his appearance has the ile.ssinj; of liiKh government li};ure-. The showdown roll call on post war policy came at .V.'IO p. in. ye.» erdav, touching off two weeks' de late. Kitty-one Democrats and IS4 lic iiiblicans voted lor the Connally Mist-war foreign policy resolution. )nly Senators Heynolds (I).. N. C.) nd Wheeler (I*. Mont.). Democrats ind Johnson (It.. Calif.), t.anuer It.. N. I).), and Shipstead (It., dinn) voted no. Senator LaKollctte I'roR.. Wise. I. ab''Kc*niaii observed: "We'll |>eiice- ; tillv seek a solution of that audi: w<' ll no about the job of producing 11 coal." After seven months of con- i ii'vcrsy and four paralyzing strikes] Jy'ich cost the nation more Hum 40.- ! u(in,ooo ton* of coal, this is thi pic iiit: UMVV President Joint I,. Lewis has i memorandum . aureement with fuels Hn«s Harold I ekes: under i( he soft conl miner who formerly eceived S7 n day will receive $8.50, it!irciiie to dis conl iin hour longer, jiiiily l>y liiilv me his 30 minute Ulicli period. Alter hi< 40 hours un leiKround he stints getting pnid for ravel time lit nine and n hiilf. In a iix-diiy week (us increase is about <11.50. so lli.il the average daily in •rca.se is cIomt to S2 than SI.50. His lolal week's earnings will be close o $57. Provision- covering anthracite inner, were Itilly approved. They jtiin' 70 v'tif .t liey additional. Germans Say Foe Attacked Vatican In Bombing Raid London, Nov. 6.—(AIM—The German high command, repcat ins; earlier broadcasts of the Berlin and Koine radios, assert ed today that "enemy aircraft last night attacked Vatican City in Rome" hut the Associated I'rcss had no confirmation that any such attack had occurred. "Buinh hits caused destruction in the world-famous mosaic fac tory. as well as damage to the governor's palace." said the Ger man communique as broadcast from Berlin. Steel Group To Ask Raise I Philadelphia. I'm . > ti (AI*)— I The* United States Steel Workers of America (CIO), which won the first industrywide wage increase under the iiiitI wage .slnhili/.nti>>li pro griim. w.is reported rendv t-nlay for an iitteuipt to crack the "little steel" foiiuulii it sol I established. While delegates to the CIO na tional convention scattered to their homes. President I'lnlip Murray. who iilso hends the steel workers' union remained l>ehmd to take pint in a meeting oil lie steel workers' e.\e (Cotitinued 011 I'age Two) Life-Termer Who Escaped Is Slain By I'ennsy Police Chester. Pa.. Nov. ti. (AP) Vic tor Andreoli. life-term convict who escaped from ('".astern penitentiary eleven davs ago. was shot to death todiiy in a gun battle wilh Pcnns.vi vama State motor polite, who sur prised him at breakfast 111 a down town restaurant. The 27-yeur-old lugitivc bad boasted he would never be taken alive. Andreoli. who killed a policeman 111 11 hold-up near Wilkes-lbirre. Pa., six years ago, was trapped in his tracks by four bullet." front pistols of three State policemen, who closed in on him as he huddled over his food at a lunch counter. lie himself fired two shots—and both missed. During his escape, he boasted: "The first cop that lays a hand on me diea." Air Forces Of Germans Knocked Out Fresh Enemy Force Is Unable to Stop Drive by Americans Allied Headquarters. Algiers. Nov. (>—(AP)—Allied forces in Italy smashed away the last remnants of the (lernians' pow erful Massico ridjje-Tritftio line in taking the key point of Vas to on the Adriatic and Venafro in the upper Volturno valley, it was announced today. Forging ahead in tlx1 wc-'.ei n sec tor, British patrols of the Fifth Army crossed the Garighano river to probe the new line which the enemy has formed north of there. Americans of the Filth Army drove ahead into the mountains af ter occupying Venafro in a fierce fight in the tortuous upper reaches I of the Volturno. The Germany attached such im portance to this mountain fastness that they threw a new division—the 305th infantry—into the right in a last minute effort t<> sav eit. but even these lresh Nazi fighters from tlie iiorth were routed by the Amer j icans. In the nir war. American me dium bumbcr.s knocked out a large portion of the German air forces operating from Albania with a heavy raid yesterday on Berat Kucov airfield in the cen ter of the tiny country. The field was <">0 of the bases from which the Germans were oper ating against patriot forces in the Balkans. There now are nvo German divi sions in the battle on tlie Fifth Army front, it was disclosed, and three opposing the Kighth Army. In addition to a five-mile surge up the Adriatic coast to take Vasto, Eighth Army troops also made gains of a mile and a half in the region, some 25 miles inland. The Germans, who in recent days have been using tanks in the Adriatic coastal sector, re sisted fiercely at Vasto. where their protective mountains run douu to a shell' beside the sea. Along this shelf runs the coastal road lo Pescara—the back door to Koine. In striking )<■ Vasto, flic Eighth army gut thruogh Sail Salvo where the Germans had held out more than a week, and on flu* basis of reports from the front this morning the British my within 15 miles of the Sangro river, where flic Ger mans undoubtedly will attempt an other stand. Flew With Death WHEN A GROUP of men nt the Navy air field at Jacksonville, Fla., w.u endangered by a live 500-pound bomb in a grounded plane, Lt. Coindr. T W. McKniKht /above), , of Salem, Mas*., (lew the plane to i ward the sen, expecting death n.o j nicntarily. Once over open \vaf»r he tried to jettison the bomb, but j it became stuck. In a dnp.l gamble, I he rocked the (.lane and the bomb j Plunged scawiiti {International) Commander oi the I'aeifie Fleei. \ discussed plan., for the curent offensive against .lans on Bou gainville Island. Vice Admiral A. S. Carpenter, commander of Allied naval forces in the Southwest I'aeifie. walk* behind MasArthur. In the latest air attack on Kahaul. II enemy ships and IDS planes were destroyed, and two Jap cruisers and l.'S other ships damaged. I . S. Signal Corps radiophoto. (International) 53-Ship Jap Convoy Moving On Rabaul As Americans Wait Emanuele Lea\ es Naples, W ith I Iis Status I ncertain Italian (iovrrnmriH llruiltiuar t< rs in Italy. Nov. (i.—(API — Kinc Vittorio Kmanurlp was re ported enroute hack to his «ov criunciil seal today from Naples, hut there was no immediate in dication of the re.sult of talks In had there with Count Carlo Sl'ory.a. anti-fascist leader, and others who had urged his ahdica tion. Slavs Begin New Drive On Germans l.oiifiih. N>>\ »> AIM Ynjii»sli>\ Ullcillla- haw l.illinlnil ,111 ollcllstve In drive the (It'll ill- 11 < 11 lilt* lolifc Pcl.icsai' pi-nilis'il II tin* Malmatiaii coast. ,i <-<>iu 11111i 11n• ol lis*.* Yiignslux Liberation arii v iminiliccd today. Tin- detail- ol the Peljesac opera Ii>>ii vvi'ii' tackniu. I'd' lIn* report was oi htMv\ iiuiituiK between Pani .hi and the (ierinan* • iti the slopes ol M Mini /.el iiljo.- hi Srrlna. In tin ea-t. A (iiiinaii sarri.-on at UnynViiC. near Myelova. in Croatia, was li quidated tiv General Joseph IJor/ (Tljo) force*. the In111**1 in said, and tin- railway lino between Kri/cwi iltidllyclov'a was reported severed at severnl points. liir 11 eels Doing Lxcellent Job Ol Feeding Soldiers An Advanced N«*w (tallica Ha.-c. ticl I'll. (Delayed I (AIM Then* urcn'l any tallies at this Army mess uid II *• enlisted men and officers sit mi tin* mound discii--iiii* tin* day's work ainonu themselves at meal > line. |t'» the nearest American kitchen lo Die iron! lini's in New Guinea. Yet ail example of one meal is stciik, potatoes. Hiring beans. coffee and biilte scotch pnddiiit; tliat would iiif*11 in your uioutli. 'I'll** mess sersea:it is Serucaiit Walter Whitfield, ol Pikeville. N. C. Others who htive been recom mended by their Ctrl 11 ltd customer* Hundreds of U. S. Bombers Ready for Assault on Fleet Southwest. Pacific A11 it»< I lendtpiartcrs. Nov. (»—< A I* I - - Possibly Japanese lieav; and livrlit cruisers. destroyer? 'transports and freijrhters—nev ! stakes in the deadlv jranu1 raj' ! inir to a decision in the Sole: i mors—are movinjr on Kiihau from Truk to within ranjre o massed hundreds of Amcricai ; homhers. Already iln- :u : oo- ha\e In lone <>f the five soathbound convoy; ! in w hat shapes ii|> a,. likely In j the most \ H'lenl action sauy .1 -l! I shi|> enemy cemov w i> clestroyei 'by Allied |>i ne> !. ; March in tlx I Bismarck #e New (i tinea. ' I le idf|iiarters reported today !h j.»pott:n;j ol liie ene.nv tloct niiii< b; I sky |Kitrots .ind a s|M>ke?in«n nutrii | clear their every ni'vc is hem; j watched. I Tlicre w.i.. some I kelilionrt of da i plication in 'he reports nt acria j spottc s l)llt .1 K'niaiaed evident .t.i I pan 1 s prepariim In lek much 11 tiyinu to hold mito I' uaaivilh her last l>ii« l>a>e "i Ihe Solomon and lo mi i.ice New llntain whirl bars the open sea la re., to the Phi lippine I lot the "di.-iiiifiitished iicrviee siwoi w 11! 1 oalmeal eln-le include I'll I vale I- 1 C!a |)alla> I. Mitchell , ol I >tn ham, X. Fortress Is Evacuated, Germans Say Dnieper Bastion Is Obstacle No More To Stalin Forces London. Nov. (>— ( AI' I — ! Kiev lias fallen to the victor ious Russian army. Premier Marshal losif Stalin announc ed today in a special oilier of the day. Tlie key Dnieper river bas tion and ancient capital of the Russians fell to Soviet columns which liari l>een poised above and below the city for weeks after the Soviet offensive car . tied to the river barrier. Suddenly, the I'ussiau columns t swung :111<> iuimli two days ago. Masting b.im! liuli1. through the Na/ iio. itu.a-. :.nd do-. j; into the city. I Tlie (•i-ritv.ui high command liail announced a few hours pre viously thai the great lortrcss had been evacuate:!. with Ger irian troops pulling out under the threat of encirclement. The (!cr 111:111 announcement, ' broadcast I nun Berlin, said also thai other S<>\ it-1 column.., had renewed their attacks 110 both sides of the Kerch straits in the eastern Crimen, and against the Perekop isthmus, ' the northern entrance to that pen l insula. j Stalin's announcement termed Nazis from tlie ancient fortress the assault which drove the "a gallant outl tanking inaneu j ver" which at ilayGrcak '•cap tured by storm the capital of the Soviet I'kraine. the town of Kiev, vital industrial center and most important strategic center > j of German resistance on the right flank of the Dnieper." It also termed the capture of the* "greatest importance .11 driving the German., from the western Ukraine.*' German withdrawal from the Kre.it catncdral city came barely 40 liouis alter the Itussiaiis launched a surprise attack against the northern | and western suburbs ironi their {bridgehead base »■. the west bank 1 ot tli,- Dnieper 1 :ver, 11! mile.s to ' \ th»' north. Breaching two German defense . I.nes guarding the city, the ltllssiails , outl!.inked the enemy'- positions on tin- west and ninth, leaving only a ■ single escape route to the southwest 1 open. f ll was tin. 1' i.ite which the Ger ( n... - ev denily ...-cil to complete the 1 c\acii.ition ■ i 111 -11 M<>s(|inlii I),.Dili.- -. in .1 <|liiil* lullow tl|) to ii ircolfl Atiifi iciili (lnvliglit ,it. lark vrslnriliv on t\\<> Huhi citir i.tlwkcd liii ucl- in wc.-tciii Cci m.iti.v j lay I iiikIiI. t lit* in i- niimsliy iiiiniumr ! « (i iiidiiv. Tin* ol'.H'divos iitiiicked in tin I niithi iiKsniilt wci'c in.: iniitit*dwitt'iy I named, iinr u .is llicrc iiny lunl of Im I size <>( I In* raiding force Yc.-tcrd.iy. a hui{<* fW-ct .»l Aincr ; 'fiiii liravv Ixinihcis (Miniated a' 1700. loosing one of tlir heaviest ;iii | lilows r\cr drall to western Oi'i I nidity. blasted iiiduslii.il and rai turned .it GclcnUirchen awl Muen »U i m the wake o| similar stagger assauli on Wilhclmshaven. 1'hc sky ;il mada. totaling U|)Waids of planes with fighlrr escort, bored through a wall <>l anti-aircrall 'nc which out* pilot said was "as in* |teiw lis hell and ,is thick as rain drop.-" tn if, eh its objectives. In tha j day's (i|K*i at ioils. which incllKlcd at tacks «>n ikk Hi* rn Kcaiicc and Bel gium. losses wi'ic ten heavy bomb ers. two medium ones and five fight ers as against 38 enemy fighters. Five heavy bombers, were lost in th« Willielintliav en raid.