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THIRTY-FIRST YEAR HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 2, ID 14 .ubl'sh^d^ver^ aftern°°n FIVE CENTS COPY
DonaldNelson Will
Likely Be Another
Aide To Roosevelt
May Direct Effort
To Restore Economy
Of Otlicr Countries
\\ .1 hill.;: ’ mi, i Jet. li (AID
I)np,aid .M. Nil mi appeal's dm
for adoption into President
K<>" ivrlt' family of personal
auii and i mi- -aries, charged
with helping restore ravaged
economies ot other countries and
enlisting them as customers foi
American goods.
Mr K rlf letter accepting
i . War Produe
tiie: Ia -1 .1 .e.. .mil asking him
j. ; ,, ,, new position, described
thi : ■ i e mg .i ignmiw as a
‘li g | - "t i >f ni,. i i impnrt nice" in
pa1 g WUV |, "p.'stW ll i -"Hi 1,1
ie -ee at.iii. with ■ ther nation., "
I! gi ni rally believed lli.it tin
Pres, e i ' ml: :lci.n \t-ls"!i to wore,
in Ins ■ vn. outside the framework
of . ting agencies dealing with
fni-iga trade the State and (' m
inrice Pep.ir!n imi.- and the I" reign
Ke .no i Adn misli at in
In i i v. of this belief, m "1 ot the
vcek-t nd speeulaiion revolved ar'eaul
these alt* rnalH is
’ Ti. a Nelson might head .. new
govt- 11 - ill agon y, a guess tha*
Nils n diet not o nlirm fur rep •■rters.
M.-re lilkely. that the former
WPP. . iirman. w ith a small st.ifl
.aid pe: 1’..,: s a new t Ith', would
merefv • -xj .aid his present role as
Mr. R • evelt's special e:.v, y and
rouiial1 r > n matters of overseas
trade and ee. ir mic rehabilitation.
Patching up ill,- tattered Chinese
war elfort wa> the primary aim oi.
Nelson's recent j e.ruey to Chung
| :-g. II .wo i r. iie is known to have
ambit: us plans tor the u d steial
exploitation e.f China's vast labor re
siv.irir, liter the war through the
I'Hirehase ot American machinery and
capd.il equipment.
SUPPORT PRICE ON
HOGS HAS DROPPED
Rail gl Oef 2— (AP)—Th« sup
I i price i'lr hogs weighing between
n and 2to pounds lias dropped to
s: 'a) per hundredweight, Chicago
i ■ b ;t the North Carolina stipp1 r!
o' $12.30 per hundred. The
' • ,■ • Agriculture Department an
unei>d earlier that neither the sup
!• ii pnri.' nor the ceiling price, which
is SI I ,15 in North Carolina, for
I'lght under 240 pounds, would be
loangtd before June 30. 1913.
Roosevelt
And Dewey To
Take To Air
(R.v The Associated Press.)
Prc.-idcnt Roosevelt and Governor
Dewey both take the air Utis week
with major campaign .spcccnes
which may determine tactics for the
live weeks remaining betoro elec
tion.
i 1 Heir last time out: Mr. Roose
f volt's .-iashing attack on the Repub
licans .September 23 and Governor
Dewey’.' vigorous and prompt reply
•—for a time at least set the cam
paign on a level of oldtime political
battling.
Mr. Roosevelt’s speech this week,
from Wasmngton Tnursday to party
workers over the country, is expect
ed In be primarily a gel-out-the vote
pep talk, but that would allow him
an opportunity to take whatever
line he ehuo.-es to emphasize the im
portance of the election.
Dewey, whoso L narleston, W. Y.o.
speech this week was changed from
Friday to Saturday m oruei to ;u
• range for wider radio facilities, has
not said whether he jvould continue
the personalized sort in attune nt
used at Oklahoma City. However,
those with him on lus recent cam
paign tour said the "pour it on,
Tom. ’ type ol cheering he got in the
trip’s later days pleased the New
York governor.
The political stage, meanwhile, ;n
i hided these activities by lesser
members of the task:
Democratic. Chairman Hannegan
said m a statement in New York
that if Dewey were elected, "one oi
the u 'initiating figures behind the
United States government" would
be Jo.-eph N. Pew, Philadelphia ml
man. Hannegan called Pew "one ol
the wealthy group of little known
pnwi i hungry men whine steady
stream of money dominates the Re
publican party."
Hard traveling Governor .John \V
Cl icker, oi Ohio, the G. O. P. vice
president la! nominee, moved into
the South with speeches this after
noon at Bowling Green, Ky., ant
tonight in Nashville, Tenn.
Governor Earl Warren, of Cali
forma, is down for a G. O. P. radii
speech in Minneapolis at 9:45 p. m.
KWT ■ while a five-minute talk it
scheduled from Washington by Sen
a tor Harry S. Truman, the Dem
ocratic viee-uresidential nominee, a
{i;55 p. m- EWT.
Honored by King
THE COMMANDING GENERAL or the
Sixth Army Corps, U. S. Seventh
Army, Lt. Gen. Lucian Truscott,
Jr., is shown wearing (lie Most
Honorable Order of the Bath med
al. It was presented to him by
command of the King of England,
The presentation was made some
where in France. Untcrnatiun-al>
Nazi Blows
In Italy Are
Beaten Back
Roiiip, Orl. 2—(.AP)— Amrr
irans of the fifth army vestcr
rin\ brat hack counter attacks
on tlie Alontrtagliu. lofty domi
nating height on the road to
Imola, for the fourth straight
day and captured neighboring
.Monte Cappella after a hitter
battle, the Allied command an
nounced today.
The skies over most of the Ital
ian front cleared after nearly a week
of frequent rain , enabling the
Mediterranean Allied air force to
take an active role supporting the
doughboys.
At least one enemy attempt to
counter attack was broken up by a
bombing attack and other German
concentrations of artdlcry positions
were assaulted from the air in cf
Iretive results.
On the Adnatw sector, there wore
heavy patrol engagements as tne
eighth aru y cleared the last of the
Nazis from Se\ ignano and struck
j on ana.-, the Kiumicino, where the
i enemy was occupying the far banks
n strength.
WEATHER
KOK NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair and warmer tonight;
clear to partly cloudy with mod
erate temperature Tuesday.
Invasicn Of
Philippines
Likely Near
Pacific War Near
Showdown But End
Is Nowhere Here
Washington, Oct. 2 (A I’)
Running far ahead of schedule. I
with early invasion of the Phil-1
ippines likely, the Pacific war is
nearing a -howdnwn stage, hut
the end is not in sight.
Strategy a(i pled by tie- Jap mcse
high cemmanu w ie n Ana r r i l a . e
land in the Philippine; may mdieat
the future emir.se ot the w.u. Tw
pi . sibilities stand nut.
!. The .lipani'v may elcel h
threw maim strength ini > 1 . i ll"-:
to retain those island They m
rich in row n i; rial, and a Is > I:,..
■ as a bulwark of d'denfor :h pplng
lanes to other enemy-held .-uppA
.Slums':; In the .until.
'1. '1 lie enemy nmy ion..e:me hi
macliutes ol war and chi .» to figld
a h ilding war.
Many oiiservrrs believe firmlv
that tile scrum! course is likrh
tu lie ehosen. 'Mew pi,in! nut
that Japan I) is hail an iipp.it'nun -
it> in tlt(> last two years to pile
vast iiiumtiti ?s of supplies on
stockpiles that already were huge
krfnre tile war started.
Willi tin ise added q. lai >'.t n s
llliiterials ami ,-upplie: < >!' all Kind .
It is wholly j)r on:. 1c that .la,, at.
j wen without addition of my nee.
! inalerial whotsi>e\ i r, r um .ntln .•
1. w ,ge cl'tec'.Ae v. nrlaiv lor m my
'months, j jossibly yea i s.
As tlic victoriuus Allied forces
drive tin- Japan back irnm island
to island, eiieinv suppP lines hc
i" til" shorter and stronger. Cun
vrrsel.) Allied lines grow In
lliinisancls of miles, adding tu the
problems of movement of sup
plies and men.
When—and w here—fhe lag mrf'm,. j
engagement long ought by Aiwriean
naval men will he fought, depend
also upon the delusion of the enemy i
command alter the Philippines c;r -
paign o))ens. It could be that a naval
battle will come there.
Eastern Air
Seeks Rights
Below Border1
W’n -hingb n. i let 2 - (AD K
crn A i I.mi's. In '., through i!s pro -
idi-nt, Captain Eddie Kickenbacker,
asked permission today lor admission
to Mexico and tile Caribbean as tin'
only American air line able to give
effective competition to the "en
trenched mo; i poly" of Pan-Ameri
can Airways, Inc.
Hickenbackcr testila'd at a Civil
Teronaulies Board hearing on post
war Lat in-American routes over
spirited protest from Ered J. Knauer. •
counsel for sevi ral other air line-'.
The attorney said Eastern had chang
ed its proposed n utings without suf
ficient notice and that copies of the
Hiekenbaeker testimo y were not dis
tributed until shortly before tilt
morning session.
A request by Grace Lines. In.'.,
i lor a temporary adjournment was
denied bv Examiner Francis Brown,
who said, however, he thought, it
most unfortunate that Eastern had
been unable to cooperate as fully as
ne st of the other applicants.
Eastern's decision not to press now
for routes on the South American
fANKS INSPECT UNDERGROUND ROBOT BOMB FACTORY
AN IRON ORE MINE that the Germans had converted into a factory for producing robot bombs is shown being
inspected by this group of American soldiers at Thils, north of Metz, France. With the lathes and other equip
y.snt found ia Uw vmt E&9P. Uj* Nsu-s produced 100 to 150 bomhs a d«yj. (International)
1/
U. S. First Army Starl
Toward Rhine East Of
ARNHEM EPIC-100 YARDS AWAY LIES THE ENEMY
USING A HEDGE ns a barricade, British paratroopers of the Border Regiment, First Airborne Army, await
nltaek from Nazi troops just about 100 yards away. After a courageous nine-day' stand, 2,000 of the original
#,000 men were withdrawn to Nijmegen. Oilieial U. S. Signal Corps ltadiophoto. (International Hounclphoto)
Russian Bombers Swarm Over
S la via As Soldiers Advance
2,700 Planes
Back Up New
Aachen Drive
London, Oct. ( AI ’) —'Mure than
:\7i>n Allied war planes struck m
cl'isf and deep today with tile great
new A' eriean nl Tensive against the
Siegl'i ’i'll hue in the A.u hi n sector
n| ni I'thwes! Germany.
t )\ ci I.OIIo medium and lighter
hnmbers iila/cu a p.itli into lie- Nazi
wail mined.ately iel 'e Gene al
I bilges' mem
About yoO Flying Fortresscs, with
.inn c corts. tori' at targets around
Col igne and Kassel, while 300 Liber
ators pc.uri'd bomb loads into Ger
many's greatest Tre,igilt yards at
Hat m, 9o miles nnftheast ol Aa
chen.
(Inti ml F.nsenlt over broadcast a
warning to I)utell residents ol islands
in the Schelde estuary to evacuate
boI'ore the bombers start work there,
Cologne, tilth city oi greater Ger
many with 7111).000 people is 30 miles
east of Aachen, near wheiy the Am
erican fifth army was attacking tim
Siegfried line today. The Prussian
city i n the Iih.inc is one o! Hitloi s
greatest arsenals and also is a com
inunieati m. e( ntc: M supplying tile
northern end ol the German front.
Kassel, a city of 217,000, is one
of the most important German rail
road centers in the west.
continent below Balboa. Canal Zone,
and Pnrt-au-Spaih, Trinidad, came
as a surprise to other applicants.
200,000 Germans
Being Bottled Up
In Lower Balkans
.AIwsoiw, (Jet .2 (AIM- Jilts !
sum fighter bombers -warmed
over Yugoslavia in I'otind-the
cioek raids on tile (b rnians as '
Russian ground troops gained!
steadily today along a curving
mountainous front 7b to 0)0 j
miles southeast of Belgrade in '
a drive that is bottling up an I
estimated 200.(too Nazi troops in
the lower Balkans.
I'lie Germans were ficrc v defend- I
ing ihei I5.dk:.n lifeline Mdilicast of j
the Yugi slav capital, ljul yes terday
Kid a. my •:>> >|i-. nil Mm sin-! Tito's
Yugoslav par'.i.-alis acting a advai.c- ■
cd si" ots, neiit-d Nazi deP’iis'-s an-j
other 23 mile.- to within 43 miles of
tin' Belgrade Mis railway. Moscow
announced.
Soviet pilots today reported si
lencing 50 enemy bailcrirs, ile
slroying five military tanks anil
knocking out scores of trucks and
tanks along the vita! escape hatch
for the imperiled Nazis.
( Mean win 1c, a n tint' i l’i r 11 e 11 Buiia
pesl dispatch im n Turkey .-"ml other
Sov iet anil f{< mai nan t; ■ m |.-s harl
penetrated 22 mills .n s e it lie istern
Hungat y in an ol fell -r. e aimed P
15 >d:i|h t. Bus m gain: in Unit .sea
tor were officially aeicnowledgeci oy
Hungary, Ion their depth wa. no!
disclosed.
I Mi . cow was sili r.1 abo il 111>■ Hun
garian urno and about Ihe si I ua I i >n
at Warsaw, whirl1, was deserihed as
“critical' by Polish patriots, as Ber
lin said the Nazis were overwhelmin ;
the dwindling guerilla ..)
Soviet progress toward I'ne Mo
ravia valley route ol the Ib'lgr ide-j
Greece lailvvay was the only import
arl advance claimed today dong the
entire eastern front.
Aerial obscn ati< n and inf rmalion
from Lugoslav partisan:- pin-pointed j
the location of German reinforce
ments diverted to the Serbian lie a- j
si on sector.
Hciirinj^s I;rida\
On Textile \Ya<^e |
Increase Demand
Charlotte, Oct. 2—(AP) Hearings
will be held Octboer fi in Washington
i by thi' National War Labor Hoard
on wage irerensc demands of the
Textile Workers Union of America,
CIO. in 23 cotton textile plants of
the south, lb H. Lawrence, aiuthcrn
regional director of the TWU, has
announced.
Demands of the union include:
Sixty cents an hi nr minimum
wage, ten reels an hour in crease to
all clnssifieat Ions above the mini
; mum, guaranteed hourly rate of pay
for piece workers, sev"n cents an
Ivmr tid'd shift bonus and vacations
with pay.
llcarngs wen’ conducted during
the spring by a group cornu -ed of
I. ('. Reynold:. Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, Baltimore, represi ntiiig the
public; William P Jaiohs. Clinton,
S. C , representing industry: and
Frank McCalister, Atlanta, repre
senting labor.
Among North Carolina mills in
cluded in the list are Harriet Cot
ton Mills. Inc.. Henderson: and Hen
derson Cotton Mills, Henderson.
Puliman Will
Build, But Not
Ph ladeiphi s', -S.pt (AIM I ‘til I
man, In . not.tied United S' Mrs I
trirt CM ' i t today that il had elected
to sell its sleeping ear serv ing b• is -
ness and retain ils railn.ad eai man
ufacturing business in complumv
with an anti-trust deeree entered by
tile court last May II.
Pullman, Inc.’s, sleeping e ir busi
nr-. is earned on by the Putman
company. Its maim i act ariug busi
ness is carried on by tile I’liUnian
St.aiYord C'ar Manulaeturing Com
pany and Subsidiaries
Tlte anti-trust decree, filet by a
special-threc-j udge court, directed
the group to give ,p one "I the
two businesses. Under the decree
there may be no "interlocking direc
tors" among ti:e ei n.panics and no
ollicer or direct a ol any one Pull
man company may hold securities in
the other.
In entering the decree, the court
directed Pullman to tile a proposed
plan ol separation, and said if the
plan proved unacceptable the court
itself vv add maKe a pr ‘j i a 1.
The court today took the plan un
der advisement.
Under the decree the e impanv has
until October a. llll.l, to put the plan
into cITee'. The court had given,
the company until October 5. 11)14. to
file a plan, with another year granted
lor making it effective.
STIIONO POINT Ol SOPOT
SKI/lll) P.V TITO'S MI N
l.ondon, Oct. 2. (AIM- -Marshal
TitoM Partisans raptured the tier
man slrnngpniht ot Sopot. I’ll miles
outh ol Belgrade, in then' drive
coordinated with the I!ii.-sian Army
push into Yugoslavia. TiloM broad
cast communique .aid tonight.
:s Drive
Aachen
Joint Land,
Air Assaults
Upon Enemy
New Attacks kail
Upon New Section
Of Siegfried Line
London, Or). 2 -(AT)—The
United Stab' first army launch
ed a big push ton ai d t lie Rhine
from its position pmrt ral mg the
Siegfried line in the Aachen area
Ioday.
Lnding a stali-male of almost
two weeks, in which German
counter attack.' were beaten off
while the mighty punch wa;
prepared, General Hodges’ war
riors began one of the greatest
combined air and land assaults
of the Luropeau campaign
against the entrenched enemy.
The . 11 i . •' • i. •...! preceded by i
heavily concentrated artillery bo
rage and l>v t Hinder' i- drum U<at
of thudding bnnib. n in hundreds "i
modi :n and fighter boiwbers.
Hardly ha I 11.• ■ ground stoppen
sliakmg fiorn the o.'inbai* nenl lr ••
fare Hulk,*'.’ d'cighi)> er ished inr
v.ard through Ine .omke and nibble.
The attack was launched at a
new sector of the Siegfried line
near Aaehen, where the Ameri
cans already had pierced tlin
enemy belt at three lilac's, front
line dispatches said.
< i usinng iv,1) hi 11 * ■ , ii ongf a i ,<■■ .
iv in countci attacks in ttic wcstcn
campaign, British tr >ops broadened
their corrid' r in lb Hand today and
American,-; dosed into the entrance
of tile Belfiyt gap and advanced fur
ther east n' the Kre: eh city ol Nancy.
The German army sagged hack
to tlie defense in the ruin of
the two hie counter thrusts after
its strongest attempt since tbo
battle of Caen to wrest tempor
arily the initiative,
laal by bard-hitting armor, the
: Brit i.-h won a live-mile front roni
iii'inding the Nazi di fenso line thriv
miles cast n' S Iicrt/igenbosch, su
preme iieadquarU i - announced.
II was thri ugh 'S Hertogeubo.-,' i.
'.that the Germans were at! 'mpting i
i keep open a safety valve between
the British eut-ult in the broad Ilul
land Dep, an estuary ol the Maas.
Supreme headquarters, meanwhile
called nil residents of Austria “to
prepare b-r the arrival of the Allies."
and to tnmi secret coniaiiittees In
work with the Allies in the admin
istiation i.f local al'lairs, the purging
of Nazis, -Ihe preservation ol b url
stocks and the safeguarding ot trans
port and niiichic.ery. Similar bruad
I casts preceded the entry of Allied
I troops into Belgium, the Netherlands.
, Luxembourg ami Germany.
Stock Price
Trend Spotty
!Y<‘v York. On :* ( AP)—Trend*
turned ;i bit .potty in today's st»>» k
[market. ;ift♦ • j ;i steady opening in
j which aim ;iftf wen* the principal
bidi rig fav< i it".
AI lead m>. t "I Hie tune v.<u*r>
United Aircraft, (ilrn Martin and U
S St(*el. Laggards ; eluded (Toner d
Motors, American Telephone* and
DuPont. «
Millionth Ton Of Bombs
Dropped By Air Forces
Washington, (let (A I’ i Tin
at illy an loin's .mnumced today it
had dropped Its indliiailh Ion at
bombs m this v. nr Iln ; lot;d visas
reached September 20 in the Ptack
on the vynthetie oil rerinery at Mei.se- ,
burg, in the center ol Germany.
Almost italf Hie total. 132.0111) t<n •
has been dropped since D-Day n.i
.June (I, General Henry II. Arnold,
chief of 11 if AAF, reported.
Citing figures covering all bomb
ings from December (i, 1941. to Sep
tember 28, of this year, in aP the
atres, Arnold noted that hittiu:; the
enemy with this great t milage has
not been without cost.
There have been 72,00.1 air force
batlte casualties—dead, mi: r g. pris
oners and wounded—and 5,300 non
battle casualties, made up of dud.
mising, silk and injured.
Overall plane losses amount to ap
proximately 42,000. Ol these, 14,- |
(iOll ui i i al t h'. i In-i'h li i .! on o’l
combat mis. |‘ n . uni an addition il
(l.ilitn have boon ! .1 nvcr,.cas l.jm
inn coiiili.it can .r- In Hie conti
nental United St.ilos, 17.0(10 plane,
have In" il lost.
c)I the t't.il bomb loiin ige, Arnold
t id, a p|n ’ \ : 1 ’ a t r I v 1 1,1 IIH) t. a 1 vi, -re
ronrenl rated on aireralt l.iftm'io . and
n I 'ted plants and .nrtields, I 10,000
on • 111 plants, ha llhearmg works and
other industrial targets, and lh< re
mainder against shipping and md -
tnry i list a 11 a 1 i • ns and 111 direct run
port of ground troop.
AAK planes oversea., have llovn
13.900,000 In i.rs. consuming -nr -
than two billion gallons of 100 ncl i'ie
gasoline. They used 239,000.000
rounds of ammunition to destroy
more than 27,000 enemy airplanes,
probably destroyed 0,000 more and
damaged 10,000 others.