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THIRTY-FIRST YEAR ^TH^ASSOCIATED VrEs** PUBLISHED AFTERNOON FIVE CENTS COPY Reds, Slavs Fight Nazis In Belgrade’s Outskirts Tito’s Army May Enter City First Russians Nearing Second Largest of I iungarian Cities iAli.scow, Oct. (>—(AIM—Rus sian ami Yugoslav' troops fought the Gormans in the outskirts of Belgrade today and front dis patches indicated patrols had emsM'd to the south hank of the Danube from captured Tansovo, less than nine miles from the canital. Marshal Tile was reported near tin front and it was believed troops o' hi . riny of national liberation would he tlie first formally to enter the foilified old city of 267,000. Tli.; range ol hills at whoso northwest coi mu- Belgrade is located, is ideal fm Hod army infiltration tactics. Pravda said other Allied Slav ic troop, had it ached the vicini'y o No. KiO miles southeast of Belgrade In northern Yugoslavia, along the Tioiii river, other Russia# troop; were le>., than thirty miles across Hat Hungarian country from the see md largest Hungarian city of S/eged. imnenlled fnnlally from Run, inn as well. Th(. conquest of Hungary was declarer! in Russian newspaper- to he the first priority of Russian si’ a - tegy. Tweidy-f ive mil'cs due sooth if Belgrade. Yugoslav units wen’ locked in hitler hatth’ with thp Germans for the railage of Topola. The R ‘sians, now pigmented by the Yugo.. lavs, are gathering sire: gib for the final asasult. The Timiisnl river, flowing int" the Iianuhe at the western edge of TaueC'o. f< rms a minor German de fense line but it also forms thn edge of a-•porpnfriftT.v' ihmg^rorts pocket for the enemy because it already has been outflanked by the Russian;, a few miles north. Thou: nnds of partisans ir.sidi’ Bel grade were reported armed and ready h give blow for blow in the forth coming battle to end the reign of ' terror under which the German.- have hep! the capital for 12 month . Reported B;m On Roosevelt Trips Is Gin en Denml Washington. Oct. 6 — (AP>— White House officials said today reports that campaign appear ances of President Roosevelt at | public gatherings had been can celled were without foundation. They noted that Mr. Roosevelt has said repeatedly that he had no campaign speeches scheduled after last night's radio address to Democratic party workers. The New York Times reported today that Democratic leaders in New York had been Informed that "plans for President Roose velt's appearance in person at campaign rallies in New York and other states has been vetoed by a While House I uling that the President cannot appear at any scheduled 'public gathering'." The paper added that the au thor of the reported ruling was not entirely clear, but “it was assumed that it had been made by the secret service, which is re sponsible for the President’s per- j son.11 safety in Washington and away from it." DUTCH SEA WALL HIT BY ALLIES THIS AERIAL VIEW shows the sea wall encircling the Dutch Island of VVah heron, off the Netherlands Coast, on which some 2000 Allied planes poured 12,000 tons of “earthquake bombs.” By knocking out a portion of the wall and sending the North Sea waters sweeping over the Island, thus they inundated German guns and fixed positions. (International) Four Issues Developing Between FDR And Dewey Stressed in Speech By President Made On Thursday Night Albany, X. Y., fJet. 6 (Af”) — Four differences of opinion between President Roosevelt and Governor Thom,a . Jv Deway appeared to be developing today among the major issues to be fought out in Die remaining weeks of the presidential cam paign. Mr. Roosevelt stresned Hie ii'suet lest night in a twenty-minute r.idi address to Democrati party rallies. Govorina Dewey .vas expect oil tr. have his answer forthcoming :-•'»»— possibly in a .-.pooch tomorrow night in Charleston, W. Y i , and possibly m new: conferences. Without referring to Dewey, the President took mtisni in In., talk to accuse one Republicans of Hr ly ing a red herring across the trail" of the campaign by raising the “red spectre ■ I cnninumi.ni! I Ic said that nine politician li id wanted to make it dil'fi/nlt for mem bers of Hie armed forces to vote, denied that th°re was any disposition on the part of the administration t keep men in the army alter fighting stops t>> avoid uncmpli vine t. . nil reminded his listeners that such war time r".sl riet inns as rationing and price controls could lie ended uu . k ly either by Congre. or Ihe Presi dent. Dewcv has raised tlv i of coinmuni. l support against the Dem ocrats, dt cl wing in a-ver d train plat form appearances on his rcrot t w, st ern lour that Mr. Roosevelt has par doned Karl Browder, r mniiim l lead er, who now is supporting a fourth term. Tile soldier voting issue arose even before Dewey became the Republ: an nominee, when he opposed enactment by Congress of the administratioit sponseretl Federal war ballot bill. The Republican , ominec brought the issue of postwar .service i’s cliargcs into the campaign wth the assertion that I fir? administration 'ass ■planning to Imld men in the . m • ■ (Continued on Page Four ) Heads Surgeons r*-—. v. PRESIDENT-ELECT of the U. S. branch of the International College of Sur geons, meeting in Philadelphia, is Dr. Rudolph Jaeger, of Philadel phia, shown at the annual session after his election. (International) Americans In Italy Gain Three Miles Rome, Oct, (> - (AIM Aiimo'in fifth army h oops hammered out gains I up to three miles yc.-Po'day over Ihe rain-bugged, mountainou.- tvrrain on I the approaches to the I’o \ alley. | They captured the mad junction m Lmano, less Ilian It mles .-onth of Bologna, on the main road from1 Flore nee. Allied headquarters an nounced today. The Nazis threw reinforcement.-- of experienced Austrian and (ierm.m Alpine troops into the central sector adjacent to the highway and unloosed fierce artillery barrages. But on both sides of the road the Allies pushed ahead against the -till resistance and despite, the foul weather. Headquarters reported Ihe enotwre of Monzuno, three miles west of Tro i’mii and two mil'-s north of Monte Vencre, win h was taken Wednesday. Stocks Rise Fractionally New York, Ort. fi (AIM Ralls | and .-'.elrcted industrials continued on. the rising side in today's market, although the majorpy ol plus signs 1 were restricted to fractions. Ahead most of the time were Mont- 1 gomerv Ward. Continental Motors and Anaconda Copper. Haggards in cluded Bethlehem and American Tel ephone. Bends wore steady and commodi ties hesitant, k Peace This Year Remote, OWI Says In Statement Washington, Oct. G—• (AP) — 'I Im failure of Allied airborne troops at Arnhem, in the opinion of ()\yi Hi-I lector Kltner Davis, makes “more re mote" the chances of victory in Eu rope this year. | Davis said the "Arnhem affair" had made out of date an Office of War Information report which pro- | dieted Germany would go down "be fore, or not long after, the end of 1944.” lie referred to the heroic eleven day struggle to hold a bridgehead Across the Rhine at Arnhem. Holland I against superior forces. "Everybody agrees," Davis told re- j porters yesterday, “that the defeat of the heroic airborne division maker German collapse more remote than I when nttr report was put together three weeks ago” The reimrl was not intended for | publication, but it "leaked” after I £,000 copies were prepared and some i 4,000 vviTp distributed In persons in tiv advertising bn inn s Forecasts that 5,000.000 workers would change jobs alter V-I>av in Europe anfi—that German <*<-ll*<ps»* would bring "wide pread and m 'inn ; quarters serious” dislocation in civil ian life were made in the ()WI report. While a substantial part of the displaced workers will be absorbed in the task of. reconvening industry, the survey said, "in most cases a war job will continue to be the best job for at lea; t six months alter V-E-Day." Intended to guide advertisers in planning future campaigns in the path of the war effort, the survey said inflationary pressures would in crease alter V-E-Day, and said price . controls accordingly may be contin ued to some time. The need for heavy government borrowing will continue, it was said. 1,200 Heavy Bombers In GermanBlow i Airplane IMant in Berlin and Other Objectives Blasted London, Oil (V- A 1 li H <>.' ! mnri*than Ann rican in avy 1 Imnik'Ts attacked a’l air: I tn engine plant in it. p.n ami nii n: 'roiis oilier indust rial ok j' e , lives and airdrome in Gernnciy j todiiy. An. at l io i'll';: ■ omr Ma.'l'ing an-. ! On Itldei bolt I it'll If! I v H’O •■! ; i • i rntiers ni tins, niio i I :r. " i oa t ost mass ati blows of the a ir. Son planes lie I, loll . 11 • r ■ a d t"i p. | Reside.. 11 j, ■ ,: i i.! engine ,: nt ; a 1 Berlin. tup. e Iyi g I’m a1 ■ ■ - ..nt! la-I ucratoi . P ai er| t 1.111P >- o : . | plant, a military depot and ■ w,l nanre depot. (>thci iili.a ,-tivrs w»'re od refineries at 1 i'll'. I .rg. Si : lilies .smith et li'.lrt bui g; an i.reraft engin" til i:.■ an.! ( ''dnanri' .'all n at the port i.t II;.a - bars: airdrome, at Stargard, near 1 Jrandenbnrg, anti Wet send *rl, all \ n< ar 1 Iamb1 irg. Weather .'.as good enough for vis um hointnni; and fit>t renarM sani i t1, uIts were generally exced'-nl.'' As a railway point and advanced base Ksarltrucken, iiainmcred today . by RAF air to, ■ o, now is ol critiea importance t<. the Germans. ]i j a focal point I r main linos from j nearly ev ery ba.v ol Genua'’ v. Army •nuts oio being outfitted there con- i slant ly The allark wa , tie.sri ihed eltic; illy , as "very lvnv.v." one which "should seriously ilP"rro ’ Ihe :I"W of sup plies to the Iron'." (jirl W ar W nrker Raped and Slain Near W ashington Wa ihmgton, Or! r, i P j By mean . ■ I i lugii 'hnol da .. i ing. police today ten' Jivlv idenlilierl the body o; a girt found cn a Po tomac it ■ ■ r 111 i• 11'ir.. ■ t). 'i'llby Donum 17, "I Chippewa Kali . Wis. Dclrclr.'e Chief Robert Barren said the end's lather 1,o!d him she cams to Washington last June work | for Ihe ordnance division of the W.c I Department after her graduation' Irom Melt inneli high ehonl tin re. Wearing hobby sock., and a r ’<! coat, with large white huiton-. dti gill had been gnrroted with her own snood. Evidence of rape, offin . aid. wa.-, found in a cursory cxaim- i nat ion Tram pled gra - al the -veene i indicia tea she had I night iter a sail an‘ but' rly. Week’s Holiday In Tobacco Sales Is Bcin<.» Debated Ralrigh. Ort. (>—(AP)—Gov ernor Broughton said today the eonterenee tun. lo.iaeeomsts to discuss tlie possibility of a snort tobacco sales holiday had hern postponed until tomorrow because of the inability of some tobac conists to gel here today. Many tobacconists over (lie slat" have suggested that ‘ales he held as scheduled next wc“k, but that markets hr closed the following week, the governor said. The short holiday was proposed to ease congestion in | the warehouses and to allow j growers to catch up with their farm work. Chinese Group At Dumbarton ()k;i\ s j Plans for Peace Washington. tot. t> — (API—The i rhinoso delccai on at Ihimharlnn i Daks has nccep'ed without chance, | it was learned today, the blueprint : for .1 world 'fin'll v orgnni/atio 1 l drawn lip by Hr tain, Russia and the i United Slates n the first phase pit . llie runlfrenco. The final se/aon is expected to be held tomorrow with the resulting , document scheduled to be made pul»- ( lie next Monday. While tile Chirr sc had several spe cific points to b ing up during then talks, il w;is lad that when Ameri can and British delegates explained to them the document- worked out would be with the Russians they ware sat is i it d that I lie principle . tlu-v r uponrted eithei were included "i implied. JAP DOCTORS KILL MANY OF WOUNDED Washmgaoi. ri. ~—(AP' — Iviilenee that Japanese arinv doctors are "under orders to kill their own patients if their rap ture appears imminent" is re ported by Brigadier fleneral It. tV. Bliss, assistant surgeon gen eral of the army. Bliss, .iiist hack from the Pa cific. also told reporters that thy Japanese "have bombed their - own hospitals with patients in them." 1 Nazis Trying To Plug Hole In Siegfried Line DRAGON TEETH BREACHED BY YANKS THIS AIR VIEW of a port! n of 1hc Siegfried Line depicts clearly the “reason I tank ti ■ 11 erected by the ©Wina ns in a:i altm pt to stop Allied drives. At lower i ;ht is breath made n the line by American fisiv.; n cth of Aachen. U. i>. Array Signal Corps photo. (International} Town Is Deputy CINCU5 VICE ADMIRAL R. S. Edwards has ju..t been appoint'd deputy com ii nnd*r in eh ef < ! the U. S. Meet and deputy chief of Naval Opera tions. 'idle < \pnn: un nf American naval activ.lice ha.- made it neces sary fur Adm. Erooat J. Kir.r* to delegate : '■-•.■e e. h duties to an aide. Navy photo. (International) Second Blow Dealt Japs* Borneo Base .11. ■; 11 l'i ’ ::i I'lcrs, \'r .’. f I". li' i, let. (i ; AP)—General MaeAiMuir list'll '.-'‘(I I'Klay tii;.: a .-i'l'i >nd i . u i - (ling blow dealt .Inpun's big uut'i'e nl ;i\' 1.11iil’i gasoline ind lu )i ie.itmg i i! el Balikpannn 'In u> y -y Liberali M' not: be; a, . even i \\ h u'h ‘Vie lost i!i I i * ‘t'e IvV , with 0 Zen.-. At least 'JD .i n - peri i.in.-. u! ., 1 it the me: y |ikiht . we e ■! ;• ,! ., n luring a le Hie - if i ui e t h n an Ivuir iver the Borneo n.ise. while f'iny Inns ■ I concern riled cxple.-.i\ es I'Ueh-ed of| huge . In.-', among re iiieries and s!ir :..,•■ 1 •;:A The spokesman - id Hie lieree ur ippoMlion, p.!'.. in' 'll i i'i' -ii -ill ire, plainly mduni."l lu« ime -rt ml he enemy p va n i pri ■ r• .i' : - - it ns' il I at mn . 'hid, supply i hirlion ier ent i Mu gasoline and nil used >y Nipprn’s v u maehine. A r \- mu: j'.1 ’ layl night al I’e ,, | 11 liber by Aomii 'l Minulz. ' ild ut he ho hing ni i I . ■ ,. - , , of''' ; " ':" ir n 11 lie, ir !\» o .' ima n the Vole.iiiu islands, Tail mib-. -uiih nl Tokv. i| cticl not d.em they were sunk wtATiitr I OK .SOUTH CAKOMN.V Partly eloiulx with moderate temperatures li night and Satur day. i_gjl I nr fir* Numbers of Germans Surrender; Slav Front Active - in,Hie, Oct Ii—(,M*i—,V! )>d troops in Citito have capUirrit hr ii rtnii'd town ul limn, Al l'r,l headquarters announced Io na • Patrai also fell (o tli,- British lia ops, who invaded (ireere more iii an a u ei'l* ago Killeen hun dred German troops surrendered there. The enemy ■ a . .■ o| i' ■ • I , ,*-i ■ 11 Ce ll "I t ii in a, up.p ii 1 ntly dll tile A11 ii■ m pur id. The fall of Cali *i. which hud been fl'i1' main cia■ . ,' ;' 1 . a t —, iccce' v c t .-ii . ;i, came after Gar dam cc rity i miips mirrendet ■ d tietn tli" t vvn, ra .king the pi it on un tenable. \ i I: mi i '!:e (c i i a a n | c|1 Iitu : quickly An nlieial report 11■ I that prior to the fall ot Patrai, Uii'i.h tne sUppilc hint t" I '' unloaded 'll the much !■ -. sail lad ry purl '1 K .1 a 1: - ohm, ib' up all miles to the siutth wi ,t i.icipi'c nn a in ' nici ' of the cap i re of i ■■ a any ecu: 11 y i -.«11 a! i m" in. • cl al par! . ' a ! !ic Pe|r)ii ntie !■ •. 11 a a i till .' ii'' 'iff'1.'! word on hi w far the IP hah ha- .. extended vhoir lines. in era \ I a, other British units wi ch nded .seven days igo, '■oiitiii'jerl in haii a.-.i German cont mun lea! a in le.ui 11g *o the roa i 1 pi n I ■at aipp 1 v 0 he I. d r 1 'I 1-1 aid gar t isi.n. ! i e: v retained a. • !:• \ ! positions o •lit’ toe Sar.andi -Ii"l\anc road. tllicd gun on ,■ era! Dalmatian : lands c i t leu d shelling of the ' Yi'go .Ir.v C' art. In Greece ih.e (ii'rmans up,)' ired ' t" he attempting to flee by every j a-, ailab.le means The enemy left so hurriedly tird I demolition charges nlemli'd t,. biow 1 u| harbor installations were not set off. I l.OKII) \ INI>!P1.\I>I \ I S MI.Mt TORS KOI! G. O. I* J.icksonvile. Fla (>,* 4—(Al’) ■ Th" Kxeculive (.'"no dtti.. the In I dependent Party wl. a! n-cet.lly w is denied a place "it the November general ehvl i, m : u i • a i r ils pres: dentin] elect ir candidates met lien’' today and decided to support the He lican President -al ticket. U. S. Tanks And Troops' Pushing On Allied Planes Dive In to Strafe Enemy Near Breakthrough I.oiuinn. Oft. (i—t.\P)—First army soldiers, jumping off lo tile lit h da\ of th *ir attack in the v edge in the Siegfried line at I bach, ran into a storm of heavy armored panzer attacks today and had to fall hack in tyyo places. The (iermans. at know icdgiug their Siegfried defenses hail been breathed, threw their first siz able armored forces with hun dreds of guns and infantry into their ass.iuli in fierce deleimt nation to block the road to the Rhine. The Americans had to fell back from Beggendorf. a mill cast ot I'bach. and three to lour miles inside Germany. t ntl'T the pressure the \mcri i air. also were forced off the top of a pillbox ridge a mil- an t a half south of I'bach and a mile east of Herhaeh. riie Americans w ho got oi l to the attack early today from I bach, ran into new obstacles behind the (iermans’ main licit • I steel and concrete. L'.mrlon, Oct. f>—(AT)—The G c i' in a n s, ncknowludj'hij' a lin'akthroujrh, threw their hea viest counter attacks into the I'bach breach today in an effort to - • • a I off the hole in the iSieg I ried line, and I’nited States first army tank' and infantry surged forward in the fifth day of tierce battle. 'FTT?m upon flistil ' f *\ hjpri pi operating lip to 10,000 Owl, 'u.hf ] nit" lie battle. eager in take - . .ini.nge (if Uie first good vp-dl-wi suirp flip start of tjip ririep to 1 par it enemy are ■ r. In fhp to ' . t'irnnrg iss.eiif, , .American - wore rushed Irom 1h ■ too of a commanding height a irilr i -is*. -I 1 lerbarh, u ■■ eh they had -et/‘l yesterday in a di e. o , mile and i half .ill of Clinch But the dough boy.-, held nn t i a std(. ..f u-.e nds» nirl then file planws came over m l dived upon flic enemy armor. Supported by thp heaviest artillerv they Ire, p been able to r'uneen*;pt» man.-1 the Amerirans suve the ws began along the Siegtrieri line, the Germans made thp going slow t me north. SI.. in tanks and their int nt y tee. s wer. ■ 111 eel in;; German inr.wr alia k he.idnn, tanning out b'.hind l Continued >n I’age Fa r.) Mobile \\ omiin Is Meld in kidnaping Soldier’s Infant Mobile. Ai ... Ovt o : Apt - An army sergeant and Ins wife rejoiced today over recovery el the u r. ■ . in rn child—stolen from its hospital nil one lay after it r.i' born—iviii <? a Ha-year-old war worker's v. ifp lawd a Fvrivi.il kidnaping charge. K. .T. Ai bn tier bin, sjicnal agent i'i charge .a the FBI m Alabama, s.uri hist night a woman he identified as Mis H. B. Jenkins confessed she too!; the day-old son m Sergeant uni Mrs. William K. Law.- from Rush’s infirmary in Meridian. The FBI agent said the woman pleaded .guilty to a kidnaping charge at her arraign ment before U. S. Commissioner Alex Howard and was held i iait ■ n delimit nl $500 bond. Doctors ; t Mobile city hospital rv la i ten the baby - ifiered no ill effects from the tr'p, and l as gained sever,.! ounces since birth. Plans are being n .dr to return the child to Meridian Sal .relay Marshall, Byrnes, Others lleaeh Baris By Airplane t\ rjs, (It, ('. -(API (toner il ( M,, Jmll anil .lamia K. Byi nv , direrti ■ ->! war mohi1: 'ition, arrived at Pans iiv plane today for a tom- nl the Hunt and milt! ry in stallations in Ki anve Bvr; is and the United State's Armv ehicl nl staff Acre accompanied by l.t (ten Thomas T Handy, Mar shall’s chief of operations; Ma.joi Gem ral Hoard A. Craitt. assistan ehicl vi air stall; and Colonel Frank ! McCarthy, secretary ot the general I stall’. J Their plane, specially built for chcdnlc flight;. between the I'mtP'i ■States and Paris, which are rv.n'i-U’d In start in about three week ;. " as met at a Held outside Par . >y General Dwight D. Kisenh ■ It. (fen. Omar X. Bradley anu hi.-en hower’s ehicl of stafi, Major Cier eraI Walter Smith. In addition to carrying military officials and other passengers pc ‘ 'ween Paris and the United States, the scheduled new flights also wi\t trans”. M to the United States wound ed soldiers requiring special treat ment. _
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