Hextiteranxx Hatlxt Btspafrh' THIRTY-FIRST YEAR ucamd w,rr service of-——;---—-_ft_»_ —---__ he associated press. HENDERSON, N. G., II GSDA'* A I- TERNOON, SEPTEMBER I!*, ptjl published ^vkky^a^-ternoon FIVE CENTS COPY High Floods In Roanoke In Prospect Nr a r Record High W.tler at Richmond; Rainfall Is I Jr«vy Kaieigh, Sept. Ill (,\ I’) I in* Wept her nnrenn here .;aj(| imlay 1 hat the Uoanokr river at. \V ’hion prohahly vv mild he nine (•■el .’’hove flood .stage hy '!’hur • - day at ternoon or night, and per i.ns living along the river hmild take every precaution. I here is no re .1. mi now lor people •> ■ •■■ 1: u.itf. the bun .vi ..oil. adding 'sit tie water level pr. babiy v. add 1 to forty feet. I lie 11-11.(I IS not exp.-eli r| 1 ,e mss us tlie one in 10 to, when 0 - : was loss Ol li11 ■ -(iii! nest pa ; 1 1 1 iv damage. ,\1 rtundolpll. Vs., two mb- ;inii, - 1 ■ North (’aiellr.i li e. )!..• rin.a - iv stood at llti.fi fi-el. vvtiirti 1 ax s'-ven feet above r.-iual. Nme ties "i ram u -1 fallen then• in thi i hi ir period ending pi . m n s Heed waters are tut expected . -ng the iWiisr. i. ( I-*,-;, a . in Nortli Canilma SOI I ||) irv It \II.W \V Itl.Of HI I) in MOODS M .M! I) \\\ II,1 I 1 1 > t 1 ishoi-o, Sept ! !l ( At’ 1 111gii ■ •.. r the Son I ’ a -ri 1 It a: 1 y I e • - o. c lai l.lanvi lie ami (’harlot'• die, I ■ .. mg a Stoppage "I >11 pa ;> > ' Mir oil the main line ah- >ve I inn - le. bus t-'-dvei 1 d tie ,!;it|.-. ' rli a rrier, stiggi• .'r >■ >>l -i ml ■ |it>, with vvea-.v pas.-ngers. load"! v,;ii fatigue, sprawled ■■.lire- t - 1 ■ > been waiting 1 1 ■ tnnthhn > -lie- !l o’>■ |: 11 ■ j, | , .1 nighi, s ; northbound ti on suite pi p . . ;■. ■ In hay Ml • 11 ‘ fK- > n !he le.o frum fire. ■ > 1 1 Wa -In- gion i.-. being ■ -1!■ " i 1 >■ on 1 t hr. nigh Ft id m i> aul. 1 - . . x.--pti.-ii 1 ' Tr m- N<>. :tA. .vim , iispatelied tin ..ugh V.bo .t n t. ■ , I’n.ssenger -. boned tor I ,v -i it'd Char! -'1 '■ ' iii" and the an •••■hate vieinpv of Hip logh >•.■>• • ■ -loivd no a-hi-dule for getti >g ‘hr .a-etion. I ■'■■ an e e uidtfid 1 ■ S-'io >r‘ > I ‘ ■ 1 v 1 raffie, wit a flood v hi a a t 1 ng pa ago < -■ high'- v "> - on I t .nvi 11, a' d 1 inrl at, lb I. ■ St ate H igh v. v P nit ir Wot Iv» 1 ■ 1 gs.uni announeeiI 1: 1 . nr u n:., : ' it this highway is 1 -> 00 el. 1 ed. i 11,ably for sever, d nav • f ■ o -■■.I | hat t ral 111 .Ir ml.I lie ■ ■■ ,ted 1 ■ "igh Marlinsvile. ■ n N". 1 ( ■ 1 ]■.sv 1 lie t n high v ay I >. vs \!! i;i(ORD I IOOI) mm; I \ M I S IdVI r; FORM AST Iirlmionfl. Va . Sr|il ! d ; A ’ ’1 I i«rt w a tors from river . and 1 ■ • i. ■ " dcrn Vi ruin I 1 '-'.a i a a v i.v • d bridges al'd int(" riipted highway a ii ra11 1 raffir Ihat cai ned ' " t 1 n i or lay ol one i d tan o i d . in years in I lie lower ■ "■ ■ r at Richmond In Richmond a IT d "I aimer ’a • • i-1 was expected by 1' niop’.iv. I ' nd stage is eight feet, and til" :;hest level on rc'-md v. a- t’li.n leet i■i Tiie l>an river at DanviHe was at Ifeel above flood stage Inday. and ■ 'd| ,i .ing, while the readme at ( i mien, en the .lames. \l a H I■ it 3:30 a m.. with water rising ■' ' ie rate of a lent an iiout S. ■'' • \ dip had three t > live leet nl H"' '.ders from the .lames in '-’me streets. . Weather officials said the ramlall din i g a 24-linur period .av erage i ahnnst six inelies over the mi'ei v atershed of the .Janies rivei l'1 an ' I:(. had a record-breaking lall "■ (i 13 inelies in 17 hours. Nazis Throw Men In Battle Recklessly Nancy, Franc e. Sept Id 1 G ’ ’ - Armor* d and infantry batiles 1 1 tieing fought in rth and east "I Nani \ today as tile German army threw men and tanks away recklessly in m elort to halt the drive ol the t nded States third army toward Germany Heavy guns around this city lm".c shells into a forest tour miles to the east, where a pocket ol German:-, led by parachutists, made a ■ ■ "’•< Ton miles to the north the C-ermans sent armor against Lt. Gen. 1 a " ' ' tanks and gun- Violent ■ K r;igclRge t anti ill :t of rapt i. I < el .lap ,n» IirIris i heme i .e.| by Airn'i'inn plane . I" tile t. --IT • urd Hie fir it A>. i. e> . nn..lieH tin nl ■ i"t' I be fungi. - a I 1 nige .. allei iptur mg tin- i , U' mam n • n. '■• • • lllagcs nil -e - ': slim •• i. land \n A ateri I'’ - - eei .pm - rlf nl i eported ill * I la:; sip m .patch II n Japae.i p c (tide had shut tled l lie: i men ill i ilisei vat mi pi -I and ea es lo in.-,lire then- rl• .1111 land, while officer-' lx .rl i had been nn \ cried into Isiiiby trap. On A gan island, .is mile "olh ■ a d, 11-f. Hi.-,' Army ills isn n |" oil ed up it lightly opposed ads ance. I'he n f. ii. I ry 11 no raptured Saipan town, the pi mnpel a ttiement, svilh its wrecked pinisphaIrefinery, once ifa | foi Japan' ex plosist . am I the I ,, gc t railroad yard i Oceania ( apt llie ot 1 he loss u " I - ltd 1 be army pearl,end had pushed south wa id 11 n ■ ]-(• than bull Hie length o' Anglin . The Japunr..e apparently were '.'Hhdr.owmg lo tin- o-.treme tip for u l m u I ..I a in I. FDR Orders ! Plans For: Demobilizing Washingt m. Sept. If)—(AD — President lloosovolt today direct ed the government to prepare moss for its oss n p'-aeclime de mobilisation. indicating some "f Washington’s ssar agencies will licgin to iel;l up ssith the ddeat of Germany. In a letter issued at Hi- V. lute House. Mi. Roosevelt ol'flei i .1 1. ni ne! hired r Han.id Smith i < plan nmv ‘ lo liquidate svar agencu - and | , crons ert the government to pe ice. ••So nc steps along these fin. > p ay l,„ ta rn when the fight mg end- i t Furope,” he said, although lip tvxid ert predicting any date h r a’" w.n ■■ President ordered mniv'di re-, sammatiun of Hie Malting and dulies of all agencies, and said Iw wanted, "as soon as pi ssibl‘\ ph n | " V The liquidation of svar agencies I ,md I he reassignment ol such I'darri , or continuing function, as they | •> The reduction o! governin' > I personnel to a peace foo,ing , , | :{ The snnplitieaticn ot adapiu t,en of the administrative structure i to peacetime requirements. The Civil Service Commission yey terday reported Federal P’ v.•oils •sn,",l at 2.93fi.H(>2 emnl. vees at the sturt of this month, 270,.)':- oi them 1 ju Wusf.ioyfu::. - I New Successes Achieved By Americans In Italy 1 h»er Important* Gothic Imr Mill Positions* Sris.rt{ -- I?< }m\ Sept J. f (AID—Ki pik ing :11i!-)nwlahlp \a/j iHi IiMeatioii'. ,ind scnrii g what u/is j | rtliiiaM’ termed a "grc.it sii" f American fifth army troops yesterday raptured .{,.{00 feint. Alunte Jaifimr Mlu/./.o and Alont*' < clli in thr ftothic line, *0 nntrs northeast of lim f lire. I it,, ('ill'! y " dl 1 V'M f) ‘Sin thr , q i In lgj|t , at tri nnr .( ! In* t -‘Tit .) da V . of fighting in thr enlirr Hull an ram paig’n n|: i i. * I t icld di .j itrhe., aid Publish and Indian tro ip:-, unfit l I fifth army c* nnmand, eon tribute;! mu - ! tonally to Hi<- \nifTifan uerr Th** (in man . ■ | >j »* ■ »•< i tin* ailark w11 h j ext run>' r, ne nt i af»«»n . of nr! i!lei y | ft IT. Mc.uiu tiile, British troeps of thr rightti army, heating hack hra v.\ enemy opposition, drove * hr little republic of San i Marino, near the .Adriatic coast. A bridgehead m ‘t the Main o 11 \ »•! was i•..i.ii»11 bed there i He bribing tli«' t > 111 < * i uetii n h i IIk* mmintain p* ilmn. .ui »»fticnl r • * j» > r t , . .'id1 | '• In add'd "P to mo ‘ drlerminrd | resist-nice by reti-ran fireman temps, ! r (|uippi I a Hi mall arms and up - | ' porting we i|mu:. the tilth army lor-v ! had t" mgotiatr lugged mountain pa:; 1A on I he err. 1 ; were to; ti- | ! ! led with jagged po ii i( s and c< n 1 crete pi II. bum The entire area was i inter-laced v. itti a ire entanglements.” 'I 11esc .successful attacks brought the Americans within 27 miles o; Mr logna. important comm unicat ion., and industrial center in the Po val ley. Most of the intervening terrain, however, is rough a d well fortili\ 2'.\ pei ( (ml the prrmanenl t>a • scale of parttime employes and those paid on an hourly or tee basis. flus would he eight per cent above present 1‘ttle steel formula limits. ('oimrcssmcn Are All Set for lour Of Buttle Areas I,.mdi n, : < |.( Ill (AIM A ' :m - .i,■ n..I in i inn" mI France Vi.; .it i- .n<.’>•<•! luii i.v i',v (jeneral Kie’n |u iv. i■ r :i ft it nine inc'rnhi T • "! I lie l i u rrl si .iii-. 11 ■ 11 .1- li Id I It ipi'env' ooinmawlei they Ivelli ' cd liirv voir ivin.u lili)' .'-ii fruin tiio I rip l>,v lessei m 111lary anI lv>rit ies. Kirill rt'|■ t;i 11vprobably will |i \ ,■ 11:ill'i "M an iiispecti'll t'nir. 'Aim'll will include Cliivlii'nru. p1 s .Vis' ] in.-,.vis, apply bases and ad van n d 111111.11 •. the Macinnt line : ind perhaps the Siegfried line I" .study !l"' ri|uipment of the Imops, how they are tai inf? in the field uni the '.per,it inn ", lend-lease and ok 11 affairs. NEW POLIO CASES INCREASE SHARPLY Raleigh. Sept. 1!)—(AC)—Nine new infantile paralysis eas“s wore reported louay to the State Health Department. Thus far this year there have born Tit eases. 7 1.7 since June I• New eases were Rutherford !, apd HunrnmbP, Cumberland, Durham. Forsyth. Mecklenburg and Cull; one each. Large Dutch City Taken In Assaults More Froopr, Lanrl From Planes Aixl Gliders Third Day l/ondon, Sept. It) ( A 1 ’) British troops, joining hands with a ureat skylinrne army dropped in Holland in a thrust to break into northern Ger many, has captured Kindhoven. seventh largest Dutch city, a front dispateh said 11iday_ Tie' I .eit ish oh.iigeii lei I, aitI II Mills :n H 4 I I'lUi ■ Tsoy 1.1. •' ell with some iif tli,> parachulo and glider loir' win, by German iri'onnl, al I'erely were across llic Rhine in ccn II al I |i Hand, thread i;ing t i e II lip !:•>• : 'a/i I la k i'ut as ;u the Bril - tally breakthrough did n France. The buttle of the Ithine, mean while, brgan on a broad front to the south, as Hire- \meriean armies ripped deeper into enemy cross-liver defenses shielding Co logne, Strasbourg an.1 Mulhouse. F.indhi.v e , a big rommunicati m renter, and Geldml. seven miles t I the ia-.i. .'.ere swept bv the Bri tish .found army plunge from Bel j Hi ui They lie ten mill., inside H >1 laiifl I rum the Bcigi ' border. Th British itrendy had itruck on lartI e to'i i . coming t i the aid of Alliei l.v .nliliers iiiistny, lie Genria" III 111 ■ tinge alter village, and wi/.ing 1 strategic bi-idges and i rn-s i iads. Berlin, which yesterday ile i I.it ' ll the airborne (reaps had beep wiped out. today detailed the areas where l.l. Gen. Itrere ton's platie-lerried men were l ighi ing. Fi nit i o} H a l ,iu O'" Go r ian. ■ 11 le d in Ima" v i rl i i ipi 11 ■ I Ic o o of I he i: i I jerno army I On lei declared more troops had landed from planes and ili'd i-.s cl tf,r I llll n successive MV, and hinted some had descended. < ( 'in j lined mi t’.igc Tvii.) DANES OPEN FIRE ON NA/I MARINES _ \rw 5 ork, Sept. I '• < \D — llu German radio in I tenon rk asserted Hull sentries outside Die pa laee in ( npcnhagcn .opened lire on Gentian in-'ii’"- ■ -'<■ toda\ several hours after the Vi /is oeeopied public buildings, amt declared a police state ol enter - genev tlimugbout Hie little king dom. _ Allied Planes Sweep Again Over Germany l.ondon. Sept. If). —(AD — | \llied planes swept through continental skies today after a night in v bich British bombevs dumped 120.000 fire bombs on the German port of Brrmcr baven. and attacked Berlin for the 17f)tli time. (The- Federal Communications Commission said the Budapest broadcast an air raid warning this morning, suggesting the Mediterran ean air force also was out. Tlic attack upon Bremer liavcn. at the mouth of the Weber river. 35 miles northwest of Bremen, was made by a powerful force of heavy bomb ers. “Visibility was good and the bombing was well eonrentrat ed." the air ministry declared. 1 Brcmerhaven would be a logical debarkation point for German troops n Hu- event ol a withdrawal from Nnrv. ay. The attach^ upon Berlin, executed liv swift Mosquitoes carrying two Ion blockbusters, was the - xth raid ,in the German capital in a week. The air ministry listed total Brit ish fosses in the overnight opera tion- as four planes. It was the 1 Tilth Allied attack on Berlin, which Herman Coding said would never teel a bomb. Sweeping in from the sea shortly ,1 tei dai'.. lug Lancasters covered the entire Brcmerhaven area with incendiaries and crews said the port j was left blazing. The importance o! I Brcmerhaven had doubled since fo mcr attacks had shut down the fac ilities of Fmden. Germany's two great liners, the Furopa and Bremen have sought shelter there. The port also is known to lie harboring sub marines, motor torpedo boats. E bOiiK Mud nunc sweepers. WEATHER KM! NOKTII CAROLINA. .Mostly cloudy and slightly warmer with scattered showers in the west portion and along the coast today. Tonight, mostly cloudy and mild, followed by partly cloudy with moderate temperatures Wednesday. IAt Long Last Finns Sign Armistice Willi Allies I .omloti. Sept 111 —(AP)— Hie VI us C( v.' radio announced today that I'm I land had signed an armistice with i Russia and Britain. The first " brief announcement broadcast by the Soviet information office, and' recorded here, did not give tiro terms. They will be dis 1 closed later. The official statement, however, ( listed the names of those participat ing in the negotiations, which were in progress from September 14 until to r! iv, when Inr igrcompnt was Mritain mil Knssi'a agncd the 'pi in is i ppi rsrnlal ivrs i l thp Undi d Na tions. A dispatch from Stockholm said d was reliably reported that the w ndftiei terms were formally proved by the Finnish parliament in ;,!• early morning session. There still was no reliable picture of the de tails ot tnc armistice, but the Swerlisi press generally characterized them as '•hard." Strangling Grip On Nazi Baltic Armies Dra wn By Russians Palau Sea Chief REAR ADMIRAL \V. T( P. r,:.mdy, shown above, cnr moor nf ,n vn» I pliibious Group in ' ic Porvh-, ,3 ir» command of the ships >v inc tho Mai inoand 11 1 \' -land' ings on Palau. 1 Ini.rrnationa'.) Forts Drop Supplies l o Polish Units Mm..- ; • I i:» W‘) \ 1 I j • m V i '■ ■ .: 1 In- « f | . i ( • ,;i- t ‘ t |< 0 • j ni ■ ID 1 • *. dr« pp*‘»i cm 1 «• ! .t ,iin' , • m nl .mm 1 m*d*-i 1 .i;rl •, rot i: rn 1 1 Kn 4 ■ i nd I’m • i • ? i 1, A *) () - ile flight j m the history «»l c if •< I Fid we. c hei ■ ’.‘ci port <>\ t It- • t'Mut e I cle.i l ed 1 >y 1 he :' m* • t he I * . ; till -A .... !-e;,chefi. Itld A: .e] i*-;m hers s;ud results WO! 1 "Very ' ’• ‘SS i ill A German Reserves Being Destroyed A Division a Day M‘. i■.iv.. Sept. I!) ( A]’) Urincln.g howi; Lrrman armor ed ri'ser, i s at. ! he rate of nearly ore panzer division a day, the Red army has tightened a. strangling grip on the enemy's niid-Ralt ic communications in Latvia in a huge nim-da.v halite which may he another fulfill ment of Premier Stalin’s slral eg.\ 'urround and destroy'. K. - a ' 11",- ns 11 .-lay indicated there - i:<* p.i ise m tho l'er->ci< *u., wig.ig' LK'iil.' begun Fnu.’.y wp.nI »f ■h ig,i'. where the tr.nin Baltic rw.n ■u:d tciilwny.- mceb Th«- Russians Haim to ha\ •* knocked out 440 tanks and 36 planes on the eastern front in the past four days. Obviously, most of this punishment has been in fliHc'l in tiie Baltic sector. Thr fait of ih<* Gerrnim m rthmm di'ivy group, ‘ill t* t : r.U'fj ,, 1 iri .»r ■ ii-1n 2u fir i ■ i'dis. may b" rie. ided in 1ho next few h*mrs < , days if t'np Xcizis foil 1" keep < pen tho lifeiu ° 'i m Fa.- t Pr : ;sia thnugh liio fH g" *a rca In their ini"- m ca 'em 1 - itv a and Kstoni * •\ '•' ! .! , i rni'I’Rl' a 11 Jc * mi’n ' • ;a’l ’n mil* . wide now c< nnod . the G°r in•«11 ■!)"• *• Riga with th ‘s“ iv'ldwg sfc’ n LaU ia and western Ldhu ama The ixu.aaiv- f»nr° -napp»M tins litcline by ph 'ging In th(» -ma, ■'Ui the GiTM'dir i eosbiblL.hed ,t in iv ivy 1 ighting. Pp the corrid' i ’ nan •• p<>;n1 ;'nn enemy is throwing m rvuitin'cv'S v infantry and tap]- RUmk 1 • 'in •»> a wedge into the lm«' held by Mv Li -f 1 ’altic army, an aftemp' ‘ o n •!:: 1 v Rc< 1 \ rn ,y pi a -. in - u t off • i d mu :hi) ife the Gem an an v gi ■ u • picceinea] By Germ m accounl-. the Bu' .’n^ i mar. mg their gre.io-.t off? >t in pld the Crcrman Baltic twco, k/ !id!c;.; iiorl’n • ■ f Riga f R‘ In declared that throe Gm °t • nnuc., t- i ding nc re than 500.fifth inf'll, liar! ; ♦ er hurled against th® ( ’<•' i * an }11! a- p* >si t \ i *n;. . • d nn »* < 1 m c ! Cm p; or|i('fetj an ilpni’HOtlt n lauglR by a fourth in the Gar* * , • eclgij- ’.I I ■ ’ * 11 ni.V; n» a’l hO>i;.te :-n r a at ) Official .donee srrrenerl details *f the !’• *1 ish-S(aiof nprr.itinh., in Rio Warsaw area, but German sty ng mu t■. m the capital continued under lv c V Rill- aan art illcr.V fire. ROBOT CASUALTIES AGAIN HIT ENGLAND London, Sept. I !l—i M'l—l?n bill lirnihs, apparently launched from planes over thr North S'-a. crashed down on London and southern Lngland earl> today, killing a number of women and children. Some of the victims bail ignored government appeals to remain at evacuation centers. The attack was brief but at least 13 were killed. Worri-1 government officials repealed warnings that i‘ was idiotic for women and children to return. WHEN ALLIED ARMIES MET IN FRANCE IT'S "HOW-YA PAl" as Jean Guignon, of the 7th Army’s Frencn con tingent grabs the hand of Corporal Carl Neuman, Brooklyn, New York, of Gen. Patton's 3rd Army. The two armies made their historic juncture near Diion and. in the above picture, patrols of each, having met. ex change greetings. Signal Corps Radiophoto, (international Xoun