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BRITISH GAINING
Jugoslavs Threaten Trieste
Nazis Flee Adriatic Line
Crete Bombarded.
- Allied Headquarters, Algiers.
Oct. 9 (U.R) American Fifth
. army troops drove tonight with
in 95 miles of Rome after cross
ing the flooded Volturno river
on the Germans' own pbntoon
bridges while the Eighth army
smashed inland toward the
eternal city from the Adriatic
coast where the Nazis were in
Vieadlong retreat.
The Fifth army, consolidating
its 17-mlle front along the Vol
turno In force, captured the
road junction of Caserta, seven
miles southeast of Allen Capua,
and it was announced that the
German 16th panzar- division
had lost 13 of its 30 tanks in
futile counter-attacks against
the Eighth army around Ter
mor!.' Winging out from Italian bases
in a. new phase of the Mediter
ranean aerial warfare, planes of
the northwest Africa air force
hammered air fields on Crete
and ' Greece and began patrol
operations over the Aegean, sup
plementing the work of the
middle east air force.
(A Cairo communique an
nounced that ' heavy bombers
plrom : the middle . east heavily
nttnrlron HjmivHnn An r.rAtp
i nursaHy mgni una ubihio on
Rhodes last night.) '
Official dispatches said that
sharp encounters were occurring
on the north bank of the Vol
turno, 20 miles above Naples,
as Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's
vanguard poured across on pon
toon bridges which the Germans
did not have time to destroy
after wrecking the main bridges.
. Clark's main forces drove up
in thn Vnltumn with nil thpir
heavy equipment, transporting
it across the marshes below the
river despite heavy gunfire from
immobilized German tanks serv
ing as artillery.
London, Oct. 9 (U.R) Bitter
V fighting raged tonight through
out Jugoslavia and northeastern
Italy as the Jugoslav people's
army of liberation advanced on
all fronts, threatening four ma
jor cities, including Trieste, and
holding their positions against
a German onslaught spearhead
ed in one area by 200 tanks.
A communique from partisan
headquarters reported that the
guerrilla army of Gen. Josip
Brozovich was fighting In the
suburbs and south of Trieste
and was closing in on the Italian-owned
Adriatic port of Zara
and on Karlovac and Ogulin in
southwestern Croatia.
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BE 59 TOMORROW
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Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will
observe her 89th birthday Mon
day some 50,000 miles more
traveled, acquainted with thou
sands more people in three for
eign countries, including Maori
tribesmen in New Zealand, and
about 25 pounds thinner than
sne was a year ago.
As usual, she will pass the day
quietly at Hyde Park. There is
small likelihood that any of her
four fighting sons or her daugh
ter will be with her.
In entering her 60th year,
Mrs. Roosevelt will leave behind
the most arduous 12 months of
what has been a strenuous life
a twelve month during which
she developed from a continent
coverer to a globe-trotter.
Since last October, her travels
nave taken her to England, Mex-
co, New Zealand, Australia, and
17 small islands in the Pacific
battle area.
Britons consume 30 per cent
more fresh green vegetables than
ney did before the war,
Yank Soldiers in Nazi Prison Camp
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Among the first pictures showing U. S. war prisoners In a German camp
was this one of American soldiers at Stalag 111B, near Berlin, awaiting
distribution of Red Cross food parcels In the foreground. A neutral
YMCA delegate made the photo during a visit to the camp.
F
SEEN IN BILLION
DOLLARTAX BILL
Political Purposes Obvious
in Proposed Repeal of
Victory Tax. ; , -
Washington;' Oct." dokJ-k
Republican house tax leader
charged tonight that some phases
of the administration's $10,500,
000,000 tax revenue program
were "designed primarily to
facilitate the fourth term elec
tion of President Roosevelt."
Rep. Harold Knutson, R.,
Minn.,' ranking minority mem
ber of, the ' ways and means
committee which is now Min
ing tax hearings, said the "po
litical purposes of at least two
of the administration's sugges
tions were patently obvious."
Knutson said through its sug
gested repeal of the victory tax
and its proposal for a postwar
tax refund the administration
sought to do an unwarranted
tax favor for five-sixths of the
nation's voters."
"Nine million persons would
be absolved from tax liability
by the repeal of the victory
tax," he said, "and altogether
more than 50,000,000 would
benefit substantially."
Knutson added that millions
would really pay no taxes at all
under the postwar refund plan
because they would get baclt
mre after the war than they
paid out.
Chairman waiter r. ueorge,
D., Ga., of the senate finance
committee also protested pro
posed repeal of the victory tax.
He said some substitute would
have to be found, if the tax is
repealed, to recapture the $3,
000,000,000 now being collected
from it. - .
George said he understood
there "might be sufficient sen
timent in the house to adopt a
sales tax," despite administra
tion opposition, to replace the
victory levy.
IT
. IN DENVER AREA
Denver, Oct. 9. (U.R) Two
desperate "killers" were sought
in the Denver area tonight.
An exhaustive search was
launched after Denver police re
ceived a report that an automo
bile resembling that in which
the brothers O. B. and Randel
Thronberry made their escape
from Steamboat p r l n g s , a
rugged mountainous area of
northwestern Colorado, was
seen by a motorist on a viaduct
of the city.
The Thronberry's break for
freedom came as preparations
were underway for their trial
on charges of first degree
murder. They escaped from the
Routt county Jail at Steamboat
cn.inA. vnetprHnv after beating
Sheriff Ernest Todd into uncon-
.ciousness..
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OF T0KY0KN0WN
No Excuse For Pearl Har
bor Sneak Attack Re
vealed. V -
'Washington, Oct. 9 (U.B
Joseph C. Grew, U. S. ambassa
dor to Tokyo, warned his gov
ernment 34 days before Pearl
Harbor that "Japan may resort
with dangerous and dramatic
suddenness to measures . which
might make .war inevitable."
Two weeks late, on November
17, 1941,; the state department
revealed tonight, 1 Grew empha
sized "the need to guard against
suddenx Japanese naval or mili
tary actions.' i
In November 29, 1941, Secre
tary of State Cordell Hull noted
in a memorandum that "the dip
lomatic , part of our relations
with Japan was virtually over
and that the matter will now go
to the officials of the army and
navy with whom I have talked
and to whom I have given my
views for whatever they are
worth."
These " disclosures, ' proving
that the United States need not
have been caught unprepared
for the Japanese sneak assault
on Pearl Harbor on December
7, 1941, resulted from publlca
tion by the State Department of
Documents on which was based
the white paper, "Peace and
War." issued last January. . '
Grew's warnings were issued
at a time when two Japanese
emissaries were talking peace
in Washington and trying to per
suade President Roosevelt to
Pearl Harbor for a meeting with
Japanese Premier . Fumimaro
Konoye.
ClOPLlGEHAS
Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 9 (U.R)
A resolution pledging . uninter
rupted war production but urg
ing government operation
plants where management
not bargaining with labor In
good faith was considered to
night' at the eighth convention
of the CIO Automobile Workers.
The 2,000 delegates, represent
ing 1,000,000 workers in motor,
aviation and farm implement
industries, also considered
proposal asking President Roose
velt to "scrap" the war labor
board's "little steel" formula.
SOVIET WARNED
Washington, Oct. 9 (U.R) The
state department tonight - pub
lished a memorandum showing
that this government warned
Russia on March 20, 1941, that
Germany Intended to Invade the
Soviet Union.
The American soldier's aver-
age coffee ration is 40 cupi
'month.
E
HIT GYNDIA BASE
OF ADOLTS FLEET
91 Enemy Planes Downed
Poland and East Prussia
Targets Raked.
London, Sunday, Oct. 10 (U.PJ
From 91 to 116 enemy fight
ers were destroyed in yester
day's American raids on Ger
many and Poland, authoritative
quarters said today. Twenty
nine U. S. bombers 'were mis
sing. '
London, Sunday, Oct. 10 (U.R)
American Liberators and Fly
ing Fortresses, in the war's deep
est penetration of Central Eur
ope by Britain-based planes, at
tacked major targets in north
eastern Germany, . Poland and
East Prussia yesterday, aiming
one blow at what is believed to
be the anchorage of the bulk
of Adolf Hitler's fleet.
The bombers ranged so far
Into the Reich they reached
within 400 miles of the Russo-
German fighting front and press
comments in London said the at
tacks were in direct support of
the Soviet army.
Tons of high explosives were
loosed on a concentrated area
at Gydnia, the . port 15 miles
north of Danzig where four
years ago Germany began the
war - by attacking Poland and
where . Hitler was .believed ,to
have -anchored a "major" part Of
his navy,, including the 26,000-
ton battleship Gneienau.
The other targets were Marl-
enburg, rail junction in east
Prussia, 830 miles from Britain
Danzig, the former free port 800
miles from Britain, and Anklam,
in (northeastern Germany 47
miles northwest of Stettin.
Besides the Gneisenau, the
battle cruisers Lutzow and Ad
miral Scheer, the heavy cruiser
Print Eugen, the cruisers Num
bers, Leipzig and Emden, some
17. destroyers and several sub
marines were believed to be at
Gydnia. Some . of the . ships ap
peared in previous reconnais
sance pictures of the port.
Crew members said observa
tion of results was difficult but
1st Lieut. H. E. Wojdyla of Chi
cago and Lieut. Col. James Tra
vis of Portland, Ore., reported
the docks of the port, known as
the "Pearl Harbor" of- eastern
Europe, took a severe pounding
FIND NEW CLUES
Sioux Falls, S. D., Oct. 9 (U.R)
Police Chief Fred Searls in
dicated tonight that his off fee
may have uncovered new clues
in the slaying of WAC Lt. Naomi
Kathleen' Cheney, 25, with the
announcement that he was fol
lowing up "other leads."
Searls continued to hold an
unidentified Worthlngton, Minn
farm worker who was described
only as "notoriously , trouble
some, while he awaited final
analysis of blood, fingernail
scrapings and other material
sent the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation in Washington.
Police said the suspect now in
custody was free under a $1,000
bond on an Iowa embezzlement
charge when he was picked up
for questioning in . connection
with the slaying.
KIN IRKED SIR HARRY
Nassau, Bahamas, Oct. 9.
(U.R) Further evidence of ill
feeling between Count Alfred
De Marigy and his father-in-law,
Sir Harry Oakes was introduced
in a special court session here
today with the testimony of a
witness who said he heard Oakes
call De Marigny "a sex maniac"
three months before Sir Harry's
murder last July.
NELSON IN MOSCOW
Moscow, Oct. 9. (U.R) Don
ald M. Nelson, chairman of the
U. S. War Production board, ar
rived today after inspecting the
Stalingrad battle field accom
panied by representatives of the
Commissariat oi foreign Trade.
War Bulletins fl
London. Oct. 9 (U.R) The
admiralty announced tonight
that the 1.370-ton British de
stroyer Inrepid. which inter
cepted the German prison ship
Altmark off Norway In 1S40
enabling British marines to
free British prisoners, had
been sunk.
The admiralty did not dis
close where - the Intrepid,
which also participated in the
evacuation of British troops
from Dunkirk, went down.
Allied Headquarters, North
Africa, Oct. 8 (U.R) The Brit
ish' hospital ship Newfound
land, carrying among others
detachment of American
nurses belonging to a field
hospital to be landed at Sal
erno. - was sunk September
13th by German bombers.
ENGINEMEN DEAD,
5 HURT. REAR END
CRASH ON ESPEE
function City, Ore., Oct. 9.
(U.R) Wreckage was - clear to
night on a section -of the South
ern Pacific railroad near here
where the engineer and fireman
of the . southbound . "Rogue
River" passenger train plowed
into the rear of a halted freight
train shortly . before, midnight
Friday. , . . .
Fireman Johw Schroeder ' or
Oak Grove was killed, outright
and Engineer'" F: y. Gonier or
Portland died four hours after
the wreck.
Of 100 passengers, five were
slightly Injured: Mrs. J. a,
Beach. Glen A. Cox. M. C. Jack
son, a Camp White soldier; Mrs.
L. F. Wilkinson and J. G. i iern-
ines. Other than for Jackson,
no addresses were available.
James A. Ormandy, - general
passenger agent for the com
pany, said cause oi tne acciaeni
was being investigated. He said
the train was on the main line
and apparently the passenger
engine crew had no warning.
The colllsslon occurred on a
nlx-foot hieh trestle over low
lands, smashing the freight train
caboose and derailing tne pas
senger train's two baggage cars
and several freight cars.
TEEN-AGE GIRLS
Washington, Oct. 9 (U.R)
The Office of War Information
calling attention to a "serious
and substantial" but not univer
sal wartime growth of juvenile
delinquency, reported tonight
that the teen-age pick-up girl "is
frequently crowding out her step
sister, the professional prosti
tute, as a public menace.
In a report on the spread of
juvenile delinquency, since the
start of the war, the uwi said
activities of the "young ama
teur" pick-up girls "frequently
Infected with venereal disease
are particularly noticeable in
communities near mllltar
camM or war Dlants. '
In Atlanta, the report saia.
14-and 15-year-old. "a m a t e u
prostitutes" when arrested give
their age as 16 or over so they
will be taken to police court In
stead of juvenile court. Police
court, lt said, means a fine (fre
quently paid by the man in the
case) or a short sentence, where
as the juvenile court may lead to
a long and closely supervised
probation or to a term in an In
stitution or, at best, to confer
ence with parents and return to
the schoolroom."
This new type of pick-up girl,
the report said, "frequently has
'uniform hysteria.' " She fre
quents places where soldiers and
sailors congregate, meets them
talks to them and "presently she
begins to pick them up."
Kearsarge Pass in the Sierras
wan named after the Union bat
tleship that sank the Confeder
ate privateer Alabama.
DELINQUENCY OF
LLIED AIRCRAFT
START DRIVE IN
Japs Cleared From Central
Islands Kahili Airbase
Attacked. .
Allied ' Headquarters, South
west Pacific, Sunday, Oct. 10
,R) Allied aircraft carried the
affenslve against the Japanese
the northern Solomons Wed
nesday in a heavy attack on the
Kahili airdrome, Bougainville
island, with the Central Solo
mons apparently cleared of en
emy troops by the evacuation of
their defeated remnants.
Gen. ' ' Douglas MacArthur's
communique gave no further re
ports on the Japanese with
drawal from Kolombangara is
land, which Tokyo radio claimed
had been completed.
There was no mention today
of any allied troops yet landing
on Kolombangara, between Vel-
Lavella and New ' Georgia
Islands. .
A ' strong force of Liberator
bombers escorted by lighting
fighters swept the Kahili air
drome at dusk Wednesday,
bombing and strafing from a low
altitude. - The raiders hit anti
aircraft positions near the field
and scored numerous hits on
parked aircraft, Inflicting heavy
damage. ", .
A lQ,000-toQ enemy transport,
part of a convoy of three trans
ports and tnree uestroyersrwas
attacked and damaged by a Lib
erator bomber Friday morning
near Kapingamaranga island,
260 miles north of the Jap base
at'Kavieng, New Ireland.
The convoy was heading north
when attacked and the destroy
ers offered fierce anti-aircraft
fire.
Saturday's communque had
announced that Wednesday
night a small U. S. destroyer
task force sank a Jap cruiser
and two destroyers in turning
back an. enemy convoy of nine
warships and numerous barges
and other small craft, heading
south, apparently to aid in the
evacuation of the central Solo
mons.
NUMBER U-BOATS
SUNK IN BATTLE
EXCEEDS CONVOY
Washington, Oct. 9. (U.R)
President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Winston Churchill an
nounced tonight that, the num
ber of German U-boats sunk or
damaged In last month's four-and-a-half-day
battle In the
North Atlantic was greater than
the number of Allied ships sunk
by the submarines.
In a loint Anglo-American an
nouncement issued here and in
London, a somewhat fuller story
was told of the big battli
which started on September 19
than was given out at the
time.
"The loss of three escort ves
sels has already been an
nounced," the statement said.
'A small number of merchant
ships were sunk, but as a re
sult of vigorous counterattacks
by the surface and air escorts
a larger number of U-boats were
sunk or damaged.
Until a pack of "at least la
submarines began the concen
trated attack on the west-bound
convoy, "no Allied ship was lost
bv German u-ooat auacK '- m
Sentember. the report said.
Despite Intensification or suc
marine activity, however, the
average ' merchant -ship losses
from all causes In September
and August together, the an
nouncement said, "are the best
record of the war."
BOMB CHILE MOVIE
Santiago. Chile. Oct. 9. (U.R)
The management of the Es
meralda theatre disclosed today
that a small bomb was exploded
In the public lavatory of the
balcony section last night dur
ing the showing of the moving
picture "Hitler s thiiaren.-
Jf n RUSSIANS SWARM
1 ACROSS DNIEPER;
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It seems that every one nad a nand
In the capture of Seaman Second
Class Glenn E. Carrucer, is. aoove,
of Bucklln, Mo., who is shown under
auard after the Run killing of Chief
Petty Olilcer natnan a. Anaoraou,
Snohomish, Wash., on a speeding
train bound for Seattle. Oarriker
was being transported as a prisoner
when the snooting uwk piaca.
HURRICANE HITS
AND PARTY SAFE
Mexico' City, Oct. 9 (U.R)
The radio-of a grounded Pan
American airlines plane tonight
was the only means of commun
ication between the hurricane
ravaged Pacific port of Mazat-
lan and the outside world.
Nine- Americans, - including
Movie Maker Walt Disney and
his wife were aboard the plane
en route from Los Angeles to
Mexico City when it was
grounded by the storm. .
The last heard from the air
liner's radio set was at 1:30
m. (Mexico City time) when
Radio Operator Francisco Lopez
reported almost 50 per cent of
the town had been destroyed
and that the storm was still
blowing. .
The weak wireless message
heard here In Pan American'
radio office at Central airport
said the storm swept In off. the
Pacific ocean early this morning
and that at times the wind
reached a maximum velocity of
100 miles an hour. Lopez said
all plane passengers were safe,
according to Pan American oi-
flcials here,
FOR VETS URGED
Washington. Oct. 9. (U.R)
Chairman Walter F. George, D,
Ga., of the senate finance com
mittee, tonight called for post
war nay to servicemen who
want to complete their educa
tion or vocational training.
His demand coincided with
announcement by selective serv
ice headquarters of a program
to assure jobs for all persons
honorably discharged from the
armed forces during the war,
The program will operate
through local draft boards with
the aid of re-employment com
mittees comprising representa
tives of national labor, farm
and veterans' organizations.
RELIGION IN SHIPYARDS
Portland. Ore.. Oct. 9 U.R
Religion Is coming to the Kaiser
company's Swan island ship
yards In Portland. It was an
nounced today that beginning
Oct. 17 a religious service will
be held at the yards each Sun
day lunch hour, with churches
of Portland donating music and
a short sermon. .
PRINCETON BEATEN
Princeton. N. J., Oct. 9. U.R)
Cornell's football team
bounced back today from last
week's shellacking by Navy to
defeat Princeton, 30 to 0 before
a thin crowd of 5,000 in Palmer
stadium.
HOLD INITIATIVE
Stalin Proclaims Nazis
Driven From Caucasus
With Heavy Loss.
London, Oct. 9 (U.R) Pre
mier-Marshal Josef Stalin an
nounced tonight that Germany's
Caucasus remnants had been
driven from the Taman penin
sula, and, as Soviet forces
swarmed across the Dnieper at
scores of new crossings, the
Russian military newspaper Red
Star proclaimed that "the Initia
tive now Is entirely with the
Red army." .
The regular Soviet operational
communique broadcast by Mos
cow said more, than 20,000 Ger
mans were killed and 3,000
taken prisoner In the last stages
of the Taman campaign in which
the enemy lost 52 tanks, 337 ,
field guns, 769 mortars, 83 loco
motives and quantities of other
equipment. -
The 1 war bulletin aIso an
nounced the capture of Lloino,
rail and highway town 25
miles southeast of Vitebsk, and
more than 40 other places in
that area. Fanning out from
Nevel, where BBC reported that
eight German attempts to take
that - vital rail Junction had
failed,' Red army troops cap- ,
tured 24 'more towns and vil
lages. - i
In an order of the day. the
Soviet chief confirmed earlier
reports of the German high
command that the remnants of
Adolf Hitler's once-powerful oil
seeking armies had left the last
vestige of their Kuban bridge
head, paving the way for a full
scale Russian assault on the
Crimea from, the Caucasus.
POLITICAL ANGLE . -By
Edward W. Beattle
United Press Correspondent.
London, Oct. 9 (U.R) The Red
army's three Dnieper bridge
heads, which by next week may
have become three lances aimed
at the heart of Hitler's Europe,
will have great political impor
tance as well as military promi
nence when Russia and her
western Allies begin talking
post-war settlement at the for
eign ministers' conference in
the Kremlin.
Even had the Russians not
been installed on the Dnieper
when the conference began.
their political position vis-a-vis
the west would have beea
strong. If, when lt begins, the
Red army is threatening to burst
through to the borders of Hit
ler's "Mittel Europea," with all
the possibilities such a break
through would have, the Soviet
political position will be almost
unassailable. ' . .' .
LinLE HOPE FOR
RATION INCREASE
FOR BUTTER SEEN
Washington, Oct. 9 (U.R)
War Food Administration offi
cials revealed tonight that the
government plans to make no
purchases of butter during the
next five months, but they held
out no hope for a reduction in
the commodity's ration point
value.
They said the present ration
value of 16 points a pound must
be maintained if butter stocks
are to be distributed equitably
among civilians between -now
and March, even though there
will be 10 to 30 per cent more
butter available, as a result of
me cessHkiuu ui huvcii11,11:u put
Chases, than there has been for
civilians during the last seven
months.
Officials estimated that the
200,000,000 pounds of butter
now In government storage will
be sufficient to meet essential
military, lend-lease and other
non-civilian requirements until
next March.