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D-Day Fury Keep Hun
Off Balance.
Allied Supreme Headquarters,
London, Sunday, Oct. 1 (U.R)
Berlin reported Saturday that
strong allied armored forces had
crossed the southern spur of the
Vosges mountains and poured in
to the Belfort gap, heading for
' Gavaria, while 300 miles to the
north American airborne forces
battled to within five miles of
the westwall's anchor at Cleve.
Supporting the latter drive, a
specially picked force of 36 B-26
Marauder bombers blasted Ger
man communications at Arnhem
in Holland where British para
chutists wrote history last week,
and returned without-loss.
The Allies launched a series of
hard-hitting but limited attacks
between the Belfort and Cleve
flanks of the front for the stated
purpose of keeping extreme pres
sure on the Germans while Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower's armies
mass supplies for a knockout
blow. Bombers were lashing for
ward communications on a scale
comparable with that just before
D-day in France.
In Holland, the British second
army and Yank paratroopers
beat back -three strong counter
attacks against their salient
thrust into the Rhine delta and
were steadily expanding to the
east and west despite lrenziede
Nazi efforts to dig in on a stabil
ized line. A particularly severe
counter-blow was parried In the
Kranenburg area inside the Ger
man border, where the yanks
drove within five miles of Cleve.
All railroads leading through
the Arnhem Zuidermzee gap
from western Holland where up
ward of 200,000 Germans may
be trapped were reported out of
commission due either to allied
bombing, Dutch sabotage or the
general Dutch railway strike.
In their westward expansion
of the Dutch corridor. Second
army troops drove within four
miles of Hertogenbosch, key
Junction on the German escape
route 25 miles sdlithwcst of Nij
megen, throwing back a strong
counter-attack between Schijn-
del and Best.
Brtitish patrols were operating
nearly 20 miles west of Nijmegcn
m the south side of the Waal
river and to the north Lt. Gen.
Sir Miles C. Dempsey's troops
held a firm hold on the south
bank of the Lek.' or lower Rhine,
southwest of Arnhem.
The Canadians captured Merx
plas, five miles northwest of
Turnhout.
The U. S. First army on the
main west wall front carried out
a number of stabs into thick Ger
man defensive positions and cap
tured the villages of Mompach,
VYasserbillig and Haute Conlz,
all in the Luxembourg-German
area near Trier.
Carrying on a furious bom
bardment of German strong
points In and just behind the
Siegfried line, allied planes
pounded Gldern, Euskirchen,
Pruem, Bitburg and Saarbruck
en while lighter craft attacked
rolling stock in the Rhineland.
Berlin admitted that they had
succeeded in enlarging their
penetration northeast of Lure
nd crossed the main ridge of
the mountain range" at that
point, which would put them
across the southern spur of the
Vosges.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's U.
S third army up the line knock
ed out 24 Vcrman tanks, mak
ing a two-day total of 106, the
highest for any comparable per
iod in the campaign. Nineteen
armored halftracks were knock
ed out as planes flushed out a
considerable panzer force from
the woods north of Luncvllle In
to the waiting fire of Patton's
guns.
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from Walla Walla army airfield,
crashed about nine miles south
west of Wenetche. Wash., to
day. Fate of the six occupants
is not known, it was announced
by Col. David Wade, command
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Chief activity on the western front swung today from the Holland area
all the way south to the Belfort Gap, Into which American and French
troops punched, on the historic southwest Invasion road to Germany.
General Patton's Army won a big tank battle near Nancy, retook Cha
teau Salins, In north, British gradually extended Nijmegen corridor
despite German counter-drive across Rhine.
AMERiCAN GAINS
BOLOGNA SECTOR
Rome, Sept. 30 (U.R) Amer
ican Fifth Army troops edged
fnrwarrl tnrtnv nlnnc their front
south of Bologna, within 16 V4 !
miles of advanced units and re
pulsed the third strong enemy
counter attack In two days
against their positions on Monte
Battiglia, 11 miles from the
heart of the Po valley, front
dispatches said tonight.
Warm fall sunshine dried the
battlefields drenched by rains
the past few days and warmed
American troops who were
making progress among the hills
against strong resistance from
reinforced German units. Ger
man artillery fire was acceler
ated along the Fifth Army front
in the western coastal sector.
The Germans, who had at
tacked Monte Battaglia twice
Friday, tried again today with
infantry, artillery and flame
throwers, but were repulsed
with sharp losses, a dispatch
from United Press correspon
dent James E. Roper reported.
Earlier information available
at headquarters said that the
Germans had reorganized on the
Fifth and Eighth Army fronts
and took advantage of violent
rain and high winds to slow al
lied advances Friday.
DEWEY TO RENEW
CAMPAIGN TALKS
Albany, Sept. 30 (U.R) Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey, resting after
a three -week transcontinental
campaign tour of 22 states, took
time out from political and state
business today for a round of
golf and to make arrangements
for a birthday party..
The republican presidential
candidate, whose eldest boy,
Thomas E. Dewey, Jr., will be
12 years old Monday, is sched
uled to renew active campaign
ing Oct. 7th with an address at
Charleston, W. Va.
Tentative plans for the final
month of campaigning have
been made by Herbert Brown
ell, Jr., republican national
chairman and campaign mana
ger, and the governor. Dewey
is expected to open his bid for
support of the republican ticket
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BY HER MOTHER
Los Angeles, Sep. 30 (U.R)
Echoing the many feuds which
rocked Angeles Temple, Mrs.
Minnie "Ma" Kennedy today de
manded "full and sincere coop"
eration" from Temple associates
in determining the cause of
death of her famous daughter,
Evangelist Aimee Semple Mc
Pherson. Mrs. Kennedy said she sent a
telegram to Temple Attorney
Joseph Fainter and Rev. Grover
T. Owens, Temple pastor, asking
them to drop their contradictory
and antagonistic attitude and aid
In ascertaining the cause and re
sponsibility of her untimely
death."
The evangelist died Wednes
day at Oakland, Cal., In the
midst of a preaching tour.
The white-haired Mrs. Ken
nedy, who withdrew from Ange
lus Temple activities after nu
merous disputes with Aimee,
said she made the request "on
behalf of myself and Mrs. Mc
Phcrson's daughter."
Meanwhile authorities continued-
to probe for cause of
death after an autopsy ruled out
heart failure and failed to estab
lish any other cause.
A pathological examination
of vital organs was ordered to
determine whether the evange
list died of an overdose of sleep
ing tablets. A bottle of the
sedatives was found near her
bedside. The inquest will be
conducted Oct. 6 In Oakland.
The body was returned here
yesterday to await funeral ser
vices Oct. 9, the day Aimee was
to have celebrated her 54th
birthday.
MAPS OF BERLIN
Allied Supreme Headquar
ters, London, Sept. 30 (U.R)
No one would predict how soon
they would be needed, but cor
respondents assigned to head
quarters today were Issued mil
itary maps cf Berlin.
They also received maps
showing Munich, home of the
Nazi party, and Hitler's moun-
tain hideout.
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Offensive On 85-Mile Front
At Iron Gate Loop Joins
With Tito.
London, Sunday, Oct. 1 (U.R)
Russian troops, forcing the migh
ty Danube river along an 85
mile front at the Iron gate loop,
have invaded Yugoslavia in a
great offensive apparently aimed
at freeing the capital city of Bel
grade and opening the Danube
valley route to Budapest and
Vienna, Moscow revealed last
night.
The Red army crossed the
river border from Romania south
and southwest of the iron gate
gateway city of Turnu-Severin
with the permission of Marshal
Tito, commander of the Yugo
slav army of liberation whose
forces already were battling the
Germans in the environs of the
Yugoslav capital.
The historic invasion presaged
a major junction between the
Red Army and Tito's Guerrilla
army, following a meeting be
tween patrols of both forces a
few days ago. First objective of
the great drive apparently was
to cut the Athens-Berlin railroad
through the classic Vardar river
invasion route to southern Ger
many an action that would iso
late German forces In the south
ern Balkans.
The offensive also paved the
way for a link between the Red
army and the Anglo-American
invaders of Albania and south
ern Yugoslavia who were re-
! ported fighting 275 miles to the
southeast.
In the first initial thrust across
the Danube Friday, Russian
troops lopped off the 255-square
mile finger of Serbia in th
sharply-looping Danube below
Turnu-Severin and made ad
vances up to 10 miles inside
Yugoslav territory.
I i nose troops wno crossed to
the south bank of the river cap
tured 20 towns. The Germans
had reported earlier that, prior
to crossing the river, the Rus
sians had outflanked the iron
gate to the south and captured
Orsova.
The Red army was 98 miles
east of Belgiade at Miroc where
it was on the same southern bank
of the river as the Yugoslav
capital. No major obstacles stood
in the way for an advance along
the south bank of the river to
seize the city.
E LIFE E
FOR DOVER FOLK
Dover, Sept. 30 (U.R) The
booming voice of Mayor J. R.
Cairns echoed through the dank
caves under Shakespear cliff at
10 a. m. today an dtold the peo
ple of Dover to gather their
bedding and return to their
homes for England's famous
"Hellsfire Corner," was free
after four years of bombard
ment from German long-range
guns.
Assuming the role of town
crier. Cairns passed out the
news over loudspeakers which
penetrated the underground cor
ridors to many a youngster his
home as long as he could re
member. "I have received official In
formation that all long-range
guns on the other side of the
channel now have been cap
tured," the may'ors voice, tense
with emotion, announced.
Bricker't Tour Of
California Mapped
Los Angeles, Sept. 30 (U.R)
Plans for a whirlwind tour of
the state by Gov. Johfl W.
Bricker of Ohio, republican
candidate for Vice-President,
were completed today by repub
lican leaders.
Leo Anderson, chairman of
the republican state central
committee, said the tour would
include 10 key cities.
Bricker will make his first
speeck in .Sacramento on Oct
ober 14, and last speech October
19 at Fresno.
Assignment
Announced Soon Krug
Succeeds.
Washington, Sept. 30 (U.R)
Donald M. Nelson resigned the
chairmanship of the war pro
duction board today coincident
with the disclosure that Presi
dent Roosevelt has asked him to
fill another "high post of major
importance."
Mr. Roosevelt anoointed J. A.
Krug, acting WPB chairman
since Nelson left on his recent
trip to China, to the post Nel
son Had filled since the creation
of WPB five weeks after Pearl
Harbor.
Asked later if he would accent
the high post mentioned by Mr.
Roosevelt, Nelson replied: "The
President said, 'I'm counting on
you.' "
Nelson's resignation came a
few weeks after internal contro
versy in the agency was climax
ed by the resignation of execu
tive vice chairman Charles E.
Wilson, who in quitting charged
! that members of Nelson's staff
were engaged in a campaign to
discredit him. The President
then assigned Nelson to the
Chinese mission, and evidence
began to pile up that he would
not return to the WPB.
His letter of resignation said
he and Ma). Gen. Patrick J.
Hurley had completed "the first
phase" of the assignment on
which the President sent them
to China and that he had return
ed to make essential arrange
ments for completing the job.
It was said that Nelson's new
assignment will be announced
soon. Some reports have de
scribed it as a "roving industrial
ambassadorship."
"I am counting on you to re
main In the government in a
high post of major importance,"
Mr. Roosevelt wrote Nelson in
accepting his resignation.
The President added that he
could not permit Nelson to lravc
the government, "no matter now
real your justification for doing
so" and pointed out that the war
had not ended either in Europe
or the Pacific.
AL SMITH, 70, IS
SERIOUSLY SICK
New York, Sept. 30 (U.R)
Former Governor Alfred E.
Smith 70 Is In serious condition
at Rockefeller Institute hospilnl,
Dr. Raymond P. Sullivan, his
physirial, said today.
"His condition is still hope
ful." Sullivan said. "Last night
he did not respond to treatments
as we 1 as had been expected.
He did not describe the nature
of Smith's Illness, but said his
rnnrlilinn was not critical and
that his family visited him to
day.
The former governor entered
the hospital early this month for
what was described as a rest.
Simmons Held For
Yakima Authorities
Virgil Mvrl Simmons. 28, of
Carbondale, III., was arrested by
state police and lodged in the
county jail Friday afternoon to
await the arrival of authorities
from Yakima, Wash., where he
is wanted on a charge of leaving
the state with mortgaged prop
erty. He was driving a 19.19
Chevrolet coach, police said.
Simmons who had been work
ing In Yakima, has waived ex
tradition.
BULLETIN
Klamath Falls, Ore., Sept. 30
(U.R) A brilliant 100 yard
run In the first quarter, started
Willamette University on the
touchdown trail.
That eventually led to a 33-14
victory over the Klamath Falls
marines at Modoc stadium here
today, but the Collegians had a
bufy afternoon before they
downed the South Pacific veterans.
Civilians. Evacuated, Nazis
In Fight to Death Early
Fall Seen.
Allied Supreme Headquarters,
London, Sunday, Oct. 1 (U.R)
Canadian troops smashed into
Calais yesterday in a final as
sault begun after the conclusion
of a 24-hour truce during which
20.000 civilians trudged from
the bomb-torn port, leaving be
hind 4.000 Germans ordered to
fight to the last man and cart-.
ridge.
Covered by a tremendous air
and artillery barrage, the Cana
dians launched the attack
promptly at noon when the
truce expired. Early this morn
ing headquarters announced the
Canadians had penetrated into
Calais and thai enemy resistance
was not expected to last much
longer. German prisoners were
reported streaming into the Can
adian lines by the hundreds.
The truce was arranged Fri
day between the German com
mander, Col. Schroeder, and a
British general, beside a demol
ished bridge eight miles from
Calais. The colonel, newly ar
rived at Calais, was surrounded
by a staff of smartly-uniformed
officers. One had a wooden
leg; another an arm missing; a
third an car disfigured from
battle burns.
"This is like something out of
Alice in Wonderland," Col.
Schroeder said, as he saluted the
British general.
"I wish you to know that I
have received orders from my
Fuehrer to fight to the last man
and that is what I intend to do.
The sole reason for suggesting
this truce is to find a way of
exacuating the civilian popula
tion."
The truce was agreed upon.
As the meeting broke up, the
British general said:
" Well, Colonel, I hope you
will enjoy tomorrow's bombard
ment.
Schroeder smiled, shrugged
his shoulders and replied: "C'est
la guerre."
The long, pathetic line of man,
women and children carrying
household treasures stretched
five miles down the Calals-Ar-dres
road. Many shoved push
cards laden with beds, dishes,
pots and pans.
PLAN APPROVED
Washington, Sept. 30 (U.R)
A tentative plan to prevent the
future rearmament of Germany
by control and possibly elmlm
Ination of some key Industries,
tinder the supervision of a sort
of "international WPB In re
verse", has state department ap
proval, it was learned tonight,
The War Production Board
was set up here to direct United
Slates Industry In the greatest
military production program in
hLstory. Its job is to make) cer
tain that all of America's pro
ductive capacity is geared to
the production of the imple
ments of war.
FACES HOP LIMIT
Portland. Ore., Sept. 30 (U.R)
The War Food Administra
tion's announcement Friday that
the 1944 crop of hops and hop
products will bo limited, has
caured brewers to regulate their
production schedules.
Brewers are entitled to a
quantity of hops equal to 150
per cent of the quantity used in
the manufacture of malt bever
ages during 1943, less the quan
tity on hand Sept. 1, 1944.
An estimated 39.000,000
pounds of hops are available to
the brewing Industry out of this
year's crop.
War Bulletins
London, Sept. 30 (U.R)
The German radio reported
tonight that Marshal Henri
Philippe Petaln, Chief of State
of the defunct Vichy govern
ment, had fled to Germany
before the allied army ap
proaching Belfort, leaving
Germand de Brinon as chief
of a "French government
committee for the protection
of the national interest.
Allied Headquarters, South
west Pacific, Sunday, Oct. 1
(U.R) A single navy Catalina
bomber destroyed four Japan
ese freighters totalling 8,500
tons and sank six loaded
barges in Dnrvel Bay. Borneo
Thursday night as allied
bombers struck enemy ship
ping routes off Surigao, north
ern Mindanao and throughout
the East Indies, Gen. Douglas
MacArthur announced today.
DAYS TO DECIDE
Speedy End If Major Moves
Succeed, If Not War Will
Last Until Spring.
Washington, Sept. 30 (U.R)
The next 30 days of fighting In
Europe will determine whether
Germany can hold out through
the winter, allied military ob
servers predicted tonight.
Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower,
supreme allied commander, rea
sonably can bo expected to make
one or more major efforts to
break into the German home
land In the next month, they
said.
If he Is successful, the war In
Europe probably will come to a
quick end. If not, Germany in all
likelihood would then be able to
hang on until the inevitable al
lied spring offensive.
The airborne spearhead
thrown out ahead of the British
Second army In Holland was an
attempt to send allied troops
sweeping Into Germany and
force a quick decision.
If it ht.d achieved 100 per cent
of Its maximum objectives, the
result undoubtedly would have
been a quick drive southward or
westward into Germany, out
flanking the Siegfried line and
cloely paralleling Gen. George
S. Patton's Third army sweep
across France.
Bad weather and stronger Ger
man resistance In both quantity
and quality than had been ex
pected prevented full success of
what observers here regard as
one of the boldest operations in
military history.
Despite heavy losses and even
tual retreat of the British First
airborne division, the operation
as a whole was at least 80 per
cent successful, observers say,
and this Is borne out by news
from the front that the resulting
forward salient In Holland Is be
ing widened and strengthened,
posing a threat not only to the
German homeland but to large
numbers of German troops who
may bo bottled up along the
Dutch coast.
The Tokyo radio reported
Saturday that "several" B-29
superfortresses raided Marcus
Island, less than four hours fly
ing time southeast of Tokyo, on
Friday afternoon but were "re
pelled with heavy losses."
The enemy announcement,
made In a broadcast heard by
United Press In San Francisco,
was denied by a war department
spokesman In Washington. He
refused to amplify his dcnlcl,
but observers believed lt pos-i
sible B-24 a might have raided
the Island.
Marcui Is said to be heavily
fortified and Is known to possess
at least one airfield. It lies
1.100 miles southeast of Tokyo
and little more than 700 miles
northeast of American-held Sal
pan and reportedly is used by
the Japanese army as a staging
area for the north Pacific.
CHINA SITUATION
FRETS AMERICAN
Swift Jap Victories Puzzle;
Political Obstacles and
Indifference Blamed.
By Albert Ravenholt
United Press War Correspondent
Kunming, China, Sept. 30
(U.R) In the war rooms of Am
erican military headquarters in
China steadily enlarging red
arrows are being painted daily
to mark the swath of the Japan
ese thrusts cutting into the
heart of China and showing the
northern and southern drives
converging on Kweilin and
Lluchow.
From the Tungtin lake basin
and the Canton area, the enemy
has broken completely through
the Chinese lines which have
barred the Japs from any seri
ous advance since the fall of
Hankow In 1938.
It is the worst defeat the al
lies have suffered In this theatre
since 1942, and allied officials
are inquiring why the eddied
position In eastern China, poten
tially the closest base to Japan
and until recently being stead
ily expanded, has been shattered
like a delicate vase.
Today there are Americana
working with nearly all Slno or
ganizations, ground forces, air
forces, financial and agricultural
groups. Never before has the
United Slates had such an
abundance of firsthand inform
ation from her most important
ally In the far east. To many
United States observers, the
break through Into east China
was not entirely unexpected, but
the seasoned experts were sur
prised with the swiftness with
which it was accomplished.
The possibility of Japanese
occupation of this potential al
lied springboard from the asia
allicdtlc continent has troubled
top American commanders for
the past two years, but' they
have boen unable to move ef
fectively to prevent it; their ef
forts blocked by political ob
stacles and the logistical tangle
of the American military posi
tion in the China-Burma-India
theater.
Although the picture of tht,
military situation in east China
Is clouded, it can hardly be de
nied that more than problems of
lack of equipment and training
prevented the armies from hold
ing the Japanese.
Some armies have been In
active for years. Armies which
fought valiantly with what little
equipment they had were out
flanked In areas held by less de
termined commanders.
As Is being admitted almost"
daily In the Chinese press here,
perhaps the basic difficulty
throughout east China was the
lack of any real mobilization in
all sections of the people for
war.
Pittsburgh, Sept. 30 (U.R)
Vice President Henry A. Wal
lace, completing a swing
through Pennsylvania In sup
port of President rtooscvcu a
fourth tnrm bid. totllght 8S-
niiprl Denublican Nominee
Thomas E. Dewey as the candi
date of international Dannera
whose "goal is immediate prof
it."
"Certain International mone
tary Interests which are back
inn tiin renuhlican candidate are
eagerly looking forward to his
victory," Wallace told an aurti
enco at Carnegie Music Hall,
"They think It means their con
trol not only of the United
States but also, through their
control of certain of the depart
ments of government, a domi
nating position in world affairs.
Radio Highlights
Gov. Earl Warren of Califor
nia speaks fro mMinneapolls at
7:15 p. m. PWT Monday In sup
port of Dewey and Bricker.
Over MBS.